The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-10 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY COURT, JUNE 8.

THE RELIANCE—IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.
This was a question as to the validity of a bot-
tomry bond, and the decision of the Learned Judge
is of considerable importance to those engaged in
mercantile and shipping affairs. The Reliance
left London in November, 1827, for Calcutta.
Captain Hayes, her master, had a letter of credit on
Gilmore and Co, of Calcutta, for 1,0001., which the
master was directed to lay out in the purchase of
goods, should he not get a full freight back to Lon-
don. The only power left to the Captain was, that
in the event or the Burmese war breaking out, he
might engage her as a transport in the service of the
East India Company. The ship arrived at Cal-
cutta in May, 1828, and was placed under the
agency of Gilmore and Co. She was freighted to
the Mauritius with rice, from whence she proceeded
to Van Diemen's Land with sugar, returned to Cal-
cutta, was again freighted, and took trips to Arra-
can, the Mauritius, &c., Messrs. Gilmore making
advances, and taking freights, agency, costs, &c. In
the mean time, the owners had sent out a letter,
disapproving of the conduct of Captain Hayes, and
directing him to return home in ballast if he could
not get a cargo, but was afterwards despatched to
the Mauritius, &c. The vessel had been absent
from her owners three years, and at length Messrs.
Gilmore obtained a botiomry bond on the vessel for
1,000/., the validity of which was opposed.
Sir J. NICIIOLL said the captain had no powers
to bind the ship, no case of necessity having ex-
isted to authorize him to do so. For the general
interests of commerce masters, should have power
in extreme cases, when from accidents or other
causes they could make their home voyage without
advances. In the present case Ito such necessity
existed, and it was his duty to pronounce against
the validity of the bond and dismiss the suit with
costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

On Saturday Lord Glengall, accompanied by
the Marquis of Westmeath and two other gentle-
men, came to the Mansion-house for the purpose of
having the charge made by Dorah Butler against
him investigated. His Lordship evidently laboured
under extreme indisposition. Mr. Adolphus at-
tended upon the part of his Lordship.
The LORD MAYOR—There is a correspondence
between Mr. Rowley, Lord Glengall's solicitor, and
Mr. Smith, the vestry clerk of Whitechapel, on the
subject of the application of that parish to his Lord-
ship. It is rather extraordinary that to the last two
or three applications of Mr. Smith to Mr. Rowley
no answer was returned.

Mr. Rowley (as our reporter understood him)
said that he acted upon the conviction that there
was not a syllable of truth in the statement of the
female, and that any further notice of her or her ap-
plication would have been quite superfluous.
Mr. Adolphus—Did she not say that she acted as
midwife to herself, even in the street, and that she
immediately rose and walked off with her child from
the east end to the west end of the town?

Mr. Smith—So I was informed by our parish
officers.

Mr. Adolphus—lt is the first time such an affair
has occurred since the days of Yarico, ho delivered
herself of a mud-coloured baby by the side of a pool
of wafer, in which she washed it, and afterwards
washed herself.—(A laugh.) I wish Mrs. Dorah
Butler would favour us with her presence.
The LORD MAYOR-1 have, I declare, taken
great pains to investigate the circumstances of the
accusation, and I put a variety of questions to her,
for the purpose of ascertaining whether she
was telling truth. She told me that she saw you
at your house in the Regent's-park, and I find that
you had a house there.
Lord Glengall—l have not the most remote idea
who or what this woman is.
The LORD MAYOR—It is evident that she knows
your Lordship, if you do not know her.
Mr. Adolphus—No doubt of it. The poor Irish
know the persons of their countrymen who are high
in rank and station ; it is a necessary consequence of
an eminent position in society.
A friend of Lord Glengall—A woman swore two
children to me in Ireland. She swore that I went
to her in disguise in the Lying-in Hospital, and I
had never in my life seen her, except once in my
capacity of magistrate, when she came to swear a
child before me to another man.—(A laugh.) I,
however, would not let her escape me. For the
sake of the public I prosecuted, and she had eighteen
months' imprisonment for the perjury.
The averment of Doral► Butler was then pro-
duced and read. It merely stated that Lord Glen-
gall was the father of her child, now three years old.
The LORD MAYOR—It is certainly odd that she
does not make her appearance.
The Vestry•clerk of Aldgate—She was seen on
Thursday last, but the beadle cannot now find her.
The woman in whose house she lodged is, however,
to be found.

The LORD MAYOR then sent for the landlady
spoken of, arid the following statement was made in
answer to questions from the Lord Mayor arid Mr.
Adolphus :—" I saw Dorah Butler on Tuesd iy last,
when she left her child with me and went out. She
slept with me that night, and told me that the

officers were after her, and Lord Glangall wanted to
take her up, and have her tried at Marlborough.
street, near his own place. She went out in the
morning, and on returning she wanted me to keep her
child. I told her that if she would not take the child
I would give her into the hands of the watch. That
frightened her, and she took the child and went
away. It was plain that she was afraid of the police.
She was an honest woman, and paid me punctually
whenever she got money. She gave me half of the
last shilling she had when she was going away. I
knew her about six or seven weeks, and she
used to go out and sometimes return with

money, but how she got it Ido not know. She
was frightened about the police officers, and
said that her sister lived on Lord Glen-
gall's estate, and she was afraid his Lordship would
turn the poor thing off on account of the exposure
that was made.

Mr. Adolphus rose, and, addressing the Lord
Mayor, said—" My Lord Glengall has, ever since
he learnt that the charge was brought against him,
felt the greatest anxiety to clear himself from the
imputation cast upon his character, and the moment
his health permitted him, came forward in his own
vindication. He has no knowledge of the person
who has brought forward the charge, and it is quite
obvious that her non-appearance is not attributable
to him or to Mr. Rowley. I have only to say that
his Lordship will be ready, should the Lord Mayor
consider any future investigation of this subject ne-
cessary, to appear and repel the accusation."
Lord Glengall and his friends then quitted the
justice-room.