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Pefendaat•tholl„ thie),Rekerent server intend to act in helped, where this Deponent thee resided ; and that
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i' any unfriendly mapiher toilets him "bat instead of eking Lady Westmeath having discueered that the first deed of
6"Y exPlaleltion ,io.• quiet iand proper manor., the Defend- reparatioa bad bee* destroyed by the.Deferdanti isforameg
ant, on the,eveatng of GoadlEridaydoett billowieg, imbed this Deposes' thereof ley letter, which left* this De punent , ile I
' •iolenitly isle the roomahemthe Depresent was siting' with communicated to the Defendant, and at the same time ex. 10 at:
bre family with hia hamlet cleached and lifted op, so as cum• premed whet this Deponent could not help fiteltsji al the near P.
'pleb], to alarm the ladies who were then in the room, and Defendant's coadoet; but this Depoorat declares, that there Prmrac
in a •iselumt and its suing altitude demanded of this DP. was nobler in the tone or language of Lady Westmeath's Chariot
pollen, if he had received any thing out of his, the Daeud. letter caleelded to excite alarm fur leer health, sew, to the Earl of
. • ant's, house; upon which this Diverse'
replied" My Lord, best of ibis Ostrameasta knowledge and belief, was the De. of Will
lam not iei the least afraid." And this Deponent avers and (cadent solicited to execute another deed; bat that the. pro-
Jemlares that he did not use the word.," lam ready to meet posed originated with himself; and this !blames" said', that
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' , yore whenever you please," nor words to that or the like rode was the &pawed contritioa of the Defendane fur the act
14 ' efert, as slated in the affidavit of the raid Defeteulant, and of which he had beets guilty, and such his eageroess to return
ihee deponent al the same time informed the said Defendset to England to execute another deed, time it was with cond.
• sue the eiressmstanees alder which the property was sent to &rabic difficulty this Deponent succeeded is persuading the Mee.
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I 1 t ...I.llnee. And this Deponent further with, that shortly Defendant to delay his departure from Ir. laud fur a few days, at Nee
-"ter /TIP Defendant called upon this Deponent and 'polo. but at length his impatamce prevailed, mad he left Ireland of idea
Y•,..1 for his *intent combo-, at the said last-mentioned for Beaumaris, having first written to Mr. fiheldue to pre. Paul-st
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',touting, observing, that hr was a very nervous man, /mil pare • new deed, and si•tieg that he should rennato et and her
stem what appeared to he heat 11.1110.11( to his being nervous, Beauasaris till Mr. Sheldon should inform him that the deed at the I
i l • F ,q,,,, which the Defendant end this Deposita shook hands was ready fur signature; and this Deponent further saith,
noel parted as friends; and this Deponent further oath, that the repugnance which the Defendant describes himself •
I that a few Jays afterwards this Deponent went to Ireland to have felt to the measure, is quite at vmriaace with the ap-
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seed had no cowasnuniration with the Defendant till the parcel risecerity of the professions he then made, of beret
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accidental meeting in the street mentioned iu ibis Dime. desirous to muse to Lady Westmeath fur the irjeries be had ago chi
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4 Hers former affidavit, she" the Defendant in a percent y done her ; and this Deponent further rattle, that daring the
and violent wanner required this Deponent to rostra- Defendant'' stay in Roscommoo, he compleimed that the said of •ye
• dirt certain statements or °hew/mations of. his Counsel, H. W. Wood did not write to hum, and that uu corre. the Me
I. ns reported in The Globe Newspaper, soil which state. spemdence tusk place 'lemma them, to the knowledge or The'
meat* or observations tilos Deponent knew bid% from the ad- belief of Depoteot, until after the Di-readmit had an. lame" I
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massive.* of the Defendant himself and from the farts which matured lass Meetings of meeting a sew deed ; and Hoene.
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, have come en this Deponent's knowledge from the toter. this Deportees is fully persuaded, from all the circa.- The.
11l i earroe which stibaisted between him sad the family, were stances which have come to his kuowledge, that the eat- virility
eahmantially true; and this Deponent further maids, that the ration of the emend died a opeendoe was act, as the De.. ratio]: I
chair, ads-unrest egoism ulna Depooent of siding nod abet- ftudant alleges, in coosequenee of Mr. Wood's representa. the ma
• tear mimes personas in bringing action• against the Defeo. liens, but that it was the Defeo/lanes own voluntary set; wag apt
~asst for debts due from Lady Westmeath is utterly no- and this Deponent lastly repeats lee conviction that she its. and ed
✓osineled, fur this Depoorot solemnly
• urged or advised any person to such a pruceediug, sod that in nor improper, that in every hortaace which came under the ur 4
the action to which the Ds fendant alludes, this Depoiseut was observation of Deponent, Mr. Wood always acted the in Lek
Vmhpiromed to attend this Honourable Conti as a witness in part of a sincere, steady, end disiateresied friend, the healer great
the rause, but this Deponent positively aaith that lee never and nut the maker of breaches, always endeavouring to pet.
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veered she Plailet.ffs so institute or proatente the said action, veld .ao open rupture between the Defendaat and bis wife, !mute
/nor ever saw either of them until after Dec had received no aid that in various ways he assisted the Deft/ideas', •ted had
tree from the attars. y of the PleiutillS to attend ; and this I trebled him wish the kilotons, of • father, es the Defendant lately '
De rim's' denies that he was astierly enraged as a partisan himself was luug is the habit of ackaowledging. cold ati
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with the said attorney for the Militia... for un the contrary WILLIAM STEPHENS. had to
item Deponent sieve, saw the attorney sill that morning, when Strom, the. the 29th of April, 1821.
• he addre.sed this Deponeot by inquiring if Depotienes name more e.
'was Wood. lake. he rhe was not a trustee to Lord and Lady The affidavits of Mies Wood end Win. She ldou, El. cos. Priacei
Westmeath's deed of separation, awl what this Depuneut iroborated the facts stated in the preceding affidavits. coveter
mow id prove in the business then coming before the Court ; After the affidavits bad been read— imposes
and this I> policed further site, that he never advised Sar.le The SOLICIT011•G .. tantrum/eel that his client ought Poor I'
Nitelieue. or any other witness, to tome leeward, and that fo have as opportunity given of answering them. He af. fair J...
Alma Welhm, who freight' with this Deponent as a firmed that be could have the affidavit of Lewd Nugent tea sow, .1
! rompanitot to his maid daughter, who is unmaeried, at eilited l most impurtaat fact. The
by virtue e a subareas, and rot from any permasion of thjs Mr. SCMILITT objected that it was contrary to all the the Me
si 1 ; oi:were' ; and this Deponent most solemnly denies tha he rules by which the Court governed its proceedings, now to Ham to
1 pro...ewer, VIM information wilt a view to (ogee the Defeo. admit further affidavits of the Wroclaw, by which she mat- par mil
data into enneemio. ato hie wife: sod he positively with that ter might go MI from Teim to Term, in order that the Do. the Pr
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he hue. nothitor of the propositions which the Defendant fendant might have the last word.
mentioets as having proceeded from the Marchioness of Sa• The Marquis of Westmeath said, that it was to one Magi
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bailor', and cannot anal.. r why they were not carried tutu point only he wished to be allowed to ans•er. By aceideist have ye
• . t effect, but their re jert • lid not influence the prosecution of he had found yesterday among his •paper. • uote from Lord Pries
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this information, Nor the Dersinent's resolution upon the soh. Negro, which aelniiited that conversation to have taken Worshi
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Pet of bringing up the Defendant for judgment ; and this Place which Mr. Wood now drond Magi
ll'etfirwrit fuith.r mills, that in the ammo. rs which lie has Mt. fle•at.err said, that it could not be proper or mien. 'Ames
made to the charges so onjostly brought against him in the slaty to adopt the course contended for by the Solieteur- Prise]
Detiodant's said affidavit, thin Depoiieni has Onsleataineed to General, it went to impute perjury to Mr. Wood, and the
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✓enal', himself to a plain Waimea of the part he has always ordinary means of a prosecution were open to the Noble The
resod, never having haul soy iseeeemat whaireer in fomenting Marquis if lie thought lit to adopt them.
or prolonging the oohs ppy Jiff. reveres between the Deregulate After some further discussion, the COURT Ultimately de-
o sod hi+ wife. but hatriog, on the contrary. always fell the cited, that it would be proper to adhere to their ordinary
•trongeat wish to reconcile and mafiosoe them, aiel to pre.. praceice, which was against the Defender,' better allowed to
himself • common friend, a mediator, and a v nil, rain.
Sworn, &c. HENRY WIDMAN WOOD. Make Nether affidavits, those which the Prosecutor had
filed nut exceeding die bounds of reply.
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The affidavit of the Rev. William Stephens, sew iesidieg „n Mr.wh
ScAittrrr then rose, and adverting to the discus-
kb had just closed, regretted that his Learned Friend
at Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester, clerk, stated should have hero ioduced by seal for the cause of his A "
client to lend the *auction of his great a•thurily sad I gotescil
etrail he loath read a cop, of an affidavit made by the Mat. client
to propose • course incusesisteut with the usual i held 0
guts of Wertaneatb. sod filed by in this Honourable Court,
1111 the lath slay of February hat past, sad in which said affi.„ course and ordinary ends of justice, and it had been lat thre
.lisle the said Defendant has entered into a violet) of SI•11... his painful deity to resist that COS'S", for which he . ,Hole r
had no other motive, but that the rules laid down by their , •
. meats, designed to abet/ that Henry Widmaii Wood, Esq.
lorthibipa' prederestiors might matins the same to all man. "1, IN
old his daught. r haul been instrumental in causing a felts.
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ration between him wad his sit... the Marchioness of West- kind. It watt now bis painful duty to press for the judgmeat
meeth, and ;n otherwise &sterols 5, in parr, his Falwell of of the Court against the Noble Deelrodeot, use the part oft , Mende.
domestic rebel's. And this Deponent most solemn'," de_ 7 gentleman advanced in life, who. for a groat personal impale, I been ii
three hoe. conviction and belief that the charge (nought sought
the proteetioe of the Court. Is the, affidavits vehicle : ntoit At
against Mr. Wool, of improper told officious meede,enee in Ihe had filed, in order to do himself justice, e had, wieh ee. 1
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the family affairs of she Defendant,. lord paiticulmly show eniplary moderation, •abstained from speaking of the truth or . I'. 1
4; oriels concerned himaelf soil his wife, is w ithoat airy fain. falsehood of the statement un which the Noble Defendaat I llOna •
lotion. He, Mi. Deponent, having been „ma to the De„ I had grounded bus outrageous conduct, and hied simply said I ITII
tendant from November 1815 lilt May 1819, hail many up. that Mr. VV.-there!l had made the statement on the authority ! distort
pnriterities of wituessaag the past Mr. Wood Ito k is Use I of Lady Westmeath, which he could not control. The case had : that a
is. rend,„e, affairs omit the separation in mg; and this I esenened, from the attack made in the affidavit filed by the .
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Noble Defendant,* most atriums shape. The Learned COMO.
Deponent selemely declares, that in au inatance that fell
set proceeded to •wmadvert In severe term, on the coastal twising
i ,tibin this Deleon al's ktioo ledge, did Mr. Wood interfere,
eteept as a mediator, &tweet' the Delft pilaw and his of the Noble Defendant, i• dragging Alias Wood tato the , the fun
•,- / wife, sod that this int..,r,,,,,,.. invead of bring idfi. dispute, and ridiculed flit idea of a I°°oll lady, *etesie"l ! The C
1 Cu,,,,,,sass lei %might slid foi red from him by the De- 1 years of age, having any influence seer the mind of a all th.
s - that der- marri. d lady of toenty two. Nothing hat the despond- I Iwo of
_ t fendoit Awl this D. poss eu further Loth,
joy the route ti.,l, d Lord IVestihratis repeatedly called ing fancy of the Noble Lord, which had led him to ma. e,, ,
and to ! Carr 1'
•ik 11r. Wood the glamor a Lis (Amity, slerlareil that he ralrnlate every thing which related to Ma wife,
hail &me wiiiii!ora IP r..1.0'1(111112: Lady weamealli to him, : view every fact through toot dietorted medium, road hare and B.
pm) said 1,... et Ate NI I,e op:!1,t t„ I,e sir having such a so misled him. He (Mr. Searlett) repelkd milli insliguatio• •
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. from.% v Ili, bari.11:111.111/11 1.',11 Is ben ile•ei trd by vv. ry other, the charge of ingratitude whir h had been attempted 1., be tied. t
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1 ! , with limey eapreseome L. the s tole . haves. bud this D. po• fixed on Mr Wood in hie Lordship's affidavit, becauee ; thin I
thisonth, Lady Westmeath had introdueed Mips Wood into ;
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views further smith, that the Defendreat held tlue SMILII! 1411.
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company. As if Mr. Wood, a gentleman of characier and ;
pow a. nue Depoeent roncemnierg Ilium Wood, the ilatielitur
f tire Aid HenryW. W.ped ; expressed else mat favour. ruddier, rtquircd inch aid to enable hien properly to h.- i aid he
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&de opinion of her E./1,41 pear, temper, and discretion, sued produce his daughter. The Counsel then adverted to the 1 worthy
. , s so far from considerneg Miss Wood as cualribueing to their facts of the ease as staled iu the affidavits, mid coo. by the
. i • einhappiseem, declared that she was insirtawsental in ream- lemird that 'herr sever was a cam of more unprovoked Mho.
%; 11 outrage. nor sue which more imp. ratively called upon • A a
oiling the differences between him mid les wife. Aud as la
the Defendant*, anaertiose that a meeting took place at his the Court to pass a
' any Jiff.* ''''' existed where • person of rank and ("mine tended
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hues" in ISIS, at which Ilse said Mr. Wend 51, es. Sheldon,
offended she law, that difference operated only to his dumb glut
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unnalliwg cranes,* was then extorted from him, sad amino
totem a paper was le est dy drawn up, which he was compelled rank not only was nu prolectiou, but was an aggraratiou a .
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- ..' I ear sign, tool the tereentriticro fleas Mr Wood had (more. dui" "ff""'• ed. 1
"toed in snob eumpulnion, this Deponent has to slate the Mr. MYNA' followed on the same sAe,,,, Met
following facts, tic. that he, this Deponent, was clue way I The SoLterroa G .AL then rose aid addressed the their i
other lemon }resew. I giving attended as the D. rend,,,,,,. Covert on behalf of the Margot. of Wi•sitnroth is an able and steed t
ewe', for the sdpi,p„. 4 ~t. shearing what waist...nee he eloeseut speech. He caw-sided, that from lbe rheum-
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tont,' afford to end, vp,,,,,,,,,th in the neone",o„ ti,„ et. stances as they WWI?, the feelings of the Noble Pet...emelt ''•
ready agreed (space ...4ton Deponent mist,. (hut re,,,i_ omit have been to the highest degree Irritated, and, from Si. 3a.
~. the then state of Ins intormation, be might•efisemeably be with
eerily to rush meet. • • Westmeath sheaved ibis Dep.- p
1.,1 to believe that the Ptosecutor had been misehieemesly One ur
went • prints,: awl pecution of the deed of se-
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.1 so h„,,,. ,„, this Der,. beteg/es/leg tie aggravate the unfurtunate disposes which /twill
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„. dpipn„. $1 y and ob„ existed between him and his Lady. Placed In such "1/•6"
11‘.. ...„.mop of mar., a 4„,r„...saida„ this Depatie„t fag irritating, such goading cireomstattem, he traded "tow .•
.1,, .5111,,dentde. the .4 sni ,f ~,,,,,,,,,,,,e wen eel Loidrhipe would feel that Lord Westmeath had already sof. merit,'
•" 'hereupon hastily dr it up." he; that the mete had freed much, and that a nominal punishment wuald be ell %Wend
'been previously prep/fed 1.7 Mr. thieldent. as this Defeo. that the Civet would think proper to Millet. - suet al .
muse, vam informed an believes., by Lord Weirtatemb% mos. • Mr. fiaotaonew and Mr. Baootalcn shortly addressed lottottlet
'Sent ; aid this D.• pared admits that the Defeedast es. de Court on the same side.
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10. lewd press sane dogners at the meaeme, and la cease. The Marquis of Westmeath, whilst their Lordship. • were ~ ..
„, mewore the words' whir+ stated that the separation tout to deliberation, begged, before Irby passed seeitoice, to br ,".'"
•1] k pteee-by their mensal desire, ...re erased ; soil this Dere. indulged with one word. It 'Mudd be hilt one word, or he "re n
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) ri• "1 aerie, OW Lae ,*Westmeath ti ,* estmeath was as rattiest as Load 'should be most nogrulefol to his Counsel, for whose eloquent gebtle
~ estmesith wee one Witte that the se Aral should take and able appeal he was highly obliged. But it oasts. a point (Edia
p..re, but ibis Deponent positively sail h, that the said Mr. which they did not know that be wished to speak. It bast
Wood took no part in the discussion, hut actually refused been imposed to him that Lady Westmeath left his home is
I to give •nopinitan when applied to for that purpose by the conseque oce of his vindeoce. His children hod been t•hen The
Defendant; sad this Determent forger moth' that although sissy' sad when he inquired after them he was •inewerid
1 the Defendant sasses in lop said affidavit that Mr. Wood with tavola, and he was finced to seek them by menus Chant
wa. at dm IMenetent's desire named a trustee to she deed of a writ of Habeas Corpus. A dim-ewe/ea did lake
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of oparseion, tint from any peromal wish, but because lady pace in the Loud Chancellor's &amber, but at that "Wm'
Westmeath desired it, yet this Deponent sotensuly avers, that time not a word of violence was mentioned. The lave 11111
ii the realm. Ilse Defeatism' assigsied hi this Deponent's hearing Marchioness of Salisbury was there to protect the its- hollow
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nautthat ieg Mr. Wood as • trotter was, otherwise he teresia of her daughter, but she told his Lordship that she of the
obliged to deselose ihe unhappy state of hes family would not be a party in keeping ehildme from their father.
god Jails se a meander; and as es the Defendases state. The Loan Cities Juterlea—ra My bated Westmeath, you In
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that venue. consuleations were held between the and will atieud the Court again to-asurrow, to receive jadig. wageless
He soy W. Wood, William Sheldon, sad Lady Westmeath, 41iFill."
the mouth of Amgen, 111111, silk a view to prevs•
In 11late lhe Dc(e.dasst the lima' It
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'Lowed to the Court sod withdrew. stilts,"
• i to execute • second deed of separatioe in bee of the former
the lig,
,„. • ' i woo which lee bad *really destroyed, sad deal in none•
twiner of the reptmeneatioas made by them, he was A very interesting sale is announced in tile frontout)'"
pomaded eas to itto am, though cemetery Ifs his radios. ef bur Paper. It ei the sole of the library, furor- a cone
gesisteas, &Deka, Derwsrwidam
was to
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nuelleatet tote. plate, and pun' tinge, -of Weagead Mouse, to poutoi
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