The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-07 00:00:00

MARKETS.

CORN-RIMIANOR, DEC. 7.—We had several fresiarzi-
vals this morning. from Suffolk, bet not the lea ins-
prOvement in trip demand for any °rain. Prime dils,
samples of Wheat were the oely description that cc.sld
be got off, and which sold 2s. per quarter lower than on
Monday ; but all other sorts were totally unsaleable.—
Barley at from Is. to 2s. per quarter cheaper, and exceed-
ingly heavy sale at that abatement.—Beans, Peas, and
Oats went off very slowly at a declibe of Is. per quarter.
SUITUrraLD MARKET, Doc. 7.—There was bat a mid-
dling supply of Cattle at market this morning, and all
prime articles went off higher than last market day.
To sink the offal per at of Sibs.
Beef .... lis. ad. to as.i7.l. CATTLK AT MARKT?
420
Matton.. Is. Od. to 3s. M. Beasts
I
Veal .... Is. Od. to In. Od. Calves .....i.
and tombs
Pork .... Is. Od. to 4e. Id. Sheep
Lamb .... Os. Od. to Os. Od. Pigs 190
HAY-MAIIIMT.--No alteration is Day.--Clover as per
last.it
Hay V 10s. to 41. 4s. I Sway ..11 Os. .to U. Ids.
Closer 41. Os. to U. Os. I

The magoificeet woods of Holkam bale afforded the
most brilliant sport this season ever remembered. Th e
Dukes of Gloucester, Norfolk, and Bedfora, the Lords
Tavistock, Althorp, Lyndock, and Nugent, Sir Ronald
Ferguson, Sir Harry Goodwin, General Walpole, Ad.
miral Lakin, Mr. Adair, &e. were amongst some of the
best shots. The first day, Nov. 7, the umber of game
killed was 603 ;on the Stb. 9; and on the 9th, 555
head well' bagged, part of w6hoich were 502 bares.

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• • THE LAIR GALES. ‘,Y
• rifIcADYN. GALE AT NIATCASTI.E.--Eitij 'on. Sa-
-1 wrtley nr4Fning last, Newcastle and the neighbourhood
•vere visited by a treinenduous gale from the westward
A blast at once so powerful anti continuing so long►,
as not been known here 'for man years. Greater
pact of two new houses in New Bridge-street, in this
tcovn was blown to the ground by it. A stack of ehim-
rfes fell on the roof of a house in Johnson's eildre, on
the New-road, and by the force of the fall removed a
bean, Oval its situation, which struck the head of a
poor woman named Brown, upwards of eighty years
of age, who lived iu . the garret, and killed tier in-
stantly. 'Her grandson, a boy about nine years of age
who was in the same bed, escaped unbolt. Sinch.was
the force of the gale in the iteighbourhoodirAll-
Saint's Church, that small pebbles were blowesKrough
some of the panes in the windows exactly as if they
bad been shot. In tl►e garden of Hugh Harrison,
cie the Leases, several yards of wall with rails on the
top were blown.over. We undertand that the Metho-
dist Chapel, at Kenton, which► is now used as a school,
bid the roof blown off, and two of the windows blown
in.. In Gateshead, also, part of the front of a house
came into the street with great violence. A stack of
chiinnies fell, and broke the roof of Mrs. Ludlow's
house, in Back-lant, and lodged in the garret,
which was fortunately boarded, 01 the Misses Ludlow,
ho slept in the ro►nr beneath, novo have been killed-
A window in Mr. Price's glass manufactory, fronting-
-the river, was blown in wholesale, and forced to the
end of the *pertinent. Between four and five o'clock
in the morning, J. Dobson, servaut to Mr. A. Free-
man, of the Windmill-hills, fell from the mill wand,
about 30 feet high, on a granary two stories high, and
thence to the ground. He was taken up appa-
rently dead, but medical aid being immediately pro-
cured, there are great hopes entertained of his re-
covery. By the fury of the wind many wills in the
neighbourhood broke away from their brakes, and
several wands, sails, Ike. have been destroyed, or more
or less damaged. The top, and two of the wands
of Boldon Mill were blown off. We hear that a new
, mill at Northallerton was blown down.—(Toe Mer.)
:Witrrenavzst.—The weather for several days past has
been unusually tempestuous, hut until Friday night no
damage had been sustained, either along this coast, or
in our harbour. Early that evening it began to blow a
strong gale from the south-west, but before midnight
it bad increased to a hurricane, and continued with lit-

tie abatement until Saturday evening. The smack Ho-
nest Miller, D. Cain, master, came on shore behind the
North WO, where the vessel was immediately dashed to
lie:es, and of the crew sad passengers, amounting to 18,
only one man (the master) was saved ! The moment the
vi soi struck, the master got into the punt, in which ' e
t►as _thrown by the waves against the railing of Messrs.
Brocklebank's building yard, to which be clung, and
where the receding surges left him. Notwithstanding
As extreme exhaustion he succeeded in climbing to the
card, and by that means saved his life. Only three of
the dead bodies have yet been found. One of the crew
was the brother-in•law of the Master, but of the passen-
;di itinitt)g We believe is known.
• On Siilsy the North harbour was literally covered
with floating fragments of bulwarks, sterns, Btc. carried
away the preceding night. There was at least 150 ves-
sels in the harbour, and all, we may venture to say, have
received more or less, some very material injury.—
Amongthe latter, we may mention the Henry, of liar-
rington, which broke from her moorings in the Old
Quay tier, and was driven, though loaded, anddraws 13
feet of water, close upon the battlement at the foot of
Mark-lane. The Hero also broke away at the same time,
and to prevent her being driven into a s►milar birth they
scuttled her by opening► the how port. In the course of '
the night the glass of the old light house was broken
and this light extinguished.
The Triton, Beeden, in the dreadful gale of last night,
off SLltee's-head, lost her how-sprit, stern boat, anchor,
and cable. In this condition they were exposed to the
frightfi►l storm until three o'clock on Saturday after-
noon, when she went on shore about five miles to the
sa►►tl►ward of Bootle. _ _

. LIMERICK, DEC. I.—About six o'clock yesterday a
most tremendous gale of wind commerred at W.N.W.,
and continued with unabated violence till four o'clock
this morning. The tide rose to a most alarming
height; the damage in the river must have been roe-
enierable, as almost every vessel in the harbour suffer-
ed in some degree. Several chimneys, particularly
in the Old Town, were blown down, and great damage,
has been done to the roofs of houses. A back house,'
four stories high, near the old gaol, was completely
thrown down by the falling of a chimney, and a wo-
man and her infant have been dug out of the ruins
on the ground floor, quite dead. Some of the other
inmates have had their limbs broken, and more se-
verely injured. There is not a street, lane, or passage,
in that part of the city, that dues not prison some
effect from the storm.

The small craft in the long dock presented a la-
mentable picture; some sunk, others without masts,
and altnost the entire quays are knocked to pieces.--
We fear there will be a melancholy account from the
lo►ater part of the Shannon. A great number-of ships'
boats knocked to pieces and wrecked. A boat belong-
;Jo Somers, of Baycastle, swamped at Coonah, and
ter.persons were drowned. The owner gist safe to
shore. A small sail-boat, with coals for Adore, is also
on shore ; it is supposed the crew are lost. Seveial
boats which were laden with corn came up the river
This morning, having thrown their cargoes overboard
to save the lives of the c►ew. The bullies of eight
men and two women ate now lying at Coonah Point,
and several others are reported in a similar way on
the banks of the Shannon, the roof of the city gaol,
received considerable dapage in the storm last night.
Tbe Waterford Mail, loin Dublin, did not arrive in
this town till sii o'clock ;on Saturday, three boors
late, we suppose this was.in. consequence of the most
tremendous storm which we recollect for a lung time.
Aiu►cst every house in this town has been. stripped,
more less, of the slates ; however. we are happy
to state, that no material accident has occurred. Se-
•eftil trees hase been blowo down, as also some cabins,
anti a number of corn and hay stacks. The poAaxoes
hire be much injured by the rain and floods.
• Wednjsday nightor early yesterday morning, Union
Chat el; Compton terrace, Islington, was broken into
and ►obbed of the clock and two brass lamps. Sun-
-44y ijloiton Acade►tiy Chapel was rubbed also
of a en/lA*lld two bras 4 •
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Middlesex Sittings after Stichaeltnes Willi taitlibill
Chief Justice andiroominem Jams' ir.
wormer .0. CLARKS ANa • °TOROS..
This ..was an action of. mover bytthe ese‘uttrok of a.
brass-fouader,. late of Clerkenwall, for tierteatiftects
alleged to have been converted by the defendants. `.
-Mr.- BROUGHAM and Mr. 0117 TY • conducted the
plaintiff's case, and ,Ur. Nous.. and Us. W mai-ILAN
the defendants. t•..: .! •
The testator haring made a wildibd-appointed the
defendant, Clarke, hair-dresser by trade, a particular
friend, his executor, deposited it in his hands.. Some
time after, repeating of what he had done,. be desired
the defendant to givehim back Isis will, which be
dined doing. Upon which the testator made a second
will, read it to the defendant, and appointed the plain-,
tiff, his wifei.. sole executrix. and shortly afterwards
died. Notwithstanding this the defendant obtained
probat of the first will and proceeded to act as execu-
tor and sell the estate and effects of the teatatator and
dispose of them as the will directed, though-tile plain-
tiff entered her protest. The other defendants, selioi
were brokers and atiltioneers, were the persoolt.Our
ployed to sell and act undcr,the probat. The questiotil
was whether the action, under these cirontustancesiol
would lie ?
The Cuter JUSTICE said there was no doubt of it,
and a verdict was found for the plaintiff, suhject
reference as to the amount of the damages. '
THE KING V. CATHERINE SOLOMON. •
This was an indictment against the detembint, a
Jewess, for assaulting. another Jewess of the nacre of
Hannah Benjamin. The case was totally destituteof
interest, and the defendant was found guilty,

WILLIAMS U. ROWLAND.

This was an action of assurnpsit, upon an agree-
meat, to deliver up to the plaintiff the aide:aw aes of
runaway apprentice, who bad served part of his titue
with the plaintiff, in the business of a tailor.
_ _ .

Mr. Gunser and Mr. Comm conducted the plain-
tiff's case, and Mr. C. PHILLIPS the defendant's. There
was nothing of public interst in the case, and the
Jury, under the Learned Judge's directionsjound their
verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages, 60/.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 6.

BEER AND 0711ERS V. WARD.

The SomCITOR-GENERAL stated this to he ;eke
directed by the Court of Chancery, respecting the le-
gitimacy of an individual now deceased. The . Jury
were to determine upon the evidence whether William
Cotton, the lunatic son of William Cotton and Rebec-
ca Webskr, bad been born before or after the marriage
of his parent!. The question was one of considera-
ble importance to the parties, first as it respected the
purity of blood of a branch of one of the moo en:
dent families in the kingdom, the Cottons of Shrop-
shire ; and, secondly, as it regarded the amount of the
property in dispute. which bad been estimated at
about 200,000/. The Jury would conceive what
might be the length of the trial, when lie informed
them that the person whose legitimacy tit bad this
day to prove, bad been born in the earOwiesseasees of
the last century, and bad died some years ilnce. Mr.
Rowland Cotton, the grandfather of the kinetic, and
married in the year 1701, and in 1126 entered into a
settlement with his eldest son William, by-which, the
large family estate Wasentailedocebisson. The settle-
ment which had thus been made, was to be divested,
if the sun should ever marry without his father Row-
land's consent. The son was at that time on terms
of the closest intimacy with the late Duke of King-
ston, and soon after the making of this settlement went
abroad with the Duke, and visited almost every Court
in Europe in his company. They did not return from
this Continental tour until about the year 1736 or
1737, soon after which, it appeared William Cotton
had privately married Rebecca Webster, by whom he
had a large family, the eldest male branch of which
was William Cotton, the lunatic. This marriage bad
been privately celebrated, in consequence of -the par-
ticular proviso contained in the above-mentioned set-
tlement, and it was kept concealed from Mr. Rowland
Cotton for some years, William Cotton having taken
up his residence at Cuckney, near Thoresby, the seat
of the Duke of Kingston, and having represented to
his father that be was on a visit to the Duke ; a cir-
cumstance which seemed corroborated by the fact of
their long and close intimacy. In the year 1746 the
father became acquainted with the marriage, and
scented, by a subsequent deed or se:tlement, to have
been reconciled to it ; fur there it was recited as
having ot a trred some years Billie, and a variety of
provisoes were therein made fur the children of that
marriage, who there mentioned by name in the order
of their birth, William, who was afterwards unfortu-
nately deranged being mentioned first. When he
(the Solicitor-General) spoke of the lunatic, he should
have informed the Jury, that the misfortune of lu-
nacy did not fall on that individual until he had at-
tained his 34th year, before which period he had al-
ways been recognised as•the lineal hair of Mr. Row-
land Cotton, and had exercised as midi the rights
which belonged to him, besides which he bad been
named as the heir in all deeds which had been made
subsequent to Mr. newly II Cotton's discovery of his
son's marriage. When tEe Jury considered the pe-
riod at which that marriage liid been celebrated, they
would recollect that it had taken place before the
Marriage Act passed, which had now rendered many
ceremonies and a certain publicity necessary that at
the time in question were considered superfluous. It
was to this circumstance that the difficulty of fully
proving his case might be attributed. He would show,
however, that Mr. Richardson, the clergyman of the
parish, bad regularly christened all the children, end
that gentleman would produce the parish book in ,
which it would be seen a distinction had been made
between legitimate and illegitimate children. That
distinction had not been extended to any of the family
of William Cotton, sen. who were all marked as legi-
timate children. The legitimacy of William Cotton.'
jun. the unfortunate lunatic, had never heenquestioned
until after his death, and the death:othis second bro-
ther, Mr. Evelyn Rowland Cohn), ultra the present
defendant put in his claim as testamentary heir of .11r.
E. It. Cuttos, who, so far from disputing the eitie of
Cotton as heir at law, had actually during his
fife taken on himself the duty of a Committee fur
elder brother in the character of Iticnext
.1 variety ut dutuuteutary and parole evidencessinjw