Star.
London, England, 1810-08-03 00:00:00

LAUNCH OF THE IMPREGNABLE.

R ocriEsTEn, AUG. 1. From the uncommon showery
weather for these ten days past in this part of the
county, it was supposed it would operate as a draw-
back on the assemblage of persons to witness the event;
but, contrary to expectation, it was very numerous.
At 11 o'clock the great gates of Chatham-yard were
thrown open for admission. Great numbers from all
parts of the county, in chariots, post-chaises, gigs, &c.
in term;xed with the more humble pedestrians, crowded
for admittance. Very spacious booths had been erected
on each side of the ship, to accommodate the Ladies
visitant on the occasion, which, by 12 o'clock, were
full in the extreme, with the fashion and beauty of
which this county can peculiarly boast. The River
Medway afforded an equal display in sailing-Loats,
wherries, and boats of every description. tit twenty
minutes past one, the dog shoars were knocked away,
and every heart beat high in expectation of the launch,
but, like the rock from which she is named as a simile,
the inoregnale fortress to our enemies, GIBRALTAR.—
so stood she as fast. At that time there were five
blocks under her, and not until they were entirely split
away did she move. At a quarter before two o'clock
the last block was split out, and she went off in a
majestic style.

THE ARMY.

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The 6th regiment, now in Dover Castle, and the
38th, at Shorncliffe, were to embark this morning at
Dover, for Ireland, on board thefollowing transports,
which came in there yesterday morning—Ships,
Ellen 15, Caldicott Castle 207, New Diligent 214 ;
Brigs Voyager 198, Flora WI. William BE. Albion
AX. Dinas SH. William WP.

About 250 men of the 14th Foot, have arrived and
embarked on board the Amphitrite transport at Ports.
mouth, and will sail in a few days for Sicily, to join
the 2d battalion under the command of Major TIDY.
About 300 of the Guards have also embarked at
Portsmouth, under the command of Colonel SMITII.
A Battalion of the Bth Foot will embark in the
course of the week for Halifax : they are a very fine
regiment, about five hundred strong.

The Earl of HARRINGTON took leave of his MA-
.TES i Y at the Levee, on Wednesday, previous to his
Sett in? out for Ireland, to take upon him the command
of the army, as Commander in Chief. The Countess
and family will not follow him for five or six weeks.

Monday an elegant pair of colours was presented
to the central battalion of Local Militia for Oxford-
shire, by their Colonel Sir E. B. SANDYS.

Wednesday, the 12th, or Prince of Wales's Light
Dragoons, was reviewed on Rumford Common by his
Royal Highness the Duke CAMBRIDGE. Soon after
eleven, his Royal Highness arrived, accompanied by
a large Staff and numerous assemblage of fashiona-
bles of the surrounding country, who were highly gra-
tified at the soldier-like appearance of this fine old
Regiment. They went through their evolutions with
steadiness and sapidity ; and, notwithstanding it
rained incessantly the whole time of their manecu.
vring, not a single accident occurred. Just as they
were preparing to form in line, his Royal Highness
rode up in front of the regiment, and after paying the
most flattering complimews at their high state of dis-
cipline, and expressing his entire satisfaction of then
conduct during the whole of the review, desired they
might be bent home to their quarters. His Royai
Highness then returned with his Staff to the White
• Hart inn, Rumford, where he took retreshment, and
.from thence post-l►orses to Sir TROMAII LINNARD%
4TIYB to dinuer: Ono be purses to spend some
Mee

CORK, .TULr 96.

This day, at two o'clock, about three
persons, men, women, and children, all
ployment of Mr. J. B. O'Suz.i.ivaN, at
manufactories, at Dripsey and Blarney,
streets—a melancholy procession ! previous
being discharged. The women, very decent
were conveyed in about 300 cars. Several
were exhibited on the occasion, descri: -
feelings, and the injury that was likely to
public from the stoppage of these manuf
understand they presented the followini
his Worship the Mayor, and received
Reply annexed :
TO TOE MOUT W•RSUIPTUL NOILITT JOHNS°

or TUC CITY or CORK.
" The Petitivi of Tees The uand Five 1-IwfdreJ
Himself, and Childers :
" HUMBLY SHEWILTII—That your Petitioners
ing People of James B. O'Sullivan, Esq. at his P
Manufactories of Cork, Blarney, and Dripsey.
" That your Petitioners did yesterday receive notice that there
was no further employment fo.• them, the works being stopped
by the direful calamity so rneral in the Country.
" That your Petitioners, in consequence of their dismissal,
Ave now before them the sad prospect of idleness and famine—.
in place of that industry and comfortable competence which they
enjoyed under the kindest and mo,t liberal of employer!.
" That some of your Petitioners are Artizans, belonging to
England and Scotland,•with very large familiesinsill destitute of
the means of returning to their native homes.
" That your Petitioners humbly throw themselves on the hu-
manity of your Worship, imploring your intercession with Go-
vernment to afford sonic aid to our kind and good Employer; so
that be may be enabled to resume us at oar industry,a:al thereby
save ourselves and families from wretchedness and ruin—And
your Petitioners will, with lively gratitude—pray.
" To which the Mayor delivered the following
Reply •
.
- - -

"-I very sensibly feel your situation ; and shall this night trans.
mit your case to the Lord Lieutenant, giving it my moat warm
and ardent recommendation."

WATERING PLACES.

North Yarmouth was never known to be so full of
company as at present, there are but very few lodg-
ings to be had.

ARRIVED, AT SCARBOROUGH.

General Stavely, Mr. Lee (Grove Han); Colonel and Mra,
Beaumont and family. Mr. and Mrs. Mien, Mn. slid Miss Haw.
thorns and family, Mr. and Mrs. Hill and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Arkwright and family, Mr. and Mrs. Cardwell and family, Dr.
Simpson. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver and family, Mrs. Wheatley, Mr.
Archbell, Mr. and Miss Harper, Rev. Mr. Mrs. and blaster
Warburton. two Miss Cl. ves, Mr. and Mrs. Woodmas, Mr.
Sunderland Cooke. Mr. G. Cooke, Mr. Boyce, Mr. Bryce, Mr.
White, Mr. and Mrs. Cracroft and family, Mr. and Mrs. Haut.
ley and family, Miss Willey, Mr. and Mrs. Singleton, Mr.
Brown. Mrs. Hathorn. Miss Parker, Mr. Peacock, Mr. E. Press.
Mr. English, fir. and Mrs. Kensington and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Davin', Mr. and Mrs. Dobson, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. White.
house. Mr. Mrs. and Miss Kirk, Mr. and Mrs. Haddlelcy, Mr.
and Mrs. W. bingkton, Mr. Robinson, Mrs. Farquhar, &c.

AT BATH.

Lord Bishop of Waterford, Lord G. Grenville, Lady Styles,
Sir Wm. Rowley, Sir W. B. Hughes, Sir Montagne and Lady
Cholmely, Colonel Berton, Major Moore, Rev. Dr starkey, Dr.
Robinson, Rev. Mr. Bampfyide, Rev. H. Sihthorpe, Rev. H.
Caulfield, Mr. Orde, Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox, Mrs. and Min Caul.
field, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Orde, Mr. Jopp, Mr. Baiwlo, Mr. Haines,
Mr. Cumberbatch, Mr. Cbudleigh, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Boyd, Mit
Stephens, Mr. S. Jackson, Mr. Deasey, Mr. Findley, Mr. Hats
ly, Mr. Rich. Sibthorpe, Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Mason, Mr. Ward,
Mr. Williams, Mrs. Fray, Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Hoare, Mrs.
Longuet, Mrs. General Dunne, Mrs. Starkey, Miss Boast, Milo
Palmer, Miss Hornby, Mtss Harrison, Mist. Smith, Miss (teat
ton, Ste. Ste.

AT CHELTENHAM.

Right Hon. Lord Adair, Right Hon. I.ady Murray, Right
Hon. Lay Cranley, Han. James Abercromby, qirVs'nt. Johnson,
Sir J. Brahmin, Lieut.-Genrral and Mrs. Wilford, Admiral and
Mrs. Douglas, Colonel Gliod and family, Colonels BPhil* and
Willington, Lieut.. Colonel and Mrs. Mack. nate, 1-ieut -Colonel
and Mrs. Dalbide, Lieutenant-Colonels M•Vair, ALton, and
Bethune, Majors Nichol, Dan son, and Davison, Capt. Davis, R.N.
Captain and Mrs Mansfi. 11, Captains Leighton, %.14titr,litnitk,
Scott, 'Tombs, Mason, and Murray, Dr. and MD. M`Dowall,
Doctors Gregory, Lt e, and Maurice, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Morris,
Rev. Mr. and Miss Burton, Reverends J. H. Coles, W. W. Green.
H. Wetherell, and Mr. Rowlands, Mr. and Mr.. Bushell, Mr.
and Mrs. P Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Whitworth, Mr. and Mrs.
Savaqe, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Cavendish Bradshaw,
Mr.and Mrs. Davison, Mr. and Mr.. Granger, Mr. and Mrs.
Mack ; Messrs. Wall, Alcock, Kellerman, Stanley, Moulin,
Green, Temple, Story, l.ule, Hare, Dyett, H. Dyett, Forbes
P. Horrocks, D. Crawford, Cowper, Mansfield, Whitter, An:
bolus, •Sturton, Rich, Gadd, Macon, Fossil, Wilikewley,
Underaroad, Elwin, T. Lash, M`Mahon, Finch, Stirling, Si.
vine, Ayrey, Wilkins, Talbot, Whitton, Brandon, Cahusan,
Powell, Elderton, Silvester, Mends, Whynniatts, Swinbourne,
Sumner, W. H. Mansfield, Carrell, Walcot, Ayle, Cole, Gran,
ger, Knowles, Brown, Shaw, Steele, Fox, Kill, Fernie, lows
Coote, Elau, Babington, B. Heard, Morgan, Cadagan, Walser,
Anstrobus, Dalish, Watson, Thomas, Wilson, Clarke, Kilby,
Mrs. and two Miss Hamertons, Mrs. and Miss Locke, Mrs. and
Miss Stewart, Mrs. Della Fontaine, Mrs. Mathew, Mrs. New,
ton, Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. Watson, Mrs.Loats, Mrs. Williams,
Mrs. real, , Mrs. Lindsay, Miss Waters, Miss Hedges, Miss
Knowles, Miss Foulston, Miss Morgan, Miss Thomas, Misi
Williams, Miss Parsons, Miss Best, &c. &c.

Harvest has commenced on the lighter soils in Nor.
folk. Many acres of oats have likewise been cut, and
the wheats, with a very promising appearance, are
coming fast to the sickle.
_ .

A yOting Lady of most exemplary mildness, and no
inconsiderable charms, a short time since advertised
for lodgings in a respectable private family and re-
tired situation, and was in consequence referred to a;
house in Goswell-street. The Lady being quite sa-
tisfied that the family saw little or no company, and
professing her own wish 14 seclusion and quietness,
said she never saw any visitors but her uncle andguar-
dian, who might some time call in an evening to take
tea, and play a game at chess with her ; she was re-
ceived as an inmate. Two evenings after, her uncle
aid guardian called to see her; but a little mal-agov-
pw—he was recognized by the Gentleman of tha
house as a grave and Worshipful City Magistrate, on
the wrong side of sixty three, whlse gallantries were
too well known to elude suspicion, even under the
sanction of his grey hairs. 'rile Lady and her guar-
dian uncle were therefore told they might instantly seek
s me other place for Their Amusement at clew : and
they retired much shocked at the mien's: aid indelicacy
of their host.

BANK r)FNORTHWALES AND CHESTER......The Hold-
ers of Bills drawn by Messrs. WILLIAMS. JONES,
HUGHES'S, and Co. at Chester And Carnarvon, upon
Messrs. DRVAVNESI DA WES, NOBLE, and Co. Pal-
Mall, are respectfully informed, that they will be paid
by Messrs. WILLIAMS and Gitasrau., Copper Olket
Royal Exchange, London, where their business will
be transacted toll a new arrangement is made in tosmo
of which they will give furtherinfonnasion
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poirit ottt toile% Mrs. liatdmet, mull& of coda.
with whip. her daughter had been loaded by
this marriage, endeavoured to purchase her relief
at any prim Accordingly, with the View of pre,
curing some comfort to her daughter, she enters into
an agreement, itt consequence of what the defendant
calls a row (or riot), at Burlington-Wee, where he
and his wife then lived ; to make over to him an an-
nuity of an additional £5OO, and this the old Lady
does, at the expence of giving up her own carriage, a
sacrifice of no small Moment for a Lady of her years
who had always been accustomed to such an enjoy-
ment. Not satisfied even with this, but being coil-
vinced that his objects could not be accomplished to-
their full extent in this kingdom, the defendant still re.
solved to quit England: His wife was miserable at the
thoughts of leaving her native country ; for though
she was not allowed the society of her relations, she
had the melancholt consolationbiso long as she remain•
ad within the kingdom, of knowing that her situa-*
tion might probably reach their ears, in which event
she would be certain of obtaining relief. Her hus-
band, however, had resolved she should be carried
abroad ; and, accordingly, more dead than alive, she
was taken into a chaise in the neighbourhood of Black.
heath, and thence conveyed to the coast, where she
was put on board a vessel, and, along with her hus-
band, went over to the Continent in March, she hav-
ing been married in the November preceding. Here
she was removed from place to place, under the con-
troul of her husband and of this same Dolly Sellars, I
now become her guard, spy, and mistress, from hav-i
ing been her servant ; and thus was this unfortunate
woman doomed to have two tyrannical masters in- I
stead of one. Hardly had a month elapsed from the !
time of the husbattd and wife visiting the Continent,
when the intention of the husband in . carrying her
thither was manifested. The deed was to convey
the estate to the husband and wife dining their joint
lives, fcr the use of the wife, so long as she lived ;
but the husband knew well that this amounted to no-
thing so long as the wife was under his complete
controul. No instructions were given by the wife,
whose estate was thus conveyed, for the disposal of
it in this way, but this *as entirely done on the in-
structions of the husband ; and there was no pretence
for saying that she knew any thing of the matter till
the deed. was put before her; even the friend of the de.
fendant, to whom he applied tohavetheassignment ex-
ecuted, was afraid the defendant trusted too much to
his ascendency over the defendant's wife, for, even he
thought it went too far, and asked the defendant
if he thought his wife would sign it ? The answer was
" Oh, yes ! whatever I put before her she'll sign it."
The Attorney-General then proceeded to notice the
letters of the defendant to his friend in London,
whom he authorised to get the assignment drawn up.l
In them he says that the estate is worth £BOO a year
net, an.estate of no small consequence to his family
in case of his death. He states, that Mrs. Wilmer
deceived him as to the value, particularly as to the
woods : That he waits to hear from Dolly's father
that he might know how the woods lie : if they were
on the entailed estate every hedge should come
down; " I am resolved to have an open country all
around." Again he says, " Whatever I do, I am sure
the old woman will comply, because she is very ill,
and miserable on account of her daughter." On such
an observation, he was satisfied, it was unnecessary
for him (the ttorney-General,) to make any com-
ment. It carried its meaning along with it. What
right had the old woman, who had already_granted
to him an annuity of £5OO a year, to do any 7hore for
him, but because she was, as he himself expressed it,
miserable for her daughter? or, why was she, or
ought she to be, so miserable on her account, but be-
cause she knew that the defendant treated her with
cruelty and oppression ? In another letter the defen-
,lant chewed his desire to prevent all power of revo-
cation. He says 4, of all women breathing, my pre-
cious Deary is the I:ast to be depended on ; so bind
her strictly," &c. The defendant had confined, im-
prisoned, and even offered violence to his wife, the
marks of which appeared on her person ; but, not
contented with this, he was resolved to make,his work
and \ke all power as to the

ZAW nvraulczivet,
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, AUGUST L
CRUELTY AND OPPRESSION.--•IPIELD IL RYAN.
This was an issue directed front the Court of Chan-
cery for the purpose of trying the fact whether a Deed
of Assignment, dated 18th July, 1792, executed by
Mrs. Ryan, in favour of herself and husband for their
husband,,
had o and, arfhatercl not been exe their decease, to the heirs of the
;cuted by her while
in a state of duress.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL, for the plaintiff, stated
the question to be, whether Mrs. Ryan had executed
the deed in question under compulsion? It was a deed,
by which she deprived herself and her own relations
of ail controu l over or interest in a property which
belonged to herself, an 3 conveyed the same from her
own family, and even from the children she might
have by any after marriage, should she survive her
husband, in favour of the family of her husband, the
present defendant. Before the Attorney Qeneral
proceeded to state the circumstances of the rase, he
begged to put the
Jury in possession of what had
fallen from the Lord Chancellor, when the case was
argued before him, as the rule or principle to be pro-
ceeded on in such a case. It was not necessary to shew
that the person executing a deed was under duress,
that it should be proved that one was standing with
a knife over him till he executed it ; or to argue, that
because he would have lived till next day, though he
bad executed it, therefore, in executing it he had not
ben 'ruder duress. There were m.my other ways in
which a person might be supposed to be equally un-
der duress. A person might be so subdued, by means
which it might be difficult to discover, to the will of
another, that what he did might not be his own in-
clination, but the will of that other which he had been
obliged to adopt as his own. The Lord Chancellor,
in support of this principle, instanced the case of the
Countess of Strathmore, where her Ladyship, while
she seemed to be doing what was her own free will,
was clearly proved to have been acting under the en.
tire influence of another. Having thus suggested
what was the rule in such a case, the Learned Coun-
sel should proceed to state the circumstances which
gave rise to the ,resent calamitous case. A Lady of
the name of Sucher, sister to Mrs. Wilmer, the mo-
ther of the defendant's wife, by her last will conveyed
to Mrs. Wilmer a considerable property she had in
York,hire for M; s. Wilmer's life-rent use, and the re-
maieder of the one moiety of this property she con-
veyed to Mrs. Wilmer's eldest daughter, the lady
who was afterwards the defendant's wife, but who was
then married to a gentleman of the name of Gossopp,
and the other moiety t the wife of the present plain-
tiff, who was also Mrs. Wilmer's daughter. In the
latter end of the year 1792, Mrs. Wilmer went with
her daughter, Mrs. Gossopp, then a widow, and of
whom she was always extremely fond, to Barrow-
gate, where they fell in with a gentleman, of the
name of George Keating, who again introduced
them to two of his friends, L. Keating, Esq. and the
present defendant, a gentleman of accomplishts,
and who, though not possessed of uncommon Dir•
wariness of manner, had that erectness of mein which
persons who think well of themselves are most likely
to possess. The defendant pretended for Mrs. Gos-
sopp a regard which he really felt for her fortune,
and it soon appeared that he wished a nearer connec-
tion. Mrs. Wilmer had a fortune ; Mrs. G. had a
jointure of 000 a year, besides the estate in question
in expectancy. The gentlemen followed the ladies
to Scarborough, and from thence to York, where Mr.
Ryan and Mrs. Gossopp were married. The Attor-
ney General had here to introduce to the acquaint-
ance of the Jury a person of the name of Dolly Sel-
lars, who, being the daughter of a tenant of Mrs.
Wilmer's, had been brought up in her family as a
menial servant, and from her family was, on the oc-
casion of the marriage, transferred to the service of
Mrs. Ryan. The married couple, however, were not
lung to remain in England. To do so would not '
suit the object of the defendant, which coeld not so
easily be accomplished in this 'country. About a fort-
night after the marriage the defendant removed his
wife to town, and placed her in Sabluniere's hotel,
where no English was spoken, she not being able to
speak a word of French. From this hotel the unfor-
, tunate wife of the defendant had been removed into
several different lodgings, where she received the
most tyrannical treatment. Dolly Sellars could ex-
plain it all. She had learned a great deal from the
defendant, nor had he left her unsatisfied in any thing
she could learn from him. She had now three chil-
dren by him, bearing the name of Ryan. It was in
his Learned Friend's power to examine her, if he was
so inclined, and it would then appear that she was
fully up to all the mysteries in which the defendant
could instruct her. She was, at the time he was
speaking of her, the virtuous and faithful servant of
the daughter of her benefactrix ; but she had chosen
to forsake that character for the less honourable one
of being the spy of her actions, and the accessary of
all the cruelties practised upon her. The cruelty of
the defendant would not alone be seen in his depriv-
ing her of his company, while he repaired to his pri-
vate carousals. She would be found, within three,
weeks of her marriage, stealing from her husband to
make complaints to her female friends of his cruelty,
ill the truth of which even Dolly Sellars at that time
concurred, and was so shocked at her treatment., that
!'ne offered her assistance in an attempt to get
Lack to her mother's. She was left even with-
out a shilling in her pocket to supply necessaries;
and when at any time she received a supply from her
mcther, he was found at night picking her pockets,
and robbing her of any little supply she might have re-
ceived. The Jury would find, that on one occasion,
where she had prevailed on a lady who was a rela-
tion, to accept of a deposit from her of £lO, to be
given when she should require it, she had been olo.;-
ged to discover to the defendant in whose hands the
.'coney had been left ; and the Jury would accord-
ingly find him writing a threatening letter to the
Lady, calling on her to restore to him 450. The
Jury would find that, to a relation who hearing of
the treatment Mrs. Ryan received, had called for her,
she was denied, and the person so called was inform-
ed that she should not know where Mrs. Ryan was.
Then the Attorney-General adduced, not his solitary
proofs of coercion, constraint, and duress, butasparts
of
one system, by which the wife of the defendant
h
adbeen so completely reduced in mind, and brought
under the influence of her husband, that she had no
will of her own, and could only see what passed ac-
cording to the medium that he chose to prescribe or

the deed WM obtained froth Mrs. Ryan tier t firer: eel I Lord Eusunouousu aid.= tothecanse coming on
the part of the defendant ? Mrs. Ryan finished het so late. If the Conn of Clatneity moved with hs on&
Miserable career in 1799, sad was and had beat some tiers ropisrop he did not tee how it, could well come
time previoul to her death lams. Item the conduct oft on sooner. No one had any interest in the property
her husband. till the mother's death, which happened is 1806, and
Lord Euntraoanuon observed, that in the case of bills were filed in Chancery soon after.
Lady Strathmore the case was clear, for he had been( George Keating
_ was then called. He was no
proved to give the directions for the deed. *lawn to Mr. Robert Keating, the former witness.
Mr. Barnard was then called. She had been the He stated the circumstance of the introduction and.
wife of the late Mrs. Ryan's pncle, but was now a subsequent marriage of Mrs. Ryan I he being the
widows She remembered Mrs. Ryan's arrival at person that introduced Mr. Ryan to Mrs. Gossopp,
Sabloniere's, with her husband, where she was sur. as then named, she thinking him a petty was. Mrs.
rounded by foreigners, with whom she could hold Wilmer, the mother, said her daughter s affections
no converse. She went sometimes to see Mrs. Ryan, were fired on him, and she did not mind what she
but was prevented from going oftener' by Mr. Ryan. did, so long as the marriage took place. Mr. R.
—Mrs, Ryan was unhappy, from the treatment of stated that his circumstances were such that he could
Mr, Ryan, and witness offered her an asylum, think. not marry except he got 810,000. Ti 1. sim the old
ing her situation called for such an offer. Mrs. Ryan people contrived to make up. Woids afterwards took
was a timid and harmless creature, and unfortunately place about 810,000, between Mr. Robert Keating,
not possessed of a great deal of understanding, and and Mrs. Wilmer, who said that she had forfeited
aged about forty. Mrs. -ayan, accomanied by Dolly her word, tha: she was an infamous liar.
Sellars, frequently made application to witness, beg. Mr. Webber attended the execution of the deed,
ging her not to forsake her ( Mrs. Ryan) ;—and but knew nothing of its contents, and wai onlydightly
once she, with the said Dully, brought to witness acquainted with' defendant. Mrs. R. evinced no
RIO, saying, she had received it from her mother, symptom of disapprobation es signing the deed. Mrs.
and if she kept it, her husband would pick her R. accompanied by Miss Sellars, took the deed oat of
pocket of it, and desired witness to take care of it the room inerii.us to execution, for ter: purpt se of
for her. Next day witness received a letter from reading it, and returned in about 5 minutes, when it
Mr. Ryan, desiring her to return him immediately was executed. lie did not recollect that it was read
the £5O his wife had placed in her hands. Witness over before the execution. Mrs. R. appeared very
immediately went to Ryan's house, and required to cheerful, and spent a peasant evening at the't house,
see Dolly Sellars, and on seeing her, asked what sl.:e singing several songs at the request of her has.
sum Mrs. R. had, the dsy before, left in the hands b.:nd.
of witness ? who answered, Lit% Mrs. R. thee came Mr. Webber, the attesting witness along with briny
to the door wheie witness was standing, to whom site Sellars, proved that there was no app trent constraint.
gave the £lO, who immediately ran up stairs, and Dolly Sellers's testimony *as such, as it would he
soon after returned, saying Mr. R. wished to speak impossible to do justice to within the bounds of a
with her, and begged her to go up stairs. Witness newspaper, consisting of contradictions, inemssistene
would not, but went away, saying, she would never cies. and prevarications out of all measitrea
enter their doors again ; and after she had left the Colonel O'Laughlin had been present at dinnertin
door, Mrs. R. came running after her, with most dig- the defendant's house, who on such occasions, belay.
tressed and agonizing looks, without cep, hat, orcloak, ed properly to his wife, which must have been the
in very cold weather, calling on witness in the open case, as the Colonel declared, he would not have re.
street, ,‘ Don't forsake me —3on't go away don't for. mai ned in the men where a woman was insulted.
sake me !" IVitness replied that she would not fors tke Lard ELLE.:IIJRAVGIII before the Attorney General
her, if she took protection under witness's roof. She replied, informed the Jury, that there Was one point
was led to offer her this protection from Mrs. R.'s in which he thought it proper to give them his opinion.
statement of her husband's conduct made in presrn:e It was not necessary to shew aey particular duress at
of, and unco ;tradicted by Do ly Sel as. She dined the time of signing the deed. If It appeared that
with them sever.tltint,ss, in presence of other company, such a dominion had been exercised. as must have oc-
but saw no ill conduct then from defendant to his wife; casioned the mind of the person executing the deed to
but Mrs. It. always appeared as if she had a mind 14 ill be crushed and burdened down, that was sufficient.---
at ease," an.f %vie,* did ete sr' > -a;.tious Any man might be able to gain an ascendency over
disposition. Witness beli.:red twit 1..0 of weaker serves, and in this manner might
so much will of her own as a child had. After Mrs. extort from him what he would not have granted had
It. went to the Continent, witness never saw her till no influence existed. Even in the brute creation we
she beheld her lifeless form, in 1799, in Grosvenor- saw what effect the inclination of the head, or the
place, where she died. waving of the hand could produce. If, therefore, the
Mrs. Goring deposed, that when she saw Mrs. wife of the defendant in this ease ley under awe
in Loudon, she appeared to be much depressed ha mination which she could not resist, it could not be
spirits, and complained of the ill-usage of hor hus. understood as her act. She might have done some.
band. Witness saw in Mr. and Mrs. R's bed-room thing wider the operation of the will of her husband
horse-pistols and a large hanger across the bed : which she herself did not know. The question was,
heard of Mrs. R.'s being locked up, and on that ac- it this lady had acted from depression of spirits and
count offered to give Mrs. It. protection, provided prostration of mind, so that she could not exercise a
she would leave her husband. hee mind ? It the Jury thought so, they would find
Mr. Kibblcwhite proved, that the letters from for the plaint.ff— otherwise they would hear the At-
which the Attorney-General made extracts were in torney General.
the hand-writing of Mr. Ryan. The July, without any hesitation, found for the
The letters were then read. Plaintiff. •
Robert Keating, p: oved that. he had received the
different letters in question from the Defendant ; that
being in bad health he had given the instructions into
other hands to be executed ; that he had carried over
the deed to the Continent, and read it over to the de-
fendant's wife at the time of its execution ; but that,
though he was one of her trustees, he had not com-
municated with her on the na'Are of the deed, sup-
posing that it had been settled between her and her
husband. He stated, however, that Mrs. Ryan had
been unwilling to go out of the kingdom ; and when
the witness carried over tf.e deed to the defendant to
have it executed, he asked him whether his (the de-
fendant's) wife would execute it, having his own
doubts on the subject ? to which the defendant answer-
ed, that he had e her into that trim and humour

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. AUGUST S.
IiAGEASUORN V. A LLNUT
This was an action on a pokey of insurance on a
vessel from London to Tonningen, and the damages
were laid at X2BO. According to the evidence for the
plaintiff; the vessel sailed from London is December,
1809, and two days after she had put to sea, met
with extremely b.Ld weather, which strained her much
in her hull, and sprung the bows Fit, by carrying
away the gammoning of it. In consequence of this,
she ran for Heligoland ; but when she arrived there,
the pilots would not take her in ; she, therefore, pro-
ceeded to the Elbe, and, passing the English man of
war stationed there, went up the river to Gluckstadt,
vhere she was captured by the Danes, who took

perfectly complete, . .to ta. _ all power ... _ - ._ __ got where..... .- __ pose
dispcsal of her property out of her hands. Instead that she would execute any thing he put before lie; session of the place two hOurs after site arrived. For
of appointing as trustees under this deed, for his wife's Dolly Sellars, when he saw her with the defendant the defendant no witnesses were called. The mere
benefit, persons in whom she could have confidence, and his wife, on the Continent, sat with them at table, defence was, that she had no right to run for the
and who would naturally have been appointed if she and also sat with them in the same box at the Thee I Elbe ; and, at all events, not to pass the English ship
had had any part in the drawing of the deed, the tre. The defendant had told him soon after his mar-lof war stationed in that river. Verdict for the plain.
trustees were the defendant's own brother, and his riage, that he meditated a connection with this girl.
! tiff—Damages €2BO.
friend and acting manager, Mr. Keating. In another The witness had strong suspicions when he went over HALLEY V. GAIROWER.
letter, however, the defendant says, o All hopes from to the Continent,•that such connection had taken place I
This was another action on a policy of insurance,
York are over." He then adds, that a person had at that time ; but he was convinced of it when she I
called and requested from Mrs. Wilmer, that her returned to England. She appeared more like the on a ship from London to Trinidad ;and from thence
to the Spanish Main, and with liberty to touch at any
daughter might come over to England, on which con- wile than the servant, even abroad ;and for this rea-
of the West India islands, except Jamaica and St. Do.
dition she would give the defendant £lOOO. Here son, she was more competent to execute the duties of min"' The supercargo of the vessel finding the
was a verification how miserable she conceived her it ; she had some knowledge of the language, and
, market at Trinidad not answer his expectations, pro.
daughter to be. Here was a proof, that the defer- was a clever girl.
dan
t's wish was to extort money :—Here was a proof, Mr. PARK. for the Defendant, said, much unjust tended with the ship to st. Thomas's ; and off the.
Alligator Shoal, on that island, the vessel was lost.
that Mrs. Wilmer would have given £lOOO, even prejudice had been raised against the side lie espoused,
This action had been tried before, and decided in fe.
after all the sacrifices in favour of the defendant she and he dared to say, that it tended to make the Jury
your of the plaintiff ;but it was contended, on the
had already made, to have her daughter restored already to have conic to a judgment. That and other ,
naked into her arms. The defendant, however, could considerations madt! it extremely distressing to him part of the defendant, that the plaintiff had no busie
convert her to a more profitable use, and therefore, to fulfil the duty that devolved on him. A sort of nets at St. Thomas's island ; that being out of his
way from Trinidad to the Spanish Main, which was
)he could not quit hold of her, for, through the deed odium, too, had been cast on those who would have
he had since seduced or compelled her to execute, he the courage to speak in behalf of the defendant, which proved by most of the witnesses ;but the policy of in-
surance being at variance with this, the Jury gave a
expected to receive a verdict by the hands of the Jury tended to make vulgar minds believe, that he that
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £lB7.
this day. The deed, too, it appeared, in consequence should speak for • the defendant must be an ac. •
of directions from the defendant, had not been re- cessary. He would, however, do what he was en- —.—....
gistered till after his wife's death. The defendant ,trusted to do, so far as he deemed fit. The ques- ,
himself had come over to this country in the year tion before them was not, whether Mr. Ryan'
The Earl of BERKELEY is still severely indisposed
at Berkeley Castle.
1793, accompanied by this Dolly Sellars, as his wife, was a good or a bad man, but whether the deed in i
his real wife being left behind. In consequence of 1 question was obtained per duress ? Oppression and ' Mr. T _
'''E Rot,
of Compton-street, went to Chelsea,
hearing that she was about to be taken under the pro- I tyranny must be shewn, before it could be proved on Wednesday afternoon, to see his daughters, who
tection of her friends, he had her also brought over to that Mr. Ryan obtained his wile's signature by reside there, and while in the act of
iotalking with tcalliagheme
! nd dropped down a espirel Prevus to his
this country, but she was never suffered to be out of! such means. They had not been shewn. The con•
his power, unless accompanied by a guard ; and, in I, duct towards Dorothy Sellars, on the part of Ryan,1 upon his daughters, he stopped at the Union. public-
house, drank a glass of brandy and water, and ap-
the year 1799, she died insane. If any of these facts I was disgraceful in the extreme, but did not prove ,
were disputed, his Learned Friend would call Dolly 1 duress. Nor was it the best way to force the sig. ,neared in perfect health.
Sellars, who would prove them. If lie did not call nature from Mrs. Ryan, to have such a woman Coast-Me MARK-LAYE, Ammer S.—The
her, who must be allowed to be a witness interested' as Dolly under her nose. It made the case extremely market this day has a continuance et late supplies of
in the defendant's cause, her absence must equally I impi °liable. He would not defend the letters ; they Wheat on hand, chiefly foreign, there being very few
prove the plaintiff's case. I were extremely disgraceful, and he did not think that prime samples, those are quoted rather dearer; Bar-
Lord ELLENIIOROUGH here expressed his doubts as ; the person that could receive them and act on them ley nearly at late prices; Malt heavy sale ; White pees
to how any evidence could be received that went to , was much better than the person who wrote them. . fluctuate but little; Beans of the two descriptions
prove the conduct of the defendant to his wife subse- I Had Mts. R. been against signing the deed, could , likewise ; Oats are in tolerable supply, and salts
quent to the execution of the deed. I she not have spoken to Keating or to Mr. Webber ? there*f at little variation. Flour remains as before.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL admitted, that in the She had not. The Lady too of whom so much care I Wheat, , OtNtIAL cualtiNCT Al UNDIER.
Beans, 525. lie.
case of Lady Strathmore, the late Lord Loughbo- ; had been taken, had been left alone on the Continent,Tick ditto 456. Us.
rough, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, had i while Mr. R. and Miss Sellars came to England• • Rye, 426.485. Oats sus. 245. Iof.
I iii;dltto. ri1961641.1 is
T.
determined, that the sounder rule would be to reject i This complaint of duress too made at this time, 18 i Barley, ass. 44'. Poland ditto, ULM. od.
all evidence that followed the execution of the deed i years after its execution, and eleven years after rs. I Malt 7la. s°l. Potatot &Ho, 1101. W.
White Peas (Wien) 645. 70s. Rape beak AN. LSO.
in question. The question, in the present instance, 1 R.'s death—if there was' any objection or doubt, et 0
%Ally . eat, 455. 541.
for the Jury to try was, whether the late execution of " could it not have been tried before ? . I Fins Flour, Hs. to 1001...-3eaoStla !Os. NPVis.
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