The Sun.
London, England, 1809-11-17 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT.

Mt%-1-76PPING moved for-a .:Tit. of Haleas car,
pris:‘to be issned;.direedro Cantain Shelton,'Of the
reitnent, quartered at Manchester, in the
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Barracks,-to-deli.,,:r up a young Lady to her frienus.
Ledured Counsel stated, th'i this appliCation
eras inatie on the part Of the father of the' nnfortn•
nate 'young Lady, Mr. Mobrhouse, a respeCtatile
tradesmah in' Manchester; his daughter was only
fifteen year of age; be had paid 401. ti a dies's-
maker of that place to instruct her in that business.
On'Manday morning sh:l- left her father's hous:!, to
go, to that of her instructress, and io the evening her
disconsolate parents learned that shtehad eloped with
Captain Shi:lton, and, that they bad gone towards
tiverpool ; he pursued; hut,. on his arrival there,
he found they had set oti for Manchester, which
proved to.he the case ; as, on his return, he learned
she was at Capt. -Shelron's apartments in' the Bar-
racks. A i)er,on had sern them too-'ether,' and their
condtlet was that of Orniliarity atid be had heard
CAA: Shelton say,. it Mtss Nioufteuse's friends at-
tettipted to take her from him, he would lose his life
, before they-should accomplish their ohjetf.
Lord.ELLEnonbUdn—" Take the.Wiii."

COURT OF CI-lANcEI,tY.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15.

THE,GOVERNORS OF pRIITON SCHOOL V. COZENS

Mr. RionAnos stated' this to be an application
from the Governors of the Free Granuar'-School of
Bruton, in Sorrierseishire,- for the removal- of the
Mr. Cozens, the present, master. The -pre-
sent application was made to his Lordship, as the
visitor of all public charities of this sort, and the
grounds of the motion were- contained- in -several af-
fidavits, which he shoull now submit to the, Court;
The affidaVits contained several allegations,, assert-
ing that the school, . which had been -.liberally en-
dowed for the purposes .of grammatical education in
the town of Bruton and its neighbourhood; had
fallen_ away alnits4t to nothing, through the negled
.of present Master, ,who, instead of attending to
. the business-ot the school, had become farmer, and
was in the habit of going about to fairs and markets
' in the vicinity, for the purpose of selling his cattle,
instead of ferwarding_the boys in grammaticalleartr-
ing.. That he bad given the boys too many holi-
_days, and had been seen playing at fives Witl.l them
in school hours, or sometimes engaged in the rural
,sports of angling, shooting,, &c. That he had
converted part of the play-ground into a farm-yard,
34e. in consequence of .which the school had fillin
away tonothing, and his (ace had become qt ite
sinecure, to the complete negle& of the original
object of the institution, and -the detriment of the
interests of education in the town and its vicinity.
On all these grounds, th- Governors submitted ,t that
Mr. Cozens should be removed, and another Master
eleaed in his room. They had ;,Iso drawn up,with
the approbation of the Bishop of Bath and/Wells,
the Diocesan, a set of rules for the ,future regulation
of the school, by which they proposed allowing , to
the Master I 001. - a year, and four annual exhibi-
tions of 401. each, for boys sent to the :UniversitY
from the foundation. •
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Mr. HOLLIST appeared for the Defendant.. His
client; be skid, had been appointed master of. the:
School some years ago, and succeeded. a Mr.-
Mitchell, in whose time the school had very much
fallen off, so as' to be much iu the same state as it
u as at present. Whatever, might be the came of
this, it was not necessary to inquire but he had
also to add, that there were not above four .or fire
boys in.the place, whose parents were likely to send
them to obtain a giainmatical education. He had
also to submit, that the various charges of neglect
against his client, were stated to ha►'e taken place in
the period of seven years; and . would it not
have been much. fairer, had the Governors noticed
to his client any instance of supposed neglect at the
time, instead oicntning upon him with an atcunitt-

fation.tif.iliera ^ll at ol?e, ncf atieroFgiug- to dcpriO
)irn of the principal 'means of-hi'', sub:iiteace.,
Cozens admitted that tic I ad- it wed thirty acres
.;rass land' for abotit two yea:s ; but.;his Was Whea
ire expe6led to gtt boarders, and it v‘as proper' to
provide milk, &c. for the :atnily: As to ;be bag
of dealing in cattle, it was quite ridiculous 'sat
that the selling a cow, or a, hogi and its pigs,. at. A
neighbouring market, made-Inm a•cattle:dealer;---*
The school-having- talien otT before he carne to it, it
was rather laudable in hint that he had :betaken hirn-
selt t farming in a small way, and at any raw ho
was always ready to give instmEtion to such
a right to.come upon the foundation. If he even
played at • fives, or indulged in rural sports with hi§
boys, it was on holidays, or atter-the,school.hoUrs,
and this could not be attributed to him as a fault'.
•His client was, placed in a most-unfortunate,
tions; .the proceedings in -an aCtion of
.ejeanten..E.
against him, brought by the. Governors, ban already'
coat trim 400 L a sum he was ill able to afford ; and
-s.bv,iuld he be rennoved.froui the school, he would-be
reduced-to a.situation of great hardship.',
Whe.LORD CHANCELLOR Said, that he should feel
it his duty-to peruse most- carefully the atlid'avits
both sides. He must say;.bowever, that he could
not displace the master, unless the present state of
the school was owing to his .triiscandua. Ike bad
known schools deserted; where.the masters
.were
most excellently qualified,- and Twitere stlth deser-
tion could only be ascribed to the taste 5T fte
people. It was owing to many that these
endo'‘..ted.schools were not so useful as they- ought-to
be but lie would- not enter into these causes
present. •

THURSDAY, NOV.' 16'.

RICHARDS AIKIN AND CO. V. EIZIE THIIti'IIAS'AND CC•

The only question of any interest in this case was
whether a Creditor having taken 'a Debtor' in exe-
cution and released hint, upon security obtained,
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coin:: support the debt upon that. security--he having
subsequently ineddled with, and apparently ask:Wed
0-, a comi)ositton, by whicfi the rest of the Creditors'
had,l7eason' to bdiove thattthat the.ivhole ofthe debts,
werelncluded in the compromie.
The LORD CHANCELLOR decided, 'that a Debtor
in the' circumstances stated,' -had, whAher he de-
served it or not, an equity art og- from the civilly
of the other Creditors who had been alisk.d, to
fuse payment Of the debt for which he bad given tiro
securiiv—and therefore continued an itijlinetin to
restrain any proceeding at Jaw upon web:security.

TYTHES.
BYLEY V. VONVLEII AND OTI-TERS.

Sir SA.muttL.RONIIt:LY to the Court for
leave taconsolidate several by the Plaintitfi
a Clergyman, against thirty-two of his Pari.4hohrs
for.nen-paymetit of Tyth'es. He moved this Upon.
the ground that the Bills all related to the same
motto-.

Mr. •HART opposed the consolidation, upon the.
ground, that as the Defendants plight 'have different
pkds, and if all were consolidated, his Client would
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be for a long hue prevented lrora' having a deCrk.e
by ,perpetual abatenionts.
Sir S. ROMILLY stated, that it was ihe.p.raetice of
the Exchequer to• Consolidate even before answer
• were given in. •
The CH A re.ELL.OB thought that a strong -theasto;
but he would Consult with the Barons, and then
hu opinion.

.CHILD-STEALING. On WrdnesLy even:no'i
about dusk, two elderly u.ontett called at the ,1190
of Mrs. Trust, in Wardour-street, and bargait'"cl„ls,'r
sodio trivial article, .Whiist at the same tithel:,
girl, three' years. old, was deeoyed away frqll,l.
door by another woman, and she"was not hear" ?
until twelve o'clock at night, 'when she wa§broVlt
home by a watchman, clad in a frlt by rug he;-alp'
parel; which was not woll 1.. more than a few shti-
Aings, having been stolen. It was aFcertained Itolll
the child,
_that a woman, who cailed.herscif
aunt, bad enticed her away from Get mother's d9OG
under pretence of buy;ng her lornc,Cakes, 'and' that
two other women (s-upposed-to be those in the shop)
joined her, and 'she Ivas taken to a house in ,$-••
Giles's, where she was stliped. The watchman
'found the child in great thstress at the,enid sal
ford-street.