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'tstYled before the session of the parish in which he re-
sided, " ackowledged guilt with A. bat refused
h-ing father of the child," inasmuch as he had not
been in habits of familiarity with her for six months
prior to the period at which she alledged the child
had been procreated. But he d►d not deny that he
had occasionally seen her during that period.
A. having brought an action before the Court of
Session for inlying expences and aliment 0 the child
against B. the Lord Ordinary, tat hearing parties
ocurators on the grounds of the libel, and defences,
repelled the defences, and decerned against the defen-
der for the principal sum, and interest thereof as li-
belled : Found him liable in expences, and remitted
the account thereof, when lodged, to the Auditor of
the Court to be taxed. To this interlocutor his Lord-
ship adhered, on advising two successive representa-
tions, with answers, and prohibited any more repre-
sentations,

The defenoler ehaVing 'somthow got notices that the
child laid to his charge by the pursuer was a mulatto,
or child of colour, presented a reclaiming petition to
the Court, stating the t..ct, and the impossibility
thence arising of the child being his; and craving!
that he might be assoilzied from the action with ex. 1
pellets. This petition was appointed to be answered ;
and, on advising the petition and answers, the Court I
(I‘...th June, 1812) appointed a Commissioner to take
inspection of the child in question, and to zeport.
The report bears, that " the Commissioner waving
proceeded to 1 ui suer's place of residence, taking with
him not only two medical men of the vicinity, but
also two intelligent Gentlemen, who had been long
!resident in the island of Jamaica, whose opinions the
Surgeons (one of whom had also been in the West
Indies) were desirous of being aided by ; and having
all seen the child in question, which is a rnEile, and
examined it from head to foot, after being stripped,
these four persons concurred in opinion with the
Commissioner, in the most decisive possible manner,
that the child is of colour; that is, that the father of it
is a negro, or other degree of an Aft ican. And which
opinion the said several persons confirmed on oath, as
I administered to them by die Commissioner.
The Court, on advising this report (12th Novem-
ber 1812), altered the Lord Ordinary's interlocutor,
and assoilzied the defender.

In the Com t of King's Bench, on Saturday, the
owners of the bi ig Friends' Adventure obtained da-
mages 814,00, from the owner. of the sloop Swift,
for having run down the saio brig, off Cromer.
Cmcite.Nrca, Dkc. I+. l riday last, as MATTIIEW
HEaTilka, QLANTuLtit Lsq. A. M. and Member of
Lincoln's inn, was skating near Chichester, the ice
suudenly gave way, aod notwithstanding the utmost
efforts or 300 men it, breaking the ice, the body could
not be found in less tan three quarters of an hour.
It was of course too long under water for reanitna.
tion.— He was so beioved and respected kr the
Suavity of his manners aocrgentiemanly behaviour,
that all the gaieties of Chichester, out of respect to
his menloryy were suspended for a week.
The number of persons receiving parish-pay in the
parish of St. Mary's, in Nottingham, is at present be.
tween 9 and 10,000, out of a population of 21.,000
The number of paupers in the other parishes is nearly
in the same proportion.
The soup shops in Manchester have resumed their
benevolent activity to such a degree, that nearly ten
inowiand quarts per day have been sometimes die-
tributed.
A Clergyman, who had undettaken the parochial
duty in Hants, during the ileCessary absence of the
incumbent for the last three months, absci nded late-
ly, after defrauding twenty-six tradesmen of their
goods, borrowing money of several pers. ns, and
leaving a wife and child pennyless. The inhabitants
rais....d a subscription to defray the expel-let .1. sending
the poor worn in to London, where sue has friends.
FIRES.—A destructive tire broke on )es:erday
morning, at eight o'clock, in the premises occupied
by Mrs. Mill, cheesernouger, in Bis:lotisgate-strcet,
which for some time threateneu e t .tri,cdon to the
building, but by the timely !issistance affordel by the
firemen and others in pro: urn,.; a plentiful suiply cf
water, the flames were 16rtni:ately got unifier, alter
doing much damage to ,It. partin which itfir.t lieg an.
Another fire also happenedltst night, at Mr. Papp's,
pastry-cook, in Chancery-lane, which, by the (xertions
of the firemen in cutting 3wuy th flue, fortunately
saved the prem;bes irom destruction.
Duacis, Dec. 141..—Monda; nig.,t the dwelling,
out-houses, vnd exten,ire haggard of Mr. Pat. Nth 11,
near Ballynacally, , county CI tie ere set of file by
some villains, who, ft r a consid rable time past. have
persisted in destroying the proletty of tl,is gentleman.
and once before made an attempt t n his lite, by firiog
a bullet thrcugh his windov , in the direction of the
seat he usu?lly occupied it: hi. parbur. His dwell nit
and out-houses contained fifteen persons, who, in-
deed, escaped the fury cf- the flames almrist by a mi-
racle, the root being in a blaze previous to its disco.
very. Some few articles of wearing apparel and bed
clothes were the only things saved.
Saturday se'rmiglit one of the prisoners in the de-
pot at Perth fell down dead, without having previ-
' ously made any complaint. This is the second in-
stance of a death equally sudden since ti e period of
their arrival.

EXECUTION.—This morning Thomas Caley was exe-
cuted before the Debtors' Door, Newgate, pursuant
to his sentence, for forgery.

DIED.
At Preston& Id, near Edinburgh, on the 14th instant, Sir John
Dick, Part. of 1 re.ton6eld.
Suddenly; on the 12th inst. at her house, near Airdrie, the
Hun. 1.34 grant.