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him, and entirely approved of 

 them. Dr. M'Cartney, the phy- 

 sician who attended him, describ- 

 ed him as a man of" a viijoroiiS 

 muul ; in a state competent to 

 business ; incapable of beinif im- 

 posed upon, but at timessubject 

 to It'thar^y, arising from the jaun- 

 dice, whirli, liovvever, he always 

 soon got the better oF. He siiould 

 have had no hesitation in attest- 

 ing his will at any period of his 

 life. 



It was proved by other wit- 

 nesses, that Mr, Blundell, witliin 

 the year he died, had meditated a 

 plan lor the establishment of an 

 academy for the fine arts, lor the 

 benefit and emulation of artists 

 in the northern part of the king- 

 di>m, and that he gave l,t)001. to- 

 wards it. It was also shown, that 

 about the same peiiod he edited 

 and printed fii'iy copies of a grand 

 edition of the engravings of the 

 Statues and monuments in his 

 Pantlieon ; the letter-press of which 

 was most ably and classically writ- 

 ten by himself; and that one copy 

 he intended for the British Mu- 

 seum. 



Mr. Topping, the defendant's 

 counsel, now said, he v\as autho- 

 rized by his client, Mr. Charles 

 Blundell, not to keep up the cause 

 any longer. It was a vast stake 

 for which Mr. Blundell was con- 

 tending, and conceiving himself to 

 hive been disinherited, he thought 

 lie had a right to have it proved in 

 a court of justice that he had been 

 disinherited in due form by a will 

 duly executed. It was impossible 

 to resist the weight of ihe evi- 

 dence, and theielbie he cht-erfnlly 

 submitted. — Verdxt for plaintiff. 



Vou LVI. 



PREROGATIVE COURT, DOCTORS' 

 COMMONS. 



Fisher and Wheeler against 

 MiUs. — This was a suit to try the 

 validity of the will of Mr. Andrew 

 Mills, late of Streathain, Surrey, 

 deceased, at the instance of Mr. 

 Robert Fisher, of Streatham, and 

 Mr. Henry Wheeler, jun. of the 

 Stock Exchange, the executors, 

 against Mr. John Mills, the de- 

 ceased's nephew, and one of his 

 next relatives. 



It appeared that the deceased 

 was a wheelwright, and carried 

 on his trade in a small house at 

 Streatham, the lower part of which 

 served for his workshop, and the 

 upper contained two rooms, in 

 which he lived without any ser- 

 vant. By his labour and habits of 

 economy, he had saved pro|.ertv 

 in the funds and elsewhere to the 

 amount of about three thousand 

 pounds. He had nephews and 

 nieces to the number of ten or 

 twelve; but it did not appear that 

 he kept up any great intimacy 

 with them. He was in the habit 

 of receiving many attentions from 

 the families of the two esiecu- 

 tors who lived in the neighbour- 

 hood, particularly from that of 

 Mr. Fisher, v^hose shop adjoined 

 the deceased's residence, and with 

 whom hs frequently took his 

 meals, ikv. Mrs. Fisher and her 

 daughters attended, and sat up 

 with him in his last illness. He 

 died on the 20th of July, 1812, 

 at the advanced age of seventy- 

 four, and for about two years pre- 

 ceding had been subject to occa- 

 sional deafness. His infirmities 

 increased so as to confine him to 

 his bed for the last five or six 

 weeks of his life, during the lat- 

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