The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-01 00:00:00

THE PITT CLUB TRIENNIAL COMMEMORATION

Jour BLACItEURN; Esq. V.P. and a Deputation
fr7im " The Pitt Club," attended yesterday the
Court of Assistants of 'the Company
of Merchamt Taylors, to recjitest the ‘'.e of their
flail, on the 28th of May next,: bQirig,THE TRI-
ENNIAL COMMEMORATION Of • the Anniversary or
the Birth-day of Mr. Pty r 5 when .dl? 'Court. it)
the most-obliging accord
to the wishes of the Clnb,

air. DEAN'S next character, it seems, 15 to be
Hanzlet—a character which he has, it is said,, per_
formed-on provincial boards with as mach success
as has attended his Richard in' the metropolis.--
He played it sixteen nights successively in -Edin-
burgh.

It is an odd compliment in the Managers of
Drury-Lane to prohibit their Free List from ad-
,mission on the nights when there is any attrac-
tion at, the Theatre. • It is like saying ". Come,
and welcimie when I have nobody else, and no.'
-thing worth accepting to give ; but you can't be re-
ceive% when we have company and good 'enter-
tahiment!"

It .`Mrs. not
...perform the the chi-
racter of the Queen in the play of Richard the Third
so well as to• justify all the plaudits which the
audience bestow on her, 4 might be supposed that
a parkof this zealous reception is ascribable to
theil• disapprobation ,of ,Miss SMITH'S reins;ll.ot
that character. It is somewhat curious,:howerer,
that any,actress of these idays. should disdain
Part 'which was rendereil prop inent by Mrs.
PRITCHA:IIDt and which' Mrs. SIDDONS has per,,
formed. ,

. .
The call made in,SucHET's-generat order to his
OldiCrs " to fly," need hardly be repeated, as.
they have been .ready to fly ever-since the bpi le
of Vittoria.

GERMAN. SUFFERERS.-Our Readers, we are
persuaded, will heartily sympathize id she plea-
sure -which we feel in stating, thata SeCond Re-
port haS been published by the Committee for ma-
naging the Subscription in lams!, of these unfor-
tunate victims of French oppression and .r:fra-
city • and. it appears that, 37,000/. ,have been
vote:l since the publication of the former.---Xhis
contribtition will remain a perpetual monument
of the- benevolence of-Great Britain but 'it w 0,114
be injustice it ,we• were not to state, that. people
of all countries who reside among its have beets
emulous to contribute to a find so laudable in
it-
self ; and front the actire and judicious arrange-
ments which have been adopted, there is evvry
reason to believe that the objects of it
wilt be il~-
stored to comfort, and be amply supplied with
the means. Of future subsistence.
The:Chancellorship of the University of St.
Andrew:s having become vacant, by the departure
of his-Royal Highneis the Duke of Camautn-ta:
from Britain, 'and his residence in Hanover, the.
Senatus Academicus have elected Loral Viscount.
MELVILLE their Chancellor, and Conservator of
their privileges.
On Monday last, at Watford, the Ciergy'rnan
married :a couple, churched the bride, and christ-
ened their first child, all within the same hour.

In the Common Pleas, on Saturday, a ps.r,zou
named TAYLOR, brought his action against Alr.
Row IstsoN, proprietor of one of the Leeds coaches.
to recover the expellees of a post-chaise to Leech,,
which the plaintiff had hired in consequence of
the place nol- being kept for him, which- he had
taken in the defendant's coach. The Jury gave
181. damages, first -deducting Taylor's expeuces
fur eating while on the road.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COMT OF CHANCERY, FEB. 48.

ALARMING FORGERY.--LLOYD PASSTNGHAM.

This cause came on for bear'ng,, upon bill, an-
swer, and ChposiiionS under the following most
`extraordinary circanMances :
The Oirect object of thelkli was to set aside a
'certain Deed of Lease tind,Release, executed in
Angust, 1794, near twenty years, by which the
parties mutually covenanted and agreed to abide
by, t-atity, and confirm, to oneOf the defendants,
lOnathan Pfissingham, the estates .in Monmouth-
shire, which were the subject oF a Trial at Com-
•Trion Law by a Special Jury, on the title of the
plaintiff, in the action of ejectment, their tried
at Shrewsbury on that occasion, in which the.
principal fact. in issue was the legitimacy of the
claimant, as the 'lawful issue of Mary Lloyd,
sister,:of Mr. Gwynne.Llovd, who possessed `the
estates in tail, and in 1794 devised the same suc-
cessively in tail to his sisters, Mary and Elizabeth.
The latter died without issue, and Mary, the stir-
-vivor,_ devised 't'o Jonathan Passingbam, who
brought his ejectment, arid haviug taken down
the Hon. Thomas Erskine, now Lord.F.rskinc,-tiy
a special retainer, obtained a verdict in a.ffi,rmance
of his-legitimacy, with so much eclat, that, in
gratitude, he 40ade a present of a service vf plate
to that celebrated Advocate, who was observed
this day in the Hall, at the opening of this cause,
and politely invited to take his seat on the Bench
with the Lord Chancellor, during the arguments
—a 'privilege belonging .to the reerage,even.
without such invitation.

The ground of impeachment of the deed. of re-
lease was, that the plaintiff's being the legitiowe
heirs, were defrauded of the' estates, subsequently
sold for • a sum of about 50,0001. by means of
forged registers of the birth of Jonathan Passing.
ham, and of the marriage of his,pirents, and that
such forgeries were committed, or used on the
trial, by or with the privity of the defendant
mathan,' or his brother Robert, who acted as
Agent ?or him on the trial. The case excited nu-
common,intetest, and at three o'clock the further
byring was adjourned.

COURT OF KING's BENCH, FED. 28.

14A7'OR b. GOLDSMID.

This was an action against the widow of the
late Mr. Galdsmid, for damaging the furniture of
the House called Brunswick Pavilion; which she
lead hired of the plaintiff, ready furnished, at
500,i. Gil' one year. The statement on the .part of
the plaintiff was, that the cat pet in the best draw-
ing-room Was spoiled, by having oil spilled upon it,
that the card tables were greased, the gilding of the
chairs robbed off, 'aud a variety of other articles
damaged beyond fair wear and tear. On the other
hand several witnesses were called, who stated,
that they had surveyed the furniture, and that it
was not unnecessarily damaged; that the house
smoked, awl that it had been uninhabited for four
years, and the damp bad destroyed a part of the
beauty of the furniture.
The Jury, without waiting for his Lordship to,
elm pp the evidence, said they were satisfied, and
found a verdict in favour of the defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

USURY.-LIVIE V. BYLES.

This was_ an issue directed from the Court of
Chancery, to try whether, or no, a contract under
which the plaintiff claimed on the estate of the
defendant, who is a bankrupt, was usurious. By
the -direction of the Lord Chancellor, the plaintiff
and the bankrupt were admitted as witnesses.

Mr. Livie stated, that in 1807 he first became
acquainted with the defendant, and in 1809 he
entered into a partnership with him, as tei a con-
tract vltich the defendant. then had under Govern-
ment, for supplying the troops in the West Indies
with rice, sugar, ; and atisubsequent tines he
also heearne concerned with him in contracts for
sunpiying the .ships at Bristol, Swansea, and
Yartuouth.•, In . the Westlndian contract
was found to he very ruinous, and the loss to both
partners was 18,000/. The witness was then de-
sirous-of separating from Byles, who was then in-
solvent, and.after some conversation a separation
was agreed on between them, the terms of which
'were, that the_witness should receive a honui of
one per cent. of the amount of the Yarmouth and
Brist4l contracts, which were then supposed by
tc) be lucrative, and that he should be paid
the regitlar interest of five per cent. on the ba-
lance which he suffered to remain in Byles's hands,
and on the money which he might advance to
him.- He accordingly.advanced him sums of mo-
ney subsequently to the separation, and the ba-
lance at, present- due to him was 20,3181. The
utatiagement of the contracts,was it) Byles's band,
and those
.at Yaringuth and Bristol were repre-
sented-by bins to be lucrative.

Cros%-examination,- he acktiowlcdged that
lie had desired Byles to send him. in. his account,
without mentioning the one per cent. ;.his reason
for this was, that this transaction might not ap-
peal• to a private friend,: who advanced money to
hin► when he submitted his accounts to this friend,
and not front any idea that the contract was
usurious.

The letter from Byles, in which. the substance
of the mg-I-cement was embodied, was read, and
was consistent with the statement of. Mr. Livie.

Serjeant LEs's, tor the tlefe,ntlant, observed,
tLat the case must Atiinately,rest,on the comp.arit-
tive crt,iiit to be given to. the testiino!ly
Livie and Mr. Byles. By the, evidence ;Di the
tater genticulan, lie -shouiti prthe that the con-
tract was eszo ions—the reinntieration for the loss
Gi rise coutraci.s being nil rely cloak •for the
if Le sittisfuet,,riiy showed this, he
W 44 ePill-k(1 tc).' the. r ti erclict.

trow,;:c!icP,

IviiAsyles. was the;! cdlftd. : lie ,gave evidence
vs to S'etne of-the tact's, to the stpue effect as that
given by 111 r. Livie; • lie, howcv'er, positiv'ely
st,ited that, previously t@ th.c agKeeMent of di,-,1
nad fidiv communicated 'to Livie the
('it CttlllStil'~CC- ti.icq the cemtvarts wcip.,;ap
lje said, the motive v.'hic,n induced
‘t.isli for a %taS,-thaf ilt 1r;1 11t
tc. inovit Lis :d,b's ,ae.ainst tl~c estate

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Livie said, that it Was ti'eceisir that he ifiLfOilld.
haVe some consideration for the balance left by
him in witness's hinds ; the expedient of alltsW•
ing* a bonus of one iOer cent. on the victualling
bills •was adopted. Livie, at the fiat.; said, ihat
he was doubtful how 'the matter would appear
k.c,hen it came before a Jurv, but that he hoped
witness would always stand his friend. The trans-
action was erifered in witness's books.
The 'Cnietr-hAltatT summed up the evidence,
and directed the juiy o consider the credit due
to the evidence of the Witnesses, whom they had.
veen.---Verdict for the plaintiff, 20;118/.