The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-25 00:00:00

lan) AND Wlt? V. s. oitEENWA4g.

This was a bill filed by:the Plaintiff to recover the
two tickets above-mentioned,' on the ground, that 'be
had giVen a commission to the Defendant, and had
supplied him.with funds, to purchase four undrawn
tickets-for him; and alleging, that this had been
done, that the above were two of the tickets thus
purchased, and. were his property.
The circumstances were nearly ai follow :—The
Defendant had purChased some tickets, two of which
be sold to the Plaintiff, at too rupees each, when'
the price of tickets was 125 rupees; one of which,
in the course of the few first days draWing, came
up a prize of snosrnpees. He carried the priie 03'
the house of the Defendant, and requested, that he,
the Delentlant, would purchase for him some un-
drawn tickets with the produce of that prize, which
the Defendant agreed to do. When he sent to pur-
chase the undrawn tickets, he added 100 rupees,
with the intention of taking one ticket for himself,
not knowing that the price of tickets had risen so
high as ISO rupees, at which they then were selling.
Four tickets were brought to the Defendant, which
-he threw down upon a table before some friends,
who happened to be present, tolling them, that he
had purchased four tickets, three of which' were for,
Captain Reid, and one for himself, and at the same
time requesting that some of the party present
would seled the ticket
,for him to keep. After se-
veral of the company had successively drawn one
ticket at a time from the four, putting it back at
each trial, and one of the four 'had been drawn
twice, it was proposed that this ticket should be
kept; but a different ticket having been drawn at
the third trial, some of the company proposed that
the latter should be kept ; when,- to Please all par-
ties,
the Defendant resolved to venture t 'tickets,'
and that both should be kept ; winch was agreed
to; and the Defendant. accordingly sent for an.addi-.
tional ticket ; -which being brought, he- immediate-
- ly sent it, with two others, to . the Plaintiff, aceom-
panied with the baiatiCe in cash of the 500 rupee
prize; which he had received tmin the Plaintiff.
.These three tickets, and the balance, making up
the amount of the sod rupee prize, were aCcepted
end kept by the plaintiff. Several conversalions, re-
speCting this transaction took place, on different oc-
casions, in which the Defendant mentioned to the
Plaintiff and others, that he had purchased four
tickets at that time, and had kept one Of, theta for
himself. No objection, however, was made to this
transaction, until lour days afterwards, when .they.
ticket, which had been twice drawd from the four,
and seleded for the Defendant, as above described,
came up a prize 420,000 rupees. The Plaintiff
then made an apphcation for this ticket to the De-
fendant, through his Attorney, alledging, that be
had given the Detendant a commission to purchase
four tickets for him, which had been done; that this
j was one of them, and that it was his property ; but
• even then made no demand for the other ticket,
which had been selected at the same time, and
which afterwards came up a prize of 1000 rupees,
. Atter having heard many learned and ingenious
arguments from the Counsel on both sides, during
• the sittings of Friday and Saturday, the'Hon. Chief
justice, Sir HENRY RUSSELL, and his Learned Col-
. leagues, the Hon. Sir JoHN RoyDS,and the Hrin.
Sir WILLIAM BURROWS, were unanimously of opi-
nion, that this was an ingenuous, lair, and honour-
able transaction on the part of the Defendant, and
that the Plaintiff had no right whatever to parti-
cipate in any share of the produce of these fortunate
tickets; and the bill was accordingly dismissed with
costs.

GREGSON AND CRlB.—This morning the grand
match between these pugilists was to be decided, but
it was not known where, yesterday afternoon, and
the reported scene of Action, was Harlowbush,in
Essex, and Blackwater, in appShire ; though it
might probably not be' at either. The match is for
500 guineas, and precise belting -is five to four on
Crib. Farmer, who was to have fought Young
:Belcher'in'the same ring, has paid forfeit ; but Crop-•
ley was instantly backed in the roan of Farmer, for
501. and be will contend with .Belcher. On this
battle six and seven to four is betting on Belcher.
The third fight will be between George Maddox,
the veteran bruiser of the ord school, who' has woii
and lost, for the last 30 years, about that number
of battles, and Richnian the Black. This battle
will be fdr a purse, and Richman is the favourite,
although Maddox beat hinreasily four years since.

RAGLEY HALL, WARWICKSHIRE.—The festivities
at this most noble domain, belonging-to the Marquis
of HERTFORD, during the Christmas recess, are ex-
peeled to excel any thing of the kind ever witnessed
there./ The preparations will blend Old English.
hospitality with princely splendour. For the accom-
modation of the Prince of WALES, 'who has been
invited to pass the holidays, great preparations are
making there. 'Among the company expe&ed are
the Marquis and Marchioness of DOWNSHIRE, Earl
,and Countess MOIRA, Sir JOHN and Lady THROG-
MORTON, Lord and*Lady GEORGE SEYMOUR, Lord
HENRY MOORE? Earl of YARMOUTH, &C.
FETE AT WOOLLEY PARK.—A most elegant Ball.
and Supper were given by G. W. WENTWORTH,
Esq. at Woolley Park, near Wakefield,. to a nume-
rous party of the neighbouring Nobility and Gentry.
Dancing commenced about,ten o'clock ; and through
the elegant suite of apartments, in the centre of
which was a sele6t band, about 70 couples tripped
it on the light fantastic toe. Supper was announced
about two o'clock, and every delicacy of the season
was served up in the greatest profusion. .Dancing
was resumed about three, and continued to a very
late hour. The lawn in front of the house was
lighted with patent lamps, and the windows were
all ornamented with beautiful transparencies. In-
deed this was one of the'most splendid fetes that
has been given in this part of the country for many
years.

Married, at Malta, on the 16th of August last,
B. G. ROUVIERE, Esq. to Miss FRANS6'ES HENRI'
E?TA NASH.

rPitairCR4FT; 211U2pE11, & CREDULITY.

An.irtful and:villaiqopsploti accompanied by the
most unprecedenii.d instances of credulity that ever
engaged puk)lit ,Rttentiou, way yesterday developed
before the l'lasistrates, at the Itotation-Office in this

town. 'he parties were Mary Bateman, of Camp-
field, pear this town, and Perigo and his
wife, of,Bravpley she the witch, and they the dupes.
It appeared„ that in ,August, 1806,. an application
was made to4his.woman by Perigo to cure his wife
of a
,complaint .which was not stated on the examina.
tion, but which we 'guppose to ,be ,what, is . called

amongst people of her rank " nervous,';: and amongst
their' betters, " the hip."--Mary, ,with becoming
lithriesty, declined to undertake the cure herself; but
said, that she had a f.riend at Scarbria!„ a Miss Blyth,
who could " read the stars,". and coiled from them
the knowledge requisite to remove all corporeal, and
mental maladies, and, as a preliminary step, required,
that Perigq's. wife- should send her flannel petticoat
to Miss.Blyth, in order that she might, from that
article of dress colleCta knowledge..of her disorder.
The petticoat was sent, and a propitious answer re,
turned, wherein it was required, that the medium,
Mary Bateman, through which all communication
betwixt the astrologer and the patient was. to be
made, should have four guinea, notes ,preseuted to
her, and she was in return to give Perigo tour other
guinea *notes, inclosed in a small bag, into which,
if either his own curiosity, or the still. stronger cu-
riosity of his wife, should induce them to,look, the
charm would.he broken, and sudden. death mould
be ihe consequence. Strange as it may appear, the
wife of Perigo never looked. into the enchanted bag
to the day of lier.death.—Soon after the four guineas
had been given to Mary Bateman, a letter arrived
from Scarbro', direaing that another guinea should
be.paid into her hands. Similar requests were re-
peated and 'complied with, till forty guineas had
been thus extorted from these infatuated people, un-
der a promise, however, that they should, by and
by, be all Owed to open the bags, and these bags,
they were told, would be found to contain all• the
money they had advanced.
'About six monrhs bad now expired, and the bu-
siness of fraud and delusion still went on. Miss Blyth
could not, while certain planetS.rpled, sleep on her
own bed ; and in order to promote the comfort of
the " wise woman," Perigo was to buy her a• new.
*d,_ with all the necessary appendages, and send it
to Mary 4atenian,' through , whose hands it was to
be transmitted to the nymph of Scarbro'. The bed,
&c. which cast eight pounds, we're bought, and
motes, to the amount of thirty pounds more, paid at
.various times into. the hands of the impostor. Un-
bounded in •her extortions, she next demanded a set
of china ; this was also furnished to her ; but she
complained that the tea cannister was not sufficient-
ly, handsome to set before the genteel company. kept
by a lady, of her distinaion, and demanded a tea-
caddie in. its stead; which demand was also com-
plied with.
Perigo and his wife, thus drained of all she mos
ney they had in the world, and all the sums thei'r
former good credit had enabled them to raise, and
the wife's health still growing worse rather than
better, they became impatient to look into ,rys-
terious, bags, and extra& from them the wealth
they contained. Their clamorous impatience pro,
bably became troublesome, w hen, as it should seem,
to silence their importunity, Mrs. Bateman received,
as she said, a packet from Scarbro' ; this packet
contained a powerful harm, which was to be mixed
up in a pudding, tO;'be prepared for the purpose,
and of which Perigo and his wife were to eat, but
on no account to allow any person to partake with
them. They did eat—and there is but too much
reason to suppose, that this °vile
,woman had said
shall
surely d
in herself,
;" in the day you eat thereof, you
h The husband ate sparingly ; he
did not like the taste; but his ill-fated wife, less
scrupulouS, ate freely. They both became sick al-
most immediately, and continued in the most de-
plorable situation for twenty-four hours: the wife
lost .the use of her limbs, and, after. languishing five
days,- died on the 24011 May, 1807, a victim of
credulity. Perigo recovered partiatiy ; but from
that time to the present has never had the perfect
use of his limbs. Part of the pudding was, by way
of experiment, given to a cat,. and it died ; some
fowls also picked up ether parts of it, and shared
the same tate. Conte-ary to the direCtion of Mary
Bateman., Perigo applied to a Surgeon in this town
for advice, 'and was told by him' that he had taken
poison, but fortunately not in a. quantity sufficiently
large to occasion his death.
_After the death of his wife, it is natural. to sup,.
pose that the husband would have possessed suffi-
cient fortitude .to enlitncipate .himself lions the
fangs of this wicked•wornan ; this 'however, was not
the case ; she had thrown her toils over him, and
though the wife might not have been, as she sup-
posed, bewitched,; it is pretty evident the husband
was under *some such influence. From May, 1807,
till 'Wednesday last, the charm continued to ope-
rate, and the spell . could not be dissolved.—At
One 'time he went to Manchester by the dire6tion.
of this Jeiebel ; at another he sent her one of his
wife's gossips ; again she contrived to coax or
frighten him out of another gown, a petticoat, and
the family Bible ! And last of' all she demanded
from him half a bushel of wheat, with three seven-
shilling pieces inclosed. His creditors at length be-
came impatient, and the hopes of getting any parr
of his property back failing, he determined to brave
all danger, and look into the mysterious bags—but
what must have been hii surprise and vexation to
find that the contents of these bags were not worth
one penny ! ! and to find himself a pauper, without
property, and with a ruined constitution.
The bubble now burst ; and. after having kept
the business an entire secret from every soul living,
his wife alone excepted, for upwards of two years,
..he laid his hopeless case before some of his neigh-
bours; by their •direetion Mary Bateman was ap-
prehended ; when brought before the Magistrates,
site in part confessed her delinquency, and admitted
that there was no such person as Miss Blyth in
existence, but that the whole was a mere phantom,
conjured up to forward her vile purposes. The Ma-
gistrates have 'committed the offender to the House
of Corretaion, whether to be tried for swindling
practces, or to be removed from there to the Coun-
ty Gaol, to take he trial for wilful murder, we are
not informed.
• 03 searching the house of this woman, (who has
a kwbalid az *everol and and MC

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other articles, the property oftrtn, grno;int..-
ing in vaine.to:abnpt, ten or, twelve pt,Lnics, %vett;
ionn.d, and will be resfored
It. is wOrthi, of
.iii).st2rVition, .that Mary
,gaternort
the person hen. la-id an •-egg 'about ty,ro
ye.trs ago, lit the Bank. in this town, beallng this
toarveiloo,s,,-Inscription;. " Crist is coming."—.—*
(Leeds Nercury „Oct. 22)