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London, England, 1828-08-23 00:00:00

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

LIVERPOOL.

THURSDAY, Atfa. 21.—High water 31 min. past 9.
Wind W. S.W.—Arrived the Sceptre, Steward, from Ma-
caio ; Hebe, Field, from St. Petersburgh ; Elizabeth,
, from St. Domingo; Antje, De Vries, from Has-
lengen ; Dover, , from Boston; Malvina, Arm-
strong, from Maranham ; Lady Rowena, Pace, from Phila-
delphia; Lancaster, Csnnall, from Barbadoes ; Montgo-
mery, Sise, from New York.
CLEARED auxwattns—The Norval, Punton, for New-
foundland ; Maria, Wellis, Copenhagen ; Caroline Maria,
Schillen, Elsineur ; Friendschaft, Matchen, Bremen ;
Arentinra Hendrika, Wieland, Ostend ; Ann, Eakin, Per-
nambuco ; Fortitude, Thompson, Messina ; Blackstone,
Martin, Oporto.

DEVON.—The rapid improvements making
in the North of this county, with regard to the mails, are
much more than could have been expected. It is now
nearly eleven months since the Bristz,l and Barnstaple mail
started ; and over a new line of 241. miles, under all cir-
cumstances, no public conveyance ever kept better time.—
Within the last three weeks, in consequence of the im-
provement in the reads, they have left Barnstaple at six
o'clock in the morning instead of half-pact five, getting into
Bristol at five, us before.—On Tuesday last a new Mail
Coach left Barnstaple for Bideford, and another for Ilfra-
combe the next morning. It is reported that there will
shortly be a pair-horse mail-coach from Exeter to Tiverton,
Brampton, and Dulverton, which will he a great accommo-
dation to the inhabitants of those towns, as they will get
the Western letters three hours earlier than at present.—
The snail from London to Brampton, at half-past five, will
open a communication with Exeter morning anti evening,
which is much wanted.—Plymouth Journal.

THE HARVEST.—The weather has been so
much more settled during the last four -days, that the har-
vest has proceeded in a very favourable manner. Many
farmers have secured their wheat and barley in better con-
dition than, under all circumstances, could have been an-
ticipated ; this remark applies particularly to the neighbour-
hood of Kiddertvinster ; a great portion of the crop still re-
mains to be gathered in, and the harvest will certainly he a
very expensive one to the farmer; but present appearances
lead us to hope that the weather is taking up. It is far
from our wish to excite unfounded expectations; but the
opinion is very general, that, with the exception of the
grain which was lodged, the wheat and Harley crops are
not seriously injured, and that the skill and exertion of the
farmers may go far to counteract the effects of an unfavour-
able season. No doubt this district has suffered much, and
others (the West of England for instance) have suffer&l
inure ; but let us not look too much on the gloomy side of
things; despair never conquered a difficulty—while hope
inspirits us to exertion under the most untoward circum-
stances, and teaches us to look with confidence to that sure
promise—" While the earth remained), seed-time and har-
vest,
and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day,
and night, shall not cea5e."...... Worcester Journal.

Bushy-House, August 21.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence has this day
been pleased to appoint the Honourable Robert Cavendish
Spencer, Captain in the Royal Navy, to be Groom of the
Bedchamber to His Royal Highness.

Co►omissions in the Furnees Troop of Lancashire 'Yeomanry
Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County
Palatine of Lancaster.
William Posticthwaite, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated
July 22, 1828.
Henry Fell, Cent. to be Cornet. July 22.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
Robert Hawkins, Liverpool, provision•dealer. • •
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
Thomas Lancaster, .Leeds, ironmonger, from Aug. 26
to Sept. 20, at ten, at the Court-house, Leeds.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
William Hallett, partner with Charles Henderson,
Northumberland-street, Marylebone, money-scrivener.
James Spencer, Royton, Lancashire, cotton-spinner.
George Holbrook, Bristol, plane-Maker.
John Buckmaster and Wm. Buckmaster, Old Bond-
street, army-clothiers.
BANKRUPTS. _ _

John Webb, LittleWaruer-street, Clerkenwell, cheese-
monger, to surrender Aug. 29, Sept. 16, at twelve, and
Oct. S, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Church,
Great James-street, Bedford-row ; Pateshall and Bellamy,
Hereford.
Daniel James Humbert, Fuley-ittreet, Foley-place, coal-
merchant, Aug. 29, Sept. 16, at twelve, and Oct. 3, at
ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Constable and Kirk,
Symond's-Inn, Chalicery7lane.
Philip Crofton, Cromer-street, Brunswick-FA-pare, Mid-
dlesex, upholsterevAlig. 26, Sept. 16, and Oct. 3, at ten,
at the Court of Camissioners. Nias, Princes-street, Bank.

John Orth VraWeiler, Air-street, Piccadilly, victualler,
Aug. 26, Sept. 16, and Oct. 5, at ten, at the Court of
Commissioners. Vandercom and Comyn, Cannon-street.
_ _

Robert Lilley, Mile End-road, victualler, Aug. 26, Sept.
2, and Oct. 3, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.
Argill and Maddison, Whitechapel-road.
Benjamin Smith, Birmingham, steel toy-maker, Sept.
15, 16, at eleven, and Oct. 3, at one, at the Royal Hotel,
Birmingham. Norton and Chaplin, Gray's-Inn-square,
London ; Wills, Birmingham.
John Quick and Frederick James Chown, Stonehouse,
Plymouth, millers, Sept. 9, 10, and Oct. 3, at eleven, at
the New London Inn, Exeter. Brutton and Clipperton,
New Broad-street ; Brutton, Exeter.
Charles Tuck, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, shipwright,
Sept. 9, at eight, 10, at nine, and Oct. 8, at twelve, at the
Star Inn, Great Yarmouth. Palmer, Great Yarmouth;
Swaine, Stevens, Maples, Pearce, and Hunt, Frederick's-
place, Old Jewry, Loudon.

DIVIDENDS.
G. Bingley, New York, merchant, Sept. 27, at eleven,
at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham—J. Jenner and J. W.
Soppet, Greek-street, Soho, linen-drapers, Nov. 4, at ten,
at the Court of Commissioners—R. Dawes, Drayton-in-
Hales, Salop, mercer, Sept. 30, at eleven, at the Phoenix
Inn, Drayton-in-Hales—C. Hill, Rochdale, innkeeper,
Sept. 27, at two, at White's Hotel, Manchester—N, Isaac,
Marshfield, Gloucestershire, maltster, Sept. 13, at eleven,
at the White Hart Inn, Bath—J. Mann, Overbury, Wor-
cestershire, silk-throwster, Sept. 16, at one, at the office
of Messrs. Lavender and Byrch, Evesham, "Worcestershire
—T. Peake, Drayton-in-Hales, Salop, miller, Sept. 29, at
ten, at the Phenix Inn, Drayton•in-Hales—E. Young,
Wakefield, woolstapler, Sept. 13, at twelve, at the Sessions
House, Wakefield.
CERTIFICATES, Sen. 12.

W. Hubbard, jun., White Lion-court, Col-shill, mer-
chaut—W. Woodcock, Preston, tikuber-tnerchant—W.
Wisedill, Friday-street, ironrAonger—J. Burnett, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, innkeeper—T. Channel., Pendleton, Lan-
cashire, hop-merchant—T. Ainsworth, Turton and Brad-
shaw, Lancashire, bleacher—J. Browne, Kidderminster,
silversmith.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

I'. Lucy and T. Morgan, Great Trinity-lane, carpenters
—J. Spencer and J. Barlow, Salford, Lancashire, silk-
dyers—J. Ames, W. Atkinson, W. and C. Brunskill, W.
Atkinson, jun., and W. Ames, Paternoster-row, silk-ma-
nufacturers—J. and E. Roach, East Medina-mills and
Newport, Isle of Wight, millers—W. H. Palmer and W.
Cranswick, Islington, grocers—J. Ashforth and G. Hor-
ridge, Slietlield, cutlers—C. and C. Whittinghatn, Chis-
wick, printers—P. and A. Weakner, New Bond-street,
embroidered trimming-manufacturers—J. Campbell and J.
Hathaway, Tottenham-court New-road—B. and J. Bailer,
Barnstaple, Devonshire, inther-dressers—R. Greenough
and J. Lawless, Manchester, cotton-manufacturers—:.B.
Parker and A. Partington, Pennington-within-Leigh,
Lancashire, confectioners—T. and J. Slagg, Ford, Derby-
shire, sickle-manufacturers—J. Fletcher and T. Tanner, St.
Paul's Church-yard, haberdashers—L. Spode, R. Wolfe,
R. Bourne, W. Baker, J. and C. Bourne, T. Miuton, and
H. and J. Booth, Stoke-upon-Trent, colliers—R. Hills
and S. Stonham, Maidstone, bakers—W. Cumming, W.
Girdwood, and A. Thomson, Edinburgh, woollen-dra-
pers—C. Friend and T. Phipp, Bishopsgate-street-within,
auctioneers.

A steam ferry-boat, 70 feet by 25, to ply be-
tween Devonport and Torpoint, has at length been con-
tracted for, and will immediately be laid down at Mr.
IloetaN's yard, Stonehouse. She is to be a Twin-Boat,
and, we understand, will be propelled by two 12-horse-
power engines. The vessel will be sc, constructed as to en-
able carriages and waggons of large burthen to drive in and
out with ease, and without ur.harnessimg the horses. The
passage will be performer! in the most boisterous weather
in about five minutcor. She is to be ready at Lady-day
next.—Plymouth Journal.

VIENNA, AUGUST 7.—Among the distill-
guishea visitors at the camp of Traiskerchen is Prince
WlLLtax of Prussia, the King's second ion. Each of
our twelve battalions of Chasseurs is to be augmented
by a company. Twenty thousand horses are to be pur-
chased for the artillery and cavalry. By these mea-
sures, and the levy of recruits, now began, our army
will be raised to the complete peace establishment. The
reports of an additional levy of recruits, and of a second
camp in Bohemia, are probably as ill-founded as that of a
pretended alliance between Russia and France, on the
stipulations of which, the occupation of the Morea by the
latter power is said to be founded.

The Russian ships are still here undergoing
repairs. Since our last we have had an opportunity of
visiting soms of them, and we were much gratified with
the cleanliness, good order, and excellent discipline which
they exhibit. In point of cleanliness, no British man-of-
war can excel them. The only parts in which they ap-
pear to be deficient are the gunner's store-room, and the
rigging, the latter of which is heavy. The former is far
inferior to the same department in our ships. Both officers
and men belong equally to the land and sea service (but
only :serve in the former in case of necessity); and are
equipped accordingly. Ensigns act as Midshipmen, and
the superior officers as Lieutenants, Captains, &c., accord-
ing to their army rank. It is remarkable that the muskets
on board are of British manufacture, and bear the crown,
with G. R., on the lock. The officers are extremely polite
to all visitors.—Plymouth Jourual.

The little town of Glossop, in Derbyshire, is
at present unusually gay, from the influx of sportsmen
from all quarters. Grouse shooting. commenced upon the
12th. On Monday, the Earl of SURREY (only son of
the Duke of NonFou;), arrived at Glossop, accompanied
by Lord BELGRAVE, the Hon. Mr. SIMPSON, &c. The
arrival of the noble party was honoured by a royal salute
from two pieces of cannon erected in Glossop-dale, by Mr.
Woon, an opulent cotton manufacturer in that neighbour-
hood, and one of Lord SunnEY's tenants. We understand
that the Noble Earl has lately granted to his tenants in the
neighbourhood of Glossop permission to shoot upon hie
moors ; and the compliment so handsomely paid to his
Lordship and party, on the occasion of their arrival, was
no doubt intended by Mr. Woon as an acknowledgment of
his Lordship's condescension and kindness.—Manchester
Herald.

WESTERN CIRCUIT—BRISTOL, Ace. 21.
NESBITT V. KENT.
This was an action brought to recover the value
of a horse, that had belonged to the plaintiff, who
entrusted it to the defendant to be bled, and who
now complained that the bleeding had been effected
in so unskilful a manner, that it had sustained a very
considerable injury, and had died almost immediately
afterwards. It had always been the custom to em-
ploy a fleam upon such occasions, but in the present
Instance the defendant, had employed a lancet. As
soon as the bleeding had been effected and the blood
was stopped, the skin suddenly swelled. The de-
fendant observed this, and said to the plaintiff's son
that there was something wrong, but the plaintiff
need not be alarmed, for though the horse might
become worse at first, it would soon be better again.
He manifested a desire to get rid of the horse, and
told the plaintiff's son to take it away. The young
man accordingly led it out of the yard, but the de-
fendant told him he had better ride it. He did not,
however, do so at first, but in a little time he got
upon its back, but had not ridden far when he ob-
served such symptoms of weakness and distress in
the horse, that he dismounted. The animal pawed
the ground, as if uneasy and in pain, !drooped his
head, and all at once fell down dead.
Mr. Davis, a farrier, who has been in business
nearly twenty years in this city, on the 20th of
June was called in to look at the horse in question.
The horse was in Mr. Matthews's yard. It had a
swelling on both sides of the neck; the swelling
extended from the orifice where it had been bled up
to its ears. He told Mr. Matthews to be careful in
taking the skin off. He did so. . When the skin
was removed, witness found a quantity of blood had
escaped front the orifice, and had been the cause of
the death. Witness divided the ligaments of the
neck, and took the vein out. The vein was punc-
tured through, witness rather supposed an arternhad
been severed. In his judgment a ficam, and not a
lancet, was a proper instrument to bleed a horse
with.

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By a Juror—Witness had bled horses with a
lancet. He had fleams of different sizes, according
to the age and size of the horse, and the thickness
of the skin. Thorough bred horses are thinner
skinned, but witness did not bleed them with a
lancet—he employed a smaller fleam.
Mr. N. P. Lee, a veterinary surgeon of extensive
practice in the city, had heard the evidence in this
case ; in his opinion a fleam was more safe, and
therefore more proper than a lancet. The defendant
had used a surgeon's lancet. In using lancets the
puncture in the vein is larger than in the skin. A
swelling follows. A lancet has no guard like a fleam.
Witness was of opinion that the cutting through of
the vein, and the flow of blood occasioned by it, had
caused the death of the horse. A few days since,
the witness tried an experiment on a horse that was
about to be killed. He cut through the vein, and
the blood that flowed occasioned great pain to the
animal, and nearly produced its death. The ani-
mal was in a very low condition ; but if it had been
in good condition, and had been moved directly
afterwards, witness believed it would have died.
Mr. Sergeant WILDE contended, that the lancet
might be used with as much safety as the fleam, and
indeed that the operator might employ a greater de-
gree of control with the former than the latter in-
strument.
Mr. Zechariah Higgins—l was the defendant's
apprentice in June last; I remember the plaintiff's
'• horse being brought to the defendant's stables (the
witness here described the bleeding) ; I always saw
him bleed horses with a lancet ; this bleeding was
performed in the usual way; the defendant bound
up the place again, and told young Mr. Nesbitt that
he must lead the horse home quietly and not ride it.
I saw the horse taken away ; its neck was swollen
a little; that is not an unusual circumstance after
bleeding a horse.
Mr. Williams, a veterinary surgeon atßath, proved
that he always bled with a lancet. He was in con-
siderable practice at Bath.
Cross-examined—He thought it difficult to avoid
piercing a vein through : it commonly occurred.
The case was here interrupted by the Jury, who
expressed their conviction that the plaintiff had no
case to support a charge of negligence, and who ac-
cordingly found a verdict for the defendant.

VAUGHAN V. VHILFOTT.
Mr. STOCKING opened the pleadings. This was
an action against the defendant for leaving open a
sewer, by which the plaintiff's daughter sustained a
very serious injury. The defendant pleaded the ge-
neral issue.
Margaret Vaughan, an interesting young woman,
deposed—My father is a brightsrnith ; I remember
the 13th of last March ; I went eut at nine o'clock
at night; I was going through Jones's-lane upon an
errand for my father ; I found stones and rubbish
there, and I stepped upon a stone ; it tipped aside,
and I fell over the stones and rubbish, and fell head
foremost into the hole; I found filth at the bottom,
and sunk in it; I endeavoured to keep my head up,
arid screamed out ; I got out again, but I don't
know how; I had fainted—when I came to myself
I found myself sitting on the step of a Mr. Norman's
door, but how I got there I don't know ; Mr. Nor-
man fetched my brother and a Mr. Jones; my sister
afterwards came, and then I went home; I was
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next day a medical man was sent. for; I remained
in bed above a fortnight, and was confined a week
more to my room ; I was under his care during that
time, and ever since that occasionally ; I was in good
health before that time.
Mr. hlrigstock—l am a surgeon ; I know Marga-
ret Vaughan ; I attended her in March last; she
complained of excessive pain in the left side; she
was under my care for three weeks ; she has since
received from me medicines for fits, but I have never
seen her in a fit.
Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS, upon this evidence, said, it
would be impossible for him to deny the injury or
the cause of it, and lie consented, on the part of the
defendant, to a Verdict for 20/.
That proposal being accepted by the plaintiff, a
verdict for that amount was taken.

OXFORD CIRCITIT.-GLOUCESTER, At:G. 20,

DAV!': V. CAPPER.

Mr. GODSON .opened the pleadings, stating that
the plaintiff was Mary Davis, and the defendant was
Robert Capper. The plaintiff, by her declaration,
complained that the defendant had caused her to
be imprisoned for twenty days, without reasonable

cause. ,
Mr. Cutwoon said, that this was an ►action of
plaintiff had lodged
false imprisonment by a Magistrate of this county.
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to detail the
tht plaintiff
, i
ss was
ilfoauninmd
Hammer-
ton circumstances which gave rise to rho imprisonment
of the plaintiff, stating that the
with a Miss Ann Hammerton, and in consequence
of a loss she had sustained, had, on the Bth of Ja-
nuary last, lodged a complaint before Mr. Capper
against Ann thunmerton. Ann Hammerton was
called upon to answer the complaint; but though
of
toldtile
her possession, she was not committed in the in-
terval between that day and the 11th, 11(s111re. ofGarwood) t he property
ln s
ton paid a private visit to Mr. Capper, . and when
she did again appear at the
over poh T.-office she
was dismissed, being boundappear and
take her trial tit the last Assizes: to
Miss Hammer-

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fascinating manners, and el r:: .00tInlired she
made the most of them. ftilbrder to get rid of the
charge made against her by the plaintiff; she pre-
ferred a charge against her, alleging that she (Miss
Haminerton) had lost considerable property, and be-
lieved Miss Davis to have been concerned in the
robbery. To support that charge, she fabricated a
letter purporting to be written to Miss Davis by an
accomplice of hers, and this letter being shewn to
Mr. Russell, the defendant in the cause of yester-
day, on that evidence Miss Davis was taken up, and
committed to gaol on a Saturday night, in
order that she might be brought before Mr.
Capper for examination on the Monday morn-
ing. When brought before Mr. Capper, Miss
Davis was asked to say who was the writer of
this letter. Miss Davis was unable to do so. The
letter had never been in her possession, yet Mr.
Capper immediately said, " I shall commit you t,,
prison for fifteen days, and then perhaps you'll
find it out. The Learned Counsel woulg prove that
this warrant was illegal ; that the Magistrates met
three times erery week at Cheltenham ; and there-
fore, if the defendant was authorized to commit Miss
Davis for re-examination at all, he was not authorized
to commit her for fifteen days; be might us well
commit her for fifteen weeks, or fifteen months, for
the same purpose, inflicting a punishment before
there was a tittle of evidence to support a eharge.
He would prove that such was the distress of mind
that Miss Davis had suffered during those fifteen
days in prisea, that she had not recovered from it la
this day.
A great number of witnesses were called to pi ov,,
the case; after which
Mr. Justice GASELEE summed up.

At a quarter past eleven in the forenoon the Jury
retired, and at 'nine o'clock at night, not baling
agreed in the verdict, they were again brought into
Court.

Mr. Justice GASELEE having inquired if they had
agreed in their verdict,
The Foreman said, they were as far from agree-
ing to a verdict as when they first left the Couirt.
Mr. Justice GASELEE then dismissed them, with
the understanding that they would take their place in
Court in the morning.
AUG. 21.----This morning, at eight o'clock, thi-
Jury again came into Court, and were locked up.
After an hour's deliberation, they requested to speak
to the Judge.
They came in accordingly, and then the foreman
stated positively that there was no possibility of the
Jury agreeing upon the subject, and therefore it wa,
of no use longer to detain them.
Mr. Justice GAsELEE was clearly of opinion that.
there ought to be a nonsuit, because there was a
probable cause.
Mr. CußwooL said he appeared for the plaintiff','.
• Mr. TAUNTON, who was on the other side, Was,
astonished at his Learned Friend. He would not
have taken such a course for five hundred goleic):

guineas.

Mr. Curtwoop, after a short consultation with
his client, said that he would withdraw his appear-
ance for the plaintiff, and consent to a nonsuit.
Tke case, therefore, remains (indisposed of, as it
was before, and a fresh action must be brought,
the statute does not preclude it: because the action
must be commenced within six months after tho
alleged offence or dereliction is committed, and that
period has expired. Such a termination to a cause
was never before known among the oldest Barristers
on the Circuit.

MORRIS V. DAVIES AND WIFE.

This cause, which, from the length of time it Iris
been before the Co►rts, the obstinacy of the liti-
gants, and the expences of the proceedings, may
vie with any other upon record, was for the third.
time brought before a special jury this morning,
as an issue from the Court of Chancery. It is
almost unnecessary to say, that the issue is directed
fur the purpose of trying whether the plaintiff ba
or be not the legitimate son of a certain William
and Mary Mortis, through whom the defendant told
wife take some property in Wales, which is said to
be worth 1,0001. a-year, and which, upon proof of
the legitimacy of the plaintiff, must gq to hint as
the heir-at-law.

Mr. Sergeant RUSSELL, in stating this case to
the jury, observed, that they had heard that it was
an issue from the Court of Chancery, for the pm.-
pose of trying whether Evan Williams, otherwise
Evan Wm. Morris, was or was:not the legitimate son of
William and Mary Morris. In the spring of 1827,
an issue of the same description was tried at Shrews-
bury; and the jury, after a protracted inquiry, came
to the conclusion that the plaintiff was the legitimate
offspring of Wm. and Mary Morris. Upon something
which came out afterwards in the arguments before
him, with respect to this trial, the Lord Chancellor ex-
pressed a desire that thequestion should again:go before
a jury; but undoubtedly,his Lordship said,for he could
bear witness to it from having been present at the
time that he desired such new trial to take plinne,
without its being supposed even for an instant that
he had therefore formed an opinion unfavourable to
the plaintiff's claim. That second issue was tried
at the Summer Assizes of the same year, and the
Jury, on that occasion, gave a verdict in the con-
trary way, and found for the defendants. An ap-
plication was consequently made to the Lord Chan-
cellor upon the subject, and after a most patient
and attentive hearing, his Lordship directed that.
third issue, which they were now call upon to try.
The plaintiff rested his claim upon the acknowledged,
law of the country, with reference to descents--a
law which he hoped never to see altered, for ne,man
could tell what confusion or distress must ensue, iC
that law was ever overturned. The Learned Coun-
sel then proceeded to shew, upon various authori-
ties, that the law of England presumed the child of
married persons to be perfectly legitimate as long as
there was a possibility of access, and until a sen-
tence of divorce had been pronounced by the Eccle-
siastical Conrts. In proceeding to state the facts of
the present case, he would first inform them, that.
William Morris, the father of the present plaintiff,
was a surgeon, and that being then about :30 years
of age, he married, in 1778, a young lady of it;
years of age, and of a very gay and lively disposi-
tion. Mr, Morris settled in Shrewsbury, as a sur-
geon, and continued to live there for about ten
Years. In 1788, differences arose between him anq
Mrs. Morris—differences rather fiom habits of
living and expence, than from any dislike
which they personally entertained towards eaelt
other, and a separation was agreed
When, however, he informed the Jury, that by the
terms of the settlement of the separation drawn -no
at that time, Mrs. Morris was entrusted \Vthe
care and education of a daughter, since nraried to
the defendant Davis, he thought hit mentioned
enough to disprove most completely the accusation
of any such intercourse being supposed to have
taken place by the father o that daughter. Mrs.
Morris was a woman of sortie property, which was
situated at a place called Llanfair, and at the separa-
tion it was settled upon her for her separate use.
To Llanfair she retired, and took up her residence,
while Mr. Morris also left Shrewsbury, and settled
at Asgood, which was nearer to Llanfair than
clirew bu-
, and not more than 14 miles from Mrs,
Morris. The Learned Counsel
then
proceeded to
observe that an interchange of kindness and civility
passed betweetalr, and Mrs. Morris on many ocn
casions afterwarOse and that he was in the same
house with her, and saw her repeatedly and alone
both before and after the plaintiff was born. On
one occasion, when :Mr. Morris visited Mrs. Morris,
they paid a visit to an old friend anti neighbour,
slept in her house, and, as far as that lady knew, iu
the same bed. Having said so much upon the eas.
of his client, the Learned Counsel felt it his duty to
make a few observations upon the nature of the de-
fence which would be put forth by his Learned
Friend (Mr. Taunton). The whole of that de-
fence rested mainly upon proof of the conduct of one
of the parties—namely, Mrs. Morris—towards the
plaintiff, her son ; and the simple question to be de-
termined was, whether she was to he permitted to
take the benefit of that which she could not have

'teen allowed to do in the box as a witness, and by
bastardizing her own offspring, to strip it of that
property to which it was entitled by the laws of the
country ? There was no doubt that Mrs. Morris was
a woman of very strong passions. She was a most ex-
traordinary woman, arid it was useless to deny that
she did form a connexion with a man named William
Austin, who at first occupied the situation of a
servant, but who afterwards, through Mrs. Morris's
influence, became an officer in a marching regiment.
On the .sth of January, 1793, the plaintiff was born,
and Mrs. Morris, from motives which could be per-
haps explained, immediately treated him as the son
of this William Austin, conveyed him, through the
means of Austin, to a place called Wem, where she
left him with Austin's parents, and had him baptised
as Evan Williams, a bastard; and a clergyman of the
parish afterwards added to the register of that bap-
tism, supposed to be the child of William Austin."
The father of the plaintiff, Mr. Morris, died in 1810,
and up to that time he was wholly ignorant of his
relationship; but about 1811, such information was
conveyed to him as left no doubt of his claim to be
considered as the son of Wm. Morris, according to
the established' law of England. He was at
that time about seventeen years of age, and em-
ployed in the business of a land surveyor ; and in
the course of the inquiries to which the information
he had received gave rise, he discovered a woman
named Mary Evans, who had acted as a midwife
at his birth. The facts she disclosed he took
down in a pocket-book, but he had no idea
at the time that this Evans was a creature of the
defendants'. A bill was immediately filed in Chancery
and it was a matter worthy of remark, that although
the defendants' contended how the plaintiff was
illegitimate, they at that time, in their answer,
denied that Mrs. Morris had ever given birth to a
sou. When that bill was filed, the first step to prove
the legitimacy was, of course, to prove that Mrs.
Morris had ever given birth to a child, and for that
purpose Mary Evans was called upon to appear, but
although the most diligent search was made for her
;n England, in Wales, in Scotland, and Ireland, she
remained concealed from every inquiry, and it was
not until 1522, ten years after the filing of the bill,
that she was detected at Liverpool, preparing to
embark for the United States of America. It was
not even until this Mary Evans had been a whole
year in the Fleet Prison that she made any answer
to the interrogatories put to her. After observing
that this concealment of a witness was highly repre-
hensible on the part of the defendants, the Learned
Counsel proceeded to say, that the plaintiff was, in
the words of the issue, the true and legitimate son of
William and Mary Morris.
The Learned Counsel then called eight or ten
witnesses, to prove the various parts of this state-
ment, with reference to the keeping Mary Evans
concealed—the visits of Morris to his wife, and the
-subsequent birth of the plaintiff.
The Court rose at half-past seven o'clock, but we
understand that only a third portion of the plaintiff's
witnesses have been examined to-day.

A letter from the 'neighbourhood of Leomin-
ster says, " the wheat is very generally housed here, aml
in much better condition than was expected.— Worcester

Journal.

CORNWALL.—We learn that an extraordinary
concussion of the earth has taken place at Dolcoath Mine,
supposed to be occasioned by the decay of the props that
supported part of the old workings. We understand that
the earth has given way for several fathoms, wo as partially
to stop up the engine-shaft, and cause the temporary sui-
pension of the operations of the engine. Great efforts are
now making to remove the obstacles to the progress of the
-working of the mine.—Plymouth Journal.
We have had some very fine summer days
this week, during which harvest was very brisk and la-
bourers actively engaged. In a large tract of country the
corn wrs cut down and stacked in very good condition.
Crowds of people were busily employed.—Dublin Free-
man's Journal.

THE MOORS.--So far as the season has yet
gone, the sportsmen have been successful on the Moors, in
spite of wind and weather. The supply of grouse which has
reached this city far exceeds that of last year—the de-
mand is considerably less, and the prices are consequently
lower. _Scotsman.

The visitors to Margate since the return of
the fine weather are increasing daily, where the city atlu •
tionists are purifying themselves, and laying in a stock of
health against the return of winter, which our soothsayers
predict will be severe and bitter.
Tice late violent winds have done serious in.
jury fo. the south of Devon. A great quantity of the stand-
ing corn, particularly wheat, is beaten out—in some fields,
it is supposed, one third of the crop is thus lost; in many
orchards half the apples are blown down ; and the potatoe
stalks are so much blighted that a great deficiency in the
crop is apprehended. The frequent showers have much
retarded the harvest in that district. The prices of
corn, potatoes, and cider are advancing.—Sherborne
journal. _ _

LIMERICK, Aug.. 16.—Large assemblies of
the peasantry are being held throughout this county, finr
the purpose of reconciling their party feuds. Great bon-
fires are lighted on the occasion, and the leaders appear
decorated with green ribbons and leaves.—Dublin Free-
man's Journal.
A Seal or Phoca, last week stuck in the mild
in Morecambe Bay, near Milnethorp, and was shortly after
lidled and appropriated by the neighbourog inhabitants.
It measured ten feet three inches in length " from snout
end to tip o' tail."—Leeds Intelligencer.

Died last week, aged 73 years, Mrs. FORRES.
TAT.; she married about 40 years since; a few hours after
the marriage ceremony was gone through, her husband left
the town ; why he went away, or where he went, none of
his friends or acquaintance have ever been able to discover,
not the least tidings having been heard of him since.--Dor-
set Chronicle.

Attorntes are to the Lawyers what Apotheca-
ries ate to the Physicians, only they do not deal in scruples.
VIA ciumosY.—An Irish gentleman of some
expectations, and considerable pretensions, would fain de-
vote his future affections to any lady who possesses the
qualifications requisite to render the married state COM,
jlirtable. The advertiser is of a good family, has received
an University education, and is accounted handsome at the
western side of Athlone. He stands six feet two in his
stocking-feet, shoulder square, and in proportion, manners
very polite, and as little as possible of the brogue, having
served several years in the Galway Militia. He is I„,t
married at present to any other lady, and can prove to a
dononstration that his first love is alive, settled, and the
another of six children. His religion is yet to choose, and
consequently will have no objection to a Jewess, a Roman
Catholic, or a Quaker. Any lady in want of such a com-
panion, and possessed of a fortune of 10,0001. may have
the half of that sum settled upon herself, and no questions
asked. The advertiser will walk to-morrow, between
two and three o'clock, from Hyde Park-corner to Bond-
street, and back again, drecAed in a blue frock coat, drab
trousers, boots, a white hat, and will probably carry
a silk umbrella in his right hand, N. B. Any gen-
tleman who can introduce the advertiser to an
elini-
match, may have his sister, svho is a
bouncing girl, and entitled to 5,000/., cliargeiae,Q.n Ad-
vertiser's 'Mountain Estates is the west of Ireland.
offer would suit a sportsman, as the property abounds in
grouse, hares, salmon, and white trout....-Aforning Herald.
A female servant in the employ of Mr. GEe.
SFEDDING, of Brampton Appleby, whilst hoeing 4,1114"
a few days ago, perceived a number of strange animal* in
the field near her. At a loss to know wi,at they were, and
becoming in some degree alarmed, she beckmad to her mas-
ter on the road at the bottom of the field to cow to view
these unknown creatures. Mr. Seat:antra iaarcediatply
but great was surprise wl
procee • ded to the place, leo hel
rn
saw nine or ten young pole-cata, with * cther at their
head, meeting him boldly, and full in the face, apparently
not at all intimidated by his presence. On corniag wain
a few yards of them, Mr. S. made a full atop, as did also i
the animals, and set up a loud yell. Mr. S,, having a
hay-fork in his hand, aimed a blow at the group, and ki'iled
one : his dog, which was in the, road adjoining the 444,
hearing the yell, and scenting the anmals, which at thiz
time voided their foetid odour, made up to his master, and
tucceeded in killing another ; the rest, on wing two of
their army killed on the spot, roads a rapid retreat, and got
clear off, while Mr. S. and his Ong were too much busied
in examining the dead, and congratulating each other on
their lucky escape, to think of pursuing the retixing foe.
Air. S. thinks that, if the dog had not .come to his assist-
ance, they would have actually given him battle....—.6:entiili
Cazette

A CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON, BY

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON.

His mind was great and powerful, without
being of the very first order, his penetration
strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton,
Bacon, or Locke, and, as far as he saw, no judg-
ment was ever sounder. It was slow in opera-

tion, being little aided by invention or imagina-
tion, but sure in conclusion. Hence the com-
mon remark of his officers, of the advantage he
derived from councils of war, where, hearing all
suggestions, he selected whatever was best ; and
certainly no general ever planned his battles more
judiciously. But if deranged during the course
of the action, if any member of his plan was dis-
located by sudden circumstances, he was slow in
re-adjustment. The consequence was, that he
often failed in the field, and rarely against
an enemy in station, as at Boston and
York. He was incapable of fear, meeting
personal danger with the calmest uncon-
cern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his
character was prudence, never acting until every
circumstance, every consideration, was maturely
weighed : refraining if he saw a doubt, but when
once decided, going through with his purpose,
whatever obstacle opposed. His integrity was
most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have
ever known ; no motives of interest or consan-
guinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias
his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of
the word, a wise, a good, and a great man. His
temper was naturally irritable and high-toned ;
but reflection and resolution had obtained a firm
and habitual ascendancy over it. If ever, how-
ever, it broke its bounds, he was most tremen-
dous in his wrath. In his expences he was
honourable, but exact ; liberal in contributions
to whatever promised utility ; but frowning and
unyielding on all visionary projects, and all un-
worthy calls on his charity. His heart was not
warm in its affections ; but he exactly cal-
culated every man's value, and gave him
a solid esteem proportionate to it. His person,
you know, was fine ; his stature exactly what
one would wish ; his deportment easy, erect, and
noble ; the best horseman of his age, and the
most graceful figure that could be seen on horse-

back. Although, in the circle of his friends,
where he might he unreserved with safety, he
took a free share in conversation, his colloquial
talents were not above mediocrity, possessing
neither copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of

words. In- public, when called on for a sudden
opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed.
-Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in a correct
style. This he had acquired by conversation
with the world; for bi-; education was merely
reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to
which he added surveying at a later day. His
time was employed in action chiefly, reading
little, and that only in agriculture and English
history. His correspondence became neces-
sarily extensive, and, with journalizing his
agricultural proceedings, occupied most of his
leisure hours within doors. On the whole, his

character was, in its mass, perfect, in ►nothing
bad, in few points indifferent ; and it may truly
he said, that never did nature and fortune com-

bine more perfectly to make a great man, and to
place him in the same constellation with the
worthies who have merited an everlasting remem-
brance. For his was the singular destiny and
merit of leading the armies of his country suc-
cessfully through an arduous war, for the esta-
blishment of its independence—of conducting its
councils through the birth of a government, new
in its forms and principles, until it had settled
down in a quiet and orderly train—and of scru-
puLowly obeying the laws through the whole of
his carer civil and military, of which the history
of the world furnishes no other example. How,
then, can it be perilous for you to take such a
man on your shoulders ? I am satisfied that the
great body of republicans think of him as I do.
We were, indeed, dissatisfied with him on his rati-

fication of the British treaty ; but this was short-
lived.
We knew his honesty, the wiles with which
he wa.zencompassed, and that age had already be-
gan
to relax the firmness of his purposes ; and
I am convinced that he is more deeply seated in
the love and gratitude of the republicans, than in
the pharisaical homage of the federal monarch-
ists. For he was no monarchist from prefer-
ence of his judgment, The soundness of that
gave him correct views of the rights of man, and
his tevere justice devoted him to them. He has
often declared to me, that he considered our new
Constitution as an experiment on the practica-
bility of Republican Government, and with wr hat
dose of liberty man can be trusted for his own
good ; that he was determined the experiment
should have a faie trial, and would lose the last
drop of his blood in support of it. And these
he repeated to me the oftener, and more point-
edly, haouse he knew my suspicions of Colonel
Hamilton's views, and probably had heard the
declarations which I had heard, to wit, " that the
British Constitution, with its unequal representa-
tion, corruption, and other abus4s; vyas the most
perfect Goaernment that had ever been esta-
blished on earth,.3nd that a reformation of thosii
abuses would make it an impracticable Govern-
ment."
I do believe that General Washington had not
a firm confidence in the durability of our Govern-
ment. He was naturally distrustful of men, and
inclined to gloomy apprehensions ; and I was
ever persuaded that a belief that we must at
length end in something like a British Coostitu-
tioa had some weight in his adoption of the cere,
monies (it: levees, birth-days, pompous meetings
with Congress, and other forms of the same
character, calculateki .to prepare us gradually for
a change which he believed possible, and so let
it come on with as little shock- as might be to
the public mind, .
These are my opinion; of
General Washington, which I would vonah at
the judgment scat of God, hying been formed
on an acquaintance of thirty years,from Mr.
JePrson s unpublished Manuscripts,

His Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE
has e.k,n elected a freeman of Dartmouth, which is to be
presented to in a silver box, by Governor HoLns-
%„wrify. —Plymouth .journal.
It is confidently aSSet4 that the Duke of
',UDC iv to have his lease of the Seiil renewed
Journal.
took place yesterday, at the
parish.. No business of
PARISti pF ST. PAUL. s, t..;OVF.NT-GAfti-
13VEesNt.r—y Room, sitar yt
e;;Cehe rnc7h /1, is
ina7ant was transacted, but considerab;.e party feeling was
manifotsd.
In the Aibt,pl at the Bell Rock Light-h9-(44
are the following lines i;y Sir WALTER SCOTT :
ritArtos r,o‘rjTuß.
Far in the bosom of the deep,
O'er the -,a wild shelves my Watch I keep
A ruddy gem d changeful light,
Bound on the dusky law of night :
The seaman bids roy lustre Lail,
Ant: zrprns to strike his timorous .sa.iL
July 89, 184. WALTER SC,OTT.
JACK 13ANNsTgg. visited the Haymarket
Theatre on Wednesday, and made in the free-list book the
following eat,), Fifty years ago,
,in ,the year 1778, 1
made my first appearance at this Theatre. klulf a century
:7"; not bac). ginixoj jO)C.I BANNISTra'n