The National Register. — London, England, 1809-07-02 00:00:00

JULY 2. Y THE N 4 OLD BAILEY. 431 1 ,, ATIONAL REGISTER. rumours against the character of the piniutiff which had come to his knowledge. Lord Leicester had directed him to take the opinion of Counsel, with respect,to the first of them upon which he enuld lay his hand. lie was also convinced that they applied . to the plaintiff', becaase he himself had been the person of ho called at the Otlice of " The Morning lleratd" about the first paragraph, which they afterwards apologized for. Mr. Serjeato Cockle then row on the part of the defendants. lie said he rose w h eousiderable concern upon a subject, odious in its own nature, and which must give pain and disgust to eve' man. His Learited Friend would have ff isked them to believe, that the asper4ioos against the cliaraeter of Lord Leicester ori ginated in the newspaper w hick was conducted by the defend outs. The fact however was, that they did not; hut, as thr plaintiff's own Attorney had admitted, there had beck flying rumours against the character of that Noble Lord, before such paragraph; ever found their tr ay in! o the newspaper. His Learned Friend had spoken of the Earl of I tCrester and hip NV ife having lived hanpily together. How did be attempt to prove it ? Did he call a siugla relation, servant, or friend ? No : all the evidence on this point v. as, that his attorn 'y had seen Lady Leicester at her Lord's table near a year after the marriage. The fact was, that so far from haf ink lived hap pily together, there ffas nothine:, perhaps, in the history of wedded life more wretched. Three sleepless nights were all they passed together, and after that time they never a cre in he,!, or seldom at board together. The lady in the agony of alino,t a broken heart, and iu spite of female delicacy , %%as t,dic:ed to re eal the wrongii shc. had suffered. She had been otiliged to sit at the taide of her lord with wretches that are a di:grace to human nature. and w ho ought not to he pennitted to live. There was Neri, the Paliao Secretary, Bey ling , Playfair, and other wretches of that description, She sf as soon bitaished front his house by such coaduct. When he was at Gloucester-place, she stied to be at Paddiagdon, and when he was at Vaddiegdon she mute to Gloucester-place. The Noble Lord had brought for ward but one witness, who knew rothiog of the matter. 110 w came it that he brought forward no relative, no friend of rank or fashion equal to his own, none of his juvenile friends, mile of the elders of the College in which he was educated, to support hizt character'? Ott this subject there wai.a gaping cha o s, and it was thought proper to preserve a profound siience. lie, like other gentlemen of fortaite, travelled in his loath, but way ac . companied by this:ltalian Neri, who had been called his Secre tary. This man he had kept in a most expensive manner. When Neri married, although he bad not a shilling of his own, and did nut get a shilling w ith his w ife, yet they took a house at a rent of one hundred and fifty pounds per annum, and Ncri lived more with his Lordship than under his own roof. Mr. Serjeant Cockle said, it was absolutely necessary for him to make this statement, to prove that what had been stated by his Learned Friend (Mr. Seijeaut Best), as an aggravation of the malice, was not true. It was also hi 6 duty to provo that those flying tura mrs actinst the character of Lord Leicester were so generally heard of, that his Lordship's character had not suffered by the paragraphs to the extent that had beet: stated, as be might perhaps chew that his Lordship's character was previously as bad in this respect as any man's could be who was not actually convicted of the crime. If this ‘vvre the case, it must most materially alter the damages. As to the ob servation which bad been matle. of the difficulty of re4oring a man to society who had been charged with such an offence, he believed that his Lordship might, whatever were the damages, continue to mix, with the same respect, iu that sort of com pany with which he had long associated ; and that whatever the damages might be, that they would not restore him to any sort of society which his birth and rank in life appeared to en title him to. Ile felt no manner of doubt hut that in the consi deration of damages, the Jury would pay considerable atten tion to those circumstances which it was his duty to prove. Sir James Mansfield commented at some length upon the evi dence. lie went into a history of the press in this country, from the time of its first establishment to the abolition of the office of •licences. The liberty of the press was a term blindly used by many modern writers and speakers; it did not mean the liberty of speaking political treason, or private slander, but it merely meant the liberty of speaking what it chose, liable to the correction of the laws of the land. Undoubtedly hi the present case a verdict must be found for the plaintiff, bat at the same time the damages were liable to mitigation, from the cir cumstances of the evidence, according to the judgment of the Attry.—rsrdict for the PlaintUfloool.—Cests Fridity, Samuel Davey was indicted for the wilful mon: •:er of his wife and child. This was the case of the poor shoe., oisker who lately killed his Wife and child in Skinner-greet,. • S .nier'sTowri. It appeared clearly that he was insane ; he was herefore acquitted of the murder, and ordered to be detained fur .afe custody under the late act of Parliament. MISS YORK, THE TEMA I M 511 A ni i ./gO /S TER, AND TH 1: HEROINE OF 111EMP , ON PIICK• This very sing tar trial trine on ‘e...:erf'ay before Judge Chamhre, man% of the Hirtit t w !Orli !n!‘ r het t, toil' he. fore the his yourg was pot to the ha, , wo o'clock„ diessed in deep inourivo i . ; , and uc , :top mail fe.. ,ale Irieud. She was indulpeti %%Oh a chairat he r nr, ti r vti o • I . The indictment against her was fur felooions1) hen Coombes, with intent to kill and ou.rder him, eti tl:, i•F May, ,in the I►;+ri,it of Sunbury. The prosecutor statco, :t tastes walking in Kemptoo Surbury, rti ith other men, at six o'clock in the % hen a gun v. .sdischart•eo Miss York, front the premises of Mr. lto;: . e, her tricie, tin i tin!' hall front w wellt through some W lint ss ho w as separated from the prisoner by a walling Leari) lire feet high, asked her if she knew w hot she (Wog, vi hen she repli4N: it, the atiirmathe Witness said . she had done very wrong, :,tat if she did so again lie N ould take t!;e gun from her. The prise ner's servant was with her, and the foriner asked tile t a it ce what follow it was that accosted her, and st;id she would take the liberty of firing at witness, and Itgid:d the gad. NV itness told her she might tire if she rho: e, for he would flu! tuo‘e . ['he prisoner presented the gull in a direct line at him, !ait it snapped three or four tithes, when she diseo‘ eyed there :tits MI prime; she then put some. powder to the touch- hole from a horn, and by the advice of Parker, H ho was present, w itne,s got behind a tree, and whilst peeping, the prisone*dsrlinreed tho gtpi at hint. Ile was atoat fifteen yards from her on the evpo site side of the paling, and he immediately scaled the pal;ne. BO ft took the gun from her. Witness saw the powder and shot pot into the piece. A model was here introduced of that part of the path where this scene took place, with the trees surrounding. The next day n wart ant was Ilbia ked t prior to this, Parker visited .Mr. Rolfe's house. lie ass4Jied a reason that ha understood Miss York wished to make matters up with the 'servaut maid, w Ito was with Miss 1 - ark the last evening. Site hntiolio rt, w rot ep to Miss York , who ran doWn stairs, and he/pc.. "..t key to walk into the parlour. SIO then told ParkeOlitst si.e remembered ;he other evening, and hoped that he worth aecept her apolz . p. • Ooe of the wit nesse,s Parker, acknowleilfr that his wife had tecei‘ , ..ll from the prisoners friends, WA to appear before rite alai,trate, Eliza :too, the Prisoner's Servant who was ri ith her, proved . that Cuombcs dared her to fire, and was very abusive, and said there was nothing ia the gun, when she replied, it YU'l stand a tittle and I'll spew you." _ _ In defence, the irisoner said she did not point at the pre:mien', tor, but she fired to frighten the people, and avuid their tinence. Judge Chainlore after an impartial summing up of the evidence left the decision with the Jury; who, after sonic short delibera, tion, returned Verdict of Nut Guilty. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Cornhi:l, Leaden. 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Oo the Sts' of May last, in Gunpendorf, at the advanced age of 're, Dr. Hudyn, the celebrated composer of music. Suddenly, on Thursday evening, Miss Meadow s, of Covent Garden, Theatre. At Vienna, on the 14th of May, of the wounds he had re ceived, Field Marshal Baru° Weber, who was tales) pri-oaer by the French in the battle of Zlchingen. lie was is the 64t'k year of bit age, itr f • ; 4 1414, 4