The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-26 00:00:00

Crosthwaite Joseph .. Ulveiston

Davis Robert

Liverpool

Dodd William
Duncan Ellen. Liverpool

Eaden John

Lancaster

Made up to the 19th of Se

Stamps and Taxes,
PENALTIES.—The Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes hereby give notice, that every person taking, killings
or pursuing game, without first obtaining a certificate, incurs a penalty of £2O, and is also liable to be surcharged in
double the amount of the certificate duty.
Any person in pursuit of game, refusing, on being duly required, to produce his certificate, or to permit the same
to be read, or a copy thereof to be taken, or refusing to declare his true name and place of residence, also incurs a
penalty of £2O.
Gamekeepers are desired to take notice that a certificate at the rate of LI 7s. Gd. will not authorise any person
to kill game beyond the limits of the manor for which he is deputed • and, in order that a certificate at such rate of
duty may protect a gamekeeper, it is requisite, not only that he should be deputed by some lord or lady of a manor
or reputed manor, but also that such deputation should be registered with the clerk of the peace, or the gamekeeper
will be liable to be surcharged in double the duty of £4 Os. 10d., and also be prosecuted by any common informer
for the penalty of £2O.

Why is the gallant Sir Charles Napier like a potboy
—Because he carried beer-out (Beyrout).

FRENCH POLYGAMIST.—Jacques, Nottier, an invalid,
aged 35, having lost his right leg in the service of the re-
public, appeared on the 16th Ventose (1805) before the
criminal department of the tribunal of the Seine, accused
of having married within the last eight months three dif-
ferent women—Marie Debaud, Marie Bertrand, and
Louisa Perrani, who were all present and proved their
acts of marriage before the 2d, 4th, and 9th, municipali-
ties of Paris. During the trial it came out that the pri-
soner had made it for years a regular practice to marry a
new wife wherever he went with his regiment, and to the
knowledge of his own brother he had already 14 French
wives alive, besides one Italian, one Swiss, and two Dutch
women, who bad been married to him in their respective
countries, when in garrison or encamped in them. Be-
fore he was 19 he had been divorced according to the laws
of the republic from five wives, not included in the above
number, by whom he had six children. Being asked by
the public accuser if he had many children by the women
not present, though known to have been married to him,
he answered very coolly, " I had at least one by each wo-
man, and I believe I have as many children as I count
years." He offered to write down the names and residen-
ces of as many of his wives as he could remember, and
gave in the names of eleven in eleven different places. To
gain time to inquire after these women the commissiary of
the Government proposed, and the tribunal consented, to
postpone the trial until the 6th Germinal, on which day
eight of the women, each with a child, came before the
tribunal, and identified their faithless husband, who had
the impudence to declare, that if he had been a Grand
Sultan he would have kept them all in his seraglio, as he
entertained for them all the same affection. After a trial
which lasted three hours he was found guilty of bigamy,
and condemned to be punished with a fortnight's impri-
sonment, and to regard Anne Varois, whom he had mar-
ried nine years before, as his only wife. To this he re-
fused to assent, saying that instead of punishment he
deserved a reward, and that many persons had been made
members of the Legion of Honour for less patriotic
deeds than his ; and that he intended to petition the First
Consul for permission to choose his own wife amongst his
own wives.