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:PIAbiICAL iPTELLiGANCE.

. LAW 1147TELLIGENai

MAILS—Wind E.

COURT OF XINO'S BENCH, JUNE se.
PURCELL V. MACNAMARA.
This was an action brought to recover cnntpenfa-
lion in damages, for a malicious profecution for per-
jury, inflituted by the defendant againft the plaintiff.
Mr. GUltilay opened the pleadings on the pint of
'the plaintiff, tlatirg the nature of the afti• n, which,
fie Paid, arofe ow of an indiOment, intli•uted by the
defendant, upon leveret alignments of perjury,
alledged to have been committed by the plaintiff,
upon an affidavit made by her, in a caufe pending
between thefe parties in the Court of Chancery I,'
reports of which have been laid before the public.—
The declaration further dated, that upon that india-.
ment the prefent plaintiff was folly acquitted, and
the now laid her damages at pool. to which decla-
ration the defendant pleaded the general ilTue of—a
Not Guilty.
Mr. Topetao, for the plaintiff, then Rated, that
this affirm was bronght by Mifs Frances Purcell,
who was one of the daeghters of a Gentleman, who,
in the year 1770, was appointed Governor of Tor-
tola, and poffefed very confiderable elates in that
ifland ; on his departure from this country, he took
along with him his only fon, John, leaving the
plaintiff, and her filler Margaret, under the care
and guardianthip of the late Dr. Macnamara, a melt
refpatable Gentleman, and uncle to the prefent
Defendant. Governor Purcell Coon after died at
Tortola, leaving his fon John his heir at law, and
refiduary legatee • and in default of Mile, the pro.
perty to be divided equally between his two daugh-
ters, to whom he left legacies of. 70001. each, and
appointed Dr. Macnamara, and Surgeon Boyd, his
'Executors. After the death of the G ,vernor, John
Purcell returned to England, formed ahunf Nrtunate
matrimonial connettion, and Coon after died wi'bnut
iffue. The Defendant being in the habit of vifiting
at his uncle's, became acquainted with thefe young
ladies. He was at that time a young man, and os
fludent of Lincoln's Inn, but having acquired .t
fplendid fortune, he after wards gave up that purfult.
In the year uns, a Mr. Trevannion, a gerulemata,nf
high charafler, was appointed canfigneeof thefeira-
luable elates in Tortola, and the Defendant einitiived
to have this crud afterwards oonveved ati:onimfelf,
John Purcell having died withbut itlsl, madebis
will, leaving the whole of his purport, .to the De-
fendant, except Come (mall trifle' to his fillets:;
and Dr Macnatnara haying died about this time,
the [plc 'management of ;;eir . Affairs devolved npon
the. Defendant, who Vaal:iced thefe ladies various
unlimited . Meal of rnoniy, at different time', until
Abey- yet :stiff`: mortgaged the whole of their properly
-to him,' and even made their legacies of (even thou
land to•iincls, fubjea to his demands, and by the
year 1806 they bad made an abfalure conveyance of
the whole of this immenfe property to the defen-
dant, in lien of which the one (Margaret) was to re
ceive an annuity of cool. and the plaintiff apt. per
annum; which latter finding this a very fcanty Cum
for her fupport, retired into France, in the hope of
living more economically, but in this (he was mina
ken, far even the annuity was badly paid, and the
was obliged to go into debt, and in the fequel re-
turned to this country, in the hope of procuring pay
went of her annuity, when the fortunately fell into
the hands of Mr. Whitton, the attorney, who has
been her chief fnpport fume. Mr. Whitton had an
interview with the defendant, after which the aunt)•
icy was more regularly paid, for a (port time. This
however did not left long ; Mr. Whitton was once
'spore obliged to threaten, and the defendant filed A
bill in Chancery, to preveot the plaintiff from pro.
seeding to recover her am ui y. Upon her anfwer
being put in, the defend nt thought it 'student to
difmifs his own bill with oils Mr. Whitton ailing
under the bell legal advice in this country, then filed
a bill againfl the defendant, praying an account of
all the flans of money he had advanced to the plain-
tiff, fecurities executed, &c. to which he put in his
anfwer, and the caufe came to be heard before Lord
Chancellor Eldon, who direfted that the Mailer
&mild take an account. The defendant's objea
being to draw out all he could from the plaintiff,
in the mean time, exhibited interrogatories, which
the was to anfwer within a limbed period; but being
then confined to her bed in an ill Rate of health, the
time for anfwering was enlarged until the 4th De-
cember, 18os. Upon that day the was wetted, at
the fuit of a milliner to whom the became indebted,
in confequence of the non-payment of her annuity;
and from her lick bed the was dragged to the lock-
up houfe of one Laver, a S!)eriff 's Officer, in Chan
eery lane, when the was put to bed in a wretched
condition. Here the was vilited, at ten o'clock at II
night by Mr.Macnamara, accompanied by her fitter',
Mali/tut. He who had, from the year tfloo to;
18os* neglefled to pay her one farthing of her atm- II
ity, and bad been at daggers with her ever fence, now
came forward to proffa his friendtbip and Cervices
he told her the had been deceived by Mr. Petre, her
friend, and Mr. Whitton, her foliestor ; and laid, if
Le would only relinquith any further proceedings
againft him in Chancery, he would once more be-
come her friend and. Proteaor. This offer (he
refufed with indignation ; upon which he flew in:
to the moll violent paw, and abufed her and
her friends in the yolk& manner. The Learned
Counfel here obferved, that he did not, by any
means, mean to infinuate, that the defendant had
caufed this arreft to take place ; but lie could not help
obferving, that this early vifit of the defendant after
the arro.ft, and his fubfequent condua, compared with
his former neglea and hftity towrds her, was
rather an extraordinary cirocoilmtlance,a and that his
charity, which had fo long lain dormant, should now
be au;akened. In the courfe of the caufe it necame
necellary for the plaintiff to make an affidavit of the.
occurrences in the loclonp-houfe, and the proceedings
were going on in the regular way, when the deka:
dant found it neceffary to take lonic lea to prevent
the further proceedings of the caufe, for (:he Learned;
Counfel obferved) it could be no honed-or honour.
able motive that induced.him to prefer the indiainent
in quellion, charging the plaintiff will having com-
mitted perjury in the laft mentioned affidavit-. When
the alignments of perjury, he continued, Were com-
pared with the affidavit, it would be found they were
of the molt trivial nature, leaving all the material
parts of the affidavit totally out of the queftion. The
indiament, however, being preferred, the plaintiff,
anxious to have the matter iavedigated, and her
charafter ranted from facia an impatation, fiadin;

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PENZANCE, JUNE 23.
Arrived the Fl'.ra, &rams, from London, in
ballaß s the Tranflator, OATS ; and the Elizabeth
and Filli., Ttaeu a, from Southampton with bricks;
the Swat. Low Hoop of war from a cruize ; and the
Neptune tender, from Plymouth, waiting for a fair
wind for Dublin.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 13.
Sailed the Nockten packet, Captain BLIGHT, with
Mails for the Leeward !Sands. Wind N. •

PLYMOUTH, JUNE 24.
Latt night arrived the Dana (hip Little Catherine,
Captain Pam: Built, from Bengal, laden with fu.
gar, fago, indigo, and cotton, bound to Copenhagen,
detained by the John Bull and Indefatigable priva-
teers. Came in the Cattot.tita, of 14 guns, with a
fleet of victuallers from the Channel fleet. Sailed
the FOUDILOYANT, of 84 guns, to join the Channel
Fleet.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 25.
Nothing arrived or failed this day. Wind W..N.W.
DOVER, JUNE as.
• A very heavy firing was heard here yefferday even-
ing; it commenced about half pall eight and continued
till nine, the weather was fo hazy that we could not
dillingtigh at what the batteries were firing ; the
ilafites were tlilin lly feen near Boulogne, therefore
it is fuppofed that one of our cruisers had drifted
bear the fhore, as one was Peen in the afternoon
Banding over. Had the firing been in confequence
of the French having obtained a viltory, it would
bare been as on former occafions along the whole
&van, which was not the cafe left night. Arrived
the Hartiot, of Baltimore, from Boordeaux, bound
to Tonningen, laden with brandy and wine, detained
by the KANGAROO (loop; alfo the brig Elizabeth, of
Marbkhead, from Mogadore, bound alto to Tonnin-
gen, with almonds, detained by the 'SLAYS&
larig.--Mind N. E. and moderate.
DEAL, JUNE as. •
Ayrived,,the MO scartTo Hoop, from a crnize oft
Calais, and failed again on a cruise. off Calais.—
•Sailtd the Prevoyante flore.thip, for the Meditetra-
mean ; Tam: et; ss sloop, and Beersa gun brig, on
a mite off Boulogne ; floop, having
tinder her convoy the Ceres flour, with a number of
other Terre's for Ireland; and SulretOak hired ketch,
for Portfinor th.
REMAIN IN TNI DOWNS :
Prinesfa of Oninge, Vice Admiral Rowley ; Alfred, of 741
ions; Trußy, of so guns; Marine sloop ; Fury, and Expedition
' bomb.; Monkey and Feeders gun brigs, with a nanftrer of
tranfpurrs, having on board part of the sines Getman Legion,
Waiting for a tome/.
FRdM LLOYD'S LIST.
GRAvzsmeD, JUNE as..—.Pafkd by the Abundance, (tore Blip,
from Aotigue ; Ruth., Geary. fret Virginia ; Hamilton Moore,
M'Cobb, froM barlefton ; Willeiek, Goodfelloir, from Tobago ;1
*livery, Railley, from Newry ; Ann. Quinton. from Cork ; Ad-
Immure, Patron., from Rola ; and the Minerve,Balter,from
way. Sailed Sailed the tittrulei,l3ould, foe Bartradocs; and the Alert,
Delday, for Demerara.
ARRIVED. •
Off Oldhaven, the John, Melberg, from Peterfburgb. At Mon-
trofei Peggy, Hop ; Hope. Lahall; and the Waterman. Landman,
from Riga. At Leith. Adventure, Anderfon, from kiga. In the
Clyde, Hope, M•Gregor ; and the Commerce, Watt, from Dense-
tare. At Liverpool, Friends, Broderiek and Coraca, Barron,
from Memel. At Newfoundland, Eolus, Merryblll; Swift,
Commerce, Herfewell and the Hiram, Little from Briltol ;
Lovely, Wood, from London; Helen, from Liverpool;
Argo, Mills, from Lifboo ; Diana, Norton, from Dartmouth; and
the Adventure, Small, from Poole.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRYLR MONEY. •
The Broderfcarp, flee the detention of the Neptimus. Nov. ts,
1804, will be paid on Friday next, at No. 70, Great Ruffell.ftreet,
Bloondbury, apd there recalled for three years.
The Fame, for the capture of the San Pablo., April 26, and the
Batelle, April a 7, 'Sod, will be paid on board, on the 3d of July,
and recalled for three months, at No 13, Great George.ftreet,
Vietteinftcr.
The Kite, for the Minerva. May 19, tBas. will he paid on Fri
day next, at Mr. Lockyees, Plymouth, and there recalled on Tut.
days and Fridays.
ADMIRALTY COURT, noctoas Crt M MON S, JUNE 25.
'this day the Right Honourable Sir W. _ SCOTT
pro-
ceeded to the adjucation Of the following cafes :
Zeeftern, Temtnen matter. This veffct, under Papenberg co•
lours, with a cargerof felt, on an ;dated voyage to Bergen, was
eapuired near Calais Cliffs. it was contended on the part of the
captors that it was clear, from being in fuch a tituatlon, the in,
tended, when opportunity offered, to flip into a French port ; but
the Court (gaited by a Trinity Maftcr) was of opinion, froin the
evidence produced, that the got there In a fog, and that the mafter
.114 afterwards every thing in his power to proceed to Bergen.—
Skip and cargo reftored,fubjea to the captor's espences.
Twee Gefatters Ackerman, Jurgen., matter.—This was a Ham.
burgh t
wo la with various merchandise. The Court con-
demned two parcels a goods, and &meted further prod! with re-
(poet to the (hip and remainder of the cargo.
Frau Germs, Bubr mater.—Thls veffel was under Oldenburgh
colours, with a cargo of naves' and other articles. Property con -
dtmned, on the ground of breaelt of blockade.

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Ttns was, when, in a Lottery of fifty or fixty
thoofand Tickets, the highea Prize was 20,0001•-••-
is, when, with only Twenty Thoufand Tickets,
there are in the Wheel, Grand Prizes of j 0,0001.—
zoocol. 10,0001.—with others. There are a few
Tickets and Shares left ; but thole who do not apply
to CARTIER, No. 8, Charing Croft, will find, on Tuef- '
day, the 14th of next month—that time is pp
What with the extenfive orders from lock' facie•
ties, who participated fo largely, in the ha Lottery
Scheme, ssf capital Prize•—what from the multitu-
dinous applications for befpoke numbers, in conic
quence of recent extraotdinary events—and what
irons the perfeverance of thofe, who make it a role
to become adventurers in every Lottery, it is already
manifell, that zo,ooo Tickets, the amount of the
prefent Scheme, will not be fufficient to fop/4y fo
general a demand as is now experienced.

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to him the font of 4.0001 i Ai tbn4liiiiiii reeeiiied
the lall 19001. to complete this amount, he brought
a bond with him, executed and 'netted in the pre-
knee of his own fervent, for the whale debt. They
were at this time both of thetri in England; and the
Defendant being a man of gallantly, 'it was not an
improbable thing, that he would offer the lady mar=
tiage, as a return for the confidence (he had repelled
in him. He did In, and was favourably received;
The mother rind filler of the Defendant were on thii
vecalion introduced to the Plaintiff, and the Defen-
dant's own daughrer scat placed under her protection.
With thefe expeelations before bet, the lady fited up
a 'route in Cumberiand-place," where the devoted a
room exclatively to the accommodation of the lile.
fendant. In the fequel Marriage was furpanded, but
the Plaintiff remained on the bell terms with the fa-
mily of the Defendant. Some time afterwards, chi
lady began to be dilfatisfied with the feetniry of the
Defendant, and on application obtained his Warrant
of attorney. She Went abroad again ; loon after-
wards returned, and on her teturn, demanded either
payMent, or 11111 furtherfeenrity• The Defendant,
on this, made his will, appointed her his eiecutris,
and depofited this inftrument in her hands. At time
paired on, and the.firit ebullitions of feeling fubfided,
certain Cc, uples more in the mind_ of the lady, and the
ptofpeet of marriage fetmed now to have vanished,
becaufe the Defendant was in the humble, butlucra-
tire, oectiaation of a fithmenger. Snch a cnnntihiat
alliance would difgrace her ftin by a former hutaad,.
ahtftbis degradation Was not to be fubmitted to no.
lefs Come remedy Were difcovered, The cure want
hand ; it was propofcd'that the infant daughter of.
the Defendant thcoild intermarry the infant fon of the
Plaintiff, and by fame fort of logic, fuch a double
conneetinn in the families was to remove the di&
sully. Notwithilanding this ingenuity, new obdrue.
tions arofe, and at lan the partie; came to open war,
man iralia emelt, and the lady entered up judgment
upon the warrant of attorney, and was entitled to
take out execution upon it. The defence which the
gentleman let op was, that no money had been ad-
- WATTS V. yusna. , • vanced by her, that he
I kept up an illicit intercourfe
• This was an salon of affault. The plaintiff is a with her, and that this bond was given without con.
Lieutenant and Paymatter, and the defendant the fidetation, as a contrivance to defeat the claims of his
Major of the Ilchelter Volunteers.. The Colonel of own creditors. If there alas could be fupperted, the
this Corps being deceafed, the command devolved Defendant bad a plain courle to take ; he had only
thet next officer in rank, who called a meeting of to make affidavit of them, and to apply to the Court
t Cot ps, to eosfider.of the propriety of appointing on fuch grounds to set afide the judgment. But this
a Gentleman of the name of Phelps to the vacancy. was not the courfe he thought fit to puifoe. He
At this meeting an ahei cation took place between filed a bill ia a Court of Equity to which no
.oath
the parties above named, relative' to' fame money, was required. and by which the heavy penalties on
which it was afferted the plaintiff was bound to pay perjury could not be incurred. To that bill the
to the Regiment. Mr. Wan.s denied that he owed Plaintiff gave a fall and complete anfwer. The en ef- .
any thing to the Corps, and if he did, he faid hc Lion the Jury had to try was, if the Plaintiff wete.or
fhauld pay it over to the executors ( Colonel Vane. were not a creditor at the time the bond wait *xe..
The defeudant laid it was the duty of every Gentle. cured ? The Attorney General underthr..d that ft
man to pay when called upon, if he was jultly in. was to he objefted, that the warrant of attorney, di-
man to
The plaintiff replied, that it was not al. ted in 1803, was written upon piper with the water
ways the cafe ; for when you fill came to Ilchefter, mark of i So 4. If it were fu, it was probable that it
you did not immediately pay the demands made up- was executed in )804 This was the general date•
on you. Snore taunting language edited, and the ment of the feels. The 'Lord Chancellor had directed
defendant fazed the plaintiff by the cellar, thaole i that both the parties.fhould be examined, and they
him violently, and gave him a fevere blow on the I would in conrfe be called.
head. The wieners, as to this paraof the cafe, fail Madame de Luneville laid, that the was in this
that the plaintiff, in confequence of the blow, became country prior to 1 floz. She acquired here confider.
'cupid and amazed. The aggravation was, thatahe able properly. On the 7th of Aunnflt of that yeat, •
defendant was t large athletic man, and the plain- the retuaned to Paris, and took lodgings in the Rue
tiff the very reverie, and incapable of oppofing force du Bits du Pont., In G
lobe. following, the Defen-
to force. . dsnt was recommended het by her friend Mr.
Lord Eta.amanaouca faith the blow had been at- Morris, a fur eon in Marlborough Meet. One morn•
tended with no other co
than that of pla- in g the Defendant, wheat be called upon her, appear.
cing the plaintiff in a very degiading lunation, but to r eel melancholy, and on her enquiring the ,a
pp be
which it was very proper he thould be compenfattd. fail he had letters to Thonias Paine and Dr. Prietily,
The Jury found for the plaintiff Damages 201. from W.. Bolville, and he was difappointed at not
THE KING V. CAMPkR. meeting with them in Paris. The witness was not
This was an indielment for an affault The pro. faii.fied with this reply, and in anfvrer to fome, ad.
fecutor was a poor watchman, who got his living by di ioaal queflions, he told her that he had a bond
cutting chaff by day and watching by night. The for itoool. and other debts which he could not rea-
Defendant is the fuperintendant of the watch. in the line, and that he was in confequence embarraffed in
;with of St. Panl, Shadwell, and was proved to have 11l alfaire.- Che wands on receiving this explana.
(truck and kicked the profecutor, fo as to occafion tion, Ailed him &ft with 'fool. then with i6ool. and
Maas, grievous bodily injury. . at heft, when they were both in Intend, to the' x.
In the progrefs of this incliement, a witnefs for tent of aciool: for whiCh he gave his 'bond. •
1 the defendant obferved, that he was Chairman of a witness here confirmed by her evidenie,'the price
Meeting called in the parith an coned the fenfe of the particulars in the Learned Counfel's opening, and
patith, as to its defending Mr. Camper, as their Of. fpeaking of the means he employed to alarm her fen•
fleet.; upon which Lord Ellenborough faid, that it fibility, the laid, that he had always piftols with him,
was well they bad not defended him ; for whenever a and that he used to fright her conliattlye left he
cafe came before him, wheie the public money was fhauld kill himfelf, if she thrll(' not content to marry
fquandered for (itch purpofes, the pallier, if =vie- him. On her fira return to France, at Gravesendted, would meet with the moll fevere judgment, as he took
that up
file a pin fhouol, and laidwon to a young l
as io ady in
cont.
the Poor Rates ought not to be applied in any loch pan y, ld not der he w deftiir
way. The witness replied, that the expellee would at the abfence of Madame de Luneville, is avail' net
have been paid out of the Scavenger and Paving been for her, he should have beenvotting in a gaol.
Rater
much the worfe.—The defendant was found guilty. You were fometime before you got over Sour difinclination
tomarry a fillnocinger f---A. I did not marry him. '
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MADAMS DI LjUUNSEIVI2I.SL.E V. PHILLIPS. Q, But you took him Upon trial for fix months N.A. I do not
\ • anderftand.
We noticed this caufe in the Court of Chancery. Q, Duly to fee if yourtempers agreed?.--A. Oh yes for twelve
OW report is in the paper of Aaril 13, when the months.
points under difcuffion this day in-the King's Bench Q._ who way the young
.lady with you?—.A. MI6 Hall.
Q Had the net, by accident, a child t—A. I sat not at liberty
I were examined, and certain letters of a very angular to tea.
and ludicrous charaeler were adverted to. This iffue Qyou and Mlfs Hall Dept together f—A. Yes.
was directed from the Court of Equity ; and the quer. Q. Did you lodge at Kirk's f—A. Yes
lion was, if the money were advanced by the plaintiff was warm yon repented, and Ike went
tatojhe garret;af
rA. it
to the defendant, Rated to be the consideration for a Q....411is was a molt No,onourable attachment between you and
t eriain bond for awed.? the Defendant, with& deign or marriage T-.lk. I cannot fay there
After the pleadings had been opened by Mr. Kim, was any &Gag attachment, but I thought he bad many thoufand
The ATTORNEY Gam e est., on tbe part of the plain. Pounds. •
hom he appeared, was a Q- The fiihnwliger'
tiff, fail, that the lady for w with many ussurand Plgids, was se red
at another ?—A Yes, hews:.
native of France, and when the traufaaions to which Qa You, inaZam, are an bonourabk and moral woman P—A.
he should refer took place, the was a widow. She Yes, i am.
emigrated to this country in the yen- 1796, with her a. Q, A virtuous wider, and a Preach lady of coalition f—A,
fon, who was then only nine months old, and here Its lam .
It The' Defendant bad a bed-chamber is the fame book ?....
they both of them found protection. During her A. He bad, Sir.
'cadence in England she was latgely indebted to the -Q, When.was it you left proporals upon the table that be lambi
bounty of thelate Lord Camelford, who had before live with you upon the molt iodinate terms!--A. I never di
met with her at Braids and Duffeldorf. As the was any inch thing'
entering an engraver's shop in this city, he noticed went down into the Kitchen, and laid to MI%
It "LI meer, how I tremble'Sutter,l am all to a Sutter I have left
her, recognifed her, and accosted her. She was then upon the table the terms upon which I will (offender my patio
in indigent circumßances ; Lord Camelfot d was a to him ; for Gon's fake, take bold of me; fee what • terdbie Out-
man aiwarm attachments, and of extraordinary mu. ter lam in ?''..A. It 6 noth true. lam
thnot quite fo tew.and
nificence. With this Lady he renewed his acquain. the cerma Q, It cart is:atprnatth37, that
.0g utgorn the bell
arlagiag.
gero was
pon
tance, and in the exercife of his natural generofit
made large prefents to her, to the amatult of fix or Q..:There vela ro fuels propofidoo as that he Wield pay your
79 to be admitted t—A No, never.
76001. Thus enriched, in t 802 the returned to debts, wade llow yo gl. a week L.A. I Defer bad debts.
Paris, mid while she was there, the defendant was re. , diem did not lay then' that " the "Peek lesid be insole
coadi-
commended to her by Mr. Morris, a furgeon, a gen- tto him, you had a Friend er two, who, on proper
crone, would contribute (—A. No loch thing.
tleman of refpeaahility, . whoa introduction she re- moti is not teue that MI6 Hall patted your bed, that the De-
ceived with the refpetit and attention it defaved,— fan sairisrbeaammoadaltd?"-A• It Is all fare. ...
madam, a WAN= adeboard of pun ?.-.A.
itu a not
During his intercourfe with the Lady at Paris;-Mr. ye?t .aktildad ha rC
,tow
w much of my plate.
Phillips bas we Rated in our preceding report)•tnade Q. lit
t the more focoald part et it. but with
her acquainted with' his pecuniary embarrafforents, refpea to die Collllllel
111":"1"Oenbl of tabk (pouch bow many doses
and, to his neceffitier, the gradually advanced bad Toill'et f (UM" [Turn goer.
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Tit defendant ant inclined to Profectite, made tip the
,cord herfelf, ferved notice of trial, and caufed
,Rpecial Jury to be fummoned. Thus the caufe Rood
for trial in the month of June ; the Jury appeared,
the profecutor's Counfel were all ready in Court, but
the profecutor was no where to be found
•; although
he had ventured to go before the Grand Jury, and
tell his own Rory, without the hazard of a crofs-ex•
amination, he did not then dare to come into Court,
where he krew the ttuth would be invelligated, but
he withdrew himfelf from the coal& $ and Upon the
fame morning war fern in'histhariot and four horfes,
driving down to his elegant nutrition in the county
of Berks. The plaintiff„ Mifs Purcell, was confe
' quently acquitted. But this did not [mist.), Mr.
Macnamara, and immediately after Lnrd Bracing
was appointed Chancellor, he applied for a re-hear.
ing of the caufe,•on the grounds, no doubt, of the
iniuttier or milapprehention of his Lordfhip's noble
predeceffor. The caufe was again heard, and Lord
Ertkine, anal by the Mager of the Rolls, confirmed
the former decree, and Mils Purcell was ordered to
be reflored to the inheritance of her ancefints. The
Learned Connfel concluded his Ratement by" nbferv-
ing, that the objeCt of the defendant was no other
than to warp and olifirtiß the proceedings in the
Court of Chancery, and fuch as no man of humanity
could make the fubjeft of a profetuti,n for perjury.
He was a man putrefied of fir independent a fortune,
that he propofed Limfelf as a candidate to reprefent
the borough of Leicefler in Parliament.
The original record of the indiettnent and rage;
quent acquittal was then put in and read; when
The Azroasay GENERAL, for the Defendant, ob.
jeCted to the record, inafmuch as there appeared an
incougruity between the venire and the return of the
Mai, the latter being returnable on a day when Lord
Ellenborough did not fit at Ail; Prim:.
The Court confidering this to be a fatal objellion,
in point of law, the Plaintiff was Nonfuited ; at the
fame time her Counfel declaring that- the recor fhould
ire .amended, and the caufe properly tried on a future
day.