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OXFORD CIRCUIT.

lIIMPOILD, MAUI 25.
CRIM. CON.

TUTPIII •owe OWTIIVII. RIP. V. SACIVILLI

FILUDIMICIL GWYNNII, ESL

This ea►e has excited an extraordinary degree of
interest throughout the county of Hereford. among
persons of the highest rank; and haying been Axed
for trial this morning, the Court was crowded in
eve►y part at an early hour.
The declaration stated, that the Defendant had
had criminetconversation with the Plaintiff's wife.
The Defendant pleaded Not Guilty. The damages
were laid at Twenty Thousand Pounds.
Mr. JERVIS stated the cave, at subsequently de-
tailed in the evidence. The Plaintiff was the son
of as gentlemen of great respectability, who resided
at Buckland, in the county of Brecon. The De-
fendant, Mr. SackvilleGwynne. was his fleet cousin,
the representative of the family of the Owynnes, of
Glatibran, and loomed of one of the largest
estates in the comity, of the value of nearly 6,0001.
• year. He was also Colonel of the Carmarthen
Local Militia. The Plaintiff married his present
wife in the month of J une, 1809. He was then 30.
His lady was 23. She was young, beautiful, ac-
complished, and of a noble family. daughter of the
late Lord Hereford, and siert to the present Lord.
It was a match founded in affection. The Plain-
tiff took her almost without a portion. Her fortune
was only 1,5001. in respect of which he settled upon
lier .500/. a year. They settled originally in the
neighbourhood of the PlAintiff's father. where they
resided fa seseral years iii the enjoyment of perfect
felicity. She then expressed an anxious desire to
be settled in the neighbourhood of her Noble bro.
ther. The Plaintiff sacrificed a great part of his

lOrtissie to gratify this wish, orid he purchased a
beautiful residence called Ilandovery, within a
short distance of Lord Herfurd's, wheie he resided
mini that painful occurrence took place, which
led to the pelt inquiry. The distance of Ilan-
duvet), front the residence of the Defendant was
thirty miles. Notwithstanding this distance, how-
ever, their visits were very frequent. On those oc-
casions the Plaintiff ens accompanied by hit wife,
cud the Defendant, in returning the visit, by his;
for be wan a married man and the father of not
fewer than nine children. In consequence of the
purchase which Mr. Thynne Gwynne had made, he
found it necessary to make frequentiournirs to Lon.
don, in order to menage the contract:lt was observed,
doling these absences, and particulary at the latter
rod of the year 1916, that the Defendant was a
little more frequent in his visits at the Plain-
tars house than he h..d before been ; but as,on most
of these occasions, he was accompanied by his wife,
the suspicious of the Plaintiff were never excited,
It happened in the month of April, 1816, rot one
of the occarsions when Mr. l'hyritie Gwymie was in
sown, and when his lady was upon ii visit at the
house of the Defendant, that an occurrence took
place which excited lynch of painful feeling. Mrs.
Thynne Gwynn* had been there in company with
wetly other visitors. She remained fur a coati-
drivable time longer than any ether of the guests,
having been sanuogly solicited by Mr. Sackville
Galrtilit to defer her departure. It was at length
settled that she should return home on the 3d of
iMay. Ott 0* awning previous to her departure
from the house of the Defendant, the Defendant
was observed to come into the room when the ladies
were together, and to hand to Mrs. Thysine Gwynne
a newspaper. Mrs. Sackville Gwynne either taw, or
suspected she saw, a note delivered with the news-
paper
to Mrs. Thyniw. Gwynne. She hastily de-
the paper, which was immediately given
into lier land. She then demanded the note which
she suspected hail been delivered by her husband;
but lie (Mr. Jervis) believed this suspicion was un-
founded; however, such was its effect at the moment,
that upon Mrs. Thyme Gwynne denying that she
had seem any note, Mrs. Starkville Gwynne struck
her II blow, and called her an adulteress ! The fact,
as it occurred, was communicated by letter to the
Plaimiff, at that time iii London ; lie rooducted
'himself still the utmost possil.le delicacy. The
first pelvon whom he consulted was the person
whose honour was most deeply interested, namely.
jhe brother of the lady. Lord Hereford. Its con-
sequence of this the Plaintiff, with the Noble Lord,
proceeded to the house of the Defendant, in order
to get au explauation of what had happened. They
were accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Cheater), who
had married a Pieter of the Plaintiff's wife. The
investigation which took place on that occasion ter-
imitated by Mrs. Sackville Gwynne signing the fol-
lowing declaration :
t, Mary Asap Gwynne, the wife of Colonel Sackville
(;.wine, of Cimarron Park, in the Comely of Caermortbee,
do hereby declare, that my late cooduct towards lira
Gwyeue, of Lanigan, war UMW unwarrantable, inasmuch
as drat I had Inver any just cause for the aspersioos 1 east
'soma her chancier; and I moat solemnly declare, that I
think her perfectly innocent of the impropriety of conduct
which I imputed to her, sad that I had no foundation what-
ever for the charges 1 made against her.
" MARY ANNE GWYNNE.
" Dal ed, Map 11, 1817
(Winans) " THOMAS M 66666 L, Capt. Royal Navy.
J. B. CMS/TOIL"
Captain Mansell hsppened to he accidentally
present. After dais the Jury would not wonder at
the Plaintiff eeeeiirg Isis wife into his arms, and
restoring her to his entire affection. The parties
did not visit at each other's houses after this ; hut
they met at the houses of mutual friends. They
met at public places, and Mr. Sackville Gwynne,
the Defendant, paid all those attentions to the
wife of the Plaintiff. which their former intimacy
and near relationship fully warvantwl. Things
coutinued is this state from the mouth of May
down to the 13th of October in the same year,
when a moat extraordinyry ooterrence happened.
On that day a fellow was obsessed lurking about
Llandovery. He went to a Weber's shop in the
neighbourhood, and asked where he could see Mrs.
Gwynne? He was told, if lie wished to see Mrs.
Gwynn', he had better go up to Llandoverrlsouse.
He went to Llandovery, hut instead of going im-
mediately to the house, he still lurked about. He
was at length seen by some of the servants, who
asked him what he wanted. He said he wished to
see Mrs. Thyone Gwynne. Mrs. Gwynne was not
in the house, and be was repeatedly asked his bu.
sines., but he declined telling it. Suspicion at
length arose in the servants' minds, and he was de-
tamed till Mr. Tbynue Gnomes who bad been out