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GREAT FOOT RACE FOR 200 GUINEAS.

The Derbyshire runner, Skew, started against Tray, a
Warwickshire man, on Wednesday, near Stilton, to do
fourteen miles over a two-mile piece of [round, to start at
opposite ends, and it excited much interest. Each two miles
were dune as follows :

Stow.

Tray.

mat. see. min. sec.
The First two miles lO 2
Serena I:itto
Third ditto
Fourth ditto
Fifth ditto
Sixth ditto
Sevtuat ditto

70 66 70 55
The ground was measured 250 yards short, and the race
is void.

CITY BUSINESS.
-.rm.-

The Lord Mayor held a Court of Common Council yes-
terday at GuiId11311„ for the dispatch of general business.
After I Pctstions for Leases, &c. were presented and
referred,

A Petition was presented from Robert Brown, staling,
that he had hero stone time a prlsoiter in the Whitecross-
street Prison, for the costs of an action brought against him
for not being fi ee of the City • which being read, the Court
on being aciptainted with the ciectimatances, directed the
Chamberlain to pay the necessary sure for his release.
The Bill for raising a further supply of 2,4431. 10s. for
the London Workhouse, was read. third time, sod, after
a few observations, finally passed.
A Report was presented by the Bridge-house Committee
on the nature and duties of the office of Clerk Comptroller
of the Bride-house, as referred to them at a late Coml.
which was read and agreed to, and the vacancy in that
office, by the decease of the late Santee! Newman, Eau was
appointed to Ise tilled up at the next Omit.
A Report was presented of the proceedings of the Commi-
ttee appointed in relation to the toll demanded at the east-
ern, of Lower Thanierstreet, by authority of the Board of
Ordnance, is endeavouring to obtain the removal of the
same, by which it appeared, that an action was brought, by
direction of the Committee, against the party demaading the
101 l ; hot that the Master Geueral of the Ordnance hail subse-
qmllli \, directed the toll-house, &e to be removed, and the
collector withdrawn, by which further proceedings became
unnecessary, and the rizlit of the City was satisfactorily
maintained. The Report any unanimously agreed to; as
also a Vote of Thanks to Mr. Griffiths and the other Members
of the Committee fur their • xertions in promoting and se-
curing so important an advantaze to the City.
The Court voted thanks to ilia Rev. Jobn Sampson, Chap-
lain to the Lord Mayor, foe his 'sermon, pi cached on the first
suisilav iu Easter Teem before his Lordship, the Judges,
Sheriffs, and City Officers, at St Paul's; and he was re-
-11.1. gird to print his sermon preached 011 the first Sunday in
Trinity Term, and to Fend a copy to every Member of the
Court, ace.

It war referred to the(' I Purposes Committee to eon.
alder and report what alterations, if any, are rrgriaite in the
mode of compelling persons to he free of the City.
The Court, on a motion, then adjourned.

It is stated es a certain fact that a young English
Nobleman, Lord Powerscourt, offered Aludame
Blanchard, at Tivoli, 425 louis to permit him to sr-
company her in her last ascent. The lady refused
it, not having been apprised of it iu sufficient time
to allow for an alteration in the bril, and some
other preparations that were indispensable.--
(Perris Paper.)
nijor Kelly, one of the bravest officers of the
English army, well known and highly valued
among his countrymen for the amenity of his man-
se's, (lied on lay, at live o'clock, in conse-
quence of a duel which took place ou the Thursday
preceding between him and another Englishmen.
He endured fur forty-eight hours severe ►aif2eriugs.
His death has excited the regret of all who knew
lattn.—(Paris Paper.)
Yesterday afternoon, as a Gentleman of the mime
of JA(IIiES, and his groom, were going along the
Fulham road, in a curticle and pair of spirited
grey•, the horses took fright at the shooting down
of tt cart of gravel, and ran off :it it furious 'rite.—
)ining their progress, Mr..l. jumped out on one
side, and his 'errand on the other, the aninials still
keeping their speed unt►l they got into a narrow
part of the road near Milburn-green, when they
came in cotitact with a brewer's dray, and were
stopped without the slighest injury to them or the
; but, tinfortunately,elthough neither the
geotlrunot nor hie servaist experienced any fracture,
lisev ....roe both must seriously lascerateri about the
fier and heed, and otherwise tuaterially bruised.

(4. Ail . • (um
?HR NZW, otttweintra.snesavi.

TO tits idittik.

Sot Correspondent Y. Vs objectioeillillidle .tlgtga.
bling down of old houses to make roost' for the Inoniiliing op
of new ones, prove him to be no whre•head. Greeting that
a few into are killed off in the new street snakier, 'there are
more kit thau can live by one another, SO that cats be of no
consequenee; admitting further, that drawl's' away the popu-
lation of the demolished streets from their homes may cause
the ruin of a great many families, will not the example
check the taste fur irmigratioe! As to the dirt and disturb-
ance to which the Lusadonernt have beets expelled for te.meyeers
past, and are likely to he exposed fur messy more to acme,
who would begrudge being.bespattered whenever be walks
one during the short period of his earthly abode, to give t,"
future ages such • street as the Regents-street !—u street,
I will say, which in the in sod out-line of its course, and the
up and down lines of its building, and 11w novelty sod variety
and substantialness of its architecture, is not to he matched
by any street in any city of Europe--a street, I will venture to
add, as worthy of the august name by which it is adorned,
as it is creditable to our Nashonsl (national) taste Can Y. Z.
forget that in the official programme of the future progress
of the new street, published in all the newepsprre six months
ago, it is declared, that the be ildinge on the worth video( Picca-
dilly are to he taken from Ilw chuicut models of 111161111
Rome If he doubt the performance, let kits place himself
opposite the oil shop he speaks of, in the middle of the
spacious and magnificent Circus, in Piccadilly, and view the
hiiildiugs already up on the south side. They are evidently
taken from models of Grease (not Greece of the Attire, but
Grease of the kitchen). There, where others would have
erected formal Corinthian pilaster", we have presented to trn
uest slips, bars, and bawls, in the prettiest taste of Pr'
making ; round O's and lozenges are agreeably interspersed,
and the bulky colunfna of the Taiwan Order, in some of the
lower storks, set right-end upwards, are fancifully Con-
trasted by slender columna of no order, tarred upside down.
These pillars, which, it is said, look like fumed table legs
Irmo through a magnifying glass, or bed-posts reversed, are
curiously surmounted by a neatly indented rim, something
like that generally applied to • raspberry tart, presenting a
novel specimen elf architecture equally ingenious and de-
ligh: fu I to behold

Then who can look at the pilaster capitals, a little lower
down the street, without admiration? Nothing like them
was ever seen before. Three leaves of the plant called
" Cabbage," two of which, from their puckered form, ap-
pear to be of the variety called " Savoy," are here made to
go as far as half a.ilmen of the " acanthus," and two volutes
as far as three! Doubts are entertained among the learn-
ed as to the source from which the artist has drawn the
happy idea of these volutes. Some think it has been mg-
tested by a plate of crimped skate, others by the fop of a
French pie; but the opinion that the huge horn of an old
ram has given it, seems to obtain some weight. Be this as
it may, the effect is overpowering, and the economy of the
parts, and symmetry of the whole, are just what might be
expected from the Nashonal (national) architect,
1 was about to notice the cavils of some ill-natured peo-
ple, upon what they presumptuously term the inconsisten-
cies and incongruities of the fine range of buildings (pa-
laces I had almost said) iu the acw street; hat it is unne-
cessary. Every body must be convinced, that tire opportu-
nity this revolution in the buildings of the metropolis has
afforded, of producing something delightful to the eye of
taste, and creditable to the country, has not been lost ; that
the buildings of modern London, as of anciesl Cruel and
Rome, will henceforth become the models of admiring
foreigners ; that the dispersion of families and expenditure
of money to produce this street a►e considerations not to
he named is comparison with the great Nashonal (national)
benefit effected ; sad that our pride in barium such a street
can only be exceeded by that of having a Prince, to whose
judgmrlit in the arts we are indebted fur such a skeet and
its couscquencec I am, &c. A. B.

INVENTIONS FOR PRESERVING LIVES'

FROM SMIPWRROIC

Yesterday Mr. Trengrouse, from Cornwall, made as ex.
periment with his apparatus fur preserving lives from ship-
wreck, on the Serpentine River, in Hyde Park, before his
Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, Sir Wa. Young, Vice.
Admiral of England, Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, and seve-
ral other Officers and distingnished characters; among
whom we noticed a Russian Prince, and some Gentlemen
attached to the embassy of that and other nations.
in surveying the nature of shipwreck, and the too usual
calamities attending, it evidently appears that vast numbers
(perhaps nine-tenths of the whole number who prematurely
perish) are lust, through not being able to open a rope com-
munication with the shore. By the experiment we have
just witnessed, we feel pleasure in confidently announcing,
tbai this difficulty appears to be completely surmounted.
To effect this important work Mr. Trengrouse uses a vim-
mon sky-rocket, properly prepared, with a line attached to
its stick. By this line thus communicated the end of a small
Vope is sent, large enough for the common porpoises of haul-
ing any thing from the wreck. This appears to be the lead.
ing principle of the invention, but he has also various
articles calculated to convey persons to the shore with all
possible wifely and facility, which are conveniently arranged
in a small chest, and are intended to become a convenient
and valuable part of every vessel's equipment—thus putting
the means into the hands of mariners themselves, who will
have them ready to apply for their own deliverance, when
or where necessity may require.
. .

. .
In making the experiment yesterday, the first rocket
which was discharged took out the line very wcll, but when
nearly across the river the stick got disengaged femnt the
rocket, and with the tnd of the line dropped into the
water; the rocket flew 'slave sad exploded.

The second rocket was discharged in beautiful style, and
brought the lime with it across the river to some considera-
ble distance in over the land. Hy this line the end of a
rope was qaickly pulled over, and by that, the end of a IGO
fathom hawser, which was stretched across the river, above
the water, by tackles, from two trees. On this hawser were
placed two small well.contrived rollers, to the books of which
was suspended a tlraible chair, composed of a wood seat
and ropes; into this • man got, and was quickly and
safely towelled across to the opposite shore. The chair
wa■ then hauled back empty. Sooh afterwards another sort
of seat was applied to one roller only; this seat lead a gnaw
tity of cork to make it buoyant. A man girt on it, and
held by the rope to which it was bung through the centre.
He was also hauled across the river, but when about halfway
over, the slack of hawser let him down into the water,
and the buoyancy of the cork (as might naturally be ex-
pected from being placed under bins) upset him, and if he
had far to lie hauled in that state woold have exposed him
to much peril, if not certain destruction.

With all defeienee to Mr. Trengrousee ingenuity, we dis-
cover muds in this new seat to object to, and wonder at his
absence of dincrintiva •ou, when conceiving there was room
for comparison, be OW and his old one, and of bin in-
trudicltho I all.
An e i drag net for taking op the bodies
of pe by • Mr. Bruce, which bad
the desire 4 eaves; end elskis in such places as the Serpen-
tine, basing • pretty sumo* IlsWow, and two boats on the
water or at command, is a aspat certain method of recover-
ing a body.
The company now retired; hat Mr. Trengroune wishing
to try some rockets, sod ter gratify the runehtintn• no the
ether side (who by this timii vete nosnerous), projected two
or three lines very prettily across the river by small rockets,
and drew the attention sad apparent approbittiou slit great
number of ladies add gentlemen.

There was very etnt►iJerable betting in the
sporting ei.. lee yesterday, on Oliver and Dint-
Nell', who tight on Wednesday next, at viz to Emir
on Donnelly. There are various reports as to the
vtate of the condition of the men, for the purpose
of betting; but they are well-up, to use a sports-
mall', phrase.

4 Wilt '• • • .
LAW INTELLIVENCR.

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aitc.
.sir ARTHUR PinCoreitiked, that Ibis was *a
application to his LordeliiP to ti4eite an order of hit
Honour the Vice-Chancellor, of the 30th of..fune •
last, stiyieg a trial at law, Which was sat down to
be tried in the I;nitpuoa Pleats. at tfie ',resent
sittings at 1144. Prius, iu Iranian. It sea* (trees-
airy that this motion should lee heard, as it was it's-
portant as it 'elated to t!ie jorisrlicriiiii of the
Court, and particularly so so the law or this coon-
try admitted no man to have on °Mei, issued against
him without his being heard, for if such a system
t ss allowed to be introduced in the practice of •the
Court it would create delay, and be a frightful
source of endless vexation. The circumstances
were. that Mr. Lopez was a merchant, residing at
St. Petershurgh, and by the lasiniosiun of the E 1134
peror of Russia he we. allowed , send a merchant
ship to the Brazils. The ship nccorriingly arrived
at Rio Janeiro, where having disposed of her out-
strard-boulid cargo she took in another, wit! sailed for
Ransil ; by stress of weather she was obliged to put
iuto, Falmouth, on which she was seized by the
Militia' at Equity, Dr Tzeott, a niei client ovoid-
ing in this country, and wha was eighty-two yeast
of age, who. snl.the cargo of the ship. lie (Sir
Arthur) coeirdist see whether the Plaintiff hid or
had nut a lied On the Orrjeu, how it could hear nu
,!hapreirent question, us nu sfeinssed of his could
justify him in conamittinguo illegal rim The De-
fendant brought his action at law against the Plain-
tiff in June, IVI6, and well was his stelae, that he
did not file his bill in that Court until Julie, 1818.
The bill was extremely voluminous, and the whole
aim of it was to prove, that the Defendant at
Equity, Mr. Lopes, bad two partner., and by
which means to non-suit him at law. The action,
however, was tried in the Court of Common Pleas.
and the Jury returned a verdict for Mr. Lopez. with
37,0001. damage*. Those damages might appear
large, but it was not more than one-third of
what the Defendant would have received if
the ship had been allowed to proceed wills her
cargo to St. Petersburg!). An amended bill
was afterwards filed by the Plaintiff in that
Court for • discovery. An application was
also made to the Court of Common Pleas for a
new trial, which was granted on the Defendant sit
law giving proper security for the payment of the
verdict of 37,0001. The Court of Common Pleas
alio granted a commission to go to Russia to exit-
snipe Francisco Lopez, the son of the Plaintiff at
law. The Commission issued on the I Ith of Ja-
nuary, and did Slot return from Russia to this
country until the 20th of .June, 1819, and on the
last day of that month, an application was made
to his Honour the Vice-Chancellor, for en order
to stay the trial at law. On what grounds such all
lapplication was made, he, the Learned Counsel,
war at a loss to know, as the order fur the original
trial did not issue from that Court. On the same
day a motion was made its the Court of Common
Pleas to supremo the depositions which had been
taken before the Commissioners at St. Peters.
burgh ; the motion was however' refused by the
' Judges of that Court without hesitation. Ass
affidavit was sworn on the 29th of June, and
filed on the SOth, the very day the application
was made to his Honour. It contained circum-
stances, which, of course, die Defendant could not
rebut by a counter affidavit. but which his Counsel
declared in Court he was quite ready to rebut if
time was given for that purpose. The affidavit,
however, was permitted by hie Honour to be read,
and the motion granted. He hail now to ask of his
Lordship to reverse that order, and he had no doubt
but he would do so, as, in the first place, the
Court had no jurisdiction in the case, the order
fur the original trial being made in a Court of Law ;
and, secondly, because it was against the known
practice of the Court, which, if Isis Lordship allow.
ed to be disturbed, would trod to unnecessary liti-
gation.
Mr. WETHLRELL followed on the same side.
The LORD CHANCELLOR.-11 I am at a lon to
know how an affidavit made and filed under such
circumstances could be read in any branch of this
Court. It will be morally impossible to go on with
business if an affidavit filed iu this way is allowed
to be read in another place, and cannot be read
here ; and while I sit in this Court it can never be
read. It is most unpleasant that a general and in•
variable rule of practice does not operate in both
!daces, for by going on in this way it will be im-
possible to do justice to the suitors of 'the Court.
I must state. further, that it would be difficult, in-
deed, to convince me that this motion shook! have
been granted by the other branch• of the Court,
sinless there were other circumstances to support it
than the mere reading of an affidavit, which Conn-
, eel were denied the right of answering. Whateeer
others may do, I am determined, while I have the
honour of sitting here. to administer justice between
parties by the only effectual tneans which it can be
administered, that is, by hearing both sides, and
that on every paint that can be urged."
Mr. HAAT, Counsel for the Plaintiff, said, that
lie did not expect that the merits of the case
would have been gone so fully into as it had by his
Learned Friends, as it was a questiou that only re-
lated to • point of practice. The first thing to
consider was, on what point did the Vice-Chancel-
lor proceed on when lie made the order complained
of. He was ready to admit it *is the imperative
duty of his Lordship to see whether a subordinate
branch of the Court had or heal not muds ajudi-
clans order. In the month of May an order was
made by his Honour the Vice-Chancellor, direct-
: ing the Defendant to lodge with the Clerk in Court,
all books; papers, and writings, in his possession,
conuected with the transactions in dispute, which
order the Defeudatit had nut obeyed, and that led
to the order of his Honour, which was complained
of. The Learned Counsel, at considerable length,
contended that his Honour was right in the view of
the case he had taken, for it would 'wither be jas-
tice 11Q: equity to let the Defeudant proceed ris trial
With the action, while he kept beak the evidence
frimi the Plaintiff that was directed to be left with
tlw Clerk in Court.
Mr. PRONE. followellon the same side.
Mr. WITHERELL replied.
The LORD CHANCELLOR obiereedi that be dandd

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Guttutic stAtril hl,st this was, an bodyetiment
for oetjtkryiallegvsl to hui/t• been e.,tussittrd *pi ii.,l
Deft %Writ, in au affidavit weros'w•lortare Mf • 111•14...
use in'. the Genttrraen •ppniuted.by the Cattrt rf
Excite 4uer to take the of of isbousistift,
who, ether from sickness, or by 'tame of imp*.
sonsusent, were enable to appear; at the ta:forgoer
9r5-^. The affidavit which wise the gromotiestor;•
of the pt anent itroseeution, was .warn run the Vita
of hiepteto Ire, • 1.17, and milometer' ist the isai.t
base and ',salmons feeling. that of ruiste4
credit mod c ‘Nracier of tato very reltes:Nide gt.,!th•
men, Mr. Jaw's Laing. a merchant of the (s et
London, mud Or. Jurors WhAlty,c g-holemen
histinevs, who ...raided at Glosirester. It tooperried,
that. in the raw 1815, the Defeinfeld bad sat,,
dealings with M t. Laing. fora quaotia of liettp—
bat having beloturrd unfairly iw the 4-rotorse 44. el "•
transactiou. Mr. Laing first threatened to proceed
evilest him for retarding, and Moody arrested chow.
This conduct excited his iudignatinso tigainst• !dr.
Laing, mid, its revenue, he made affidavit dint I r
had purchased smuggled goods to a large anioui t
from Mr. Whalley, which lie had Ott-nosed,
sold to Mr. Laing. There was twit • tillable oi?•
truth in, this statement, but it was merle in sa
plausible a manner, that the Comiiiissioarts of
Customs thought themselves hound to act ON it,
and much inconvenience .was in consequence sue•
feted, and great expensie sustained, by Mr. Laing
and Mr. Whalley. Why the latter armlet:nee,
who wan an entire stranger to the Defendant, we.
introduced, it was not easy to say ; but the De •
(encant, it appeared, vas intimate with a perms,.
wlsorn Mr. Whalley had arrested for debt—a cir-
cumstance. which furnished a clue to the ultimo -
tiun. The Defendant positively swore that Mr.
Whalley came to him, in the month of June, 181::.
accoMpanied by a mom of the name of Daly, and
sold him a very great quantity of smuggled goods,
which, he further deposed, he afterwards re-stild•to
Mr. Laing. On Doi occasion, Ise swore that fir
went to Mh. Laing's, house, and saw him there a ith
his nephew, who was ordered to Withdrew. He
also swore (a puiut to which he begged to cull the
particular attention of the Jury} that lie serif t..
Mr. Laing's home, with smuggled goods, in the
eventug and at night. In short, he made out as
clear a case to the Commissioners of the Customs.
that s process was issued against three two gentle-
men fur bktweeu Gee and six thousand pounds,
Mr. Whalley, surprised that a charge had been
made against him by a man whom he newer saw,
and with whom he never had ally dealings, lawful
or illicit, topic much pains to isiveritigate the lon-i-
-nears. and laid before the Commissioners of Cst-•
toms such a statement as couviisetel them that one
Defendant's Adavit was a Tabrication. ind that
they had been imposed on. With respect to Mr.
Laing, he also proved to their oratisfactiors that•the
affidavit was fabricated iu revenge fur his haying-
arrested the Defendant. Selma!) stated in ills
affidavit. that Mr. Whalley called on hitu in the
mouth ofiune, 1815. and at several subsequent
fuels ih that year. Now he would store,, by the evi-
dence of Mr. Whalley, of his wife, and of his apptea-
lice, that he was not in London mi any day in the
months of.lime,Jisly, or August, 1815, during Which
time the Defendant deposed That he had had a um-
ber of interviews witlthim. He would prove this, nut
only by the individual, he had mentioned, but fie
several othets, who were doing blisiners with hint
almost every day during the month of June. The
fact was, that he had not left the City of Gleocepre
in the month of June, nor for a considerable period
afttrwards, except on one occasion, when business
called him to Bristol. With respect to Mr. Laing.
inasmuch as he war a merchant. living in Loodo::.
he could not prove his absence at ditch a distance,
as to rendet it impoesible thathe and the Defendant
could have met. He would however call him. end

then evidence ~
Whalley. He edoM ainni;•e the Grutlemen of t4tr
Jury, thit no duty •could be imagined, the du-
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he would state on his cloth, that, as far as be alf -
davit concerned bins, it was false from beginning 141
•
end. He would also call his nephew, who acted as
his confidential clerk, and transacted all his holi-
ness, and both! he and Mr. Laing would gist i&e
Jury this fee, that there way no in lola •
the Defendokt,eorinected with ano•
of contrabaoillitioda. They isorit4l.lo)
during the whole of the sunnnerifflllhi to • g •
regularly proceeded hour 'Chant* .tea Jikiutire to '
the country, -and, in lib one intreneet remain**
town after 'Change Imam., At 'he- tttia - alvestlt
stated, the Defendant •hallaiiik. with ll& t •
for some hemp, and was to did dlkt.. •
suit. He was at llnit tin the PIO, 4not he aft*.
wards removed into She Kitt ew • ireiwiti 64,41
whence he irvote letters-to Mr. 'Laine,..itsting Shut b""
the-charge was false, sod itnpioring
,Illalthwesenf,
He would, in the first instance, prove that U..
allegations respicting M. Laing were onfoutickii,
and lie vroold them call evidence to the case isf Mt.

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•charge cif which am; more pleasing to the Comma-
'loners of Custom" fat *lsere tostenee this pew*.
cntion teas instituted), than :lest of With% theft,-
selves 'NIA, when they tliscoN•leti that they lint
been imposed on, rod lid inttiViNw.
C. E. Wood prodirced the topic inforialotrosis
filed by the Attorney-General agaitte.NAlenns. Labor
and Whalley, in the Cdort of El,,\b‘eqw-r—aims
also the original stfiklavit of the Dtk,tulant,
which they wire founded.
Jarvis, one of therottunitainnoto thruway
to take affidavit. its the Earhetlrtev OS had ts..
•doubt that the allidarit produced Ir3ll RIVOr ',seem
him 'by:the Pentode*, cite 'lite .t.th of Sept. her.
lit,. id the Fleet
-- Loin*, jeer: deposed lien the. rigru.n,
eBl oil to,the >ttldmlit wiretiatt sir the;
The effirleitst•watt pot etwi'velitl. it set 'ture.a,
that on the littb Of June, 1815, s person 01 11.1 P

Jima Laing, jun. (the nephew of the former
witows,) acted as confidential clerk to his uncle.
the months of June, July, August, and Sep.
trinher, 1415, his uncle never was at his house in
Butc'ner-row after six o'clock io the evening. He
knew of no transactions his untie had with the
Defendant, except one. relative to a quantity of
hemp. He was never desired to leave the room
whet, Sennett called on his uncle. He never came
to•the Isau-se except in the hours of business. Had
ileard his uncle threaten Scans'', that, if he did
not pay him for the hemp, he would prosecute him.
James Whalley stated, that lie resided in %Vest..
gale-stieet, Gloucester. The first time he ever
141 w the Ilefendaot was on the 16th of October,
14417. He then saw him at his lodgings in Fleet-
/erne, within the rules of the Fleet. Witness was
not in London either in June or July, 1815. He
never sold the Defendant any camel's hair shawls,
sifk.hase, or silk scarves. He did not know there
was such a man as the Defendsnt in existeoce?
til the month of October. 1817. There wu• man
of the name of Hickman in prison at his suit, in
1815. with whom, he believed, the Defendant was
autimate. He beard the affidavit read. sod the
whole of it was a vile fahriestion. He was arrested
in'consequence of the falsehood sworn by the De-
fendant. On the 16th of October. 1817, when he
event to see the Defendant, a person of the name of
Cease, was present.
Cress.e.readoed.—He did not know soy person
of the tiptoe of John Daly, residing in Suffolk.
street, MAW! Borough.
Mrs, Elisabeth Whalley, wife of the last
~wit'es.,
'es., stated. that she lived in Gloucester, in this
.ou..sae .1 Jou sod Jely. 1815. Her husband
wise st home during the whole of those months ; he
, Slept at hoine every eight. He went to town in the
inonth of November, 1815. That was the only
time he was in London during that year.
: Samuel Greenwood, who was apprentice to Mr.
Whalley; is 1815. deposed that his master was in
• Gluicesterio the mouths of June and July of that
;ear. There were entries in his master's books,
of his transactions, day by day. during those two
usissillsr. They 'were in his master's hand-writing.
Cunningham deposed, that he saw Mr.
Whalley at Gloucester on the 14th, 15th, 16th,
and 17th of June. 1815. .„
, Ma. Washford asides at-Glosicester, where she
PA. her.Virlialley on the 10th of June, 1815, and
settled an account with him.
Thomas Banisiger also resided at Gloucester.—
Saw Mr. Willey there ou the 12th or June, and
settled an wawent with him.
Ssephe4 Miller was showman to Mr. Whalley. in
June andluly, 181,5. .11r. Whalley was not from
Janne dc,ting either of those mouths.
fiatrics Steele, an officer of the Custom', received
a• letter from the Dekodaut, in the month of Au.
gust, 1817,. relative to smuggling transactions.
the letter was put in. he Defendant in this
triter requested Mr. Steele to call on him in the.
Yket prase° as soon as possible, in order to receive
;Information respecting the buying and selling of

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name of John Daly, of Suffolk-street, Horatio/1,
called on DePtilietilli accedireied b &Oradea's%
whom lie
and slated .that he (illlkaHey) had s quantity of
smuggled goods, emisliting,:of shawls, stockings,
gloves, acc: whites be asild for sole.. He said he
would allots Deponent-Mailer cent. for disposing of
risen'. Deponent contented to receive them, end
informed Laing of the oircutustanct, who per.
chased the goods from *him for the woof 780/.—
The affidavit set forth several other transactious of
the like nature, iu the months of June and July,
and particularly specified that the Deponent always
called on Mr..Lsing in the evening. On one ocs.me
'ion, Depotiene saw Mr. Leing'sasephew, who was
ordered to wiihdraer while .he was selling some
ponds to his uncles •• e
Mr. Wood being again stalled, stated, that the
practice of the Coort of Exchequer was, to issue a
cripioi topers an of of this kiwi.
• • W.Woodhouse, Clerk of the Papers in the Fleet
prisonOstairdoliat, in the month of September,
•11111,,the sDefenduirt was a prisoner there, at the
. vast ,ortJerucs Leine. Nathaniel Hickman was
alio a prisoner at that tune, at the suit of James
• W bailey. •
Jetties Laing, sem deposed, that, in tBl5, he
knew %be Defendant, who had become indebted to
ni the inttli of Jone, in that year, to 11 COll..
✓iderable amount. for a (1112116,y of hemp—for
*oriels debit lie arrested him. Witness threatened.
. before lie arrested the Defeedata,,to prosecute him
for swindling. He did not, in site months of June,
July, Augurs, or September, of that year, or at
sty other period whatsoever, purchase goods from
Defendant. He had not bought camel's hair,
silk-hose, or any other articles from him.
H•
e' bad heard the affidavit rend, in which he was
charged with making certain purchaser, but there
was not a word of truth in it, from beginning to
and. At the period stated in the affidavit, his
town-house was in Butcher-row, East Smithfield—
end lie positively swore, that, 011 no evening, dor-
iog the months of June, July, and August, was
hr to 11. fats id at his town residence in the even-
ieg. Hr Aware the moment 'Change was over,
proceeded to Whitechupel. where be entered leis
chaise, avid went to his country-house at West
Ham. Witness received two letters, addressed to

Jinn at his present residence, in George-street,
Mounties, iu Minch and April last, which he be-
lieved to be written by the Defendant. Senrrah.
Cross-examined by Dtfendnni.—Witites• gave
the Defendant coedit, because he represented him-
yell as en honest men, who had jest come from the
country, and was acquainted with different mann.
lecturers whom the witness knew. Witness re-
quired a reference, and the Defendant furnished
him with one.

Two letters, which had been addressed to Mr.
Laing by the Defendant, dated from the King's
Leitch prison, the 9.0,11 of March and 7th of April,
1919, were put in and read. In both of them the
Defend:int expressed great contrition for his con.
duet ton,,,ril. Mr. Laing, and implored his cle-
mency.
Mr. Laing being again called, stated, that he
was arrested on a capita issued (rout the Exchequer
on the Defendant's affidavit.

---furores produced the rapias, which was
directrd to the Sheriffs of London, and ordered
them to arrest the Defendant for penalties to the
amount of 4,5361.

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smuggled geode. The parties were merchants of
respectability. •
Mr. Steele stated, that he called on the *Defend-
ant is consequence of this letter. and was informed
by him. that Messrs. Laing and Whalley were the
criminal parties. There was • person of the name
of Hickman in the room with Scurrah. A paper.
purporting to be an account of contraband goods
sold to Mr. Laing, was given to witness by the
Defendant.
This closed the case for the prosecution.
The Defendant. who had no Counsel, stated,
that he was'precluded from entering into his de-
fence. in consequence of his inability to subpcella
two important witisesse., one of whom was in Scot-
land end the other in France.
The CHIEF Aimee, in slimming up, observed,
that, with respect to Mr. Laing, there was a mo-
tive, which might operate on the mind of a bad
man to injure hint, namely, the circumstance of
the Defendant being arrested and imprisoned at his
suit. The MlOllVe was not so clear. as fur as Mr.
Whalley was concerned—hut, it appeared. that a
person of the name of Hickman, who was arrested
at his suit, occopied the SWOP room with the De-
fendant in the Fleet, at the time the perjury was
committed. This seas a circumstance which the
Jury would take into consideration, end draw such
inference from it as it seemed to warrant.
The Jury. without hesitation, found the De-
fendant Godly.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, GVILDUALL,
WEDS KSDAY, JULY 14.

Sittings after Term before she LORD CHIEF
JUSTICE and a Special Jerry.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
SPENCER V. COLE.

This was an action brought by Miss Maria
Spencer szainot Mr. W. Cole, fur nut fulfilling a
promise of marriage which he had made her,
under very peculiar circumstances. The Plain-
tiff, Miss Spencer, is now shout ,22 years of
age, null the Defendant, Mr. Cole, about 28, his
profession an attorney, and his father • respectable
silk-merchant in Wond-street, Cheul►ride. Tee
young lady is sister to the wife of Mr. Reynolds, of
the Bell Tavern, in Wood-street, Chespride, at
whore hnose she was an a visit in the month of Au.
gust lest, and there became. acquainted with the
Defendant, whose father lived nemly opposite.
The Jury, after a few minutes eonssiltation. with-
out leaving the hint, returned a verdict for the
Plaintiff—Damages, lire Hundred Pounds.

THURSDAY, JUNE 15.
OTARD C. RUCK.

This was an action brought by the Plaintiff, who
was it brandy.inerchant, to recover from the De-
fendant 6,000/. the amount of a contract entered
into by him for purchases of brandy to that amount.
It appeared in evidence that the Defendant had
agreed to take cognise brandy to the amount of
6,0001. and that on the arrival of the cargo he re.
ceived the invoices. hot hewed no anxiety to land
the brandy, and that ultimately he returned the
invoices, and declined taking it, alleging that the
brandy was not of the flavour and quality for which
he had stipulated in its contract.
Several witnesses proved that the brandy was of
the genuine kind, and had been received and sold
as such by a number of merchants of respects.
bility. It also appeared that between the time of
the order being given, and the arrival of the cargo.
the market price had fallen a little.
For the Defendant some witnesses gave their opi-
nion that the brandy was not of the best kind.
Chief Justice DALLAS summed up the evidence
for the Jury, who returned • verdict for the Plaintiff.

It is with rent concern we slate, that the Arch-
CIVACOII of Lincoln met with a severe accident at
Louth, on Monday, the sth instant. On mounting
his horse, to proceed on his parochial sisitation in
that neighhuuihood, the animal became most fn.
'ions, plunged exceedingly, and at length fell
with him on .the pavement ; in consequence of
which he received several severe conitusimis on the
head, and a violent sprain of both his wrists. We
are happy to learn that the Archdeacon is recover-
ing from the effects of his fall.
Don Onis, Minister of Spain to the Ditiited States
of America, left Paris on Saturday to return to
Madrid.

The Emperor CHAILLINAOI4I has for many
years performed the elevated duties of a weather-
cock for the good people of Utrecht, but during a
tremendous storm which occurred on the 5111 or this
mouth, his Majesty was deprived of his sword soil
aword-arin. His station was on the church of
Saint Mary. Saint Michael, the Archangel, is em-
ployed for a similar purpose on the summit of the
Hotel de Ville of Brussels. "To what base uses
we may come, Horatio."
Istoati or COMIA.—( From AS America's Paper.)
44. Though this island is highly prized Spain,
she will not put it in competition with 'kr conti-
nental American territories; and if, by surrender-
ing the former to Great Britain, she can secure the
latter to herself, the temptation will be too strong
for her to resist. That Great Britain will be ex-
tremely desirous of obtaining it, especially should
the Florida. be transferred to us, cannot admit of
a doubt. Its size, about seven hundred miles long
mud Dimity ',nod ; its fertility scarcely equslled
in the world; its situation commauding the en-
trainee the Gulf of Mexico, and Florida—all these
sad ether circumsteucesieotabiue to weeder Cubs
immediately valuable wad extremely drsirable to
ace ontion: to Great Britain, it must bee
itently so. Should the Florislas collie into
possession, in any future war with Britain (in
Spain should be neutral), we could cot up a great
portion of her Nest Indies and South American
trade, and render many of her colonies a burden
rather than a benefit to her. These conaiderations.
what her Statesmen well know how to estimate, will
doubtless direct all the Mints and arts of the Bri-
tish Cabinet, either to prevent the ratification of•the
cession of the Florida* to us, or to obtain the sur-
render of Cuba to them. If defeated in the former
object,. the promotion of their interest, safety.
and power, will direct their policy to the tepee ;
and their jealousy. and envy of the meters's%
wealth. strength, resources, mid enterprise, of the
United States, will auganeut their motives, :sod
stimulate their exertions."

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