The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-07 00:00:00

STREET IMBBERI ES.

On Tuesday evening, as a Gentleman was passing along
the London-road, he, was attacked by a gnat of thieves, who
iuf•st the vicinity of the Borough, and robbed of his gold
watch, St'3l.4, &e. with which they effected their escape, after
behaving with the iiimiort brutality towards him.—Mr.
Al.:room, of Welsher-street, was Mau knocked down near
the .ame vet a few everting. educe, under similar cireirm-
mantes, and robbed of his watch and seals.

1.4 W INTELLIORNCS.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Ltmestm's log,
WEDMEIDAIi, DIMINO= 8.

Thr LORD CHANCELLOR came into Court at
ten o'clock.

HUDSON t. FARTHING. OTHERWINE BEAUCHAMP.
Mr. HART stated this was the motion of the
Defendant, to dissolve an injunction restraining
him from transferring or dispositig of certain stock,
which stood in ills Milne woad that of Mrs. A one
Hudson, deceased, to a large amount. He moved
this on the answer of the Defendant being put in.
The ptayrr of the hill was certainly • sin: viler one;
it prayed that an aecousit might he taken of what
stock, and all other property, that Mrs. Anne Hod-
son died possessed of in Jllllll4fy, 1820. The bill
was tiled in the month of Ju,e following, and it
alleged, that the 1'10.'11,4 was the next of kin of
the testatrix, bring her first cousin; that she made
a will, leaving the Defendant her legatee; that
the testatrix was near 80 years of age when she ex-
ecuted the will ; and that she was woman of weak
intellect, and was accustomed, in the lifetime of
her husband, to live in a very meats manner,
without a servant; that the Defendant, whose
name had been Farthing, was a clerk in the bank-
ing-house of Morlsnd and Co. snit from the situa-
tion he held there, found out that the testatrix had
property in the I lands in a large amount, mod got
introthiced to her at a small house she resided in or
Twickenham; he pretended to have a great attach-
ment to her, and in the year 1818, he removed her
front Twickenham to a braise lie had taken for her
in theist Suffolk-street, Charing-crow., where he
kept her secluded front her relations and Glenda,
and in the mouth of May, lal9, lie removed her
to a house be had taken fur her in Somersetshire,
and by repeated promises to her that he would
merry her, he prevailed WI her to transfer stock to
the amount o; 40.0001. which stood in her name, to
lutist of his and beep, and afterwards to make a will
in his favour, bequeathing to him the residue of
her property. The bill then alleged that the testa-
trix, in company with her deceased husband, had
been, in 1805, overta ken wit ha thunder-storm on t heir
road from Londo:, to Tericketiloun, which frighten-
ed her to steal a degree that it brought on a fever,
and that she never recovered her right faculties
afterwards, and to shew her imbecility of nittal, it
stated that persons making her handsome presents
out of civility, she returned them by giving them
pence. lie (the Learned Counsel) contended that
this circumstance, instead of tending to prove the
imbecility of her mind, spewed the strength of it,
es she was aware for what purpose the presents
were made. The bill then went on to allege that
the testatrix had been so parsimonious in her dress
soil food, that she scarcely /tamale(' herself the tie-
cesoiries of life; that when the Defendant removed
her to his house in Suffolk-street. he furnished her
with fine clothes and a coach, which she expressed
her pleasure at ass child would, by which means he
had got such an influence over her as to deprive her
of any will of her own.
Tilt LORD CHANCELLOR—" Does the deed of
gift and the will refer to the same property ?"
Mr. HART said they did not, as the will gave
the general residue of her property. The Learned ,!
Counsel then proceeded to state the affidavit, in sup-
part of the bill ; the first was, that of the PI tintiff,
Hodson, who heed at Wernolllll, and who never
had any ctiminunication with the testatrix while
s' e resided at Twickenham, and he of course only
spoke to his hearsay and belief, which made it un-
necessary to go into his affidavit, particularly as his
Lordship would give him all the credit for his hear-
ay and b-lief it deerrved; but there was another
epecire of evidence of persoits speaking to
facts which cattle under their personal knowledge.
A person of the name of Morgan, who was a foot-
man of the Defendant, had made an affidavit, that
when he went in live with the Defendant he was a
clerk in a banking house, and had furnished lodg-
ings at No. 2, Great Suffolk-street; that. he after.
weeds took a house in the same street, and furnished
it ; and that he, the deponent, recollected his bring-
ing the old Lally, Anne Hudson, in a carriage to
the house on a eisit—the dined there: she was so
excessive lame that two persons had to assist her
from the catringe into the house. second time
she came she remained—that wee in May, 1818 :
the was so lame then, from ulcerated legs, that the
elopement and her maid servant had to carry her up
stens. That the Defendant desired him to deny
her to every person that might mill to see her ; that
several persons from the nrighbouthood of Twick-
enham did call to see her, and that he denied her.
according to the instructions be had received
from the Defendant. The Defendant hired a car-
riage for her, and on Sundays he used to take her out
in it, and whenever she went out in the carriage
he would not allow her to he accontpanied by any
one but himself; the old lady was invited to dine
at 31r. Reeves's, iit Palace-yard. but the Defend-
ant would tint allow her to go„ On the Sib or 9th
of Nley, 1818, the di:totem was in the r 1 alone
with the testatrix, when she said she would not be
long luring in that way ; he asked her in what way
she lucent ? she answered, in so confined It way, as
the Di.feridaiin had promised to marry her, and
that he was a very nice ruin indeed. That the
room of the teeitatris: was very offeii,ive from the
effliorie that rime from her legs; :rod the. Defend-
aft!, whenever hr came into her room, had a smell-
leg boltlr in his band, which he secreted iu his
handkerchief, awl applied to his note ; he osier) to.
call her "My dear," oar "My dear Mamma." The
neat was t he Alielevit of James Turner. who deposed,
that its had known the testatrix fur 20 years ; and
b-fear she left Twickenham, her mind was in
sort' a stale ols iwlrrcihty as to make her incitoa-
-1,1, of transacting any ordinary business. The
Defriwidist it.nl Wilt in his answer. and by it had
:iti-tactorily scroilmeri for floe adopt inn of Lim by
the reernorix ; that some years before he was re
d with her, she had so litter ;affection for her
relations that slit• had disposed of her property, by
will, fnr charitable purposes; that the Defendant
lied tin knowledge of the relations of the testatrix.
f lie iltokintl that she was a woman of weak intellect ;
that she spoke in a full tone of voice. and was in the
full pus.ession of her treulties; that she had never
been accustomed to lite in a persimostions manlier
after the death of her husband, as by his death she
became pusstssed of • large fortune, her husband
having only survived his brother, who had !Nguema'.

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