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old books, if the three firms of the assignees were to be
restricted from bidding at the sale, in consequenCe of
the assignees being constituent members of those
houses, the property. it was supposed, would bring
little or nothing, and therefore the present prayer was,
that the Court would be pleased to make an order,
leaving those firms at liberty to bid, in competition.
The LORD CHANCELLOR did not see how he could
make such an.order at present. If the property to be
sold had been a piece of land much mischief could not
have resulted from assignees being allowed to bid at
the sale, because it might be expected all the world %sere
se go d judges of the land as the assignees, but this
repay, consisting of old books, if the assignees were
skflful in the value of old books, they might buy for a
6J. a book of immense value, though no person but
themselves would bid 6d. for it at the sale. It was also
to be observed, that there was a curious law existing
among booksellers, which was, that one bookseller
would not bid agaiirst another, and that they had a
second sale. What the Court would now do was to
direct that a scheme of how the sale was intended to be
conducted should be laid before the Court; and his
Lordship would be very glad to be furnished with an
affivavit from the assignees, stating what they con-
sidered the value of the property to be, because it was
incumbent upon them to givesthe party putting the pro-
perty up to sale every possible inforniatiou with respect
to its value, fpr the lenefit of the binkrupt's estate.
WIELLZBLU POLE V. DUBS OF •BRDFORD.

Mr. HART stated that there was a petition in this
matter already before the Court; another petition had
now been presented, affecting the custody of the
Plaintiff's children, which, from its nature, according
to. the rules of the Court, was entitled to priority over
other cases; in having the *attention of the Court, and
therefore be had now to beg that his Lordsaip would
permit this • second petition to stand for hearing on
FildaY.—Leave granted. .
: t* Tin MATER OF Tilt RARE. OF PORTSMOUTH. '
Mr.Toaaat said there was a petition presented in this
matter, which bad for its object the payment of the So-
licitor's costs under the comnsiseion. In the course of
the proceedings heavy bills of costs had been incurred,
due from the kinatic's estate, and as they had stood over
roe two years unliquidated, it was extremely import-
ant -that the petition to obtain an order for the pay-
ment of those costs should now be heard without
further delay; and dierefisre le had to beg that the
Court would allow the petitioa to stand fur Tuesday,
His Loanantr said, it was a matter of serious mm-,
patience to every person who had business before the
Courtohat hii business should not be further delayed;'
and fee his Licaship's own pare.. he could not see arhy
a florldter's application for the payment of his bills of'
,cosh sir* to take Tretedeace over the other cases.—lt
was, however, certainly of importance to the Solicitors
liello Isar/ those heavy bills of Costs that the petition
:Souk be bawd; tberefore,-Mr. Turner might mention
a aria ein-Tutsslay, and the Court would then see what
it could do -about appointing a day for hearing it,
COTAT OF ZING'S BENCH, Fassaaar n.
Levi V. CORTIV:
The plaintiff in this case, Mr. John Kent, brought his
action for the recovery of a sum of 450 guineas, the
price of tilt., horses sold by him to thadefendant,'Mr.
Wm. Timothy. Curtis, in January, 1825.
Mr. Richard Claridge proved the sale of* the horses,
and also testified to repeated promise: of payment, made
by the defendant in witness's presence at Dover and Ca-
-his, on the plaintiff's going to Paris, where he married a
Lady of title and fortune, and where he has since resided.'
The purchase of the horses by the defendant was also
proved by other witnesses, and amongst them by Ro-
bert Busbe, who acted in the capacity of interpreter to
the defendant in France, and who deposed, that the lat-
ter, in alluding to the transactions regarding the horses,
used the expression, that be hadirratere ad Kent.
Mr. SCAIILIRT addressed the Jury for the defesidein; but ailed
=witnesses. A verdict of £415105. was retorked for &We
Aoother ease, between the mime pardesron iseeennt of a dimmed
ring and gold chain borrowetor4he *MEW Mi. Curtis, and
Which the latter refused to maga, was.direided by it verdict Ise the
plailiff-wDeassges. £lO. . ~
THATCH'S/tie. -'IIOMIIIOII.
This was. an action to recover the sum of 01131.155.
for goods sold and delivered by the plaintiff -to the
defendant so long back as the year l$19; and also the
amount of interest due on two bills of eschange; tie,
cepted in .satisfaction of some former transactiOits, the
amonnts'of which bilk had been paid. The plaintiff is
an army accoutrement maker, and the defendant was
formerly on agent to the Visnepuelean (now Colombian)
Government, and in that ctiplicity2bouglitche:g6Ods in
question. The defence was two-fold :...first, that the
balance claimed was included in a former-pa of
1.24' l. which had been paid the plaintiff. Secondly,
that the VransaCtioa was altogether illegal, inasmOch as
it was an agreement to supply Reticles of war to- an
insurgent State; fighting against its parent country, that.
parent countrybeing on terminfamitrai h this country.
The Lotto Cisisr Jurocit was of opinion that the
first defcnce had failed, because the defendant had ad-
mitted the debt, so recently as September last, and the
second defence was not Sufficiently proved ; • but if the
defendant's Counsel' tould,make anything of that here-.
after, be was at libtrty to do so...Verilict.tor plaintiff.
COURT. OF Collf‘ON PLEAS, Fs,. 22.
°RIFF iti w. TRIAL. •
'This was an stilton of assault. The defendant having
occasion top to the country bet some law•business, seht 1
hiajetsgage in the eveskintito .•101vItliet10',Celtat,Irith I
the intention of taking. the Roach tuitcel - c ilei4 4441'
ingl bur *berth, armed at thectllieelus .the: following
day. he was tOb lite irdt`thE toetltl 'Which had started
sometime ketws,„ A-4,ll),ioi.tieAnAtittlting out ilk lug.
gage inrerthw Wang chwessitef-41 of wtech he wan edi
but the *ptriters. teddablin lot spoil not• be •allo wed to do
.He tniktet otitis rigisato -have actress to bit ow c,
1.60.
luggage, and the porters insisted on their right to- -pre-
Irvin him. They sticoceaesi iii forcing him out tif the
l office, and he succeeded in getthig in again. Tie I lain-

of the Ladg Out'lka East Indiaman, for wages due
to him on contracts for a voyage to and from the East
Indies. The vessel sailed in March, 1823. On its
arrival at Madeira Gore was promoted from caddy-
servant to be steward, at an advanced rate of pay.—
On his arrival at Coloutta lie Viasattarted by a glan-
dular oliiorder in the. throat, which increased dining
the homeward yoyage. ,It wasallegeti.by the owners
that thii dis Order ha been ceased, or at least aug-
inentepl, by a habit of intoxication, whith.renderest
him efterkincapable of performing as duty"; and elsh
that on the vessel's return to England the linen, in hit
charge was deficient. They had therefore offered him
404 Instead of 1191. the amourkt of his claim, which he
refused, and instituted the present suit. His Lordship
was of opinion that no proof had been adduced that
the mariner had been guilty of intoxication on the
outward voyage and the disorder with which he was
afilicte4 (probably a constitutional infirmity) accounted
icr his inability to perform his duty on the home-
voyage. As to the linen, it was not intended so charge
the party with spoliation, and no proof was 'given to
show that it bid been regularly delivered to him, or
that it might not have decreased by wear. His Lord-
ship therefore pronounced for the sem claimed by the
mariner, viz. 891. deducting the advances made to
him, amounting to 271. 15s. I and also for his expenses.

TN' UPNOM.

This case was opened with great solemnity by Dr.
LUSHINGTON, as one of which there had been no ex-
ample since his Lordship had presided in that Court.
It was a' claim for salvage of a fiat-bottomed dung.
barge, which had sunk on the Spit-sand, at the mouth
of the Medway, and alleged to have been derelict. It
was raised and carried to Sheerness by the salvors.—
The case, after amusing the Court for an hour, was
directed to stead over till the first day of next Term,
for further affidavits respecting an *Hedged custom in
that part, of leading inch craft aground for a time.
• ?HZ TRIT6II. •

In this Matter Dt. Losattorroit opposed certain 'natal
ters contained in an act on petition, on the ground
of irrelevancy. It appeared that about ten or eleven
years ago a vessel called the Triton was carried into
the port of Powey, in Cornwall, and there condemned
as pod and lawful prize. The proceeds, amounting
to upwards of 2,000 i. were paid over into the hands of a
Mr. Lukey, substituted agent for the distribution ; and
by hint never pia over into the hands of the parties in-
titled. A monition waiextraeted, warninghian to the
payment; bat, pending the proceedings in Court there-
upon, this unfortuaate•nerson destroyed himself. Pro-
ceedings were then instituted against the two. sureties,
for Mr. Luker,, end an action• entered in 6,000. the
moonlit of their. heil. Urn) 14411.01 the tereseete-'
tires of one of thesszureties,,enilol* Wife in the
bail bond, •an act on petition .was rev bro . t in, cr-
taining certain-intlevant matter,* which e
COunsel proposed to take specific tinepliOnS,
should have been read to the Comm
The KiNG'S A DVOCAT2 for the Crews, fitted, . it was
only necessary for him to observe, that this matter was
originally a cause as between the Treasurer of his •Me-
jesty's navy, and the agent appointed for the distribu-
tion, against whom a monition had- been obtained for
payment into the registry of the Court of the proceeds
of the Triton. In a subsequent period of the transac-
tion, Captain Nicholls •had been called upon to inter,
verse, as the Officer by whom the Triton was original,-
taken. It was only necessary for him (the King's Ad-
vocate) to see, on behalf of the other Officers and map
acting under Captain Nicholl's orders, that the monition
was enforced against the sureties of the late Mr. Luker.
Dr. Dooms, on behalf of those parties; contended, that Shit
whole contents of the act oa petition wire perfectly relevant.
The act on petition was then read.
Dr. Lusitinororr called the Court's attention, on the
part of his client, Captain Nicholls, to the irrelevant
matter objected to, which was also in some respects li-
bellous. It imputed to Captain Nicholls's unwarrantable
management and representations, the designed failure
of Mr. Lukey, and laid a variety of other allegations,
which, even if true, could constitute no sufficient answer
or defence to the raonition, which was solely intended to
call in the proceeds. If Captain Nicholls had been
guilty of the-conduct so imputed to him, after the ex-
• iratietrof a period often years,-the Courts of Common
Law, •or of Chancery, would have supplied the parties
now advancing such charges with- their remedy. The
Learned Gentleman denied the whole of these averments
but it was not necessary to do so. because they were no
answer to the terms of the monition—they sbewed no
;Cause against it—they were irrelevant, and, as such,
ought to be expunged.
The Court did not deliver its-final opinion on this question.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
Two actions for libel were tried, in which the plain--
tiff' was act attorney, named Jones; and the defendants
the Propiietors and Aditors of the Pottery Gazette, and
the Stoffirdshiro Adveitiser.—The Jury in both cases
returned a verdict for the defendants.

, when it

Accounts from Corfu state, that Sir FRED. ADAM,
Governor of the lonian Islands, bad embarked with
his whole Staff ia a steam-boat which bears his name,
and which h.ss been lately inuoduced under his pawns-
!gr, and bad visited the Islands of the South belonging
ut his Clovernment. He returned to Corfu on the 17th
daeuary, hav,ing employed only six days in the whole
tour, and thus satisfied the islanders of the rapidity and
safety of the new mode of communication winch be had
procured for them.
Before the Act of 1775 the country banks were in
the habit of issuing notes for seats so small as tell
aye shillings. Some banks in. Yukshire bad even
circulationnotes for the value of sixpence., The nuisan e
of such 64 beggarly establishmetar," as Dr. An
Siam calls them, may easily be conceived, when life
learn' that in addition to the' smallness of the sums fey
.which, they issued their *paper, they appended awls.
union that their notes should not ,be exchanged -fbr
saver, unless the ladder brouiht the change. for * giint4
to the hruer. '

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is 4 where BOnapirte resided is now convvetesl
granary. The drawing-room in which he died
thrashing machihe in it; his billiard-room it
potatoes and Straw, trod his bath is a stable.
house intended for him Is situa:ed about 100
the old orte•-•_1041 414191"
S.E. trade- wind,, which: &ste . mach elim-
it is a handsome lord ironing, i but bad&
I up in a sioriplelFirlfiffeisist
ztly coiresponding ithithlSiihiffeig. The
a quadrangle, with a square Coen in,the
an archway': through from N.Vi -to •18. W.
ig fronts the N.W. and has stn. Moiled
front. The gardens are laid out very tastefull,
, thing seems to have been studied that °Wahl
add to the great man's comfort. -Hie new horde
wiuld have been ready foe him in a few weelos, wharf
he died. He lies buried at the head of a deep ravines
about 100 yards to the left, at three miles distance Aoki
St. James's Town, on the road to Longwood; in a smell
spot of ground (about a quarter of an acre) covered
with English grass, and surrounded by a strong wooden
paling. Seven weeping willows *hint over his rave,
which is covered with a plain stone slab, surrounded
by iron railings, five feet high. Inside of this some
of the small flowers, -Forger-a e-noti Were placed by'
Madame Bertrind; but they .'Never 'grew.- Alt
old soldier resides near, and has ordeq to prevent
people from going inside, ie. consequence of some
French officers who hid lately been tit( re hiving taken
off several branches from the willows, as mementoef
their former sovereign. Bonaparte Was particularly
fond of this spot when in health, and &tee retired to it
to read, sitting upon the body of one of the teterifsvhich
grows oat in a horizontal directive, and;shaied by the
foliage of the others. He often eapressed a wish to be
buried there if. he died ,at St. Selena, and if Govern-
ment would not permit his to be conveyed to
Europe. - His heart is placed upon his coffin, in a silver
urn. 'The owner of the land receives 541. from - Go.
-vernment daring the time the body-reinains
The mahogany dining table which Napoleon used at
Longwoodrrn St. Helena, was purcha,ed by a Scottish
gentleman, on his return from India in 1822, and is now
in a cabinet warehouse in Eiinburgh, where it is re.
ceiving some repairs. It is a square of about:five feet
each way, with the corners cut off, so as to form an
octagon. It must be esteemed a very curious and in-
teresting relic.

POLICE

A boy about twelve yams 'old, waned Rau, Bred*, was
charged with stealing thirty-Nur enurniap, frontispieces to Mayor's
Posta, from the presslaewel his eto*yer, Mr. Remnant, a book-
binder in Lwaell's-court, Paternoster-row.—Remanded.
BOW-STREET.
Mr. Mummu was occupied yeuesrday in bearing 'Asia' I eases
=assault. Among others, was a charge brought by Susannah
a sem* girl, net mere than fourteen years of egorogainsi
her usirttess, Mary Ann Nbed, the wife of I ridiseasester. in
Camden-town. From the statement of the girl, it appeared, that
Mat Word was in the centaur habit of ill•asing •her ; ,that ao
Ilawderotendeg In partinder, the carpet slot. Ming swept to her
Bkieg, she tea the homes and beet her abort the bead with it.—
She *as sulosewasedy no lees 'Them in the .brushing of her
master's mat width not being readmuCsellicieutly sprite, for his
purpose, the Lady agels Interfered, and gave her a to&; which,
minium pulsate has its limits, 'mould ham been returned, but
that Mr. liSard..jartragif held the complainant's hands. The de-
Samairet up:was, that the nyas irtniliderria•
_llas sad,systi
thing that was bed." His Were*, however, did pot think this
assertions sollielont Nitwit to.. ale. charge., and thwart held the
oilitromie Witte wawa it,ioraserbm. place.

• MART-LA•1101121/f, •r• • , • '
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Iftglowf a pauper° was cliarged with batting etiode of fie
own ntanotfaiture for sale.
Mr. RawLutson said, this was an extremely bard ease. The de•
fondant was in distress, and applied to Diary-la-Monne parish fee
relief, but the Overseers bad informed thit be might legally hawk
about goods of his own manufacture for sale withum a license.—
He was supplied with the money, and, after manufacturing his
articles, be went shout .the streets, when he was,. taboo by the
Officers. He thought the Overseers were the parties to blame, and
not the defendant. He could not help saying that the Act of Par-
liament was monstrously absurd. It annared penal-as-to batot
about goods for sale with impunity in the Borough, but it
ventured to cress Orford-street, to the west-end of the-town, they
were liable to be taken up for it. It was very hard, and the router
the Act was altered the better.—The pasulty,was am passed, and
ks was dismissed.
UNIONtra LL

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WWiast Wright, chief butler of ',Jolan bfabertry. gat IT.P.ef
Shirley House, near Croydon, was brought before It. J. COMM-
SW, Esq. for final examination, charged on silleitin of opalinr,
on Sunday morning, the Sth instant, a tin ' • box iOntainiag
nearly £4OO in Bank.notes,clieques,and carp,, • the plate clout.
There were no additional fact(to those which have alteiatly ap-
peared, except the finding of the cash box, rifled of its content', in
die pounds near the house, and the discovery of a pail chisel is
the apartment occupied by the prisoner, which egattly corres-
ponded in size to some marks made Upon the cash-horg, Isikere it
was forced open. The prisoner was fully committed for teliti.

01,11thi*ALL.

;E.

A conviction of one of the marketiardoners, for
placing his waggon on the carriage-war. tn.Cogentlar.
den, was a6rm►ed last•week' at the bliddlesex.flepsions.
It is found that such is the weight of .the pulver ised
granite which finds its way through the gratings in the
Macadamized streets into the common sewers, that it
has began to form serious obstructions in these hitherto
perfect and important contributors to the health and
comfort of the metropolis.
The Legislature of Virgiraa has refused to- repeal the
law of that State, which renders the marrying, by a
widower, of the sister of his- first wife it pedal offence.
The debate upon the question.was long and animated.

BIRtH.- • "*" "
Feb. tO, at BaDrioff, the Lilly of Er Josiah Coghill Coghilit
Dart. of a son and heir.

MARRIED.
The 16th instant, at Mary4a4tonne new Church, Dr. Gallant
the 43d Light Infantry, to Saab Ann, eldest daaghter of the Rec.
John Homfray, Minister of St. George's Chapel. Great YannontN.

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At Batb; on Monday the 40th instant, after a long and pai..,ral
Oppss. Anne, the wife of Major General Dickenson, of the itqa
ArtMery, universally regretted by all her friend's.
Tie sad August lasts on bid passage from Rangoon to Madro,
soiumen
11,, lieutenant George Densahy Greene, of the Commissariat
t, in the Ilanourable East Jodi. Company's &tyke.
b,14, at the Glebe•house. Hellymount, tic Rev. J,,lin
Gorges, Rector mad Vicar at Hellymossut,la tle county of nift._

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rad Lepard, were chosen assignees; and by a rule of TOdiet fprthe,defiddint. boost forms a I
his Court, assignees are not perinitted to purchase,. , ... .nsta otntr or ADMIRALTY, Pea. sa centre, and an
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