The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1816-05-17 00:00:00

ANNIVRICSAIRT of M. SONN of lA. bunter.

Yesterday the Anoint! Mestine of the linnityr..
miry of tlw Sons of the Clergy took pl..ce at the
Cielwdral Church of Si Paul's. The Lord 11syrir
a■J the Sheriffs of London went in state. i:l4
Roy I iginiess the Dnlre of Clarence end the
!NIA (Inn. the E irl of Plymouth. dtc.. Ste. -
tended in person es Steward*.

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THE COLLECTION e

CATIIOI,IC P F.7ITiON.

!•e • •

The following is the Iriik Resettle Cstimiie
Petition presented by Mr. Grstto...l ih the
or CUIII/130110, no rriestfiy, the rsth
t tuNIHLE Pr.TTTION , •

Or Tilt tIMICIISIGINCO &OWAt CAMOLMS OV Sit(/!O4
IN It, 01.11-..

That whilst your Petitioners acknowk-d+o, with gracitnde,
the many intuortmit selgaations of the Penal Law+, wioi to
Imo* labial place. dust lig his Illi‘jeQy'S aintpicimm seism,
still have to teeret the continuance of many ievereill•Aosh.
tlfut ion*, and humbly submit, that the repeal of the batch?,
whirls they ath intlieted, MOlll4 ensiomitly tend to gore *Min-
May to the existing form of Govermumit and e.onstitii Ly
at otter 'moving every ground for alicuation or iiiistLy.
That in approaching this honourable a slew
to the relief for whirl, they pray, your Peetioners re+t !brie
claim to that relief, •iti the fart of their religlows
not hieing in their mum. dttagsmona to the Stagy oft its the
curtinussion of the .prroimi form of Government, when's,
civil or erritodastical ; and rely en the wisdom and im,itity
of tlic Legislateire, as the 14/1111Ne from which they &tare to
obtain a repeal of the laws which now effort them.
That it M their mixious with, tint the great manarre of
Catholic Emancipation shall us carried into effisetv.un.fer
mull circumstances *a will reader it ssiisfacto% mod ntitilis
jectionabie to ail classes of his Majesty's F101.1.110%4 iii/We
much as, your Petitioners' 'etiolation, the eider tiemilt
to Le derived from it is, the union of persona of &tient
religious descriptions thh the hoods of esiticord mad whit), mid
the removal of all jealousies nod apprehension** which,
being accomplished, all will be naturally led to wis.operat:.
L'am's and uniftirm endeavours to promote
,the geumwi
welfare.
That, actuated with this impression, your Petiiiimers feel
tlirmselvrs in dusty bound id state their readiness lo stibnite
sod conform to any regolations, sot incompatible with tiro
miliciples of their religeou, as they respect its (Mtli and
discipline, and not threatening danger to the pit) ity and
peronmence of it+ exercise; mid, whilst your petitioners
fed happy in station, that they 'kitty rely PR the liberality
and justice of the Legialatnio, as Mpledge.of •its sot enters
taining a wish a• impost any arrangameats the iscompetis
hie, they feel equal satisfaction in the conviction Aim con.
(Amboy adjustments may be settled, fully satifaciory to the
minds of his Majcsty's ProtSidant sobjeits, and yet pert; City
consistent with your Petttitosers' prencipku, both of faith
itnNdieciptine.
. .

Thai yotte.Petitionns do sot seek for any alleeption in
the prisciples of the British Constitution, is lIIIW with d :
for neither with regard to the manitenaoce of the succession
to the Crown (as limited by Art of Parliament) in his Ma.
jesty's family, being Probratants, nor with regard to a sin.
eere sopport of the Protesliat P.stablirbment in itsdempo.
nil rights. as fixed by lair, do the principles of the-Ronian
Catholic Religioa interpose any obstacle or impedinirot.
That with regard to the other leadingfeaturei of Vie Bei.
tide Constitution, it is too well known to nerd being now
insisted no, that-their neigh. is to be (wind at a period olwa
Roman Catholic Princes, and Romeo Catholic
were intrusted with the guardianship of the public inters at
of • Roma. Catholic peopl.
That your Petitioners, in the prosecution of an obi, et
which so naturally recites all their feelings, and occri:..e., all
their anxieties, earnestly desire, net thee in net or.
to ICaYll room fur jealousy on the part of lit hr Prot.stane
fellow-subjects ; 1.11 the contrary, firmly attached to the
principles of the Constitution, and to Fi.i;ish roneexio...
your Pet.tite,ert show that they wish to et-inee, by es. ry Net
of their rohdoet, that whilst they are 9$ ,liritn in !CI 5.13: 111
that station in the Constitution, 410 which they Gel it
world be culpable not to aspire, they nject and re.
probate all idea of party aggreartizement, sad aspire
solely to the common participation of personal
ul.i. h aill identify their iatere.ts and feeling with
of 110-ir Protestant COllll,l, Men, and Mite mote the co.
tire Ludy of his Majesty's subject. in coustant anti cordial
co-operation, for the common benefit.
Yost' Petitioners, therefore, contemplating the attain-
ment of this general co•onizatiou, universal harmony. cx.
tinetiou of jealousy, and consequent benefit and if yu era
intuit of the ...tithe British Empire, humbly sefisit this
llomnirahle House to take intro its consideration the stale
of the lawn now affecting his Majesty's subjects prokerworg
the Roman Catholic Ilvligioa, with a view to the ...wow of
all of dicta %luck rIJ not relate to the sorce.sion to the
Crown, or totbecontiousucC of 'the Protestant Church Eats.
blislinicut

(red) SHREWSBURY, WATERFORD,
awl WEXFORD,
FINGAL,
KENMARE,
CORMANSTOWN,
N ETTER', I LEE,
ROUTH WELLi
K I ELLEN,
TRIIKLESTOWN.
FFRENCH, Re. Re. Re. Ste.

No prim% who visited the Parks yrkterctiy, can
complain of the barkwardnees rif the +eeson, for, Hi
every turn, you wet old Virgins of 70 py Hi
girls of serentetn, sad young Misses emulous to
become Matrons.

Colonel and Lady Lucy BARRY bate taken Alt.
SNF.YD'S house in Arlington-street.
General Jamies•tt, mod Lieut.-General Moose,
have arrived at Hatcbeu's Hotel, from Both.
THE CARTOONS OF RAPIN/4E4.—We hare much
plyamre in commusticarisnr to the borers of the
Fine Arts, that two of the beautiful Cartoons, by
this Kre..t muster, has, by command of the Patric,:
ItrornT, hype removed from Hampton-coot& to
the British Gellert•.

A &sew Grand Stand, capable of accommotlAting
1.000 permoist. is to be erected at the Owtiter H
Cour.r. It kill be supported by mac7.y 14.80 e .
tars, with it betting-stand on the roof, ou the 1tt,121
lull nearly oppiwite to the cowling-in
exterior to be faced with Willie Mont; rioin Mardey
quarry.

Mr. the guard of the mail-coach he,
twee,' York Hod SLwilborou.;O, who ktely j.i:t
end to xi%telicit with r watt-IL:at his hiiti%t t•I
Seat borough, was r rrMst respectot& tmw iu 1,1- :.
Itiation, ;old I.oraierly wag nit the York mai', 1::
tweed Hooting:lmi mod Irlionthetri. He hut li.e
honour of henig, some year!' sgo,l,ersonsily know it
to the KING, who entertained:such an sttackuivot
for him, that when his Akjegy went to Weymouth,
he debited he 'night Wirer see.evy other gourd !inns
Wttsots on the mail-conch to and from the 1d5....;
and Witson, therefore. whereseshe . inked he
(hay, we+ riwipt reisoYed to the Weymouth until
Aim itts the tipyet ytat.s,tbsree

LAW iNTELtIGENCL

'icol7llT OF CAANCEKY, Wcrriitssitft, ID:r 16.

VRAtlitt.
• BAILEY in the matter of the SAME, ot Bankrupt.
tliteiSLll. in the matter of the SAME, a Bankrupt.

The unusual circumstance, as it relates to the
practice of the Court, which occurred in those Pe-
titions being called on to be heard, we reported on
and yestertlic.
Mr. lIA RT *Wed that he would he thankful to
his Lordshio to state what his decision was on the
Petition of Fennell, whether he was of opinion that
it ought or ongbt not to he restored to the paper ?
The Loa') Criawcxt.t.ox—" Under its peculiar
circumstances, I am of opinion it ought to he re-
storeul ; I have intimated so to his Honour the Vice-
Chancellor. I hind the Solicitor nut so blameable
as I first thought. as the Petition was set down in
toy paper for last Saturday when he was iii attend-
ance, and it was put in his Honour's paper fur
iblonday, without the Solicitor having notice of
it, and of course he could not be expected to be in
nitendance. • I think I am only doing justice when
I state thus much, for however inattentive the Geo-
t`emen of this part of the profession may be, and
how much I hive been inconvenienced by it, I would
he entry to burden their shoulders with WRNS than
'belongs to them. I °barred below!, when this
question was before me, that I would not dismiss
it Petition even in the absence of Counsel end
Solicitor, without looking into its merits. I recol-
lect amuse which came on to be heard before Lord
Mansfield, in which the Counsel were absent, and
that he made the Solicitor state the case; I do not
mean disrespect to stay person, but i never can be
br optima that a Suitor might to suffer on account
of the incorrect determination of Learned Gentle-.
amen, either inside or outside the Bar. I believe
Mr. Cullen was the senior of the junior Counsel
In this instance."
Mr. liawt—ff No, my Lord, it was Mr. Heald.'
The LORD CHARCZLLOR--" If I had presided
on that day. I should have directed Mr. Heald
'to have gone on—l would have given him a pe-
remptory order to have done so, and if he had re-
fused. it would become a question between him
and the, width I would try to decide as I ought ;
but I trust it mere' will come to lay tot to mate to
decision in sstch a ace—let this petition be put
(loon for hearing In the Vice-Chancellor's paper
for to-tnonsiv. The Petition of Bailey does not
'appear to me to he of so much importance, it may
come on in The shape of an appeal.

THOMAS, j* tks avatar elf THOMAS, *HILL[!,
Old COCK. Basibropts.
Sir ARTNUE "PIGOTT stated that this was the
Petition of Thomas, one of the Bankrupts, praying
that the Commission of Bankruptcy against him
might be superseded. His Lordship would teeollect
'there was a similar petition before hint last Term,
whichpas opposed by the PetitioniogCreditor,and
flown, his solicitor.—{Oar raiders will recol-
lect that we reported the case .1114 at tkat iiwej
His Lordship then diverted aw same to try whether
an Act of Bankruptcy had been committed or 'tut,
and had penned with his own hand the several
points the Court below were to try, the Petitioning
Creditor undertaking to proceed to trial, but which
be had since declined tieing. It was on these
grounds, that he, the Learned Counsel, asked to
have the Commission superseded.
Mr. HART and Mr. MONTAGUE followed nu the
same side.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLT resisted this application
on the part of the Petitioning Creditor, on affida-
vits, alleging that the Petitioner had committed
two distinct acts of Bankruptcy in London, which
were not directed by his Lordship to he tried by
the issue he had directed, one of which was his
being a defaulter on the Stock Exchange, the
other his having absented himself fora consider-
able time from his house in Capel-court ; those
two acts of insolvency not having been mentioned
in his Lordship's minutes, he, the Learned Coun-
sel, contended, that he ought to revise them, as
by the Act of Parliament the only thing his Client
bad to prove was his debt, and that the Bankrupt
had committed an act of insolvency without men-
tioning any specific one. The directions of his
Lordship, with humble deference, appeared more
like legislati.ig than deciding on the construction
of an Act of Parliament. Under these circ -
stances., he trusted that he would dismiss this Peti-
tion, or add to the unenetes, by orderiug the two
acts of bankruptcy to be added to them, and his
Client would undertake to go to trial immediately.
11r. Bet!. and Mr. WirrukaAta. followed on
the same side. . . . .

Sir A. Ptatiorr replied, and contended that
his Lordship had not interfered with the province
of the Legislature, for it could not be doubted
but that he had a right to direct any issue he
pleased, particularly so when it appeared on the
Tace of the prikeeding to be set forth, that the act
of insolvency was committed at Plymouth, and
not in London; they could not afterwards turn
round and say, it was ie the hitter place. As to
the Petitioner being a defaulter oo the Stock Ex-
change, that did not meditate an act of insolvency,
as contemplated by the Act of Parhauled, for in
fact it was not a legal debt; as to a man being
absent from his honor, there was nothing in it, as
he might be an business rlvewhere, highly neces-
sary fur the welfare of his family.
The Loan Cnatricet.t.oa...." I never have, and
will not now decide en a came withoot knowing all
the facts, I will therefore take boase the affidavits
and the minutes I ;grimed myself, trod read thesis
with the greatest cart\ sad on coming into Court
on Saturday I will give you my detisioe."—Jedg-
anent postponed.
The Court was crowded to recess anring the
day, to hear his Lordships decisitio oa the Prurience
of the Court.

COURT Or Ilil\G'S BERM May Ilt.

LIBEL. VPON OW Nl' %VORONZOFF.

THE LING N. SIN NATHANIEL WM. wctiALL.

This sonniing the ArroßN ILT-G N MAT. moved
the Judgment of the Court on this I fefendatist—w ho
bad suffered jiidgment to go by default, stIMIII no
infistinsition tiled against hint in the last Michaelmas
Term, teethe inklisher and *odour of it certoisi
..raiolatinsa, and malicious libel, of and concerning
lisarcou Count Woman, originally Envoy Ex-

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traordmary and Plenipotentiary of the tinpress
Catherine of Russia at the British Court; subse-
quently, at her death, Ambassador from the late
Emperor Paul ; and at the present moment hay-
ing retired from office, a resident in this country.
The libel in question was published in a work,
called " Sir N. W. Wrsixall's Memoirs of his Own
Times." It eomutenced by slitting, that the Grand
Duchess -.am-- was riot the only person who hail
been pat out of the way by the Empress Catherine,
for that Augusta Caroline, daughter of the Duke
of Ili umwrick, who ;rind married her son, the
then Prince of Wurtemberg (rum King of
IVurtemberg), had shared a similar fate. The
author then went on to 'state that he had
himself seen the young Princess at the Court of
Brunswick previous to her marriage, under the
care of leer mother. That subsequent to her mar-
riage with the Prince of Wurtemberg she was coos
ducted by her husliand to Russia, and that she
was received.hy the Empress Cutherioe, at Peters.
burgh, with great attention. That some years
afterwards the Prince, her husband, quitted Rus-
sia, and took with him ins three children, leaving his
wife behind, at the desire of the Empress. That at
the end of two years it was notified to him and to the
Duke of Branswick,that the wileofthe one, and the
child of the other, was dead; and that although the
Duke of Brunswick requested her body might be
sent to him, this was never granted. Doubts were la.
terwards entertained as to the cause of the death
of the Princess—mid that she had died a natural
death became questionable—indeed, whether she
had died at all seemed to be a matter of twee.
tainty—end suspicions were entertained that she
still survived in Siberia, or the Polar Deserts,
whither many others of her Illustrious Family had
been sent by the Empress Elizabeth, on her
deposing lwau. The author followed up this
iturnivatton, by the statement of a prevalent opi-
niou, that it was suspected her death by poison
was acquiesced in by the Prince of Wurtem-
burgh himself; which opinion, he observed, was
received with so much confidence by the King of
Great Britain, that, when in 1796, overtures were
made by the Prince for a marriage with the Prin-
cess Royal of England, the King refused to give
his consent to the snatch till this circumstance
was cleared up satisfactorily. a Upon this," con-
' ed the Author, " the Prince of Vi'urtemberg
sent over au active and intelligent Agent to this
Country, if passible to ascertain the source of
the report. That agent I personally knew, and
he told me that lie 'rated the imputation to have
come from Could 11'orosizoif, the then Minister of
Catherine at the British Court ; whom, upon strong
remonstrance, he induced to acquit the Prince
of Wirtemberg of all participation in the crime
of causing the death of his wile, and finally
to satisfy the King that there was no ground
for the report which had been circulated.
Upon the dearth of the Empress Catherine soon
afterwards, however, the Count Woronzolf was in-
duced to depart from his assertion of the * ocence
of the Empress Catherine, although lie still main-
tained the innocence of the Prince. After the
death of the Empress, the negociatiorui for the mar-
riage were rapidly advanced, arid the nuptial, were
solemnized without delay."

Such wax the substance of the libel.—An affi-
davit, ou the part of the Count Worosazoff, was
put in, utterly denying ever leaving seen the agent
alluded to, or having been in any respect in
to the report alleged to have been circu-
lated.—And by a letter from the defendant to him,
requiring him to state the name of the agent from
whom he had received his information, it appeared
that he, the defendant, a period of nineteen years
having elapsed since he bad seen him, could not
recollect his name.

On the part of the Defendiuit it was urged, that
he was not actuated, in what lie had published, by
any malicious feeling towards the Count Worontott;
of whom he laid no personal knowledge, and that
lie had taken the earliest opportunity, in the puhli.
cation of a second editithi of his work, to correct the
historical error into whiclt'he had fallen.

The COURT, in giving judgment, characterised
the libel us most unjustifiable and acrimonious, and
sentenced the Defendant to be imprisoned six
months in the King's Bench Prison and to pay a
fine or 500!.

The Court was crowded to excess by the frieuds
of Loth parties.

EDINBURGH.

....w.-
RIG* COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

Saturday, at one o'clock, Mary Scott was brought
to the bar to receive sentence, having been con-
victed of the cringe of false accusation. The Judges
who tried the cause were the LORD Junto: CLERK,
Lords GtI.I.ILS and PITMILLY.

Lord GaLt.tes first delivered his opinion. He
said, that after u long said fatiguing trial, the p.m-
eel had been unlit ;;;;; (Judy found guilty of the
crimes charged in the indictment, by A sensible and
intelligent Jury. The charge was of ini 1111C0111.
moo sud almost unprecedented nature; it went to
calut ssss late the character of a Minister of the
Chinch of Scotland, accusing him of drunkenness,
fornication, sod other heinous offences. The Jury
litel, however, found the whole completely false,
anal than rescued the character of that Reverend
Cleatlentos] from the obloquy maliciously thrown
oft him. There could be oa(y two motives for the
conduct of the patinel iti bringing forward dupe
occunations—either to extract money front the per-
ms accused (winch in a care of the kind amowitted
to a species of robbery), or from envy and malig-
nity of heart truly diabolical, of which there was
hardly a parallel instance, for suck another cause
hod rerely occurred in that Court. Tin cruise of
the panowl was also greatly aggravated by her art-
fal isisiimations iu bringing Mr. Maxwell to the
Bar of that Court as a 'anticipator of her guilt,
when it appeared from the trial that he war nneely
influenced by humanity, owing to her arinsrepresen-
bairn's. Viewing the cot duct of the panne, in this
light, he thought it was highly proper site should
teat be suffered to remains in thin country; and, as
a proper pitnishineuk, proposed that she should he
I•at•islted beyond seas for the period of fourteen
yearn.

Lord INTIII I LLY in every tiring agreed with the
Learned Lord who preceded hies, both a% to the
nature and heitiounuesv of the crime, and to the pet-
uiditnetat proposed. lie had never seen a case in

whiCh tie rote]) deliberate falsehood NA ten% ttse•
to ♦ilify and asperse the character of au innocent

The LORD JuIVIItg Cravat agreed in the opi-
nions delivered by his Learned Brothers. A case
of more foul Calumny and deliberate malice he lisil
never witnessed since he had the honour to Wave a
seat in that Coat. His Lordship thee' praeetkled
to pass senteint on the pannel-, previous till which
he addressed her in a very ftleling and pathetic
manner, particularly !miming oat Vs her the itreat
crime she had coo 1111 l iited, in holding out the Re-
verend Gentleman she accilsed us a person whose
character ought to he detested, and rendering his life
miserable for a long period of thee. this Lordship
added, that now his charat:ter was completely re-
stored by her convict' , he hoped his brethren
amid the public would be convinced Of tlielnjustict
that had been done him.

Sentence was then pronotilketi; ()Mai ii ii ig the 'pan-
ne!, Mary Scott,. to be tniniported beyond 14145 roe
fourteen years, and to be detained id the Callon-
gate gaol till an opportunity occurs of secding her
abroad.

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