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eterfle him. 'Mr. 'Phillips was a gentleman whom 11r. Kean 'in his profession, a scholia', a man of extensive knowledge, and called his secretary. Mr. Phillips only remained about half an in short a man M genius; but all this involved his case in hour. Mr. Kean staid all night. I received instructions from greater difficulty, as he was also a public man, and felt deeply Mrs. Cox as to the room Mr. Kean was to occupy. I was or- the calamity of this action, and which made it impossible tiered to make up a bed for him in the room next the drawing- for him to take that line of defence which would entitle him room ;—it was a spare room. When Mrs. Cox was going to, to a verdict. He wished the plaintiff ' t . had thought it proper— rest that night, she told me that when my maste r camel was he wished he had been advised, when determining on the pre to look out of the window before 1 went down to the door.; and sent action, not to have selected, if his object was whathe (Mr. said to me, " For God's sake don't let me be caught !" I was Scarlett) understood it was, to obtain a legal separation from his to knock at the bed-room door when Mr. Cox came; at that wife; he could earnettly have willed, that he had been induced' dom. where Mr. Kean was to sleep. Mr. Kean's servant came not have selected one on whom a verdict of almost any kind the next morning,—it was one of his dressers; he brought a would have such an effect on his future fame, and his very pro- Rote directed to my mistress. spects of holding on in his profession -(peculiar as it was in its. The LORD CHIEF JUST ICE—That was after Mr. Kean was dependence on the good opinion of the world), as on the present gone away ? defendant. Surely one out of the many lovers of his wife Witnes—No, my Lord; -I went .and knocked at his bed- might have been found, on whom a verdict would not have room door; my mistress got out of the bed, unlocked the door been so serious a visitation as on his client. It is on account and took the note; she sent me down to know - who brought it; of this peculiar circumstance that he felt such considerable A came up and said it was Mr. Kean's servant. Mr. Kean was embarrassment in conducting the defendant's case ; for did then lying in bed, and my mistress was standing by the bed -side ; not the Jury feel, that if he were to permit it to be said that she had her gown on, but no shoes. I wa s p r esent o the oc- such a man as Mr. Kean had been accused of a crime against easion that Mr. Cox looked for papers in my mistress's drawers. the . institutions of society—that of betraying his friend and se- I saw him 'find some papers; he found them in a little cabinet duc:ng . his wife—and had then sought to defend himself in a which was in his own bed-room, and which belonged to my Court of Justice, by violating a woman's confidence, that the mistress. This was along time after the above circumstances consequences would not terminate with their verdict, but that had occurred; it was when Mr. Cox lived in Hart-street, and it would follow him through life ? At the same time they after Mrs. Cox had left him; one day after that circumstance could not perceive that Mr. Cox had exercised much skill, took place. care, and he would say cunning, in getting up this case, by Cross-examined by Mr. SCARLETT—I lived with Mr. and which every means of affording information as to the real dm- Mrs. Cox in the capacity of housemaid when I first went into racter of the plaintiff's wife had been kept back, by which his their service ; but for the last 3 years I was the only female Council might have shown what were the actual term,' on which -servant they kept. I did not live with Mr. Cox at the time a those parties lived together, before the intimacy of the unfortu gentleman was found in my mistress's dressing-room; I was nate defendant with this lady of mature age commenced. How with my master when he and Mrs. Cox went to Taunton, was it, that not one individual who knew the early history of which was about eight years ago. I had never seen Mr. Kean these parties—not one common acquaintance of hers, had been at my m aster's house before that time • Mr. Cox had a niece called , to show how much she deserved , and how much t h e living with him ; her name is Miss NViastead. plaintiff deserved from the hands of a Jury this day ? His Lille noise in the gallery of the Court was at this moment so Learned Friend felt, that if the defendant's Council was driven great that the business of the Court was interrupted for some to resort to the only defence in hie power, that of making known minutes, and the Lord Chief Justice said that unless silence the contents of the letters in his possession (and which ne should was preserved he would instantly order the whole gallery to be at once say he did not intend to do) his Learned Friend then cleared, observing, that he had no wish to close the doors, hut gave himself this topic—nthat the defendant, after seducing the that he could not suffer the administration of justice to be dis- plaintiff's wife, and having availed himself of all the communi_ turbed by persons who came there to laugh.l _ cations made by her in the unreserved and unsuspicious confi- The cross-examination then proceeded.—Mr. Cox has a thence of a woman, whose affections he had gained over to him country house at Wandsworth, where 1 have seen Mr. Kean self, comes into Court, for the purpose of betraying that occasionally. The town house was at that time in Little Britain. confidence, and saying—l have proofs within my reach My master and mistress were in the habit of going to the theatre that will show you are not deserving of any damages when Mr. Kean acted, very often indeed : I do not know whe- at the hands of a Jury, for that I can establish your infamy .ther they went into Mr. Kean's box. Mr. and Mrs. Kean both by means furnished by yourself. This was a strong hold that came frequently to their house at Little Britain. It is between his Learned Friend sought for, knowing very well that such .fitur and"five years ago, when Mrs. Kean left off visiting my a course would inevitably do more injury to the defendant's mistress, and my mistress left off visiting Mrs. Kean ; I do cause than even their verdict could inflict. For, however great not' know the reason of their visits being discontinued. After might be the eminence of Mr. Kean—however conspicuous his this my master and mistress used to go to the theatre as be. powers—transcendent his genius, and however much might be fore, and Mr. Kean used to come to their house as usual. It his fame, yet all depend upon the favour and estimation of the ';P:A4 three or four years ago that they went to live in Welling. public ; and we were not living in an age when the principles ton-street. Mr. and Mrs. Cox used to accompany Mr. Kean into of morality were relaxed, or the virtues of domestic life dis the country when he went to perform at the provincial theatres ; couragcd. We all knew what was that public, how its feelings Miss Wickstead used to go with them on those occasions. I were in accordance with the higher principles of our nature : „remember on one occasion their going to Croydon, it is about and that it would not countenance or connive at a gross viola twotion of those principles by any man, however splendid might be years ago. I remember the circumstance of being sent for Mr. Kean'is servant at the house where Mr. Kean lodged. Mrs. his talents or universal his fame. The Jury would observe the 'Cox sent me ; it was about three o'clock in the morning. Mr. caution of his Learned Friend in conducting the cause; so Keen came to their house at ten o'clock the night preceding ; , great was that caution, that he preferred to leave the case here, incomplete as it was, rather than call a he came in his own carriage ; I cannot say that my master was with him ; I was not gone to bed at that time. Mr. Kean's witness to speak to the fact, which he would have the Jury to carriage was at the door when I went to call his servant. When act upon. He would have them to infer what he ought to the servant came, my master and mistress, Mr. Kean and have proved, and to give him the credit for all that he had failed to establish by evidence. But lie (Mr. Scarlett) felt '..Miss Wickstead, all set out for Croydon. Mr. Kean drove the con carriage, and my master, mistress, and Miss W. went inside; fident in saying that the Jury had not a right to inter that any .my master came back again the same morning between six and one of the letters which had been put in by his Learned Friend, seven o'clock. My mistress and Miss Wickstead remained be - and read, was addressed to Mrs. Cox. His Learned Friend hind. Mr. Kean did not return with my master. 31 y master might have called some person to prove that some of these let went down to Croydon again the same night , and on the next ters were addressed to her. But no, this he had not done: and day all four came back to town. I mean my master and mis- the .lury were left altogether to conjecture, to matter of infe rence, and to take it as a fact, that letters addressed to Mrs. tress, Miss Wickstead, and Mr. Kean. I do not remember .my master coming home late one night with Mr. Kean when Allen, to " L. 8.," and to " Mrs. Little Breeches," and many of them unsigned, were addressed by Mr. Kean to Mrs. Cox ; my mistress was in bed. Mr. Kean came by himself two or three times in the course of the period when they lived in and this his Learned Friend had declined doing, in order to Wellington-street, and called them out. drive him to do so, that he may revel at will in a reply. But Here the noise was renewed in the gallery by the pressure of had it been proved that any one of the papers now pro the crowd, and by persons outside endeavouring to get in. His duced were found by Mr. Cox in the cabinet that was never ,lordship looked towards the spot whence the noise proceeded, locked ? No, not one of them was found there, and yet and said something in an undertone about sending the sheriff the Jury were to infer from the pretty maid's testimony— to. do his duty. Mr. Scarlett replied to him, also in an under - she who went into her master's dressing-room early in the tone, that it was occasioned by the interesting nature of the morning, when he had his gown and cap on—they were to - cause, and of the anxiety of the people to hear it.l ' infer that all these letters were found in an unlocked cabi net, and delivered up to Mr. Colas, tied with red tape— The cross-examination continued.—When Mr. Kean called 31r. Coles, who sued out two writs on the same day for a we were all in bed. My mistress once on those occasions got similar cause of action, at the suit of the present plaintiff'. •uo ; my master got up on each of the times that Mr. Kean liut it was not only not in evidence that Al r. Cox ever did called so late. I don't know whether, when my mistress got lint! these papers in Mrs. Cox's cabinet, but there is the up, she joined Mr. Kean's company ; I never went into the strongest grounds for believing that he never did ; for if he ..earlour on those occasions. I was not desired at any such time had, would he r.ot have called this maid-servant of his, anti to prepare supper. Mr. Kean remained there. when her mis- said to her, " Here, take notice, here are letters which . 1 have tress got up, till the next morning ; it was about one or two discovered in your mistress's drawer, and which fact you may .a'clock when he came to the house. I do not remember my be one day called on to prove; therefore take notice that such mistress getting up more than once; my master sat up with Mr. l etters were found by me in such a place on•such a day !"-- . Kean the remainder of the night whenever he called. It was Such would have been the plaintiff's conduct had the -letters in the winter season when my mistress went to Croydon, but really been found by him, as he would have the Jury to infer. .I do not know whether it was in .January. I do not remern- But pray what right had any one to call on a Jury who sit in ,lier that on the night when they went to Croydon, and when- inCourt of Justice on their oaths to give a verdict accordingen . Mr. Kean came, that my mistress came down stairs in her the evidence—what right had any one to call on .such a . night-cap, and ordered me to get a supper. She was not in body to infer that certain letters were addressed to Mrs. .her night-cap, that I am certain of, when she ordered me to go Cox, when no evidence was adduced of that fact-; but that to call Mr. Kean's servant. It was in Spring, 1823, when they every thing lie spoke to the contrary to be the case? Ile • went to Salt-hill. during the time my master livenerlrelling- would admit there was one letter addressed to Airs. Cox ton-street. Mr. Kean hail slept in the house three or four times where there occurred a quotation which he should think a -• before the night on which he went to Croydon, and when my man of Mr. Kean's taste would not have quoted twice to master was at home. He had also frequently slept in the house .the same But t lady. the J ury were told that this -woman, h - at Little Britain after the visits of Mrs. Cox and Mrs. Kean who was cunning enough to delude her husband for years, and had ceased. On the occasion that Mr. Kean slept there last, to impose on him an opinion of her fidelity that would admit of 'my mistrs certainly did say to me, " For God's sake don't no suspicion —this woman who had gained such an ascendancy let me be caught." I suspected what she was about, but I did over his mind as to lull asleep every faculty of common vnot know any thing of my own knowledge, nor did I ever watchfulness and prudence, that yet she was silly enough to know it from my mistress. I have seen Mr. Kean and leave all these precious documents, whose value were now eeti - Mrs. Cox alone together, not often, about two or three mated at some hundreds of pounds by the plaintiff, in a cabi times ; I did not think there was any thing improper net that was never locked. Ilis Learned Friend had put in a then ; I grounded my suspicion upon the letters that letter addressed to Mr. Cox by Mr. Kean, making some ante.. • used to pass between them ; I never did suspect my mistress sion to what had passed between them at Salisbury, and he before Mr. Kean slept there : she was always very cautious, bad put in another letter which he said•was addressed to Mrs: particularly after Mr. Kean became intimate with her. I Cox on the same day, apprising her that such a letter as the may have said that I thought one or teo men were quite former had been written to her husband, and that she was to sufficient for my mistress, but it was very latterly indeed that act in acquiescence with its contents. But what was the effect . . • I said it. I did not say it immeOlately after I discovered my of this ? - His Learned Friend had placed himself in this predi westrese with Mr. Kean. ',now Mr. Watman ; he was my cament,—that of exposing his client to the fill P icion that these master's clerk ; he had. been clerk about a year and a half or l etters h a d b e l ong k nown to hi m, if addressed to his wife, or, two years; my master was a bankrupt when he lived in Little if not addressed to his wife, that he had obtained them from same . Britain ; he was a gold-refiner at that time. Mrs. Cox left my other source, in order to make up this. case. His Learned Friend master ir. April last, and I have not seen her since she left the had said this, that he was to have the benefit of the Jury's good- , • house. My master was in the house when she left ; it was in natured conjecture, that these letters were addressed to the wife the morning when she went from the house, but I do not exactly i of his client ; knowing that the only- means the.defendant has . know the hour. Miss Wickstead accompanied her ; Miss of meeting the contents of those letters, is by an act that would Wickstead returned after being absent about a fortnight. It incur more injury to his name than any consequences that may was the day after my mistress went that my master searched flow from this action. Upon this account lie could not, nor . for the papers. Miss Wickstead is now with her uncle, I was he authorized to betray one single letter from that lady. my master. It wee early in tie morning when my master • Whatever might be his fate, or however serious the effects of looked for the papers. I went into his room with some hie forbearance, he could not forfeit his honour by betraying the - -warm water; my master was in his dressing-gown ; I did confidence of a woman, and for this honourable conduct he not stay long in the room. My mistress often went out in must claim at their hands the benefit of that abstinence, and the evening when my master dined out; very often ; and she that they would view with the strictest scrutiny the proof that . stayed out sometimes till ten o'clock, and sometimes later; t h e l etters now rea d were ever a dd resse d as contendedfor. In Miss Wickstead has occasionally gone out with her, and some- this determination he (Mr. Scarlett) thought Mr. Kean did - times she went alone; my master used to dine out very often. right, and in his sentiments upon that subject he so fully con • I have certainly known my mistress to stay at home of an curred, that lie would add his earnest prayer that they would • evening when my master dined out, but she more frequently not suffer these letters, under such doubtful circumstances, went out, and that too as soon as he was gone. When she re- to weigh upon their mines without every inquiry as to whom they . turned, she used to conic to the door alone. This took place ~, they y e a c tlr e esshtl ; an . d, if addressed to Mrs. Cox, at what period while Mr. Cox lived in Wellington. street. I do not remember Air. Kean making my mistress a present of a horse. I never into his possession. If these were the letters addressed to the plaintiff's wife, how came it that Mr. -saw Mr. Kean give my mistress any money. I never knew a Common Sergeant did not prove it ? —why he would tell - Sit James Somebody (Kemmis) drive my master and mistress them why. It was som e ti mes conven i en t f or 'Counsel to leave into the country. _ their Case,: so threadbare of proof, and to rest so m u ch upon infer- Re-examined by Mr. Co st eto x SvotoEANT... - Who kept ence, because were they to r e so r t t os t r o nger ev id ence , th e y wou ld, r the key of the cabinet where the papers were found ? It was at the same time, furnish to the defendant's Counsel ample never locked. 1 do not know when my master became a bank- mater i als for a d e fence out of the very testimony that a cross rapt. I had no reason to know thartny master was aware that examination would extract from their own witnesses ; sad, - rev mistress had ceased visiting Mrs. Kean. Mr. %%Tatman ta i eretnre. to guard against this, the plaintiff's Counsel had used to pay his addresses to Miss Wiclettead ; he was re- here lett his case upon conjecture. But one fact, however, was cei vett in the house as waiting on that lady as her suitor. not a conjecture; the worthy apothecary, up to the time he vi . This .was the plaintiff's case. sited Mr. Cox as a friend, swore that he always observed the ' Mr. SCARLETT rose to address the Jury on behalf of same kind and affectionate attention on the part of the bus _ the defendant. He said he addressed them, with consi- band to the wife as he ever had done, arid this was very re derable embarrassment, on -the part of his client. He cently indeed. When was it that Mr. Cox knew of this was too well acquainted with the nature of these causes, correspondence ?—no precise time had been stated; that also and he trusted he was too sensible to what belonged to was left to -conjecture ; but. if he intended to go to a higher j his own character , e ver to attempt to estify or palliate the tribunal, and expected to obtain a divorce, he must show the --- conduct which had been imputed to M r. Kean. Whether precise time when hie suspicions were first excited, and that, on hi s L ear n e d Friend was correct when he said the morality of that awakening suspicion-in his mind, he immediately pursued the times was more relaxed than in former days, he could not , a course consistent with the feelings of a ma n who was jealous decide; but he was himself-inclined to think, that the morality of his honour and anxiou s t o s t an d r i g h t i n t h e e y es o f th e of t hi s age was as good as any that has gone before, and that world ; f or it would not d o i n t h e H ouse o f L or d s to s t a t e the sense o f pro priety on the part of the people, as regarded ' the matter in so vague an d l oose a manner as to requ i re thein • dont to elle several relations of domestic life, was as a wide and liberal stretch of presumption and inference for the strong, notwithstandi. ng thelrequency of the actions, and of the purpose of making out hie .caeo. He hoped the Jury would . circumstances which these actions exhibit to the world. But he novae • led to infer, that all that was hid would, it known, be , bad another opinion,- and that opinion he should give without favourable to the plaintiff* and prejudicial to the defendant. any reserve, and begged the Gentlemen of the Jury would bear This was a strange course for Juries to be called upon to it along w ith them in their coirsideration of this case; it was adopt. His Learned Friend had told them that Mr. Cox was this—that when a plaintiff came into a court of justice to ask a the friend and patron of Mr. Kean; that he had held out to nowmpensation in damages for the injury he has sustained from him a leading hand, and h a d spo k en to hi m t h e c h eer i ng lan reawilince like' this:. and which bffence all mankind must con- guage of hone; but what proof was there of this ?—not any, ' der; then the question assumes a very different shape, and it and he denied the fact, for it was-well known thatit was 13 years is not at all mixed up with morality, but depending altogether since this celebrated man started, as his Learned Friend had • anion circumstances t so d the damages should be measured be justly said, into that fame which other men were doomed for , the amount of injury he had sustained. His Learned 'Friend hail years to climb to; and it was not for several years after that Mr. ,ndescribednlire K. ass a mew who had attained to great eminence, • Kean becatneucquainted, with thuplaintiffottd.his ,family, for the young woman who lived in the family 11 years never saw" Wants of Mrs. Cos, and it appeared that the servant knew them Mr. Kean in her master's house 'flit the 4 first years of her sea- well ; and, under these circumstances, it would be for them to vitude. It would, indeed, be most base and treacherous, nay say, what money should be taken from the pocket of Mr. more, it would be ungrateful and unnatural, if his client, hay- Kean. He (Mr. Scarlett) had so far showed the Jury what ing been patronized and protected by the plaintiff, had turned manner of woman Mrs. Cox was, and he was desired by his round, betrayed his friend, and seduced his wife. This cone , client not to add to the dishonour of Mr. COX, or to the wrongs duct would have been a gross aggravation of damages, and of Mrs. Cox, by the production of her letter*. If the plaintiff's would have justly exposed his client to the detestation of all Council had not indulged in statements which he failed to .honourable men. But let Min e however, look to these said prove—if he had not introduced violated faith, betrayed confi 'letters that had been so much dwelt upon, and make a corn- dente, abused hospitality, he Cllr. Scarlett) would not have call ment or two upon them. •It was very plainly perceived that, ed a witness. But now he must adopt another course. He was whoever was the writer of them, there had been inspired in his obliged to call witnesses to prove almost that Mr. Cox had of . bosom a-very strang affection towards the individual to whom fared up his wife at the shrine of Mr. Kean, to do with her as they were audressed_an affection, too, of a nature far different he pleased. In his private box—in his private dressing-room— from that which an illicit connexion was wont to create ; for his habiliments such as modesty ought not to see—what could what was the language of one of these letters ?—ln one of them .be the meaning,of taking a married woman to such places ? the writer complained of .a visible change in the tone of the Why, the answer was perfectly obvious. It was said that letters he received from the object of his affection : that the the plaintiff was a distinguished man, that he had filled city simple style of writing iti which her letters used to be given, offices, that he was an Alderman; but, making every allow was changed to the slang of coquetry, and that they contained ante for even the most Btrotian dullness, no man could be so matter which to a common observer, was very different from blind as not to see that in pursuing such a mode of conduct, that of love :—" I begin to find," said he " that your's is he was throwing his wife into the very jaws of danger.— passion, and not love.; there is a coolness which tells me that Here was the' defendant, who had exhibited the passions your heart is no longer mine." Now, if Mrs. Cox was the on the stage to a degree of , great perfection ; here was a person to whom that letter was addressed, he would ask the titan with address and manner to captivate and enchain a wd- Jury whether they did not think that a little daylight had be- man of much cooler temperament than Mrs. Cox; here was gun to shed itself upon the writer's mind, which had been so a man to whom she at all times seemed devoted, anti yet did long felt by others ? Suppose that Mrs. Cox was fixing her the plaintiff lead her to his dressing-room ! Could any man affections upon another man, why might he not infer that shut his eyes to the consequences of such familiarity ? But, she was deceiving Mr. Kean as she had already deceived on the other hand, suppose that he (Mr. Scarlett) should fail in her own husband, and that she was proving herself to be a establishing collusion, and that a verdict must pass for the plain more consummate actor than Kean himself? But to whom tiff, was it, he asked, a case for two thousand pounds damages? were those nocturnal visits p a id by the woman Mr. Cox No, no. He trusted to their moderation, for he thought the so highly values ? not certainly to Mr. Kean on every occasion, question wosid be, whether the verdict should be for twopence and yet every time Mr. Cox went out to dinner, she as reeu- or two shillings. The other side hare left the evidence which larly and invariably walked out, and remained from home for they could give incomplete, and he was therefore bound to sup some hours, and then returned late at night, unaccompanied by ply it, however reluctant the parties might be to come forward. any friend, male or female, to her home. A very strange sort Before he sat down, he begged leave to say, that Mrs. Cox of wife this? one whom he should think a man would be very might have deceived her husband, but after repeated detections glad to get rid of. He ventured to address himself in this case he could not set up a claim to large damages. 31r. Kean slept to the Jury, not without a very sanguine hope of obtaining their at the house of .Mr. Cox ; he entered it at every hour of the verdict. lie said a sanguine hope—for it would not become a night, and in every condition; what was all that but an invite defendant's Counsel to speak more confidently, especially when tion to him ? Why, even the very night before he went to he came with his defence from the plaintiff's own family. But America, he slept at Mr. Cox's, though having so large and the whole complexion of the facts adduced in evidence was of respectable a house of his own in town. Under such circum such a nature, that he thought no Jury could contemplate them stances, he was fully satisfied the Jury would agree with him, without feeling the strength of the plaintiff's claim on them that it would have been wiser, more honourable, and more dis weaken more and more at every advance. The Jury had heard of dee, if the plaintiff had avoided an inquiry like the present. Mr. Kean's visit on one occasion at the house of the plaintiff; James Newman examined by Mr. Ilitonoit A H.—l am he could only getat one of them, and that one was very material. Mr. Kean's dresser at the theatre. I have seen Alderman and It appeared that he called at the house in Wellington-street Mrs. Cox there repeatedly. It is furnished in the usual way, very late at night, and that Mrs. Cox got up and let hint in.— with a sofa, chairs, &c. I have seen them there while Mr. They had heard of Mr. Kean's carriage coming to the door, Kean was dressing. I have seen this for the last five or six and staying till three o'clock, and then Mr. Kean's servant years, before Mr. Kean went to America. I have seen him with being sent for ; on whose arrival Mr. and Mrs. Cox, Miss a pair of silks on during their presence, which fitted him as Wickstead, and Mt. Kean all go down to Croydon together. tight as his skin. Sometimes he has had a flannel waistcoat on The Alderman returned to town on the same morning, leav- when they were there. They were several times in the dressing ing Mrs. Cox and Miss Wickstead under Mr. Kean's protec- room while Mr. Kean was dressing. Mrs. Cox has sometimes tion. Why this was very strange sort of intercourse ! lie come alone, and sometimes with Miss Wickstead. I never would say, that if any man felt disposed to do this, to take his saw a servant with them. I have seen Mr. Kean take off his wife and niece out of town, and return himself ; leaving them own clothes and put on his theatricals in their presence. He under the care of a male friend for all one night, that great care has been undressed to his flannel waistcoat. These silks are in should be taken that that friend was not an actor, because, of tended to represent the natural flesh. Sometimes Mr—Kean told all other men, they were, from their peculiar profession, more me not to admit Mrs. Cox, and I have prevented her on different capable of wielding a fascination and a power over a female occasions. I have seen the Alderman and Mrs. Cox in Mr. mind, that would, if permitted, lead its possessor on the most Kean's box. They merely used it when they came to the unhappy consequences. God forbid he should say there were not theatre. Mrs. Cox was almost every night there. After the men of that profession as high in moral principle as they were play Mrs. Cox has been with Mr. Kean in his room, and the splendid in talents, and who were as capable of adorning and Alderman with her. 1 have seen Mrs. Kean in Mr. Kean's doing honourlto all the relations of social and domestic life box, and on those occasions Mr. Kean had another box for as those of any other class, however exalted : he did not mean them. I recollect their going to Croydon in the night, about to say any such thing, - for he knew there were men of that one o'clock. Mrs. Cox I saw there the day after, the Alderman profession, all over the world, whose characters were as great having returned to town. I took money to Mr.f Kean. He as their names were glorious. But still the habits, studies, played that night at Croydon. Mrs. Cox was at the play, near and pursuits of an actor, afforded him facilities which other the stage box. men had not, of winning upon the sensibilities of the female Cross-examined—l belong to the theatre, and was appointed sex, and of working as destructively .upon a woman's heart as Mr. Kean's dresser about the year 1816. The Alderman was the power of passion and poetry united ever produced. But so one of the Committee at the theatre, but Ido not know if he highly did he think of them as men of honour, and so peculiar were the most active individual, nor if he had a private box. I was their profession, that he would go a step further, and say, have seen many gentlemen visit 31r, Kean in his dressing that an actor was not the man who makes the first overtures to room, but not many ladies. I have been several times at the a married woman ; it must come from her, for he feels so well residence of Mr. Cox, but Ido not recollect any particular oc that the very first time his dishonourable attempts were rejected casion, nor that I was in a bed-room. it would not only ruin hint in that person's family, but it would Re-examined—l do not think Mr. Cox had a private box destroy his prospects in the world, and deprive him of all his when he used to visit Mr. Kean. well and hard-earned theatrical fame, however exalted it might John Steward examined by Mr. PLATT—Do you recollect he. It was impossible therefore to conceive that any man with taking a letter with money to Miss Wickstead ?—Yes. the knowledge which Mr. Kean possessed, and with the stake When was that ?—I cannot say precisely. • that he had to risk, would have sought to have brought the consequences of this day's proceedings upon himself. But Do you know the amount of the money ?—Certainly not; I he would request the jury to look back at the journey to know nothing about that. In 18'22 I was a private box-keeper Croydon, and reflect upon the conduct of the plaintiff on at Drury-lane Theatre, and down to 1024 I attended the box that occasion. Under such circumstances for a man to thrust No. 4, which was kept fur the friends of Mr. Kean. I have seen his . wife into the Inunilsenf a celebrated actor, if it was not an Alderman and Mrs. Cox there repeatedly. Once or twice Mrs. act of collusion, it was an act of greater folly than he should Cox came there alone. The Alderman came once alone, and I ever have thought arty Alderman of London to be guilty of asked him if any one else were coming, when he said yes, that Mrs. but, although lie had made allusion to Aldermen, lie did not Cox would come, as she was then with Mr. Kean. Sh e after mean to say that they were distinguished for any peculiar folly wards came by a passage under the stage. This was one of the from other men ; yet he remembered to have read somewhere, ni g hts when Mr. Kean and Mr. Young played together. that, in the reign of Charles 11., it having been reported that Miss Anne Wickstead was called by Mr. SCAILLETT, and_ London was going to be fortified with horns, a wit remarked, after a delay of some minutes, she appeared. that he supposed the Aldermen were going then to lay their Examined by Mr. SCARLETT.—I am the niece of Mr. Alder heads together. Much had been said about Mr. Cox being the man Cox, and have lived with him for some time. lam now 28 friend and patron of Mr. Kean, and of his introducing him into years of age. I remember a journey which weall took some years notice, and being, as it were, the first mover of his future fame; ago, and also Mrs. Cox fainting at the theatre. Mr. Kean play_ all this was erroneous ; he would tell the Jury when it was eel that night : that may be ten years ago. We were in the stage their intimacy commenced ; that it was not when Mr. Kean was box. Mrs. Cox was take out, and conveyed to Mr. Kean's performing at an obscure country town, in the company of strols dressing-room. As soon as she recovered she went home. My ling players, but at a time when his name had attained the uncle called upon him next day to thank him ; he also invited zenith, and was known to the world as• a consumate tragedian, a him ; before that time there was no acquaintance between them; scholar, and one fitted to adorn the highest walks of life. The after that, however, they became intimate, and the families first time the defendant ever KaW eine Cox was a t th e theatre at visited for about three years after. I don't know the cause of Taunton. A lady had fainted during the performance of Othello , its discontinuance. I don't recollect that Mrs. Kean said and Mr. Kean being on the stage,used everyexertion tbr her reco- she would discontinue her visits to us. My uncle after that very,and on the next day the plaintiff waited en Mr. Kean to thank did not visit Mrs. Kean, nor Mrs. Kean at my uncle's. him for his attentions on the preceding evening. An inter- My aunt began to frequent the play-house when she lived course now commenced, and Mrs. Cox went almost nightly to in Little Britain. We very often went to Mr. Kean's box, the play, and was seated in Mr. Kean's box. She was also and also to his dressing-room. My uncle only went once repeatedly in his dressing-room; this was repeated almost alone. After we went to Wellington-place, we used Mr. K.'s nightly. Highly as Mr. Kean stood as a n actor, he could box. Mrs. Kean did not then visit at our house. I never remem not still be insensible to the applause and admiration of a ber to have received a letter from Mr. Kean, containing money; lady. Time strengthened the attachment, and neither Mr. nor if I did, that it was for the use of my aunt. When Mr. nor Mrs. Cox could live without the defendant ; he slept in Kean was going to America, I believe he paid Mrs. Cox's their house whenever lie thought proper, and Mrs. Kean had ex p ences f or h er j ourney to see him off. We went before that told them that the intimacy which had so commenced must to Hampton Court, where we stopped some time. We went and would end in wrong. Night after night Mr. Kean to Bermingham about two years ago, to join Mr. Kean. My was at the house of plaintiff, and h e mus t h ave seen that uncle was with us; we were absent for a fortnight. I knew the period would arrive which did, at last, unfortunately come. that my colleen went in search of us, though I did not see him. He (Mr. Scarlett) would not attempt to apologise for the mos My uncle asked no questions about the journey. I remember ral wrong of his client, far from it; but looking at the visits, our going to Salisbury about two years ago. We went to the periods at which they were made, the encouragement Windsor before that, and stopped there some days. Mr. Kean given by the plaintiff to the defendant; looking at the stimu- joined us there. My uncle and aunt travelled in Mr. Kean's lents which were so copiously admini s t ere d, th e r e was not carriage. We remained in the town of Salisbury for a fort one man in five thousand, nor perhaps in five millions, night. Mr. Kean paid the expences. The attentions of Mr. who would have resisted the temptation. The drama was now Kean to my aunt were very remarkable both in and out of coming to a close, and the letters show that the defendant doors. Mr. Kean has come very late at night to supper, had not the same wishes or feelings as Mrs. Cox who had when my aunt was in bed; I recollect no occasion on which resolved to sacrifice family and honour for the gratification of she got up to see him. I was then in bed myself. Mr. her unhappy passion. The long course of levity—the long Kean has come to our house at all hours—sometimes at three course of familiarity exhibited by Mrs. Cox towards the defend- or four o'clock in, the morning, and was always admitted. ant, could not be unseen by the plaintiff; Mrs. Cox offered to On these occasions he slept on the sofa. My uncle after make every sacrifice for him ; she was willing to leave her breakfast, went out to business and returned in the evening. home—her friends—to bury herself in so lit u d e with him ; and Mr. Kean remained in the interval. We went to Croydon in what was he to do ? Every man, at some time or other of his the month of January 1815, but I cannot say whether it was life, was led by a predominant passion ; in this case love, as before or after we had been at Salisbury. My uncle and Kean in most others, predominated. Mrs. Kean's warning had no often sat up late together at supper. We reached Croydon by effect; her jealousies were of no avail ; and the refusal on her day-light i n th e morning; Kean played that night, and my part to receive the visits of 31raand Mrs. Cox were disregard- aunt and mself went to the theatre; we passed that night at ed. Still they went to the theatre—to Mr. Kean's box—to his Croyd on . I reme mber the day appointed for Mr. Kean's going dressing room • and he now asked to what amount of damages to America, but 1 cannot say if he slept at our house on the was such a plaintiff entitled? He (M r . Scarlett) would call night before. I know Mr. Kernpts ; he was introduced to us witnesses to prove that this statement was not overrated, for by a cousin of Mrs. Cox ; at one period my uncle desired lie he was aware that he could not do so without exposing his sh ou ld di sc ontinue his visits; this is some dozen years ago; client to very considerable d a n ger . I n th e summer of 1820 Mrs. Cox told me something about a servant and that gentle , Mrs. Cox went to Birmingham, on a visit to Mr. Kean.— man, and after that time he did not visit us again ; I remem- Mr. Cox dispatched his son after her, an d w h a t measure b er t h at my unc l e was out till 6 o'clock in the morning, a quer did the plaintiff pursue afterwards ? What precaution did lie rel with my aunt was the result ; 1 know that letters passed take ? He took her back to his bed without inquiry. Her con- between Mr. Kempts and my aunt. duct with Col. Pearson was next the topic of animadversion by from your own observations I ask you, if, at the time we the plaintiff; but with that it ended, although the plaintiff's jealousy was rather sensibly exhibited. During all this time, are speaking of, your uncle did not see what was going for the assiduity of the defendant continued unabated; and if he ward, and express his displeasure at it ?—My aunt told me Ithat nothing improper had she took her oat (Mr. Scarlett) could prove, as he was instructed he could, that . nen pts. after the discovery of Mr Watmatfa illicit commerce in April, D j o you know where Mrs. Cox now lives ?-1 don't know. the Alderman and his wife were seen walking arm in atm to- When did she leave your uncle's house ?—ln April—l be gether, and that after this action was brought ! if lie could have the second week; she went to Dover; she came back, prove that, he had a most sanguine expectation of a verdict for and then went to Norfolk. I know a Mr. Pearson, and my the defendant. Whether the object of the plaintiff was to get uncle never objected to his visits, neither did lie object to the money from Mr. Kean, or procure a divorce in consequence of visits of Mr. Kean. I have seen Miss Tidswell in Mr. Kean's the adultery of Mr. Watman, he could not say, but this he could say, that he had brought actions against both. The letters were Is she not an old lady, his aunt ?—Yes. diseovered in April—tbe box was opened—the wife was gone— dressing-room. the Alderman was subsequently s een w ith h er , a nd there went Have you made other visits to Croyden ?—Yes, often. My uncle has left Wellington-street, and we now live near the Park off the divorce. If the plaintiff then knew of the conduct of the in Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square. I have heard my uncle defsndant before that period —no man who had his eyes open say he would make Mrs. Cox an increased allowance if she could avoid seeing it; if there were connivance or collu would give up the acquaintance of a Mr. Watmen. sion on his part in any way—then away would this action go like the other. If this were th e case , w h a t damages could the Cross-examined by Mr. Common . SERGEANT-111r. Wat plaintiff be entitled to ? Would any Gentleman of the Jury man visited our house, on the ground of paying his addresses like that his wife should act as Mrs. Cox had done ? or would to me. I remember my uncle's marriage, and I never saw a they think themselves entitled to large verdicts if their conduct more affectionate couple. I gave no hint to my uncle, because had been like that of the plaintiff? He (Mr. Scarlett) could I thought he was so very fond of Mrs. Cox. I don't think he not help saying that a very strong presumption of collusion had the least suspicion of what was going forward with Mr. existed in his mind. Now, a word or two with respect to Mr. Kean. %%Tatman. That gentleman visited the house of the plaintiff Re-examined—lf your uncle saw a man in her room, could under the plea of courting Miss Wickstead; but, as the event she make him believe it meant nothing ?—I don't know. proved, he was indulging in an illicit intercourse with Mrs. Was your aunt very artful ?—lt appears now that she was. h Cox. They had the evidence of the servant woman as to the James Parker examined by Mr. 8a01:G1i.4.11.—1 have lived as servant with Mr. Cox tor eleven years. li do not recollect having any disturbance about a lap-dog. Cross-examined—During all the time I lived with Mr. Cc% he and his wife lived very happily, as far as I could see. Upon making the discovery of the letters my master went away, and I went with him. My master said that he could scarcely be lieve such a thing. lam sure he knew nothing at all about it. Re-examined—l knew Mr. Watman. I brought letters to him from Mrs. Cox. I told my master, and I got one letter for him. After this my mistress remained in the house, and master went away, and remained away till Mrs. Cox left the house. There was nothing about Mr. Kean before that letter. Daniel Hendley, a door-lieeper at Drury-lane, has often seen Mr. and Mrs. Cox. He saw them walk together in the month of June last. I gave her the wall in passing. This was be tween 11 and 12 o'clock in the day. • Cross-examined-1 live in •Hungerford-market. I saw Mr. abd.lllrs. Cox walk.together in the open day, before all the, world—any one could have seen them. I cannot tell her com plexion, as she had a veil on. I have often seen her at the, Theatre. James Parker (a man of colour) was recalled, to state the l size of Mrs. Cox; and he said she was a good size, about as tall as himself.—( Laughter throughout the Court.) Mr. COMMON SERGEANT, in reply, first begged leave to . observe, that nonian living could believe the story last told by the box-keeper ' nor was any thing offered in evidence to weaken the case he had stated to the Jury. From the first to the lasts the conduct of Air. Cox WAS what that of any man of honoer would be. The discovery of Mr. Watman's affair threw lbeht upon the whole subject, and the inquiry led to the painful dis closures of this day. Mr. Cox had acted the part of a humans man as well as a man of sense. Upon finding his dishonour, he left his house ' • his wife remained there for a week, and then was settled in Norfolk-street, where.she now resided. A great deal was said about collusion, but where was it proved ? Ile un dertook to say, no where. Mr. Cox was not altogether hiden . - less, for if he had been active and diligent, this injury might rit have taken place. The letters from Exeter were evidently - rs' production of the defendant, however addressed. This Ilene , : lover, this sentimental actor, had, forsooth, been delicate, era he had not shown her letters. And why, because he wished the inference to be the stronger against her. No letters, in fact, could be as bad as the calling evidence out of the bosom of the plaintiff's family. Mr. Cox here threw down the gauntlet-- he challenged inquiry—and he was met by testimony from hie own relations. This was the manly delicacy, as Mr. Scarlet called it, of Mr. Kean. Mrs. Cox was an artful woman, and no doubt succeeded in practising on the feeling and good nature of her husband. Kean's letter to Mr. Cox might be considered a denial of guilt; but Mr. Kean was the last man who should have held out a friendly hand while he was undermining the peace, the happiness, and conjugal felicity, of the plaintiff' and his wife. In fact, this letter, denying his guilt, and declining the friendship of the too-confiding husband, was only written with a view again to share the bed of Mrs. Cox. Too gene rous, indeed, to produce her letters ! Yes, butat thesame time Mr. Kean was attempting by every means to blacken her: character, and add a deeper dishonour to the plaintiff: The , Jury had heard of the affair of the closet and Sir B. Kenimis now he (Mr. Denman) would be very glad to know who gave the attorney for Mr. Kean that fact ? To be sure, Mrs. Cox. She knows the story of the dug and the maid servant. Mrs. Cox, no doubt, gave all the information, which it was impose . sible to obtain from any other quarter. Upon that occasion. Airs. Cox swore to. her husband, that she was guiltless, though suspected, and he again took her to his arms. The moment' the slightest suspicion was excited, the plaintiff spoke to hie wife, and her visits in the suspected quarter were instantlj discontinued; and exactly so would it have been in the case, if the plaintiff knew what was going forward. Veil often, however, as the Jury must know, the power of the. wife was greatest when she was disabusing her husband of hies suspicions as to her fidelity. When the protestations of the, wife were backed up by the defendant's letter of the 6th o f January, it was impossible for him not to be again reconcile& to her. The Jury were next told the story of Newman, the dresser of Mr. Kean; and certainly he (Mr. Denman) must admit the imprudence of the plaintiff in taking his wife to such , a place, or, indeed, in allowing her so often to frequent the theatre ; but, nevertheless, was Mr. Kean to have a licence to. make free with every man's wife who went to see him a t the theatre ? Certainly not, distinguished as he was by a geniues which, well directed, would make him an ornament of Illk profession even in the present age. Upon comparing the. dates of the letters, the correspondence would be found to hail existed, at all events, since the year 1820 ; and, for at least well years Mr. Kean had had the full possession of the mind as well as the person of Mrs. Cox ; for as to Mr. `Tatman, he had only followed the breach which Mr. Kean had made. Whl then should that young man have been selected for punish' meat? He had found her mind and habits already vitiated* and it could not be the least poignant aggravation of Mr Kean'' conduct, that while so seducing her he must know it would end in his throwing her upon the world. He, as a married m an, should have felt for that—he should have considered that lie found these persons happy, and that he left them ruined. Thd player should have no peculiar privilege, because lie was 0, much before the world, or because his geniu s h a d obtains(' him•so many admirers. In fact, there were reasons why he , should have been more cautious. He should have thou g ht Of the conduct of those great and irreproachable men, who shed a lustre on the profession, and the age in which they lived'. He should have imitated a Garrick and a Kemble, who never' 'betrayed the confidence reposed in them ; or of some of this,. living ornaments of the stage, who were incapable of having that imputed to them, which he was grieved to impute le Mr. Kean. He (Mr. Denman) greatly admired the talent , of Mr. Kean, and lie repeated, that he looked with the med. sincere grief at what were likely to be the results of this day. Mr. Kean, however, had chosen for himself, and unwisely, as well as inhumanly, chosen to expose his oie l, family, and that of others, to harrowing misery and suffer'' ing by his misconduct. The plaintiff did not ask for damage , in his situation as a Magistrate, but for his suffering as an inciv vidual. His happiness was broken, and that of his unhappy wife lost for ever. For such injuries he expected damage!" Miss Wickstead, and the servants, proved the state of happy ness in which they had lived, before Mr. Kean had visited d their house, and he (Mr. Denman) called upon the jury to die' . charge their duty, and hold out an example to the country Ib9 . so doing. With respect to the money alluded to, the fact Wa s that Mr. Kean paid the travelling expences of Mrs. Coi she went to visit him. No wrong inference should be drawn from that, and it would be• worse than idle to infer any thing like collusion from the fact of borrowing and immediately re' paying a few pounds. There was no proof of any warning having been given by Mrs. Kean, beyond the, ere gossic, amongst the servants. With' respect again to the ignorance 0 ! the plaintiff, as to' the dishonour which ,was almost daily pray rising upon him, there was the letter of defendant himself , than which nothing could be stronger. That there was gre . ,se negligence - on the part of the plaintiff, he (Mr. Denman) would not deny; but not such negligence as to justify the slighted inference of any collusion. The plaintiff did not seek for monelt but to vindicate his character ; he did not call for large tia' mages, but for such an award as was due to friendship violated —to abused confidence, and the total loss of an object of long and fond affection. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE recapitulated the leadingpoinle of the evidence to Jury, and left it to them to say, if criminal intercourse had been proved ; for if it had, and no blame was imputable to the plaintiff, then he was entitled to their verdict. They would next have to consider whet a had been proved in the defence, and ascertain if the pr oof of carelessness amounted to what was stated as connivance*. —lf there were connivance on the part of the plaintiff, he could not be entitled to a verdict, for, if a man look quietlf on at his own dishonour, he cannot come into a Court of JOY tice and look for a reparation in damages. Besides the charge of,connivance, it was urged for the defence, that the negligeOcl of the plaintiff' was gross in the extreme, even after he ha! quite enough to excite the surprise of any reasonable mat"' Negligence was not denied on the part of the plaintiff; it was insisted that it was not a guilty negligence, and 0.. that, as going to reduce the damages, the Jury were the best judges. Another point was raked for the defences namely, that the plaintiff was seen walking with his wife 11/ the month of June last, and that was also offered with a view l e reduce the damages. But it appeared to hint that the witnetie might have been mistaken ; for certainly the letter of the de, fendant, dated the Pith January, taken together with the whole of the conduct of the plaintiff, negative any such conduct on his part. However, the Jury had heard the evidence on boll sides ; they had also heard the statement of Counsel ; and I they believed there was no connivance on the part of the tiff, and that a criminal intercourse were established, the plain' tiff would be entitled to their verdict ; and they would, 13° doubt, award such moderate damages as would satisfy the justice of the case. The Jury consulted for about twenty minutes, and returna l with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages EIGUT HUNDUS I:I •POTINDS. The Court did not rise until half-past 6 o'clock evening. HORRID MunnEn.—News reached Windsor or Saturday of a murder committed by a farmer, 01 the name of Shepperd, residing between Draytot and Uxbridge, who, it is said, murdered his fici children, the eldest, a daughter, 18 years of age and the youngest 18 months ; after which he pit an end to his own existence by cutting his throat He was a widower.—(Times.)