Star.
London, England, 1804-12-26 00:00:00

THE SPEECH

Or KR. IAI.BII rOiTtitus, oN liCift Or VI/
KING TO TN! CluAl.P!illZHir OF HIS OIAMDCI.

" My Lotds--This is a queßion of great impor-
tance to the whole kingdom, and 1 am content, for
the better difcuffing it, to divide it into two parts,
becaufe it has been Co done by Come of my brothers,
though I Arnold have thought that if the King has
the marriage of his grand-children, of necelfary con-
fequence he has their education too.
" I will then confider, firll, whether the King has
the care and approbation of the marriage of Prince
Frederic and his other grandchildren, and whether
of right it belongs to his Majelly, as King of this
Realm or not ?

" This fubjett, touching the power of a grandfa-
ther, may be treated of either as a public or a pri-
vate right. It has been treated of pretty much as a pri-
vate right by the two Judges that differ, and by the
Counfel for the Prince of Wales, which I think is an
trror in the foundation of their argument. For it
ought manifealy to be treated as jrapubdcwil, fuch a
right as our law books exprefs it to be quad dilation
rofridirs fpreat, and that makes it the King's prero-
gative, and that is the King's inheritance, as King of
this realm, which is too great a point to be governed
by the narrow rules of private property. Now to
treat this otherwife is injurious to the Pointe himfelf,
and all his children. Our law books fay he is effeem-
ed as one neareft to the King. So it has been deter-
mined in full Parliament, in the cafe of the Prince of
Wales in Henry Vl.'s time. And in his patent, which
was made by authority of Parliament in 33 Henry
VI. the introdultion of the patent is ref ipluat, qui re-
tell:time juris cenfour eadem perform ordifreter, digne pre-
svniastre &c. Co that in the eye of the law they
arc to be reckoned but as one perfol.
" It is, fur the fame reafon, that an Ad of Parlia-
ment which relates to the Prince, is a public law of
which every body is to take notice, becaufe whatever
concerns the Prince, concerns the King ; and what-
ever concerns tile King concerns every lubjett in Eng-
land. The ad, therefore, which relates to the Duchy
of Cornwall, has been held to be a public law. Now,
let us fee what is Paid in my Lord Coke's 8 Rep.
called The Prime', Cafe. Speaking of the Prince, it
is Paid--ermertifiat relies Regis it, et anifderr us per-
form ersasOf Rep. So lays Lord Hobart, who was
the Prince's Chancellor, dog. Rila. 226.
It is for the fame reafon that it was high treafbn
by the common law of England (before any (Write)
to compafs and imagine the death of the King's tildellt
Con and heir, who is generally tirade Prince of Wales,
though now born Dote of Cornwall (test it is not fp
of a collateral heir to the Crown) and this offence is
called trines bla Majefiatie—a Clime that hurts the
Majefty of the King himfelf. It follows then, that as
they are but one perfon in law, fo in poiit of law
they are fuppofed ta have but one will in relation to
the education, marriage and management of the
grand children. And the Prince of Wales, in point
of law, it fuppofed in every thing to concur. with his
Majefty, which quite fidtrerts and deft:aye the dif-
tintlion in common perfons of grandfather, father
and fon. Now the King as he is Paresis Paris, he is
alfo Parent Nepotuw, parent of his grandchildren, as
Lord Coke expounds the King's nephew to fignify
his grandfon, alfo from the Latin repo, which figni-
fies both. So in the cafe of a Queen concert, (be is
the first wife in the kingdom ; Flea, in the Saxon
language, fignifying wife. And therefore by maths
of excellence, it was the name for the King's wife,
who, confider her in her private capacity, as the pri-
vate wife of a common fubjett, the cannot Cue or be
Cued herfelf, nor can grant to or from her !nhand ;
but then confider her in her public charatter and ca-
pacity as a (Ziieen, the can fue and be Cued by herfelf,
and make grants to and from the King her Inifband,
by her prerogative, and anciently the had a great
many. Now, I think. in this cafe, much may be
argued from the names and appellations of the children
Oldie Royal larvae. In !lidos), they are called the
Children of England, and all of them born Princes
and Princenes of England, before they had any title,
and all of them Kings and Q2eens, u, porotria, and
may one day reign over us. Selden calls them Heirs
Apparent of England. and they are called fo in the
Patliawient Roll.. This agrees with the moll early
times in our kingdom ; for till,Henry the Firft's time
they were diftinguilbed from all other perforie' by
calling both the eldeft and the :ell of the King's Eons
arts Id Moro, and they had no other titles. Now
Clito is a Latin word, which comes from the Greek
word latita, which tignifies hoc&ou,--moll noble
and famous. So the word .£ shekel:, u Edgar 'Ed w.
hag, who was not the King's Con, but his great ne-
phew, from the Saxon word libel, ; which (hews
that all the Royal Family were called by the fame
name as the King's Eons ; and fo lets out the admira-
ble union of the Royal Family.
"- The &Aron of the King is called Prince of Eng-
land, before any creation : fo it is in Scotland. Be-
fore the Union be was called Prince of Scotland; and
In (Gays Mr. Seldens it is in other nations: as in
France the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, was
called Petit Fits del Froare--Granafon of France, not
Grandfon to the King. So Henrietta Maria, in the
marriage articles with Charles the Firfi, was called
Fide de France, daughter of France, and not danghter
of the King. Having then made it appear I think
clearly. that all the children and grand children of
the Royal Family are public perfons and Princes of
the nation, and the Prince of Wales himfelf one and
the fame perfon with the King ; it follows manifellly
as a jolt corollary and contequence, that the King,
who has the executive power in him, is to have the
care and command in the marriages of there children
for the good of the whole nation. It is part of that
original trod, which, by the Conllitution of our Go-
vernment, is repofed in the King for the feenrity of
his people. And as this is a prerogative vetted in the
crown in the reafon of the law and nature era monar-
chy, to in all ages the crown hat prattifed and been
in ponefilan of this tight. Now in the point of mar-
riages, there are precedents from the timc of H. 111.
down to this time.
" In 18 H. 6. it was one of the articles of impeach-
mint of high trc.sion agair.R the Doke of-Suffolk
attempting only to marry his fon to Margaret, the
daughter and heir of the Duke of Somerfer, who had
a right to the Crown alter the death of the King
without iffy', although Ibe was not heir apparent.
for thane was a Prince of Wales then living. When
he Caine to his trial, he (Woo! deny but that It was

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an Renee. but haled 1 ike lot tries for that fune
of die Lords then prelent knell, that he imendedlo
marry his fon to the' Earl of Warwick's daughter.
And this is ilia the Rrunger, Iseeaufe this Lady war,
in ward to him, ind fo be hada private right is her
marriage.
By an Aft of Parliament, 38 H. S. it is Slade
high treafon to marry any of the Royal Family. It
is thereby enatted, that if any perfon prelim to ,
marry any one of the King's children lawfully both,
or otherwilk, of commonly reputed, or taken 1. r his
children, or grandchildren, without the fpedal leare
of the King, he limit be adjudged a traitor to the
King and the realm ; and thereby it is made •high
melon in the L.rey too, being againft the King and
the realm, which thews clearly that the whole king-
dont is concerned.

"And though this Aft is now repealed Ina crowd
with other Mis to bring all treafons to the Randard
of as Edward 111. yet it is impoMble the. Parlia-
ment mould make that high trealon which was no
Crime at all before, and efpecially high trealbn in his
own children ; nay, when it was !swilll before to
marry any perfon of the Royal Family (if the doc-
trine we are taught be true) and each had a right to
marry as they pleafed. And it is °bier-table here that
the Parliament makes no difference whether the ti-
ther be living or not, nor takes any tare of that pa-
ternal right which is pretended.
" In (been Mary's time, though this offence
ceafed to be high treafon, yet it did not ceafe to be
crime ; for in the year 5558, the King of Sweden
fent a meffage tecretly to the Lady Elizabeth, the
Q,eea's half-filler only, afterwards Queen Eliw
beth. who was then at Hatfield, to propufe marriage
to her. But (be rejeaed it with Warmth, for this tea-
fon, becaufe the propofal came not to her by the
(queen's direetion. And upon an excufe made by the
King of Sweden, that be fir(' made love ass goad&
man of qualhy to pain her Confect, and then be
would, as a King. addrefs hinslelf to the (teen is
proper form, her anfwer was, the was to entertain no
fuch propolitions Milers the tctimen fent them to her.
Upon this the Qj2een fent Sir Thomas Pope to the
Lady Elizabeth, to let her know the well approved
of the anfwer the had made, and the Lady Eliw
beth further declared, the would never fee the Ind
feoger more. becaufe he had prefumed to come to
her without the Queen's leave. So that here is we
foreign King arid—two jteens of Wand cooler&
ring in the fame feotirnent, which teems Irotigly to
argne, that it is the law of nations, at well as that
prerogative of this Crown.
" The neat inflance I (hail mention is the safe of
Lady Arabella, and a law book to Comm it. and
that Is the Coulstefs of Shrewlbury's cafe, i a Co..it
in the loth year of King James the Firlt.
Countefs of Shrew (bury was then in prifon, and feet
for before the Council to Culver to a contempt of
dangerous confequence, becaufe the refufed to an-
fwer when esamined about Lady Arabella's Night
for marrying Mr. Seymour, (be being of the Royal
Family; and there the Attorney and Solicitor Ge-
neral of the King charged it as a crime, that Lidy
Arabella, being of the Blood Rol, bad married
• Mr. Seymour, fecond lon el the Earl of Hertford,
without the King's privity and content. Now it ceps
pears Seymour was committed to the Tower for this
offence, but efcaped; and that Lady Arabella was
alto committed, and Ito efcaped, and was taken dy-
ing beyond tea before (he got over.
" The fill crime charged on the Counters Was het
abetting the flight of Lady Atabella, her niece, and
the immediate crime was not anfwering in that cafe.
Now as marrying without the King's leave was no
crime, the could never hoe been accnfed for not an.
fwering to her abetting the flight for Cu& a marri.
age ; In that the marrying without leave was plainly
charged a. a crime. They both were committed for
A clime, and they both fled as for a crime, and it is
admitted and taken fur granted to be a crime. And
her contempt in not ailiweling in the cafe of mar-
riage in the Rnrai Family was alto refolved to be a
crime ; and this was done by all the great Minifters
of State, and by the Chancellor and two Chief
Jutlices (Fleming and Lord Coke), and Chancellor
of the Exchequar,and Duchy and Chief Baron, in
the fifteenth year of King James I. and in the end
(be was fined ten thoafand pounds and committed
to the Tower.
."I'he next cafe I (hall mention is the marriage of
the Princefi. of Modena and the Duke of York.—
There was an addicts of the Houfe of Commons
to the King to prevent this marriage. The King's
anfwer is very remarkable. It is completed (laid
the King) but it was with my content and autho.
rity," and the Parliament acquiefced in that anfwer.
Now this addrcfs was abfard if the King had no
power to prevent it ; In that this amounts to the
judgment and opinion r.f the King and Parliament,•
that tbis right was in the Crown esclutive of his bro-
ther. So here is the King claiming this authority
even againtt his own brother, and his private right,
and the Pat liament confirming it.
s' Then there is the marriage of the Princefa
Mary, daughter of the Duke of York, to the Prince
of Orange. This match was made entirely by the
King's.confent, even without the knowledge of the
Duke. her father, and at his liking and content.
The King, (peaking to Sir William 'temple about
this match lays, " It I am not deceived, the Prince
of Orange is the honed, .1 man in the world ; there-
fore he (hall ha-e his wife, and you (ball go and tell
my brother fn, and that it is a thing I am tefolved
on." The Duke was chagrined a little, but Paid,
" the King. Gull be obeyed."
" Hem is a father acknowkdging the right to be,
in the King to marry his own daughter, who was
only a collateral relation to the King, and married
again(' the father's will, as every one snows.
I* In 1683 the match with the Prineefs Anne, the
other claugliter nt the Duke of York, was made by
the King in the time manna, and both in& marry.
ages were ellabhihed by a public declaration of his
Majelly to the whole nation.
*. And thus I bsg leave to conclude the intiancee
of marriage, but with tin. remark, that happy it is
for this nation that the King in the two is It intenneee
had tl:is prerogative ; for had this pretended pater-
nal right then prevailed, the Englith nation had been
fur ever undone, and our religion deaf oyed, and we
had never feen the many and great bleffings we en
joy and are likely to enjoy by this family fitting on
the Throne of o:eat Britain. 'flans the nation fees
the trace of tht..ll.4opy pterogatio from Feiry
imc to oats %a •, being the 1101111116fil of Alinolk

Po years oninterrnpted, onditputed, and not one fin•
sle intlance to the contrary.
GG. Tlige indances contenting marriages of the
Royal Family being fo numerous, and the light fu
glaring, from hillories, records, public aft', astute%
' .and law books, the two Judges who d:ffer could not
1
;refill this part of the queftion, but have retired to
el.s other part, that of the education; though I hops.'
0 prove, that if the King has the marriage, he a.I
...ore the education too. The reafoo that my Lordi
Coke gives, why the Queen Dowager cannot malty.
_without the .ifling's leave is. me cotelibur ieknkfit rests
asariteatar. Now, the realms flikthe Eine...hayloft:
the wasdfltip of his grandchillgen, arid adoration.
Aries, is Orronger, viz left the Heir of the Crown
' Itirnfelf be led &fide by ill principles and Ittil Pali
at. ork4,heceune himfelf as roomy to the conflitu-
thit, baled M ,the kin/idols. Marriage is one of, she
.Mpliw.eads of the esiocaoon; aod•that education is a
i , goidiftramon for that marriage, and theta-.
tit. WA litYll-.Att fo properly placed as. vitlabistr
, btaaftmegriap. .Visle 6H. VI. a Intl p. 58.
Lutopria
~, t ,4044%., &is two powersEif placed in direst*
. stioat and be repugnallt i for Illicit of
• • Oen:the marriage is to hegira.
gramma
',Awls= the education Is to end.
a la
tithealEtitogoae,basai.
ththate
inallPargrriingagec,lace hdasconthe.
...set
',.. Z. 11411 4le RAP* at .may time, appoint a; and he
consot.apy tine appoint the marriage. can at
W.liillreeoll•for the coliody of that perfun ; and he
Met*, Ac`iPYAIRIO demand the perks out of cut.
0.07. desert ;be entire power over that
•...its • iailaa this and regular argument, and
hoc ,th. fao. that whoever has the cod mutt
..thialillfaAeOlfors Camerae he cannot be laid to
haff. Ere 4010 r:
_,_,.-
- .1 Nu k bllrkWarlitaietiage of any pedals, I can
Wolf halMi oif Iblthallanfs I have the culiody sod
allfliiirkol: ttboO peso. Ilut his Majelky's peer*.
salmis this prt Of obequelliota relating to the edg-
e-vim. 4. 4 clitly tole made out, though vat by
klia:allastriossa.itetbe cafe of marriage.
',Aimee Charles bad by forprife got hove
4:bierfpliarr 441.111th0 o•jooktoey to !Ipoip, co bib
aponobo AA,* the.lofseitits vawolviog us his iplod
NW iloioollPf!tbst eopoditios, &a tilt* ill Whams
' 1411:1111 00 t 44/ pee* i /AS James thug Jet
tbeiriocomot looked open by him
Wit tbs la 411itlitclena. . Cloreadoe's
p!ge to. And •tbas being. Island by him. illailp
IPda *llolbtelk, ION iothoortos-o.wery gssiolor;
ims, ap4amprA*,ol4llstiolos.:7- .L .. .'
41 MOS ,41.11.10. &sem /id no" stab
iler; .11V4110. Olt the anew law et the. lands
ea*
. OP. :WM i Itto Ttilit. law being olsood
• tareoby data pod **ate, it rootlet
Vl* • •tloy aereo.tha _UPI Totta, I .botwies at
go4kowilliolookbpolkod op abandon by fief law
&hop plumper, tuttbitfar or
Worse seowitogly.
. e.t Theis .law. Apo& am. Co. Sumo dot duet his
' biol. *spy,Wooselit of to evadethan. Wall do,
r,1042% e amWtrof them and crass it civil law.
. I .ass not a little furprifed that theft
/Is 01011 d be dashed for law, when in my little
OliertiOnert ..k 'km known them quoted Aso& is
18W7.#11111antent where pains have been taken.•if any
Obi qoolithe Lfibend is. thole books, to the geckos
' in' bind ; and I have never knows them deluded for
latr kit where fonse Batiste or Wage, time out of
tt y
itei•bas altered them. We have been told, indeed,
. Irate gaoled in the cafe of fhissmoney.—
. bOt.bilolieve that °Nation would not have been
giposkaif they bad bees aware that thefe very books
ineukquotail on both fides of the quediun. which
el±reit. the objeation, and (hews that they were cep-
. of.by ell.who argued in that cafe, both of one
Ftra"trim the other.
ii .But 4ii be meant Civil Law becanfe it is in
161iilkall Ofiriliaed mations, I believe that is true, for
• te/rie.tbia to ba the prerogative of all Kings, nor
ban, Upote bees soy inbance given in any Monarchy
• where the law is otherwife.
..- " St. seldes lays, the King of England is an
lumpier, sad his realm an empire, and fu called in
Uwe' sad records without number; and if In, be
sgilllbove the pretogative, eqnal with other Kings
and Emperors, if no ftatute law or ufage fay the
iikomum.
..I'.lf the prerogative then be the law of nations,
. ofit moron of the law of the land, and will give the
Vim a dear tide to it. See the Statute of Prece-
*say.. which IS 32 H, 8, cap. to. It coatis that no
perfoo•Ntrunte in fit at any fide of the Cloth of
*Me, except the King's Children. Then when it
pp oo to place the great Officers of State—it lays,
that being Barons, they (hall be placed on the left
fide of the Parliament Chamber, above all Dukes,
wept the King's Son. the King's Brother, the
Noes IJ.cle, the King's Nephew, (i. e. his grand-
fem. or the King's Brothers' or Sifters' Son.)
" Now this &ewe that the King's fon, And the
Ring'attepbew, or graodfuo, is comprehended under
the term—King's Children; becaufe the latter is
fabllituted in the place of the former.
" a-7 Edward 111. Archbithop of Canterbury came
into Parliament and demanded .11 les alias mare, fee
k R..i. born beyond lea, Weald inherit in England ;
becaufe born out of the King's dominions and aliens.
And all the Parliament agreed that let them be born
where they would, they *mild inherit.
“ It would be a jell to imagine that the King's
grandchild was not within we law, and within the
words k: wises, children ; and there is the Came tea•
fee is this cafe,
s. Another resfon is, that the King's grandfon is
b;gbin in dignity, becattie
other of the King's tons, except his own hither,
therefore ought tube a:teemed (goal with his own lulus
and therefore if Prince Frederick were here, and the
King hid other funs betides the Prince, he would
take place of ail ibt.fe, as Richard of Bourdeanx
did when his grandfather placed him at a public is•
ble above all his own children, whoa ere his uncles.
" Purfuant to this not;on grandchildren of the
Crown are ttyled children in records. These is, so
Edward 111. Richard Prince of Wales. Isis writ of
fammons to Parliameat is direlled thus—Rex la.
emords.s ..si Arno
.filie own if kiwi. Priacips. Want.
" Su is s t kalward 111.1 This Prance Richard
kt.lds a Pail asuero by eununiffion I rum hi. grandfa-
ther, And that runs in the fame mit:net—De curium-
IL jr.t;osso et iedulirea .e.::-'•wrnv raryfirni fir; rli, i, kw. I.
~._ Proalm ii-at:a. AM. &Ad. St id. ill, 6.1 t. 41.

" Now, I think education is of greater confegnenee
than marriage. both to the perfon and to the people
of England--to the perfon, becaufe if bred either in
die Popifisreligion or if trained ap in any other cote.
=union, though Proteliant, except the Church of
Eagistad, he is not capable of reigning ; and if bred
op in arbitrary principles, into:oAm with a limit-
eel monarchy, the whole nation will then be in daa-
, ger : whereas an achoka match willonly be the
R unesd'y to the Prince that marries, and will
side OM the Rate. fo long as the Prince is limey,
and adheres to the Cunßiestion.
. Wheee.is a Prince to be educated who is to be
bred up a King, but in the Palace and Court of a
:King. and under his special care and iallonsee ?.•
" The Learned Sir John Fortefote, calieca Sir
Walter Raleigh the bulwark of the law of
v
.who was Chief Jadice and Chancellor, andTAT'''n.
Mr to the Priem el Wald. in Henry Vl.'s time• in
his Treatife De Lealsku Lysin .stir, vollich caddis
of Dialogue' betwixt bin and the Prince about. his
education, :fey', that there axe tiro things dims
Prince who is. like to be heir tithe Crown
principally to he.iollettied in, that is martial
rime. and the Laws ond Conkitutios of Eng
and where ate there lobe had but its the K allen
tines andrianos the Great Officers and
the King
" The fame Sir John Fortekse Lays, (peaking of
the Klett Words in Knight's fervice, the Princes of
the Realm alto holdieg of the King, mull be well
educated. finee thefe orphans in their childhood are
brought up in the King's hook. Therefore i eats-
set but greatly commend the-riches and =sulk-
won if the King's Court. becaufe• it is the fapreme
(*hoot for the mobility of the land, whereby the
realm illoutiAms mad is preferred.
Them is a patent Srl the s 3th of Edward IV.
from the King to the 'Whop of Roche:ken whereby
be wan thollUated Tome to the Felice sad Diefident
of the Princes Council, which is very remarkable.—
In the preamble it lays, " Howbeit every child in
his ygyeeleght to he brought up is girths and
boy nevertheiefs, feel peeks, as Goo
ohs. preladaw.st *ate of Princes, and to
tifsiM; ors ♦sa tha Rate of regality,
ttattte lloguliely.to be bloused sad isftruded
Imeadedge and Ammo. We therefore defiling out
ilmmime 411 m aim reface, perfsralys inowiagly and
risme* to be edmated in his Tenth, sad ;holly
Walling in &strain wit, knowledge and virtue, and
alto love and aaellice. that our Reverend Father
bath to us and to our Me, we have committed and
tLed him to tack and inform oor hid fear and
appoisted him Prefident of his Conned, giving
hisn power so affeable all the Counkllors afoot Grid
fen."

41 New, what I would obferve from this patent is,
in the it* plate, that it DIMS the great regard that
is to he had to all .fee Prince's sr King's chid ea,
aU who are Zia to (second to the Coma, that they
above allweirroi ought Ina fingalarly so be edocat-
ads sad sashes so dillinition is the edueatioa be-
tween the I& or any other of the Princes of the ray.
al bloodlust the education to he parka in knowledge
end virtue.

In the next place, it sews the yeartfmation of
Inch tutors, and who ;s to chaste them.
" This does toot invade the paternal right. but is
eonfitlent with it. It is very probable that a grand-
fon may obey both father sod grandfather : nor len
it be fuppofed that the father sad grandfather will
give contradi&os y commands without breach of du-
ty in the font but it ought to be prefumed by all
reafonable men that they will both concur ia mate-
rial parts of the education, both for the good of their
child and the fafety of the kingdom, fo that in this
concurs the law of GOD as well as man. For I be-
lieve nobody ever yet daubted but a grandfon was
within the ifth command, and in obedience to that

law the Patriarchs always conformed thentfelves.—
But theft Bidders for paternal right keen to have
forgot the right of the mother, which, by the Fifth
Commandment, is as well eftablilbed as the right of
the father. and Come civilians give a fupciimity to
the mother, at lean by the law of nature ; and I be-
lieve that nobody ever-thought that giving this power
to the father esciuded the right of the mother. Nor
can the foppothion that the mother fhould contradia
the command of die father any more dell roy the
Cu-
periority of the latdband in the one cafe, than the
fame groundlefa fuppoGtion in the fon &Elroy she
right of the 'tether in the other cafe.
" But to fuppbfe, for once an unreafonable thing,
and what will never happen, that there Ikould be con-
tradianry commands, the public gond mutt be pre-
ferred, and duty to parents mull be always (Aka to
the fsfety of the whole community ; and the King,
who is porno latittis, as well aspires, "loth, mutt be
obeyed. to whom there is a double obligation by
nature and by allegiance, i. e. by the law of Goo and
the law of man.
o As to what was raid by brother Reynolds, the
Prince's Counfel. in relation to the liatute oft a Car.
a. cap. Le. that the Prince was within that Aft of Par-
liament, I deny it to be law, or any thing like it,
for then it would be in the power of the Prince to
grant or appoint, by deed or will, the guardianfbip,
candy, or tuition of his fon to the Kim, of France,
the Turk, or any perfon whatever, which would be
in (flat to give him a power of difprhing of the
Crown. And by this learned driarine the Royal Fa-
mily might be chiperfed all over Europe, and this no-
minee would be entitled to take the prots of all the
lands of fuel, heir to the Crown, and the manage-
meta of all Ilk ellate.
What WAs raid by my brother Eyre, as to the
Black Pt ince% difpnfing of his Con's governance, that
was a cafe of ablolute itecellity, and in the ablence
of the King in foreign parte, foe he was then on his
I journey to the Holy Land."

A letter from Harwich, dated the syd, fay% " Se-
?era' neutral veffels have arrived within theft few
days from Holland, by whoa we are informed, that
every fowls is now full of French foldiere, and that
Infpciareg OFF 7CI to are appointed to esamine every
cargo landed, to prevent Britt& merchandise being
imported into that country ; and that all kinds of
',nisi:ions arc p;ohibited to be esported. A patrole
of horfe, and every precaution, is taken to prevent
Any parfons landing upon the Coin that have come
hifala4l, cr ~Lees infeaed with a
iential (era, nAlltrut gesh.s ming the Waal quanta-

L 4? INTELLIGENCE.
,

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 24.

MAINTENANCE OP A WU%
soros *an Anomie sr. aoqp,isx.
This was au adieus brow b the plounticsylinen-
drapers the cornet of . scare-market,
againft the defendant, one pf ii n of Cn-
vent-GardenTheatre, for • and dilivired to
his wife, to the uusaant ' ofLar.
Mr. Serjeant Sanntarr b i hated, in opening
the cafe, the nature of the drcatallinies undo whia
this adion was brought. The &feedlots wife, in
confequence of rage had been compelled to leave
his houfe, and in.this cafe thesituatiod wasiiable foe
all necetaries that might be ftwoinsed r the wife.—
In the pretest inlapee be would penis Abe Vintage
of the wife, and &delivery of the articlerwith which
be was furniihet 'There *old appear cola firidly
neceffary, and this wtald io law entidehion.teuhverdid.
A Mrs. Maitland was then called, isrPoproitd the
marriage .of Mr. Rogers. The grit thing then to
he proved was the ddivery of & triode,- and their
neceffity for a woman of thecondition of the wife.
For this purpoib Mrs. Campbell was called. She
defcribed herfelf as the wife of the mu whole
houfe the Defendant's wife lived Flier her elope-
ment from her holland. He keeps an catiagshoufe
in Neenafile Arco, Clot Market. few the
goods, which' confilled of !birth petticoata,
togs, and huh other articles, tirouilie to her hood,
and delivered to the Deikadant't We. tb her opi
nion, they were fuck as were unitary for a wn.
man in her condition. ' The neat point was the ill-
ufage which compelled the Mire to lean her huf-
band. To prove this, a variety of vitiates were
called. Thefe Rated a great many theassikaaees of
brutal behaviour op the part of the Defendant :
When they lived at Clerkenerall he bad beaten her
while floe was in bed, then dragged her out open
the floor.. and with nothing but her Diift on. They
afterwards lived in Lyon's Inn. Ir. Charles. Cob.
ban, a teacher of mufic, lived in the` chambers, under
Mr. Rogers.' Having *aced the- tots which he fur
coined in confequence of the time loft in attending the
Court, and folicitettio know hew he ins. to be in-
demnified, and beiag informed that the ry
would allow whatever was reafeaebie, Clibe=ed
to obferve, that be oftsalteard soirees. if people quer-
telling above hairs ; at one sibs he law the defen-
dant's wife eadeivenring to ipt op at the two pair
of fiairs window With bar lip ap4 thighs *spored in
a molt indecent mow ; st totidsei time Mn.s Ro-
sets had bees drives eat of thi2r, and bad got
in at the window by means al with great
difficulty, as the was a lap He bad no
doubt that the baibend was itisiblied to beat his
wife. . .

Cmil-examilied by Sajasat Dese.—He admitted
.that he had been employed at Vauxhall. where Mr.
Rogers is door-keeper.
, 8. B. Why was you difiniffed from your employ.'
pent there
W. I was not difmiffed. I difmiffed myfelf.
S. B. 'That is the Way with othsrgreat p... Why
then did' you difmifs yourfelF?
Mr. Perkins charged me with what was an in-
famous lie. He Paid, that I was in die habit of let-
ting in people with my orders, and therebt commit-
ting a fraud upon the proprietor. But I call GOD to
witnefs that I was innocent. _ _

S. B. Underfiand me, Sir, I do not mean to fay
that you was guiky, but I ilk Ws-ether there was not
a quarrel between you and Rogers, beeaufe he had
made reprefentations-of this nature to Mr. Perkins t
W. No, theft was no quarrel
After tome further queflions and replies, the wit-
nefs at lafi admitted that there was a fort of quarrel
between him and Rogerson this fubjea. Mr.Hugbes,
the treafurer of Covent-Pardon Theatre, then came
into the box, and depofed that the amount of the de-
fendant's receipts at Covent-Garden was about as.6d.
per day, during•the feafon, and a benefit, which ha
year brought him to9l.
Mr. Perkins, Treafurer at Vanshall, depofed, that
the Defendant's receipts there were crafty aoL
Serjeant Bstr.—lle had not even a Are of ham
beyond

tv
Mr. Janice Cuansits—lf be had, it mull have
been a thin one.

After the cafe was rioted on the part of the Plain-
tiffs. Mr. Serjeant Barr (or the Defendant, admitted
that he could not pollibly plead before the Jury, that
his client's condu& had been what it aught to have
been. The law however was that it a wife lived fe-
parate from a hiaband who had no property but what
*role from his labour, and the was able to maintain
herklf, he could not be liable. He would call evi-
demi to prove that the was able to maintain herfelf.
Mr. Browne, for whom Mrs. R. had formerly
worked, depokd that he had given her hall a guinea
a day and her board for painting, gilding, and japan-
ning fmelling bottles and other articles in the fame
line ; that he had known her to earn a guinea a day
fometirnes; and that fhe was fo excellent an artill, that
he had no doubt that the could earn upwards of two
guineas a week at the prefent period.
Other witnelfes (wore that the Defendant and his
I wit. bad lived very comfortably together fur rime
Itime ; but that the was addicted to drinking, and that
they had lived feparate for about the fpace of three
iyears. During this time the articles for %ilia the
Defendant was now charged had been furnilhed to
his wife.

M r . Serjeant Sri was proceeding to reply, by
hating that the (um for which the attion was brought
was the only demand made upon the hufband during
an abfence of three years; that it was evident, from
the tellinsony of the Wend:int% own wr.ntien, that
Mrs. R. mutt have been a molt andu &inns meritorious
woman ; and that therefore it mutt be obvious that
the would not have called Drill her hufband for that
(mall portion if his affillance it the was nut in inlaid
iseceffity fo to dn.
Here the Learned judge obferved, that the fern
was really fo (mall, and the industry of the woman
had bees fo plainly proved, that be fuppoled the jury
could have no doubt upon the cafe.
A verdia was immediately given fur the plaintiff.
Damages r5l. 19s. ad. and aos. coils.
The Court fat till near five o'clock, amt there were
then a few cafes remaining undetermined, notwith-
flandinx the length of the fittings. They cringiquent-
ly remain for determination until neat term.