The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-14 00:00:00

FAIRS AND MARKETS.

At Beverley Fair, on Thursday, the show of horses was
not so large as usual. • Those of the hest description were
hastily purchased at advanced prices, and even those of
an intrror order sold well. The dernan.l for prices a•as
quit; unprecedented.
At Callington fair, on Tuesday last, a consid-r tide ad-
vance took !dace in the price of fat cattle. At Lirrkesrd
fair, yesterday (Thursday), the supply of cattle wits tr. 4
abundant, and an advance prices were demanded.
At North Petherton fair, on Thursday se'nnight, there
was a very great show of cattle; the poor stock was riv.;Ch
the same as at recent fairs, but the fat stock rather -ad-
ianced, fetching about 9s. a score. Sheep muck the same
as of late, •

The fair, at Cowbridge, was filled with every.deserig-
lion of cattle. A great many were sold at low prices, but
good horses sold.
At our Spring Cattle Fair, on Tuesday last, there was
a passable show of lean stuck, for the most part truly so
called, and for which there was but little demand ;
few, however, that were forward in flesh, found ;cad.;
purchasers at from 2s. to 2s. 6.1. per stone ;hut in a ge-
nerali point of a view, it was a very dull fair, owing n
some measure to the want of grass, but in a greater Ile-
;tree, we believe, to the want of money. It was, neve ...
thelets, well attended.—(Lewes paper.)
To our fat stock market, on the same day, the (sir
folk gave increased bustle, but without increasing its ha-
airless, which, as is usual. at this season of the year, w
rather dull. Beef at 3s. 61. to 4s.— Mutton 4s. to 4s. tl I.
Lamb ss. to 51. 64. And Veal a drag at 3s. GI to -;=.
per stone. Store Pigs in iintain their late advanced
but that that of fat Hogs, is upon the decline.—(lte.l.)
Hailsham market, on Wednesday, tsas very short of
fat beef, (not more than I I lastly beasts being exhibited)•
and not user full of Mutton ; but of Lamb there was .6
superabundance, which sold much lower than on the
preceding market day. There were but few buyers, an I
consequently nor much business dune. Beef 35.10 d. to4o. Y I
Mutton 4s. to 4s. lid. Lamb sa. to ss. per stone.
Toe show of horned cattle at Crawley Fair, on
Thursday was small compared with what is common. tt.
that mart; the sales were heavy, and upon the whole, b.t
little business was transacted.

Never, we believe, did the Spring Season, at any for
mew period, witfiia the memory of the oldest and was:
experienced borticultnrist, give to the fruit trees, rne-
rally, a fairer probnise of an abundant pro lute, than the
present, and especially to the grape vines, which are
largely fruited at alun.st every bud.—(Surfer ditty )
EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY.—:Ia ewe, the pi-a:wry
of Mr. Henry HrwincgtraY, of Littleover, near Herby,
seven years old, has in the course of so many seasona
brought forth twenty-five lambs, viz. let year, nne-2.!,
three-3d, faitr-4.h, four-sth, five--Gth, fire-7
three. Thee five she had in 1r.422, were all ewe 1e10)-,
and have all had lambs this season, the whole of whielz
are living.
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'1 he salmon fishings, on the river Tay, have been more
unsuccessful this season, than has been known fur lofty
years back. This mast be ascribed, we should suppow,
to the quantity of snow, which, even at this late.perio
of the season, still lies on the hill., and gradually
melting with the summer's beat, renders the weer
unwho:esouse and unpalatable to the lish.—(PerAshire
Courier)
lii the year the swallows were seen in the vici-
n'ty of Valkilt on the 221 u.f April; in 1522, on the
Kith of April ; and the present year, on the 2:ith of the
salute month.

• COURSE OF EXCHANGI4.—Finamt.
Amsterdam éC. 10 Gibraltar 301 U
Ditto at Sight , it 7 Malmo 46f.0
Rotterdam.. . . ... .....it II Genoa 43 U
Antwerp it 11 Vanier Italian Liv ';•S RI
Ilamburgh. •• ..... •• 36 4 Malta... .• .. 43 .0
Altoua
Paris. 3 days' sight. .63 90 Pcermo. svoz 113 0
intto ' 110 13 Lisbon ... 61

Harileaus td 13 °ports 31 0
Franktorton the Main ISO • Rio Janeiro 48 0
Petenbarg Sna p rble K Rabbi
Harlin.; —Cur Dolls 7d 114 r. Dublin 'no e
Vienna, EC d in..:.do l an Gera
Trieste dine.... ..... .81,80 - ' • - • a uLLION. per in.
Madrid. JOI U Porturtlgoldincoln.ln.l4.4o6l
'Cadiz 332 • u - Foreigagolaki Dorset:64bl
Bilbos .33 U New. Doubloons' i.. 41 • it..-4)
Barcelona ..33i U New Dollars 0 • V
1 beTill4 .$i 0 bilverinbars,staadard 4 1111

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HOUSE OF LORDS, T VESDAT. MAT 13.
nco; V. RERP, uTtiEftWISIC LAIXO.

Mr. Wcfnettsti. was beard this morning on behalf of
the appellant in repiy. lie felt h;roself under great dilfi-
culty, front the impression which lop feared had been
matte on their Lordships' min'n by the evidence on the
other side. He admitted that if their Lordships believed
that roncutitas bad taken place between the parties, it,
Wit no matter whether the promise of his client was a
promise of marriage tic loo•reati or de fai aro. If
• cuba-
itation bad actually taken place, it uas unnecessary to
false that point; but if cohabitation cpuld not be made,
vet, then these marriage lines (as they were vulgarly
called) must he only taken as a iromise to marry at some!
future wriod. In his humble opinion cohabitation had
not been trade oat.. Their Lordships, in considering the'
-constant, Mr. Held, mast 'millet that lie was a man
whose feelings and habits were not those of ordinary men,
!
and they must not conclude against him front the same
conduct as, they would against an ordinary man. It
'night be true that he had not behaved in the most he-
tearable way towards this girl--true that he had kept
ter in a most romantic attitude while he was ',laying thel
part of a lover towards lief —true that be had been tie-!
striving her for years together; that kind of conduct was
not new to he ft;itntl for the fast time in the catalogue of
crime; he (Mr. Wetlieri.4l) was net defending him trout
charge of this nature, but be Was defending him from
the ceneltision that he bad committed certain acts:
amounting I.n a matrimonial alliance with lire. In look-
ing over these numerous tenets, he could not help IO:-
log the writer of them a kind of W
metal NH er
perhaps be should style Lr.o " a mental stainnanthulietett
the sehject of amatory feelings ;" he surpassed all the
love makers he had ever real of either is verse er prose
haus the days of Sappho thatetiwa.rds. It was represent-
ed that titers bad been a universality of inter-
course between these parties, but 'lsere was rut
positive evidence of the existence of anvt—except
at the 'house of Mrs. Watson, in littinburgh. It
was said that a ineeringtookylace in an eninlealtited house
atitat bethink, on tine 4th of Nov. nheretltela.tfamiliarity
was gr.nted; and sabseiptently it was stated ;fiat he walk!
Satilitl visits to this girl at Mrs. liratune's, where they
might retire to a bed in the laundry; and yet Rachel
F.erester's evidence only went to prote that the inter-
cows. took place there once ; so that, although the for-
Leese had sarnm keell in the lone house, although the be-
sieged bid )fielded to the besieger, the assailed to theae-
sat hint, and although he hail censtant opportunities, this
rnmantiet ene'ic, prose-Ina:110:w ueoei afterwards retired
with her but once.

The Lotto CHANCICIAOL—You make mu this nsa4
lover, Mr. Wetherell, to be sore subrr than say other
lover I ever heard of.

Mr. WETIERELL.—I confess, my Lords, I feel myself
quite in a different region ; f exist in a difereut awe-
:There, my lungs don't respire, my tongue cleaves to my
meads, I cannot bring Ivy ideas tr tvittact aids tine
r-ople's ileis ; and when I get out of this, I Shall 4e.
Joke once more to breathe an ordinary atmosphere, and
see myself surrounded he ordinary men. The learced
Connrel proceeded to rid-it-ale tkeevidence of Forrester,
which he contended would, if believed, go to prose his
client to be of a different organic construction from other
men. Another point in the condescendence related to
the soppoied intereonrse which took place at tlillirs's
house- Now it would seem that Mr. Reid's construelion
hatth srental and corporeal, both sentimental awl for
earthly purposmi, was in the inverse ratio of that of any
other human lying, foe the more opportunity 'LIG/rated to
him, the less intercourse did he teem to have had. By
He Setters be appeared only to inpplicate her for a smilj,
or a look—nay, he was contented with a look from her
oet of the vcindow, although, if their Lordships believed
the allegations or the other side, he bad already arrived
at ultra familiarity, at the extreme limits of ul-ralism—
at the very HercUles' Pillars of familiarity. la one of
s letters lie talked of potting down apples is a place'
e. where he might tee her at a distance," atthe very time
when this telescopic lover might have slept with her all
right; and in aucither he mentioned leasing letters for
tier on a stone, although the gentlemen on the other
side would have it that the patties were here roan
etre, sole. .

Tile i.3RD CIIANCELLOR.--iiet dill he not set ont
with saying that lie would write nothing that would
enrniwit hies.

?.Jr. WETHERELL felt the weight of that observaqun;
bnt it was not often that a man could write 230 letters
without teeming to commit himself.
The Loan CUANCELLOIL—AniI he does accordingly
let something slip out; he calls himself her husband
one or take.

Mr. Werueart.c.aAlmitted tl a, be did once.

The Loan CHANCELLOR said, that the appellant bad
set out with the intention of imposing upon the re-
spondent.
Mr. WElligaeLa confessed it would be impossible that
I is client could obtain his freedom from this anatiinionial
connexion, except at the price of having his rispecta-
ilility impugned in other respects. With respect to
then letters, which sere certainly not the most elegantly
u-ritten, nor such as be (Mr. Wetherell) would put it
to his own precedent book. it was vey extraordinary
that throne-bout the whole of them, warm and fervid as
they were, and written daring a period of right years,
not once was there the slightest allusion made to the de-
Eel of pest lent lovers, lie would call that collection of
letters a collection of romantic untruths. They remind-
ed bite of the Greek verse, the substance of which was,
that arts were to he preferred to professions. This man,
according to the evidence, during eight years' profes-
sions, bad acted only four times; and indeed he seemed
to be a curious Med of hack-going lover, whose ad-'
rances consisted of retrograde motions, and whose in-
creased taisiharities coasisted in being lees familiar.
With respect to her letters, it was also a little strange,
that during this Trojan siege of solicitation for eight or
nine years, she had not once alluded to the nltiniste fa-
miliarity having taken place. The learned counsel then
commented on some pas•axes in her letters, end con-
tended that it was impossible to take the single unsup-
ported evidence of Bliss Rachel Forrester against the
stream of the letters. Their Lordships would bear in
mind that this ease would be made • a, precedent of, al-
though no such lour for writing and speaking, and liot
doing, as Mr. Reid. would ever again exist until his,
maned were veriled is the person of some other indivi-
Oral. It was impossible to believe that
.be had ever
been in bed with this girl.
The LORD CHANCELLOR.-1 believe, then, you must
go so far as to. say that he was never in bed with any
itOcly, for be has said that " he never,speot such trans-
porting nights in his life."

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Mr. WEitmaitt.t, said that the case was most important,
as involving genera principles of great consequences ;
and it were better that this uelinqiient in the amatory pro-
vince should pass unwhipped of justice, than that the rules
ofevidenceshould be violated.Lordlienyon,who was a man
of sound discernment, although lie had been called " a
7• otak of the law," had held that the window-shutters of
a room being closed wbile the parties were within was a
proof of adultery; and it was a sound decision is that
case: but the principle did not apply here; for what
alight be proof of guilt in a delicate person of rank,
:night be quite hanuless on the part of a servant-maid.
As in the case, for instance, of a gentleman dra•ving oti.
Lis coat and waistcoat and boots in the presence of a
ebambermaid at anion .---