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allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the said Militia during peace.

An act to explain and amend the laws relating to the Militias of Great Britain and Ireland.

An act to provide for the charge of the addition to the public funded debt of Great Britain, for the service of the year 1815.

An act to amend an act passed in the last session of Parliament, for better regulating the office of Agent-general for Volunteers and Local Militia, and for the more effectually regulating the same.

An act to continue for one year certain acts for the better prevention and punishment of attempts to seduce persons serving in his Majesty's forces by sea and land, from their duty and allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite them to mutiny or disobedience.

An act to provide for the support of captured slaves during the period of adjudication.

An act for the better protection of the trade of the United Kingdom during the present hostilities with France.

An act to extend the exemption granted by law on coals and culm, for which the coast duties have been duly paid, on being again exported and carried to any place in this kingdom, to cinders or coked coals burnt from pit-coal, which has paid the coast duties.

An act to continue, until the 1st day of August, 1816, two acts of the 50th and 45th years of his present Majesty, allowing the bringing of coals, culm, and cinders to London and Westminster, by inland navigation.

An act for allowing certain tiles to be made, duty free, to serve for draining.

An act for the further preven tion of frauds in the manufacture of sweets.

An act to revive and continue, until the 25th day of March 1820, an act of the 28th year of his present Majesty, for the more effectual encouragement of the manufacture of flax and cotton in Great Britain.

An act to revive, amend, and continue, until the 25th day of March 1821, so much of an act of the 41st year of his present Majesty as allows the use of salt, duty free, for curing fish in bulk or in barrels; and to repeal certain laws relating to the allowance of salt, duty free, for the North Seas and Iceland fisheries.

An act to revive and contiuue, until the 5th day of July 1816, an act of the 46th year of his present Majesty's reign, for granting an additional bounty on the exportation of the silk manufactures of Great Britain.

An act for charging an additional duty on certain seeds imported.

An act to authorize the directors general of inland navigation in Ireland to proceed in carrying on and completing the canal from Dublin to Tarmonbury on the river Shannon.

An act to repeal the bounties payable in Ireland on the exportation of certain calicoes and cottons.

An act for repealing the Stampduties on deeds, law proceedings, and other written or printed instruments,

struments, and the duties on fire insurances, and on legacies and successions to personal estate, upon intestacies, now payable in Great Britain; and for granting other duties in lieu thereof.

An act for repealing the Stampoffice duties on advertisements, almanacks, newspapers, gold and silver plate, stage coaches, and licences for keeping stage coaches, now payable in Great Britain; and for granting new duties in lieu thereof.

An act for granting an additional sum of money for providing a suitable residence and estate for the Duke of Wellington and his heirs, in consideration of the eminent and signal services performed by the said duke to his Majesty and the public.

An act for granting to his Majesty certain sums out of the respective Consolidated Funds of Great Britain and Ireland, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1815; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament.

An act for enabling his Majesty to grant to John Francis Erskine of Mar, Esq. and his heirs and assigns, the feu duties and quit rents arising in the lordship of Stirling, in discharge of a debt of greater value created upon the said feu duties by a grant from his Majesty King George the Ist.

An act for allowing Henry Meux, Thomas Starling Benson, Florance Thomas Young, Richard Latham, and John Newberry, to brew, duty free, a quantity of strong beer, the duty on which

shall be equivalent to the duty on the beer lost; and to the duties on the malt and hops expended in the production of the beer so lost.

An act to amend an act made in the 48th year of his present Majesty, to improve the land revenue of the Crown, so far as relates to the Great Forest of Brecknock, in the county of Brecknock; and for vesting in his Majesty certain parts of the said forest, and for enclosing the said forest.

An act to authorize the appointment of commissioners for erecting an harbour for ships to the eastward of Dunleary, within the port and harbour of Dublin.

An act to remove certain difficulties in the disposition of copyhold estates by will.

An act to enable his Majesty, until six weeks after the commencement of the next session of Parliament, to regulate the trade and commerce carried on between his Majesty's subjects and the inhabitants of the United States of America.

An act for better regulating the practice of apothecaries throughout England and Wales.

An act for exonerating the estates and effects of the late Sir James Colebrooke, the late Sir George Colebrooke, Arnold Nesbitt, Sir Samuel Fludyer, Adam Drummond, and Moses Franks, and of their sureties, from all claims and demands whatsoever in respect of any contracts entered into with his Majesty's Government.

An act for enabling his Majesty to raise the sum of six millions for the service of Great Britain.

REMARK

REMARKABLE TRIALS AND LAW CASES.

TESTAMENTARY CAUSES.

Prerogative Court, Doctors' Commons.-Price and Kent v. Worthington. This was a proceeding relative to the validity of the will of the Rev. Hugh Worthington, late of Northamptonsquare, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, deceased, propounded on the part of Eliza Price and Wm. Kent, Esq. the executors, and opposed by John Worthington, Esq. the deceased's brother, and only next relative.

It appeared, that the deceased was a man of an advanced age, and a widower, without any relations but his brother and his family. He was minister of a sect of Protestant dissenters, and esteemed a man of great piety. He had from a very early period of life been acquainted with the Rev. Rees Price, also a dissenting minister, and was much attached to him and his family, usually calling him brother, and his children calling the deceased uncle, and not knowing until late as they grew up that no such relationship subsisted. Upon the death of his wife in 1806, the deceased (with their father's permission) received Miss Eliza and Miss Hannah Price into his house. They superintended his domestic arrangements, and the former presided at his table, and pos

sessed a very considerable portion of his regard. For about two years prior to his death, he was in a very declining state of health, and on the 16th of June, 1813, appeared to have made his will, but which, notwithstanding due search was made at his death, could not be found. He was much in the habit of writing in short hand, and amongst some letters from Miss Eliza Price to him was found a paper in short hand, which on translation or extension proved to be the following effect:-"Northampton-square, June 16, 1813.-I, Hugh Worthington, give and bequeath to my dear Eliza Price, who is my adopted child, all I do or may possess real and personal, to be at her sole and entire disposal. And I do appoint William Kent, Esq. of London-wall, my respected friend, with the said Eliza Price, to execute this my last will and testament." Signed in the usual mode of handwriting, "Hugh Worthington." At the end "Copy of my Will;" and on the back of the paper this endorsement in short hand, "Most dearly beloved, my Eliza, very small as this paper is, it contains a copy of my last will. I have put it with your letters, that it may be sure to fall into your hands, should accident or any other cause destroy the original. I have taken

well." "Tuesday.-Blessed be God, much better this day. The comfort of my heart going to see her father: I dread her leaving me." "Wednesday.-Have this day made my will for the last time, and given all I have to my beloved Eliza Price, the sole possessor of my heart, and prop of my declining years. I wish I had more to give her; but all is her's, to do with as seemeth her good; and she is my adopted child, and sweet soother of my solitary hours. God give her every blessing when I may be gone. Mr. Kent is with her executor." Friday.-The dear girl I love is gone to see her beloved father this day: I cannot forget her kindness in not going yesterday. I love hermore and more.To-morrow she comes back with her sister Mary. Heaven watch over her. The joy of my heart is come back well. Thank God for it. Much dread the sea-side, but God's will be done. Will give a copy of my will to Eliza, to keep or lay it by for her."

pains to write this very clear, that you may read it easily. I do know that you will perfect yourself in short hand for my sake. Tomorrow we go for Worthing, most likely never to return. 1 hope to write a few lines, to express the best wishes, prayers, and hopes of thy true-H.W." A day or two after the making of this will, the deceased went to Worthing by the advice of his physicians, to try the effect of the sea air, accompanied by Miss Price and her sister, who paid him the most unremitting attention, for which he repeatedly expressed his warmest acknowledgment, and alluded to his having given the former every thing he possessed by his will. His health became worse, and in the morning of the 26th of July, he got up, and knocked at the Misses Prices' door, requesting them to get up, as he had been seized with a spitting of blood, from which he had formerly suffered much. They did so, and on going into his room, found him much exhausted. He took them by the hand, and addressing himself to Eliza, said, "Every thing, all, all is your's," shortly after which he expired. In confirmation of the effect of his will, some extracts were ex-perty, which he gave them to unhibited from a diary in short hand, derstand would ultimately rewhich he was in the habit of mak- vert to them, Miss Price having ing of the occurrences in his fa- only a provision for life. The mily, with his observations on principal communication was datthem. The date of these extracts ed the 10th of March preceding appeared to be about the time of his death, was entitled "A genethe will being made. They were ral Statement by H. W." and was to this effect:-" Monday.-Am to the following effect :-"The very ill this day with my breath: following brief statement of my hope I do my best to serve my domestic arrangements cannot Lord and Maker, and all will be in itself be very essential to my

The evidence in opposition to the will consisted principally of letters from the deceased to his brother and family, part of them in short hand, explanatory of his intentions in the disposition of his pro

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dear and worthy brother, he being my senior three years, but it may be of essential service to his four worthy descendants, preventing, on the one hand, wrong expectations, and on the other jealousy and reserve. Two years after the death of my beloved and excellent partner, my acquainttance increased with Miss E. Price, whom I had known from her birth, and whose father had been for 30 years the most intimate friend I ever had in the world. Nothing but a vow solemnly made when I was young, grounded on the many miseries I had seen in second marriages, prevented my making this young lady my wife, notwithstanding disparity of age. She had been a teacher in an eminent boardingschool, till a pain in her side and debility of nerves rendered it impossible to maintain any public situation. She then became governess at my friend Mr. Kent's, who well knowing her excellent and cultivated understanding, and her superior abilities in needlework, French, painting, &c. was exceeding loth to part with her, and would at this moment rejoice in her return, but her melancholy overthrow in the Worthing stage (which had like to have been fatal at the moment) has totally disqualified her for the exertion of even private tuition. In these affecting circumstances the high union of regard, esteem, and honour left me but one alternative: I have adopted her as a relation, placed her at the head of my house, when I could not have a relation of my own, my nieces being married, and can now look to the declining years of

life with singular satisfaction, possessing in her the constant society of an intelligent companion and the tender assiduity of an affectionate daughter. But while she devotes to my comfort her shattered health and strength (made worse, not better, by the taunts and misrepresentations of an ill-natured world). it is my first duty to provide for her decent independence when I am no more, and this I have done without any injustice to those who would not possibly have any claim upon what little I possess ; who would have had but a part, had I inserted in my will some public charities, which for a long time was my intention; who, in case of a second marriage, and a rising family, could never have received any share of my property, but who now will obtain a portion of it, and eventually be heirs to the remainder at the decease of my amiable Eliza. These are the principles upon which I actprinciples urged by conscience, and, I trust, supported by religion; nor will any thing alter the balance I have laid down, except (what I cannot suppose) dis respect, personal or oblique, from those who hitherto have always treated me with the most generous attention. I commend all my relations, and all their growing families, to the blessing of God for time and eternity." The passages in the other letters of a subsequent date, which seemed to bear most upon the question at issue, were the deceased's "thanking his family for their attention to him upon all occasions, but more particularly in answer to his communica

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