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think such a man entitled to damages? Would they,
even W the adultery bad been clearly proved, give him
damages, when his own writing was in evidence to
strew that he hai required his wife to blacken her
character, to afford the means of proving her own in-
famy ; and when she had consented to do so, would
the Jury listen to the complaints of a husband who had
in view the obtaining of money by such means—who
complained to them of peace ruined and happiness de-
stroyed, when he was at the very time writing a letter,
in which he talked of living with his wife more hap-
pily than before ? He trusted not ;he hoped that the
Jury would express their wannest indignation against a
man who, having debauched a young girl, whom he
afterwards married, then sought to defile her mind as
he had corrupted her body, and who had so far suc-
ceeded as to make her sit down and pen a letter, beg-
ging for proof of her shame, and soliciting for evidence
of her infamy. The letters were then read, after which
Mr. Serjeant Pam. said he should save the Court any
further trouble on this case. He was always anxious

to do so; but he Could not stop the cause on the mere
statement of any supposed evidence; on that he bad no
right to act ; but that evidence having been now given,
he felt bound to say, that whether the verdict would be
in favour of his client or not, the damages could be but
small, and he should therefore agree to withdraw a
Juror. To this his brother Vaughan consented, and the
cause was therefore at an end.
The Cum JUSTICE said the Learned Serjeant had
acted very wisely in adopting this course. If the Jury
had thought the adultery so clearly proved that they
must have given a verdict for the plaintiff, they would
doubtless have given but small damages, and he should
then have certified to deprive the plaintiff of his ccsts.
A Juror was then withdrawn.
OONSISTORY COURT, JULY 10.
THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY RUSTAN
ADAMS V. CLARKE, D.D.
In this case application was made to the Court to
pronounce Dr. Clarke, on the next Court-day, to be in
contempt of Court, for not having appeared to or other-
wise obeyed the monition of this Court.
Sir CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON said, that as it would
have still been open to Dr. Clarke, had he been present
to-day, to assert an allegation as for the next Court;,
and as he (the Judge) was very unwilling that any op-
portunity whatever should be lost to him of offering,•
before the ultimate decision of the case, anytting like a
justificatipn or explanation of his conduct, the Court
would order the assignation to be made for two Court-
days from this time, which would carry the matter on
to the 2d of November next, and thus afford him an
ample opportunity for preparation. The Court was
afraid that even this indulgence would prove of little
benefit to this unfortunate party ; but after the period
in question, it would be its duty to proceed to such a
sentence as might satisfy the exigencies of the law.
HIGH COURT OF DELEGATES, JULY 9.
CLARK AND CLARK V. DEW.
A Commission, consisting of Mr. Justice Park and
Mr. Baron Hullock, assisted by Doctors Arnold, Coote,
Burnaby, Daubeney, Gostling, and Lee, sat this clay at
the Judges chambers, Serjeant's Inn, Chancery-lane,
to hear an appeal in this case, from the decision of Sir
John Nichol, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
The circumstances of the case are these :--The,de-
ceased, Ely Stott, Esq. late of Halt-street, Bloomsbury,
died on the 18th November, 1818, aged 72, leafing
behind him only one daughter, now Charlotte, the wife
of George Dew, Esq. On the 18th May, 1818, hemade
a will, disposing of nearly all his property (which
amounted to upwards of 40,0001.) to his two nephews,
Thomas Clark and Valentine Clark, who were appointed
sole executors, and leaving only • *ere trylinit,porties,
to Mrs. Dew. Soon after the death of Rio deceased,
the Messrs. Clark took out letters of administration,
which were recalled by Mrs. Dew, on the ground of
the will having been obtained from the deceased at a
time when, from the infirmity of his mental faculties,'
he was wholly incapacitated from executing a testamen-
tary document ; both parties were, therefore, put upon
the proof of their allegations. Mrs. Dew pleaded that
the deceased married her mother in 1774, and shortly
afterwards he became deranged in his intellects, and
was considered generally of an unsound state of mind ;
on the birth of the daughter, the deceased discovered a
most extraordinary hatred towards her, and began to
exhibit very cruel treatment towards her mother,. who
died in November, 1778; his antipathy to his daughter
increased, and he frequently exclaimed that she was the
property of Satan from her birth ; he got such strange
notions of her moral character, although she was in
complete infancy, that his treatment towards her was
the most extraordinary that can be imagined ; the de-
ceased then, and for many years afterwards, practised
as a surgeon, and the present venerable Bishop of
Durham was one of his patients; on one occasion, when
his Lordship called on him for advice, he related such
strange stories of his daughter, that his Lordship got
up to leave the house; the deceased, however, placed
his back against the door to prevent his Lordshis
leaving the room until he finished his tale, and then Is
Lordship was set at liberty. He then obtained the as-
sistance of two Clergymen, the Rev. Daniel Wilson
and the Rev. Thomas Bartlett, whom he implored to
turn the mind of his infant daughter, whom he was treat-
ing very cruelly ; the daughter wp compelled ta ay
from the roof of her parent to another person foc pro-
tection ; and in a short time was seat to school, occa-
sionally visiting her father, until at length she obtained
a situation as Governeas in the family of Abbott,
Esq. of Blackheath; from thence she went into the
family of E. Dew, Esq. of Guildford-street, Russell
square, whose son she married in 1818. The allegation
conclu with stating, that the deceased, from the
time of his daughter's birth until his death, was of an
unsound state of mind, and wholly incapable of making
a proper disposition of his property, and prayed that
the will alleged to have been executed in May, 1818,
might be declared null and void, and that the deceased
might be declared to have died intestate. The allega-
tion on behalf of the nephews contended, that the will
was truly and legally executed, at a time when the de-
ceased was in a sane state of mind.
The case has been heard before Sir Jona Nteitoi,
who decided against the admission of an allegation;
from which decision arose this appeal.
Counsel having been heard on both sides, the Court
was cleared for the Judges to consider their judgment ;
in about a quarter of an hour the doors were again
opened, and the decision declared to be against the appeal.

A few days since, at the village of Denver, Norfolk,
a cottager had prepared a barn to regale his neighboun
with, at the feast lately held there, and, ins cutdng it
up, found a mouse's nest in the centre of it. Tbe little
animal had eaten her way into the ham, and had after-
wards found it 4 Ink molt to bring orth her young.