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LUNACY.

THE DON. NEWTON PELLOWES IN THE MATTER
OF THE EARL OF PORTSMOUTH, A sUPPOSED

LUNATIC.

Mr. Taesr.ovE said, he was Counsel in this cast
with Mr. fleald for the Countess of Portsmouth,
and he had to move that the affidavits in support of
the petition fiur • commission to issue against the
Noble Earl should he referred to the nister for
impertinence. It became his duty to make the sp..
plication, as according to the practice of the Court,
it must be made by a Counsel behind the bar. _

The LORD CIIANCELLOR—" 1 cannot make the
order you auk for before l have read the affidavits
in support of the pennon."
Mr. 11ORPIR said, he was also Counsel for the
Countess of Portsmouth, but he would rennin horn
saying any thing at present on the case, as he was
not in full possession of its merits.
Mr. Hum Counsel for the Noble Earl, said, he
hoped his Lordship would not read the affidavits
before he made the order asked for.

Mr. TRESLOVE said, he considered the motion to
be one of course, fur after the affidavits were refer-
red to the Master, and he had made his report, it
would then come before his Lordship in the shape
of an appeal from the Master's report.
The ArroattEx-Gcsstt►e, Counsel for the lie-
'loner, slid it was contrary to the practice of the
Court to wake a motion in a ease of lunacy ; he
would hund the affidavits to his Lordship's officer
(Mr. Hand), for the perusal of his Lordship.
The LORD CDANCRI.LOR" You may do so
when the other side are in full possession of them.
In these kind of cases I have always considered it
my duty to read the affidavits id support of the
petition for the commission of lunacy in the first
instance."

The AproawcY.Ccmcs tr. said it was singular
that this application should be now made, whet it
was only yesterday that his Learned Friend, Mr.
Heald, Ind said, that the Coun►el of the Noble
Countess were ignorant of the couteuts of the
affidavits.

Mr. TICILOVE said they had been in his poen-
lion only two home, and in that time he had seen
sufficient of their contents to watrAnt him in making
the applictoion that be bad ; for in fact, if the im-
pertinence was not expunged from the affidavits, it
would be impossible fur his Noble Client to unewer
them.

The LORD 01.111011.1.0R-1' Let the affidavits
be cleliwertil to my officer at the time I mentioned
yestrooloy, sod I will glee them troy most actions
comiderstion, amid when we again meet I will tell
you, the result of that comideration."

CONTEMPT OF COURT.-CLANDESTINE
MARRIAGE.
SIR WILLIAM TILIIINGTON.. BARONET, AND AN-

OTHER, V. Slit EDWARD SMITH, BARONET, AND

°TRIMS.
14 TII6 MATTER OF PHILIP BEM NI ETT. csQ. AND
MISS ANNE PiLHlnirrom, A MINOR, AND A WARD

OF THE COURT OF cHAmcsay.

Mr. Mane stated this was the petition of Si, Wit-
ham Pilkingtou and John Joßat Tufnel. Esq.
the uncles of she infant ward, who was only 17 years
of age, and entitled under the will of her father to
60,000/. on attaining the age of 21. The purport
of the peti'ion was to apprise his Lordship that she
had eloped with Mr. 13enuett under the following
eireurnatestees : —A bout three mouths ago, Mr. Ben-
nett applied to the petitioners, as the guardians of
the infant ward, for permission to pay his addresses
to her in the way of marriage; they dill slot opprove
of his overtures, mod refused in give their any eueou-
ragcnient. On Friday, the 16t1i of August instant,
the infant ward, with her grandmother Mrs. /tune
Wesel, with whom she resided, dined et the house
of Sir John Tyrell, Bartmet, at Borchert', near
Chelmsford, and after dinner die infant ward with-
drew herself from the company, and eloped with
Mr. Bennett for the purpose of being married to
hiin, and had not since returned to her gremlins-
thee., and it was unknown' to the petitioners where
Mr, Bennett and the inlaid ward were. Under
11101 e circumstances the petitioners prayed that his
Losidsliip would make such order se lie 'night deem
Mr. BARBEI followed on the same side.

The LORD CHANCELLOR-6' Take au order that
Mr. Bennett immediately restores the infant ward
to her guardians, •od that he is to appear before
me in Court on the next Seal."

Mr. raoult asked Lis LOrdrilip if it was h;s
intention to take any Initikrupt petitions in die
cotirte of tlbe day ?
Thr LORD Cithr4cELLoa-4, There hes. bienen

I.g batten me arta the Bar th it t
should now rise. ; you were not in Court. Mr. Moil-
tague. at the time. Between this and when
I meet the Bar again. I trust l shall be able to
consider the wbole of the judgments that are in
incur. so as to he able to deliver them when we
inert after the vacation."

Hi. Lordship then ruse (one o'clock), and Will
Vlt bit tigiiii Wild the first srsl befine the nett
Term, which will he on the Ist of Novetither. - •

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PO I. I C E.

MARI nortounn-sTar.
SHOUTING AT TUE FUNERAL (W THL MA QUis

OF LONDONDERRY.

Yesterday IE Miami Clifford, the appearance of a
deceit tradrsosasi, was brought to this office, I tinged before
.---- Rue, Esq. the filming Magistrate, with braise disor-
derly, and endeavouring to excite a disturbaucc at the lout-
rat of the Marquis of Londonderry.
Sawitiel Plank. the officsr, hying. swims, :wed, that
that morning he was on duly in Si. Jsmr.'s-square,
when the remains of the late Marquis of Londonderry were
about to be removed for iutriment ltestnsiustre Abbey.
Whir, the procession wss about to mitered thither, tie ob.
served the Pi isoner addremiug the multitude assembled, but
could not (mar what MIS the subject of his address. On the
processios louring the Prisoner went on aexusisory, amt, arm*
coatieuing this murk of conduct (Genoese time, he Mussed.
to the Marquise's door, mistaismally calling out" littsairwith
She greatest molester, sod seemed to exult iu the remains of
the deceased Wog removed to his tooth. %Viltiesi midden!
him MI the impropriety of his conduct, and r gummed he
would desist ; but he &lied the officer, say int, he had coot.-
milled Ise °Rome, and ht Weald hiszaa as lung •• lie chose.
Witness still requested him to move osi, but WI ferIISIUE,
several gentlemes, resew cried " Shaw- at the Ps 111011,
e 011,1111.1, and reproach'd the sviiness with dereliction of duty
if he slid not take his,, into custody.
Wales, the officer, rorrohmated the statement of Plankomid
added, that on the Piisptier tieing taken to St. watch.
hamar, he was hooted by several of the mob who followed
Mr. Roe asked the Prisoner where he lived, sod of what
trade be was?

Prisoner (with an sir of massised confidence)—" I lire at
N 0.2, Seymour-place, Cliandos-street, and am a coach-
painter."
Magistrate--." What hare you to say in your defence?"
The Prisoner said, that he had business is the Hay-market,
and hearing that a grand f I was to take place is St.
Janses's-squ•re, he went to are it, on which he was toad sisal
it was the Marquis of LoadonderiO. Ile did teat deny
baring boasted, but it did not proceed from soy iii.w ilf to-
wards Ilse deceased ; but lie hail laid a wager of a eau of
runi with. another man that the funeral of the Marquis of
londinideiry would proceed from St. Jamos's square, and sot
from North Cray, and, on winning the wager, he was IRO
orercease,that he cried out, " Hurts!" ou which the officer
took hiss in rumorly.

The biaghtrake said that he would not COMPrIIi upon the
disgraceful conduct of the Prisoner, and regretted that an
individual could be capable of Duch gro►s Irdectucy at a
public funeral.
The Prisoner was ordered to find bail, and was locked up
until it was procured.

GUILDHALL.

Yesterthy Georoe Davison was brought op In esittorly,
clamored by Elizabeth Tarris with breaking open and robbing
her bus.

It appeared that the Prisoner, who represented himself as
a working whitesmith employed at a manufactory in Old-
street-road, went and took a lodging at the house where the
Complainant lived as servant, giving • reference far his cha-
racter to a peefell living at the west earl of the town, hot
Gam the distance as laquiry was made, and lie took posses-
sion of his apartment on Thursday last, mid early on the fol-
lowing morning the robbery was discovel ed, and the Prisoner
it was discovered had decamped. The Inix was io a room
where no one slept, and was found hrukess (time and the con.
teals. emulating of gowns, a spencer, caps, stockings, fr.e.
all stolen. Nothing was Wand of the Priesincr till this morn-
ing, when he was accidentally met in the Haymarket and
taken into custody by the Complainsot's brother. The Pri-
seiner as he came along, confessed to the retiker that he knew
where the property was, though he denied having himself
committed the rubbery. When placed as the bar he declined
saying any thing Se his defence. As his face was familiar to
the officers, it was imagined that 11e •as an old offender,
and the sitting Alderman therefore remanded hiM till Smuts-
day, Olsen it is conjectured (Our charges «ill be brought
against him of a similar nature.

BOW-STRV.FT.

Yestrrilay several gentlemen were !wooed before Mr. Mie-
shall, the sistisig Magistrate. by Taunton, knitters'' and
Smith, three of the inincipsl offices, and several of the
patrol, haring biro apprehended Ilse preceding night at
No SS, Rill-mall. A warrant had been grauled against a Mr.
Noel, as the keeper of the house, which arts alleged In be •
gownwain gaming-house, and a gentleman answering to that
some ens amosgrt the number apprehended.
esker, the patrol, stated that he first entered ilse house,
and was soon followed by Smith and the other officers ; that
while going up Stairs a bell raug from below,and alien they gut
to the bark drawing room they foand right or ten gentlemen,
some of whose directly Ingot scrambling for the money on
She table; that be seised as muds as be could, and 'lauded it
over to Smith. _ _ _

Morris stated, that he followed Baker into the Muse;
that at the fool of the stairs one of the persons spiireht tided
a mays calling himself Franco Brow., struck him • violewt
Mow on the breast and knocked him across she passage, and
then eodeavoored to shut the door; that he called la Smith
sod the teat, who immediately followed Raker up stairs.
Smith deposed that be, occult/palsied by Taunton •nd
Rather, and severs! of the patrol, want to No. 55, Pen-
man, between twelve and one o'clock cm Monday eight;
that he followed NUT into she bock drawhig•estose, where
he (sued eight or tea Gentlemen rowed s table; that is the
centre of ihe table it roolette•beard was Ironing wood
with an ivory ball in It, and the Geode-ono appeared to
have jest left of playing • (list he (Smith) secured two boles
let foto the table, ratted the bask, sod festal therein *9
sovereigns and 41. 124. del. is silver, slid a written papev
*aiming the 41•10 of the bask; that so the table be Assad
eighty small coyote:a and arras large uses, Redwine
mahogany .capers ; that in a closet um Ilia first Baer he
foetid • large board with the Stores Is 2,5, and • board
hoed with green baize, in the shape of a mall trough, for
playing the game called Mx Dear, angler, and also astersl
prioteil card+ with she fullowiag wow& :
" Pissa--Tbe Climb noose, No. 5.5, Pall.anall. Range et
Noir, Roulette, and Us, Demi, Cirispie.—.Morniag, use to
five o'clock ; evening, serest to true o'clock."
Owing to the cor.fsisitin that prevailed, wittiest could not
recognize which of the (;eartlentest Wert In the room, hot
was nuke certain all the peewee appreheaded were famed irt
the Inoue, as the dour was shot as woo as all the coassables
were is; that as to !tie. Noel himself, he ccrtainly was aut
in the Rooteste.room, but down stairs is • room where • cold
collation ilea rot oat. Witness cooM not tell that Mr. Noel
was the keeper of the heave; he noriersteod so from tie
geatleman who rave the infoesnation.
Toronto's stated, that he awl some others went into the
front drawing loons, where was a table will a board fixed in
it for the game of Via Peas, Cinque; that is • box fixed in
the gaoling hoard be fossil f 0 small silver malier., sad
silver money atnemslieg only ire les.; that about eight per-
form were ow the room all in eawfasiois.

Rethrew fumed ur the closet spokes of by Smith, • pie.
estellion, two rockers, and mate cards, with the letters
" R. N." fur Rouge el Noi►.
Ellis fumed iu the liable fur Us, Deux, Cheque It terse vs.
riegated belt with wine* the game is played.
Avis Antall uu the Ur, Deft% Mules table 14 small silver
.Dieters.
Several others of she putty' produce' different gaming-
beards, risks, Ste.
Mr. /Olaf, who ■ttes.ted On the putt of tie Defendants.
elated, that se elns present occasion he bed set; se un the
last, to had fault with the •arrauti it sus perfectly

and he cerfai.ty einwiek• era it was tier Magistrate;s
when informatioo was made before hint, to grant the wa-
lnut ; yet he should have liked to lee the person who
was gold enotegb to ley the inkirboation, gel elisig,) 001
stags his face In stspfort of It. The Leonetti C..assel
anionadveiteal elh the dilterente of the .earners, essome,
..d opinions pf the primes see reelpseml with the 334
year of Worry VIII., when the Art of Mobilo:Heat plaited on
whoa% the rreseeit proceeding wail founded. Ile igplained
that 'midi of the gentlemen in t•ustody were foreign, re.
whose country not only was ganiibg on niffen'tc. but mttiorid
defense* were sanctioned by the Governanritt, fgo cerstiene*
was before the Magistrate Wet Mr. Nod was tits
keeper of the home, and doubted met but the hlagpeerate
would, nod. r all the eiresirestencee, hi the Geotlemeegu un
their personal iecognittenee, o Wheat patting them to llty ne-
notify of Rattier sureties. He could not in duellotion re-
frain from rrprobatittg the cooddel elf the Privotier Brown,
in resisting the officers Ile the legal discharge of their dui),
and whom he complimented on the very groper meager it
wldeh they had conducted themselves. •
Mr. Minshall said, he fully concurred with Mr. Alley, that
there was no evideoie to prove Mr Noel was the keeper i,l
the house ; but as he was famed at yell as the tither personi
its the house, and had not shewo sufficient cause for t,r,nz
there, nod as it was itianif el that aiming *se coated on at
the house, he should held them Se their personal reeng.
nisances aa required by the statute ; sari as to the P.Plll4olbrt
Brown, he shoed cot set him at liberty tell he hail procured
tiro respectable hottaelteepees• to be answerahle feo log forth.
corning at the Quarter Sessions, SI mower fur assaulting ,4111
Mortis.
The geollethen were accordingly discharged on coercing
into their own tecognissuces, and Brtivra was detuitatql for
waut of verities.

QVRRK•EQIARF..

Yesterday Morning several pentma came to this ofEc.!
before It w.ia open, to girt. laformation of robberies cummrt•
led iip.at them in the ernwit which collected to slew the
Marquis t f LondosiderWs (sacral. Prum an early hour he
streets Irma Si. isinees ,gnare to Weatmiuster Abbey were
crowded, and, as is usual, the piekpockets were as elm alert,
notwithoantline that numerous !sorties of pollee were oat.
At tea u'clutk Mr. Wut. Hears, wealthy farmer is Hert-
fordshire, was nnh a f.and standing sea► the staine at
Charing-cross, when a Push came by, Mid is a few missies
afterwards he missed his poeketAlniok, which contained a
5111. sole, some hills he received is &withheld un the preced •
ill day, and several valnable papers. His friend also missed
his watch and his silk handkerchief.

Mr. Tiltiard, a gentleman living on Ms property, in shoaat
half an hoar afterward, vras standing to see the soldiery
mownting guard at the Florae Onards, wheat his pocket wt,
picked of a poise of sovereign•, but he could not say huw
many.

Illaybsnk, the watch Muse keeper It Chelsea, who is him-
self a constable, was amongst the (Toted, when ■ pout!
young fellow came its contact with him, and effected that
was upon some lug, at lousiness, and wanted to get ihrongh
the people spe•dily. May-bank believed him, but after be
was gone out of sight a person told kleybank his breeches
pocket was turned inside out, which proved to he the fdcr,
and be found that 10s., all the money the pocket contained,
wa• stoles.

The police have a description of the offeadert in all the
above robberies, but tsar:woos other robberies have Dreg
reefed, and we have not heard that one single pickpocket ha+
beau taken into custody.

UNION•HALL.

A FEMALE WARRIOR.
Ann Jones, better hie., by the name of " Waterloo
Tom," was brought up in the custody of one of the officer.:
of the Meudirity Society, charged with an act of vagreuty,
having been found that morning begging in Carnbrrwell.
The officer stated, that the Prisoner nas a constant cos-
tomer of his, and had been before a Magistrate seven or
eight lime on similar charges, and noteithatanding 1:e bat
beta as atria in gaol, it bad not the effect of ot.:.iag
•
discontioue her pursuits which she could very welLde.a•
she was receiving • peat:lon of Is. 9il per day, debaving
been wounded at the battle of Waterloo, from which explmt
ebedcrivrd the appellation of " lrafertoo Tom"
The Prisoner, a strong masculine woman, about 35 rare
of age, with sabre wounds all over her face, especially Oh:•
nose, being called on to sheer cause why :be should not be
sent to gaol, told the Magistrate if she was, it would be uu
extremity hard ease, She stated that her husband had he•
longed to the 7th light dragoons, gad had stowed nailer the
Duke of Wellington in all his campaigns, and she herself, in
the attire of a private suldir r, had followed him through Spain,
Portugal, and other confiscate' countries, and dill military
duty. She was at the battle of Waterloo, where ber Ifirallatid
felt from his horse bye gun shot. • She immediately neonated
his steed and joined in the battle, and was instrumental in
saving the life of Captain Lance, belonging to her husbaad's
troop. la which enterprise she was severely 'minded, end
her sex was then Sir the first time discovered. After the battle
she was sent to England, end was now receiving Is. a day
from the Captain, and 9d. a day pension from the Oureru•
meet. She eisitcluili d her narrative by saying, it was sergharsh
treatment fur her, who had served her Ringgold eonntry,
be locked up in the jaws of a prisms for begging* halfpenny.
The Magistrate asked the officer if he was positive she up-
'et ietl for alms, and being aaswered in the affirmative, she
was committed to the mill, at Brixton, for a month.

THE LATE
LIRUTRNANT-GE.VP.RAL SIR S. AUCIIMITY.

Sir Juba Tylden, of the 32J regiment of foot, the nephew,
and, we have reason to believe, the heir of the liteltight
Hon. Getters! Sir Samuel Anatomist,' arrived' is pshlip on
Friday last, from Enema.
Lieutenant-Geuerai Fyers readied petite on Thuis.lay
night, and yesterday formally tooh upon bits the pro ter,
command of the army serving In Ireland.
Until the return of Colonel Thornton from Es4l', fur
which place be kit Dublin oat ft/foods, last (the 12tb instant;
iss order to receive the iostructlost of the seaters of the it,
ceased Sir Samuel Auchusotg regarding his fitssersl, nu nuts •
Session on the subject will hh issued A grand ptiblic
menial, with military lionours,, hat, however, nebadtleecu
determined us.

The fifteen rusty muskets which we mentioned
were lately discovered iu an old Louise in Ciirsii.4-
street, mid excised se much horror it the Polite-
*eke. •s giving terrible evialonee of the maniica.
lion of the Coto-street Taw, it now appear* were
deposited in the dark clintet by • perms' nettled
Castles, some time ago. who. it is siid, was autltt•-
sisad to receive the arms of hue disbanded core,
and send them to the Tower. Why he tivg.A them
in long we content tell.

SIIOCKING ActrnEnT.—About six ti
Saturday morning the &titres. Nottingham at ,r, ,
with a great number of muck and outside •
gars, was overturned a little un the other Idele et
Barnet, on its way from town ; the coach nes ..11;;‘ -
trred to pieces, and we see concerned to stab t 4 ~t
many of the passengers were severely injute.r, AI
some of them we understand are dangerou.ly a.
A few minutes before this neviirtenee took plostr,
past-chaise, au Its way to tenvii, was overturned s;
the same spot.
At the close of the King's County Atui.xes. s mll.
named WILLIAM VESTRANCIE was liberated 1;y
order of the Court. He had heenctonlined us the
gaol of Phillipatown fur upwards of twenty ywar..
His first clierfge was kw the murder el is child; and
he has been since, anti! within the lag two yehts, iu
a deranged state of mind. A sulck.riplutts aitt en-
tered into by the Ilan. Boson Samna. soil.the
*denten in Court. fur Ike unfortsitate MM.

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On Sunday some ?Mains entered the.lnia*' of
Mr. B. Mil...Mt, of litait!es-in reel, in Th 4 atiit:ni.,
of the rs Iy, who were at dutch, alpj tlriAir:loll.l
with On the family ploy, araylanu! loarthig,:ibt 1e.4,1
fitter by wlucb they could he dracoveretl.

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