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serest."

Some German and Danish Papers, containing in-
telligence to the .14th inst. hide been received since
our last. A conscription upon the French plan ap-
.pears to carrying into execution throughout all parts•
of the Chntinent. The Contingent formed by the
States which compose the Confederation of the Rhine
amounts. to 118,682 Men. A decree has lately been
published in Denmark, the article, of which have
been supposed to indicate a change in the politics of
that Government. It is in the. following terms :
1. All Swedish vessels, detained on account of the
bill of silo not being on board, shall be released
without turther prrcesii.

2. Every Swedish vessel, detained merely because
her destination was an English port, bur which is
furnished 'with documents from the Swedish Go-
vernment, as well as Swedish Vessels now
_returning
from England, laden with s ilt, or Which are return-
ing in ballast, shall neither be detained nor con-
conderhned.

a. Swedish vessels, which sailo.,l for England be-
fore the declaration of war was known at the Swedish
port from whence the vessel wa. di;patched, cannot
be detained, much less condemned.
4. A Swedish vessel cannot be condemned merely
for haying used an English license.
5. Swedish vessels, suspected of having availed
themselves of English convoys, canno► be condemned
without proofs the must mcontesiible,

We have learnt with much
,satisfaaion that 24 sail
of shipping, laden with provisions and corn, arrived
in the Tagus on the lath inst. frOm Atue
MASSENA'S'army, it seems, is most distiessingly
destitute of shoes, ,and also in a very unhealthy .state
for want of a sufficient supply of medicines.
The, vessels now in British putts, under the flags
of Stales lately annexed to France, will be allowed
to depart in ballast io non-blockded ports unmo-
lested: There are near 400 sail in the port -o( Lon-
don only ; and it iv calculated, that in all the ports
of Great Britain and Ireland, there cannot be less
than 800 sail. The value of 'hese vessels may be
bite() in the aggregate at 850,0001 and were Go-
vernment to act up to the "..,0* Tolionis, which the
seizures of the trench Government fully authorise,
this property might be confiscated.
The Committers ol Merchants trading to the.
Baltic having-represented, that several vessels, under
the ,flags in question,were in' the Baltic lauded, on
their way to this ountry, under the faith of their
former licenses which are noutexpired, an nrder
will be issued to his Majesty's ships and cruizers to
allow the said vessels to proceed to- I heir ports of des.;
filiation unmolested, and after discharging their cur-
-1 goes, they will
,be Buttered to depart in ballast.

DOCTOR DUfGELA'N.

• •
The first article ibserted in the Edinburgh Review
of November, 1810, is intitled—".The t,ubsiance

of a Speech of Sir John Cox. HiPPesley, Bart. on
svconiting the. Motion' of the Right Hon. Henry
Grattan, to refer the Petition of the Roman Catho-
lics of. Ireland. to a Comniiitee of the Home of

Commons, on gricay, the 18th of May 1810." This
Speech has, it seems, been published in a
-pam-
phlet, and is 'now republished in the Edinturgh
Review.

The three last paragraphs of this article in the
Review, contain an attack on Di% Duigenan, couch-
ed in rude terms of personal inveMive, and founded
on the grossest roisreprestatioit.

. .
They state, that in a toter adilressedloy, Dr. Dui
genan to Mr. Grattan, in 1798, the DoEtor gave the
following opinion.
" Tha: were we (the Irish' nation) one people
with the British nation, the preponderance of the
Protestant body in the whrife empire wonid be so
great, that all rival hips and jealousies between Pro-
testants and flotnanists would cease for ever, and it

woUld not be necessarpto curl) Romanists by any
laws whatsoever."---Pages 59, 60.
The paragraph in the lettr alluded to, from
which the above garbled and mutilated passage is
i!xtraaed, and which is'to be found in pa: e 7H, 79,
'of the Irish edition of the letter, is in the words Jul-

" ft has been the opinion of very great and able
Statesmen, that an union with England, on just mid
tqui'atde terms, would be very adt•antageous in ire-
land, would contribute greatly to increase her trade
and hpr opulence, and conduce to the strength. of
the empire at large ; and in any ev,:lit it could not
be more,prpjudieial to the Romanist s t Ireland, than
to any other of his Majesty's subjecls here, but
much less, (if it 'could he at all prejudicial, which
cannot admit) inasmuch as, we
,were one pt side
with the British nation, the. preponderance of the
PrOtestant b.ody of, the whole ,ernpire would be so
great, that all rivaiship and jealousies between Pro-
testants and Romanists would ceaee for ever, and. it
would not be necessary., for the safety of the empire
at large,. to curb Bomanists by arty exclusive laws
whatsoever." •

The paragraph in the 'letter then proceeded to-
state Dr. Duigenan's riven opinion, and the reasons
on which he g?ounded it ; in (fired opposition to
what he had stated in the preceding pail of the pa-
ragraph; as the opinion, not al nimseU; but of some
able Statesmen, together with the reasons on which
they bad grounded their opinion, of the- effects of
an union in reconciling Jrit Romanists to au En-
glish Protestant Governinent ; winch the Doctor, in
that very paragraph, maintains .to be utterly im-
pra&icable on any terms whatsoever. •
Dr. Duigenan never read a line ot .the pamphlet
stated in the Review, as .the substaOce of a Parlia-
mentary speech of Sir John. Cox Hippesley ; the
three last paragraphs of th-iltev,ew he has read
these paragraphs charge the Doctor with inconsis-
tency ; with being an under agent of the G..ivern
meta ; and (byinference at least) of being ail enemy\
`of the Roman C.itholics. •
As to the first Charge, the misrepresentation of the
• mutilated abstract ou'which it is totinded, is auwe
exposed.

As to the second charge, it,iS a well 'known fa&
to all 'lrish Members of Parliament, that Dr: Dui-
genan al waysnpposed the coo,ce..sions of all political
privilrges to Bornanists, though introduced•and sup-
ported
by the Irish Government with. all its interest
and power. That he never sat as- Representative in
Parliament for, what is stiled, a venal borough, nor
'for any borough under the patronage* Govern-
ment. That Ile never enjoyed any employment
under Goiernment, save one, whieh was conferred
on him from leis rank at the Irish Civil Law Bar,
before he sat in Parliament, and which he yet retains
as honourable, but the emolument of it is trifling,
and to him insignificant,. being that of King's Ad-
vocate in the Court of Admiralty In Ireland, a Court
dwindled almost to nothing. The Doaor's other
employments in Ireland ire in the gift of the Irish
Prelates, and not in the gift of the Crown ; they
were conferred on him. before tile:Emancipation
Question was agitated, and are all:tor:life, so that
it is manifest that Dr. Deigenan never was an agent,
or under-agent for.any Guvernment• and that his
support of any Ministry was, and is, only to be pro-
cured by his own-coevi6tion of the;r measures being
calculated for the. .support of the Constitution in.
Church and State.
As to the third charge, the Do&in 'utterly denies
it : he is not, nor ever was in enukny of the Romish
subieas of the British empire, ner ef any of his fellow
subjects of any description ; he is a Steady Loyalist,
sod unaherAbly attached to the support of the Con-
stitution in,Clinrch and State, and, as such, a firm
opponent of the political pursuits of. the Romanists
and their abettors.
If the other repregentations in the pamphlet,
called The substance &it the ,Speech of Sir John
Cox Hippisley," be as unfounded as those contained
itathe three last paragraphs of the RevieVr'of it,
those, who may chance to read it, will be. able to
forefa pretty decisive judgment of the merit of the

Ii is a curious -device for the circulation of a
pamphlet which perhaps few have read, to.transfer
it to a work which has an extensive see, such as
the Edinburgh Review,
,and to place it in the fr9nt
of But it may be justly -observed, that the Edi-
tors of that work, :professing themselves to be im-
partial critical Reviewers, should be cautious how
they adopt and publish such gross ruisrepresenta-
tions of tatls, which a very slight attention would
enable them to detea 'and expose..
As to "the incivility of the side, Duigenan can-
not gauss how he,merited
.it from the Gentleman
stated in the Review to be the author of the re-
viewed pamphlet ; the Do lor is utterly 'unac9uaint
vd with him ; he was absent at the time that Gen-
tleman spoke in Parliament on the Motion men-
tioned, consequently he could not have given him
any offence by.answering or replying.
All the Doc-
tor knows of the Gentleman is, that he appears in
the public registers to be Representative hi
;mut 01 the Borough of Sudbury.

LIIPERI4L PARLLIMJNf

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

• SATURDAY, FE11; 23.
Mr. A: Cowron brought up the Report of the
Committee of Ways and Means.' .The Recolutio.,a
Were read and agreed to, and Bills ordered ac=
cordingly.
The British Heiring Fishery Bili was read a se-
eond time, and counnitted.—Aojourned.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER ON t
BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP FRANCfettiE, TO A
FRIEND AT PLYMoUTII.
" When I lett you last, I thought we should
have had b fine pass ge, as the weather proms, d.
well the first day and night ; but last evening we
got the wind from S.' S. W. otf the Liiard, and
heavy rain and thick weather', with %loads. At
three this morning, in the att of ~'raring, we un-
fortunately run down the transport brag John and
,lane, Wm. WtsuAar, master, with t.t tp of the
itth Regiment on broad, 14 ot her crew, 15 tvo.
men, and six children, making in the whole 254
fouls ; out of which are saved, Ensign DUFF, and
22 of the troops, Mr: WISHART, master, his mate;
and sit of the crew, making in the whole 31 saved;
and 223 drowned.
" I am not competent to
/give you tne'minute
detai:s ot this unfortunate event; sutlice it to say,
that Capt. ALLEN, his Officers, and. Sttip's Com-,
patty, exerteel them elves to the lumpst nt thcir.
p ,\,er in presery ng as many as po,sih!e from the
wreck. I suppose the Franchise could not he grinif.,
round at the rate of eight or nine kndts, as they
were obliged to run .a little before the wind to clear
vessel; she struek,the brig, with her CUL,-
water right on the beam, which stove her to pie:less
and she filled instantly ; the rigging or the vessel
being foul of the hoWsprit, - kept the wreck under
the weather-baw, by which means saved so
many lives :—no boats could be used, the sea ran so
high. About Nur o'clock., hiving got all of the
'wreck that were living, we cut away theliggin:2,;
and made convoy signal to rendezvous at Fahnonth,
Where we arrived at two'P. M.
" The boatswain of the brig got safe. on board,
but recolle6ling his wife was left behind, he leaped
again on the wreck, hi bbp,i of bringing her w.th
h;m, but was never seen afterwards."

•
Mnsro..--The Vocal Concert, under the direEtion
of 41e9STS. "LAMSON. BAKTLEAIAN, and GREATO-
- cOmtheticed (or the season on Friday last, .01
the Hanover-square Rooms, but we had not ()pi m-
tunity to notice it un Saturday. The Orchestra was
tilled with distinguished instrumental Performers,
led by Vateftsat., and the vocal departan'tti,
was most ably sustained by CATALAN'. HARIWON,
Mrs, BIANCHI., Mist MELVILLE, DARBY,
BHLLAMY,,
and LEETE. MIS: ASHE
is en-
gat,ed, but she did not ti)pe.ir on this occas!on, and
the company bad to regret the absence of BA ItTL
MASI, on account of indiipo,ttion. HAttai%oN'surig
with all his accustomed twoe•and expression. Cr,.
TALANi excited astoni.:brnent, b'irshe does not taste
ilia style of HANDEL. The seleaion was jodicious,
and admirably perlortnod. The Room was filled
ith genteel company.
On, Saturday arrived a ship from the coast of ,
Africa; with a valuable cargo. By this opportn-
nil; we are informed that Alr. SALT, who w.iti.on
a mission from Government t . the King of Anvs-
st Nth, has returited'to this country, having succeeded
in tne objects of his voyage. During his residence
at the Court',of the Ras, at Antaloro, he collected
much interesting information, which is likely to fa-
cilitate our eolutnerce with the interior of theie ith-
mense regions.

A reran and his family, inhabitants of Plymouth,
who had hitherto been considered, of the first re-
spectability; been apprehended on a .charge
of being concerned in the robbery of the Fahno
Bank. The same persons are also suspe6ted of be-
ing concerned in,ihe robbery of Sir EDWARD Pali-
Law's house, at Plymouth, and stealing plate to a
considerable amount.

The. second fleet for the East Indies, consisting
of eleven ships, is now collected at Portsmouth, and,
should the wind be fair, will Sail this Week .00 its
voyage.

The phenomenon of a thunder-storm On Christ-
mas Day was not conAned this country, b,tt was
experi-nced• at several places in Germany, and fol-
lowed by so dreadful a gale of wind, that at Flank-
tort, Nersheim, ecc. many churches and houses wet e,
blown down, and the heavy laden waggons on the
public roads oserturned.

On Saturday 100 young men were dratEed,.in St.
James's Palk, iron, the three re invents 'of Foot
Guards, viz. 40 train the Ist regiment, ab from the
2d, and 25 from the 3d... -They are destined for
Portugal, and march, to-morrow for Portsm9mh, to
embark.

On Monday last, in the Court of King's Benet',
Dublin. a lady of the name- of KENNY, Obtailit-d
2001. damages against a Mr D/I.LON, for a breach
of promise,of marriage and seduction. Vhe canal)
was undefended.

•
At thrt e o'clock •yeskr.lay died, at his house in
Grosvenor-street, at the advanced age of H 6, JAN:ES
BannitNiu., Eat' of Cartligan, Baron Brudenel
of Dean in the county of Northampton. His Lerd,
ship tielcrthe places, „,tf Privy Purse to his MAJks•rv,
and Governor of Windsig eistle. He first married
Lady ANN LEGGE, sister to the second Earl of 'DART-
MOUTH ; and, secon Ely, Lady ELI%AIIETH WA,E.RE-
GRAVE, sister to the fourth Earl of WALDEGEAYE.
Having died wilhoot male issue, he is 'succevtlecl in
his title and estates by his nephew, Mr. Batantski.tr
one of the Equerries to the Q.O9P.H.
The wife of a labouring titan at Kellingly, «,i*
last wet', delivered of three girls, who were baptist U
by the names of Filth, Hope, and Charity.
COEN-EXCHANGE, FEL 23 .---o This clay the arr;r:Als
of Wheat make a middling stippy ; Sakes are bit
and last
,prices telly supported; Barley also Mali).
tains its price and in tolerable supply; Malt at
variation ; White Peas in more plenty
,Grey Peas
and Beans of the two kind: keep their price ; there
are tolerable qutintities of Oats on hand, and tlio,e,
of the first quality quoted rather dearer j Flour wi(::-
out varidtiutl.

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47!

•

LAW *REPORT.

Ct)tfl r OF KING'S 6ENCEf. FLn. 23.

DOGIthisTY, EMI. V. WYAT V.

A

•
Mr. Gennew stated, that this ‘eee: ailion for
crionnel converee ion with the plaiteitf's wire, and
was bioteget by Mr. Hugh Dogherty, a ChlUiCihaO
hose misfortunes had bete m h
re brought hiitt).
flat Court, against Mr. P. NV. Wyatt, t 'youneeet
son of Mr. Wyatt, the architect. Mt. Dogl,erty,
preseously to his Marriage, was ate Otlieer in the
25th Light Dragoons, and wes isitroduced into she
family,,lf Mr. Holmes, now Mr. Hooter, a Gco-
tteryi,b of large property, when that family wes on
ist thighthelmstone. Here the plaintiff be-
came acquainted with Mr: limner's daughter, then
ielees Kitties, an extraordinarile gifted young Lady,
then in the tech ye" of her age. If the plains ii
attached himself to Miss Holmes, she absolutely
adored him : lose, all` powerful love, -as she said,
had compheely possessed her ; and upon the disap-
probation of her passion by tier parents, and the
pleintifedismissal from Mr. Hunter's house; her
enthusiaster became so violent .that she was obligee
to he confined and attended by two fethales. Here
she had recourse to detratagem for escape, which
the Learned Counsel wished could be practised by
some of our countrymen, .so unjustly confined isf'.
France:. she soon contrived to insinuate herself into
. the good graces of one of her attendants, and per-
suaded her to procure two sleeping potions, one to
at for 12 hours and the other fur tO ;
.the former
destined for the attendant who was not in her con
fideuce, and the latter for the confidante. They
were taken together, so as to give elle confidante
two' Fours to assist the escape 'of her mistress, and
then it was contrived that the two servants should
both wake together, and find the .bitd flown. eMiss
Holmes sought sheber'in the arms'of the plaintiff,
and was. married to him on the ',2:(.)thot' May, t 802.
Front this period till the year 1806, nothing hap-
pened to disturb the harmony of their union ; Mt.
Hunter was reconciled to the match ; a grandson
,Watt laden to hiM,, upon whoin he eoeted, and lie
was'found negociating for the payment of the plain-
tiff's debts, and ad‘smeing hint' money to 'enable
him to live is) style equal Lathe chinas:l'ot his son-
in.law. plaintiff took a house called Laurel
f.mdge, near Barnes, which was one stage on the.
road to Mr. Hunter's Seat s and the two families
lived upon terms of the Immo affectionate intimacy.
jn are evil hoer, through the ititroduanne of a Mr.
'Burke, the plaintiff bromic acquainted with the de-
fendant ,at Laurel Lodge, where he was afterseards
in she habit of visiterg. The result of these vises
was his criminal passion for his hoseawite, to obtain
whom he assiSted in procuring the exilibition of ar-
ticles of the pence ageitist the elaiunti by his wile,
upon the ground of cruel treatment. He persuaded
her father to invite her so visit hen in town fora few
days. On the 25th of May, 'lBO6, she left L.aorel
Lodge for the kipose of mike% this visit, the de-
fendant and Mr. Burke accompanying her to town
in a post-chaise ; and fieirn that time to -this she
had never returned to the pleintiff. To skew tee
ehara6ter of the defendant, the Learned Counsel
lead several letters from him to the plaintiff, pre-
'tending the most sincere -friendship for, berg and
• attachment to his interests, yet, dated since the ex-
hibition of the :irticles of the peace, to the procura-
tion Of which he was a pry ; and one letter ad-
dressed by the deft edam to a friend of the plaintiff
as lately as the tell] ef February, 1808, statisig, that
he had always seen the plaintiff spew the mest af-
feaionate warmth toe ards his wee, and, was sorry
he, had beers led, from the strong representations
which had--been made to, him, to think ill of the
the plaintiff.igalost lei own experience. With this,
defendant plithititf's wife had been living. since
the year 181)0, in Deese, undieguised adultery, so that
there WOuhl be no difficulty in proving ;tee facts of
the case and upon the sisbjett of damages, which
were, by a floorish of the Special Pleader's pets, laid
at 20,0001. the Learned. Comae! should say but intle.
No SUM of Money could compensate she ehintift
for the wrongs he had sus ;tined, and the misery ito
which he was redeeed. Upon the exhibition of the
articles of the eeece; tre was arrested by Mr. Hunter
for sums, the repoymerit of ~which he thought
would never have been called for ; and the Learn-
ed counsel was not the only person at the. Bar who
sympathieed with the stelf:eings- of him and his
infant who, iosiead of beteg the heir to ,Mr.
Hunterse wealth, was his lather's companion in a
prison, and as such Mlle with his patent to answer
the procese of the Court, 1 r was Orions to all that
he was an afielbsortate lather i and the presumption
from that circorostence was that he was a tender.
husband. He rejoiced than the day ware at last
come, wtren be ereeid lay the story of his grievaticee,
to efied which, it would _be proved the detendatit
was the .principal agent ,behitut the curtain, before a
Britieh Jury. rise tnarriage was first proved.
John Poglierty, Esq. en the Irish Bar, the plain-
tiff brother, said, that the plaintiff and his wife
paid his family a visit in the county of 'Wicklow, in.
Irelend, inetnediattry atter his marriage; since
which time the wituebe had, had frequent opporthe
Dimes of visiting his brother atehouted Lodge; diaring
the time he was a student in London. The .plain-
tiff and his v.; ife were, tire happiest cuttpie.. he . hate
ever sews : the conduce Of We .linstlond more re-
' sernbled the assiduity of e lover. This hiTpiness•
continued unclouded, till about six weeks before
Mrs.. Dogherty left tier husband ; but even then she'
appearird only comparatively unhappy, anti slit de-
dation of unhappiness seemed to arise ,trot, add-
feeeeen of her own own,love. for her husband. The
witness had frequently met Mr. Burke and the de-
fendant at the plaintiff ' libelee; the prokssions of
friendship towards his brother, the defendant, were
fulsome, and newarrauted by the shortness of their
it.quitvaoce. The µ itnees was not ;darned for
I .4 Sister.io-law's hot (Jur by the attentions of the
c fendant : he tli,t not les bro had to fear
lee h M 311., who Was, ill the witness's opinion, trot
exactly framed to make women false, The witness
Weight Mra. Dogherty,an accooleiished, but by oo
nieenseeWell-edueated woman, Oo religious toeieu

she was frightfully aeficient; her natural abilities
were good. The plaintiff's 'age was now 35
'or afi.
Eaton Stannard Barrett, Esq. gtudent of the
Middle Temple, lodged in the same house with the
last •witness, by whom he was introduced to Lathe!,
Lodge: He bore the highest testimony to the
tenderness as a husband, and to the happiness
of both him and his wife. ()nee, naked, he did'
recoiled, that, as •Mr. Burke, the plaiirtiff, his
wife, and he, were playing: at carda, Mr. Burke
'complained of the wind at his back, upon which
Mts. Dogherty herself pat the sola-pilloWa behind
him in Ins chair. The plaintiff looked grave at this;.
and' indeed his wife ;was fiirting with Mr. Burke
during the whole game ; they were sitting next
each other, and looking into each other's hands,—
The plaintiff told Mr. Burke to mind his game ;
when his wife said, " never mind him; he's
chunk." The" plaintiff replied, " he wished he
was;" meaning, as the witness understood, that he
then should not have seen his Wiles conduti., He
soon afterwards threw op is cards in silence. This
witness and the last (who was present a!so) endea-
voured to start some other topic of conversation, and
the next mot Meg the-plaintiff and his wife appeared
completely reconciled.
Both these witnesses' deposed, that, as they were
at breakfast., two mornings after the reticles of the
peace had been exhibited by Mrs. Dogherty against
her husband, Mr. BarLe and the defendant
and joined their meal. Mr. John Dogherty ques-
tioned them both, whether they had ever seen any
condat in the plaintiff' which could justify the
wiles measure. They replied, that they should not
have been more surprised, when they heard of it,
if a thunderbolt had fallen from Heat eu. The des
leudant said, an he had never been present at the
least difference between rite niainfitt arid ins wife,
excepting that mice he said, he wished he' had ne-
ver seen her. Mr. Burke kind, that he had never
met A ith so fund a couple, except his own father
and :mother, and they we re a miracle. As these
wifries,es were dining at Laurel Lodge, on one oc-
casion, when the plaintiff was in danger of being
arrested, the defend ant said to hint, " We have
seen you in your prospetily,land we will see Jou
through your adversity ; if you go to prison, we'll
go with you."
The platted's Counsel then called all the ser-
vants, and miters, who had liVed with the plaintiff
and his wile from the time of their marriage till the
latter.quitted Laurel Lodge ; and they all bore tes-
timony to the easraordinary happiness and bar-
twiny which, till that time, subsisted between the
couple.
Mr. Yatman, Solicitor, a first' cousin of the de-
fendant, deposed, that the defendant now lived at •
his tather's house, in FoleHAace. He formerly had
furnished houses at No. 3, Devonshire-place, Pad-
diogion, and in Nottleghainsstreet, Marylebonne,'
where lie lived with• a lady and rioMestics. They
passed under the names of Mr. and Mrs.
They bad not lived together since last September.
Mts. Daniel, whom tile witness took to be Mrs.
Dogherty, now lived alone in Upper Norton-street,
Where she was visited by her friends. She also had
used her mother's carriage there; and had received
vegetables from Mr. Wyatt, senior's, country house.
The witness dined at Mrs. lloghetty's about a fort-
night ago, in company with that gentleman and the
defendant : she then passed under the name of St.
Anne she head,-1 the table, and the defendant sat
at the bottom ; but he appeared as much a visitor
as every body else. Cite witness knew' from the
&tenth:lnt, that the first at he peat:wined alter his
elopement with Mrs. Dagherty, in the spring of the
year 180 y,, was to carry her to Scotland, andtenter
two a searriav contrail With her, as a preparatory
step to inarrynig her, according to the Scottish
e.atvineed as he was that her lust mamage might
be. set aside: The defendant was studying the pro•
tession of his tather under hirer.
The affidavit of the defendant, dated May 23,
lBot3, sworn as one of the grounds of filing a critni«
nal tntorwatton against the plaintiff for a line! on
Mr. Hunter, for which I4e suffered judgment to go
against bins by default,• was then read.. it stated,
that :the daiutitt's Usage of Itia':Wite was so cruel
that-attaira must soon come tri a crisis; and that he
had heard the plaintiff say that he would thrust a
dagger into Mr. Hutiter'a heart, though a gallows
were on one side of Hove grave on the other, and
a hatchet betbre :his eyes.
Mr. Lowe., ati apothecary, being called upon to
attend tire defeudant at half pest oiie o'clock in the
morning, at No. 3, Devoushire-placa, found a lady
sitting up in the bed with him, whom he took to
be the patient's ,;wife, and who apologised for ap-
pearing before Mtn in that manner ; but the defen-
dant had (*Alpo into s dose, which she was unwil-
ling to dititurta hy.rising to dress.
'The ATTOittsiLY-GENBRAL addressed the Jury on
betrall et the defendant, urging. ill mitigation of da.
toilees, that the plaintiff himself bad first debauched
the mind of his wife by seducing tier, a child of 14,
Irons the potation of her paresis; and it was
thoseparents whom the Leanest Counsel represent-
ed as the injured, the broken-hearted parties.
LOrd Et.t.titsnortouott, in charging the Jury,
said, that however reprehensible the plaintiff's con-
dad was, in eloping with a young woman, yet it
appeared that, they
.trad lived happily together fur a
period of some years and the plaintiff was entitled
to exped the allegiance of his wife, of
mats had a right to rob liim, under pretence that he
had Married wife without the consent of her pa-
rents. There was, also no pretence for implicating
the paw ta of either the wile or them defendant in the
Crime of their childree, 'as bad been attempted to.
ha+ e been dune by the 's Counsel,„ merely
because it appeared that they had strewn their un-
fortunate etiddri.'in some slight attention, and nut at
together abandoned them in'their error.
Xlie Jury retired for a considerable time, and
Olen brought in their verditt ter the Plaintiff—
Damages 10001.

strate of the county of Sometset, and Vint of the
parish of Frame Selwip, in that county.
It appflued that some controversy had taken
place tN,lween the Vicar and the Lord of the Manor
(Mr. Champneys), upn.the right of appointing a
SeN ton ;- each party claiming his right, which :gave
rise to an action at law, a writ of Mandamus, and
various other specieS of litigation between these par-
ties; in the sequel of which the. Vic tr Was sticcess.
ful. In consequence of this a pamphlet, of which
the defendant vim the primer, was publrshed'and.
circulated throughout the parish and county, entitled,
a Knives of the Prycetdings in: the Election' of a
Sexton," in which the prusecutor was groisly
libel-
led, charged with packing a Vestry to carry the
•eleetion of the Sexton, a' reflecting upon his cha-
meter as a Magistrate, a Ciergyinan, and a-. Gentk-
man, tending to vilify and disgace him in the opi-
nion of the public. Previ 'us to preferring the in
di&nent, application was male to the defendant to
deliver.up the author: but this 111 declined doing ;
and the necessary proofs of the pri ping and P'ub-
lishing.hy the defendant being gone tho
Sir. Gmittow, on the part of the defend int, ad-
mitted the libel and pubitcation, but declared hip
chentwas only the innocent instrument in the hands
of the law, aid it was not in his power to give up
the author. The Jury immediately returned a ver-
dict at Guilty.