The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-14 00:00:00

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English ones. There is nothing to justly the inference
that an in.-t of adultery was committed at Folkestone, for
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disbelieve the :tory of Havre and the Ise dr Al onceau,
what right have %N to assume the 'defter/ at Folkettnne
Mrs Kitchener, an wbose house Mrs. Hope was, had no
friendly feeling towards her. Young was desirous of saying
all he could, and an intimate friend of Young's was anxious
to say all that she could against her mistress, yet not one of
these witnesses said one word to lead to the Supposition that
en acb of adultery had been committed. It was said that
on one occasion, pretending to go to London, she went to
Boulogne. That depended on the evidence of two witnesses
—Young *gale, and a person named Boxer, who said that
he Inv her core from the Boulogne pact ; hot he ufght
have mistaken the packet. Hanel; searched the registers
backwards and forwards it was odd that they could not
produce the reeister of Mrs. Ilo;oe having g:tue to Bou-
kerne. It might bond that she had assumed a feigned
name, but she was so well known et Bologna'
that this was impassible ; but even if she had
gene to Boulogne there was note shadow of evidence
that she west to see the count. If be were so much under
the influence of her power as to come to Felkerone at her
bidding, would she have risks d the crossing of the water
under a feigned name, and have exposed herself to Young, -
when she could have summoned her lover to her side ? It
is bat a surmise—au insufficient and inconclusive sur-
mise. She went there before, and was anxious to
pus dresses through the custom-house. She had done that
which even rich ladies think a very clever thing, defrauding
the customs. She might have had the same purpose on this
occasion ; indeed, even Young told them that she did bring
back a box. Then it was said that when she saw the Count
Aguade and Dr. Dovslne eLe went back to Dover. Even
if she did, she might have desired to see the physician who
was attending her blind, or to send back a message by
the count to Paris. I submit that not only is
there no positive, but no inferential, proof of guilty inter-
course at Folkestone. Then, it appears that Mrs. Hope,
having taken apartments at the house altar. Brown on the
14th of September, went to Deepdene at the end of October.
Oo this point there was evidence which, if true, must infer
the commission of adultery. The witness Howe had stated
that be had been entrusted by Mrs. Howe with a letter
which he trek to a gentleman who was waiting at the Rei-
gate station, and to whom he delivered it. A few days
afterwards he went to the hotel at Reigate, and, in odes-
Touring to tied the room of Mr. Clutton, the steward, he
i entered an apartment suddenly, and there saw a lady and
gentleman—the la ly being Mrs. Hope, and the gentleman
the Coast Aguado ; he sitting with his arm round her
waist. Now, gentlemen, this strongly savours of impoasi-
bility. If the Count Aguado was at the station, and
she knew it, she could have written as easily as she could
have sent • message by one on whom she could cot rely.
and thus commit herself to a transaction which, if brought
to light, must lead to disclosures most fatal to her. It was
clear that if this occurred at all it molt have occurred in
September or October, for Mrs. hope was only at Deepdene
in those months. Now, I will prove that there is not a
shadow of ground for this, for the Count Aguado, his
family, his physician, and servants were in Florence at the
time. I will not only show this by witnesses which might
possibly err, but I will prove it by documents which cannot
err, slob as passports and hotel bill. Ex no diets emus
—take this as a sample and specimen of the case. I cannot
fathom the motives of Mr. howe, but happily, as I ray, for
the ends of justice, we shall not be crashed by what at first
,appeared conclusive, for we will give evidence to show that
this statement is a foul and wicked fabrication. Now we come
to the year 1849, and 111130 we have the story of the Rue de
Monceau, supported by Young and Tallandie. Then we canoe
to the year, 1850, when Mrs. Hope and the Count were at
Havre. This cue rests on the as ideate of a chambermaid,
who says that Mrs. Hope occupied rooms 105 and 106, and
the Count occupied 104 ; and that one night, between 12
and 1 o'clock, she saw Mrs. Hope goiag into the bed-
chamber of the Count Aguado. She made a very great
mistake; the Count did not occupy 101. He occupied the
Toner room, 102. His brother, the Vicomte, occupied 101 ;
and he will tell you on his oath that she did enter that
room. And I trust the evidence of a gentlemen such es
this will weigh against the evidence of a woman going to
America on a speculatton that she might obtain a attention
as • stewardess—of a woman of whom we know nothing,
except that she is beyond the reach of any proceedings
which might have been taken against her—a woman,
brought over here by Monsieur Henri, no doubt with •
tolerable assurance on his part that she would be well re-
warded. Then there is mother story es to 1850, which is,
that the Count Aguado had asked Mrs. Hope to meet him
at the Rue Labordere, in the Bois de Boulogne.
That was supported by another witness besides Tallandie,
who, I will show you from hie own lips, made up his mind
to do the count an injury, and goes with his story to Mr. Hope
—a man who, having betrayed his master, ends by beney-
Mg his mistress ; and, instead of being spurted teem bit
muter's dwelling, is taken into his service, and comes here
to tell his story, believing that it would be well worth his
while. The penuriousness of which the wife complains
will be cast off and converted into liberality. I
don't say the expectation is well founded. I
don't say that Mr. Hope has held out such an ex-
pectation. Bat there are persons who entertain *them,
and these are the women who have been produced by M.
Henri, and the men, who have been produced by Mr. Young
or Mr. Tapp, going about the country to collect evidence.
My answer is, that these witnesses made a great mistake.
The boy mistook the viscomte for the count. The viecoutte
had the house at the time, and Tallandie, in all probability,
knew that, and on that engrafted his story. I ask you, is it
probable that the count would have spurned with ignominy
from his door the man in whose power he was? Would
he not have conciliated that man, who could not
only expose himself hut the dishonour of the lady
whose reputation it was his duty to sustain? And
now I have gone through this history up to 1851, with
two exceptions—one is the story of the woman Roue—that
In 1846 Mrs. Hope having sent her husband and children
out of the way, had received the Count Aguado in her bed-
room. That a gentleman should be received by a lady, who
was ill in her bed-room, might in this country be startling,
but it was not so on the Continent. There the lady who
was too ill to receive her visitors a her salon received them
not only in her bedroom, but while she was in bed, and they
had dresses made for that very purge. Then
there was this story of Young's, that the younger
boy was taken by him to see the count very frequently.
That was a mistake, the marquis, the older brother, had
some young children staying with his anther at the Place
Vendome. The little boy was taken to play with them,
and not to see the count. The elder boy went there seldom,
for his health would not permit him to gambol with other
children. As to the story told by Young that the
Count Aguado had said, " Don't let that little blackguard
come near me; or he will call me papa "—I would ask you,
firstly, would a finished gentleman lake the count speak of
the child of the friend with whom he was intimate,
—they say criminally, we say innocently—u "that little
blackguard 1" The terms were not those which the count
would use, but they ate the terms such as a man like Young
would use. He puts his language into the count's mouth,
because he is inventing for the count. It is just the Mil-
take a mat of his kind would fall into. And then again, I
elskijon, why should the child call the count papa ? The
could never have been taught whether
tightly or wrongly it is not for my purpose to
say—to call the count " papa." He must so have
addressed Mr. Hope. Do you think that a mother would
teach her child openly to call any bat her husband "papa ?"
There is inherent improbability in it. It bears the 'eternal
evidence of untruth. A mother could never have taught
her child so to do; for if so he would have called the count
" papa" in the presence of her husband, and then the
whole truth mast come out. Gentlemen, it cannot be true.
Then there is another circumstance as to 1850. The same
witness who spoke of Mrs. Hopei having gone into the
Count Aneado's room tells us an extraordinary
tale about a bathing scene. It appears that Mrs.
Hope, not satisfied with daily and nightly intercourse with
the Count Aguado was so enamoured of him, that the dry
loud was not sufficient to contain her affection, and elle
mast carry her lascivious passions into the cooling waters of
the sea. (Laughter.) She goes to the bath, and leaves
word for her lover to follow her. Then there is a glowing
description of • gentleman in his drawers, and
a lady in her bathing dress, exhibiting the contour
of her person, meeting at a bathing piece, swim-
ming out together, extending their hands, and es
der as the waves would allow them, embracing—
doing all this in the presence of the spectators, of the
sentry, who stood in mute astonishment, and of the wits
sees, who from her lofty tower viewed the whole scene,
treasuring it in her memory, and coming here to narrate it.
Can you for a moment suppose that a lady with, as it is
said, a full opportunity of gratifying her passions, should
be so lost to all decency—should so herald forth
ler sin and shame to the world, as to take the op-
portunity of displaying to its scorn conduct which
a common prostitute could not he guilty of ? It
is impossible. Can you conceive the great soanfial
which would have been created in the town of Havre hy a
seen* like this ? I undertake to say that the sentinel and
the police would have interfered, and I further odes take
to say that no husband or brother of any lady wiai
have had been so outraged by such an exhibition would
account for his
tated to have called the Count Aguado to en
watf.r, sad
conduct. It had been proved that it wee
could not et near
that the male and female bathers
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each other without they could
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the thing is legally impossible, morallyme
to 1851. at Folks-
physically impossible. This brings
doors _
and the story about the broken between the
stone,
's room. I ask would be
Count's and Mrs. Hops
the tr. ser sante
wrench
a door and thus betray himself
when he could, as it was said he had duo before, pass
through his own
door and enter hers by she cor-
ridor? Then they must have been lost to nu sense
of their own safety if, as was alleged, Vaey could,
when carrying on en illicit intercom:At have talked
so loudly as to have been overheard by ehe porter in the
y
passage. I fear this man is actuated h
-; the same feeling as
the master of the hotel—" Mellor nee got a bad wife, and
we must do all we can to enable Aim to get rid of her ;"
and recollect, gentlemen, the.. fasts happening in the
minds of the witnesses in 19,51, had never been revived
until the year 18.54. The I
earned Attorney. General having
cOnnebtet on the feet t;,ait Mrs. Rope could not have per-