Star.
London, England, 1821-05-14 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE MARCHIONESS OF
WORCESTER.

It is with infinite regret we announce this melan-
choly event. Her Ladyship was present at the KING'S
Drawing Boom, and also at the Ball, on the night
of the same day, given by his MAJESTY, to celebrate
his Birth-day, at which the Marchioness danced. On
the following day (Friday) she found herself unwell;
and, in consequence, went into a cold bath:which
had an effect contrary to what was expected. The
Marchioness was on a visit to her Noble relatives the
Duke and Duchess of WELLINGTON, at whose house,
in Piccadilly, she was confined. On Friday morning
her case became extremely alarming, and at ten mi-
nutes before five o'clock she breathed her last, to the
great grief of the Marquis, who has been constant in
his attendance during her illness, as well as her nu-
merous relatives and friends. Her Ladyship was
GEOROIANA FREDERICA FITZROY, eldest daughter of
the late Hon. HENRY FITZROY, son of CHARLES,
first Lord SOUTHAMPTON, brother of the Duke of
GRAFTON, by Lady ANNE WELLESLEY, sister of the
Duke Of WEI,LINGTON, and Marquis WELLESLEY ;
and was married to the Marquis of WORCESTER on
the '2, 3th of July, 1814. Her Ladyship was one of
the intimate and favourite friends of the late Prin-
cess CHARLOTTE.

Mr. an4.l Mrs. WELLESLEY POLE, and Sir HENRY
WELLESLEY, who- were related to the Marchioness,
sent apologies to Prince LEOPOLD, to excuse them-
selves from dining with his Royal Highness, to meet
the Duchess of KENT.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The HIND sloop of war is nnw at-anchor off Calshot Castle.
Monday, six Mates and Nlidshipmen Fosied their c,nmination
for Lieutenants at the Royal Nay d College, at 11..rtsnynitli.
Mr. SWAYNT, Surgeon of his Majesty's ship At:live, is ap-
pointed Surgeon and Dispenser at the Naval Hospital at the
Capc of Good Hope. Mr. J. BRYDON is appointed Surgeon of
the ACTIVE.

The lition, Sir CHARLES BUREAU), CANIELPON, Capt. MINOAT,
and GRECIAN schooner, have sailed on cruizes. Remain at Spit-
head, the SERINUATATAII, ACTIVE, REDWING, RICIIPOLE, 110CND,
and SNAP.

The Trim, 26, Captain J. K. Warta, will sail in a few days
for the North American station.
Wednesday, the ship Grenada, DONALD, sailed for New South
Wales, with 152 convicts from the hulks at Portsmouth.
The REDWING, Capt. hose, on the passage from St. Helena,
spoke a brig from Santiago, which stated that Captain 1). F..
BARTHOLOMEW, C.B. of his Majesty's ship LITTN, had died,
there, and was buried on the day of the brig's departure. The
LEW/ was employed on the survey service in that quarter.
Monday, the new ships ATNOL, 28, Captain BOURCHIER, and
NIEMEN, 28, Captain Slate, arrived from Madeira, which island
they left the 15th of April. These two ships were recently
built at Woolwich, the ATHOL of larch (fir), from the estate of
his Grace the Duke of Armor., and the other of Riga fir (their
respective masts and yards, &c. of the same wood), and sailed
together from Spithead on the 21st of March, to proceed on a
cruize, for the purpose of ascertaining their qualities, trim, and
'comparative merits with each other. We understand that both
ships are found to answer very well, but that Par masts and
spars, the Riga Sr has a decided superiority over the larch,
nearly the whole of the spars of the latter, on board the Mimi.,
having been either carried away or badly sprung, during the
time they were out, while those of the NIEMEN remain in a per-
fect state. They came into Portsmouth harbour on Wednesday,
to have an alteration made in their defects.
FALMOUTH, MAY 11.—Wind West. —Arrived the Elaine,
HARM, from Rio Janeiro, sailed the Ist February, with loss of
bowsprit, fore-mast sprung, and other damage ; also the Dutch
ship La Jonge 3linie, Rose, from Ilavannah, for orders.
POILTSMOITTH, MAY Is.—Wind W.—Arrived yesterday the
Frogs, Swedish frigate, front Havre.—Arrived to-day the Ro-1
chester, SurroN, from the Downs for Madras and Bengal; Tus-
can, &AVMS ; Zephyr, STAYERS; and Earl of Morley, STAYERS,
from ditto for the South Seas; Regent, fil‘DouLAL, from ditto
for Berbice ; Calypso, JENEINS, front ditto for Miramichi ; and
William, STrice, from Cowes.
DEAL, MAT 13.—Wind W.—Sailed yesterday, the whole of
the outward-bound East and West Indiamen. Arrived and
sailed for the River, the Providence, Hoes, from Terceira.—
Came down from the River and sailed, die Asia, WARD, for
Quebec ; Eclipse, CA REW, for St. Domingo ; Orwell, BRYANT,
for St. Vincent's; Minerva, MORLEY, for Naples; and Royal
George, BOWDITCH, for New South Wales—the latter remains.
Came down from the River to-day and remain, the Ogle Castle,
CROSBY, for Bombay ; Brothers, GRAY, for Quebec ; and Bd-
tannia, Lwee, for Madras. ' Arrived and sailed for the River,
the Hope, FLINT, from Calcutta—sailed 25th December, front
Madras 13th January, and from the Cape of Good Hope 6th
March—left at the Cape, the Marchioness of Ely, General
Hewett, and Northampton.
TORBAY, MAY 12.—Arrived the Sapphire, LANs, from Cowes
for the Cape of Good Hope.
HARwrtm, MAY 12.—Arrived the Lady Nepean packet, with
a Mail from Cuxhaven. Sailed the Henry Freeling packet for
Cuxhaven, Prince of Orange ditto for Holland, and Jane ditto
for Gottenburgh; all with Mails.
SCARBOROUGH, MAY 12,—Arrived the Weathill, CUNSWORTH,
from Bridlington, with loss of foremast.
Garr/noes, MAY B.—The ship Farl of Buckinghamshire, from
hence to Quebec, with passengers, OR the 2d instant, during a
fug, got aground on the coast of Ireland, near Brayhead, but was
get off next tide, with no injury than the lou of an anchor and
cable. The passengers were all well.
• CusTom-Notes, May 12.—Ships Fettered lnwards :—The
Rolla, front Altea •' Stranger, from Lisbon ; Union, from Har-
lingen; Planter, from Hull; Nonsuch, from Stangate Creek;
Dorset, from Antwerp; Atlantic, from Hamburgh; Ganges,
from Calcutta; General Murray, from Antwerp ; Isabella, front
Palau; and Sovereign, from Cuba.—Cleared Outwards: The
Nereus, for Rio Janeiro; Nepos, for Philadelphia; Express, for
Amsterdam ; Matilda, for Antwerp ;, Earl Clancarty, for Rot-
terdam ; Deception, for Boulogne ; Prince of Waterloo, for
Ostend; Salus, for Gibraltar; Euphemia, for Hamburgh; Heros,
for Calais; Jane, for Genoa; Margaret, for Virginia; Lord
Wellington, for Quebec ; Britannia, for St. John's ; and Specu-
lation, for the Baltic.

Captain PARRY'S Journal of his Voyage for the
Discovery of a North-West Passage, will be published
on WEDNESDAY.

Sir Gitoncit CLERK, Bart. one of the Lords of the
Admiralty, the Hon. Colonel G. A. STAPYLTON, a
Commissioner of the Navy, and F. EDGECOMBE, Esq.
a Commissioner of the Victualling Board, will shortly
visit Portsmouth to hold a Board, for the purpose of
inquiring into the duties of all descriptions of persons
in the Civil Service of the Naval Department there,
with a view .to arrange what reductions can be made
in the several branches.

A letter received from the squadron on the Jamaica
station, dated March 17, 1821, states, that the ships
were generally healthy ; Mr. THAMES, first clerk to
the Admiral's Secretary, and Mr. Eainzs, Midship-
man of the NAUTILUS, were the only Officers who had
died during the preceding two months.
The TAMAR had taken into Port Royal the Jupiter
brig, under Buenos Ayres colours, of nine guns and
ninety men, after a chase of thirty-two hours, in the
passage between Porto Rico and St. Domingo ; the
effort made to escape frost? the TAMAR, cost this ves-
sel one killed and one wounded, and sails and rigging
nearly cut to pieces. A vessel answering this descrip-
tion having seized the English brig Nymph, and the
informality of her commission, signed by ARTIGAS,
was the reason of her being brought into port for
examination. The ships comprising the squadron
were thus employed :—SYBILLE, Captain RowLEY,
at Vera Cruz; EURYALUS, Captain' BIOLAND, at
Havannah ; BANN, Captain BLots, at New York ;
PARTHIAN, Captain W. LLOYD, Santa Martha; ON-
TARIO, Captain LEIGH, New Providence; CONFIANCE,
Captain R. GORDON, Maracaibo; Tastaa, Captain
PECHELL (acting), Porto Bello and Carthagena ; the
NAUTILUS, Captain ISHAM P. CHAPMAN, at Port
Royal, going to Santa Martha and Maracaibo.
Saturday her MAJESTY came to her house in South
Audley-street, to receive a Deputation from Kidder-
minster, who presented a carpet ten yards square, •of
beautiful workmanship. In the centre are the Royal
Arms, the ground work interspersed with the rose,
the thistle, and the shamrock, the whole design
drawn by the workmen, and more than 3000 of the
labouring classes contributed one shilling each to de
fray the expenses of the manufacture.
We are informed that the QUEEN'S letter to Lord
LIVERPOOL was manifestly written by herself, and'
contained simply a request to know what place is to
be appropriated to her MAJESTY at the approach-'
ing Coronation. The answer is said to be that no
Ladies are to take a part in the ceremony. At the
last Coronation the Dowager Princess of WALES
and her younger children had a gallery prepared for
them; and some accommodation of this kind will
probably be afforded to her MaJrsTv.

THE ARMY.

---
The ship Lord liongerford, Captain °Taunt, arrived in the! The 85th Regiment, which has been stationed at
River on Friday last from Bengal :aid Sr. Helena, and hrnught Brighton a considerable time, will, it is unde-:•tood,
the following passengers:—Sir JANIS and Lady COLERROOKE;
sail in a •liort time for the Mediterranean ; but it is
Mr. and Mrs. Baarrea; Mrs. Maar% Mri. Caurser.i., and
Miss BENS.INNOPP j Dr. lavo.nr ; 11. Iftwritu., Ectl. Captain not unlikely that they will afterwards go to Corfu,
ALLINGHAN, 24th Dragoons, with a number of children. or one of the lonian Islands.

Lakt week, detachments of the GOth, 62d, and 74th
regiments, embarked on board the ship Will am
Spence, at Cowes, lOr Halifax.
The Colps of Veormuiry Cavalry of the County of"
Surrey had a grand field-day and inspection, at
Clapham Common, on Wednesday t after which the

.. •n,
whole of the Officers of the Regiment, and the pri-
vates of the Troop commanded by Mr. G. BA RRETT,
of the Moat-house, at Stockwell, were entertained, to

the number of about 70 or 80, with an elegant din-
ner, at his house. A band of music attended. The
Colonel, Sir TlioNl:ts TuicroN, was present, and the
day was passed ttith the most 'social hilarity, and
with much satisfaction with the liberal and elegant -
provision, and cordial manners of their host.
The Star transport will take on board, from Ports-
mouth garison, three Companies of the 51st Regi-
ment, and proceed with them immediately to Malta.
This transport and those that take the remainder of
the Regiment, will aft..rwards convey the 90th Regi-
ment from Malta to Corfu, the 75th from Corfu to
Gibraltar, and the 26th from Gibraltar to England.
The Officers of the Army and Navy at St. Helena,
amuse themselves with horse-racing and theatrical
representations. On the last third day's sports, no
less than 620 dollars were contended for, in two
sweepstakes, five matches; in one instance twelve
horses started. Admiral LAMBERT was one of the
Stewards. The (Iranians personte are filled by Offi-
cers of the 20th and 66th Regiments, the Royal Artil-
lery, and Navy; the admission to the performance is
as high as 7s. 6d.
MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
WAR-OFFICF., MAY 11, 1821.
7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Charles Henry
Somerset, from the Caps Corps, to be Captain, vice James
Fawcett, who retires upon half-pay of the 21st. Light Dra-
goons, receiving the difference.
19th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry Georges
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Skelton, who retires; Cor-
• net George Blair Hall to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Georges ; William John Thomas Fagg, Gent. to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Hall.
13th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Henry Waterman to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Light, who retires ; Ensign Charles
Hugh Lyle Tinling to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wa-
terman.
To be Ensigns, by purchase—Gentleman Cadet H. King, from
the Royal Military College, vice O'Ryan, who retires ; James
Jones, Gent. vice Tinling.
16th Ditto—Ensign William George Earl of Erroll, from the
85th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vise Walton,
promoted.
21st Ditto—Captain George Jack, from half-pay of the Royal
West India Rangers, to be Captain, vice William Orr, who
exchanges.
33d Ditto—Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Moffatt, from the Ist
Ceylon Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Raymond
Pelly, who retires upon half-pay of the 56th Foot.
57th Ditto—Captain John Thoreau, from half-pay of the 40th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Archibald Taylor, who exchanges.
41st itto—Brevet Major Peter Latouche Chambers to be
Major, by purchase, vice Frend, who retires ; Lieutenant
Walter Frederick O'Reilly to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Chambers; Ensign Alexander Caldwell to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice O'Reilly; George Todd, Gent. to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Caldwell.
50th Ditto—Captain Joseph Anderson, from half-pay of the
York Chasseurs, to be Captain, vice John Patterson, who
exchanges.
55th Ditto—Captain Cyrus Daniell, from half-pay of the 99th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Anthony Suasso, who exchanges.
56th Ditto—Lieutenant William Gun to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Barry, deceased; Ensign Nicholas Palmer to
be Lieutenant, vice Gun.
82d Ditto—Captain Robert Martin, from half-pay of the 62d
Foot, to be Captain, vice Thomas Crosby Meech, who ex-
changes.
85th Ditto—Hesse Maxwell Gordon, Gent. to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Lord Erroll, promoted in the 16th Foot.
91st Ditto—Captain John Mann, front half-pay of the 98th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Alexander James Callander, who ex-
changes; Ensign Edward klallett, from half-pay of the 7.7 th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Robert Henry Bunbury, who ex-
changes.
2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant John Nesbitt Fox,
from half-pay of the 99th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Duly,
who resigns,
Ist Ceylon Regitnent—Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Sullivan, from
half-pay of the 56th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Cduntl, vice
Moffatt, appointed to the 35d Foot.
Cape Corps (Cavalry)—Captain Francis De Visme, front half-
pay of the 21st Light Dragoons, to be Captain of a Trocp
(paying the difference), vice Charles Henry Somerset, ap-
pointed to the 7th Dragoon Guards.
Staff-Surgeon John Clark, M.D. front half-pay, to be Surgeon
to the Forces, vice James Roy, who exchanges ; Hospital-
Assistant Robert Moir, front half-pay, to be Hospital-Assist-
ant to the Forces, vice Alexander Bruce, whose appointment
has not taken place.
CHAPLAINL—Reverend John Symons Pering, M.A. to be Chap-
lain to the Forces.
Commissions in the North York Militia, signed by the Vice-
Lieutenant of the North Hiding of the County of Yorlr.
George Lowther Thompson, Esq. to be Captain, vice Healey,
promoted ; Edmund Turton, Esq. to be ditto ; George Smith,
Gent. to be Ensign.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Salop.
North Shropshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—The Ho-
nourable Arthur 11111 Trevor to be Cornet, vice William
Wardky, resigned; Thomas Bather, Gent. to be ditto, v‘ce
Edwards, resigned ; Richard Jones, Gent. to be ditto, vice
Marriott, resigned. - - .

Shrewsbury Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieutenant Fran-
cis Watford to be Captain, vice Baker, resigned ; Cornet Ro-
bert Burton to be Lieutenant, vice Watford, promoted ; Tho-
mas Brown Parker, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Burton ; Walter
Burley, Gent. to be ditto, vice Cornet Robert Dryden,
resigned.
Commissions in the Durham Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the
Lord Lieutenant of the County of Durham.

William Allan, Esq. to be Captain; Gilbert Wood, and Thomas
Crofton, Gents. to be Lieutenants.

Coax Etenawort, MARK-LAltt, MAY 14.—Having but a mo-
derate supply of Wheat this morning, that of fine quality met
ready sale, and is 2s. per quarter dearer than on this day week,
hut there is no amendment in the inferior descriptions, which
went off very slowly at last Monday's prices. We had a ; retty
good supply of Barley, yet superfine samples sold freely ,Lt last
wet-k's prices, and the ordinary qualities were in brisker de-
mand. The arrival of Oats was tolerably large, and the trade
was heavy, but there is no alteration in prices; nor is there In
the value of Beans and Yeas.—Current prices as under:
I Small Beans ............28s zOs

Wheat, Kent and
Essex -4s C2s
Suffolk l4s cos
Norfolk 4211 50s

Tick ditto 22s 27s
Oats, Potatoe 2ss less
Poland °ls 24.
Feed 14s 19s

Rye oss
Barley 001 28s

Flour, per Sack 15s 50,
Rapeseed, per Last £34 £36

Malt sos 56s

FOREIGN.

White Peas 06s ::2s Wheat, Dantzic...... .54* 60s
Boilers Ms, 7.8 s Baltic Red, liambro' or
Grey l'eas 26s '4Bs Brabant red .sos 54a
lallHlrmcn Manarr, May 14.—Beef, zs.6.L to 4s 6d. per
stone of sibs.; Mutton, tls. 6d. to 4s. 4d. VcaL 4s. 6d. to ss. 10d.
Pork, 7.4. 6d. to ss. 2d. Lamb, 6s. 01. to 7s. 01.—Cattle at Mar-
ket, Ile.ists,l92o; Calves, 150; Sheep and Lambs, 16,500; Ply.,
2#4o.—liry and Straw per load—Hay, 31. 101. to 41. ss. Clover,
4L vs. to 5.. Ss. Straw, IL Bs. SO 11. 14s.

LINES.

BY MR. JOHN PROPERJOHN.

You bid me string the harp again,
The harp that long has ceas'd to thrill ;
0, Lady t what you ask is ♦ain,
The hand which swept it's chords is still !

Tea, she gone who w•ak'd its sound;
Tie dream of life for her is o'er;
In death's long trance that form is bound,
And now her hail) shall breathe no more

The strings have fallen o'er the frame,
And ce.s'd, alas! one note to giie;
Have lost for aye e'en music's name,
Slime she who tuuch'd them ceas'd to live !

And shall I then it's notes restore,
And bid again that music swell,
And hid Uwe sound that harp once more,
The harp sla.e ua'd to touch so well?

Away, away—the thought 14 woe-
0, Lady ! what you seek is vain;
I ray thce cease to ask, for oh!
I dare not string that harp again!

POLICE OF TILE METILOPOLIS.

Some material improvements have been made in
the Police Establishment in and about the Metropo-
lis, which promise considerable advantages to the
community at large, and which, as they took •their
foundation in that wholesome maxim, " Prevention
is better than cure," are calculated to afford general
satisfaction. Even at this early period we have to
congratulate our Readers on the manifest diminution
of those daring street robberies, accounts of which
we have heretofore been under the painful necessity
of detailing.
There are three classes of patrol -now connected
with the Police Establishment. The first is called
the mounted patrol—the second the dismounted pa-
trol, and the third the foot patrol. The latter are
under the orders and directions of Sir ROBERT BAKER,
the Chief Magistrate of Bow-street, assisted by Mr.
STAFFORD, who is the Inspector of the Establish-
ment, and, in point of fact, has the general super-
intendence and active management of the whole
body. These men are divided into sixteen parties,
each consisting of a conductor and four subalterns,
and these parties are appointed to meet in given
places in sixteen different districts, which are marked
upon a map of London, to which they have reference,
and the streets, alleys, and courts of which it is their
duty to patrol during the night. Each conductor
is provided with a printed copy of the rules, orders,
and regulations appointed for their government and
observance—the appropriate motto of which is " Be
sober, be vigilant."

The rapid sale of the present Lottery is so fat from
being astonishing, that the greater wonder is, that
any Chances are left for sale ; when it is considered
that the price of adventure is only half what it used
to be, with the absolute certainty of 4,007 Prizes,
including Two of £21,000, and 100 Chances for
Two of .1:20,200, being decided in One Day, Next
Thursday.

We stated the detection of a fraud at the Bank, by
which a sum of £lO,OOO Navy Five per Cents. was
created, and subsequently transfeired. to different
parties, to the sole advantage of one of the clerks in
the Office, of the name of Thomas Sivinney Barnard
Turner. The fraudulent transfer took place so far
back as March. At the conclusion of the investiga-
tion, Foy, the police officer, who is in the constant
employment of the Bank, was sent to take Mr. Tur-
ner into custldy. He found him at his house at Wal-
worth, and brought him to some of the Directors,
who were assembled in the Bank parlour, before
whom he underwent an examination. The Direc-
tors were unwilling to treat him with more harshness
than was consistent with his personal safety ; they,
therefore, did not deem it necessary to send him to
the Compeer, but permitted Foy to take him to any
place which he thought might be more convenient to
him. Foy, under thi, authority, took the unfortu-
nate young man to the Crown Tavern, on Clerken-
well-green, where he was mated with every indut-
gence, and was at night locked up in a bed-room on
the third floor. His further examination was to have
taken place on the ensuing day. This examination,
from the conduct of Mr. l urner, has now, however,
been necessarily deferred to a distant day---for it
turns out, that during the night he made an unsuc-
cessful effort to escape. About one o'clock he opened
his window, and having previously tied the sheets
and blankets together, he proceeded to descend into
the street. From the trepidation under which he must
necessarily have laboured, however, he was not suf-
ficiently steady in his movements ; as he slid down,
his body swung against the window on the second
floor, and some of the panes of glass were broken.—
This produced not only an alarm within doors, but
likewise abroad; the watchman was disturbed, and
sprung his rattle, and instant confusion prevailed.
At this moment the unhappy fugitive loosed his hold,
and was precipitated from a great height upon the
pavement below. The effect of the shock was to
break the bones of the elbow of his right arm, and
also the shaft of the right hip joint. In this deplora-
ble condition he became powerless, and, as the best
course, it was deemed prudent instantly to remove
him to St. Bartholomew's Hospital on a shutter. On
his arrival there, he met with every humane atten-
tion, and his bones were set in the best manner which
surgical skill could suggest. He now remains in one
of the beds in the Accident Ward, but is unable to lie
in any other position than on his back. An officer
is in constant attendance in the ward• to prevent his
escape; but from the nature of the injuries he has
received, it is not likely that, for a considerable pe-
riod, such an attempt could be made with the possi-
bility of success. He has been visited by his wife, a
most interesting young Lady, of highly honourable
connections, to whom he has not been married above
a twelvemonth, and whose sensations, it is hardly
necessary to say, admit of nu description.
ATTORNEYS.—An Act has recently passed for al-
lowing persons who have taken the degree of Bache-
lor of Arts or Law, in the Universities of Oxford,
Cambridge, or Dublin, to be admitted as Attorneys,
after a Clerkship of three years.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MA-Y 12.
DOE, DEMISE BARCLAY V. BARCLAY.
This Was a question of title, tried before Mr. Jus-
tice Park at the last Assizes for the county of Here-
ford. The action was brought, in firma pauperis,
to recover a cottage and a small parcel of land ; and
the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.
Mr. JERvIs now, upon a point of evidence, moved
for a new trial. The verdict stood entirely upon the
testimony of an old woman named Ann Davis, who,
being at the time of the trial eighty-three years of
age, swore to her clear recollection, at that day, of
things which had been in the year 1742. Now, as
the ancient lady could only have been, according to
her own statement, in the year 1742, three years of
age, memory at once so precocious and so enduring
was, as their Lordships would agree, something
suspicious. "In fact, 'my Lords" said Mr. Jervis,
" the old woman's long shot had pretty nearly given
a verdict to my client, when my friend Mr. Camp-
bell, who was for the plaintiff, got up with a story,
out of Scotland, about a friend of his, also a Camp-
bell, who remembered every act of his life from four
years upwards; and fixed, to the manifest prejudice
of justice, the vacillating minds of the Jury."
Mr. Justice Bear was disposed to deal liberally
with the old woman. He (the Learned Judge) well
recollected persons who had died before he was four
years of age.
The LORD CHIEF Jusricz—Persons who live in
t'se country, and who have but few objects to oc-
cupy their minds, do' sometimes retain impressions
of those few in a very extraordinary manner.--

_
Rule refused.
DOE ON THE DEMISE OF STRATTON F. DEAKIN.

Mr. PEARSON moved that the verdict in this case
should be set aside, and a new trial granted, on the
ground of a misdirection of the Learned Judge who
tried it (Mr. Baron Garrow). The case was tried at
the last Assizes for Shropshire, and it was an action
of ejectment brought to recover possession of very
considerable landed property in that county, under
circumstances of a serious nature. A Gentleman
named Stratton was the proprietor of the estates in
question, and had a family, but being of a roving
disposition, he quitted his native place in 1787, and
was absent, without being heard of, for seventeen
years. Previous to his departure he made a will, in
which he bequeathed his property to his sons and
daughters in certain proportions, to devolve, in case
they all died, to a Mr. Lloyd, who was the plaintiff
in the present action. After an absence of seventeen
years, a letter was received from him, requiring the
remittance of some money, which was sent. Between
that and the year 1818, with the exception of a
daughter, who married the present defendant, Mr.
Deakin, the children of Mr. Stratton died ; and in
that year she (Mrs. Deakin) also died. Mr. Llo) d,'
the next heir, upon the presumption that Mr. Strat-
ton, who had not been heard of since the letter
above alluded to, was dead, claimed the property of
Mr. Deakin, and upon his refusal to give it up,
brought an action of ejectment to recover possession.
Evidence was adduced upon the trial that Mr. Strat-
ton, sen. had not been heard of for a patio,' of nearly
ten years, and upon that proof the Learned Judge
directed the Jury that they might infer that the old
Gentleman was dead, and they accordingly found a
verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. PEARSON argued upon
these.circumstances, that the plaintiff ought to have
proved the death of Mr. Stratton; it was not enough
to prove that he had not been heard of. He was
only 68 yeas s of age, and might be still alive.
The Court granted a rule to shew cause.