The National Register. — London, England, 1814-07-24 00:00:00

TITE NATIONAL IIEGISTER._ tain, from %%Vice lie hail a distioet view of Ili. new dominion-, After looking round a few minntes he bunt into a vitilent fit 4..1 laughter, and deseenikd. He arts up at four o'clock, rifles much. And often attends the tunny fishing. 13.-her is gone to Leghorn, I believe to carry over the Empress to him. ll'in.naparte a , ked hove sift Sir E. renew was, taut wa,i told : ave, said Lie, he has got 10 years' good work in himyt.t.—You may rely upon it he is too rear Italy I hope a sharp 4.l'e will lie kept :ipi o i hint. Such is Ins knowledge of human nature. that lie Las IV! t the oifirers of the ship impres.sed with a nmeh more lavourable 4,pinion of hint than he de. serves.—When the Alerope's hdat le(l.i aloi u one ot the Jack , bung out. %%by you've trot itoney aboarii.--- ( Yei. said a sidlor mit of one of the ports, in the twining f N ap• -ee We've got the -- at last." Although T.lnonaiiir;e pretend, not to understand English, be smikd when he heart, Ii e expression." All'' 1141G1 CE. ST;CONDAP,.I ES' OFFICE, Juts 22. (PIEFORE E UNDUII sti 1.1 lei rF, AND Aki IAI. JURY.) LEIGH V. BOWRING. Mr. Field opened the pleadings. Mr. Serjeant Pest then proct.e,led to detail the cireatastances of the ca•c. The platniff was married in the year 1800; Loth he and his wife were young, and it was a match of affection ; being contracted even without the consent of the plantiff's father. The plaottff entered into business as an insaranetebroker, and foreseeing ;otter prespeet of sue teSS in mercantile speculations during the short peace of 1302, went to llavre-de-Grare, a here lie formed an establishmout, and took his wife over II) reside there with him. lie had just soli:11 hi.usell in business when the war was r , new ed : and in CMlStqlllollce f,f that iefamous mea sure by which the laws of nations were vielated, he. was to rested iii the middle of the nigh:, and thr wn irto prison, where he caught a pe , ti lential fever, which the affectionate attentions of his wife could alone assuaee. i%iter three weeks imprisentnent, he was cnn\ ry , .! to Cha teau Doulons, in Picardy, 'disnince of 10 Icai , ilvs, whither his wife accompanied him, and cheerfull% shared the misery of his sahsequent imprisonment. After another month, the plantiff %YR . .; Rent with lii wit. to Fontaiuhlealt, is here she was delivered of a son, which after a life ot ten weeks, fell a victim to the inlaenatets of the F:a•nch Co•.a rameet. The prisoners at Funtainbleau were suddenly <ark:. d to Veriu.; ; and the plantiff and his wife being unable to procure any other conveyance than an on n cart, thus travelled 90 leagues in the death of. winter. They had not prat:ceded many days before the child died it. the pl in ttil's arms. At Verdun, the plantiff and Ilk wife were supported for six months by that patriotic Ned, to which the jars• had deubtless contributed ; and during all these trials Mrs. Lei , ll betrayed no desire to quit her husband, no abatement of affection, no syt. ptota of iwpati• etice. In the summer of 1804, he saw her for the fast tiaae Ti c was suddenly torn from her arms and his bed by the militaty, and marched in irons to the lett of Hische, on the banks of the Rhine, a distance of 70 leagues front Verdun ; .nor could the prayers of his wife procure her the mi s erable ptivilege of sharin J her husband's fate. She Soil .wed liiin as far as the gate of Ve:Alutt, mlttre they we-e torn asunder; and they parted never to meet en more. She -ens then fali of virtue and affee firm ; and little did the plantiff think, that he should return to Eng land only to end her livine in open adultery with the defendant, and surrounded by children the offspr ing of her crime. At Ilische, the plain tiff endured hardships and miseries which it would only afflict the Jury unnecessarily to hear ; and Mts. Leiali atter remaining at Verdun, witis another Lady, the wife f a fellow captive for about a tuenth, found it imp .ssthle to re - ,;in her hu•bind, and was advi,ed to return to her friends in England. the arrived here on the 130th 'if AtLu,t, 1304, and was received into the horse of her sister, airs. Price : but she soon afterwards made a visit to Mrs. Maillard, at Keenington, where her a ear Pattie Humors anti iliterestina situation induce() the family to re quest her to prolong fir ais hole twelvemonth. She then returned to her sister' - , w hi-re sl e found the defendant, who was a young man of pleasing manner •e it heartier in the fatally. Ile quitted this house for a time, as a tesidenee, oa the Ist of Jaeuary. 181)6 ; hut still visited Mrs. Price, coming frequently to drink tea with Airs. Leigh while Mrs. Price alas confined, and reinroed to tike up his abode there in Ann. 180 d whether fi>r th:. pu , pose of accomplishing the adultery meditated the jury would decide. Mrs. Price had obseevt d undue kamiliarities b e tween the defendant and Alrs.l..ei,!li, and inei reroonst:ated with her thereon : hut Mrs. Leigh Was off!•tilkti at any suspicion of her honour, and 111 rs. Pttee was silenced. In the 141ebli time, the defeniant iusi- A'•itted bites. It into her s duct ion, ant) her Alin is as completed. The Learned Serjeant concluded with calling on the jury for exemplary damage•. Mr James Phillips, with whvin the plaintiff and Lit wife lodged, for JULY 2s. se Prat inonths, upon their marriage, proved happiness and appa. rent alrectiw.. Alrs.Steart, lafe Miss' . pnived tht wile's visit to Ina f am o v • alter her rtturn to Frai ce: she always cmidticted herself v e ry wt.!'; And was very pleasirit,agrfetibt • and vccomplished. She !rid ko b“ en ocquainted with the couple hefore they ve it to France in 180'. Il e was alw av• partienlarly kind and alf‘cti-nate to her mi d s h e returned his I.indnes , and afft•cti.m. Altyr her st;:y tau Mrs Willard's faruile, she continued to inal:e nceAsimhd Vkits; ;Ind a was then that the witness first saw the ti..fendant, who frerinentiy came to conoiirt her home. The witness he3rd Mrs. Leigh speak of her husband in the delendunt's piesence, in the the highest terms, and appeared much to .egret his situation: About a year and an half aft•er Mr , . Leigh's re. urn to Enaland, the witne-s cbserved her to nee( ive attentions from the defendant, which did not become a married fade ; the defendant's mar,fp,r of ,braking to her was not correct : tar used to call her his ittle won • Captain Howl was a f psis, - nier with the plainti:F at Vt-rduti, and tlionalit hitt) pc.rfectly happy with his wife. I .llr. Price, si,ter :\IrA. Leigh, knew the plaintiff when he runt-- tied, and never saw a: iv part dis.::.:reelletit between them. 13eli tg questioncd tht.. Under Sheriff as to what •Ite turant hy this term, sho could it say she lived unhappily : there did appea. to' be an ;MAO). mein between them ; Lad they lived I y .nari ;:r.l wife i.sually do. When she rer. , ritA lioat re, the plaintiff's wi:e • setniduct was tlokt of a virtuous woman. I)u.itig the Beat four months that the I . tiff's wife mid the det: whim were :it her house, she obiterv , •il rnithinv. between them: the defendant knew she was married, and where het husband was. witness no vi it, her sister, who is at Chel sea with the elefend:iiit, by who.:r sh.! toJr five chili:ten. I . : a witness had heard :ler ,aster sneak elf he Irti•la .41 'hi the de:endant's presence ; she ne...er expres , .ed airy parlicidar ti two : : : a\ to his sii;:atioo. She Ea w her siskr fen dayq ic 4 o she visits lier occasionaNy. It wai the latter end of Oat;, 1807, that she fir,r knew of her Aster's hots.- course with the defendant. She had been a tw-Iverirunrli in England the 30th of Regust before. The dereedatit nail; ate #rpportrinity of the w•itrie,,s if her sis:er a,;y thins u.rtieirlar to her. The witness replir:d, " it con she have t' say co:icernii,g you ?" Stith crest niacin.. The 1)-feridarit alrtiwere.l. " :' 4 :lt: is pregnant hy toe." lie A'i'led, " Don't be tell unhappy alum, ;t, b 3 she shall never want." The rritnr:ss was quite surprised. n,.,. sister did nut then go to live with him: she did a Its elvenrooth Lfiei ward.. Uili n her cross-examination Icy Mr. Ilo , ,iitrquut for the I)elenihret, she said,.th.n the Plaintiff married against his tatlerr's ronsunt. II o had not a farthing from his fatLer. She bad some tyrtii irony. He was ureatly in debt, and her fortune went itt pasing toe t., and in gaming, Slie had seen I,iue pay debts, hilt never '• _ . Upon her re-exam:nation by 114. St.rj;:ant Best, she swirl,. Chit her sister sold out her looney the day beCoc she iwo-rie.l, and ,:ave it to her husband : she could not tell what other inot.ey he might have to pay his debts with, except that he had some from his father. 111 r. Gardnt-r, the Defendant's p:ittner, di'i not consider hiin as a man of sid.s.anee : he would give 1;)001. fur :Ili lie was won't. He did not gain above 8001. per annum. - - - - - Mr. Bo%aininet then addressed the Jury in initigatimi of drimagcs• urging tillt it wa. nut a case in which tilt. I)e(4.ndant h a d b e trayed the confidt nor of his friend, or diverted the wile's affection from a fainily of childt fn. The Jury, after retiring, assessed tho Plaintiff's damages at 5001. FIRE A7' THE Cra'o3l-HOUSE. While supplies are librally voted by Pmlii:ment, and clteti fully paid by the people, in suppt.rt of our various national exigencies. we deplore that, as yet, no provision seems to be in conten.pl.:tion towards the le lief of the many itidivido.d :offerers by the late a‘‘ful ealaa.ity at 11:e Custnin-house. A Cut respondent, therclo•e, beg, leave to sugvest to the active hinnanity of Parliament, that, wiNtut some renitit'cration, theie will be persons reduced from comparative independence to eerkiio {w itry, by that dreadful event; and we more strongly urge the necessity, from a general conviction that the Cusom-house, like the Bank, has always been considered safe cost tdv for private property ; and .hat, in all hanian probability, !lad not tit... ;Lead of gunpowder, so improperly lodged in lhe stores impeded the exertions of the h eaten, very little property w o uld have been destroyed. This fact is too nototioos to be dwelt upon ; we have. Owlet' ,re, to hope, that Parliameat, in its wis• (115,15, will take effectual and irlntediate means, towards the relief at least, of those persons, whom this nut;, rod calamity has most o ppies•ed. SJine cases, indeed, of an tit gent ti tuts have already appeared he!ote the public, and ninny 3 et remain tl.at require p. on pt iut csug,utitm. ..• -.~ - 4tall mug.. . I