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London, England, 1812-06-11 00:00:00

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ICIIt Tirt NATIONAL MONUM... l IN IT. RAUL.S CATHEDRAL TO
MAJOR-GENERAL MACKINNON,
Vho was tai.. Css aiter victory, by tiiv explosion
of a mine, i.rarceiy a fragment of his body remaining, at the
capture of Ciudad Roirigo ; where he had placed his troops
at the breech in the nio.. sk lful manner.

BY JOHN PRINCE SMITH, ESQ.
SA/MISTER AT LAW.

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" ot. ried urn, bolt,
" Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ?
" Can'Mmour's voice provoke the silent dust,
" Or la•tery sooth the dull cold ear of death r'
No—this sad pile MACKINNON'S worth record:
Here grateful nations heap their last rewards!
Empty this tontb, Fame's laurel wreath enfn.lJs
Her deathless scroll; no worm•fed worse it holds !

With ardent glory was the Hero fired;
_ He storni'd itodego ; conquer'd; and expired!
No buering shaft of Death his fate delayed ;
Nor, by :mitt throbs, his vigorous frame decayed:
Borne on the wings of Glory and cf Fame,
A mine exploding wrapt his soul in name !
Elated valour felt no mortal pains,
Devouring Glory left no frail remains :
Nor friend, nor soldier view'd his death-struck font
Glory sciz'd all: Earth buncel in the storm.
Ye, did fond Friendship o er his memory weep,
And war-worn comrades start amid their sleep;
And greet and bless MACKINNON for the day,
Won by his prowess, prompt to guide their way !
Yet their great aieftain shorten'd still his rest,
Whi:e deep regret his anxious heart (west I
Grit for Inc riero, who his danger slued;
His skill so aided, half Ids labours spar'd;
Grief for the man whom Talavera's fi,ld,
Buzacu's heights, Eime's ample hat vest
Whose skill and worth on every height were tried
And ev'ry plain, by war's red g oriel dyed.
Yet have fo d friends their tearful sorrows shed,
And aching,griefs assail'd the widow's bed!
Yet g infants crowd their mother's knee
To weep her woes amid their childish glee !
Ah what avails this witchery of woe !
At this proul pile more generous passions glow !
Here shall his otl,pring boast his sacred worth;
And, at this shrine, each noblest hope have birth.
Here, hit brave sons shall catch their father's Same;
Here ardent youths aspiring burn for fame.
Here, dauntless Warriors feel, with generous breast,
How sleep the brave, by Britain's wishes test

LAW INTELLICAWCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JUNE 10.
REDEMPTION OP LAND-TAX.
72 PARTE PHILIPS IN Till MATTER OP PALMER.
Mr. RICHARDS moved the'Court for an order to
have a declaradon drawn up and made part of the
fOrmer order of the Court, which igranted liberty to
the Committee of the lunatic to fella great quantity
of- timber growing upon the estate, and which the
lunatic was whimsteaUy fond of preserving till the
commission was sued out in his old age under which
he was found a lunatic. The money produced by
sale of the timber was, with leave of the Loan
CHANCELLOR, laid out upon the purchase of his land-
' tax, subsequent to the Act of Parliament empowering
the r,((.. ni, ion of the land tax. The money thus
vetted in the redemption of the land-tax became real
estate, and descendable to the heir at law of the lu-
natic, like the other real estates, btu the declaration
now prayed for by one of the next of kin, claimed it
as their right, on the grounds that by the principles
of equity the estate of a lunatic shall not be disp,,s,d
of, changed, or altered, except for his benefit, in the
event of his recovering his mental faculties, or of his
pens )nal representatives, the next of kin, and not for
the sole advalitage of the heir at law.
Several cases were cited to assimilate this to the
case of an infant; but a difference appeared to be
established in certain features, as in the power given
to an infant at the age of seventeen to dispose by
will of his personal fortune, but not till twenty-one
of his real estate, while, subsequent to being a luna-
tic, such a one might, in a lucid interval, execute a
deed or will.
_Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, for the heir at law, was
proceeding to argue the case, when
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The LORD CHANCELLOR stated that be had doubts
-of the principles of equity grounding this motion, 1
bit that without a bill filed, the question could not.
be argued on any petition.—Motion refused.
EX-PARTE DENTON, A BANKRUPT.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY moved for the judgment,
fi :(A1 for this day, on this long-pending Petition for
superseding a commission of bankruptcy, attended
with del lorable ciicumszances, threatening a dekri-
'cajun of the petition( r's mental faculties.
The LOUD CHANCELLOR riatkd, that he had fully
i Trepared this judgment, but owing to the rending
ram in his head at this moment, he should defer
pr, flouncing it till to-morrow morning.—Judgment
deferred. .

COURT OF RING'S BENCH, JUNE 10.
GILBERT V. SIR ►LARK mites.
This w•as the case of a wager on the life of Bona.
parte,which came on upon a former day, on a motion
to set aide the verdict obtained by the defendant,
then Messrs. Topping and Scarlet were heard in
soopl•ort of the verdict, as reported in our paper of
Tuesday last,
Mr. kit:LLCM was this day heard on the same
side, and contended that the contract was void in
point of law, and contrary to morality and sound
p. Icy. Upon the first point he should cot.tend that
considering it as an annuity, it 'was void under the
statu e of Frauds ; and nest, considering it a ques.
elfin of insurance upon lile it was illegal, and could
not be maintained. Had the contract been reduced
to writing, the plaintiff hiving paid .a sum of 100
guineas, upon the defendant's undertaking to pay
him. so much per clay, it would have come within
the statute of the ith Gco. 111. and shoild have been
registered : but he could not now contend that it
came within the provisions of that statute, inasmuch
as there was no wr►tten contract, and by the common
law, all .contracts for annuities were void, unless
granted by deed under seal. He next contended dust

it was void in law, as being in contravention of the
4th section of the Statute of Frauds ; for by that
statute the contract should he such as to bring the
action within the year, whereas in this case, it was
the obvious intention of the parties that the contract
should continue beyond the year, and the object of
the plaintiff was, that the hie should continue as
long as his own, inasmuch as it was his intention
that tle contract should be available dining the life
of Bonaparte, and consequently beyond the year;
it was tlititiore an invalid contract under the Statute
of Frauds ; but the main question was, whether this
contract Lad not an immoral tendency, and was con-
trail to the general policy t f the courts y ; and in all ;
the questions upon wagers the Judges had always
held idle and impertinent wagers, and such as had an
immoral or indecent tendency, or were contrary to
sound policy,, could not be maintained in a Court of '
Justice. 1 his was the dextrine held by Lord Mans.
field is the case of .De Co; is r. Jones, and in An-
dross v. Hearn, -which latter was a wager of 20s.
to pay *2O, if Charles Stuart, then an outlaw,
should_ be king of 'Englund in twelve months.—
The Court then held, that the wager, having a
tendency to disturb the peace of the country, was H-
iegel. The question in the present case was,.whe-
ther or not the parties were placed in the situation, on
the one band to excite the one to encourage an act
which might put the life of an individual in jeopardy,
and on the other to induce the other to convey infor.
mation to.the individual inimical to the interests of I
the country, for although, at the time of making the
wager, Bonaparte was in a state of amity with this
country, yet the moment war broke out, such :,nfex-
mation would become illegal ; and if the v:ager was
valid in the first instance so long as the ',eace lasted,
the defendant had paid more money
ittan would co-
leer that period, and the subsequent, '
demand must at
all events be illegal. In every juf..gment upon wagers,
from all the authorities to be found in the books, he
took the rule to be, that ate wagers were bad that hail
a tendency to disturb ;tie peace of society, to injure
third persons, and as were against morality and
the sound princil;:ees of the country. In the case of
Harley v. Rice, 10d1 East. 52, the wager was, that
the OlAintifs would not marry within six years, and
the Coe.rt held it bad, because it had prima facie a
tende..(ey to discourage marriage—so in the case of
Invarance on enemies' property. In the present case,
0.,:e party had an interest in the life of the present ru-
ler i f Frarce, who was an enemy to this country, and
it would be an incongruity in the law, were the Court
to decide that an insurance on enemies' property was
not good, and insurance on his life was good. On
the other hand, tie insurance on the life of a debtor
was good, because the party might have an interest
in the preservation of that lite. In the present case,
he contended, that there was a tendency to excite a
feeling to support the enemy of the country ; and on
the other, a tendency to favour measures which might
effect the life f the individual, by ei.couraging assas-
s'nation. Supposing this was a question upon a wa-
ger on the life of the Sovereign of this country, and
that by some convulsion of the Slate the lite of the
head of the Executive was rendered critical. If snth
a wager was questioned in a- Court of Law, would
their Lordships endure it for a moment ? Under all
these circumstances, he contended, that, in point of
law, it was bad ; because it had a tendency to excite
that in the mind of the party which was contrary to
morality, and inconsistent and incompatible with the
interests of the country, and therefore the verdict
• should be sustained.
The Court deferred hearing the arguments on the
other side to a future day.
The Court was occupied the greater part of the
morning upon Settlement Cases, and motions of
course of no public interest.

COURT. OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 9.
IiART'Sr. SION.

In this case, an application was made for a Rule,
to ..hew cause, why the plaintiff, who had brought an
action for usury ag tilast the defendant, should not give
surety for payment of the costs ti the action, in case
of a 'tonsil it.

The defendant's affidavit, upon which this was
moved, set forth, that the plaintiff, Hart, was reckon-
ed a loose, disorderly man, of no fixed residence, ola
v:ry mean appearance, and vagabond behaviour ;
that he was dressed in dirty and clouterly clothes;
and had a great prepossession for wandering in the
streets during the 66 witching time of night ;" more-
over, he was believed to be an implement in the hands
of a man, called Israel Alexander, an inveterate ene-
mrof the deponent, for the better accomplishment of
his hatred towards the defenkint. Such being the
g, outer man" of the plaintiff, it was hoped the Rule,
desiring security payment of costs, would be granted
without reluctance. Their Lordships immediately
consented to the Rule.

Bow-STREET.—Some time since the Portsmouth
coach was robbed rf bank notes to a considerable
am Ault, of which no trace could he made till lately,
when it was di,covered that several of them were in
circuLtion in the city ; and it appeared £3OO worth
bad been taken by a goldsmith for doubloons, from
a man pretending to be a foreign Captain. Those
notes were cut in halves, and when paid into the
Bank, it was discovered that the numbers had been
ingeniously altered, and, from one circumstance, sus-
pieic,n fell on the celebrated R. Roberts, who was in
consequence apprehended, and underwent an exami-
, nation, but the witnesses failing to identify his person,
he was discharged.
J. Rowley and J Farthing were committed, in de.
fault of bail, for assaulting and threa•ening to do vio-
lent bodily harm to G. Warne, in consequence of his
'preventing them from robbing a linen-draper's shop
in Drug
liarToN G A nnEN.—Yesterday J. Dobson was char-
ged by. Mr. Tusey, builder, Duke-street, Bloomsbury,
by whom he was employed as clerk, with stealing a
quantity of paper-hanging, and Dutch-pink ;. and
J. Barker and Elizabeth Barker, were at the same
time charged by the above Mr. Tusey, with whom
the woman lived as servant, with having stolen a
quantity of wearing apparel, and other things; they
were all fully committed.
L As was Ann Woolly, for stealing '22 yards of prin-
ted. cottbn, from a linen-draper's shop ; and a jour-
neyman gardener, charged with having entered the
grounds of a nurseryman in Edgeware.road, and
stealing thereout a quantity of myrtle trees.
• Marmaonoutm-sratcr.—The expected examina.
don of Bowler did not take place yesterday. A cu.

iifieate from. New Prison stated, that he was not in t 3!
state to be removed without danger, his foot bei..tg
so bad, that a mortification is not considered by tny '
means improbable. Since Monday he has conducted
himself' very temperate and steady. No day can as
yet be filed to remove him for examinati, 4. Since ,
the apprehension of Bowler, various at. impts have
been made by his friends to intimidate the witnesses
on the part of the prosecution, and mare particulatly
Jones, the blacksmith, at Alperton, %elm witnessed the
attempt.
• George Bowler, who is the nei:new of Bowler, and
a potatoe.dealer in Clare-mat get, was apprehended
yesterday for an offence of tl,is kind. Mr. ltedfiad,
a hay-salesman, stated, tha'‘ he was at the Thistle and
Crown, in the Hay tjariet, a few evenings since,
when the defendant, in 'ieneral terms, held out thleat.4 1
against any person or persons who should swear
against his uncle ; and one observation was particu-
larly noticed, that. " any one who svYnre against his
uncle, should not. live long after." Witness was not
cei tan whether the defendant said falsely swore, or
swore. Jone-„ the emit'', stated, he had beard of
the threats Aade use of by the defendant, and this,
combined with a threat uttered to his wile, impressed
him *6 an idea that his life was in danger, The
defend j attributed his conduct to inebriation ; and
hi* fe Aings were violently hurt by its having been said,
/hat, his uncle ought to have bean'bung in chains. He
acignowledged that he had said, if any one falsely
cevore, &c." Tl* defendant was ordered to find
sureties to keep the peace, but was locked up in de-
(cult'
, thereof.

The shop of Mr. Cray, jeweller, in Sackville-street,
was robbed on Tuesday, of a case, containing bril-
liants, diamonds, and other expensive jewellery to the
amount of three thousand pounds. The robbery is
supposed to have been committed by some person
Who came into the shop under pretence of making a
purchase.
There have been no less thin 212 commitments to
New Prison, Clerkenwell, within the lasi ten days,
thirty of which are•for trial at the next 0:4 Bailey
Sessions.

Saturday senn;ght, a boy aged about 10 years, son
of R. Dunn, blacksmith, of Nixth Ferriby, while ba-
thing in the Humber, WAS carried out of his depth
by the tide, and drowned.

A well-dressed woman was sold, oo Monday, with
a halter round her neck, in Smithfield Market, to a
decent looking man, who gave Ss. for: the lady, and
paid the sale-,.man 7s. An immense crowd witnessed
the scene. The woman declared it was rite happiest
moment of her life, and the purchaser said that he
would not take £lO for his Largainl : • •
When a Medicine has had the approbation of the
politer part of society, for more than half a century,
and that the demand for it. increases daily, both at
home and abroad, its efficacy is no longer doubted.
We :ire now speaking of the CIIEVALILU Itesrist's
Dentifrice and Tincture for preserving the teeth and
gums Irom dec.ty, the virtues of which have btnn long
acknow.edcit in either. hemispheres; also of his Bat-
s Arnie Styptic, which stops all kinds of bleedings both'
internally and externally, with perfect safety, and is
honoured by the recommendation of the Faculty, and
for which continual demands are made from Apothe.
caries Hall, for the use of the British 'Navy, &c. &c.
The above articles may be had at the Chevalier Rus-
pini's house, in Pall. Mall, and by his appointment of
some of the principal Venders of Medicine in town
and country.—N. B. No box or bottle is sent cut
from the Chevalier's house without a stamp, and pro-
perly sealed up and signed, to copy which is felony.

An important Discovery, Eighteen rears Lrtallrrhel
in theirst City in the /Vor/d—Consequently it becomes
a duty incumbent on the proprietor, to give. it if pos-
sible, an universal publicity, which he is now endea-
vouring to accomplish, at an expense little short of
Three Thousand Pounds i Year, by }may inform-
ing and hourly proving to mankind of all descrip-
tions, that those who are tortured with the Gout,
Rheumatic Gout, Rheumatism, Pleurisy, Head- I
ache, Bilious Sick Head-ache, Asthmatic, Consurrp.
tive and Bilious complaints, Tooth-ache, Face-ache,
or Ear-ache, may be cured in a reasonable time by
the use of the GLIESTORIAN MEDICINES; and by ap.
plying to the Inventor, B. GuEsT, Chyrnist, No. 9,
Great Surrey street, Black-friars-bridge, between the
hours of nine and twelve any morning, (Sunday ex-
cepted,) may be perfectly relieved before-they leave
him, which is such an earnest of cure as no empiric
or regular practitioner, except those that practice
with the same preparations, did ever dare to promise,
because not being able to succeed, they would prove
themselves impostors, and the lame ducks would
quack so loud as to be distinctly heard at an im-
mense distance, justly pronouncing them pretenders
only to medical knowledge. he truth of which may
be seen by examining the STAR newspaper, which I
will lead to conviction the most obstinate sceptic.

BIRTH..
Monday last, Lady Romilly, of a still-born child.
Saturday last, at It antsgate, the Lady of Lieut. Colonel Nugent
(Westmeath regiment), of a %on.

DIED.

Saturday, John Foster, Esq.---stOrekeeper of the Victualling
Department at Portsmouth.
Sunday, at his house in St. James's-square, Bath, Captain
Edgecumbe. He was an officer who a tended the great circum-
navgater Cooke, in one of his perilous voyages.
Lately, in Great George-street, R quite, Du.talts, Robert
Owenson, Esq. aged MI, joint Proprietor of several Theatres in
Ireland ; he has left two daughters, Lady Morgan and Lady Clarke.
At Jamaica, in February last, Ana Veignell, a free black wo-
man, at the advanced age of 146. She was imported from Africa
a hen 12 years of age, and about fourteen years pros ious to the ~e-struction
struction of Port Royal by the great earthquake in 169!. She
had been bedridden some time before her decease, but retained
her senses un•il the last.

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