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London, England, 1813-02-13 00:00:00

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. COURT OF WO'S MSCH, FEB. st.
CIENKRAL 101,4.12'3 TRUSTERS.
• Mr. PARK showed esuseagvinst a rule obtained by
• Mr. 153 Hied, calling de Mr. Cocker, an Attorney of
. Court, to chew cause why be did not deliver up cer-
tain papers and writings put into his hands by Mrs.
Bowles,- the widow of general Bowles, and John
Morris, Esq. &nivel Herbert, Esq. and Patrick Craw,
turd Bruce, the Trusteei under his wilj.
Mr. PARK stated, that this. applleation was made,
mot on the affidavit ofMrs. Bowles herself, but of Mr 4
Ilumpbries, her Attorney, and .woo. did hot seem to
act for all the three Trtistees; but unifier Mr. Bruen.
The papers iii question had been put into Mr. Cockeeq
lands by the Trustees jointly. There were actions
3iORI depending in three Court of 'Common pleas in
• :which those Trustees were partik, and Where it would
be necessary that the apert sought to be. delivered
up to. Mrs. Bowles should be forthcoming. Mr.
Cocker was bound, therefore, not to part with any of
those writings but to keep them for the Trustees,
from whom he had received them.
Mr. Justice La Bwic said, it the deeds and writ- '
in in question had been deposised in, the hands of
Mr. Cocker, by all the Trustees, *e Court could not
Interfere to the effect of making him part with the
custody of them on the application of the Attorney
fee one of the Trustees.
. • Lord Ecursamotaut said, the deeds vow sout;ht
to be taken otscit4Mr. Cocker's bands, not by the
nine entice aujihor .snly:which they lwd beelkdepo-
sited with hires. kit Lordship plest"d, however,
there could be no ohjectien to afford to lilts. Bowles
all right of access to the papers its qae- Joh, and also
copes of such of them ais should be t **•Uary.
-Mr. PARK said, there would not ;44 the slightest
objection to this. Ott the dontratTl Mr. Cocker
would be happy to aeapaintodate Mrs. Bowles to the
utmost of his power.
Mr. HOWARD said, Mrs: Bowles had notice to sur-
render on Wednesday next, when the Old Bailey
Sessions commenced. The papers were voluminous,
and there would not be time to take copies of all that
were necessary before that tire.

Lord EcciNaostouno said, the Court could not,
*tous wrong to the other parties interested,with-
draw the papers out of Mr. Cocker's hands. Copies
could be taken at his house as well as eleWhere.
Mr. PARK said, Mrs. B. should have copies of such
Papers as she wished, and Mr. Cocker should attend
the trial, for the purpose of producing such as might
be deemed, materia)..
The Rule was accord nely ordered to be drawn up
to that effect.—This was the last day of Term: •
--win...—. •

MAttuannonon-sranr.-7A young Gentleman was
ray charged at this Office, by a Gentleman in
a:ker-dstreet, with a misdemeanour, in attempting k-
iosk/Gay to pick the pocket of the latter on Tuesday
evening. The-Magistrate observed, there was suffi-
cleat evidence to send the case for further investiga-
- iioa : he, however, admitted the prisoner to bail to
Answer the charge.
A Lady, whose teat, 'on a charge of bigamy,
was to have come on at the approaching Old Bailey
• Sessions, has absconded, and a rewai d has been
offered from Marlborough-street Office for her ap-
prebsosims!,

Tigisda,r se'nnight, a Court-martial was held on
board Iris Majesty's ship GLADIATOR, at Portsmouth,
so Mr. T. HurreN, acting boatswain, and three sea-
-1 . inenof his Majesty's late sloop Beta-erre, who, with an
"American, detained at Gotten burgh, are the only sur-
irivors of the crew of that ship. It appeared from their
narrative, that,orithe 24th of November last, the Bel-
lette was corning out of the Baltic with a convoy,
• during thick weather, when she struck on a rock,
called the Ferrett, in the Cattegat, and, as the seas
swelled much, bilged almost immediately. She did
not go to pieces for nearly twenty-four hours, in the
muse of which time, many of her crew perished
through thg extremity of the cold, and from want.-
- Before she separated, some of the crew deserted her
It boats ' • but as they hay never been heard of since,
no doubt can exist that they did not perish. One boat,
...into which all the Officers sot, upset soon after she
puihed off from the wreck, in sight of the present
survivors. Captain SIeOANE was the only person seen
to Boat, of the whole number in her; he caught hold
Of a rope which was thrown to him, until benumbed
by the cold, and exhausted by fatigue, he let go, and I
was sunk into the deep. Mr. Hutton and the Ame-
rican seaman, on the breaking up of the wreck, got
en a plank, and were drifted on it to the shore ; and
four seamen, by Mr. Hutton's exertions were after-
wards brought to the shore on the foremast, but one
of them soon died. The Court acquitted the survivors
• ,of any blame in the loss of the Belette, and deemed
the conduct of Mr. Hutton to4havc been highly me.
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ritortous, and earnestly recommended him to the fa-
rourable notice of the Lords of the Admiralty.
••,, Monday se'nnight, a Court-martial was held on
zdeoard the GLADLATOR. on W. Oaks, seaman of the
Amami, for desertion, he was sentenced to receive
150 lashes through the fleet.
• One of the, powder-mills on Leeston Moor bleu.
• up on Monday, and a man and a boy were killed.—
' Ilse shock was felt several miles.
Tuesday se'nnight, as Mr. Robert Bristow, of
Dumption in.the Isle of Thanet, was shooting at some
rooks, he bad his left hand dreadfully shattered by
'the bursting of his gun.
t 4 Tuesday se'nnight, s labourer at the Ford quarry,
in the neighbourhood of Greenock, was killed by the
blowing of a stone, the powder havi:,g, caught fire
before he was sufficiently out of the reach of the ex-
,/ plosion. •
Thursday se'nnight, at Glenhead cotton-mill, a
man was caught by the machinery, and so dreadfolly
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mangled, that he did not survive many minutes.
Sunday night, a man, about $0 yeas of age, fell
A into Greenock harbour, alid was drowned.
! • It was reported by some of !be crew of a vessel
which' arrived at Port-Glasgow oi) Saturday, that one
of their comrades had died in consequence of bad
usage on the passage ; and, we tuiderstand, the Pro-
curator Fiscal of the county is at present engaged in
an investigation of the report.
. The 1 ghtniiig, on Tut sday,slightly struck Richard-
*on's in Covent Garden, passing between a
crowd of people who were standing up fir shelter
s there, but without doing injury to any one. It broke
two panes of glass in thirkachen window,but did no
other mischief.