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FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1826.

BOOKS PUBLISHED THIS DAY.

rrHE FOLLOWING NEW WORKS will be
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TRAVELS in MESOPOTAMIA; including a JoUrney front
Aleppo, across the Euphrates to Orfah, (the Ur of the Childees;)
across the Plain* of the Turcoman Tribes to Diarbekr, in Asia
Minor; from thence to Nlartlin, on the borders of the Great
Desert, and -by the Tigris, to the Mosul, the rains. of Nineveh,
Arbela, Bagdad, atul Babylon. By .1. S. WM1400.434 Es' q.,
Author of " Travels in Palestine," f4e. &c. 1 vol. 4t0., with
numerous Engravings.

THE NATCHEZ ; an Indian Tale. By the Vihonnt na
CHATEAUBRIAND, author of " ATALA." 4 THAVELE ishi THE
HOLY LAND," &C. EditiODl in French and Wish in small tiro.

THE LIFE of EDWARD 3ENNER, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S.
Physician Extraordinary to the King, fess, fic. With selection's
from his Cf2tajmoslosztcit. By Jonnaktatot•l4-1). R.SPIlve.
•

ItrivKali of tliaiape and oorreepondeace of Dr. ,Penner having
been placed in the author's hauttls by the executors, in consequence
of his uninterrupted and coufidential intercourse and friendship,
with that distinguished individual, during the last fifteen years of
his life.

THE HON. GEORGE KEPPEL'S NARRATIVE of a
JOURNEY front INDIA to ENGLAND, by Bussorah, Bag-
dad, the Ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the Court of Persia, the
Western Shore of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan, Niebney Novogo-
rod, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, in the year 1824. In I vol.
4te. with a Map and coloured plates, &c.
V.

MEMOIRS of the LIFE and WRITINGS of the late Rev.
SAMUEL PARR, LL.D. By the Rev. WILLIAM FRED. In
2 vols. Bvu. with Portraits.

VI.
TRUCKLEBOROUGII HALL, a NOVEL. lii 3 vols.
post gvo. 28.. 6d.

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TRAVELS and ADVENTURES in SOUTHERN AFRICA.
Br GEORGE THOMNON, ESQ., Etu aT YEARS it RESIDENT at
the Cara; comprising an account of the present state of the
various Native Tribes ; with observations on the progress and
prospects of the British Emigrants of 1820 ; on the Agricultural
and Commercial Resources of the Colony, and on its adaptation
for receiving a large addition of European Settlers. Acco►apanied
by a new and greatly improved Map, and numerous other En-
gravings, 1 vol. 4to.

A CASE OF _LIBEL.
A certain old Sprite, who'dwelb below,
('There a libel, perhaps, to mention where)
Came up incog., some wintentigo,
To try, fur a change, the toadon
So well he looked, and dress'd and talk'd,
And hid his tail and his Itorns so handy,
You'd hardly have known him, as he walk'd,
From ***`**, or any other Dandy.
(N.B.—his horns, they arky, unscroW ;
So, he has but to taks them out of the socket,
And just as some fine husband. do—

Conveniently clap them intoldxpocket.)
In short, he look'd extremely natty,
And ev'n contriv'd—to his own great wander—
By dint of sundry scents from Gattie,

. - ----- -
To keep the sulphurous hose) under.
And so my gentleman hoof'd about,
Unknown to all but a chosen feW
At White's and Cniekfiwd'i, whets, no doubt,

lic-fiadiall'assaysposi.obAs4taw kue.
Mike a gamester and a wit,
At night he was seen with Crokford's clew;
At morn with learned dames would sit—
So passed his time 'twixt black and blue.
Some wish'd to make him an M.P.,

But, finding W—lkswacalso one, he
Was heard to say " he'd be d—d, if he

" Would ever sit in one house with Johnny."
At length, as secrets travel fast,
And devils, whether he or she,
Are sure to be found out at last,

The affair got wind most rapidly.
The Press, the impartial Press, that snubs
Alike a fiend's or an angel's capers--
Miss Paton's soon as Bilsebulis--

Fir'd off a squib iu the Morning Papers :
" We warn good men to keep aloof
" From a grim old Dandy, seen about,
With a fire-proof wig, and a cloven hoof,
" Through a neat-cut Hoby smoking out."
Now, the Devil being a gentleman,

Who piques himself on his well-bred dealings,
You may guess, when o'er these lines he ran,

How much they hurt and shocked his feelings.'
Away he posts to a Man of Law,
And oh, 'twonld make you laugh to've seen 'em,
As paw shook baud, and hand shook paw,

And 'twas " hail, good fellow, well met," between 'ern.
Straight an indictment was preferred—
And much the Devil enjoyed the jest,
When; looking among the judges, he heard
That, of all the batch, his own was heat.
In vain Defendant proffered proof
That Plaintiff's self was the Father of Evil—
Brought Hoby forth, to swear to the hoof,
And Strata, to speak to the tail of the Devil.
The Jury—saints, all mug and rich,
The readers of virtuous Sunday papers,"
Found for the Plaintiff—on hearing which
The Devil gave one of hie loftiest capers.
For oh, it was nuts to the Father of Lies

(As this wily fiend is nam'd, in the Bible)
To find it settled by laws so wise,
That the greater the truth, the worse the libel'.
E.--[Times..,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Wtrotsnav, Die. 15.
cowsr Y.

Mr. SHADWZLL Was instructed to make an applicatiem to hie
Lordship to the following effect :—lt was, that it might be refer-
red to the Master, to inquire whether it would not be to the ad-
vantage of Covent-garden Theatre, that the house should be let to
Mr. Bishop the composer, on the Oratorio nights during the pre-
sent and ensuing season. He made this application on behalf of
Messrs. Kemble, Willet, and Forbes.
An attorney stated, that Mr. Hart, who was not in Court, had
also instructions for certain motions, which might be incorpo-
rated with that of Mr. Shadwell.

Mr. SVODEN was there to oppose Mr. Shadwell's application.
It was then agreed that the matter should stand over until Mr
Hart came into Court ; but it was not again mentioned.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, "%VivralzasrEit, acc. 14.
TODD AND Ananza v. Tilt MARQUIS OF INOMRSTIR AN

OTHERS.

This was an issue, directed by the late Master of the Rona, to
try whether or not the will of the late John Duke of Roxburgh,
bearing date the 18th of March, 1804, disposing of certain free•
hold and other property, was duly executed according to the pro-
visions of the Statute of Frauds.

Mr. SCARLIETT, Mr. GURNEY, lilr• JACOR, and Mr. JARDINE,
conducted the case for the plaintiffs.
Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL) Mr. S. M. PHILLIPS, Mr. B ROUG-
HA M , and Mr. STUART, appeared for the defendants.
From the evidence of Sir Coutts Tiotter, it appeared that on
the evening of the 18th of Marct, 1804, lie called at the house
of the Duke of RoxbUrgh, in St. James's-square,. to inquire after
the health of his Grace : he was then shown up stairs into the
ante-room adjoining the Duke's bedchamber, and requested to wait
in order to witness the execution of the Duke's will, which was
then preparing by Mr. Dundee, his Grace's legal adviser (a
writer of signet), who had arrived from Scotland for the express
purpose of making the will in question. While waiting in the
ante-room he heard the Dube and Mr. Dundas conversing on
the subject of the will, and shortly afterwards, about midnight, he
was called into the bed-room, where, together with Mr. Winter,
the apothecary (since dead), and a servant of the Duke's, named
Baptiste, he witnessed his Grace's eighature of the will now pro-
duced. After receiving the thanks of his Grace for attending to
attest this will, he, with the other witnesses, retired into the
ante-room, the door between which and his Grace's bed-room
was left open, and there, on a table which might have been seen
from his Grace's bed, they, in the presence of Mr. Dundas, at-
tested the execution of the will. There was a large writing-table
in the ante-room, and the witness believed the will was placed
on that table at the time of the attestation. The Duke died in
the forenoon of the following day. At the time his Grace exe-
cuted the will, he was in his perfect sent" end any thing which
might have been said in an ordinary tone of voice in either room
could have been heard hi the other. Evidence was then pro-
duced, that Mr. Winter, the apothecary, is since dead ;. that
Baptiste was too ill to attend the proceedings this (lay ; and that
from the situation of the tables in the ante-room, the attesta-
tion might have . been seen by the Duke from his bed, if he had
chosen. , _ _ _ .

Mr. SCARLET'', on behalf of the plaintiffs, who were the repre-
sentatives of the devisees under the will sought.to be established,
contended, that the attestation in the present instance by three
Witnesses, in such a situation that they might have been seen by
the testator, although they were not actually in the same room
with him, was sufficient to satisfy the Statute of Frauds.

The SOLICITOR-GENIC SAL, on the part of the defendants, who
are the representatives of the heir-at-law, maintained that the do-
cument which haul been executed in the presence of the witnesses
this day produced,. was merely a deed, directing, under certain
trusts, the disposal of certain sums of money and estates to pur-
poses therein-mentioned. There was no evidence to show that
the attestation had taken place in the presence of the Duke.
There were three tables, it appeared, in the ante-room, two of
which could not have been seen from the Duke's bed, and the
persons claiming under this will were hound to show that the
forms required by the statute had been complied with.
Evidence was then produced on the part of the defendants,
but it rather tended .to show that the will had been properly
executed. •
SCARIATT having been beard in reply,
The Loan Cuter Jusrica observed, that the question was re-
(Nall to. this single point of whether the subscribing witnesses
did attest the execution of this will in the presence of the testator.
The Jury•retired at six o'clock, cud, after art absence of half an
hour, returned with a verdict fur the plsintift

A SPANISH INTRIGUE.
JUSTICE OF FERDINAND THE BELOVED.

Don Ferdinand M—, a Colonel in the army, and Cap.
lain in the Royal Guards, was the Beau Brummell of
Madrid—the best-dressed and most accurately-perfumed
of dandies—the leader of fashion, and the irresistible con-
queror of female hearts. Amongst other bonnes Prtunes,
Don Ferdinand became the favoured lover of Madame de
S—r, an extremely pretty and lovely woman. This
lady's husband is a Military Inspector, and was the friend
of Don Ferdinand. He is the son of a very rich mer-
. chant now retired from trade, and who, on the marriage of
his son, purchased for him the honourable situation of
Regidor of Madrid. The heron between Madame de
and-her husband's friend had lasted a considerable time,
when at length the hour of inconstancy struck for Don
Ferdinand. His visits soon became like those of angels—
" Few, and far between." Madame de S— left nothing
undone " to lure the tassel gentle back again :" but all
in vain. After the usual time spent in pining and regret,
Madame de S— re-entered society, and soon became
Surrounded by a circle of adorers. One of these, after-
a long course of devoted- and impassioned attention,
seemed to have made an impression upon her heart,
and there were all the usual indications that the lady was
about to give a successor to Don Ferdinand in her af-
fections. What tenderness could not do, jealousy,
resulting from wounded self-love, accomplished, and
brought Don Ferdinand again to her feet. He was
profuse of excuses, vows of repentance, and eternal love ;
but all to no purpose, Madame 8— remained inexorable.
Don Ferdinand then resolved to play the part of the dog
in the manger, and, as he could not recover the good
graces of the lady, he would prevent any one else from
acquiring them. Taking advantage of the intimacy between
him and Madame S— 's husband, he persecuted her con-
tinually with his presence both at home and abroad, and
prevented, as much as in him lay, every communication
between her and her new lover. At length, at the end of
a violent altercation that took placebetween them at Vertu-
Alegre,a country-house near Madrid,Don Ferdinand declar-
ed to Madame S— that if in three days, she did not restore
him to favour, he would completely destroy her reputation.
Madame S— told him that she would prefer death to in-
trusting her heart to so base a person, and for whom she
could no longer feel any 'thing but contempt and abhor-
rence. The two following days the same menaces were
repeated, and replied to in the same manner. On the third
day the noble Colonel, Don Ferdinand, collected all the
letters of Madame S— which he had in his possession,
repaired to the street where she lived, and took his
station near the house, where he awaited the return :of
M. de S—. As soon as he appeared, Don Ferdinand
went up to him, and said, " I am going to inflict a terri-
ble blow upon you—take and read these letters." He
then handed the packet of letters to him, and in the first
which he read, Madame de S. said that she loved all her
children, but that the one she most dearly loved was the
child which was the fruit of her love for Don Ferdinand.
M. de 8„ full of indignation, called Don Ferdinand by
those epithets he so well merited, and proposed to him to
go beyond the walls of the city, and fight until one of
them remained on the ground. The gallant Colonel coolly
replied, that it. was now too late to think of lighting—
that, besides, the laws of his contty punished duelling
with death—that he was 'wrong to Witt the thing so much
to heart—that it was what he ought to have expected
when he .married so pretty a woman. M. de S. re,
plied by a look of contempt, and the Colonel went
away. M. de S. entered his house with the proofs
of his wife's culpability in his hands, and immediately

went to his apartment, took down his sword, and
went in search of his wife. Fortunately her waiting-maid
having seen from the balcony the rencontre .between
M. de S. and Don Ferdinand, and the packet of letters
given by the latter, warned her mistress, who escaped out
of the house by a back door. She fled to her relations,
who, after reproaching her, put her into a carriage, and
took her to the convent of Las Salesas. M. de S., not
being able to find his wife, broke his sword in pieces, and
filled the house with his imprecations, thereby making
known the scandal to his servants; and perceiving the
unfortunate child, the offspring of his wife's adultery, he
most mercilessly, struck it. He then rushed from the
house, and went to his father to communicate to him what
had taken place. . " Are your servants acquainted with
what has happened?" said the father, sobbing. Upon
' being answered in the affirmative 'he' added, " Here, take
this sword. If you had been fortunate enough to have
bathed your own in the blood of your guilty wife, and in
that of the infamous Colonel, the law Would have absolved
you. But though an hotir has elapsed, run—find-them out
—leave them without life, and return to the arms of your
father. I have here eight millions of reals—that is more
than sufficient to save you." M. de S. took his father's
sword, went home, and put on his uniform, and then went
in search of his wife and the Colonel, but could not meet
with,either. He then returned to his father, and both
immediately, set out for the Royal residence, and throw-
ing themselves at the King's feet, demanded justice. His
Majesty, after having caused an inquiry to. be made into
this scandalous affair,pronounced the following judgment:--
That in consideration, not of the military services of Don
Ferdinand, but of those which his father rendered to the
State as Governor, of the Royal and Supreme Council of
Castile, which he exercised in so courageous a manner dur-
ing the war of independence, Don Ferdinand, though he has
incurred' the punishment of military degradation and death,
as guilty of the infamous crime of adultery, is condemned
to imprisonment in the convent of Cabrera, until the
King shall please to order his release i that Madame de S.
shall remain in the convent of Las Salesas, or iii that
of Las Arrepentidas (of Repentance), until her husband
shall consent to take her back, but that, in all cases,

she must not quit the convent before the expiration of a
year ; and lastly, that M. de S. -is exhorted to pay mere
attention to his wife in future, and to show himself more
vigilant. The Colonel, it appears, is not satisfied with
this judgment, sa he yesterday appealed from it to a mili-
tary commission, and the King has deigned to name as
President, M. de Casternes, Counsellor of the Royal and
Supreme Council of War. In his first interrogation, Doll
Ferdinand denied all the facts. He said that he had never
received any letters from Madame de S.; that he had
never given any to her husband ; that the letters produced
have been forged by his enemies to ruin him, and that M.
de S.'s motive for accusing him is to get separated from
his wife, and have her shut up in a convent. The most
celebrated members of the Madrid bar are engaged by the
respective parties in this singular cause.

We have learned that Madame de S.'s eldest daughter,
aged seven years, has just died. Since her mother's flight,
this child was incessantly crying for her, and refused to
take food until her mother came back. The aliments which,
after a lapse of several days, they contrived to make her
take, have caused a malady which, added to her grief,
have precipitated her into an early grave l—(Letter from
Madrid.)

The organ of early destructiveness sometimes ex-
hibits itself in a droll way. The mother of a family was the other
day saying, that as soon' as the youngest child was of aucA an age,
slit should break up the nursery. mamma !" *AM one of
thit elnidren, " that will he fine sport—l'll break ~p
the chairs,
and John shall break up the tables."