Star.
London, England, 1824-01-27 00:00:00

A 511B.IECT SURPRISED AND CAPTURED.

On the conclusion of the Marlborough-street Office bositiess, at
eight o'clock last night, a gaunt spectral figure of a man, upwards
of six feet high, presented himself to the notice of Mr. CONANT,
and, after a few hems, commenced in a sonorous tone—" Sir, my
name is Gough. May it please your Worship, I am"—
Wales, the officer, here interrupted him—" Yes, you are the line
sufdect—you remember?"
Gough—" task your pardon, I am not a niedect ; and, to tell you
the truth, I don't want to be one."
Wales (to the Magistrate)—This, Sir, is the man who a short
time since entered 11r. Brooks's. the anatomist, as a living subject.
Very late in the evening a knock was heard at the door, and on
its being opened, Gough and a friend asked if the Doctor was
within? they were informed he was not, but Gough, stepping
within the threshold, exclaimed to Mrs. Stooks," My dearest angel,
lam a subject at your husband's service." Mrs. Brooks, rather sur-
prised, asked an explanation. Gough continued, " Most excel-
lent rib of the pritnest cutter-Isp, I am anxious to undergo the
co-operation of your Doctor's skill; therefore here I am, a sub-
ject for six sovereigns; tip up the blunt to my friend, and I am the
Doctor's live subject, Wail I quit the world's wide stage, and after that
I am his stiff one." Mrs. gooks opened the door and ordered them
to depart, but Gough swore most vehemently that he would not
go ; he was a subject to all intents and purposes, and, very sea-
liautly, he and his friend proceeded to kick up a row, and finally,
Wales, in endeavouring to quell the riot caused by them, received
a tremendous body blow from Gough, for which assault a true bill
was found at the Sessions, and Muter Gough ever since has con-
trived to be out of the way. But by sonic unlucky chance he last
evening got rather top Army, and consequently becoming pat-valiant,
presented himself most unthinkingly into the hands of justice. The
following dialogue took place :
Gough, with great surprise—" lack-a-daisy, what's the row?
I am alive, indeed I am, whatsoever appearances may say to the
contrary."
'Wales.—" A true bill for that assault on me has been found, and
ever since you have been invisible."
Mr. CONANT.—" Well, Sir, what say you ? Bail for your appear-
ance must be rendered, this flight of f..ncy is rather serious."
Gough, as to the fancy part of it, the officer seems to speak
feelingly orithat subject—but d—me if it is not a mistake ; I nei er
was a subject.
Mr. C,ONANT.—The officer seems to have been subject to your
blows ; you must be detained. On this sentence being delivered,
the jaws of Gough extended prodigiously, and he groaned abroa—
d, You don't say so ; I never will offer myself as a added again as
long as I live. I thought the thing was settled; I heard so,' aid
casting a lingering glance at Wales, said, " It looks queer, don't it."
The officer replied, " Yes, it does."
Plank—" If you have riot bail, my good man, you must be de-
tained; and in that case you are a fit subject for Mr. Nodder, of
Tothill-ilelds."

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Gough extended his jaws further, and certainly had wonderfully
the appt.arauce of an inmate of the grave : he again groaned out—
" l'llr. Dodder, what line is he in ?—a Doctor—eh? I hope I am
not going to a Doctor. Egad, a word in jest is often one iu reality,
and I may be made a subject after all."
It was ultimately determined that this would-be subject should
hare the advantages of his own joke, and he was transbnitted to the
jaikr, exclaiming—" Verily, young men, all fond of being jovial,
don't in your cups visit natindsts or floor Itustfrrs, as it is dangerous,
and this comes of my wanting to be a live subject." The fellow
excited a great deal of laughter in the Office.

BRIGHTON, JAN. 26.—1 n my last, I informed you of
the KING having had a sudden attack of the gout. The answer to
the numerous enquiries at the Palace, during the afternoon, was,
" The KING has had a severe attack of the pint, but his AllaJxsTy
is better to-day than he was yesterday."
WINDSOR, JAN. 25.—This morning the Princess Au-
cuss, accompanied by the Dowager Countess of HAacouitT, at.
tended Divine Service at the Parish Church, where an excellent

sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. GOSSETT.
Yesterday her Royal Highness the Duchess of G LOU'
MITES, attended by a Lady in Waiting, took an airing in her car-
riage from Bagshot Park, and paid a visit to the Princess Au-
GUST t, at Frogmore, whew the ttuyal Visitor staid some time, and
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afterwards returned to Baphut to dinner.
His Royal Highness the Duke of YnRK arrived in
t wn on Sunday morning early from Gorhambury, the seat of the

Earl of VERULAM.

His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX gave a
grand dinner on Sunday, at Kensington Palace.
Sir GEORGE WARRIENDER, Bart. gave a grand dinner
lon Sunday last, in WhiteWl-place.
The Earl and Countess CRAVEN and family are ex-
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petted in town on Tuesday next, from their seat, Combe Abbey.
The Marquis of TicavrELD has nearly recovered
front his late severe indisposition.
The Honourable STRATFORD CANNING entertained
Mr. Secretary CANNING and a distinguished party to dinner yester-
day, at his house in Berkeley-square.
The Duke of ST. ALBAN'S and the Ladies BEAUCXERK
arrived yesterday at their house in St. James's-square, from their
seat, Girton, Surrey.
The Marquis and Marchioness of SALISBURY left
town yesterday afternoon, fur their seat, Hatfield.
Lord and Lady CARRINGTON and family arrived yes-
terday at their house, Whitehall-yard, from their seat, Wycomb
Abbey, Bucks.
Earl VISRULAM arrived yesterday at his house in
Grosvenor-square, from his seat, Gorhambury, Herts.
Lord ELLaNaosouott has left his seat at Ruehamp-
toe, for Brighton.
Lord HENRY CHOLMONDELEY has arrived in town,
from the Earl of AIinatIRIMASI'S seat, in Sussex.
Lieutenant-General Baron de HOCHEPIRD and family
have left the Bath Hotel, Arlington-street, for their seat in Sussex. i
MM. M. ORLANDO and J. LURIOTTIS, the Deputies)
from the Greek Government, arrived in London yesterday.
Yesterday, at half-past two o'clock, a Cabinet Coun-
cil was held at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, being the first
since the general return of Ministers to London. The Council was
attended by all the Cabinet Ministers. They continued in delibera-
tion till about a quarter before five o'clock.
Friday evening Mr. HILL, the King's Messenger, left
town with dispatches fur the Right lion. Hsnxv Wm.axsr.xv, our
Ambassador at Vienna.
Yesterday morning Lieutenant WHITE arrived at the
Colonial Office, with dispatches from New South W ales.
The Right Hon. Lord GWYDYR abatted from SO
to 40 per cent. upon the rents due by his tenants in Perthshire, at
Martinmas last.
It at length seems to be acknowledged, even by the
sons of that Land of Song, Italy, that England is a musical nation,
if we may judge from the influx of foreigners professing that branch
of the Fine Arts. Among the latest arrivals in London is that of
M. Ascot, a young musical composer and performer of great abi-
lity, well known in France and to the profession as the pupil of M.
Malmo, one of the most esteemed composers in Europe ; he has
brought with him a large quantity of manuscript Operas and Pieces,
which have obtained great applause in Paris, and cannot fail to in-1
trodnce bins to the notice and support of those in this country who
delight in fostering early genius. He displays great execution eel
the piano-forte ; and we anticipate that Signor BINELI.I, who has ser
actively exerted himself to support the reputation of the Italian Opera,
will not lose the opportunity of associating M. ANCOT with Rossi:al
and SPAGNOLIIII, in the musical derpartment cf that establishment.
The Lady of LINDERTIS, with her usual liberality,
hap clothed all the poor in Airly parish.
DEATH OF VISCOUNTESS FERRARD.—Died, in her,
87th year, at C.ollon, in the county of Louth, the seat of the vene- I
able liord Oanu., on Tuesday night, the 20th instant, the Right
Hum. Maar:arum Viscountess Fsanuan Baroness Oriel, the Lady
lot that distinguished Nobleman. Iler adyship was a Peeress in her
Inn' right, and is succeeded in her titles by her only son, the Right
Hon. THOMAS H. Sserrisorox' one of the Representatives fur the
leounty of Loutb, but now Lord
I The remains of Mr. GASCOYNE were removed on'
Saturday morning, fur interment at Barking, in ESSeI; the Mar-
quis
of Samovar and Colonel GASCOYOZ, brother to the deceased,
were the chief mourners. Mr. Gascovut, it is said, died worth
£150,000, exclusive of estated property. The quantity of gold re-
moved from his house in Great Stanhope-street, since his death. its
said to be immense.
The late Mr. MA RRYAT r, M.P. report says, has left'
his widow £4,000 per annum ; £51,000 to each of seven sons, sad
£12,000 to each of three daughters.
MATHEWS is ag.rin at Manchester, exhibiting his bud•
get of eccentricity and fun in all its variety.
LISTON retires frrßn Drury-larte Theatre after the pre-
scut week, for a short period, to perform at Bath, Bristol, turd Exeter.

LAW INTELLIGENCE. .
COURT OF CHANCERY, JANUARY 26.

JUDGMENT.ZLGOI/RLAY V. Tfl DUKE of SOMERSET.
His LottostitP, in making some preliminary obser-
vations respecting this case, before he proceeded in
what he considered his judgment, again complained of.
not having been properly furnished with affidavits, re-'
specting the identity of the plans that wet e produced at
the trials. He also wished that much of the language
which had been used when the case was last argued,
had not been used; he alluded particularly to some-
thing Mr. Gourlay had said about a steward of the
Duke's.—His Lordship then proceeded to enter at great
length into the matters before him. It appeared to his
Lordship absolutely necessary, in deciding this case, to
go through the whole of the record, and' accot dingly
lie stated, with great minuteness, the original and
amended bills, the answers, the agreements, the deposi-
tions on both sides, the evidence givea at the trials, and
the different repot is tha: had been made by the Mas-
ters. At half-past one his Lordship completed his
statements of the record, and declared that, to the best
of his ability, equal justice should be done to the parties
in this cause, as well as in all other causes, let their dif-
ference of situation be what it may ; but his Loidship
was too fatigued to conclude his observations, and
therefore he postponed what he had further to say, till
Wednesday morning; by that tittle the Court wished
to know it any person could swear the plans now be•
fore the Court were not the plans that had been ex•
hibited at the trials, and therefore to contradict Mr.
G affidavits.
Mr. HART said he knew now that nobody could make
an affidavit that they were not the affidavits.
His Loapsifity,then thought. it must be taken for
granted that these were the plan's.
Gourlay then begged to make an observation or
two, the amount of which was, that he had ever since!
Christmas been living on the charity of some Ladies,
which he only accepted on certain conditions, and which
he would not have accepted from men, for
" Pity melts the soul to love ;"
and as he had now only one shilling in the world, and,
knew not where to raise another, he wished to know what
he was to do, particularly with respect to his being able
to sue as a pauper'
His LORDsIIIP, in leaving the Court, said, it was not
his duty to instruct any suitor how to proceed, but he
felt satisfied that any Gentleman at the Bar would give
Mr. Gott:lay any advice he stood in need of.
Mr. Gourlay.—But I'll present a regular petition re-
specting that to-morrow.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JANUARY 26.
TAYLOR AND WATERS.
An application was made by Mr. HEALD in this case
to his Honour to subject the Master's Report to a revi-
sion. The Master had reported that a sum of £956
was due by the former Proprietors of the Opera House
to the estate of the late Signor Naldi. The Report had
been confirmed, and his present motion was, that on the
ground that the account was irregularly taken, the Re-
port should be subjected to a revision.
Mr. SUGDEN opposed the motion, and urged the de-
lay that had intervened between the Report and the
present tardy application.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR.—In this case there has been
great, and appatently unauthorised delay. I cannot,'
however, at present determine upon the reasons that in-
duced it. For rue purpose of hearing, therefore, Mr.
Taylor's explanation as to its cause, I shall permit it to
stand over.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JANUARY 26.
PERUVIAN LOAN.
KINDERT AND CO. V. EVERITT AND CO.

This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are
Contractors for the Peruvian Loan, to recover from the'
defendants, who at•e bankers, certain instalments paid
by the subscribers to the defendants on account of this
Loan. The plaintiffs obtained a verdict for £75,000.
Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL this day moved for a rule
calling upon the plaintiffs to shew cause why the vet.
diet should not be set aside, and a new trial had. The
ground relied upon in support of the motion was, that
the powers of the persons who acted in this country as
Envoys of the Peruvian Government, had been revoked
before they gave authority to the plaintiffs to receive
the instalments from the defendants. The Learned
Counsel obs'rved that many imputations had been cast
upon the defendants ;, but they were ready to pay over
the instalments to whatever persons the Court should
declare entitled to receive them; and in order to shew
that they had no object except their own security in
withholding the payment of this money, they would
allow Exchequer Bill interest upon it up to the day of
the decision of the Court, stating to whom the money
should be paid over.
Mr. Bitouonaat, for the plaintiffs, said they would
be satisfied if the Court would direct that the money
should be laid out in Exchequer Bills, to be lodged in
the Bank of England.
The COURT refused to make such an order, lest some
difficulty might arise in getting the money out of the
hands of a third party ; besides, such an order would
cast upon the character of the defendants an imputation
which the circumstances of the case did not warraor.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—I must say that many
imputations which were not supported by the evidence
were cast upon the defendants.--Rule granted.
THE KING V. SHERWoOD AND oFHERS. •
In the last Term Mr. Chitty obtained a Rule calling
upon the defendants to strew cause why a criminal in-
formation should not be filed against them for having
published a pamphlet purporting to be a Narrative of
the facts and circumstances connected with the Murder
of the late Mr. Weare.
Mr. ScARLETT this day proposed to the Counsel for
the prosecution, that the Rule should be discharged
upon payment of coats, as his clients acknowledged
that they could not justify the publication.
Mr. Cif iTty, for the prosecution, assented to this pro-
posal.—Rule discharged.
ARCHES COURT, JANUARY 26.
• JOHN V. JOHN.
Dr. SWABEY said this was a suit for the. admission of
libel for divorce, instituted by Samuel John, Esq. of
Cornwall, against his wife, by reason of adultery.
Dr. JENNER, on behalf' of Mrs. John, stated the na-
ture of the libel, as pleaded by Mr. John, and took va.
rious objections to the several articles contained therein.
The 22d of January, 1810, the parties were married,
and on the 24th of March following, Mr. John left his
wife, for the purpose of attending his duties as Under
Sheriff, in a distant part of the county. While he was
absent, lie learnt that Mrs. John had been delivered of
a female child, at the house of her father, a Gentleman
of property and respectability, on the first of April ; and
she admitted that her husband was not the lather of

the child. the parties cOntra-eted the marriage 4.
better for worse, and it must have been quite con
tent for Mr. John to have ascertained her pregnancy pre-
vious to marriage, so that no deception was practised
upon him, and therefore the present libel could not be
sustained ; the Court in similar cases have already put
that question to rest, particularly in the case of Perrin
v. Perrin, (Dr. Adam's Rep. Vol. I.) where Mrs Phrin
previous to the marriage had been delivered of - two
children, and she was actually receiving for their main-
tenance from her paramours the sum of 40V1. and 201 s
but the Court held that the libel was inadmissible, be=
cause the fact of the marriage was a waver of the hug-
band's claim, and any act committed previously would
not jpstify him in suing frr a divorce. In 411 artielus
of separation were agreed to between Mr. Gill (on loci-
halt of Mrs. John) and Mi. John, by which the Lillis
fdrtune was restored to her, and her father was to MM•
fain her. The deed of separation was intended by Mr.
John's Counsel to be produced in evidence against her;
but 1.i.2 (Dr. Jenne') conceived ;hat it ()ugly,: not to be
received, because Mt John had not signed it, or been
present at its execution. The father's will bequeaths
1.501. per annum to s. John, and 501. to the daughter
born in April, 1813. Mr. Gill subsequentiy, sent his
daughter to reside with the Rev. Mr. Palmer, where it
is pleaded dirt she became acquainted with George lto.
belt Foster, and frequently spoke of him in terms of
great affection, sometimes feigning herself ill for the
purpose of seeing him. They used to meet at the house
of one John Smith, whose wile was Mrs. John's ser-
vant, and letters used to be left there for each other.--.
On one occasion, when Mr. Palmer refused to send fof
Mr. Foster, she flew into a violent passion and broke
the glasses on the table; this was stated oh conjecture
from their refusal to send for Mr. Foster, but Dr. Jen-
ner contended that was not sufficient to establish acts
of adultery. The libel lastly pleaded that Mrs. John
-got acquainted with Mr. Weyland, a Curate, who was
discovered with the Lady in her bed-room in such a si-
tuation as left no doubt of the adulterous intercourse;
now this important circumstance, if it were true) ought
to have been specified by a certain date, but in what
year it is not even stated, and was therefore too vague
to sustain the present libel.
Dr. SWABEY, for Mr. John, contended that the %rd•
des charging the adulterous inter course were as specific
as was necessary to support the libel. It was urged as
an objection that this sort of conduct in the Lady was
stated to have continued for some years: why was not
the present suit instituted before 1821 ? His answer
was that Mr. John only received an intimation of the
facts in that year : after having satisfied himself as to
the grounds for the charge, he prosecuted it with as
much dispatch as possible.
Sir JOHN NICOL ordered the libel to be re-formed.

A Leeward Islands Mail arrived yesterday, with let-
ters of the 15th of December, from St. Thomas's, the
last port touched at, and con esponding dares from the
other islands. Nothing had °centred on the Co'
lombian Main subsequently to the fall of Puerto Ci-
vello ; but it is stated, that many commercial adven-
turers were repairing to that place, invited by the ap6
parently tranquil situation of the Itepublic, to con-
duct mercantile operations in that country. In
Trinidad some symptoms of insurrection had been
eiinced in tht plantations immediately adjoining Port
Spain, but they had been promptly suppressed. In the
rest of the island all was perfectly tranquil. The islands
of Barbadocs, Tobago, and Antigua, also appear to be
in a state of tranquillity.

The New York Gazette of the Ist inst. after stating, on
the authority of Captain ILYER, of the brig Cato, that
tni the 2d December, firing was recoil menced from the
Castle at Vera Cruz, on the town, adds, on the 4th
Capt. Botta saw vessels of war lying at anchor 12 or 15
miles from the bar of Alvarado. On the 26th Nov.the
account of the fleet off the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa,
was received at Mexico ; and which stated. that on the
21st a fleet had arrived from Havannah with pi ovs.ions,
troops, Ste. and anchored off the Castle ; five saii of ves-
sels were counted, including a frigate.
The Etoile of Saturday states, that' the-. wretched
mother of Lecouffe, and her son, who were condemned
some weeks ago for assassinating and lobbing an old
woman who was their ittighhoni, in May. List, were exe-
cuted together on that day in the Place de Greve. The
journalist remarks tha, this was the rust time for along
period, that the scaffold of Paris ‘sitnessed the execution
of mother and son as accoilip:kes.
Letters by the Lisbon Mail of yesterday state, that
10,000 troops are immediately to he sent to the Brazils.
A letter from Valparaiso of the 26th Sept states that
the Government had issued a decree, ordering that all
goods which had recently been pertnitted P.o he landed
at the Custom-horse in transit*, should be taked out,
and the duty paid on them immediately.
GREEK Sus VERY.—Official Rev' t ns froth the Turkish
Custom-house at Scio, report 11,000 women and chil-
dren to have been sold as slaves, and to have paid auc-
tion duties at that office, in May and June, 1822.
Intelligence from Barbadoes of the 10th dz. states,
that on the preceding Sunday arrived, after a passage
of 40 days from England, his Maje.ty's frigate Isis,
Admiral Sir L. W. HA LSTF.AD, K.C.B. having on board
the Consuls for South America, timely, Mr. HENDER.
SON, for Colombia ; Mr. TUPPER, for La Guayr.t; Mr.
SUTHERLAND, for Maracaibo ; Mr. WATTS, for Cartha-
gelia ; and Mr. *GREGOR, for Panama.
Letters from Odessa of the 20th ult. assert that the
Captain Pacha had been beheaded at Constantinople in
consequence of his want of succe.s in the late campaign,
and that the Sultan's favourite HAILE EFFENDI had been
raised to the post of Grand Vizier.
It is stated in a private letter from Pails, written on
Satur(lay evening, that M. TALARU, the French Am-
bassador at the Court of Madrid, had been recalled,
and that further reinforcements wete ordered to pro-
ceed to Spain.
We understand that Hunt received a geir:ral respite
yesterday morning. It is expected that he wiil be im-
mediately sent on board a convict ship for transportation.
JOHN SALTER, 35, Strai;cl, Goldsmith, Silversmith,
and Sword-cutler to his Royal highness die Duke of
SustEst, respectfully returi.s his most grateful thanks to
the Nobility, Gentry. his Friends, and the Public, who
have so liberally supported him during twenty-four
years. He takes this opportunity to inform them that
he has rebuilt the house (lately destroyed by fire), at the
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will merit the continuance of their patronage, support,
and approbation. Every attentionhai been paid to in-
crease the accommodation of his Friends, and he is de-
termined to meet the times, by selling the best At ticles
on the very loss est terms.

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