The National Register. — London, England, 1816-12-23 00:00:00

DVCEMBEII £3. SHOCKING DEPRAVITY'. [We print the following horrible case under a distinct 'head. It would be a waste of words to comment on it: the foulest epithets would be polluted if applied to such alumni sationsj (Repotted in an Irbil paper.) COURT OF CoSUIION PLEAS, DUBLIN.—Dec. 143 c 18. HINDS r. m IDOL ETO N.. TMs was an action of trespass el armia, for criminal con versation with, and for assaulting and debauching plaintiff's wife. Damages were laid at 6,0101. Defendant pleaded the ge neral issue. The following are the facts (so far as the developement of enormous depravity is capable of being reported) as they ap peared In evidence. PLAINTIFF'S CASE. It appeared that the plai n tiff was an attorney residing in IRlessington-street, in this city. The defendant was aph r. sician, and principal medical superintendent of a lunatic asylum at Hanover-park, in the connay of Carlow. Oa the part of the plaintiff, it appeared that he and his wife were married is the year 1810. They had three ail. Arent and up to the period of Mrs. Hind's insanity, the plain tiff conducted himself to her as a kind and an affectionate husband. It was thought expedient by. the friends of Mrs. Hinds to send her to Carlow, to the Hanover Asylum, which appeared tabs conducted by a sort bf medical company, consisting of three physicians, viz. Dr. Middleton, Dr. Delahoyde, and Pr. Clay. In the month of Jammu y, 1810, Mrs. Hinds complained to Dr. Delahoyde of basing been abused by Dr. Middleton— +• she said 'she was then pregnant—that the defendant had taken advantage of her nngortunate situation, and had got her with child. At this time Dr. Delahoyde conceived her mind was wandering from truth, and he did not believe her. In some short time alter, she renewed her charges against the de fendant, and Dr. Delahoyde thought it necessary to bring De. Middleton and Mrs. Hinds together, lie accordingly found an opportunity of doing so, and at that meeting Mrs. Hinds upbraided the Ddetor with the crime of having had an illicit connexion with her. She then told the defendant, in the presence of Dr. Delaboyde, " that be was the father of the child she was bearine, and implored him to remove her to a place of secrecy and safety, where she might not he exposed." When the parties were thins confronted, the defendant did nee deny the charge, but ordered Mrs. Hinds to be removed from Isis presence. She retired weeping, complaining of, and lamenting her misfortune. Dr. Delahoyde urged the necessity of her immediate re- =oval to save the lastitntiou from disgrace, and advised that 'a female attendant should accompany her to the place of her retreat. It also appeared that Mrs. Hinds had charged Dr. Middle ton of the ill-treatment she alleged to have received from him, and complained of it to a - Mrs. Conolly, one of the house he.-pers. Shortly after the meeting above-mentioned, Dr. Middleton, accompanied by Mrs. Hinds, left the Asylum in a carriage, antler the pretence, as the doctor reported, of going to Dub lin to leave the laity with her friends; but, instead of doing so, the Dr. eoaveyed Mrs. Hinds to the house of a Dr. Rodgers, who resided in the county of Wicklow, and imposed on that respeetable physician, by telling hint that the unfortunate lady was a Mrs. Hamilton, and the wife of a gentleman of a nsost violent and outrageous temper, and that it was there fore thought expedient by her friends to place her in a safe , retirement during her pregnancy. Linder these deceptive circumstances. Dr. Rogers introduced her to his family, with whom she combined to reside. It appeared that Dr. 11l iddle ton, while iu the county Wicklow, had written to the institu tion to Dr. Delaboyde, as if' from Dublin, saying very little respecting Mrs. Hinds, but a good deal respecting the cre ditors of Dr. Delaboyde, with whom Dr. Middleton said he hail been in treaty for the composition and arrangement of his (Dr. Delahoyde's) affairs. The latter had on it the Dub lin post-office mark. The next witness called to prove the adultery was Dela hoyde, the defendant's partner. He spoke to the examina tion above-mentioned of the lady, her confessing her preg nancy to hint, and alsoaccusin Dr. Middleton with being the caase of it to his face. Ou his cross-exantinatlon he admitted, that he was a mar riad man. :led had left his wife and two children in gland : but that he bad intrigued with one of the servants of the in stitution, who bad a child by hint: he admitted also that lie had treated Mrs. Hinds with punch once or twice to make her spealcout against Dr. Middleton—that he had once kept an improper female for twelve days at the institution, and gave her 12s. when she went away : lie also owned to sleep ine with Mary Rhviand, the cook of the institution, who used to came to his boil. (rein.; asked if he had ever two females at once in bed with him, he declined answering until he had the opinion of the Judge, lout the latter declined interfering. Ruew Mrs. Conelly, the matron of the institution, very well; she was a nice woman, but she escaped him unhurt and untouched. Has heard of her intimacy with a lunatic patient, culled Alonzo. He was a prisoner for debt iu Dublin when he first communicated what he knew to Mr. Hinds. The nest witness was this Mrs. Conolly : she admitted that improper females were frequently caught in Delalioyile's apartments : she knew Mrs. Hinds to be pregnant, but could Lot tell 'iv whom. 'l' his witness confessed to several love. letters which had passed between her and the path nts of the Institution, and which were produced. The next wittiest was the persou with whom Dr. Middleton placed Mrs. Hinds during her accouchement. lie believed her to be Mrs. Hamilton, until her husband, Mr. Hinds, tame to inquire for her. The servant of the person deposed to seeing Mr. Middleton kiss His. Hind when Ise visited her during her accouchement, which was attended with great danger. These were in substance the facts of the plaintiff's ease. 80.1. t of the scenes of ini.liiitolisilepravity which were elieiltal rt 4,111 the Cross seraminatiws of 1)r. Delalloyde, in which he was the principal actor, and which were said to haul- been performed at the Hanover institution, we are, front motives of morel feeling, obliged to suppress. lly the cross-examination ...it was sought to implicate oat only Dr. Delahoyde, but all the dorm's as "portieires criminis" in the assault uu the per eon of die unfortunate Mrs. Ilinds. SPCPN I) DAY. ------ --- EVIDENCE ON THE PART OF THE DEFENDANT. James Murphy %INS the witoess era nul.•d He, fir the purpose of affecting Dr.-Dtiv's rs.stit Weill fir Jury, gave a disgusting account of die doi i..e's iticsigue4 at the Uanover Asylum. At this uteffical pandemonium the doctor THV NATIONAL REGISTER kept (if the witness were to be believed) a seraglio, consist ing of wretches of th's lowest order. Witness said, he on one occasion, saw Mrs. Hinds lying on the bed in Dr. Delaboyde's bed-chamber, and the doctor's arm round her neck. John Moore was the next witness. Ile proved (if believed) a criminal coanection to have subsisted between Dr. Dela linyile and Mrs. Hinds. [We omit not shock our readers with the infamous detail.] On his cross-examination it appeared, although he had been sworn before persons appointed to investigate the mat ter, lie never divulged the fact of the garden scene till Satur day last. John Malone was the next witness.—He was formerly a banker in this city, and went to Hanover Asylum to restore his debilitated mind to health. [The account he gave of the institution and its professors, with the exception of the de fendant, of whom he spoke in terms of praise, corroborated the testimony of the former witnesses; but some parts were too grossly indelicate far publication.] He, so far as his brief was evidence, established an illicit connection between another doctor of the institution ; a Dr. Moatpryval and Mrs. Hinds. Talbot Glascoek, gentleman, attorney, was the next and last witness. He proved several facts in order to impeach the credit of Dr. Delahoyde. He, too, had visited the Han over Asylum at Carlow, and he was introduced to its learned professors by Mr. Malone. Two of the doctors asked him to dine at a tavern at Carlow ; they entertained him with claret, Ac. but left him to pay the bill. Those respectable gentlemen did him the honour of accompanying him from Carlow to Kilkenny, where they entertained him with dinner, claret, Jae. in a similar manner, but promised to pay the slim he advanced to the Waiter on account of the landlord, on their return to the Institution. Dr. Delahoyde appeared • con vivial pleasant fellow, and complained of injeritigs his finances by keeping good company. The doctor said be was the par ticular friend of the Doke of Kent; he and the Duke, bow ev6, had quarrelled, but they were now rominciled, the Duke having made the most abject apology. He said he knew all the Royal Dukes, they were thegreatest set of • • • • • in the world, he had to lament the misfortune of their acquaint ance—it entirely effected his ruin. The doctors, on their return to Carlow, contrived, instead of paying the witness the sum advanced for the tavern hilb, to borrow some money from him which they never paid. On their return the Hanover Doctors invited witness to walk In the garden of the institution: he saw Mrs. Hinds there. One-of the doctors on this occasion remarked, that there was fon in • mad house as well as in the city. They asked him what he thought of Mrs. Hinds, and had he marked her fine eyes, and..whether he would wish to he introduced ; Would he like to kiss her? Witness replied, he had known enough of insane ladies, and did not wish to be bit by one. At eight o'clock In the evening tbe Jury retired, and after they had remained together about two hours, without any apparent likelihood of agreeing, the parties consented to withdraw a juror at ten o'clock, and thus the case remaius undecided. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Dec. 17. (This Gazette contains a notice. that the time fir persons having claims on the French Government. under the Convention concluded November 30, BIS, at Paris, between his Majesty and the most Christian King, is extended from the 20th day of January to the 20th of February.] BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. G. Dawson, of Red Caosaaquare. Cripple. merchant. J. Buociw, of Binley. Warwickshire, and T. iltrotste, of Beton, near Birmingham, timber.amvehants. - BANKRUPTS. Ilzsrotti E. of Brook's-mews Hassover haekneyouoi. live 21ZDec. 21, 216 Jan. at G • Att. Mr. Hartley, -strect„ Blackfrials. Max); W. of Carey-street. stable-keeper, Dee. 91, SI, Jan. 28, at Guildhall. Att. _fir. Luemore, Red Lion-square. Lewis D. of Milford Haven, spirit-merchant. Dee. SO, SI. Jan. 28, at Guildhall Att. Mr. Adams. Old Jew Ty. Tarr W. of Cuisbrooke, Isle of Wight. cattle dealer. Jan. 2,3, es, at Newport. Mt. Mr. Carr, Join-street, Bedford-row. AYRTON .1. late of Westhall, Lancashire, dealer, Jan. 3, a, 28, at Kirkby l.onsdalc. Att. Mr. Italie, Staple Inn. Wines: J. of Oxford, timber-merchant, Jan. 11, 12. 28, at Broad way, Worcestershire. Att. Me. Elkins, Lincoln's Inn. HUNT J. of Britlpwater. vintner. Dec. 28, Jan. 6.28, at Bridge water. Atts. Bkke and C.O. Cook's.oourt. Carey-street. II ew ITT W. of Cargo. Cumberland, fish Dec. 23, 26 Jan. IS, at Rickergate. Att. Mr. Birkett. Cloak- lane. Di crow T. late of Islekirk-hall. Cumberland, miller, Dee. 26, 27. Jam. 28, at Carlisle. Att. Mr. Addison. Staple Inn. Joirstsox C. of South Shields, Ibsen-draper. Dec. 211, Jan. 4, 28, at Newcastle upon Tyne. Atts. Bell and Co. Mayotte. Daniel M. of Halifax. grocer. Dec. 19. 20, Jan. 28, at Halifax. Mt. Mr. Strangwayes, Ecnchurth-stmet. GRAY .1. and W. PRIMILE, of Rhodium*. ealico-printen. Dec. 96. 30, Jan. 28. at lanchester. AB. Milne mid C 6 'Temple. TAYLOR S. of Birmingham. gius-braaa-otahee Dee. SO. El, Jan. 48, at Birmingham. Atta. Lord and Co. Illoibenrcourt. FAIRCLOVAII W. and E. Swallow. of Lima. merchants, Jan. 1,2, 28. at I.iverpooL Att. Me. Wining. n-street. Howmto J. late of Manchester. Wire-worker. Jon. I, 3, 28, at Man chester. Att. Mt. WinsUe, Jokn-street. Bedford-row. POTTiI T. jun. of Susalerland near the See. coal-fitter, Jan. 8,9, 28, at SunderlamL Au. Mr. Wilson, Greville-sneet. WAT):I NS J. of Chc.sfiopkee4er, Dec. fita, 30. Jan. 98, at Bristol Att. Mr. Pearson, Tem °ARDEN T. of Manchester, miler, Jan. 10, 11, 28. at Manchester. Acts. Adlington mad Co. Bed&wd.row. DIVIDENDS AT GUILDHALL. R. Clark. St. Mary-hill, ship-bnicer. Feb. 4. 'l'. Claptim, Alfrol-place, Onswell-street-rod. carpenter, Jan. 6. J. Metcalfe and J. .leyes. Upper East Smithfield. oilman. Feb. S. E. Argles, Catherine-street, upholder, Jan. 4. W. Knightly. Strand, neck-Lamas-maker. Jan. 4. T. Scott. Suflak-lane. CannonTartet, broker, Jan. 4. R. Smith, Richmond, hosier. Jan. 4. C.. Rome, St. Katherine's-lane. victualler, Jan.& M. Molony, City-road, coach-maker, Jan. 4. J. Houllan, Skinner-street. warehouseman, Doe. 21. J. Bowser. Broad-street, Ratcliff, ship-chatuller, Jan 4. J. licadbury, Chath;on. cabinet-maker. Jan. 4. DIVIDENDS IN THE COUNTRY. J. Lepine, Canterbury, cabinetmaker, Jan. 8. 1.. C. - Barnett, Nottingham. upholsterer, Jan. 10. T. Leeminlf. Salford, timber merchant, Jan. R. S. Alta J. Itriddon, Manchester, grocers. Jan. 3. It. Hull and Co. Soma-in-AMC:is:4l. Nottinghamshire, starch- makers. Jan. 6. I E. 11`. Jennings, SOII4, shopkeeper. Jan. 9. T. Ilandl.y, Kenilworth. mallow. Jan. 20. W. Wri A ni. Vn ksop, maltster. J3ll. Pi. J. anti E. %Vo%)l.eillitn. Itlanchestcr. battrre, Jan. 4. D. Wood. Ecrentont. inukeepor. Jan. 4. T. 11(14A, fAuuth Blyth, merchant. Jan. 6. T. and I. l'erry, St. Paul. Gloucestershire. comb sat! bases, makers. Jau. 4. 43 W. Mime, Bridgewater, coach maker, Jan. 6e J. and W. Blakeway.lston. grocers, Jan. 6. J. Phillips, Wallingford, ca rpe nter , Jan. 7. G. Pope, Aston Tirrold; Ber. farmer, Jan. - 6. . .1. Stevens, Cheltenham. victualler. Jan. 9. B. Bartlitop, Blachell, Suffolk, merchant, Jan. ?. • J. Ablitt, gesgrave, Suffolk, Jan. 7. J. Weston and''. Thornton. Kingston upon HAD, thnberffier.hd. 4. CERTIFICATES JAIL 4.—J. [tines. BriAcil,.. chemist—J. Handley, Milwich, Staffordshire, miller—R. Collet'. 1:e-da, grocer T. Kasten Wolverhamptein, grocer—J. Stokes, Liverpool, mer chant—J. Pr oud, Bilsion, bookseller—D. Sargent, Whittlesey„ dm ney-scrivener-4. Wilkerson Barley, Herm maltster—E. te s t. Cooper'srow, Crutched- friar s , beer mer;hant—.W. Telt. S curner—T. Hudson, Mark-lane, maltster--Stephen Shepardi Wel lington, banker—W. Holliday, Manchester, cotton spinner—W. H. Hatchard, Richmond.buillings, Soho, dealer—W. A. Noble. I.intehouse, founder—A. B. Goujon, Langbourn Chambers, Fan. church-stmt, merchant—J. Surr. High Holborn, haberdasher. PARTNERSHIPS DISSt)LVED. Hetnens and Roberson. Denmark -street, auctioneers. Swift and Co. Huddersfield, merchants. Pilch& and Fryman, Rye, tallow chandlers. Birch and Co. Limehouse, oil and colour manufacturers. Geoghegan and Co. Liver pool, brokers. Fricker and Dodds, Southampton, hatters. C. R. and W. J. Gilham, Westminster, brandy merchant Clarke and Co. Nottingham, lace manufacturers. Kay and Edge. Manchester. nail manufacturers. Bileborough and Co. Haslingden, brewers. Arnold and Welstead. Borners street. solicitors. Barrett and Moses, cabinet-makers. Trollop and Co. St. Gir's in the East, sugar refiners. Roberts and Co. Chea • . wan housemen. Wilkins and Lamy, Norwich, pl.dsterers Borradaile and Co. London, turners. Hardcastle and Longworth, Lancaster, bleachers. Fletcher and Dre;ritt, HinkarY, Berk% paper makers Prior and Young, Tewkesbury, hosiers. Adamson and Cam Doncaster. carvers and gilder.. OMITTED IN LAST SATURDAY'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS AT GUILDHALL. D. Mike, of Southampton-row, fancy trimming maker. Jan. IL W. and W. T. TrimbreU, Bermondsey, leather factors, Jan. IS. T. Edmunds, Newbury, upholsterer, Jan. 7. N. Bell, &reliant Park Herts , hay jobber, Jan. 11. J. Stevens, Alichurch-lane, merchant, Jan. la. T. Blackburn, Mount-street, mariner, Jan. 11. A. Anderson. Phelpstdane, merchant, Jan. 7. W. Smith Poems. draper. Jan. Is. T. l.ediard, inn. Rcultansr. demise. Jan. 7. B. W. and B. Finalists. Ihrg,bankers, Jan. 211. J. Kirkman, Gowsacniss‘ . Dec. 28. W.lsPllolltsso ROSbnerr, illabolger, Jan. 7. T. BIM. Lynn. boot makar, Jam 7. W. Nesbitt. North .st. Cill.road, Tunbridge ware masufact. San. 16. J. Kehler. St. Swithin's-kne. merchant, Jan. 6. W. Mask and J. Ifardie. Queen-street, druggists, Jan. 4. J. leek Raeford, miler. Dec. 24. 11. Jackson, Stand, vintner, Jan. 211. T. Whitehouse. St. Alban's, glass dealer, Jan. IL J. Lawrence, Houndaditels. draper, Jan. is. DIVIDENDS IN THE. COUNTRY. J. Engel!, Aylsham, wine merchant. Jan. 27. J. Gowen, Ilevenham, goner, Jan. 7. R. May, Southwold . salt re fi ner. Jan. 7. W. Penn, Kidderminster, carpet manufacturer. Jan. S. T. Wilson, Liverpool, and T. Green, Sundern, earthenwne.ske nufasturers. Jan. 10. J. Renshaw. Nottingham, lace manufacturer. Jan. 10. T. Butler, Aston Tkrold, grocer, Jan. O. t.ii W. Fawcett, Liv , merchant. Jan. IS. A. Whichello. W . , butcher, Jan. 7. J. Bannister, Shi , butcher, Jan. 7. J. Olean, Marston, . Jan 10. J. Parry, Hotwells; wine-merchant. Jan. S. W. Hartland, jun. Bristol, carpenter. Jan. 14. CERTIFICATES, Jaw. 7.—T. Boiling and C. Fell, Botton.le. More, cotton spinners—C. Blackburn. Newark. cornfactor—WJ Median& Gosirdl-strect, oilman—H. Rose, Greenwich. builder— W. J. Livork, Redenhell with Hartman, innkeeper—L. and .1. Phillips, High Holborn. glass merchants. PA RT!.4 E RSI II PS DISSOLVED. Hudson and !linked'. Manchester, printers. Keats and Agar, Manchester, hatters. Gaskell and Co. Liverpool, grocers. Gainon and Evans, Manchester. school mistrestes. Clintoek and Hunt, Liverpool, woollen drapers. Penington and Deane. Liverpool, solicitors. Owen and Jackson. Worsley, flour dealers. Batchelor and Wake, Portsmouth, grocers. Murat and Bonier, Leicester, joiners. Goading and Young, Holvwell.street, Shoreditch, pawnbrokers. f Peppin and Mead. jun. Dulverton, surgeons. Stuakes and Haniewocitl. Eenekurch-street, oilmen. Baldwin and Roberts, Warwick, front founders. Philipps and Llewellyn, Cannathen, hosiers. Iladen and Jaws, Coalport, rope makers. AGRICULTURE. --e - - CLUB CHRISTMAS SHOW OP CATTLE. Thursday morning, soon idler nine o'clock, the Pat oxen, cows, wether sheep, and pigs intended to be shewn for the premiums liberally given (for the nineteenth time) by this patriotic body, and by their Noble President, the Doke of Redford, having arrived. the Stewards of the show, Joint Martin Cripps and John Eihuon, Emit 4. and the three Judges chosen by the Club for awarding the premiums, Mr. Thomas Barker, of Ashford, Kent, Mr. James Ellia, of Banning, Kent, and Mr. John Cole liaison, of Oakham, Rutland, en tered on the task of arranging and 'gassing the stock; and the Judges then eorumeutiii their examination and discus sions on the comparative merito of those in the several classes, a work of no ordinary ditfenlty, from the many mid great excellencies of the animals this year exhibited. Tuesday, the A 111 l iversary meeting of the halls and West of England Agrilcultnre Society was celebrated at their nouns at Hetling House. The meeting was, as usual. very tinmin finely and respectably attended, where the %urines objects of the valuable institution were ably dismissed. It a wits sincere regret that we observed the society deprived of the able assistance of their President, Sir 11. Holdiouse, M.P. who was unfortunately prevented from attending, by seecre indisposition; the ditties of this arduous situation were mar dertakcn by Sir J. C. Hippisley, hart, and were filled with his usual talent and ability. Amongst those wiso attended the meeting were, the Earl of Curk, Sir J. %V. Sin:th, C. Rich, Bart. Sir J. Hawkins, hart.; the Winn. is for the County, &c. Arc. At four n'cloi..k about 100 o: th we ithers, accompanied their chairman to the White Hirt, wilete au excellent dinner was pr.ivided; and it was with pleasure we rensark, the high testimony of respect evineed by allyrosent when the health of that distinguished agriculturist, T. D. Coke Esq. of Norfolk, was gis en.