Star.
London, England, 1815-05-12 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OP CHANCERY.
NEGLEC I' OP YUUL.iC CHARITIES.
ATTORNLY UNWILRAL V. FAIMAY AND OTIIENS.
This was I bill filed by a great number of floor
persons, claiming the benefit •ot the qty in queS.
aion, which was granted by thelast will and testaMent
of the testator. In this cause a Mr.Taliikh, Tte,4l died
in Iniii r, le giving the defendant, Mr. Tairley, and an-
other his executors, and giving hip real and pmal
estate to the Scotch hospital, t4..be vested in tO
Bti-
tish Funds, and applied to di trelkf of such poor pet •
sons as have or shat their legs, arms, or eyes in
the British Army orNase vy, in the service of their
country. The defendants stood charged in the Dill
with refusing and neglecting to execute this trust,
after receiving some remittances frrim the East Indies,
contrary to the intentions of the benevolent founder,
who was stated to have died in great opulency, with-
cult any account being rendered of the produtt of his
real estate; or heir at law.

Sir S. RoMILLY, supported by Mr. ABEIICROMME, I
•Mr. Dovios,vELL, and other Learned Counsel, argued
on behalf of the plaintiffs, in support of their Jost
claim, praying an order or decrLe against the defen-
dants, requiring them to execute the trusts, and also
a reference to the Master, for finding out the teal
estates and heir at law of the deceased, neither of
which was admitted by Mr. Fairley in his answer.—
The Learned Counsel added, that such negligence or
refusal to execute these trusts was the more reprehen-
sible, from the circumstances of the Scotch llnspital
having been sanctioned .by Royal Charter of kink
Charles 11. and empowered to make by-laws for the
regulation of the Institution.
Mr. Learnt, supported by Mr. Wilson, Mr. Stephen,
and other Counsel, appeared on behalf of the defen-
dants, stating that ignorance or doubt of their tespec•
Live powets to act us so complicated a trust was the
Cause of their refusal to act without the aid of the
Court, while it was doubtful whether the Scotch Hos.
pital in London was that designated by the testator ;
as also whether there were or not any real estate or
heir at law of the testator, and when the composition
anctiegulations of the Scenes Hospital were so com-
plex, and peculiarly the charter and by-laws, inso-
much that it became difficult to call for, or collect
their general or unanimous assent to any new mea-
sure, being.in number 15" as an aggregate body,
and each contributor st Trustee, with power to each
or any of such Trustees to be one of the Committee.
On behalf of the acting executor, Mr. Fairley, it
was stated, that be had already paid into Court, from
the remittances, a sum of .4:;7,000, exclusive of the
payment of debts, annuities, legacies, and other dis-
bursements ; denying any knowledge of the real
estates Or heir at law of the testator ; but at the same
time offering, in unison with the other defendants, to
submit to, and to be regulated by, the directions of
the Court..

His Honour directed the necessary inquiries to be
hatl,4 before the Master, respecting the heir at law and
estates.—Tne application WAS granted.

COUR I' OF KINGS BENCH, MAY 11.
bLDUCTION.BACON V. BIWOKS.

This was an action to recover a compensation in
damages for the seduction of the plaintiff's daughter.
The plaintiff was the foreman of the Bow-street pa-
trole for the West of London, and the defendant a
cabinet-maker, a married man, 43 years old, an
father of font children. The plaintiff had formerly
lived at the Lodge of Holland House, in the service
of Lord Holland, but had been dismissed from that
service ; the girl, the object of seduction, had been
engaged in the family of the defendant. She herself
was called as a witness, and the account of thetran-
saction, as she gave it, was, that the defendant met
her one day in the I.the leading to Nutting Hill, and
she was induced by him to go into an adj,iining field,
when he took advantage oilier weakness ! Upon cross-
examination, she said she was but 17 years of age
now ; that her mother died some time since ; that
afterwards her father had taken lodgin.gs at a public.
house at Kensington ; that she had been reprimanded
two or three times, from going home late : e hen
it was discovered that she was pregnant, die was sent
to the work-house, to lay in, and where her father had
sent her tea and sugar, and other necessaries.—The
Jury found a ver4hut for the plaintiff—Damages £lO.