The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-07-18 00:00:00

TAE wr.I77ISX.

WinolOgonse, Ile.ea, Middlesex, July 13, 1908.
IVITQR—The clamor :at ay bent of yesterday and
Yo-day, (which exec Ma way eTty privi laperiebted to '
Knytan4 bidgees me t t send you a corn/let account of it, no
,nerved to a meth open avert at this House, by two thee-
Inot,rs, by and tAry, quite detached
Ua Tui tiny, die 12th inst. at twop.nr. both stood by deg.
At midnight 69
At half-ghat eleven this 'sub niays, 9O
And at this instant, at one, has Eaton to as
The but Sunday and Tuesday, in the year 1795, only
amounted In a 3 deg 111 open +heard situatious.o-iThe tisa-
ne haat of the West bubo' is alsiot as dry.
I remain, Sir, your obsdoeutaemet,
W. WALKER.

The grass is scorched up, and the Leaves art horned coif
the trees, and fake upon the inning is as great profusion as
is the mouth of October.
A 1 tter from Stemfo►tl says lt is fifteen
years binee a tiny ne•trly so hot ay Wednesday was,
Wll3exiierienced in this country: journal of a
gctitletnau in this loon, who is exact in his nbsec_
11;010410f the thermometer, sln•ws, that o❑ the 17th
ofJaly, 7;.)3, the mercury iu was ium-
t•ressed to 811" : f.oin that time until •}'uesday last
j: 1:..1 tent J....10wer then 78u: on Tuesiliir, Wed.
ticulay, and yesterday, it stood in the shiAe us
low

94... sp...
363 y sob 4 4 ..... 71 *e 72
lath ..... 76 64 76
14th ..... 76 ;IA
• "On Wednesday, at t.erby, et labouring man,
enraged in mowing thistles, was so overcome by
the Wm, that he d•; in the held; as did a woman
of Huntingdon, wlulat nuking hay in a close near
Cant tom's; mid a ,ionr woman of Rine ton, in Lei-
ec.tvaihirc, on the sam.•, day died immediately
after drjaking some cold water. Mr. Fewcitv of
the Oerirge Inn, St. Martin's, lost two horses; owl
two. the property of Mr. Mosulll. of Grantham,
died, whilst drawing the inaii-coaches between that
place and Newark. Mr. Itoridhonse, of this town,
also lost a valuable wat7gen-horse.•'
• In Norfolk it has been equally intenee
▪ Many horses have died thin week from the in-
tvnse heat of the atmosphere.—►As Mr. and Mrs.
l'aitcsoa, and faintly were going to Cromer, their
horse., b. c.ame so languid, that it tea. found net's.
cure to take theta out of the carriage ; and as the
F• nur'ruau was returning with the horses to Noe.
• ante them fell down dead, and the other
av vtth difficulty got home, with little hopes of
re •rtug. A whit horse, belonging to Mr. Bone,
of .r '• tin. died in the same way. On the arrival
or t1..2 'L'arniouth coach, on Wednesday last, one of
the hor.ses dropped down dead mt it was taking
out."

The mails yesterday arrived in town nearly two
hours later upon an nvetage than their usual tune,
owing to the intense heat of the weather. Accounts
from every direction mention the deaths of great
numbers of stage and post-horses, from the same
eauve.

The PORTIMUESE ANllAsiAnda arriverl, on Fri.
day of lit. at his house in South Audley-street,
from Pliusouth. His Etceltency sent off. list
it, a messemier to Portsmouth, with dispatches
fur the Briaile.

A aloop,lairs s with 300 buffets of Boar, 10.000
elnughm, hp- eissesss
tined on the .14th of 11ay by a French privateer,
and carried into St. Eastatia ; the privateer has
captured several ether vessels.
The Eusebe(A sal fiery, Gear,. from Jamai-
ca, for Loudon, wrist lost ou the Grand Caiemi on
the ind of April.
In the entre if Friday night al) the Messengers
left town, *ad proceeded in venous directions, with
dispatches dents the Foreign Office and Admiralty.
'l tie greateist bustle and activity previa** in all the
Onvertimeut demerteestota. Satiseday the Spen.sh
Coniesiseieuers and Sir Joie Gems had a loieg in-
terview with Lord MVIAILIVII. et his house in the
Admiralty. Several other persons, lately arrived
frees Spam, intruded at the Adutinilty. and gave
very satisfactory accoutts of the disposition of the
fipani.h people.
His M • J stries ship Werner arrived off Srilly on
the tith lust with the Neeiories.. Nlaree a, and a
fleet under convoy from St. Thomas's, which place
they left oa the 314 May. The Finny, iliczniss,
from Swansea. arrived at Peaeallee on the pith inst.
aIHI reported that two brigs were that day captured
off the Lead** Eml, by a schooner privateer.
Letter, from the Continent state, that a fresh
embargo had heels laid on all American vessels in
the ports of France, and that in many instances
the French had proceeded to condemnation. A
new decree. enforcing farther restrictions o r Inc
commerce of America with France, hail likewise
appeared.
Only tout Spaniards were 10.. t is the attack upon
the French squadron. Among the number killed
as board the Latter wee Ceptinis MARTtstaus, of
the if/genres (lbrmerly rtiti
We hope that the mild aud aninane principles
inculcated by the Oorcritor of Ca,lia, are universal
through Spam. A letter however from Cadiz of the
13th stares, that above 100 Frenchmen who bed
been imprisoned by the ceastituted authorities at
Valeatia, were taken out by the populace and
Mitsrderetl.
Diturirehes were received, on Saturday, from
104 (1. Pasoan,' at H mid from Mr. gas-
*tem, at Washington, by the (latex Charlotte
packet, 'mired at Falmouth. The mails hmught
thiaessoveyanee err dated from New York, the
12th edJane, and Halifax the 20th. We do net
baderstaiiil tisat any pews of interest has been re-
ceived 4: this nrrival. The embargo continued in
the Anil rialto ports, and the elections in the differ-
ent States are stated to have given a majority in
both Hiluses to the Federalists. ii is reported that
Col. Butte came oassenger in the green ('harlotte.
and is th hearer of some dispatcheeor propositions
to our (I,,vertircent.

report hes itsalicionsly and industriously been
put is eirruletion. dunii: the last week. by sotne
whit feel • ple.isure in adding to the
.sggre4ate of
Ltlll,lllitesery, namely, that this day is to be preg-
pent with the evew.L; to the people of
riiKlistoL liana-441s have :wen nos:ewl up, inch-
ceire of Ih s calansity, which, ocrordioe to them.
is to be *winced by the him farce of intoleralils
iirnt, 64 moot vivid and incessant gashes of light-
ninz, thl most tremenclons pea) of thunder, and
the iimit4est torrents of Asia thut Liam ever heel,
since the deists,.

LAW mrnIitCENCE.
COURT OP RING'S 11F.NICHOUrratirtza,

JtVir te.

Sittings before Lord El. L N IDAROUtIit and a Spices/
Jury.
CRIM. CON.
WAIMEA, EMS. a. ai: A DIM, CNC
This was an action imputing to the Defendant •
trimiaal intercourse with the The
damages were laid at .20,0001.
Mr. CI taauw said lie way never called upon to
exercise his professional duties under circum-
stances of greater pain and anxiety. The [Wend-
ant was a gentlemal belonging to the manse pro-
fessiuu as hiantelf, and with whom he had had •
long intimacy and friendship. That feet, he trust-
ed, would not subject Min to any unjust criticism,
or do away the received opinion that advocates,
however paintul the duty cast upon them, always
conducted themselves with honour and honesty to-
wards their clients. lie had said so much lest it
should by possibility be intagiued he world do less
against the Defendant than he should against au
indifferent. person placed in the same situation.
The Plaintiff was a gentleman of fortune. and had
passed•m nth -of his time in the West Indies, where,
in the year 17j8, he had becoine enamoured of his
present wife, who was certainly a female of most
accomplished manners and great beauty. Shortly
after his marriage lie came to ii.igland. and resided
fur a time to Illation-gm-den. The Defendant, at
that time, had been chosen Colonel Com:..andant
of a Voluuteer Corps, and the fact If the Plain-
tire hirsaag a company in the same cdtps brought
the purges on a forting of extreme iatimacy.
Shortly altar this the Plaintiff changed his resi-
dence, and took a spacious house in Rit-sell-
square, where the Defendant appeared to have
coutuitneed a system of intercourse so extraor-
dinary that the Jury would have to determine whe-
ther there was not sousetliing snore than frietohlOp
in the visits he paid. The Jury would find Mr.
Reader at the Plaintiffs house late and early, be-
siegi as it were, the person of Mrs. Walker,
and pursuing her like her shadow ; waiting on tow
steps of the door. catching, as it were, every casual
whisper, and acting in a way as it' be felt it impos-
sible to live start feat her. Whatever way sloe
rode out, Mr. Reader was sure to be upon the road,
and the coachmen, as a wetter of course, drew up
the .tnousent he saw Win. and took hint iii. On
one occasion, the blinds were drnwu down, and,
deed. a variety df circumstances took place, which
it was impossible to reconcile in any other way than
by imputing a criminal intercourse betweeo the
Mparties. Mt. Reader would be found following
Irs. Walker to Cheltenham, visiting her in the
aloseace of her husband, sitting with bar in a room
with the door Cotened and the window-eurtanis
drawn, sod, in short. conducting hiinself in a way
that none of the common purposes of Isfecalled for.
On one occasion, in town, the servant went to the
parlour in which •Mr. Reader and Mrs. %Valker
were sitting, to get the newspaper. when she found
the door fastened. On knockieg, and telling her
er end, Mrs. Walker opened the door ondleiently
to put her urn through, aid gave it. Again at
I Cheltenham, the servant observed Mr. Rieder

coming. out of the sitting roma, and ohmeeed Alms.
Waikee's deves,-ishiol► smoLidesh... ansidied with ,
powder on the shoulder, the sofattiscomposed, and
one of the eashions upon the ground. Mrs.
Walker did not Wear powder,,bat sr. Reader dud.
Such were the material* he had to lay before the
Jury, and they would decide es to the suspicion
they naturally excited. It wee true, the %shoetree
in support of those facts were discarded servants,
all of wham had left Mrs. Walker's oefvice in dis-
pleasure; they would, therein% watch their tes-
timony wth great circumspection, and if they
sheold believe they were loos rho against the
peas and happiness of the Plaintiff and his wife,
aid seeking to ruin said disgrace the Defendant,
' God forbid they should succeed; on lb° ow"
WA if they should believe theist to it the nit.
1 moss et truth, they would Sedge of heir tea.
hooey as mankind in rnerul *sold Jade*. and if
they thought the creamed Mittman, getablished,
they would say so. The next question would then
be the amount of damages, and he would not die-
grace himself by saying, if the criminality was sp.
parent. that it was not au aggravated case. The
Plaintiff was possessed of an amiable and beauti-
ful wife, and the way the Defendant got intro-
duced t.. the family would make his dereliction the
more inexcusable. Men associated in milker,' life
had generally a nice sense of honour, and if the
Defendant had abused the coefidence of the Plain-
tuff, and seduced his site, he ought to
.pay dr-
.neges adequate JO the injury he is tali—ed.
persists!. rt
The leerned Counsel concluded by se that if
the Jury were satiated of the is guilt.
they would say so by their verdict ; but, on the
contrary, should the evidence not establish the
case, he, for one, should be glad that his friend,
In the hour of trial, had not beta found wanting
in those moral and religious duties which he had
hitherto considered him as poesessiiig.
The ATTOINIST...GENCtiL said, he would not
give the Learned Counsel the trouble of preying
the marriage, Ste. bat at once adasit that part of
the tome.
Mr. Alexander Kay was thee called. and
spoke So the absence of the Plaintiff in Scotlani
during the summers of 1005 and li. Mrs. W. was
praised to acconsaany her husbaud. but she do-
dined it. The .Plaintiff. he said, war an affec-
tionate hn.h Witness called one day to see
the Plaintiff, whom he understood to be indis-
posed, sod was surprised on being told that Mr.
and Mto. ll'alker were both from home. His sister
accompenled him, and thiaking the servant had
been told to deny his master, she said, • I am
sore yelp waiter is at home, therefore I'll step
into the parlour while my teether gees up stairs."
Oa saying die she opened the parlour dear, and
found Mrs. Walker and Mr. Reader together.
• Mrs. C. Lancaster, a Lady who had resided
for sorer time in the Plaintiff's house, in Russell-
square, spoke to the almost deity visits of the De-
fendant, whew the PlastiAt was absent ; bet she
newer observed any 'mirk of indiscretion. He used
to remain atone with Mr.. Walker, and some-
times walk nut with her. lie also went isecasianally
to public plsees, in crenpauy with Mrs. W. and
others of her fri.m4a. Sometimes he staid in the
rveilimpi, and (owe, in partiettlar, he reed the Ger-
' man novel of iffersseprazig ; et, XII If he fs, a