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London, England, 1825-02-07 00:00:00

- LAW REPORT.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.
Before the Hon. Mr. Baron Gaaaow. and the Hod. Isis
and
Lrestainai.
Reading. Monday, February en.
Oxford, Wednesday, March a. ;.
Worcester, Saturday, March 5. • •
Stafford, Thursday, March 10. .
Shrewsbury, Wednesday, March In.
Hereford. Monday. March 21. -
Monmouth, Saturday, March 26.
Gloucester, Wednesday, March 30.
HOME CIRCUIT.
Right Honourable Lotto Cuter •Bastott, and the Hon. Mr. Baron
GRAHAM.
Hertford, Yiesday, March 1.
. Chelmsford, Monday, March 7.
King.ton, Monday, March 14.
Horsham, Wednesday, March g 23.
Maidstone, Tuesday, March 29.
COURT OF CHANCERY, FEBRUARY 5.
IN RE EA RLII.E.
Counsel were fully heard in the lunatic petition, artd
the arguments occupied the whole of the day.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that this was a pe-.
tition (,f a singular nature. It was that of the husband
against the wife, and it prayed for a commission to en-
quire whether or not she was a lunatic? In the whole
course of his long practice he never recollected but one
case of the same kind, and there the commission was
refused. This Lady conceived herself to hive been ill-
used by her husband. This might be true or false, but
Of this he felt quite sure, that he (Lord Eldon) should
be the most mischievous of all human pe-ts, if he was
to issue a commission upon the facts as they had been
stated to him upon affidavit. The female sea, supposed
to be inferior to the male in point of reason (..vhether
justly or Pot he could not pretend to determine,) very
.ften felt strongly when they conceived tl emselves to
be ill-used. Was he then to issue, a commission be
cause this Lady had gone beyond the strict line of rea-
son w ith respect to her alleged ill-treatment ? After
some further observations relative to the judgment be
had given in Lord Portsmouth's case, and the doubts he
then entertained, he concluded by dismissing the peti-
tion.—The question of costs was reserved.
SHERIFF'S COURT, COLEMAN-STREET, FEB. 5.
CHARLES ThIsTAN COUNT DE MONTH, 'LON, EXECUTOR OF
TILE LAST w ILL OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, PLAIN-
TIFF, JAQUES LAFITTE, DEFENDANT.
Mr. F. Poi.t.oca, Counsel fur the plaintiff, stated that
the plaintiff was the executor of the lad will of Napo-.
leon Bonaparte ; and the defendant had been Bona-
parte's banker in Paris, with whom he was in the hank
of lodging considerable suns of money, previous to his
quitting France in the year ISIS. When Bonacarte
left Fiance in that year, he took with him documents
from the defendant, which sheaved the amount of the
money then in the defendant's hands belolving to
Bonaparte. These documents it would not be neces-
sary now to produce ; but an account, the result of them,
and a declaration of the defendant's admitting its cor-
rectness, and that the balance equal to £1'29,422 6s. 2d.
'remained in his hands, would be pioveJ, which would
entitle the plaintiff to a verdict for that sum. It would
he unnecessary to clove the Will cf Bonaparte, as the
defendant, by alloning judgment to go by default,Wd-
mined that the plaintiff was his exeLwor.
Honourable Dauglas Kinnaila stated, that he
was acquainted with the defend .nt's ha.,d-writing ; be
had seen him write, and was in the habit of seeing his
writing every week ; the signature to the account
and declaration produced %tete in the defendant's
hand-writing.
Mr. John Allan Powell produced translated copies
Of the account and' declaration moved by Kinnaird.—
The balance due to B maparte on the account was
3,248,500 francs. The declaration stated, that the de-
fendant held that sum on account of Napoleon Bona-
parte, and was Bated January 15, 1825.
Major Miller stated that he knew the defendant, and
had lately seen him in Paris, at which time he (the de-
fendant) read the declaration now produced, and said
the contents were true.
Mr. Wiiliam Criquler stated, that he was clerk to a
French merchant in London, and was acquainted with
the rate of exchange with France. At the rate of ex-
change yesterday, 3,218,500 francs was equal to
C1i9,422 Gs. 2.!. This was the case for the plaintiff,
to which theta was no defence.
The SecounallY charged the Jury that the evidence was complete.
The Jury immediately assessed the damgaes at 6i tr 9,422 64. ad.
SECONDARY'S COURT, FEBRUARY 5.
HENRY CONSTANTINE JENNINGS U. WITCHURCH.
This was an action to recover 1701. as a compensa-1
tion for services performed by plaintiff, as an en-
gineer,and defendant had suffered judgment by default.
Mr. Battumy opened the plaintiff's case, and stated
that the plaintiff was an engineer of high and acknol-
hedged talent ; the defendant was proprietor of an ex-
,tensive establishment in Goswell-street, for the drying of
,bacon. It was suggested by the former, that bacon
could be dried much more advantageously by the adop-
tion of Perkins's patent stoves ;for that purpose: he at-
tended the defendant on more occasions than one, and
pointed out the mode in which ;hi stoves could be ap-
plied, in consequence of which one of them was adopted,
and answered the purposes contemplated, though not
so effectually as the defendant expected. A bill of par-
ticulars was put in as a part of the plaintiff's case,
wherein charges were made for driwings, designs, &c.
none of which, however, were produced, and the only
drawing ever made by the plaintiff, that. appeared in
evidence, was the delineation of an angle in chalk on a
door, which was to suggest an alteration in one of the
pipes of the stove.—Evidence having been examined,
Mr. ADOLPHUS then addressed the Jury for the de-
fence, in an eloquent and humorous speech. He ridi-
culed the idea of the plaintiff having a right to extraor-
dinary compensation, because he had given his friend a
suggestion which had turned out of advantage. His
Learned Friend, however, who had opened and con-
clucted the case with much ability, had felt his case
falling away from under him, and had had the pru-
dence to stop it as soon as he could. One shilling would
be ample compensation in the present case, and would
afford the .plaintiff ao useful lesson how he again
tried experiments with his friends, by bringing actions
against them.
The Jury, after as hour's consultation, found a v erdict—Daal
Ames 40s. •
in. the Insolvent Deli7=ourt, on Friday. Mary
, and Harriet Boater, two respectable young women, were
el posed for debts amounting to about two hundred pounds. They
were milliners, and had 'Miffed she debts for furniture, in order
to increase their business, principally with a view to support an
aged father antifamily. It was the opinion of the Court, that their
Adventure was praiseworthy, and they were discharged. Upon
leaving the Court, the youngest fell into fits.
Thursday, the Court of King's Bench, in the case of
&lissom a. Doirrox made the rule absolute, on contition tbit Mr.
Eu.nros should produce the letter received in answer.

UNIVERSITY Ind CLERICAL INTELLIGENCIft
CAMBRIDGE, FEBRUARY S.
The late Dr. Sushi's annual prize, of X 25 each, to the two test
prolltient• in Mathematks aitd Natural. Ihilosdltby among the
coenntencleg Bachelors of Arts, were of Friday last adjudged to
Mr. James Challis, of trinity College, and Mr. WilliBm Wiaiama
son, of Clare Hall, the. hat and second Wranglers.
The subject of the Seatonian Pride Poem for the present fear re
The Building and Dedication of the second Temple."
OXFORD, FEBRUARY .
Tuesday, in full Convocation, the University Seal was affixed ti
an instrument releasing the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Citizens of Worth
from the observance of certain acts heretofore required of them he
vita Schelastica, in memory of the distils oils events which occurred
in a conflict between the Students of the thiivet shy and the Citisend
of Oxford, in the year 1354-3, !X) Edwaid
Thursday last the following Degrees *ere conferred :
BACOM.OII IN DIVINITY. —Het. Edward Ekot, Fellow of Exert
College.
MASTRRS or Aan.—Rev. Charles Thomas Plumptre, r.ir
College; Rev. Frederick Quarrinron, Pembroke C.lll.ge; keel
Robert Shepherd,. Queen's College; Rev. Hogh - Bold, „Chrisi
Church; Edward Morgan, St. Alban Hall; Carew Anthony St:
John Mildmay, Oriel College.
BACRELOIOI of ARM—John Childers, Christ Church, grand
compounder; Thomas Penton, Pembrokei College; Frederick
Bowman, Exeter College; Edmund Strong, Exeter Coliege ; Ed-
ward John Wingiield, Student of Christ Church ; John Brooke,
Brasenoose College; Peter Nonai!le,. St. John's College; John
Mayers, University College; Henry Western Plumptre, Unice:a
sity College • Charles George Buller, Oriel College; Proby John
Ferrer., Oriel College; Charles Tysien Tyrrell, Oriel College;
Henry Dudley Ryder, Oriel College; Charles Meysey Wigleyo
Balliol College; Watson Buller Pole, Balliol College.
The same day, the Rev. John Nelson, M.A. of Trinity Hall,
Cambridge, was admitted to an ad maims Degree in this Univer-
sity, to which he was presented by the Rev. Dr. Ellerton, Fellow of
Magdalen College.
The Rev. George Norman Gale, B. A. of Worcester College, Is
licensed to the Curacy of Corte. .about to be augmented by the
Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty.
FeCIAVASTICAL PILOMOTIONS.
The Rev. John Wood, M. A Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cams
bridge, has been piesented et: the Vicarage of Santhorpe, in Nor=
folk, by the Master and Fellows of that Society,
Rev. Edward Hyde Coleus, B. A. had been licensed, by the
Bishop of Bath and Wells, to perform the office of Chaplain of the
I House of Correction at Shepton
'His Majesty has presented the Rev. Norma? Lead; Minister
of Campbletown, to the parish of Campsie, in the Presbytery of .
Glasgow. -

lIIRTIIS.
Tan. 9.9, at Ballyhricken, county of Cork the Lady of Major
Burke, of a son. •
At Clonlea Glebe, Kilkisben, the Lady of the Rev. Richard
Welsh, of a daughter.
In Dublin, the Lady of

&acpoole, 43th Re=

giment, of a son.
At St. Thome, Madras', on the 12th of August, the Lady of
Lieut.- Col. Commandant Robert Mac Dowall, 7th Regiment Nisi
tire Infantry, of a daughter.
The 17th instant, Mrs. Whitfield, Whimple-street, of a son.
At Ashburton, the Lady of the Rev. Jobn Templer, of a
daughter.
At liuntingford, Herts, the Lady of the Rev. S. Dewe, Heat!
Master of the Drvonport Mathematical School, of a son.
Jan. 31, at atchmend, Surrey, the Lady of the Rev. C. Dela,'
fosse, of a son.
At Juniper Green, Colinton, on the 28th ult. the widow of
Lieutenant Henry Rymer, R. N. of at ann.
A few days ago, the wife of Thomas Robinson, Boston, to whom
she had been married twenty-one years without having any Increase
in the family, was safely delivered of two children, who, with the
mother, are doitlg well.

Al A iIItIED.
At Moffat, on the lith inst. Lieutenant John Marjoribanks, of
the IL N. to Mary. eldest daughter of Mr. James Dick-on, Moffat.
Februat y 2, J. K Fordham, of Melbourne Bury, in the County
of Cam hoitgr, Eq. to Harriet, daughter of John Gurney, Esq.
King's Counsel.
Tuesday, at St. Andrew's Church, Plynimtdr, Major W. C.
Holloway, Royal Engineers, to Amelia youngest daughter of this
late Captain T. Elphinstone, U.S. of Belair, Dresonsbire.
Monday, at St. blary.la-bonne Church, Captain the Hon. Walter
fotbes, to Horatio, daughter of Sir John Gregory Shaw, Bart. of
Kenward. in Kent.

DIED.
The Ist of September. at Calcutta, in the 48th year of his age,
Major John Canning, Political Agent of the Governor General
at Rangoon.
Monday. Mary, the wife of the Rev. Andrew Burn, of Church
Lawford, Warwickshire.
Monday, in the 73d year of her age, Lucinda, relict of the late
Rev. Richard Bourne, formerly Minister of St. Werburgh's, Dub-
lin, and Rector of the parish of Kilmore, diocese of Armagh.
In London, Lieut. Woodmeston, R. M. aged 52.
, At Hampton Coon Palace, James Yeo, Esq. He was father of
the late gallant Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo, K.C. B.
Thunday, in Bedford.aquare, Elizabeth, the wife of Captain Wm.
Stewart, of the Royal Independent Company of Invalids.
On the 28th January, at Butler's Cottage, Pratt-street, Lambeth,
Mrs. Ana Orrok, aged 75
In his house at Coal Island, Dublin, on the 24th January, la the
41st year of his age, the Rev. James Johnstone.
At Edinburgh, on the 25th ult. Mr. William Calder, student of
divinity, aged 26, son of Mr. Patrick Calder, schoolmaster, Muir-
avonside, Stirlinphire.
The 9th September last, by the upsetting of eboat at Cape North.
on the coast of Labrador, Mr. John bl‘Pherson, merchant, aged 40
The 27th ult. at Hanestown, Ireland, Anne, eldest daughter of
Robert Latouche, Esq. M.P. for the county of ildare.
At Waken Leicestershire, Mary, the wife of the Rev. Augustus
Hobart, and :laughter of the late Mr. Serjeant Williams.
At his lodgings, in Bath, aged 67, the Rev. B. Thickens, of
Broughton Hall, Oxfordshire, formerly of Ross.
Rev. G. lon, Rector of Thorndon, Suffolk.
August 3, at Barnckpere, aged 18, Eliza Helen, daughter of
Lieutenant-colonel Commandant limes, C.,.13. 39th Regiment, Ben-
PI Native Infantry.
Aged 62, the Rev. J. L. Girdlestone, Rector of SwainstheePes
and Vicar of Shorringham, Norfolk.
Rev. James James. Curate of Lantarnam Monpouthshire.
Aged 28, the Rev. Thomas Snow, of Tidmington House, Woe.
cestershire.
In Marlborough Place, Brighton, aged 63, the Rev. Pakington
George Tomkyns, LL.D. late of 111;chinlaill Park, Herefordshire.
At Common., Village, in Annandale, on the 14th ult. Betty
Sheare at the advanced age of 99, having thus e ntered her hun-
dredth r,
year ; indeed she was supposed by many of the old people in
the neighbourhood, to 'have been upwards of a hundred, but she
had no document that could record the period of her birth. She
was the daughter of two old faithful servants of the late Sir Jolla
Douglas, of Kelhead. She retained all her faculties quite entire tilt
within a short time of her death, and could joke and be amused
with events that were occurring, and always brightened up when
the feats of her youth were brought to her recollection. From the
time that Betty could pull a weed or lift a pail, until bending be-
neath a lead of years, she was employed about Keihead; and front
the integrity of her mind, and strong attachment to the family,
added to the extraordioary eicestricity of her character, she was to
the last an object of interest and care to all the branches of it;--
never was a Highland vowel mere faithfully attached to his chief-
tain, than she was to the family she had served so long ;at the name
of Douglas her heart ever warmed. At all merry meetings, Beni
was a person of great importance, and nothing drew forth her sat-'
castle humour more focally than when she saw the farmers' wives
or their daughters dressed finer than what she considered became
their station. Betty was a teen Jacobite, and she often recounted
with much enthusiastic delight having seen the unfortunate PTe
Charles, as he jays..strAmoniseeeens. when-on his march- from Vuov
fries to England.
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