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eye no longer rested upon those extrinsic heanties which
too frevently liii, w the judgment 6119
Directed by a neiud so constituted, it would have here' im-
probable that he should select a girl for his c0mp:1,6011.-
ILa babies we re too much in the honest nod sineree John
801 l style to mite! of the fully of sentiment in the most
immittaut event of man's life. Conscious the he nowt
look for happiness in congeniality of moil, he cast a glance
at the widow Or a worthy cieteell in LOllllOll, who seemed
In him, from the fullness of her years, leer nelson, and
her understanding, lie be well adapted, either to the task
ef obeilleoce or autlicei illy which men aliernately bestowed
apnea their wives, as temper or occasiim dictated. she
was the widow of a 111411, wham every man lend reason In
bless, at least once a day oiler shaving himself- -the widow
of the celebrated Park wow!, who had !Hosed that lie had
:bought her worthy of his rhoite by leaving her in leis last
wilt and testament (091. per annum. The annuity was,
the learned counsel repeated, by no n.eana,. a prominent
objeci, although to he sure it was by no means an objection,
for his client sensibly confide red, that in the marriage state
it was desirable that the sense of inferiority, which the
Walll of fortune usually inspired, should net exist, obhge-
timt a feeling rather remote front love. About fuser
years ago the plaintiff and defendant hiss saw each oilier.
They were delighted. The widow's eye was lighted up
with 11111 l steal brillianey. The defendant telt its prover ;
it was an intellectual rye -not use of that bold and bre-
gular lion which CI4 need familiarity with a stranger.
lint conveying an express ion of permanent and undivided
et ttachment to the object use whom it was fixed svelte a con.
slant guar. Language seine Must foie!' ; declarations of
never•failing atliclion wee e reciprocally made, and flee
widow Packwood, who had aiready been so happy its a
husband. consended to my the experiment a seennol time.
and pledged ileinir to heroine the wile set Air. GAM, ;
but unfortunately fur ear Hit tit of the learned conii•e I, her
name, iliongli now changed, was not Gibbs. It ought to
he Gibbs, for she had made a promise in the face of
Heaven ; it ought to be tiebles, for the teem ding aneel had
written it down, and em tee, except that of scalding re-
pentance, could ever °bedew(' the impression. It might
to be Gibbs, for Gibbs had fixed his heart upon the ex-
pectation, and nothing con'el iccompense him for the in,ine y
lie 11411 sustained. The w I.IOW W 4,1 one of the most ex-
traordinary willows toot ever came into a Court olJustice.
It would appear that she delighted in entrapping and dis-
appointing men ; for but a lithe befot e she become or-
(painted with his client, another suitor had presented Imo-
sed, and been promised her howl. A short acquaintance,
linwever, satisfied the Indy, and she learned off her admirer
who oppheil to the Imoevolent power of the law, whit le
never failed ite healing the wounds inflicted either by man
or woman, and cove him a eunsiderable recompense iu
damages. Tile lady was now the property of Humber,
but the happy collide wee e srpatated by flout al consent,
not on account o: defect in the temper of either, lint
because she was ecoimmically inclined, while he was
rather inimiticebt. The Jory waned, it was to be hoped,
gise by their vetdie t a warning to all widows.

beret:ll lutlfro, w;iii•h *eie stated to have been written
by the defendant to the id.iotitt, were pat- in and reed, in
order to skew the breath proanisa and several witnes •
ies were examnied.

Mr. A I,bott, the Under Sheriff, gummed np the evidence,
and the Jnry, atiet mume ennitiltation,tetutued a verdict.
fur thin plaintiff—Datnages

VICE-CHANCELLOR's-COURT. I.TYCOL'i'B•IYN, SA.
lURDAY. JULY to.

THE MARLBOROUGH GOLD PLATE, DIAMOND
SWORD, fee.

The Earl of Slitij"lt-slniry. Lord Ri;liert Spereeer, and others v. Ms
Grace the &dee of Mut thorough. The same r. the ranee
and Thomas Triplmok.
Sir Arthur Piggott moved, on the sitting of the Court. that the
noble defendant in these two cases should tre ordered to deposit in
the cake of Maxtor Con, on or before the 15th instant, all the
gold plate. boats. a diamond sword, a chronometer. • gold
repeating watch, all astronomical instruments. sculpture busts.
and ornamental thins, which were in poseur:aro of the lute Luke
o: Marlborough at the time of his dentheainder the follon:ng cir-
cumstances, :—The late Doke by his will. appointed tar plauitiffe
his trusters, aid vested in them his estates to: t. e payment of hie
debts, and to provide a large sum for the support of the present
Duchess of Marlborough and her family. wits the residue to the
noble defendant. as tenant for life, with the remainder to the
present Marquis of Biandtimrd. The pLeintiffs filed their hill on
the death of the late Duke. to carry into effect his will, and
, ' the Court made a decree in the month of May, 1818, On the
7th of last month it beanne necessary to the noble piaintiffa to file
a supplementary bill, from certain circumstances whveli had
come to their knowledge. l'he bill set forth that the hue Duke
was possessed of family plate. fie. and then states the will from
where he (Sir Arthur) left Mir that the testator vested in trustees
all his gold and silver plate, and the articles we have before enin
inerated. which should be in the houses of Blenheim and Marl-
borough, at the time or his death, for the use of whatever Duke
might be afterwards in possession, and by his will gave directions
to the trostees for the preeervation of them. lin honour would
see how particularly Jealous the noble testator nos ot we conduct
of the present Duke; he uirecwd by his will that toose
articles should be kept in the Ntansion !louse, at Blenheim, and
that they were not to be remove ,l fmm thence s ithout the con-
s:sit of the ens tees; and he directed that after his death an ineen-
tore should be taken by the trustees, and two copies should he
wide and signed by the trustees, and whoever might be the
tenant in possession for the time being; and that tne trustees
should enamine the articles from time to time, to see that they
were in safe keeping, and to see that they were repaired and
replaced, and, in case of any of them being niissing, restored at
the expence of the Duke in possession. The bill then stated,.
that about-. three months before the filing of it. the noble defen-
dant had cattend all the gold plate to be remuoved from Blenheim
by the defendant, Thomas Tripleede. a stationer, residing in St.
James's Street. schaotfereel to pawn Ahem with several pa.. Amu-
kers, and actually did pledge them with one. and offered them
for sale to Mr. Albion Cox and a Mr. (euest. but they refused to
purchase them, nom the suspicions circumstance of the engraved
arms being covered with was. Sonic of the plate at that time
was in t:.e custody of the detendunt Ttiphook. The bill played
that the h fendants might be decreed to deliver over the emelt%
to the noble plairgiffs. The noble de tendant hal nos put an
answer in. and had made no application for time for that pur-
pose, although one month and tame days had elapsed 'Aztec the
tiling of the bill. An application on the Nth of June was made
to the loud Chancellor, tor an injunction to restrain the deten-
dents from pawning. netting, or diseoeing of the gold plate and the
diamond sword. end (tor removing! the other articles front the
mansion at Blenheim. Ili. leoriship on he trine only two ,
afEjseits stated. granted the injunction, hut since nut time noble
defendant had not made any aplrti, scion, or Attempts' to con.
tra,liet the afm:davite. The Learned (7ouilsol then stated the nth-
davit of the Earl of Shottesbury hich is before the pithlic.) lie
then statod another affidavit of the Noble Earl's, which set forth.
that after the granetiG of the injunction, he Lid an interview with

his Cease. when =inked that the gold plate and the ditte.nly4
sword should be niag in a few days; hut tl.ey had na...nce
come to stew, except the diamead sword and a chronenti ter,
which way presented by his parent Nfaiedy to the lete nuke,
which was found in the pioysersion nE a creditor of the tohle defene
dant, who had seized on thin wider an execution ; an I on the
noble plaintiff making an application to the creditor. he delivered
them tip. Coder these circumstance he had no doutt but his
Honour would grant the order as prayed for.
After much of argument of the Learned Counsel, which
our limits will not permit us to state,
The Vice-Cluaneellar made the following order —" I et the
motion stand over till next Seal, to give hie Grace an opportunity
of puffin; in his answer, or of filing rts affidavit explanatory lir
the wick transaction, and to state the circumstances fully ; for
in whoever's custody the plate iy, this Court can reach it ; and it
will, if his Grace does not make the diackisure: I.e will find, if
he does not replace it, that he canna, touch .11C shilling of the rents
of the estates until he has done ors Int his Crate deliver up the
keys of the library, &c. to a pmper person 'who is to inspect them,
and to be appointed by the trustee!, Ono or before Monday
se'nnight. and let the diamond sword and 'clwannmenz that have
been reeuvered be lodged in Master Cox's office."