The Sun.
London, England, 1827-05-25 00:00:00

SOMERSETSHIRE.

A VERY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY SEAT, Situated
NEAR CLIFTON AND THE HOT WELLS,
FOR SALE BY PRIVATE CONTRACT.
THE Residence- embraces every desideratum
for the health and comfort of Domestic Life. The
House stands in the centre of a most delightful Lawn, and
commands extensive views of Hill and Dale, Wood and
Water. The Land altogether is about SEVEN HUN-
DRED ACRES, divided into Farms, and the property
is of that peculiar description which, to an Invalid or a
Family from India, would be invaluable, from its uncom-
mon mildness of atmosphere and salubrity of climate, *spe-
cially adapted to those who require a Warm Winter Resi-
dence.

For permission to view and particulars, apply (by letter,
posit-paid) to Mr. John Coward, Lansdown-creseent, Bath.

A CELEBRATED MANSION AND DOMAIN,
FOR SALE BY PRIVATE CONTRACT,
Situated in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
THE MANSION, which is of the very
first description, is situated nearly in the centre of a
Domain, extending over nearly THREE THOUSAND
ACRES of very superior Arable, Meadow, Pasture and
Wood Land, all in a ring fence.—Also,
A MANOR, or REPUTED MANOR,
Co-extensive with the said Estate.

The Mansion stands in a Park of uncommon beauty.—
The Timber and Plantations are luxuriant and valuable.
The Gardens and Pleasure Grounds are in excellent order.
The views are delightful : tlizre is a fine sheet of water in
the Park, seen from the Mansion, which contains excel-
lent apartments, well arranged, and in which comfort is
united with magnificence, calculated in the truest sense to
contribute to the happiness of its possessor.
The Land (which is not in hand with the Mansion) is
divided into Farms and let at low Rents to responsible
Tenants, and it is presumed that the present Rental may
be very considerably augmented.
The whole will be found to embrace every object which
the Capitalist may have in view, alike as a Residence and
as an Investment.

For permission to view, and particulars, apply by letter,
post-paid, to Mr. John Coward, Lansdown Crescent, Bath.

YORKSHIRE PORCELAIN,

JUST received from the ROCKINGHAM
WORKS, at MORTLOCK'S, 250, Oxford-street,
near Hyde-park, who respectfully solicit their numerous
Customers to an Inspection of the same, with their Splen-
did and Extensive Stock of BREAKFAST, DINNER,
DESSERT, TEA, SUPPER, and BED-ROOM SER-
VICES, (amounting to some thousands), from the most
celebrated Manufactories ; also a few Sets are remaining of
that valuable and rare NANTGAREW PORCELAIN.—
The Ornamental Department embraces every approved
form and embellishment, and is disposing of at a consider-
ble reduction, together with GLASS, EARTHENWARE,
and the Old stock, which is clearing off to make room for
the New Patterns daily arriving.
The well known ROCKINGHAM TEA POTS can
now be supplied in any quantity.

ESTABLISHED TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS,
For the sale of Irish Linen at the Factors' Prices, No. 4,
SOUTH SIDE of BLOOMSBURY-SQUARE.
THE IRISH LINEN COMPANY beg
leave to announce to the Public, that the above
House is their only Establishmeht in this country ;* where
they continue to supply the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public,
with WARRANTED gram-bleached LINEN, for Shirts
and Sheets, as also Table Linen, of the best fabric and colour,
at a price considerably' lower than they can be procured
through any other medium. They also engage to return
the purchase money should any fault appear.—Country and
Town Orders punctually attended to by
JOHN DONOVAN, Bloomsbury-square,
Holborn side; Agents.
JOHN DOYLE, Meklenborg-square, Dublin,

A farmer, who resides at Rolvenden, having
attended the late Tentorden Fair, and feeling
somewhat fatigued after the business of the day
was over, proceeded to a public-house to partake
of some refreshment. He had not been long in
the room before a stranger got up and offered to
bet any one present five shillings that he could
produce more money than any other person in
the room. The farmer above alluded to having
a pretty good supply by him, accepted the chal-
lenge, and took from out of his pockets all the
money he had, which on telling over, he found
amounted to twenty-five pounds in bank notes,
at the sight of which the stranger expressed
great surprise, and said, if the farmer had told
it correctly he had won the wager, for he could
not produce so large a sum ; but requested that
he might be allowed to tell it himself to see that
all was right, with which request the farmer very
readily complied. The stranger, after having
counted the money over, told the farmer all was
fair, and gave him the five shillings together with
the notes, which so pleased the farmer that he
never took the precaution of looking at them to
see if they were the same, but immediately put
them into his pocket and proceeded home ; when,
having occasion to take money again out of his
pocket for some purpose, he, to his great mor-
tification, found that instead of his bank notes he
had nothing more than a parcel of blank paper.
#- Maidstone Journal.

This case, which was considered quite novel and
very important, came on before the Court this day.
The facts are shortly these :—Alexander Ross, a
native of Scotland, emigrated to London at an early
age, where he carried on a very extensive business.
Many years ago he succeeded, under a deed of _entail,
to the estate of Cromarty. Occasionally he resided
on his estate, and being a freeholder of the county,
took a very active hand in.the political affairs con-
nected with it. ' About the year 1810, he became
acquainted with Elizabeth Woodman, an 'English
woman, who bore him a son in Lomlon, in February
1811. In May, .1815, Mr. Ross brought Mrs.
Woodman, and her son, with him to Scotland, for
the avowed purpose of marrying the former, and le-
giti►natizing the latter as his lawful heir, according
to the lriw of Scotland. Accordingly, after r: siding
in the neighbourhood of Leith till the whole forms
and requisites of the Church of Scotland were duly
complied with, his marriage was duly celebrated,
and Mrs. Woodman became Mrs. Ross, was
openly acknowledged as such, and her son as
the legitimate child and heir of Mr. Ross. After
this they went to Cromarty-house, where they resided
till Sept. 1815, when they returned to London. Till
the time of Mr. Ross's death, which happened in
1820, nothing occurred to disturb the legitimate
pretensions of Mrs. Ross and her son; but after Mr.
Ross's death, Mrs. Monro, the pursuer in the pre-
sent action, took steps to succeed to the estate of
Cromarty as nearest heir of entail. It was plainly
admitted, that if the son George, the present de-
fender, could be held to be a legitimate child, the
pursuer had no title to succeed, and therefore she
raised the present action before the Commissary
Court, in order to have it declared,-that the defender,
having been born a bastard in England, where the
character of bastardy is held to be indelible, and the
subsequent marriage of the parents does not legiti-
matize the offspring, therefore he should be held to
be a bastard still, notwithstanding the subsequent
marriage of his parents in Scotland, and so inca-
pable of succeeding as a lawful heir to the estate of
Mr. Ross, in Scotland. The Commissaries decided
in favour of the defender, that he was duly legiti-
matized by the subsequent- marriage of his parents
in Scotland, and therefore lawful heir of his father.
The pursuer being dissatisfied with this judgment,
brought the case by advocation before the Supreme
Court. _

The subject appearing to be one of great doubt
and much importance, the case was argued at length
before the Judges of both Divisions, and thereafter
the Judges of the Second Division requested the
opinions of the 'Judges of the First Division and per-
manent Lords Ordinary, in writing. These opinions
being duly lodged, in which three of the Judges
were in favour of the pursuer, viz. the Lord Presi-
dent, and Lords Cringletie and Eldin ; and six of
them, viz. Lord Gillies, Balgray, Craigie, Meadow-
bank, M'Kenzie, and Medwyn were in favour of the
defender. The Judges of the Second Division, be-
fore wham the case depended, proceeded this day to
prlounce judgment. They were unanimous, and
decided in favour of the defender's legitimacy; and
therefore dismissed the advocation with expenses.