Star.
London, England, 1826-11-27 00:00:00

•LAW REPORT. •

COURT OF CHANCERY, N0v.25. ,
rant v. of 7AmT.
The application in this. cases, made by Mr. HART on
the p.trt of Mt. Lopez, was for she payment of a sum
of 16,0001. out of Court; and the grounds upon which
the motion chiefly re,ted were, that the sum in, question
had been declared, by a verd;ct at law, to belong to
Mr. Lopez, and that every effort had been made, and
every species of delay (many of which, it was well
knows, presented themselves in equitable proceedings),
had been resorted to, to prevent a final decision. The
effect, of course, had been, to keep Mr. Lopez from the
possession of the large sum so paid into Court, to abide
the issue of the suit.

The LORD CHANCELLOR would carefully read over
all the papers in the case, to ascertain whether proceed-
ings had been actually resorted-to, for the purposes of
delay. It was, indeed, most important that this question
should be strictly examined, and sifted to the bottom.
He would, for this purpose, look through all the pro-
ceedings, and declare his opinion as soon as possible.

WIII.LiSLIT V. VII Dull or itAUFOILT.
When this matter was last heard, Monday was fixed
for the production of the afficiavits in answer to those
already filed. Mr. Haas, at the tising of the Court,
expressed a wish that a late* day might be appointed,
as the affidavits would require more time for prepara-
tion than had been allowed. He should wish someday
at the latter end of next week to be named.
The LORD CHANCZLLOR thought the first Seal after
Term would be a convenient day. It was probable that
at the latter end of next week he might be engaged in
the House of Lords. He was desirous that,
.before the
affidavits were read in open Court, they should be sent
to him, that he might be put .in full possession of all the
facts they contained.

Mr. SIIABWSLL promised to comply with the request.
The first day after Term is therefore now bxed for the further
&mission of this cam.

• roura lanTss.

A poor female suitor, at the sitting of the Court,
handed op a letter to the Bench, and earnestly peti-
tioned his Lordship to read it. His Lordship said he
would very willingly read it. He hoped, however, the
letter was in her own hand-writing, as he had, he was
sorry to say, received many letters not written by the
suitors, but by persons paid for it, which did incalculable
mischief to the parties ash...mere interested.
The case of tho " Liverpool Corporation v. the Mersey Naviga-
tion Company," was heard until the rising of the Court, before four
o'clock, and was not then concluded.
The bankrupt petitions specially appointed for tu.day, stood on
the Hat, but not owe of them was beard or disposed of:

.COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 2Se
71111 CUITOM-MOVIIII.-tug into V. I'ItTO.
_

It will be recollected by our readers, that this cause
was tried last Term, and a verdict given of one issue on
the part of the Crown, and others on the part of the de-
fendant. The first issue on the part of the Crown was,'
that there was a stratum of gravel on which the found-.
ation might have been built.
This morning Mr: SCA RLETT and Mr. Denham; at-'
tended, on a rule to chew cause why judgment should
nut be entered up for the Crown. Mi. Scantarr read
the specification, and contended, that it was no specifica-
tion at all; that it only set forth that cettlin actions were
'to be performed at the direction of a surveyor appointed
by the Commissioners, consequently the performance
rested on the direction of the surveyor, and not 'on the
specification. After further comments, he added, that on
one occasion Mr. Peto gave notice to Mr. Lang, the sur-
veyor, that, in his opinion, the piling was insufficient for
the foundation, and that it ought to be projected on
some other plan. Mr.' Lang, however, returned for
answer, that they were to adopt oak piles instead of
beech. With this direction they were bound to comply,
and did comply according to the terms of the specifica-
tion. He also submitted, that by those terms the piles
of the specified length would not reach the stratum of
gravel, therefore the issue for the Crown was immaterial.
The Mirmusav-Gzsmaat. was heard in reply until the rising of
the Court, when the further argument and the judgment were ad.
jourued till Monday.

COURT 0# KING'S BENCII, Novntsta 25. •
VHS UM a. nuacousa.
Mr. SCARLICTT moved for a rule to :hew cause why
a criminal information should not be filed against the
defendant, for a series of libels, concerning the plaintiff,.
contained in a publication, called" The Memoirs of the
Paddle and Private Life of Madame ;rabic." lhis work
was published in numbers; and, on the appearance of
the second number, the Solicitor for the prosecution,
Mr. Hartley, wrote to defendant, threatening this step,
and hoping that such threat might deter him from con-
tinuing the publication. It, however, has not had that
effect, and they were obliged to make this application,
for the purpose of putting down this shameful indecency
and great scandal to public morals. In conformity with
its title, it proceeded to state that this Lady we:born at
Naples, and received the early part of lwr education at
the Copycat of St. Marguiretta, where her morals were

•”•••• VW WV I% LUGS&
,stated, that her mother, by whom she was encourages
in a course of profligacy, had actually sold her younger
sister, Louisa, to a /%I,ble Lord (Lord Petersham).
which she swears is totally false ; as is likewise the state.
ment of her (Madame V.'s) connection, of a simnel- na=
tare, •with a Mr, Hone, and a vast number of otbet
persons to whom the work refers. She never was in the
presence of his Majesty, except in public; and the dig.
gusting details of her intimacy with that Illustrious
Personage, when Prince of Walei, and which are em.
bellished with an indecent print, are altogether and ab-
solutely false in every particular. She admits that-she
is acquainted with Captain Best, but denies that she
ever was Under his influence, constraint, or protection.
That she never knew Lord Barrymore, or was refused a
benefit at the King's Theatre, or had any criminal in-
tercourse with any of Bonaparte's Field Marshals;—.ill
of which this WOl k charges her with. In fact. said the
Learned Gentleman, she distinctly denies every one fact
alleged, and almost every name.
Mr. Justice Barz.ay..--Take a Rule to shew cause.
To make the case more intelligible, we subjoin the
affidavit at length.
" Sahli, that the father of deponrtit did not at any time, to the
best of her knowledge and belkf, get into any scrape which ren-
dered it necessary for him to leave England; and that he did not
leave F.ngland, and land at Naples, in the year 1789, snd take up
his abode in the environs of Strada de Toledo; and that the father
of deponent did not live and die at Naples, as in the said libel is
stated; but, on the contrary thereof, lived principAly in England
for the last forty years before his death, which occurred about four
1-)rears _

" Saith, that Madame Bartoloszi, the mother of deponent, cams
to England when she was six years of age, and is still residing in
this country, and that she did not at any time support herself as in
said libel is stated, or receive any pension from the Casa del Monte,
or any other institution whatsoever • that discord never did at any
time rage betwixt her (deponent) an% her said mother ; nor bad she
(deponent) at any time neglected her said mother ; but that, on the
contrary thereof, there has always existed between her (deponent)
and her said mother the greatest affection and regard ; that said
mother of deponent never married a second husband of the name
of Burke, or of any othei name; but that her said mother has al.
ways hitherto been, from the death of her late husband, (the father
of deponent,) and stiU is, unmarried; that her said mother never
bartered with Lord Petersham, or with any other person whatso-
ever, to dispose of her child, Josephine, the slater of deponent, as in
said libels is stated.

•
" Saitb, that the deponent was not born at Naples, antleducated
under the superior of the Convent of Santa Margaretta, on the bill
of St. Elmo ; but that the deponent was born in London, and
educated in England ; and payer has been, during any period of her
life, at Naples; that she, deponent, did not appear, in the year
1804, at the Theatre San Carlos as a mere figurante, or at any
other time, or in any other character whatever; but that the first
appearance of deponent on any stage, was in London, at the King's
Theatre, as principal singer, In the year 181 S. That she, deponent,
never was at Salerno with any person of the name of Spencer
Smith, or any other person. whatever; and that she, deponent,
never was on beard the Theseus sloop of war, or present on board
of that or any other ship, or in any other place where the game of
" Hunt the Bather," or any other such game as in said libels is de-
scribed, was played. That she, deponent, never wis on board the
Theseus, or slept in a hammock of the Captain's cabin, in that or
any other ship, as in one of laid libels is stated. That she, deponent,
never paraded the streets of Naples, or of any other place what.
ever, in the dress of a midshipman, with Captain Owen Or with
any other person whatever.
" Sikh. that she does not, nor did she ever know,' or was ac•
qualrited with any persons of the names of Spencer Smith, Nicholas,
Sir Charles Cotton, Captain Owen, Captain Johnson. Mr. Petre,
Lady Hamilton, the Marquis,Carraccioli, or Lord Nelson ; and that
she never did, from any motive whatsoever, countenance any report
that she was at any time protected by Lord Nelson ; and that she,
deponent, never had any interview, conversation, or communica.
don with them, or either of them, at any time.
"Saith, that she, deponent, never was at Civita Vecchia, Freida,
or Mount • Vesuvius, with Mr. Holmes, or any other person what•
ever, and that she never knew or was acquainted with 'astir person the name of Lieut. Holmes; that she, deponent, did not-see her
husband (Vesttis) at Reime, but that she saw hint in England for
the first time,.and was married to him in London, and that dept.
neat never was at Rome at any period during her life; that she,
I,,deponent, never was in any way known to, or acquainted with, the
1, Duchess of Devonshire, Mr. Upton. the Countess of Albany, or
Jerome Alfieri, and never had any communication, conversition,or
intercourse with them, or either of them, at Rome, or in any other
place whatsoever; that she, deponent, never was engaged for the
English Plc Nic Theatre, under the direction of Captain DrOVIt End
Mr. Junes Donnelly ; and that she never was at Von Mahon, or
in any other way acquainted with Capt. Drown or Mr. James Don-
nelly, or either of them; that the deponent never knew, or avu
acquainted with„Lientenant Colonel Carr, nand never resided with
him or any ocher person, and never was at Mount Love ; that she,
deponent, never bad thoughts of taking the veil. and becoming a
nun, at Minorca, or any other place; and that she, deponent, never
was at Minorca.

" Smith, that she did not at any time play at the Garrison Maestro
at Gibraltar, and that she, deponent, never was at Gibraltar; that
she, deponent, never appeared at the Lisbon Theatre, under the
protection of the Marquis Villa Real, or any other person; and that
she, deponent, never knew any such person as the Marquis Villa
Real, nor was she ever at Lisbon or Cintra with him, or any miter
person whatsoever.

" Saith, that she, did not at any time perform at the
French Theatre of aelneirlOrt Lord, or of any person whatsoever.
in St. James's-square, or elsewhere, under a fictitious name. •
" Sakti, that she admits it to be true that she, deponent, is
slightly acquainted with Captain Best, having been introduced to
him by Mr. Cord: but that she was never at any time fin nibbe d
with instructions by him, the said Captain Best ; and that she, de-
ponent, never was in any way under his influence or control, or
accompanied by him in her provincial engagements ; that she, depo. •
Dent, never lived with said Captain Vast, with the mother and
sister of deponent, or with any other person, at N 0.32, Brydges.
street, Covent-garden, or at any other bone* of that description ; that
said Captain heat never, on any occasion, carried tier, deponent,
into the Fountain, a notorious brothel—end that she, deponent,
never was in that, or any other house of that description with Said
Captain Best, or any other person whatsoever; that said Captain
Best never accompanied her to Manchester on a theatrical engage-
ment, or on any other occasion whatever; that she, deponent, never
accepted any engagement to play at Manchester; that she, deponent.
never did perform at blauchester--and that said Captain Best never.
slept in the same bed, or hid any et-11111nel Intercourse with her,
deponent, at the Wheat Sheaf, or any other place whatsoeve:r, as in
said libels h stated.

" &kith, that she, deponent, never dii meet or enter into any eon-
aeration with his Majesty the Mils, in l'all-mall, or in any other