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made on their part, of unconditional coneeSsion,
without any guard. or security whatever and,
what is taill more strange, these sapporters of the
Catholics; for some tmaccOnntable change in their
opinions, appear ready to go.that length in their
tonc.2ssions ! !---And what is it that is now, de-
manded,,..—That which does not exist in any
country, Catholic or Protestant; namely, that
the Government of the Church shall be wholly
independent of tile State, while the. Members of
that Church, thus denying the authority of the
State, shall yet fully participate in the eXercise.of
all its political powers.
The want of these secorities., (no proposition d-
eny such thing being made, mor any plan Of them
suggested for consideration ; on the contrary, the
necessity of. them being; now apparently denied)
might furnish sufficient grounds for rejecting
the present motion at once. ror, surely, in a
matter of this linnortance and magnitude., Parlia-
ment may reasonably, expect sonic statement at
least to he made of what is intended to be after-
wards proposed, before it takes any one step to-
.
wards giving its countenance and encouragement
to the measure.

But the proposition should not he rejected upon
partial considerations and formal objections,
which uiy only serve to keep alive the continued
agit►►tion of a subject so desirable to be set at rest,
It will be more frank a►►d proper to consider brief-
ly, the advantag Which, have bee►► at , different
times suggested as likely to arise from these con-
cessions, and the securities .which have been
hinted at as tending to prevent danger.
(To be cuntinuecL)

LAW REPORT.

CONSISTORY COURT, DOCTORV-COMMONS.

DARIUS V. HARRIS.

This was a proceeding for a divorce, instituted'
b/-,lilizaheth Mary, • the wife of William Harris,
Log. of Mile-end, against her liesband, on the
grOund of cruelty.
It, appeared that the parties were married in
October, 1801, and had several children in the
course of their -living together from that time till
'November, 1811, when Mrs, Harriswithdrew her-
'self from the society of her.husband, in conse-
qvienee, as she stated, of being unable, any longer,
to endure the cruelty which formed the ground of
the present'snit. - . .
The particular pets SiiiCifi°(h as forming'alto-
gether a charge sufficient to sustain the suit, were,
that the hushand.was in the habit of beating his
wife, and throwing tea-cups and other things at
her,--his ill behaviour to her during her lying-in,
denying her wine and necessaries fOr the occasion ;
his refusal
.to furnish 'her with clothes or money
suitable to her situation in life as his wife, and
depriving her of the management of her hote;e-
hold, tke..corroborated by her having exhibited
articles of the peace against him at the Sessions,
upon which lie had been held to bail. These cit.-
curnstances were detailed in the evidence of the
wife's sisters, the servants in- the hote.e, and 'se-
veral others, which, it was contended, established
them sufficiently to entitle the virile to the'remedy
she applied for.
The defence was confined to :a denial of any
acts of cruelty endangering her persOn, or afford•
leg legal grounds for A divorce; and it was con-
tended, that the principal witnesses were biassed
by their relationship or: friendship tot the wife,
and bad given an undue colouring to the casual
ebullitions of transitory passion, representing
then) as acts of aggravated crnejty.
Sir W. Scorr, upon recapitulating the evi-
dence, was of a different opinion, And considered
many of the acts of cruelty proved, as sufficient to
induce a reasonable apprehension in the nand of
the wite for the safety of her person, and to ren-
der it impossible that she could continue. to live
with her husband in the dins fulfilment of the 04-
ligatiims of the marriage contract. Be therefore
signed the sentence of divorce.

CQURT or KiNcvs IFeP.4.
TqF KIN° V., GIOYLE;R AND °THERE.).
The Dele'Want, a Clerk in the Navy
Mee,: :who was convicted. of a conspiracy the
Sittings after last Term, for obtaining pensions
for seamen, by -giving hem false certificates of
service, was brought up for judgment At the
lame. time, J. How.ard, an Msistot Clerk, Parry,
Sheffield, Sadler, and another, who had conspired
with therri for the like purpose, were also brought
up for judgment:
Gawler, having been also convicted on another
indictment, -for obtaining Money by false pre=
fences, tinder which he was SeHteliCCii to lie t rani-
ported the Court said, they must inflict the only
punishment which Was lett them, viz:y.lll4a he
should be pilloried opposite the Admiralty, and
be once publicly whipped, opposite the principal
gate of.Greenwieh Hospital.
Howard was sentenced to 12, months imprison-
ment, and the others to 9 months imprisoment.