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THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Attatt. 12.
This being the first day of Easter Term, the Loan Crum-
CELLOR, the other Judges, and the principal Law Officers as-
sembled in Lincoln's-inn-hall, with the customary formalities.
At about one o'clock the Loan CitaweEumn took his seat
on the Bench. His Lonnst;tp stated; that he should not be
able to give judgment in the cases of " Wellesley v. the Duke
of Beaufort," and " Ex-parte Orimsteatl," until Tuesday
morning. Nothing interesting took place befote the rising of
the Court.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, APRIL 12.
COLLINS v. MAR'L'IN.
Mr. SHADWELL moved fur an injunction to restrain the
defendant from publishing engravings frau two paintings
which he had sold to plaintiff' for 8001. The subjects were
Belshazzar's Feast and Joshua commanding Me Sun to stand
still; and when disposing of the pictures, Alt. Martin stipulat-
ed that he would publish- no engravings from them whilst they
remained in the plaintirs possession.
Mr. HART and Mr. BannEe'resiiied the motion on behalf
of Mr. Martin, whose affidavit stated, that the engravings
which he was about to publish were,not taken from the paint-
legs . in' question, but from etching` which he had previously
made, and to which he had made some addLiuns front his
gination.
The litcE.CtraxeEttoe said, that since the engravings
`had not been made from the paintings sold to Mr. Collins, hut
from etchings in .which that gentleiust had no propertyi he felt
himself bound to refuse the injunction. -

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, APRIL 12.
This Was the first day of Easter Term. Air. Justice Hot..
ROTA sat in the Bail Court till half.past 1 o'clock, when, the
Judges took their seats in the usual place.

TILE SLING v. 111/ORES.
This wee an information filed against the defendant, calling
on him to shew by what authority he claimed to exercise the
office of Mayor of Stafford. The cause was tried at the last
Stafford Assizes, before Mr. Justice Park. The defendant had
pleaded only one plat, setting forth a (Marter of the 12th James
1., whereby the mode of election was prescribed.
Mr. CAMPBELL, by consent of the Learned Judge, now
moved for a rule to shew cause why the verdict for the defend-
ant should not be set aside, and a verdict entered for the Crown,
on the ground of the insufficiency of evidence.—ltule granted.
The LORD CHIEF .iusTlcr: stated, it might be convenient
for Gentlemen at the Bar to understand that it had been arrang-
ed to take the business of the next week in the following order :
—On Monday, the Peremptory Paper; Tuesday, the Special
Paper; Wednesday, Motions for new trials; on Thursday,
Motions fur judgment; Friday, the Special Paper; and Satur-
day, Motions for new trials; and also that it would be open for
any Gentleman to move for judgment on any day besides Thurs.
day. His Lordship further intimated, that one of his Learned
Brothers would sit every morning at half-past nine, in the Bail
Court, and another also in this Court at the same hour, to take
motions of course ; and at 10 o'clock, all the Judges would
take their scats, to proceed with the usual buiiness.

ADDIti:TION 0? MISS TURNER.
T;I4DAI. applied to the Court that Wm. Wakefield. who
had been committed to Lancaster Castle, charged with aiding
and assisting in the recent abduction of Miss Turner, might be
admitted to bail. The prisoner now appeared in Court, having
been brought up by writ of habeas Corpus, in the custody of
Mr. Higgins, the gaoler of Lancaster Castle.
The depositions of Miss Turner, as well as those of her
father, and of Miss Dolby, of Liverpool, were read, reciting
the facts which have been already before the public. Theyoung
lady stated, that having been inveitiled from the protection of
Miss Dolby, Mr. Edward Gibbon AV akefield,' with the assist-
ance of his brother William Wakefield, and Thevenot, the
servant, succeeded in enticing her along with them, by constan
promises of her meeting her father at each new stage whicht
they reached. At Kendal Mr. Wakefield pndeeeived her with
regard to the supposed illness of her mother, and he then as-
sured her, and frequently afterwards repeated, that such was
the desperate state of her father's aff::+-at that he could not hope
to retrieve his fortune, or to appease th:hostility of his (Wake.
field's) uncle, whom he represented as Ir. Turner's principal
creditor, by any other means than by a union between his
daughter and him (Edward Wakefield ) Miss Turner's de.
position concluded with a positive declaration that she would
never have acquiesced in the ceremony which was pertbrmed
at Gretna, had she not been persuaded that such was her
father's desire, and that it wits the only means of preserving
her family from ruin.
The Learned Counsel, on behalf of Mr. Wakefield, sub-
mitted that as no force had been used, the offence did not come
within the statute; the only two statutes under which the e,tse
was comprehended, were the 3d Henry VII. c. 2, against
forcible abduction and afterwards marrying, and the 4th and
sth Philip and Mary, c. 8, against fraudulently taking away
and marrying In Fullwood's case, Croke Charles, 485, fierce
was found in one county, and a voluntary consent in the next,
and it was therefore held not to he a continuing fierce; and in
the case of the Gordon% taking away a lady of the name of Lee,
the moment a consent was found to have taken place, the pro-
secution was stopped.
Mr. Justice lIAYLEY.—But in the case of the " King v.
Brown," where the woman consented, the prisoner was con.
victed and executed. She had quitted home, not knowing what
was intended, and afterwards married him.

Mr. TINDAL—I believe, my Lord, there was a force in
taking her away : a confederate of the prisoner inveigled Lucy
Ramsay into a coach in the park ; the prisoner then got in, de-
tained her, and took her to his lodgings in the Strand, and per-
suaded her the next morning to marry him ; intwiediately after
which he was apprehended. And, in the case of the " King
v. Swainson," State Trials. 1709, tried at the bar of this Court,
the evidence of Miss Rallins, the lady who had been carried
away by face, was, that she was at the time acting under the
impulse of terror. _

The ATTentwEv.OENER M., for the prosecution, contended
that Miss Turner having been carried away by means of fraud,
it was quite sufficient to bring the case within the statute. In
cases of burglsry, where proof of tnreffile entry was required,
if the entry was obtained by fraud, it, was consifiered a con.
structive force; and so, by anahN:ry, in the present case. How
could her conduct be attributed to any thing else, when, by
creating in her mind an erroneous impression, she was induced
to do that which, under any other circumstances, she would not
have done ?

The LORD CH) Er JUSTlCE.—Supposing this to be a felony,
Air. Attorney General, is it a capital offence ?
The ATTORNEY (iENERAL.—No, my fiord : by the Ist.
Cleo. IV., c. 116, the capital part, as far as relates to this king-
dom, is repealed, and the punishment altered to transportation
for life, or ►even years, at the discretion of the Court.
11Ir. Justice IlAvi.Er.—Have you any case where the
marriage has taken place subsequently out of the kingdom ?
The ATTORNEY" GENERAL.—No, my Lord; taking away
for marriage is the offence. Ile writes„ ti letter in England
stating her to be his wife; but the marriage takes place over
the border; and I submit that a question of such great moment
should not be disposed of in a summary way.
'I he Long CH LET JUSTICE.—Mi this is a case of consider-
able importance, the Court will take time to consider of it. Let
the prisoner continue in the same custody, and probably to-
morrow morning the Court will be prepared to decide on this
application.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, APRIL 12.
This being the first day of Term, the Court assembled as
usual, at a late hour, and no business of importance took place.

PREROGATIVE COURT, APRIL 12.
))KW V. CLARKE. s .

Yesterday Sir Joit;TishctioLs proceeded to deliver the
judgment of the Court in the above cause. Ail its details have
been so frequently before the public during the previous stages,
it will be unnecessary to repeat them here. It may however
be necessary to remind our readers that the suit is promoted by
Mrs. Dew, for the purpose of revoking and setting aside the
t
will of her deceased father, who, under the influence of a
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wilo knew
fn e his i s
herii ropuenrittyedanind
effects
ct, praising
e to
the sat gestrange delusion with regard to her moral character, bequeathed
tle
While every
one
tion with
conduct,
which she treated her father, and the propriety and
deeor
friends and strangers as a profligate and abandoned creature ;
r penderness and tante-
rrennt strs tg.inatised her to
and persecuted her with a relentless and unnatural cruelty.—
'!'he tionthreortesthtftetoCio=r was,
influence of a deluded
trwas, whether the deed wax,
dictatedquestion
by q
and disordered imagination ; or whelher he was of sound
intellect at the time ? In order to illustrate these propo-
sitions, the Learned Jadge reviewed and commented upon
the evidence at considerable length ; the chief portion of
which, he said, bore him
out in the assertion, that