The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-03-31 00:00:00

cOPNWALL ASSIZLS.

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GREAT CRINNIS MIRE CAUSE.
bOl, oa. the demise of MANLEY. O. WOOD, Esg.
late Lord Mayor of the City of London.
This was an action of ejectment, brought to
iecover the Posseroirm of the clime rich owl still
'valeableCriunis and Camp Down Miaes, and was
the most 'lmportant and interesting cause at Nisi
Pries • it came on to be tried before Mr. Justice
)I.lutolir loth a Special Jury. at two o'clock. and oc-
cupied the-Cotirt for six hours. Mr. GASILLIII was
the leaditig Counsel for the Plaiutifi, Mr. Serjeaut
.PHA. for the Defendant. After every thing had
'teen Mid which ingenuity could suggest, an at..
rangefitelit took place under the direction of his
Lordship, by which it was agreed that the Jury
should Rua whether the Defendant, Mr. Alderman
Wood, wee iu pos't..ession of the whole, or any part
al the mines called Camp Down amp Little Crinnis,
at the time the action was brought, which was in
1816; the More important question at issue, which
regarded the .relithty. of the Plaintiff's claire to
Great Crimito mint was put Tutu the form of a spe-
dal verdict; which !entire the 'decision of this part of
the cause to the Court above on the point of law.
His Lordship then delivered a most luminous
address to the Jury, on the question which was left
for their decision, and, after a short consulLtion,
they found that tie Defendant was not in po,seiriton
of coy part of the Camp Down or Little Ciiimis
mines at the time the action was brought.

WADI V. DRAY.
The Defisidaut is a Clergyman, residing et Tier•
tegel ; the Plaintiff, who in a daughter of the for-
mer Clergyman of that place, also resided there.
For several years a conriship wag carried on be-
tween the ;niftiest, which at one time had suffered
au interruption, but on the solicitaf of the Def
&Mani, it was again renewed. This was in the
year 1811, and the intimacy woe cootioned until
the death of the Defemlant's father, in 1814,
when he became possessed of a property worth
10 or 12,000 L Oa this event toting place, the
Defendant iliscusitieued his attentions to the Plain-
tiff, and in 1816 be married another person. The
Plaintiff' brought an action for damages, and the
Defendant allowed judgment to go by default.—
Applies • was i 111 l urilsately made to the Court of
King's Bench, on behalf of the Plaintiff, to have
the damages. *esthete were laid at ~1,000/. assessed
before the Judge at the Assize+. For this purpose
a Jury, composed of respectatle householders in
Launceston, was rietimmielled.
Mr. Seriegltt PELL stated the Plaintiff's case
with his usual iu the course of which the
Learned Serjeant read a letter front the Defendant
to the Plaintiff, on winch he commented to the
great amusement of the whole Court.
The hand-writing of the Defendant being proved,
the letter was put in and read as follows :
" Tintagel, :Mb Feb. 1811.
" Mame—Yon will doubtless he astonished at my pre-
onnipti 111 l in aohletssing you by letter, hot I Satter myself
the uffeuce may somewhat, 'hough tint altogether,bc.extasu.
aced, by the recollection of that friendship which once soli.
sided betweeet us. TO the breach of that friendship are to
be attributed those deviations from the path areal! a& into
which I have unforiunately run. My Wad is naturally at-
tuned to virtue ; but without a perpetual watch bow suon are
the twat resolutions liable hi' be overturned ! I flatter myself
Madam, too trill readily believe me when I say that pro-
perty is nu motive with one filt addressing you; fur what-
ever woman it ulay be my lot to marry, he her property
little or much, it should be sailed out her before I went to
church. Of selfishaem I believe, you will readily acquit
me. lops udeneirs I ;owe certainly fallen into, but, like
Tom lows, iu " The Funadliug," they have been Ilse effect
of openness of heart, rather than depravity of soul. I
would scorn to add hypocrisy to guilt ; but penny who have
preserved a fair outside, have made greater deviations than
myself. A single slate is contrary to the voice of God, and
the dictates of Nature. Man in Paradise, though sur-
rounded by every other libssiug, felt • vacuum in his soul,
until the Almighty, in his goodness, couferred upon him our
universal ~.other. I long to Mae the sweets of • life of
virtue, fur ' her ways are ways of pleasingness, and all her
paths arc pearl.'
" Now, Madam, should 14111 imitate Heaven, and receive
the repenting siauer to your clemency, iu you he would bad
a teammate that would not way make his journey pleasant
through this 6 valley of the shadow of death ; but owe who
would also be the MIE•1111of briuging him to partake of those
joys which are reserved fur the salmi fur ever aid ever.
" Now, Madam, should this nut 'ilea your approbation,
let it be consigned to the 0411141, .end believe the writer to
Iw, " Your ever devoted Servant,
" WILLIAM prrr BRAY."

Mr. GASELEE addressed the Jury. If the De-
fessdatit, he observed, had broke,' his engagements
with the PI 'it it was not done through avarice;
for he had married a servant of his father's, whom
he had deprived of respectability ; he was sorry for
his misconduct, and had endeavoured to repair it.
The Learned Gentleman was about to cull his
witnesses, when a compromise took place, and a
verdict for 2001. damages was entered by consent.

On the 17th instant, in presence of Sir W. RAE,
Bart. Sheriff of the county of Edinburgh. Wllo.
LIAM NAPIER MILLIKEN. Esq. of Milliken, was,
by a most respectable Jury, of which the Hon.
Captain NAPIER, of Merchistun, was Chancellor,
served heir-male-general of ARLIIIIIALD, third
Lord N•rma, of Merchiston Baronet, of Nova
Scotia, great-grandson of the inventor of the
logarithms.
DUEL.—A meeting took place on Wingfield
Common, near Windsor, on Tuesday last, between
Lieut. HALL and T. A. Betsvow. Esq. of Fawney
Hall, on the forest. The dispute originated in
consequence of an alleged insult by Mr. B. to the
challenger's second. Twn shots were excluitiged,
and Mr. Betsvow received a wound in-the fleshy
part of the pistol arm. The ball did not lodge
cud the wound is not dangerous.

Young KELLY has t liallenged any man in the
kingdom to walk 50 unites against time, fur SOO
guineas.
CHILD STtattnn.—On Werliii.sday afternoon
the daughter of M'.. SUgANNA Jll.lO, Of Vinegar-
yard, Drury-lane, took out an infant sitter, four
months old, and walked as far as the end of l'ar.
her's-street, where she met a man and woman, who
pretended to know her psrents. The woman took
the child in her arras, and gave the girl a penny to
buy cakes for her: she ran and purchased the cake?,
but on her return both the Man and woman, with
the child, were gone ; aunt thringh the girl gave an
immediate abirtii, no trice his S-et been discovered
of the offender?.

THE TURF.

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