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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.

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iTPRODTao N,ATIONAL INTELLEGENCER.
he dcCuments accompanying the Ait:.ssage of the
xiesident, too exien,ive. fbr inserticfn in one
Paper, we have con6idered it inot satisfactory, in
the first instance, to publish the- following, which
Will furnish a tolerably correct idea of the situation
of our foreign relations) with the. :mud taken by
our Government. In subsequent Papers the whole
of the documents shall be given.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GEN. ARMSTRONG TO
THE SECRETARY OF STATE, DATED BOURBON
L'ARCHAMBAULT, AUG. 28, 1808.

" Since my arrival at this place, I have been
honoured by the receipt of your Dispatch cat the 2 Ist
ult. and would immediately return to Paris to re-
new my discussions w ith IV. De Champagny, either
personally, as you suggest, or by writing; had l not
the most solemn conviction that any new experiment
made at the present moment, in either form or offi-
cial charaaleri would certainly be useless and pro-
tablY injurious."

PROM MR. PINCKNEY TO MR. CANNING.
Great Cumberland Place, Aug. 2j,niScB,
have had the honour, in consequence of the. or-.
ders of the President, to recall your attention, in the
• Course of several recent interviews, to the British
Orders in Council of the 7th of January and 11th of
November, 1807, and to the various Orders founded
upon, or in execution' of them ; and I now lake the
liberty to renew, in. the mode which I have under-
stood to be indispensable, my instances on that
subjea. •

I need scarcely remind you, sir, that the Go-
vernment of the United States has' never ceased
to.consider these Orders as violating its rights, and
aff4aing most destrut'lively
.its interests, upon
grounds wholly inadmissible, both in principle and
fact.
The letters of Mr. Madison to Mr. Erskine, of•
the 20th and cgth of INlzii.ch, 1807, produced by the
official communication of that Minister, of the order
of the 7th of January, at.d the 'answer of Mr. Ma-
' dison, ofthe 25th of March, 1808, to a like commu-
, tication of the orders of the 1i th November, con-
, tained the most direa remonstrances against the
systeni which these orders intrmluce and execute,
and exPres-sed the Confident epe.tation of the Pre-
sident that it would not be persisted in.•
That ekpeaation has not yet been fulfilled, but
has, notwithstanding, not been relinquished.-
-Ow President is still persuaded that its 4ecomplish-
nent will result from a c.areful, review by his Ma- •
Jesty's Government, made in the spirit of moderation
and equity, of the fats and considerations which
belong to the occasion.
Jr is not my purpose to re-capitulate in this note
the statements and reasbnings • contained in the above-mentioned letters of Mr. Madison, in support
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the
claim of the Government of the United States,
that the:Britishorders be revoked. I content my-
,
se..lf.xvith referring to those letters for proofs, which
not necessary to repeat, and for arguments
cwald 'not hope to improve. but there are explanations whkh those letters

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not contain, and which:it 1s propet fl)r.nle pow
.to
make. 'Even these,. however, may hi! ver.;,:briefly
given, since you have already been made acquainted,
in our sate conversations) with all their hearings and
details. , • .

• These explanations to chew, that while every -trto:.•
five of justice conspires to produce a disposition to
recall.t he orders of which my Government complains,
it is become apparent that even their professed ob-
je6t will be best attained by, their revocation.
I h id the honour •to state to you, Sir, that it was
the intention of the President, in case-Great Britain
repealed. her Orders as regarOd the United States,
to exercise the power vested in him by the ad of the
last session of Congress, intitled " An Ad to autho-
rize the President of ,the United States, tinder cer-
tain conditions, 10 suspend the operation of the Ad
laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the
ports and harbours of the United States, and the
several supplementary ads thereto," by, suspending
the embargo laW and its supplements, as regards
Great Britain.

I am authorized to give you this assurance in the
most formal manner ; and I trust, that upon impar-
tial inquiry, it will hzt found to leave inducement to
perseverance in the British orders,, while it creates-
the most powerful inducements of
.equity and policy
to abandon them.

On the score of justice, it does not seem possible
to mistake the footing upon which this overture
places tht.. subje& ; and I venture to believe that
in any other view there is as little, room for doubt.
It; as I propose, -your orders :should be rescinded
as to the United States, and our embargo 'rescinded
as to Great Britain, the effect of these concurrent
a&s will be, that the commercial intercourse of
the two countries will be immediately resumed;
while, if France should, adhere to maxims and con-
duct derogatory to the neutral rights of the United
Slates, the embargo continuing as to her, will take
the place of your orders, and lead with an efficacy
not merely equal to theirs, but probably much great-
er, to all the consequences that ought to result from
them.

On the other• hand, if France should concur in
respecting those rights, and -commerce should thus
regain its fair immunities, and the law of nations its
just dominion, all the alleged purposes of the British.
Orders will have been at once fulfilled.

If I forbear t-o pursue these ideas througli all the
illustrations of which they -are susceptible, it is be-
cause the personal conferences to which T have be-.
fore alluded, as well as the obvious nature of the
ideas themselves, render it unnecessary.
I cannot conclude this note without expressing
my sincere wish, that what I have now suggested,°
inconformity with the liberal sentiments and en-
lightened views.of the President, may contribute, not
only to rembve -the more immediate obstacles to
the ordinary intercourse of trade between your coun-
try and mine, in. a Manner consistent with the ho-
nour of both, but to prepare the way for a satistac-
tory adjustment of every question important to their,
future friendship.

1 have the honour to be;
With The highest consideration,'lSir •
Your most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) WM. PINCKNEY.

EXTRACT OVA LETTER PROM MR. PINCKNEY TO THE
SECRETARY O STATE, D4I.TED 24111 SEPTEMBERi
IC;08, LONDON.

.
" I an, 110%s/enabled to transmit to you a copy of
41\1r. Canning' answer, received only last night, to
my note of the 23d of August.
" I rigret extremely that the views which I have
been instructed to lay before this Government have
not been met by it as I had at first been led to ex-
pett. The ovyrtui e,cannot fail, however, to place
in a strong light the ju,t and liberal sentiments by
which our Government is animated, and in other
respects to be useful and honourable to our coun-6
try:. -

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FROM MR. CANNING TO MR. PINcKNEY.
Foreign (Vice, Sept. 23, 1808.
The Undersigned his Majesty's Principal Secre-
tary of State fur Foreign Atfair, h.id the honour to
receive the official letter addressed to him by Mr.
Pinckney, Minister Plenipotentiary of the. United
States,• respecting-the Orders it) Council, issued by
his Majesty on the 7thof January and 11th No'vem,
ber, 1807.
He has laid that letter before the King, and he is
commanded to assure Mr. Pinckney that the an-
swer to the proposal which Mr. Pinckney was in-
structed to bring forward has been deferred only in
the hope that the renewed application which was
understood to have been recently made by the Co-'
vernment of the United States to that of France,
might, in the new State of things which vhas arisen
in Europe, have met with such a reception in
France, as would have rendered. the compliance of
his Majesty with that proposal Consistent as much
with his Majesty's own dignity and with the in-
terest of his people, -as it would have been with
his Majesty's disposition towards the United States.
Unhappily there is now no longer any reason to 'oe-
lieve that such a hope is likely to be realized ; and
the Undersigned is therefore -commanded to com-
municate to Mr. Pinckney, thedecision which, un-
der the circumstances as they. stand,, his Majesty
feels himself compelled, however unwillingly; to
adopt.

The mitigated measure of retaliation announced
by his Majesty in the Orders of Council of the 7th"
January, arrd the further extension of that. measure.
(an extension in operation but not in principle) by
.the Order] in Council of _November, are founded
(as has been already repeatedly avowed by his Ma.-
jesty) on the " unquestionable right of his Majesty
to retort upon the enemy the evils of his own in-
justice"—and- upon the consideration that—" if
third parties incidentally suffered by these retaliatory
measures, they were to seek their redress from the
Power by whose original aggression that retaliation
was occasioned."

His Majesty sees nothing in the Embargo laid on
by the President of -the United States of America,
which varies this' original and simple state of the
question.

7 if considered as a measure of impartial hostility
against both Belligerents, the ,Embargo appears to
his Majesty to have been manifestly unjust, as, ac-
cording to every principle of justice, that redress
ought to haVe been first soi:igltt from the party ori-
ginating the wrong. And his Majesty cujrnot eon-

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sent to buy that, hostility which America.ought
not to have extended to hint at •the exPence i?f a
concession made not to America but to France.
If,- as it has knore generally been rePresented.hy
the Government of the United States, the Embargo
is only to be considered as an innocent municipal
regulation which atieets none but the United. States
themselves, and with which no Foreign State has
any concern ; viewed in this light, his Majesty does.
' not conceive that he has the right or the pretension
to make any compLtint of it, and he has made'none.
But in this tightthefe appears not only no recip-
rocity, but no assigna'o:e relation, between the re-
'peal by the United States of a measure of voluntary
self‘restriaion; and the surrender by his Majesty of
his right of retaliation against his enemies.
The Government of the Utlited States is not now
to be informed that the Berlin Decree.of Nov. 21,
180(i, was the praClical commencement of an at-
tempt not merely to check or impair the prosperity,
of Great Britain, but utterly to annihilate her politi-
cal existence, through the 'min of her commercial
prosperity ; that in this attempt almost all the
Powers of the European Continent have been com-
pelled more or less to co-operate ; and that the
American Embargo, though -most assuredly not in-
tended to that end (for America can have no real in-
terest in, the subversion of the British Power, and
-her Rulers are too enlightened to ad from any
pulse against the real interests of their country) but
by some Unfortunate concurrence of circumstances,
without any hostile intention; the American Em-
bargo did come in aid of " the blockade of the
European Continent" precisely at the very moment
. when, if that blockade could hive succeeded at' all,
this interposition of the American Government
would most etfeEtually have contributed to its site-
cess.'

To this universal combination, his Majesty has,
I opposed a temperate but a determined retAntion
upon 'the enemy; trusting that/ a firm reiistalce
would defeat this project, but knowing that the
smallest concession would infallibly encourage a per-
severance in it.

The strtygle has been viewed by other Powers
not without an apprehension that it might be fatal
to this country. The British Government has not
disguised from itself that the trial of such an expe-
riment might be' arduods and long ; though it has
never doubted of the final is:itre. But if that issne,
. such as the British Government confidently anti-
cipated, has providentially arrived much sooner than
could have been hoped ; if " the blockade of the
Continent," as it has been triumphantly stiled by the
enemy, is ratted even before it had bee,n well
'established; and if that system, of which extent
and continuity wore the vital principles, is broken
up into fragments utterly harmless and contempti=
ble ; it is, nevertheless, important in the highest de-
gree to the reputation of tins con ntry-(a reputation
which constitutes great part of her power) that this
disappointment of,the hopes of her enemies should
not have been purchased by any ,concession ; that
not a doubt should remain to distant times of her
determination and of her ability to have continued
her resistance; and that no step which could even
misiakeply be construed into concession should be
taken on her part while the smallest link of the
COMederacy remains uodissolYed ; or while it can
be a question whether the plan devised for her ,let
struCtion has or has not either completely' failed or
been Un equi voCally‘a bandoned.
These Considerations, compel his Majesty to ad-
here to the principles on which the 'Orders in Coon-.
cil, of the 7th Jannary, and the t tt h NoveMbet are
founded, so long as i'vance adheres to that system
by which his Majesty's retaliatory measures' were
bccasioned and justified. '.
It is not improbable; indeed, that some alterations
may be made in the Orders in Council, as they are
at present framed ; alterations calculated not to abate
their spirit, or impair their principle, but to adapt
them more exaally to the different state" of things
which has fortunately growm up in lurope, and to
combine all pradticable relief to neutrals,wrth.a more

~severe 'pressure upon the enemy.
jßut or alterations to be made with this view only;
it would be uncandid to take any advantage in the
present discussion : however, it might be hoped,. that
in their pra&ical etre& they might prove beneficial
to America, provided the operation of the Embargo
were not to prevent her from.reaping that-benefit.
It remains for the Undersigned to 'take notice of
the last paragraph of Mr. Pinckney's letter. There
cannot exist, on the part of Mr. Pinckney, a stronger
wish than there does on that Tart of the • Under-
signed, and of the British Government, ,fOr the ad-
justment of all the differences subsiSting between
the two countries.,
His Majesty has no other disposition than to cul-
tivate the most friendly intercourse with the United
States.
The Undersigned is persuaded that Mr. Pinckney
would be one of the lastito imagine, what is often
idly asserted, that the depression of any other coun-
try is necessary, or, serviceable ,to the prosperity of
this. The prosperity of America is essentiel)y.the
prosperity of Great Britain, and the strength and
power. of Great Britain are not 1-Or herself only., btu
for the world. - When those adjustments shall take
place, to which though unfortunately not predicable
at this moment, nor under the conditions prescribed
by Mr. Pinckney, the Unde'rsie,ned, nevertheless,-
: confidently.looks forward ; it will perhaps be no
insecure pledge for the continuance of the good tin-
'•derstaeding between the two countries that they
will have learnt dilly to appreciate each callers friend-
ship ; and that it . will not hereafter be Itirputed to
Great Britain, either on the one hand that she envies
American industry as prejudicial to British ,corn-
merLe, or, on the other haul, that she is compelled
to court an intercourse with America as absolutely
necessary to her own existence.
His Majesty would not hesitate to contribute, in
any manner in his power, to. restore to the com-
merce of the United States its wonted aelivity, and
if it were possible to make any 'sacrifice for the 're-
peal of the Embargo, without appearing to depre-,
sate it as a measure of hostility, he wOuld gladly
have facilitated its removal as a measure of income=
nient restrielion upon the American people.
The Undersigned is commanded, in conclusion,
to observe, that nothing is said: in- Mr. Piuckney's
letter of any intention ta repeal the Proclamation by
which the-Ships of War. of Great Britain are i:'iter-
dieted from all those rights of ho§pitality in the ports
of the United States, which are freely allowed to
Ships of his Majesty's Enemies.

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dirigatice of an intercliciion which, tindc r
such circumstances, amounts so t?early to dirett .hos-
tility, after the willingness professed, And the at-
tempt t!
made by his Majesty to 'remove tire Cii11,4.7. on
which that measure had been' originally tor:Oiled, I,
would afford but an inauspicious omen for
tuentOnie'llt of system ,of «Intim! concilia;iofl ; ao4 1,11
the omission of any notice of that measure in the
proposal which Air. Piiioliney has been instrut9ed
to bring forward, would have been of ;.tseil a mak-
rial defeat in the oven ore of the President.

But the tindersigned is conmtnided no further to
dwell upon this sithjeti than for the purpose of as-
snring Mr. t'inaney, that on thiS and every other
point in discussion between the tWo Goverw»ent,.,
his Majesty earnestly desires tke restoration Oa f
perfe6.l gpod understanding, and thgt his Majesty
would &cline no measure, for the attainment of
that objeel which should be compatible with his
own honour and just rights,. mid with the interests
of his people.

The Undersigntd requests Mr. Pinckney will ac-
cept the -assurance of his high consid,4ation.
(Signed) GEORGE CANNING.

In consequence of the death of tlfe -late H. P.
ST. JOHN MILDMAY, Bart. the superb family seat of
Moulsham Hall, in Essex, is directed to be sold, in
various lots. It was built by the last Earl of I' ITZ-
WALTERJ where GEORGE the Second generally
passed a day and a night, on •his route to .Hanover,
and who always declared it the best mansion heevcr
entered. It devolved on Sir H. PAULET ST. JOHN,
with an estate of 30001. per annum, in Essex, on
matringe with ,Miss MILDMAY, daughter of
CAREVV MILDMAY, Esq. (whose name he took) on
cowlition that he shod make it his abode three
months in every year GovernMent finding it neces-
sary to oosscss it as a residence for the Gt-tnerul and
Lis s,,tr of his distritt, and also to erect fortifications
on a. considerable. part of the park, on Aft of Parlia-
ment passed hr that -purpose, by which Sir HARRY'S
residence was dispensed with : the term for which
Government took it being- now expired, the whole
of this fine. strwilure, offices, &c. is ordered to be
razed to the ground:

• Thursday evening, about half-past eight o'clock; a
most dreadful explosion of gunpowder cartridges
took place in Blewies-coutt,'Fet ter-lane. A iour,
aeyman Carpenter; who resides in a one pair of stairs
back
room, uas st-
home with his wi!e when the
explosion took place, and the cause of the accident,
or hoit; the gunpowder came there, is not known,----
The man, 'hi his 'great agony, juMped out of the
window into the yard with his cloaths in flames, and
in. this state ran into his landluly's parlour, and from
thence into the court, where, with the assistance of
several people, the flames were ext ing-nishe'd, and he
and his wile were taken to the Hoipital it) a most
shocking and dangerous state. The explosion forced
the partition, which separated the back and front
room, where a woman and three children were, who
providentially received no other injury than soMe
bruises from the falling of the ainseot. The whole
of the outside of the front room, together with
the sashes, were forced our into a,r, hiw building
on the O;;posite side of the Courli', The unfortti
nate man and his wife have been%speechkss since
the explosion. -

CottoNECs,lNanES4%—Felo de se.7--An Inquisi-
.
sition was held on Friday
.se'tiniglit, and continued
by adjournment till the next day,, in the parish of
Bethnal-green, before J: W. U-rovf&. Es.q. on e
body of Frances li,avennagh, who had been missing
for about three "weeks. Mr. Gilpin, of London-
field, Hackney, deposed, that the deceased had lived
servant with him ; she was to have-quitted her ser-
vice on Monday, the 21st of Novetriber; On the
Friday pr. coding, ltis housekeeper, having by acci-
dent found some tea and other articles in a, box,
which led to a suspicion of theft, required to see clic
Contents of her oilier boxes. The search produced
the folloWing articles; namely, half a peck_ ollionr,
three quarters loaves,' three pounds of butter, a
potind of tea, another quant4 of less than a pound,
two pounds of moist, and two pounds-of loaf sugar,
some sugar loOse in a bag, a bottle of rum, another
of brandy, and a third of gin ; sonic of the alleles.
the witness could identity, others he could prove
were' taken up ,of his tradesmen. The deceased, on
being accused, acknoWledged the theft. On the
Saturday evening she had called on a Mrs. Tipping,
to whom shestated having been accused (Attie theta,
but imputed the whole to the malice of Mr. Gilpin's
houSekeeper, who, she affirmed, Inv' placed the
things iq her box to ruin her. She added, " rather
than be brought to justice, I will make away with
myself," The deceased Called again on Tip-
pings,. on Sunday morning-, and staid till eleven
o'clock. Elizaibeth Gray, who lives in the neigh-
bourhood, heard; about eleven o'clock on Sun-
day night three distina screams, in a female voice,
in the 'direaion of a pond to the North of. the
Hackney. Road, nearly opposite Darharn-Place.--,
On Monday morning, Samuel Millwood . and
his son, about eight o'clock, found, by, the side of
the same pond; a pair of, black velvet shoes, .a shawl,
a chequed apron, and a_pair• or garters ; a bonnet
Was also found floating on the suffice of, the water.
The pond was dragged for a considerable time,with-
out finding the budy; but on Thursday last it was
discovered floating. in the pond, by James Allen, a
labourer.

Mr. UNWIN observed to the Jury, that from the
declaration of the deceased, the situation of the wa-
ler,- and the articles of dress found on the brink of
the pond, there could not•be a reasonable doubt of
the faa of self-destruaion. The unfortunate wo,
man appeared to have quitted the world loaded with
and to escape justice had flown to suicide._
There is not a hint of ins:tntty in the case; and the
law presumes all hotriicide to be murder till the
conclusion shall appear, and ranks self murder with
the worit of crimes. The consequence of a veldiet
of sell-felony is well known, and it is hoped may
operate as a wariiitig to surviyors.

• .DISCOUNT ALLOWED ON LOTTERY
Every Purchaser of Shares of Tickets, amounting to
Five Pounds and upwards, will be allowed a as,
count, at .1.4\r.; RNFlies FOrtunate Office, Ir, Corn-
hill, Where Capital Prizes ta a lrge amount have
been recently sold in Shares,—Only two more days-
to craw, and the wheel contains three of 20,000 i,
ore of 10,0001. one of 5,0001, three of 1,0001.&c.
Tuesday will, be the next Day of Drawing.

LAIL REPORT'.

COURT OE CO:\INIt)N PLEAS, DEC 23.

LORI) -.MER V. KNIGHT.

1.14 ,Lt :on h;ought by Lord Dormer, as
of his Kni,,ht; tc coMpt) the
aity,ent of a sun:: pun an annuity granted her,
her int-Otin:11, the Hon. Francis Knight,
asion of: their separation in Igo4.
SitCrnEwo, for•the Plaintiff, stated,
Ih,(. Defendant.. and his wife., cot living happily
ot;cth,.,r, had ::,greed to separate. The Defendant
.ad"coveniinted to allow_ his wife 8001. per annum,
deed. But there 'vas another deed bkwhich
1 h of 8001. a year was to.berednced to 4001.
Mrs K.tti2,llt, associated or cohabited,

lon,l huaier, a Captain of a company in the
Ite:.;l:ertit (;:,arcs. Mr. Knight had
, cd 1. e plyntent to the lower SUM),
u, had e, back.,a Pitt tha:
ice ; 'aud he was instrocled to say, that the cause
ii iht-; hill Airs. Knie)ithad tvlused to c4n-
_,
cot to a 'snit of divorce, and t hus*ecoMe a party to
her 0‘.,..11 diqvice. - It thJs, nut, Irr, condua
as of. the basest Mod.' Ile would prove the exe
:nt ion of the deed,,, and he dt tied the defendant to
that Mrs. Kiiiitlft had lost her right to the
ir.„.;er'ailocity, by aoy intercourse with
2ulonel-Fuliel,;,and then the. Philnliff, as tier Trus-
.ce, w(•.11.; be entitled to the ‘hole of the claim.

.1.1.h.s proof aito:wther consisted of adinission4 by
..le,De.fc..!rnlan't, who the execution ?t. the
.t4A-•:ds ihdt 1;0 inor,7 hid bt,en paid than t-ne
staked by the .

Mi. Sctjeant for the bofendant then ad-
dressed the Jury, and in the r..-ourse of his speech
foul:d it necessary to state the particular circnni-
which bad given rise in these deeds. Mr.
h. i4hi, ;serious to t . 1804, • had strong
itho fidelity of wife, althouol lie
was not t hen -I),:epared with full pro ,f. An adion,
h it .d been c,,nirnenced by hiin in the Court
Bebe., but as be w a (lot:L.)1(ot whet l;er, he
sloul I be ab;e to prove fits wife's adultery in a Cobrt
a:t:Jough he himself was fully satisfied of
wact -t prop sul to her and Colonel Fuller that
.11v1- ill(kr:tit U, go by def;lult in the
i!,:tics, and that he wotild Allow Mri. Knight
the. mtraby ~tmve-wentioutd, and _2OOOl. out of
_;.j4;o!. hitch *she .brought him as a fortrino;
h,o,veo-r, th,st s.L.,u should not keep Corn-
p.:ny or with Colouei Fuller, ..vho was con-
;;;-, her I')2.l•aul..mr. To thiS the parties_assent-
jf,(l4.:ll,,w' was allowed 'to go .by. yLefault in the
.I.3c:,ch',...asid 70001. damages were award-
C,urt. This sum Mr,. Knight
to C,.l)liel Fuller; and immediately upon
this Mrs. Knight opposed -the divorce in Duaors'
(.%)niunons. -

:The. Dor:ner lamily•themelves had been* highly
iseiisibe of the generowy of Mr: Knight; and yet this
was rile husb:rnd whom his Learned Friend had been
instructed w call base. He characterised - the con-
dip- of the opposne parties as abominable in'having
abused the gentir.sby of Mr. Knight, and cheated
hitriin this tran44#ion, by refu,ittgto fulfil,t heir bar-
g:un. Nks..lcAlit and Colonel
kFuder v.ishel't*.pontinue their intilliaty, and yet to
irive he Irag:,r stim He would prove that C,ilovel
huller aTtcl this unfoitunate Woman had continued to
as.oci:ne to4ethei, alter the execution of the deeds.
It was riot necessary lir him atirove a criminal in.
tere-ui se iroul the -timd oi- ttlC separa!ion, but he
would z! •e 'visiis of Co}. V,oller.to Mrs. Knight,
'and Ire ako prove the pt-tWious adultery.—
When visas ele contnued'after that, the rest might
be presumed. The Plaintiff would then at all evekto
be able to recover only the arrears of the inferior
brit as the second deed had not been put on•tbe re-
cord by the Plaintiff, he'sybinitie,s that theta must a
vercha for the Defendant: J. I\INNSFIgLD, Chief
Ju'dice, however, considered.the second as part of
the'first, af:d therefore held that there was no oc-
casion for, its being'speci.ally named on the record by
the PlAintiffi)
Anne Wharitin was the first witness called. • She
liVed with Mrs Knight after the separation, when
she resided in GI attester-place;and in Baket-street.
S e saw Colonel Fuller id the house with her mil-
twac-r three .times, -.but knew of nothing itn-
pro er baying passed-between them.
-do): tier cross-exaniination by Mr. GA.nßow, she
said that s;:e had been sent for by Mr. Knight, who
said t hat she uoight do him service, but she had
persisted that she knew ncithing improper in the
coAntot Mrs Mr. Knight had, offered
her no money, nor Made any, promise to do her a
service. _ •

Ednor rived as :footman- with Mrs. Kiljght,
dt.;ring the i!ear 1806 a!A a pi-nt of 807.1 Colonel
otten tisned Mrs.,Knight—he could not
JAI the nu,hb:r ,:t titnesit might he ten or twenty.
lie no reason to so,pect any.critninal inter-
He had F;hetwn stint intolue drawing-room
is the custom with visitors.

cu;.irF.e,

To prove the ptevk-ous•adnitery, ,
• Maly Dches,w,. a'called. She lived' in 1803/with
Mrs. I.:.Fey(lVlrs, sister) in C4burton-
st-reet. ISlrs'. Knight , and COlond ffequently
met at her Mistress's houie. —l2hey vvere ()nen on
the parlour-alone to-getlwr with the door iocked,
whole her mistress ivas in the house,- sUinetimes in.
the adjoining room. On one occasion the witness.
iketir up to the irarlour, door, which she fOund
10,:ked. Lri a shutt time Fuller opetrea
tint .knowl!ig she ,:szts inotnedi.i;(-ly at the (loot. She
went in and saw-Colonel Fulli2r ;:diusting
his and Mrs. Knight'," dress iii Urhat she'des-
cribed a, a very- tumbled state. She did not sly

.my thing at the Owe-about this, but thuught she
had got' into a very odd sort of house. She often
t.;asv Mrs.. Knight going out and coining in, and 'al-.
'ways when ,he, went out of the house aster Colonel
Faor had been with her, the dress she wow ap-
. iwitred mkt, rumpled:-
On her ewis-en,atnina.tion by Mr. GAnitow, she
that alter observing the„scene in the parlour she
slept as sottuOly as usual, and
,lote,,x not . why she
1 •
sio„id She AA_ tieer gone by any other name
but viral Et6:es. Sue had indeed married a man

of tii:t! -kionhe,, but utidist'ailding he had
"--.l);:enpreviOusly married, site hid inanediatesl3, after
"tins re'snined" her own name. ••
Mr-i..Thorntoit; who itad been .nurse in Mr.

niCy, tri.-iijt2S3 and
was atllcighton, ,:wing the 'laces, :she
4otic to the parlour-dool s(,;n'd in t)lIC Ut .the
ch:ldren, but found it locked. how-
ever, called out that she would op: 211 the dour hi-
mediate/Iy. When she did
.so, her dr.e,s u i in dis-
order, and she herself apparently 11l g.ftat confusioil.

Sarah Franklin Eyed as house-maid Mrs.
Impey ; Col. Fuller and Mrs. Ktii4ht were in the
habit et visiting her mistress. They were -often
left alone together. One dry her-Mistress, Colonel
Fuller and Ars. Knight, were in the draWing-room
'to.get her. Mistress came out and went into the
adjoining main, leaVing the other.s alone together,—
Alter they came out, the witness 'observed- thZ.-. dress
of Mrs. Kni.-;ht. in disc der. - She -.went into, the
drawing-room,. riff which there was bed=room,
the only; way to which was through the drawing-.
room. She found the bed much tumbled, and ex-
hibiting the appearance of two persons having been
in ii. .

SCr.l:23llt SHEPHERD was about to address the
Jury, when Sir J. MANS:i7LELDinrorriled , him, "that
he'did not think it neeeSsary for the P,:feodant to
prove that crimitial intercourse had passed betskeen
these parties, subsequent to the execution of the
deeds.

CharleS Goring, Esq. and Coloriel Gould were
then Called on the part of the Plaintiff, to prove
that the visits of.6'oloi-iel Fuller to Mrs. Knight had
been oeca::iioned in consequence of proposals to the .
parties .by Mr. Knight himself. It turned out,
hbwever, (ilk 'Mr. i...night hid never sanctioned
an tisit, excel); itt one or two instances lig-inc.:Abe
negoCikion about- the action wits going forward. ..
, Mr. Serjeant
.BEST contended, that if Isis case had
wanted any thing, that deficiency would have been
fully made up by the evidence. now 'produced. by, the
Plaintiff. He particularly dwelt upon the circrtm-.
stance thk Coterie] Fuller was in Court, and if his
witnesses had said any thing that was not true, the
Colonel might have been called to contradict them,-
and to disprove, if he Could,' either the previous
adultery or- the subsequent 'visiting-. But both he
and Mrs. Knight had confessed the adultery already,
—bee by alloWing inAginent to go by default, and
she'in a letter to Mr. Goring.
Mr. Serjeant was beard ;n reply. He
thought the meaning of the words in the second
deed was, that Mrs.:Knight and Col. Fuller should
not so associate as,to give the wyrld reason topre-
sume any criminal intercourse, and.notiling" had been
Proved to shew any ground to believe, that a•
intercourse had pussed. He also observed .upon
the improbability of the. stones_ told ,by Etches,
Thornton, and Franklin ; and, upon the curious na.
Lure of the delicacy ascribed to Mr. Knight, who was
not contented with proving his wite an adulteress,
but had also endeavoured to prove her sister a bawd..
Sir J. MANSFIELD said, that the, question- here
was a- very simple one. It was,, whether, 'subse-
quent to the execution of the deeds, Mrs. Knight
had received the visits of Colonel Fuller, as an ordi-
nary acquaintance. • This,- he conueived to be the
construction of the second deed, and the husband
aright bave had good reasons for such a stipulation.-
The husband', at the time of exechting the deeds,
certainly su-speCted a crimitel intercourse; and
it must have required a good dal of invention
in time three last witnesses for the Defendant to
have made up she story they told ; andi besides, it
thev had said what was.tioi true; Colonel Fuller
mi;lit have been called, to contradict them ; and
he must have been the most extraordinary man, in
the world to allow judgment to go by default against
him it he-had been innocent. The rusbanu's
ject appeared to- have been to prevent•any inter-
course between them. that could atibrd an op-portu-
pity tbr criminality. Mr. Knight seemed to haVe
hnaginied that, having paid at the rrite of 8001. atter
the visits of Colonel Fuller, he had a right to dedua
the overplus. 'This, however he could not d 0,.. and
therefore the Plaintiff must have a verdict for. the
arrears of. the 4001.

The Jury immediately found for the •Plaintiff only
to the'extent of• the arrears of the inferior' sum of
4001. being 3951. subject to the deduCtion of the In-
come tax.