Star.
London, England, 1826-12-09 00:00:00

STEDFAST LOVE.

He that loves a rosy cheek,
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes cloth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires;
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flame mast melt away !
But a smooth and stedfast mind,,
Gentle thoughts, and calm desires,
Hearts with equal love combin'd,

Hindle never-dying Ares.
Where these are not, I desphe
Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes!

LAW REPORT.

ROLLS' COURT, Dzentass 7.
FILILEMLIN IP. PAULUS.

Hie Hosoun was engaged during the entire evening
hearing the arguments of counsel in the above case,
which concerns the rights of certain parties to a property
of about 600,0001. in Calcutta. The case involves a
variety of interests, but the facts are of no public im-
portance, the question at issue being whether a testator
possessed a real or personal property in the estate in
question ?
Messrs. Shadwell, Sugden, Wakefield, and nearly all the junior
14embers of the Chancery bar, bold briefs for some of the par-
ties interested.

COURT OF JUNG'S BENCH, Dic. 8.
MOUSES •KD SNOTHSS, P. 11111.4311140111 T PAGE TIMM.

This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who
are tailors upon Holborn-hill, to recover the amount of
a promissory note for 251. drawn payable at sir months
by the defendant in favour of one Kennedy, an old ser-
•ant of his family, indorsed by Kennedy to H. Nayler,
and indorsed by him to the plaintiffs. The note was
dated 22d February, 1826.

blr.Currry conducted the plaintiffs cause, and proved the band.
writing of the defendant, by one of the plaintiffs' clerks.
This witness was cross-examined by Mr. SCARLET?,
and said he did not know whether his masters were
aware that Sir Gregory Page Tut ner was a lunatic.
Mr. SCARLET?, for the defence, stated, that the
amount of the note in question could not be recovered
by the plaintiffs, as it was drawn by a lunatic, and it
was scarcely possible for any person in the situation of
the plaintiffs, as respectable tradesmen, residing in this
metropolis, and admitted to be in the habit of reading
the public newspapers, not to know that Sir Gregory
Page Turner was a lunatic, and had been so pronounced
by a Jury assembled to inquire into the fact, upon a writ
de lunatico inqoirendo, and also so pronounced by a se-
cond Jury, upon a traverse, recently tried at Bedford.—
To spew the incompetency of this unfortunate Gentle-
man to transact any business about the period when the
note in question was drain, the Learned Counsel read
three documents in the defendant's handwriting; the
fist was dated January, 1826, and was to this eff.ct:

" Sir Gregory l'sge Turner is ready to accommodate Al'Neir
(one of bis keepers) with ..t:150. at three months, in consideration
of his not shaving him."
The second w•as also dated in Januat y, 1826, and
was to this effect :

" Plea..e to accommodate Mr. Rook (another keeper) with £5O,
upon condition of his not holding my nose while shaving.
(Signed) " G. P. TURNER."
The third was dated the 4111 of February, 1826, and
was in these terms:

" Sir Gregory Page Turner means to accommodate 111•Neir with
450. on condition that he will not teU that • he tote his shirt within
ode month of his liberation."'

The Learned Counsel then called the keeper of the
utiNrtunate Gentleman, who proved that lie was de-
citic4y deranged at the time when the note in queAion
bole clAte, and was totally incapable of managing any
m 4 of business.

Cross-examined by Mr. Currre.—lle was sensible at intervals,
but totally incapable of manning business.
Sir George Tuthill proved that he was in the habit
of attending Sir G. P. Turner in the capacity of his
physician, and was decidedly of opinion that he was a
lunatic, and had been so for some years. He was inca-
pable of attending to business at the period when the
note in question bore date.
Cross-examined by )Jr. Cutrxr.—He was capable of exercising
his judgment to a certain degree. Witness never heard that the
defendant bought pictures of Mr. Ackerman, in the Strand, to the
amount of +C3,000. _ _

Mr. CHITTY, to rebut this evidence, now called Mr.
Corbett, the S ilicitor of the defendant, who stated that
he drew the note in question, by order of Sir Gregory
Page Turner, in the King's Bench,where he waited upon
him by an order of this Court. S r Gregory stated to
him that he had received a letter from Kennedy, in
which he told him that he expected to be arrested for
251. and as lie was an old and faithful servant, he (Sir
Gregory) wished to prevent his arrest. The note was
drawn for that purpose. Witness believed Sir Gregory
to be of sound mind.

Cross-exrmined by Mr. SCARLETT.—Witness was in-
troduced to Sir Gregory by a person named Bryant
The Lord Chancellor refused to acknowledge the wit-
ness as Sir Gregory's Solicitor, until he saw his appoint-
ment as such, under Sir G egory's hand.ln consequtoce
of that the witness applied to this Court for an order to
see him, in order to obtain such written appointment;
and on that occasion the note in question was drawn.

Itlr. &Astro? replied.
The LORD Ceta► JUSTICE was about to sum up, when the Jury
Intertupted his Lordship by saying it was unnecessary, and they
found a verdict for the defendant.

Sunday, sixty-one Roman Catholics read their recan-
tation in the palish church of Cavan.
In the Admiralty Court, on Wednesday, in the case
of the Phenix, the Court gave the owners 1001. with
costs, excepting Ciptain Cooper, who had participated
in the salvage. This case has already been particular-
ized in this Paper.

A serious accident befel Capel Cure, E.q. of Blake
Hall, Bobbingwosth, on Monday last, when hunting
with Mr. Conyer's hounds. The horse of the Worthy
Magistrate fell ; the consequences were a broken arm
and one shoulder dislocated. During Mr. Cure's resi•
dence at Oxford, a similar accident befel him, and so
serious was the injury he then received, that his life was
for some time in danger.
Emigration to New South Wales has been encour-
aged at Plymouth by the flattering accounts reccived
from several individuals who have settled in that rising
colony, and have realise.] handsome fortunes.

Tuesday evening, the 28th ult. about eight o'clock,
as Mr. Hague, son of Lord Wharncliffe's steward, was
returning from Sheffield fair, he was stopped in passing
through Greno•wood, by three villains, who beat him
in the most violent manner, and took from him about
681. in cash, notes, and a draft for 501.

There is considerable activity in several parts of the
county of Cork at present, in getting up Protestant pe-
*lops against any 'whet concu to the Catholics.