The National Register. — London, England, 1808-03-06 00:00:00

r f WA RCII 6. familiar together, and he kissed her, and afterwards in taking her down from the coach box, he put his hand upon her kg and laid hold of h•r R irie, Mrs. Dowler was the wife of a porter, who took care of one of the houses of Mr. tiregson, in Angel-court, where Mrs. 6. slept when she came to tuwu. In January 1807, a lied wns put up tOr the wituess to sleep there, in the garret ; and on the Yd of Jannars, the coachman (the defendant) and Mrs. G. went up stairs together, and came down in about a quarter of an hour. The bed had been made in the morniug, and nobody had been in the house between that time and their going up together; up on examining it, she found the bed, although it had been smooth ed down, had evidently been laic upon ; at another time her mistress sent her up stairs to make Mrs. tiregson's mother's bed, easing that she Would sleep in town. The coachman and Mrs. 6. were down below, but when the witness got up stairs, she leaned over the bannisters and heard them come up stairs and ge into the dining-room in the dark ; there was a sofa in the room, axed the listened and heard no conversation, hut could distinctly hear the parties breathe hard. After this had ceased, which was in a short time, she returned up stairs to the room immedi ately over, but came don n again upon hearing a ringing at the bell, and met the coachmanand Mrs. 6. running out of the room, and observed, that the clothes of the latter were disordered. In Octul►er last, knowing that Mrs. 6. and the coachman were in the dining-room, and the shutters were shut and the candles lighted, she and her husband went and listened, and heard a sort of romptag,from which they both concluded that a criminal in tercourse bud taken place at that time. Upon her cross-exami nation by Mr. Topping. the Defendant's Counsel, she said she bud seen a Gentleman, a near neighbour of her muster, at Lay ton, who is a widower, and a most intimate friend of Mr. (lreg sou, who, as long ago as February IbO7, had called at Angel caart, when Mrs. (=nelson was alone. That moment he came in she pulled down the blind of the window near the tire, ss here she was sitting, and the Gentleman sat close by her. The witness quitted the room, hut listened at the door, and heard a noi-e of the moving a the chair, and from w hat she overheard, she had so doubt of a criminal intercourse taking place at that time. She then only thought it an odd circum-sauce, hut now she thought st must have been a criminal intercourse. When the witness was asked as to her mistress's infidelity with Centlemen of her master's acquaintance ? she said she could not Say Gentlemen, bat she did recollect one in particular. Mr. Topping, for the Defendant, said it was impossible the Planaiff could demand damages for the loss of the affection of 1 Jan svife, for it was clear she must have solicited the Defendant, and had been common to others. The slightest damages, if any, were all that he could be entitled to. Lord Elienborough, in summing up the case, commented with great force upon the conduct of the unknown friend of Mr. Greg son, nho was, perhaps, more to blame than the Detendant iti seducing the affections of the wife of the Plaintiff. Affections iudeed, such a woman could have none, her mind %vas possessed crity by inordinate desires and unruly lusts, ss hich made her lavish of her embraces to any one, The wantonness of the wife might therefore he some 'satiation for the offence of the sersunt, but it could not justify his continuance in defiling the bed of his master, and whatever guilt attached to the woman, the man who violated at once bin fidelity to his master, and the honour of his mistreu, must be visited st ith some punishment, though not equal to that which he ought to suffer, if he found her innocent and undefiled, instead of wanton and shameless, courting the gaze 6f the passengers as she rode fin the coach-box, and kissing openly in the noon day. Were she not almost entirely the seducer, nothing short of the full damages should he given. The .1 acs instantly returned a verdict for the Plaintillt—Daniages 9001. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PLV/4101;TH, MARCH 3.—Arrived the American ship At lamir, Guyer, laden with brandy and wine, from Charente, bused to Tenerilfe, detained by the Urowler gun-brig. By thi; vesel intelligence is received, that the embargo on Rcrierican and Bremen vessels is taken °T in all the French ports ; but that a Bremen vessel, laden with wine, had sailed from Bourdeaux, and a tints days afterwards returned thither, owing to contrary winds, when the master and crew were examined, and it came out t hat the vessel had, whil e at s ea , be e n b oa rded by an LIVIA privateer ; the ship and cargo were therefore con &paved. Shincannst, 111Ancu 4.—Six of the gun-brigs here are or deritJ to take on board two long eighteen poanderi each, and are THE NATIONAL REGiSTEIt. 15d to be employed fin the Baltic. The bre-vessels mad all the small craft are fitting for that station with the utmost dispatch, and a large fleet is expected to accompany them, under the command of Admiral Gambier. who is to hoist his flag on board the Victory, the late Lord Nelson's ship. On Friday Government received dispatches from Lord Col lingwood, by the Earl Spencer cutter. Lord Collingw owl had proceeded for the Adriatic in pursuit of some Russian ships—a circumstance which left Toulon unguarded by any British force. Let us hope that we shall soon hear of a favourable re ult to these movements. We are sorry to announce, on the authority of our Falmouth Correspondent, the capture of the Dnke of Montrose packet, Captain Dynely, which had sailed from that port s ith Mails from Jamaica, by the French schooner La Confiance, of 7 guns and 90 men. The packet maintained an action three hours ; during which Captain D3ncly, Alt.. Burn the date, and faur Jeatuen, were killed, and two wounded. She was carried into Guadeloupe. One English man of war, of 74 guns, and two of 64, with se veral smaller yenels, are frozen in the ice at Gottenhurgh. Ota Friday, his Majesty's ship Lion dropped down to St. lielem, to convoy the East India fleet, which will sail with, the first fair w itad—it was then southerly and light. ACCIDENTS. A fire happened early on Saturday morning, in the Conserve. tory, at Cuttnells, in Hampshire, which entirely destroyed that part of the building, but no one was hurt, and the Gre, by most extraordinary exertions of the neighbours of all descriptions. was fortunately got under, before the house, or any part of the furniture received the slightest injury, although the library opens into the conservatory. Fine AT LILLY llorsr.—On Thursday morning a most dreadful fire broke out in the alanor House of Lilly, near Lin , ton, the seat of John S 4) Lsq. which entire ,v consumed the ran e, with the greater part of the furniture. '.l;r. Sower -I►y the younger, with Mr. Kezple, a friend of his, had but just come down fur a few days sporting, and had been sitting in the library by a wood tire, from whence they retired to bed about twelve, leaving only a few embers in the grate.—The fire was discovered by two men servants, who on opening the librar, door, she volume of fire and smoke burst out, and cut ofl the re treat of one, while the other escaped through the passage. The former in his terror and despair, by his cries, and by discharging a pistol he had taken '.s ith him, first alarmed thetsso Genticnieu who were fast asleep. Mr. Sowerby's room was fortunately just over the leads of the portico, upon which he let himself down, and was saved by the servant, who had escaped by menus of a ladder, together ‘s ith the other man servant. Mr. Keane. on rushing to his door, was almost suffocated by the Same and smoke rolling towards his chamber, and, as the stair-case was un tire, he had barely time to force open the •Nitlow-sbutter, and, without any alternative, to leap out : ne:ther received any injury. Three maid servants, who had escaped from the attics on the parapet, were saved by ladders likewise ; and as the fa mily were tut lily in town, there were no other persons in the house. As the house was old and dry, and all the rooms wain*. coated, the rapidity of the flames was so great that the whole was certsvmed in less than three hours, and the Geeticmen who slept on the first floor, had scarcely saved themselves before the Boors of their chambers fell in. BIRTHS. On Monday last, at Blithtield, Staffordshire, the Right Hoc. Lady Bagot, of adr bier. .iy Bagoi, On Wednesday. the lady of Charles Littledale, Esq. of De vonshire-street, Portland-place, of a son. MARRIAGES. On Thersday Inst. at Lewisham, Captain G. C. Coffin, of the Royal Artillery, nephew to Sir I. Coffin, Bart. to Miss Larkins, daughter of the late William Larkins, Esq. of Black.. heath. DIED. On Sunday evening last, at White Roding, in Ettter, the Rev. Sir William Checre, Bart. at the advanced age of 78 years; the bulk of his fortune• devolves to his two amiable nieces the tlaugh teN of Ilk late and only brother. The title br.coness extinct. On Tuesday last, at Ham Common, aged et, the Hurt. Mrs. Esther Chem; nd, titter of the late,and aunt to the present Lord Chet.vpul. MI