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Græcis vix pares, nedum superiores evaserint?" [Not awarded.]
English Essay." Is a rude, or a refined age, more favourable to the production of
works of fiction ?" George Moberly, Balliol.

SIR ROGER NEWDIGATE'S PRIZES.

Latin.-"Montes Pyrenai." Francis K. Leighton, Magdalen.
English." Trajan's Pillar." W. W. Tireman, Wadham.

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English Verse.-J. S. Brockhurst, St. John's.
Latin Essay.-J. A. Jeremie, Trinity.

SIR W. BROWNE'S MEDALS.

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Greek Epigram. “Έκων αέκοντί γε θυμῷ.

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naval officer, a post captain, in the service of the king of Great Britain. This party, who had been serving as a British naval officer, was transferred to the military serTHIS case was most elaborately vice of the other state, the conargued at the close of the last term federate state, then united with and the commencement of the Great Britain in a struggle against present by Dr. Phillimore and Dr. the common oppressor of Europe. Lushington, on on behalf of his exIt did not appear how this transfer cellency count Ludolf, the Sicilian was effected. The he court did not ambassador, and Dr. Jenner, on think it resulted from any of the the part of the representatives of papers which had been laid before sir Robert Hall, deceased (late a it, that sir Robert Hall, previously post captain in the British navy, to these captures, had had any conand a brigadier-general in the Sici- nection with the Sicilian army, or lian service). The king's advo-with Sicily itself. It was probable cate and Dr. Arnold, appeared for that this was the first st time that he Chelsea hospital; against which had been connected with the Sicilian institution, the Court was prayed to service by the joint opinions of enforce monition.. the British military commander-inchief in that expedition (lieutenant-general lord William Bentinck), and the British admiral (now lord viscount Exmouth). It seemed to have been also the last time that he served in his military capacity; so that his connexion the service with the Sicilian vice might be considered to have been accidental and temporary only. At the same time, the Court was bound to consider it a sufficiently authen

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Lord Stowell gave judgment to day. The question, which the Court was called on to decide, arose from the capture of Genoa, and its two dependencies, Spezzia and Savona, then in the possession of the French government. The capture of these places was effected by the combined armies and fleets of the king of Great Britain and the king of Sicily and a very considerable booty, or prize, was** distributed among the captors unticated fact, that sir Robert had der the grants of the respective sovereigns. The immediate question arising out of these transactions, related to the particular share of sir Robert Hall, a person described as a military officer in the service of the king of the Two Sicilies, and who was likewise a VOL. LXVIII. *-*

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been validly transferred to the Sici-
lian army, for he was certified by
the British commissioners for the
distribution of the Sicilian prize-
money as "a
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the Sicilian service." The claim now made on his prize-share, was! preferred by the Sicilian minister LUHA*

resident at this court. No question, therefore, could be raised as to the validity of his appointment, for however long or short a period it might have lasted. A great deal of obscurity had been introduced into this question by various events, and particularly by reason of the death of sir Robert Hall. The capture of the booty was made in the early part of the year 1814; yet the first time, on which the present question had been introduced to the notice of the court, was on the last court-day of the very last term only; at the close of 1825, or very nearly 12 years after the matter happened. In that interval, many things had occurred that did certainly embarrass the question very much. Sir Robert Hall, who, if he had been living, would have been able to come into court himself and assert his own claim, was dead, and so were a great many other persons who could have thrown much light upon this cause.-It was to be observed, that a very scanty provision had been made by law relative to booty or prize captured by the combined operations of a British force, together with foreign forces. There seemed to have occurred scarcely any instance in the earlier ages of our history, wherein any permanent regulations, at least in respect of such cases, had been made. It was very true, that Great Britain had very often had to maintain contests single-handed. But this was by no means the case with the last struggle for the independence of Europe, which was sustained by the European states generally, against the common oppressor. In that contest, Great Britain had the concurrence of most of such states, in one shape

or other, and at various times. But it was late in the course of the last war, before any regulations concerning the distribution of prize to the forces employed in such conjoint operations was made by parliamentary authority. Three acts of that nature were passed in the reign of his late majesty; and one containing, certainly, very peremptory enactments, in the reign of the present king, and apparently with reference to this very expedition which took Genoa and its dependencies; and an order in council had also been made, which directed that the prize share, or that share in the distribution of the booty captured by the combined forces on this occasion, that might be adjudged to Sicily, should be paid over to the minister Plenipotentiary from the court of the two Sicilies, residing at this court. Out of this general injunction no reservations were made. The money so distributed was to be remitted to

Sicily for the purpose of its being paid over to those who might be entitled thereto, according to the laws and constitutions of that country, and "the directions of the sovereign thereof."

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Now it was upon this state of facts, that the present question came before the court. Sir Robert Hall's character as a Sicilian officer was sufficiently established; and being so, there could be no question but that his must be considered as "Sicilian" share. This share was paid somewhat early and prematurely, but by no means imprudently, by way of safe custody, into the treasury of Chelsea Hospital; though at what time it was so paid, did not appear on the face of these proceedings. This payment was in itself somewhat irregular. Chel-.

sea Hospital, indeed, was the common depository of all unclaimed shares of British military officers; but this gentleman, sir Robert Hall, was clearly not a "British military officer;" he was a British "naval" officer, and a "Sicilian military" officer. Though it had remained in the hospital for several years, this prize share was to be considered as not having been paid in, in the regular way that British property of such a description would have been, in the usual course; namely, under the intention, that, being unclaimed, it would, after a certain lapse of time, become vested in the hospital. For as Sicilian property, though unclaimed, it would not have become so vested; nor could any provision to the contrary, bearing on foreign prize shares, be made, without being in some degree discoloured by injustice. It appeared, that in the Sicilian prize list, made out with perfect accuracy, sir Robert Hall was described as a Sicilian brigadier general, and a large sum was assigned to him in that character by the agents for the distribution. Unfortunately, it happened that in the British naval prize list, he was likewise entered, and described as a naval officer. Now the usual course observed, in respect of English prize or booty, with regard to prize, to " conjoint expeditions" of the British and foreign forces, was this: that an English officer holding rank also in the foreign service was not entitled to share in both capacities, but in the higher and more profitable of them. The prize due to the other office, which the individual should appear to have evacuated, and not to have fulfilled, but the duties of which he had left to be performed by other officers

of the same class, that other share was held to be divisible as among those other officers. By the English course of prize property, therefore, an officer thus situated had a right to take the higher proportion of the two proportions which the commission might afford, but to that superior share he must confine himself. By a common error, however, in this case-an error common to all the parties-this rule was not observed. In that error it appeared that latterly sir Robert Hall himself had become involved; for he himself appeared as a British naval officer, and took the booty erroneously assigned to him in that character. He never came forward as a Sicilian military officer, which he was most undoubtedly entitled to do. At least, it did not seem that any application was ever made by him in that capacity, and he actually received as a British naval officer. That share he decidedly received in error; but with perfect integrity on his part, since he never claimed the higher share which was due to him. Whether he did not consider himself entitled as a Sicilian brigadier-general, or acted under that common delusion which had operated, apparently, on all parties in this matter, he had never asked for his military proportion; and by that means had come off minus about 500l. (the difference between the share he did take, and that which he should have taken). His share as a British naval officer was something more than 700l. The share he ought to have drawn as a Sicilian major-general, and that which was now in question, was 12917. so that, in truth, he had acted upon an erroneous notion; a notion in which all parties seemed to have been involved, and of which

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