The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-01-18 00:00:00

IladJar.uary, ICU—My dar/Ing, darling love, writes to arm -a
: "in"n"er, she thee to me for refuge, and my heart, nay vehni-
heart is open to receive her; he requests her to keep in XI eresy for s
few months; whatever money she nary want shall be supplied he
at three home' notice, and in him she should rued a lour. husbatd
father, friend. ,
A letter, without date or poet mark, addressed "Little Breeehern.
and signed " Your Lover." was reed; it merely contained a rt •
quest, that she would all upon him immediately, at a plate ar
pointed.
A lener. dated Oct. 1 f (no year) addressed L. B. he states t4s
he il al be absent a fortnight longer than tie expected. be; thark•
irld.iy, the 31st. he should have in his arms the only thing he
loved in the world--and that was her.
Another letter desire" her to walk every day during his absence
to lull all suspicion, and on his return he would make such arrange
metes that a lynx-eye should not discover them.
Another letter commenced my love—my life—my heart and sat
the subject of some private arrangements not important.
[The Louk CH/ El, J cseit E here left the Court for a few at.
sates when a tremendous disturbance hank place in the gallery
similar to what is frequently seen in the gallery of a theatre, who.
much crowded.)
John Coles examined—T am the attorney for the plaintiff. I re.
mired the letters produced this day from the plaintiff, shortly art.-
the cnnimencement of the present action, and bnatight them tee
Court. They were in a hex when I received them, reeled,
Cross-examined-11y the infarctions ef the plaintiff a writ was
stied nut against hlr. Watman, on the same day as the writ So
the present cause. The chit wan declared upon in %Vatinares case.
Alice Humber examined by Mr. COMMON SERGE.A3IIT-1 war
servant to the plaintiff, Mr. Alderman t'om I lived in his renter
before his marriage. I left it for a time on my own manage tak-
ing place, and afterwards returned and lived with bins agaun—thst
is, about ten or eleven years ago. I remember his marriage with
the present Mrs. Cox. I lived in their service about eis,or sestets
years after their marriage. During thou sex or seven years Mr.
and Mrs. ('nx lived very happily indeed together. They appeared
to he mutually attached, indeed very much so. When I ret.trued
btheir service they were Laing at ‘Vandswerth. They then sp-
zeedr to be living on the same turns as before. They came to
• in London after that : it nes about six or seven YTearsoleos
v went to resitkolesislaltakitain. They afterwards lived In
Wellington.street, Weterintiallkidge. I remember 31e. Cox has.
ing an accident of breaking a rib ; it was in the year 180. They
then resided in Wellington stmt, Mr. Cox was in the country
when the accident happened. I remember Mrs. Om giving use J
kilter for !Ile Kean; she also gave me a letter fur my master, but
not on the same day, it was a few days previous. I 'Ai to keep
the letter fur Mr. Cem in case he should come home before the .
Thursday following,—if he came home after Thursday / was to
tell hint that nay 'Murree Wss gone to see Mile Warwick,
and I Wee not to deliver the letter. I waste order a chaise to awns
on Monday evening, at seven o'clock. to the hone at Wellington.
street. Mrs. (ox left in that chaise ; I saw the chaise go off; it
was ordesed Logo to Sal.hill. She returned the Saturday evening
following. When she came back from Salthill she gave me the
letter I have just spoken of for Mr. Kean • I took it to him, and
he came to the house in Wel:ingtomstreet between ten and eleven
o'clock on the name Saturday night. 31r. R. Phillips was with
him. dir. Phillips visa a gentleman whom Mr. Kean called bra
secretary. Mr. Phillips only remained about half an hour, 111 r.
Kean staid all night. I received instructions from Mrs. Coe as to
the room Mr. Kean wss to occupy. I was ordered to make up a
bed for him in the room next the drawing-roots ;—it was a spare
room. 'When 31m. Cox was going to rest that night, she told toe
that when nay master came I was to look out of the window before
I went down to the door ; and said to me, " For rilod's sake don't
let me be caught !" I wee to knock at the bed-roam door when
Mr. Cox came ; at that door where Mr. Kean was to sleep. Mr.
1 Keno's servant cause the next morning,—it was one of his dusters $
he brought a note directed to my mistress.
The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE—That MIS ate? Mr. Keen trio
gone !away ?
Witness—Nn, my Lord; I went and knocked at Ids bell.reom
door; n:y mistress got out of the bed. unlocked the door, end took. .
the note; she sent me down to know who brought it y I mare up
and maid it was Mr. Kean's servant. Mr. Kean was then lying in
I bed, and my mistress wee standing by the bed-side ; she had her
gown on, but no shoes. I was present on the occasion that Mr.
Cox looked for papers in nly.naistrees's drawers. I saw him find
'some papers; he lotted them ins huh; cabinet which was in his .
own bed-room, and which belonged to my mistress. This was a
Imig time after the above circumstances had ()mined I it was when
Mr. Cox lived in Hart-street, and after Mrs. Cox had left him ;
one day after that circumstance took place.
Cross-examined by Mr. SCAIILETT.—I lived with Mr. and
Mrs. Cox in the capacity of housemaid when I first went into their
service; but for the last three years I was the only female servue
they kept. I did not live with hie. Cox at the time a gentleman
was found in my mesterei:a dreaming-room ; I was with my master
when he aid Mrs. Cox went to 'foamier, winch was about eight
yes :sago. I had never urn Mr. Kean at my to house before
that time; Mr. Cox had a niece lasing with bins, her name is Miss
IS'ickstead.
[fne nuke in the gallery of the Court was st this moment so
i great that the business of the Court was interrupted Mr some mi.
Metes, and the Lord Chief Justice said that unless silence was
Feserved he would instantly order the whole gullety to be cleanse,
aubromeing, thee Ise had net wish ea elms else doer, lisit dam he amid
weedier the administration of justice to be disturbed by peruse*
who came thtre to laugh.]
The cross-examination then proceeded.—Mr. ('ox has a rountre
house at Wandsworth, where 1 have seen Mr. Kean occasionally.
Tim town house was at that time to Little Britain. 3ly muter
and mistress were in the habit of going to the theatre when Mr.
Kean acted, very often indeed ; I do nor know whether they went
into Mr. Kean's box. Mr. and Mrs. Kean both came frequently
to their house at Little Britain. It is between four and tire yea?*
ago, when Mrs. Kean left otl' visiting my mistress, and m mistress
left off visiting Mr?. Keats ;I do not know the reason of their visits
being discontinued. After this my master and mistress need togs
to the theatre as before, and Mr. Keen used to come to their house
as usual. It was three or four years ago that they went to lire i-a
Wellington-street. Mr. and 3lna Co: used to accompany Mr. Kean
into the country when he went to perform at die provincial thrum;
Miss Wiekstead used to go with them on those occasions,. I re-
member on one occasion their going to Croydon, it ht :lend two
years ago. I remember the circumstance of being sent foe Mr.
Kean's servant at the house where Mr. Kean lodged. Mrs. Cote
sent me; it was about three o'clock in the morning. Mr. Keats
came to their house at ten o'clock the night preceding ; he carne in
hie own carriage ; I cannot say that my master was with him ; I
was not gorse to bed at that dme. Mr. Kean's carriage was at the
door when I went to call his servant. When the servant came, my
master and miereee, Mr. Kean and Miss Wickstead, all set out foe
Croydon. Mr. Kean drove the carriage, and my master, mistress,
and Mies I,l'. went inside ; my master came back again the same
morning between six and seven o'clock. My mietress arid Miss
Wickstead remained behind. Mr. Kean did not retorts with my
master. My master went down to Croydon again the same nigin,
and on the next day all four came bock to town. I mean my teas.
ter and mistress, Miss Wieketead and Mr. Kean. I do not re-
member nay maw.er cooling home late one night with 31r. KM&
when my mistress was in bed. Mr. Kean came by himself two or
three times, in the course of the period when they lived in Welling •
tots-street, and celled them out.
[Here the noise was renewed in the gallery by the pressure of OA
crowd, and by persons outside endeavouring to get in. His lesrd•
ship looked towards the spot whence the noise proceeded, and said
something in an undertone about sending the sheriff to do his
duty. Mr. Scarlett replied to him, also in an nndertone, that it was
occasioned by the intereetirg nature of the cause, and of the anxiety
of the people to hear it..]
The erossersatnination continued.—When Mr. Kean called wet.
were all in bed. My mistress once on those ocessiems got ma ; my
master got up on each of the times that 3ir. Kean ailed so late. I
di n't know whether, when my naiedeas got up, AO '
Kean's, company ; I never went into the parlour on those
I was sot desired at any such time to prepare supper.
remained there. when her milieus got up, till the ties
it was about one or two o'clock when tie came to the I
not remember nay mistress getting up more than once
sat up with Mr. Kean the remainder of the night
(-idlest. It was in the winter season when my mistress
Croydon, but I du not know whether it was in January.
remember that on theltight when they wrist to Croydon. -
.Mr. Kean came, that my mistress came down stairs i-
. Lap, and ordered ane to get a supper. She was not e.
cap, that I sun certain of, when she ordered me to go t.
Kean's servant. it was in Spring, 13e3, when they went
hill, during the time nay master lived in Wellingtoroatreet.
K -an had slept in the house three or four times before the sa'
winch he went to Croydon. and when my muter was at hoe
lead also frequently slept in the house at I.ittle Britain
visits of 3lrs. Cux and Mrs. Kean had ceased. On th
that Mr Kean slept there last, my nstsucss certainly a.
I me, " For God's sake don't let me be caught." I suspected _
she was about. but I did not know anything of my own ktinwledge,
nor did I ever know it from my mistress. I have seen " Kean
I and dies. Cox alone together, not often, about two or '
I did not think there was anything improper then ; I
suspicion Limn the letters that used to pass between ..
Ail suspect my listless before Mr. Kean slept there
always very emit s, particularly after Mr. Key! became
with her. I tttsßrave said that I thought one ae tan,
1.0;* sufficient tor nay edemas. but it was very latterly ..
'l' mid it. I dist not say it immellaately after I-discovered
Was with Mr. Kean. I know 3lr. it acuum ; he was -
Auk ; he Asa been clerk about a year and a half or e
goester was a bankrupt when he lived in Little'Brh
old-refiner at that time. 3lrs. Cox left my master a
amil I have nut urea her einee she left the hens?. 31.
in the house when she left ; it was in the morning wl
from the house. but I du not exactly know the hour.
stead accomproared her; hlies W. returned after being
a fortnight. It was ihe day after my mistress went tit
searched fan the papers. Miss Wicksread is now wt
my muter. It was early in the morning when my ,
for the papers. I went into his room with snipe warm
master was in his dressing-gown ; I did re stay long
lily tuna:use often went out in the evening whets my v
wilt ; seer often ; and she staved out sometimes till te
and sonatimes later. Mies Wickatetul has occasionally
with her, anti sontetinin she went alone. lily master--
out rely often. I have certainly broom nay mietreu toss
or an evening when my imager dirnel oust, but she store
. went out, and th.at mu as soon as he wax gone. sr hen •
I she cited to easier $4l the door shine. This took place 5'
lived in Wellington-street. I do not remember Mr.
toy miseries& present of a horse. I nets saw Mr.

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