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BRISTOL ASSIZES.

MARY DOLAND V. TIMOTHY DEASY, ESQ.
This case had previously excited the must lively
interest among the residents of Bristol and the neigh.
bourhood of B.ith, as well as of the county of Cork ;
the former having been the scene of action, and the
latter the vicinity of an estate, (at Phale) value be-
tween two and a€3ooo per annum, the inheritance of
which was collaterally involved in the question now
decided,

About 23 years since, upon an occasion of the mar-
riage of the defendant with Anna Malin Barry, the
estate alluded to was settled upon the defendant by
his father, giving him a life-interest, with remainder
to his issue male, or in default of such issue, then to
his younger brother, Mr. Rickard Deasy. Nineteen
years had elapsed without the birth of an heir to the
defendant, when about four years since, the brothers
having had a verbal altercation, the defendant and
his wife quitted Ireland, and came to reside in Bris-
tol. At this period the villainous conspiracy, so elo-
quently developed by the plaintiff's leading Counsel,
Mr. Serjeant PELL, appears first to have been con-
ceived—the earliest public intimation of which was
thus given in THE STAR, in September, 18094
BIRTHS.—At Bristol, the Lady of Timothy
Deasy, Esq. of a son."
This, as was doubtless intended, reached the ob-
servation of Mr. Rickard Deasy ; but he was with
diffieulty induced to believe that a brother's prejudice
could prevail so far as to give any foundation in fact
to the numerous doubts expressed by mutual friends,
whether Mrs. Timothy Deasy had been previously
pregnant or not ; and he accordingly resisted every
incentive to an investigation of the circumstances,
until the imperative argument was urged of his own
seven infant children being, through his supineness,
likely to be shut out from their rightful inheritance.
A considerable period elapsed before any clue
could be obtained for the removal or establishment
of these doubts, and Mr. Rickard Deasy was on the
point of suspending all further enquiry, when, as a
dernier resort, he was induced to call upon Mr. D.
of Park-street, Bristol, the medical attendant of his
brother's family, about June, 181'2, with the desire
of obtaining a categorical answer to the question, as
a man of honour, it Mr. D. had ever assisted Mrs.
Timothy Deasy in the delivery of a child ? But the
anxiety evinced by Mr. D. to get the enquirer out of
his house, and his peremptory refusal to communi-
cate with him upon that or any other subject, con-
firmed the suspicion that all was not right. In the
course of enquiries elsewhere, the house where Mrs.
Timothy Deasy was said to have lain in, (No. 2,
Clarence-place, Kingsdown) was ascertained, and
this led to a further disclosure, through nurses and
other servants, of the following facts :
The unfortunate plaintiff was compelled to quit a
respectable state of servitude, in consequence of
having been seduced by a fellow servant ; which,
being followed by pregnancy, she took a lodging in
Lower Berkeley-place, 'where it appears she was first
discovered by the medical gentleman alluded to, and
by him introduced to the wile of the defendant. Here,
acted upon by the 16 all powerful influence of a rich
man's ;arse," the plaintiff was prevailed upon to
forego the claims of nature, to part from her expected
offspring, should it prove a male child. On the 9th
of September, 1809, this part of the compact was fa-
voured by her delivery of a boy, with the professional
assistance of a gentleman resident at Clifton, then a
partner with the gentleman of Park-street ; who in
person within a few hours afterwards, visited theplain-
tiff, and reminded her of her agreement with Mrs.
Deasy. On the following morning (Sunday, the 10th
of September), about ten o'clock, this agent again
visited the plaintiff, and within a few minutes ter
child was taken to his house in Park-street, Erma

*hence it was further removed, by a nuns already
in waiting, to a retired spot about three miles on the
Gloucestershire side of this city, called Crew's Hole,
where it was permitted to remain about a fortnight.
From the.care of this nurse (with the assistance of a
Mrs. Arberry, of West.street), the child was trans-
ferred, at the Swan Inn, St. Maryport.street, to that
of another nurse, who, without seeing the former
nurse, received it in a hackney-co ich. To relieve the
reader from a most intricate labyrinth through which
this devoted infant was conveyed, (not a single link
of the clue to which has been left undiscovered), it
may suffice that he was finally delivered into the
hands of Mrs. Deasy, at the door of her then resi-
dence in Clarence-place.
Within a few days afterward (ab.;ut the 28th of
September) the farce of baptizing the said child, by
ire name of Edward Garrett Deasy, was performed in
the same house, as proved by a certificate in the La-
tin langegge, exhibited in Court, in the hand-% riting
of the Apostolic Vicar of the Catholic Church in this
city, who was most piously instructed to premise that
this child, being the offspring of Timothy and Anna
Maria Deasy, was born upon a day, and at an hour
several days previous to actual birth.
During this time, the plaintiff was left in total ig-
norance of the fate of her child, until November Va.
lowing; when, by unv..earied exertions, she found
him in the possession of Mrs. Deasy, then living at
No. 16, King-square, who, after the plaintiff's re-
peated importunities, permitted her to enjoy the ob-
ject of her solicitude, as an inmate with the family,
for about two months, until the defendant and his wife
pretended an urgent visit to Herefordshire, when the
plaintiff returned tie her former lodg ng, in Denmark
street.

After various doublings and turnings by this con
ple with their heir of honourable adoption, in Glou.
cestershire, Herefordshire, Bath, and other places too
numerous to record—with the dodging su..c-s•ion of
servants hired and discharged out of si•:•it of each
other, even upon the King's highway--zhey reterned
to Bristol, believing, perhaps, that they had now to-
tally baffled all endeavours to identify Cr child as
any other than their own, in the Spring of
The pl iintiff, in the following D?ceniber,
was delivered of a second child. On the of that
month (December, 1810,) the defendant and his
ever-ready friend called together upon her, then at
lodgings in Upper Maudlin-lane, and urged her to
the absolute disposal of the child narn.il. Edward.
Garrett Deasy ; offering her an annuity of £SJ upon
condition that she would abandon the sight or know.
ledge of that her first child for ever.
•This agreement, after much hesitation by the plain.
tiff, was at length determined upon, and witnessed
by the agent alluded to. Accordingly. an annuity'
to the before-named amount was secured upon the .
bond of the defendant to the plaintiff; for the nor..
payment of the instalments stipulated wherein, dua
since Midsummer, 1812, this action was brought.—
On the following day, the plaintiff was required to
execute an agreement, never to divulge or mike
known any oldie circumstances respecting her said
child, nor to approach near the residence of the defen-
dant or his family, upon an alleged violation of Vl hiclt
agreement, the defendant rested his opposition to the
obligations of rhe bond.
Mr. Set jeant PELL having made an eloquent expo-
sitien of the c:rcumstances thus briefly detailed, and •
proof of the bond being admitted on the part of the
defendant, his Counsel,' Mr. Serjeant Lees, pro-
ceeded to call several witnesses in support of the de.
fence; whose evidence went to prove that the plain-
tiff
had often visited the residence of the defendant ;
at times imperatively demanding a sight of her child,
at other times, these visits were presumed to be with
the consent of the defendant and his wife, as she
brought clothing and caps for the child's use. One
witness for the defendant proved, that in conversa.
tion, about the middle of 1812, the plaintiff, at in-
quiring for the residence of the defendant and his
wife, observed, " they hare broken their obligation to
nut, or I would never haie been hostile to them."
Mr. Baron GRAHAM summed up the evidence,
when the Jury, without leaving their box, in about
five minutes, returned a verdict for the pl.kintiff of the
amount sued for, with all arrears to the present time.
Of the remaining causes for trial, there are three
for which Special Juries are summoned ; one of them
is an action.by Mr. Stephen Clement Webb, against
Henry Hunt, Esq. for the recovery of fees as an
Agent at the election for a representative of this city,
last July, when the defendant was a candidate.

The Mayor and Justices of Bath having taken into
consideration the Act of Parliament of the last Ses-
sion relating to the Price and Assize of Bread, which
took effect on the 10th ult have resolved to try the
experiment of leaving the bakers tl the natural com-
petition of trade as uiprice; and to confine their own
duties at present to the quality and legg/ti only of
bread sold within their jut isdictice.
At the Manion-House, yesterday, a Bill Broker,
well known at the Bank.. stool charged with having
altered the figures of a Bill from £2B to CI 028, after
it had been accepted by a respectable Banking House
near the 'Change, since which it is understood the
Broker bad raised £BOO upon the Bill. Further par-
ticulars cannot at present be stated.

Pet scn tth S HIS DAY I' TWELVE 0 CLOCKI
Red 571—Cons. 56157—f0r ac. 511—Bds. la. sts. die.
4 per Cent. 72H-5 per Ct. BG;{—Oran. S{ pr.
Bank 14 Anna. t 4 7.46 tbs I—Exch. Bill■ Is. 4•. pr.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, aEN'C. 1.

Our market continues abundantly supplied -with Wheat, but
we had no fresh arrivals this mornieg; the sales are extremely
heavy, and where they are forced,lower prices are submitted to
than were obtained ea Monday. Vary little doing in Barley,
which goes off slowly in small quantities to cornchandlers, having
no other demand for it at present. Oats support Monday's price ,
and all other Grain remain as on that day. At the dose of
Monday's market, the price of Flour was redu.e 110 x. per ark.,
English. Foreign.
Wheat, Rent and Essex, 84s. Wheat, American Os. 00.
106 s. per quarter. per quarter.
Ditto, F. uffolk, 80s. Ws. Ditto, Dantsic Brs. 1051.
Ditto, Norfolk, 80s. ittis. Ditto, Baltic Red 701. 90e. ,
Rye 444.465. Ditto, liambro. or
Barley 98s. 40s. Fine 445. 445. Bremer. 701. 901.
Malt, 84s. 90e. Ditto, Brabant Red 70e. 1016
White Peas, 655. 70s. New, Rye, 40s. 465.
745. 76. Barley, 400.46.
Grey, ditto, Sas. 565. pats, Brews
Small Beaus, 625. e4s. Oats, Feed,
Tick do. 56% 58s. Fine OM. 00e. White Peas, 70e. Tea.
Oats, Po'atoe, 401. 441. Orey Ditto, 50s. Am
Ditto, Poland, 808.;0s. Small Beans,
Ditto, Feed, 445. 9,4. Tick Beans,
Fiat Fleur, per Sack, Li,. NS. American Flssr, Ms.., ellia

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UNREVIEWED AU': BOR.

An Author deserted by an. tee Reviews, •
Without even eiriend hiuttrooupb to ague, .
Was whinterisio of late in a wag "haw WilPialbunt
Is to plague 'ileums Autbors a-d damp thee enjoyiseiii.
blotu word inibe Quarterly!—can i• be so?
" Bat the }Alain gh said Kum thing bitter !' an no 1
ben you're bappy, dear Boy, fbr the critics like Heave*
By their sikace have proi.:d— that put iitu eivforgianst

of
Moan WAYS THAN o\ E.—A Gentleman desirbus
breaking his son of a strong inclination he had to pun
upon all occssinns, imposed a fine for every offence.
The boy, in cilnpany with his father, passing theother
day a man in the pillory ; and from the singulArify of
the sight felt hi, old propensity revivei but knowing
the ernselyence, satisfi.•d himseif with whistling
" 7 hreugh the If ood [addle."
MIRACULOUS PRESER*AT lON. A* hrandy book lxte) y
fell in the iv sly oT a Lady of distiiignished absorbing
abilities, and happily escaped Without sustaining any

injury.
A Gentleman meeting an acquaintance, hurrying
towards Westminster Hall, asked him, whete he was
going so fast ? " I'm going to law !" was the reply.
A Professor at one of our Universities was lately
engaged in a course of BEitanic..l LectUres ; asnongtt
other things, he prided him'clf upon having di:teo..,'
'tiered a very nncommen species of the nettle; this he
produced, and informed his auditory that it possessed
every other property of the common nettle, bin thee
it did not sting. A wag in the secret 'Lid unluckily
changed tie specimen, and introduced the cummon
:mule in its room. " You see, gentletnen," said the
Professor, el that it does not sting.° He then apelied
it to his hand : with equal astonishment and anger,
be adder', eg .I)—n it, but it dots."
It is not irrelevant.to this season of the year to re-
mark, that the leaves of the herb plantain, pl2ntago
frvajor, have been found to relieve the sweliing and pain
occasioned by the sting of the bce, wasp, -and hornet.
The Soto de Roma which Lord WELLINGTON has
steered, is a- large park celebrated in Spanish
history, inclosed and improved by the Emperor
CHARLES V. remarkable for the fineness of its timber
and laxuriaicy of its vegetation, and for its being the
only place where there are any pheasants iii Spain.
It is supposed that CI:WU:F.3 V. turned them cute—
There is only a sniali hunting house upon it, which
• was the retreat of Beesseeno.Weee, Minister of
Spain. during the latter years OPFEItDINAND VI. and
beginning of Cireitees the Thitei's reign. It was'
granted to the Prince of the PEACE, and it not injured
by his rapacity and avarice, is a beautiful 'place.
leousters.e—Friday last a Cot onet's Inquest was
bed at. Kingwesrld, within the liberty cf the town and
port of Dover, on the body of a poor Men of the name
of Bingham, belonging to Kings-down, a small vil-
lage, ebiee three miles from Leal. It appears that
a boat, Liden with contraband spit its, lad landed the
cargo on the beach, under the cliffs, between Kings-
illoun and Ste Margaret's Illy, during the night of
_ Tuesday last; wire that tie indortimateeleceesed, and
a yoteig lad of the name of Budd, were left to watch'
the goods, till assistance came to convey them aw..y.
During this intetv il, it seems that communication
bad been made trim the signal post at East Hill, to
the guard stationed its St. etergaret'a Bay, and t! at
while the poor man and boy were retnairing qt ietiy
lit their post, they were filed 'open, ard the ill-fated
B;npletm received no less tl an three musket bills
through his head and body. The unfortunate man has
let a widow. and five children to bewail his un-
timely end. The Coroner's vireect was--" That the
deer ased was shot to; aerie persen or persons un.
known."
- An lrquest Was held al Prerchester on Saturday
sc'unigbt, and by adjean rani itt on Sunday, by Jestes
Giuco, Esq. Canner, on the body of Claude Revel
Punnet, a beech prisoner cf war, 1%110 was received
into -the hospital c't the :aid depot en the eth ire. in
coesequetee cf a small wound he had received in the
tight breast, in a duel Kith another 114.0i1CT. he
. man not seeming to feel the least inconvenience (the
external wound being healed), was, at his own par-
ticular request, discharged from the hospital on the
9th. But, on turning the prisoners cut, for the pur-
pose of counting them, on Friday se'nnight, he was'
Icund dead in his hammock. On the Surgecu's open-
ing the body, in presence of the Jury. it was disco-
vered the sharp-pointed foil with which they fought
bad entered the riete breast, passed into the cavity of
the thorax, and had much injured the nue.s near the
heart, and vhieb, it was ascertained, had occasioned
the man's death. It appeared also in evidence, that
the two antagonists were first cousins, that they had
messed together for some time, and the trifling dis-
pute, which ended so fatally, originated in the surv'e.
-vor's putting too much salt into their soup. The
deceased was of a very restless, unhappy temper, and
he constantly urged the survivor to fight him, who,
at the time at the dispute, had a complaint in his
eyes, and could not, on that acceunt, undertake the
combat for several days ; Curing "hitch time the de-
ceased often urged him to settle the dispute, wheaten
the above day two seconds were chosen, and the meet-
ing took place.—The Jury returned a verdict of Wil-
fill Murder against Loris Allguale Foucht, as principal;
against Michael Lemantv and Juan Toincleti, the
sends, for aiding and abetting in the said duel ; and
they have been all committed to sake their trial at
the next Assizes for the same.
. On the morning of yesterday se'nnight, a number
of prisoners escaped from Perlh depot, thioueli
mine uhich they had dug horn erre of the itecessJoes,
In the bottom of the outer wall, where it faces the
Sofith Inch. It iesuppnsed they had begun to.issue
from the aperture of this passage about two in the
morning, but as they preserved a piofound silence,
and as the night was eery dark, they were not
ob-
served by the sentries, till one of them, in attempting
'to leap the streem which skirts the north side of the
depot, fell into the. water with considerable noise.
The pearest sentry then fired towards the point hem.'
whence the noise proceeded, and the adjoining sentries
baying discharged their ntuskets in the same direc- ;
Lion, an alarm was given, and parties of the guard
vent in pursuitof the fugitives. Ten of them were
ersooreopprehended, and we understand that thirteen.;
are still missing. They Seeds eh have lead no plan
for proceeding, after finding themselves at liberty.--
These who were skest were ilintediately cotnutittcd
ba the maw.