The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-14 00:00:00

I will never hear the matter of my child spoken of with
disrespect. My solicitors con convince both yourself and
Mr. Landseer, at any time, and in one minute, that all
Bel;nda's protestations have been gross impositions upon
Mr. landseer's credulity, but it is not for me to criminate
her, as doing so crirrinates myself equally. Mr. Land-
sea's physical strength opposed to mine, will avail him
little ; and as to his writing books, and reviving a sub-
ject dying away, is folly in the extreme. I expect to
go to Paris in a few days, and if the Director-General
of the post office has my letter (which is probably filed),
authorizing him to destroy the letter I wrote to Belinda
by her desire when in Paris, I will bring it o er with me.
It was addressed M.P., and signed Herbert, but did not
arrive till after she had left. The first one she received,
and was sent for by one of the servants of the hotel as
she told me. If the letter itself is not destroyed, I will
bring it over with me. Mr. Landseer shall experience no
annoyance from me; if I meet her, as I must often do,
I will take her by the hand and passion, fur ill as she has
used me, I cannot bring myself to dislike the mother of
my little George. I will call in a day, or two in the hope
to have an amicable arrangement entered into as to my
seeing the dear child ; and that settled, all animosity and
anxiety, I trust, will cease between all parties.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"L. 11. ROBINSON.
" 48, Duke-street, St. James's-square.

" December I, 1829.

Sir,—By your letter received this morning it appears
that you are rather under an erroneous impression as to
my fearing any thing f orn Mr. Landseer's meditated at-
tee': upon me. From the very gentlemanly manner in
which you have conducted the suit against me, I suggested
you preventing your client from committing an assault,
the result of which would be to make me plaintiff against
him, to his serious injury and inconvenience. I have no
personal ill will against Mr. Landseer, and as the mode be
threatens is not the course usually adopted by a gen-
tleman, consequently I am quite indifferent as to
any such ridiculous blustering. I am not at all
alarmed, I assure you, either on the score of a dan-
gerous or a fatal result from our casually meeting in the
street, as your letter insinuates ; hut any violent measure
will entail upon him and his wife an exposure—a lasting
anal imperishable stigma that no time can efface; and to
he compelled to prove Mrs. T. Landseer's and my own
guilt will grieve me more than words can express. Mr.
Landseer h..lieves his wife's assertions as to her innocence ;
let him offer my solicitors a guarantee against any conse-
quences, and they will prove it to his face in two minutes.
I was in hopes the affair was at an end, and as he has
taken bark his wife, why should he goad me to prove her
guilty of adultery with myself? Nothing but the gross-
est provocation shall induce me to do it, and I have se-
lected gentlemen (Messrs. Ullithorne and Crampton) to
defend any proceedings against me, whose amiable man-
ners and dispositions render them competent to meet you
on the same gentlemanly footing as you have all along
acted on behalf of your client. I will he content to see
the child only once in three months, and that under an ar-
rangement that no our shall ever know any thing of the
circumstance; but to have my child torn from me alto-
gether I never can, never will submit to. All the fighting
in the world between Mr. Landseer and myself will not
mak,• matters better, but cause an exposure discreditable
to all parties. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

" L. H. ROBINSON."

" 45, Duke-str, et, St. Jam,les."

With the reading of these letters the plaintiff's
case was closed.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (with whom was Mr.
MANNING) then addressed the Jury on the part of
the defendant. Althoegh the defendant had thought
it right to place a ju,tification on the record, he
(the Learned Counsel) would disclaim in the out-
set any intention of entering into the truth of that
plea, of offering any evidence in support of it.
There were many things which occurred in matters
of this kind, of which no legal proof could be given.
After some remarks upon the evidence of Mr.
Noble and Miss Pocock, the Learned Counsel sub-
mitted to the Jury that they would be fully war-,
ranted in coming to the conclusion that the anony-
mous letter was not written by the defendant. The
letter, speaking of the defendant and Mrs. Land-
seer, described them as " a pair of profligate hypo- '
crites." That was not a mode in which a man,
whatever his conduct might have been, would be
likely to speak of himself. The Learned Counsel
proceeded to comment on the other parts of the case,
and observed, whir reference to the letters ad-
, dressed to Captain Pocock and Mr. Evans the
attorney, that he could not deny that they had been
written by the defendant, and that they made some
allusion to a connexion as having taken place be-
tween him and Mrs. Landseer; but the Jury, in
considering those' letters, would bear in mind
the fret, that an investigation into the circum-
qances alluded to, had, in the first instance, taken
place, and the result had been that the lady was sent
back to her father's house. The investigation had
been set on foot for the purpose of establishing her
innocence and vindicating her honour. The old gen-
tleman, her husband's father, was at the head of it,
and his brother also attended; and yet, after the
fullest inquiries, Mrs. Landseer had been " die-
missed"—to use the language of one of the wit-
nesses (Mr. Edam Landseer)—from her husband's
house. And what had been the conduct of her own
father, Captain Pocock ? Did he treat with indig-
nation and scorn the person whose supposed love-
making to his daughter had led to her being sent
away from her husband's roof ? Did he say to the
defendant, " You affected to be a lover when you
were only a seducer ?" and did he repulse hitn with
contempt ? No such thing. On the contrary, it ap-
peared that he had emery(' into some negotiation
with him; for the defendant, in his letter to Captain
Pocock, said, " They wished mre to sign a docu-
ment, which I could not consent to do without hay-
ing
my letters delivered up, and without an indem-
nity." The letter clearly showed that some negoti-
ation had been going on. Now was it likely that
Captain Pocock, a military man, would, if he had
been satisfied of the falsehood of the facts stated,
have adopted such a course of proceeding, instead of
taking some means to contradict the calumny ?
The jury were left in the dark upon that subject.
His learned friend, Sir James Scarlet, had said
that the letters bore on the face of them strong
proof that the defendant had had no connexions
with the lady ; but he (the Attorney-General) would
put it to the Jury whether the particular phrases to
which his Learned Friend had adverted, did not
lead them to a directly opposite conclusion. He
did not wish to per s'st in the truth of the justifica-
tion ; but he had a right to call upon the Jury to
put that construction upon the letters which he
thought all the facts warranted.
After Lord TENTERDEN had summed up the Jury
conferred together for about five minutes, and then
returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 3001.

Lord TENTERDEN directed a verdict Co be et;-
tered for the defendant on such of the counts as
Fet out several letters addressed to the plaintiffs,
which his Lordship had decided could not be given
to evidence for the reason before stated.

Lord CUANDOS is not returned by the voice
and opinion of this county ; but by interest, influence, and
disgraceful in,imidation. The twenty Members for ten
Anti-reforming boroughs, almost the whole of the Clergy,
most of the aristocratic families, numerous paid agents ind
lawyers, and all the weight of the Buckingham family and
its I.ranches, in addition to what no one will grudge,—the
kind popular personal feeling which has always been much
in his favour,—have been at work for him. So great has
been this influence, that men of opulence (in business in
boroughs) "have been obliged to go with the stream.''
The Provost anti authorities of Rum have gone the I, ngth
of using language which had the effect of intimidating
many. Lord iIIWE wrote in a way not to be misunder-
stood by his tenantry, as did also Mr. DUPREE of Bea
consfield, who last year persecuted a man for having a
dinner at his house (Saracen's Head) for Lord Cua.Nnos,
and this year called on the same man to vote against his
will for him. A Magistrate and Commissioner of the
Roads connected with Eton, has disgusted many, by the
shameful influence he adopted, using language to persons
employed on the roads, which led them to go contrary to
their wishes rather than risk those interests in which they
knew be had a powerful voice; and, to crown all, the Rev.
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