The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-05-19

desire, will arrest its progress Unless it receives
check, it Is likely TO prove the seyerest scourge
with which offended hca,c has hitherto been
pleased TO visit U.S.
ILLEGITIM.fTE CHILDREN
/ IN drynment, says a late London Pa
fcr as curious as 10 is intercs.1nc. is de.
pending. RESPECTING the 7aarY'iag 0f iHeg,ti-
mate children TIE case before The Cour.
miion this subject is as .foNo7v8 II Gentle
man dying, tefi his natural dau ghtera very
considerable estate. 1T thai neriod she zcas
DUNG under the guardianship Of her mo-
ther, and before she attained tie age of2I,
she zvas married Swth her mothers consent.
The question before tie Court is. svhether
the issue Of that marriage can inherit the
estate Lcfs blythe grandfather ? Tie legi-
ftniafe issue Of The Srangfather say they
cannot, and seek TO recover IL back. The
argument in suhhort Of that Position is >,
that natural children, in Contamination of
laav, haze no father nor mother, and consc-
quentfy the marriage a6oue aNuded TO, bv
the provisions of The marriage .dct, is null
and void, as the mother could nor make tie
marriage binding by her consent; and fhe
natural daughter being in that case married
znthomt The consent Of a legal harens. and
she being minor Gt the time, the issue of
must revert back TO the legitimate issue of
the grandfather. The relhiyis. that the mo-
Their eta natural daughter is a harent for
the f,urhose Of asserting or dissenting 10
her marriage svhen a minor; 6utij she is
not harent Svifhin Tie meaning of The .9ct.
then are the issue no children zyithin fhe
meaning efthe .fct, and the sale mnst fail.
lfthc .dct recognized none but iesQtharents,
then coutdit recognise none 6ut legitimate
children; SO thct, zvhich euer zvay the argu-
ment SHAPED Itself the issur ofthe marriage
could NOT be deitrivea of the estate in oucs
ton.
The court took time to consider Of their
judgment.
1--WE are happy to perceive from the
following Extract from the Boston Reperto-
ry, and from various accounts from Ralti-
more, Philadelphia and New York, thai our
old x enterprising friend Mr. Ogilve is NEE
ting with such distinguished success. He
has been for several months taking the tour
OF the largest towns in the northern states, de.
iiverinS course of lectures on moral and
political subjects. Every account, that has
reached us, is descriptive of the splepdopr
OF his successes. The apprSbation of the
public has chcered and rewarded the ema
nations OF his genius.
Mr. Osiiric's Grafton We have been request
ed by several persons. who could not obtain
seats. while attending Mr.. Ogive's Grafton. tn
suggest TO those who first seat the mselv.s on the
benches, to take the south extreme From neg
Letting this little circumstance, there is a most
uncomfortable press, at the door, though there
are convenient seats enough for all rs no more
tickets are issued than the room will accomnso
date From the respectab;y of the audience, il
is presumed this hint will be Sufficient II cannot
inn tfrr,t. -Ifarrf h.,
sue, people wish to sit at their ease
LONDON, March 25
DIED, at Vienna, on the I'D ul'. Count Lou
is de Cobenzel, after a lingering illness.
On thursday, at noon, at his house in Clip
stone street, after lingering aud painful illness
OF several months, which he bore with unexam-
pied caImness and fortitude, THoMA. HoI.
CROFT, Esq. author of Hugh Trevor, the Road
to Rum, and number of other Works. He
was IN his sixty first year. Mr., Holcroft's has
been life of literary labor He possessed great
natural endowments, and most burning desire
OF knowledge. He owed all his attainrnents tn
his own thirst OF information, and overcame eve
very impeachment that suppressed the ardor of
his mind. For several years he was Comedi-
an OF eminence in several respectable Provinci.
al Companies, and came to London in the wear
1770 From that time till the day of his last i'll.
ness, he has been indefatigably engaged in al.
most every department of literature. He acaui.
red by his own assidulty, such knowledge of
the languages, as to enable him to translate free
ly from the French, Italian, and German and
his Dramatic pieces, well as Novels, enttle
him to no ordinary praise fruitful and able
writer We lament to say, that he has left am a.
miable wife and six children, the Oldest of whom
is only nine years, totally ,,..provided for
He has also left two daughters by his first mar
riage.