The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-19 00:00:00

MRS. HENRI' BARING.

[From entbetrt Register).
It is now twenty-six years, or thereabouts. since I tau het
(.Irs. Baring), in her native town of Philadelphia, a place
;bit
for the soft and beautiful features of its women, and she was
;bit
deemed the n.ost beautiful of the beautiful. Bey features weft the
sweetest that my eyes MITT beheld ; and she was, all taken envoi,
the most perfect beauty that I ever had seen, or that I bare ever Rt.:
since. Sau know, Sir, that the laws of the petticoat (inure pmn
ful than those of the • omnipotent' House) restuire that we upt,;
such occasions, except our own wives ; tu.d till* I hereby d,„
obedience to that law.

During the cross-examinations, the witnesses were asked whetbe
Mrs. Baring had ever been married before she was married to X,.
Baring? No positive answer was given to this; and an insieu,
lion seemed to lurk under the question. The truth is, thee. 0,
she was marital at Philadelphia, when she Wll5 not more,
should think, than fifteen or stateen years of age. The LlStOry
the marriage is this :
Mr. Bingham, the lady's father, wbo was one of the rich..
men in the country, lived In Philadelphia, where he kcpt a bout;
more like an English Lord than like a Republica.) cituer,. H.
entertained ali the Noblemen and Gendemen, from };nail; e
and from France, and, indeed, from Eat;' , who visited PL,I.„
delphia. The Dukes* de Noallles and Liancourt, the prfte.
Duke d'Orleans and his brother; and, in short, all the Ni6lis
and Gentlemen who visited that city. 3!rs. Bingham was a V!ry
beautiful and accomplished woman : so that the house of SIT,
Bingham, who was a Senator of the United States, was really by
far the drat house in the country.

Amongst the foreigners who, at the time here alluded to, visited
at 31r. Bingham's, was a I ount de Tilly, a French emigrant No.
Diemen. Ile was about 22 years of age. I should think, and the
younger 31iss Hingham (now Mrs. Henry Hamlet was, I should
suppose, about Iti. The Count was not what a man would think
ray handsome ; but women do not see men with men's eyes; tad.
besides, he talked well, was very gay, had a good deal of wit, aei
(I'll be bound for him) very ardent (a prime quality), and the bare
sight of him would make you swear that he never thought of a loss
in his life, except, indeed, as borrower.
Nothing but what was very natural took place between these
parties. The Count was par; consent of turtles was out of the
ques:ion. The lady escaped treun her father a house. They were
privately, but lawfully, married in the evening; and that they ;IA
not sit up to wait for their pursuers you will readily suppose—
Those Flamers got at them, however, before morning ; . and a
party in great fierce, under the orders and in the peevenea of at
uncle of the lady, took her and carried her by actual compulsion lo
her father's house.

I, at that time, published a daily paper in Philadelphia. The
Count came to me to make his complaint, bringing me a wrings
statement of all the facts for me to publish ; and I did publish it
' Before the publication was out, however, the above mentioned
uncle, whose name was Richard came to me to begrime
not to publish the Count's statement. I knew 3lr. Willing a vizi
deal better than I knew the Count ; but the former did not deg,
any part of the Count's statement, and therefore I published it.
here now took place one of those things that have made me die.
like Republican Government. The Count endeavoured in vain is
get at his wife. Some creditor of the Count soon put him into pd.
son. Ile got his release upon condition, as I was told, of quitting
the country ; and (hear it. Jerry Bentham !) that famously banns
and pure body, the two Rouses of Assembly, and the Governor of
Pennsylvania, setting all law at defiance, passed ar. Act to send
the marriage I Could this hays been done in England, Frame,
Spain, Austria, or in any State in the whole world except Pennsyl.
rune ? Never was there a more impudent piece of tyranny me.
tiled upon the face of the earth ! And do we not now behold the
fatal consequences ? llr. and NI rs. Bingluen are not dead; but it
is likely that Alr. Richard %Villing is alive; and if he be, what
must be his sorrow, especially when he reflects how happy his Meet
might have been with the husband of her first choice! I cement.
bey that, when I remonstrated with him. he exclaimed, "Why,
Cobbett, the fellow's a !rms." " Well," said "but ha (a.
ther has motley enough. Alas! what has resulted from bring;iog
her to England, and marrying her to a rich husband !