The Sun. — London, England, 1804-12-04 00:00:00

J' U.~ TTIIVG\ 'n Monday sennight Sir MARK K S i b hounds tried Major Torsi Am's plantations around the 'Vold Cottage, but did not find till they reached Mr. Li.. Arto's plantations, when a Fox broke cover, and went over the Wold in a very gallant style; but being headed by some farmers, who were coming to join in the chase, he went into a plantation above Wold Newton, where he was killed. Above so horse: men were in the field, and, what is more singular, not above one farmer, though they were in Martin. ' VMS spirits, was thrown from his horse, or rode over by another. -After leaving M.ijor TOPHAM'S plan tations, Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND'S Covers at Boyn ton were tried, and two foxes were found, but with. riot affording any run. Lora M I DDLETON, Sir MARK ByKra, and a very large assemblage of Gen- Ilemen, were of the party. On Friday the z3d ult. Colonel THORNTON'S lap-dog beagles met at Langtoft (a charming coun try), had 'two very fine runs, and killed without a check. A pack of hare hounds were out within a ' mile or two of them, but they found the scent so bad, that the owner said they could not run at all : the air was certainly very frosty. The diminutive size of the beagle' hounds caus es them to bring their noses so much nearer the scent, and being chosen from all the worst scenting countries, may account, in some measure, for the advantage they seem to have. A Buck of the first head (kept up a year on old corn) was turned down at Falconer's Hall, as the Hart had been before ; and though all the pains were taken to dash the mettle of the hounds, they, after, *Worst of about ten miles, caught a view of him. He topt unfortunately Ganton Warren, and though every exertion was made to save him by a field of the best mounted and must anxious sportsmen, yet in attempting to leap the warren wall he fell, and, as the hounds were all in a body, he was instantly torn to pieces. As soon as the horses had recover ed their wind, the company were indulged with a . run of the lapdog beagles; and they then gave, as they have done hitherto, universal satisfaClion. MODERN FURNITURE. tiftAwlNC.ltoot.t CHAnts, &c.—The newest fashion is after the Egyptian style, the backs re. ambling a scroll, which extends over after the Manner of the Grecian couches; they are stuffed in the centre, and, are aurrnounted by an enriched tablet. The elbows are all made very full, with an tasy sweep from the top, and are supported by - 'whole.length .antique chimeras, or female figures. The seats D i these singularly elegant and unique Chairs are thinly stuffed, to contain a very thick eashion. The frame of the chairs are a mixture of 'bronze, or or.mnulu ; the coverings are of crim. ton, or black velvet, after the style of Mr. Ttics HuTE's splendid mansion, in Dutchess.street, but then they .are enriched by very beautiful specimens of needlework or embroidery. PIER TABLAS—Are of statuary marble, inlaid with gold ornaments, richly chased, and supported by a single tomb or leg ; the latter idea is taken from the model of those found in the, ruins of Her. culaneum. Lungs' WORK l'AuLus—Are made upon the same principle as the latter article, but upon a smaller scale, with tops to imitate marble, ornament. ...td with bronze, or or.innuln feet. The fisltionable shape is oblong, after the antique. THE TMEATRE.—The fame of Master BITTY naturally attrafted another crowded audience last night to Covent-garden Theatre, when he made his second appearance in the part of Arbeet. We have nothing to add to the favourable accounts which we yesterday gave of this extraordinary youth. He fully confirmed our high opinion of his merits. He displays a degree of judgment much beyond his years. His conception of the part is just, and his execution spirited and i nterest i ng . H e was more ' in possession of his voice, and there was greater variety in his tones. In one respect his titling was better than on the former night, for there was more eppearance of affection towards freer, but it was judiciously mingled with, and subdued by what he conceived' to be his duty to himself and to his coon. try. We shall not employ ourselves in the invidi ous task of animadverting on what we consider as errors in his siding, ,because we have not yet had an opportunity of observing the extent of his powers, and because he presents beauties sufficient to demand the tribute of admiration. Mrs. LITCHFIELD I n acquitted herself very ably in Zaphira.— HARGRAVE was more successful in Barbaroua than on she former night. The audience obviously dial i not treat CORY with their usual liberality ; possi bly a sense of the ludicrous might strike them from a comparison Of his figure with that of Little BET. Ty. CORY, however, returned their unkind le, lily with an humble deference, that turned their feelings into a more generous channel. It should be mentioned, to the credit of the Managers, that they took efredual care, by an addition of Peace Of. hers and Guards, to prevent any riotous excesses 'without the Theatre, and to secure the places with in from violent intrusion. 'LLISTON made his second appearance last night at Drury -lane Theatre, in the charader of Hamlet, befute a much larger 'Audience than could reason ably be expated considering the powerful attrac tion of the other House.—He sustained the part throughout with improied spirit, and threw a new light upon some .passages, which did not seem to arise from affedled 'refinement. On Sunday Master BETTY had the honour to be esented to the Niece of WALES, at Carleton House. His Royal Highness had witnessed his itbet on Saturday night, and he expressed the live iy eatisfaftion which he had felt at his performance. flt highly fl attering to the youth that his Royal Highness has then honoured him with his protetliort. ?As every thing of - and about the wonderful boy, laster Bs UT, is interesting, it is material to know his exaa h e i ght and weight. He was Y ea l e " l3 Y measured and weighed. His height is 4 feet to Inche s an d a half. His weight 6 swot! 3iihs• The Proprietors of the Newcastle 'Theatre are re lilaiallng and beautifying it in a very liberal manner; STet stria KlNic LE endeavour on his part, tu g to discharge his duty as Manager, in providing them with all the novelties he can obtain. A;4' REPORT. COURT OF KlNG's BENCIt, DMEtintit GEORGE CHAMBERS, ESQ. V. 7. CAULFIELD, ESQ. The Plaintiff' is the son of the late Sir William Chambers, Architect to the King, has a Commission in His Majesty's Service, and was employed in die Expedition to Holland. The Defendant was also a Captain in the Army, is well known in the circles of gaiety and fashion, and as an Amateur of the Dramatic Arr. . The Plaintiff married one of the daughters of Ad. miral Lord Rodney, in the autumn of the year 1784.. It WWI a match of the purest sensibility and affeBion, formed between two young persons, the one eighteen, and the other seventeen, and consummated after a rapid expedition to Gretna Green. On their return from this Northern flight, the union received the sant - lion of the parents on both sides, and this happy couple were joined ac. cording to the holy rites of the Church of England, when Sir William Chambers was present at the ce remony. The issue of this marriage extended to nine beautiful children ; eight of them were boys. For a ' long succession of years this early par tiality seemed to be confirmed and strengthened. Such was the joyful situation of these parties, until g short time before they met the present Defendant at a Ball at Huntingdon, in the neigh. bouthood of which town the Plaintiff resided. 'I subsequent lofts will be more satiscati.utiy collected from the particulars of the trial, than from any detail we could give from our knowledge of the circumstances. Messrs. ERSKINE, GARRoW, and SCARLETT, were Counsel for the Plaintiff; Messrs. DALLAS, e Hsi and BURROUGH, for the Defendant. Mr. ERSKINE, on the part of the former, dis. closed the fads of the case. He said, this seas an anion seeking a compensation, in damages, for the criminal intercourse oP the Defendant with the wife of the Plaintiff. The Lady was exquisitely beautitul, pettedly accomplished, of most fasci. nating manners ; and, notwithstanding the nume rous progeny which she had given, to become the ornament of society, she retained all the appearance, of vernal loveliness. . The Defendant is a man possessed of an elegant person, of a finished address, and endowed with those ta. lents and powers which find a vigilant and insi dious advocate in the female bosom. He saw, and he admired, this Lady at a dance given in the prin. . • cipal town of the county where she resided. Most melancholy it was, that these sentiments were not confined to himself—she also ,saw, felt, and ad mired—and from that moment the felicity of her husband was for ever destroyed. The Plaintiff immediately observed a sudden change in her man. nets; on every little domestic dispute, she threat ened to leave her husband, and the fond circle in which s h e had appeared ; and future events could alone explain to the aftided husband . this grievous revolution. During this miserable interval, the Plai.ttiff discovered a letter in her hand ; urged fay jealousy, he attempted to seize it.; in consequence of this scuffle, she deserted the mansion of her husband .and her children ; but \ at this rime he had attained nu knowledge o her criminality. Soon after this fracas, he was, in his ostensible charader in the service, called upon to embark to join in the attack on Holland. Jr so ha;-pened, that the in. disposition of this Officer did nut admit of his re maining in that humid climate, he therefore unex. pettedly returned t o hi s h ouse at , Hartford, near untingdon, where his wife then was. She ap. Feared, on his arrival, extremely agitated, and the next morning left the place, abandoning an infant of only seven months old, wholly unprotetled. Mrs. Caine, the sister of the Plaintiff; deposed to the marriage 'of Mr. and Mrs. Chambers, on the. t ath Sept. 1784. The Rev. jobs: Weller gave testimony to the harmony and affedion that prevailed in the family, in which he tatted in the capacity of tutor. Mrs. Little was in the situation-of Housekeeper, and had also the superintendanee of the children. She first observed a change in the deportment of Mrs. Chambers in the year 11798, and she had some time before observed a disposition ioffiet with se veral Gentlemen ; but she noticed nothing very re. markable until 18ot, when Capt. Caulfield had a lodging at Huntingdon, and was a frequent visitor to her Master and Mistress. Being interrogated if she noticed any thing peculiarly familiar in the behaviour of Captain Caulfield and Mrs. Chambers, she said they were accustomed to sit on the sopha together ) , in the absence of her husband. After the departure of the Plaintiff for the Fielder, the Captain was received on a footing of much nearer intimacy ; he was accustomed to be in the house j late in the evening, and early in the morning, and none of the servants knew when he went or when he returned, so that suspiciOns were entertained that he was an inmate all night in the family. The men. servants , were usually sent to bed at this period at an early hour. Mrs. Chambers had also altered her plan in one particular ; it was usual with her to admit the children into her room as soon ae they rose, with the witness, who attended them, but during the whole of this interval, they were excluded, and both the doors of her apartments were locked. Mary Smith remained in the service of the Lady two years, 'tom about Christmas, 1801, to the same festival.in 1803. Her mistress then lived at Farnham St. Martin's, near Bury Sr. Edmund's. She thought Captain Caulfield was then a lodger with her. From thence she removed to Prince's. street, Hanover.square ; thence to Fulham ; after. wards to Mint Farm, near Reigate ; and again to Battersea ; and in all these situations the De. fendant attended her, and seemed to continue as a lodger, and an acquaintance in her family, and no illicit intercourse was detetled. Afterwards they went to Chertsey, and there likewise they had two separate beds and apartmenti ; but from her ex. pet fence in her office of chamber-maid, what, from their previous coridud, and the proximity of the rooms, she strongly suspetted that both beds were regularly made, and constantly disordeted ; affil from other more minute circumstances, which it is neither delicate nor necessary to explain, she had no doubt that the Defendant had critnioal inter. 1 cootie with her mistriii. , . MT. tml.okt, Tod the befendant, aarhittetl thati the case were proved, and his Client had alienated the affeelions of tills lovely seraph, retaining all the charms, even at this hour, of virgin beauty, no damages could be to serious, and no comperisa. tion could be adequate to the injury suffered by the Plaintiff. However, the claim of Mr. Chambers,. in a Court of Law, must depend upon the merit of his pretensions. The Learned Counsel, after the evidence that had been last adduced, 'would not, and could not, pretend that the adultery had not been proved ; but whether the Plaintiff had any just demand for damages must depend on the fads by which the defence would be supported. It was singular, that though Mrs. Corine, the sister of the Plaintiff, was brought forward as a witness, not a single question was proposed to her by his Learned Friend, on the harmony subsisting between the Plaintiff and his wife, although it might be thought, from his representation, that this conjugal union was a sort of matrimonial elysium, which could alone be exceeded by the joys of Paradise. The happiness of this pair was to be proved by the un. supported evidence of a single domestic, E. Little, whose depositions, in several respeCts, were ab surd and contradidory. The son of Sir William Chambers, and the daughter of my Lord Rodney, must possess a regular and habitual intercouse with those who held a distinguished rank in the fashion. able world, and yet not one of their associates had been produced to give testimony to those mutual endearments, avlticin appeared only in the brief of his opponent. He should , make it appear why this sort of evidence could not be supplied ; he would produce to the Jury a series of letters; he. would produce a deed, sanctioned by all the for 1-utilities of the Law, which would expose a system of brutality in the conduet of the Plaintiff; after which he could be entitled to no damages ; and it would equally excite the astonishment and the compassion of the Court, or perhaps its contempt, that he should have presumed to claim of the justice of his country, what virtue and humanity alone have a tight to require. Mr, DALLAS then produced the letters to which he adverted. .The first was dated in May 1798, in which the Plaintiff assented to a se paration ; speaks of the terms on which it is to be effected ; and intreats her not to take one of the carriages with her, as it would expose him to an assessment of 401. a year. The next was dated the, zd of June, wherein he implores pardon for his past misconduCt, intreats a union, and says, he shall he ever grateful if she will not refirse his request. — On the third letter, which is dated four d,tys pos. tetior, he beseeches her to he 'reconciled to him, if not on his account, at least from her attach ment to her children ; from her resped for her own dignity ; and from every motive of policy and expedience. He was now going abroad on a pub. lic and dangerous duty ; in his absence he should be perfedly composed and resigned to every peril in the service of his country, if site would restore to him peace, by extending her forgiveness ; then, alluding to some threats which he had uttered in an unfortunate hour, he . adds,. " with regard to the pistols, I never intended you the smallest injury, and what I uttered was under the mo mentary influence of hurry and intoxication." — The ,Learned Counsel then proceeded to a deed of reconciliation, to which John and Jane Chambers, George Lord Rodney, John Rodney, and John Mil. bank, Esqrs. were patties. He said, that in this deed there was on absolute covenant, that in case of 'differences, she should be admitted to part at the time her own discretion should dired ; that cool, in dress and furniture should be allowed her, with an annuity of 2001. per annum. She was likewise to have the two youngest children, until they were eight years old, under her care, and per. mission to see the other children, at the hour of the Plaintiff, whenever her maternal affeCtion should be so disposed. The whole tenor of the defence was direded to shew that the Plaintiff; by his own gross conduit, had alienated the affedions of his wife ; that she had obtained terms of separa. tion with his own concurrence, in consequence of his brutality ; and than therefore, for any act of infidelity, however successfully shown, he could maintain no action for damages in a Court of Jus. lice. The deed and the letters having been proved by Mr. Bootle, they were ,read according to the order of their dates by the Clerk of the Court, by which it appeared that the Plaintiff expressed the most poignant contrition for his ,own errors, and not a syllable of the smallest discontent arising from any part of the deportment of Mrs. Chambers. Mr. ERSKINS then rose, in reply, with strong marks of indignation. The most infamous re. ports had been circulated by this Defendant, in order to deter the Plaintiff from seeking the redress to which be was intitled at the Bar of his Country. By the instruction with which his . Learned Friend was supplied, he was now made acquainted with the corrupt fountain from which they issued. This profligate adulterer, reposing in the arms of this beautiful and unfortunate woman, had prostituted the confidence to which he was admitted, bail ran sacked the papers in het possession, in order to con. vent the proofs of the ardent affedions of her bus. band into instruments of destrudion to. the man over whom he triumphed. This, on o thousand occasions, he had called the adulterer's- course ; if it were, sometimes the race of success, it was al ways the path of infamy. It was objected, that nut a single question was proposed on his side to Mrs. Cotine, in evidence of the matrimonial happiness the Plaintiff so long enjoyed. The Lady came into Court under the most distress. ing perplexity ; and it was riot .the. wish of the Counsel for the Plaintiff to protract het anxiety ; yet no such impressions seem to have existed in the breast of his Learnt's! Opponent, and he might have sifted the truth if he had doubted the fad of this mutual, felicity ; but he knew the experitnent would injure the cause of his Client, and therefore he desisted from this inquisition. It was. extrane &nary that he should complain of the deficient io ito,try of the Counsel for the Plaintiff in this parti cular, when in another instance immediately con neArti with it, he had at least been equally sparing of hi, cxci lions. Mr. Chambers, the son of that Architril so long patrotAted by his Sovereign, and who had rendered himsdi *mortal by the migni. ficent mouurnents of his genius ; his wife, the datiglittr of at ilitsiiiOns arnl gafiani who had destroyed the Naval Armaments of France; coold not be confined to a cantraaed circle of sol,. .ciety : wherever taste, fashion,. a.nd honour, were admired or respeded, they would be seed and ac, :knnwledged. if then Mr. Chambers .bad been guilty of any misconduct ; if he had frequented , garning-houses and brothels ; if he had pradisetit the arts and the vices of the 9pcmiihrift and the de, banchee, abundant testimlny would have been afforded, of which his Learned Friend might have availed himself, in order. to chew that the gacy of the Plaintiff' rendered.him unworthy of the atiettion of his accomplished wife: nut not a tit.. tle of evidence had been adduced, sot with,tand ing all the advantages with which the Counsel were supplied ; they had contented thetnselvei with al lusions made by the Plaintiff; in the noble and gr. nerous spirit of. repentance, which itself argued, he was incapable of the offences with which was charged. A scramble about a contemptible slip of paper had been adverted tu, and a story about an unloaded pistol was blazoned forth, to support the feeble narrative. Suppose, in the moment of inc., briety, either from the effens of wine, or froth the more deadly poison of jealousy, - he had done what had been represented ; was the film pin= drawn by the masterly hand of subiirtie artist of our Country to be forgotten ? arid wer: the human passions never to b*t reopened ? Listen to the voice of the noble Moor : in the CAWS of hit - passion, lie exclaims — Oh monstrous ! I will tear her With from limis." Then driven alternately by hope and fear— By the world,--- I think my wile is honest, and think she is not; I think that thou art just, and think tint' art not I'll have some proof. My name, that wls as fresh 4s Dian's visage, is now liegrint'd and black As mine own face. Cf there he cords, or knives,. Poison, or fire, or sulneating, streams, I'll not endure it. Would I were sahsfiedl" Such were the feelings of a great and genertrzs mind under the dominion. of this tormenting pas. sion This demon had been driven from hell to transfer its fires into the breast of this vielim. A Lady of noble alliance is conducted from town to town, and exposed in a itate, of proStitution to the ridicule of fools, to the compassion. of the wise, and to the contempt of all. A Soldier returning from the field of battle to the embraces of the obita of his early affection, is .rejened with disdain . ; he is deprived of that society which had converted the days of trouble into a season of taninterropti fe. licity ; and for the loss he has sustained, he reparation from the honour and the justicc llttl4 . . .. Country. When Lord ELLENI3OItbUCH W 39 about to :Jul% up the evidence, one of the issror4 desir:l to propose a question to the lisuiekeeper. Mrs Little being called, he inquired, if, a:l,re the cimacy,of the Defendant wish her Master, she tth. served any thing inconsistent with tnutuat love and harmony to subsist between the Phintitf and his wife ?—The reply was, that she had noticed nothing of the kind, excepting the dispute regarding th►e letter. Lord ELLENZOROUGH (to ttte jUly).- 15 Afrer this brillient display of talent and eloquen , :e, it becomes us to withdraw ourselves from the iefita. ence of the passions, and inquire into the La 3„ as sober and reasonable men, It seems •to toe, she Gentlemen on each side have assumed propositiona stronger than the evidence will Support, in favour of their.respeetive clients. On the part of the De.. Pendant, it is argued, that this deed of =cilia. tiots is • to be considered as a complete renunciation of the right of the Plaintiff to the society of his wife, so as to preclude him from .a right, of etc, tion under the present circumstances. Perhaps articles might be so framed as to reacts to this tit. tent, but these are not of, That description, and they were formed with a view, at least, to the increase, of the mutual happiness of both the wife end the husband ; but the latter, however, put himself so far in the power of his wife, as to admit. her to withdraw whenever her disctetien should dictate her doing so. On the other side, too much is charged against , the Defendant, when they say be WAS the sole cause of the alienation of the :dec. dons of the wife; for, atteoding to the dates of the documents produced, we cannot avoid seeing, that as early as May, 1798, before Captain Caul. field had access to the house, very serious diffe. rences prevailed in the family. Hven in the most comet domestic circle, from the occasional ebulli_ lions of ill.temper, disputes will arise ; and it by' no means is a necessary consequence, that bet:auto family quarrels sometimes take place, the door is to be thrown open to every adulterer, and our Courts arc to be Closed upon the claimant seeking redress for the injury he has sustained. The ques. tion then is, in what degree the Defendant was in. strumeotal in ereefing or heightening these tests." (Ilis. Lordship here entered into the particulars of the evidence, both on the part of the Plaintiff and Defendant, and concluded with these observations " We certainly have the confession of the Plaintiff, that in the early state of these disagtcements he was the sole cause. You will, therefore, consider, if by his own miscondua he has destroyed the alfedionr of his wife. If he has deprived her of that. love and attachment, which are the best guardians of female honour, this will materially Weft the proportion • of damages to be assigned. But this will not excuse the man who, Ley his conduit, has rendered reconciliation To the extent to which the rJaintiff has suffered real injury, be will:exped at your hand's repara. tion,ll • The Jury having withdrawn, in less than half art hour returned with a Verdid for the Plaintiff,--- Damages, Ave Thousand Poundh On Friday evening the 23,1 ult. at Mt: jOnatilao Wilson , ,, nt Uiitletwood, near' Coeicermouth, the flour of an upper tOOOl l. in wliia a great nutubtr of people were aNsemhled, suddenly gave wly, and the com p any , with the tutniture, &c. were ptecipitated to the ground floor. Providentially, it hoppened that none of the family were in the lower apartment at the time; anti as the flouring did not sepirate, no ma. teria injury was sustained by testy person present, The shock, however, was very violent, and the alarm &fem.