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appealed t. .: feelings -. the Joey. . ...
Vaughan) knew that their feelings were always up in arms against
a defendant who wan accused of having acted in stieh a manner as
that imputed to Mrs.llolland. Indeed, if they possessed :he feelings
of men, they could not remain unmoved through inch a statement.
but neoessatily be affected—nay, almost transported beyond the
boundp.of their,judgment, by the powerful and eloquent spceell of
Oka plaintiff's Cout.sel. Now, of all this statement, no proof had
paireved.nor even a tittle of evidence had been tendered. to
in what situation the plaintiff' really timed with regard t i Mr.
offend. lint the Jury must have surmised the rate nature of his
situation. for his Learned ?Acid had said the plaintiff had not
shown a father's care— '
‘• The child. whom many fatliees share,
Has seldom known a father's care." •
There was no pretence for sayir.g that the plaintiff's, possessed of,
or entitled to a fortune. For all that had appeared to-day, she had
:muerte farthing of property in the world,—indeed, the evidence,
instead of showing thou she was a person of property, proved the
very reverse. The epithets which had been heaped together in the
opening speech, were proved by the evidence to apply only to the
female defendant, and not to her husband ; and !be Jury should
remember. when they listened to those epithets, that it was the
husband alone who would have to pay; and when they remembered
that, thee would take care not to confound these persona with each
oilier. The hemmed Consul for the plaintiff hail ornamented his
speech with line images -and with the poetry of his thoughts, in a
way which might have been expected from him. Ile had set out
with a Outer:Mien, that he Airfield state the facts without comment;
but this plain matter.of-footman, who wan to leave these luta to
make their own way to tlio_hearts of the Jury, had not hesitated to
describe Mu. Holland sa a Melon whose " forru was a libel CO
her sex, and who was an, incarnation of every devilish quality."
Thie WS, plain statement with a vengeance, and yet this had hew
resorted to in the present else: now, if the Jury were much ac-
customed to sitting in this Court, all this would produce • con-
siderable effect anon them : for as the advocates in this Court
never had recourse to any flourishes whatever, as they always
stated their ease in a simple unexaggerated way, the Jury were
naturally led to place considerable reliance on them ; and, there-
fore, when they heard such statements mode here, they could
hardly refrain from believing them ; and if they did believe them.
they would say that the female defendant wu a devil indeed (a
laugh.) If she was, so much the worse for Mr. Holland ; but bad
as she might be, she could hardly be as bad as she had been repre-
sented. The female witnesses who had described the transaction,
seemed to have been infected with the aerie spirit of exaggeration
as the Learned Csouneel; and ffom th• eestement of the first of
them, one would nlmorit hare been led to sr` pose that she had been
threatened by Mrs. Holland with the red-hot poker end the Brat
carving knife (a laugh.) These witnesses, however, bad carefully
abstained from stating what wan the provneatimi given—nome moat
have been offered. Could the Jury be at a lops to conceive what it
was ? Could they not easily imagine that this plaintiff had ins*.
lently taunted the defendant with the education he had given her?
And if they could imagine that, did they not know that the tongue
of woman was sometimes as bad as the poker or tl4l knife ? That
such provocation had been given, he had no doubt ; but he could
no: prove it, because the defendants could not be witnesses in their
own cause: and the only other person who could be called, and
who had already given her evidence, was not in the room at the
time. If the Jury believed the evidence that had been given, they
must return a verdict for the plaintiff; but they could hardly think
of awarding her damages to any considerable amount.
The CHI Cr JUSTICY, having stated the nature of the action,
and recapitulated the principal points of the evidence. The Jury
would consider attenuvely all the circomstances of the rase; ant
if they believed the evidence, they would find for the plaintiff,
with such damages as they might think the nature of the assault
required.
The Jury retired for above en hour, and then returned a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages, 2411. Ifrti
The action of (rover was afterwards ordered to stand over till the
next Sittings, by which dine it was expected a guardian would be
appointed.
CONSISTORV COURT, SarunDarr, Juxx 4.

SATURDAY At

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
War-o.ffire, June 3. 1825.
3d Rrgimtnt of Dragoon Guardk—Lieutenant-General Sir W.
Payne, Bart. from the 12th Vain Dragoona, to be Colonel.
12th Regiment of Light Dragoons--Alajor.General Sir C. Grant,
K.C.B. to be Colonel.
17th Regiment of Foot—Lieut. .1. Church to be Captain, by our.
chase. Ensign J. A. Edwards to be lieutenant, by purchase.
A. Lockhart, (lent. to be Ensign. by purchase.
49th ditto—R. Birch, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase.
95th ditto—Capt. E. W. Drewe, from the Royal African Colonial
Corps, to be Captain.
Royal African Colonial Corps—Lieut. R. Gregg, from the 4th
Fro% to be Captain, without purchase.
The following Officers, upon the half-pay, hare been permitted
to sell their half pay, as unattached commissions :
Major Sir N. Trant, half-pay.
Portuguese Officers—Ersian F. Short, half-pal 81st Foot ; Ensign
A. Gordon, half.pay 112th Foot; Lieut. h. Bowlby, half-pay.
4th Foot ; Ensign A. Jenour, half-pay Royal West India Ran-
ger,.
UNATTACHED.
Capt. W. rartwe.ght, from the Bth Light Dragoons, to be Major
of Infantry. by purchase.
Ensign A. Gamer:el, from the 49th Foot, to be Lieut. of In.
frirtry, by purchase.
To he Ensigns hy.purchtue—A. D. Morrison, Gent ; J. Thomp-
son, Gent. ; J. Tedlle, Gent.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Monmouth.
To be Deputy Lieuttnams—J. Baldwin, Esq.. J. Buckle, Esq.,
J. Jane. Clerk, W. H. Jane. Esq., F. Lewis, Clerk. C. J. Lewis,
Esq., T. Oakley. Esq., J. Clerk, J. 'fhotnas, Clerk,
And J. Jenkins, Esq.

William Morley, Stapleicrff,Notungham, bobbin-lace.mann-
`sewer, to meet, June 27 and 28, and July 16, at eleven, at the
King lienrge the Fourth. Nottingham. Solicitors, Mr. R. Capes,
Hnlborn-court. (.ray's-inn; and Mr. Williams. Nottingham.
'ironies Lawton, Oreenactres-moor, near Oldham, Lancaster.
publican, June 17 and 18, at eleven, and July 16, at tour, at the
Star Inn. Manche ter. Solicitors, Messrs. Adlington, Gregory.
and Faulkner, Bedford-row; and Messrs. Claye and Thompson,
Manchester.
Charles Lawrence, Drury-lane. tallow_chandler, June 11 and 14,
and July 16, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr.
R. 11 all, Great James-street, Bedford-row.
Thomas Craven and Joshua Parker, Ilecknondwike, York,
scribbling millers, June '2B, at six, 29, and July 16, at ten, at
Churl's Carr's office, CroenersaL Solicitors, Messrs. Evans and
Shearmsn, Hatton-garden: and Mr. Late, Utmemal.
'William Jeffery. Crack-yard, Davies-street, Hanover-square,'
horse-dealer, June 11 and 18. and July 16. at ten, at the Bank-
runts Court, Solictor, Mr. W. Orlebar, George-street, Hanover-
square.
Henry George, Bedwelty, Monmouth, shopkeeper, June 28 and
29, and July 16, at one, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol. Solicitors.
Mr. E. S. Bigg, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane; and
Mr. L. Bigg, Bristol.
Charles Hall, Egham, Stirrer. innkeeper, June 11, at eleven, 18, I
and July 16, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitors, Aleuts.
Brown and Marten, Mincing-lane.
John Walsh, Norwich, linen-draper, June 11 and 18, and July
16, at eleven, at the Bankrupts Court. Solicitor, Mr. D. Jones,
Size-lane.
DIVIDENDS.
June 25. James Wood. Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury,
silversmith, at ten, at tha Bankrups' Court--July 2, James
Capling, Holloway. innkeeper, at twelve, at the Bankrupts'
Court-June 28, William Sandison, Cork-atreet„ Burlington-
gardens, tailor, at twelve, at the Bankrupts Court-June 25,
John Holmes, Bridge-road, Lambeth, broker, at ten, at the
Bankrupts' Court-June 25, George Hardisty and James Cowling,
Bedford-court, St. Paul, Covent-garden, woollen-drapers, at
twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court-June 29, Samuel Scott and
James Scott, Road-lane, Sportland, Rochdale, Lancaster, woollen-
manufacturers, at two, at the Wellington Inn, Rochdale-June 25,
Antonio Joze Lourenco Vieria and Antonio Machado Braga,
Tokenhocse.rard, merchants, at one, at the Pankropue
Caurt-
June 25, William Good, sen. and William Good, Jun, Hlythe.
Sounthampton, chip-builders, at eleven, at the Bankrupts'
Court-June 25, George Lamb, Jerusalem Coffee House, Corn-
hill, merchant, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court-Jane 25,
Abraham Allen, Pall-mall, calico-furniture-nsanufacturer, at
twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court-June 25, Thorns' Edgington,
Well's. street, Oxford-street, coach-maker, and of Tooley-street,
Southwark, sacking-manufacturer, at ten, at the Bankrupts'
Court-June 27, James Leach, Manchester, merchant, at two, at
the Bridgewater Arms Inn, Manchester-June 30, William Mid-
dletnn, Liverpool, tes.deder, at twelve, at the Office of Mr.
Gandy, SoUettor. Lord-street-Clambers, hoed-street, Liverpool-
June 27, Samuel Tomkinaon, Burslem, Stagind, manufacturer of
earthenware, at twelve, at the begs of Alan Inn, Burslrm-June
25, James Cruickshanks, Gerrard-street, Soho, eldemado sash-
manufacturer, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court-June 28.
William Parker, Oxford-street, ironmonger, at one, at the
Bankrupts,' Court.--June 25, Henry Stokes, Throgmorton-street,
merchant, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court-June 14, Hutchinson
Mule, Robert Mure, and William Mure, Fenchurch-street, mer-
chants, at eleven, at the Bankrupts' Court-June 18, Peter fla-
melnn, Iklmont-place, Vauxhall, plasterer, at t welve, at the
Bankrupts' Court-June 25, John Beckham, Strand, bnokserller
at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court-June 28, James, Halma ack,
sen. Madeley, Stafford, retailer of wine and spirituous-liquors, at
at twelve, at the Roe Buck Inn, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
CERTIFICATES, JUNE
Elizabeth Glover, /lardshaw, Lancaster, shopkeeper--Thomas
Edgington, Wells-street, Oxford-street, and Tooley-street, South.
wark, coach-maker-Richard Millward, Longnor, Staffordshire,
grocer-Thomas Draper, Whitt-street, Southwark, dealer_Jarac.
Collins, Gosport and Portsea, Hampshire, grocer-George Bennett,
Seymour-place, Mary-la-bonne„ butcher-Henry Jay, Kiburn,
Middlesex, carpenter-John Harrison, Red Lion-street, Holborn,
tritnutilg-mytufacturer-Mannel Joze Ferreira Centel°, Devon-
shire-street, Queen-square, merchant-Wiliam Maddy Leeds,
draper.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
Henry Hargrave and John Rogers, Liverpool, abetnista--John
Thompson and William Henry Taylor, High-street, Borough,
quill-merchants-Aleaander flora, William Martin, William
Nora, and Samuel John Nail, Mill-atreet, Cheapside, silk-manu-
facturers-George Bullock Watts and Henry Alarch, Yeovil, So.
merset, glove-manufacturers--William Smith, William llerbert
Smith, end Matthew Ferries. Longford. Buckinghamshire, calico.
printers, as far as regards William Herbert Smith-Anna Maria
Hewett and Sarah Staines, Piccadilly, milliners-Francis Nalder
and Thomas Naldre. Cheapside, glove manufacturers_lyilham
Bagnold and John O'Donnell, Liverpool, ale and porter brewers-
Thomas Lawrence, Hamby, and John Mawby, Bourn, Lin-
colnahire, wool-ataplers-Willitun Clarke. Judd-street, Brunswick-
sqnare-Charles Munton Hawke and Peter Jellard, solicitors-
Ann Greenhow and John Pearson. Kendal, Westmorland, canvaas-
manutacturees--John AP Turk and Robert Hallardy Allan, Exeter,
drapers-John Mudford and Richard Tucker Westlake, Plymouth,
leather-cutters-Richard Clough and James Ogden, Trub-Smithy,
Lancaster, shop-keepers-George Pickard and Thomas, Whitehead,
Leeds, dyent--W Whitt t Fawcett, James H unt, Ilenrylflunt, Joseph
Prieatley, and George Smith Kenrick-George Chick and Stephen
Bowden, Bristol, blue and Annetta-manufacturers.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the week ending the hit day of June.
1825, is 374 4d. per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of
Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into
Great Britain.

Average price of Corn from the Returns received in the Week
i ending Ala 28, 1825.
Wheat. Barley. i ' Oat. Rye. I Beans. Peas.
s. d. a. d. a. d. s. d. *. d. a. 4.
67 10 34 0 24 7 38 3 38 0 31 0
MEETINGS OP CREDITORS
AT THE BANE AU Pre COITIT. PAINIXONALL-ITIREIT,
TO-HOE ROW.
--raw--
THIRD HEETIE6II. H.
Gardie, L. Regent-street. jeweller - - - - . 10
Sawyer, U. Wynyatt-atreet, GovwelLstrcet, dealer in lace - 1
%Veils, G. Osford-street, trunk-maker . - - - 11
ercoxrt MELTING,.
Williams, W. H. Old-street, St. Luke's, corn-thandler - 12
FIRST MEETING..
Knowles, T. late of Cheltenham, formerly of Duke-street,
Grosvenor-square, warehouseman - - - - . I
Dilworth, J. Liverpool, tailor - - - - - - 10
DIVIDENDS.
Clark, R. and Jobbing, J. jun. Trinity-square, Tower-hill,
coal-factors - - - - - - - - - 12
Hawkins, J. Penny-fields, Morris, T. and Constable, W.
builder* - - - - - - • - - - 10
Hughe*, J. T. High-street, Shoreditch, haberdasher - - 12
Pickman, J. Shoreditch. grocer
Railaton, J. North Shields, ship-owner . . .

INTERESTING EXI'ER/HENT.—At Brighton several per-
sons have been bitten by mad dogs, and among them a Mr. White,
a surgeon. This gentleman does not believe that the disease
called the hydrophobia can be communicated in the way generally
supposed, and has resolutely refused to adopt any.of the precautions
recommended in such cases. Ilia wound, which wan in the arm,
has been suffered to heal. The dog was secured, and subsequently
died in his keeping. Mr. White, in an account which he has pub.
fished, states, that upon the dog being dissected strong excitement
from some cause was evidently developed. But Mr. %'hite is still
of opinion that a bite from any dog dying sulestauch circumstances
could not infuse a specific poison into the hqman system. He had,
in the minds of his medical friends, etakcd./lis life on his opinions.
iso Ile had every confidence, short of bid °try, in their correctness ;
and, with (what they have been pl to term) the most dreadful
of human maladies, presumedsto hanging over him, he felt com-
petent to declare, that imagination would at least have no share in
the result. He should die, "and the wonim might at him," but
not of hydrophobia.

THE BRITISH PRESS•
settle-We. Ni was rstritaely sorry that this cast, together with FROM
all the other suite, and bites, and actions, had not Lees referred to
some mutual friend, who might have arbitrated between thetar-
, ties. However. the plaintiff had chosen torrlnve the otter, and had
appealed to the feelings of the Jury. Now he, (Mr. Sergeant