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TilE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jun. 30. . . [unrusn PRESS.] IF seems to be generally understood that the ting will not open the approaching Session of Yarliainent in person ; but the Speech from the Throne will be perfectly pacific. Ministers, it is said, with the aid of America, have succeeded with the Cabinets of Paris and Petersburgh in preyenting any attempt on the independence of South America ; and the present repose of the civilised world is not likely to be disturbed.— This is a coasuromation every way important to this country : the page of her glory is full ; but the continuance of peace is essential to her grow ing prosperity and greatness : her commerce now tills both hemispheres ; Ilindostan and its mil lions are, in fact, an appanage of Britain : and America, North and South, presents an exhaust less mart for our manufactures and trade. All the sources of our industry are now unlocked, and in fill activity. Our influence abroad is un tliminished, and there is little discontent at home. Ministers, therefore, will meet the coming Session with the most favourable claims and prospects. The foreign policy of the Cabinet has been honourable and successful. — The domestic burdens of the country have al ready been reduced, and may yet be consider ably diminished. The past and the present Ses sion open under different auspices. In February, 1823, the clouds of hostility were gathering on the Continent, and thickening around Spain ; it was feared that the character and influence of England were involved, and the cry of war from the Opposition Benches was general and loud.— In 18'24, Spain is in basest bondage ; hut Great Britain has her strength and influence unim paired, and not a murmur of war prevails through civilized Europe. The declaration of Repub lican America is one of the most important events that has occurred for years ; her league with Great Britain would shake to their foundation every throne iu Europe. If the diplomacy of our Foreign Minister has accomplished this al liance, it was a most masterly stroke of policy, and places him in the first rank of British States men. With such an ally this country never can have any thing to fear. The pros perity and resources of Great Britain are now risiog rapidly ; with the energy of her people, and the industry of her merchants, no bounds can be assigned to her greatness. The union of the entire empire, on principles of uni versal conciliation and concord, is now most earnestly to be desired ; it should be the first great object of Ministers. Ireland has an en lightened and an excellent Viceroy ; but that fine country yet remains discontented and disturbed ; its peace ought not to be sacriAced to the politics of a faction, however powerful. The Catholics should be emancipated, and the union of 1800 be assured. Let the barriers of proscription be levelled in Ireland, —bigotry will quickly dis appear, and its people, with good govern ment, become one. We shall then no longer need the large military array kept up in that island for coercion ; five-and-twenty thousand bayonets will no more be necessary, and an additional load may be taken from the burthens of the country. Thus cultivating, wig a wise and careful hand, all the blessings of peace, we shall be strong for war, whenever a just and inevitable call is made upon us to arm. While the nations of Europe j are fettered by bondage, their energies withered, and their resources destroyed, liberty will shed its benign and fostering influence over our people. The sun of Britain's glory, in place of growing dim with years, will burn brighter and brighter, un til i t s i n ks at length in the - night. of ages, and is lost for ever in the depths of eternity.. This is the great career now before her, if wisdom and moderation continue to preside over the councils or this country. [NEW TIMES.] Yesterday being the Anniversary of his Ma je6ty's Accession to the Throne, was kept as a holiday at the Bank. Both the Stock Exchanges, however, were open, and a considerable share of business was done in them, with some fluctuation, particularly in Consols. The highest price of that stock in the course of the day was 918, and the lowest 904; but they closed at 908, 91. It has been generally surmised, that the cause which has arrested the rise of Consols, and made them re cede from 92 to 91, was the determination of the Bank not to discount at three per cent. But there is little occasion to seek for an extrinsic cause to produce such a reaction, which is suffi ciently explained by the natural course of the market. The recent advance in price was so rapid and considerable, that it afforded a great temptation to holders to realise their gains ; and hence proceeded a supply exceeding the demand, which is no more than under similar circumstances would take place with any other article 'in any other market. After all, the very trifling extent of the reaction clearly. proves the stability of the market, and leaves little doubt on the minds of well-info rme d persons, but that Consols will, ere long, be still higher than they have hitherto been. In the Foreign Market, the Mexican Scrip seemed to be the chief object of speculation ; but, notwith standing the favotirable impression which pre vails in the public mind as i`o the affairs of Spa nish America generally, the premium on this Stock advanced but slowly : it closed at zl..— Spanish• Bonds of 1821 struggl e d a ll d a y b e tw e en 244 and 141,.. which - latter was their closing price. 'rue other Foreign Securities rema i ne d nearly . stationary : fact, little or nothing was doing in them. [MORNING CHRONICLE] From the Jamaica Papers, to the 30th of November; it appears that the Petition of the People of Colour had been presented to the As sembly, and referred to a Committee of the whole !-house, on the state.of. the Islands, when this Petition, together with that of the people of free condition, was read and discussed. During' the debate, 'reference was made to the Petition i of the sante parties, presented in 1813, claiming to be admitted to all the privileges of white per sons, which was at the time rejected. The pre sent Petition was stated to be worded in a more cautious and guarded manner, although its object was virtually the same. Mr. Rennalls argued, that to accede to the prayer of the Petition would be subversive of the Constitution, and prejudicial to the interests of the Colony. —A series of resolutions was agreed to.—The discussions in , the House, on alleged breach of privilege, gave rise to a disclosure of a singular kind. The Jamaica Journal having stated that a Secret Committee had been formed to inquire into some treasonable or seditious practices, suspected to have taken place in Kingston, the ramifications of which extended to other parts of the island, which practices were attributable to agents of President Boyer, the paragraph com plained of was read (vide our extracts), when it was determined that Mr. Lunan, the publisher, should be called to the Bar. On the following day Mr. Barrett, the Member for Trelawney, avowed himself to be the only responsible Editor of the Journal complained of, when the order for Mr. Lunan's attendance was discharged. Several circumstances, however, which came out in the course of this discussion, render it evident that some inquiry had been instituted in the House on the subject of certain intrigues on the part of alleged agents of President Boyer, which must be deemed a very delicate affair, as it in volves a charge against the Chief Magistrate of a neighbouring and independent State, against whom no complaint has hitherto existed. Per sons well acquainted with Jamaica deem this an extremely precipitate and rash measure ; but there seems to be a fatality at the present mo ment attending every thing connected with our Colonies. [THE TIMES.) Liberty of persons, as well as of speech, in Germany, has arrived at unexampled perfection. A. M. Murhardt, suspected of having made public some acts of the Diet—which of course were de signed to be of public operation—was ordered, on the proposal of Austria, to quit his residence at Frankfort. On the day prescribed to him, this gentleman (a man of distinguished ta lent and character) took his departure from the city : but at Hanau, he was arrested by the Hessian Government, for his imprudence, as it seems—and the imprudence, it must be owned, was flagrant and unpardonable, for M. Murhardt ought to have recollected that he had been a partisan of the old Westphalian Government, and that he had written on behalf of the purchasers of Westphalian domains. He was bound, moreover, to recollect, or, whether informed of the fact or not, to know, that he was suspected by the Hessian Court of an intimacy with one M. Kelch, who also, it was his duty to divine, was suspected by the Grand Duke and his Ministers of not holding them in proper vene ration. Above all things, it Was a most disloyal negligence in M. Murhardt to forget, that under a legitimate Government it is lawful to punish every man on suspicion. [MORNING p osT. ] The intelligence received from the Continent assumes every day a more pacific character. Spain, it is true, is still a prey to the excesses of party, in consequence of the wretched policy and want of faith of her Monarch ; but the idea of goading her to make a dying effort against the independence of her late Colonies seems to be abandoned ; and the impossibility of her at , tempting it single-handed is universally acknow ledged. Even those French Papers which con tended most stoutly, some time since, not only ! that she had a right to reduce her transatlantic " subjects" to obedience; but that she must be armed by the European States with the neces sary power to use and to enforce that right, now declare that such a course would be highly im politic, and that it is no longer in contemplation. After having magnifi?d the preparations which she was said to be making to send an expedition to South America, they now assert that none have been or could be made, that she only pos sesses one ship of war, which is old and scarcely sea-worthy, and that it is proper to leave the late Colonies to themselves, to see whether they will not give their Governments such a form as may remove the objections entertained by the Holy Allies to their independence.-- Although it may be justly implied from this intimation that intrigue is at work in the new States of America to turn them into monarchies, and perhaps even to place members of Conti nental Houses on their thrones, still it is a com plete abandonment of the principle that they must remain the subjects of Spain. The conduct of Ferdinand has indeed been such since his re storation to despotic authority, as to make the Allies ashamed of the exertions made in his be half.—They. feel that the present misery of Spain lies at their door, and hesitate ere they ex tend it to countries which are as yet free from its influence. In one sense, therefore, it is for tunate that Ferdinand should have acted as he has done, for it has led to the desertion of his cause in this instance, and will, we trust, prevent all future interference in his favour, should excessive tyranny produce another revolu tion in the Peninsula. It must be owned, however, that the sensibility of the Allied Powers to his flagitious conduct and political enormities lay in a very quiescent state, and that few but seemed eager to aid his designs against his emancipated Colonies, till the manly decision of England and the corresponding declaration of the American President on a sudden roused all the good prin ciples within them, and opened their eyes at once to the disgrace and the danger of pursuing free dom beyond the Atlantic. i r _ MORNING HERALD.] The French Moniteur has announced a new and somewhat suspicious zeal for the suppression of the Slave Trade. A naval armament has been fitted out at the port of Rochefort, in order to cruise for this purpose off the coast of Africa. The whole force is to consist of six armed vessels of the smaller class, in addition to the French vessels of war already on that station. It is not easy to discover what motive can have thus sti mulated the humanity, or rather operated the conversion of the French Government. It was least of all to be hoped for from the party, and even the individuals who compose the Administation. The Ultra party, so called, is violently hostile to the abolition of the Slave Trade, both in its practical effects and its principles. It is regarded by them as bearing a close affinity to Jacobinism. The Prime Minister, too, passed, if we remember right, some part of his earlier life in one of the colonies of France, was a slave-owner there, and possibly may be so at this moment. The object as signed for the expedition in the Moniteur only ren ders the matter more curious. It is intended by it to refute some orators who doubted the zeal and sincerity of the French Ministers in sup pressing the Slave Trade. This is rather a novel and expensive mode of refutation, 'and those who are said now to employ it have hitherto confined their replies, on this and other grave charges, to the mere expenditure of a few para graphs in the columns of the Ministerial Papers. It will most likely, under all the circumstances, be suspected that this squadron has some other object or destination, which it may be found con venient to disguise. This is the second force that has recently been stated in the French Pa pers to have sailed from France for the same quarter—not exactly for the same purpose. The first was a military force, destined, it was said, to reinforce the garrisons of the French Colonies in Africa. At all events there appears nothing formidable in either, and whilst the French Ca binet makes no demonstrations on a larger scale, their purposes or destinations need scarcely be inquired into. It is rather remarkable that of late the Paris Journals are quite dumb as faras the sub jugation of South America is concerned. An interdict seen►s to have been issued on the sub ject. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, J.tx. 29- . COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—CONST v. HARRIS. The LoRD CHANCELLOR asked if the Counsel had any communication to make upon his recommendation to the parties to come to some agreement; and upon receiving a reply in the negative, fixed on Monday next pet emptorily for his judgment. COMMITMENTS IN BANKRUPTCY. Mr. MoNTAGuE moved for the discharge of a person who had been imprisoned during four years past by the direction of the Commissioners in his brother's bankruptcy. lie had been asked what had been done with a certain ltafin the ledger which related to accounts between them ? His answer was, th a t h e had torn it out and destroyed it. The Commissioners committed him for giving insufficient answers. The Loup CHANCELLOR had on a former mention of the case observed that no answer could be more sufficient, as th e man had acknowledged himself to be one of the greatest rogues in the world. His Lordship now expressed his opinion that the Commissioners should be more circumspect, not only in the use of their power of imprisonment, but also in the reports which they made of it to the Court. He had observed . on several occa sions of this kind, that p ar ti es had been committed for answers, hi which they made the most explicit declarations of their own misconduct, and for aught that appeared to the contrary in the copies of the examinations, because these answers displeased the Commissioners, and, for no other reason, the parties were committed for insufficient answers. They were again and again brought up, and each time repeated the same answerto the same question ; and after all, this was represented to the Court as giving insufficient answers to the questions of the Commission ers, though, in reality,therewas only one question put to them. SIR GREGORY PAGE TURNER. Mr. HART moved shortly, that a Committee of the estate might be appointed ad interim, to support the lunatic's inte rest in certain proceedings at law now pending, the urgency of which pressed too closely to admit of postponement until the various petitiOns in the lunacy were heard. It was proposed, that the brother of the 'lunatic should be appointed.—The mo tion was referred to the Master. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL again mentioned the petition of the mother and brother•in-law, to be allowed to go in and offer themselves for the committeeship of the estate. The Lotto CIIANcEt heard lcnt said, that the petition to traverse the commission must be first, before the Court could at tempt to decide upon the other petitions in the matter. He did not apprehend th a t t he Court had the power of denying to the lunatic the right to traverse. Mr. SU DDEN said, that there was a very material question, petition to traverse was really the peti tion which f w s a i s r — G w . h p! t c u r r t n h e e r . The Loft]) CRAxcELLoR appointed the hearing of the pe titions for Monday. GARRICX CAMDEN. Mr. HART replied upon the motion in this case, which was made on behalf of Mrs. Paine, a legatee of Peter Garrick, who was legatee of David Garrick, that her portion of the fund, after satisfying her creditors, might be transferred to her account. The objection had been, that no order could be made for her in the case of David Garrick's will, and that of the administration of Peter Garrick's estate there was no question before the Court; and that; moreover, Mr. Bailey, the representative of his late brother, who was trustee to Pcter Garrick's will, h a d obtained an orde r f or t h e Accountant-Gene ral to pay oyarthis portion of the fund t o hi m ; of which or d er the other side had s ufficient though not direct notice before the filing of this bill. Since, the adjournment of the hearing, Mr. Whitton, the solicitor, had tiled an additional affidavit to meet this last part of the case, upon which the Counsel were allowed to argue. The LORD CHANCELLOR. took the affidavit, promising to read it over, and pronounce upon the case on Monday. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, :TAN. 29. APPLICATION AGAINST THE MARSHAL OF THE RING'S AENCH PRISON. Mr. CAaLPRELI. chewed cause on behalf of Mr. Jones, the Marshal of the King's Bench Prison, against a rule calling on him to answer the matters contained in the petition of Mr. Duf field, a prisoner in his custody. The Learned Counsel said he felt it due to the character of the Marshal to read first the peti tion of the complainant, and then the affidavits which gave a full answer to his charges. The petition stated, that on the Bth of October in the last year, a person named John Jacobs, was committed b y t h e Marshal for riotous and disorderly conduct, to Horsemonger-lane-gaol. Before he went, be re quested Mr. Duffield to take charge of his property, consisting of wearing appaUpl and furniture, for which purpose the peti tioner went to the *room occupied by his friend. While there, he was joined by two other persons, and afterwards two officers came to the door, and clamorously demanded admission. Think ing they had no right to intrude, he declined to open it, on which they went away, but soon returned, burst open the door, and desired hint to quit the place. He requested permission to take an inventory of the goods, but was refused, and the officers took possession. A message was afterwards delivered to him, requiring hint to attend the Marshal ; but he declined, believing the message was a mere trick, especially as the Mashal was scarcely ever in the prison at that hour. He was afterwards brought by force before Mr. Jones, sent to the strong room for the night, and the next day committed for a month to florsemonger-lane-gaol. There he was placed in a solitary cell, damp, dark, and without fire, and contracted pains in his limbs front cold, tiV he was sent to the infirmary by the direction of the surgeon. .Ich was the charge: to which the Marshal answered, first, b referring to the orders made for the regulation of the prison in 1759, under the sanction of the Judges of the Court, which empower the Marshal to commit for riotous and disorderly conduct, or for possessing spiritous liquors within the prison. His affidavit, the affidavit of the two persons who were in the room, that of a person who was near it, and that of the two officers, set forth that Mr. Jones directed the officers to go and take an inventory of Jacobs' goods ; that they found the door shut, and demanded admit tance; that they returned to the alarshal, who ordered them to force the door; that Mr. Duffield and the others were play ing at cards, and that a quantity of gin was in the room ; that he refused to go to the Marshal, and was taken by force ; and that he conducted himself in so violent a manner, and with such insolence, that the peace of the prison required that he should be removed from its walls. W ith respect to his treatment in the gaol, the . •Marshal stated that he knew nothing respecting it, having simply committed him, and left the mode of his con finement to the gaoler and visiting Magistrates. Mr. Duffield addressed the Court in a long speech, in which he accused the Marshal of partiality and oppression, and charged lite persons who had made affidavits against him with being his tools. He was repeatedly interrupted, on the ground that his statements were not fbunded on his petition, and that therefore the Marshal had no means of repelling tnem ; but he perse vered in representing the conduct of Mr. Jones as needlessly cruel and unjust. The COURT declared their conviction that Mr. Jones would have been guilty of a breach of duty had he abstained from committing Mr. Duffield. If he had sustained any injury from the mode of his confinement in Horsemongei-lane-gaol, they regretted it ; but could not visit it on the Marshal. They there fore dismissed the charge. MARSH V. HORNE. This had been an action by a silk mercer, in Bath, against a coach proprietor in London, for compensation for damage done to silk in its carriage from London to Bath. Mr. SCARLETT moved for a new trial, on the grounds that the damage arose from no neglect, and that the value was above 51. without paying carriage in proportion. The COURT granted the rule, and directed Mr. Scarlett to come prepared to argue that the defendant's knowledge that the goods were of greater value than 51. did not deprive him of the benefit of his notice. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 29. The Judges of this Court having been enga ge d d ur ing the forenoon in hearing arguments in the Exchequer Chamber, the Court did not sit in bane° till half past twelve o'clock. It being the anniversary of his Majesty's accession to the Throne, their Lordships and the Sergeants wore their state robes, as on the first day of term. SEALY V. BAXTER. The COURT was occupied for a great part of the day in hearing the arguments of Counsel in this case, which was a question of disputed freight of goods on board the Lady Bank:, sold at the Mauritius. in consequence of injury sustained in her voyage from Calcutta, bound for England. We defer giving the particulars until the Court gives judgment in the case, which for the present is deferred. SECONDARY'S OFFICE, BEDFORD-ROW. BEFORE THE SECONDARY OF MIDDLESEX AND A SPECIAL JURY. CRIM. CON. LAING v. DELAMARE. The execution of this writ of inquiry excited a very general interest. The room was crowded with exceedingly respectable persons long before the hours fixed for the investigation. Mr. Brougham has long been retained for the defence, and Mr. Scarlett's talents were secured for the plaintiff's services. Mr. Pollock and Mr. Wilde were on the same side with Mr. Scarlett. Mr. Cooper was Counsel with Mr. Brougham. The declaration having been opened by Mr. Wilde, Mr. SCARLETT, after some preliminary observations, said— Gentlemen, Mr. Laing, the plaintiff in this cause, is a gentle man of a most respectable family of the kingdom of Scotland; some of the members of whom I am disposed to think are not unknown to the Learned Counsel for the defendant. At an early period of his life lie engaged in the sea service, and he is now the master and owner of a vessel of considerable value, which he has lately conducted from a very successful voyage to the South Seas. About ten or eleven years since he married the daughter of Dr. Steele, of Essex, a gentleman who is now no more. He educated his family in strict principles of mora lity, and they grew up with honourable characters and untar nished fame. The unfortunate woman whose conduct has made her husband so miserable was the eldest daughter of that family, and there were, I am told, several daughters. After their marriage they lived in the most uninterrupted felicity, and, with the exception of those separations incidental to her husband's profession, they lived together in the perfect enjoy menti thoseits endearments which the marri age s t a t e can afford. of all The frt of this m arr i age were seven children, five of whom are living, the eldest being now ten, and the t e r Por ol ls wife was Charles- s t ree t, North ampton-square. e a s i t hg th s r e e le e ct er e The place of residence which y il o lr u . n L g Up to the period of their last separation there was no breach of harmony between them—their affec tion continued unabated —they enjoyed the most unruffled tranquillity ; and when he took his last voyage it was the expectation—the hope, at least, of both, that itwould indeed prove the termination of those painful secessions, which, however necessary and commendable for his family, were still exceedingly painful to his wife and to himself. During that voyage a c orrespondence of the most affectionate character con tinued between them, and Mrs. Laing's letters breathe the purest, t h e most exalted, and the most ardent affection. In the course of that voyage he remitted home more than six thousand pounds. Meanwhile his wife was surrounded by her own friends, in affluence —possessed of every thing that the heart of woman could desire but the presence of her husband. Sheaccompanied him to Portsmouth —she parted - from him with sorrow—she watched the ship, and, in imagination's eye, saw her husband after the vessel sailed, until he faded from her sorrowing vision, and left her dejected and distressed. She knew that the period of his return was uncertain, yet for the first year of his absence, and I may say for the greater portion of the second, she was a faithful wife and an affectionate mother, expressing the liveliest sentiment of joy at the reception of any letter from her husband. Her gratitude was, that Heaven had given her such a man. It was in these circumstances that she had the dire misfortune to meet with the defendant. He is, Gentlemen, an Attorney at Law, and the son of respectable parents. His mother kept, I understand, a respectable school at Romford in Essex, and some of the sisters o f M rs. L a i ng were educated at h er establishment ; but she was a stranger to him. In 1823 one of the brothers of Mrs. Laing became a candidate for the Stewardship of Hertford College. On that occasion One of the sisters of Mrs. Laing came to town on aViSit to her sister. It occurred to them that in the pro motion of Mr. Steele's election the services of Mr. Delaware might prove advantageous, and accordingly an application was made to him for that purpose, and lie was introduced to her at her house. He devoted himself, I admit, to the interest of Mr. Steele; to promote it he sacrificed much personal convenience. He was married to a lady of respectability and fortune,_ by the death of whose sister he obtain e d a f ortune o f 70001. He had a house at Clapham, two carriages and.was partner in a house of respecta bility. At this time Airs. Laing was about 24 years of age, a very lbeautiful and a very attractive woman, presenting the ex hibition of an amiabl e wife, and yet so young as to excite na tural desires in the mind of any man whose passions were not su ppressed by moral feeling. It appears that she excited such a desire in the defendant's mind. After the canvass ceased the intimacy continued.—The Learned Counsel then traced the ac quaintance into its intimacy, and through the various stages that led to the elopement, which was subsequently detailed. in evidence, and subsequent to her separation he read the following letter from the mother of Mrs. Laing to her unhappy daughter— Charles-street, Pith August, 1823. " How shall I address you, my unhappy daughter? How shall I be able to convey to your mind a sense of my affliction, without breaking my resolution not to reproach you for that which must, at any interval of reflection, weigh heavily on your heart ? Consent then to listen to the dictates of your conscience — fly from the presence of him who has sought your ruin—and rest assured you will in the bosom of members of your own family find a refuge, where nothing shall ever be said or done to add to your sorrows, but all will contribute to your comfort. Harry (her brother) will receive you. Let me again earnestly entreat you to avail yourself of this only hope. Fly to some spot where I can see you alone, and acquaint me with it ; and thus prove you still retain a degree of regard for the peace of mind of your too heavily AFFLICTED MOTHER." The tone of this letter abundantly proved the mother's edu cation, and the following answer the unfeeling conduct of Mr. Delam are : " MADAM—I have this day received a letter from you, di rected to Mrs. Laing, which, having her authority so to do, I have opened ; and in reply to it I beg to inform you, that it is her fixed determination not to do that which you suggest. " I assure you, that in returning so positive an answer I am only conveying to you Mrs. Laing's sentiments ; and that were I to give you any hopes of an alteration in her ideas, I should only be deceiving you. " I am, Madam, your obedient servant, " JOHN DELAMARE. " Mrs. Steele, 21, Charles-street." The Learned Counsel concluded his clear and elegant state ment by calling on the Jury to decide in this case so by their verdict as to prevent as far as possible the repetition of such a crime—redress the injury of the husband, and punish the guilt of the defendnnt. Several witnesses were examined to shew that the plaintiff and his wife lived happily together. Amongst them were two sisters of Mrs. Laing, who were deeply affected. One of them was taken out of the Court in hysterics. Sarah Petit, examined by Mr. SCARLET lived as servant with Mrs. Laing. I went to lire with her previous to Michaelmas 1823. The two eldest children went to school, and there were three in the house. She lived in Charles-street, Northampton square; I lived with her until she left her house; she was very attentive to her children ; they did not dine with her, they were too small; Miss Kate and Master Benjamin slept in my mis tress's room; Benjamin was nearly two years old; another of the children slept in my room. I remember that my mistress received letters, and was frequently anxious to receive letters; she was visited by her family. I saw Mr. Delamare for the first time some days before Mr. Robert Steele's election ; I never saw Mrs. Delamare there. One of my mistress's sisters, Miss Anne Steele, was on a visit with her when Mr. Delamare caned. At first he did not often visit her, but afterwards his calls became more frequent ; she was very anxious about her husband's return ; she always taught her children their prayers; and when the two eldest were at home, they used after dinner to drink, by her desire, their father's health. I recollect Mr. Dela mare asking my mistress to go to Epsom races ; she refused, and said Mrs. Manning would be' angry if she went. He pressed her to go, and on his leaving her he said he would call for her in the morning. Ile called , with his gig, and my mistress wentin that gig with him. She returned at 11 o'clock in a post carriage,with Delamare. I believe it was not ins carriage. lie slept 44 , there that night ; I thi n k h e h a d slept there once before. 4.-k slept in the hack drawing-room; my mistress in the front twa pair room, and in the three-pair room back. He came occa sionally to sleep there afterwards. He sleft there one night ' about a week after the races. I went to bed on that night about 11 or half-past 11 o'clock. My mistress had gone up stairs; I accompanied her, and Mr. Delamere went to his own room. The children slept in herroom as usual. I heard some one come up stairs. I heard my mistress's room open. I heard talking in my mistress's room, but I could not hear what was said. In almost half an hour I heard the door open again, and some one on the l a ndi ng , an d it appeared as if sh e was holding the bannisters and struggling. I heard h er say,— " Oh, my' God ! I'll not go dow n ." - I heard his room door open, and they went in. I heard her mention Captain Laing's name before she went in. I did not understand how she used it. I entered her room in the morning. I perceived at that time no difference in her manner, but when I went up to dress her at eight o'clock she appeared very low-spirited. She did not say much. I thought she had been crying. Mr. Delamare sent for me that morning, and told me not to make his bed before breakfast, as his clothes were on it, and it would make them all over dust. I said I would not, but, however, I did ; and the bd had the ap-• pearanse of two persons having slept in it. My mistress herself removed the sheets from the bed. Her conduct to her children was very much altered ' • she did not a tt en d to t h eir prayers as formerly. I recollect her going with Mr. Delamare to the' Lord Mayor. I heard him tell her that she must go to the Lord Mayor. She wished to dress very close, he wished h er to put on a certain hat and f ea th ers . H e appeared to have an ascendancy over her at that time—he gave orders in the house and opened" her letters. The day after they came from the Lord Mayor he told me that he was going away, and told me where to find him ;- and as soon as Mr. Jenkins or my mistress's sister called there' I was to leave the children and join my mistress. On that morning the children entered the room while Mr. Delamare and. my mistress were at breakfast, and he ordered them to be taker: down to the kitchen. My mistress did not see the childre:,, after that. They went away about twelve o'clock. 1 ordered by Mr. Delamere to lock the children up in the kitclie7 - .,, that they should not see their mamma. Cross-examined—I helped to pack up my clothes to folios. - them, and I sent my box by Mr. Delamare's servant. This wa* two months after my master came from Epsom. I don't know the month he slept at my mistress's house : it's all gone out of my head. I never told any body the story about the sleeping there that night. After I made this observation about two people sleeping in the bed, Mr. Delamare still continued to sleep in the same room. I heard her say before that Mr. Delamare wanted her to go. I did not advise her to go. Did you not advise her not to go ?—I did. Strongly advised her ?—Yes. You asked her, perhaps, what would become of the children ? —I did. Upon your solemn oath ?—I did. Said it was a pity for her to go away and leave the family ? .—I didn't say that. Did you not say what will become of you P—No. Win. Jenkins is in the Navy Office, Somerset House.-1 have been for eight or nine years intimately acquainted with. Mr. And Mrs. Laing ; they lived very happily, and she was' most attentive to her children. I was acquainted with Mr. Laing's concerns ; I witnessed his will about five years ago. In his absence she managed his affairs, and he left her much property. I accompanied them to Portsmouth • Mrs. Laing was greatly agitated at the s e p arat i on ; she kept ' looking at the ship long after it sailed. He remitted bills and considerable property to her. Mr. BROUGHAM—Did you see her receive that money of whatever it was P—No. Then you know nothing about it. Witness continued—Upwards of 6,0001. passed through mf hands from Mr. and Mrs. Laing. Mr. Buouciusza objected to, and Mr. SCARLETT sup ported, this line of examination. Witness—The total amount was about 6,0001. that passed through my hands from Capt. Laing. I was at school at Mr. Delaware's father's. I saw him at Mr. Steele's election; I first saw him, as I recollect, in company with Bob Steele, at Mrs. Laing's house. In consequence of some conversation that had with Mrs. Laing, I inquired of Mr. Delamare respectin : so visit to Epsom Races; he denied that he had been there. Al most every time I called at Mrs. Laing's, I saw Mr. Delamare there. I heard that he had spoken of me slightingly, and I had a correspondence with him. Mr. BROUGHAM—That was in writing ?—Yes. Witness—ln consequence of what I heard from Mi. Man ning, I determined to kick Delaware, but as he a pp eare d vei l penitent, I only spat in his face.—(Alaugh.)—l saw him w ith Mrs. Laing before the Lord Mayor, where he charged me vitt' an assault. Mrs. Laing accompanied, very showily dressed. Her expences increased with her intimacy with Delamare. delivered a letter to Mr. Delamare at Gibbs's li ver y- s t a bles ; it was dire c ted t o M rs . L a i ng. I know Delamare's hand-writ' ing, and I believe that (looking at tile letter read by Mr. Scar lett) is in his hand-writing. Cross -examined—I invested the money in public securitiegi at Mr. Laing's request. Mrs. Laing has been at my chambers with Mr. Delamere. I remonstrated I believe twice, with Mrs. Laing, as to her intimacy with Mr. D. Once 1 saw her w ith Mr. D. in Cornhill. I saw her in the first instance alone, and remonstrated with her. She went into a shoe shop, and Mr. D• joined her. They walked away, and I followed them. They took refuge again, and I waited for him, and I called him coward. They then went into a coach. Q. Had you not a fortnight before this day made a promise to Mrs. Laing to call Mr. 1). a coward in her presence ? A. No—l said that even in her presence I would call him $ coward ; that is, that even her presence should not protect him. Q. She having said that you had not called him a coward is her presence ; was it not in compliance with a promise that you made her a fortnight before, that you called him then a coward? —That was not the cause of my so calling him a coward. The question repeated by Mr. BRotrGitast—it is a plait thing ; I said, wherever I meet him I said I'll call him a coward' Had not Mrs. Laing told you that he had not been called coward by you ?.__yes; and I then said that he should noti have that excuse, for I would call him so wherever I met him. Did you not say, that if she allowed Delamare to be her mate, you would post him in coffee-houses specified by you I certainly did. Re-examined by Mr. POLLOCK.—I had remonstrated with Mrs. Laing. She told me that he would not allow his nano to be used as I had used it, and I wrote to him on the subject , and I thought he behaved like a poltroon, and I then said I would call him a coward whenever I met him. My reason for in" terfering was,that I had been perhaps her husband's oldest friend. By one of the Jurors.—The 6,0001. was lodged in Govern. ment securities ; it is now in the plaintiff's possession. The letter from the mother to the daughter was then read, and also the answer to it from Mr. Delamare. Mr. SCARLET have now, Mr. Secondary, several letters which I propose to offer in evidence, in order to prove that 119 to the period of the last voyage, the happiness of Mr. Lail* and his lost wife was without abatement. Some of them has written during his last voyage. Mr. BROUGHAM objected to the production of these letters, and The SECONDAItY was clearly of opinion that they could not be received in evidence. To prove the property of the defendant, Mr. SCARLETT then called— William Croggs, a collector of taxes, who lives at Clapham..." He said, Mr. Delarcare's style of was that of a gentle' man ; he kept one horse, but not carriage horses, the 9, being job-horses, he had two maid-s, cant a four wheel ants two wheel carriage, and lived altc:JAicr like a man of wealth and consemiet.ce. Mr. But:er r2sUed at Ingatestane, in Essex, for some time' Mr. Dclamare lived there in the style of a gentleman. . • Cross..ex:ln - lined—ln 1821 and 1822 he lived in Essex • he thentemoved to town, having told me that he h a d m ad e s lucrative coAnect; Mr. Moure kr..,i7 that Mr. Delaware received nearly 500 1 . a-year with his wi:e, and he got some property on the death his wife's sister. This was the case on the part of the plaintiff. Mr. BnouGilAm made an ingenious address to the Jury the defendant. lie remarked on the circumstance that mother of the plaintiff's wife had not been called to give test." mony to their connubial happiness, and on the sufferings of sisters of Mrs. Laing in the Court that day, he made some servations too on the long intervals which occurred between the meetings of the husband and the wife in consequence of Call Laing's occupation. He left the case to the consideration ° the Jury—to their merciful as well as their just consideratioai• They would award a compensation for the civil injury, and a° award vindictive damages. So would they discharge the co w . scientious obligations which their oath this day had imposed 011 them. The SECONDARY, in addressing the Jury, called their 14 ;, tention to what seemed to him a singular discrepancy in itf speech of Mr. Brougham. He had complained in the ea;f i part of his very powerful speech, that the mother had not DTis_ called, and subsequently he had attached blame to the plainci P ' and described his conduct as heartless and unfeeling in Pc ducing so many members of his wife's family. Would it iL , the mind of the Learned Counsel for the def e ndant have `7 O minished that heartlessness had he summoned the mother to give testimony of her (laughter's fate ? The Jury would tan the whole of the evidence into their serious consideration, a°, say, by their verdict, to what damages the plaintiff was reas ° ably entitled for the injury he had sustained. The Jury deliberated for a few minutes, and returned a lr . for the plaintiff—Damages, 2,0001. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the 5 11 ' g OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. D. CARSTAIRS. I I tit ; thi ho V d id b}~~ ko' u r'e fo