The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-13 00:00:00

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VICE-CiIANCELLOR'S COURT, Dimwit 12.

caiman E. CURTIS.
This watt an exception to the Master's Report.
11r; BELL, for the defendant, supported the exception.
Re said the bill had been filed by Miss Curtis, daughtet
of the late Sir Roger Curtis, against her brother, Sir
Lucius Curtis, and the other executors of Sir Roger
Curtis, calling on them to account for Sir Roger's per-
sonal estate ; and on their answer coming in, an order
was made that the Master should report whether the
plaintiff hint possessed herself of any part of the testa-
tor's personal estate. besides what watt specifically left her
by the testator's will ; and the Master, after having ex-
amired the plaintiff, stated that she had not. To this
report an exception was taken, on the ground that the
blaster ought to have reported that the plaintiff had pos.
sensed herself of personal property belonging to the tes-
tator to the amount of 7001., which exception was sup-
ported by the examination of the plaintiff, and by letters
proved in the cause.—lt appeared in the cause that Sir
Roger Curtis died in November, 1816, and Lady Curtis
in the month of April followiug. '1 he plaintiff on her
examination stated, that after the death of her mother,
Lady Curtis. she took possession of a deal lax which her
mother had in her possession before and after the death
of the tes'ator, which Fos contained gold coin and Bank
of England notes to the amount of 7001.; and that she
(the plaintiff) bell7ved the said gold coin and bank notes
were the propert;V Lady Curtis during the lifetime of
ter hnitind, and that she always treated the same ash'',
separat- property ' • and that sl 4: (plaintiff) believed that
Sir Roger Curtis knew • that Lady Curtis had said pro-
perty,.and considered it to belong to her; and that in
the month of December, 1816, Lady Curtis made a will;
by which she beventhed the pr-perty contained in the
said box to the pl antilf. But, said Mr. BELL, there is a
letter written by Lady Curtis to Sir Roger Curtis, which
Sibews that the properly contained in the boa was legally
his property. The letter was es follows:
" December% 1815.
" MOST DEAR HUSBAND—In the last drawer of
my burisau yeu will find a deal box, in which is a bac. I
containing gold, which you put smiler my care at the
time you thought the French would inva ie es ; and en•
other bag containing dank-notes which were given me by
my mother on my marriage, except a part that I received
for calves, which you always allowed tile to keep. 1 will
be much obliged to you to divide the amount equally be.
tween my two children, and also to give my dear daugh-
ter theta silver tea kettle and lamp. should it please (ion
to take the before you; and 1 hope you will leave her a
sum to begin housekeeping, as otherwise she might be
distressed on your death.'
From this letter 1111: Batt argued that the money cot-
tained in the deal boi did not belong to Lady Curtis, but
was in fact given to. her to keep by her husband.
Vice•Coaracsu.on.—The matter in dispute should have
bet n arranged between the parties. Part of the property
in the dent box, it is char, belonged to Lady Curtis, and
you can oily ask for the whole on the rule that the per-
son who mixes his own money with that of another, and
can't separate it, should bear the loss of it; but it would
be extremely hard to apply that rule here. Let the par-
ties divide the contents of the deal box between them.

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years old, for whom he appeared to have au extraordi-
nary affection, inasmuch he would never permit her to:go
outside the doors.—(This information alluded to the un-
fortunate Mary Ann Bolton.) In consequence of learn-
ing these facts, she (the mother) went to the house and
saw her daughter's seducer, who received her with the
greatest kindness, deplored her distressing situation;
and assured her he knew nothing of the girl. She told
him site hail ascertained that he did harbour her, and deo
mauded to see her. lie still persiste.d in latowing no
thing shoat her, and she therefore sought the assistance
of the Magistrate.
The Magistrate told the poor woman he wonld rendei
her every assistance he possibly could, and instantly dis-
patched Clarke, an active officer, with Mrs. Bolton to the
Captain's residence, to demand the restoration of the de-
luded girl.
In about an hour the officer;returned with her in hie
tody. She is a charming fresh coloured looking girl;
and was very gentoelly dressed. The otfi-er stated, that
when he entered the Captain's house be found hint and
the girl sitting at breakfast; lie made the nature of bit
visit known, and the Captain declared he would not sur-
render her. however he succeeded in tarrying her offt
and on the way to the office she told hint, that as she was
walking in the London road she met with the Captain,
who told her if she woald leave her parents, and Ike
with him, he would supply her with pleiry of money
and dresses. She according ran away. She sta•ed that
she always slept with the Captain except on Sunday
nights, when she slept with the Captain's son, a boy
abutit O. years old; anti a lady remained %%kit the Cap-
' tain. She had been treated with the greatest kindness
by him, and she was determined never to leave his
• society.
The Magistrate explained the infamy of the life she
was living, and the impropriety of leaving her fond and
indulgent parents to satiety the lust of a debauched old
man. All that he could do would be totteliver her up to
her mutter, hoping she would alter her ways.
The mother thAlc•ti the Magistrate for his kind inter-
ference, and left the Mike with her daught r.

ALARMING Fitte.—Yesterday morning, at five o'clock,
a fire was discovered by the patrol, in the lower part of
the premises of Mr. Spurred, in Hackney Grove,
blidd•e-
sex. So rapid was the progreas of the dames, tha► the in-
mates, Mr. Spurred, his sister, and a maid-servant, were
compelled to retreat over a very narrow parapet, into the
' garret n iudow of au adjoining house. lis a few minutes
the house was in a blaze, and not a vestige of property
was preserved. The Hackney engine was the first on the
spot, but the want of watrr preven.ed its being brought
into effect. A great number of engines arrived from town,
and the fire was confined to Mr. Spurrell's house, which was

totally consumed.
Yesterday, between nine and ten o'clock in the morn-
ing, a tire broke out in a bitch m belonging to a chand-
ler s shop and coal shed, in Lancaster-street. Vommercial
road, which in a short time consumed that house, toge-
ther with all the furniture, &c. and did considerable da-

nafe to the two adjoining Moises.
LORONERS' I:NU/MTS.—Yesterday, an inquest Was
held at the Camberwell el orkliouse. before Chat let J ern-
mett, Esq. on the body of a niale child, whose body nas
discovered lying near the foot-pail in the Camberwell
New-road on the Silt inst.
John Pedlian, a journeyman brickmaker, deposed that
on Saturday morning last between seven and eight
o'clock, while jruceeding to his work along the Camber.
well New-road, he was shocked on tfrliolding the body
of a dead child lyiog at the side of the footraqt, com-
pletely exposed to view; on nearer approach the witness
perceived • strip of coarse linen made fast round the in-
fant's neck, and the ends of it thrust into its mouth. A
piece of flannel which covered a part of the deceased, was
quite wet, and had some mud on it. The witness added
that the body must have I ern placed in the position de-
scribed the previous night, as other' ise it would hare
been discovered before. He informed the pariah-officers
of the eircumstatces, who had the deceased conveyed to
the workhouse.
Mr. John Brown, surgeon, of Camberwell, deposed
that on the day in question, he was sent for to t'e
deceased, who was lying it the warlthouse. On esanti n-
hut the body he found it was in a patrid state, owing to
the length of time it had been dead. The deceased ap-
peared to be about three weeks old. 'Fite piece of linen
dt kribed by the first witness, which was drawn round
the infant's neck, was sufficient to cause atrangalali n,
had it been placed there before death. The body &adieus
were huddled together, and tied up as if in order to make
it up into a small parcel, and the whole enveloped in a
piece of flannel.
Another witness was examined, who corroborated the
above evidence.
Verdict—Wilful Murder against some person or per-
son's unknown.
A Coroner's Inquest sv;.s held on Monday evening b--
fore J. W. UNWIN, Esq. itt. the Gun Tavern, Uun-durk,
Wapping, on the bode o! a youth found drowned, un-
known, aged about 1.
Judd, beadle of Wapping, stated, that the body was ob-
served floating in the Thames, near Wapping Hoek Stairs
scine watermen took it out and conveyed it to the hone-
louse ; it appeared to have been its the water about a
week; it was dressed in a blue coatee, blue waistcoat,
brown trowsers, a Holland shirt and false collar. with an
almost new pair of high shoes. Verdict —Found dronued.
Unknown.
Yesterday evening an Inquisition was taken in the
Board-room of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, before Taos.
SHELTON, Esq. Coroner, off the body of Bridget El-
win, aged two years.—lt appeared from the evidence,
that the deceased leas sitting in her incolier's lap on Moo-
day morning whilst the family were at breakfast, when
she suddenly seized bold of the tea-pot just as the boiling
Water had been put in, and upsetting it poured the con-
tents ill over her bosom and along her body, by which
the poor little sufferer was most dreadfully scalded. Sbe
was attended at home by a surgeon until her case becom-
ing more alarming, wl en she was conveyed to the above
Hospital and users hisser:l in the greatest tumors ima-
ginable until about ten o'clock the same night, when
death put a period to her sufferings. Verdict—Accidental
Death.
Itt.llßEßT.—Tuesday morning the premises of Mr. Ro-
bert Marchant, silversmith, in Nlortiiner-street, Caveti-
dish-square, were robbed by some villains, who, atter
boring several holes in the panne{ of the shutter by a cen-
tre-bit, succeeded in cat ryi ng away two gold chains, Va-
lue upwards of 121., from the window.
MARRIED.—On the 49th of December, 1822, at St.
George's church, Deuteron., W. Arrindell„ Esq. of Lincoln's
Inn, barrister at law, to Mary Anne,eldest daughter of Mrs.
Shearson, relict of the late J. Shearson, Esq. of Newton-in-
the-Willows, Lancashire.

DIED.—On the 3tl inst. Mr. S. Chamberlain, late of
Racquet-court. Fleet-street, aged 76.
On the lOtti of November, at Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Wil-
liam Tahourdin White. in his 2341 year, second son of Mr.
John White, formerly of Fleet-street, and of Sclborne,
Hampshire.
On Thursday, the Bth instant, at Brentford, Mary, the
wife of W. F. Norbury, of that place, printer.
At Brunsw:ck, United States, General James W. Ryan.
at the advanced age of 107 )cam He was an active officer
in the revolutionary war. Ills wife, who is now thing. is
Ai years of age, and in perfect good health. What is %try
remarkable, they lived together 72 years, and never had a
child. General Ryan's health was remarkably good till
iithin S hours of i1i5tig.,.....................1...-..--.--'
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