The Sun.
London, England, 1804-11-05 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nor. 3.

THII LORD CHANCELLOR sat till; near three
o'clock, hearitig Petition; in c.inse._

An ApplicatiOta was made by Mr. Pweat, ftir
love to issue A Writ of Ne Exeat Reggio, to restrain
a West,lndia Merchant, 'nt cOnsiderable meteantile
dealings, from .leparting the realm. Thi giound iif
the Motion a-as),,that the person against whom it
:was to be direttediniended to quit the Country,
without providing rur the payntent of his debts 4
but the only inference of that .fad was the belief ut
the parties Who made the Affidavit. They stated,
that they had heard, and they believed, he was go.
ing beyond seas, The LORD CHANCEI.I.OI üb.
served, 'that unless the allegation was positively
swam to, lie could:not restrain any 'man from go.
ing where he pleaSed. The Motion for the Writ
was refused.

The Court was engaged nearly the•whole of the
morning in determining a question tiiinn the con.
struaion Of the will of the late Duke ofNeweitstic's
mother.in.law. The testatrix had left a very con.
siderable legacy to the Duke's younger children, by
his wife, her daughter. It happened that the elder
son.died, and: the next• in point of years took his
The!question was, whether the eon, who,
at the time of .making the will, was one of the
younger children, lost his right to a share of the le.
gay, by becoming. the oldest, after his eider bro_
thet,'s death? I his Lordship decided that he was not
-entitled; and directed the legacy to be divided, per•
catita, among the. younger. children.
A Petition is before the Court, in the matter of
Dombell's Bankruptcy, the size and weight of which
exceeds the largest folio Bible.

The late marvellous account of the invisible
ageney in the house at Sit% stop, by which, if any
lady enter, shi is said, to return with tattered gar.
.rents, can find a parallel only in theaciount of a
'MOM liberal phantom, which almut 40 years ago
Occupied an 'old house in Whitefriars, Chester,
where'll uny km de entered with a rent 111 her
.gown, an invisible hand was sure to sew it up!
The tradition still exists in that city, that a temp.
Stress had beenl murdered, in the house alluded to,
and • who for years made an 'invisible use of 'her
needle with uncommon dexterity.
Nothing 'can be more grateful to the friends of
Humanity 'than the informati4n which we receive,
from' time to time, 'respelling the progrtss of in.
struaion in the.vilst RUS'liato Empire. The Supe.
riurs of several litsilian Monasteries have engaged
for themselves anti their successors, to pay c anti.
&rabic sums out of their revenues for the ereaion of
schoo:s .in their respective dioceses. M. Sews*.
Gm 4 has presented the Institute of Public Instruc.
lion, at St.
,Petersiturgh, with a Cabinet of Mine.
rats, colleaed by himself. The Emperor has order.
,the revenues of the City of Tschernigow to be
appropriated to the • ere Lion and maintenance of
Useful Institutions in that. place. In consequence.
of which, a house for the education of fifty orphans,
anti another for the instrutlion of 408 scholars in
mechanical arts, have already been opened. At

Odessa 'a commercial 66(44 has been lately esta.
Sr. Peterhburgh Free S.)ciety of the
Lovers of Literature, Science, and Art, have pub.
lishe,l the first volume of their Transaetiops, which

contains the regulation: of their Society,_its tram-

adtons diving the first two years, and produdions of
various Writers in prose and verse. At Moscow
poles* than four peril dical works have, in a very
short space of 1 iUtr, mule their appearance. The
follawing.are the respeCtive tides :—.Novelties of
Russian Literature, Pyilidgnrits, The Political Jour.
naf, and the
.Lover's .At Kaloga another
peritidical wort: has been established, entitled Urania.
Sa,utdety a nun named Willimus was sent (ram
the Marlb,irough.street Poliee.Qffice to Bridewell,