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On Wednesday last an adder, 224,- inches in
length, was killed in the Beacon, near Penrith, whilst
basking on a sand-bank, exposed to the sun.—Carlisle
Journal.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.) 1
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 15.-The four bomb-vessels
which were ordered, on Saturday last, to he pre-
pared for commission, are proceeding with at the
Dock-yards where they lie, with all the despatch .of
which the mechanics -are capable, in their usual
working hours. The men are not employed out of
their common course of time, nor is the Govern-
ment put to any extra expence in 'their equipment.
The. urgency of the service; it Appears, is not of a
nature to require it. Captain William Fletcher iv
appointed to the_Terror, at this port; she may be
rigged and ready to go out of the harbour in about
ten days. Captain George Haye is appointed to
the Erebus, at Plymouth; Captain E. T. Hoste to
the Etna, and Captain Edward W. Gilbert .to the
Infernal, at Deptford. The steam-vessels, to'which
Lieutenant-Commanders have been appointed, are
to have each two Admiralty Mates and twelve men
as a crew. The statement which we find made in
some of the London papers, of other ships of war
being ordered to be put into preparation for active
service, is not correct.
The following is an extract from a letter which
we have received from Rio Janeiro, by the Frolic
packet, arrived at Plymouth" on Tuesday :--
" Rio JANEIRO, OCT. 23.—The Frolic packet,
Lieutenant Barron, sails for England to-day, taking
100 bars of, gold, for the Imperial Brazilian Mining
Association (under, Captain Lyons', management),
and other freight—altogether about 350,000 dol-
lars, for merchants. We have no particular news;
the Emperor continues his preparations for war with
the Buenos Ayreans, but in a sorry sort of way.
Skirmishes between the Buenos Ayrean privateers
and the Brazilian brigs of war take place constantly
in sight of us. A few days since a Buenos Ayrean
privateer, commanded by a Frenchman, boarded
every vessel that went out of port, and succeeded in
beating off a Brazilian brig war, within five miles of
the city. The Emperor has just purchased a vessel
called the Robert Fulton (recently a steam-ship, ply-
ing between New-YOrk, Charleston, and the Ha-
' vannah), for the River Plate. Her draught of water
beingsmall, she will, if well manned, be of much
service. The Forte and Beagle are.the only 'ships'
at present here ; the Ganges is daily expected from
Bahia.. The French force here is, 'a 64-gun frigate,
bearing a Rear-Admiral's flag, and four brigs. The
American frigate, .Macedonian, Commodore Biddle,
sailed to-day for Monte Video. We have had no
recent news from the River Plate.

" A motion had been brought forward by:Don
Diego Antonio Tejo, to petition' his Holiness the
Pope to permit the Priests to marry. It was op-
posed by the Bishop of Bahia • but -ultimately or-
dered to be printed, that it might be generally can-
vassed at the earliest period."

Admiral Sir John Gore reached Marseilles on the
29th ult., in nine days from the Admiralty, on his
mission from the Lord High AdMiral to Sir Edward
Codrington. The Admiral hired a vessel instantly
to take him to Malta.

The Chanticleer, 10, at this port, and the Hecla,
10, at Deptford, are ordered to be fitted out for
scientific purposes. Captain Henry Forster, who
lately obtained the Royal Society's medal, for,some
very ingenious and important observations on Mag-
netism, made by him while in the Northern Expe-
dition, is to command the 'Chanticleer, in which
vessel he is to navigate the seas of the Southern
hemisphere, for the purpose of determining the true
latitude and longitude of the principal places, and
other scientific observations there. Capt. Botaler;

who was employed in exploring and surveying the
Eastern Coasts of Africa, under Captain Fitzwil-
liam Owen, is to take the Hecla to the Western
Coast of Africa, for a similar purpose in that quarter.
Yesterday the Starling, Lieutenant Moffat, arriv-
ed from a cruise; and this day the Vigilant, Lieute-
nant Meredith, !:rom Plymouth. Remain at Spit-
head—Undaunted, Pearla, and Tiger (POrtuguese),
and about 20 sail of outward-bound merchantmen.
In the Harbour—Victory, Revenge, Melville,
Maidstone, Mersey, Britomart, Chanticleer, Onyx,
Bramble.
The crew of the Undaunted frigate, Captain A.
W. J. Clifford, C. 8., was to be paid wages to-day,
preparatory to proceeding to Plymouth, to embark
Lord and Lady William Bentinck and suite, for In-
dia. The Undaunted will touch 'at Rio Janeiro, on
the passage out;" and, if Lord Amherst should not
have taken his departure from Calcutta in the He-
rald yacht, she will return to England witti his Lord-
ship and family.
The Malta transport, Lieutenant Wentworth,
with stores and provisions for Malta, will sail in a
few days.
The Sybille, Commodore Collier; C. 8.,, on the
28th September sent into Sierra Leone the Brazi-
lian brig Henriquita, with 563 slaves on board.
(From the Deronport Telegraph of Saturday.)

The Lord High Admiral will leave his • seat, at
Bushy, to-morrow, for Portsmouth,. to attend the
examination of the students on
,Tuesday, in the Na-
val College, preparatory to the Christmas vacation.
His Royal Highness will then proceed on to this
port by land, to present the new colours to this di-
vision of Royal Marines, which ceremony is appoint-
ed to take place on Thursday next. The Lord High
Admiral; while here, will inspect the Clarence, new
74, recently built at Milford. ,
A new code of signals, we understand, is to be
brought into general use in the navy, as soon as pos-
sible, after the Ist of January next.
The Vigilant ketch, Lieut. Meredith, sailed on
Thursday evening for Portsmouth; with Captain
Branch, and other supernumeraries, for his Majesty's
ships Mersey and Maidstone.
The Ann and Amelia transport is expected here'
hourly, on her way to Malta.
Letters have been received from the Herald, 10,
Captain Astley, dated of the Cape of Good Hope,
6th September, all well. The Herald did not touch
at the Cape, but passed on to Madras, with Mr.
Lushington. The crew had been put on short allow-
ance of water.
The Frolic packet brig, Lieut. T. C. Barron, ar-
rived on Tuesday with mails and despatches from
Rio de Janeiro, having been blown past Falmouth
by the strong westerly winds. She left Rio on the
23d of October, and Bahia on the 31st, where the
Ganges, Vice-Admiral Sir R. VV. Otway, and the
Forte, Captain Coghlan, were lying, all well. The
Frolic sailed for Falmouth on Thursday.
His Majesty's ship Volage is now on her passage
from South America for England. Vice-Admiral
Sir Charles Paget, it is reported, will succeed Vice-
Admiral Plampin, in the command in Ireland. •
Extract of a letter from an officer of his Ma-
Asia, dated Malta, 7th Nov. 1827
jgcesrity;ish
The ship
pact circumstances which brought on the
battle of Navarin were as follow :—At about 2 p.m.
on the 20th October, the Asia, followed by the al-
lied squadrons, entered the harbour of NavFin,
where the Turkish and Egyptian fleets lay moored,
in the form of a crescent. On' the appearance of
the Asia at the mouth of the harbour, a Turkish
boat with an officer came alongside, and told the
Admiral that his entrance was to be prevented, by
order of Ibrahim Pacha; whereupon Sir Edward
Codrington said, o I am not come to receive orders,
lint to give orders to your Ibrahim, which he shall
obey too, and if a single shot be fired, I will sink all
your fleet." We accordingly expected the forth to
fire, but they allowed us to enter unmolested. The
Dartmouth frigate and the brigs were appointed to
remove four fire-vessels, lyin& at the entrance of the

• .
harbour. . On the Dartthouth sending a boat to.the
nearest fire-ship, to take her out of the way, the
brulot fired into her, andicillell Lieutenant Fitzroy,
and a Midshipman. The Dartnionth returned a fire
of musketry,• and the battle then became general.
We'Were anchored near an 84,:hroadside on, with a
large'double-banked frigate and.two corvettes astern.
Atirst the 84 only,fired, and Admiral de Rigny,
who saw the effects of.our broadside, said it was as
if a multitude of shipwrights were pulling her to
pieces, and that it made a bole in one place large
enough to receive our main-mast. So effectual was
our fire, that she was in a shoit time completely
silenced, having 640 men killed out of 800. We
arrived at Malta on the 2d. • The Russians are in
the offing,' and'Will be-itv, to-morrow. The Genoa,
Albion, and Asia, Rre .going' home to be repaired."
In framottze—Britanniii, Ocean, Windsor Castle,
Tamar, Linnet.
Island=-Royalist and Nightingale.
In the Sound-7136t0n, Challenger, Bittern, Lord
Suilield transport. .

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 17.

THE KING OF SPAIN V. HllLiftri" ANL OTTIERS.
The argument 'of the demurrer in this ease, the.
particulars of which have been often stated, was
fixed for three o'clock to-day, and it was settled that
only one. Counsel should be heard on each side.
Sir C. WETIIERELL opposed, and Mr. RUSSELL
supported the demurrer, which was filed on the
ground of the misjoinder of the plaintiff, the King,
with the agents appointed on behalf of the Spanish
Government. The argument occupied the remainder
of the day.

ROLLS' COURT, DEc. 17.
•
• . JUDGMENT.
THE ATTORNEY••GENERAL 'V. THE BISHOP OF ELY.

This was an information and bill filed by the At-
torney-General at the instance of the Rev. B. White,
Vicar of Stradbrook, in Suffolk, praying a declara-
tion of the COurt, that the vicarage had been en-
dowed in 1661, pursuant, to the pastoral letter of
King Charles 11., and that the Bishop might be de-
creed- to grant a renewal of the lease of the said
vicarage, according to the statute of the 29th
Charles 11. c. 8.

•By King Charles's letter of the Ist of June, 1661,
addressed to all. Bishops,' Deans, Prebends, and
othei ecclesiastical dignitaries, " for the purpose of
encouraging alodly ministry," thiise persons were
exhorted by the►r p►ety, and for the benefit of their
poorer brethren, the vicars and curates, to , make
augmentations of . such of their appropriated or irn-
propriated rectories, as were then in an impoverished
state. In consequence of this, a .general augmen-
tation of vicarages took place ; and by the statute of
the 29th Charles 11., c. 8., pass©d a few years after-
wards, such augmentations were rendered perpetual.
On the 10th of March,' 1682, a lease of the vicarage

in question, from the then Bishop of Ely to the than
Vicar, was made. The intention, as stated in one
of its clauses, was " to make some augmentation to
the Vicar of Stradbrook for the time being ;" and it
was granted for a term of 21 years, at an annual
rent of 81., payable to the Bishop. This lease was
renewed at the end of every 21 years, at a similar
rent, on payment of a fine of 60 guineas, it appearing
to have been considered by each succeeding Bishop,
that it was a lease made. in augmentation of the
vicarage, pursuant to King Charles's letter of 1661.
On the expiratiOn of the last lease, howeVe;fra few
months back, the present Bishop refused to grant a
renewal, on the ground that the vicarage had never
been endowed, and that he was not, therefore, bound
to grant a beneficial lease of a. valuable living at so
small a fine as 60 guineas, and an annual rent of only
Si. The main question therefore was, whether the
vicarage had or not been endowed pursuant to King
Charles's letter in 1661.
The MASTER of the ROLLS now gave judgment.
His Honour 6bserved,
,that the circumstance of en-
joyment of the vicarage by the, respective vicars,
under'renew'able leases for nearly 150 years, afforded
strong presumption in favour of the present Vicar's
claim. .It could hardly be supposed that renewals
of •benefieial leases had, from time to time, for so

long a period been demanded by the successive
Vicars, mad granted by the Bishops, unless some
ground existed for presuming that the vicarage had
been endowed pursuant to King Charles's letter. By
the terms of that document, a lease made in the form

of that of the 10th of March, 1682, must be con-
sidered as intended to be an augmentation in favour
of the Vicar. The statute of the 29th of Charles 11.,
which was subsequently passed, rendered all augmen-
tations " of what) nature or kind soever" perpetual;
and therefore the only question was, whether prior
to -1682 there' existed a lease made by way of en-
dowment upon the issuing of the King's letter in
1061. His Honour then recapitulated the facts
leading to the presumption that there had been a
lease made in,1661 ; and observed that the long
acquiescence on, the part of the respective Bishops
rendered it impossible to rebut that presumption by
the facts that had been brought forward on the part
of the defendant. The presumption arising from
long enjoyment of such a valuable property as the one
in question was so powerful, that according to every
principle of law and of reason, the Court was bound
to declare that the fact of the endowment had been
sufficiently established, and that the Vicar was en-
titled to a renewal of the lease. " It necessarily
follows," said hiS Honour, " that the Bishop of
Ely must pay the costs of this suit."
When /the cause was heard on Friday last, the
Counsel on .both sides wcfe anxious to have it un-
derstood that nothing personally hostile between the
Bishop of Ely and the present Vicar of Stradbrook
was intended by these proceedings. The Bishop,
being desir&us of ascertaining the value of his see,
had determined to resist the claim for renewal of a
valuable lease at so small a line as 60 guineas, and
had caused it to be intimated to the Vicar, on his
being presented to the living in 1823, that the right
to a renewal would- be contested. It was stated
also, that the tithes, consisting of corn, grain, and
hay, were of very considerable value, and that a lease
at this time would be worth from 1,500/.. to 2,0001.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 17.
THE ICING C. BRADLEY.
This was an indictment against Colonel Bradley
for a libel, reflecting 'on General Fuller. The case
has been so repeatedly before the public, that we
? details.
fol•bear. The Jury found the
defendanten entering
rng
Guilt

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DECEMBER. 17.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIA9E.
SCOTT V. WIKENDEN. j -

(Concluded from our Paper of yesterday:
Mr. Coltsworth—l am the principal cleric to Mr.
Hawkins, who is a stock-broker. I have been in that
situation nine years. I live in Coborn-road, Mile-end,
and know the plaintiff and the defendant. The former
I have known about 4 years, and the latter about 7.
I am married to Miss Sarah Scott, I recollect the
defendant's speaking to me, about the middle of
March last, to introduce him to a wife. We have
had repeated conversations on the same subject. He
did not then wish to be introduced to Miss Martha,
but to some lady; and in consequence I did. intro-
duce him to Miss Martha, at my lodgings, in the
house of Mr. King. The introduction was on the
last Saturday in March or the first in April. It was
between six and .seven o'clock when the defendant

came. I invited the parties to tea; nothing particu-
lar then occurred. The plaintiff was accompanied
by her sister, who is my wife. In the course of the
evening the ladies went out, and he then said I think
it will do, and before they came in again he asked
me if I could prolong their stay till Monday. They
were at that time living with Mr. Smith,their uncle,
whose houste was nearly opposite mine. I said I
should have nothing to do with that; he was a man,
and must act for himself: the ladies returned, and
dressed to go home, and he and I accompanied them.
We did not go in. He separated from us before they
got home. In the course of the evening he invited all
of u; todine with his mother,: who lived in St.Mary-
le-Strand-place, Kent-road. I• next sawhim oil the
Monday following, btu I am not aware that any thing
particular passed. I saw him frequently at theßank of
England; andhad conversation with him, He never
said any thing more than that he should wish the
thing to be done off hand; as he was here to day and
away to-morrow. I
said . it would be strange to
marry one day, and go to sea the next. He is the
master of a West Indiaman. He asked if I meant
tomarry the sister, and signified that he should like
to be married on the same day. I never told him
when I should be married. Oe the 23d of April,
being a holyday, I met the -delendant'in the Mile-
, end-road, and he said as it was a holiday with me,
it would be a good opportunity to get the licence,
and I went with him to Great Knight-rider-street,
Doctors' Commons, and procured a licence. This
is it. He afterwards came to me to the Bank, and
said, " Well, we have settled the business,—it is to
be on the sth of May." I said if it was on the Ist,
I should have a holyday and could go with them.
He said, " Well, if you can't go, • perhaps you can
meet us afterwards " Something in business then
interfered, and the conversation was broken. I was
not present when he fixed any particular day with
the plaintiff. On the 23d, after having procured
the licence' we went to the Spaniards, at Hamp-
stead, and he gave an order for a dinner foi six per-
sons on the Ist of May. The defendant is a pan
of some. property. •
Cross-examined—The plaintiff is a very fine young
woman. I cannot tell what the defendant's accom-
plishments are. I don't know that be has any. He
may be an odd man who *does things off hand.
He had spoken to me often of marriage, but had not
told me to look out for him. He said he was in
want of a wife. I did not tell the defendant at first
that I myself contemplated marriage with one of the
family_ He learned that in a short tithe. My lodg-
ing was very near Mrs. Smith's. I had named to
them that-I knew a gentleman exceedingly anxious
to meet with a wife. I did not tell • them when I
invited them that this person would be there. I
told them a friend would be there. I had mentioned
his name before. When the la.dies went home, he
did not go home with them. I was not present
when he made a propoSal. 1 don't recollect that he
made any proposal within a day or two after the time
he said it would do. I remember the night they
went to the play, and heard the quarrel. I' have
heard that the quarrel was continued the next morn-
ing. He left his coat at my lodgings. I don't know
that ever I saw them together after that. The de-
fendant never complained to me that I had•deceived
him. MisS Sarah had for some time previous slept
sometimes at my lodgings, and sometimes at Mrs.
Smith's. She had slept occasionally at my lodgings
for a twelvenionth. I can't say precisely how many
times, but generally when Mrs. B.'s son was, at home.
I should think she did not sleep there 30 times. I
worst swear that she -slid not. It was not her general
sleeping place during the twelve months. I remem-
ber talking once with the defendant, when we saw
the plaintiff walking at some distance. She turned
down a street. That was before the quarrel about
the coat. Probably Sarah might have slept at my
house on the night previous. She slept there on
the night that they went to the play: He and I had
some warm words in part about Sarah's sleeping. at
my house. I was married on the .24th of May.—
Our marriage was to have taken place on the day
after the play,' and that was the reason that Sarah
did not go.
Re-examined—My wife slept in a front room at
Mrs. King's. I slept up stairs. Nothing improper
ever took place between her and me before our mar-
riage.• My age is 50, and her's about 26.
Mr. Sergeant WILDE did not by his examination
mean to cast the slightest imputation on the charac-
ter of Mrs... Coltsworth ;• he had only inquired into
the circumstance, as it had been alluded to by the
defendant.
Mrs. Coltsworth confirmed the testimony of her
husband, as to the repeated 'promises of marriage,
and added that in a conversation with the defendant
shelled told him that her sister had no property.
He replied that it was of no consequence, for he was
himself in the receipt of 3001. a year, and expected
4001. more on the death of a brother. (This wit-
ness also proved the conversation with the mother,
in which the defendant, urged the necessity of a
speedy marriage, as it was uncertain whether the
arrival of a certain ship would not compel him im-
mediately to leave England.) The witness then
went on to state, that they went to the play on a
Tuesday evening. He was then very angry with
her about a great coat, and he expressed himself in
a very rude and coarse manner. On the following
day my sister did not see him, and on the Thursday
evening he came to Mrs. Smith's and stayed a little
while. When I saw him afterwards, he asked me
for the money he had left for wedding cake, and I
accordingly returned it to him.. He then said, that
if my sister had any presents she wished to return,
they might be sent to his friend's house, in the Com-
mercial-road. During the time that he: was paying
attentions to my sister, I was not in the habit of
going out by myself and staying until eleven o'clock
at night.
Re-examined.—l cannot at all estimate the value
of the presents he made. My mother had got
clothes for my sister for the wedding. The gloves
and stockings were limited to one pair of each, and
he presented each of the persons who were to at-
tend the .wedding with the same. On one occasion
he gave her a bonnet, and as I was present he also
insisted on my acceptance of one. When he men-
tioned the amount of his property, he said he had
1,0001. or 2,0001. in the stocks, and in case of his
demise, his widow would be entitled to 3001. a year.
Mrs. Scott, the mother, proved that 16 or 17
years ago, she was left a widow with nine or ten
children at. home, and one at sea. When the de-
fendant applied to her for her consent to the mar-
riage, she objected on account of the precipitancy of
the step from so short an acquaintance. He replied
that he should never be better known, even after
years, than he was at that time. After having apt
prised him of the important step he was about to
take, witness at last gave her consent, at which he
expressed great satisfaction. Witness borrowed
money to purchase clothes for her daughter's mar-
riage. The plaintiff had no money of her own. At
the time that this occurred, the plaintiff had the
situation of a governess offered her in the family :of
a Mr. Nelson.
Mrs. Smith and Mrs. King confirmed the state-
ment of the preceding witnesses, as to the fact of
Mrs. Coltsworth having slept in the same house
with Mr. COltsworth beforethey Were married.sShe
slept on a sofa in the parlour, and he in a room
above. Both witnesses had informed the defendant,
when he inquired; that there was nothing improper
in her conduct, and said that he did not inquire till
after the quarrel about the coat.
Miss Lunn said, that the defendant called on her

and inquired if the family of the plaintifrwere
re-
spectable. She replied that she bad always consi-
dered them highly
.respectable. He did not ask if
the plaintiff had spent the preceding Sunday with
her, but in point of fact she had.
Mrs. Parkhurst—My husband is a comptroller of
Customs in the island of Antigua. I am half sister.
to the plaintiff, but for some time have not been on
terms of intimacy with her family. The defendant
called on me, and asked me if I knew the Misses
Scott. lie mentioned the sisters baring slept at
Mr. Coltsworth's, and I replied that it was very pro-
bable they were married as that was the case.
Mr. Nelson—l anr a merchant in the city. Miss
Martha Scott, in April last, was spoken of as a go-
verness in my family. An arrangement was wade
that Mrs. Nelson should meet her at a friend's house :
that meeting did not take place, and the arrangement
was not made. It was communicated to us that she
was about to be married.
This was the-plaintiff's case.
Mr. Sergeant Wittig (with whom was Mr. RI-.
enaans) addressed the 3ury for the defendant.—
The learned sergeant having for some time dwelt on
the solemnity of the appeal made to the jury, went
on to contend that where the parties did not appear
by nature or education to be suited to each other,
that it was wrong end injurious for them to marry ;
and he insisted that even after a long intimacy a man
might be warranted in breaking off from his
engagements with a woman in whose con-
duct he discovered something, however trifling,
which convinced hint he could not be happy
with her. Of what did they now complain ? That:
the plaintiff had lost a husband, True ; but was the
man whom she was so anxious to make her hus-
band one on whom she had placed the whole of her
affections? Washe a man to whom she hadgiven her
heart,-r-a man whom she really loved or esteemed ?
Surely not for if he had, she would have betrayed
some grief at Ms loss. In the present case, there
was no proof of wounded feelings, or broken spirit;
the plaintiff had not suffered .in her feelings. For
what, then, was the present action brought ? For
the
,sordid motive of obtaining pecuniary compensa-
tion ; and, indeed, the many verdicts lately given in
cases of this kind, seemed to have misguided the pub-
lic, and had led them to suppose that the mere retrac-
tion of a promise was sufficient ground to obtain da-
mages. But they did not know the facts upon which
those verdicts had been given. He admitted that
if a than rejected a woman from any selfish motives,
because he found he could marry a wealthier, leaving
her a prey to disappointed hopes and injured feel-
. ings, that would be a case calling for heavy and ex-
, emplary damages. That was not the case in the
present instance; the defendant had rejected the
plaintiff solely on the ground that he was not pleased
' or satisfied with the conduct and behaviour of her

family, and he had discovered several traits in her
own temper which convinced him that they should
not be happy together. If the plaintiff had been a
woman of delicacy or of feeling, she could never
have suffered the rapid advances of such a man as
the defendant, whose manners were rough and un-
polished in the extreme. The Learned Sergeant
liaving dwelt for a considerable time on the diffe-
rent points of the case, concluded by saying that
he did not think this was a case calling for any ag-
gravated damages.
Mr. Justice GASELEE, in summing up, said there
was no doubt. that even up to the very time of a
man's taking a woman to the altar, if he discovered
any thing in her conduct which would form a rea-
sonable ground for breaking off the match, he might
do so. Having gone through the whole of the evi-
dence his Lordship left it to the,jury to say whether
they thought the defendant was justified in breaking
off the match; if he wag, the plaintiff could not re-
cover. If, on the contrary, they thought he had no
reasonable ground for doing so, then their verdict
would be for the plaintiff, but for what an amount it
would be peculiarly for them to say.
The Jury, without the slighest hesitation, re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 300/.