The Sun.
London, England, 1815-02-23 00:00:00

WILTS AND DORSET.

Tu be SOLD by ATTCl.lo.l,atili7l;;;ion Nlart, in Lon-
don ; on 'Thursday, -the 16th of March, 1315, at Twelve
o'clock, in Two Lots,

TUE CA VITAL MANSION, and Excellent
Offices of ASHCONIBE, with the beautifully
turesque, Woods, Plantations, and Grounds, delightfully
situated in the enchanting Vale of Ashcernhe ; presenting an
Re.sidence for a Nobleman, or Family of Distinction.
With the capital and highly improvable Manors and Estates
of Tollard Royal, and Ashgrove, with the Liberty of haver-
mere, and Manor of 'foliar. Baron Down Hundred and Tol-
lar Farnham and Stubtiampton, otherwise Steppington
Manor ; with the Chief and Quit Rents, Rights, Royalties
and PrivilegLs appurtenant. to the said Manors, advaatage-
ously situated between the two great Western roads, in the
parishes of Tollar'd Royal, Berwick St. John, and Donhead
St • Marc", in the County of Wilts ; Tollar-Farnham, • Little
Fittie .larnliam, Tarrant- Grenville, and Handley, in the
County b.:Dorset; about Fourteen Miles from Salisbury, and
Six from Birmnioi•d, Shaftesbury, and Cranbourne, forming
an entire yo,.etiaid Property, of 3,967, Statute Act s, with
Royalties abundantly-stored with Game, extending over about
h,500 Acres ; the estimated yearly value,. Three Thousand
Five Hundred Pounds. TlitS Mansion and about 2,2n0 Acres
(.including 500 Acres of Woodlaial) are: in• Demesne, th
residue is granted
.by -Leases, or Copies for Ong, Two, and
Three Lives, under nominal Rents or Heriots.
Printed Particulars. may be 'had of Mr. James Rennet, of •
•Tollard Royal, who will sla4 t hat Manor, (and Astigmatic
House and Grounds may he viewed with "leave of P. C. Me-
thocn, Esq. M.P. the occnpier,) of Mr, Josiah Barrett; 'Of
Tollar Farnham, and Mr. Thomas Hill, of Steppington, 'who
•" ' .1- that Manor: also at the Auction Mart,.London ;
eipai Inas in Salisbury, 111:indford, and Shaftesbury;
ttril,&''Partitulars, and inspecting the Maps,..appli-
on limy beeau-rule to George South, Esq. Charlton Cottage,
r Sitaftestinrw; Jrihn Stanley Smart, Esq. Red Lion-
{::"ire; holm's f.;ql-1.5, Esq. Liaeohis-1 ; Edward Robson,
El. Cast.te-street, Leicester-iquare; Loltion oir ti, Messrs.
Bond and Pickering; Laud Agents ,aridr &to/excl.?, Axminster.

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COMMON COUNCIL.

THE CORN LAWS.

A Court of Common Council was held yester-
, day at Guildhall, on the state of the Corn Laws.
The Loan Mayon, on taking the Chair, stated,
that he had called the Court together that day,
and had also appointed a Meeting of the Livery
for to-morroW, to take into serious consideration
' one of the most important questions that ever
came before them. The situation in which he
was placed as Chief Magistrate, made it his par-
ticular duty to watch over, and regulate the
price of bread, that most essential article in the
food- of this great city and having learned that
certain resolutions respecting. the Corn Laws were
proposed tor the consideration of the Legislature,
it would have been, he conceived, a dereliction
of duty, had he not called a Special Meeting
of the Representatives of the Metropolis, for
the purpose of submitting such Resolutions to
their . serious attention. It had been askid by
some persons, whether the proposed Resolutions, •
if adopted, would he attended with much incon-
veniency to the- Public ?—that is, whether rais-
ing the minimum price of Wheat from 68s. per qr.
to 80s. per qr. would prove inconvenient at this time!
To put such a question, his Lordship - observed,
was neither more nor less than asking', whether
raising the price of bread from 10d. to 1211. or
from 16d. to ISd. per quartern loaf, would be at-
tended with inconvenience to the Mille ? This
was the real stare of the question which the Com-
mon Council had met to discuss. He had called
the Court together for that Sole purpose, and all
he recittested was; thzit they. should 'bring their
minds to consider the subject' With that degree 'of
serious attention which its itntipitance required.
Mr. .TAcxs, after pointing out the injurious
effects which might be expected from the propos-`
ed alteration in the.Coth LawS, moved a 'series of
Resolutions, concluding with one for petitioning
Parliament against- any 'change. in the present
Systm._ •

Mr. FAvra. seconded.the
Mr. DtxoN, Mr..WIII,TE, and Mr. WAITIIMAN,
followed on the same
Sir WILLIAM -CURTtS, Sir JAiIES SHAW, and
ncl t. spo%t also its fit;c?ur of the Resolutions and
the Petition; which were carried- tiMutimously.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEE. 22.
CRIM. CON.
WALKER V. PALETHORPE.

This was int action fim. &ins Con.- brought by
the Keeper of the•Perey-Cotice-house, against a
Cle: in the Exchequer Bill-Oltice. It appeared
that the plaintiff was now above 50 year of age,
and that he was originally waiter at a bagnio under
Covent-Gartien_Piazza, where heanarried his first
wife, the bar-maid of the same,place: his second
wife was nursery-maid to the first, by whom he
had a child grown up; and it was not till his pre-
sent_ wife became the widow of a person of the
name of Willis, that the plaintiff 's connection with
her begani; he then kept her in lodgings at Cam-
den Town, and had one child by her before he
married, she being at that time pregnant of an-
other. This was in 1801, when the woman was
nearly 30 years of age ; and though her public
conduct since as mistress of the coffee-house was
proved' to be correct by many of the plaintiff's
male acquaintances and servants, yet it appeared
that her connexion with the defendant, who was
an intimate acquaintance of the_ plaintiff, and
was in the habit of visiting him and his wife,
began fours ago, when' it was carried on at
the Key, in Chandos-street, whether the plain-
tiff's wife and the defendant were in the habit
of going every Wednesday and Saturday morning
for an hour and a half : and they were so regular
in their resorts to the Key, that the waiters- and
chambermaids of that house, who call all their
customers. by, characteristic or feigned names,
used to call them the market people, from the cir-
cumstance of their always coining on Covent-
garden market days. It happened, that one of
these waiters bad before lived at the Percy Cot-
fee-house, and the parties were upon one occa-
sion watched into the Key by a porter at the
Percy. With the exception of the plaintiff's origin,
and the commencement of his acquaintance with
his second wife., and that. one of the witnesses
proved he played at cards on Sundays, the plain-
tiff came before the Conn without reproach : lie was
proved to be an indulgent husband, and to have
lo nd comfort in the society of his wife and children:
.he had no suspicion of herlong infidelity: the waiter
at the Key described her as a dashing woman when
he lived with • her ; but upon the whole it did
•not appear that she dressed or behaved in,a man-
ner. :unbecoming her situation at the bar of
the plaintiff's coffee-house. Evidence was gone
into as to the amount of the defendant's income,
the greater part of which appeareti to arise from
his office of Collector of the Property Tax, about
to expire ; but Lord ELLEN2oRovOti thought this
an imusaterial inquiry ; for the maxim of :awavas,
he who. could .not pay in his purse must pay in
his person." .The Jury found for the plaintiif—
'Damages 3001, „ ,