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09ILFOR9 O. THE COUNTESS 07 GRAINARD.

Mr. Run (aid. that an allion was commenced up-
on a bill of Eschauge against the Defendant ;—and
on that allion the was arrelled. and was now in cuf-
tody. The Learned Counfel Paid he had affidavits
to thew the was under coverture when the fait
commenced. Not only the Plaintiff, but the Plain-
tiff's Attorney alto, were Sated in the depofitions
to be fully informed that the was married to a Mr.
Little, a Gentleman of the facred profeffion. What-
ever might be the Plaintiff's ignorance, there elat-
ed another objetlion to this melt and detention,
with which the Solicitor mull have been acquainted.
The Conntefs of Granard is a Peer& of Ireland, and
is therefore protetted from fuch a form of procefs, by
her rank of Nobility, the privileges of which have
been confirmed by the articles of the late union be-
tween the two kingdoms. The motion before the
Court was, that the Defendant Mould be difcharged
out of cudody upon filing a common appearance.—
Rule to thew caufe granted.

COLS AND OTHERS V. GOWER.

This motion was brought before the Court twin a
cafe, the particulars of which were read by Mr. Barr,
by which it appeared, that Mary Taylor, being preg.
nant and unmarried, had, in the ufual form, fixed
William Gower, the Defendant, as the putative fa
'then. The Defendant was taken into callody in con-
fequence ; and, to obtain his releafe, he offered :of.
to the Para Officers. He was not able to pay the
money immediately, and therefore they required fe-
curity. In compliance with their demand, he obtain-
ed the name of one Piggot to three bills, at fir, twelve,
and twenty-four months, making in the whole the
fum flared. This aaion was brought on the firfl bill,
which was dated the Bth of April, and was for 61.
The caufe was tried at Bedfotd, and a verdia was
found for the Defendant, as to the tender he bad
made of 51. and for the Plaintiff, as m the damages
of twenty (killings. The child wab
Mr. Bfirr, for the Plaintiffs„ laid, they were in the
tuatioa of Cherriliwn/tikVi as 4 isplaised

tare oftheir fitnations in cafes of thit kind under thei
18th Eliz. c. 3. and under the 6th Geo. U. c. 31.—.1
The father not chilling to he anfwerable Ip ad uncer-
tain extern for the maintenance of the child, offered
a certain fum to be indemnified : the parifh affented
to this indemnity. and this, the learned Couplel coo.
tended, was a fufficient crmfideration for the note.
Mr. Gazvcay, for the Defendant, took the broad,
potind of legal policy on which (itch a bargain be.
tAcen the putative father and the parifh could not
be admitted. The extravagant exceffes of parochial
officers at the taSles fupplied by public expense, was
a filbjett of notoriety and df general complaint; if
theft gamblin g contra& were permitted, it would
be the intereft the parifli that the children under
its immediate proteaion flrould be negleeed or de-
ftroyed, and the money that ought to be devoted to
rthe fupport of the riling generation might be applied
to the indulgence pf gluttony.
Lord Eicansoeoucir" I take the contra& to
void, upon the principles of public policy. This is
an adventure, or (peculation, entered into by per-
fons, clothed with an important public trua, afford.
ing to them a contingent gain upon the trial caeca
non of 'their duty. The law is extremely jealous of
the mode in which truftees employ their powers, even
in matters of private concern ; and no perfon can
therefore purchafe an aide, even at public außion,
to whkh he is appointed truflee. 'therein& of this
nature were permitted, it would be prefeuting a
temptation, to negligence, if not to violence. in one
of the moft efentia objets of public concern ; I
mean the nurture and maintenance of thofe children
who are unhappily deprived of their natural protec-
tors."

The other Learned Jndges concurring with his
Lordthip. judgment was given for the Defendants.

lILITCHIII W. WILKINS.
This cafe brought forward the quellion, if die
Statute of the 24th Geo. 11. c. 44. require that the
copy of a warrant mould be given, before aaion be
brought in cafe of replevin. The Attie& was argued
on a demurrer, and occupied a confiderable portion
of the time of Court. Alt the great authorities
were occafionally confidered, from Fitcherberes No-
how Bret:isms, tq the yrefent time, and efpecially Mr.
Jake Willer' Marin, in his reports on this fubjea.
Mr. ABBOT, for the demurrer, commented at great
length on the opinion of that Learned Chief Jultice,
which, as.it flood, he conceived to be an authority
decidedly in his favour. _ _

The Cetanfel for the Defendant refined the argil.
meats of Mr. Abbot, and contended, both on the
Rattan, and on the cafes, all the falutary effeas of
a replevin would be difappointed, if thepth feeion of
the ',eh Geo. 11. sere applicable to the cafe of a
replevin.
Lord ELLINIOKoUGN.—" The fubjell of great
confequence, in two points of view ; firft, as it will
difappoint the fubjelt of a form of aelion which has
been held, and properly fo held, to be extremely be-
neficial; next, as it will prevent the magiftrate from
availing himfelf of a mode of prctalion very ad.
vantageous to him in the difcharge of his duties. As
there is an evident contradiaion in the authorities
conflated with this inquiry, it lc fit the Court fhonld
take time to confider the pi iaciples on which they
are fupported."

I. JOIIIS.

•
Mr. GI uss moved for a Writ of !ideas Corpus, to
bring up the body of J. Jones, who had been fub
jetted to the imprefs by an officer of the navy, not
becaufe he was a proper objeCt of that fervice, but
becaufe he had committed an offence which the offi-
cer of the imprefs could not eafily excufe. It ap.
peered that the Deptford Tender was, to uft the lea-
phrafe, thrown athwart the hawfe of the brig on
board which Jones was the first mate, and it feems
this man did not exaelly do what the conduetor of
the Deptford expeetA, to relieve him from this mo-
mentary difficulty ; the officer, therefore, took the
law into his own hands, and fubjetted the offender
to ao engagement in his Majelty's fervice, contrary
to his willies and intered, during the war. This
perfon is noticed in an official letter from the Lieu-
tenant, in which the latter lays, " I thought by fend-
, ins him to the Nore, it would be better known
among perfons in the merchants' fervice, bow fuck
men ought to behave in regard to the tenders."
Lord ELLIIIIIOROOGH.-.-" Is he liable under the
reelationsbf the imprefs ?"
Mr. thou.-4, I cannot fay by law he is not
liable, but I truk your Lotdlisipt will think, the law
is much better where it is, than if fubmitted to
the cootroul of there Officers in the imprefs fer-
vice."

Lord Es.s.ananamrom.--" This h an improper
letter, and it may fupply a ground for you to retort
with fttccefs elfewhere $ but here we have only to
confider, if he be a fit man to be impreired ? As far
as I can difcern, every part of the public fervice is
difpofed to ihew great deference to what pallet in the
Courts, but in this cafe, in the point of law, we
cannot interfere."

Mr. Jurrica Lawatxcv.—" I underfland the
infiruaions to the officers of the imprefs contain an
exemption of the fiat mates of (hips of above fifty
tons burthen. This is a lenient regulation for the
proteaion of trade, not by law required. This man
may be fuppofed to have mikondated himfelf fo
fir as not to be entitled to fuch indulgence."—
Ride rffilid.

On Saturday the lath infant, at five minutes pall
(even o'clock in the evening, a (mart (hock of that
awful phenomenon, an earthquakz, was felt for the
(pace of two or three feconds, in the whole of the
lower end of the Vale of Clwyd, in Wales, and from
the firength of the (hock mull have been perceived
M other parts.

A few days ago, a foldier belonging to the Cum-
berland Militia, now in quarters at Beverley, had
been out in company with tome ethers of his com-
rades, in purfuit of a deferter. On his return home,
he, in a fit of wantonnefs, prefented his piece dole
to the ear of one of his fellow-foldiers, in order to
frighten him : but the other, with great fang
[eying, Don't put the piece to my ear. I bed ra-
ther have the bell through my gullet," his comrade
accordingly complied, and putting the muzzle into
his mouth, (napped the molket, which. however, did
not go of. Taking it out of his mouth, he cocked
again, and prefeated it upwards i when. at the 6th
touch of the trigger, the piece expitilled, sail feat the
ball through the goal