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ted (concubuisse) for a given time with his wife, to have been incapacitated by infirmity or other cause, or that he was in such ill health that he could not be the father, ut generare non possit."

In another passage, he seems to consider certain cases of improbability. I think, therefore, upon these authorities, that if a foundation is laid that there is a natural impossibility arising from age, or from infirmity of health, or arising Jikewise from non-access,that the husband should be parent of the child, then the illegitimacy of a child born after espousals may be proved. If, then, any circumstances can be resorted to for proof of impossibility, we may certainly refer to such a natural cause as will not embark into it any question of nice probability, but which involves an absoJute impossibility of the husband being the father. It is so in the present case. It may be said, that we may be driven to nice proof of physical improbability. But that never need be so; because the pre

sumption that the husband is the father, will be infinitely strong, un less there is an evident and clear impossibility that he is not. I therefore contend, that in addition to the cases put of impuberty and infirmity, which last is rather an improbability than otherwise, we may repel the presumption of legiti. macy by evidence of non-access during the greater part of the actual period of gestation. As to the case of the queen v. Murray, lord Hardwicke repudiates the doctrine that the non-access must continue during the whole period, and gives no countenance to it. Without, therefore, disturbing any of the rules of evidence upon this most important subject, and without weakening any of the bonds of marriage, we think that the presumption that all children born in marriage are legi. timate, may be shewn to be contra. ry to fact.

I do not mean in cases of marriage arising after a gestation commenced, but as to children born after non-access.-The order affirmed.

EPITAPH

On a MONUMENT lately erected in HORSLEY-DOWN CHURCH, in

CUMBERLAND.

"Here lie the bodies

Of Thomas Bond and Mary his wife.
She was temperate, chaste, and charitable;

BUT

She was proud, peevish, and passionate.
She was an affectionate wife, and a tender mother;

BUT

Her husband and child, whom she loved,

Seldom saw her countenance without a disgusting frown, Whilst she received visitors, whom she despised, with an endearing smile. Her behaviour was discreet towards strangers;

BUT

Imprudent in her family.

Abroad, her conduct was influenced by good breeding;

BUT

At home, by ill-temper.

She was a professed enemy to flattery,
And was seldom known to praise or commend;

BUT

The talents in which she principally excelled,

Were difference of opinion, and discovering flaws and imperfections.
She was an admirable economist,

And, without prodigality,

Dispensed plenty to every person in her family;

BUT

Would sacrifice their eyes to a farthing candle.
She sometimes made her husband happy with her good qualities;

BUT

Much more frequently miserable-with her many failings :
Insomuch that in thirty years cohabitation he often lamented
That, maugre all her virtues,

He had not, in the whole, enjoyed two years of matrimonial comfort.

AT LENGTH

Finding that she had lost the affections of her husband,
As well as the regard of her neighbours,
Family disputes having been divulged by servants,
She died of vexation, July 20, 1768,
Aged 48 years.

Her worn-out husband survived her four months and two days,
And departed this life Nov. 28, 1768,
In the 54th year of his age.

WILLIAM BOND, brother to the deceased, erected this stone,
As a weekly monitor to the surviving wives of this parish,
That they may avoid the infamy

Of having their memories handed to posterity
With a patch-work character."

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26. Her grace the duchess of daughter. Rutland, a son and heir.

July 4. The hon. Mrs. Ramsay, ter. a daughter.

16. Lady C. Duncombe, a daugh.

19. Right hon. viscountess Here

8. The right hon. countess of ford, a son and heir. Northesk, a son.

25. The lady of sir William

12. Right hon. lady Milton, a Fraser, a daughter; her sixteenth daughter.

18. The right hon. the countess Mansfield, a daughter.

Right hon, viscountess Marsham, a daughter.

child.

Dec. 1. The lady of sir Wm. Call, bart. a daughter.

5. The lady of sir George Nu. gent, a son.

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Feb. 3. Robert Inglis, esq. to miss Biscoe.

5. Sir Daniel Le Fleming, bart. to miss Le Fleming.

10. W. H. Hoare, esq. to miss Noel.

The hon. and rev. John Taylor, to miss St. Leger.

17. The right hon. lord Bagot, to lady Louisa Legge.

18. T. Paget, esq. to miss Pares. March 9. E. B. Lusada, esq. to miss Goldsmid.

Hon. Henry Augustus Dillon, to miss Brown.

10. Charles Combe, esq. to miss P. Georges.

17. Capt. Stuart, to miss Anson. 18. Philip Gibbs, esq. to miss Knipe.

30. S. T. Galton, esq. to miss Darwin.

April 4. William Phillimore, esq.

to miss Thornton.

13. Major Fraser, to miss Ro

land.

17. The hon. G. Ponsonby, to miss Gledstanès.

23. R. Stephenson, esq. to miss Stephenson.

27. Hon. George Wynn, to miss E. M. Majendie.

29. E. D. Temple, esq. to miss Honeywood.

May 1. Robert Heathcote, esq. to miss Searle.

5. The hon. colonel Crewe, to miss Hungerford.

s. Robert Fraser, esq. to lady Ann Maitland.

10. The right hon. viscount Chartley, to miss Gardiner. 19. Rev. J. Bayland, to miss. Clarke.

22. D. R. Remington, esq. to miss Copland.

23. Robert Townley, esq. to miss Newing.

June 1. The right rev. lord Robert Tottenham, bishop of Killaloe, to the hon. Alicia Maude.

4. Richard Chambers, esq. to miss Harriet Newman.

9. Col. Aylmer, to miss Harri-

son.

11 John Thornton, esq. to miss Eliza Parry.

17. Rev. Alexander Cotton, to miss Houblon.

28. Henry Drummond, esq. to lady Henrietta Hay.

July 1. Rev. Herbert Marsh, to miss M. E. C. Lecarricre.

8. Hon. F. G. Upton, to miss Howard,

13. Hon. L. M. Burnel, to miss Daniell

16. Hon.

16. Hon. D. G. Hallyburton, to miss Leslie.

His grace the duke of Newcastle, to miss Munday.

William Cavendish, esq. to the hon, miss O'Callagan.

19. Sir David Dundas, K. B. to miss Delancy.

A. H. Holdsworth, esq. M. P. to miss C. H. Eastabrooke.

At New Providence, major Darling, to miss Cameron.

22. E. Webb, esq. to miss Guise.

29. Rev. Robert Cox, to miss Leycester.

Aug. 11. Hon. J. W. Grimstone, to lady C. Jenkinson.

17. Lieut. col. Leigh, to the hon. miss Byron.

G. French, esq. to miss I. Currie. Sir I. W. S. Gardiner, bart. to miss Moseley.

25. Major-gen. Murray, to hon. miss Phipps.

I. Greenhill, esq. to miss Bovet.
Lord Grantown, to miss Macna-

mara.

26. George Moore, esq. to miss Louisa Brown.

H. Broughton, esq. to the hon. miss Pigot.

Earl of Abingdon, to miss Emily Gage.

27. Wm. Tooke, esq. to miss Amelia Sheen.

29. Viscount Pollington, to lady Ann Yorke.

Sir James Innes Ker, bart. to miss H. Charlewood.

Sept. 15. Wm. Domville, esq. to miss Maria Solly.

24. Capt. Bettesworth, R. N. to lady Hannah Grey.

G. Fleming, esq. to lady Leigh. 26. Captain Stuart, R. N. to miss Sullivan,

Oct. 2. P. Duigenan, esq. LL. D. to Mrs. Heptenstall.

8. Rev. G. Holmes, to miss C. I. Williams.

12. Hon. James Wantesford Butler, to Grace Louisa, daughter of the right hon. John Staples.

15. Sir John Lewis, bart. to miss Kirkpatrick.

Hon, and rev. Frederick Powis, to miss Gould.

The right hon. lord Rancliffe, to lady Elizabeth Mary Forbes.

17. Major-gen. Gordon Drummond, to miss M. Russel.

Sir Thomas Windsor Hunloke, bart. to miss Eccleston.

19. Robert Shaw, esq. to Alice, the fifth daughter of Jonathan Eade,

esq.

20. Hon. Peter Robert Burrell, to the hon. miss Drummond. Thomas William Satton, esq. to miss E. Gray.

24. William Holmes, esq. to lady Strange.

Captain II. Soams, to Mrs. Leich.

28. Thomas Crawley Boevey, esq. to miss A. Page.

Thomas Bruce, esq. to miss Cle mentina Dundas.

30. Lord Monson, to lady Sarah Saville.

Nov. 12. John Harrison, esq. to Lucy Henrietta, second daughter of sir Charles Price, bart,

14. John Brent, jun. esq. to Su sannah, third daughter of the rev. Sampson Kingsford, of Sturrey.

25. Edward Sampson, esq. to Joanna, youngest daughter of the late George Daubenny,

The earl of Selkirk, to miss Wedderburn.

26. George Moore, esq. to misa Brownc.

Dec. 1.

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