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„tre ctlforeleen occurrence. Night advantedi and 'meat latl yielded to apprehenlion. I !hall not at aurtoheicribehisagitation. H e had notthe flight. gi con ception that his bofom friend was the mired his m if e ry till next morning, when to his aftonifh. i .nt and c onfternation he received this Letter lam the Defendant. I charge upon the Deren dot a violation of all the laws of hofpirality, of' ".incithip, of gratitude for kindnefs received., r p rn w hat evidence, Gentlemen ?—Upon the evi core of the Defendant himfelf. I acciife him of be i ng guilty of every aggravation of which his admitted : and he himfelf is my withers. This is the fatal paper — e sit—with forrow great how can I announce that yes have ro e tniierably mi f p laccd your confidence In me t—Tour wife carcx reurn to you without your forevenefs. This i think .: 5 if repoifible that you mould ever grant. See, however, di• ~L) my poor brother, who, as well u Eliza (Mrs. my. wixad yourfsif will go diltraaed. Still yours, (Signed) ” roma tinny." What damages could be too large in fuch a cafe k no w, Gentlemen, you will not be offended at ;lot lam about to remark. Miferable libelers faid, that if a man has his choice of a venue an aElion of this kind, he ought not to lay it in Thefe, I again repeat, are miferable ind impudent libellers. What ! than virtue and vice be fettled by parochial boundaries ? Shall the merchants of the firil city in the world, famed for 'ieir integrity, be accused of having no refpeCt for le Canaity of Marriage, and of felting a higher alue upon money and merchandize, than upon ie honour and happinefs of a hufband ? No, Gen iemen, there are as correct and liberal notions on me Eaft fide of Temple Bar as on the Weft ; and roar verdiet this day will Phew that fuels imputa tions are moft unjuftly call upon your charaeter. If evidence is adduced on the other fide, I (hall Lave art oppoitiinity to addrefs you again. If the witneffes I am about 'to call (land uncontradieted, lam Pure that you will not be led affray by the rilliant fpeech you will hear from my Learned to give one pound lets than the ftve thou lead, at which the damages are laid. 11711)611CI Stmt. LAIKTITT. The Rev. Mt. Hatt *proved the marriage of the Plaintiff with Mifs 'at St. Botoiph, Aldgate, on the 16th Of Augnlt; 1800 ; and Mr. rofeph Dixon, her brother, ted,. that he was - • .e , prefent at the ceremony. Mifs Frances Merchant. , " luni perfetftly well acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Lingham ;. I was the habit of vifiting at their boufe ; I hive re. coded with them rather more than isreek at a time. have been with them more thin once ; they ap peared to me to be living very, happily together. They had a child ; I never raw in their depo p ment toWirds each other, any thins which led inc to believe that they were not calmly happy. I 'Ora= td them in 1801. I-live in Iflington. I believe I Was oh a vifit in the fatriili in the beginning of the recent year alfo." Benjamin Waters.—" I know the Plaintiff per. feetly well. I have known . him from his child. hood; We were at fchuol to He is Abut thy age, at or a. I therried keirekfansily that was in the habit 'or ' , tong and - Mrs. Iltigham. Mr. Linghlitt behaved 'towards his' tvife in every terpea as an exemplary huthand; as far as I had an' opportunity of knowing, and there opportunities were very frequent. He and Mrs. Lingham appeared to me to be perfealx happy ; indeed retharahly , fo.' I think that Mrs. Linglimp vifited at my honfe up to 'July in the prefent year, and up to that.period they ,appeared to me to live bappily together. Crofte„xamlned by Mi. Easitist, he &id, 441' em *ell aohaloted with Mr. iind Mrs. Lingham ; they suited my family frequently. I remember bearing a convetfation about their having gone to fee the illutninations. I remember Mrs. Lingham Dying fornethitsg about their reparation in the night of illumination. perfeellY well, but nothing about a tavern ; bdt that (he and a Gentlemen had Cop ped together, and had fared better than the :eft of the company, who were obliged to put up with what they could get at a Paltry-cook's. That they had fepatated from the ' rea of the company' *pp°. fate to M. Otto's honfe,' and could not find their cothpany, who went to a Paltry-cook's ; but that they had fared better, and had (upped. Mr. Ling ham heard Mrs. Lingham fay this ; and he treat• ed it with that raillery or badinage which a man, vdio had confidence in the virtue of his wife, would do a trifling thing fo hated. He fpoke to me, but I gave no opinion upon the matter. Ido not now think there was any thing bad in it, from the manner in which it was related : the idea that I Lad was, that they had (upped at fome friend's houfe. There was nothing that paffed which led me to (tipple any thing againft the virtue of Mrs. Linghatn. I do not know who the company were, but there were Ladies and Gentlemen prefent. Mr. ',lngham joked about it, and faid, it was very well for her that the fell into inch good qiiarters."' Mr. Dixon, brother to the plaintiff's wife , " I was one of the party who went to fee the illumina tion ; my family and that of Mr. Lingham went together. There were twenty of us nearly. The crowds in almoll all parts were immenfe. We miffed part of our company when we came to M. Otto's. Mrs. Lingham was under the care of Mr. Hunt, cni one of my lifters and Mrs. Lingham's filter *ere under the care of Mr. Lingham. We &pa rated indeed before we came to M. Otto's, at Mr. Hope's houfe, from whence we went to M. Otto's and afterwards we went toil paftry cook's and took fome refrefhment. and then cam:: home. It did not Rrike the to be any thing extraordinary, .that . ih fo great a crowd fome of our party fitould be IViirnig froth thexett.” Croft examined by Mr. Easstits, he Aid, 66 I am the brother of this Lady . It fo happened that Mr. Hunt had th e care of krs. Lingham. Mr. Hunt teas an entire Oranger t 6 me. • We walked all the way from Tower hill . tp einendiffitquare, and dnring that time Mt. Stunt had the care of Mrs. Lingham. They feparated from us , about eleven o'clock, but I cannot fay entilly the time. He faid he did not recolleft whether Mr. Ling ham let off erdelsri as they went along. We went wind the equate, to fee if we could find them"— b`e#4l4llC4 With tlie Tett ortheletttpanfi. L i itanti c that the iiiititi Oiegoie . s.is thielli ojng tn IR . nippqe it was near ttyd o'clock before wq'iticbect liitefelf. lOm rtidy to allow that the defendant hatitat Vie went to a paltry-cook ' s, in St. Jailies'i- Will not,go! forth jai fi ed, liowevei- fatal' may be Ricci. in our , return home . : Mrs: Lingham ,' I be- the damages yoti award againft him. •No one lieve; did, in - acorn; )come then ; but I did not go difapproves his condu& more than I do; riot even to Mr. Linghani'S houfe. I hive heard that Mrs his own brother,. who, though ;merited at hii MI- Lingham fupped';Fith Mr: Hunt that night. I prudence, I midi will . not refute to !Peak the' have known; thit since that affair happened, Mr. truth. I trait that he will All up the piaure, the Hunt drove her Out in his. cilia." outlines of which the plaintiff's witnelres have fo Mr. GARROW, re-etathining as to the crackers, ! flrongly drawn. My client's letter, Gentleinen, 'Mr. genie! faid, "that was only aheib of Mine." moll undoubtedly condemns him. At the fame Mrs- Sarah Lingham, " I anlthe Mothel of the time it exhibits him in a more refpeaable light plaintiff. I remember hii thatriage with Mifs than Others who have flood here to anfwer a timi- Dixon : I have teen them often after marriage : X tar charge. At the very moment when he corn have every reafon to believe that they were as mits the criminal aft, he feels the deep& forrow, happy is any two people could be. She was an and the molt bitter contrition. He is not an un agreeable, accomplifhed young woman. I never principled debauthee, or an abandoned rake, gio. law any body more attentive to a wife than the. rying in the completion of his nefarious projea.— plaintiff was to his, infomuch, that I should be He appears a man of impetuous paffions, placed in happy to have 4 daughter of mine treated with a fituation where prudence ought not to have the fame kindnefs and affeeion. I law them down • placed him ;at the very moment of his guilt, while to the very time of her elopement. I only know refliaion might have been expeaed to be banifhed, Mr. Hunt by name. I know my daughter-in•law feeling the wrong he was infliaing, and almoß was intimate with Mrs. Hunt ; I have heard both readyto go diftraaed at the thought of his wick my fon and daughter (peak of Mrs. Hunt." ednefs. The unhappy viaim of her hufband's ne- Mr. Newman, a livery liable keeper in Great gligence teems to have been in the fame miferable Windmill-areet, Rated, that about half pall ten on Rate of mind. You cannot but believe, and lam the evening'of the ilthOf July, a lady and a gen- Pure his Lordfhip will believe (for I know. the tleman came to his houfe in a hackney coach, and depth and capacioufnefs of his Lordthip's enlight ordered a chaife for Barnet. A chaife was imene- cued mind) that, up to this fatal hour, their in diately got ready, and they: were driven away in tercourfe had any thing in it that wat not per it by George Bailey. The• Gentleman had pre- fealy innocent. If he before had any criminal vioully given the witnefs two letters, to be fent knowledge of her perfon, had he not neglected all int? the City as loon as poffible ; he fent them in juft means to conceal his guilt ? Would he in the the morning by his little nepheW. George Bailey letter have, in fuch feeling terms, painted his de drove the lady and gentleman to the Green Man (pair ? From his brother he had received many lt; Earnet ; they arnved between twelve and one ; admonitions and warnings. The hufband had re it was a very rainy night ; they immediately ap- ceived many warnings alfo. My Learned Friend' plied for a bed ; the chambermaid was Rill np, elliquently defcribed his Armament at finding and Paid they might have one. hii wife gone, e his honour blafled , his peace of Sarah Linam laid, the was chambermaid at the mind for exerdcaroyeci, and all there evils to be Green Man at Barnet ; about half patt one nit occafioned by his dear friend, whom he never be- Friday morning, the 7th of July, a gentleman iit fore. had the 'lliglitelt reafon 'to fain& • Gentle mourning, with a lady, flopped at the inn : .thi men, the married Rate is of awful importance ;it gentleman aflced if they could have a bed ; one bed is the retiree of all genuine fatisfaaions that ate was inftantly prepared, to which they both retired ; afforded Ass ; ! ,'but it impofes upon us the mot ini next morning, a gentleman and his fervant ar- • portant duties. To the woman whom he choofes rived from 'London, inquiring after them ; the ' for his partoer,a man is under Obligations infinitely knocked at * the chamber door ; the gentleman various, they are fo numerous and fo delicate, that opened it, and the law the lady in bed ; the after- . .it is much beyond my powers to defcribe them.— wards law the bed, and the had no doubt that two • I would recommend to no hufband jealoufy and perfons had Rept in it ; the obferved a pair of white mean diftruff ; when his wife is - Opt of his fight, cotton ftockings, with the name Eliza Lingham 'he mutt not always think •that his honour is in written in them at length ; the has not fince Teen danger. lie nuffi be governed by circinnflaneet. If he either the lady or gentleman, nor does the know has gained her affections ; if her attachment goes who they are ; . they remained there the whole day, on i mproving ;if the birth of children binds •cWer and went Om half pall 'nine in the evening,' the ties which unite diem ;if habit and pat ton at John E ritt,a poll boy belonging to the Green once. join to endear them to each other ; if from 41‘ Man,drove the above lady and gentleman to town; being young, beautiful, and gay, file has become at Holloway they flopped at Mrs. Skirrell's, washer a -Raid, fedate, and refpeeta - ble Matron, tied to woman, and took in force things there belonging her hufband, and bound up in her offspring, then to the lady, which had been there to be wafhed ; may he feel the matt perfea confidence 'in her the gentleman flood by the horfes' heads; witnefs .virtue, then may he fafely expose her to alma then , drove them along London-bridge, and let any temptation. Such is the frailty of human tut them down at the end of a tercet in the Borough. cure, that even then there are certain decencies . Mrs. Skirrel laid Mrs. Lingham came to her` which the hufband ought by no means to tranf "lode On the night of the 9th of July, and got 4 grefs ; there are licences which he ought by no' Mange of linen. A gentleman was with her, who - means to fuffer ; there is a guardianfhip which he ;Rood by .the_horfes' heads, but who he was the ma by no means leave unexercifed. I can never 'whiles did tot lee. think of fubjeas of this kind, without feeling that -- Lockhart, a little boy, (wore, that he car- a e affa g e burits into my mind from a poet, the ried the letters in - the morning from Windmill- pride and ornament of his country. According to Rivet to Tower-Rreet. The delivery of - the one him, there were duties which fuch a guardian •tia the plaintiff was eftablithed by old Mr. Ling- ought to have performed in .a Rate of innocence ham, his 'father, and a Mr. Vine having proved and perfeaion. The fief age holds out but few the',./tand-writing, the letter was read by Mr, analogies to us in our prefent fallen and depraved Lowten. The lafl witnefs was Rate, but thefe.admirable dircourferwill continue Mrs. Tihurft, who raid that the had !lodgings at to furnifh us with leffons of the fublimell morality Eltharri ; at prefent (he has no lodgers; a lady while human nature endures. In his divine poem. and a gentleman left her about a fertnight ago ; of Paradife Loft, Milton reprefents our firft parent they had been with her three months, and they as forrowful, and afhamed of his neglea of the went away together; their names were Mr. Hunt, partner whom GOD had fent hiin. Eve going out Mrs. Lingham ; they were attended by Mrs. Ro- fpotlefs and innocent, had been tempted' by the berts, a waiting-maid; Mr. H. tiled to come down great deceiver to taße of the forbidden fruit, the on Saturday night, and flay till Monday morn- eaufe of all our woe. Penetrated with.remorfe for ing ; he tpld whites that his town-houfe was in his excels of confidence, Adam exclaims— ;Tower-Rreet. " Oh! they made no secret of it," --- A nd , per h aps , exclaimed the old lady. This occafioned an itn- I elf. erred in overmuch admiring . menfe laugh. , What feerned in thee io perfost, that I thought , No evil durft attempt thee • but I fee' Lord ELLENIOROUGHt jualy indignant, Paid, That error now, which is become my crime, this was not a matter to entertain .the vicious cu- And thou th' accufer. • • riofity of the idle and thoughtlefs. They were If in a Rate of purity fuch precaution was neceffary, gravely confidering a ma ferious fubjea. A what should be demanded of a hufband in the cor• man complained ola civil injury, and it was now rupt Rate of fociety in which we live? What Mould to be determined what redrefs he was entitled to. have been demanded from the plaintiff, wird was If the Court was again diaurbed by fuch indecent married to a feMale young, beauteous, and un behaviour, he should certainly commit fermi of experienced ? What* should have been demanded thole perfons who thus violated decorum to New- of the plaintiff, if he had thong ground to Rif gate, by way of example. pea that his wife and the defendant had an illicit The witnefs then Rated, that the had three beds paffion for Bach other ? Ido not afk for a verdia; and two rooms ; Mrs. L. with her maid, slept in but I maintain that the plaintiff has hithrelf alone the double bedded room, and Mr. H. when he tn blame ; and that' he is not entitled to mote than came down, in the other. a _nominal cornpenfation at your hands. 1 fub- Mr. Easitisiz.—My learned friend has been fetibe to every word my learned friend has Paid ; pleafed to befpeak from me a fpeech eloquent and We agree upon principles, and only differ as to arnafing. I appeal to all who know me, whether the application of them. That the with was not there is in the profeffion one fo little capable of perfealy innocent to fee a great city rejoicing affording amufement upon fuch, a fubjea. Thoug h upon the great event of the raoration of peace, (landing on this fi de of the caufe, I never than be after nine years of deßtnaive warfare, I will not heard to talk lightly of adultery, or to try to turn contend. But though this with was to be grati it•into pleafantry. I was glad to hear his. Lord- fled, when a young and beautiful woman had been Nip oblerve, that this is no nihjeet for laughter or feparated in the mob at midnight,' with a young merriment. 'look with reverence 'upon the fanc- man for whore fociety the had (hewn a marked city of marriage, knowing that from that inftitu- predileaion, ought the hufband to have amufed tion fpring all the relations which fornefociety , himfelf , by letting off crackers, and afterwards and which sweeten human life. Without marriage carelefsly retiring to regale his palate in a paltry man would be a ravage, and the earth a wildet- cook's t Had he been told by his friend next day, nets. I may appeal to his Lordfhip—( Ido riot "'We weri 'unfortunate tall night in lofing you ; tax his memory with what has happened fince he I took your wife home ftraight, only flopping at was raifed to his prefent high fituation ; but with- a Oar -cook's to give her 'a tart," be ought to nut indecency I may At him to call to recolleaino have ,"I Am much obliged to you," and to the tranfaitions of former-day 4 if he ever, on bi t A d his friend t i lt / ore. How should he _ .. .. any occafion, heard Tiernan. _ t _ _le fentiment oliSitich hit few * tealie i man related that he ia • •-•, might not have conieTitm me iwitb u dut kii= WO A ** 't it *Vern, and there ( upped with ty,'had I been (worn to advnliiiiiiitida4 f . , ittak ? ittl. "silii talk of fighting in the Court Bench ? This is indeed a grave anslferions to of binge "Eitleti, but .if I had cEalletiged this and Will become mote foTrom the cirtumft Na .iVotingeli'if I had (hot him through thehead ;if I (hall feel it my duty by an, by to lay hefbr4 unood at theiar of the Old Bailey to be tried for you in evidence. 'We mutt shift this.plaintifinto the inuid'sqi, litonld not infure my life for a fhil that di - 'n of unfortunate gentlemen tb Whicithe ri. !,` ititipti n tiotated of carrying my *Re to a , - . radii is - not ; - -tout f • Weil ' ' ji ihrikd Vie ' the adi, andletad Igo feeki we *4 What a _ i d. • • • . . . _ Oey Were together at a tavern / though I by no means think that they went there for any good Inirpore: If, a man kneW that his wife were att angel fent down from Heaven, if he should be affured of her Chalky in a celellial vifion, he could no longer haVe the fame fatisfaetion in her fneiety, he could no longer ,place in her the tame liberal. C onfidence after there words had crpired het lips=—' I rupped,al'one with a man at a tavern." , If fhe had been a wbthan as was defcribed, would the have fubmitted to filch degradation ? There are no ranks in morali, but there is a decorum in the higher ranks which forbids ads which in the lower would be perfedly indifferent. No one Mall provoke the to an affault, and then bring an anion again[ me for the battery.--, This fcandalous tranfaCtion took place on the nth of April, and on Sunday the 24 of May I will prove that the plaintiff fent out his wife alone With the defendant in a chaife belonging to the latter'. The defendant's brother, with a native fenfe 'of propriety, Aid, " You had better borrow the other bode, and ride out along with them."--:- " No," replied Mr. Lingham, " I am going a . flaring." It was ten at night before they return ed ; and the plaintiff, alone folicitous to refreih himfelf after the fatigues of fi(hing, allowed hii wife to ftop to flip with Mr. Hunt, fending over for fome keys, to enable hirafelf to get at what was" good . He retired to ref, and wittingly left his wife, with the defendant. But all this was nothing. On the Sunday following he heard of what had happened the night of the illuminations. Inftead of calling the defendant to account for his abominable mikondun, he laughingly exclaimed —" You were much better off than we were. , -- You and Hunt had a good fupper, while we were , obliged to put up at a paltry cook's." The ; plaintiff is not a low bred fellow. I will not think that a merchant is not a gentleman. Confider' this eafe to be your own. I can fay that I never heard the pretended libel againff you. Of this I ani fure that you have given many pranical refuta tatiOns of it. We all recolleet the cafe of Mr.Petrie where you awarded io,oool. damages ;. and th; Other night you {hewed the fame laudable dirpom fition to eftimate injuries with fairnefs. If this 1, cafe is like that, I have only to fay, " look at thi record, and give all the damages that you cwt.!' If no other rupture took place, it might at leak have been expeCted that the plaintiff would 1114 , ; laid, " My doors are henceforth for ever barred againfl you." On theiPth of May, Mrs. L. was again allowed to. go out in the defendant's chaife, under the guardianihip of an infant. He fat playr ing at cribbage 'till hisTatienee was exhaufled, but they .did not tettirri till after it was dark. He' contented himfe lf, however , with faying, , g It extremely imp roper. to keep out my wife fo late, and"l hope you will not do fo again." TwO or three days after, Mrs. L. went with the defendant alone to the play. You may fuppofe that' the plaintiff was unacquainted with this eircunr. (lance. At a late hour they returned, when Mri.. L.'s drefs feemed very much difcompofed. 6' 4 not infiuuate that any thing criminal, had takett, place ; in the crowd of a theatre that effect rthitht Bally be produced. The plaintiff exclaimed with Teeming alarm, " What have you been doing Does not this prove to demonfiration that he ac tually entertained fufpicions ? Neverthelers, be re• wined thoughtlefs and negligent, regardlefs of his wife's virtue, and his own honour. He permitted' . to the defendant the fame dangerous opportunities * , till at length the temptation was too ftrong to be refilled, and this fatal cataftrophe enfued. •.•: EVIDENCE FOE THE DEFENDANT. Mr. Charles Hunt examined by Mr. Glam.-6 - " 1 am the brother of the Defendant; previous tie the time when this unfortunate event took place, was not very much in the habits of intercourfe with: him, for I had had a difference with him : that did: ' ference took place on account of this tranfaetion ; *as one of the party who went to fee the illumirm:. 4 , dons : I went-with the party 'from Tower-fireet ;* Mr. and . Mrs. LinghaM were of the party,. which . war about twenty in number, my brother was one of them ; he had the care of Mri.Lingham, and flpe, took his arm : the is about twenty, and the is 'err' handfipme : Mr. Lingham eras walking alone, and' flinging crackers about the Ladies. When we goy to Cavendifh fquare, at Mr: Hope's, we feparated,' and made three parties, rfif biother and Mrs. Lingham were 101 l to us :,.we went in fearch of them, but Mr. Lingham did not join in the purfuit, but her brother and myfelldid ; we went partly around the fquare , but we could not find them.-,- Mr. Lingham did not exprefs any apprehention * but feemed very carclefs : I believe he did not go in purfuit of his wife. - We then went to M. Otto's in Portman-lqnare, and from th,:nce to the Paltry Cook's in St. James's-flreet, where we refreflied ourfelves ; I had not teen an ng of Mrs. Ling. ham at that time, nor had any flepl been taken by Mr. Lingham to find where the was. From the paltry cook's we went through the City home.— When' we got home inquiry was made for Mrs. Lingham, but the was not returned. We got home between two and three. After we had got out of the fquare we had no difficulty in getting away. 1 do not know when Mrs. Lingham came home. Afterwards, and on the firft of May, I raw Mr. Lingham, and a party was propofed for Mrs, Lingham that day. I was at tea with Mrs. Ling ham and tome ladies. Mr. Lingham came to the room : Mrs. Lingham faid to Mr. Lingham, that Mr, Hunt had defired her to take a ride the next day with him in his chaife. I obferved to Mr. Lingham, he had better borrow my brother's other boric to go with them ; Mr. Lingham declined it, Paying that he was going a fifhing. Mrs. Lingham did go out with my brother the next day ; Mr. Lingham did not accompany them, but went a Hiring. I remember Mr. Hunt 'and Mrs. Ling ham returning that evening ; they came to my brother's about eight in- the evening ; while they were there Mr. Lingham fens for a certain key. CHIEF JUSTI C E.----Q. :. TO Mr' in; tam ?--A. To Mrs. Lingham The eent sinned at i' a lg brother's after that-414.k -,. and er fupper, till airiest - `3ll invitee' but did not ,n -fr ■ ; . • . .. ' • • •-` . , . . #.• . . • • - , . . . , , , a 4 .••• -.ti l l , ..V. - . ••• • . . , , . . . < . . •• • • . . . :e. Night advanced/ and ` Pa 'nth t i tle Tett ofthe'lentpap*. !Mould th4t the calinitifik'deflores . -is thielti oiiiirli to thei Were together at a tavein : , thongh Iby no . s rehenflon. I fhall not at- Asp re it was near twd o'clock before wOreached himfelf. l am OPT to allow that the'defendant Means think that they went there for any good on. He had nottheflight- ha i..:We Went to aparty-cook's, in St. Jartiesq- 'will Dot gci forth jnffified, liowevet- fatal' may be Intrpofe: If. a Man kneW that his wife were an Im friend was the caufe of itiCi e t in our return home. : Mrs. Mrs: I.: h I be- the damages` • l it Lingham,' am,.. • .. yo award againft him. No one angel fent down from Heaven, if he sh ou ld be . .. in. when to his aftonifh. lieve* de, riptsern - c home then ; but I did ROI go disapproves his condut more than I do; not even a ff ured of her Chalky in a celeflial vi fi on, he ' ~, le received this Letter to Mi. ',inghini'S houfe. I hive heard that Mrs. his own hrother, who, though incenfed at his* im- could no longer hate the fame fatisfaCtion in her , barge upon the Defen• Lingham fupped';Fith Mr: Hunt that night. I prudence,' I trtift will . not refute to fpeak the fnciety, he emild tici longer ,place in her the tame laws of hofpirality, Of have known; thit since that affair happened, Mr. truth. I truft that he will 'Alf up the picture, the liberal. 'confidence after there words had crpffed • 'or kindnefs received., Hunt drove her Out in his chaife." ' outlines of which the plaintiff's witneires have fo . herlips- . .!-" I fupped,alone with a man at a tavern."., Itlemen ?—Upon the evi- Mr. GAR aoW, re•eaatnining as to the crackers, 'arongly drawn. My client's letter, Gentleinen, If fhe had been a wothan as was defcribed, would imfelf. I accufe him of * Mr. geniis! faid, "that was only a Alta of Mine." moil' undoubtedly condemns him. At the fame the have fuhmitted to ftich degradation ? There Lgravation of which his Mrs.. Sarah Lingham, ii I writhe inothel of the time it exhibits him in a more refpeaable light are no ranks in moral!, but there is a decorum in the himfelf is my witnefs. plaintiff. I remember hit that:title with Mifs than `abets who have flood here to anfwer a flmi- higher ranks which forbids acts which in the lower Dixon : I have Peen them often after marriage : I far charge. At the very moment when he corn- would be perfectly indifferent. w can I announce that have have every reafon to believe that they were as mits the criminal aft , he feels the deepe ft forrow, No one Plait provoke me to an affault, and confidence in me t—Your wife happy as any two people could be. She was an and the molt bitter contrition. He is not an un- then briug an anion again( me for the battery.--• our forevenefs. This I think agreeable, accompli(hed young woman. I never principled debauthee, or an abandoned rake, glo- This scandalous tranfaCtion took place ori the 29th tver grant. See, however, di- - is wcu u (mrs. /4. my . law any body more attentive to a wife than the , rying in the completion of his nefarious projea.— of April, and on Sunday the 24 of May I will ed. still yours, plaintiff was to bis, infomuch, that . I Mould be He appears a man of impetuous paffions, placed in prove that the plaintiff fent out his wife alone With " roma atom" happy to have 4 daughter of mine treated with ! a fauation where prudence ought not to have the defendant in a chaife belonging to the latter'. e too large in fuch a cafe ? the fame kindnefs and affeeion. I law them down . placed him ;at the very moment of his guilt , while' The defendant's brother , with a native fade 'of i i will not be offended at to the very time of her elopement. I only know reflation might have been expeaed to be banished,! propriety, Aid, " You had better borrow the ark. Miferable libellers Mr. Hunt by name. I know my daughter-in law feeling the wrong he was inflicting, and almoft. other bode, and ride out along with them."-4 has his choice of a venue was intimate with Mrs. Hunt ; I have heard both ready,to go diftraited at the thought of his wick- . " No," replied Mr. Lingham, " I am going a, he ought not to lay it in my fon and daughter fpeak of Mrs. Hunt." ednefs. The unhappy viaim of her hufband's ne. filling." It was ten at night before they return= in repeat, are miferable Mr. Newman, a livery liable keeper in Great gligence teems to have been in the fame miferable ed ; and the plaintiff, alone folicitous to refrelli What ! than virtue and Windmill-ftreet, Rated, that about half pail ten on Rate of mind. You cannot but believe, and lam ' himfelf after the fatigues of Wiling, allowed hii ,ial boundaries ? Shall the the evening'of the Bth . of July, a lady and a gen- fare his Lordfhip will believe (for I know. the wife to flop to flip with Mr: Hunt, fending over yin the world, famed for tleman came to his houfe in a hackney coach, and depth and capacioufnefs of his Lord(hip's enl i ght- for fome keys, to enable himfelf to get at what dof having no refpea for ordered 2 chaife for Barnet. A chaife was imme- erred mind) that, up to this fatal hour, their in - was " good . He retired to reft, and wittingly left and of letting a higher diately got ready, and they: were driven away in tercourfe had any thing in it that was not per- his wife, with the defendant. But all this was merchandize, than hatband it by George Bailey. The*Gentleman had pre- fealy innocent. If he before had any criminal nothing. On the Sunday following he heard of sof a and ? No, Gen- .vioully given the witnefs two letters, to be fent knowledge of her perfon, had he not neglected all what had happened the night of the illuminations. -eel and liberal notions on int? the City as loon as poffible ; he fent them in juft means to conceal his guilt ? Would he in the Inflead of calling the defendant to account for his Bar as on the Weft ; and the morning by his little nepheW.' George Bailey letter have, in fuch feeling terms, painted his de- abominable misconduct, he langhingly exclaimed, - I 1 thew that filch imputa- drove the lady and gentleman to the Green Man (pair ? From his brother he had received many ---o You were much better off than we were. , -- :aft upon your charatter. its itarnet ; they arrived between twelve and one ; admonitions and warnings. The hufband had re- You and Hunt had a good fupper, while we were n the other fide, I (hall it was a very rainy night ; they immediately ap- ceived many warnings alfo. My Learned Friend . obliged to put up at a paltry cook's." The iddrefs you again. If the plied for a bed ; the chambermaid was Rill up, elOquently defcribed his aftonifliment at finding :• plaintiff is not a low bred fellow. I will not think I call Rand uncontradieted, and faid they might have one. hi s wife g one, his honour bladed, -his peace of that a merchant is not a gentleman. Confider' this not be led aura) , by the Sarah Linam raid, the was chambermaid at the mind for ever cicftioyed, and all there evils to be ; cafe to be your own. I can fay that I never heard hear from my Learned Green Man a t Barnet ; a b o ut half pall one tin octifioned by his dear friend, whom he never be- the pretended libel again* you. Of this I an 4 ,nd lets than the five thou- Friday morning, the 7 th of July, a gentleman iit fore, had the iliglitelt reafon to taped; • Gentle- fure, that you have given many prattical refuta.. i les are laid. mourning, with a lady, (topped at the inn : .thi men, the Miied (late is of awful importance ;it tations of it. We all recollect the cafe of Mr.Petrie * • THE *LAINTITIF• gentleman afked if they could have a bed ; one &d is the finirce of all genuine fatisfa&ions that are where you awarded to,oool. damages ;. and Om ' Ittived the marriage of the was inftantly prepared , to which the y both retired t afforded uss;','but it impofes upon us the moil im. other night you (hewed the fame laudable difpo.. 1 s - DiAnn; 'et St. Botolph, next morning, a gentleman and his fervant sir- - • portant duties. To the woman whom he choofes fition to eilimate injuries with fairnefs. If this f Augnit . tiloo ; and Mr. rived from 'London, inquiring after them ; the ' for his part oe r,a man is under Obligations infinitely cafe is like that, I have only to fay, " look at thi ...,, tha ts tatepd, that he was knocked at ' the chamber door ; the gentleman various, they are Co numerous and fo delicate, that record, and give all the damages that you cam!' ~ • ..i. ... , . opened it, and the (aw the lady in bed ; the after- .. it is much beyond my powers to defcribe them.— If no other rupture took place, it might at leaft nt.-it /- a na'perfealy well wards faw the bed, and the had no doubt that. two , I would recommend to no hutband jealoufy and have been expeCted that the _plaintiff would bitvi , , ad Mrs. Lingham ; I was perfons had flept in it ; the obferved a pair of white mean diftruft ; when his wife is .e)ft of his fi ght, .faid, " My doors are henceforth for ever barred it their houfe ; I hive re. cotton stockings, with the name Eliza Lingham 'he mutt not always think 'that leis honour is in againft you." On the . r ath of May, Mrs. L. war more than n'ifeek at a tram. written in them at length ; the has not fence .teen danger. lie Me be governed by . rircinnflancer- If he again allowed to. go out in the defendant's chaife, more than once ; they ap. either the lady or gentleman, nor does the know has gained her affections ; if her attachment goes under the guardianship "of an infant. He fat playr rig very, happily together. who they are ; . they remained there the whole day, on improving ;if the birth of children binds •cWer ing. at cribbage 'till his.patienCe was exhaufled, but ver faw in their deportment and went about half part nine in the evening,' the ties which unite them ;if habit and palton at they slid not return till after it was dark. He' y thins . which led Me to John Eritt,a poll boy belonging to the Green once. join to endear them to each other ; if from contented himfelf, however, with raying, "It is. qf not entirtly happy. I ' , hit: Man,drove the above lady and gentleman to town; being young, beautiful, and gay, tile has become extremely improper.to keep out my wire fo late, si in Iflington. I believe 1 at Holloway they (lopped at Mrs. Skirrell's, wather aitaid, sedate, and refpeaahle Matron, tied to and" t hope you will not do fo again." nily in the beginning of the woman, and took in fome things there belonging . h e r hatband, and bound up in her offspring, then Two or three days after, Mrs. L. went with the . to the lady, which had been there to be wathed ; may he feel the moil perfect confidence .in her defendant alone to the play. You may fuppofe that' " j know the Plaintiff per. the gentleman flood by the ho t fesi heads; witnefs .virtue, then may he fafely expose her to Alma the plaintiff was unacquainted with this circunr. sown him from his child. then , drove them along London-bridge, and fee. any temptation. Such is the frailty of human na - fiance. At a late hour they returned, when .Mrs.. ~ol togethet. He is about. *them down at the end of a ftteet in the Borough.. turf, that even then there are certain decencies L.'s drefs teemed very much difcomp o fe d . ' I de ' Op knitriied t IfirekfaVal4( , 'Mrs. Skirrel faid Mrs. Lingham came to her which the hufband ought by no means to tranf- not in fi nuate that any thing criminal , had taken, ~,46,4 , g.1ifr. alid .. w. ...tee On the night of the cab of July, and got a grefs ; there are licences which he ought by no' place ; in the crowd of a theatre that effeet milthe hafn behaved 'towards his 'change of linen. A gentleman was with her, who . means to fuffer ; there is a guardianfhip which he Bally be produced. The plaintiff exclaimed with an exemplary huiband; as flood by .thehories' heads, but who he was the mull by no means leave unexercifed. I can never teeming alarm, 44 What have you been doing ?."_ unity of knowing, and there witnefs did not fee. think of fubjeas of this kind, without feeling that Does not this prove to demonftration that he ac. r frequent. Ire and Mrs. Lockhart, a little boy, (wore, that he car• a eaffage blahs into my mind from a poet, the tually entertained fufpicions ? Neverthelefs, be re. me to be . perfealx . happy ; ried the letters in - the morning from Windmill- pride and ornament of his country. According to rained thoughtlefs and negligent, regardlefs of his I think that Mrs. Litiglialli Rivet to Tower-flreet. The delivery of the one him, there were duties which fuch a guardian wife's virtue, and his own honour. He permitted to July in the prefent year, to,. the_ p laintiff was ettablithed by old Mr. Ling- ought to have performed in .a Rate of innocence to the defendant the fame dangerous oppo rtunities * , :hey Appeared to me to live ham, Ws father, and a Mr. Vine having proved and perfection. The firlt age holds Out but few till at length the temptation was too Rrong to be . the',)tand.writing, the letter was read by Mr, analogies to us in our prefent fallen and depraved re fi lled, and this fatal cataitrophe enfued. Mr. Easitst, he (hid , 44 1 LOWteb. The laft witnefs was Rate, but thefe•admirable dircourferwill continue EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENDANT. .• : , th Mr. find Mrs. Lingham ; Mrs. Tihurfl, who raid that (he had 'lodgings at to furnith us with leffons of the fublimelt morality Mr. Charles Hunt examined by Mr. Gimis.-6 - r frequently. I remember Eltharn ;at prefent (he has no lodgers; a lady while human nature endures. In his divine poem- "1 am the brother of the Defendant; previous titig about their having gone to and a gentleman left her 'about a fOrtnight ago ; of Paradife Loft, Milton reprefents our firft parent the time when this unfortunate event took place; Ti I remember Mrs. Lingham they had been with her three months, and they as sorrowful, and afhamed of his neglea of the was not very much in the habits of intercourfe with': . their reparation in thenight went away together ; their names were Mr. Hunt, partner whom GOD had fent hiin. Eve going out him, for I had had a difference with him : that dia . fly well, but walling about Mrs. Lingham ; they were attended by Mrs. Ro- fpotlefs and innocent, had been tempted' by the ference took place on account of this tranfaetion :r - - and a Gentleman had (tip- bats, a wasting-maid; Mr. H. tiled to come down great deceiver to title of the forbidden fruit, the *as one of the party who went to fee the illumina:. 4 l fared better than the :eft on Saturday night, and flay till Monday morn- eaufe of all our woe. Penetrated withremorfe for tions : I went-with the party 'from Tower-flreet ;t were obliged to put up with ing ; be told witnefs that his town-houfe was in his excels of confidence, Adam exclaims— Mr. and . Mrs: LinghaM were of the party,. which . t a Paßry-cook's. That they ;Tower-ftreet. " Oh! they made no secret of it," --- And, perhaps, was about twenty in number, my brother was one lc. admiring . Ova of the company •ppo.. exclaimed the old lady. This occafioned an irn• I silo erred in vermuch of them ;he had the care of Mrs . Lingham , and the . What kilned in thee (co gated, that I thought , took h i s :,and could not find their menfe laugh. , N• evil durst attempt thee • but I fee' arm : th e is about t w eet y, and the Is very o a Paftry-cook's ; but that Lord EL LENIOROUGH t juftly indignant* faid, Th at error now, which is become my crime, • handsome: Mr. Lingham was walking alone, and' and had (upped. Mr. Ling - this was not a matter to entertain .the vicious cu. Arid thou th' accufer. • • flinging crackers about the Ladies. When we got ham fay this ; and he treat - rio fi ty of the idle and th oughtlefs. They were If in a (late of purity fuch precaution was neceffary , to Cavendifh fquare, at Mt: Hope's, we feparated,' . t ,or badinage which a man, gravely confidering a ma ferious fubjea. A what should be demanded of a hatband in the cot- and made three parties, nif btother and Mrs. a the virtue of his wife, would man complained of a civil injury, and it was now rupt Hate of fociety in which we live? What Mould. Lingham were loft to us : ~we went in fearch of - I laced. He fpoke to me , but to be determined wh at redrefs he was entitled to. ha v e been d emanded from the p laintiff, who; was them, but Mr. Lingham did not join in the purfuit, pan the matter. Ido not If the Court was again difturbed by fuch indecent married to a ferrule young, beauteous, and un- but her brother and myfelldid ; we went partly ny thing bad in it, from the behaviour, he (hould certainly commit (cne of exper i ence d ? Wh a t should have been demanded around the fquare, but we could not find them., as related : the idea that I thole perfons who thus violated decorum to New- of the plaintiff, if he had thong ground to IV- Mr. Lingham did not exprefs any apprehention, td (upped at fome friend's gate, by way of example. pea that his wife and the defendant had an illicit but feemed very carclefs : I believe he did not go , thing that paired which led The witnefs then Hated, that (he had three beds paffion forsach other ?I do not ark for a verdia; in ,purfuit of his wife.' We then went to M. Otto's 3 ng againft the virtue of Mrs. and t w o r o oms ; Mrs. L. with her maid, sle p t in but I *maintain that the plaintiff has hinge lf alone i n 1 ortman-lquare, and from thence to the Paltry low who the company were, the double bedded room, and Mr. H. when he to . blame ; and that' he is not entitled to mote than Cook's in St. James's-flreet, where we refrelled and Gentlemen prefent. Mr. came down, in the other. a _nominal compenfation at your hands. 1 tub- ourfelves ; I had not leen an ng of Mrs. Ling. it, and faid, it was very well Mr. Eassiiix.—My learned friend has been fcribe to every word my learned friend has faid ; ham at that time, nor had any flepl bean taken by to inch good ciarters.” pleated to befpeak from me a fpeech eloquent and we agree upon principles , and only d iffer as to Mr. Lin g ham to find where the was. From the •to the plaintiff's wile—" I arnaling. I appeal to all who know me, whether the application of them. That the with was not paltry cook's we went through the City home.— who went to fee the alumina- there is in the profeMon one fo little capable of perfectly innocent to fee a great city rejoicing When' we got home inquiry was made for Mrs. that of Mr. Lingham went a ff ording amufeme n t up on f uch, a fuh j eft. Thou g h upon th e g reat event of the refloration of peace, Lingham, but the was not returned. We got home re twenty of us nearly. The (landing on this fide of the caufe, I never than be after nine years of deßrnaive warfare, I will not between two and three. After we had got out of ins were immenfe. We miffed heard to talk lightly of adultery, or to try to turn contend. But though this with was to be grati- the fquare we had no difficulty in getting away. • when we came to M. Otto's. itinto pleafantry. I was glad to hear his. Lord- fled, when a young and beautiful w oman had been /do not know when Mrs. Lingham came home. t . ruder the care of Mr. Hunt , 114 oblerve, that this is no subject for laughter or f e parated in the mob at midnight, ' with a young Afterwards, and on, the firft of May, I raw Mr. and Mrs. Lingharn's filter merriment. I look with reverenernpon the fans- man for whore society the had . fliewn a marked Lingham, and a party was proposed for Mrs, . If Mr. Lingham. We &pa- city of marriage, knowing that from that intik*. p re dil e aion, ought the hulba nd to have amufed Lingham that day. I was at tea with Mrs. Ling- . e came to M. Otto's, at Mr. Lion fpring all t h e relations w hi c h foniffociety, hi m f e lf ; by letting off crackers, and afterwards ham and Come ladies. Mr. Lingham came to the thence we went to M. Otto's and which sweeten human life. Without marriage carelefsly retiring to regale his palate in a paltry- room : Mrs. Lingham faid to Mr. Lingham, that nt toil paftry cook's and took man would be a ravage, and the earth a wildet- cook's ? Had he been told by his friend next day, Mr, Hunt had defired her to take a ride the next d then can,:: home. It did refs. I may appeal to his Lordship—(l do riot "We were 'unfortunate laft night in lofing you ; day with him in his chaife. I observed to Mr. -iy thing extraordinary, that . tax his memory with what has happened fence he I took your wife home ftraight, only (topping at Lingham, he had better borrow my brother's other nine of our party fltould be was raifed to his prefent high fituation ; but with- a Oar -cook's to give her 'a tart," he ought to boric to go with them ; Mr. Lingham declined it, U nut indecency I may ails him to call to recolleftion have i , '"'l Am much obliged to you," and to raying that he was going a fifiling. Mrs. Lingham Mr. Easerwi, be taid, " I the tranfaltions of fortnerday4 if he ever, on bi t 1 d his friend aibetore. How should he did go out with 'my brother the next day ; Mr. s Lady . It fo happened that any occafion, heard me utter A fentiment aSslticli hi *flay * ipiltifte man related that he Lingham did not accompany them, but went a ire of ilrs. Lingham. Mr. might not have coineTiont me; Adult* itO •___ WO h ** 't it ► l *i/ern; 'and there cupped with fishing. I remember Mr. Hunt 'and Mrs. Ling- - 711 / ranger t 6 wise.' We walked tydrad I been ( worn to admiiiiftii9da4 ffilill, Aide ? ildf. 01 talk of fighting in the Court ham returning that evening ; they came to my • 4, rer Bit tp Cieverediffrefqtrare, Bench ? This is indeed a grave aniferions e i tt: of Kine i aztin4t, but if . I had cEallenged this brother's about eight in the evening ; while they 1. -. . • , • me Mtn. Hunt had the care and *ill become mote fo Trom the entuinft ....kounchfel lif I had (hot him through thehead ;if were there Mr. Lingham fent for a certain key. .. i 'hey feparated from u: about I ( hall feel it my duty by an: by to lay befbre raoodat thetar of' the Old Bailey to be tried for . CHIEF JU STK E.--- . -Q... TO Mrs; Lingham ?—A. . . you in evidence. We mutt ;her this plaintifinto the antsidati, I would not i n s ure my life for a nip. To Mrs. Lingham : the Vent ii * ; - .".cl c • tinned at cannot fay eultly the time... , recolleft whether Mr. Ling. .-'t ditfilon of unfortunate gentlemen tb Whiciht ir .0 oil IfOlifteo of carrying my wife to a m,y brother's after that-4'lller •It ~ -.. r t:is , and N they went along. We wen:. • %it ~ . . ' ' '' ' • "In ' d 'aft si rms. He is not Its . faitiON/ . . tante, ~ . .tal red me by the ad, and 'after fupper, till *vent al I) . .. 4 ,„ :. ~ ;' ,1,.! , ., ans . i . ke if we could Sad th e m r— t" '•. telnYent him 0 it•Wre; • ' freltin: . siottlt iidiallitt • tr i, ~ , ,!Lyotval of it. What far ;yo .$o %Tao invite 4 but did not -...,!, -• k ii t ., $7, , -.. n- , ... . C 4( , 4 co lkL . "• ' . •. .. tregiedh. A 1 ' .l' ' ''' roe ~ - .., ..1, . . ..a., "I n "IA ' 1P. r. 1 .''• to ..•r• • • . i '• •• . f viin I .• „ r „, %, :,' .2 ,•„., , ... 1, • •• , . , . 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