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London, England, 1814-12-06 00:00:00

,atitiitery,9 Ann whe4cl adl were pn't trivetber, the
JvAy have little doubt on their mind, On
'Ont. ,cnasion, when Lord-Middleton was with the
pl.!intifT's wife, a visitor came. The servant went
to a'onounde him, in the apartment where Mrs.
Knight was ; opening the door and going in; Mrs.
Knight blushed, and was confused ; he saiv
Lord Mid,Heron getting up 'at the moment, and
turning his face toavards the fire." These trans-
actions took place. between the latter end of De-
re'nher, 1812, and the beginning of January,
1813, during which time Mr. Knight was in,
London, aryl bad not the slightest corresnendenre
witty his Wife. In March the servants observed
at,o-tit Mrs. Knight svmptonis of pregir Try, and
ton the 7th of Oct. 1813,,Mr5: Knight was brought,
to bed ot'ii male child. Under those fact,S, 11 the
child '-..as not the child of Mr: Kiiight, could any
tildy doubt it, was ;the child of Lord Middleton ?
There was, however, proof that Lord INT. considered
himself tlietat her. Mrs.K.remoYed toLondon, and
hired a house in Devonshire-street, and assumed
the name of Jordan,' giving out that she was the
wife of "a Captain in the Army. She was delivered
of a male child, and there was no doubt of her
adultery ; but the question was, whether the No-
ble Lord was the adulterer ?If he coined prove the
Noble Defendant visited in London when she lived
under a feigned name, there could be-no doubt.
He had been-instructed to assert that Lord Mid-
dleton was at the christening of the child, but as
there was some doubt on that head, he should
leave it to be established or disproved by" the evi-
dence. The Learned- Sedeant had experience
enough to know, that a husband separated was
nut entitled to damages so large as if he• was
wife.---Indeed damages were not
so much the object. Mr. Knight had two datt'gh7
ters by this lady, and Lis estates being entailed on
Isle issue, it was a matter of consequience to pre-
vent his daughter' being injured by spurious issue,
t would appear, that the-offspring of this illicit
cOnnectlon, had been baptised in St. Mary-le-
bonne, as the son of Charles'and the Hon. Frances
Knight.-" Now Charles was not the name of the
plaintiff, his name being Robert ; but it was lay-
ing, the foundation of legal dispute, which might
greatly disturb -the right of the plaintiff's
mate children._ In this point of view, if the de-
fendant had concerted this registry. of baptism, it
could not be
ruentioned.in terms of too much se.,
verity against him. The Learned Serjeant con-
chided by calling evidence to prove his state-
meta,.

The mitrriage of Robert Knight with the
Frances-Dormer, daughter of Lord Dorther, by
special lieetice of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
in 179'1 , (vas proved by James Goren.
Mr. James West proved,. that the plaintiff and
his wife were separated seven years. The plain-
tiff, about that time, brought an action' against
Captain Fuller. 'Witness did not know what da-
tmq..i,es were-obtained. Mr. Knight once tolil him
on the subject of obtaining a . divorce, that he
could not he divorced because he was charged with
cO,llusion in the,action'against -Colonel Fuller.
Anne 'Jordan Was servant to Mrs. Knight, in
107, at Wasperton. In 181) she went to live
with her at Hampton Cottage, two miles from
Warrick. Mrs. Knight received Lord Midille--
to'n there in her drawing-room. She was with,
.111;rs. Knight ..vhen she tvent to I:orichire-street,
alicrsa.w Lord Middleton there after the child was
burn The husband of witness bad been taken into
01( service nt. tbe The witness admitted
, ,
ttiat•uord Mid,deton's 'louse was at ‘Vollerton,
Nottinghamshire, sand his Lordship had another
house in Warwickshire, some distance from Grove-
house, the seat of Lord 'Dormer. When Lord
Middleton. went to visit Lord Dormer be had to
pass Mrs. Knight's collage. The Gentlemen at
Grove-house Lc,:asionally visited Mrs. Knight,
and their visits had been as late a thoseof- Lord
Middleton:' Lord :Taurworth had slept in the
etittage as well as Lord Middleton, and witness
had never seen any itnpyoptiet'y on the part of the
defendant.. •

.Doctor Thvinte,.a Medics, .Gentletnnil, said he
was present at the delivery in Devonshire;street,
on the 7th of, October, 1,813. The child was
piny and (11,:l'eate, and it', might hare been a se-
ven-months child he did not- expect' it would
have lived.

•John Coleman, a servant, proved the statement
of toe Leapted Seryant with respect to the arms
of Lord Middleton being thrown round Mrs.
K-night. When he entered the room, he said
there was a Gentleman, a Mr. Clifford, wanted,
his Lady. She said, " For God's sake, don't let
him in !" and turning to. Lord Middleton, said,
" Shall I let Lim in 3." Lord Middleton
‘.‘, Please yourself.." Mrs. Knight met the Noble
Defendant, on one occasion, through a green
door in the hall. The witness afterwards onene)
the, door ; be saw their_faces together, and his
arms round her neck.

Q. What do you mean to say you thought of
that 2—A. 1 should have thought, if it had been
me, I was 'very near kissing her.
-juitn Watford, a servant to Mrs. Knight, said,
he came to town with her at Christmas last. Mrs.
Knight then resided at the house of Mrs. Port-
man,. .in Manchester-square. Witness observed
Lord Middleton frequently visit there. Once his
Lordship-came wrapped up in fur; with of fur cap,
atif broug-lit a piece of beef in his hand. A few
minutes: after Lord Middleton left the house one
]right, the witness went up, and found the batik
drawing-room door locked. •
Mr. Inhattr, of Upper Berkeley-street, remern-
bered•the christening of Mrs. goight's child 'at
his house; by the liev. Dr. llesldp. Two Gen-
tlemen %were present t.t.me was between 50' and
60, the other appeared about 40 years:
Antic Bucknall and-Sophia Roberts, two 'ser-
vants, proved visits made by Lord l',liddlelon to
Mrs Knight's, hur an act of crimin2lity. •
- Parkin, the Clerk of Mary-1;:-bone, Ortned that
Ltird 7'..liddlelon applied • for ,the registet• of the
child's r baptist:). lie tilt! not sec: Ford Midtlieton •
at the christening. •
,wasthe ev;dertce; and, after it had do,cd,
The Sol.tcryoß-GENERAI. contended, that no
c,:!,e Lad been male tint against the Noble Lord.
%the circumstance of his going for the-claid's
cer-
tifie::fe was represented as the effect of a unsure to
see .what the certificate-was, 'as Lord Middleton
info-ined it was the intention of the
p;aintilf to make him amenable to law. The

I.eainedSericant disclaimed, on the 'part of Ms
Noble Client, any siWistei, or base motive with
respect to the reizistcr.
The Learned Judge, Sir \'ic:.Att'v. GIBB 3, sum-
-toed up the case with his usual ability. He sliid
it had been de.termined by Zooid Kenyon, and the
King's Bench !nut followed his opinion, namely,
that if a husband S,Tarates hinlyt if volunterly
from his wife, and withdraW:l from all comfort
arising from her society, he has no gym :n(1 ti;
complain that another , has injuri:4l him.. That,
however, was not exactly the case ~here ; but be
could not nonsnit,,thi::plaintiff: he would lea% e the
trarned Counsel at'liberty, in ease the Jury give
the plaintiff a verdict, to move that a nonsuit
may be entered.

The Learned Judge observed,' that it was clear
the plaintiff had been ,separated, and that he had
endeavoured, in the Ecclesiastical Court, to ob-
tain a divorce. Under that circumstance, he re-
presented thetr,ne character of his wife, and what
damages could he expect, supposing the adultery
was proved against a third.person ? Oti that sub-
ject,- unless the Jury could' find that an act of
adultery had been committed after Jan. 1,_1813,
they could not find a-verdict against the defend-
ant. His Lordship .having commented on the
proofs of familiarity, left the Jury to say, under
all the evidence, whether they could give damages
:in a case where the loss of comforts arising from
the society of a wife had not been made out.

The .11;ry consulted" some time, and found a
verd;ct for the defeudant.—'[ht Court was crowd-
ed to excess.

OLD. BAILEY,' WICDAY, DEC.' ;o.

Jane Clements was indicted for stealing, on•the
14th of October, two 201. Bank-notes, two of
101. and six Al. notes, the property of the Hon.
Alexander Murray.
The-prosecutor gave the Rotes to Mrs. Murray,
who put them into a pocket-book in her ridicule.
-They were lodging at Mr. Miller's in Charges-
street, where prisoner was servant. On the even-
ing of the 14th, she was in the bed-room packing
a trunk, and prisoner was" assisting her. The ri-
dicule was lying on the bed, and when prisoner
left the room, Mrs. Murray missed pocket-book
and no'..cs, and-on enquiring for her, she found
prisoner had left the house.. She was apprehend-
ed.that evening 1-,v Mr. Morris, a linen-draper,
in Piccadilly, to whom she offered on.e of the 201.,
notes, in payment of some artietes. 'When
Nicolls took her into custody, she gave him the
rest of the notes.
Mr. ALLEY contended, that the indictment de-
scribed Mo Murray erroneously for hoitOdra/Ve
was a teLan of courtesy merely, and quite unknown
to the,law. Themoney onght ther( fore to have
been mentioned as the property of A. Mum ray,
Esti. and not of'the lion. A. Murray.
Mr. WALpotto maintained that Lord Hale had

laic) it down expressly, that such a description was
not necessary, in which opinion the Recorder co-
incided.

The ItEapitpl,:jl summed up the evidence; and
•

informed'the.•.l.my that the capital part oi- the
cl►art;C must as the act required that .the pi\-
-rish in which the offence was committed should be
proved, aud the Counsel for the prosecution had
neglected to do so.—Guilty of stealing, butnotin.
a dwelling-house.

Mary Am- Cooley .eras indicted for stealing 401.
in ba►►k notes., the property of Margaret Donatlw,
privately in her dwelling-house.
ProsecutriN is a widow, and, kept the Coach
and fforses.public-house, in Ray-street, Cierken-
well, and the- prisoner was her servant. On the
13th of September, she. Went up to Make the beds,
but did hot. come to her breakfast; as usual ; and
on proseentlix cxan►ining her bed roo►u, she
found a closet had been broke open, and the mo-
tley stolen from it. The prisoner was not found
till two months afterwards, when Reid, the Offi,
disHotered lic.r in Dyot-street : she told hint,
she had been to Bristol, and had spent.the part of
the money she had kept to herself, laving given
half of it to a girl, called Ann Freer. The poor
old woman, the prosecutrix, bad been obliged 'to
leave-her house, as prisoner had deprived btr of
all the, money she had to pay her brewer. Guilty
—Death.,

Joseph-Hoare, alias Waters, was indicted for
byeaking•: arid entering the dwelling house of
Thomas Fieeman, and stealing therein a quantity
of money and wearing apparel, his property.
Mrs. Freeman fastened her house ran Monday
week, and went to bed at 10 o'cloak and when
she got up, she found all her doors open, and the
property gone. She lost a 51. note, eleven 11.

notes, two guineas, two Spanish pieces of eight,
and a gold watch. The prisoner afterwards pass-
ed the 5/. note on'Tuesday last to a clothes sales-
man in 'St. Giles's, on whom he bought SOIIIC
clothes. Guilty—Death.
Richard Chtipman and Thomas.. Saw were con-
victed of .stealing five WO:les from a Mr. Allen, a
farmer at Yewsley, in the County of Middlesex,
near the banks Of the canal, and also 'a
-quantity
of hay from Mr. Peryman, his neighbour. The
bay and feathers were traced to a bar re, of
‘‘'hich the_prisoners were boatmeri, and the tur-

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tries were afterwards discovered hid in Mr. Peiy-
man's stable. Both ilrosecutors proved their pro-
perty. They were both found Guilty on each in-
dictment.,

On -€unday se'nnight, between the hours of 3
and 4 -o'clock in the afternoon, as a young girl
was returning.from her mother's house, in Ander-
, stun, near Glasgovi.-, to her service in. Rutherglen„
about Little Govan, she was attacked by a man
and a woman. The vvinnan held her by the hands,
and the man stripped her to the shift, with the
expectation of getting some money, but were dis-
appointed. HoweVer, they curried off her clothes,
.and left her in a situation that cannot be described.
'.The'poor girl immediately returned homes a spec
tack to the people coming Out of the church,
having nothing .on but her shift and under petti-
coat.

On Friday last, as Jon WALKER, Esq. was
hinting with his brother's, harriers, near Arun-
del, his horse, in taking a leap,, stepped into ti
blind ditch, and fell over the hedge.. • Mr. WAL-
KER had thrown himself off, hut, unfortuoarely,
the beast fell on an'd bilike his thigh : he
is, however, We are happy Lu hear, in a lair way
of recovery.

Dzc, 5

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Jdlin Sheiiperd, keeper of tlit;toll-2-:Ite,‘' ,
bridge, was indicted 'for an assault on Jane Dob-
bin, a child agedfitx Fears.
Mr. IVahcfield, surgeon, proved violence; hnt
as the child Could not relate the circumstances,
nor take an oath, the Chairman said it would be
too much to call on the 'Jury for a verdict on such
evidence.—_-/eitted,
SVINDLI NTG:-JOhn Flack, a musician in the
'Guards, wits indicted for Obtaining-two Elutes, twn
'clarionets, and two violins on false pretences,
from Mr. Ilminister,.alledging that he ‘‘:anted them
fora IVIr. Lewis, of. Croydon, when, in fact, no
such order had ever been received from any Mr.
Lewis.

,The obtaining, the false pretences, and fife
pledging having' been satisfactorily, proved, the
Jury returned a verdict of. Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, observed,
that this conduct was so common'as to be of most
ruinous and extensive effect on f►onest tradesuml,
and loudly called on.tbe Bench to inflict a s'en,
fence that should operate as a warning, espebially
where the swindlers,'as in the present instance,
could pbtain an excellent living
,by honourable
exertions. Sentence—Transportation for seven
yeark.

James Esley, one of the begging robbers that
infest the metropolis about dusk every evening,
was indicted- for assaulting Mrs. Wiggs and her
daughter with intent to rob them:
Mrs. AV, stated, that ;Wont sewn o'crock in the
'evening, as She was passing along Hatton-garden;
the prisoner came up to her on pretence of -beg-,
gi.ng for halfpence. She had none, and told
so, when he instantly elevated a thick stick,. and
threatened to knock her down, if she did not give
him a-shilling. She was about to comply for the
sake of rescuing. herself from this situation,-:when •
a Gentleman came up, and seized the prisoner.—
Guilty. - • . .

. .
The Chairman regretted to.state, that this was
only one of many cases of a siniltar nature; that
were
.occiirring.-every evening. -It was'a'species
of robbery, and whenever such thargemanie he-
fdre them, the Court would punish with severity.
Sentence,-six months' imprisonment in the House
of Correction.—Adjourned to Thursday, the lsth,
instant,/

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO W-s EF.

Yesterd:iy Robert Holton was- brought before
Mr. BIIINIF, the Sitting Magistrate, charged with
horse-stealiog, and was fully cothniitted ftir
• ' George Field, an poder-porten belonging to the.
Swan with Tw4, Necks Inn, in Lad-lane, was.
charged by Messrs' Edmonds and C. 6, ',in Chan-
cery-lane, with-,overcharging for two parcels two
shillings fur each, pared ; the charge being for
each parcel-at the Inn 2s. Bd. and he had charged
and taken 4s. fief. lie found bail to answer the
charge of s fraud.
Edward Mictnt was brought to the (Mice by
Bishop, who apprehended him on Sunday night,
and on searching hint found two pigeons, which
had just been killed. .1"ohn Mellowes, a horse-
dealer, of the Curtain-road, identified the pigeons
as his property, ard that they had been stolen
after three o'clock on •Stniday, and that the pri-
soner was his servant. Ile was committed for

John Thomas was charged by Jelin, Bacon, the
patrole, with attempting to 'rob several Gentle-
men at the'bottom of Catlrerine-street, at the time
the conipany were coining out -of Drury- lane .Thea-
tre. The prisoner agreed to go to sea, and' he
was according sent on hoard the Tender.