The National Register.
London, England, 1808-07-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LILY 24.

"TO MIMIC RING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" The humble, dutiful, and loyal Address of the Lurd
Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London,
in Common Council assembled.

gi lieST GtsaC Vils SOIEREIGN,
3 We your Majesty's loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Alder-
,,t, nod Commons of the City of London, in Common Council
,smhled, with Ite;;rts full of dutiful affection to your Royal
rson, and inseparanly attached to the honour and prosperity
your Goveraraelii, hut Wily desire to approach your throne,
ol represent to yc Mak.,:ty the sentiments of a free and faith-
, purple.
While we r., 'template with horror and indignation, the
atrocious periods and wanton violence employed by the Ruler of
I ...ince to reduce under his yoke the Spanish Monarchy and the
Spanish People, we cannot refrain from expressing our joy and
exultation at the pare and animating spirit of patriotism, dis-
plaxed by that high-minded and gallant nation, in defence of
their dearest rights and privileges. They have appealed to the
generous feelings of your Majesty for protection and support,
and they have not appealed in vain. You, Sire, have felt as
the Sa%erei;4n of a free people, who, by extending his powirful
aid to a nation struggling for liberty and independence, holds
forth to the world a happy and practical illustration of the
blessings which t is own subjects enjoy.
" The soieran declaration by which your Majesty has been
pleased to recognize the Spanish nation, as a natural friend and
ally against tae common enemy of all established Governments;
the frank, disinterested, and inspiriting pledge which you have
given tint you have no other object than that of preserving un-
impaired the integrity and independence of the Spanish mo-
narchy ; the wisdom, liberality, and promptitude of the mea-
sure, consequently adopted by your Majesty's Government, have
excited in our breasts the most lively and grateful sensations.
" We have to entreat your Majesty's acceptance of our most
cordial thanks for the noble and lib-ral system of policy by
which your councils have been, and continue to be, actuated
ton ards Spain; and we beg leave to assure you, that, in con-
tributing to the success of you royal interposition in a cause at
once su great and glorious, and so peculiarly congenial to the
spirit and feelings of your people, no exertion shall be with-
held, no sacrifice shall be spared on our part to prevent twelve
millions of fellow- freemen from being accursed with the most
galling and profligate despotism recorded in the history of the
world.
" to the measures which your Majesty may think proper to
adopt for accomplishing this great end, you may, Sire, rely
with the firtne:4 confidence upon the affectionate, zealous, and
enthusiastic support of your loyal Citizens of London. We feel
ourselves identified with the Patriots of Spain; we sympathize
in all their wants; we participate in all their wishes; and we
humbly beg leave to ex press our fervent hope, that the glorious
struggle in which the Spanish nation is engaged, aided by the
energies, resources, and magnanimity of the British Empire,
flay succeed, not only in asserting the independence of the
Spanish Monarchy, but in ultimately effecting, under the pro-
tection of Divine Providence, the emancipation of Europe, and
the re-establishment of the blessings of Peace."

Lord Hawkesbury, as Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, read the following appropriate reply :
" I thank you for your very loyal and dutiful Addres. I
accept with pleasure your cougratulations on the prospect open-
ed to the world by the brave and loyal exertions of the Spanish
nation against the ts malty and usurpation of France, and .en the
re-establishment of Pence between Great Britain and Spain.
" Itt aiding ►he efforts of the Spanish Nation, I have been
actuated by no other motive than that of attoriling the moat ef-
fectual and disinterested assistance to a people struggling for the
maintenance of their ancient Government and natiotea inde-
pendence.
`• I have no doubt I shall continue to receive from l'oll, and
from all classes of my people, the same zealous and afT.:ctionate
support which 1 have experienced on so many and on such im-
portant occasions."
They were all very graciously received, and had the honour
to ki•s his Majesty's hand.
After the Deputation retired, the following had the honour
of brine presented to his Majesty :
Captain Sir:C. Brisbane, on his receiving Vie honour of
niglit hood abroad.
Captain Sir d. Gore, on his return to En;laud, by .Lord
Mel-
grave.

The Rev. Dr. Plumtree, by the Earl of ts.
appointed Dean of Gloucester.
His Majesty gave audiences to the Cabinet Ministers present,
and Mr. Ryder, the Judge-Advocate General. His Majesty set
off on his return to Windsor about six o'clock.

:, on his

THE LATE ELOPEtIENT.
The last fashionable elopement from the vicinity of Banco
Regis was attended by circumstances peculiarly distressing.—
Lady E. B. the daughter of a certain Countess, was married
about two years since to Mr. B. a Gentleman hien possessing
very considerable landed property in the West Indies. As. this
was a tie of inclination, and not of necessity, it was generally
expected among the friends of the parties, that the union would
prove a happy one, particularly as the husband was not ad-
dicted to any of those little indiscretions now so prevalent among
our young men in high life ! The Lady had nothing but
.her
youth and beauty to recommend her, and they were deemed
sufficiently recommendatory; and as she was supposed to have
but little inclination to launch into fashionable follies, they were
inducements sufficient to decide Mr. B. in his choice of a wife.—
Since marriage, the parties lived in a stale of connubial felicity,
until a passion for play on the one side, and a careless indif-
ference on the other, producing a disunion of sentiments, had
enabled Mr. ll—y, a Gentleman, (an intimate friend of the
Lady's mother) to destroy the peace of both for ever. A few
days since the Lady acquainted her husband that she wished to
go to the west end of the town to make a few purchases : he as-
sented. Lady E. B. stepped into a hackney-coach, and ordered
the man to drive to Bond-street. In the Haymarket, however,
she pulled the check-string, got out, end discharged the vehicle.
Here the Lady met Mr. H. and proceeded in another coach to
the Key, in Chandos-street. AU these proceedings were de-
tected by the confidential servant of the husband : the latter,
suspecting that something was wrong, took the precautionary
measures alluded to. The man, thus presuming on the supposed
discovery of his mistress's infidelity, ran with all possible speed
to an eminent Solicitor residing in Golden-square. Finding him
at home, they returned together to the key, at the door of which
Hotel they waited until the Lady came out, n lien the man went
up to his mistress, and placed his hand on her shoulder, ex-
claiming, " Oh, Lady h: y, 1 am sorry to see you come
out of such a house as this !" The Lady fainted from the sur-
prise and fright. Mr. H. took her in his arms and carried her into
the coach, vi hich was it waiting, and ordered the driver to
proceed, which he did, unmolested by the opposite party,—
Since that period, neither the seduced nor thcseduccr have bees
heard of. There are some circumstances attached to this case
of such peculiar delicacy, that we cannot, consistently with de-
cency, communicate theta to our readers.
BREA n.—The Lord Mayor ordered the Fire of bread to re.
main as before, the Quartern Loaf of wheaten NV. and Louse-
hold itid.

LAW REPORTS.

SHERIFF'S COURT, TUESDAY, JUL? I'9.
CRIM. CoN.
LORD BORINGDON V. SIR ARTHUR I'AGCT.

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Mr. Dampiere shortly stated to the Jnry, that this was an
inquisitian of damages in an action for criminal conversation
with the wife of the Plaintiff, in which the Defendant suffered
judgment to go by default.
Mr. Park maid. it became his duty to state the nature of the
case more in detail, and give the Jury the history of the ream-
action upon which the present case was founded. Lord Bo-
ringdon, a Nobleman of considerable rank and fortune, was
married about four years ago to hi 3 present wife, the daughter
of the Earl of Westmorland. At the time of his marriage, he
was of the age of thirty-two. The Defendant, Sir Arthur
Paget, was also a man c:r noble family, being the second son of
Lord Uxbridge. These parties had, in their youth, been at
the same University (Oxford), and he believed they both be-
longed to the College of Christchurch. The Lady to whom the
Plaintiff was united, was the second daughter of the Earl of
liestmorland, who. at a very early age, attracted the affections
of the Plaintiff. He became acquainted with het in the month
of May, 180', and in the June following they were married.—
There was no inequality between them in point of rank or for-
tune; tied he trusted the .bury would not think there was any
great inequality in point of age, when he stated that the Lady