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London, England, 1817-07-01 00:00:00

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pF CHANCERY, JUNE 90.
The LORD Cnasrezuka did not sit . this day, at-
cording to his notice, to give judgments. His Lord-
ship was engaged in a conference in the House of
Lords with Lord ItRORSDALE, relative to the judg-
ment of the House on the Queensberry appeal cause.
His Lordship has, however, appointed to sit to-mor-
row, at Lincoln's Inn. There are no less than 600
bankrupt petitions to be heard, and it is supposed the
Court will sit until the middle of September.

CONSiSTORY COURT.
LEE V. LEE.

This was a snit of separation, brought by Mr. P.
Lee, an Officer in his Majesty's service, against Ca-
tharine Lee, bis wife, on tile ground of adultery.
The libel and exhibits being read, it appeared the
marriage took place in the Church of St. Mary.are,
in the year 1800; that in 180'2 the husband and wife
went over to Havre, in France, to reside. The wife
shortly after returning, resided an England, whilst the
husband became a French prisoner. In consequence
of his repeated attempts to ercape, his imprisonment
became much more severe; he was loaded with irons;
and confined to a dark and unwholesome dungeon.
—During the hnshand's imprisonment in France, Mrs.
Lee commenced an intimacy with Mr. S. Bowell, the
adulterer in this case, with whom she lived openly
and publicly at Chelsea, and at other places. by the
name of Mrs. Bowell. In 181• the husband return-
ing to this country, found, not only that his wife was
living and cohabiting with the said S. Bowell, but
that she had borne him four or five children. An
action being brought for criminal conversation against
Bowell, a verdict was obtained by•the husband, with
damages 5e.500.
Sir Was. Score, in giving judgment, observed,
that as tbe facts contained in the libel and exhibits
were satisfactorily proved, he should pronounce for
the separation sought.

cutcuirs.—NOßFOLK.
Before Lord CLltt Justice Glans and Mr. Justice Assort.
Monday, the elst of July. at Bucklugham.
Thursday, the 24th, at Bedford.
Saturday, the SGth, at HuntWeems.
Monday, the 28th, at Cambridge.
lhursday, the Slsr. at Bury ht. hilmurch.
Tuesday, the sth of etuguAr, at Nom kb.

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"it olt I 11JEAN.
Before the Loan Cuter Emu's+ and Mr. Baron Woos;
Saturday, the 19th of July, at the City of Yolk.
Monday, the 4th of August, at Durham.

Saturday, the dth, aC Newcastle.
Saturday, the Idth, at Carlisle.
Saturday, the 23d, at Appleby.
Wednesday, the 27th, at Lancaster.
h111)1 AND.
Before Mr. Justice SAI t rs and Mr. /tinier Hot,ttom
Tuesday, the 15thut July, at berthanspiou.
Friday, the 18th, at Oahham.
Saturday the Iftb, at Lineal'.

Titurniay, the 114th, at Nottingham.
Saturday, the 26th, at Drrby.

MAALBOROVOII-I,TRFET.---A question of importance
to the public, relating to the Hackney Coast Act,
was brought forward yesterday, at the solicitation of
General Thornton. It was thus :—A man called a
coach and desired the coachman to drive him as far
as a shilling tare would go. On the coachman 'stop-
ping he demanded eighteen-pence. It was.also sttted
that the coachman was b.iund by the Aet of Perna-
ment to have the check-string, or wire, in his hand,
under a fine of 10s. In the filet case it was decided by
the Commissioners, god in this instance by the Magis-
trates, that no ,bargain was binding between the
Coachman and his tare, and having gone mote than a
mile, he was entitled to more than a shilling by virtue
of the Act. In the second instance the Coachman is
compelled to take the OmA-string in his hand if re
quested to do so, but not otherwise. .
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Monday sennight; J. Morton, srrjeant of the 18th 1
Regiment, underwent an examination at Canterbury
before the 'Rev. A. DttowNe, charged with inflicting
a wound with a sword on limes Macauley, a private
in the &Oh Regiment. The circumstances of the
case were, that on Friday evening a quarrel took
place between Morton and Macauley, respecting a
female ; some' scuffling ensued, when Morton at-
tempted to draw his sword, but was cautioned against
doing so by a sentinel on duty near the place where
the quarrel originated. The parties then withdrew
from the beat of the sentinel, when it was stated by
one of the witnesses that Macauley struck Morton,
and knocked him down two or three times; upon
which Morton drew his sword, and pursuing Marau-
ley, struck at him with his sword three time*. The
last blow took effect, and was inflicted with such
force that the skull, about the middle of the back part
of the head, was impletely cleft asunder, and the
I 1 sword entered a considerable way into the brain; the
man immediately fell, aid was taken to the hospital,
where he now lics without any hopes of recovery.—
Morton has been committed to Maidstone gaol.
On Wednesday the Trent transport arrived at Ports-
mouth from Cork, with 200 of the ,sth Regiment
and €l, condemned deserters : the former landed and
marched to Hikes, to await the arrival -of the re-
mainder of the Regiment, the latter were sent to the
Depot at Portchester. Among the deserters is 0.1.0 tr,
A man of not less notoriety in Ireland, as a mail arid
coach robber, during tLe last ten years, than resnarlc-
ablo for his bodily strength and activity. He com-
menced his lawless career at the age of 15 years, by
robbing a mail coach of sel ,100, and is now worth
some thousand pounds. He at length became the
Captain of a gang of twenty-one, who, in a rencon-
tre in the woods with a patty of the ::•sth Regiment,
actually beat the soldiers off. He has been often in-
dicted for such offences, but the terror which his des-
perate character had created, deterred witnesses from
appearing against him. He was at last taken by
stratagem, and claimed as a deserter by two Regi-
ments, in which be had served for a short time. He
I was handcuffed and pinioned, on the passage from
Cork, and until he arrived at Portchester.
Maidstone Fair was held on Friday and Saturday
sennii,ht. At this fair little business is generally
I done, but this year it was more flat than ordinary.—
' The trade of ropery was pretty brisk. On the Fri.
day, a gentleman of Hollingbourn sent his servant
• to sell a hone, for which he was to procure MO, oh-
' mining, tf he could, more for himself. He was ac-
costed, in the lair by a man who agreed to give him
432 ss. for thu horse, which he pail in liank.netes.
On the servant's returning home, to his' own greet
mortification and to the loss of his master, it was dia.
covered that she notes were all of the Reading and
i Datable Bank, a Arm den failed some time ago.

• AGRICULTURAL REPORT.
"The weather, through the whole of last month,
has been the most favourable for vegetation? The
sudden change from cold and dry to wet and warm,
has produced the most promising prospects. The
wheat crop has greatly improved, and has broken
out into ear one month sooner than it did last year.
The plant is thin upon many breadths where the seed
of last year's growth was sown, which has produced
a late tillowing, that causes an irregularity in the ap- I
pearanee of the crop I but if the weather continues
dry, we shall have a very early and productive !
har-
vest. Barley has shot up very strong from the curl
into the spindle, and promises a very heavy crop.--
Oats are generally recovered from the effect of the
late cold weather, and promise fair. Beans and
Peas, and the whole of the leguminous tribe, have
bloomed most profusely, and are gone into pod with
vety little appearance of the f!y. The yi,ung Rye,
Tares, Clover, and all the tolling vibe, have pio-
duced a heavy and early crop. The weather has
been very favourable for the Turnip crop, and from
the very superior state of the (allows, a very heavy
produce may be expected. Potatoes are in abun-
dance. forward in their growth, and apple well.—
Apples are a partial crop, but -:one fruit more plen-
tiful than fat several years past. Hops are strOug in
the Bine, and tree from rust.

We could fill several columns with the truly gra-
tifying accounts which the Provincial Papers contain
of the luxuriant appearance of the harvest. In Ire-
land, in particular, the potatoe crops are described as
earlier, and far more abundant, than those of many
preceding years; the corn &ids throughout that
kingdom have put on an appearance equally favour-
able, and the consequence has been, a general fall is
the pi ice of provisions of about JO per cent. From
Scotland we have similar intelligence. The corn of
all descriptions, even in the most unproductive coun-
ties, has the appearance of having proceeded front a
superior soil and system of cultivation. We need
scarcely add, that the same description of intelligence
has reached us from almost every county in England-
The Yorkshire district, in particular, m sy be selected
as standing most pre-eminent in this respect.
The statements of different travellers front France
all con& its the most flattering prospects of an abun-
dant harvest. The crops of hay have been completely
secured, and never got in with better order. At
Dieppe, last Friday, wheat fell lull forty per cent.
At Rouen, on Thuralay last, a greater depression
took place, and out of 9.5 ve:Aels arrived from Eng-
land with wheat. not one Cat go was sold, and they
must return to England, for want of purchasers, ex-
cept at a most ruinous loss. Alt kinds of vegetables
are abundant and cheap in Paris.
Letters front Bourdeaux and Marseille...state, that
such has been the influx of corn, that the markets are
overs:sicked, and no sales have been madetor come days.
Mr. Sramwicx, of Derby, who has made regular
observations on the weather during the last thirty
,years, states that it is eight years since there was a
single day, the heat of which equalled the weather of
last week ; and twenty years since there was such a
ciantinued intensity of heat.
Almost every part of die et tntry has, in the course
of the last week, been v7gard by thunder storms, of
snore or less violence. At Bath, Salisbury, Ports-
, mouth . Southampton, Stafford, Carllsleacc. they have
been remarkably violent. The hail-stones winch fell
.at Bath were nearly the size of a nutmeg; and sonic-
times several tell cemented togs Cher, forming masses
as large as an egg ; and daring the space of an hour
such continued vollies were emitted, as to demolish
the glass of green-houses, sky-lights, and windows to
a great amount.
In the vicinity of Nareham a man, named Bird,
who lived at Knighton, a village between that place
and Dorchester, on returning home. from the former
place, about six in the evening, was struck dead, to-
gether aiith the horse on which he rode.
At Upton, Worcestershire, Mr. Thacker, builders
took s'ielter at a toll gate ; when, after making an
observation upon the violence of the storm, he sud-
denly expired ! It is supposed that extreme ag:ta-
tien occasisated his death.

Several horses have been killed in Wales by light•
ning, and shcup in various parts. At Durnoch, in
Scotland, on Tuesday Last, rain, snow, and hail, fell
on the same day. _ _

During the violent storm of thunder, rain, and
hail, at Dunfermline, on Thursday last, a rat was ob.
served to carry her young ones, eight in number, to-
gether with their nest, to the top of a tree.
Tuesday as a servant man of W. Murton, Esq.
in company with his master, was fishing with a
net in the river Dove, he was overpowered by the net,
and, unfortunately, precipitated into the river, and
was drowned. Mr. Blurton, with great difficulty
and exertion, brct;ght him on the bank again, but
nearly shared the late of his hapless servant.
Thursday Mr. Pugh, a youngGentieman. learning
Surveying o ith Messrs. MAMA' and Watson, at
t.ow Plains, went- to bathe in Tarn-Wadling, near
liesket, and leaping cut of a boat where the water
was deeper than he was aware of, was drowned.
Saturday te'linight a Gentleman, bathing at the
back of the Light-house, at Leith, was seized with
the cramp, and unfortunately drowned.
istiday se'nnight a man was drowned in the Clyde,
near the head oldie Green, at Upper Dominie's vole.
Monday sa'hnight another melancholy accident
happened on the Clyde :—A party of Eve Gentle-
men, leaving the Defiance steam boat, a 'boa dig.
lance below Govan, went into small boat for the
purpose of going on board the Rothesay Canty,
coming t 6 Glasgow. At this instant, the painter was
dropped, and the boat upset. Two of the Gentlemen.
Mr. Napeer and Mr. Hamilton, sunk and never ap-
peared ; one, by swimming, reached the bank ;
another floated by means of the small boat till res-
cued by the Rothesay Castle, and the fifth was also
saved by that vessel.
Thursday se'nnight a young man, of the name of
Alexander Aitken, a native cf Cupar Ti;e, was
drowned while bathing in the Tay, at Perth. •
Saturday se'nniglit the coach from Glasgow tt.
Hamilton, was upset by a cart on the top of
Bridge sad fell on the parapet. A young man, of
the dame of Bennie, min a right at Camlachie, was
thrown into the river, and so muds hurt that he
iived dolly an hour. His body was shockingly inju-
red ; for he tali among rocks from a considerable
height. No other person wis seriously butt, although
Ititere were several outside pa:4mgal.