The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-05-21 00:00:00

THE STATE^.-,M A!A

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

ARCIIrs COURT, ita• SO.
PATIN, lALBLLT CALL►D WATTS, V. van&
This est • rase of nullity of marshiest, leakeled
by the will sgaiost the hatband, seder cirevasteeds
of rather an unusual description. Tie Pettit, were
married, by licence, at Ilse church of 4•. Mary.iee
beetle, so 101 l ago as the 20th May, 1800; Miry
Hiles being thee a spinster, sod shoe• 20 seen et
age. The sierras, for ad licence desrtibed th► ie.
tended marriage as being about in tape place eke
the consent of Smoak Owe!, widow, the eta i.e. if
t►e said Mary Hayes; and it wts aceeidingly sets
lesteized, Mr.. Quack etairing at .b. rinpigtotost.
Tho glowed of the pretest suit, hearts", ass. Met
in point of feet so legal consent was ever gide ; the
father of Mary Weis. lore sentrawat 10 b° vas
brio/ at 'but time living, and Mrs. Classek, dais•
tent Hayes, being condemn!, set a willow a• she
had &scatted herself.

The Learned Crooned fee the husband, Mr.
Wares, conceived that the most roper retiree for
them to parser was, to sobeoit the facts as peeved,
without soy ether remises,; thee the oddest*
would show that Mr Watts etas meta party to pro-
rating the liceece, and was net waste. emit the
citation in this case was towed, that there emoted mat
informality is the marriage.
Sir Joni Itilicsou. remarked, that the dress.
sluices connected with Ibis suit bad something atree.
liar in them : for it was contrary to the reseal temple,
moo brought by the wife' against she bemused, sod es,
account of beg own misosity ; the m.stiago clew.
&Wisely nor secretly had, bet w ith the cosiest of
the minor's mother, who supposed herself at the thou
to be s widow. It tweed est, however, that the
father, for SOON years ..parted to be deed, was them
tiring, sad had since, untied, boo. ogoatogd as a
• *auras. He we, the only mule. ecanding to the
Act of Parliament, who could legally COMM! to the
match ; sod if the terms 1,1 lOU A.. vrev• est tom.
I plied with, not wiehstandieg that the putties had Mimi
I together for IS years, it ma, In point of fact a mese
nullity. Now, the minothy of the Lady, by the de-
position, of several witnesses connected with the fa-
mily, was poi beyond all dosbl. Tito father left
Endued in 1780. for Anodise. He resided sew this
et 'Wires, in N.... Scotia, whirh place bo quitted,
mod refereed to England in 1784. In the beetles
• his wife sad children, -the lived is the house of bit
uncl,, hard nothing of him, and concluded that be
was no more. A parson named Casten, strived (eons
Halifax, confirmed the ietelligeote of Hayes* iteth,
and married Mrs. Hayes, who did met herself dm-
menicate I. Hayes ou his arrival what had takes,
plate. The affair wet, however, made known t.. him,
Ipreviously Ito some negotiations @altered into with him
1002nd, a booed to his wife, turn Mrs. Church,
; enabling her to retries some ended property seder
the will of the uncle, a Mr. Adams, ono had left
her one or two legacies of that onion. Hayes, after
a stay of a few months, retuned once mote to Mama
rice, and was 'farm beard of again until April,

MS, when, trodeinendieg that a nephew of hit.
John Hayes, E.g. commanded hk Islajestj's ship
Majestic, on the Halifax station, he addressed s let-
ter to him, Wormiest!! him *flues heir's in good health,
&c., and dated from dm loon of Norton, New
. .

Brunswick, Nava Scotia. Of course the nearsisiet
of his daughter had been celebrated signet frePll leis
knowledge, and in the ebsolot• belief tbat lea was
sot Siting; his wife, who. had enntracted a second
worrier, end lost her second hastened, concloding
herself a widow, bed given that consent shirk sits,
in fact, Illegal; and although the parties appeared to
base acted only is error end under wionformatioa,
the 'sayer of the delight's must be granted: and Is
Court accordingly pronounced the warrior wall sad
told.

POLICR.

Qtrezw.sgogitt.—A serjesnt of the 3d regiment
of Feet Greeds, accompanied by one of the pri-
vates and his wife, brought a line little bey of 'boot
moo year old before the Magistrate, to whom they
stated, that is the Maki bet's., a women genteelly ,
dressed, came into the BOrrockeyard at Snip*.
bridge. She loss supposed to be one of the serjrasit's
wives, and no 'mike was taken of her. Shortly af-
ter, the women was seen levying tie place in a great
harry. Ti, child soon afterwards was Nand tIY-
-
tog ; but the ennateral norther emdd not be feted.
The case being mode Itairwo to the Comemorlieg
Officer, he ordered the poor child to be take. care of
in the goard.bowse that sight, sad ant day is be
brought before the Magistrate.
The MAOLtTIATN ordered the clerk to write to the ,
narrators of St. George's parish, to trimmest. the
poor child most be committed, sod in order that they
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eight take proper steps to discover the parents.

DI RTHS.
Os 'he fad. Mrs. Autism Miler Rat, City-elor, er a
•SO. _ _

die she illth inst. M fiorbitee•biU, Sultey, Mn. his Miran,
of a datsghtes.
OR the 17th lad. at Steariause. arm Mynas* the Lady al
Sit Joie Gerdes ditteiale, of a daughter.
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MARRIED.
Oa the EMI late. at %NIL Lambe* Mehra Prescott. Faq•
of labata. la Rai, at Ml* Kelly. the same plate.
Oa she letb Met. al Pi. Idatitewlt. Bethnal-greets the r".
=mat, 4 Maarieed
daa. . Lfte•lmitire, illaajeth, Met
of JahaJai at Baluter't-hall.

DIED.
Oa the 'Eli laottary, at soo, ea boo prow to raglood frost
Yawl. Ma sib of Lleutroont..Col. Cooshern.
On tho 1316 hotaas, sae ger. Rem" Rlittly, of b.lasberY.
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