The Sun. — London, England, 1827-01-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. !The Duke of Wellington, we understand, has been ar - tually appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Army—an a: - =gement to which we call plead no objection, having a'_ ready stated our belief that no , other individual in th . country was so well qualified for that important office.-- BLit it was not then our intention to recommend that hi Gti.ce should, at the same time, continue to hold th 111aster-Generalship of the Ordnance. If one man be c:- pable of performing the duties of both these high an i powerful situations, then has the public been much di - cetved as to the degree of labour which belonged. to eact of them. For ourselves, we are ready to admit that th,.. separation of the military portion of the Ordnance—that is to say, of the engineer and artillery department—from that under which all other branches of the military force . of the empire are placed, has hitherto appeared to us to be in.': principle au ill-conceived and disjointed regula ' doh. If the duty of superintending both services can be adequately performed by the same chief, there can, of course, be little reason, or none, why that chief should not be the Duke of Wellington ; the single question being atc . to the pr ac ti ca l f eas ibili t y an d a d vantage o f suc h all union. It is understood, that his Grace, in assuming the command at the Horse Guards, retains the Master-Gene ralship of the Ordnance without any share of the salary annexed to it—a prelude, we trust, to the measure lybicil has been hinted at above—namely, the merging: o{' the Ordnance Department in the general 3 tninistration of the Army. It is undoubtedly a 'eery serious, and in our judgment, an unconstitutio7.lA arrangement, that the • Commander-in-Chief, 10* ... him be who he may, should i z hold a Cabinet ofli'le. The beauty of the late Duke of , York's goveriment of the army was, his independ :: dance of 'Ministers. He was a servant, and therefore - 6 !). 014 not consistently be a colleague. He was in trtl.'sted with the welfare of the military service alone, and tould iherefore reply to any political applicant, that he 0 had. no concern with politics, arid would not be influ- timed by party considerations in distributing honour, emo lument, or promotion. We are far from questioning the Duke of Wellington's integrity, or his contempt for sordid and sinister views, in the dispensation of his patronage.-- Bilt if, in his hands, the double business of an executive otcer and a Cabinet Minister be safe from every danger arising out of a capability of corruption, the precedent is not one which it would be safe to establish or to follow ; and there are, on that ground, reasons for hoping that the arrangement which unites the two discordant characters in his Grace, Will turn out to be no more than temporary, —until the balance of power in the Cabinet can be ad justed oenerwise than in his person. One member of the Cabinet, it is alleged, has given strenuous opposition to tite appointment of the present Commander-in-Chief, the Right Honourable Gentleman expressing a desire that the 'Duke of Cambridge should be chosen instead of him.— His Royal Highness is a worthy mall, and is, or has been, in possession, of a clear and useful under standing ; but under all the circumstances known _ .. :to the - public, and from a regard to others which - Islay perhaps be unknown to them, there can now :oust no real question between two such competitors lor an office S 3 delicate and important. The accession of #e Duke of Wellington is looked at by a large portion of military men, with some dread of finding in his general #meanour a striking contrast with that of the late Illus ous Prince. They do not expect to discover in him so *uch gentleness, complaisance, or urbanity, to enjoy such access to his ear, or to receive such marks of sym lathy in their feelings. All this may be a very reasonable Mid well-founded apprehension; for aught we know, and le there may be no incongruity in asserting that the Afite of Wellington will not prove a whit the worse Com- Inander-in-Chief of the Army. That a high public func tionary should be liked and beloved by all men, is not r assential to the honest discharge of his duty, or to the advantage of the state. It is necessary that such a man should be respected and esteemed ; that he should be vigilant, industrious, punctual, discriminating, im 'partial, steady, and just. These are qualities which ``at once benefit the nation, and secure to the in dividual by whom they are exhibited the delibe ; rate approbation and confidence of his country. The Duke of Wellington, so far as experience forms a guide ,to our judgment, is gifted with the official virtues which we have enumerated ; and without the least personal pre deliction for his Grace, it is no more than truth to declare, that we have long and attentively watched him. If his i'inmediate friends feel warmly attached to him for a cordial and unaffected, though possibly a blunt and rough bearing ,towards them in the relations of private life, it is enough for any man to desire. Let him be but upright in his public station, and the army will soon be reconciled to its • new Commander. The Duke of Wellington has intimated verbally to the several officers who acted under the Duke of York, that; if they like, they may all .retain their places, —a permission, of which it is to be hoped that some at least of the individuals affected by it will not hesitate to avail themselves, since among them are gentlemen than whom no others are to be found in any office under Go vernment, who have been better trained, or are more tho , roughly qualified to execute the business of it with entire satisfaction to the public. From Sir Herbert Taylor down wards, they were bred in a kindly school.—Times. We certainly should not have taken the trouble to no- , tice the various opinions some of our contemporaries have expressed on the authenticity of the Archbishop of To ledo's Exposition, which we published in our Paper of Monday and Tuesday, intending to leave the document to stand entirely on its own merits; but we find, in a Morn ing Paper of yesterday, an expression on the subject, that We Cannot pass over in silence. Our hasty contemporary very broadly asserts as follows :—" It is a fact, not less astonishing than true, that notwithstanding we yesterday -proved this document to be a fabrication beyond all con troVersy, yet the Evening Papers, to-night, continue to talk about it as though it were genuine. For their infor mation we repeat, that this Exposition,' as it is called, dated Madrid, December 25, alludes to Mr. Canning's cor rected speech, which speech was not published till Satur day, Dec. 13." This would be important if true, as the 7.y. However, the Exposition does not in the Mr. Canning's corrected speech, which, the " was published on the 13th of December." there in the Exposition any allusion to this ,each ? It indeed says, " that although it [n, as we have been assured by our own re .er, that he has since made a public retracts ; passages of his insidious andalarrnin g Speech, ;his passage, what allusion is there to the cor .? It is Avell known that the day on which .ras published in the London Prints, viz. Dec. the Foreign Ministers, whose countries were by it, as well as others among the upper made a great clamour, and many passages, confidently reported, were not liked or ap some of the Members of the Cabinet. Im- Sterwards, it was announced to the public, ithority, at-ft corrected speech was preparing is, and the motive became a topic of general as the correctio n was a task which could olve on any other Person than the orator the political circles, viers mixed, the report particularly those in twas current, that the ...c1 retracted some things he had said, or had been made to say; and in these same ci rc l es i t was at tempted to attach blame to the Reporters of the public p a pers. What diplomatic explanations might have been , given on the subject we do not p retend to say : b ut i t is very natural for a Spanish or French Ministe r , agent , or individual, anxious that words pronounced in the heat of debate, and, perhaps, coloured, or indistinctly heard, should not be taken in the extreme sense in which they unauthorisedly appeared in print, to have put in such a 'caveat, when, besides, he was supported by the current re port. of the day, nay, perhaps more. The Exposition !says, "it appears certain, and so it was considered in London, in the political circles, the first, second, and third day after the speech was reported in the public prints; and the fiet.mat confirmed from the moment a notice ap peered that a corrected copy was preparing for the press. All this, with the greatest ease, could have been known. in Madrid on the 22d. The notification of any intention to print a corrected copy was a kind of satisfaction in the eyes of the Spanish Ministry, and the Archbishop alludes to no particular proof; he speaks of the " retractation" as a subject which had been discussed in the Council, and as showing the orator's displeasure and intentions. Hav ing said thus much on the assertions of yesterday, we will revert to what our contemporary calls his proof of fabrica tion" beyond controversy," as published on Tuesday. The Journal in question very kindly informs the public, that the exposition was manufactured in England, because it was a document reserved for the Portfolio of Ferdi nand : how then, he asks, could it fall into the hands of the CArcnicle's Correspondent ? We answer, the same secrecy is not observed in the public offices in Madrid as in other countries. The Archbishop, besides, had been induced to present this Address, and was joined in it by others, therefore the obtaining a copy was not attended with insurmountable difficulties. When nations are go verned by a party, as is the case, at this moment, in Spain, and after many convulsions have occurred, it is very na tural for men of weak nerves to have confidents, and to be, in some Measure, compelled to make them the depo sitariee of their inmost secrets. The Archbishop, as well a 8 1 . 1 . ; ,s Master, must have them, and if he doubts it, a peep into the ing's camarilla, or the Archbishop's study, would soon put the matter beyond question. Who, then can answer for the fidelity of all these confidents, &c. in Madrid—that is, among 'Clerks, Secretaries, their wives, &c. the former of whom have not had, perhaps, more than one quarter's pay for the last twelve months ? Our contemporary next augurs that the document cannot be genuine, because the language in which it appears is too good for a translation. This may he considered as a com pliment to the translator, but it cannot be taken as a proof of its not being genuine. The immense length, as well as the difficulties of the original, not arising out of the lan guage or terms used, but rather the extremely small and close hand in which it was written, independent of the abbreviations, and in many places requiring the aid of a magnifying glass, rendered some of the pas sages towards the close of the portion published in our Monday's :Paper, less perfect than we could have wished. In a few of the last paragraphs, justice was not done to the original, and the only excuse Ive can now plead, is the pressure of time. It is said, that the phrase, " big wigs," as used in the accompanying letter, " looks very English," meaning, no doubt, that it is not a Spanish phrase. We thank our Contemporary for this trait of erudition; but if he will look at his Spanish dictionary for the word wig, and then to his Spanish grammar for the rule how to form an augmentative termination, he will find that an adjective is not required to express the size of the wig formerly worn in Spain by Counsellors, &c.; and almost any Spanish novel will convince him that the term in Spain is applied exactly as it is among us. We shall conclude by saying, that we cannot see what the biogra phical sketch, by which the exposition was introduc ed, has to do with the contents of the• document, or whether it was a piece got up on an emergestcy. The life and deeds of the worthy Prelate happen to be well known to us, and many interesting traits of his religion: and political creed we could have added, if there had been room. Nevertheless, we cannot ourselves swear that he either wrote, or signed, the paper in question, yet we can affirm, and with full confidence, that the insinuations of its having been written by any "clever Refugee," on whom he could lay his hand, is not only ridiculous, but false. The document came through the regular channel into our hands, in the original Spanish, and we are well satisfied for the best of purposes. Spaniards of the highest eminence pronounce it to be the language and style of the present Archbishop of Toledo, and every one confesses that it is a perfect picture of the policy by which King Ferdinand is at present actuated; and we ourselves venture to add, that if he were now to publish to the world a manifesto, it would be no other than an echo of the Archbishop of Toledo's exposition ; and a manifesto has, for some time, been expected from him.—. Morning Chronicle. The different Quarter Sessions which have just con cluded, have presented, in most instances, an appalling in crease of offenders, amounting in some instances to double and treble the usual number. Of ,course, great part of this must be attributed to the local circumstances of the country, which have thrown so many persons out of em ploy. Of the prisoners for trial, in most, if not all, the agricultural counties, a considerable number were for of fences against the Game Law ; but these bear no propor tion to the multitudes which crowd the country gaols and bridewells under summary convictions—for such are the absurd and disgusting distinctions which these laws produce in our far-famed jurisprudence, that while a known London thief shall be tried at the Old Bailey by a Jury, found guilty of some serious offence, and fined, perhaps, a shilling, or imprisoned a fortnight, a man for catching a hare shall be doomed to three mouths' imprisonment and hard labour without trial—and that, perhaps, by the very owner of the hare himself, or by some convenient friend or hanger-on (a Reverend one, mayhap), whom he has got placed in the commission for the purpose. At the Hampshire Sessions (a county in which the horrors of the system are nearly as pregnant as in Wiltshire), the sub ject attracted marked attention in various ways. The Visiting Justices, in their Quarterly Report, through the Chairman, Sir Thomas Baring, deplored the great num ber of offences of this description which thronged the prisons ; the Chairman of the Sessions, Mr. Pollen, in his Charge to the Grand Jury, rang the same doleful knell ; the Grand Jury, on their discharge, re-echoed these com plaints; and lastly, the Reverend Chaplain of the Prison, has preached and published a discourse on " the conse quences and unlawfulness of poaching," which we have no doubt was highly edifying to his hearers. But what, we would ask, is all this, but a useless, solemn mockery, if the Noblemen and Gentlemen of England do not open their eyes to the inhuman, brutalising effects of this horrid Code, and if they do not rid themselves of this disgrace, and their hereditary possessions of the danger, which are every year increasing upon them ? What a farce it is to hear gentlemen deploring, on these occasions, the evils they themselves are prediacing ! and what a useless, par tial labour it is, for the clergy to preach repentance and contrition to the tempted, while the tempters are allowed to enjoy in silence the fruits of their, morally speaking, much greater fault ! We trust that Parliament will not have met another day without this urgent and alarming subject being pressed upon its attention. We trust that fresh returns will be immediately moved for, of the number of persons who have been convicted and prosecuted since the last returns were made. We believe these returns have hitherto been deferctive in one striking particular— viz. that they have only comprised those who have been actually imprisoned, wholly omitting the very many who have paid the fines to avoid imprisonment—and that often by the sale of the few articles of household furniture and wearing apparel which they and their families possessed — and all this lest a pheasant should be legally and openly sold in Leadenhall Market by the side of a turkey ! though, laying aside the openness and legality, it is per fectly well known to every man that the one is just as easily obtained there as the other. We repeat that we look with shame and sorrow upon the con ti nuance o f so unjust and demoralising a system, and view with disgust the hypocrisy which affects to deplore, while it takes no means to alleviate, so manifest an evil. Poaching is, we know, generally the forerunner of other c r i mes ; th e poacher is generally the worst character in his village.— But is it always certain that the man who has made him so is much better ? nor that he who, for a selfish enjoy.. ment, can consign his fellow-creatures by hundreds to the dungeon, and whole families to ruin, can have a heart much more to he admired or envied, than that of his ig norant, his tempted, and unfortunate victim ?—Horning Herald. The Times, finding, from repeated experience, that its attempts t o v ilify the Lord Chancellor hurried it always into ridiculous blunders, and a betrayal of disgraceful norance, has lo ng a bstained from the dangerous topic.— Hoping that its past errors had fallen into oblivion, it re lapsed on Tuesday into its ancient sin, and mustered cou rage enough to try once more to vilify what it calls " the detestable Court of Chancery." Whether the reproach was meant for the Judge or for the Court we do not know : and yet this is a point on which they who blame should always be precise ; for the two, the Judge and the Court, though confounded into one abstract ideal exist ence by libellers, must be kept distinct by all who honestly hope to be useful, either by pointing out defects, or by suggesting improvements. The system, when put upon its trial, must stand upon its own merits, and must not be allowed to shelter itself under the learning and virtues of the Judge. On the other hand, it is not to be respon sible for his failings or errors; nor is he answerable for those defects which arise from the institutions he is to ad minister. But whether the venom was intended for the Chancellor or for the Court, the silly malice of our con temporary is equally ridiculous. If he meant to say that the Chancellor was a detestable Judge, he will not find a single individual who will not pronounce him to be in a raving phrenzy. If he meant to apply the reproach to the system, every person of sense will tell him, that it is as foolish to talk in such terms of a matter upon which he is profoundly ignorant, as it is indecent to insult the highest of our tribunals with language so gross. The oc casion which called forth the virulence of our con temporary, seems to have been very dispropor tioned to the effect. The Lord Chancellor had long since pronounced judgment in a cause, but the par ties had not had the benefit of it, as their Solicitors had not been present. This having been communicated to his Lordship, he had again gone through the pleadings ; and on Monday morning, he again stated what his judg ment was, in order that a note of it might be taken down by the Registrar. Mr. Hart and Mr. Home, who had been Counsel in the cause, though they did not recollect on which side they had been engaged respectively, con curred in expressing their acquiescence in his Lordship's judgment—and this simple circumstance it is that renders the Court and the Chancellor detestable ! The Court and the Judge, forsooth, are to he execrated, because Counsel forget the circumstances of a cause within a short time after they have argued it. It may be deemed very wrong in Counsel to forget a cause, as soon as they have performed the duty for which they are retained. But this sin (if sin it be) must be imputed neither to the Judge nor to the Court. The Counsel themselves must bear the blame; and that blame, we apprehend, they would fini little difficulty in throwing upon nature, who has so framed the human mind, that the particulars of transactions, which are attended to only for a particular purpose, make a very slight and transient impression on a memory, the vigour of which is, in every successive hour, devoted to a sucsession of new matters. If our Courts are to be detestable until Mr. Scarlett, or Mr. Hart, shall be able, at a moment's notice, to recollect the facts of all the suits in which they have been concerned during the preceding half year, there is, we fear, little chance of re medy.—New Times. Amteraileallestaoy eas Herald says, ' But where is I corrected Spo appears certain sident Ministe tion of various &c.;" yetin ected Speech lle . SPeech wi 3, some of tb inost affected classes here, it was very proved of by inediately aft its if from nut for the press ;conversation, scarcely devc ;himself. In which foreign 'Minister had LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, WEDNESDAY, J AN. 17. WELLESLEY V. THE DU EE OP BEAUFORT. (Concluded from our paper of-yesterday.) Mr. HART then rose. In the course of the' remarks he in tended to offer to the Court, he should carefully abstain from in dulging in any invectives calculated to affect improperly the character of any individual who hadlitherto come before it. He should state the evidence as fairly as he could en one side and on the other, and should then call for the deliberate judgment of his Lordship as to the side on which the preponderance of evidence rested. Whether he should call it perjury, or a mere contradic tion of evidence, was perhaps immaterial ; but this he must say, that the evidence of the gentleman on which this application rested at first, had been proved to be false, not by the contradiction of other witnesses, but by the impossibility of reconciling the vari ous parts of it with itself. He had supposed that on the former discussion they had entirely done with the testimony of that in dividual. His Learned Friend (the Attorney-General), who always conducted his case with great discretion, appeared to en tertain the same supposition ; but his Learned Friends who Lad followed on the same side, had dispersed themselves in all directions over the affidavit of that individual, with the evident intention of so bewildering those who had to answer them, "as to render their answer unintelligible. He, therefore, thought it the best to take up the case ab initio. His Lord ship had asked for explanatory affidavits. Instead of explana tory affidavits, new affidavtis had been filed, and he admitted that those affidavits would disqualify Mr. Wellesley from hav ing the care of his children, if his Lordship should think that the affidavits which Mr. Wellesley had sworn on the 2d, 6th, and 28th of February, 1826, ascribing that all intercourse between him and Mrs. Bligh had ceased, were not borne out, but contra dicted by facts. From watching the steps of Mr. Wellesley with the utmost diligence, and he might even say vindictiveness, the other side thought that they had got up a case to prove tl.at Mr. Wellesley had either sworn untruly as to facts, or evasively and fraudulently, so as to mislead the judgment of the Court, the intercourse between him and Mrs. Bligh having only been sus pended for a time to be resumed hereafter. Now, if it were true that Mr. Wellesley had sworn in this manner, he deserved to be subject to all the censure which every man deserved who had sworn to what was true in letter, but false in substance. He should contend that there was no contradiction whatsoever to Mr. Wellesley's affidavits. He would prove from the evidence of the other side, not only that the intercourse between Mr. Wellesley and Mrs. Bligh had ceased at the time when those affidavits were made, but that Mr. Wellesley had endeavoured to terminate it for months, he might almost say years, before. The LORD CIIANCELLOR—Is there any affidavit on the part of Mr. 'Wellesley, stating that the connexion between himself and Mrs. Bligh had ever ceased ? Mr. Ham—Yes, the affidavit of the 20th of February. The LORD CHANCELLOR—No. That affidavit merely says that;,he has not seen her, and has not openly or clandestinely.car ried on adultery with her. Such an affidavit by no means affirms that the connexion between them had ceased. Mr. Ha RT said that he had spoken with too much latitude when he observed that the connexion had entirely ceased ; but he had been led into it by the observations of his Learned Friends, who had always argued as if Mr. Wellesley had sworn so. They had talked much of the courageous interference of Dr. Bulkeley. How was it that this interposition was never mentioned in Mrs. Welles ley's narrative? The LORD CHANCELLOR—One of my reasons for asking whe ther Mrs. Wellesley's letters were admitted to be genuine was, that in one of them she states her great obligations to Dr. Bulkeley ley, fey the protection he afforded her against the intrigues of Mrs. Bligh. Mr. HART did not know how that might be, but was aware that no mention was made of it in the narrative. He would, however, state once for all, that many things were stated in her letters which were not the emanation of her own mind, and that several essential parts of the narrative had recently been found to be suppressed, which led them to doubt of the genuineness of some of the letters. He would, however, show from Dr. Bulke ley's own affidavit, that Mr. Wellesley had endeavoured at a very early period to abstract himself from Mrs. Bligh. Here the Learned Counsel read that part of Dr. Bulkeley's affidavit, in which he relates a conversation between himself and Mr. Wel lesley at Florence, in which Mr. Wellesley had told him be must get rid of this b—h, and had fabricated a letter to enable him to do so. After condemning Dr. Bulkeley's conduct, in con structing a fraudulent l etter on th e suggestion of Mr. Wel lesley, he proceeded to show the absurd improbability of the story which the Doctor told, commenting with great se von each parag rap h:i n t h e Doctor's affidavit. In allud.. in eity g r to that part of the affidavit in which the Doctor states, that considering it might be fatal to Mrs. Wellesley and her children to cross the Alps at the time mentioned in the fabricated letter, be advised her to throw herself on her brother-in-law, the Ambassador at Florence, and leave her husband to journey by himself, the Learned Counsel said that Mrs. Wellesley's answer to this proposal proved that Mr. Wellesley had not treated her in that brutal manner described on the other side, for Mrs. Wellesley said that nothing should in duce her to quit her husband. It was evident, therefore, that she would have risked any danger rather than separate herself from the husband of her affections. The Learned Counsel con tinued to comment upon Dr. Bulkeley's affidavit, and then said, that he should now more particularly confine himself to the single point which he had before hinted at, namely, that from Dr. Bulkeley's own showing, it was the anxious wish of Mr. Welles ley that the connection existing between him and Mrs. Bligh should be broken off. He said, that from the whole of this part of the Doctor's affidavit, a very strong inclination to repentance, if not repentance itself, might be inferred. He then com mented very strongly on the manner in which Dr. tulkeley, a mete dependant en the family, had interfered between Mr. and Mrs. Wellesley. Matrimonial broils, which would, for the moot part,' end, after a little scolding, in mutual forgiveness, wee not unfrequently rendered fatal by the interference of thitd persons. The Learned Counsel then traced Mr. Wel lesley and his family to Paris. Here, again, Mr. Wellesley wit* followed by this unfortunate lady, Mrs. Bligh, who clung to i him like ivy round the oak. Mr. Wellesley left Paris fori Utrecht, to which place also she followed him ; and here he must beg leave to draw a line of distinction between perseverance in a good resolution, and that firmness of nerve, not to say bru tality, which would have led a man to shut the door in any wopian's face under such circumstances. At this very time Dr. Bulkeley was still employed as the agent who was to fix Mr. W. in his resolutions, and bring him back to his wife. For this purpose he followed him to Utrecht, from whence Mr. Wel -1 lesley departed in his company as privately and secretly as possible, and yet Mrs. Bligh still followed him. Here it was but justice to that unhappy lady to state, that her attachment to Mr. Wellesley must have been of something more than a pecu niary nature. After referring to several other parts of the affi dasit relating to the unfortunate disagreements between Mr. W. and his wife, Mr. Hart alluded to Mr. W.'s residence at Calais, and to the arrangement which he made for establishing Mrs. B. there, in order to get rid of her, and Mr. W.'s immediate depar ture for London. He came, said the Learned Counsel, immediately to London, in pursuance of his plan and determination ; but here again she followed him, and we next find her in a hotel in Pic cadilly, not living with Mr. Wellesley, but using all the means in her power to get into communication with him. She had come alone, leaving her child and all her property behind her. Was it at , all improper, or at all unlikely, that Mr. Wellesley should say to her, " If you won't live at Calais, you had better settle in some house here." Some persons might say that Mr. Wellesley ought to have said—" You shall live in Calais ;" but there was abundant evidence to prove that there was a degree of violence and wild resolution about that lady, to thlvart which required an effort which few men could muster.— The learned counsel had treated of these preliminary steps in order to prove the bona fides if Mr. Wellesley ; and he would now willingly meet the affidavits by which it was attempted to be proved that the illicit connexion between these parties was carried ort in York-street. He would first call the attention of the Court to the affidavit of the immaculate Aire. Scott. He called her im maculate, because he had learned that she was AO by the gratuitous information of her husband, who was a journeyman carpenter, and de-Scribed himself as a gentleman in his affidavit. That gentleman's information upon the point of his wife's character, reminded him of iwhat Sergeant Davy once said to a jury on a similar occasion. Gentlemen," said the Sergeant, " it was only the ass, who when he saw his long ears flapping behind him, fancied that he had horns ;" Providence had kindly ordained it that beasts which naturally had horns, should have them situate so far back on the head that they could not themselves see them. The Learned Counsel then commented upon Mrs. Scott's affidavit, and particularly on that part in which she confessed that for the first six weeks after Mrs. Bligh went to York-street, she did not go out at all. Now, it would be found that Mrs. Bligh west to that house in February ; so that the six weeks would bring us into April; and the testimony of the watchmen, who de posed to their having observed that lady return at these unseason able hours, immediately, or very soon after she came to the house, was not worth much. Besides, if it were true that the connexion between Mrs. Bligh and Mr. Wellesley was so public that all the servants and four watchmen knew of it, to what purpose was it that Mrs. Bligh disguised herself, and went to brothels with Mr. Wellesley for secrecy? Mr. Hart then observed upon the question of depriving Mr. Wellesley of his children. He said that if it had ever been laid down as an axiom in the law of England that a man for simple adultery was incapacitated from taking care of his children, then he (Mr. Hart) was free to admit that Mr. Welles ley had no claim to his. He did not stand up there to vin dicate the morality of Mr. Wellesley. Few persons— few even of his learned friends around him would stand pure in the eye of his Lordship, if all their past private affairs were laid open. The Learned Counsel then went on with the affidavit of Dr. Bulkeley. The doctor, said Mr. Hart, de posed, that he was called in as a physician to attend Mrs. Bligh, and here the doctor gave, as he (Mr. Hart) thought, very gra tuitously a great deal of information, which most professional men were in the habit of holding sacred, and which answered no purpose of justice. The doctor stated that be went on to die perse what he supposed to be her disorder when he first saw her, but having received several messages from Mr. Wellesley, he went to him, and was informed by Mr. Wellesley that Mrs. Bligh greatly apprehended that she was with child ; and then followed something, which he (Mr. Hart) would not read, about her husband's inefficiency. The doctor then went on to state, that after he had attended Mrs. Bligh a short time, he told Mr. Wellesley that she was a very dangerous woman to have any thing to do with, and that after a few days he discontinued his visits. Now he (Mr. Hart) must say that he thought Dr. Bulkeley was the first Physician who had ever discontinued his visits to a patient on account of any other danger than that of not getting his fee ; or who relesed to take his fee on account of danger in other per sons. He was quite sure that it was not so with lawyers ; many of his learned friends around him often had to do with dangerous persons, but they always took care to keep themselves out of the danger. The LORD CHAVCELLOR said that was because there was so much certainty in the law, and so little in physic. Mr. HART then went on to read that part of Dr. Bulkeley's affidavit which stated that Mrs. Bligh had said to him that she should be ruined if she had not something to procure a miscar riage. What! said Mr. Hatt, a married woman ruined if she had not something given her to procure a miscarriage. Dr. Bulkeley then deposed that he said that it was the duty of his pro fession not to destroy, but to save life ; on which Mrs. Bligh re plied—" Doctor, you had better see Wellesley, and then you will perhaps be of a different opinion." The Learned Counsel liked that advice well. Mr. Wellesley had a mode of inducing the Doctor to form a different opinion, which he should not mention, but which it was very easy for any body to imagine. Mr. Wel lesley used that mode, and the Doctor changed his opinion. He called again, he said, on Mrs. Bligh, to save appearances. She then asked him whether he had seen Wellesley, when, to quiet her mind, he told her that he would. So that the Doctor in that in stance, as in every other, objected first, but assented afterwards.— He says that when he left Mrs. Bligh it was quite dark ; but that as lie went home Mr. Wellesley saw him, and stopped him. Now this was extremely odd, as Mr. Wellesley was, it appeared, in his carriage at the time. The LORD CHANCELLOR reminded Mr. Hart of what Mr. Pit man had sworn on this point. It corroborated the statement of Dr. Bulkeley. Mr. TaxsLovx observed, that it appeared from one of the affi davits, that the place alluded to by Dr. Bulkeley, was one of the best-lighted places in Naples. Mr. HART then alluded to the parts of the affidavit in which the Doctor swore that both Mr. Wellesley and Mrs. Bligh con fessed to him that they had been criminally connected with each other on Mount Vesuvius. Why should they do this ? That Mr. Wellesley might make such a confession from vanity was just possible, though he swore positively that he had never made it ; but that Mrs. Bligh should spontaneously come forward tudestroy her own reputation, was a point which to hiin was completely in iceoymspeorehnedouscitb,lew. hic H h e b n e e c x o t nd a e d m ve n rt ed ed in to m a os po t u rt n i m on eas o u f re D d r t . e r n Bu — e - They had been told that Captain Bligh had thought it necessary to challenge Mr. Wellesley for dishonouring his bed whilst at Naples. Mr. Wellesley refused that challenge. He wrote a letter to Captain Bligh, stating, " If you will fix a quarrel on me on any other ground than that which you have chosen, I will readily meet you ; but if I accept your present chal lenge, it will fix the stigma of guilt upon your wife. You suspect your wife unjustly, and I will not give yon the satisfac tion of shooting me through the head, because by doing so I shall admit her guilt." His Lordship would be surprised to hear that a copy of that letter had been transcribed by Dr. Bulkeley, and had been delivered by him to Captain Bligh, to satisfy him that his suspicions were unfounded. What would the world think of such 1 1 conduct? Was Dr. Bulkeley the willing agent of Mr. Wellesley, in instilling such a falsehood into Captain Bligh's ears ? That such a letter had been written no one now ventured to deny. The Learned Counsel then referred to that part of Dr. Bulkeley's-affi davit in which he states, that Mr. Wellesley made an affidavit be fore the British Consul at Naples, that he had not been criminally connected with Mrs. Bligh ; that Mr. Wellesley told him that he had shown it to his wife, who was so satisfied with it, that she bad resolved to tender her protection forthwith to Mrs. Bligh, as an injured and ill-used woman; and that both before and after that time Mr. Wellesley admitted his criminal intimacy with Mrs. Bligh, and spoke of her as an abandoned woman. Now he would ask whether the statements in this part of the affidavit were credible, taken by themselves? Next, he would ask, whether Dr. Bulkeley had ever remonstrated with Mr. Wellesley on the impropriety of making such an affidavit after the confessions which had been made to him? Now, Mr. Wellesley had sworn in contradiction to this averment, first, that he had never made such an affidavit as Dr. Bulkeley mentioned ; and secondly, that he never showed any such affidavit to his wife. Dr. Bulkeley had said that Mr. Wellesley told him that Mrs. Wellesley tendered her protection to Mrs. Bligh in consequence of that affidavit. What did Mrs. Wellesley herself say in a letter, at the time, to Sir R. Church ? She asked him for Mrs. Bligh's address, saying that she had only heard of Mrs. Bligh's leaving her husband's house the night before —that she wished to pay her first visit to that lady without mentioning it to Mr. Wellesley, and that her reason for acting so was, to prevent an ill-natured world from saying that Mr. Welles ley had influenced her at all upon the subject. Mr. HART then proceeded to show the manner in which Mrs. Wellesley's suspicions of Mrs. Bligh's propriety of conduct were first excited. Capt. Bligh, on hearing of Mrs. Wellesley's visit to Mrs. Bligh, wrote to the former lady, stating, that he had dis covered the latter lady intriguing with Mr. Wellesley : that he considered her no lon g er as his wif e , b u t as t h e m i stress o f M r. 11 Wellesley ; and that was ready to submit to her such proofs of Mrs. Bligh's infidelity as would convince the most incredulous. In answer to that letter, Mrs. Wellesley said, that else was not acting in' the dark, hut that her line of conduct was founded on the conviction of Mrs. Bligh's complete innocence. Now this might he mentioned as a proof that Mrs. Wellesley had too easily a believing mind—for it might be said, that wh en th e proo f s were offered to her, she ought to have looked at them. She deemed it, however, unnecessary, as she had seen a letter written by Mrs. Bligh to her husband, in a tone of great indignation, excited by the manner in which he had procured her exclusion from all respectable English society. That , letter he world now read to the Court. The Loan CnANcELLoa.—We'll begin with that letter if you please to-morrow morning, Mr. Hart. The Court then broke up. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 17. BRITISH ROCK AND PATENT SALT COMPANY. FURNIVAL V. RICARDO AND OTHERS. Mr. HEALD moved for an injunction to restrain the defendants, Messrs. Ricardo, Heseltine, and Barclay, from negociating cert a in bills of exchange accepted by the plaintiff; and also to restrain them from selling certain shares in the British Rock and Patent Salt Company, which had been pledged by plaintiff. The Vicx-CnartcxLnos--You may take the injunction to re strain the negociation of the bills. Mr. HEALD said, that that was all he asked at present. Mr. SWANN hoped that his Honour would allow them to give notice for the next Seal, as the defendants had not appeared. The VicE-CHasoELLott assented. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL. BRUNTON AND OTHERS V. BLACKMORE AND OTHERS. Frederick Brunton and defendants, Hugh Bl ac k.: Wi T ll h ia i m s w a as nd a D n a a n c i t e i l o n p b r y ice, e a ga p i l n a s i n t t t i h ff e s, more and Edward Swan, for an infringement on the patent gran ted to the plaintiff Brunton for manufacturing bonnets of silk and cotton braid. The plaintiffs were nonsuited. SECONDARIES' OFFICE, JAL 17. BURGESS V. MITCHELL. In this case a jury wax summoned to assess the compensation in damages dne to the plaintiff and his wife for the injury they bad, sustained in consequence of the misconduct of the defendant's ser vant, in driving over them with a glass coach. From the evidence adduced on one action brought by the hus band to recover co mpensation for the injury sustained by himself, and On a second action by himself and wife, for the injury sus tained by the latter, it appeared that he is a porter ; and one even ing iu July last, was crossing Shoreditch, near the church, with . his wife, when a glass coach, which was drivlPat vfurious rate, suddenly knocked them down , and went overiiiiiin.` The driver manifested little concern at what had happeneeirai wtrit on. He was, however, pursued, when it was ascertained that the coach belonged to the defendant, who keeps glass , coachei, though in an inconsiderable way of business, near Edmonton. When the defendant was applied to for compensation, he pleaded he was in low circumstances, and unable to pay any thing. f- No defence was now offered in mitigation. The Jury assessed the compensation in damages due to the hus band at 401., and the damages due to the wife at W. SURREY SESSIONS, JAN. 17. Henry Trotman. a r ss es a i ni di t n i g ng at Dockh ea d ; the n the 24th ofJnly l as t, the defendant Henry a Ini C v s t e r t z sa u t ei q ud h tttohhne s ame a t w b a e s wi nstre e t. o indicted baker,f or defendant came into the bakehouse, and wished witness to have some gin; witness refused, and demanded the cause of the de.. fendant's intrusion on his premises. The defendant instantly commenced a volley of abuse, declaring that he would have wit ness's life, and would force him into his own oven. The de fendant then seized witness by the throat, and forced him into, the oven; he was, in consequence, much burned. Mr. Holt, the, surgeon, attended him, and it was not until upwards of font' months that be was well of the burns he had received on his hands and head. agunadinGuilty. Lucy Bridger, servant to the last witness, corroborated his the prosecutor screamed statement. The defendant seized her master by the collar a nd s a m m al i h lc e lo w th a e s s, k a ep tid t t f h o e r r c e ed a h sbta i o m titd in a t prosecutorve a nd shut wri the burnt door, out, which appeared to alarm the defendant, and he let him out; he then struck him several times about the ribs. Mr. Bolt, surgeon, several places, and there was a bruise on his left side. Mr. m AN „ zg , on behalf of the defendant, addressed the Jury that i t a k itn e ut h the o : t at great length, in mitigation of the offence. The CHAIRHAN having summed up, the Jury returned a wet inflicted for assaulting the wife of till diet of Guilty. The COURT sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of 25t. and find security to keep the peace for two years. lastTphreodseecfenutcolia,nat and dafos PO AC IT ER S.—PR ESTON, JAN. 13.--Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, another of those deadly fights, which a rs now so common in every part of the country, took place in the grounds near Claughton-hall, the seat of T. F. Brockles, The keepers having received information that a party of poachers were seen upon the road from Preston to Garstang, made prepa rations to protect the preserves. Having mustered to the number of eleven, they kept watch until three o'clock in the morning, when, as they supposed, they perceived a party of about t en or twelve person s , f o ll o wing their unlawful practices. The keepers immediately rushed upon them, and a terrible conflict ensued, which some desperate blows were exchan ge d on b oth sides. In t h e end, the k ee p ers overpowered them, takin g s i x i nto custo d y, an d captured fire guns. During the affray, 0115 of the poachers fired his fusee, and lodged its contents in the thigh of au assistant keeper named Francis Whitehead. By this discharge the flesh was des— perately mangled, and the hon e sp li ntered i n var i ous places...—. When the men were all secured, an express wad sent off to Pros ton for surgical aid ; and to relieve the wounded man, Dr. Robin son, accompanied by Mr. Walker, of the Dispensary, arrived about six o'clock, and fiiund it necessary to amputate the limb instantly. The poachers were brought to Preston yesterday, and having un-, dergone an examination before the Rev. R. Moore and Mr. Mar shall, were remanded for another hearing this day. They are all, Preston men : their names are Peter Spencer, Thomas Varleyy James Bleazard, William Mawdsley, John Barrow, and William Morland. The remainder of the party escaped. Two of them are badly wounded, and others received more or less injury before they s urrendered.—Preston Pilot. BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., the lady of G. Gregory, Esq. of Gower-st., of a son. On the 12th inst., in Gloucester-place, Mrs. I. V. Thompson? of a daughter. MARRIED. On Tuesday, by special license, at Cheltenham, T. Thistle thwayte, Esq., of Southwick Park (late M. P. for Hants) to Typhena, second daughter of Henry Lord Bishop Bathurst. On the 16th inst. at Tottenham, Captain Hughes, of Hoddes don, to Eliza, daughter of the late James Morisset, Esq. of Brunswick -square. On the 15th inst. A. Wright, Esq. of Waltons H a ll, E ssex , to Catherine, eldest datighter of Simon Seroope, Esq. of Danby_ball, Yorkshire. tt Cheltenham, Tho) On the 11th inst. a.. _ .omas, eldest son of the Hon. E. Mullins, of Cheltenham, to Jemima, daughter of the late Captain W. R. Broughton, R.N. DIED. At his father's house, Plutntree-street, Bloomsbury, in the 25th year of his age, Mr. Andrew Tweeddale, surgeon.—Thie, most promising young man, who was but a very few d a y s pre viously i n the possession of ex ce ll ent h ea l t h, f e ll an unt i me l y se crifice to his over ardent exertions to qualify himself for eminence in his profession, to which he bid fair to be an ornament. On the 15th inst., Mrs. Joanna Lucena, aged 72, only sister' of the late Chevalier J. C. Lucena, Consul-General from the . ' Court of Lisbon. At Compton Gifford, Alexander, the third son of Sir Edward and Lady Thornton, of Wensbury House, in the county of Devon, aged 12 years. On the 16th inst., at his seat, Fairford Park, Gloucestershire) J. It Barker, Esq. a ged 85. On the 9th iast. at Springfield, near Ross, Herefordshire, Re becca Mary, fourth daughter of the late David Bernard, Esq. of Jamaica. Printed and Published by M. YOUNG, at the Svw-Osysoi , No. 11% STRAND.