The National Register.
London, England, 1814-07-24 00:00:00

TITE NATIONAL IIEGISTER._

tain, from %%Vice lie hail a distioet view of Ili. new dominion-,
After looking round a few minntes he bunt into a vitilent fit 4..1
laughter, and deseenikd. He arts up at four o'clock, rifles much.
And often attends the tunny fishing. 13.-her is gone to Leghorn, I
believe to carry over the Empress to him. ll'in.naparte a,ked hove
sift Sir E. renew was, taut wa,i told : ave, said Lie, he has got
10 years' good work in himyt.t.—You may rely upon it he is too
rear Italy I hope a sharp 4.l'e will lie kept :ipioi hint. Such is Ins
knowledge of human nature. that lie Las IV! t the oifirers of the ship
impres.sed with a nmeh more lavourable 4,pinion of hint than he de.
serves.—When the Alerope's hdat le(l.i aloiu one ot the Jack,
bung out. %%by you've trot itoney aboarii.---(Yei. said a sidlor mit of
one of the ports, in the twining f N ap• -ee We've got the -- at
last." Although T.lnonaiiir;e pretend, not to understand English,
be smikd when he heart, Ii e expression."

All'' 1141G1 CE.

ST;CONDAP,.I ES' OFFICE, Juts 22.
(PIEFORE E UNDUII sti 1.1 lei rF, AND Aki IAI. JURY.)

LEIGH V. BOWRING.

Mr. Field opened the pleadings.
Mr. Serjeant Pest then proct.e,led to detail the cireatastances of the
ca•c. The platniff was married in the year 1800; Loth he and his wife
were young, and it was a match of affection ; being contracted even
without the consent of the plantiff's father. The plaottff entered into
business as an insaranetebroker, and foreseeing ;otter prespeet of sue-
teSS in mercantile speculations during the short peace of 1302, went to
llavre-de-Grare, a here lie formed an establishmout, and took his wife
over II) reside there with him. lie had just soli:11 hi.usell in business
when the war was r, new ed : and in CMlStqlllollce f,f that iefamous mea-
sure by which the laws of nations were vielated, he. was to rested iii the
middle of the nigh:, and thr wn irto prison, where he caught a pe,ti
lential fever, which the affectionate attentions of his wife could alone
assuaee. i%iter three weeks imprisentnent, he was cnn\ ry,.! to Cha-
teau Doulons, in Picardy, 'disnince of 10 Icai,ilvs, whither his wife
accompanied him, and cheerfull% shared the misery of his sahsequent
imprisonment. After another month, the plantiff %YR..; Rent with lii wit.
to Fontaiuhlealt, is here she was delivered of a son, which after a life
ot ten weeks, fell a victim to the inlaenatets of the F:a•nch Co•.a rameet.
The prisoners at Funtainbleau were suddenly <ark:. d to Veriu.; ; and
the plantiff and his wife being unable to procure any other conveyance
than an on n cart, thus travelled 90 leagues in the death of. winter.
They had not prat:ceded many days before the child died it. the pl
in-
ttil's arms. At Verdun, the plantiff and Ilk wife were supported for
six months by that patriotic Ned, to which the jars• had deubtless
contributed ; and during all these trials Mrs. Lei,ll betrayed no desire
to quit her husband, no abatement of affection, no syt. ptota of iwpati•
etice. In the summer of 1804, he saw her for the fast tiaae Tic was
suddenly torn from her arms and his bed by the militaty, and marched
in irons to the lett of Hische, on the banks of the Rhine, a distance of
70 leagues front Verdun ; .nor could the prayers of his wife procure her
the miserable ptivilege of sharinJ her husband's fate. She Soil .wed liiin
as far as the gate of Ve:Alutt, mlttre they we-e torn asunder; and they
parted never to meet en more. She -ens then fali of virtue and affee-
firm ; and little did the plantiff think, that he should return to Eng-
land only to end her livine in open adultery with the defendant, and
surrounded by children the offspring of her crime. At Ilische, the plain-
tiff endured hardships and miseries which it would only afflict the Jury
unnecessarily to hear ; and Mts. Leiali atter remaining at Verdun, witis
another Lady, the wife f a fellow captive for about a tuenth, found it
imp .ssthle to re
-,;in her hu•bind, and was advi,ed to return to her
friends in England. the arrived here on the 130th 'if AtLu,t, 1304,
and was received into the horse of her sister, airs. Price : but she soon
afterwards made a visit to Mrs. Maillard, at Keenington, where her
a ear Pattie Humors anti iliterestina situation induce() the family to re-
quest her to prolong fir ais hole twelvemonth. She then returned to
her sister'-, w hi-re sl e found the defendant, who was a young man of
pleasing manner •e it heartier in the fatally. Ile quitted this house for a
time, as a tesidenee, oa the Ist of Jaeuary. 181)6 ; hut still visited
Mrs. Price, coming frequently to drink tea with Airs. Leigh while Mrs.
Price alas confined, and reinroed to tike up his abode there in Ann.
180 d whether fi>r th:. pu, pose of accomplishing the adultery meditated
the jury would decide. Mrs. Price had obseevt d undue kamiliarities
between the defendant and Alrs.l..ei,!li, and inei reroonst:ated with her
thereon : hut Mrs. Leigh Was off!•tilkti at any suspicion of her honour,
and 111 rs. Pttee was silenced. In the 141ebli time, the defeniant
iusi-
A'•itted bites. It into her s duct ion, ant) her Alin is as completed. The
Learned Serjeant concluded with calling on the jury for exemplary
damage•.
Mr James Phillips, with whvin the plaintiff and Lit wife lodged, for

JULY 2s.

se Prat inonths, upon their marriage, proved happiness and appa.
rent alrectiw..
Alrs.Steart, lafe Miss'
.pnived tht wile's visit to Ina famov•
alter her rtturn to Frai ce: she always cmidticted herself very wt.!';
And was very pleasirit,agrfetibt • and vccomplished. She !rid ko b“en
ocquainted with the couple hefore they ve it to France in 180'. Ile
was alw av• partienlarly kind and alf‘cti-nate to her mid she
returned his I.indnes, and afft•cti.m. Altyr her st;:y tau Mrs Willard's
faruile, she continued to inal:e nceAsimhd Vkits; ;Ind a was then that
the witness first saw the ti..fendant, who frerinentiy came to conoiirt
her home. The witness he3rd Mrs. Leigh speak of her husband in the
delendunt's piesence, in the the highest terms, and appeared much to
.egret his situation: About a year and an half aft•er Mr,. Leigh's re.
urn to Enaland, the witne-s cbserved her to nee( ive attentions from
the defendant, which did not become a married fade ; the defendant's
mar,fp,r of ,braking to her was not correct : tar used to call her his
ittle won •

Captain Howl was a f psis,-nier with the plainti:F at Vt-rduti,
and tlionalit hitt) pc.rfectly happy with his wife.
I.llr. Price, si,ter :\IrA. Leigh, knew the plaintiff when he runt--
tied, and never saw a: iv part dis.::.:reelletit between them. 13elitg
questioncd tht.. Under Sheriff as to what •Ite turant hy this term, sho
could it say she lived unhappily : there did appea. to' be an ;MAO).
mein between them ; Lad they lived I y .nari ;:r.l wife i.sually
do. When she rer.,ritA lioat re, the plaintiff's wi:e•setniduct was
tlokt of a virtuous woman. I)u.itig the Beat four months that the I .

tiff's wife mid the det: whim were :it her house, she obiterv,•il rnithinv.
between them: the defendant knew she was married, and where het
husband was. witness no vi it, her sister, who is at Chel-
sea with the elefend:iiit, by who.:r sh.! toJr five chili:ten. I.: a
witness had heard :ler ,aster sneak elf he Irti•la .41 'hi the de:endant's
presence ; she ne...er expres,.ed airy parlicidar ti two::: a\ to his sii;:atioo.
She Ea w her siskr fen dayq ic4o she visits lier occasionaNy. It wai
the latter end of Oat;, 1807, that she fir,r knew of her Aster's hots.-
course with the defendant. She had been a tw-Iverirunrli in England
the 30th of Regust before. The dereedatit nail; ate #rpportrinity of
the w•itrie,,s if her sis:er a,;y thins u.rtieirlar to
her. The witness replir:d, " it con she have t' say co:icernii,g
you ?" Stith crest niacin.. The 1)-feridarit alrtiwere.l. " :'4:lt: is pregnant
hy toe." lie A'i'led, " Don't be tell unhappy alum, ;t, b 3 she shall
never want." The rritnr:ss was quite surprised. n,.,. sister did nut
then go to live with him: she did a Its elvenrooth Lfiei ward..
Uili n her cross-examination Icy Mr. Ilo,,iitrquut for the I)elenihret,
she said,.th.n the Plaintiff married against his tatlerr's ronsunt. II o
had not a farthing from his fatLer. She bad some tyrtii irony. He was
ureatly in debt, and her fortune went itt pasing toe t., and in gaming,
Slie had seen I,iue pay debts, hilt never
'• _ .

Upon her re-exam:nation by 114. St.rj;:ant Best, she swirl,. Chit her
sister sold out her looney the day beCoc she iwo-rie.l, and ,:ave it to
her husband : she could not tell what other inot.ey he might have to
pay his debts with, except that he had some from his father.
111 r. Gardnt-r, the Defendant's p:ittner, di'i not consider hiin as a
man of sid.s.anee : he would give 1;)001. fur :Ili lie was won't. He did
not gain above 8001. per annum.
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Mr. Bo%aininet then addressed the Jury in initigatimi of drimagcs•
urging tillt it wa. nut a case in which tilt. I)e(4.ndant had betrayed the
confidt nor of his friend, or diverted the wile's affection from a fainily
of childt fn.

The Jury, after retiring, assessed tho Plaintiff's damages at 5001.

FIRE A7' THE Cra'o3l-HOUSE.

While supplies are librally voted by Pmlii:ment, and clteti fully paid
by the people, in suppt.rt of our various national exigencies. we deplore
that, as yet, no provision seems to be in conten.pl.:tion towards the le-
lief of the many itidivido.d :offerers by the late a‘‘ful ealaa.ity at 11:e
Custnin-house. A Cut respondent, therclo•e, beg, leave to sugvest to the
active hinnanity of Parliament, that, wiNtut some renitit'cration, theie
will be persons reduced from comparative independence to eerkiio {w-
itry, by that dreadful event; and we more strongly urge the necessity,
from a general conviction that the Cusom-house, like the Bank, has
always been considered safe cost tdv for private property ; and .hat,
in all hanian probability, !lad not tit... ;Lead of gunpowder, so improperly
lodged in lhe stores impeded the exertions of the h eaten, very little
property would have been destroyed. This fact is too nototioos to be
dwelt upon ; we have. Owlet' ,re, to hope, that Parliameat, in its wis•
(115,15, will take effectual and irlntediate means, towards the relief at
least, of those persons, whom this nut;, rod calamity has most oppies•ed.
SJine cases, indeed, of an tit gent ti tuts have already appeared he!ote
the public, and ninny 3 et remain tl.at require p. on pt iut csug,utitm.