Star.
London, England, 1826-01-13 00:00:00

SOSIPH V. WALTON.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the
keeper of the Imperial Hotel, at Cheltenham, to recover
of the defendant, a Lady residing in Gower-street, the
sum of 421. being the amount of expenses incurred by
her son, a minor, whilst staying at the pla;ntiff 's hotel.
It appeared in evidence that defendant's son had, upon
a furjuer occasion, bees at the hotel r f the plaintiff, to
whom the defendant had written a promise to pay the
son's bill. The plaintiff accordingly sent his brother to
the defendant with the account, and she immediately
dixbarged it. This witness deposed that the young
Gentleman, in shewing him into the drawing-rodeo,
had said that he would soon be at Cheltenham again,
and would put up at his brother's house, and the doors
between the drawing-room being opened, he presumed
that the mother had heard him say so, and she chi not
prohibit his going. The defendant's son, a short time,
after, arrived at t' e Imperial lintel, in a carriage--and
four, accompanied by Mrs. Beaumont, and he remaiped
there six weeks, during which time he contracted 'the
bill of 42/. to recover which the present actian was
brought. 01 this bill, lflir was charged for hoard, at
Si. per week, and the remaining sum was made* up b)
charges for Champaigne, at I Is. a bottle, and Claret at
10s. with dinners and extra expenses of eatertainments,
given by the young Gentleman to his f, iends. Shortly
after this bill had been contracted, the defendant wrote
to the plaintiff, informing him it had come to hr:
knowledge that her son %%as at his house—that he was
there against her consent, and that she would not be
answerable for his expenses.
The Cat[! JUSTICII put the case to the Jury, whether
the defendant's son had gone to Cheltenham with the
consent of his mother ? If be had not, the Jury ought
to find a verdict for the defendant ; if they were of the
contrary opinion, they ought to find for 'the: plaintiff,
to the extent that was reasonable to corer the expenses
of a person of the connexion and station o! d?fendant's
son, during his temporary residence at Ch(ltenham.—
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 211.

Yes'erday the dispatcf es lot Bengal and China by
the ship Berwicks!iiie, Calitain JOHN SHEPHERD, were
closed at the India House, and delivered ta the Purser
of that ship.
The greatest degree of cold on the night of Wednes-
day was 18 by Fahrenheit's thermometer, being 14 deg.
below the freezing point.
RICHARD lOYLE, the first E trl of CORK, is styled by
Sir RICHARD Cox, the historian, as t! e Noble Earl of
Consc, Lord High Tieasurer, one of the most extraor-
dimity persons that any age 'pith produced with te.
spect to the great and just acquisitions of estate th tt
he made, and the public works uhich he began and
finished, h tying elected a.sd endowed Chuiches, alms-,
iIOUSC3, and Ire! school, and built btidges, castles, and
towns, one of which, namely, Bandon, east him 14,0004
imanmuch that when Calatwitt.t. saw these prodigious
improvements, he declared(little exp.cting to find smith
in lie:and), " that if there had been an Earl of Cork in
every province, it viould have been impossible for
the Irish to have raised a tebelli,,n." This distin-
guished person, who at an advailced period of his life
stated in a letter, that his revenues, betide hOuses,
demesnes, packs, a•id other royalties, yielded him 504
a day net, began the world in a very humble. manner,
which he records with great simplicity as follows:
" Alter the decease of my father and mother, I being
the second son of a younger brother, having been a
scholar in Benett's College, Cambridge, and a stud-nt
in the MiddleT:mple,Lonlon, finding my me His unable
to support me to study tl:e law, in the Inns o- Court,
put myself into the service of Sir Richard Manwood,
Knt. Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of Ex-
chequer, whom I served as one of his clerks; and per.
ceiving that the employment would not raise a fortune,
I resolved to travel into foreign kingdoms, to gain
learning and knowledge and expesience abroad in the
world. And it pleased the ALMIGHTY, by his D,vine
Providence to take me, I may say justly, as it were by
the hand, and lead me into Ireland, where I arrived, at
Dublin, on the Midsummer eve, 23d of June, 1588.
All my wealth then was 271.35. in money, and two
tokens which my mother had given me, viz. a diamond
ring which I have ever since and still du wear, and a
bracelet of gold worth about 101. a taffety doublet, cut
with and upon taffety; a pair of black velvet breeches,
laced ; a new Milan fustian suit, laced and cut upon
taffety ; two cloaks; competent Linea tud necessaries ;
with my rapier and dagg, r."