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NEKAIAMAIM ITTEE.

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" The Sub-Committee have legato the astivfartion to meet the
°ewers' Committee with their Report upon the &fliers of the Cmn-
pany, which :hry submit as a brief iumsnavy of the arrangement
of their concv-rne which have tate° place awe the hat Lima-rid
Assembly.

" The'Report will be confir...ed by the productioa of the accounts
which have been regularly audited by Mr. (Oakley.
" They have the satisfactiow to state, that the lent due from the
lessee has hem tre:ularly raid in addition to which, be has made
the deposit, provided by the lease, of 2,0t1a1., towards the tent
fur the enstriag year.
" The riub-l:ummittee dram it necessary also to &merge, that
by the supplies of new stock, the lessee has not only maintained the
tabu of the wardrobes, scenery, &c. equal to the t.nwate worn
delivered into his hamls, but coosiderably norreased it and
the best proof of the general Improvement of the property by
the alterations of the Theatre is fogad the patronage of the
public, who have rewarded the imielwise of the Lessee by a sue-
armful season.

" The New Ramer'. whose annuity of Is. 3d. per night eon..
mental on the let of Oct'lJer !Mt, hare Revived the amount from
the Sub-Committee through titer trustees, Turton, Est.
lowtieltl, and Snodgrass, to whose account the sante has been paid.
by regulated instalments, into the lituaking !louse of Messrs.
itautout and Co.

•• The first buitalment of the bondholders, directed by the
Act of Parliament to be made in the present month, amount-
ing to 3,41111. es. M., was paid in anticipation on the Ist of
October last, in order to care to the Proprietary une year's interest
thereon.

" The Sub-Committee had long contemplated efrecting an
additional security against lire to the propiser entrumed to
their rare, whenever the hinds of the Theatre would admit.

"They have accordingly erected, at a very considerable ex-
prose, • tank at each extremety of the huiltling, calculated to
contain a auflieient quantity of water to extinguish fire in the re-
motest part of the Theatre, should su^h a calamity take place.
" The means by which the Sub-Comntittee have boon enabled
to 'met these expenses, they submit, with great gratification, to
the General ('on • ee. It will be in their rvoilleetion, that in
the year 11119 la period at which the Theatre laboured under ex-
treme pecuniary difficulties) his nowt ferocious Majesty minden:ad-
ell to head a Subscription by a loan 01 One Thousand Pounds, in
support of a plan projected by the Sub-Committee, to disencumber
the concern. _

" This loan his Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct
should beconsidered as a contribution towards the general furds of
the Company.
" The Sub-Committee have also the satisfaction to state, that
his Royal Highness Prince Leopold has desired the same appli-
cation to he made of his subscription of 2111. f.
. . .

The Ruh-f:to ttttt ittee harem'', to suite, that the claims discovered
to be due to the various creditors In 1819, amounting to 92.01M1.'
have' by the arrangements, and a regular appropriation tat the
funds, been reduced to 27.1721. 12s. 4th.
•• In clos.ng this !tenon, the Sub-Committee have only to na-
quest the attention of the General Committee to the annual state-
ment of 110004.1151 N preparatory to its being laid before the general
tlsembly, and winch statement is now reduced to a very brief
Abstract, vi:.:—at the last General Assembly, in July, 11123, the
debt of the Theatre was 29,6141.

" The payment of the flritinstaltriendio the bondholders, made in
October last, amounting to 3,41 N. Ys. W., leaves the proem ineuni-
heance union the concern, with the addition of the interest to them
for the !sit year, at 27,i7:a. 12s. 4d., consisting of the following
items :

lboidliolders,2o,92B/. 44. Jd. ; unclaimed dividends, 1,21111/. ;
compinit'ons awarded of the late Theatre, 3,91111. ; one year's in-
terra to bondholders, 1.11161.
" And there is an available balance in the hands of the banker to-
wards the reduction of the same of 6,1*.!61. fic 7d., which, when
applied, the extent of the claim upon the concern will be
21.114 W. Ks. MI."

Mr. CAL( RAFT now nue, and avid it was not necessary to trou-
ble the meeting with aay observations. The Report was so viol'.
cit and so accurate in itself, that it cintained all which could be
said on the subject. There as a circumstance. however, which
it was at to mention : he alluded to the item of debt awarded to
person having claims against the late Theatre. This was stated
more for form make than any thing else; for he had no doubt the
Committee would never be called upon to make that sum good.
He was satisfied that the sun; might be applied to the llimidation
of the debt stated to be existing, scrumping to the present state of
things, which would thus be reduced to little more that 17,151 W.
(Maim.) According to the engagement under which the present
management was conducted, it was stipulated that the old Pmpri-
tors should not reap any benefit from the property till 1830; but
now he had great satisfaction in remarking. that they would, in all
prohatility, be enabled to attain this desirable end one year sooner,
as by that time he anticipated the Theatre would be completely
free from incunibtance. (Hear.) The lion. amleman expressed
his gratitude, in common with the other Proprietors, for the lihc-
rainy which had been exercised by his Majesty in relinquishing
his claim to the thousand , molds which had been advanced to
them by way of lust in 11119; and he thought equal gratitude was
due to his Royal Highness Niece Leopold. Hear.) Of the
lessee, ton, it was impossible not to speak in the highest terms, for
not only had lie strictly complied with all the covenants of his
agreement, but he hail gone further, and had greatly added to the
value and excellence of their property in every possible way ; and
would no doubt in the contain •, as lie had in the late, secure a sue-
I cessful season. (Cheers.) The thinness of the meeting he con-
skived as an earnest of the cohlidtoce with which die Proprietors
regarded the manner in which their interests had be n promoted.
In conclusion, the Hun. flentleman moved that the Report should
be conlirmeeL

The Report warn confirmed accordingly, and the fieneral ('urn.
inittee, the Sub-Cou ;;;; met, and the Auditor of kat year were
Mr LB. Allen and Mr. W. 11. Church were aloo elected men.
ben of the (lemma! Committee, in the room of Mr. Ricardo and
Mr. Thomas ('hurch.

Mr. Fakkowrtekn, one of the Trustees of the new renters,
eta the part of these pereons, exprrssed his gratitude to the Sub.
Committee for the manner in which they had conducted the affairs
of the Theatre, and stated his perfect confidence that this Theatre
would poem exhibit an anomaly in the history of Theatres in this
country ; namely, that it would by out et debt. Ile then moved
the following Resolution:—
" That the sincere and heartfelt thanks of the Proprietors.
Renters, and Bondholders, be oil-tied to the Sub-Committee, for
the labour, skill, Jut(' diligence they hare evinced in the arrange.
ment of the slhiirs of Drury.lane Theatre, and the meeting ven.
lures to express a hope, that they will rout nnn their labour till the
bond debt be completely extinguished, and the Theatre altogether
liberated from embarrassment."—Carried news. nm.

tivciaot KONIN4 mated, as the best proof of the in-
crease] prosperity of the Theatre, that the old shares, which were
5.441 fur 11101., were now quid fur M. and that the new renters'
snares. which were sold for 100/., were now wad for VA guineas ;
while those of Covent-garden, which paid 2s. aid. per night, which
was double the aunt paid by the Drury-lane Theatre, only sold for
3.10 guineas. This shelved on which sid.: the greatest stability was
suniusied to exist.
hr thanks of the wetting were then voted to Mr. Calcraft, and
the Illev.iag dissolved.

Reet►:w IN Ilvut PANIL.-011 Saturday morning his
Royal flights:nit the Duke of York. Commander-in-Chief,
reviewed the tat and 3d regiment" of Foot Guards. The
men were all on the ground at an early hour, and at a
quarter past ten o'clock his Royal Ilighnens, surrounded
by his Staff, entered the field ; the band immediately
struck up " save the King," and the men formed into
line and were inspected by his Royal Ilighnens; this was
follows d by the whole pasting in columns before his Royal
flightiest;; they then went through the usual evolutions
of a review with the utmost good order and rkill. The
ground was crowded by numbers of the Nobility and
(;entry, who were admitted within the lines b 7 ticket/.
Eseart Ella TIIE Farman:v.—The rule Airi obtained
in the pressiit term, calling upon Mr. ('owell to show cause
why a qua rarraato should not lame against him for der-
lining the rights and privileges of a burgess of the borough
of Iluntingskm, has been slela)rtal by mutual consent to the
first day of nest tertn.—llsolitsgdos Paper.
We regvet to sate that the calendar will be more heavy
at the cunning sssiau•s than for some time, although the
Iluarter sessions will have cleared the prison of those coo-
-1 fined for minor offences.-11sinfingdos Paper.

At the late military funeral of Captain Owen (bay, of
March, the priest gave high eli.ne • to the surviving friends!
by excluding a favourite horse of the deceased's from the
interhir of the church, where it was intended to have been
frimirlier.— • Dna. aril's News.

Most N.Ollll roit L•NGAIC—RaIph Bosom writes
from Liverpool, that he can be backed to fight Langan for
IUL in three months.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OP RINGIi 8RN1.31, SATURDAY, Jo' IS.

( Sittings after T Haig, Terme it Linden, holwe the Loin
ensix JUSTICL.)

WILLENGMC AyD ')T111:11/1 PA111,10101..

Mr. Gr RN EY setd, tht.with an action linaight by the emigneee
of Mr. Nix Ivaiwv, a bankrupt, late n h and mloywellcr,
residing at Lhathans, against the defendant ( Parsons) who ant •
pairnbmker, reviding in fl'ltllidPilitCh, to recover from him certain
goods which had been panned at his shup by the bankrupt, after
his bankruptcy.
The Jury gave a verdict tot tbe plaintiff in this sum of 70f. In ease
the pads were not given up.
t'I.VMIER V. nirxx.

This was an action by the indoosee agaiteat the drawer of tNo
bills of exchange, one for 401. and the other for 141., dated respect-
ively 27th September, 11121, and accepted by John Cash, payable
at Na 11, Sl'anifited-coutt, Throginorton.street. The declara-
tion contained a count for gouda sold and delivered, and the other
money counts.
Cheeks Hastings Bonham. clerk to the plaintiff. deposed, that,
in :Sept. 1821 the defendant came to his employer's house in lint.
I bury-street, Finshury.square, and gave an order for a toupee.
royal trolombian printing-press, at the price of 7:d., which he said
'he wished to take with him to Parts. l'he plaintiff wished to
know how the Irortor (meaning the defendant), meant to pay r
the press? The Itoctor, who wale a pair of red tniwsers, slapped
his hand on his pocket, ant! said. •• Br cash; here it is." IVitness
afterwards underetood that by " Cash" was meant, rot money. but
the acceptances of Mr. Cash. The defendant produced the hills of
exchange in qur •,ion, and said he must have a receipt for the
money. WllllOl.l remonstrated with the plaintiff' upon the integu-
larity of the transaction, and advised I tint to give a receipt
until the money wan paid. ahe doctor inquired of the plaintiff',
urine warmth, who witness was ? The plaintiff told him he
was the person whit wrote his learnt. " !" said the defendant,
" he is what we call a see,riviiir in France; but he must obey
your petters." By the plaintiff's orders witness wrote out a receipt
for 74/. which the plaintiff signed and debriefed to the defendant,
who gave him the .111/ and the 151. bills, neither of which had ever
been paid. The defeetlant represented to the plaintiff the great
service he could do him, by recertiniending him in France as one of
the greatest mad to in Europe; he had great influence with the
fluke de It ielielien. Prime 41Inister of France, and could introduce
hint to Louis XVIII. The kg& amounted truly to 451; but the
tenot;itthe of the money for wheel toe receipt was given wan to be
set off against the espense of carrying the plaint:11(o Paris in the
Ihictor's chariot. 11'itticsa believed that a, this very time the
Doctor had not a pound in hie pocket. The printing press
was regularly delivered to the defendant. who carried it to France.
Mr. 11 v n•Eir had no subisumi tat defence to oth.r ; and the Jury,
under the Learned Judge's directions. found their verdict for t!ie
plaintiff—lParnagre 751.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, SATURDAY, JULY IL

Sittings before the CHM, JUSTICE Old I CSSISION Jllry.

MUM. CON.
NOWETSETT v. ■OCILANO.

The wit,lesses in this case having been ordered out of Court,
Mr. Sergeant l'st.t. stated. that this was a ease of importance—
perhaps he might say of difficulty--eertaitily of delicacy lie
should make no overstrained statement of the facts, bat' should
confine himself to those points which were strictly necessary. Tle•
declaration, which hail not been opened, on account of the unavoid-
able absence of his Learned Friend, Mr. Jones, imputed to the de-
fendant that he had been guilty of criminal conversation with the
Iplaintiff 'a wife. The Jury would therefi.re be prepared to hear
evidence of a singular description, for all of these cases differed in
a degree in their malignancy, and in the injury of which the plain-
tiff plainest. Ile should first state who were the parties; next,
the nature of the injury ; he should then snake a few observations
with respect to tie amount of damages, and then leave it to his
brother Vaughan tn answer the ease, either by observations or col-
dence, as he should think lit. The ilaintiff was an innkeeper,
residing at the time of this unhappy transaction at Tunbridge
IVells, where lie kept the Swan Inn. The defendant livol at no
'very great distance from dial place, and carried on a sort of
einem as a gentleman farmer. Ile had formed,' been in the army,
but he hail now quitteq that occupation, and had retired upon a
fortune amply sufficient to enable I to enjoy all the comforts,
and many of the luxuries of life ; and the offeuce of which he had
been guilty was aggravated by his being himself a married man.
The plaintiff was married to the lady who was the unfortunate sub-
ject of the present action in 11112, at the parish of Elam lerinatead ;
he was then twenty.seven years of age, and had formerly carried on
businesses a spirit merchant in another part of the kingdom. this
wife was, at the time of the marriage, very young ; her age did not
exceed sixteen t.r seventeen. They lived together for some years._
and, as 1w was tild—very 'happily and respectably. Five children
had been the offspring of this marriage, the last of whont was
!beim so late as the spring of 1112.1. fhe defendant was in the habit
of frequenting the plaintiff's haute, and front time to time he re.
emitted those civilities properly due to a man of his rank in life.
The plaintiff's wile ass, at the time of her marriage, and now.
a vitamin of reminder:al le personal attractions. When the defend-
ant first determined to destroy the peace of mind arid happiness
of the plaintiff did not very distinctly appear, but it would be
seen that in August last he had taken flume than one opportunity of
degrading aid Insulting the plaintiff in the presence of his wife,
probably with the view of lessening her affection to her husband
by these ntcana. That, honorer, it would be the province of the
Jury to determine. It was, however, a feature in the cause which
would not escape their obsenstion. The defendant's conduct was
the more unjustifiable, as the situation of the plaintiff's wife ren-
dered her more liable than any other woman to the attacks of a
seducer. By the very circumstances in which she was placed, and
front the IlfenSillllll of business which might oblige her husband to
be absent, she was more assailable than the wife of any othe
traeesnian : and a man of feeling and of honour would on that very
account hare disdained to take advantage of those oppiirtunities
which were necessarily afforded by the business in which she was
engaged. Ile merely mentioned this, not because he anticipated
whet would be the defence, fur of that he was entirely Ignorant, but
IleCallge as witnesses were to be called for the defendant, he wished
them to bear in mind this, which he thought no immaterial feature
in the cause. In August last, whether owing to the opportunity
afforded by the necessary absence of the plaintiff on business, or to
what other cause it was to be attributed, he knew not, but it would
appear that sea 'Mort time she had withdrawn herself front her
home. He owed it to the defendant to say, that although he be-
lieCtli the defendant to have actually been more or less concerned
in this step, that mu distinct evidence to that effect could he offertd.
It was 110MCVIT to be observed, that this was after the insulting con-
Midi exhibited by the defendant towards the plaintiff In Decem-
ber last, it would be proved that she hail quitted her husband's
hintse in the evening, and hail remained absent for one or two hours,
not retuning till past one in the morning. How often the de-
fendant had seen her since he was not prepared to prove, but the
Jury might well Intim, that their interviews, however secret,
were not unfrequent. In the mina of March last, it would be
proved, that she had again quitted her husband's house, passed
tl gh a gap in the hedge adjoining the field, and afterwards met
the defendant, when they were perceived by two persons, whom cu-
riosity had excited, whso,had fhlloweil them. Close by Tunbridge
Wells were gremula belonging to Lord A bergavenny. and to these
grourvis they were traced. The night was moonlight, and for a
sheet time they were lust to their pursuers among the trees. They
were again discovered, however, by some rustling anteing the trees,
and they were found in a situation, which he (Mr. Sergeant Pell)
would rather leave to be described to the Jury by the witnesses than
by hint. (in their being thus diseovereti, the defendant: gave that
proof of guilt which always followed its detection, He fled, and she
was left in that dreadful state of confusion bhich naturally acemiipa.
hied the COMICi4.II,III.IIIof guilt. 11,0111 his and her demeanor, how.
ever, it was evident that that act hail been committed, on which
alone this action could he founded. The persons who would prove
this scene had not, to use the words of a high authority," grossly
gaped on," and they were therefore unable to speak to the act of
adultery having been positively committed in their presence ; but
they would state enotigh to leave no doubt that such had actually
b in the case. It would be fur the Jury to say whether, from the cir.
cumstatice• these persons would disclose, the act of adultery bed not
been committed on that night. Ile should not make any general re-
marks on this case with respect to damages ; for if hr proved what
he vies instructed would be prayed, such remarks would be little
Netter than insult to all the persons by whom he was surrounded.
The Jury were, he doubted not. hitshands and fathers; they would
be able to estimate properly the misery to which a man mist be re.
duccd who haul been wounded in his affections, and whose happi-
ness and peace had thins been destroyed. There was no Misery so
great as that which was caused by a wounded heart anti blighted
affections ; and unless the witnesses he should call should be prov-
ed to have spoken falsely, there could he no doubt that the plain-
tiff's affections had been blighted and his happiness destroyed by
the criminal conduct of the defendant. It would be shewn that the
plaintiff and his wife had formerly lived together in a state of hap•
pines. They had hail fire children, the birth of the last of whom
could hardly he accounted a blessing to the plaintiff, for from what
had taken place, he must esperience that dreadful misery of enter-
taining a doubt whether the last child was his own offspring or the
evidence of his dishonour. 'there could be no greater curse than
kw a man to entertain such a doubt, and the severest punishment
was due to him who had occasioned it. Ile was confident he should
nut he called on to reply, and he therefore asked from the Jury
such damages as were justly due to a nun who had been thus se-
trGtlslr irreparably injured.
The Kee. It. Taylor, vicar Or East Grinstead, proved the mar.
rive of the plaintiff' and his wife to have taken place on the 12th of
June, 11112. They went to Tunbridge %Vella moon afterwards.
Elisabeth Quinall-1 knew Mr. and Mrs. Honeysett. Plaintiff
kept die Swan at Tunbridge Wells; I lived there as a servant ; I
went there in INS; it was after Mrs. Honeysett's confinement ;
that was in the summer part of Mt ; they have five children ; I
don't know the age of the eldest. I know the defaimant ; he is a
gentleman. 1 suppose; I never was at his house; they say he is a
married man ; I have never heard him speak of his wife; 1 remelt).
per a quarrel in June, 182 x, between the plaintiff and defendant;
Mrs. lloneysett was there; plaintiff told her to come oat of the
bar; defendant had been there before, but I don't remember hint
to have said emitting; flee. lloneysett came out, and defendant
followed, saying, if plaintiff offered to hit or abuse her, he would
knock him down ; he then of plaintiff five sovereign to stand
against hint five minutes ; defendant said, " Curse your pout, if it
was not for the law you would not see day-light to-morrow mom.
ing." I'laintiff tack away Mrs. Honeysett ; defendant never cant-
there again afterwards ; plaintiff only said that defendant had bete
ter keep has sovereigns, for perhaps lie ...iglu want them ; about
eight or nine days emu., this, Mrs. Iluneysett left the house, and
her husband went idler her and brought her back ; they always ap.
peered to live very conifortably, except when Mr. Buckland came
there. I don't know Mo. Ilwneyeatt's ape.

Crass-examined- J hsvenever heard plaintiff say he married her
befitre she was 13 years of age, nor: that she had a child before
marria•re; I mean to swear that; I here never heard him call her
my hail names; 1 never hetnl then) quarrel until af.er Mr. Burk-
land had been there; I lived there four ior tivc need's; she left his
house; she left about four in the morning ; I never !ward Me
lioneyset .ay that he had gone before a magistrate at Canorbury,
and had promise' to treat her better. She isuinetitties slept away
r
from her husband, never with nee; they quarrelled in the her on
SlSunday and %Imda7 night ; a Sir. Everett was there on the Alan-
day night ; it was eight or nine days after the quarrel when site
went away ; site did not sleep with her husband either on the Sun-
day night no Monday nigat. When I first went she was sleeping
with the nurse. Shebat! been confined about a fortnight. She fre-
9feently 2ceway front him. Mr. Iloseysett did not kick her be.
tore Mr. tucklaa.l interfered; I was in the 11111/4110111 ; they
quenelle' there; the querrel was about her sitting iu the bar with
dlr. ; other gentlemen as well es Mr. Rockland rat in the
bar; I can't swear whether he was the oily persols sitting in the
bar that night I Mr. Honeysett did hilt threw.' in kick her out of
the bar; I can't say whet was the quarrel; I did 110 t hear Mr.
Rockland say, " If you kick her, or any winner, in my pre.
settee, 1 will not suffer it." I never heard him say a man ought
to be ashamed to kick his whe. I never heard :11r. Iloneysett
at any tune use any indecent expressions brine his wife, or be-
fore his eratipany in bee presence. I don't know when I saw
Mrs. Iliineyset last. I have not heard Mr. Iloneysett say that he
has lived and slept with his wife since 3lr. Backhand's affair, and
that they will live together slier this cause is over. I can't write.
Its-etainitied: Mrs. Honeysett nursed her child.
Elisabeth Iliad.-1 live next door to the Swan ; I have known
Mr. and Mrs. Iloneysett six or seven years; she is a young wo.
man ; site is not now thirty yesrs of age; as far as I have had an I
oppoitunity of knowing them, they have I • ed together very hap.
pity ; Mrs. lloneysett is it little perron, and a very good looking
woman ; i know slr. Ilitekland, be is married, but has no family ;
I believe he has been in the army ; coining honicone night in Au-
gust last, on the Pantiles. ahout nine o'cliwk, I saw Mrs. Honey-
sett; alli.• went inside the Pantiles and Mr. Ilueklend went out ; lie
then crossed the walk and spoke to her. I don't know what be.
ranee of her afterwards; I did not see her mum. At eleven the
sung evening I saw Mr. Hucklend • he was standing before my
Mouse ;he was alone. 1 saw Mns lioneysett mews out of her house
and cross the road towards the place where Mr. B. was, but I did
not see them together ; she was absent an hour and a half. 1 saw
her and spoke to her. She returned about half-past one.
force-examined.—The Pantiles is quite &public place.
Mr. Itenjamth Winch.—l live at Queenborotigh, thley-Ilve
miles from 'Tunbridge Wells. I married 51r. lloneysett's sister;
I shit not know Ales. lloneysett before her marriage ; I knew her
father; she came from Cranhrueik, btu her family came originally
front about Canterbury. Her father was a fanner, and fanned the
tithes of Cranbrook parish. Ib, litre they had one child before the
marriage, but I never heard Mr. Honeysett say so. I hare fre-
quently sisited them ; they appeared to lire together as happily as
any people I Cyan...
Croas.exiunined.-1 first visited them six months after their mar-
riage, but I saw no child. I formerly lived at Ilawkhurst, snly
thirteen miles front Tunbridge Wells, and I frepiently visited
them, sometimes twelve times a year, and when they had no rea-
son to expert inc. Mrs. lloneysett now lives with her brother, Mr.
Cutlibett. I since saw her husband there ; she was in the room
when lie ennui in, but she went out directly. I saw them in
tile same room afterwards, hut they had to conversation ; he same
i.pon other business, not about his wife ; he slid not sleep there ;
site was about sixteen when she married; her maiden name was
Bolding.

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Saran Sageman._l now live at Speldhurst; I once lived with
Mr. and Mrs. Honeysett; that was on the early pan of this year.
They had left the Swan. and were living at the Itowling-green ; I
recollect Sunday, the 14th of March last, soy master went Ott to
clutpel about six in the evening; I saw Mr. Iluckland about eight,
going towards Trent ; I went with my, mistress up the field, about
half-past eight ; we went acrosv the Sell into the Trent road ; I
went up with her before I saw Mr. Dockland; I went with her
into the road, and then left tier; she went up the road towards the
place where I had :wen Mr. Ituckland ; I lived with her rather heater
than six months, during that time they lived very well together.
George liesid.--4 am a labourer; I live near Tunbridge dells;
I know Mrs. Honeysett and Mr. Dockland. I remember, on Sun.
day evening, the 14th of March, seeing Mrs. Huneysett coming up
a held ; rite got over a gap-way into the Trent-road; I saw Mr.
Dockland there, they passed me. This was about seven or eight
in the evening. It wns a moon-light night; I followed them ; I
lost sight of them a little way up the roa I was joined by a man
moiled Hook just after I had seen them. We followed them ; we
lost sight of them; we met a gentlemen on the road, anti, in conse-
quence of what he said, we went to a thicket called the Toll, that
belongs to Lord Ahergavenny ; when we gut near there we saw
nobody ; we gut in there, and went down Isis Lordship's private
Tide. When we had gone dews tbeee, about five via rods, we
saw thou again. This was about ten or fifteen minutes after we
had first lust sight of them. We sosaMot. Honeysett and Mr.
Dockland stead down in the thieitot. Meek was just before
me. We were about II or 12 yards ye. Wit bad a distinct view
of their persons. There was an oak awl s bolly wee 11111/1 there.
Mere the witness described the ap rs( Mr. Beeklawd.l
Air. 11. came end passed iss 011ook , pqrstised not seaway Mr.
Dockland, we know you." Mrs. floneystit 144 tl*4 spokoabahlaban
we went up to her, and Hook spoke to heat Ile also cocoa
thetat
the ride and went another way ; I attar/Lula MIX her
•• Erridge-road.
Cross-examined—l live about • quarter of a mile from Whey-
sett's house; this was on a Sunday evening ; I had molest IA
directions to watch Mrs. Honeysett or Mr. Dockland ; I w
taking a walk when Hook joined me ; the ride is rlt frequctled •
people on • Sunday evening. I think the Defendant had on adu
east and drab breeches; I never said. " it seemed as if he was ad.
justing his dress, but I could not tell what part of it." Hook said
so, but I did nut aree to it. I did not say anything.
'Henry Hook, a tishmongcr, nt TunbridgeWells, corroborated
this statement, and she Plaintiff's case then closed.

Mr. Serjeant V•In; OH AN. in hie . ddress to the Jury for the De-
fendant observed, that it ass imposeible to speak without feeling
the difficulties against which he had to contend. A criniinal im-
putation hail been made on the Defendant, so serious in its nature,
that he trusted the Jury would not give credit to it after they had
heard his witnesses, even if they were sow disposed to believe it, on
the evidence adduced by the Plaintiff. Although he felt that the
case had not been sufficienti- Weed against his client, although
he felt confident as to the ultimate result, still he must confess that
he approached the discussion with no considerable feeling of re-
luctance. He gave credit to his (,earned Brother for the care,
the caution, the dexterity, the management evinced in opening this
case. It had been said, and paid truly, that *hit was a use of de-
licacy and difficulty. It was so. In its mutat it was at all times
delicate; in the present instance, at least to the I'laintift's advo-
cate, it must have been very difficult, for the materials on which it
had been presented to their notice were any thing but satisfactory.
At the same time he arkrowledged that it was difficult for the De-
fendant's Counsel. The Jury naturally felt inclined to rise in arms
lumina the adulterer—it was a true Hyoid) feeling, and he trusted
it would always be entertained by Englishmen. He knew, too,
that such a feeling would be doubly strung when that adulterer was
proved be a married man ; but still he believed, that until the facts
were satisfactorily established, the Jury would not act upon their
feelings, however strong those feelings might be. In all these cases
there were two inquiries—tint, had the facts charged been commit-
ted, and had they been satisfactorily proved; and, secondly, what
was the damages to which the Plaintiff was entitled. In all such
cases, therefore, the Plaintiff put loin own conduct in issue, and the
Jury were bound to estimate what lie had lost. fleet they were called
I on to believe that he had last the affection% of an attached and devoted
wife, and if lie had, and that through the conduct of the Defendant
alone, he (Mr. Serjeard Vaughan) would himself call on their, to in-
flict that punishment which in such acase their own sense of wounded
honour would dictate. Now what had the plaintiff lost ? In what
state had he lived with his wife ? How could that be proved so
well as by female relations, and yet none of them hail been called.
Dlr. Winch had certainly given evidence on this subject, but he
was not a witness whose testimony could be compared to that of a
female on such a case. Ifomen understood these matters better—
they observed the behaviour of a husband and wife more closely
and more attentively titan men. They were more alive to the sub-
ject ; they had better opportunities of terming a judgment upon
; and if he might say so, they were more interested in it. Then
why bad they net been produced ? Was not their absence a just
ground of suspicion? llti was that all? lle thought not; for
lie was of opinion that, even with regard to the legal proof in this
case, lie might have addressed an objection to his Lordship. The
parties had not been properly identified, and up to this moment
there was not the slightest proof that the per•ons who were
married in the year 1812, at East Drinste.ul, were the theme persons
who were nu* the subject of the present investigation. This defi-
ciency of proof had arisen from no other :AVM than a aetermina..
tion to throw every obstacle in the way of the Jury ascettaining
the truth, by preventing those persons being lusught before them
who could alone eptsk to the real state in which the plaintiff and
his wife lived.

Mr. Winch was here trestle& at the desire of Mr. Setjeant
Pell, in coder ti prove the id,ntity id the parties, but as he
gave no distinct esidtoce un the subject, another wiuless was
einniined.

Mr. John lloare—l remeniher the time when these nitrides were
ma/Tied; they had their wedding dinner at my house.
Cross-examined—l think they had a child at the time of the
marriage; I knew them since the marriage, but I did not fre-
quently visit them.
Sergeant VAI,6IIAM continued—The same Spirit was still evi.
dent; the identity hail certainly bean proed, out by a man who
could nut give the slightest evidence of the manner tn which the
plaintiff and his wife had lived together. It appeared that when
the lady was only fifteen years of age, and beture her mania-4e.
she loaf had a child by the plaintiff. Who, then, he asked, had
been the original seducer ? Who had first debauched the person,
if not the mind, of this unfortunate woman ? Who bail paved**
way for her present dishonour? Who but the plaintifff. hatuself.l
True it was he had made the best reparation in his power by
nihrrving her; and if his conduct subsequent to that marriage had
been kind and affectionate, certainly hs (Mr. Sergeant Vaughan)
should feel band himself to call on the Jury to throw a veil over
the errors of his past life. But such was not the case. it would
be proved that this man, who at 27 years of age had seduced a
girl of fifteen—that this individual, who had thus debauched
her body, hail detemtined to infect her mind; mad • amine of
conduit on his part would be laid belief ebe Jury of the most
dreadfully disgusting kind. The Learned iergsaot hers related,
several instances of gross misivinduct, which were PO hamibly
obscene as to be unlit for the public eye. He then proceeded to
state, that there was another ground of defence t• this action.
This husband, who now cmititlained to the jury of the destruction
of his peace of mind and happiness--this maw by die.
served to be called, who could be guilty of acting in the manner'
just described—dila sensitive being who had aroAtil the presence
of his unfortunate wife, when he had tiler her at Mr. cuthbere•—
this pattern.of conjugal tenderness and fidelity, had mean* slept

and lived with his wife doer the transaction on which be dig
by. prreent complaint. Did die Jam dart at this? Mot, they
they were destined to hear something mill inner strange. anti atm
more revoking than it we. ontoge. He (Mr. Sergeant Yaagltab►
meant not merely to charge the plaintiff with conniving at his own
dishonour, bls even with a rontoiracy, aye, and a rotspitacy with
his wife, to obtain infomtation at which to bring Seward this
want, merely vitt a view to put money into his own rats, and
to enable him to Dm comfortably at the defendant's expense. Ile
should prove thief/ two I•tters, one written by the wife, and the
other by the htelband, and directed i. Miss Mary &Ong, who
was a cousin off the wire's.

The I onsmed tierprount •ss about to read the wife's later, when
be was iuterropted by Mr. Sergeant PEct., win objeasel that k
wwt-not widener against the plaintiff.
Air. Sergeant VAUGHAN answered that it was, insomuch as it
was written at thy stow time, on the 11111mr tithed of paper. and
sealed with the same seal Yaw. whatever the Jury might think 01
audit& statement, it was positively true. There sat the " Pekoe'
huoltand and the criminal wife, "cheek by jowl," conspiring to
discover evidence by which the defendant could be made answer-
able in an action of this ann. He should read these two letters "
the Jury. not in the ceder in which they were written, foe, to gratify
his Brother Pel, he would reed the husband's first, al:bough it
begun by referring tt• the wife's, which had been written shove
This letter of the Sashimi's had been proved to be in his band'
writing, by gr. gine!' ; and though no switch pm,/ had been of.
feted sobs the wife'', yet, being referred to in the husband's, butts
were evidence. •

They were :Is follows: addressed to Miss Mary eeolding.
leers lilvy—lion will see, by the above, that :tie Slralfontl-•
liCte4 wish for you to inform me of that you can recollect cf th
transaction between Rockland and irr, as she says you know 'Mt
Rockland an.l she have hem together in the bell-moon. and your
must have seen man, thi-gh plus between therrewhen they were
together. I have no doubt Sei .. you wish its broth well tad more
h+,11,1 draft ye have been lately, and nodoubt you -an aniird satis—
faction by being explicit, and giving every information which may
bring th:s has:heita to en end. 1, as well, as Mrs. 11., shall be moat
happy to see you at the %VellS, that you might converse together.
I will pay your expenses ; fel, by what she say; probibly it would
he best to come than write."

So much for the liorband's letter; now for the wife's, to which
it rehrred t-- •

'ThoPe
yea frill give Mr. H. every infornatist respecting, the
unpleasant bustiveva that he writes about, and I hope you will come
to the Wells ash, *tains; for I very much wish to nee you respell
ing many differed? things, Whatever iias pain between us let it be
forgotten, for I hasp more nn my mind than any oldr poets, hat
you know, dear 314ry, you will not offend me by gitong Mr. If.
every information respecting what he inquires about.
" Your affectionate Coisiu.".
' now kind—how aMiable! No offence at .being thus expose.]
no. fur it would emetic them to live " snore happily" than they'
bad lately done. Would the Jury think such a matt entitled to
damages % would they, even it the adultery bed bocci clearly ruined,
give him damages, whets his own writing was in stridence to chew
that he had required Cs wife to blacken tier own character, to.altuta
the means of proving her own infamy ; and elm she had r,O.
mented to do so, would the jury listen to the complaints of a hi,.-
band who had in view the obtaining of money be ouch moms ;
contplained to them of peace ruined and happiricss destroyed. Ir!.ets,
he was at the very time writing a letter, mwhich tot talk.. 3. of
living with his wife mere hatiollr than before. jle hosted nob—
' he hoped that the .lary would express their weinta irtlignatibo
against a wretch trim. having debauched a young girl, whim he
afterwards married, then sought to defile her mind as he had
corrupted her body, and who Ead so far succeeded as to make her
sit down and pen a letter, begging fur proof of her shame, I.od **-
citing for evidence ter her infamy.
The letters were then read, afar which
Mr. Serjeant POLL said, lie afiould cave the limn soy furtfiet
trouble on this case. lle was, "'ways angioua to do so; bid he
could not stop the cause on tire Urere statement of any auppord
evidence; on that he had no right to act ; bat that evidence ha stag
been now given, ht feit bound fo say, that whether the verdict
would be in his dint's favour or pot, the damages could he bit
small, and he should therehwe agree to withdraw a Juror. To this
his Brother Vaughan consented, Ind the can e theca:in at
an end.

The enure JIITICE said, the Learned itreard had uteri
very wisely in adopting this mitre. If the rrry had thought
the adultery an dearly preyed that they must hare given a
verdict for the I.bidotifl. they would doubtless have given but smart
damages, and he then have certified to deprive the plaintiff'
of his costs.
A Juror was theft withdrawn.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER—SistraDAT, Jutt 10.

xrrio v. Jonx Eccronn.

This was an infotmatium Fled by the Attornev.fisnefal, Mekinff
the condemnation of certain paintings, outlive ground that they were
unlawfully imported into this ct•.ntry. the bets of the case *era
these :—ln the month of May last, the defendant, who is • MOM'
in paintings, residing in Water.straer Blactfrians, had consigned
to him from a haute in Antwerp, itd picture-frames, of different
sizes and patterns. %Viten they arrived in London, the Custom.
house Officers discoveed that they were of greater Tilde than specs.
tied in the entry. and they were immediately seized; they also
imagined that so many frames could nit come in one consignment
without the pictures, and plans dere !immediately formed or mak-
ing the discovery They accordingly called a% Pr. Rekford't
house. and acquainting him with their business, Mid of Ore disco-
very they expected to make, hastened into Ecirford's work.
shops and chew-rooms; and after examining several of the master-
pieces of Toniers, randyke, and other eminent painters of the
Dutch, Italian, and French Ssiusol, selected out 64 v:ry valuable
Paintings, and claimed them as seised. They were strengthened
in their plea by the fullotring circumstance u having carefully ex-
ambled the frames, they discovered that they had private
marks, some the numbers which directed them to select the picture;
and thaw plettum, whiefa were destined to he ctbibired in English
frames, was ineartaallfo. F. Having made those discoveries. Out
officers naiad axity five masterpieces, and they were doomed for, a
time, to be deposited in one oft he C ustorn-htm se cellars. The present
proceeding was for their condemnation, on the ground that they bad
been smuggled into this country. The defendant, however, main-
tained, by his Council's assertion, that they w: re not smuggled, and
called evidence to prove that some part of them were in London befbre
the time they were al ledged. To substantiate this assertion, the Faun-
ings were brought into Court ; and never before was tilt bend and
table of the Court so ornamented. His Lordship sat on the bench, ex-
amining theprivatemarks, while the witness,anauctioneM, wits swear-
ing that he sold apicture, the subject "a Lying-in Women," at his
sale in January. On his Lordship's right, a pretty " Shrimp titrl"
was observed disposing of her fish, and that, too, was rebagnised
to have met with a custidner at the before-named sale. " Holiah's
Head" was loudly called fir'', from all parts of the Coon, and a
gentleman positively swore that he bargained with Mr. Eckford for
the purchase of that choice production, three years since, for thirty
guineas. In this manner were tight of the pictures sworn to, bat
the defendant being unable to shew that the duty was paid on them,
the Jury condemned reserving only the " lioliah's Head" and
the " Shrimp Hid," which had no private mark or corresponding
frame.

SHERIFF'S C(►l'RT, RED LION-SO:ARE.
BAITIMAY, JCLY 10.

('RIM (ON.
NEWRY NAMING, T. 344. M.P. 1.. CAPTAIN Wr/PITEN.
At one o'clock this day 1111 inqniaition was taken before Mr.
Iliac MILL, the Secondary, at the (Ace of the Sheriff of Midd/c-
-sea, in Red Lion-square, and a Special Jury. to asses* damages in
the cause iii which Henry Banng, Esq. M.P. was plaintiff, and
Captain Webster defendant, for the seduction of the site of the for-
mer. The defendant suffered Judgment by default. The damages
were laid at 10,1100/. the Court was crowded by persons 01=2,
who were friends of the parties in the cause.
Mr. Ti ?MALI. read the declaration.

Mr. BROUGHAM smied the plaintiff's case. fie said that the
Jury must be familiar with the name of the plaintiff in this unfor..
tunate inquisition—his name was that of a family which stood
highly respectable and respected amongst all classes of the subject,
of this empire, hot llighest of all in the mercantile world. It was
universally known, that the Ratings were the very highest of that
most useful and respectable !clam of the British community, wham
intelliaence and honesty and upright dealings throughout the world
had affixed upon them a 'station and character, which ....instituted
one of the train pillars that upheld this great and prosperous cyan..
try. Mr. Henry Baring, whose name Uwe had heard as the_plain-
tit!' in this cause, was the third brother of that family. Ile se_
joyed, hy the accident of inh-ritance, a large fortune, hut being
disposal very, early in life to follow the example of his family, anti
to tarn an additional provision by his intelligence and indostry, ha
repaired front his native home to a very distant settle. ' at—las
went in fact to the East India Company's factory in China, whets
he resided for several years. and employed is advantage the ever.
gig* which he pommel-I fat commercial business. After several
years residence in China, he returned home, still not mom data
twenty-five or twenty-six years of age. He found, upon his ratty'
to his family, that his elder brother, Mr. Alexander Raring, a
gentleman not only well known to all the mercantile ammeters of
this country, but also to the statesmen who governed it, had just
returned from America, where he had sojourned fro some ream,
and brought with hint a lady of one of the first families in Peso-
sylvania. whom he had shortly before married. This lady ii:Ar...
Alt wander Haring) was accompanied to this entry by a yeartiyee
sister, Who was the unfortunate subject of the present ituctiry.
Mr. fl mry Boeing, of course, became acquainted with the sister
's through his brother wife, Ile soon felt the powerful fascination
of her anions ; he tendered his affections. and she nine:a recipro-
cal return of hers. Sir Francis Baring was not. however, at tba
moment, favourable to the match; he wished his on to MAWR
shined a little longer in the pursuit of commercial Mega; the
bily's fattier was equally indisposed to promote the merino ra
the time; belt the Jury, as men of experience In the world,
must kn., that these mantel obstacles, so far from operating go
damp the affection of the lovers, had a mummy effect, and ratter
riretted more lima ebeir mutual attachment. Tim ultimate con-
sequence was, that v. 11. !taring married the lady in the yew lib&
Ile would bring e there personages of rank, film would mom
how affectiotw sod endearing was the married condition al sham
parties foe years after the soleninisation of the ceremony. flee'
mutual attachment was even, uninterrisyted, and witigulairrli waive
iu its ceintionsnee t. that endearing affeetinn which assure masviird
people monism by months, Mr. anti AIM Henry Raring upheld
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