The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1851.

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BAIL COURT.-YESTERDAY.
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Tors posses. DAVID Barr.—Tem CLAPHAM NCYNERT.

Mr. &desist Ghee moved for • rule to show muse
why a criminal information should not be filed against
David Scott, the printer and publisher of the Morning
Advertiser, fur certain libels published in that paper on the
12th and 20th of March last. He made the application
upon the affidavits of certain residents at Clapham, some
twenty lathes, who, since 1848, had been members of •
religious institution, or establialiment, called the convent
of Notre Dame, in Bedford-lane Clapham; also upon the
affidavits of two clergymen, and two Romancatholic clergy-
' men, who stated themselves to be the sole spiritual directors
and advisers of the said community : and two medical
gentlemen, surgeons of Clapham, who were the usual
medical attendant,' upon the said community, and certain
scholars who were resident there, receiving education from
the members of the community. First, he would refer
to the affidavits of the Rev. Richard Simpson, and
the Rev. John Coldicoate Dell, who stated themselves to
have been residents at Clapham, and said that during the
last 18 months the community in question had existed
within the meaning of the act 10 Owe. IV., e. 7, known as
the Catholic Relief Act. They then proceeded to say that
on the 12th of March last, in the Mama, Advertiser, the
following libel upon the said community was published, vie.:
" A New Order of Nona--We understand that a very great,
and, his to be hoped, unusual commotion, has just takes
place in the convent on the southern side of the Thames,
in the vicinity of • well-known common. To the surprise
and consternation of the sisterhood a novelty suddenly ap-
peared among them the other day in the shape of a ' sister
of infantile age, or, more properly speaking, of no age at
all. What added to the basset of the circumstance was
the fact of the' novice' not having entered the convent
either by the door, the window, or the chimney. It ought
to be mentioned that the usual process of taking the veil was
dispensed with on this occasion. The nun made her appear-
ance without ceremony of any kind, and amidst sounds made
by herself which ill accorded with the silence of the place. For
further particulars we must refer to the medical gentleman
who, instead of the priest, assisted in the introduction of the
interesting stranger into the convent, and into the world at
the same time. It is difficult to say whether the surprise
or the scandal be the greater, at the institution of this new
order of the sisterhood." The deponents also stated that
in the same newspaper, on the 20th March last, another
libel upon the said community was inserted, purporting to
be a report of a speech of Edwd. Turner, Esq., at a meeting
held at the Bridge-botue Hotel, to petition parliament on
the subject of what was called the papal aggression : "The
speaker, after referring to the mischievous results of the
conventual system as exhibited in a case of a young
lady of the Berkeley family of large property, who has
been shut up in a nunnery by the Earl and Countess of
Shrewsbury, adverted to the demoralising nature of diesel
institutions. He had heard, on good authority, of a case
of childbirth in a nunnery at Clapham. At first the report
was declared to be utterly devoid of truth, but it was now
said that it was a stranger, who bad been attended by •
medical man, and not one of the inmates." The deponents
then stated, that they believed it was intended by these'
libels to insinuate that • member of the said community '
had given birth to a bastard child, and that immoralities
had been practised is the said convent. He had next the
affidavit of Claris& Noel, the si..ter superior of the con-
vent, giving an account of the establishment of the convent
from the month of September, 1848. She then gave the
names of all the members of the community at the time other
making the affidavit, and all the persons who at
any time had been members of the said community. The
ladies now in the convent were 13 in number, whose names
were set out in the affidavit. She proceeded to say that the
ladies of the convent originally came from the convent of
Notre Dame, at Namur, and settled in the first instance at
Penrhyn, in Cornwall, ultimately removing to their present
residence in September, 1848. The deponent then denied
that any of the members of the community,or any person re-
siding in the convent or connected therewith, had ever been
enciente, or given birth to a child, nor bad any immoralities
been practised within the precincts of the said convent.
lie had also the affidavit of Josephine Lague's, the sister
superior of the convent of Notre Dame at Blackburn, and
six ladies therein, all of whom had been members of tho
community at Clapham, and Iphigenie de Paiva, the sister
superior of the convent of Notre Dame at Liverpool, and
three ladies therein, who had also been members of the said
community, and they all negatived in the same words the
truth of any portion of the libels.
Mr. Justice Coleridge—Does it appear what ago the
scholars are ?
_ _ _

Mr. ieijCant Shen—No, my lord, it does not. The Rev.
Frederick de Held and the Rev. Louis de Fiuggenoms, the
sole spiritual directors and advisers of the said community,
stated in affidavits which he held in his hand facts which
were corroborated by the medical attendants, Mr. John
Parrot, who fur twelve months had attended the ladies of
the convent, and Mr. Edward Taylor, who for the same
period had attended certain of the scholars in the convent,
and which went to show that to the best of their knowledge
and belief there was no foundation whatever for the insinu-
ations contained in the libels.

Mr. Justice Coleridge—You are entitled to a rule ; but
must suggest to you that nothing is mid about the age of
any of the scholars—they might hare been between 16 and
17 years of age. You may make your *Siderite more com-
plete. Mr. Parrot confines himself to the members of the
establishment ; and Mr. Taylor, it appears, is only an occa-
sional attendant on some of the scholars.
Mr. Serjeant Shee—That omission can be supplied, my
lord.
1 Mr. Justice Coleridge—You are entitled to your rule, no
doubt.
Rule granted.
Till QUEI2I O. Tall Pl7lllllllllll OP TR' MODZIEVO

Mr. tierjeant Slue had a motion to make against another
newspaper, for which he should have to use the same affida-
vits. He begged to move for a rule to show cause why a
eriming information should not be tiled against the printer
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in that paper on the 20th of March last. The
affidavits of the two residents at Clapham, the Rev. Mr.
Magoon and the Rev. Mr. Coldicoate Dell, were the same
as in the last case, but they added that for two months and
upwards prior to the publication of the libel false and mali-
cious reports bad been circulated in the neighbourhood of
Clapham that a bastard child had been born et ewe of the
inmates of the convent, and that inonlities had been
therein. They then went en Aw o that in the
rP=Diapateh, bearing date the lifl Mai Mat, there
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to be an explanation of the circumstantial upon which the
said false and scandalous teports were supposed to be
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