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A REMARKAI3LE CASE.

MRS. TAYLOR, Looking glass Manufanory,.
No'. 44, Hoxton-square, was affiided for thirteen
years with .a severe Rheumatism, and an Obstruction in
the Womb, which caused her the most excruciating pains ;
she applied to several eminent Physicians, but never received
any benefit. In this situation, she had recourse to Dr. Bro-
dum's Botanical Syrup and Nerv-ous Cordial, and by only'
taking five Bottles was pettedly cured ; and has, for the
benefit of the Melded, requested Dr. Brodum to publish
h
tCase, and will give any person further satisfadiont who
is sirous of being informed.—Witness her hand, this sth
day f November, 1800. ,
Witness to the above, SARAH TAYLOR.
AWN BROWN, Butcher, No. s 4, Shoreditch.
.Sir, in consequence of 'the great benefit which I have
experienced by taking your Botanical Syrup and Nervous
Cordial, I think it but just to request you to publish .my
Case, for the benefit of those who may labour under a sirni-
lar complaint. I was afflieted for a length of time with a
dreadful Nervous Disorder, that atleded me in an alarming
degree; my body was also swelled in a manner that made
my existence very miserable: I was advised by the Faculty
to try the Country Air, at a time when they could ne-longer
prescribe to relieve me ;.this I also did, but found no bene-
fit ; but by applying to you, Sir, and taking your Medicines,
lam quite restored to health and spirits. I am, Sir,
. Your ever.grateful, humble Servant,
MARY CASLAKE, Tallow Chandler,
No. s 4, Great Alie-street, Goodman's-fields,
1 Whitechapel.
Witness, Mr. SPURCON, the father of Mrs. Caslake, Hat-
field, near Chelmsford, Essex ; Mr. B. HAWKIN S.

Nov. 1, doo.
To Dr. Baouum, No. 9, Albion-street, Blackfriars.
TO THE UNPREJUDICED.

When His Majesty's Letters Patent have been granted to
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against fraud and imposition, as such Medicincor Prepara-
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Patent. The BOTANICAL SYRUP and NERVOUS
CORDIAL have both stood the test of the first Medical
Men in Englandt ti.nd the greatest Professors in Physic of
the present age; aild for which His Majesty has granted
His Royal Letters Patent : thus sanctioned, Dr. Brodurn ii
!told in holding forth to the World the above two unri-
valled Medicines, which are the fruit of close and studious
application~ for upwards of twenty-eight years. The bota-
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secret Infirmities of Nature which delicacy often forbids
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IMPERIAL PARL lAM ENI.

HOUSE OF PEERS,

MONDAY, MARCH 30.
MRS. ADDISON's DIVORCE'BILL.

ON the Order of the Day for the second reading
of this Bill, which was introduced at the instance of
• Mrs.---Jane Addison; late of Arg'leshire in- Scot-
land, its objeA being .to dissolVe the marriage be-
.tween that Lady and her husband Mr. Edward Ad.
dison, for Adultery, &c. on his part, being read,
Counsel and Evidence were called in and heard re-
speaing the, same. ,
Mr. ADAM was heard on behalf of she Petitioner,
Mrs. Addison, at some length, and displayed - his
usual talents. The circumstances of the case upon
which the Lady grounds this application against
her husband, are of ethaordinary aggravation; but
being already before our Readers through the me-
dium of our Law Reports, we deem it unnecessary
to repeat them :—the jet of these were, -That Mr.
Addison being detected in a criminal intercourse
with Mrs. Campbell, the sister of Mrs. Addison,•
and wife of a Dr. Campbell, many years a resident
in 'lndia ; in consequence of which Dr. Campbell
brought his action iv the Court of King's Bench,
Westminster, and obtained a verdia against Mr.
Addison, &c. On these general grounds the ap-
plication fo, their Lordships was made. The Learn-
ed Counsel argued with considerable that
the Lady was fully. entitled to the interference of
the Legislature ; and, he doubted not, when their
Lordships had considered the very aggravated cir-
cumstances of 'the case, they would,notwithstatid-
ing the novelty -of the application, grant the de-
sired relief.- He did not think it necessary to de-
tail the various means which the criminal husband
'of the Lady in question had obviously taken to ac-
complish the seduCtion of his wife's own-sister. In
the year 1792 the Lady. returned from India—ln the
following year Mr. Addison, it appeared, began his
attempts at the seduaion, which, in the course of
the year 1794, he said he could prove by the tes-
timony of a Witness who was examined in the King's
Bench and the Ecclesiastical Court,' to have been
accomplished. He begged their Lordships to con-
template for a moment, the aggravation of the case.
A husband, with his wife's own sister ! Mrs. Ad-
dison was a native of Scotland, bred under the laws,
and educated in the. religion of that part of the
kingdom. She came to England at the age of J 9;
was shortly. after married; and when the faa com-
plained of took place, she was but 26.--,-She was
still a young woman, and he entreated the House to
reflect what her situation must be, should the de-
-sired relief be withheld. The_ delays which
had taken place, were from the particular circum-
stances of the case, absolutely unavoidable. Doctor
Campbell, the husband of Mrs. Addison's -sister
was in India at the time the affair was discovered,
which was necessarily productive of considerable
delay ; the regular steps were taken as soon as they
possibly could, and in Trinity Tetm 1798, •the
case was tried in the_ Court ..of King's Bench.
The moment Mrs. Addison was apprized
of her husband's.conduit, she left his +louse,
and her demeanour was in every respea precisely
what it should be on such an occasion. He was
aware of the importance-of the Case-with respea to
the proceedings of tags-Lordships. It was a Case
with a reference to the question of precedent,
which certainly required the deliberation of the
House.—ln the present instance none of these
consequences, which in a Case similar in some
respeas, might follow, were to be apprehended.—
When the peculiar circumstances of the Case were
considered, its aggravation, the Ladies likely to
be affected, their close consanguinity, own sis-
ters, brought up and educated together, and always
in the habits of friendship, no such fears were to be
entertained ; besides, an intermarriage between par-
ties so connected, was against the Statute of HENRY
VIJIth, &c. He called their Lordships' attention
to the case of theindividuals who were now suffer-
ing by ithe conductof -the Seducer of :Mrs. Camp-
bell, and submitted, whether the desired relief
should not be granted upon the' principles of stria
morality and religion, as well as on the other
grounds which he had urged.
After a few woods between the Marquis of BUCK-
INGHAM and the LORD CHANCELLOR, respeding
one of the law points in the Learned Counsel's
Speech, the Witnesses were called in.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Addison, in Lon-
don, in April 1788, was duly proved, as well as that
of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, which, it appeared, had
taken place in Scotland. These ladies' are own
sisters, and the daughters, as we could eolith from
the Evidence, of Sir James Campbell, of Argyle-
shire.

By the evidence of a young woman, who attend-
ed Mrs. Campbell when she went down into Scot-
land, in the yeas 1793 and 1794, on which occasion,
Mr. Addison accompanied her, it appeared that the
parties were frequently observed in such situations,
as, together with some collateral circumstances
which had been noticed,
,induced strong suspicion of
a criminal intercourse between them. .

The principal evidence on this head was; per-;
son who had been Waiter at 'an Inn near Queen's.
Ferry, Scotland. He stated, that in consequence
of what he had heard among the servants, and in-
deed observed himself, he had been induced to bore
a hole in the door of the chamber, ihrot.•gh which,
he at one time saw the parties in such a situation
together, as left no doubt on his mind of their cri-
minal connexion.

Th Learned Counsel having informed their
Lordships that in the present instance he had no
farther evidence to offer upon the case, the Wit-
nesses, &c. were ordered to retire.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then addressed a
few observations to .the I-louse on the nature of the
case before them, but in such a tone of voice as pre-
cluded us from distindly hearing what he said. His
Lordship seemed to regard the case as one of equal
novelty and importance, and to express his doubts
respeding the adequacy of the evidence adduced by
th.; Lady in support of her case. He was aware
that oases had arisen, .in which recourse was had to
to interference of, that House, without the custom-
ary proceedings having taken place in the Courts
below ; two of which he instanced, one, that of an

African Captain, who Was absent on duty from his
wife about two years and a half, and on his return
found that she had been deliiered of a child in his
absence, and, at the moment of his return, was
also far gone in her pregnancy !with' a second
child. He would willingly have institute& his
aftion, but it appeared there was no Defendant
to be' found.—The second, was a case, not long
since before the House (we believe that of Wood_
mason) the eriminal.faas in which took place
in France, - and according to their regulations
of Divorce, the parties had been separated
but their •Lordshipcwould perceive the difference
between those cases, and that, at present, under
theirconsideration. He thought that fully to admit
what had been-offered at the Bar, would be a dan.
gerous relaxation of the Rules of Evidence, as their
Lordships. would perceive that the t vidence given
before the Courts below, and on which they had
grounded their decisions, was given between dir—
mid Parries, and not a Case in which the Petitioner
was direly concerned. He had therefore framed..
a legal proposition arising out of the Case,' which
he suggested should .be offered for the consideration
and argument of the Counsel. These, as we could
collca, resolved substantially into the question,
how far the. Record of the Court below, in such a
Case, should obtain as evidence before that House t

A ••short explanatory conversation took place
between- the DUKE of CLARENCE and/the LORI".
CHANCELLOR, respedibg one of the legal points'
advanced by the .Noble and Learned Lord.
Tbi Earl of CLARE deemed it incumbent on
hiin to say a few words upon the point. He thought
the case one that required much deliberation; it
was in a great degree a . new case, and one tending-,
to form a precedeot. He was of opinion, that if no
Farther evidence than what had been just heard at
the Bar ,should be oared in behalf of the Lady,
her case was far from being made out. The im-
portant fad of the adultery of her husband rested,
as it appeared, upon the testimony of a single per-
son ; one who acknowledged himself to have been
Waiter•at an Inn, induced by what he had heard
whispered among servants, and guided by motives
of personal curiosity, to have acted and seen -as he
had described, He, however, ,thought this testi-
mony by no means conclusive--.--added to this consi-
deration, no evidence was offered on the part of the
Lady, to spew, how the fad in question came to
her knowledge, or whether she lived with her
husband after being aware of his conduct ; all these
were points,:in a case .of 'such peculiar importance,
he thought- worthy .of contideration, and he seemed
decidedly of ,opinion that farther evidence was re.
cessary to warrant their Lordships in passing ti„.,
Bill. . •
.• .

. The LORDL.PHANCELLOR spoke shortly in ex.
planation. After, which the counsel was called
in, and informed that their Lordhips had resolved
to bear the above mentioned point argued ; and after
a few words on tbe oceasion, passed between the
Counsel and the Learned:Lord on the Woolsack, the
further consideration of the case was postponed till
Tuesday seinnight.