Star.
London, England, 1808-12-27 00:00:00

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, 4.4itef,A44.lo.ElVCita
cini.iytw OF ifilpip'.l(l7,
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Ski)f,S. olgltt. v.-at, .1, that a Petition had *rt
Fri4nteki iii the,, case for Captain. S. the ,
RYal•litavy, tur having it referred to the Mater, to
receive proposals for settlement 'ow Tanny.raisell,
111)w Impe);„ a wa•rd of this Court: 'Mower was
a,cordingly referred to the Master.fee rkis searpose,
who had reported that he had received proposals for
a settlement from. the Petitioner. Theeek.prriposals•
stated, that the Petitioner had made two different
tileuCceisful applications to his father, Sir tlijah
Impey, he being his eldest son, to be. enabled to set-
tie '2001.. a pear on his wife ; that the•Petitioneti had
not at present a ship, nor /La any other property or
income besides his half-pay as asPest Captain. Hi
therefore proposed, that the whole dividends of his
wife's fortune, amounting to upwards of 13,0001. •
aster payment of an annuity of 2001. to her Mother,
r her life, should be secured to herself, during her
li!'etinte, unaffected by her husband's debts
,or acts ;
then to the husband, in the event of hi,
' 4prviving his wife, and to their children, if thep should
hlire any, in such proportions as the parents should
vppoint : or, in the event of there being no children
ot.the marriage, to such person as should be nomina-
ted by the wife. Provision was also- made for the
event Of the predeceases of the husband, and of the
wife's entering into a subsequent marriage, in which
case, and in the event of her having other children,
theyroperty was to be divided into moieties, &c. Of
these proposals the Master was willing to approve,
on the settlement being executed, and agreed to, by
the TrUstees for the wife, who, it was understood,
were willing to concur. The present application was
therefore made to his Lordship .to refer it back to the
Master to accept of the proposals for the settlement,
nod, on the settlement's being executed, to order the
Petitioner to be discharged from the prison ,of the
Fleet, where he was at present confined under an at-
tachment awarded by his Lordship.
Sir ARTHUR PIGOTT, on the part of the Trustees,
under the will by Which the wife was entitled to the
fortune, expressed their readiness to concur in the
proposed settlement. It was, however, extremely
improbable, that the Petitioner, the diciest son of Sir
Elijah Impey. and himself a Captain in the Navy,
though at present without any' fortune of his own,
should be ia this situation at the time of his death...:
By the proposed settlement, in the event of his sur.:
-viving his wife, the Petitioner was to have the life-
rent of the whole of his wife's property, whether
there were children or not, and if there were no chil-
dien, she had the power of leaving every thing
.to
bins, which, in the event of their living happily toge-
ther; there was very .reason. tti auppoinishe would
do. The huslimid, was years of
age,..and the wife 'lB. Tile 'probability; **fore,
.was, that.sbe Woidd be :the survivor. In this event•
hiiwevet,nad supposing the Petitioner to die possessed
o( great property while, by the pre bsed settlement,
sthichilibaria was ha have the Bfe-rezit of the whole of
the noise's *petty', tht ttA Wis to hare none of the
husbind's ; 'nor was proVishin piiiinsittcti6
• even fat; children of the' Marriage, 'eiteeptl
mit of the &Aline of the wife What the Learned
Counsel had to suggest, therefore, was theintrochte-
tiott OP a toveziant burdeiiing the Eiecutors,' Admi-
nistraturs,. or Assigns of the Petitioner; if he should
:pos.;esieek *ef" any funds, with the pbynient of '
10,0001.' A...d0/Mei of the settlement, to the wife
during her life, if she survived her husband, and to
the-children such.proportions as the parents
sbnakrl direct.
Sir SAM= Rustrux saw no great objection to
thissropositien. .Captain Impey had never received
siiggestm of the kind.; but the Learned Coon-
was convinced he could have no wish but to make
th'SetileMent as satisfactory as could be desired.
Mr. Ruizz.t., on-the tame side, suggested, that it
whard he be.tter to leitirs" e to the purposes of the set-
tlement aOoportion. of the husband's effects. It
It ight lisp* that he survived his wife, contracted a
attend marring', and that 10,0001. was the whole of
his fortune, in which case be would be unable to pro..
vide for the children of the second marriage. This
objection was removed by the introduction. of a cove-
nant into the settlement, declaring, that, in the event
alluded to, the provision by the father, like the for-
tune of the mother, should .be divisible into moieties,
for the children of the first and of the second marriage.
The Loan ClAsit*stoa saw more strongly the
prOpriety of introducing a covenant of the kind pro-
polled, when he'cOnst&ft.. ed the trnprobability of the
eldest shn of such a hither, and one at the same time
holding the rank he did in the British Navy, dying
withoutleing'possessed of any property except what
he acquired by his wife.. His Lordship was well aware,
that fathers, when they. saw their sons marry wards
of that Coma; who hid' fortunes, were 'often them-
selves averse from making any' provision for them,
not because they disapproved of the match, or meant
latterly to exclude them-from any shave in their'for-
,
tunes, but merely because they air how, s the mean.
tinte, they could be otherwise provided for.. It.was
his duty, however, its such situations to consider as
far as he could, what wag for the teal ma'* of :his
wards, and to make for--theisithe best bargaiii ht his
power. He therefore referred it to the Master, to ap-
prove of the proposal for the settlement stkbitlitted eo
him, with the additional covenant, on the part of the
husband, and' When such settlement should be exe-
cuted, anthbrised the petitioner to be discharged, the
costa being to be paid, as between Attorney and
Clitett, out of the common flout

• No less than three' children vert en Saturday se'n-
night brought for admiision into the London Hes-
pital, dreadfully, blirlit,. froth *eft clothes having •
taught :fire in. the absence of their indigent parents.
One of these infants died the same slight, and the ie.
teeettef the other-two' ii doubtful. •• •
A Ehild, the son ofa Cdthistlloroinnttrn; in Hnngary,
Airing lately died. of the nonralimfll pox, the Ma-
gistrate ordered it to be burial- in 'dee most privatel
manner. withoitt theseityl and its re* to be mole
considerably deeper than watt custommt. The pa-
rents were alsomeprinwided fOr nekl4i.dig to inocu-
late the child orith.the-vaccine Pock. .
• Thursday a lad -fell film a collier in Shoreham
hirbour*,. and 7sigiAlwitied • one of the crew, who
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