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dry. 11;rninghatn was tl,e gene. Onus 45..1'
61itatty '
tmvagances; and ate there picked tip a ertim is of nee
character, who lived with him in the capacity of ier.
rant from Match till Detember,'lBoB, during which-
time he had more than twenty servants,
them with every-fre-ik, and •pielcing them op taped
the road. While travelling in the middle of the rneht
with her, he once had let made on Bagsho--heath,
lighting up six candles in his carriage. He had
*great fancrfor purchadag inns, generally wishing
r the landlords to treat with him upon the spot. He
often quarrelled with theni, and refused to pay them,
upon which occasions he would sleep at little ale.
houses. On one occasion hislorses were pounded for
an inn-bill ; and he had his carriage drawn away by"
men. He had great antipathies to stair-casss, which
he thought very unsightly things; and bad that et a
house he bought at lsgham, taken down, and a lad-
', der substituted for the servants' passage up stairs.--.
To his own chamber he clambered by means of a
chest of drawers, filled with large nails, and drain
out proenssively like steps, from the top of which he
swung himself up with topes. He ruined furniture
by keeping it in the open air, in which he very much
lived. He had the privy of one of his houses taken
away ; and the bodfol a vir.a-air convei ted into one,
close to tie house-door; but at first he had the scats
placed in the open air, alleging that the servants
would not be so long there when they were uncover.
ed. This privy viz e-vir he had ornamented with •
laurel-branches, newspapers, and a gold watch. He
had a convenience contrived in his own carriage,
which served also for a draught-board, backgammon,
and as many other games as the workmen could con-
trive. He had also an Old urn-case la into the bot-
tom of his carriage for this-purpose. At length he had
a new stair-case built to his' house, which he insisted
upon being also contrived as to act as a crane for
letting his carriage into the char:otter-window : the
stair-case was also to run upon castors. He was very ,
fond of turning windows into doors ; and blocked up
all the doors of his servants' rooms. At one time, he
insisted that no servant should enter his room, the
door of which he had cut in half to form a bar, over_
which his domestics were to place his victuals on a
table, which he drew to him by a pulley. He took
down the fence at Egham, and laid his house open
to the road, and lived under it marquee beset by hun-
dreds of passengers. On his travels at Oxford ..nd
other places, he hired musicians to attend him ; and
rave balls to any one who would come from the
highways and the hedges; and he pulled down the
partitions of his own house to make a ball-room, till
he endangered the edifice. He took carpenters to
live with, him for months together. He planted
mouse-traps at his door-ways, to catch the feet of
those who did not shut the door AC:. him. He at all
times drank very freely - and cohabited with the low-
est classes: He travelled from West Bromwich to
Birmingham. a distanie of eight mild, with six
horses; and hired servants, by setting-them down to
tea will him, during which refreshment he would
shave himself. On one occasion, he forcibly possessed
himself of a friend's empty house (Mr. Newland, of
Rutherford Park), observing of an out-house, eat it
would be a nice place tor conjuring in ; meaning for
living and cooking for himself by the help of his con-
juror. On another occasion, he took possession for
some weeks of a house in St. James's-square, for the
good-will of which he offered £5O ; and sent to bor.:-
row a similar sum of his neighbour the Duke of Nor-
folk or any of his household, without the dghtest
acquaintance with either, and although he might
have commanded the turn from many other quarters.
He had the pavement of a hall taken up, because the
ground was more convenient to walk upon ; and had
the cushions of his carriage transformed into deal
boxes, because- they were easier to sit upon. lie calls d
fish-wcmen into his house, and set them to hoe his
cart iage, making use of one of his servant's petticoats
for that purpose : but it would tili our paper to re.
cord every one of his- various eccentricities, which
seem to have been suffered, as the Atcr,rney-General
observes, with a neglect on the part of his relations,
very incommensurate with the eagerness they now
betrayed to take care of his fortune.
The defendant's evidence was close! by the testi-
mony of the Rev. Holwell Carr, a relation of Mr.
Jervoise, who visited him at his town-house in All-
sop's-buildings, about the time of his ;panting the
annuity ; when he was introduced to his relative by
the plaintiff, mho told him that he-should find Mr.
Jervoise very much altered by his extravagancies in
Birmingham, &c. This witness was the only one
who thought Mr. Jervoise wholly incompetent to any
legal disposition of his fortune, and would not have
witnessed any such act.

The evidence of Elizabeth Savage, the servant to
whom we have alluded, was attempted to be contra-
dicted ; but it was too strongly corrcbcrated to be
ret aside.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL made an able reply, clas-
sing all these incoherencies under the head of folly
rather than madness; and repeating the quotation of
Horace, that the man had the riglit of riches to com-
mit them. .
Lord ELLINSOROVGII gave a most impartial charge,
and recapitulated the whole evidence. He told the
-Jury of the law oflucid interval ; and put it to them,
whether Mr. Jervoise bad not thej,vn himself perfectly
competent to transact thoburiness in question, a just
'and deliberate act? The Jury, after a very ►port
communication with eleh otl er, found. a verdict for.
II the plaintiff.—The trial of this cause lasted from nine
o'clock in the morning till nearly ten at nigiat.

CONSISTORIAL COURT OF DUBLIN, 'NON% 27.
HONORA WOULFE O. AM ENA AT.MsTItaNG.
This was a snit-instituted by the Lott! Chancellor,
to haves maffiage annulled which the impugnant
alledged to have been celebrated Letncen :icr : nd the
prosnOvant's son, Peter Woulf,.. It am-4mA in evil'
dente, that Isinena Armstrong had been a sef,eadt in
Mrs. Wou;fr's fami:y for about ten day:, in Deem.
her, 1808.. v hen -she was dismissed. on ill. 9th at
Itnuary; ISCO, she went to Scotland with Peter
rinnlfe, and about that peric,cl the alletiged marring,.
wds said to have taken place. On the VAL of 'Moen.
1819, Peter Woulfe was found, by a most iretpectablefr,
Jury of this city, to be then a lunatc, and to have
been solute some time in the month of FebnLary,
1804. There was a variety of
diced to prole that he Willi insane
pretended in..niag., so satisfactor
NANIM mind, that he inimedi at,ly
riage me and void, to all intents

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