The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-02 00:00:00

WORKS OF ART.

A letter from Paris, of the beginning of No-
vember, says—" Some days ago I counted the
Paintings still remaining in the Gallery of the
'Louvre ; they are 256 ; consequently, according
to the Notices des Tableaux exposes dans le illusec
Royal, which is sold at the door, the loss in works
of Art that have been taken away amounts to
1,115. If we reflect that,. in this great number,
are included the choicest master-pieces cif the Ger-
man, and till more of the Flemish and: Italian
schools, ive may imagine
,how immense the loss
is. Further, however, as it seems, it will not go.
" There are still among them some of the very
first rate, e. g. of Raphael (the Rrchangel Michael),
Poussin, of Le Seleur, and even of the Flemish
school. They can hardly, however, be permitted
to remain where they are ; they would be lost in
this gallery, and to fill up the space, as far as it
can be done, with paintings of the French school,
would not be very fai.%.-arable to the latter. The
Hall of the Antiques presents a terrible sight.
.Lvery where there are vacancies, every where the
rubbish of the pedestals that arc left are the marks
of destruction. The .removal of the• plundered
statues is not yet completed. The French Go-
vernment,.however, retains an immense treasure,
besides what it has long possesseil, the whole ad.;
tuirtitale Borghese collection, and, among so many
other masterpieces, the Gladiator, and the ioimit-
able Muse, 'with the divinely light, almost pal-
pably thin robe, thrown over the elegant, slender,
bending form, ancl tit, arm on which the 4ektitifui
1,,e1;51,1%! bead so gracefully re,.lities.'

A Greek Literary Society has •recently been
established at Athens, composed of distinguished
scholars of that country, arid of illuserions Euro-
peans. Many ecclesiastics are members ; and the
meetings take place once a week in a monastery.
DISTRESSING HOMICIDE.---The following most
shocking circumstance occurred in this neighbour-
hood on Tuesday •sennight :—A Sheriff's Officer
of this town,- having a writ to serve upon a man in
the neighbourhood of Knowsley, who was under-
stood to be a very daring and resolute fellow, and
likely to make considerable resistance, went thi,
titer, accompanied by a young man of the name of
Shuttleworth. They took a gun with them, mere-
ly, as we have been. informed, to amuse them-
selves with shooting birds in the way, and they
did not secure the object of their search without
a severe struggle, in which all the parties gave
and received many heavy blows. Having at
length obtained pdssession of the person of their
prisoner, the Sheriff's ,Officer and his companion
threatened hini,• that if he should attempt to
escape they
.would certainly shoot him ; and at the
same time Shuttleworth, as a confirmation of
the reality- of their intention, pet the ramrod
into the gnu to show the man that the piece
was charged. 'rile prisoner, nevertheless, took
to his heels' immediately, and Shuttlewartl, in
his haste to put his threat in execution, Instant-
ly levelled his gun, without extracting the ram-
rod, and fired : the charge of the gun, together
with the ramrod, entered the body of the unfor-
tunate prisoner, who turned round, and attempt-
ed again to strike his assailants, but fell, and in
a short
.time expired. The verdict of the Coro-
ner's inque,st—Wilful Murder:--(Liverpool Cou-
rier, Nov. 29.) •

The benefits accruing to Society, in consequence
of authorised Members of the Faculty, directing
their aililities to, one peculiar brand► of the pro
fession, cannot be more clearly exemplified than
at Messrs.- Goss's Institution, established many
yearS for the cure of every stage of the Venereal
Disease, under whose care slight symptoms .often
disappear in two days, and Strictures, or other
Diseases of the Urethra, are speedily removed,
without any application of caustic.--A just tribute
to their skill and 'humanity, compels this public
avowal.of their judgment, which enables them to
treat successfully tl►e most delicate habit, without
subjecting it to the usual harsh, and generally
unnecessary methods this surely must be a pleas-
ing reflection to fea►ales labouring wider any of
the above circumstances, or those disorders and
deficiencies interfering with the functions of na-
ture, and impeding conception. To the misguided
votary of solitary sensuality, a renovation of health
is proffered, even under the most inauspicious
state of debility, tottering perhaps on the brink
of mortality, from ignorance of the.source of his
disorder--

" Vulqus alit venis et cceco carpitur
Messrs. Goss and Co. Members of the 11oyal
.College of Surgeons, attend at home daily, for
personal consultation, and answer all letters (by
return °f post) stating minutely.the case, and in-
cot a fee.—The requi,ite medicines can he
carefully packed, and sent to any part of the king-
u4
th)111.-713, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, London,

LAST --I,DIA:..COMPANY.'S MARINE.

--~•s:.

. . [concluded ip,tu'oor Paper of yesferthq.]
With respect to the Silmtion of Capinius uud Oni-
cer.skfor the• Company's mon Ships, when their own
st(!ck.of plAcers is not sufficient.

``'That ‘vhere the Company's actual stork 0C06.;
cers isnot.stiflicient to fill ail the appointments in
the COiripqny'S.o,wn ships, the selection of Offi-
cers. in such case he from the. regular' .Frerght

service.
"That Officers'iodcrthe rank.of Connne rider in the. Freight
service, on enferitio- the f.',.notany's owo service, shati nut
, conic iCitoreediately to all the privileges-of t hot, who hare
bent briti`ight up in the Cc: enmy's own'scrvice; but thst their
appointments tie subject to the regulations hereatter de-
tailed. •
" That- Officers taken front the Freight service into the
Cdrogany's Own service; shall hi; elioible to come in with the
sante rank they held in the• Freight service doting it from the
time of their entrance into the Company's st.rvice, but tile
Court may accept the services of such Officers willing to come
•ittWalerbelew-that which they held it, the Freight service.
• " That an Officer appointed from the Freight service as
chief Mate in the Company's service, shall perform, two
voyages as chief Mate before he is eligible to a command, on-
less he has served as Master of a regular extra ship; in which
cases after serving one voyage as chief Mate in the Company't
own ships, he may he eligible to a command in them.
"That the Company's own set vice be open to all Comtnan-
riers•of the Freight sertice Who stand eligible for commands,
exclusive of those who bare vo: untarily retired front the ser-
vice; but that a Commander actually in charge of a Freight
ship, be not, while so circumstanced, eligi hie tu command one
of the. Company's own ships.
" That the selection of Officers for the Company's own
ships be from the general mass of Officers in the Freight
service. -
• That when a Commander of the Freight service is in-
troduced into the Company's own service, he should not be
above fifty years of age.
" That the.MaSter of a regular extra ship, on his entrance
into the Company's own service as chief Mate, be not above
forty years of age.
.• " That a chief Mate of the Freight service, upon his en-
trance. into the Company's own service be not above thirty,.
five years of age ; nor tustcond Mate above thirty years of age.
• " That in all selectitins• of Connuariders and Officers from
the Freight service, good characters and conduct be indispeu-
sable qualifications.
" That oh occasion of selecting any Commander or Officer
from the Freight service, reference be had by the Rectoo-
Mendiog Committee to an account abstracted from the Re-
cOrds of this House, of the character awd conduct of the
" That, for the better answering the purpose of the pre-,
ceding Resolution, and for the guidance of the Recotn.,
Mending Committee in future, a distinct record of the
conduct of each individual Commander and Officer in the
Freight service, be now formed, and henceforward kept;.
and that the same do also comprehend the Company's own
• Commanders and Officers,
" That ally Commander. to be now introduced from the
Freight service to-command one of the Company's own ships,
be not allowed to continue as Commander in the
.Company's,
service more than three Voyages.
" That any Officer who shall henceforward be promoted.
in the Company's own service to the cote:nand of one of their.
own ships, lie not allowe'd to continue a Comm.tuder in that
service. more than tire voyages.
the case' of CaptaiosTatterson and Adams; now in
actual etnumand of Company's ships abroad, their five voyages
do contnience from their next outfit from England.
With respect to the Mode of appointing Commander:
and Officers to the Company's own Ships.
"That the reconnnendation.olthe..Commanclert•
and. first and second Motes. of the Cornpany's own
shins, be henceforth iu the C'ononittei of Corres-
pondence,

" That the recommendaVon to the appointment of Olkers
to the Conrpany'4 own ships, under the (auk of second.M4te,
be with the Committee of Shipping.
That the number of Mi:jshiputen, ittelttirtg-Mitlahipittert
and Crsivain, be tor ships atm tom:, :our; of .800 tuns,
and flreder 1000, six : of" 1000 tons and upwards, seven.
"'that the Midshipman and CoxsWain Le ft-co:untended
br the Commander from the. Midshipmen appointed to his
ship, who have performed not less than one voyage.
That no appointment of sUpeinuthefary Midshipman, or
of succession to the 0f1;..e of :Midshipman, or of any person to
act as a Midshipman, beyond those above-mentioned, be
al lowed.

" That the first appointment of Midshipmen to the Com-
pany's own ships be by the Members of the Court in sneers_
stun, according to seniority.; so that every Member of the
. Court should have one nomination before any Member shall
have a second.
" That the complement of Midshipmen assigned to any
ship, be appointed a fortnight before the period fixed for the
shit► to be afloat; otherwise, such to be-immediately filled up
by the Member of the Court next in rotation.
a That the Medical Servants now actually in the Company's
own service, shall have the saute preferame ht!eafter as
Naval Officers in their own employ.
" That t;►e further appuint►urnts which 'may be made for
the Company's own ships of medical men, not now actually
in their own service, be recommended, of persons properly
qualified, by the Members of the Committee of Shipping for
the time being, in rotation, beginning with the Chairs, and
proceeding according to seniority.
" That after the - ships now belonging to, or engaged for
by the Company, shall have had their Medical Establish-
ment completed, all appointments of Surgeons in the Com-
pany's own ships, be made from the class of Assistant Sur-
geons in tlifise ships, giving the. selection of such Surgeons to
the respective Commanders-, according to the seniority of such
Coamianders, subject to the approbation of the Committee of
Shipping; and that the vacanc►es of Assistant Surgeons be
filled up as before prosided for.
That the medical appointments be made at the same
tima that the Commanders and Officers of the Company'S 'own.
ships are nominated.
" That the appoint►nent of Pursers be given to the Com-
manderS of the Company's own ships respectively, subject to
the approbation of the Committee of Shipping,
With respect to the Commander and OzWeers of a

Ship lost or taken.
"That the Commander and Officers of a ship lost
or taken, if they are acquitted of all blame with
respect to such loss or capture, and he ship should.
not be replaced, sbould not be re-appointed to the
Company's own service, so as to displace Officers
in Actual employ ; but shonid be eligible, if this
Court should so .please, to return to the Compa-
ny's own service, according to their fanner rank,
and not otherwise, as vacancies may happen.
With respect to Vacancies occurring when Ships are
abroad.- •
- -

" That if any vacancy should occur when a ship
is abroad, .the appointment thereto, Mi.:l4er by
the Indian Government, the Select Committee at
Canton, or the Commander of the ship, he by se.-
Itiotity in the ship, if the party is eligible; but
that such appointment should on no account be
otherwise titan temporary. The command of a
ship, however, not to•be given to any Officer who
is .not competent by the rules ofthe service to a
command, if such -command can be otherwise
supplied, according to those rules at• the place
where the vacancy may.happen. • •
With respect to a Fund for .decayed Commanders
• and Officers.

. cr That it will be expedient to establish a.special
Fund for the relief of deCayed and stiperaminated
Commanders and Officers of the Con►pany's own
ships, nl►on principles and acrording to regula-
tions to be bertaftcr prescribed."

Constancy in Love's Transports —The notorious
Bill &Runes hos lately arrived in London, from
Botany Bay, where he voluntarily went to ac-
company a layourite Lady, who was sentenced to
transportation for tau:ring forged Bitak of Eag-
land notes:

LAW IYIELLIGENCE.

CIIIIII. CON.

StIF,RIFF'S cour,T BEDFORD-ROW, Dry. 1.

Slit WILLIAM ABM', BITZT. V. LORD CHARLES

BENTINCK.
Mr. RICHARDSON Opened the pleadings, by
swing, that the action was brought by the plain-
tiff. Sir Wm. Abdy, against the Hon. \V. C. Caven-
dish Bentinck.commonly called Lord Charles Ben-
einek, younger brother of the Duke of-Portland;
TO reCOverdernages for criminal conversation.with
the pleintiff's wife; the declaration set forth, that
1;c sedneed and debauched his the said plaintiff's
wife. re: damages were laid at 30,0001.
111.. Torettso then stated the case on the part
elf the plaintiff, premising the detail of the cir-
cumstances, by observing, that this . was a case
hich called for more .exemplary damages' then
perhaps hail been given in other cases of the like
nature. The plaintiff was the representative- of
one of the most ancient and respectable families
iii • this kingdom, and the defendant was the
'ounger brother of his Grace the Doke of Port-
lend. In the mouth ot July, 1806, the plaintiff
contracted marriage with Miss Anne Wellesley,
the natural daughter of the Noble Marquis of that
name. The voting Lady was 19 years of• age,
rind the Gentleman '26 or 27, therefore there was
tic) disparity in point of years between the. (ample
thus united'. It might be said to be purely a love
elatch, where no feeling of ambition or interest
on the one side or the other was to be gratified.
—The martiege was solemnized at Camelford-
house, the residence of the Marquis of Wellesley,
in the presence of that Noble Marquis, and ot
the members of both families respectively.--
From the rnomeot they were thus united, they
Ike(' upon terms of the most perfect connubial
harmony and happiness, until the defendant
ho this foul transaction, as he, the Learned Coun-
sel, might call it, became acquainted with the
family. The defendant, as was already stated,
eYasthe younger brother of the Duke of Portland,
and., at the time when this event took place, be
was about the age of 32. Ue,was a widower,
and had one child by his deceased wits). As the
rionsitser brother of the noble house alluded to,
be participated in the fortune transmitted to that
family; besides which he held a situation of hoe—
siderable emolument in his Majesty's Household.
In consequence of the decease of his wife lie be-
Came acquainted with Sir W. Abdy and his lady,
mho perhaps took an interest in that poignant
grief which he might be supposed to feel at a -loss
So heavy and• afflicting as that of an amiable
and accomplished wife. lie was intrOdneed to
the plaintiff, who tesided Berke-
ley-el:rare, where he occasiohttlly visited, and
though: he could `not be said to ehjoy the
fights 'of friendship, he was received with the
eiiost perfect politeness, and participated in the
the hospitalities of the plaintiff's table. In No-
•etaber'last year,
,William and his lady went
to Paris ; but nothing had previously happened
Nvhich could give reason to suspect any thing dis-
honourable hi the views of the defendeut s but
soon after the arrival of the plaintiff and his Lady
in Paris, the defendant also appeared in that gay
city, and took lodgings in the very SRIIIO street
where the plaintiff eesided. T.here the defendant
renewed his acquaintance, and Was received by Sir
William in the same polite and hospitable manner
RS in London. Still nothing occurred to manifest
the object which the defendant had ultimately ac-
cOmplished.- Sir William returned to London with
his Lady 'in the month of March following, and
continued to reside at his house in Hill-street un-
til the 21st July last. It was then •a
ta season of
the year when persons of Sir
.William's station
in life usually sojourn to watering places ; and the
plaintiff and his Lady went down to Worthing.
Very soon after the defendant also appeared at
'Worthing, and made some sort of frivolous ex-
euse, saying that he came-on some business coil-
meted with the Rhea{ Household : but, in truth,
his real object was the pursuit of his criminal in-
tentions towards Lady Abdy, 'as would appear af-
terwards by doembeets which would be given. in
evidence. It was quite clear that he had, entered
into a clandestine correspondence with the Lady,
at that time incompatible with his relative situae
tion to the plaintiff and his Lady. In the month
of September Sir William and Lady Abdy reteent-
ell to London ; and it being then the shooting
FeaStnt, Sir W. anti his Lady were invited to spend
a few -days at Bettishaat Hall, Cambridgeshire,
• the mansion of Mr. Caldwell, who had married
Sir sister. Mr. Caldwell was the son of
Admiral Caldwell ; and Sir William proposed to
'go down into Cambridgeshire, to pay a short visit
to his sister arid her family. Rat, however,,for
reasons not then developed; Lady Abdy objected
to go With her husband. She said she thought
they might-be troublesome to the family, as Ad-
'mind Caldwell was then in an ill state ot health at
ills Son's house, -and she wished to remain in towiL
Tinder these circumstances Sir William. determ4-
ed to go down to his brother-in-law's by himself;
and, accordinely,loti the 2d. September, he set off
for Pnittisham kiell, meaning to stay one or twodays.
On the very day upon which Sir William left Lon-
sloe, tie; (sfeadant made his appearance in Hill,
ssreet.tee•*rthere,he succeeded in accomplishing the
seklece of his ien proper wishes, in coriatunntating the
' dishomshr of the plaintiff in the seduction of his wife.
The. Learned Counsel said, that as evidence of
eleis, be sboilld call the defendant hiMself; he should
produce letters under his own hand-writing,
wherein be ,nnespiheocelly acknowledged that he
• bad rendered the unfortunate object of his illicit
,passion the most unhappy of -women. He con-
tinued his visits in Hill-street until the. sth of
September, on which day she eloped with hint
to
a place called Croome's Hill, in the, toWii. of
Greenwich, where be had taken a furnished houSe
for the Lady arid himself ; and where, fig the
base purpose of screening himself from detetion,
be assumed the name of Captain Browire, awl in-
Irodisced Lady Abdy as Ms's. firVlDne: There they
. lived till the 24th. No. ember last, when their
guilty retreat was discovered. Under these cir-
cumstances, they Learned Counsel put it to the
Jury what damages they might to give in a case
of such aggravated injury. The plaintiff was a
man of ancient and honourable family. The de=
tendant was ito doubt also of an ancient and ho-

nouraide trould.,a4:, Wcre
any of those topics in this case which were usit,sny
iirgZol as some apology for misconduct-of this (les
cript ion ? Was Ilea young man ? Was it the act of
the Moment 11-id hit the heyday of youthful pas-
sion to plead ? No; he was at the advanced age of
:i2. he was a tvidower and the father of one child.
What were the circumstances under which the
injury- was committed? was received as the'
guest. of the husband. He planned the seduction
fif the wife by a calculating and deliberate seriesof .
contrivances to entrap her affections. The
Learned Counsel then proceeded to comment unon
the circumstances above stated, urging with great
ingenuity and force the plaintiff's claim to exem-
plary damages. He next read pass:ages from three
letters written by the defendant to Lady Abdy,_
which were. found in the house after her elope-
ment. These letters expressed the warmest and most
romantic, but criminal passion for the plaintiff's
wife ; upon each of theni, as the Learned
Counsel proceeded, he commented, as being cor-
roborative of the base and dishonourable conduct
of the defendant.. After, an ingenious peroration
he:concluded his address to the Jury, when the
following witnesses were called :
James Gordon, Eq. the materna! Uncle of Sir Wm. Alidv,
Admiral Caldwell, Ciliates Caldwell, Esq. bkother in law "iff
the plaintiff, Mrs. Cadwell, the Admiral's Lady, and Robert
Parnther, Esq.harrister.at law. ail of whoto spoke to the
terni of harmony and connubial happiness which sulfsisted
•' between the plaintiff and his' lady up to the time of her
elopement.
The next witnesses called were Peter ',lkons' the plain-
tiff's butler, Richard Griffiths, and 'Thomas Jenkins,- two
fjutmen of the plaintiff, whose evidence went to confirm the
statement it the. opening speech of the Learned Counsel.--•
The last witness proving the fact of Lady Abdy's elopement
in a g;g, at one o clock in the afternoon of the sth of Sepr
tember, from Union-street, about 40 yanks from her husband's
house, with a -gentleman- whom he did not then knew: He
was afterwards sent to Greenwich to identify •Mr. and,Mrs.
Browne, and be found that they Vt'ere.llo other than the
fendant and Laity Abdy.
Mr. Samuel Teuton, .a house agent at Greenwich, proved
that the defendant took the house froth him at Crooffie s Hill,
it the name of Mr. Charles Browne, on the 20th of July, at
'five ;guineas -a week, but did nut take possession till the sth of
September. He, Wag paid on the 2,4 th Nov:ember by the Der
fondant for the rent then due, 521. by a check on Messrs.
Snow and Co. signed Charles Bentinek.
Sarah Weston, a servant in the house at Crootne's
proved that the defendant and Lady Ably canoe there in the
afternoon of the.sth Sept. as Mr. and Mrs. Chalice Browne,
and continued there till the 24th of November last, slecing
at-nights in the same bed,and livingtitutether as man and wife.
Edward Wilson, clerk co Messrs. Snow and Co. banters,
proved the defendant's hand-writing, to the check given to
Mr. 'Fenton. Ile then gave evidence of the defendant's love-
letters to Lady Abdy, which after a good deal of examination
and cross-exaniinatton; he believed to be the hand-writing of
the defend:wt. The last bead of evidence was these letters,
which Were put in and read, when the plaintiff'S,case closed.
Mr. BIioUGHAM began his defence by stating,
that indepenilently of the very great' disparity
which existed between hiS Learned Friend and
himself, upon all occasions, he laboured under a
peculiar inferiority on the present one, because
he• Was absolutely prohibited by especial and
'peremptory instructions from using any of those
topics which generally lie open to him who stands
up .as COunsel for the defendant in such cases.—
Without the power of consulting his own judg-
Ment, his hands were tied tip from producing any
witnesses, from reading any Letters, or from urg-
ing any arguments which might, by possibility,
give pain to the plaintiff; he was not allowed to
descend into the recesses of Sir W. Abdy's house;
to lift the veil of his domestic life ; to folloW !din
out of the drawing-room and the assembly to his
more private hours ; to relate any -circumstances
which might indicate uncongenial tempers, diffe-
rent talents, habits, and pursuits, different casts of
mind, and all that
,infinite variety of diversities
which lay the foundation, if not of diSgust, at least
of coldness and aversion in the marriage state.—
From all these topics he was prohibited, and he
therefore had to descend into the field, to encomns
ter the whole strength and bkill of- his Learned
Friend, with his right arm tied up as it were.—.
Nevertheless, he should trust to the good sense
and solid judgment of the Jury, anti would ear-
nestly recommend to their attention: the whole-
some :and important remark of his Learned liriend,
• that they were not to balance speeches, but facts;
they were not tojseinflueneed by what might be
Said either on one side or the other, but only by
what shotdd be proved in evidence. Ile must
confess, he had been much amused by the way
is which his Learned Friend had opened the
case, not from any novelty of manner -which he
displayed; but because it was•so exactly like the
way ill Which all such cases were uniformly be-
gun. He had repeatedly seen the same course
pursued, awl he had as repeatedly seen it fail,
except where it was afterwards home out by
the evidence adduced. The present case, they
were told, was not merely an aggravated one,
but it engrossed every.possible species of aggrava-
tion and enormity whieh.could belong to a trans-
action of the kind : his Learned :;rietirl .had de-
clared that the plaintiff was entitled co as huge a
compensation for damages as had ever been award-
ed, for the guilt of the defendant transcended in
profligacy and wickedness any case ,at which he
had ever assisted, 'or of which he had ever heard.
No doubt, after such an exordium, the Jury est-
pected to hear a variety of atrocious circumstances
enumerated, for tvhick they. now looked to the
evidence in vain. At all events,: they must have
expected to hear that the defendant was the bo-
sons friend of the plaintiff; that he had been in,
troduced byhins to his wife, and that- be bad taken
adeaurage of that introduction to undermine the
'happiness-of his friend i'but it was no such thing.
Even his Learned Friend was forced to -admit
that no friendship subsisted between the parties ;
that he was not introduced iby the . husband to
the acquaintance of the wife ;' that there was no
confidence reposed in him ; that therefore he
betrayed none ; and that, in fact, whatever crimi-
nalty:attached to the watisaction, the defendant
was not guilty of seducing the wife of his friend.
All that was admitted ; and• it had all been sub-
stantiated by the witnesses called` in support of
,the prosecution. It appeared from these witnesses
that there was but a very slight intimacy between
the plaintiff and defendant ; that the latter had
'dined with Sir W. Abdy Only once before his go-
ing to Paris, aud'once or twice since his return-;
so much for the friendship between the parties,
which always constituted one of the most material
circumstances ill estimating the degree of offence
in cases of this descrivtion. There was an-
other point also which should not he. over-
. lOolied. They, had heard the case described as
one' which demanded the largest compansa-
tion, for. chat could he given and 01

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tOW 3C. IL 7 Mint !;;?file antic;pated that aoale patt
of the defendant's profligaey ciinaisted in having,
by the seduction of a married woman, bereaved
an infant family of the protection and comfort of
their mother 5 but he was sure there was not one
wh) heard-him who had'net felt himself surprised
and relieved by finding that the plaintiff !cad had
no children by his wife. Ili what then, did the
aggravations consist ? There was no doubt, from
the evidence which had been given, that Sir Wil-
liam and Lady Abdy were living together, at least
in the presence of their friends, as married peo-
ple usually appear to live ; no jarring, no dis-
cord, no quarrels ; but he could not help remark-
ing, that he had often heard in aggravated cases of
seduction, testimonies brought forward in support
of a different sort of connubial happiness ; as it was
material for the Jury to have that matter distinctly
before them, when they Were called loon to assess
damages in compensation for the happiness that
was destroyed. For example, in a former me-
lancholy case, which was tried in that Court
about a twelvemonth since . (the case of Lady
Roseherry), not merely those individuals were
called upon who, visited in the family of the plain-
tiff, and who were his friends—but the friends of
both husband and wife were brought forward, as
well as the blood-relations of both ; persons also
is ho possessed the confidence of the.wife, and to
whom she was likely tei..have entrusted her sor-
rows, her disgusts, her ccilduesses, her dispari-
ties, if she' had any. Such were the persons that
were then called in as evidence, but no such per-
sons now appeared before them, •to testify the
connubial felicity that , was mutually enjoyed by
Sir William and Lady Abdy before the defendant
robbed him of her society. No relations of
Lady Abdy had been called ; no brother, no sis-
ter ; not one branch of that illustrious family
with which was
was unfortunately connecteiL, w
• though, as as well known, all her relations
were living. But the servants of the plaintiff were
called : and indeed, he then began to think that
Some conclusive evidence Would come out, be-
canseservants were a class of people who, among
their other valuable qualities, generally had thair,
eyes about them, and always knew a great deal'
respecting the private transactions of their mas-
tera and mistresses. He thought, therefore, they
would certainly have a. more minute desctiption
from them of that extraordinary felicity which was
now destroyed by the defendant ; but his Learn-
ed Friend had taken care not to ask a single ques-
tion of any one of those' domestics, touching that
connubial happiness, to assess damages for the Ma
terruption of which was the precise arid exclusive
object for which the Jury were assembled. In
default, then, of all these circumstances of agar
gravation to which he had alluded, his Learner!
Friend had been obliged to bring; forward and
make the best of others, which had no connectiou
whatever with the amount of damages to he as-
sessed, such as hiring a. furnished house at Green-
wich, though he protested he could not see bow
that either aggravated or mitigated the offence pass-
ing under the name of Mr. Browne, Cae. &C. But
he
.would put it to them, as men of common sense,
how those transactions could at all affect Sir W.
Abdy-, how aggravate his misery, or 'how augment
his misfortune ? He would even go so tar as to
affirm, that in giving their verdict they ought to
lay. entirely out of the account the .eonduct of
Lord C. Bentinck both befOre and after the com-
mission of the offence, fOr the offence alone was
what they had to consider. He was •disposed,
also, to say almost as much of 'the letters that
had 'been read, for cases of that kind were
never got up without the introduction of
such letters, which by the carelessness of
the parties generally fell into the- possession
of the husband, and so on to the -solicitor,
who, seldom having any other kind of
„evidence,
was sure to bring them forward. But 'he could
not help wive' ting to the inutility of attaching any
degree of importance to thefolly,whichaia usually
contained in these amatory effusions, as it every
man did not know that whoever is in lnve must
write nonsense, or, in the langua'ke Of.the old pro-.
verb, that to love and to he wise at the same time,
was an titter impossibility. What, for example,
could ,be elicited from the trash contained ,in the
present letters, front beginning to end, except that
LorilC.Bentinck was desperately is love with Lady
Abdy. He would defy his -Learned Friend to
make any thing else out of -.limn, by any iiia
genuity of comment' %villa- lie -Could exercise.—
But his Learned
_Friend appeared never to have
been in love ; or, I,itleast,.be.had no sort of own-
passion for those who were. He , had told them
that when a man arrived at the extraordinary age
of 32, the " hey day of the blood was tame, and
waited upon the, judgment ;"--all .was calm- and
tranquil then ; love, if felt at all, was-felt without
I any turbulence or
.warmth ; no unruly passions
I boil in the veins of a.man who was. 32 i and that
excuse which might be pleaded in extenuation-of
an earlier age, could-never be urged in behalf of a
man at thirty-two. How his Learuetlfriend con-
trived to strike ppon the precise-time when that
change took plaice, lie,.hail not ventured to dis-
close ; but it was evident that it must be some
where between 27, and 32, for Sir W. Abdy was only
27 when he first saw Lady Abtly, and first felt the
passion of love. At spine part of that most critical
Iteriod, therefore, a man underwent a miraculous
change ; according toahe doctrine of his Learned
Friend, love became a sort of cool, quiet,,,and
companiable kind of feeling; it was no longer an
excuse for folly ; it had. nothing turbulent or
masterful about it; it, was pliant and obedient ;
it might be taken up, when we had nothing better
to do, and put down. when we had ; it was obe-
dient too ; it might be called and dismissed at
pleasure ; it had no fire or animation in its cha-
racter—a sort of glow-worm heat, a pale, in-
effectual, moon-light kind of passion,
.which im-
I parted no warmth), and excited no tumult in
I the hOsom. Such was his Learned Friend's opi-
-1 nion of that passion, which, when felt for the
I first time, whether at the age of thirty-two or
70, was equally uncontroulable and equally incom-
-1 patible with every Other feeling ; %Oriel), if it
I ruled at all, ruled with undivided sway, which
1 brook no rival, which absorbed everylacolty of
the soul, and bade every Other pas,Sion be still.
' But his Learned Friend evidently understood no-
thing at all about it, and least of all did he com-
prehend how loveyOuld he a palliation for crime
after thirty-two, lie did not. wean to urgellic

•
retettlenc'e of passion as its excnce ; that ,Would
be a dangeronS, doctrine indeed ; however a
man might • be captivated'hy the charms of A
married tirOman, lie had no right to attempt
the violation of that tic which rtnited her to her
Aittsband ; the same, of course, he would say td
the wife ; they who found themselves in that ca-
lamitous c,„ idition, were bound by duty to 8134.:
stain from all endeavours to gratify their pal-
sion ; their lot must be to suffer in silence ; they
must endure, with what fortitude they could, a
degree of torture, compared to which the paio
of the-body were a state of repose ; be did note.
therefore, mean to vindicate his client. If that.
were his object, he should be speaking in another
place, in order to spew that no damages were
sustained by the plaintiff. But there were de-,,
grees of offence, and whoever (lid not consider
those degrees failed in performing his duty to his
neighbour : he trusted, therefore, that the Jury
would not suffer themselves to he led away by any
general descriptions, but that they would stiictly
confine themselves, in ((flaking up their verdict, to
what bad been proved by evidence, and to the pe-,
culiar circumstances of the case. The defendant
was only a younger brother, and though an allu-
. Sion had been made to the opulence of his family,
" he believed that all who knew the generous cha-
racter of the latelluke of Portland would be aware
that a younger son could nut be in very affluent
circumstances. It appeared, indeed, from the 107
tiniony of one of the. witnesses, that Sir W. Abily
himself did not consider hint as possessed of great:
wealth.
.The UNDER SnERIFF then briefly recapitulated
the chief points of the case ; and the Jury, after
consulting for about a quarter of an hour, return-
ed a verdict of Serest Thousand Pounds Damages.

counT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 1.
LIBEL.
DR SORENTINO V. LORD BLANEY. ~
Mr. CURWoOD opened this case by stating, that
the plaintiff was Agatino Chazen Naroez Negqt'
y Custelli .Salines, Duke de Sorentino, .Marquis
4c Selinas, and Baron Fredicelli, and the Right'
Hon. Lieut. Tho Mas Lord Blaney, defendant.--
The action-was for a libel on the Duke, publishol
in the Noble Lord's Work of a forced JourieY
through Spain in 1810.
Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL stated, that the Doke
was of most ancient and honourable fatnily; b(;411
in Sicily and Spain, and the defend-ant, Lord -1314..-
"icy., had taken the liberty of modern antidote
writers, who rote„ for the benefit of History, t°
enibellish their works with facts and anecdotes.
but were not very of applying th.eni to 911
•persons. This tninutim..of truth was not very 11t;c.;
cessary to their works. It had so happergli,
Mane this case, that Lord aney, who had amused tii
world with his narrative of- a Journey throot:
Spain, and attributed to the Noble plaintiff"thinz'r.
which existed hut in the imagination of the write,3
The Noble Duke, upon taking up Lord 13.13"eL
Book, was surprised to read the following
Nv

sage
Betweenrel, I i etch
itsov
orlre hearwere severalr:letb yrsueire ruined villages. village and we passed throug?:
iv 111,loalteis1.0(ihncearpsp
and
oh ienigititlina*nitirt y 5
town, awing- whom I was surprised to see a eel-tail, '''f ai'
de Salinas, whom I bad furuierlv met .at Lord Nelso:,- e‘)'l4o
Sir William Hamilton's houses at Palermo. At that tn,.. et
was tin! bylder of a Faro bank, and beside collected futi-010
antiqueslne travelling gentlemen, wlto wisli to acquire '',,t
reputation of Cognoscenti. As the Marquis aiways produc''
his. acquisitions of this nature in company, with a long ~h,„"a-rangue
rangue un their inestimable value, and the low price ti)",
were to be sold for, he generally disposed of them with t 4.411
c‘‘e,ortitilrdinluyitiliourgeiyaustpiaqruce
uniolirerthparrirmlvticeonstl.
and 1, among others, took some off his hands, which, thoug •
abseociir,
we are.told, weakens friendship; and with respect to ((a
Italian Marquis, I found that it weakens shame also, ;1,,
though he was obliged to go to Palermo precipit., 3:e
in consequence.of being openly detected cheating at P. 14," 3
Sir W. Hamilton's in my presence, and was afterwards tut!ori
out of the English fleet by Lord Keith, on violent ate
of being a spy of the French, he now accosted me with Of.
of perfect composure, expressing his happiness at ►
tuee
me, and ittsisteil on escorting me to .my quarters. g."°w-itis.
him to be anentertaining fellow, from whom I might &sr r
bLonotlirct Wane ,
both informatbin and amusement, I deterine to Isfuh f.:(i.,
the slight blemish of being a professed swindler; and im"-,-,
he seemed himself to think this no blot in his eh' ca
fur he' adverted to the transaction at Palermo, are-
treated it as a mere bagatelle. The story he 11°W be'.
lated of himself was, that expecting the French t•-' io..
come masters of Sicily, be thought that the best I_, /
Frey to secure his-property there by esPousing their, rba,, 4)4
i that lie therefore. quitted that -Island for Spain, anti ~cy,,,
married to a Spanish Lady who possessed. property at Mal. it,
nares, he had just
.come from Madrid to take possession %.ifli
but foetid thafa French General bad been. beforehand . to
hitt), and now occupied his house by Military Tenure, u‘itheie
same time that, his Spanish tenants ivere unable to
p3Y
itry,
rents, from thedisturbed and distressed state of the c°u!cocts
and that being disappointed in his expectations of
the Vitro,
becoming master's of Sicily, he could draw no succour' ',,.0,
thence. The Noble Martinis found in me a Jub.s ,cee-
forier ; for, instead of condoling with him, I related theod a.,..
rat unsuccessful atte:apts of the French on Sicilr, 'ilea :le
sured him that they had now seemingly given uP °cat seo.
hopeles4, while the English retained their superiotitY rid 1.0
• The Doke seeing this ,'. felt himself' b°u ca 4
re %
•
vindicate his honour. He denied that tbe- libel,
r the b
a single atom Of truth in any part ci -, msges,
and he .came into Court not to s k lor 63.- ~..
ee • of pro
but to give the defendant an opportuaitY I .
blic amen°
ing his assertion', or making him po- ta
„,ra
The Learned Counsel 'then read a gerY .teillr-:ereti
expostulatory letter, which the puke bad 'yr'''.
tea
3
a• st
to Lord Blaney On the subject, and agalg..
•oblect'
cnid, €
that compensation in money.was not his he
Mr. SC AHLETT„ for the defendant, -- rom,
would not put the Attorney-General to the P a 0,1,
of the libel. He admitted the publicatOu'oric4
on the part of Lord Blaney, expresso his co, 4,1
Oon that he had been misled in what be h,°' ig
c t I
of hitd, for which he \VA instructed to ratlit ,
for 40s.
public' apology.—Verdict for plaintiff by conse"

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