coaches; for explaining and amending an act passed in the 48th year of his present Majesty, relating to hackney coaches; and for authorizing the licensing of a limited number of hackney chariots.

An act for imposing an excise duty on silk handkerchiefs sold by the East India Company for home consumption.

An act to regulate, until the end of the next session of parliament, the trade in spirits between Great Britain and Ireland, reciprocally.

An act to consolidate and amend the regulations contained in several acts of parliament, for imposing and levying of fines upon parishes, townlands, and other places, in respect of the unlawful distillation of spirits in Ireland.

An act to repeal an act passed in the 52nd year of his present Majesty for better regulating the of fice of agent-general for volunteers and local militia, and for the more effectually regulating the said office, and to make further provisions for the regulation of the office of agent-general.

An act to repeal certain parts of an act made in the 12th year of the reign of his present Majesty, for regulating the making, keep ing, and carriage of gun-powder, within Great Britain.

An act to regulate the payment of drawback on paper allowed to the universities in Scotland.

An act for further amending and enlarging the powers of an act of the 46th year of his present Majesty, intituled an act for consolidating and rendering more effectual the several acts for the purchase of buildings and further improvement of the streets and places

near to Westminster-hall, and the two Houses of Parliament, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

An act to repeal an act for establishing regulations respecting aliens arriving in or resident in this kingdom, in certain cases, and for substituting other provisious until the end of the next session of parliament in lieu thereof.

An act to amend the several acts for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies and copyright of printed books, to the authors of such books, or their assigns.

An act for the better regulation of the conduct of the business of the office of works, and the expenditure thereof.

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 or land from their duty and allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite them to mutiny or disobedience.

An act for the better regulation of the several ports, harbours, roadsteads, sounds, channels, bays, and navigable rivers in the united kingdom, and of his Majesty's docks, dock-yards, arsenals, wharfs, moorings, and stores therein, and for repealing several acts passed for that purpose.

An act to enable his Majesty to settle an annuity upon her royal highness the Princess of Wales during the joint lives of his Majesty and of her Royal Highness.

An act for settling and securing an annuity on Arthur duke of Wellington, and his heirs and for empowering the Lord High Treasurer, or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, to advance out of the

consolidated funds of Great Britain a sum of money in lieu of such annuity to purchase an estate, in order to accompany the said title, in consideration of the eminent and signal services performed by the said Duke of Wellington to his Majesty and to the public; and for making further provision for the disposal of a sum of money granted by an act of the last session of parliament, for purchasing an estate for the said duke, then marquis of Wellington.

An act for settling and securing an annuity on lord Beresford, and the persons to whom the title of lord Beresford shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

An act for settling and securing an annuity on lord Combermere, and the two next persons to whom the title of lord Combermere shall descend in consideration of his eminent services.

An act for settling and securing an annuity on lord Exmouth, and the persons to whom the title of lord Exmouth shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

An act for settling and securing an annuity on lord Hill, and the persons to whom the title of lord Hill shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

An act for settling and securing an annuity on lord Lynedoch, and the persons to whom the title of lord Lynedoch shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

An act for applying a certain sum of money arisen, or to arise, from certain duties granted to his Majesty during the continuance of the present war, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1814;

and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

An act to amend the laws respecting the attestation of instruments of appointment and revocation made in exercise of certain powers in deeds, wills, and other instruments.

An act for making certain regulations respecting the postage of ship-letters, and of letters in Great Britain.

An act to repeal certain provi sions in local acts for the maintenance and regulation of the poor, and to make other provisions in relation thereto.

An act to empower the commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury to restore seizures, or remit or mitigate fines, penalties, or forfei tures incurred, concerning any laws relating to the customs or excise, or navigation and trade of Great Britain.

An act for repealing the duties payable in Scotland upon distillers wash, spirits, and licences, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof.

An act to alter and amend certain of the powers and provisions of several acts passed for the redemption and sale of the land tax, and for making further provision for the redemption thereof.

An act for letting to farm the post-horse duties.

An act to explain and amend several acts relating to spiritual persons holding of farms, and for enforcing the residence of such persons on their benefices in England, for one year, and from thence until six weeks after the meeting of the then next session of parliament.

TESIAMENTARY CAUSES.

Arches Court, Doctors'-Commons, Friday, May 20.-Adams v. Kneebone. This was a case of appeal from the Consistorial Court of Exeter, brought by Mr. Tho mas Adains, the brother and sole executor of the will of Mr. Thomas Adams, late of St. Winnon, in Cornwall, deceased, against Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Thomas Kneebone, the niece and adminis tratrix of the effects of Mrs. Jemfer Adams, the widow of the deceased. The suit was originally instituted in the Court of Exeter, by Mrs. Kneebone, in impeachment of the validity of the will of Mr. Thomas Adams; and the Judge of that Court, upon the evidence there taken, pronounced against its validity, and revoked the probate which had been granted; from which decision, the present appeal to this Court was prosecuted by Mr. Thomas Adams, the executor.

The will in question was contained in two papers, both of them dated the 16th of May, 1799; the first, attested by Dr. Hall, the physician, who attended the deceased, and Mr. Philip Carnse, a hair-dresser, who lived in the neighbourhood; and the second by Carnsew, and two neighbours of the names of Solomons and Curteys. Mr. Adams died three

days after the execution of these papers. The effect of both was pretty nearly the same, that of making a small provision for the testator's wife, but bequeathing the greater part of his property to his brother Thomas and his family, and appointing him executor; there was, however, a clause giving the residue of the property to Mr. Thomas Adams in the latter will, which there was not in the prior one. A probate was obtained of this latter will, in which all the testator's relatives appeared to acquiesce, no proceedings being taken to impeach its validity for 7 years afterwards. In September, 1806, Dr. Hall, who took the deceased's instructions for and prepared the first will, (from which the second was prepared by an attorney), died, and in October following, proceedings were instituted by some of the deceased's relatives, calling upon the executor to bring in the probate, and prove the will by, witnesses; but in January following, the first will, which had never till then made. its appearance, was found to be in the possession of Mr. Philip Carnsew, one of the witnesses, and the proceedings were shortly afterwards discontinued. From this time the executor continued in undisturbed possession of the probate until December, 1811, when Mrs. Kneebone, as the administratrix of

the deceased's widow, who had survived him only about 2 years, instituted the present suit.

The evidence, in support of the will in the Court at Exeter, fully proved the death, hand-writing, and good character of Dr. Hall, the framer of it, by way of show ing, in order to supply the want of his evidence, the improbability that he would have been a party to the transaction, had it been other wise than perfectly fair and correct, or the deceased incapable of knowing the nature of the act he did.

Mr. Philip Carnsew, however, spoke in direct derogation of his own act, and swore, in the most positive terms, to the testator's total incapacity, during the whole of the transactions in question. The rest of the evidence threw but little light on the subject, as the other subscribing witnesses were unable, from the great lapse of time since the transactions, and their being uninterested in them, to speak, with any great degree of positiveness or precision, to the facts in question. Upon this evidence the Judge of the Court at Exeter founded his decision against the validity of both wills, and pronounced the deceased to have died intestate. Upon the appeal to this Court, a variety of new matter was introduced in pleadings on both sides, and many additional witnesses examined, and the case therefore came on for a hearing upon the general conplexion of the evidence, as taken in both Courts.

It appeared that the deceased was a farmer, and possessed of considerable property at St. Winnon and its neighbourhood. On

the Saturday preceding his death, he was seized with a fever, occasioned, as was supposed, by a cold he had taken, in being exposed to wet in the course of his farming concerns, and he was in consequence attended by Dr. Hall, in his medical capacity. Having expressed his wish, "to settle his mind," as he termed it, Dr. Hall was spoken to on the subject, and he accordingly took his instructions verbally; and reducing the same into writing, the paper was duly executed by the deceased, and attested by Dr.' Hall, and at his request by Philip Carnsew, who had been sent for to take the hair off the deceased's breast, preparatory to the application of a blister. Dr. Hall then took the paper to Mr. Hext, an attorney, at Lost withiel, since also dead; and in a subsequent conversation with Adams, told him his will was not half a will, and that Mr. Hext was preparing another, which Carnsew was directed to fetch; he accordingly did so, and according to his own account, Mr. Hext then tore off the seal from the first will, saying it was of no use, but that he must get three witnesses to the other, on account of the freehold property. Carnsew then carried both papers to Mr. Adams, the deceased's brother, who went out to fetch witnesses, and returning with two, this second will was executed in their presence, and attested by them and Carnsew. The latter then took both papers to Mr. Hext, to see that they were correct, and afterwards delivered them to Mr. T. Adams, who returned him the cancelled one as of no use, and he, as stated, threw it into a drawer with some refuse