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would be improper to adnitt this libel, was
founded on a proposition that he conesitedrbt of a
moestrons and most untenable =stare.
Dr. Plitt.Ltsioat followed on the sow side.
Dr. Luentnireon contended, that le all etswipteeed
countries whatever, the laws of these countries, by
custom, remained unchanged, sad in fell force, without
moors, being bad by the iiiiebitants to any stipula-
tion with our commanders to that effect s and so con-
tinued until they were altered by the King, or *time
competent authority of this Ouvernesent. This bad
been the law of the land treat time inialeinorial, and
was so laid down by the best authorities, and that by
consequence the marriage was invalid and ought to be
dissolved.

Sir W. SCOTT said this case Involved weighty and
highly important eonsideratious and interest. He
would very maturely consider it, and give notice to the
Registrar, when he would deliver his opinion upon it.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, FR I DAV.

SCESTITCTE VOR cocoa.

THS KING V. W. PISS.
Mr. Clarke stated that this was an information
against the defendant, charging him with having in
his possession a !sty quantity of vegetable substance,
resembling, being an imitation of, and purporting to
be a substitute for cocoa ; and with vending the same,
contrary to the provisions of the Act, and to the
great injury of the revenue. The defendant, be said,
resided at Bristol, where he sold this vegetable break-
fast powder, and gave it the name of Brenta. The
Act which prohibited the manufartune and sale of
such powder as this was passed for the protection of
the revenue and the public ; because cocoa paid a
duty, and its sale must be diminished by any otber
article made it imitation of it, which paid no duty.
Mr. Clarke now read the defendant's hand bill, is
which his parcels were generally wrapped up. This
hand-bill, after enumerating the various qsalities of
the breakfast powder, stated that it had greatly in-
creased in sale, and cautioned the public against pur-
chasing ah..urious imitations of it. The price was -Is.
6J. per pound. 'f he Learned Counsel then observed,
that acconiing to the defendant's own statement this
article had a great and extensive sale; and he should
prove that it was an imitation of cocoa. Witnesses
i%ere then called to prove the sale, and the analysis of
the article in question. The result of the analysis was
that the article appeared a composition of sugar, bis-
cuit powder and cocoa.

Air. JARVIS addressed the Jury on behalf of the
defendant. The case, he said, differed widely from
many others on which that Court had hitherto deeid-
rd, most usefully for the public, such as prosecu-
tions against persons selling spurious substances pur-
p.irting to be tea, and others purporting to be coffee,
but which were made np of beans and peas. The par-
ties who vended these spurious things had materially
defrauded both the revenue and the public ; but the
defendant in this case was not a person of such a de-
scription : he was not a dealer either in coffee or co-
coa, lie merely sold a substance called Brogue, and
nobody Was deceived by what he Ind put up to sale.—
Here the Learned Counsel read extracts from the
Act of the 43r1 of the late King, against selling Wit-
tations of coffee or cocoa ; this Act applied to dealers
in coffee or cocoa, and not to the substance now pro-
duced ; for the substances stated in the Act were
toasted peas or beans, or other grain or vegetable sub-
stance, not bring coffee or cocoa ; hut here there was
no sui it substance, for dried biscuits did not come under
soca description. And it could not be said that
it was not cocoa, for there was, according to the evi-
dence, cocoa in the substance sold by the defendant.
It would be, then, for theJery to deterioine whether it
was made as an imitation of cocoa, or as a substitute
fur cocoa. Evidence was then adduced to prove the
large purchases which the defendant had made of co-
coa fur the manufacture of the article in question. and
which together with the sugar used in the composition,
it was contended, bail paid the duty of Excise.
The LORD CHIEF 1144t.0N, in summing up, said it
was his opinion that, if this substance was manu-
factured with a view that it should be an imitation of,
or meant to resemble cocoa in any respect, the nianu-
facturer of it must be liable to the penalties stated in
the Act.

One of the Jury asked if the offence charted
against the defendant was for defrauding the revenue?
The Loan Cuter BARON answered, that the charge
was that of offending against the Statnte and the Alta•
lute only.

The Jury then retired. and, after being absent about
10 minutes, found a verdict for the King.
We understand that the ground on which they gave
this verdict was the strict and rigorous wording of the
Act of Parliament, which prohibits any sort of prepa-
ration of vegetable substances made to bear a resem-
blance to coffee or cocoa.

Theyenalty for each offence ander the above Act is
1014. Two penalties were sued for against the de-
fendant, and these he will be obliged to pay it caner-
quence of the verdict.

DREADMI. ACClDENT.—Yesterday, as Mr. Bell. a
master bricklayer, residing in 600dge-street. Tottenham.
court-road, and two labourers, were erecting a scaffold to
the hack front of a house, No. 30, in Portland-street, the
top ledger being about fire feet from the parapet, After
lacing across the pudlocks to receive the scaffolding
boards, the master and the two labourers descended on
the scaffold from the parapet, when the ledger which
supported it being rotten, snapped in two, and the three
unfortunate men were precipitated to the gronnd, a
depth of 35 feet and upwards. Mr. Hell had his leg
broken, and was otherwise dreadfully bruised all over.
He was taken up insensible, and carried home on a
shutter. The two infortunate labourers, one of whom
has a wife aud four children, had each several bones
broke they were taken to the Middlesex Hospital,
without hope of recovery.

Bnocauttur ACCIDENT FROM FIRS-ARMS.—Sanday
melancholy circumstance *centred on the premises of
Mr. Right, a farmer, at Chapel-house, Poplar Mar-h.—
His son, a youth ten years of age, obtained unperceived
a large pistol loaded with powder and Swan shot, which
be took into the farm yard, where lie was at play with
lad about his own age, son to Mr. Boost, turnpike-keeper
of the Isle of Dogs Ferry-road, Poplar, and while in the
course of play he happened to pnll the trigger, when
the shot unfortunately lodged in his playmate's hip, and
tore the flesh off the lione. Me was instantly attended by
Mr. Rteriing. of Limehouse, sargeon, bet iodammation
ensuing, he died on Wednesday. An ;motet was taken
Yesterday, at the Oust Tavern, Illsehirell. before Mr.
Davie, the Coroner, and a verdict of Accidents' I:eatl,
was returned.

POLICE.
Outtinoam..-..—Foaean Five POUND Novas.--George
Legated Elizabeth Brown, whom case has already bees
belie the pshlic, were brought up yesterday for Semi
examination Wile Mr. Alderman Thomas Smith, the
Sittiqg Magistrate. A new use, in addition to the five
already preferred against them, was brought forward by
Mr. Maynard, the Bank Solicitor, is which, however,
the female prisoner did sot appear to have been at all
implicated. Thomas Cloney, brother-in-law to Mr.
Bowie, who keeps the Red lien in (heat Windmill-
street, St. Jaaies's, stated, that the prisoner (Lee) came
thereon Friday, the 4th of Mathis Use mune of Mr. Clio
Rickman, of epper Diary-10-bostedtress, for a gallon of
Hodge's best gin, in payment for Irlikb he tendered a
forged 5/. note, and recelviti 411.41: is theatre. Mr. Rick-
man being a customer, so saapialas wen excited, nor
any inquiry made, until the note was returned from
Messrs. Men: sod Co. as a forger).* when they learnt
that Mr. Rickman was wholly unacquainted with the
prisoner, and knew nothing of the transaction.
Mr. Maynard observed, that he had now given evi-
dence upon all the charges which he meet to prefer
against the prisoners. A clear and very strong case
was made out against the male prisoner Lee, and he
trusted the Magistrate must feel that he was a fit object
for prosecution. With regard to the female prisoner,
inquiry had been made respecting her, from which it
appeared that she was an unfortunate girl, and that her
convection with Lee had been bat short. There were
certainly good reasons to believe that she must have
been acquainted with the nefarious practices of her com-
panion • but as it was possible she might hare been
draws in by him, and as there was no proof that she
had taken an active part in the uttering of the forged
notes, the !tank were willing to consider her as innocent,
and would not press further proceedings against her.
The prisoner Brown being questioned, said, she had
known the prisoner Lee only about a month, and de-
clared she was wholly unacquainted with the practices
he was carrying on. She had, it seemed, been taken
from the public streets by Lee, and selected probably
from the iircunistance of her being in a state of preg-
nancy, a situation well calculated to aid him in the de-
ceptions lie Iris practising. After a suitable admonition
from the ,11dertnan she was diacisarged.
lit the course of these examinations a charge was pre-
ferred arinst Lee b' a person from whom he hail hired
a horse and gig, which had never been returned. The
name he gate at that time was Levy. As the
were so near, and the probability was that I e would ht.
convicted of a capital offence, the cbarge was dropped,
anal the primmer was tally committed fur uttering she
forged 5! notes.

Dia.% DFC L Oceuanexca.--31r.O'llyao, a young marl
of about 24 or 2 rears of age, a fine figure, t.ll and wet
made, arrived at Brighton from Dieppe about a fortnight
ago. He pitt np at the King's Head Inn, in West-street.
where be continued. The night before the last, be re
tired to bed between eleven and twelve o'clock, and,
late as between two and three o'clock in the afterimoe
of yesterday, the boy who had taken Mr. O'Ryan's boots
to clean the night birfore ascended with them to his bed-
room. On entering the room a ghastly sight presented
itself-51r. ()'Ryan was a corpse. His back rested upon
a small dressing table to the right of the doer ; his feet
pressed the flour on one side, and his head hung over the
table on the other. lie was naked to his shirt. His
body was changed to the hue of old parchment ; the
neck was horribly swoln—the face also ; blood had co.
agulateul alma' the nose, his breast was blistered, and the
skin of the right arm was scarified and shrivelled. The
ehlicoller, a small ons, had assumed the complexion of a
esti-hole ; not a vestige but the rigs and Ks rod *ere
left of the bed furniture. The bed was partially
,reduceil to ashes, and the outer edges of the
mattress, at the sides and foot of the bed, were
reduced to a cinder. The floor at the left angle of
the hedatend was damaged to the joists. Great confu-
sion and close investigation followed; but the body of
the deceased was left untouched, for the inspection of
1 the Coroner and his Jury. By the depositions at the
Inquest, no doubt remained that the deceased haulsieft
his candle unextinguished, which had communicated its
flanie to the bed, and produced the catastrophe described.
the frame of the door there were marks of blood,
and the deceased's fingers were scorched and bloody.
It is supposed, that awakened by the pain he suffered
when the flames reached hint, he had been induced to
make fur the dour, lint suffocated by the smoke, bad
been unable to open it. The door was not locked, and
until that night he haul been observed to sleep with it
open. Several letters of the deceased were found, one
from his father, by which it appeared that he is a uni-
tive of Carle, in time county of Tipperary. Due infor-
mation of the shocking event has been sent to his
friends. The finding of the Coroner and Jury was as
follows, viz.:—" That the rl.rerased was suffocated, in
consequence of being- accidentally burnt by the bed fur.
niture taking fire in the bed room in which the di-1
ceased slept, owing to the candle being placed and left
too near to the same by him, the deceased."
An Inquisition was taken yesterday, in the Hoare.,
room of St. Bartholomew's Hospitar, before 'Thomasl
Shelton, Esq. 'oroner, on the body of James 'anbury,
aged 22, a journeyman plaisterer, who died in cons°.
!pence of the injury lie received through a horse "lin-
ing away wi•ii a small cart, as stated in our paper of
Wednesday. There appearing no criminality attached
to any individual, the Jury returned a verdict of "Ac-
cidental Death," with a drodand of five shillings on the
cart wheel.

ANOTHER GREAT CAPITAL POLS ST DISH !! !—On 1
Tuesday last. the 10th instant, No. 19,515 was drawn a
Prize of 16,1100/. Consols, which, with several other Ca-
!kali, was sold he Dish, at his fortunate offices, 4, Corn-
-1 hill' and 9, Charing-Cross; who also sold No. 14,041, a
prize of 21,000/. and several other Capitals in the present
Lottery. The following is the present rich state of the
Wheel . all of which must be drawn Next Tuesday, the
17th instant, and the Saturday following, being the final
conclusion of both the Lottery and the Contract, when of
course every prize mast be drawn.
1....0f Lx5,MO Consols .... ....... ........t 113,000
2 20,01.111 Consols
I ... 11,000 Consols
2 ..... ..... &MOO Consols
2 . 2,400 Consols
2 2.100 Consols
1,200 ('onsols 2,400
••
0 4OO Consols ...
0 230 Consols . 1,800
20 3O Mosey .. 1,000
41. 23 Money .. 1,0111/
80 ...... .... 21 Money .. 1,080
1,013. .. . 12 Money .. 12,100
1,100 ll— I Is. Money ... 12,703
Every Ticket drawn the next Dar, is Pm to he a
Prize, and one-half of all the Capitals and other Prises
must be drawn that day; consequently, on the next day
of drawing there will not be any Blanks. A few war-
ranted unarawn Tickets and Shares are still on sale at,
Dish's offices, 4, Cornbill, and 9, Cluing-Cross, Lon-
don, and by his agents in the Country.
. 1

MARRIED.

On Friday. the 19th ell.. at Blioklime. In X
%Varies. Req.. of Greenwich. Surgeoe, to Fli
daughter of the Her. It. D. Churchill, of the

DIED,
Yesterday se'onight, George Haste% Esq., et. Moles.
bur). Ruei.s. aged 60; and on the following dag, WA lister:
‘II 45 31argoret llessell, aged 40.

LONDON MARKETS, Juar 13.
corroN.—The Cotton market has been steady,
The accooots from Liverpool this week are exceeding*
favourable: on Wednesday above 3,000 bags of Cies.%
were sold, greasily at se advance of id. o id. per
—The inteillgeoce has a very favourable effect ►
and will probably lead to ostensive transactions
'Change.
SUGAR.—The market has beau heavy all the
the holders of low humans evince a great disposition
sell, andd for these deeeriptioos very reduced prices
bees accepted, 64e. for free brown, sod for very low
Sugars with colour are scarce, in some request, and,
very high I. epee es, the cheap purchases are Has •
; any Maecovadows above 00e. with colour, '
ready purchasers at good prices. There is little
ation to notice in the Refined market, several extens;,
houses purchased considerably early iu the week,
the request appears since to have subsided. There '
been sense inquiries after Brasil Sugars, but few
purchases are reported.
COFFEE.—The public sales this week bare gone
heavily ; the ordinary rank Jamaica at a farther
of Is. 3 2s. since Missile', last ; the qualities above
dinary at a further decline of 2s. a 35.; middling
good middling Jamaica and Dominica sold yesterda,
very low prices; a parcel of St. Domingo at public
went at 114 s. 6d. a 115 s. 6d. There were no pa
sales of Coffee this forenoon; the demand by pri'
contract appears, however, to revive considerably ,
rednction in the prices has attracted the attention
the buyers, and we should not be surprised if
derable purchases were made during the latter
the day.
RUM, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.—By public
on Tuesday, 267 puncheons Jauiaiea Rum, amused:l
able and of very inferior quality, sold-12 a 15
proofs, Is. 4d. a Is. 5d.; 27 a 30 0. P. tls. e
' The exceeding low prices of the sale materially .
the market; purchases may be made Id. a 2d. per
lon lower; Leeward. remain nominally the same.
are no pnrchases of Brandy lately reported. Geneva
without inquiry.
OlLS.—There are no accounts yet received respectii
the success of this year's fishery ; the holders of
of Greenland here are, in consequence, asking
prices, and an advance of I/. has been realised .
holders are, however, still looking for a further
provement, and there is, in consequence, little bush
doing.
I NDl(lo.—The sale at the India House has gene
Icitli much briskness, particularly the ordinary descrif
Lions, which are ltd. per lb. higher than the last sale:
middling 6(1. a la. higher ; the good and fine nearly
1411 sale prices ; there is little distinction between
good and very fine qualities.
LIM%V.—The low prices of Tallow attracted
attention of buyers early in the week, since which
has been a gradual improvement in the prices; the
Let is fully Is. per cwt. higher, and few sellers
idvience; yrl:ow can4le 465. a 465. Gd. The Tow'
ket is to-day quoted 4tss. W., which is the same
week.

SPSC! FIC was ever broneht into use
!Professors of Medicine. to egos! PRElDE'Seeii:brated
and incomparable Fant.cm Pikks, fur the speedy, safe,
erectile' CUII
of a certain disorder, in all its insinuating forms,
malignant and destructive Recaps it daily makes
Human Frame: but, happily, thew Pills Cure in so _
time, and in so sale and easy a manner, as to warrant
in such full confidence of success, that

NO
Smirk of Disease shall be left In the system. These r.
are sold in Iluxes, at ts..lidisansill, Liquorposid-shed, Lou-
dose bit should it be preferred. the Doctor ongagssa to Coro
the Disease for a stipulated sea, or return the Moony -
that if there be No Cure, there will be No
PAY.
N. H. The Itch Cured witbost washing or anointing, by
Smelling only, price 4s. W.

111 Y bis Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.—LEAKE'S
Pilulte Salutaria. justly famed for Curing. In all its
Stages, a Certain Disease. One small Pill is a Dose ; and
the taking of one box. is a reornet VINO, Mill soon convinre
the Patient of the certainty of his. speedy recovery. No-
thing can be better contrived more safe, or more convenicnt
than this remedy, for such as are obliged to go joyrides Id.
to sea, as it needs oo confinement or restraint of Diet ; and
At years experience (in an exteortive practice) has proved
that it will erect a Cure. when repeated salivation and alt
other methods avail nothing. For the scurvy and other
chemical disotders, this Medicine has sot its parallel. Up-
wards of .10,000 persons, of both sexes, have been radically
cured of the above cruel Disorders, with'n the last eight
years. Prepared and sold •
Loa and Non, Surgeon,*
Street. in boxes of only
Two beet doors or lights
are also sold by their appolotnb
at Mr. lfepbnrn's Toy-shop.
borough's, 7, PIA btriNd
meat; at Mr. Baxter's, )
lin; and by one person
Britain arid Ireland.
above, or other of the
elatiaei weaknesses cured,
• Sesta' list, published

Carps -
Be promptly
WHEN Science began to explore flair complicated
machinery of Mao, she, was speedily entangled
in a labyrinth of mysterious eonftision, from which,
'retina perseverance alone emancipated tier. Ignorance
sad empiricism. however, still oppose their hostility,
and the prejudice of weak minds, in some iaessure.
eaeoerviges their audacity.—As Trut is to Falsehood
We may nor public statemeene be compared with their en-
gaidifved proloolloos, and to impose their fallacies. we hese
sot koallotod to avow ourselves as practitioners la a
rhos of Diseases, which ender the mystic evolutions
Illottro. To he brief : we are Members of the Loxoos
hi] IMIONS. eau establish the integrity of our Can-
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t symptoms to the re'notest stages. eheracterited by
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sad studiously c,ntidered. as have also those delicate and
=tint sympathies which refer to the Female Ms. Tie
ides of virility have been especially noticed, wbethsr
so arising from the debilitating t rattily of a tropical stet^ 4
"Mere—the natural bias of constitution—the imprudence of
gaiety —or the more alarming resultsof a propensity to prac-
tises " which shun the light ;" the progress of which. is
marked by a gradual dereliction of the animal powers.—To
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as are aspirants for connubial pler.snres, we earnestly re-
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Bristol; Barrett end DuMeld. Bath ; Hatt, CaribrUge ;
Headley. Leeds; and by all Bookiellers.
Remedies can be forwarded to any part of the coun'r, ;
patients writing for the same, will please to mitiose a Bart
aole.—Atinndanee at home for consultation as esna'..—
LIOSS, sad CO. M. R. C. Surgeons, 11, Bouverie-streel.
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