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'AUX lIA LL.

T.
The Propristate of this aplrndid seen, of enter-
tainment has spared afillier pains nor expense to
MAe it this Mame? worthy of the patronage of the
gra Metropolis in the world, and tire attroolance of
rank and Goblin which we lame nightly wirroeowd
in the G orders*. presents a striking ;proof of the su-
perior *Wooten, of the ;dice. toiler& our Nohi-
lily since the peace have had an opoortinoity of re-
candy visiting the illorninatrd air& nsnf tits Cu,,..
tine's', and the superior brilliancy and tasteful aplen-
door of Vauxhall contort fail to have recalled their
attention to the magoodiceiter ~f that favourite spot,
it celebrated in their own country for nearly a crow
tory os the coy reorlezcows fur the most illustriou,
and dististraisked perwitsages. The Boxes of FRE-
DERICK, Prince of Wiles (the father of his MA.
JRA re), of the former Doke,' of CUMBERLAND and
GLOUCESTER, still meal to memory the spot where
ll:laity participated in the goy fernivities of Voila.
hell, and preserve the chain of recollection for the
site of the sports and tournaineuts of I ll.lrd Me
Black Prince, for which the, lover* of chivalry ferl
so noxious a solicitude.—( Ilse sire of the Gardens
of Vauxhall formed a part of the ground of EPe
WARD'S Palace.)
We do not recollect. since the time of the
.jete
in' commemoration of the victory at Vittoria, to
have seen the Gudrus in fitter order, or more spier,.
dully illuminated, than they are at ',rearm. The
walks. from the cottoned laying On of a soft dry
sand, sod the as frequent application of well-con- '
structed rollers, forms an even and agreeable stiro ,
face; and the lamps err distributed so akilfnlly„
and the colour% PO appropriately classed, that the
coop sail fora the exirewity of each walk is ex-
tremely beautiful.
The pictures in the Saloon have hen new var-
nished, and many of them, particularly those of
the KING and her late Wt./KATT, look to great
advantage—the original colour, (particularly the
bright ones) are in full tone. The other Indere*,
two of which are very beautiful, want, if possible,
a better distribution of light, but we fear it is no-
practieshle to give it to them in their present place ;
the varnishirog nos brought out some of the under
tones, but the proiniumst ogees are injured from
time and accident, yet colour ruongls remains to
make them effective by a judicious management of

light.
The more general and palpable objects of attrac-
tion. the music ansi fire-works, and the extraordinary
feats of Maclaine SAQUI, are superior to any exhi-
bitions of the kind we are acquainted with. The
orehe•tea is holey filled, and some of the most ex-
quisite pieces of MOZART are played with delight.
ful aft et. The vocal powers or Mr% BLAND are ex-
treised with confirmed delicacy and sweettwas. Mrs.
CHILDS and MII% TuNITAt.L at, great acqiiisitions.
Wass's humour. slid CuLutas's soft and tender
tuner. are good additions to the vocal strength of the
company, crud Mailer HYDS IMO a pleasing mod
agreeable voice.
The last performance of Madame SAQUI has u
sublime apprirat.cr ; there is something appalling
iu bcholdilig the elevation of her situation, encom-
passed by clouds of smoke train the blaze of fire-
works which explode f heoeuth her. owl thr re-
collection oldie melancholy fare of Madame IfLAN.
CHARD would add terror to the's:crow, were at not fur
the cousciousnes. that Madame SAQUi has sufficient

support ors whack she eau rest. and the utmost pos-
sible security agsitist the occurrence of accident.
The Gardens were en Al Icy night crowded by
personages of the first clisiitietiun. Annul.; the rotn-
gunners preaTiit we olnierved Lord YARMOUTH, Sir
lIENRY PARNELL. Mr. I'F.EL. Mr. Dawsow.and
swverml other Ali-gibers of l'arltisment. The henry
oliith set tit ult. r the fire-works. detained the
majority of the company until au unusually kite
hour ; few Tel:united earlier than two o'clock yes-
terday ruurniiiLs.

The East 1..d0t Company'. ships Regent nlid
Cusile Handy, from China, arrived at St. Helron
the 44th of M.y last. The Danira and /1/q/itt
were expected to be dispatched from Chios the
latter end of March.

A large'detachment of the East Lahti ComPeily's
arhllrrp are etubauked ou board the outward-huuad
shim for Italia.

Letters have keen received from Madrid of the
7th instant, and we understand the Spaiiisli
sailor has received dispatches by the same convey-
WIC, from his Court. The Treaty for the Crlll.loll
of the Florida* to the United States had nut, up to
the Isegittrring of this month, Brea ratified by FER-
DINAND, and cousidtrolde doubt oetqlls to exist in
Madrid whether it would receive his final sanction.
Lett-r. from Cadiz of the 27th Jute, slate, that the
Waskington, 80 can United States ship, remained'
at that port, and is was understood that she would
not sail from thence until her Commander bad ob.
trilled the decision of the Spanish Governsueut an
this subject.
A new writ was ordered for the city of Edinburgh,
on Monday, in the room of the Right Hon. W.
Ova DES, who has accepted tile Office of keeper of
the Register of Sasines.
A gentleman of distinction, near Exeter, has been
held to bail in tt large , for having in a goat
of passion caused the death of his groom, by striking
him with the butt rod of lots whip.
WiListitae MEETING.—The nomination of a
Representative fur this County took place at De-
Sizes on Friday. At twelve o'clock the Sheriff'
opened the business of tlie day, stating, that in coo-
sequence of a requisition lie had called this Meet-
ing, for the purpose of nominating a Candidate to
fill the vacant rest in Parliatnent for this county.—
J. BENETT, Fsq. and J. ANTLEY, Esq. were pro-
posed. The Sheriff prod, ttttt eil the spew of hands
to be in favour. of Mr. ASTLEY ; and stated that the
election would take place ■t Wilton on Monday,
July 19.—This election is likely to he very severely
contested. and it has this peculiar character at.
it, that in the ifortance of Mr. BENETT
and Mr. ASTLEY, two friends have started against
each other.—The following is the state of the first
day's poll :

MONDAY, JULY 19, 1819.
Mr. Remit SOO
Mr. Asi Icy

Majority in favour of Mr. Smelt 103
On Friday hot serums disturbances took place at
Bradford and Trowbridge, un Mr. BEN &TT'S agri-
cultural friends passing through those nassinfectur.
lag tortua.

LAW IA IT LLIG E CE.

COURT OF CHANCERY. Livcomes.ligs•

TUUDAT. JILT 20.

GORDON V. GORDON.
This long-contested cage, whtelt we have go often
r►ported. occupied the Court Ole whole of the day.

It will Is ►erollrcird tlist it first crow on before

his I.linnerr (Sir Wm. Grant) the late Master of the
Runs. The circumstances law sr very itiarrowvraa-

;nap. and are briefly the., :—The Plaintiff and De.
f-oitimir ore hroshera. Their parents were privately
married in Scotland; they arterworila went to the
United S:atel or America'. end were pistrlicly

tied. Between the two, ntarrtage• tile Plaintiff and

en eider brother, isho (lied to the life-titair of his
lithe,. wrre born, At the olece.oe or the ritlirr the
!Memlnn, who is • B trriorr, sitg4estetl to the
Pluintilll, who 11:1(1 spent the esti!, part or his bre in

tis/stulslsistsgs Iu was tise; thin Isrsiilser, lir

we, out legitimate. and prodisced to biro the cr►-
titicate of the oolitic 'flamingo of their parent•. Hod
for the sake or the firmly and their noiliel's
feelings, it was bolter not to pul►!i►ly agitate the

que.tioquf the leg; ti m:scy, but ,hat lie, ihr. Uefi•nd-

not. who was the tir.t.baen POll miler the public mar•
ruse. would take the r■tales of their fallWr. AWI rent

II part of them at P lOW late to thr Plitintitr. So that
thr puldie tiering hint in posceccioit would sapience
they verse legally vested in hint. and at the same
time would nut know that their mother had int-

properly cohabited with their father before mar-
rise. The Plaintiff not knowing of the private
marriage, and the respect lie had for his mother
and sisters, agreed to this proposal, and an agree-
ment to that effect was according executed. Souse
time eftetwards the Plaintiff' came to- the know-
ledge of the private marriage; and to vindi-
cate the character of his mother, which had been
so aspersed by the Defendant, he tiled the pre-
sent bill. His Honour the late Master of the
Rolls directed sit issue is try the validity of
the private marriage in Scotland ; and after-
wards another question came before his Honour.
whether the dying declaration of his toothier as to
the previous marriage should go to the Jury as evi-
deuce. His Honour was of opinion hut it ought,
as it was proper evidence lo go to a Jury, under the
direction of the Learned Judge at Nisi Pries. The
Defendant appealed from that judgment to the
Lord Chancellor. and his Lordship. on hearing the
case an it. merits. confirmed the judgment of his
Honour. The issue was tried, ■nd the Jury re-
turned a verdict, declaring the validity or the private
marriage, and establishing the legitimacy or the
Plaintiff. After this trial the Plaintiff applied I. the
Court, as a mailer of course, to have in referred
to the Mister to take tin aecnuot between the
parties, and for the Plaintiff to be put il► pos-
session as the owner of the estates. The Lord
Chancellor, however, on that occasion was of ow-
hien that the verdict of the Jury did not decide all
that was in dispute between the parties. as the nv,ree-
merst might have been entered into by the Plain-
tiff and Defendant through mutual mistake, that
neither of them knew of the previous marriage
'of their parents, in which cow it would he lent.o-sl-
ble for the Court to declare that the rhooilli had
committed such a fraud on the Defendant as enti-
tled the latter to relief, or, as his Lordship oh-
sere.,d, that they might both have had a knowledge
of the private marriage. but from its doubtful na-
ture have considered they were meeting the equity
of the case by the agreement, in whirls e”ent the
Court would not disturb ii. His Lordship, there-
fore, wished to hear a Counsel o►► each side on that

point. and appointed aesrarly day for that purpose,
on seitonsit of the Plaintiff being imprisoned by the
Defendant in the King's Bench, for a debt claimed
to be.dite to biol. but on account of his Lordship's
lamented indisposition (an attack of the gout), and
Mr. Hart'• (Counsel for the Defesithisit) family loss,
the death of his wiles it did nut come on to be heard
until this day.
Mr. HART was heard at great length fur the De-
fendant. He did not deity but his client had a
knowledge of the private marriage, but contended
that the Plaintiff smash° iu posseestots of the circurn-
gone, when the agreement lass entered into;
to prove this, he stated several letters written by
the Plaintiff to the Defendant, and laid particular
strew, upon owe, where the Plaintiff complained of
the crowfeet of the Defentionts in starting the
question of legitimacy, and the hardship of his
pressing on bum the terms of the agreement—
where he says, " Are we nut brothers, the lions cf
the same parent*? Did they ever make any differ-
vice in their attentions to yon, myself, or our ever-
to-he-regreted elder brother? If he and nor father
were now living, would you ever have attempted to
have thrown such a slur Upon the best of women,
our mother ?" The Learned Conn-el contended,
that this passage sliewed that lie knew of the private
marriage, but doubted its validity.
Mr. HEALD, Counsel for the Plaintiff, contended
that at the time his client entered into the agree-
ment with the Defendant lie lied no knowledge of
the previous private marriage of his parents, but
that he entered into it to prevent the feelings of his
family being hurt, us the Plaintiff lied produced to
him the certificate of the public marriage, which on
the face of it shewed that lie, the Plaintiff, was not
born in the pale of that marriage. The letters read
by his Learned Friend, Mr. Hart, according to his
(Mr. Heald's) construction of them, proved that to
he the fact, particularly that letter which was so
much relied on by the other side. He would ask
his Lordship what was the meaning of the words,
" We are the sons of the same parents, Ste. If our
father sod elder brother were now living vontild yon
attempt to throw such a slur on our mother ?" Did
it not meal', "if my mother enlist) unfortunate as to
have cohabited with my father belure marriage,
you, as their WM, ought to be the last person to
depose the circumstance to the world ?" This, lie
contended, was the true construction, for if the
Plaintiff had known there had been n private mar-
riage at that time lie would have said," it is true yen
are the eldest son of the public marriage, but I
will defend the right of my mother and sisters on
the previous private marriage."
The LORD CHANCELLOR, at two o'clock, said,
" Proceed with thus case to-morrow, for I am obliged
to rive. having to attend the Prince Regent, rela-
tire to the Recorder's Report of the unfortunate
criminals under sentence of death.
Futher argument postponed.

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COURT 01 K;NG'S EEN;•:!, Jw.v 20.

Siftings after Priaity Term, before Chief Justice
Anson and u Special Jury.