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me? But above all, dearest, for I still must call you so, you have betrayed a littleness of mind which, if I had not read under your own hand, I never could have believed.-Your rejection of my offers, upon the plea of giving rp houses, servants, and society—is this my Charlotte? No; I will believe that some fiend has usurped her character, for if you can so coolly balance the world's enjoyments against your love for me, I have been mistaken in you, and think, with uninterested observers, that it was passion, and not love. Mark the difference. I could, for you, banish every pleasure of this life, shut myself in the most dreary cavern, undergo every privation, Jose even the recollection of my language for want of use, if, even at the end of twenty years, I was sure of possessing you for ever-that is, with the mind that has captivated me for the last six years. I shall say no more; there seemed but one way to secure our after happiness, and that, it seems, you have rejected; I shall never again repeat it, nor tempt you for a moment to make such powerful sacrifices as houses, servants, concerts, and Colonels. Farewell. Your unhappy, but fortunately proud,

EDMUND.

(Post mark) Southampton, Jan. 22, 1824. My darling, darling love, writes to me in affliction, and every thought but for her happiness has subsided; she flies to me for refuge; my heart, my whole heart, is open to receive her. My advice, my love, is this: if you can, secure Miss W. to your interest; if not, fly to my protection. All I ask is, that for a few months you will hide yourself, that when the hue and cry is raised they shall find nothing to criminate me. "If the goods are not found upon the thief, there can be no conviction." Make up your mind by Monday, and meet me alone, if possible, close to the Diorama, Regent's Park, by oue o'clock; keep the meeting an entire secret, if you can; if that is impracticable, do not let any other person be prepared to see me till the moment I stand before them. What money you may want you shall have in three hours' notice; indeed, my love, I adore you; and if it become your determination to proceed to extremities, you shall ever find in me your lover, husband, father, friend; but do not let my darling ever again degrade herself in the opinion of her worshipper, by placing on the same scale houses aud servants, against feelings of affection. There is but one point on which I am firm, that is my duty to my family, after that I am all in all yours, for ever.

Mrs. Elbe.

MY DEAREST, DEAREST, LITTLE LOVE-Walk every day in my absence; they will soon be tired of watching; change your route each time; the receiving-house for letters shall be here, on both sides, under the name of Sextou and Mrs. Elbe; put all letters in the post yourself, whether twopeany or general. On my return, I will so contrive our meetings, that a lynx's eye shall not penetrate our retreats. Oh, my soul, my love, life without you is valueless. I knew not till now the extent of my adoration. Welcome, my life, my love, my soul!-I cannot see you till after the farce, which I act in to-night, for my benefit. How does my little darling? I introduce to you my friend, Mr. Crooke, an officer of the Wolves, whom I have commissioned to be in attendance, and pay all honours to his Captain's love. I shall burry through the Tobacconist as fast as possible.—It matters not what subject.

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DEAR, DARLING Love! Little impudent B***,-Come immediately, and apologise for your impudence yesterday. I have written Jack for an escort, but, should that fail, come you and Anne alone, the boat is canopied, and defies all foul weather: hic sum. I am not astonished at your oa-appearance, for I have heard of General Bumbardine. LITTLE BREECHES-to be delivered immediately.

If you are determined to distress me continually with unnecessary accusations, on my soul I shall take you at your word-everything I have in the world now at stake, and by G-I will not be bothered.

What the devil is the matter with you, you little b***? if you do not be quiet, I will kick ****. If I do not see you before I leave London, I will take care that you shall be with me shortly after, and will take care that Crooke shall have the needful.

MY DEAR LITTLE LOVE.-I am frightened out of my senses-what is this 4d paragraph, the Actor and the Citizen? I do very much fear there some evil design in hand. I am sorry I took you to that tavern; it originates from that. My darling love, we must be more cautious-we Bust consider how many interests are involved in our destruction (for destruction is the word for discovery), wives, husbands, children, fortune. -regret very much your not coming here; his being with you always bils suspicion, that is, with a little prudence on your side. I shall be in Waterford, I fear, on your arrival.-Heaven bless you, my darling! I shall write again in a week, during which time believe that I love youdearly, dearly love you.

Little BreECHES.

Mr. Coles, the plaintiff's attorney, proved that the letters read had been in his possession ever since they had been given him by the plaintiff. He had issued a writ, he said, against Mr. Whatmore, at the suit of the plaintiff, for a similar cause of action, on the same day that he had sued out a writ against Mr. Kean.

Alice Humber deposed, that she had lived as servant with Mr. and Mrs. Cox for 11 years, and they appeared to live very happily together. One night, when Mr. Kean slept at her master's house in Wellington-street, Mrs. Cox, on retiring to bed, ordered her, if her master came home, to look out of the window before she opened the door, and call her immediately by knocking at the door of the room where Mr. Kean was to sleep. Next morning, she went into Mr. Kean's room with a note: Mr. Kean was then lying in bed, and Mrs. Cox was standing at the side, in her Mr. Cox found the bundle of letters ia gown, but without her shoes. Mrs. Cox's cabinet. Her mistress was very cautious, but witness had suspicions, from the letters passing, which were confirmed when Mrs. Cox said to her, "For God's sake, don't let me be caught."-Being asked if she had not said, that two men were not enough for her mistress,

witness answered, that she might lately have said so. When her master was from home, her mistress often went out by herself, and did not return till 10 o'clock.

Mr. SCARLETT addressed the Court for the Defendant. He spoke of the difficult task he had to perform, as his client was a servant of the public, on whose smiles he depended, and his interests might greatly suffer by the line of defence which might be best adapted to serve him in the present calamity. A number of letters had been read, addressed to Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Simpson, and Mrs. Elbe, written certainly by the Defendant, but it was not proved that they were written to Mrs. Cox-nor had it been shown that the letters without signature, addressed to Little Breeches, were meant for the same lady. A bundle of letters were said to have been taken from an open cabinet, but there had been no evidence to show that the letters produced were those so found. His client could not reconcile it to his honour and his feelings to give up a single letter he had received from Mrs. Cox, let it cost him what it might, and be (Mr. Scarlett) thought he was quite right, in not rescuing himself from the consequences of the injury the Plaintiff' had sustained, by betraying the confidence which an infatuated woman had placed in him. He trusted, therefore, the Jury would not allow his abstinence from explaining the nature of that correspondence which had just been read to them, to injure the Defendant's interests on this occasion. Mr. Scarlett denied that Mr. Cox had been the patron of Mr. Kean, or had assisted to lift him into fame: that aggravation of the Defendant's offence must not be heaped upon him. If Mrs. Cox had deceived her husband by her arts and cunning, making him believe that she had been always faithful to his bed, was it not likely that she had employed the like arts to win and deceive ber lover, and that she had shown herself to Mr. Kean even as a more consummate actor than he was himself?-Her maid-servant had described her to be a woman for whom not even two men would be found sufficient: she was in the habit of walking out alone in the streets at night when her husband was from home-to whom were those nightly visits paid?-for there was no pretence that they were made to Mr. Kean. This was therefore an odd wife to bold in high estimation-one, he should think, that a man would rather be anxious to get rid of than to keep. The affair at Salisbury had been laid much stress upon, and Mr. Kean's conduct and letters severely commented on. He (Mr. Scarlett) would venture to say of any man, he cared not who he might be, if he did not know him previously to be a poltroon and a villain, that if he had been carrying on an intrigue with the wife, and the husband were to reproach him with it, he would boldly and unhesitatingly deny it. No man was an angel. If a man was in possession of a woman's honour, he would meet and deserve the contempt of mankind, if, on the husband's charging him with the fact, he should go down humbly before him, and say, "True it is; I have been in bed with your wife, and have debauched her and dishonoured you."— No; he would make protestations of his own and the lady's innocence, which, though they might tell against him in a Court of Law, no man with the smallest sense of honour would scruple to make, when they were calculated to prevent the immediate ruin of a woman who had given up everything to him in the tenderness of love. Mr. Kean must either have confessed that he had violated Mr. Cox's bed, or have done as he had done,-asserted the purity of Mrs. Cox's conduct.-The Jury had heard how often Mr. Cox bad left his wife, who was 10 or 12 years younger than himself, under Mr. Kean's protection-a wife who had all the strength of a summer shoot about her-that shoot which was the strongest of all, and the most difficult to control or eradicate. Had he been consulted, he should not have advised Mr Cox to aveselected a clever actor for the guardian of his wife's honour, as there were no set of men more calculated to display the workings of the passions, and to assume a tenderness which they did not feel. Above all, a husband who had a luxuriant wife, ought to have avoided throwing her in the way of an actor like the Defendant, especially if she had a mind filled with romantic notions.-He believed that, in this case, the overture had come from Mrs. Cox to the Defendant, for he must have known, that his fortune as an actor, as well as character as a man, must have been ruined, if an overture on his part had proved unsuccessful. The folly, at least, of placing Mrs. Cox in the care of Mr. Kean, could hardly have been expected in an Alderman even of the present day, notwithstanding the old reproach which had been the badge of all the tribe. (Laughter.) He was far from saying that the were entitled to horns by prescription; but he recollected, that shor after the Restoration. when there was a talk of fortifving the City,.

this a case, after all the negligence which had been substantiated, under
which they would give such a verdict as would effect the Defendant's
utter ruin? If their verdict should be for the Plaintiff, no damages could
be too small; but he did trust that he should oblige them to give a ver
dict in his behalf; for it was clear law that the husband was not entitled
to a verdict when he was the handmaid to his own disgrace.
Newman, Mr. Kean's dresser, testified that he had repeatedly seen.
Mr. and Mrs. Cox in Mr Kean's dressing room at the theatre, that they
were often present when Mr. Kean had nothing on but a thin pair of silk
leggings, intended to represent flesh, which fitted him as tight as his
skin, and a flannel waistcoat; that he had seen Mrs. Cox there without
the Alderman; that he had known Mr. Kean repeatedly refuse Mrs. Cox
admittance; and that Mrs Cox, with or without her husband, came to
the theatre every night that Mr. Kean performed.

John Stuart, box-keeper, gave similar testimony.

Miss Anne Wickstead, the Niece of Mr. Cox, deposed to the intimacy which subsisted between her uucle and Mr. Kean, from the time of the fainting at Taunton theatre. She and her aunt were frequently in Mr. Kean's dressing room, but her uncle was only there once. She did not know that a horse had been given to her aunt by Mr Kean, nor that she received any money from him for her own purposes. When witness and her aunt returned from the visit to Mr. Kean at Birmingham, her uncle never asked them where they had been. Mr. Kean's attentions to her aunt were very marked, but not when her uncle was present. She recol. lected Mr. Kean's running up the terrace at Windsor with her aunt in his arms, when her uncle was present, and he used to lift her across the muddy places. Her uncle has brought Mr. Kean home to supper when he was very tipsy, on which occasions he used to sleep on the sofa, and lie in bed the whole of the next day. Sir R. Kemyss was introduced to them while they lived in Dorsetshire: he used to visit them a great deal also when they lived at Wandsworth, and sleep there; but the intimacy was broken off in consequence of his attentions to her aunt. Mrs. Cox, and a servant also, told witness that a lap dog had caused Sir R. Kemyss d to be discovered in her aunt's closet, which had caused his dismissal. A 3 quarrel between her aunt and uncle was the result. Her aunt, she knew, corresponded with Sir R. Kemyss. This was twelve years ago. Her aunt told her, that she had sworn on her oath that she did not know that Sir R. Kemyss was concealed in her closet. She was aware of the intimacy between Mr. Kean and her aunt. She had heard her uncle say, that he would make his aunt an allowance, if she would give up Mr. Whatmore's acquaintance, but he would never see her again. Mr. Whatmore was received in their house as a person paying his addresses to witness. Her uncle's affection for his wife continued to the last : she never had a more affectionate busband; he was infatuated with her. Witness did not tell her uncle of Mr. Kean's intimacy with her aunt, because she thought that he would not have believed her, and did not think he knew of it from any other quarter.

throwing up horns, Charles the Second observed, "Then the Aldermen are putting their heads together!" (Laughter.) The first time the De fendant saw Mrs. Cox, was at the Taunton theatre. He was playing Othello, and the feelings of the lady were so much excited by his inimitable acting, that she fainted-the performance was stopped-the lady was carried into the Green-room, where Mr. K. bestowed upon her all the attentions suggested by humanity. This led to an intimacy with her and Mr. Cox, for he was with his wife on this occasion, and he pressed Mr. K. to visit him when in London. After this, Mrs. Cox went con stantly to Drury-lane theatre-she visited Mr. Kean in his private dress ing-room there, when he was dressing and half-dressed, and he could not be insensible to the affection which a beautiful and romantic woman had imbibed for him. Mr. and Mrs. Cox were constantly his visitors in this place, and, after staying the performances, took him home to spend the night. Although Mrs. Kean, either from jealousy or vanity, had expressed to Mr. Cox, in the presence of Mrs. Cox and her husband, a hope that all intercourse would cease, as she was convinced that it would lead to some improper conclusion, Mr. Cox, notwithstanding, soon after allowed his wife to receive a present of a horse from Mr. K., the nightly visits were still kept up-and thus that shortly occurred which any man but an Alderman must have seen would happen! He (Mr. Scarlett) did not mean to justify the conduct of bis client; but the Jury would recollect that man was frail and born to sin! It required virtue more than usual to reject the solicitations of a beautiful woman when thus pressed upon one's notice. After Mrs. Kean had warned Mr. Cox of the danger, he still sedulously courted the visits of Mr. Kean. What damages, therefore, was he really entitled to?-There were grounds to suspect that long before Mr. Kean's intimacy, the Plaintiff had entertained suspicions of his wife and intentions of parting with her. When in the country, a Gentleman had found his way into her bed-room. Mr. Cox at this moment happened to return home: the lover retired into an adjoining closet: her lap-dog, however, barked furiously, which led the Plaintiff to the closet, and, along with the lap-dog, drew forth the skulking gallant! A quarrel followed, but after certain letters had been given up and promises made, a reconciliation ensued, and peace was patched up between the wife and husband. This closet-scene was quite a dramatic denouement, for which Mrs. Cox had a natural love. On one occasion, Mrs. Cox, under pretence of going to Brighton, visited Mr. Kean at Birmingham. Mr. Cox discovered that she had not been at Brighton, and he sent his son by his first wife to make inquiries. This was in July, 1822. The young man found that his father's wife and his own famale cousin were on a visit to the Defendant. After this discovery, did Mr. Cox put his wife away? Oh no she returned again to his home! Mr. Cox went to Salisbury with the Defendant, his wife, Miss Tidswell, Miss Wickstead, and the Reverend Mr. Drury. And how did they travel? Why, Mrs. Cox, Mr. Kean, and Miss Wickstead, in one carriage, and the rest of the party in another. They had jolly doings at Salisbury. In five days they ran up a bill of 50l. which Mr. Kean paid, and he lent Mr. Cox 10l. to carry him to London. After the quarrel at Salisbury, when pistols were talked of, did the Plaintiff become more cautious as to his wife? No; the same intercourse was kept up to the last-the same attentions-the same dressing room visitings. There was one other circumstance, that, if proved, would give a verdict for his client. On the 10th of April, writs were sued out against Mr. Kean and Mr. Whatmore on the same grounds After this event, the Plaintiff and his wife were seen walking arm-in-arm with each other, very lovingly. This story was certainly hard to believe: but if true, the man and wife were still rowing in the same boat. The Defendant's money had moreover found its way into the Plaintiff's pocket through his wife's medium. Would not the Jury think it odd, to find their rent paid by their wives, when they were themselves in a state of pecuniary embarrassment; would they not ask where the money came from? This the Aldeman had not done; and what was the inference? Either that the Alderman was in collusion with his wife, and had selected the Defendant as his victim, because he was able to pay heavy damages, or that he was so negligent that he cared not what she did; or that he and she were colluding together to obtain a divorce, in order that she might live with her present paramour. If the statements of his Learned Friend were true, the Plaintiff bad full reason to rejoice at getting rid of so wan ton a wife; but if his (Mr. Scarlett's) statements were correct, he trusted that the Jury would not assist him by their verdict, in getting rid of her at the Defendant's expense. If his Learned Friend had called any member of the Plaintiff's family into the box, his client (Kean) would not have cast any imputation upon the Plaintiff's character, but would have trusted his case to the scrutiny of a cross-examination. It was, however, rendered necessary for him to go into evidence, after the inflammatory state-guilt of infamy down which he has plunged her. And yet, with all ments which bis Learned Friend had made respecting the treachery of the glittering yet nauseous affectation of maguanimity, he looks for his def Defendant, in dishonouring the man who had been his friend and patron in the bosom of the Plaintiff's family, and pays a price for it whic in adversity. He should show that this was utterly false; and if upon that man of honour would consent to give. What consideration, except showing they should also find that this Alderman, who had eat his way up of saving a few paltry pounds, could have influenced his mind, whe through feasts to City honours, had been the abettor of his own dishonour subpoenaed the son, whom he dared not call, to give evidence agains that with all the Boeotian stupidity which often distinguished Civic father-when he placed in the box a dependent niece to bear testic Functionaries, it was not possible for him to be so blind as not to know against her uncle, to whom she looked up for subsistence? that his wife was in danger when he allowed her to go into the Defend- lady had spoken of the happiness which her uncle enjoyed as a hus ant's dressing-room, witness his delineations of tenderness with a truth of till the Defendant poisoned it, and added, what be trusted the Jury v feeling which no other man could equal, and then return back to it to not forget, that her uncle was so attached to his wife, that he woul drink tea and sup with him-would they, he asked, throw the sanction of have believed any story which she might have told to her disadvan their verdict over the depravity at which he had connived? Even sup-It was, however, said, that this was all owing to the artifice of Mrs. posing that he failed to prove collusion on the part of the Plaintiff, was True, it might be so; but had there been no artifice on the past of

James Parker, a black servant of Mr. Cox, said that his Master was greatly distressed when the discovery was made; that he would hardly credit it; and that he left the house immediately, as did witness (4 laugh.)-He had mentioned it to his master that he did not like bis mistress's ways, but his master would not believe it.

Daniel Henley, door keeper at Drury-lane theatre, deposed that he saw Mr. and Mrs. Cox, in June last, walking arm and arm together in St. Martin's-lane, about twelve in the day. She is a middle-sized woman, and had her veil on: he could not tell whether she was brown or fair, though he had seen her often about the theatre.

James Parker was recalled, when he said that Mrs. Cox was a goodsized woman, about his height (5 feet 4 inches.)

Mr. DENMAN, in reply, observed, that the testimony of the box-keepe had been contradicted by all the other evidence, and all the facts of the case proved that there had been no condonation of the adultery on the pa of the Plaintiff. No man who had heard the letters read could believ that his unfortunate client had connived at the intercourse between M Kean and his wife. He was of a coufiding character, and they had tak advantage of it, to commit the scandalous outrage upon his happiness an character. No rational man could doubt that Mrs. Cox was the trip Hecate addressed under the names of Allen, Elbe, and Simpson. Then to the Defendant's magnanimity in not submitting to disclose Mrs. Co letters to him! This heroic lover-this advocate for everything that w generous and honourable, will not produce her letters, but instructs Counsel to leave it to be inferred that they were too bad to show-t they were worse even than some of his own-that he would not pl them before the Court, lest he should sink his victim still deeper in

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Kean? Was there none in his letters to the husband and the wife which be wrote from Exeter? "For my own part," said Mr Deuman, "I could forgive him more easily for flat perjury in denial of his intercourse with Mrs. Cox, than I could for such a denial as his letter to the plaintiff contains. The Learned Counsel then called the attention of the Jury to this generous lover, who refused to produce his mistress's letters, but brought forward all other kinds of insinuations against her character. As to the insinuations of her intimacy with Sir R. Kemyss, and her husband's conniving at it, they were utterly groundless. All that was extracted from the witness was, that when be suspected the attentions of Sir R. Kemyss to be improper, he instantly withdrew bis wife from their operation He left the Jury to infer from that circumstance, that if the plaintiff had suspected the intimacy of his wife with the defendant, he would have followed that course in the present instance also. As to the evidence of the box-keepers and the dressers, no reliance could be placed upon it, as it specified neither times, nor places It was asked, why had Mr. Kean been attacked first, and not Mr. Whatmore? Because Mr. Kean had been the person who first vitiated her affections, and because Mr. Whatmore had only followed in at the breach which Mr. Kean had himself made. Was a player to be spared because he was before the public, and was a young offender to be punished because he was not? He (Mr. Denman) contemplated with regret the consequences which this action might bring upon the defendant; but he ought to have reflected on those consequences before be committed this atrocious outrage on the peace of families. The defence which he had that day set up had aggravated his misconduct. What had become of the fool insinuation that the plaintiff had received money from Mr. Kean through the bands of his wife? It was absolutely disproved by his own evidence. He did not ask for large damages; but he called upon them to give such an amount of them as would vindicate a character which had been unjustly traduced; and would place the injured plaintiff in as high a situation as any husband who had ever laboured under the unfortunate necessity of bringing a complaint of this nature into a court of justice.

The CHIEF JUSTICE said, the first question to be considered was, whether the letters produced had really been written by the defendant to Mrs. Cox; if they had been so written, then came on the second question-as to which there could perhaps be very little doubt-bad the adultery been committed prior to April 1824? For the defendant several justifications were set up. First, it was said that the plaintiff had connived at his own disbonoar; and if that was the case, he could not be entitled to a verdict. Secondly, that Mrs. Cox herself had committed adultery with other persons prior to her intimacy with Mr. Kean: that fact, if there were the means of proving it, was one which would go materially to mitigate the damages. Thirdly, that the plaintiff had not exercised a reasonable caution in the control of his wife, but had exposed her needlessly rather to temptation; and this plea was perhaps the only one also which would be very important for the consideration of the Jury. For the assertion that the plaintiff' had connived at his wife's conduct, all the evidence was strongly opposed to it. The letters after the affair at Salisbury made such a supposition almost impossible. The defendant's language to the plaintiff was in strong jus tification of his own innocence: in what he said to the plaintiff's wife, he complained of her imprudence, which had nearly put an end to their connexion. Upon the want of caution imputed to the plaintiff, a great deal more, certainly, might fairly be maintained. It appeared that the access permitted Mr. Kean to Mr. Cox's house had been of a nature unusually large and familiar. He visited at all hours and seasons, coming sometimes when the family were in bed. Frequently he came to Mr. Cox's house in a state of intoxication; at other times, Mr. and Mrs. Cox were found in his dressing-room at the theatre; and, on one occasion, it appeared that bath the lady and her husband had been present in that room while he dressed or undressed himself; certainly during a time when no respectable woman ought on any account to have been present. The journey taken to Birmingham to visit Mr. Kean was a material feature in the cause. While Mrs. Cox was at Birmingham, Mr. Cox's son had gone down there to seek what was become of his mother-in-law. Now this was said to have happened two or three years ago; but still it was an important fact. Wit occurred prior to the journey to Salisbury, then it was extraordinary that (with such knowledge) the plaintiff had taken his wife that journey: if it had occurred subsequently, then it was most extraordinary (after what bad happened at Salisbury) that the plaintiff should have continued the istimacy which had led to it. It was most inexplicable how, after his suspicions had been awakened by these occurrences, the plaintiff could have gone on as he had done, permitting the defendant to come to his house at night, at all hours, and in all conditions-sober or intoxicatedlet into the house after the family were in bed-sleeping upon sofas until morning-then remaining during the whole day in the absence of the plaintiff himself. All these were circumstances more important, inasmuch as it was quite certain that they had taken place subsequent to the Birmingham affair and to the journey to Salisbury, at which latter place it stood past doubt that the suspicions of Mr. Cox had been aroused as to the istercourse which was going on. The fourth ground upon which it was tended that the plaintiff had little claim to damages, was, that from the storiety of bis wife's ill character, he had sustained little disadvantage in long her. The evidence upon that point was very slight. It was stated that a Sir Robert Kemyss had been discovered concealed in the closet of Mrs. Cox's bed-chamber; but this fact rested upon some account given by female servant in the family to Ann Wickstead, confirmed only by Ann Wickstead's personal recollection, that at the tis difference did

Whatmore the Lord Chief Justice was inclined to lay very little stress There was a Colonel Pearson also mentioned, of whom Mr. Cox had been upon, as it had not occurred until after the adultery with the defendant jealous; but nothing decisive had been proved as to that person. With respect to the evidence of the box-keeper, that he had seen the plaintiff and his wife together, it would be for the Jury to consider whether the witness might not have been mistaken; certainly it was in proof that Mr. Cox, speaking of his wife, had said that if she would quit the man with whom she was living (Whatmore), he would make her an allowance, but that he would never see her again. Finally, the Jury would have to recollect this circumstance that if they believed the plaintiff to have been cognisant of his wife's infamy, he would not be entitled to a verdict. If they thought that no such connivance was made out, then a verdict must peculiar province to decide upon. pass against the defendant; and the amount of damages it would be their

the plaintiff-Damages 8001. The Jury, after consulting for about ten minutes, returned a verdict for

OLD BAILEY.

that he did marry, in February, 1819, Caroline Bartlett, a widow, his On Monday, Angelo Benedito Ventura was indicted for bigamy, for wife, Lady Francis Cockburn, being at that time alive. The facts of this Bartlett, alias Ventura, stated that she was married to the prisoner on the case have been recently very fully stated in our police report.-Caroline 4th of February, 1819. She first became acquainted with the prisoner by his teaching her the guitar. She heard that he was living at that time with Lady Cockburn as her husband.-The Prisoner, in his defence, stated Lady Cockburn was married, he ceased to cohabit with her-Sir James that he had been deceived by Lady Cockburn. When he discovered that Limerick, in 1791. She was then a single woman. Cock barn deposed that he was married to Frances Henrietta Green, in He afterwards separated from her, and had not seen her since 1793. He had never been divorced from his wife.-The RECORDER directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner, the charge having been completely answered by the evidence of Sir James Cockburn.-Not Guilty.

LEEDS BOROUGH SESSIONS.

Mr. Dunderal, of Holbeck, butcher, and stealing a quantity of mutton, On the trial of Joseph Pickles, charged with breaking into the shop of a circumstance painfully interesting occurred-the production of the mother of the prisoner as a witness against her son. She was poor, old, infirm, and quite blind, under which last deprivation she had laboured forty years. It was distressing to observe the painful struggle in the mind of save her son, and her dread, on the other, of swearing what was obviously this poor woman, between the evidence of her desire, on the one hand, to

untrue

It came out, in the course of the examination, that she had never seen the son for whose fate she evinced this solicitude; her days of darkness having commenced many years before he was born. We cannot but of public justice, and that a criminal should now and then escape, rather think, says the Leeds Mercury, that there should be occasionally a failure than a conviction should be obtained by so dreadful a violation of all the dearest charities of domestic life.

James Gaunt was charged with assaulting Rachel Lamb, aged 11 years, with intent to commit a rape. This was a case of great atrocity; the prisoner was a horsekeeper, and about the 22d of June euticed the prosecutrix into a stable, and having tied her mouth with a handkerchief, to prevent her crying, he accomplished his brutal purpose, charging her not consequence of this threat she did not communicate this outrage to her to tell her mother on pain of being carried away by the "bad man." In mother; but circumstances occurred which excited her suspicions, and the child detailed what had been done. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Court sentenced him to hard labour two years in the House of Correction at Wakefield.

POLICE. MANSION-HOUSE.

On Friday, Mr. Tyrie, of the Old Exchange Chambers, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with an intention to fight a duel with Mr. Rutherford, of the same place. They had, it seems, been long friends, but had recently had a warm dispute on 'Change, and their friends had in vain attempted to reconcile them. Mr. Tyrie gave bail to keep the peace with extreme reluctance; and the officers were directed to take Mr. Rutherford and his Seconds into custody.

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.

On Tuesday, a Jury assembled at the Chalk-farm Tavern, to inquire into the death of John Stone, a young man, who was killed in a pitched battle on Sunday morning last, in that neighbourhood. After hearing the evidence, the Coroner and Jury viewed the body, which presented a shocking spectacle. The Foreman said, "we have found a verdict of Manslaughter against Joseph Packer, and against Cummins, Saunders, Adams, and Hearne, the seconds and bottle-holders, as accessories; and the Jury fully concur in the propriety of checking the practice of prize-fighting.". The CORONER :-" Gentlemen, I cannot receive your verdict in that form: the persons accused must all be guilty alike; they are all equally culpable; nay, even more so than the principal. The Jury, after a few mi

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being at the time in a state of mental derangement.

NATIONAL MARINE.

On Thursday, an inquest was held at Ipswich, on the body of John Blake, a young man, who put an end to his existence by taking laudanum. It appeared that the deceased had been acquainted with a young rendered it unavoidable that Parliament should devote, and Among the subjects to which time and circumstance have woman, who accepted his addresses, but, for some reason, on Sunday, when they met, declined any farther acquaintance. The deceased imme-devote immediately, a large portion of its most serious inquidiately became melancholy, and having seen her again on Tuesday, de- ries, is the condition of our national marine. There is no clared his intention of putting an end to his existence. She endeavoured to dissuade him, but without effect. The Jury returned a verdict "That and industrious examination-there is none, we grieve to say, one branch of the public interests which more deserves a full the deceased destroyed himself in a temporary fit of insanity."-Bury which more loudly calls for it. In spite of every attempt by On Wednesday, a Coroner's inquest was held in Guy's hospital, on the commissioners, secretaries, clerks, &c., whether as members body of Mrs. Anne Maria Williams, thirty-three years of age, who of Parliament or placemen, to bolster up the hackneyed destroyed herself by poison. Anne Hyde, servant to the deceased, said sayings of the public offices, to give plump contradictions to her mistress lived on Sion-terrace, near Battle-bridge, and left home on Monday, on a visit to her husband, who was in the Marshalsea prison, positive facts, and to stifle by ridicule, by insolence, or by and desired witness to call there at eight o'clock, to accompany her home majorities, each successive proposal to decide the truth of When she got there, she learnt her mistress had been taken to Guy's alarming statements in such a manner as to satisfy sober and Hospital, whither she went, and found her in a state of insensibility from discriminating judges-in spite of all this praiseworthy dinitaking laudanum. Her husband had been a wine merchant in Bernardstreet, Russell square, whose misfortune, she believed, had preyed on her gence, on the part of Lords and Gentlemen in office, a conspirits. On the body being opened, no doubt remained of her death viction has somehow or other spread itself rapidly and widely being occasioned by laudanum, taken in the stomach. The Jury returned throughout the kingdom, that the whole system of our navy a verdict that the deceased had come to her death, by taking laudanum, demands a rigorous revision, both as to the materials of Tuesday morning, James Conelly, Roger Foy, Wm Ferrall, Barry which our men of war are composed, and as to the laws and Brian, Donald McCarthy, Richard Norton, and Wm. Grogan, entered a usages by which they are manned and governed. A disease wherry to be conveyed ou board a vessel lying in Limehouse-hole, which but little known to our ancestors, and not more familiar to they were engaged to assist in unloading. Scarcely had they reached the foreign nations, appears to have made, within 30 years, the middle of the river, when the boat was swamped by a sudden gust of wind, and upset. Of the seven men on board, exclusive of the waterman, most unparallelled and frightful ravages among the King's one alone was rescued to tell the disastrous tale; the remainder perished. vessels of war. Ships not serving for more than a fourth of The survivor, Wm. Grogan, saved himself by clinging to one of the boat's the period for which they had been estimated to endure, have benches, and was near three quarters of an hour in the water. Twelve been brought into dock, to receive, at an enormous expense, children are, by this sad event, left fatherless. DANIEL MANGAN-This person, whose mysterious retreat has excited what is described as a thorough repair;" and even before so much attention, and who was believed to have been murdered, has at the process of repair was completed, have, from the virulence length been discovered. It appears that he has entered as a soldier into of the distemper which afflicted them, decayed almost under the service of the East India Company. His brother, and Mr. Duvall, the carpenters' hands, and been pronounced incurable. New upon the information of two men who claimed two guineas as a reward for the discovery, which they received, went to Chatham, and recognised ships of the first order, magnificent as models, costly in their him in the appropriate dress. He declined telling his motives for enlisting, materials, elaborate in workmanship, and of proud and enand yet acknowledged that he knew that the suspicion of having mur-couraging promise, have, on the earliest inspection after being dered him fell upon Lynn, now charged with the murder of Hogg. At the Norwich County Sessions, a true bill was found against the Rev. James Maxwell, Rector of Thorpe, for violently assaulting and illtreating Charlotte, the wife of Mr. Wm. Browne Chamberlain, a Lieutenant in the Navy, residing in Thorpe.

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launched, turned out unserviceable, from the dry rot! At this moment not a few of the finest-looking vessels in the British navy have actually perished in their respective harbours, and the hundreds of thousand pounds which have been SUICIDE-On Friday morning, the inhabitants of Edward street, Black-expended on them might as well have been cast into the

friars-road, were thrown into considerable alarm by a loud report of a pistol fired in the house of Mr. William Horn, hat-manufacturer. The shock threw the inmates into confusion, whose shrieks for assistance caused several persons to repair to the house, when on entering the parlour occupied by Mr. Horn, they found him prostrate on the floor, with his head blown to atoms. He was a man in easy circumstances, and no cause can be assigned for his committing self-destruction. The report from the pistol broke several of the parlour-windows.

MARRIAGES.

On Thursday, in Hinde-street, Manchester-square, by special license, Colonel
Sir John Sinclair, Bart. of Dunbeath, to Miss Sarah Charlotte Carter.
On the 17th inst. at Middle church, by the Rev. George Burd, A.M. James
Watkins, Esq. Captain in the 62d regiment Bengal Infantry, to Miss Mary Ann
Watkins, only daughter of Watkin Watkins, Esq. of Shottan, near Salop.

On Thursday, week, at Clapham, Charles Turner, Esq. Lieutenant of the Madras Native Infantry, to Eliza, eldest daughter of the late Alexander Sketchley, Esq. of Clapham-rise.

On the 13th inst. at Bristol, Richard Hunt, jun. Esq. to Emmeline Mary, third daughter of Jacob Elton, Esq. of that city, and niece of the late Admiral Sir Wm. Young.

DEATHS.

On Thursday, in Upper Norton-street, Lord Herbert Windsor Stuart, son of the late Marquess of Bute.

On the 15th inst. at Clapham, Joseph Stephens, Esq. in his 87th year.
On the 17th inst. in his 50th year, William Elgie, Esq. of Spital-square.

At Marlborough-street, Kent road, on the 16th inst. Richard Wheadon, Esq.

many years of Doctors' Commons, aged 90.

On the 14th inst. at Stepney, in her 74th year, Mrs. Gilbert, widow of the late Mr. John Gilbert, of Ongar, Essex.

Lately, at Brixton-lodge, Surrey, in his 17th year, John Miles, son-in-law of

Joseph Hine (not Wine, as printed in our last). His virtues and talents gave earnest promise of his becoming a blessing to his friends and to society.

ocean. This fact has not been denied. It is terrifying: it is
more so, because, by the conduct pursued by men in office,
the nation are kept studiously in the dark respecting the nature
and rapid growth of the calamity. This is one grand subject
which we humbly propose to the notice of the House of
Commons at the commencement of the approaching session:
and we recommend it with the greater confidence, because
there will then be so much a better tale wherewith honourable
gentlemen may recover the strayed affections of their consti-
tuents before another meeting of Parliament.
A second-
nay, a more important subject-is that of the British seaman
himself; and IMPRESSMENT, with its long train of mischiefs
and of horrors.-Times.

COURTS OF JUSTICE.

We do not know whether it is that the other Arts and Sciences being of a peaceful tendency, disdain to shed their influence over those of litigation; but so it is, that though erection and improvements of Courts of Justice, there is not vast sums of money have of late years been expended in the one which, in point of actual comfort, convenience, and utility, reflects the least credit upon the skill and judgment of the projectors. The Courts of Justice of a great country like this are of the first importance; both as regards their application to the purposes for which they are designed, and as models of National taste and science. It is here that On the 12th inst. at Bellevue, Aberdeenshire, in her 92d year, Miss Farquhar, external grandeur and internal arrangement should arrest viz. Martha, on Dec. 9, aged 18 years; Mary, on the 23d, aged 16; and Ann, on dignity of the Bench should blend itself with the accommodaAt Marchup, near Addingham, three daughters of Mr. Hugh Hudson, farmer, the attention of every spectator. It is here that the retired terred on Saturday his only son, a boy 13 years of age, and his last surviving tion of the audience; and above all, every facility be afforded his fatal sickness, which was a putrid sore throat, the family was a remarkably to the various persons, be they the parties, the Jury, the

On the 18th inst. after a lingering illness, in her 27th year, Elizabeth, wife
On the 14th inst. at Glocester Spa, the lady of J. H. Allen, Esq. M.P. for

of Charles Richards, St. Martin's-lane.

Pembroke.

On Tuesday, Mr. James Lewis Turquand, of Spital-square, in his 77th year.

sister to the late Sir Walter Farquhar, Bart.

the 31st, aged 12 years. And to complete the desolation of his family, he in

and youngest daughter, who was only six years old. A few weeks previous to

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But what can be said when the most obvious of these facili- of the gradual waste of the waters, occasioned by the rocks, ties are wanting? What can be said of a Criminal Court, sands, and other solid materials of the globe, imbibing a for instance, like the new one at the Old Bailey, where the portion which they never return? This is very improbable; very lives of the prisoners may depend upon the Judge and and though the alternations of the tide might render the deJury hearing accurately the testimony of witnesses, yet where tection of a small change difficult, one of several feet must the structure is so monstrously absurd and injudicious, as to assuredly have made itself known. If the phenomenon is put all hearing quite out of the question? The same, or entirely local, shall we conclude with Playfair, that an exequally flagrant errors, occur in almost all the new Courts pansive force placed in the interior of the earth, is gradually which we have yet seen. At Hicks' Hall (to show that the heaving up the land, while the true level of the waters remains stupidity is not wholly modern), the witness is actually placed unaltered; and that this local change is part of the grand with his back to the Jury. And the Vice-Chancellor's Court, process by which the present continent rose above the sea. in Lincoln's Inn, is so confined, that it seems as if none but This is the simplest, but not perhaps the most probable soluprofessional men were allowed to enter its hallowed pre- tion. Is it not possible that there may be causes, analogous cincts; and even among them the crowd and jostling, owing to magnetism; that there may be a positive shifting, for into the confined space, is such as to keep up a perpetual buz stance, of masses of fluid matter in the interior of the globe, and tumult. These are matters which ought to attract the which may change the equilibrium of its parts; and that the attention of Parliament, who, when they vote money liberally waters which obey the law of gravitation, may thus get a defor public purposes, should at least see that their intentions termination from one point of its surface to another? Perhaps are not defeated by the bungling hands to which their execu-it may be found that these changes, instead of being constantly tion is intrusted. The consequences of the evil we are progressive, are parts of a great cycle, that they oscillate about alluding to may be much more serious than are at first appa- a given point, and after a long series of years, regain the rent; for when we hear of innocent persons being convicted, position in which they began. Philosophical observers who and even ordered for execution, surely there must be a come 500 years after us, will have data for determining these serious fault somewhere; and we are, probably, not and many other questions which baffle the powers of science wrong in imputing no small share of it to the way in at the present day. In the mean time, it must be confessed, which our Courts are constructed, as well as to the manner that the Hyperborean sages, who trouble themselves about the in which the proceedings in some of them are, for the future, have strange prospects before them.—The Baltic is same reason, carried on. Now we are on the subject very shallow at present, and if its waters continue to sink as we would say, that nothing would add more to their dig-they have done, Revel, Abo, Narva, and a hundred other nity and usefulness, than placing the Counsel at a greater ports will by and by become inland towns; the Gulfs of distance from the Judge, than is the case in some of our Bothnia and Finland, and ultimately the Baltic itself, will Courts. The familiarity which is somewhat observable be- be changed into dry land; and shepherds will tend their tween the Bench and the Bar, though highly creditable to flocks, and ploughmen drive their steers, and cities and palaces the amenity of the. former, is rather unseemly in the latter. rise up, where now the fishes glide, and the billows roar. The The fearless, honourable Advocate should be above the imputa- change will be exactly the reverse of that described by Ovid— tion; such familiarity annoys; and Judges themselves (we do Que climbs a cliff; one in his boat is borne, not mean the twelve Judges only) would consult their own And ploughs above, where late he sowed his corn. Others o'er chimney tops and turrets row, dignity and importance more, were they to repress upon the And drop their anchor on the meads below. Bench these approaches to professional intimacy.-Morning And where of late the kids had cropt the grass, Herald. The monsters of the deep now take their place. Insulting Nereids o'er the cities ride,

SUBSIDENCE OF THE BALTIC.

A very singular and interesting fact (says the Scotsman) has been ascertained respecting the level of the Baltic. It had been long suspected that the waters of this sea were gradually sinking; but a memoir, published in the Swedish Transactions for 1823, has. put the change beyond a doubt. Mr. Bancrona, assisted by some officers of the Swedish Piloting Establishment, has examined the Swedish coast with great care from lat. 56' to 62, and Mr. Halstrom has examined those of the gulf of Bothnia, The results of both inquiries are given in the form of a table; and though, as might have been expected, they are not completely uniform, they correspond sufficiently to place the subsidence of the waters beyond dispute. The Baltic, it is to be observed, has no tides, and is therefore favourably situated for making observations on its level; but with regard to the periods within which the changes observed have taken place, it was of course necessary to rely on records or on oral testimony. At the latitude of 55, where the Baltic unites with the German ocean through the Categat, no change seems to be perceptible. But from latitude 56 to 63, the observations show a mean fall of 14 foot in 40 years, or 4-10ths of an inch annually, or 3 feet 10 inches in a cenary. In the Gulf of Bothnia, the results are more uniform, and indicate a mean fall of 4 feet 4 inches in a century, or ather more than half an inch annually. These facts are Tery remarkable; and as we like to be honest, and give auhorities, we think it right to mention, that they are taken

the last number of the Annals of Philosophy. But bence arises this singular change? Is there a similar

And wondering dolphins through the palace glide.

CITY, 12 O'CLOCK-In the Money Market their is nothing to notice, Consols for Account being 94. In the Foreign Securities, Austrian, 97; Colombian, 91; Chilian, 883; Russian, 963; and Mexican, 81.

POSTSCRIPT.

MONDAY, JAN. 24. THURSDAY'S and Friday's Paris papers have been received. It is understood great opposition will be made to the project of law for indemnifying the Emigrants, which has been substantially altered, even by the Commission, which is composed of Ministerialists. Some Members of it are stated to have waited on the Minister with the alterations, which he did not condescend to look at.

There is no end to the attacks, and even abuse of Mr. Canning, for his recognition of South America, in the UltraRoyal Journals, one of which threatens retaliation upon England, in Ireland and India, which are regarded as the vulnerable parts of the Empire. The Journals of the Liberal Party, on the other hand, deprecate these threats with respect to Ireland, as well as the return of the Jesuits, and the general disposition of their party to revive intolerance, as extremely injurious to the Irish Catholics, by alarming the British Government and Parliament.

(From the Moniteur, Friday.)

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