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LISXORE DIVORCE BILL.

The following are the letters adduced in the Com-
mittee oa this Bill now before Parliament :
The Hon. C. IL B. .Cfarke examined, and said he
received this letter (Lady Lismore's). The letter was
delivered in and read, as follows:

Ulcombe-place, Thursday, Aug. IS.
My neat CNA acao—l do indeed feel most grateful to you (as I
ought) for your kind letter and offer. lam as well aware as any
one can possibly be of the misery and disgrace that will be entailed,
not only on me, but my poor children, by this dreadful separation ;
and Goo knows there is nothing I would not dote avoid it. lam
sincerely penitent, and conscious of my many faults, and only de-
Amin to be given an opportunity to atone for them. Indeed, could
you know the misery I endure, and have endured, this last six
weeks in particular, and the dreadful state, not of bodily but men-
tal weakness, I am reduced to. I am sure you would pity me.—
There is nothing I would not do to be reconciled to Lord Lis-
more • and would he but return to me, and restore me to him and
my children, I solemnly promise you hat there Is no mode of life
I would net cheerfully had to please bisa, nor that no endeavour
should be waiting on my part to atone in his eyes for my pelt
errors, and to contribute to his happiness and comfort. Let him
forgive me this once, and if I ever again in any respect forfeit the
promise I sow make, let him cast me off from him, deprived of all
my child es, and leave me to the disgrace and contempt I should
deserve. My dear Charles, restore ate to my husband and my
children ; we will pray fee you, and bless you the longest day we
live. Don't let me- and my children be disgraced for ever; give
me but ao opportunity of retrieving myself in the eyes of Lord L.
and if I fail in any one respect to keep my engagements, I will sub-
mit to soy degradation that tan be devised. Could you know the
v.airty of misery I undergo—my two children here always asking
fur their papa, wondering he don't return, and wishing to see him;
and my two eldest boys ill in London. and I not allowed to go to
nurse them; indeed. I suffer more than I have words to express.
My two children here will never be happy away froal their papa,
particularly my little girl; and should this dreadful huskies' conti-
nue, she will grow up to hate me for separating her from him. 1
hope you will pardon ate for what I am now going to say, but I
entreat you will not mention that I have written this letter to you,
eitherto Wet or to mama, or any one who would tell them. 'Yon
know hew violent mama is; we alwaya differed in our opinion of
Lord L. and not more eleven years ago than we do new. Walt is
just gone to London. He balsa very desirous for a recorciliatioo,
and says he will do all he can to promote it. I did not tell him I
had heard from yoii, because I feared he might be offended at my
having recourse to the mediation of any one else but himself. Should
you (which Goo In Ms mercy grant I) succeed in your kind and
brotherly endeavour, it will be of no consequence whether they
know it or not; but should you unfortunately fail, It would be a
sad thing for me to have incurred their displeasure.
If Lied I. don't consider the disgrace that this will entail ea
me, let him think ofkia poor children, and for their sakes give their
unfortunate mother an oppOrtanity of retrieving herself, and of
making atonement for herlaults. My dear Charles, I pray un-
twasiogly that this misery may pass away front me. Think what I
most suffer, particularly with ray buys, whom I have not seen for
five and I not with them. Perhaps yoirmay well laugh
at the incoherency of this letter—but do not; for could my greatest
enemies know the agony of mind that I endure, they would, I am
sure, pity me. I shall mostenaloudy expect the answer to this. I re-
peat that there is nothing that Lord L. wishes I will not cheerfully '
sobruit to, to be reconciled to him ; and that, should I forfeit my so-
halo promise of devoting the remainder of my life to the sole study
of pleasing him in every respect, attending to my children, and trying
to atone for my past faults—l say. should lin any way forfeit this
engagement, I will consent to loss all my children, and become an
outcast front every thing I love. Will you my dear Charles, be
my security for my performance of all this, and I promise you that
I will riot fall la any one respect. My dear Charles, should you
succeed in this your hied endeavour, you will have my thanks and
prayers the longest day I live. and a blessing will attend you and
yours, for restoring an unfortunate wit, to her husbend, and pre-
serving four children from everlasting disgrace. That you may
succeed, will be the unceasing prayer of an unfortunate and affec-
tionate sister, ELEANOR. LISMORIL
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The following letter was afterwards delivered in,
having been proved to be in the hand-writing of Lord
Libmoie, and was read : ltamsgate, June 22,1819.
Air ores Mos lluensio—l have written to Mr. Moore to thank
him for Lid kind offer of coming over to see Lady Listunre, and
therefore 1. shall say nothiug upon that head, except that I value it
as I ought; and it glees me pleasure to think that the feelings which
dictated such a disinterested and friendly proposal must for ever
insure the possessor of them happiness in himself, and from all who
are not dead to goal feeling, gratitude, and esteem. Fieanori'd
attack has nut hero a very severe one, though I think if she was
stronger, the attack would have been more severe. Doctor Ilea-
- derleath, who attends her, is quite aware of the nature of leer com-
plaint, and of the extreme dehcacy of her constitution, and has been
most lenient in his ft-caulk:et. She would have been by this time
nearly over the attack, had it not been for a slight cold which she
caught. This is a very cold place, open to the sea, without the
least shelter, and exposed in particular to the East, from which
point, the northeast, the wind has been foe some time blowing,
consequently the weather is much against her; she is better to-day,
but her Wags are so irritable that the least cold affects her. I hope
she wig soon be able to leave this; she must dip go to a mild
climate, which, with Goo's help, will beget a new habit of coned-
onion, sued in time, in a few years, she may return a stout and
healthy woman. My two eldest boys are at selnitii, and well. The
boy has; bad cold; and Anne is growing a tall girl. The old Lady
has been here since Saturday: eke if wonderfully well. The Doctor
has just knocked at the doer; he Gods Eleanor muck heuer ; her
Fight down, and geed. Thessiesebiser now is to guard against cold.
Believe nae, dear Mies Bunting, very only yours, LISMORE.
The following extract of a letter, also proved to be
in the'hand writing of Lord Lismore, WON:Bred to Mr.,
Butler Clarke, was read as fellows:
Dublin, Sept. 15, 1811
i did not decide upon separating from Blesser until I had fully
considered. and most maturely weighed, all the circumstances of the
ease. For many years I bad no coovenation with any body upon
the subject except with George, and hie only because he was an
inmate of my house: I never spoke to (N" upontie suur"
until my vision was formed upon the evidence of what I saw and
what l knew. Last year I spoke to you and your brothers, and 1
did the same this year; but I spoke not to my mother, my sister,
or my brother, until decided ; and they avoided the subject. Do
not suppo:e that my conduct has been influenced by any of the idle
form sad patchwork. stories I may have heard ; let me assure
you that I have been guided amity by what I h tee seen and felt, and
by what I know. Allowing for much misrepresentation. and for
many reports, still, in city mind, Eleanor is only to be
justified by her tutors, and not by her past conduct.

• • FASHIONABLit INTELLIGENCE. .. •:- 1
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PA RTI
The following Noblemen and Gentlemen had dinner parties yea-
terday—Lerd Sherborne. Lower Grosvenor street; C. W. Wynn,
Esq. M.P. Whitehall; Sir Riebard Vivian, Barr. Great George
street, Westminster; Emily idarchioness of Londonderry, Sc.
James's square; the Eatl of Aberdeen, Argyll Street; Lord
Sal-
toun, Cumberud place.
The Duke of Grafton entertained a distinguished party at dinner
Yesterday, at his house in Clarges street.
The Duke of Beaufort bad a grand party at dinner yesterday,
at his house in Grosvenor square.

MOVEMENTS.
The Countess of Berkeley arrived yesterday at her house, Spring
Gardens, from her seat, Cranford Lodge, Middlesex.
Lord and Lady Grantley arrived yesterday at the St. George's
Hotel, Albemarle street, from their seat in Surrey. Departures—
Lady Frances Compton, for Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire.
C. H. Tracy, Esq. left town yesterday, for his seat in Wor-
cestershire..
Mr. and Mrs. George Forbes left the London Hotel, Albemarle
street, yesterday, for Scotland. '
Captain George Schreiber arrived yesterday at- Fenton's New
Hotel, St. James's street, from a tour. Departure—Col. Wood,
for his seat, Middlesex.
Artivals at Kirkhant's Hotel, Lower Brook street—Mr: and
Mrs. Cholmondeley Deering, front Brighton • Mrs. and Alias
Gamier; Mr. Rush and Lad Cope, from Brighton;
David and
Robert Latouche, Esqrs. from Ireland; Tempest, Esq. from
tour; --.... Allen, Esq. front a tour.
Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's street—Sir J. Trollope
from Lincolnshire; J. H. Vivian, Esq. from Truro • Colonel
Hitchenson, from Yorkshire. Departure—R. Heywood, Esq.
on a tour.
Arrivals at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork
streets—The Right Honourable B. Bathurst, from Oxford; Rev.
Sergisen. from Sussex, —111 l Esq. from a tour.
Departure:— -- Cotter, Eq. for Dublin; --- Quick, Esq.'
for Oxford; Rev. J. Williams, for Oxford.
Arrivala at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook street—Sir Thomas
Cotton Shepheard and Lady Shepheard and family, front Thornton
Hall, Stony Stratford; Lord and Lady Kirkwall and family,
from Taflaw Court, Oxfordshire ' • General and Mrs. Chowoe
and family, from Surrey; 11. De Burgh, Esq. front West Dray-
ton ; lieutenant Davison, 7.5 th regiment ; Thomas Sapte, Esq.
from Hertfordshire: Sir Charles and Lads.. Blois and family,
from Suffolk; Rev. W. Crowe, from Oxfordshire; Sir Warren
Peacock, from Keut; Mrs. Gausses; from Hertfordshire.

• • • • LAW REPORT. ~
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•VICE-CHANCRLLOte COURT. Warman- Tn.. MAT 3.

COMM GARDSIII TgIhT&L—CONST HAWS.
This case came on for further directions to-day. The
bill, it may be recollected, was filed for the purpose of
giving effect to a deed executed in March 1812, by the
original proprietors of Covent-garden Theatre, and it
prayed the Court to- direct the specific execution of
this deed.
The VICE-CIIASCRLLOR said, that it appeared to be
the sole object of the deed to secure the payment of cer-
tain debts of the theatre, but it did not Appear upon the'
record; whether the debts provided for by the deed had
been paid, and he must direct an inquiry to the Master
to ascertain that fact. It was possible that the debts
might have been discharged from other sources, and it
would, of consequence, be necessary to direct an in-
quiry whether they had been paid, and if so, by whom
they had been discharged. There was another inquiry
likewise necessary to be made, whether any part of the,
funds directed by the deed to the payment of the debts,
had or had not been misapplied. Upon the result ofl
these inquiries the Court would be enabled to meet the,
justice of the casts The plaintiff had asked that it might
he declared that. he was entitled to a specific execution
of the deed of 1812; but the Coon could not make any
such direction ; because if the debts had been paid, there
would be nothing remaining to be executed. There was
also another reason which operated in not making such
a direction, and that was this: because, it appeared,
both trom.the bill and answer, that, by the consent of
all parties. there had been a deviation from the deed of
1812. If the direction thus sought by the plaintiff had
teen granted, it lioeld have given him a right to ex-
amine all the accounts of the theatre.

Mr. HART expresnd a doubt respecting the Inquiry now directed
by the Court, as to its teaching the object sought.
The Vsca•Cstiucatcos was of opinion that it was the best mode
of proceeding. His Honour then directed the ease to he referred
to the Ilaster, in the manner mentioned, who would be at liberty to
state any special circumstances at the retntest of either party.
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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Mar 3.
THE KING V. W. H. ELLIS. _ _

The prisoner, in this case, who had been convicted of
petit larceny, at the last sessions for the city and county
of Exeter, was brought up to this Court, on a writ of
error, and the error assigned was, that the Sessions had
exceeded their power in passing upon the prisoner a
sentence of fourteen years' transportion, on conviction
of having stolen 1 s. from his mistress, Mrs. Susan New-
man, an extensive grocer at Enter.
Mr. CHITTY, in support of the error, contended that
the Court of Sessions had no power to transport beyond
the term of seven years for petit larceny; and, as the
sentence could not be amended by the same Court that
had tried the prisoner, he ought now to be discharged.
Mr. PARK, contra, contended that a sentence might
be partly good and partly bad. For this he cited the
King v. Collier, Ist Wilson,.S32, where the defendants
were convicted at Hicks's Hall of having assaulted a
Justice ; and the Court of Quarter Sessions had sen-
tenced him to be imprisoned one month, to beg pardon
of the Justice at his house, and to make an apology in
a newspaper. The Court held the two latter parts of
the sentence bad, but confirmed the sentence for im-
prisonment. So here the Court could confirm the sen-
tence for seven years' transportation, and• aemit it as to
ibe other seven.
• The Cosa; after hearing Mr. Calm in reply, ordered the pri-
soner to be committed to Newgats until Friday next, on which day
judgment will be.pronounced.

COURT. OP COMMON PLEAS, Mar 3.
IMPORTANT DECISION!.--8C A LIP W. JACOB S.,

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a carcass
butcher in Wbitechapel markat, to recover 161. 2s. 3d.
for meat sold to the defendant, a retail butcher, in the
.year 1817. The defendant pleaded the statute of
limitations.

The plaintiff's son was called as a witness, and
proved, that three years since he called upon the de-
fendant for payment of the debt due to his lather, when
the latter expressed his regret that the debt had been so
long standing, and said he would 66 pay it as soon as he
was able."

The LORD Cuter Juarws said, that such a promise
would not take the case out of the statute, unless the
plaintiff could prove the ability of the defendant w dis-
charge the debt, it being a conditional promise only.
It had been so ruled by Lord Kenyon and Mr. Jus-
tice Heath.

Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN, for the plaintiff. admitted that he was
not prepared with evidence to Trove that fact.
The Loan CIIIIT JUSTICE directed the 'plaintiff to be called, and
he was accordingly nonsuited.—Mr. Serjeant VAINIIIAN however,
obtained leave to mention the matter again to the Court during
the Term. ;