The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-31 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

John Inkersole, St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, corn-
dealer, Feb. 2S, at twelve, at the Falcon Inn, St. Neot's.
Tkomas Litters()le, St. Next',, Huntingdonshire, tallow-
chandler, Feb. 23, ut two, ut the Falcon Inn, St. Neut.'s.
Henry Ineledon Johns, Devonport, Devonshire, banker,
Feb. IS, at eleven, at Elliott's Hotel, Devonint.
( balks Baxter, Ipswich, Suffolk, linen-draper, Feb. 20,
at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.

Robett Henry Love. High-street, St. Gile;s, painter,
Feb. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Cotnniinioners.
Matthias Archibald Robinson, Red Lion-street, Hol-
born, grocer, Feb. 2Q, at one, at the Court of Commis-
sioners.

Alfred Smith, Mark-lane, corn-dealer, Feb. 20, al
twelve, at the Court of Commi.Asioners.

Alexander Goudge, Spital-square, paviour, Feb. 20, at
twelve, at the court of Commissioners.

James Harris, King-street, Middlesex, linen—draper,
Fel). '4-'4, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.

Chitties Pearne, M,thlstone, Kent, grocer, Feb. 20, at
one, at the Court of CA' mnivsiont.rs.
Moses Alabul, Bury-street, St. James's, merchant, Feb.
24, at eleven, at the Court of Coannis,iouers. •

William Herbert Smith, Kennington. aiiro-printer,
Feb. 20, at one, at the Court of Cominissioners.

William Snuith, feting-street, Seven Dials, printer, Feb.
r, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.
David Bryce, Liverpool, cabinetmaker, March 4, at
one, at the office of Mr. R. Finlow, solicitor, Liverpool.
1.1. Heaton, Haworth, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted-
spinner, Feb. 21, at ten, at the White Swan Inn, Habfec.
William Pennington, Croithwaite, Westmorland, paper-
maker, Feb. 20, at three, at the Commercial Inn, Kendal.
John Wilkinson; Sheffield Park, Sheffield, coal-mer-
chant, Feb.. 29, At one, at the George Intl, Sheffield.
Joseph, I.4wFtwe; Antl Jelin Neethease, Hebden•

bridge, Halifax, cotton-spinners, Ikb. 24, at ten, at the
Star Inn, Manchester.

Charles Grinstead and John Lanham, Horsham, Sussex,
bankers, Feb. 20, at two, at the White Horse Inn,
Steyning.
CERTIFICATES.—FusanAnv 20.

Christopher Gallaway, Prospect-row, Walworth, car-
penter.
Samuel Jacobs, Fleet-market, fruit-salesman.
John Serbutti Old Swan, Battersea, victualler.
Thomas Trasler, Northampton, boot-maker.
George Henry Beaumont, Commercial-place, City-road,
corn-dealer..
Reuben Joseph, Somerset-street, hatter.
Joseph Brook, Honley- Wood - Bottom, Yorkshire,
clothier.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
'l'. Dobson and S. Baker, London, merchants.
T. Dobson, 11. Glover, and S. Baker, London, silver-
smiths.
T..W. Green and J. J. Bennett, Plymonth,linen-drapers.
11. Heys and J. Fairclough, Manchester, commission-
agents.
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R. Bothell and J. Udall, Wood-street, Cheapside,
warehousemen.
E. and E. Edwards, York-place, Kentish•-town, ladies'
seminary.

W. sitd J. Ellam, Ashborne, Derbyshire, tobacco, and
*DU ff manufacturers.

John Burns and Joseph Walker, jun., Wakefield, 'cOrn-
merchants.

Thomas Rayner, and •William Baker, carfenters, Cris-
pinbstreet, Sritalfields.
John Creswell and Edward Creswell, Barrow-on-Sour,
Leicestershire, farmers.
Thomas Roberts and Alfred F. W. Jeston, Malmsbury,
Wilts, surgeons.
William Holmer, James W. Martyr, and Richard Moser,
High-street, Southwark, ironmongers.
John Obadiah Newell Rutter and Charles Brown, Ly-
minztou, wine-merchants.
William and Charles Eley, Paternoster-.row, silver-
smiths.

ANOTHER FEMALE HUSI3AND.

(From the Chdtenhani Chronicle.)

• Having read in your last number the parti-
culars of a very extraordinary case of setual de-
ception, under the head of " The Female Hus-
band," I beg leave to send,you tor insertion an
account of a somewhat similar instance which
occurred many years ago. in Birmingham, and
which is reported in a curious work (now put of
print) entitled " Court of Requests ; their na-
ture, utility, and powers. described, with a variety.
of cases, determined in tha; of Birmingham, by
W. Hutton, F.A.S.S."---The case is headed
Betty John," and the following is a brief state-
ment of the facts which appeared in evidence
I am, Sir, yours-, Ike.
• AN INHABITANT.
A plaintiff wished to sue a person in the Birming-
ham Court of Requests, . but • hot knowing whether
the party was male or female, was at a loss by what
name to begin. The defendant had been known
many years in Birmingham, in thedress and charac-
ter of a woman, called Elizabeth, and bid been many
years known in the dress, and character of a man,
who answered to the name of John. The plaintiff,
after many fruitless enquiries, determined to trap
the person, let the sex be what it would; therefore
filled up the summons with Elizabeth alias John
Haywood,
'Whatever was the gender, the animal appeared
before the Court in a female habit, was rather ele-
gant, of a moderate site, tolerably" hardsome, about
thirty-two, had a firm countenance and manly step,
no beard, susceptible of love, a voice tending to the
masculine, with engaging manners, and was rather
sensible. A husband was pleaded in bar, and that
the Court had no power over a wife. The trial
continued three or four days, during which, the de-
fendant acquired the appellation from the people of
Betty John. The Court was uncommonly crowded.
The women could have pulled its cap, and tossed it
in a blanket, for verging upon their sex. The men
listened with great attention, Expectation marked
every face.—As it appeared in the Court in a female
dress, I shall take the liberty of treating it with a
feminine epithet.
It appeared from undoubted evidence, that whilst
she dressed like a man, she was suspected to be a
woman, but in both dresses was strongly suspected
to be a man. The common opinion of the ignorant,
who knew her, was, that she was an hermaphrodite,
partaking of both sexes.
While the defendant carried a male dress, she
spent her evenings at the public with her male com-
panions, and could, like them, swear with a toler-
able grace, get drunk, smoke tobacco, make love to
• the girls, and now and then kick a bully. Though
she pleaded being a wife, she had really been a hus-
band; for she courted a young woman, married her
and lived together in wedlock, till the young woman
died, which was some years after. She afterwards,
like the people of higher rank, kept a mistress, and
ran away with her.
Forcible evidences, like these, were sufficient to
convince the wisest head epon this Bench, or any
other, that a man in disguise stood before them.
Her wife living peaceably with her all her days,
without one complaint of a breach of the marriage
covenant, evinced there was no defect. Neither
would a girl sacrifice her reputation, by becoming a
mistress to a woman in breeches. Her being well
versed in the art of kicking, farther proved she was
a man, because it is an art never thoroughly under-
stood by the beautiful part of the creation, nor
has it been practised since the days of Queen
Elizabeth. Again, she spoke but little, which was
no indication of her being a woman.
Under these masculine proofs, the Court, not con-
vinced she was a wife, asked if she could produce
any proofs of being married ? She answered in the
affirmative. This evidence, the next court-day, only
went to prove, that a man had lived with her in the
capacity of a husband. But as instances might be
produced of a man and %vomit cohabiting together,
without being married, the plea was rejected. She
was therefore asked, if she could bring a certificate
,of her murriage ? She would try. The certificate,
on a subsequent day, was produced, but, like a Bir-
mingham bill drawn without effects, it passed from
hand to hand for inspection, but was returned with
great indifference, without an acceptance. A scrap
of paper, it was observed, containing a few simple
wards, might be drawn for a penny by a school-boy.
The Court, not satisfied she was a wife, and no
farther evidence appearing, entered an order against
her. On her neglecting payment, she was served
with an execution and committed to pi ison. Two
days after, it appeared from incontestible proof, that
she was a real woman, and a real wife; that. her
husband then resided in Shropshire. The Coth-:
missioners, sensible of the injury done her, wishe4
Ito make reparation ; but their powera view extinct,
and she cancelled the dvtaliy a confinement of
forty days.

A gold medal has been awarded by the Royal
Humane Society to that gallant and di.tinguislied Midship-
man Mr. P. liwl%ip, forme' ly of his Majesty's ship Genoa,
and now of the Wasp, for saving the lives of two men,
who had accidentally fallen overboard, at the
risk of his own life.—Plymouth tf0.z.v7142.
A free pardon has been granted to the two
Frenchmen tried at the last Westminster Sessions, on
the ground, it is said, of the objectionable manner in which
the case Went to the jury.
A gentleman, who lately left London for
Russia, by steam, actually breakfasted in ,Moscow 912 the
13th morning after his departure.