APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



2GI 



which Mr. Daun interrogated the 

 prisoner, whether or not he had 

 promised to marry Margaret Innes? 

 and he admitted that he had done 

 . so. Mr. Daun then observed, that 

 perhaps he repented now ; and the 

 prisoner said that he did not re- 

 pent, and was willing to marry 

 her. Upon which Mr. Daun in- 

 stantly declared them both married 

 persons, and proceeded to deliver 

 the usual prayer at the dismiss- 

 ing of the session ; at which time 

 the prisoner was about to say some- 

 ■thiog, and called out, " Aye, 



but ." Mr. Daun, however, 



proceeded with prayer; and when 

 he had concluded, the prisoner told 

 him, that he nor no other man 

 ■should marry him against his will. 

 Mr. Daun then stated in explana- 

 tion, that he had not married the 

 prisoner and Margaret Innes, but 

 that he considered them as being 

 60 by the law of Scotland. 



His lordship then addressed 

 Mr. Daun, in terms expressive of 

 his firm belief of Mr. Daun's good 

 intention, in proceeding as he had 

 done ; but that he felt it his duty 

 to inform him, that he had acted 

 rashly in declaring a marriage, 

 without first having the full, deli- 

 berate, and unequivocal consent of 

 both parties. 



' No other witnesses being exa- 

 mined, the jury was enclosed, and 

 returned a verdict for the pannel 

 of Not Guilty, when, after an ap- 

 propriate address from the Bench, 

 he was dismissed from the bar. 



SUPPOSITITIOUS CHILD. 



Bristol Aisizes. — Mary Doland, 

 ▼. Timothy Deasy, Esq. — This case 

 had previously excited the most 



lively interest among the residents 

 of Bristol and the neighbourhood 

 of Bath, as well as of the county 

 of Cork ; the former having been 

 the scene of action, and the 

 latter the vicinity of an estate 

 (at Phale), value between 2 and 

 3,000/. per annum, the inheritance 

 of which was collaterally involved 

 in the question now decided. 



About twenty-three years since, 

 upon an occasion of the marriage 

 of the defendant with Anna Ma- 

 ria Barry, the estate alluded 

 to was settled upon the de- 

 fendant, by his father giving him 

 a lifij interest, with remainder to 

 his issue male, or in default of 

 such issue, then to his vountrer 

 brother, Mr. Rickard Deasy. Nine- 

 teen years had elapsed without the 

 birth of an heir to the defendant, 

 when about four years since, the 

 brothers having had a verbal alter- 

 cation, the defendant and his wife 

 quitted Ireland, and came to re- 

 side in Bristol. At this period 

 the villainous conspiracy, so elo- 

 quently developed by the plain- 

 tilf's leading counsel, Mr. Ser- 

 jeant Pell, appears first to have 

 been conceived; the earliest public 

 intimation of which was thus given 

 in the London print called The 

 Star, in September, 1809 : 



" Births. At Bristol, the lady 

 of Timothy Deasy, esq. of a son." 



This, as was doubtless intended, 

 reached the observation of Mr. 

 Rickard Deasy ; but he was with 

 difficulty induced to believe, that a 

 brother's prejudice could prevail so 

 far as to give any foundation in 

 fact, to the numerous doubts ex- 

 pressed by mutual friends, whether 

 Mrs. Timothy Deasy had been pre- 

 viously pregnant or not ; and he 



