The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-16 00:00:00

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Fenw M.A., to the Inc
Church, Neectwood, Staffordo-,;..-

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Certain apparitions have a periodical right of visita
tion. A hot summer, a shocking murder, a cholera,
Swiss rebellion, a bad harvest, or a great swindling cidz
to family title and estates, are incidents to be expected' Him
from time to time ; and the great case .of ' Smyth versus
Smyth and others,' at Gloucester, which takes its place in
the series, is as worthy of being a nine days' wonder as
any. Before the trial there were preliminary announce-
ments of some marvellous overhauling of title deeds, family
deeds, family wills, pedigrees, and heirlooms. Although
doubts were thrown upou the probable success of ti

claimant, ' Sir Richard Hugh .Sinyth,' and Sir Fitzroy
Kelly did not hold a brief in the cause, the preparations
indicated a formidable case. If not the true heir, Sir
Richard was at all events to be an unfortunate man, sur-
rounded with a halo of romance. But now when we look
back upon the case from the point where it terminates, we
can understavl the whol -tory well.

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Towards the end of the last century a ' mischievous
' to use his own designation, found himself in the

family of Provis, a carpenter at Warminster in Wiltshire;
and some obscurity about this part of the youth's life,
together with opportunities which he appears to have
enjoyed of sportive intercourse with young persons of
titled families, is enough to suggest the possibility that
there might have been some irregularity in his birth.

Ambitious instincts pointed out to Idm a 'higher destina-
tion—he could not, and would not, be the son of a car-
penter • but, as he had only a carpenter as his ostensible
father, was fain to look out elsewhere. For some Wilt-
shire or Somersetshire reason, he appears to have had the
predilection for the name of Smyth, or Smith, which in
itself offers a wide choice of genealogies ; and it turns out
that at different times he had professed to belong to two
different families of such name—the Smyths, with they,

Letwell,

wuaa c,
i, of Carrington. At last he decided in favour of tl
Somersetshire house, and contented himself with a ban

netcy in lieu of a

" After variousvicisSitudes of life—after being lecture
`m every school of the country' on artificial memory, h
comes into court with title, family Bible, clergyman'
certificate, titled lady witnesses, able attornies, and coitus(
Of standing at the bar. Among the documents is on
purporting to be an autograph genealogical declaration h.
IJ:talon/I TIM,'

the late Sir Hugh Smyth, aeciaring nicintru .LA uE,
Smyth" to be his legitimate son and heir ; and the tale of
the lost heir runs thus He was the son of a first mar-
riage, which the Sir Richard had kept secret ; he had been
the victim of a 'rascally butler; had himself, until
lately, but an imperfect knowledge of his own birth, and
had but recently discovered a beloved half-brother and an
uncle. He so far succeeded with certain ladies as to con-
vince them of his true heirship; and thus he entered the
court the hero of a romance.
"It is under cross-examination that the case breaks
down. The accomplished baronet, professor of mnemonics,
cannot remember a variety of essential circumstances ;
cannot spell the names of his nearest friends, calling Mr.
Knox ' Lord lc ox ;' confesses that he imagined' that a
..picture was that of his mother, and a Mrs. Forland gave it
him ; avowed that he preferred to spell vicissitudes'
visieitudes.;' justified the spelling of 'sett asside' on the
authority of old authors ; showed as a mark by which all
lost heirs ought to be discoverable, scars on his right
hand, probably the remains of scrofulous disease; pro-
duced a box in court which was to contain a family seal,
though no seal Avas in it ; produced another seal with a
family motto of Qui cavil capitur,' engraved Qui

The nature of the case was
the third. day, .Sir Frederick The

becoming cIE

the rightful owners of the title, asked the plaintiff how
letter which he wrote, and which he dated on the 13th a
March, and sealed with a Smyth seal, could contain th
impression of a deed which had not been obtained befog
the 17th of that month ? Sir Richard Hugh Smyth turtle
pale, and asked permissiou to leave the court 'to recove
himself.' Sir Frederick objected ; and at that moment, bj
an accident which would be `unnatural' in a melo-drama
Atelegraphictnessagehad arrived from London, announcing
that the police had discovered an engraver in Oxford-street,
whom ` Sir Richard' had employed to make one of his old
fmarnanaY confessed
Amidstrelics.thatt ah i s
chargedee
p the
siloefneeforgingthtehecoreuritc,
was
true. The last heir and plaintiff as n - led a prisoner to
gaol—not for the first time; he is a returned convict.
The ,defence of this nnwarrantable and audacious action
il thousand pounds. The defen-
dantis said to have cost serer:
is a young lady, and a minor.
At the time when
the counsel threw Asp their briefs in
this remarkable case there remained upwards of fifty wit-
nesses to be examined for we: plaintiff and eighty for the
defendants. The defei!ce, nderstand, would have beer
of the most complete kind. It would have been proved
b 3
Mr. Herapath, the analytical chymist of Bristol, that Hu
deeds were forgeries, the ink and the sealing wax being o
modern date, and another peculiarity, not hitherto noticed
would have been established in the seal. The di t' '
s mew
mark of the barontage is, as our readers are aware, bl
ood
hand, a
hsnd, and this hand is always engraved upon a sma
shied, which is placed upon the family bearings. I
making the seal ordered by the plaintiff the engraver w
my able to e'et in r—^-1 tb- -111shielil -

-- -poi. ,ne Al a hand with thr
fingers .and a thumb, and the' fourth finger is likewit
deficient in the impression upon the deed. The Bishop o
Gloucester and Bristol has ascertained that Dr. Verney
Lovett, who was alleged to have married Sir Hugh in Ire-
land, did not take his degree of D.D. until 1809, which
was ten years after the alleged nuptials. It has also been
ascertained that on the day of the alleged interview with
Sir John Smyth, Mrs. Wray was not at Heath-house, nor
did the baronet go out at all. The prisoner, however, was
seen near the lodge-gate. We hear also that it would
have been established that the plaintiff left his home while
young, and took a service, that, while in such service, he
stole the gelding referred to on the trial, that subse-
quently, in 1814, he was in Bath keeping a school in
Ladymead, that he was accused while there of an abomi-
nable offence, and was admitted to bail. which bail he
ran from and forfeited. A consequence of the event was
his separation from his then wife, Mary Ann Whittick,
who had, it is said, before her marriage, lived in service at
Ashton-court, and who eabsequeutly, beyond all doubt,

to tcanon he I nctim beacy of Corley, Somerset
Residentiary of Carlisle Cathe
Ige, near Hexbarn, to the Vicarage
le of

Rev. H. Gipps, .11. A:
dral, and Vicar of Corti
of Horncastle, Lincolna

Corbridge, near Hexham.
Rev. J. W. Griffith, B.A.
near Conway, arnarvonshire.
Rev. W. amilton, to the Curacy :of New 11.048, county
Wexford.
Rev. J. Hemphill, to the Curt.:- -
Tipperary.
Sa lop.
Rev. J. S. Hill, M.A., to the Curacy of Sutton
Maddock
Rev. A. J. Maclean, M.A., to the Rectory of Charicombe
Somerset.
Rev. F.P. Le Maitre, B.A__ +- -

war, to the Vicarage of

, to the Curacy of Llandudnc

of Temy

hey, county

near Stnplehurst

viedon

Rev. P. S. Novall, to the Rectory of East L ydford,Somerset
ro
Rev. S. Newall, M.A., to the Vicarage of Clifton-upon.
unsmore, with Brownsover annexed, near
cestersh Ruy.
Rev. M
ir . O. Norman, 8.A., to the Rectory, ogf bHarby, Lei.
O.

Eye, Suffolk.
Rev. G. A. Oldham, 8.A., to the Curacy of Dorking, Surrey.
Rev. N. Proctor, to the Curacy of Pralee, county Kerry.
Rev. C. M. Robins, M.A., to the Incumbency of the Church
of the Holy Trinity, Crockham-hill, Vv'esterham.
Rev. J. Rowlands, 8.D., Fellow of Queen,
Rector of St. Botolph, Cambridge, to the It,
stone, Norfolk.
Ven. J. Sandford, 13.0., Archdeacon of Coventry, his lord
ship's newly-appointed examining Chaplain, to the Vicarar-,
of Grimley. with Hollow annexed, near Worcester.
Rev. J. A. Sellar, M.A., late Assistant
ii
College, Glenalmond, to a Canonry in Pert..
to the Rectorship of the Cathedral Grammar Scitool.
Broom
Rev.
field, W. PSomer se. Treveylat. n, 8.C.L., to the Perpetual Curacy of
Rev. C. W. Underwood, M.A.. to be Vice-Principal of the
Colleg Schools, Liverpool.
Rev. J. A. Wanton, 8.A., to the Curacy of Rev. T. Wodehouse, 8.A., to the Perpetual
Edmund, Vobster, Somerset.
Rev. W. F. Young, to the Curacy of Ballysheehan, count
Tipperary.

unn, 8.A., to the Rectory of Thorndon, nea

College. and
ory of Grim-

Master at Trinity
th Cathedral, and

fridge, Kent
Curacy of St

CI:LURCH EXTENSION AT SITEPPIELD.—The Rev. Canon
Trevor continuing to be excluded by the vicar from the
parish pulpit, notwithstanding his election as parish chap-
lain by the trustees, the inhabitants have determined to
build a church, to be called St. Andrew's church, in the
vicinity of Sharrow, where a large and important popula-
bon is rapidly collecting, and a church is highly requisite.
NENi Cium.en AT linooxLmv-num 1, kv-r, v,,-

- ..ma r 0 VEST
The Conservafwe Land Society has reserved a
portion of land, on the summit of the Brockley-hill Park
Palace, for the site of a new
the endowment have been al-
Church will be surrounded by
rltaul.tih,p.
rnoes:iiiribsexistelriiepbtlycorYnsstalfor
i
many shareholders. The proposed
.„.„_
walks, shrubberies. di, i',... an ornatnento 0..”.1—• .--.,

Lt. Kamt..,
Pedal use of the allottees

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on the terrace, which commands One of the finest views in
all Kent.
for
Rthe restoration ESTORATION F CARLISLE CATIIEDRL.—The tenders
of the
to the 29th of July Carlisle Cathedral were received
: There
Dove were four Messrs.
uarti and Vasesesitheirol forllre,rtwintz,,,l.
,7scompetitors 7d., were the .......—....

~o,vuo below the highest.buc
alterations contemplated are extensive. Th
ceiling of the choir is to be re 1 eroined
•
Armilfir. ceiling restored emoved and +1

During the alteration alone
Ipetted,li as
it Progress
iyarg a - eess of thesec
'-uo
salervteraieeti ;4;llrx
off fh.
willons,
gowilioenhNavreiththoutbeineA3teinrrtien

about £l,OOO.

will cost

NOBLE EXAMPLE.--Th
e Rel

_ • ~..,,,LA v ernon liar-
miu.,, bou ui ~, ....,ulnop of York, is, as Chancellor of
the Cathedral church f York, the Patron of certain
benefices in the neighbourhood, and appropriator of the
tithe in each parish. As the opportunity of doing so has
presented itself by the ' falling in" of leases, Mn Harcourt
ipias availed himself of the powers of 1 and 2 AVilliain IV.,
&c., and augmented the benefices as follows :—Laughton,
former value £l9O, increased to £3lO ; Thorpe sal •
£7O, now £355 ; Wales, formerly £B2, now £2ll
formerly

Had~
oinhedr prebendaries eared in like an for the'
vuu„„„,. ziareourt with £lOO per annum
vicars perpetual curates, we should not hav
3. Dean and Chapter Commission. Such e hear
a thin would not
g
needed.—Church and State Gazette.
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