The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-06 00:00:00

lIT rf?1:11IN .4TI EMPT AT SrICIDE.

Monday alit...noon a wslelier of the End London Militia,
gienig along Ih4 Strtiforel road, was alarmed at fouling a
femile genteelly dreateil, suspended by a silk handkerchief
Loin the hooch of a tree, inside site hedge, h► immediately
rut her !town; having mily that Irunrrrut bow, herself, ale
in a few 11111:11ieN .erovtretl, and Larrt into tear's; she raid
she wito. the wife of a trade-masa at H mare loge, nod 11161.ot:int:
Into for raving her 1it..., the promited lu hr.de.•rd with all
speed to Iwo fd mjl ; the soldier permitted her to depart 11/11
this pr. 0000 Ind watrimil her. She proceeded along, the river
Ilia, till she thienglit herself out of sight, soil then plunged
join 11,. water; the sAilier again raved her bG, awl COll.
ductal her Is •me to her family. She hied been .ois•ing for
savers' days, and a rented had been offered for her recovery.

YORKSHIRE .SUMMER

FILIDA Y. JULY Stli.

Brfore Mr. Justice BAYLLI.

CHADWICK V. DROVIN.
il.lr. SCARLETT slated, that this wits an action of
fjectoo•ot, brought by the Plaintiff, lirsilait,in
Chadwick. heir-at-law to John Chadwick; and
the, teal question at issue was, whether a will exe-
cuted by the deceased John Chadwick was valid.
Ile should controil„ that the Plaintiff was in a state
ul perfect imbecility and complete dottge, ntteil.
Incompetent to make our disposition of his pro-
perty ; but he should resenr his st .temetta of ti
•I the will had been produced ; at present all
that he had to do was to !wove that the deceased wit
of the premises sought to be recover-il at
tho time of hits death :—The Plaintiff fidVilig
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bled,ed this fact.
Mr. Caoss addressed the Jury on the part oft lie
DeteMlalit, and called the following wit,le•ws
Mr. Powell produced the will of John Chadao k
from the Ecclesiastical Court of York.

Mr. Limierlot Smithies was formerly a fllPlellalit
at ts'lleepsicar, near Leeds, but for the last seven or
right years has been a traveller for John Stanley
alrl Cn.; k new the lateiolui •k, of II tisl
thorp, upwards of twenty rears; frsessiently sew
and conversed with him until within is month.
of his death. Witness was present when II- bl;pa'll
his will. The will bring shewn to the witness, lot
pointed out Ins attestation to it. Air. Cbrioacie„
Mr. IVaisiwright, the attorney, Mrs. Jaae Wright,
the testator, and the witness, were its the room.
Mr. Wainwright was writing ; when he had finish-
ed, lie read over the will, and then asked Mr,
Chadwick if it was agreeable to hi. own uund, I e
said he was perfectly satisfied with it, and he then
signed it in our presence, and we then put
our 1111111 Pa to it in the presence of each other,
no person leaving the room until the will was sign-
AVititess said the testator was us capable of
making a will as any pet9on ill that room, 11'ittiess
has heard him repeatedly declare it to he- his intro-
lion to leave his nephew, John Wright, the greenest
Inert of his property. During the whole time he
had known him he was always perf.etly errnpetent,
and he never heard any insinuation that he was in
ally respect incompetent.
Witness was cross-examined with cocsideralOst
severity by Mr. SceeterT, and was so irrituted
with what he considered irrelevant questions, that
lie refused t.sanswer them.

Mr. Se ARLETT appealed to the Judge for pro.
tection; who said, if lie had been in the Willit”,•
box, and Mad be.•u treated in the sante manner, lie
should have felt very uncomfortable, and have been
dispiised In act as the witness had done.
Mr. Besij imin Chapman is u cloth-inerchaut at
Leeds; knew John Chadwick OpiVial!s of so
years; was sent for to witness, his will in I).c.•ni-
ber, 1810 ; Mr. Smithies, Mr. N'imiatiglit, Mrs.
N'riglit, the testator, and the witness.
sent. Mr. N'aiiiwright was writing the will when
he went in ; when he had finished it, lie read tt
over to the testator, and paused several time•, Rial
asked him if it was agreeable to his mind; he limit
it was; and when he had finished reading, it lie re-
peated the seine question, and Mr. Chadwick racil •
it was perfectly so, and he then signed it, awl wii-
-4110.
'less wrote his name ; when the testator hail ►e'•:eil
it, he said, " Have I not written a good Raoul Gtr
un old man ?" Ile then took the will in iris timid,
and published it as his last will and testament ; I u
igned each of the three sheets of the will. Wii-
twos considered him as perfectly competent to ❑trek.-
a will. The testator was then about eighty yiuis of
age.
The will was then read ; it was dated in Decem-
ber, 1810. The testator, after a considera I It- lin In.
her of legacies to his other relati.ais, bequeathed
the interest of 600/. to his niece, Jane
during the term of her life, and all his rial estates
to his great tiephew, John Wright. To the Plait'.
tiff. Benjamin Chadwick, was left the sun► of live
guineas.
Mr. Josiah Falkener said, he had duiin;,•
whole life known the deceased; had some conversa-
tion wi►h him about Christmas, 1810 ; lie told titer
witness that he had made his will, and had left Jooli
Wright the Nether-Green Estate, and mother,
Jane Wright, 301. a-year, from 600/. that Niiiini
Procter had in his hands, for her life time ; that it
would be '2OO/. a-piece for the gins, but they a °it'd
get nothing until their mother died. Ile further
told the witness, that he had turned over I.is farm
to Mrs. Wright and her husband, as it wits el his
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use to trouble himself with it any longer, as lie had
enough for himself and his old housekeeper. Wit-
ness thought him at that time perfectly compeb.it
to settle and manage his affair*.
Mr. John Newell knew the late John Chaiisict
47 years; witness had formerly been i.crt•-int
hint. Mrs. Jane Wright had lived with hilt ei
since she miss child, and her son John Wr• glut
born in the house, and lived with him omit the
time of his death. Mr. Chadwick had a fit
three years before his death, hut »nut so did nit
observe any alteration in his capacity, acid ldt
thought him as capable of transacting trust:a:sit nNte
the tit as he was before.

Slots,. Procter, is a tanner ; has known John
Chadwick 25 or 26 years, witness nought MI estate
of him ; of the purchase-money GOO/. was Irft Naos
security of the estate, in bis hands ; Mr. Chadwick
told him that lie intended this 600/. for his hires)
Jane Wright; witness paid him the ihttrest half-
%surly—wain ss said the testator received it hini.ocle
except for the two last hulf-yearo,—witness saw
nothing in him to excite suspicion that he was 1.1e3.
The colleen:Moo about learilig 600/.
to Airs. Wright was about fifteen years ago ; about
three years before his death lie hail a conversation
will) him, in Which he told the witiass that he had
left 6001. to his iiirce, and an estate to his nephew—
:Mr. Cross said, the heir-at-law had got the copy-
-114,41 estate, because it bad not /)(tli Surrendered tt
the use. of Ole Will.
Mr. SCARLETT, without making any address to
the Jury on the Part of the Ploonotitf. eau 11l i l irol
Mr, Untie, whom lie r,:aesented as a respectable
surgeon.

Mr. Lome said that he sans a vurgvutt vt Leres,
he wait called in to at t, I'li 11)C lige JOlll Chwiteil k
in the year $OB, 4 111:111 t.. 4 me for hint r.
wick's !Kirov : by arrived lie fiwral that he
had uu apoplectic t, they had joist got law two