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London, England, 1809-07-25 00:00:00

IRELA:CD.

DUBLIN, JULY 20. —To -the vacancy on the
Be,tch, occasioned by the.creath of the. Archbishop
of Dublin, we are hap,)y to announce to the. Public,
that his Grace the Lord Lieutenant has born pleased
to appaint the Hon. and. Rev. Percy Jocelyn. It is
rather singular, that the only Bishops which History
furnishes of this name, were his own alices‘tors.. Jo-
celinus,' Bishop of Salisbury, anno 139—Reginald
Fitzjocelyn, Arclibislmp of Cantertniry, 1191—Jo-
celyn,Aishop.of Bath and Wells, 1i05.,
The valuable Prebend- of St.:Michan,.in this city,
which is in the patronage of the Chapter of Christ
Church,: having been vacant six months, had fallen
by lapse to the disposal of his Grace the late Arch-
bishoc of.Duhlin. It seems that ,two members of
this Venerable body were candidates for the vacant
benefice,. and that the votes of their brethren were
equally divided ;- in consequence of which, no elec-
tion could take place, as froth the singular consitu-.
tion of this Chapter, the Dean is -nOt alloweci.a, cast-
ing voice. His Grace, .the_Archbishop, from -deli-
cacy,-not choosing to decide upon the merits of the
two. candidates, 'Who are both of them eminent for
piety -and learning, and at the same time unwilling
that -this populous parish should remain any.. longer
without a Spiritual Pastor, instituted his own- son,
the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Agar, to the living in ques-
, tion, to the mutual dissatisfattion of the contending
parties.—Hiternian Journal.
_ _ _

Rewards amounting to nearly 6001. have been
offered for thetapprehension of the villain who fired
a musket-ball into the house of George Kingston,
Esq. at Bandon, on the morning of Saturday, the
Ist instant.,
_ _

At the Sessions for this city, which were held
on Friday, the most prominent business' was the
trial of John O'Neil, Esq. at the prosecution of
Miss' Margaret Kavenagh, when the Defendant
was found guilty, fined 501. and, to give security
to keep the peace—and the trial of Ann Gilbert
for an assault on Mrs. Teresa 0 Neil, who was also
found putty, fined 501. and ordered to give security
to keep the peace for tliree years.—lVaterfin d Chro-
nicle.

LAID REPORT.

COURT OF CHANCERY.-Tuty 24.

• 3011 HES V. THE EAST INDIA. COMPANY.
The Plaint.ff in this case is the Rev. Johnes,
Iteaor of the parish of , Allhallows Barking, in the
city of London, and the Defendants are the body of
Proprietors of the East India Company. Id 1804
the Plaintiff obtained a decree of the Cpurt,by which
' it was referred to a Master to ascertain' what was due
to-the Plaintiff for tithes on messuages,• warehonses,
• &c. possessed by the Company in the parish of All-
hallows Barking; and in consequence of this referenCe,
the" Master reporfed that there was due to the Re&or
for tithes, from 1796, a sutra considerably above
20001. arising from a tithe of 25. gd. in the pound
of the valued rent of these messuages aforesaid.
Sir A. PIGOTT now submitted, on the part of the
e fend a n ts, an exception to the Master's Report.—
He contended that the Master was not agthori%;;(l by
the original decree of the Court to take the valued
rent of the premises as theratio on which the tythes
should be calculated. was true, that in the case
of Kynaston v. the East India Company, the Court
of Exchequer had given this 2s. 9d. per pound on
the valued rent; and the Master of the Rolls,. pro-
bably following this decree af the Court of Exche-
quer, had done the 'same thing in the case.of An-
trobus v. the East India Company. These were de;-
cisions•of great interest and iinportanceto the city of
London, and, if.aeled on,:would make many of the
city livings richer than some bishoprics. The case
, of Kynaston, however, had, now been removed by
app .al into the House of Lords, where it would
await the decision of the highest judicature in the
kingdom. Whe fa& was, that when this case was
first argued, the question with regard to the ratio of
levying the tythes had not been discussed ; and the
decree of the Conn had not determined -whe-
ther that ratio was to be the old rent, the improved
rent, or the yearly value of the premises.
Mr. RICHARDS, in behalf of the Plaintiff, sup-
ported the Master's Report. The Defendants had
erekled their premises on the site of old and ruin-
ous buildings, and it was their business to have pro-
duced evidence that there was an old admitted rent,
or an improved-rent, upon whiCh these tythes were-
to be levied; and if they could not do so, then it
was the business of the Master to make the valued
rent the ratio, according to the Acts of Parliament of
Henry VIII. and Charles H.
The LORD CHANCELLOR refused to allow the ex-
ception; but at the same time, as the ratio to be
taken had not been fully discussed on the former,
hearing, and the decree might be therefore
inrper-
fett, the Defendants were at liberty to move for a
re-hearing in the whole cause, when the matter
might belulN argued. _

At Woolwich, on Saturday last; George-Ryxman,
a young marine, was examined before --- Harring.
ton, Esq. Magistrate for the County of Kent, being
an accomplice with a man already in custody and
committed for trial, charged with robbing and in-
fii&ing seven wounds on a poor labouring man, about
six weeks since in Hanging Wood, near Woolwich,
at eleven o'clrck at night, who stood in a firm belief
that he Could not be convicted for the want of
evidence; but the present prisoner was apprehended
at Whitechapel, by the officers of the police, who
rendered him up to this place, where he made a
voluntary confession of the whole transaaion. He
was therefore put under guard in the barracks to
give evidence against his colleague at the ensuing
Assizes for Kent.