310 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



criminal intercourse with his wife, 

 it would not be murder, but man- 

 slaughter; but if a person who had 

 received such injury should delibe- 

 rately contrive the death of the per- 

 son who had so injured him, it would 

 doubtless be murder; his lordship, 

 however, thought that any circum- 

 stance which fell short of the actu- 

 al crime, and yet should clearly in- 

 dicate such an intention, might 

 come within the meaning of the 

 law. 



The jury, without a moment's 

 deliberation, acquitted the prisoner 

 of murder, and found him guilty 

 of manslaughter only, to the satis- 

 faction of a very crowded court. 

 Meeting of the Creditors of her 



Royal Highness the Princess oj" 



Wales. 



17. We have been favoured by a 

 creditor with the following account 

 of what passed at a meeting of the 

 creditors of the Princess of Wales, 

 held on Friday last, at the York 

 Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, 

 in consequence of a letter circulat- 

 ed by Messrs. Blagraveand Walter, 

 their solicitors, intimating that Mr. 

 Adam, the prince's chancellor, and 

 Mr. Gray, his royal highness's de- 

 puty treasurer, would attend, when 

 the plan which the prince had 

 adopted to pay their debts, and se- 

 cure them in future, would be laid 

 before them. — Mr. Adam stated to 

 the creditors, that the prince had 

 taken theircase intohismost serious 

 and gracious consideration in every 

 point of view. That his royal high- 

 ness'sobjectwasnotmerelytopay the 

 debt in the manner already settled 

 and accepted, but to secure them 

 in future as far as the law would 

 enable him ; that the affairs of his 

 royal highness were all administer- 



ed under an act of the 35lh of the 

 king, which rendered it illegal for 

 the prince to grant any bend or 

 obligation, and protected him 

 against personal action ; but ren- 

 dered his revenue liable, if the cre- 

 ditors followed out the provisions 

 of the act, by delivering in their 

 bills signed within ten days after the 

 quarter, and provided they sued on 

 them within three months from that 

 delivery. Mr. Adam then stated, 

 that the prince's treasurer had uni- 

 formly and regularly every quarter 

 paid the allowance of 12,000Z. a 

 year to the officer of her royal 

 highness ; that this had never been 

 in arrear one instant from 1802 to 

 the present time; that Mr. Gray 

 ( who waspresent ) wasthepersonwho 

 paid it ; that the prince had always 

 paid this sumto theprincess without 

 deducting the income tax, although 

 there was 12,000^. per annum de- 

 ductedfromhim at the exchequeron 

 thataccount. Thathisroyalhighness 

 had now increased the princess's in- 

 come to 17,000/. a year, to be paid 

 quarterly without deducting the in- 

 come tax. That the princess was 

 paid for personal expenses at the 

 exchequer, 5,000/. a year, making 

 in all an income of 22,000/. Mr. 

 Adam then stated, that it was upon 

 this increased income of 17,000/. a 

 year nett, that the prince had de- 

 vised the security for the creditors 

 in future, having made it a condi- 

 tion, that the princess should ap- 

 point an officer to receive that in- 

 come, who was enjoined in the set- 

 tlingtheaccounts,tofollowthecourse 

 prescribed by the act of parliament 

 forregulatingthe expenditure of the 

 prince. Mr. Adam said, that a paper 

 to this effect had been accordingly 

 signed by the princess, so that the 



creditors 



