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London, England, 1809-01-26 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

CONSISTOSLY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS, JAN. ,2c.
GIIEGSON GREGSON,
This was a cause of divorce, or separation from
bed, board, and mutual cohabitation, brought by
Jesse Gregson, Esq. against Grace Gregson, his wile,
by reason of adultery. There were two allegatio7ls
produced in this case on the part of Mr. Gregson,
the husband, the one pleading the facts of a criminal
intercourse passing between Mrs. Gregson, his wife,
and Thomas Theaker, his coachman, and the other
pleading a criminal intercourse passing between Mr:.
Gre.gson and John M'Taggart, Esq. for which two
actions had been brought by Mr. Gregson against the
parties in the Common Law Courts, and two verdicts
of damages obtained. The particular circumstances,
respecting the facts of a criminal connection passing
between the parties, being then so fully stated to the
public, it is not necessary to state them again. The
Court (Sir WILLIAM SCOTT), after hearing the evi.
dente read, and the Learned Civilians on one sip;
and the other, was clearly of opinion that the fact c.
adultery was fully proved, and that the husband was
entitled. to the remedy he prayed, and accordingly
pronounced for the same.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 24.
EX-PARTE GRAY, A BANKRUPT.
This was a petition presented by the Bankrupt,
who is a Builder and Contractor for the Transport
Service, residing at Portsea, for the purpose of
superseding the Commission of Bankrupt, which
had been taken out against him in June last, on
the ground of his not having committed an act of
bankruptcy. Mr. MARTIN and Mr. BELL were heard
in support of the petition, and Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY,
Mr. CULLEN, and Mr. HoRNE, against it. The LORD
CHANCELLOR dismissed the petition.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, lAN. C 4.
KODOP V. WARING.

This was an action brought by the Plaintiff, a
King's Messenger, against Major Scott Waring, to
recover £502, the expences of a journey from Lon-
don to Vienna, and back, under the following cit.
cumstanees
Mrs. &Ott Waring (formerly Miss Hughes, of dra-
matic memory) was desirous of sending Mr. Annesley,
her son by a former husband, to the Continent for the
purpose of joining his regiment, having obtained a.
commiss►on in the Austrian service and applied to
the plaintiff as the niost likely person to conduct him
safely to Vienna. The Plaintiff undertook the charge,
and they travelled under the title of Count Nodopski
and companion, when they ultimately reached Vienna
in safety in August 1807. In consequence of The si.
tuation of affairs on the Continent at that period, there
was great difficulty to strangers travelling, and they
were under the necessity of taking a very circuitous
route before they could arrive at the place of their d,!-
stination. The Defendant had paid to the Plaintiff
about i 8270 on account, and the action was brought
to recover the balance. _ . _

Mr. Parsons, Mr. Falkner, and several other King's
Messengers, weir called to prove the charges usual
and reasonable.
Mr. Serjeant BEST, for the Defendant, contended,
that as this was a eontfact made by Mrs. Waring, for
her son by a former husband, the present Defendant
could not' be liable ; but the Learned Judge (Mr.
Justice LAWRENCE) was of a different opinion, as it
appeared'that the Defendant was present at makiag
the contract,' and did not object to- it. The Leaned
Serjeant then went to the merits of the case, conterd-
ing, in an animated and impressive speech to the
Jury, that the Plaintiff was already amply paid by
the money advanced to him
The Jury, however, were of a different opinion, and
found a verdict for the Plaintiff, to the full amount
-of his demand.

A few days since, two Warrant Officers stationed
in the Lake near the Buildings, in Portsmouth, whilst
grappling in the Lake raised a wherry, which they
towed ashore at the Hard : on examining it, it proved
to be the beat a young man had purchased and fitted
[ out at -the Buildings some little time before, and he
[ was never heard of nor seen afterwards. His body
has never been picked up.
INUNDATION PRODUCED BY THE THAW.—The sudden
Thaw has produced effects in the streets of the Me-
tropolis, and the roads in the neighbourhood, which
have been scarcely paralleled at any former period.
The water produced by the melting of a vast body of
snow, has rendered some of the roads quite impassa-
ble, and the torrents which have thus been caused,
have done great damage. At Battle-bridge, Gray'':-
Inn-lane road, the water yesterday rushed into the
houses, and the inhabitants were forced to fly to their
upper stories for protection, the road could only he
passed with great difficulty by carts. In Dorset-street,
Portman-square, the common-sewer has blown up and
left a dreadful chasm ; and the houses in the nedi-
bourhood are all under water. In the neighbour-
hood of Kennington and Vauxhall a torrent )f
waterlas arisen, which, in it progress, 1, as carried
away furniture, trunks of trees, cattle, &c..and has
destroyed a great number of bridges—the Clapham
road is rendered quite impassable ; several houses
were yesterday completely insulated by the water,
and the inhabitants unable to obtain provisions, or to
get out of their houses.
A considerable part of Deptford-bridge was yester-
day washed away, and for some time rendered im-
passable, by the torrents from the adjacent hills.—
Fortunately no person was hurt by the accident.
BOXING.—A match for 100 guineas was decided
on MOnday, at Eaton, between Flowers, the coach-
man, and Rosset , a sawyer, which, in ten minutes,
was decided in favour of the former,

ECCLESIASTICAL and ACADEMICAL PROMOTIONS.
The Earl of Oxford has been pleased to appoint the Rtv. Joni,
Nance one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains.
Duatit4 UNIVERSITY.—At a meeting of the Provost a::,!
Senior Fellows en Monday se'nnight, for the purpose of electli g
a Professor ,
arosu44. . Botany,winu declared duly the room of the late DroScott, Dr. Wrr
Allman, of

DIED.
Lately, at Langtoff, aged 90 years, the Rev. Thomas Atklilson,
Vicar of Reighton, and Minister of the perpetual curacies of Sled-
merit and Filey, Yorkshire. He preached, and baptized a chill,
on the day before his death, in his usual health and spirits.

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