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THE ICING v. ARTHUR SEAL

The Defendant was undet recognizance to appear
.at the 'i'rial : he was called, bit( not appearing, his
recognizance was ordered to be entreated. The
Cause was then tried, It was an indidment for a
Libel published in the way of an Hand-bill, for the
purpose of being distributed, &c. complaining of
the War, &c. &c. and finding fault with all the
proceedings of Government, &e. &c. with a view
to traduce and vilify it, &c.

This Defendant was also found guilty/.

CONSPIRACY.

THE KING V. LOCKER AND OTHERS♦

Mr. ABBOT opened the pleadings in this Case:
he said this was an information filed by His Ma.
jesty's Attorney General, of which the following
was the substance :
The first count stated, that John Locker, of Ted.
•dington, yeoman; John Locker Wainwright, of the
same place, yeoman i - and Isabella Wainwright, his
wife, on the est of August last, conspired with
others to inveigle, and clandestinely to take away
Mary Pearce, an illegitimate daughter of Thomas
Pearce, deceased, being a virgin, unmarried, and
being under the age of twenty-one years, viz. of the
age of nineteen years, and entitled to a large reel and
personal estate of the value of is,oool. and upwards ;
and being under the custody and guardianship of John
Cruchfield and John Emmett, and living in the
dwelling house, and under the protettion of the said
John Cinchfieid, and to procure her to be married
to the Defendant, John Locker, in a secret and
cllndestine manner, without the knowledge, and
ageibst the consent of her Guardians, he the said
John Locker being a person of low and mean con-
dition ind circumstances. That in pursuance of this
Conspiracy, the Defendant on the 7th of August,
against the and without the consent of the
Guardians, enticed and inveigled the said Mary
: That the said John
Pearce to deb art clan.lesiirie4,
L, eker, and Isabella WainsYright, on the evening
of the said yth of August, went iii at post-chaise to
TeddlegTon, where the said Mary Pearce Was, and
took and carried her away to Gretna Green in Scot-
land, where Ole :tele married to the 'said John
Locker, and irtt they were afterwards married in
the perise al Saint Luke, in the county of Middle-
sex, eithout tar knowoelge arid consent and against
the will of her Gaard;ans ; they, the said Delete.
darts, knowing that she was an infant, and entitled
to such real and personal estate ; and that the said
John Locker was a person of low and mean condi-
tion and circumstances, in contempt, &c. and
against the peace, &c.
The second Count differel from the first only by
stating, that Mary Pearce had no father or mother
living, without calling her an illegitimate child.
The third and fourth Counts differed from the
others only by omitting to describe the Defendant,
John Locker, as a person of mean circumstances.
The Defendants had pleaded Not Guilty, upon
which issue was joined.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL opened the case for
the Prosecution. This, he said, was an informa-
tion filed against the three Defendants, Mr. John
Locker, the uncle, Mr. John Locker Wainwright,
the nephew, and Mrs. Isabella Wainwright, his
wife, and it was a case which, unless' he fleceived
himself very much, the Jury would think deserving
of their very serious attention, and which the Court
would think also deserving of very severe punish.
ment in the event of convklion. The law of all
countries he believed, the law certainly of this
c mintry applying itself to the infirmities and wants
of our nature, is careful in proteeting those who
are most in need of protection ; and with this view
it was a part of the system of our law, and the
law of all well regulated societies, that persons who
are either disabled altogether from ailing for them.
selves, without the advice, superintendence, or con.
trot of others, are to be prote&ed by others, and
especially by the law. Upon this principle an in-
fant is held by the law incapable of making aey
contra} except for his own benefit and security :
in general the law affords him protedion even
against his own contracts, unless for his own ad.
vantage, and decleres, that if he does enter into
any contrad, not for his own advantage, that con.
tra& is void, that is, it cannot be enforced against
him while he is an infant, nor afterwards when he
comes to maturity, if he clauses to object to it.
Thus stood the law ; but there are contraeas against
which even an infant can have no security against
the effetft of them, nor shall even the infant be at
liberty to disiolve them, and con!raets of that na-
ture involved in them those points which are most
interesting to the welfare and happiness of human
life. Of that description was the contract of mar.
riage, a contract into which it might be extremely
interesting for a person to enter, though in infancy;
that is, it might be extremely interesting and bene.
ficial for an infant to enter into marriage, if dis-
creetly chosen by a person of mature sand steady
understanding, and 'it might he a great disappoint-
ment to the expeaation of happiness of a minor
to be prevented, in some of these cases, from en_
teeing into marriage. But, on the other hand,
nothing could be more fatal than the marriage of an
infant, or indeed of any body, if 'entered into in-
discreetly and imprudently. If infants did this
without being under the proteftion, or ading under
the advice of their parents, or did it without the
superintendance of some person of discretion, if
they happened to have considerable fortunes, as this
-Young Lady 'had, they would hold forth an in vita.

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' tion to the avarice of th,eworiii, anti so ti y mere
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to,fall into hands who won:a them into
tiistress, and r-rhaps misery, for the rest at their
lives : With this view the law proh:hited the mar-
riage of an infant without the consent of parents or
guardians, or without a course being taken whiel
would give the parents or guardiani notice of the
intended marriage. The charge against these De-
fendants was, that they conspired among them.
•selve's. Intending to effea', •and haVi,ag effected by
conspiracy, the marriage of this infant, Mary
Pearce, to the Detendant, John Locker, without
the consent of her guardians. That was the offence
which was charged against the Defendants. The
aggravation of that olfenceOike the aggravation of
all other offences, depended on the. circumstances
under which the offence was cotrnitted, and the jury
would find them abundant in this case. They would
find it a case Which called for the peculiar animal_
version of the'CoUrt and Jury. They would judge
of the wickedness of it by the mischief likely to
be effeeted by it, and aggravated extremely by-
the disparity of ages and fortunes of the parties
between whom the marriage was eontrafted ; they
would find it particularly aggravated by the mo.
tives that gave it birth, and die manner in which
it was effefted. It would be his bbsiness to stare
shortly to the Jury these circumstances of aggrava.
tin tr.

The Defendant, Mr. John Locker, the circum-
stances of whose marriage with this infant were now
under consideration; was the uncle of the other De-
fendant, John Locker Wainwright ; John Locker
Wainwright, therefore, was his nephew; Isabella
Wainwright was the wife of John Locker Wain-
wright, and she was the widow of the father of the
infant, Mr. Thomas Pearce, a very reSpedable
brewer, who had carried on trade in Milbank-street,
Westminster, who by industry in business had ac-
quired a very considerable fortune, indeed a very
large one : he left it, however, all, or almost all,
between his two illegitimate children, of Whom this
young lady was one. His real estate, however, did
not pass by this will, but went to the heir at law,
because he had suffered a recovery of that after the
execution of his will: Yet the personal property,
which certainly and indisputably did pass by his
will, went to these children, and that amounted to
30,0001. and upwards ; so that this young Lady,
who was entitled to a moiety of it, would have at
least 15,0001. vhen she came of age. He appointed
Mr. Cruchfield Of Teddington, and Mr. Emmett,
of St. Alban's, executors of his will, and guardians
of these his children. Perhaps • the Jury might
know that it was nut competent to a father to make
guardians for his natural children, but the Court of
Chancery had the power of appointing such guar-
dians, and it was pretty much of course for that
Court to confirm the guardianship of those who were
named in the father's will, unless some objeetion ap-
peared to that appointment. Here the Court of
Chancery had done Sc) by approving and confirming
of these Gentlemen as the guardians of these infants.
The father, he thought, died in November, 1802 ;
at an early period of that year he married a Miss
Murray. He should say nothing respelling Miss
Murray, or any body, but what arose out of the
Case now before the Jury. Mr. Pearce died in No-
vember, rBo2 ; Miss Pearce, whose marriage was
she subject of the present Trial, resided with her
father's widow for some rime after his decease, upon
the premises where the father had lived, and the
Executors and Guardians 'were not aware of any
irelpropriety in permitting her to continue under
the patronage of her mother-in-law, if indeed she
might now, with any propriety of language, be so
called; but after they found she had married the
Defendant, Mr. John Locker Wainwright, they
had reason to be convinced of the impropriety of
suffering her to have the care of this young Lady,
in consequence of which Mr. Cruchfield, who lived
at Teddington, took Miss Pearce to his house, and
placed the boy, her brother, at school a little way
off. This young girl had not been long at the house
of her Guardian, before there were sent to her a
packet of letters, and there was between her and
Mr. and Mrs. Wainwright a perpetual correspon.
dente, and this raised the suspicion of Mr. Cruch.
field, the Guardian, and he examined one of these
letters before it was delivered to Miss Pearce, and
took a copy of it. This was a letter written to
Miss Pearce by Mr. Locker Wainwright, the De-
fendant, evidently for the purpose of preparing her
mind to the appointment of a Guardian of her own
choice, until she should become of age—and that
was not to be Mr. Locker Wainwright himself, or
his wife, who had had for some time the care of this
young Lady, but, of all the persons in the world,
she was advised to seleet Mr. John Locker, .the
person who afterwards ran away with her, as the
only fit person for that trusty office. Thus they
deluded this weak young. creature to appoint this
man her Guardian ; they sent her a letter which
they desired her to copy with her own hand, which
she did, directing an Attorney to apply on her be-
half to the Court of Chancery, to have Mr. John
Locker appointed her Guardian. At this time the
Court of Chancery had not appointed any Guardian
for this young Lady, and therefore she had no Guar-
dian who had any power by law, because being an
illegitimate child, her father's appointment -of a
Guardian for her by his will, had no force in
law, until such appointment was sannioned by
the approbation of a Court of Equity. The De.
fendants were about to apply to have this appoint..
ment of Guardian, for Mr. John Locker, the De,
fendant ; but before that could be done, the real
Guardians applied to the Court for the confirmation
of their appointment ;'but before that could be effect.
ed also, the Defendants had So worked upon the mind
of this young girl, that as her brother came from
school, she asked leave to walk out, and having ob.
tainedit, she eloped from the house of Mr. Crush_
field, at Teddington, and went to Richmond, where
Mr. and Mrs. Wainwright had taken lodgings, and
where Mr. John Locker alio was, and which lodg-
ings were taken, probably,' to facilitate the elope..
ment of this young girl, for it was only three miles
from Teddington, where she was at her Guardian's
house ; this was on the 31st of July. Mr. Crock-
field, upon this, lost no time in making two api.li_
cations to the Cow of Chancery : the one before
the MASTER of the ROLLS, to have his appointment
of Guardian confirmed ; and another to the Log D
CHANCELLOR' for an Order fur the produ.dion of

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eiee : eee
this young Letiy Cotfrt; c_ r.: c, ceex.e eeepeee
tip lis succeeded, for she was a Wa;-(1 of tkr:2 Conti of
Chancery. At?.cordiogly the three Defe,,ntlanta ap.;
peittedbefore the CtiA/,-;CELLOR on the 6:11 of kig.
and prodUced the young girl in Court, on which
occasion his Lordship gave the Defendants, as might
litire been expefted; a suitable admonition not la
interfere any further with this young Lady, but to
let her go to her Guardian, and to let her remain
under his care ; and also, as might have been ex..
petted from his Lordship, he gave them a very
friendly and kind caution about their future c )ndu.:l,
informing them of the consequence of their dis_
oliedlence to the law, which he explained to them
in this ease, so that they were totally without ex.
ruse. His Lordship told them very plainly what
they ought to do, and what they ought not to do,
and at what peril it was if they should not follow
his admonition. The young Lady was then de..
livered to her guardian, Mr. Cruchfield. This
was on the 6th of August last. As they were go.
ieg out of Lincoln's. Inn Hall, where this took
place, Mr. Locker spoke to Miss Pearce aside, and
Mr. Locker Wainwright asked permission for Mrs.
Wainwright to visit Miss Pearce, at the House of
Mr. Cruchfield, which Mr. Cruchfield thought
proper, and therefore refused. The child was then.'
carried to the house of her guardian, Mr. Cruch.
field, at Teddington. On the 7th of August, the
very next day, the subject matter of all this com-
plaint in the information took place, namely, the
elopement, The Defendant, Jahn Locker, who
had bee% at the lodgings of his nephew at
Richmond, during the latter part of this time, and
who had been thereto meet Miss Pearce, on her first
arrival on the gtst of July, came and slept there
frequently : on the 7th of August, he and Mr.
Locker 'Wainwright ordered a post-chaise to be got
ready to take him, Mr. John Locker, and his party
in the evening. Mr. Locker went to the inn with
his nephew, Mr. Locker Wainwright, and was ex.
tremely anxious to have the driver lie had been used
to have, and gave the other post...boy two shillings
to give up his turn to the other driver, whom Mr.
Locker liked best. Mr. John Locker spent the
wholelf the day of the 7th of August with his
nephew, Mr. Locker Wainwright, and his wife,-
Mrs. Wainwright, Mr. Locker and Mr. Wain.
Wright came together and took the pest-chaise,
and prevailed on the driver to take with him,
on the frame of the carriage, a ladder, for
the purpose of. facilitating the escape of Miss
Pearce over the wall of her Guardian's gardari,
which she was to step upon out of the summer-
house, and go into a field which led into the road,
and from which she might soon gain Bushy-Park
gate, where the 'Ost.cla4ise was to be ready to
take her up. Accordingly the post-chaise was taken
about eight at night, brought to the door of Mr.
Wainwright, where Mrs. %.(l.sintvrig,hr and her ser-
vant, Mary Cox, went into the pest chaise, together
with Mr. John Locker, the Dzfendant. Mrs.
Wainwright was to soothe the young Lady, and
prevail upen her to be true ta her resolution, if
there shouid happen to be any difficulty starting in
her mind,en The sudden, and Mary Cox, the servant,
was to attend the parties to G,..etna-Green'. The post_
chaise filled, and the ladder being thus fastened to it,
a person of the name of Hewetsor was employed
to go with them on the outside for the purpose
of helping the lady
,over the wall, and when
that pan of the business was over, he was to return
with the ladder. The Post-boy was then ordered
to driVe to a place near Mr, Cruchfield'S house at
Teddington, where Miss Pearce then was.—They
went near to the wall of the garden of Mr. Cruch.
field ; when they got to the place Mrs. Wainwright
got out of the chaise, but Mr. Locker did not. fol.
low lest any one' should see them altogether and
suspicion should arise.—The chaise then was driven
to Bushy Park. Mrs. Wainwright brought the
young lady there, and Mary Cox walked there by
herself. Miss Pearce was then taken into the
chaise, and away it drove towards Richmond ; they
parted from Hewetson with his ladder, having no far.
ther occasion for him. They set down Mrs. Wain-
wright on the hridge,and she walked home to her hus-
band,• who did his part by getting ready the post.
chaise, and seeing all into it. The chaise was then
driven to London--stops in Windmill-street, where
another was taken—ordered to drive, and was ac.
cordingly driven to Barnet : from thence to a Gentle,
man's house in Leicestershire ; and from thence to
Gretna-Green, where Mr, John Locker and Miss
Pearce were married. They came h .ck to London, and
having put up Banns in the Parish Church of Saint
Luke, which were publi.hed on the 7th, 14th, and
21st of August—so. that the Banns were running on
I,vhfie they were running off; they were married
here according to the rites of the Church of Eng.
land, and then 01.7 went to the' house of Mr. and
Mrs. Wainwright, where they were received as
they expeeted. Mary Cox accompanied them taro'
the whole of the scene to Scotland, where she saw
them married, and back again. The parties were
afterwards apprehended.

These the ATTORNEY GENERAL said, were the
circumstances of this most atrocious case. He had
laid before the Jury the outline; of it, which if dc.
tailed as he had opened, t..,7 would see it was as
plain a case ci conspitetcy to betray this young
girl, and to get her married to this Defendant, as
ever came before a Court of justicc. Now in order
to shew the baseness of this conspiracy, it was not
necessary that he should say much : the leading
features of it are : first, that one of the Defendants
in this vile scheme was the widow of the father of
this child, she it was, who having hastily married
Mr. Wainwright, thought proper to assist in inveig_
ling her, and in recommending her to marry a man
of no less an age than 64. If this woman had any
feeling of gratitude about her, she would have re.
membered that her husband, the father of this child
was the person who enabled her to live as she now
did in affluence, Pad therefore she ought to have a feel.
ing of affedion for his child, but she had betrayed this'
child, and given her up for the base purpose of
Satisfying the sordid a ,arice of an old man, who was
re;uesen!ed to him to be as low in circumstances as
unfit in point of age, to be the husband of tliis
woman ; she ought to have been the guardian .Thd
pr ueetor of this unhappy girl, who had been hua
co:npleteiy sacrificed to the artifice of these three
vile and sordid eonspirators. The aggravation of
the Cd5C of Isabella Waiawriht, therefore, was too

IORNEY GEN ER:/k1 with instructions in :this case.—
, The fan was, that Mr. Locker was a Gentleman who
Ng:lately, come yornAreland on public business re.
lative to ;the P;Ter,-Currency of Iteland ; u as a man
. of fortune, at least equal to that. of ,this young
Lady;s6 that Ile was at leasrin equal match for
her,• and therefore that the averment in the infor—
. !nation., that,he was a man of low andmean condi.
tion, would be falsified.--.lf therefore the Jury
should' he of opinion that Mr. Locker's Addresses
were sufficiently agreeable to this young Lady to
have induced her ±c. (1T with him, had none of the
other Defendants apre.:ted to aid him at all, this
could be no C,,nspiracy, and.the Defendants would
be entitled ti) be acquitted. •
The Right Hon. John Foster, late Speaker of the
House of-Commons in Ireland, pruved he knew Mr.
Locker, and considerril him as a perlealy respediable
man. He was recnved in the genteel circles in
Dublin, and considered as a person of property . 7.••••
He had dined at the table of this Right Hors. Gen.
tlem,iii.more than once.
"I!,e Hon. Mr. Pole, brother to the Marquis of
Welleqley, proved that Mr. Lnckrr held a con.
bitletable tarn!. nutlet the Marquis by lease--had
raja op all the arrears of it about the tittle he rtr
from his interest, in the property of it.
Richard Ashley, 'Esq. a Gentleman of fortune in
Lzicester-hie, gave an account I.f property which
Mr. Lut*ei- said he possessed it. Ireland, to the
amount of about to,occ:sl. but be took this from the
'represewat ion. of Mr. I,,,ckei. himself, lie not know.
ing whether it was incurnlicHd or nor.
Mr. Elt:K INE, no behalf of the other Defend.'
ants, "made an , able speeuh,,and: adcpted the' scope
-of defence opened by- hit Learned Friend Mr.
BURRIOUGHS.—He.said, that the parties were all in
one baik,•and must sink or swim tcgether,all de.
fended :by diffcrent • Counscl.7-1-iptvevr immoral'
the condua of the Defendant Mr:Locker mighthe,
and no one tilfoight of -it with inure. disapprobation
than himself, yet.-,urtiess this, was a conspiracy,
as stated in this info'rniaiion, it was nothing ; and,
therefore, the Defendants inti3t be all acquitted. He
propw,ed examine Miss Pearceolow,Mts..Locker,
to one Let only,,and i,itbn,ittcd that she was :a wit-
ness; because she was the only wityless. Who could
pr,,Te !hat fact, namely, that she consented to, go
with t.,stentleman; anti was not at ail forced , or
enticed awry. She was ready to do this on account
of Mrs. Wainwright, for whom she ret-iired
diminished affe6tion ; not that she wished to screen'
het husband, for that she had ton much reason to he
satisfied that her fortune was the only. attra63ion to
him. '
Lord ELLENBOROUGIi held it to be clear that, by

• •iNfi'BRIAL DECLARATION TO THE bIET.
11 The numerous infiiniements which, since the
ocinpatiob of the eOuntriesaNigned as indemnities,
have been made by several States of 'the Enipirc, in
the tights and the immediacy of the Equestrian Or.
"der and its Members, Iwie for a long time excited
rheattention of Gerrmity.,
" His IMPERIAL. MAI ESTY) as Supreme Chief of
the'EMpire, and'agreeably to the obligatirid,uhder
which be lies to'inaintain the decrees of she Diet,
as well as order-and tranquility, has already endear
voured, as is well known, by paternal exhortations;
. to put a-stop tq measurei contrary to the state cf
possession, and to the laws which have been spur.
sues in 'te ari.l to the Equestrian Order, and its
ivatriler7, and tore-establish' things on their 'legal
footi-4, Theie efforts of His IMPERIAL ;VIA.
siisTY have not produced that circa which he had
a right th expect. The infringements, on the 'cor.
trary, have beCome more general and more oppres..
sive, and the consequence in the interior of thegni.
pire has been events which,must'lietessarily endan:.
get the public tranqpility, and bring an a'l4olal,:_
,prersion'of the Equestrian Order ; the elits crrc 'and
rights ofwhich are, however, equal to those of all
'the .SYatis of the Empires and haie .beeri secured as
welt as the Constitution itself; by" the Peace of
Westphalia, by the old and new decree? of the
Diet, and particularly by the last decree of,
the
-Empire.
" At the request of the General•Diree.lor,.. of ;the
Equestrian Order in the Aulie Council, of the Ern-
-
pile, as a Constitutionil authority, there was issued,
on the 231 of January, by this Supreme Tribunal, a
-conserrriatorion, for the prbtcttio'n of the 'Equei.
trian Order against allieneroaclunents, which might
iri future be attempted, an.l,for the re-establishment
of that Order in the State
vin which it was before
the occUpation'of the countries assigned as inclem.
- ,
nities. The execution, of, this sentence is referred
to the Eleaor, the Areli.Chfincellor, the Electors
Gf Siiicony and. Baden, and to his Imperial Majesty
himself, in his quiliry of Archduke of Austria, with
- she clause, each individually, and all colledively.
'1,11,1F E RIAL MAJESTY, in his .quality as a
State of the Empire, is, animated with a sincere 'de-
sire of contributing, according io, his strength, to
the'mainteilanee of justice in the Empire, as well as
of the public safety and tranquillity, and of the se.

'DEbLARATION OF :HIS PRUSSIAN MAJESTY.
" Majesty the K.-ing, of Paussr A has, 91)-
served withlattention and interest die events which
have taken plaCe for some, time past in . several
parts' of the Empire and in the heart .of Germany,
in, regard to the possessions oi the Members of the
Equstrian Order. It wiruld have been of great
advantage if ir. the.,eects of the Deputation the
Empire it had been possible to establish a regula-
tion or fixed rule for., ensuring .the (Mute relations
()f. the Equestrian Order, in a manner. 'so as, to re_
*. coneile a.,tegard`fot the rightS.ofail with the new
Sito:ttien
.of
,things, the new wants, and the real
~,goccl9l the Einpire,
" If .the Ecclesiastical States secularised have
passed. into the hands of new possessors, r:ul only
with the rights really exercised, but also with
their:pretensionse and if these Governments, 'for-
merly ecclesiastic aceording to their nature and or.
ganization, 'and according to the interest, merely
personal, of their :Sovereigns,, can
have,,' seen with inJifference the elfotts of the
Equestrian Order to extend its territorial inde.
penden.Ce, andiits_ iminediacy,the new possessors as
'sovereign and hereditary- Lies, may .have brought
them new interests, and may have considered
things uncier a different point of view. They must
and ought to have found, themselves differently
obliged to'claim rights.; which might be.considered
as real and ancient integrant parts of their share of
the indemnity ;could riot he mrenkened
but by negligenceiled by encroachments, made at a
former period. Aroused by :such an event, the
other possessors of the ancient lay countries, where
similar relations, equally hurtftil to their rights
and.ro their :.administration existed, have begun
to bring forsyarAs their pretensions. Hence it hao
happePJA that almost at, the same time
,sever,al of
it c most distinguished States or ;he Empire, such as
the GiLs3os of BAVARIA, the Prince of FULDA,
the Eleetor, of I#ssE'i the Landgrave of liEsss
I)AitsisTADT,, ,the. Duke Of SAxtrMipi. erNoitg,
and .other Princes, have all,-tended to the , same
objet., These Princes have formed claims to 1-'O4
~4n s .lands of the Equestrian-Order lying
within their territory, or situated On their fron,
tier's, hotPlecause these possessionS fPrrnerly made
an integrant part of their countries,_ and because
they are still in relation with the latter by their
gec,gtaphical position, by the Fetidal -Law, by the
ciutirs and rights ofjurisdidion,, and other connect
dons, ; which, as, ancient sources, must still be Con-
sidered as indications-of sovereignty,.. They have
consequently thought themselves authorised to re.;
piace under their Sovereignty these: places and
lands, arid to cause to be announced -by patents
the possession they have taken of them, and tose-
cure a part of them by sending thither. 'mil/till
detachnients. • Hitherto no uniform and certain
principles have been establi'shed'or followed e, and
not only have contestations arisen among , the sot
vereigns and persons of the Equestrian Order, who
have been exposed to encroachments ; but duff!.
.rences -have broken out between one sovereign ar,d
another, in regai'd to the limits of Their, respettive
territorial, jutiwiidions. A jueldical
,exminat,io9
and instruction in-regard to.thisobjta.hiiv.ttit.been
insuffiCient, .bec,-;t1?:c the organization"Ott4 eitslep
is not yet conti:!e'ted.; the .question is to,..knovii
ss4iether or in what manner the Tribunal; of the
Er:vireotight to', interfere in this affair?, The whop
Germanie_ body participates in the regret , eixeited
by this state o::"._t:iings,, and .by. the anarchical, cefsis
which threatens, in so great.a number of places,,the
property and su'ojeas of the Empire. . If every (21.)r
ii cooviliceti thawhis crisis cannot be along; dura-
tion, bilt.,lllAt measures, ought speedily, to be taker
t I put an end to it, it is the more indispensably nte-
cdssary.to think of the means.of accomplishing t.hiS
end ; the aiFair has become too -important and Job
general to be discussed by the Tribunals of the .Em_
Dire. It cannot be dissembled, that in, the state in
which_ the affairs of the Empire are al present, the
diip,e,ifions of these tribunals.-would ne,ver, operate
„but, in a partial manner, and would never be ar4,
thing but palliatives. The collisions. in question
are, indeed, too complex, and too extensive; ther
Lead too, immediately to gekral complaints on, the
part of the States; they, are even too intimately'
cnnnecaed with the affair of the indemnities, and
they hayestill too much, need of general principles,
well determined, and which may accord, with, the
situation of the Empire, for a jpridical proce-
dure to be Proper and:sufficient..

LON DON'. Printed by P.1.1C I; A NAN M'IVIILLAN, (orBovyTTS treei, Covent-Garden); and Publiibed by 1,4/1.i.:.; Alt 4 M Scitxrps,(qf South 14101xon-
At the Suri-Or VICS, No. i 12, Strand; where ifthrrtitrrnents, Orders ibr the .Paper, Letisrs'ivi.ohe Editor, &c, (post.taid'ia Emu

which was attributed to the eLftzel it the inti at
s,--
; f',
instruments.—But it has since been kbown t3i,fice'
1 the same hour (seven iti,ilie"eveningr, a like lienit
1 inomenon was observed at Rotterdam, Of fiLese
t Schiedam, and Aaasslais. In the litst of ,dl6
4, cities., the chandeliers of the Refortned'aoc",i, 0
in motion during the time of 1)i-virte Service; pee
to be frequently removed 'between two and 10'
-fee6from their usual position. . The aldirettion riot,
: motion was frotti west' *tj cast. After the Inc it
,had '.been '-forcibly stopped during ten minitteti,t;lo
,recornMerced, but' was, not quite so pereellig 11.
' This. extraordinary event so' greatly' terrilot yr;
gi, 'congregation',
_that the greater part- took to doll, i
and. the preachers being left nearly alone, fon. Ili°
self under -the necessity of .abruptly fioishinioqyc;
sermon. The "cause of this phtenoinenon is nof
.$° i
ascertained. It „i$ :attributed( to the shocks 04 1
earthquake. ''ltis relnernbcred that the-sion'Ao iis i
,took,:plaee, at. tile.!(411; of the great earthqu- ;.,
,i.ii:sbon.-. ,-- .:. ,; • 0
de ',7
c
,
I'w 0 .individu'als ,ir :
'n-' ve); '
org‘a‘ni:gt7disehro;,ll
and- Rotterdam,
let, between fitt'edayrk,
ast:erbtyalso felt by persons to to-.
-seas ‘ on the Meese lind ,the.Schie were rariv" stale°.
the sarne 01(4" -.Letters from *Bois It D,,tiet Cirff
that the 'O,-ie 6.1 shocks were felt In 411,114e'
-which coul-IstiN,'<be•attributed to an tarn''loll:
The brass chandeliers, in the church of '''' r, J'e
~were' ,agi.qted. ,in ,a very surprising Ina°l-ei, o'er
.vl_3ll of the -klt:diens several of the Uto/31
9VertUttled."
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—the ilkhgrAa.„„—:-=•••• for I)o4in ;,.I(o‘riel ,Or
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J Eirtbdihrl:.—Pwc.,f.lbroddl, Degg'er; and !WI& .:...,_2
.7_-_,..., for AruStectioo. :, r,:,,,, ,
—7 -, 7-710 ' i .
tpizE/43is
d
On Sunday morning last, at Sictm o!itP, th' tt.°/tlic 1.51 j
noel Mai-cliant, oiie-ot 1-112 s lk,-Idlcisty's totin..dl ok,'.. • ori
"oil Aiiiiktia.- - 'l' - •., , ' . ' .' • • . .
or 'Os ep
On Monday the z7.t.-11 inst. Mary, the daughter' ;_ .f6'
Bury,' lisg. et his rnotliers 'house at WaltiLtaisto"', ~err
aged sixteen ..,.,ars.... ''' =. ' ' . ' ik,,' -Cllcrly° .
-Yest-erday morning,'atthig house, •Chrlne-wa' tbrilr
,in the gotll year oi'll..s ;igen,' asper Atkinson, ES4V '
e,,ItIP
IS:l.tchant at Rotterdain.
of 1115'35 ' dr
t:ately',44t PentOnville, in the 34th ,ear , 4,0
Mark Anthony .I.3..cyroux allative of Switzer-13-11"ic' lit' ,
.0n the' z all snit, at.:BaLenAlaig, near Pin,g '
~,:ift
?.irs. Nlorialty, ‘.viti: OGRea-Adiniral M'oriarty• ham-cu
~,, i
On Friday last, Mr. Gevard, Su ri;uli, of 'l.' ott!tt' ' 011 •
• 1 vill,
►' road, fonnerly'pl Turrtlmm.grest . -,•.• 'Bo A.?,
, Th..... sacliday,,at
,t he oval, Kennington, iwlts" sc-
of Mr. Benjamin Bovill, tun. ' ' - ,t,;clk,,V4
^if
!.- -Lately, at his -irons; Chatini..Cross,' Mt. '''' be, nil
Grocer; aged pearly 64 years. . %.,'..--.'tj;. li'''t
On the 25111 of December, .at Si, PetersbtirVr.olt• oc:f glO
year a his iige,"'Williain C,,0.7, Esq. thi,..°4 ,seral ji,
Cayley, Esq. late Flis Matejiy's Consul Gel' ,g r
Idle r t
place. ' .
the ties ~ 4,
On the middle passage from Africa to ttle • Om".
P. Bogle, of the ship Princess Amelia. he rlcrOr
--• Ori the 3rst of December last, on board of t, , pill
.se, Lieutenant Joseph Langston, of the Royal." . 1
son of Mr. John Langston, of Alicester,

-street, Grosvenor-square;;
it be addfcised.