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COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DUBLIN, JULY 15.
FAGAN V. O'CONNOR.
Letters.frou the coast of France, to the 28th inst. This action was upon a breach of covenant. The
state, that BONAPARTE has just published a Decree, declaration charged, that the plaintiff had purchased
denouncing the penalty of death against eny Captain a certain quantity of timber-trees from the defendant,
on board of whose•ship any bills of exchange upon growing on the lands of Dangan, county of Meath,
'England, or correspondence with . England, shall be and had paid him for the same £970 and upwards.—
found. . The covenant was—that the plaintiff should have free
By l'Aigle West Indiaman, which is arrived off ingress, regress, and egress, with liberty to dig saw-
Portsmouth, intelligence is received of the safe arrival pits on the said lands, and to cut down, to take, and
of the outward-bound fleet at Jamaica. The home- carry away said trees. The breach assigned was pre-
ward-bauntl fleet was appointed to sail from that vention to enter, &c. and the replication denied the
Island'on the 20th of June. The Hebe frigate, which prevention, upon which the issue was joined.
came as convoy with the last Jamaica fleet, is come Mr. Gooey said, the plaintiff was a timber mer-
up to Woolwich. She has a large quantity of doub- chant, who resided in Bridgetoot-street. He pur-
loons and dollars on board. chased the trees in question for nearly £lOOO, and
The fine weather• has nearly crowded Margate.— continued to fell them for a coneiderable time without
Mr. and Mi.,. HOLMAN have been performing at the interruption ; but While thus employed, it pleased
Theatre. Miss HoemeNN benefit on Monday evening Pnovieguez to afflict Mr. Fagan with a violent fever,
attracted a brilliant audience : the play was The Ga. and it was reported that he was dead. Those,tidings
%sae Extraordinary, written by Mr. Hoimee, which having reached the ears of Mr: O'Comn r, he gave
was received with bursts of approbation ; the princi- orders that no more trees should be cut or carried off
pal characters were admirably sustained by Mr. and the lands. Mr. Fagan recovering, demanded his
Miss Hot-Nine, Mrs. Moons, and Mrs. TAYLOR. Mr. property, and permission to remove it ; this was re-
MOORE, the comic favourite, kept the house 'in conti- I fused ; O'Connor alledging, that by a second agree,
nual laughter by his happy delineation of the eccen- merit Fagan had sold hun the ash trees that were in-
trieities of the place-hunting Dotter Suited. Mrs. eluded in the original contract, and that he was to
Mooaa was, as usual, highly applauded. get in lieu thereof, and a sum of money, a quantity of
' Saturday a mart presented notes of the Ramsgate beech-trees.
Bank to the amount of s£4oo at the house of Rtharts J. Fagan, brother to the plaintiff, proved the nego-
and Co. the agents in town, requesting Bank of tang-Iciation for the trees in the original contract mentioned,
t
land notes in exchange. On examination they proved .he sum. to be paid, and the covenant entered into.—
i He also proved his brother's illness, and his men
tft be part of a parcel amounting to £5OOO sent from
being prevented from carrying the trees off the
Remsgate to Landon by the coach about a year ago,
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round—in waten he was corroberated by other wit-
and lost. The man who presented them said he was g
tresses. Ile
,considered the plaintiff's loss equal at
. a porter at the Gun Teyern, Billingsgate, but no
• be found. least to £`lo,•.
such person could
Mr. H. 1). GRADY, Counsel for the defendant, re-
On Monday amost daring robbery was committed
1 rrobat.ed. thd action, as the most impudent. ever
near Gerrard's Cross, by a footpad, on Mrs. Oldacre
ott into a Court. The Jury would remember the
rous .
and child, of Decks, in the middle of the day, as she
m:tnner in which Fagan gave his testimony. He des-
was returning home in a pe?t-chaise from Detchet,
embed him as a fell..w tinder the influence of his bro-
when a fellow jomped out ef one uf the woods, stop leo!
h.`
and not deserving credit on his oath in a Court
of
the chaise: and robbed her of about 17s. and all the . r,
Justice—a fellow of neither property or character.
child's pocket-money, as well as a bundle, containing He called the attention of the Jut y to the plaintiff
the child's. clothes, and got clear off ; fortunately she
wanting to ilefreud a Gentleman of' high reputation
had secreted six one-pound notes. and honour ; coming down from Dirtydetie to Dan-
- Monday evening, as a woman, living in Westmin g no, in the county 'ef Meath, to impese upon Mr.
ster, was employed melting on 'a fire some spirit of I. O'Conn o-, and for a small propooioned sum made a
turpentine and bees wax, for the purpose of cleaning bargain by which hehad acquired thousailds of pounds.
furniture, the inflammable substances caught tire, i Several witnesses were then celled, to prove that
which was instantly communicated to her whole no interruntion was given to the plaineffor his ser-
tlothes, andt before the flames could be extinguished, vents to• cut or carry away the trees sold under the
they were completely destroyed, and her body so original contract ; and that the ash trees, as we un-
' cruelly mutilated that she expired in a few hours. ' derstood by Mr. O'Connor's servants, were re-pur-
On Monday Ann Sanders, was charged before chased by their master.
the aiding Magistrate, at Union-hall, by Mr. Such, At length a Lady, in an elegant and fashionable
shoemaker in Blackman-street, with robbing him of dressJ was produced and sworn. She deposed, that
,
several pair of shoes. It appeared that the father-in- in ner presence, Mr. Fagan, the plaintiff, entered into
law of the prisoner worked for Mr. Such, and she a negotiation with O'Connor; that he sold him back
was in the habit of carrying the work borne when the ash-trees, and purchased the beechorees. She
- finished; and while waiting us the shop for more ma. went into a very long and minute detail of facts and
terials, she used to watch her opportunity of 'taking conversations, and% produced a small piece' of paper
some of the shoes stranding about. There have been from a pocket-book, 0r... which was pencilled di'9so,
discovered at,different shops upwards' of 180 pair of dec. She said she took down these figures three years
owes, which she had pledged at different times. One ago, when the bargain was made in her presence be-
pawnbroker, at Newington, denied having any know. tween O'Connor' and Fagan. That Fagan dined
ledge of the prisoner, or that he had more than mil that day with O'Connor, and appeared very well sa-
pair of shoes. Suspicions wcreentertained of his hey. i tistied with the bargain he had made.
ing niorc, and a search-warrant against him was' Oir cress-examination 'by Mr. GOULD, this Lady
• granted, when twenty-seven pairs were found them farther .depesed that she did not take down what
. belonging to Mr. Such. The girl has been comimt- passed between O'Connor and. Fagan in writing, but
red for trial for stealing them, and the pawnbroker, see possessed a very good and accurate memory._
ler receivig them knowing them to be stolen. She was an F.eglish woman, and was married, and
Beautiful White Teeth may be regarded as one of had known o"Connorsume years. She kiiew he had
the greatest blessings Providence can bestow, without a Christian name, but called him only by his star-
volich the finest famed face is imperfect; inattention name, because be liked it. Her residence was in
to the teeth and gums is the principal cause of an England, but she came to Ireland some time ago, in
offensive breath.—Beeeee's VEGETABLE* Remit*. order,to give evidence on the part of O'Connor.—
' . rive Teorti POWDER is a most elegant and certain Her husband did not come over with her, nor was he
remedy tor all diseases of the teeth and gums ; its with her • he could not be with her because he was
particular qua:eke are not simply confined to clean- ,in the iffest • Ind:es. She had resided for some
- sing the teeth, but will preserve them in the highest time past at Dangan, not in O'Cotinnes mansion.
state of perfection; it will render them beautifully house, for it had been burnt down, but in a house in
white, fasten such as may be loose, and restore them the garden . and she would remain in Ireland till it
to. their original purity, entirely eradicate the scurvy show be convenient for O'Connor to give her escort
',Jo the gums, cause them to adhere close Kid firm to into England. She considered him' her friend, and a
-the teethe render them of a healthful red, and the very good friend ; she was certain he would most
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' breath delicately sweet, relieve and cure the most willingly serve bee, and she would luta great plea-
exertrciating tooth-ach, gem-bills,' and swelled face. sure in obliging him. • •
—Sold wholesale aid retail at Mr. Butler's, 4, Cheap. Here the defence closed.
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aide, corner of Paternoster-rove; and-retall by Belem Mr. MACNALLY, in reply,-aid, this case, in '
respect , I
••• and Sharp, Portsmouth; Hill and Johnson, Gosport;. to damages (for the plaintiff must have x verdict)
' . Anima, Weston, Mallory and Jones, PaYtioa ; Trew-i dependeel entirely on ;be credit of the witnesses; but
man,-Ezeter ; Cookworthy, Glenville, Gilbert an& td whatever sick the evidence preponderated, the •
Hatiandi Plymouth; Newbury, Dublin; Baxter and Jury most-give their verdict for the arlaihtiff.'. He'
bi'Donald,ool torm 1 Smith; Manderston; Scott and had to investigate a most .delicate subject—a fish
. Carel, Edinb • Crutweli, Both ; Rosalind Peck, lady before him—a fair lady was on the carpet, . lied
• Hull ; Gregeon'and Billinge, Liirerpool ; Stains 4zid he vklidd tent put a finger even on the Irenrdf her;
]r, eh, Maneheater-; Bowpn, Norwich s• Knott and garment but with tremulous caution • and Oak&
. Lloyd, Birmingham.; Gregory, Brighton; Inleinnirtttuch.-
.Sbe appeared before the Jury will; fatting-
illasliciste Vasidersi is Boaer2a79d..aistb..4. - • 1': . clog sulks slid sechtctite beauty; assft *Mr'
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deem, more elegant in her persoa, and with a perm.

give
V to her share some female errors fall,
4l Look in her face, sad you'll forget them all.
Ma. MACNALLY then adverted to that principle of
law which renders a wife incompetent to he a wit-
ness in favour of her husband ; and contended, teat
though the lady who had given evidence on Mr.
O'Connor's behalf was not us that situation, yet she
was similarly circumstanced as to influence. Can it
be contended, Mr. Macnally said, that this fair, this
elegant, this beautiful Priestess of Dangan Paradise,
taking her ()an honest confessions and admissions
into consideration, has not a predilection for the
O'Connor above all other mortals ? Is their evi-
dence of reciprocity—is there presumptive evidence
of mutual affection—of mutual enjoyments ? If
there be, and you are the judges, the same principle
that destroys the competency of the chaste wife, wea-
kens to a thread of filo, this weak, elegant, beautiful
female, and fond friend ; it is a cobweb which your
breath must sever. But, then, here is a paper with
a pencilled memorandum, taken three years ago by
this Lady. It appears this paper for three years had
lain dormant in the Lady's pocket-book, in contact
with visiting-cards, and billet,: doux : not in the least .
erased or obliterated. Look to this memorandum—
appears' pencilled on it R. 1.50, &c. See bow fresh the
pencilling looks, revived and preserved,,no doubt, by
the soft and fragrant respirations of the Lady—
for breathing preserves pencilling—but what does et
cetera mean ; O'Connor knows that—O'Connor was
bred a barrister, and has read Coke upon Littleton ;
and Coke says in his comments upon Littleton,
whenever this great lawyer Littleton uses et cetera, he
means more than meets the eye. So here there is
a meaning which Couniellor O'Connor understands,
for the Counsellor most probably suggested the me.
moiandum ; and most probably, judging from its
best appearance, it is not many days old : the pro-
duction of the Lady as a witness was a manoeuvre
which nothing but the desperate circumstances of his
defence would have allowed Mr. O'Connor to adopt.
The Jury delivered their verdict for the plaintiff with
£lO2. 17s. 6d. damages.

The following Epitaph is placed on a tomb-stone
in Clewer Church-yard, near Windsor
To the memory ofiGtOROL Surrse, of Lound, In the county of
Nottingham, ten years farrier in the Royal Horse Gu4rds, who
died June 5, 1811, aged St pars
My Sledge and Han)mer lies irelin'd,
My Bellows, too, 11...ve lost tEeir wind ;
My Fire's extinct, my Forge decay'd,
My Viet is in the dust now laid;
My Coal is spent, my Iron gone,
My Nails are drove, my wurk is done!

DIED. • •
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At Portalegre, the Bth of July, Lieutenant-Cplonel Chaless ;
Bevan, of the 4th Regiment of Foot.
July 27, Suddenly, Mr. Rowe syn. Surreal's, of Portaca. Ii r
had so little warning of his Impen!ling d.pernsie to another '
than he was enjoying the festivities of Pottuluwu Fair, near •
Portsmonth, in the aftemoon !
Yesterday, et his house, the Coatis and Horses, Frith-street,
Soho, James Belcher, the famous pugilist. By the consequences
or his various battles, aided by great irregularity of living, he bad ;
reduced himself re a most pitiable situation for the last le
montlit ; and, at length, fell a martyr to his indiaert.tion, in his
31st year. The dece.l;ed was a descendant of the celebrated pu-
gilist Siaek, of Norwich, whom he far excelled in all the rev'.
sites of boxing, with the exception of strength.
A few ear ago, the wonderful Mrs. Anne Moore (the fasting
woman) of 'fetbury, in Staffordateire, who existed four years
without eating, and nearly three years without drinking even4o
riuch as 11 glass of water she was SO years of age. May
tho.•Fands vlsi:ed this surprising woman, and the learned Farolty
ere completely baffled in all their opinions courertsitig the possi-
bit duraion of 1 e w.tintut food by this instance of condensed
I existence of animation, independeat of matenance.
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