The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-27 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

CITY, (Tuts DAY), Twelve o'clock.
There has been a perfect calm in the British Funds since the
commencement of business, which was very trifling ; Consols
opened, at 7Si 9, both for money and account, and have since
been 79, buyers and sellers, for account, at which price they have
continued up to the above hour, being now buyers at 79 ; India
Bonds, 46 S ; and Exchequer Bills, 25 7 pm. The Foreign
Funds evince a like dullness with the English Securities, and
scarcely a bargain has been made in them ; Mexican Bonds are
62i 34 ; Colombian, 314 2 ; Spanish 12 4 ; Portuguese, 731
44; and Russian, 86 , the only novelty is in Poyais Bonds,
Which were sold a short time since as curiosities, at a few shillings
for a 100/. Bond, and from some cause not apparent, have risen
to 30s. for the same sum. In Shares very little business is trans-
' acting, now and then we hear of a sale in two or three of these
speculations, but nothing of importance can be quoted, or any
alteration in prices, except Brazilian Mines, which are rather
better, and are now quoted at 33 24 dis. ; Colombian are, on the
contrary, a shade worse, being 13 15 per Shall..
Three per Cent. Consols, 79 ; Ditto for account, 79 ;
India Bonds, 46 8 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 25 7 pin.
Foal:lc:sr Fustns.—Brazilian, 60 1 ; Buenos Ayres, 54 6 ;
Chilian, 35 7 ; Danish, 584 9 ; Colombian, 1824, 314 2 ;
Mexican, 5 per Cent., 32 3 ; Ditto 6 per Cent., 62 34; Peru-
vian, 30 1 ; Portuguese, 734 44 ; Greek, 144 15 ; Russian,
86 4 ; Spanish, 12 4.
MlNEs.—Anglo Mexican, 35 30 dis. ; United Mexican, 114
104 dis. ; Brazilian, 34 24 dis. ; Real del Monte, 90 100 pm. ;
Tl;lpuxahua, 45 55 pm. ; Bolivar, 2 3 pm. ; Colombian, 13 15
per Share ; Potosi, 46 8 per Share. TWO Clock.
Consols remain steady at 79 4, with scarcely a bargain
doing. Three per Cents. reduced 79 4. Monday being the
Anniversary of his Majesty's Accession is a Holiday at both
Stock Exchanges.—Mexican Six per Cent. Bonds are rather
higher, 63a i; Spanish lower, 114 124.

THREE 0' CL 0 CAT.
Three per Cent. Consols for account, 79

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY.—(Tura DAT.)
AcELLESLEY V. DUKE OF BEAUFORT.
At a considerable time before the LORD CHANCELLOR came
[nto Court, which he did at 20 minutes past ten, it was filled in
every corner, in expectation of hearing the reply.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in rising to make that reply, con-
fessed that he felt it an extremely unpleasant task. Had it not
been that the other Counsel in the ease had, in their discretion,
thought it proper to go into the circumstances at large a second
time, the publicity that had been given to them needed not
to have been made; the pain of doing which had been materially
aggravated from the fact, that Mr. Wellesley had thought proper
to be in attendance during the whole of the discussion which ne-
cessarily went to assail the character of that individual on every
hand. Mr. Hart had been pleased to say, that the present course of
attack on Mr. W.'s character had been made for secondary pur-
poses; but he (Mr. Attorney-General) met that statement, by
saying, that Mr. W.'s character was alone the subject at issue ;
and he did not know he could have discussed the inca-
pability of a man to be the guardian of his children,
unless by demonstrating the perjury and the demorality of the
mind of that individual, which had been sworn to by several
witnesses. The Learned Counsel, in replying, would endeavour
to he as concise as possible, at the same time he would have
to take a review of the case from the very commencement
of the circumstances connected with it. Had he waived
his reply, such a course would hare been construed into an ac-
cedence with some of the general observations made by the other
side. He would commence his review of the case from the meet-
ing of Mr. W. Mrs. W. and Mrs. Bligh, at Naples. Mrs.
B. was the daughter of Colonel Patterson, and was brought
by his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from India to London, or
by his Grace's directions; after arriving in this country, she
was introduced at some parties to Mrs. W, at her princely man-
sion at Wanstead. It did not appear from the affidavits that
the acquaintance between Mr. W. and Mrs. B. had been
kept up till they met at Naples. In Naples, however,
they did meet; Mrs. W. did not then recognise Mrs. B. or re-
collect ever having. seen her, either at Wanstead, or any where
else. At Naples the acquaintance was renewed, and there, it was
sworn, Mr. Wellesley had been a party to the attempt
of effecting infanticide. The adulterous intercourse between
the two had taken place there ; and with a meanness, not
only moat unbecoming the high spirit of a gentleman, but
unmanly and disgraceful to any individual in the most
humble situation of life, Mr. Wellesley had endeavoured to per-
suade the Court that his amiable wife had been the procuress of
Mrs. B. into his family ; not only did Mr: W. insinuate this, but in
some parts, he had directly stated that the introduction of this
woman into his family was not only made by Mrs. Wellesley,
but made by her against his inclination ; but looking at all the
affidavits, at the state of slavish servility in which Mrs. W. had been
kept by Mr. W., and at the dominion and tyranny that he had ex-
ercised over her, no man in Court, the Learned Counsel contended,
would permit his judgment to be mocked and his understanding
insulted by Mr. W. saying, that it was not agreeable to his wishes
that Mrs. B. had been brought into his family. This had been
sworn to by Mr. W., and was, in Mr. Attorney-General's opinion,
a gross and moral perjury. In 1823, a party was formed to as-
cend Mount Vesuvius, of which Mr. and Mrs. B. formed two ; but
Mrs. W. was left behind, from a delicate state of health ; and there
it was stated, the improper intercourse between Mr. W. and
Mrs. B. took place. From Dr. Bulkeley's affidavit, it appeared
Mr. W. had been party to the consultations that took place with
Dr. 8., the object of which was get him to procure abortion. Sub-
sequently it was sworn, and admitted, that Mrs. B. left her hus-
band's house on the 31st July, 1823. Mr. W. had endeavoured
to make out, with equal meanness, falsehood, and perjury, with
his other statements, that this separation was owing to a quarrel
between her and her husband ; the truth, however, was, that the
adultry between her and Mr. Wellesley had been made public,
the result was, that she left her husband's home.
This latter part of this statement was made out by the affidavit of
tJhoihenwnNilteaersas dep;aonsdecnio where did perjury, on the part of Mr. W.,
appear to be more-clearly demonstrated than by this affidavit :
his master, Me. W' .that on the Ist of August, 1823, he saw
with his 1' •, in a most flurried and agitated state, and
Ts parched ; Mr. W. then stated to him—" they are
going to Play hell with me. Mrs. Bligh has left her husband ;
all I am afraid of is, the groom and' lady's maid ; you must go
to them, and offer them any thing, as these Blighs have not got
parohekthought theCou 1, on thave
a sons." Well might Mr. W. h
make an affidavit before the Consul at
day, for
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oo the flurried,v
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yagoiet agitated, dd,i
did he
course had taken place between at
his late wife's hands, for the that no improper inter-
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of persuading
B. which he put into
h her to believe
the most subtle dissecting knife, dissectedonsl
the statement it contained. The Counselr the other side had, with
caute-
rized the affidavit of Dr. B. from beginning to
en,dcut
ittit,tahnedhf
finding some morbid atom in it; and at last they with
tied upo thee
subject, by assigning falsehood to it, and declaring it to be a
hellish statement made to injure the parties. ll@ (Mr. At-
torney-General) had followed the knife of his Learned
Friends most minutely, by having read cover and over again,
every syllable in that affidavit, and in the affidavits bearing upon
the points mentioned in Dr. Bulkeley's; and if Dr. Bulkeley had
fabricated this hellish story, he hoped, that on the Doctor's bead
would fall the vengeance such a fabrication merited ; but if
the whole was substantially and decidedly true, as he firmly
believed it to be, was Mr. W. whose conduct was such as that affi-
davit depicted, and who had positively sworn, that Dr. Bulkcley
was perjured—a fit man to have the guardianship of his chil-
dren ? The affidavit made by Mr. Wellesley at Naples, was cer-
tainly alleged to be to satisfy the public that no adultery
had taken place ; but it was no doubt intended also to
deceive Mrs. W., for it had been shown to her for that
purpose. The 'affidavit of Mr. W. had been set up against both
the affidavits of Dr. B. and Meara; but if there were no other
affidavit against Mr. W.'s, and thohgh he were the discarded valet
of Mr. W., his affidavit was more worthy of credit than his ci-
devant master ; and it would be a degradation and total extirpation
of common sense to suppose, that Mr. Wellesley'e affidavit was
to outweigh both that of Dr. Bulkeley and Meara. In the Learned
Counsel's opinion, the statements in general in these two affidavits
were not only substantially true, but strictly correct in their most
minute parts, leaving the affidavit of Mr. W. a tissue of falsehcods.
—Mr. W. had gone on, even down to February 1826, swearing
that neither open nor clandestine adultery had taken place between
him and Mrs. Bligh, which (the Attorney-General) coolly and
deliberately, decidedly and advisedly, designated as gross and wilful
perjury. Mr. Horne has been moat unsparing in his reproach upon
Dr.Bulkeley, and particularly in alluding to the statement respect.
ing the challenge that had been sent to Mr. W. by Mr. B. Now,
the fact was, that Mr. Bligh had sent the challenge, which proved
his belief at that time of having been an injured man. The
people all at Naples believed that the adultery had taken
place; and Mr. Wellesley himself chewed his conviction
of Mr. B.'s justice to complain, by his having refused to meet
Mr. 8,, but having said he would refer it to the Duke
of Wellington and Lord Darnley, and that if they, or
either of them gave it as their opinion that Mr.
Wellesley ought to take the field, he would give
the meeting. The meeting, however, never was given ; a