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atm. Golden had said, that he might
-.cn in the sight- register, and obtain the rewardi...
When the witness first went to her place, she thought
her master and mistress were married, but as they
saw no company but Mr. and Mrs. Foot and family,
and as Mrs. Golden always went out of the way when
any body called, she took up an idea that they, were
not man and wile, and left the place.
Upon her cross-examination, this witness said, that
at the time she was in Mt. and Mrs. G.'s service, they
never went out together at all. He called her "Betsy :"
the witness never heard oo wife." He went out every
evening.
• The defendants' Counsel then proved search had
been made for a marriage licence in the name of Mr.
.Golden in the dioceses of London, Rochester, Chi-
, cheater (for Hastings) and 'Winchester (fur the Isle
or Wight); but that no warrants for such licence could •
bp found : and that the marriage-registers of the 14
parishes within the bills of mortality, of the parishes
in the environs of London, of the parishes through'
;Surrey generally, of the parishes 8 miles round Hast-
lags, and of all the parishes in the Isle of Wight, from
many years before the supposed marriage till the
plaintiff's birth, but that no register of John and Eli-
zabeth Golden's marriage was to be found.
Mr. Robins, the attorney referred to in the adver.
tisement for the marriage-register, offering £6O for •
it, proved that it had beta published in twelve dif-
ferent newspapers fifty-five times without effect.
Mr. Pane then replied at length • and •
Lord Ea.ureaoaovott recapitulated the whole evi-
dence, putting it to .the Jury, that the probability
upon the evidence was, that Mrs. Golden was not mar-
riedtill after her return from the country, if she was
married nt all, and that the ascertainment of her pr&-
nancy induced the step. If she was married during the
three or four ::ours to which the defendants' witness
spoke, the marriage must have been solemnized.in one
of the parishes. the registers of which had been searched.
If the event of the marriage had been remote, od
the proofs were to be established after the death of all
the parties, considerable latitude would be allowed.; .
but in this ease the transaction happened only teh
years ago; and the question was, whether the defen-
dant's search did not, in a very considerable degree,
repel the presumptive evidence of Mr. and Mrs. Gol-
den's passing as man and wife ? was this presumption
so strong as not to be repelled by the negative of the
fact, which the defendants had adduced ?
The Jury, however, found their verdict for the
plaintiff, upon which a shout of approbation was sent
up from the back of the hall.
The trial of this issue lasted from eleven o'clock in
the morning eighths the evening.
Y •

Yesterday the KING walked on Windsor Terrace
from 12 to 1 o'clock, accompanied by Mr. DUNDAS,
Serjeant Surgeon, the other Physicians being under
examination before the Council. At 2 o'clock the
KING came out from dinner, and walked from 2 till
past 3 o'clock, attended by Drs. HEBERDEN and Wm.
cis, and Mr. Dusnas.
Yesterday the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, Duke
of Motereosa, and Earl AYLESFORD, arrived at Wind-
sor Castle, and held a Council with her MAJESTY.—
The Physicians attending his MAJESTY were prestos.
Atter the Council, which broke up at two o'clock,
the Members partook of a sumptuous entertainment
provided for then).
The folloWing is an exact copy of the Resolution
moved on Tuesday in the House of Commons, by
Sir JOHN NEWPORT, to be incorporated with the
Standing Orders of the House :
" That in order to afford to the people of Ireland an odesuate
opportunity of communicating to Parliament their representations
on the probable effect of Legislative Regulations sad Provision,,
exclusively affecting that part of the Unked Kingdom, and thereby
lessening the inconvenience and injury resulting from the distance
to whkh the seat of the Legislature Is removed from them, it is
fit and proper that a like interval of time* should be required to
elapse between the secos.d reading and committal of all Publics
Bill, exclusively affecting Ireland, with what is new directed
between the first and second reading of Private Bills respecting
Ireland, by the standing order of June 'ROL"
a • 'lids interval is 21 days."
The Committee of Irish Catholics having termina-
ted the necessary arrangements for the presentation of
their Petition to both Houses of Parliament, have ad-
journed to the third Tuesday in April.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India-House, when Captain JOHN BLANCHARD,
of the James Sibbald, took leave previously to de-
parting for Madeira, Madras, and Bengal.
JOHN SPAN, late of Bristol, wai unfortunately killed
in a duel, in January last, with an Officer of the gar-
rison
of Trinidad.
Last night the third Oratorio for the season was
performed at Covent-Garden Theatre. It consisted
of a Selection from the most celebrated Composers,
and was received with distinguished marks of ap-
plause. Madame Caracas' gave some of her most.
favourite Italian Airs in her best manner, and Mr.
BRAHAM executed the pieces allotted to him with his
usual skill. The boxes were but thinly attended--,a
circumstance Which every friendto the Musicalscitlice •
.aatust sincerely regret ; but which-we trust was oecaT
.stoned by thehadneis of the evenidg; rather than by,.
any delay of taibe in-:the polite worieh- The Messrs.
AsscErs deserve eeery-stegree of raise for the de.
lightful treat .which. they have furnished for the pre.. .
sent season.
On Tuesday last, a bargeman, near the floodgate •
on the river Lee, at Bromley, discovered part of a
human head above the surface of the water. He ins.
mediately hastened in his skiff to The spot. and ex-
claimed, gi Here is poor Mr. Flight I" The feet,am.l
legs being deep in mud, with some difficulty be get '
the body into his boat, and conveyed it to his discon.
iodate family at Stratford.—Mr. Flight was an eminent
miller and. mealman of that place ;. and, nearly a
month ago, he spent his evening at the sign of the
Harrow, which house- he left late in the nihgt, in.
=leafed, and is supposed then to have fallen into the
River. Although frequently advertised and a good
reward offered for the tecovery of his perv'n, no in.
telligcnce could be okt.ined till the:above period, yet
' several men employed for some days trzether.
This morning N. Ilegurn, late aniatsiga in the
-army, and 7: /Rite, a drummer boy, were eiiecutA
in front of Newgate, for an abominable crime. White
appeared to he about 17 or IS years of age, aniasur d
wildly tonna when brought ont.upon the sca
Flepbuin was a miserable and squalid looking wretch,
*bout 50 years of age, wiih nothing of the appearance
of art ttißcer or a gentleman, and seemed extremely
anxious to conceal himself from public view. Tb -r-
-were both launched into eternity after spending a few
seconds in prayer with-the tlespana.