Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-05-02
LEEsBUReH, (Yir.l April n.

LEEsBUReH, (Vir.) April IL.
A case OF more than usual interest was
decided at the recent session OF the Supe.
rior Court held 10 this town, at which his
honor Judge White presided. Miss Sarah
Currie was plaintiff, and John Hawling
defendant. The suit was brought on the
charge OF seduction, under promise Of mar
riage, aud the damage laid at 5000 dolls.
The jury, after retiring about half an
hour, returned verdict of 5000 dollars
damages, which being greater than the
sum laid in the declaration, was reduced
by the Court to 5000 dollars.
Melancholy accidental Decrdeld,
New Hampshire,) on the 9th inst, (fast
Iday) several children OF Mr.. True 5.
Thrasher, set out about ten o'clock after
ivory plums-Elisha a boy between aid
8 years old, tarried for a while aud then
SET out 10 pursui; OF them. Towards
nighi all returned bat Elisha, whom they
said they had not seen. The parents,
alarmed for his safety, went with or 10
of their neighbors in pursuit OF him, and
searched necessarily till morning, when
about 90 more joined the search, which
was continued without success the whole
day. The parents with bursting hearts
awaited the dawn OF the next day, when
nearly 300 persons assembled and formed
themselves into two divisions--one to start
from the north and the other from the
south side Of the town, intending to keep
a straight course till bash should meet
the men keeping about rod distant from
each other. Al about 10 O'clock, when
within half mile of meeting, the bugle
and trumpet announced that The child was
|fouDd-the lines instantly broke and each
flew to the spot, Mr.. Knowlton thinking
the boy must have got confined in the
mire of low, sanken piece Of ground, he
attempted TO wade in, when fnding him
self sinking deep, with much difficulty he
extricated himself, asceuded tree, and
from thence espled the boy, principally
covered 10 the mire and surrounded with
rushes. He was dead, and when found
had little basket in his right haud-his
head resting upon it; 10 the basket was a
stocking and shoe, iu his left hand he held
a bunch of ivory leaves. He had travel
led more than nine miles. When the body
was taken from the mire, ii was laid upon
"a rock j; to which the trembling father was
conducted; aud around which the great
concourse of people assembled, when the
throne of grace was addressed by the Rev.
Mr.. Herman, of Candia--after which
the corpse was conveyed 10 its anxious
mother, where scene took place more
easily imagined than described.
TARIFF BILL.
Washington, April 2S.-The bill for
increasing certain Of the duties on goods
imported from foreign countries, CON-
molly called the tariff bill, occupies the
attention Of the house Of representatives,
the bill for regulating the mode of paying
these duties, Chat is, requiring the duties
Of considerable portion Of the imported
articles henceforth to be paid 10 cash.
having been put aside for the present, 10
order TO allow of final decision III that
house on the tariff bill. It's yet our i'm
preston that the bill will pass the house
of representatives at the present session.
Its fate in the Senate, however, is entire
Iy matter Of conjecture. We begin to
doubt whether the bill for changing the
mode Of collecting the import duties will
be conclusively acted upon at the present
session IN either house.
| The recent change 10 the government
Of Spain may have very important ef-
feet on the negotiation which is pending
between the United States and that nation,
Hitherto the king Of Spain, as sovereign,
claimed the sole right to make treaties and
to dispose of and transfer at his pleasure
any part of what he considered as his ter
ritory. But, in their constitution now
adopted as the Supreme Law of Spain, We
fiud the following important principle.
and provisions
The Spanish nation is free and indie
pendent, aud neither is nor can be The
patrimouy Of any family or person what
lever.
/ The Sovereignty resides essentially ii
the nation
The king shall not ALLEVIATE, grant, o.
Exchange any province, citys borough, o
any portion of the Spanish territory, how
ever small its extent may be.
| He shall not transfer or ALLEVIATE the ma
tional property without the consent Of th
Cortes."
i In the 10th article Of the constitution
the tho Eoridas are particularly men
toned as part Of the territory of Spain.
1 Whatever authority. therefore,the Span
lish Minister, now in Washington, ma,
have received from the King Of Spain, I