The Sun.
London, England, 1818-05-30 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 29.--Thursday iLe following
Degrees were conferred

MASTERS OF ARTS.

Rev. Robert Tredcroft, of Christ Church, Grand Compounder,
Mr. Edward Burton, Student of Christ Chute!).
Rev. Henry Middleton, Demy of NLigdalen College.
Mr. Jel►n Penn Allen, of University College.
Rev. John Doyne, of Brasenose College.
Rev. Henry Daw.on, of Oriel College.
Rev. Thomas Hill Lowe, of Trinity College.
Rev. T howas Curser, of Baliol College.

BACHELORS of ARTS.
Mr. John Netherton Harward, Scholar of Worcester.
Mr. John Edward Willis, Demy of Magdalen College.
Mr. William Deedes, of Corpus Christi College.
Mr. William Thursby, of Oriel College..
John Henry Abbott, Esq.
Mr. Joseph Gould, :}of College.
Mr. John Henry Hume, > k,eholars
Mr. Charles Dupuis, Scholar of Pembroke College.
he number of candidates to whom Testimo.
niums for their Degrees were .given by the Public
Examiners, but who were wit -I(lttlitted into eithet
of the Classes., amounted to 78.

Lord LYNEDOCK, we are concer►►ed to state, is
confined to his apartment, at Warren's New Ho-
tel, New-street, in consequence of a tall from his
horse a few days since.
Six troops of the First Regiment of Essex
Yeomanry Cavalry, under the command of Col.
Hot) BLIN, viz. Captain TovNE.LL's,. Capt. HASEL-
FOOT'S, Captain SMOOTHEY'S, Captain POLLETT'S,
Capt. BURLEIGH'S, and Capt. GROVE'S, assembled
yesterday tit Braintree, to perform six days' per-
manent duty.

A house of rendezvous has been opened at Colic,
and anotiter at Cove, for seamen, by order of Ad-
miral Sir JOSIAH ROWLEY ; to the former of which
Lieutenant Al4CaaTni- has been appointed. This
measure has been the cause of much conjecture in
that part of Ireland.

The quat tern loaf has come down one penny
this %vet k ; it is now thirteen pence. By the no-
tice in the shop-windows, there appears to be a
very considerable reduction in the- price of oat-
mcal.—(Glusgow Paper,)

LAW INTET;LIGECB.

CONSISTORY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS.

SULLIVAN, GUARDIAN,
,AGAINST MARIA SULLIVAN,

OTHERIvISF oLDAKER, FALSELY CALLING HER

SELF SULLIVAN.

. .
The further bearing, op this important question
of nullity of Marriage, on the wound of Minority,
fraud, misnomer, and non-consent on the part of
the Right 'Hon. Jojtn.sullivan, lathe,, and natural
guardian of John Augustus, ,Sullivan, thie minor,
Ovho was married by banns patis,h church
Of S. OhAve's, Southwark, on the 151 h •Nly,
181 G, to Maria Holmes Old,,i‘er, natural daughter
of 'llioni;s Oldaker, huntsman to the Berktley
Hounds), came on yesterday.

Certain interrogatories, containing charges
against Dr. Barth), ha%ing been yeieeted, as un7
rertaining and irrelevant to the question, arid
as being extra interrogate,
.. . .
Dr. SWABEY opened the case for the considera-
tion of the Court. The husband was of the age
of 17, and the lady also a minor of the age of 19
years, when the marriage was solemnized, in pie-
- sence of Thomas (Maker and wife, brit without
the knowledge of the flight nonqurable John
Sullivan, father.of-the minor. .The marriage was,
therefore, impeached on the ground, of. minority
and umlue publication of banns, together with
fraud and clandestinity, though admitted to have
been duly solemnized in forma facie Ecclesie, there
. was a circumstance of false representation in the
[
. entry, which, it was contended, formed au impe•
diment under the Marriage Act.
In the winter of 1816, John Augustus Sullivan
was in the habit of hunting with the. Berkeley
hounds, whilst at that time residing wilh his fa-
ther at Ritchie% Lodge, Buckinghamshire; 'rho-
was Maker. the huntsman, residing at Gerrard's
Cross, near Uxbridge. In the summer of 1816 a
close intimacy arose by young Sullivan being a
con.rant visitor at the house of Oldaker, accom,
panic& most part by Mr. Border, his tutor, and
On one occasion by the two Miss Sullivans, his
sisters. Miss Maria Oldacre, who was bred a
milliner at Uxbridge, then living with her father,
became the object of his affection, and was per-
mitted on this, as on several occasions, to ride
_out with him in a gig and on horseback. Banns,
it appeared, had I en published in the parich
church of St. Andrew's, Holborn, by a notice in
the hand-writing of Angristus Sullivan, and sUb-
segnently in like manner in St.Olave's church,
where the_ceremony was performed : the Clergy-
man was 'particular in his Inquiries respecting
consent of parents at the time, but was answered
by Mrs. Oldaker that " all
,was right." He saw
nothing to induce suspicion that it was otherwise.
Maria Maher, by %% hich name alone she had
ever gone, was induced to Li iS time the name of
Maria Holmes Oldaker, because of her being born
before the marriage of her father and mother, and
her mother's name being. Holmes, it .was- consi-
flexed prudent, being illegitimate, to marry, by
that name.

'A variety of eases were cited. to establish. the
nullity which 'was sought to be pronounced in ibis
case.

Drs. LUSIIINGTON anti PHILLIMORE, for the
Hon. John Sullivan, laid great stress upon the
evidence of a conspiracy to inveigle a boy of 17
years of age into. a marriage of such disparity.
STODOART, 3ENNER, and DOBSON, On be-
half of Mrs. Maria dlivan, contended that here
was no evidence of tram! (.rs existed in the cases
cited), to induce the Court to pronounce for nul-
lity in this instance, the circumstance of the Right
Hon. John Sullivan and his Lady being reconciled
to the marriage prior to the commencement of this
Suit. The courtship having been with the know-
ledge trod privity of Mr. 13tird,-r, the young Gen-
tleman's tutor, and the character of Mat ia Sullivan
being altogether unimpeached, added to the affec-
tionate letters written by John Augustus Sulli-
van to his 'wife, and to the family at Oldaker,
since his being sent abroad—all tendt.d. to sinew
this was a martiage of affection, and not a case 'of
fraud, as falling within the provisions of the Sta-
tute upon which the'Court would he justified in
pronouncing for the utility of the marriage, which
being had by publication of banns duly pro.
claimed, in facie Ecciesie, was rendered indisso-
Itible by the spirit and preamble of the very act
of Parliament in question.—Tbe Case stands over
to be !miller argued.

ECTITION.--A Jew, named leity (Levi pro.
bablyl, sentenced to death by the Assize Court
01 the Upper Rhine, was executed on the 1411)
instant in the market-place at Colmar. Accord-
ing to the citstom of his religion, he was con-
ducted to the place ref punishment with his head
*covered : the Chief Rabbi did not leave him till
he had given him on the scaffold a long exhorta-
tion, to which the culprit seemed to listen with
:►itch. emotion. Levy himself took off his shoes
•before he, pi e,ented his head to the fatal .knife :
.several Israelites, who had accompanied him,
carefully removed, immediately after the execu-
tion, even the snnllest traces of blood; they then
placed his body on a bier, took it on their should-
ers, and proceeded to the cemetery of llorbourg,
about half a league from Colmar, where they bu-
ried it. The son of the Jew, a young man of 19
years of age, who had been condemned to death
as an accomplice, has received a respite. The
crime was murder.—(Paris Paper.)

Surctne.—An logoisition was taken yester-
day, at the Fox and Cock, Cow-lane, Snow-hill,
on the body of Richard Vaughan, a butcher, who,
on Wednesday about noon, on coming home to
dinner, nearly severed his head from his body
with a large table knife.—Verdict, Insanity."
NTTEMP AT SUICIDE.-Yesterilay morning T.
Cole, a groom in Blackman-atteet, Borough, cut
his throat, in a horrible manner, in his master's
stables. lie was taken to liny's hospital, with-
out hopes of recovery.
On Thnrsday last was interred at Chobliam,
Surrey, Charles BarOolomew, aged 76. Ile was
the third and last of the family, who were deaf
and dumb, and though possessed of a large estate,
and (some say) several thousand pounds in cash,
yet he would scarcely allow himself cotnnion ng-
cessaries. lie employed himself in serving brick-
layers, catching moles, and any kind of drudgery.

TO tkiE rucarr LION. W. IL LYTTLETON,
M. P. FOR THE COUNTY OF WORCESTEIL

STR,--71 am impelled thus publicly to address
you, by the natural.desire which every man feels
to vindicate his character, when unjustly aspersed,
discharging your duty as a British ,•!,e-
--nator, you are entitled t i high privilege and pro-
tection in the freedom of speech ; but it is a
maxim which never should be forgotten by au
Englishman, that " where-great,.trust is reposed,
great justice is expected," and particularly when
such pri%ilegs ed.fretdom is exercised on the cha-
racters of . individuals who, however, they may
possess the means, are excluded the power of justi-
fying themselves front aspersion.
I.have stood high ill the public estimation for
many yea's, and I trust: deservedly so, not only
as a Licensed Lottery Office-keeper, but Also as a
Stock-broker,,and I ant
.daily entrusted, even by
persons to whom I am a stranger, with large sums
of money for the transaction of business in the
Government Fund, which can only result from
the Yong and approved confidence that. the Public
have placed in my integrity of character.
Now, Sir, I appeal to your own feelints, or to
the feelings of any honourable man, as to what
must, have been the indignation of my mind, when
I saw it asserted in the public papers, that you
had stigmati4ed indiscriminately the whole body
of Licensed Lottery Office-keepers, " as a league
of fraudulent and criminal men, not more u witty
of trust than hanginuo and informers ;"—these
words not stated to have been uttered in the heat
of debate, but preceded by the_observation that .
you spoke front " the best information and an
unbiassed conviction of mind."

My hist impression was, as a Member of the
body of Licensed Office-keepers, instantly and
publicly to repel the assertion, but I was with-
held by the apprehension that,. in the moment of
irritation, I might be betrayed into some unbe-
coming expression of indignation ; and I was
also influenced by the hope that such cruel anti
unjustifiable asperity of language
,would have
been re-considered, and that,the same privileges
xehich afforded you the opportunity, on "fuesday
night, to wound, the characters of met who could
not be present to defend theMselves, would have
been exercised to remove the .invession which
such unmerited language was likely to make on
the public mind.
But disappointed in that bone, I am constrain-
ed to make my appeal to the tribunal of public
Opinion, to which the oppressed ate er appeal its
vain, however high the oppressor may stand its
privilege or power. To this tribunal, Sir,' Idu
appeal, and call upon you as a man of honour,
either to establish the charges you have ma,le, or
else to disavow them in the place where they u ere •
made; it you refuse this call on your justice, the
Public must decide whether disgrace attaches RI -
the, accused or the accuser. '

1 Sir, your humble Servant,
Cortthill, May 29, 1818. T. EISH.

We never remember a Lottery n'ith so many
Capital Prizes as the present, to bei;in 4th JUNE.
This will cause many purchaies before the fist
day. The place where is the only doubt ; which
will be speedily removed by recollecting, that
MARTIN and Co. ktely sold a grand 40,000/., be-
sides l'rizes of 20.0001. 10,0001. &c. and the last
Four Pipes of Wit:,:; and who confidently expect
similar good foilone at their favourite Offices, 8,
Cornhill, and 120, Oxford-street.

" 7'u sate is to gain."—Those persons who trr;y
be dispo,ed to adventure in the present Lottery
will do well to recHllet, that so great was the
eemand in the last Lottury, that the Price of
Whole'Ticke's rose front 191 10s. to 301., making
Sixteenths 21., which were at first but 11. 7s.
T. BItH tht•refore invites his friends to au early
purclw.e at his lot tunate Offices in Town, or front
his Agents in the Country, who are now supplied
with Tickets and :ihares in a great variety of Nun,-
hers.—The Lottery will commence drawing on the
King's Birth-day, and contains 107 Capital Prizes,
including 3 •of 20,(100/.—For the splendid list of
Capitals sold by BISH in the Lottery just
finished, he refers laic friends to a ptinted sheet of
particulars, which may be bad gratis at his Offices,
or front his Agents, but which is too long for inser-
tion in a Newspaper.

We are authorized to state, that since the Me--
dical Board has been established at Charlotte-
House, Great Charlotte-street, opposite the Rev.
Rowland Hill's Chapel, and Woodstock-select,
adjoining ;dew Bond-:treet, upwards of Thirty
Thousand Patients of both sexes have been re-
stored to perfect health, many of whom had
lingered for years under the most painful and ob-
stinate diseases, were pronounced incurable by
respectable practitioners, and several discharged
front Hospitals—Such is the effects resulting ft om,
combined talents ! ,!

;Messrs. COOPER and Co. of Medical and Sur-
gical celebrity, after forty years experience in this
metropolis, are consulted daily at both houses
until nine at night, and the poor have adrice,
gratis, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday Morn-
ings, until twelve o'clock.

Patients at a distance, describing their case,
immediately attended to.—All letters to be direct-
ed at Charlotte flouie, Blackfriars-road, but none
are answered which do nut contain a consult-
ing fee.

Tuesday morning, at No. 2, Lithan►'s-place,
SWIM'S 'Twit, Susan BC 000 , a child scalce two
years old, fell from a one pair of stairs window,
and fractured her skull. She lingered till twelve
on IVeduesday night, when she expired in grey►t
agony,

CURIOUS EFFECT ATTRIBUTED TO SAPFRON,.--A
mercantile matt, who had invariably been incom-
moded with voiniting during. the, voyages w icl&
he was frequently under the necessiry of taking,
one day purchased about a pound of saffron, and
with a view of evading the heavy duty imposed
upon it, concealed the packet in his shirt. Dur-
hug the passage, tie experienced no inconvenience
from sickness, although the sea was rough. The
good effect in question he ascribed to the saffron ;
and communicated his conjectures to several.
others, who have repeated the experiment with
success,. From that time the narrator has never
gone on board a vessel without his stifirun packet.

oBsERvATIoNs on the POOR-LAI\ S,

ANT) NTS MX BILLS.

A. the solject of ' the following Article has ex-

Lirrfl !midi attention, ‘ie regret that ire lied not

opportunity to give it a►► earlier insrrtion

" TO TIM PUBLIC.

" That the following ()bset vations, hastily
thr(,wit together, rill Ilse subject of a Bill now
p hcfore the 11Oto.c, should carry with thew
!nal 4pncarance of !Tweet which ra., •o'f opinion
on:4lu alA.ys to accompany such a proceediog, I
‘ 111 preface thew wit-it my reasons for t'king
s..ch rt liberty.

" The gr..nting -,me one position, will enable
me, I trust, to appear before you without any ap-
elt..lsion of being Considered as intmnsicc: nante-
-13-, that from some cause or causes, with %Illicit I
ntu nuarqnainted, hut which I shall not sio:! here
to inquire:into, it does sometimes happen, that
11,111 s 'hiss through the llouourable Muir., and
become a law,
.without that notice and consequent
discussion which is due to them, to ascertain their
various bearings. If it should please you to con-
cede this, you will not; I think, dispute the fol-
lowing conclusion, that such an aCeidenr is alike.
ii:Jurions to the credit arid chatacter ofParliantent,
to the heaithfid adminiitration of its powers, and
.to the interest and comfort of those for whom it
4cgislaies. In expres,,ing inv opinion that this-
snay sometimes he the case, I am very far•from:
wishing to iftlpitte hl one to any one;. it may to
Laprcn, that many causes may unite to produce
Ake circarns!ahce I allude to : the mere Mention-
& somesithjects is•sofficient to rouse every one ti)
attend to them, trout their being perhaps of con-
siderable iMpoltditte, as well as
,siriliing in their
character; others, of nearly, or, perhaps, equal
interest, are so silent and 'slow in t heir effects, as
'to steal past without exciting the observation of
any, except the mos! vigilant, or those ,who are,
in some •way or other, connected with theta;
whirs are again introduced, whose objectS are
so apparently local, and so foreign to the habits-
of most members, that it is unreasonable to ex-
pect. them to be 'acquainted with., .or to see at a
};lance the trite colour of what is thus inadvert-
en.ly passed into a law, unless those who, from
their situation in tile, and practical acquirements•
i.poo the subject, will be at the pains to -explain
certain points, a true view and understanding of
which they cannot otherwise readily attain.

" Neveithele,s, I hop, 1 shall he nnderstood ns
baying the fiimest reliance upon the wisdo,tri•of
Parliament. I anr sat istied, upon the 1 t
tv.to.e, that
their inciting motives are pure, and for the best
interests.of the community.

" The subject to which I wish to call your atten-
tion is one of the greatest importance, coo-
uected with the anneal expenditure- of nearly ten
millions of money, and the comfort and inde-
pendence of a-class of men, towards whom I have
41,, hesitation in saying, the majority of the public
.are well ati.ced, and who have borne, with as
ithtient forbearance as any class of peoPle in the
kingdom, th. ir full share of the pressure of the
tittles, and through whose sides, if yota ate not
upon the alert,' you yourselves may receive a
deddly wound, ahuuld you sanction, without the
closest scrutiny, and very considerable amend-
silents, the passing of a WI entitled, " A Bill (as
*mended by the Committee) for the Amendment
of the 4.4,ws for the relief of the Poor." The.
magnitude of the poor laws, the length of time
they have existed, and the great difficulties ac-
knowledged by all which present themselves- 'you
tapyattempt at the altering of them, has long
-classed. these •enacturents amongst thoSe subjects
which are ,consid,ered as too serions to be lightly
•hatolk-d. You will, therefore, 1 think, agree with
inc in deprecating any alterations whiCh do not
-lead mattifcstly to improve them, either as to the
method of raising the necessary supplies of mo-
ney, or the management of the 'poor, or the sys-
tem .of expenditure as now in general usage. Be-
fore we venture on the alteration of so vast au
edifice, let us duly calculate the costs ; before we
remove any of its foundations, le_t us .look well to
the security of the soperstructure., lest it tumble
-abatit our ears.- That the Bill iu question has
..this tendency, rather than any
_amelioration nt
'-tire present system, I' flatter myself I shall be
,able to make appear. It will be vety trident,
that it will tend to crush the little remaining pride
in the bosom of our peasantry, ‘thick our ~blest
writers recommend us by all means to Cherish,and
which experience confitms to be the best pledge
of ilkeir good conduct.

-" In the first place, as to the grand question how and where
the money is to be raised, which at present conies out of the
pockets of only one class, and that class hearing cheerfully
its full proportion of other taxes, the Hill is totally silent.
In; the second, as to the management of the pour, with the.
exception of two or three clauses, which shall be noticed in
due timo, as arbitrary as they are odious, the principle will
remain pretty-nearly as ►t was. In the third, as to the
vcrntuent and superintendence of" the funds, as now raised,
a great alteration is intended, which wilt inevitably place
he Cinslitry generally in a state of vassalage almost um,
lsearalde.

We will now begin to examine separately some of the
leading clauses, beginning with- the first, which enacts,
' That the parish shall be empowered to
,nominate a select:
vestry of not exceeding the number of twenty, nor less. than
Cve, &c. &c. &c. (such inhabitants bring first' thereto ap-
p,nsited by writing under the hands and seals of two of
.his
Mitj, -,ty'-s•Justices of the Peace, which appointment they are
,hereby authorized and required to tnalie): &c. tke. and every
-such select vestry shall meet once in every fourteen days,
and oftener,. if it shall lie- found necessary, in the parish
elinreh, -or -its stone other oinrenieut Place, (not being an
aleirouse, or other licensed victuallers), within the pettish :
and at every -spelt meeting a ehairtnin shall be appointed by
the majority of the members present, who shall preside there-
+!l : and-:in
.vases of equality of votes upon any ques-
tion. there arising, the chairman shall have the casting