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I PREROGATIVE COURT.-FRIDAY

TORRE AND OTHERS V. CASTLE AND OTHERS.
The decased in this case is the late Earl of Scarboro

who died at Edwinstow, on the 24th of February, 1833,
in the 74th year of his age, in consequence of a f►ll from
his horse, after which accident he was never sensible for a
moment, and died in a few hours, leaving a widow, one son
(the present Earl), and three daughters, Lady Anna
Maria Lumley (a spinster), Lady Harriet Barbara Man-
ners Sutton (the widow of Mr. Manners Sutton, with a
family), and Lady Louisa Frances Caitor (the wife of the
Rev. William Caitor). The personal property of the de-
ceased amounted to 300,0001. ; and the paper now nro-
pounded as a further co:licil to the will of the deceased was
propounded by three out of the four executors of the will,
which bore date on the 13th of Oct., 1826, which was not
disputed, and was opposed by Mrs. Castle, one of the resi-
duary legatees under the same will, and by two ladies of the
name of Hartley, who were nieces of the deceased, and also re-
siduary legatees in the will. Besides the will of 1826, the
deceased had also executed a codicil on the Bth of Novem-
ber, 1832, which, however, mainly confirmed the provisions
of the preceding will, which left the bulk of his property to
his wife's niece, a Mrs. Castle, and his own nieces, the
Misses Hartley. The paper now propounded was in the
hand-writing of Lord Scarborough, and its provisions were
in favour of the widow and daughters of the testator.
The KING'S ADVOCATE appeared on behalf of the exe-
cutors of the will of 1826, to support the paper propounded ;
Dr. LUSHINGTON for Mrs. Castle ; and Dr. HAGGARD for
the Misses Hartley, in opposition to that paper.
The COURT would give judgment on Thursday next
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RT OF REQUESTS, THURSDAY.

LARdINS V. WILBERFORCE.
William Wilberforce, a man of colour from the coast of
Gambia, was summoned at the suit of Thomas Larkins, a
portrait painter, to show cause why he refused paying the
sum of one guinea, which he contracted to pay for having
his likeness painted.
The plaintiff stated that on the second of April last the
defendant applied to him to paint his portrait, which he
agreed to do for a guinea. The defendant sat no less than
nine times, and on the sth of May the picture was finished
and sent home, but when he called on the following day for
the money, the defendant flew into a violent passion, de-
claring that it bore no more resemblance to him than it did
to one of the bumeys of his trible.
COMMISSIONER—Have you the picture with you ?
Plaintiff—Yes ; exhibiting a half-length portrait of the
defendant, as much like him as two balls of blacking- can
be like each other.

Defendant—Him no like me, I say, and me no hab him
—me lif me place, so me hab one picture for cookey ; but
him no like me, I say.
The Commissioner having attentively examined the por-
trait, declared he considered it a very good likeness for the
price.

The defendant then took it up, and, after looking at it
for some moments, pulled out a pocket mirror, in which
he carefully examined his own physog, comparing it all the
time with the picture, which he at last threw down in a
violent passion, saying " Him no like me, him too white—
(Laughter)—and him nose like Pattoo."
COMMISSIONER—" Pattoo," what's that ?
Defendant—" Gol o' Mittv, massa for Judge, not know
what Pattoo mean. Him like Pattoo," pointing with much
archness at the poor limner, who had a remarkably small
beaky nose—" Pattoo mean what you call owl."
COMMISSIONER—But you do not call the plaintiff an
owl ?

Defendant—Yes, Massa, Lor Judge, him like Pattoo,
and pictu too like Pattoo, Sir, so me no hab him.
CommlssloNEß—But whether you take the picture or
not you must pay the guinea with the costs.
Defendant—No, massa, me, me no do dat ; him no like
me, him too white, and him hab no handsome ears, so me
no hab him at all, for me stand handsome, me look hand-
some, but dat like a Pattoo.

The COURT, however, adjudged, notwithstanding all
poor Massa's eloquence, that he must pay the amount of
the plaintiff's claim, with costs, and he quitted the Court
declaring he would get " Daddy Buxton" to see him righted.