The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-22 00:00:00

STATESMAN;

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Dias. Juor 21.—Carne down from the river last
eight and remain, the Elise, Hunt, for New South
Wales. Ardent. and sailed fer the river, the Ahomos,
Tamer. from Aistaim and Iris, Paris, for St. Domingo.
Nth, WWI S, W. Come down last night sad sailed this
morals', the Jane, Pritchard, for Jamaica, and his Ma.
jay's ship Eneria for Portsmonth. Arrived aid sailed
for the river the Kierstms, Leckie, from Demerara, Ne-
riod, Nino*, from Jamaica; Corosandle, Bays, from
Ditto; Joao, Blackburn, from Rio Janeiro: Esse:, Re-
bertson. from Booties..; Swift, Walker, from Seville;
Posey, Mitchell, from Oporto; Skylark, for Smyrna;
sad several mere names unknown.
POLKOUTO. 20.—Arrived off the Port, the Jane,
Smart. from Cadis.—Wind S. W.-19th. Arrived the
Blacker packet, from the Mediterranean, staid from
Corfu the I lsk, Malts 21st of Jane, and Uibraitar Ist
ofJuly.—Wind S.S.E.
POOTONOUTM. JULY !1. Sailed H. hi. S. &thirty*.
tam. to the Eastward, Wind S. W.—Arrived the Triton,
tree Hemel, for Plymonth.—WindS.S.W.
PITMOOTM. .1111.4 SOW—Arrived oR the Port, the'
Hyperion. Weeks. from New York, for Rotterdam.—
Wind S.W.

Ten Nines VAT To Scometen.—The King's, do
west* are ell ta a beetle preparing and peeking up
their earieli'ellisiat drones, for their atteedince se
his Majesty during his intended visit. The King's
Mews la the pretest depot of their packages. We have
already mentioned the day oa which the King is ex-
pected to set oat for Scotland. His Majesty will sail
in the Royal Teat, sad land at Leith. from whence
be will mane Lie grand entry into Edinburgh. His
stay In that city will not exceed ten day►, daring
which time his Majesty will hold a Drawing Room,
and Levee, and part--he of some grand public eater-
talnments. Mr. Mash, of the Lord Chamberlain's
Office is expected to leave town In a day or two, in
order to prepare the arrangements for the reception of
his Majesty, on his approaching visit to Scotland.
We are authorised to state, that the Right Hos.
the Lord Provost bas received a letter from high au-
timothy, intimating that his Majesty has positively re-
solved to visit Scotland this summer, and that be may
be expected to reach Edinburgh on or about the 10th
of August next. The Deputy Keeper of Holyrood-
house has also received a letter to the same effect, in
order that the necessary preparations may be made in
the ancient residence of our Scottish Kinn, for his
Majesty's reception. With this view, several official
gentlemen yesterday visited! the royal apartments at
the Palace, where, it is onientood, his Majesty will
hold his levees. Dalkieth House, the seat of his
Grace the Duke of Buscieneh, is still talked of as th'i
place of the Royal abode while in Scotland.—(Edin-
[mega Star, .1.1, 19)
Yesterday his Majesty gave audiences to Prince Es-
terbasy,the LsiChaseelloramod ibeLord Chamberlain.
Dorm Jett' 19.—The Royal Sovereign yacht has
been is the Rossis nearly the whole day waiting to re-
ceive their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince aid
Princen of Denmark, who are expected hourly to ar-
riveinWrighee Hotel. A detachment of the Royal
Stair Cosy% with the band. mareh in this evening from
• Nat elf/4 of Wpm. es the Royal persosapo.
helriloyal Highnesses slues their departure from
Leaden, have visited Oxford, Birmingham. Worcester,
Gleacentr, idosteouth„ Bristol, Bath, Longleat,
Wilton, and Winchester, and were on Thursday night
et Brighten, which. after they had inspected the Pavil-
lioo, inns. they quitted early the neat morning on
their routs to Dover.
I The last tenon we have received of the pr ogress
and the occopations of the Royal party is as follows:
Lawn, dime —The Prince and Princess of Den-
mark and Suit►, a little before noon, on Friday last,
passed through this Town, in three carriages from
Brighton for Dover. there to embark on their return
home to Denmark. They stopped, without alighting,
at the Star lan, to change horses, and it will, perhaps,
igreeahly surprise many of our females of fashion to
hear, that the Princess, and the Ladies accompanying
her, were in their carriages all busily employed in knit-
ting. And we abould not be surprised, if, in consequence,
this Danish and praise-worthy mode of female amuse-
ment were to be adopted by our Ladies of Ton.
Though there is not perhaps in the kingdom a more
liberal landlord than Sir Francis Burdett, yet it is, we
see, stated for party purposes, that at his last rent audit
at Great Dalby, he did not reduce his rents. This we
believe is true; and the reason w my no reduction was
made is most honourable to the warthy Baronet. His
rents already stood at the peace standard i for though,
according to Lord Liverpool, the rental of the kingdom
was doubled and nearly trebled during the war, the
tenantry of Sir Francis Barden are, for the most part,
now paying precisely time MOO teats that were paid for
the said farms previous to the year 1796 ; in fact, Sir
Francis did not rise his rents daring time war, and there
fore he has no reduction to make on the return of peace.
(Leeds 111eretery.)
ANICDOTIII or GAMiNO.—No. 1.--Prodigious snms
of money bare been loss at the 11-14 lately. One
young Gentleman, well known in the gay world, Ins
been 'plundered of forty thousand pounds: and the
brother of an eminent speculator, of not less titan sixty
thoulandl3 An adeersturer, the late keeper of one
of those houses, has tied himself op; he is to forfeit
five thousand pounds if he ever bets or throws a maim
again!
Tee New Crasess—The foundation is now digging
for the New Union Club, the frontage where the first
station of the Ponnix Fire Office stood. The depth
will be prodigious. At the north-west corner of Suf-
folk-street there will arise another Club, called the
University Club; the front is complete, and is oppo-
site Cockspor-street.
On Tuesday, Cambrige-bouse, the town residence
of he► late Majesty, was sold at Garraway's, by order
of her Majesty's executors. It is held by lease for
98 years, from Lady-day, 1741; of course there are
rather less than 17 years of the lease unexpired. It
was stated that Lord tic , who is the ground
landlord, was renewing the leases of houses in the
neighbourhood for 63 years, on reasonable terms, and
world probably renew the lease of Cambri.lge•hotne
on the same; bat no undertaking on the subject was
given, nor were Lord Orosvemor's terms of renewal
mentioned. It was also stated by the auctioneer that.
a few years since, 12,0001. had heen refused for the
leans the highest sum his utmost exertions was able
to obtain Oh Tuesday was 5.830 guineas. The name
of the peruse en whose account the purchase was made
did sot transpire in the room ; but there appear.! to
be DO doubt that a bona fide sale of the property was
=ado.

Matthetto has takes his passage at Liverpool, In the
packet William Thompson, for New York, to sail on
the let of August.

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NEWCASTLS RACES.-1/1111.
THURSDAY. Jima IS: , •
The Gold Cnp, by subscriptions of Wits soak three pat
olds, SM. 41b„ four. 7sl. I Ilb. • Pee, Sat. 710.. alit, sad
aged. Pst. Nab. —Marta allowed Mb:—Four miles.—
Ten subscribers. •
Mr. Lsiabton's br. Wtsr,lo7, 6 yes old •
Mr. hambton's b. C. 4lethard. 4yrs old
Sir J. H. Maxwell's gr. a. Pile 'Mon, 8 yrs old
Won easy.
6 to 4 age, Wavetley-3 to 1 mast Feir Helen.
Run In 7 sin till are.
Tits Members' Plate of 301. for all noes. dime year olds;
fist 716., four. Sat.. bit. 91b.: via, and aged, Sat. 12lb.
two talks and a dissanci.
Mr. I.afsbton's br. b. catalisr, 6 yrs old I
Mr. Arosstronp's e. Pack:non, 4 yrs old .. .. S
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Lord Queensberry's b. g. Gossett'. 6 yrs Old' dt
Woo vary easy.
7to 4 os Cavalier—after the best El to II on Ms.
CHELTENHAM ItAtilliB.—Fassat, Jptt IS.
Ito Sweepstakes of 1000 sack, b. A. for does yeti ola
mats; Pm. 716., allits, Pat. Sib.--Oas adlimad a quarter.
Mr. R. F. Ronson's br. c. by Thunderbolt
Mr. T.. Cbaritoes b. e. by °Mis
Mr. Plytton's Vida Mecum 3
TM &tritely Hunt Stakss.—Tan subscribers.
Mr. J. Welter's b. m. Rebecca, aged ._. walked over.
hM Cliallosbam Gold Cep, or Plies of Mts. vela*
5d do to a subscription of 110 is each, b. fr. Cep Com.:
throe year olds, Cut. Nb., four, Set., five. Sit. 1116. *6,r
9st. 91b.: sod 'god, 9st. 41b. noire mhos.
Mr. Ctsrlton's Master Henry, aged, Sit. 41b. .. •I
Lord Allahu-y's b. b. Satormike, 4 yrs old. est. I HIM. IS •
A forced Handicap Sweepstakes of lOgs sack ‘l6lOllll
added from lb* Fund. Two mils beats.
Mr. Csaning's Gleaner, lit. 41b. 1 •
Mr. Prysis Dr. Cady, 6 yrs Obi. M. Mb. S

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The list battalion of the tireoadier 0~6 Is order-
ed to embark in canal boats, at Paddispon, on Thurs-
day next, for Liverpool, and to proceed from thence to
Dublin, for the purpose of relieving the 3.1 !Natalie*
of the same corps, which is ordered to intern to Lon-
don by the like conveyaace.
The Bill to p t the cruel and improper treatment
of cattle, passed last Thursday by the House of Lords,
enacts —that if any person shall tettatoaly sad erne4
beat, abuse, or ill-treat soy horse, mare, plaing. mule;
ox, cow, heifer, steer, sheep, or other cattle, on
complaint made to • Magistrate, with's whose jnris-
diction, such deism Is committed, within tee days
after, shall forfeit from dl. to Ifts. as the lowest ;enmity,
and on nonpayment be subject to be committed to the
Hoese of Correction for any time not exceeding three
months.
Somerset &Mmes.—The Midsummer Quarter-Sessiors
for tyis county commenced at Bridgewatei. oil Monday
last. W. Dickinson, Esq. M. P. presided in the Appeal
Court, and, in his address to the *aid Joey, adverted to
the deliberations of the Magistrates respecting the jail of
Ilebester, which, he informed the Jury, bad, after a most
anxious consideration of all the circumstances,terminated
by a resolution to abandon the jail, sad to make such am
enlargtoseut of that at Shepto• Mallet as should Fe
adequate to the health, the dee classification of the
prig:iners, and the most approved method of prison
discipline. The Chairman stated that the estimate
for the proposed extension of the Gaol at Shtptun•
Mallet did not exceed G,OOO/, including tbt_tivail•
amterials from the prison to be 4stioyed at
['cheater. The sem so be expended will be ',awl
in such portions, during the progress of the butid•
ings at Shepton Mallet, as will be best adapted for
the county, so that the rate will bear very lightly on
the contributor.. Until the new gaol is completed,
the debtors' ward at [Winter is to be raised by a
platform, to protect the unfortunate inmates from
he alleged dampness which perraJes it in the
winter months. Is is expected that by Christ-
mas next all the criminals will be removed to Shep-
ton-)ladle , aml as soon as the new wards there
are completed for the reception of the deb.ors, they
will be tranferred, and Ilchester gaol will be entirely
demolished.

In the year 1762, a Ind of Wheat sheaves wee
taken through Warminster on the middle of the day
of the Quarter Session', while the Magistrates were
sitting; and on Wodnesday the 17th of July 1822, a
similar pleasing spectacle attracted the attention of the
inhabitants; it wu beautifully decorated, headed by
100 gentlemen in blue coats and red waitcosts, and
followed by a band of music. The grower is J. Ever-
sit, Esq.
CORN EXCHANOIL, JULY 22.—We had a very 'argil
supply of Wheat this morning, but sretcely any de-
mand, except far prime samples, which obtained lest
Monday's prices, and all other descriptions were in-
effectually offered at an abatement of 2s per qt. The
quantity remaining on hand is very considerable, for
which no offers could be got —Barley is very heavy
s,te, and cheaper, except for prime fresh threshed •
Malting tausples, which support last week's pr:cea.—•
Beans and Peas are 2s. per qr. lower, the supply of •
each far exceeding the demand.—Oats are Is. per qr. •
cheaper ; and the trade was very slack at that abcris , •
meat.—Rapeseed is 2s. per last lower.
SAIITIIPIKLD MARKET, JULY 22.—Although the Mar=
bet was well supplied with Cattle this morning the Sane
•
prices were demanded as last Monday, hit could not he
obtained. It is thought that a number of Cattle will re-
turn unsold.
Lewes CORN MARKET, JULY 16.—Red Wheat, IL 164
to 21. 10s.; Oats, 19s. per quarter.
ARUNDCL CORN MARYIST.—Wheat 71. to la per
load ; oats, 18s. to 19e. and barley, 19s. to 214 per qr.
CIIICII CORN MARKET.—The Coro Inspector's
Return to the 17th instant are as follow:—Wheat, of
which 1632 quarters were purchased In seven days, 345.
I Id. ; barley, 19s. ; and beans, 28s.
Nonwicn, Jta.v 20.—0 n Monday last a skeleton of
a human body was found by some workmen in a said
pit, on Mouaehold Heath. The Coroner for this city,
Mr. Wm. Bell, took an inquest thereon at the Duke of
York pablic.bouse, in the hamlet of Pocktborpe, in
this city anti county. The Jury, after viewing the
said skeleton, and hearing the al witnesses, re-
turned a verdict of wilful murder against some person
or persons unknown. The skeleton having been es.
stained by Mr. Noll, surgeon, gave his opinion that
it is a male skeleton. Aperson is taken up en sus-
picion.
At an early how % yesterday morning the body of a
young man abOursix feet high, dressed in a blue coats
striped waittcoar, and black trowsess, and of gentle.
manly appearance, was brought to St. James's watch-
-I,onse, Ivy a watchman. He appeared to have been
very much ill•med. I.‘ the course ••f yesterday seve.
ral persu s repaired to the wateh-imuse 14 view the
deceased, and some of thins rerognised him as having
the same morning hat a scuffle with some aatetmert
near Sohis.sqoare. A Coroner's Inquest will he held
on the body this day.

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J.13111:30,V'S CRLESTIAL ATLAS.

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The author of this novel work commences by laying
down the definitions of astronomy, so far oily as con-
' tweeted with his projections, and the problems be solves
These definitions are clear and precise; some of them
are new to tve, and some are handled with singular fell-
city. We allude to bit definition of a Paranatelloa, or
constellation. rising either beside a sign nr opposite to
it; and leis illnstration which accounts for the daily
appearance and disappearance of the celestial bodies,
by vehicle cirennostance the sun produces the alterna
times allay and night..
Tile next division of the work treats of the manner
of using the maps, by means of problems and exer-
cises on the positions of the star% their rising, culnei
nating, Ste. :—A part of the work deserving great
praise from the perspicuous, and scientific mode in
which this practical part of astronomy is treated, when
compared with the artificial and mechanical solutions
usually given by writers, on the use of the celestial
globe.
• But all Otis is merely introdnctory to the Atlas, which
chnslets of thirty maps of the Heavens, executed with
accuracy and taste. Esc map represents in fact, two
projeclintia, one by the pole of the ecliptic and the other
by the pole of the equator; but they are easily distin-
oFshed by the former being in dotted lines, and the
latter in plain cut lines. - fly this double projection
the right ascension and declination of the stars, their
latitudes sod longitudes are found by inspection. Each
• map containing in general three or four coostellations.
signs, or asterismuis accompanied by a mythological
anti scientific description of the whole, with directions
Low toned cheekier stars in the constellation by means
of lines connecting them with other remarkable stars ;1
• and this Is followed by a catalogue of the stars in the
constellation or A. in questio• 7hibiting their map

in question, exL ig-
nitwit and right ascension both in time and degrees,
the declination in degrees. and the annual Menace
of each. computed for 1820. •
Thus, to take one example, corresponding with the
present meth
Lao, the Lion, (Map veil) is the filth sign in the
order of the zodiac, and the second of the summer
sins. According to the fixed zodiac and the astrono-
mical year, the Sun enters Leo on the 23d of July; but
reckoning agreeably to the recession of the equinoxes
14v, and the moveable zodiac of the skiersl rear, the Sun
entess this sign on the Sib of August. The earth is at
this period in Aquarius. and the Sun, se seen from the
the Earth, appears in Ceo. Poe, in whatever point of
the ecliptic we apprehend the Sun to be, the Earth is
ISO deg. removed from that point. As the Earth goes
round the San, the North Pole keeps constantly towards
one part of the heavens, and it now approaches nearer
its orbit than in the preceding sign and the days and
nights are consequently coming nearer to an equality.
This is followed by an historical or classical account
of the mythology of the Celestial Lion, which reads as
fillows :
Popular tradition represents the Lion, an animal re-
m likable for its fierceness and strength, as emblematical
id the Sun's heat at this period of the year. The Lion,
it adds, was frequently impelled to qnit the sandy de-
serts through thirst., and repair to the Nile, the waters
of which envied him a cooling beverage. The Egyp-
tians thencemlopted this animal as the symbol of the
ti7n when his heat is most oppressive.
The Zodiacal Lion bee also been fabled satin Neosean

Lion whirs !ferrules killed, and the story of the twelve
labours of that popular hero has been applied to the
progress of the Son through the twelve signs of the so.
diac. But the Lion did not seem to have ben placed among
the zodiacal symbols, because Heresies was fabled to
bare slain the Nemean Lion. It would seem, on the
contrary, that Hercules, who rtwmented the Sun, was
said to have slain the Nemean Lion, because Leo was
already a zodiacal sign.
Hercules flourished 3000 years ago, and conseqnently
posterior to the period when the summer solstice accord-1
eil with Leo. The combat of Herniae with the Lion
was his first labour; and one of the several years of the
Egyptians commenced with this solstice. Reckoning
by the year in question, some of the Greek astronomers
appear to hare made Leo (and afterwetriles Cancer) the
first of the signs. Hence it was,ln etsieplihnee with
what they believed to be the mode of reckoning In
Egypt, that the Greeks fixed upon the combat with the
Lion as the first labour of Hercules. Besides, the Lima
was an animal with which the Greeks were but little ms-
cuainted ; on the contrary, the Egyptians of Ethiopia
were greatly annoyed by Lions, when, as we have said,
the Nile was at its greatest elevation, during the sum-
mer solstice. It was, therefore, extremely natural for
the Egyptians to r! we the Lion where we find him in
the coiltac. This reasoning leads to the conclusion that
the Egyptians were perfectly conversant with the tree
solar systems for Aquarius, the sign in which the Earth
actually is when the Sun appears in Leo, is the person
who, in fable, by kicking down his urn, causes the Nile
to overflow.
In the ancient zodiacs of Egypt, Dendera, Esne, and
• India, se find the Lion. The same occurs on the Mi-
titraic monuments. In the camp of the Hebrews, Leo
is assigned to Judah, on whose standard, according to
all, traditions, a Lion was painted.
While Taurus was the first of the signs, the summer
solstice took place when the Sao was to Leo, and Apis
was then installed. In the Mithrsic monuments we find
Leo passant ; and lie is in the same attitude lo Moor's
Hindu, in the I udian, and Sir W. Jones's Oriental zo-
diacs; in Kircher's he is e'urraat. In the zodiacs of
Dewier& be treads upon a snake. In the starry firma-
znent the constellation Hydra is below the sign Leo.
But in the Egptian zodiac he is eosrehant, which. ac.
curling to Aratus, represents the progress of the Sun
through this sign.
The Son in Leo was adored by the Egyptians as the
king Osiris; and Herodotus tells us, that "Osiris was
the same a ith Bacchus." Now, the San in Leo clothes
the heavens with tire, and gilds the earl of corn; in con-
sequence, the station of Bacchus was Leo, sad it is of
him that Tibullos says
" Hic docuit teneram palis ad ungere vitem,
Hie yiedens Jura cw.iere falce comma;
Illi jncundos printout mature imports
Expresso Nadas ova dedit pedibue."
The cultivation of the vine has always been connected
with the mythology of the ancient Orientalists. It is
inconceivable, therefore, that the Editors of the Ency-
clopedia Britannica should charge Servius on Virgil
with bring in an error when be contended that Osiris
and Bacchus are the same. Leo, we have said, was the
domicile of Osiris or of the Sun. Now the Nile, which
bad assumed its greatest height when the Sun was in
Leo Preelarus, was called Siris, by the Ethiopians.
Thus Stephrus says, "Syene is a city of Egypt, and of
Ethiopia, upon the Nile; beyond nhich the river is
called iris." The Nile received this name because it
bad ay attained its greatest elevation when the
San was worshipped under the character of Usir, or
Sir. Hence indeed the river was said to owe its origin
to Osiris. Plutarch says, "they call the Nile the fa-
ther and saviour of the region, and a fluxion °fettle
Osiris;" and Jablonski (in his Panth. dEgypt ), says,
that the Egyptians, by riling the name of ohirie to
the Nile, meant nothing more than to attribute to their

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.rod Osiris the gift which fertilizestheircountry. These
authorities enable us to accosot for the name of Sirius,
the Dog Star, from its rising heliacally, shortly after
the time that the Sun was in Leo, and while that lumi-
nary was worshipped under the name of Sir, or ()sir.
And the Persi ins and Indians still call the sign of Leo
by the name Skir, or Sir. This reasoning is perfectly
rrconcileable with what is said in our exposition of the
sign Taurus, if we hear in mind this fact, that Osir,
whom the Greeks called Osiris, was Ilse same with Apia,
according to Studio and other writers. But the Greeks
who though far from being an original people, were al-
ways prompted by their vanity to bold tbemselvet out
as the first of the nations, claimed this Osiris as their
own, and pretended that he was the son of Jupiter and
Niohe.

These notices on the origin of the name this con-1
stellation bears, are followed by one of the portions of
the work that is purely scientific ; namely, the bone- I
daries and contents of the sign, a table of the rising
and culmination of the star Regulum. directions fee find-
ing the position of this star, by means of lines and
triangulation, the Paranatellons of Leo are then enu-
merated, and their various positions noticed ; ne-
halm, double star., and telescopic phenomena succeed ;
and a catalogue of the stars, in this sign, winds up the
anther's materials. All this is independent of his ex-
ercises for surveying the Heavens on say evening,
and on evrryevening throughout the year.
It will now be apparent to our readers, that this
delightful work, as its author justly expresses him-
self in his preface, "stands single and alone in the
English language." It needs nut the breath of praise
to give it fame, and the rigid severity with which it
seems, in the midst of many obstacles, to have been
',wilted, entitles it to the most public award from
those who "profess to be the patrons of, genius, or
the guardians of science."

LAID %AVM L LIG EINE.

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Mr. HORNS said, that in this cue it was his duty to
move that Mrs. Drilling Street, Horatio Reeves, and
George Reeves, be committed to the Fleet Prison for a
contempt of (:Dort.
Mr. HART said, that he held a brief for one of the de-
fendants, and he considered that there were rirCUM•
itances in the case which rendered it a stone to he heard
by his Lordships in private.
The LORD LHANCILLOR asked if both parties cos►
'toted.
Mr. HORNZ said he bad no objection.
His Lordship then agreed to hear it in his private
room on Tuesday next.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
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REBTERN ClRCUlT.—Wncomma, JULY II

RIX V. JOLIVAIR.
Quo Warrauto.—Special Jury.
This important case occupied the Court upwards of
six hours. The following Is a brief atatemett of the tidal.
Mr.CARTER opened the information on the part of the
Crown, against the Rev. W. John Joliffe, Mayor of the
Borou,th of Peters6eld; and Mr. Sergeant PEEL and Mt.
OASILLE followed on the same side.—The issues wire
T 8 io number.
Mr. ADAMS, Mr. MERRYwEATER, and Mr. WILLLUIS,
conducted the defence; and the Learned counsel (Mr.
ADAMS) submitted that he should be entities, to a verdict
in favour of his client, the Rev. Mr. JOU*. The petite
of the borough, he said, jtad never blllo4:treeed Us*
the year 1818, until itadseetin mia
the Immemorial usage and custom tong established ; and
contended that the election of Mayor was good by tie
nomination of the Steward to the Jury at the Court
Lest, and put In various presentments to that effect.
Mr. Sergeant PELL, in a luminous Wiles= to the Jory,
contended against the usage and custom, because no is-
terruption had bees made to the election of a Mayor,
who bad no duty to perform bat to return Members for
the borough to Parliament, and that the presentment
should be by the Bailiff, and net by the Steward.
Several witnesses were called'', to whether the Mayor
should not have been, previous to bin election, a resi-
dent, which it appeared Rev. Mr. Jell& bad net hems,
although he had -a house in the borough t but then it
was proved in evidence that two Mayors had before been
elected who were not resident in the Borough at the
time.
Mr. ADAMS contended, that it had always loom the
custom from 1801 to the present time, a period of a more
than twenty years, us elect the Mayor, which constituted
a right.
The Learned JCDOE, in charging the Jury, quoted
Lord Coke and various authorities as to ancient usages
and customs, and left them to say *bother the law of
ancient customs so long established should be akered.
The Jury found as follows "We lad the nage from
custom," when Serjeant PELL addressed his Lordship,
who directed the Jury to fiadlor the Defendant, subject
to be turned into e special verdict, with liberty to ap-
ply to the Courts above.