Star.
London, England, 1821-11-29 00:00:00

ON LEAVING WALES.

0,0•1011 A ! thou loveliest land,
That e'er fantastic Nature's hand
Has strew'd with river, rock, and tree,
In beautiful variety ;
Tho' I have cause to mourn my being, •
And.wish it blotted from life's scene;
Yet, while that being remains to me,
illy heart will fondly turn to thee !
Should miles unnumbered intervene—
Or boundless oceans roll between—
Still, cherish'd in my heart—thoult be
Dearer in grief's extremity—
" Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,—
Land of the mountain and the fiood,—
Land of my Sires ! what mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band
That binds me to thy rugged strand!"
In thee dwell all the early ties,
The preclogs, kindly sympathies
Of friendship's formed in youth's gay hour,
And mid beneath affliction's pow'r.
0 " Gwlad fy Ngenedigaeth!" ne'er
Can these weak lines my grief declare.
Until the Cambrian Muse has lent
The spirit of the wild lament
Of that young Bard* who sweetby sung,
Thy praises in his waive tongue,
And painted, with a poet's hand,
llis feelings for his native land.
• Farewel! dear laud! thou'lt ever be
Present in faithful memory;
And every lovely vale and hill; •
In usy esteem, unrivalled still.
0 none but the devoted youth,
Whose ill-requited love, and truth,
Do in his sadden'd eye express
The wreck of all his happiness--
0 none but he, can fully know,
The deep devotedness of woe,
With which I bid adieu to thee,
Sweet spot of my nativity!
• Author of the Poem on " Gwlad fy Ngetiedigaeth."
armarthenshire, Nov. 19.

rPRii/iOGATIVE. COUR7', NOVEMI3ER 28.

Two motions of course were made for the Courts
grant of letters of administration to next of kin, in
cases where the widow and the mother were resident
atbroad, due notices having been given upon the
pillars of the Royal Exchange. The Court granted '
the prayer, but intimated that in any future instance
of intestacy, wherein the widow might be resident
is France, or some other part of the Continent, the
Court would not hold the mere publication of notice
on the Royal Exchange sufficient, but would require
to be satisfied that due diligence had been used in
conveying such notification to the party so dwelling
out of the kingdom.
LEITH AND ANOTIIER lIENRI.
At the request of Dr. LUSIIINGTON, into whose
hands the papers relative to his client's case had been
very shortly before deposited, this cause was post-
poned to the by-day.
JENNER, for the information of the Court,
stated that this was a cause of interest. Mrs. llenti
was usually resident in France; and in the French
Courts'a divorce suit was now pending between her
and her husband. The application intended to have
been submitted on her pare this day, but which Intr.t
now be postponed till a future opportunity, was,
that the Court would allow her to appear at its bar,
either personally or by proxy, and then and there ap-
point a Proctor to represent her in this cause. The
case was then deferred.

lIURD V. lIURD AND OTHERS.
Dr. JENNEtt said that the deceased in this case,
Mr. J. Ilu.rd, of Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire,
died in the month of June last, having left behind
him R will in an unfinished state, as now propounded.
There were several persons who would have been en-
titled in distribution to his personal property, in case
he had died intestate: They had been cited to ap-
tear in Court in the regular manner, but no appear-
ance had been given for them ; and he should there-
fore pray the Court to decree probate to the will pro-
pounded, and to admit the present allegation pro-,
pounding it. He understood there would be no 0/37
position offered to the admission of this allegation.
Sir JOHN NICIIOLL directed that the allegation
might be taken as read. He had carefully perused
it. But he could not accede to the prayer of Counsel,
notwithstanding the circoinstances of no appearance
given, and no opposition offered. Hoar was it pos-
sible that the Court could pronounce for the validity
of the paper in question? It was quite impossible
that it should do so, unless upon a sufficient.and very
satisfactory statement of facts offered to the Court.
The paper concluded in this-abrupt manner—‘, And
lastly, I give and bequeath all the rest, residue, and
remainder of. my said personal estate in witness
whereof, I have set my hand this —." This was
not a case in which the Court would feel justified to
pronounce for the validity of the instrument, and it
mu,t therefore dismiss the allegation.
Dr. JENNER certainly felt unable to contend that
this was a valid disposition of property, under any
rules of legal proceeding : but the peculiar circum-
stances of the case had induced him to think that
such an application might be made without over-
stepping the rules of propriety.
The COURT pronounced the deceased to have died
intestate, according to the tenour of the evidence at
present before it.
O'DOCHERTY V. CARPENTER.
This day the long depending cause respecting the
will of the late Lieutenant-Colonel O'Dogherty stood
for hearing, when it appearing to the Counsel on each
side that the proofs addoced in support of the will
being insufficient to sustain its validity, it was ar-
ranged that, with leave of the Court, a decree should
be taken in favour of an intestacy, each party paying
his own costs.
Upon which the Judge (Sir Jour NICHOLL) was
pleased to observe, that it appeared to him the par-
ties had taken the wisest plan, as he was convinced,
from what he had read of the evidence upon the con-
didit, that the paper could not be supported. That
It might also be for the satisfaction of the parties to
know, that although he had not read the whole of the
other parts of the evidence, he had read the greater
part of it, and that he saw nothing to implicate Mr.,
Carpenter ;in the fraud of obtaining this will—if, in-
dned, any such fraud were committed, he did not
See that he was implicated in it—therefore he thought
the party was not to obtain costs as against him. Mr.
Carpenter had done nothing more than his duty in
submitting the case to the consideration of the Court
under the circumstances after they arose, and there-
fore the parties had come to a quite right understand.
in allowing a decree to be pronounced against the
wt coda:party pitying kis own cogs.