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IN RE CLEMENT, A SUPPOSED LUNATIC.
—BATH, NINTH DAY (FRIDAY.)—The Learned Quorum
Commissioner, W. P. TAUNTON, Esq., having made some
observations, the jury retired, and in a short time returned,
and delivered the following verdict The jury unani-
mously find that Mr. ROBERT CLEMENT 15 of unsmind
mind, without lucid intervals, so that he is not sufficient for
the government of himself and his affairs, and that he has
been so since the Ist of January, 1825 ; and that ANN,
the wife of Mr. Bush, is his heir at lan."

MR. BURKE'S NEW PEERAGE DICTIONARY.
—The new Work announced by Mr. IhIRKE under the
title of a " Dictionary of the Extinct, Dormant, and Sus-
pended Peerages," will form, we understand, two volumes.
The first, now on the eve of publication, is devoted solely
to the Peerage of Eneland. The second to the Peerages
of Scotland and Ireland. These volumes, with the forth-
coming New Edition of Mr.. BuRKE's Dictionary of the
Peerage and Baronetage (likewise in the press) will com-
prise every single heritable honour, extant and extinct,
created in his Majesty's dominions since the Conquest
The details of each dignity are upon the most ample scale--1
the families of every Peer minutely described, and the con-
nexion between old and modern houses clearly explained.
To readers of history, an Extinct Peerage in the Dictionary
Form, admitting of immedia'e refereneermust prove in
the highest degree valuable ; for, be it remembered, that
the generality of our historiansin detailing the deeds of
their sages, warriors, and statesmen, describe those eminent
persons by their titles of honour alone, without sonde_
wending to state that a Duke of BEDFORD, an Earl of
RICHMOND, or an Earl of DEVON, may spring from a very
different race in every succeeding century.
EXTRAORDINARY EFFECTS OF THE
HEAT.—The Exeter Gazette states the following casual-
ties to have resulted from the heat. The correspondent
who furnished the information is supposed to have been
formerly connected with an American Paper :—" On
Sunday last the heat was so excessive at mid-day that the
thermometer stood in the shade above toiling heat, and
when exposed to the sun it became red hot ! About two
o'clock a man walking along South-street was observed
suddenly to begin gradually to melt down on the pave-
ment ; the bye standers, afraid that the beat of the flags
would bake him into a pancake, immediately gathered the
melted man into a jelly-pan, and conveyed him home to
his friends in a state of fusion. About the same hour a
corpulent old gentleman, while on his way to church, per.
spired to such a degree that by the time he arrived at the
church door he had totally disapreared!"

ri age there were two sons, William and John : the latter
died before his father, leaving one son, Bar} d. William,
the eldest son, married a Miss Juliana Steel, on which
a contract was entered into in October, 1721, by which
" Alexander Porterfield binds and obliges him and his
heirs and successors with all possible diligence, upon his
own proper charge,' &c., duly and validly to infeft and
sease the said William Porterfield, his said son, and the
said Juliana Steel, and the survivor, in conjunct fee
and life rent, and the heirs male of the marriage;
which failing, the heirs male of William Porter-
field of any other marriage, which fining, the heirs
male of the said AlexanderPOrteifiehl ; which failing, the
eldest heir female of William add her descendants ;
which failing, the next heir fern de of William and
her descendants, all without division ; which failing,
any other heirs of tailzie to be nominated and ap-
pointed by the said Alexander Porterfield, by writ,
under his hand at any time in his life tinge; which
failing, the eldest heir female of the said Alexander,
and the descendant of the said eldest heir female, without
division ; which failing, the next heir female successive of
Alexander and of her descendants ; which failing, the said
William, his nearest lawful heirs, assigns, &c , the eldest
heir female always excluding all other heirs, portioners,
&e." In another clause he reserved to himself full power
and liberty at any time in his liege pourtie to alter the
order, course, and succession, &c., except the heirs male
and female of his son, and his own leis male, &c. The
wife of Alexander dying, for his second wife he married a
Mrs. Margaret Campbell, with whose property he pur-
chased an estate called Blacksholm. He had three daugh-
ters, the eldest, Jean, being married to the respondent's
great grandfather, Mr. Corbett, of Tollcross. William
had been married 16 years without children. In Septem-
' ber, 1737, he made a settlement, by which the new estate
of Blacksholm was placed in the same order of succession
as that of Duchal, &c., in failure of the heirs male of Wil-
liam and his own heirs male. This, however, was super-
seded by one of the sth of November, 1742, and which
was the one on which the question rested. By it Blacks-
holm was destined as follows:--fat, to the heirs male of
his son William; 2d, his grandson, Boyd by name, and
his heirs male; Sd, his own three daughters by name,
and their heirs male ; 4th, to the heirs male of Fullwood
and of Hapland, two near relatives; sth, to the heirs female
of William ; 6th, his own heirs female, whom failing, to
William's heirs, &c. Alexander died in 1743, his widow
enjoying the Blacksholm estate during life. William died
in 1752, without issue, and was succeeded by Boyd, who
died in 1797, leaving a son, Alexander, and several daugh-
ters, the eldest of whom was the mother of the late Sir
Michael Shaw Stewart, the appellant's father. Alexander
died in 1815 without issue, settling Blacksholm on his
youngest sisters. Sir Michael Shaw Stewart was the eldest
heir female of Alexander the first, who were, by the en-
tail of 1721, called to the succession in the 7th plan ; but
it was contended, on the part of the respondent, by the
deed of 1742, which altered the original course of succes-
sion, so as to prefer the heirs male of Fullwood and of I lap.
land ; whom failing, his own three daughters by name
and their heirs male ; to the heirs female of his grandson
Boyd ; and both Fullwood and Hapland having died with-
out issue male, the right to the estate devolved upon the
respondent's father, the grandson of Mrs. Jean Porterfield,
in which character he claimed a right to succeed William
in the lands of Overmains, of Duchal, Boyd in Porterfield
and Hapland, and Alexander, the second in the barony of
Duchal, &c., and took steps accordingly. Sir M. S.
Stewart, conceiving the supplementary deed of 1712 was
invalid in itself, as well as excluded by prescription, and
consequently his right of succession as heir of provision,
under the seventh substitution of the deed of 1721 could
not be affected by that instrument. He also took out
brieves to be served as heir to William in the lands
of Overmains, and to Alexander the second in those

of Duchal, but none for those of Porterfield and Hap-
land. This took place in July, 1817, when the de-
cision of the Court of Session was in favour of Mr.
Corbett. To this Sir M. Stewart reclaimed ; but Mr.
Corbett dying, his son, the present respondent, pro-
ceeded in the cause, and obtained a second favourable de-
cision. Sir M. S. Stewart dying, his son, the present ap-
pellant, in 1826, appealed to the Lords, who, after hearing
Counsel for two days, remitted it back to the Court of Ses-
sion in Scotland in May, in order that they might review
the interlocutors complained of, and (Attain the opinion in
writing of the other Judges of the Court of Session on
the questions of law, and decide accordingly.. On this
occasion Lord Gifford addressed their Lordships at very
great length, pressing on them the necessity, in a case of
so much importance, of having the separate opinions of
the Scottish Judges. After the opinions of the Judge,,
were given, their Lordships of the 2d division confirmed
their former interlocutors. This bore date November 13,
1829 ; and from these the present appeal was made.
The case was first heard on Friday, when the Lord-
Advocate and Mr. Knight, K.C., appeared for the appel-
lant ; when it was adjourned to this day, when Dr. Lu.h.
ington and Mr. Rutherford were heard for the respondent.
On the conclusion of their argument, the reply was ad-
knurled to another day.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, prior to leaving the House,
addressed their Lordships at some length lie referred to
the long list of appeals which were ready for hearing at
their Lordships' Bar, and to the great anxiety he felt that
no time should be lost in the disposal of them, for he con.
sidered it a duty of the highest importance. It would
relieve parties from much anxiety, and be getting rid of
much vexatious delay and expense, by doing of which it
would greatly tend to add to that respect for the judicial
proceedings of that House which it was so highly neces-
sary above all things to maintain. By following the plan
which he should propose he doubted not by another session
there would be no business of this description but would
be readily disposed of by the usual attendance. It was a
matter of necessity, and as such he should propose that in
order to expedite the business, instead of sitting three days
in the week to hear those causes, they should sit six ; for
his part, he would personally attend each morning from
Monday to Saturday at ten o'clock, and on the latter days
he should sit till four o'clock in the afternoon ; and he
hoped that in this important branch of their Lordships'
business he should meet with their support and assistance.
There was another point to which he wished to call their at-
tention, and that was the system adopted by their Lordships
of attending by rota on these occasions, by which two Noble
Lords sat with the Chancellor on one day, and two others on
another, and perhaps, on the third day when the question
was decided, two might attend who had never heard the
first day's argument. The general feeling of the com-
munity had been loud in condemning the present practice,
but it would remain with their Lordships to decide whether
they would meet that feeling ; but that must be left en-
tirely to them, bearing in mind that theirs was a court of
Bernier resort.
From what passed yesterday in the House of Lords, the
Lord Chancellor is determined nothing of a personal nature
shall inter fere with his public duty. He has cleared so far
as he could do it, the Court of Chancery : he is resolved
to do the same with the judicial proceedings before the
Lords. By sitting seven hours each day, he hopes to effect
this objecr, but many weeks will be eequired ; for, judging
from tl,e list of Scotch appeals alone ready fiir hearing,
which is now before us, and which consists of no less tlon
forty, and adding the English, the peerage, and other causes,
no One but himself would have ventured on the task. Re-
laxation he will have none.

WILSON THE ORNITHOLOGIST.—We ob-
serve, with sorrow, an account of the death and burial of
poor WILSON, somewhere in the State of Philadelphia, even
while the Edinburgh journals are anticipating his return,
laden with scientific treasures.—Literary Gazctte.

What a volume of meaning a few words may
contain. The whole reckless spirit of the French revolu-
tion was told in the Jacobin's answer to the man whti
proached France with the massacres of 1703, " Croyez
eons done, Monsieur, (peon fosse des revolutions:aree de
leau de rose l"—Monthly Magazine.

(From the Moniteur of VridaY, Sept.
The Pr, silent of the Council stated in the tribune that
SGO,OOO muskets had been distributed among the National
Gouda of the kingdom since the events of July, 1830.
Questions have arisen on the spirit which directed the
distribution, and it has been asked above all whether. the
largest quantities had been given to our frontier depart-
ments. .
To this question the President of the Cotincil anslteteci
affirmatively, in artier to remove in an authentic intiniret
all doubts on a subject of such importance.. The Go-
vernment, always ready to make its acts public, has pre-
pared and thinks itself bound to publish, in the minutest
details, a table of the distribution of arms in the depart-
ments up to this day.
It is proved by this document, that the frontier depart-
ments were furnished, as was necessary, with a much
gi eater quantity of arms in proportion than those of the
interior. Some inequalities are to be observed, which may
be accounted for by various considerations which it would
be too long to develope here. The principal is, the eager-
ness with which the people of the provinces near the
arsenals armed themselves under the influence of the first
days-Akiingust; another, to the arms of different de-
scriptions which the citizens hail at their disposal, and
•' which are not reckoned in the annexed list, which in-
eludes only the arms delivered from the public magazines;
in fact, of 61,860,151 muskets in the bands of the Na-
tional Guards, 500,000 were taken from the arsenals in
the months of August and September, without any rule
but the eagerness of the people. It was therefore only
by the just employment of the remaining 260.000 mus-
kets, the distribution of Which has been ordered and
directed by the President of the Council, that it was pos-
sible to attempt to re-establish the equilibrium between
the departments. After some farther observations, the
Illoniteur adds the general tables, the result of which is,
that in thirty-four frontier departments of the North, the
East, the Alps, and the Pyrenees, there is one musket to
thirty and a half inhabitants, and in fifty-one departments
of the interior one musket to forty-two and two-fifths
inhabitants.

Such a document, observes the Moniteur, is one of

those which a Government might not think itself obliged
to publish ; but the Government is happy there is no act
of its administration which it cannot at all times and on
all occasions freely submit to the examination and criticism
of the county.

(From the Messager des Chambres, dated Saturday.)
PARIS, SECT. 1.-A despatch from Tangier, of the
sth of August, announces that the troubles which have
for some months agitated the empire of Morocco, are daily
increasing. In the south, bands are formed which infest
the roads and plunder the caravans. A catastrophe was
expected during the fetes of the 19th, 20th, and 21st of
August, to celebrate the birth of Mahomet. A new Sultan
was spoken of, and he was to be one of the fifty-four sons
of the late Emperor Mulei Soliman.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PA R IS, SEPTEMBER 2.- -Five per Cents., i;Of
90f. 10c. 20c. 90f. 90f. 10c. 15c. 10c. 90E 89f. 90c. 85c. 90c. 80c. 85c.
95r. lrc. 80c.; Loan of 1831, 90f. ; Four per Cents. 75f. ; Three
per Cents. 58f. 75c. 70c. 60c. 59E 59f. sc. 10c. 30c. 25c. 59f. 10c.
20c. 10c. 58E 90c. 59f. 59f. sc. 10c. 59f. sc. 15c. 10c. 59f. ; Bank
Stock, 1.525 f. 1,522 f. 50c. ; Rente de Naples, 69E 50c. 35c. '2sc.
15c. 30c. 09f. 40c. 30c. ; Rente d'Espagne, 10 Jo% lo; Royal
Spanish Loan, 62},i ;.Rente Ferpetuelle d'E.spagne, 4714 47
471, 471/ 471'. ; Haytian Loan, 195 f. Exchange on London, one
month, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 35f. 10c. ; three months, paper,
25E ; money, 24f. 95c.-fours Authentique.

MANIFESTO OF THE POLISH GOVERN-

MENT AGAINST PRUSSIA.

" There are extreme circumstances which will not per-
mit men to observe the conduct which otherwise they
would willingly pursue.
" Can it he a reproach to the weak, that when on the
point of prishiog they expose the false pretences of those
who, under the cloak of legal conduct, would effectually
ensure their destruction, by aiding their adversary ?
" The Poles have a right to say that the faith of nations
is hut an empty name, and that treaties and conventions
have been invented only to cover the crimes of the power-
ful with the mask of justice. The principle of non-inter-
vention, for what does it serve, but as a pretext in the sel-
fish policy adopted by the Cabinets of the present day? How
Austria has applied it in the disarming of Dwernicki's
corps is known to Europe, and Europe remains silent.
Prussia has violated, in a manner still more striking, a
principle which, once adopted, ought to be adopted by all,
or applied impartially.
" Often have we addressed to the Cabinets, the guarantees
of our rights, the most
f-
fs'et ar
et ed
pressing representations ; and all
have been deaf to our voice. We cannot, indeed, demon-
state judicial
the pru
iraonc etsesati ht
oer
y wrongs
ey awhichre:
hwoew
vi aesr•e, ss
uu
f-
ficiently proved by the most circumstantial details : of all
proofs the most convincing is that furnished by the present
position of the Russian army.
" Prussia, confident in our weakness, has done well to
give evasive answers to all the Governments who would
seek to maintain, Lona fide, the principle of non-inter-
vention, she could not better disguise her conduct from
incredulous Cabinets, that they might be required to see
the French at Warsaw, before they would believe in the
concert subsisting between the Cabinets of St. Peters-
burgh and Berlin.
" Tie National Government has received a report from
the General-in-Chief, announcing that the army of Paske-
witsch is eoncewrated on the Lower Vistula, and extended
in echellon, on the right side of the river, and resting upon
the Prussian frontier. [Here follows a minute descrip-
tion of the then position of the army, since changed.] It
results from the plan of operation adopted by General
Paskewitsch, that in case of a check, more or less severe,
he could with difficulty regain the right bank, and, by
consequence, must have the certainty of a secure retreat
in Prussia, into which the quarantine will not hinder hint
lona from penetrating, and where no Russian corps
experience the fete of General Dwernicki. This conduct
of Prussia destroys all the advantages which we have ac-
quired by so nmch devotion, and so much blood spilled all
over the soil of Poland. It renders useless, we are bold to
s a all the miraclesolggle I(l)afsmll)reecnouanni algea.
Out peal to God ; why at-
tempt to influence his decrees, anti lend to the strong more
t, rrible arms for the purpose of crushing the weak ? Let
it be known that it is not with Russia only we are engaged
s t
in combat. There was a time when tke spectators of a
conflict would have thought themselves guilty of a crime
if they did not assist the weaker party—the world calls
conspiringtl,a that ti m
e against
ppryesneantti
nation,
aon,Po i
the contest
are
on seen
estis
looked upon with slag froid. The attacked nation has
not even arms to defend itself, for Prussia, not content
with having surrounded our frontiers for a long time with
a factitious quarantine, checks the transport of every thing
necessary for our defence. Such are the means resorted to
in order to reduce us; this is the fair battle offered us by
Russia, assisted by the Prussians. Their Princes invoke
the name of God in their proclamations—God is justice
Ims:in:liking him to testify falsehood is com-
atd:mnainiiffia(tiu:ti,se.i,
intuqb)ieglucet
eyianrit;Bol.
operjury,se!lLootlleni(e:audtdnntbrnheixylvt:' 'W ho can foresee the future? The
Princes who wish for our destruction may, perhaps here-
afterw
riftbsel
haefsoeit
complaints
recollectgen ,
naneit,un
ssatwtnithd,iei, pleetplhacu‘ec:bieentidi,
sicehuixoncenpdt,esi,iroutifeteti
tinaleta,itertoounssti:ssi,,iceooaby-f.
The world must know what we have complained of—what
are the difficulties we have to conquer; and perhaps then
the Governments, which are deaf to the voice of justice
and humanity, will be forced to admit that a people which
has had the courage to support itself single-handed against
such powerful enemies combined to annihilate it, is worthy
of a free and independent existence."

PERMANENCE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S
IlEruTazioN, __A century of discoveries has, since his day,
beer. added to science ; but brilliant as those discoveries
are, they have not obliterated the minutest of his labours,
and have served only to brighten the halo which encircles
his name. The achievements of genius, like the source
front which they spring, are indestructible. Acts of legis-
Lition and deeds of war may confer a high celebrity, but
the reputation which they bring is only local and transient;
and while they are hailed by the nation which they benefit,
they are reprobated by the people whom they ruin or en-
slave. The labours of science, on the contrary, bear along
with them no counterpart of evil. They are the liberal
bequests of great minds to every individual of their race,
and wherever they are welcomed and honoured, they become
the solace of private life, and the ornament and bulwark
of the colornonwealth.—Family Library, No. XXIV .
Dr. Brewster's Life of Newton.