The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-23 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

H. Askham, tailor, Norfolk street, Strand, Nov. 20, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy,
J. Jackson, brushmaker, Rochester, Nov. 20, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
J. 0. Kettle, tailor, Southampton street, Strand, Nov. 20, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
J. Vize, stationer, Crawford-street, Bryanston-square, Nov.
18, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
W. Thompson, wine-merchant, Upper Thames-street, Nov.
18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.

S. Carter, surgeon, Newbury, Berkshire, Nov. 12, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. _ _ _

C. It. Carter, carpet-warehouseman, Cheapside, Nov. 12, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
W. Reynolds and M. M. Wright, wine.merriiants, Idol.lane,
Tower-street, Nov. 14, at one, at the Coort of Bankruptcy.
A. M. Grelg, wine-merchant„ Great St. Helen's, Bishops-
gate-street, Nov. 19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
B. Verrinder, coal-merchant, Davies.street, Berkeley.square,
Nov, 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
T. Morgan, wholesale-ironmonger, St. Peter's-alley, Corn-
hill, Nov. 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
C. Bennett, smith, Vauxhall-walk, Lambeth, Nov. 12, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
J. Wrigley, merchant, Knowle, Yorkshirc, Nov. If,, at ten,
at the Ramsden's Arms Inn, Huddersfield. .

S. Wride, timber-merchant, Sculcoates, Yorkshire, Nov. 14,
at eleven, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull.
T. Lloyd, timber-merchant, Wistaiitow, Shropshire, Nov.
16, at twelve, at the Angel Inn, Ludlow, Shropshire.

CERTIFICATES.—Nov. 12.
P. Valentine, hardwareman, Bury, Lancashire.
C. Denton and a. Scott, stone-merchants, Horseleydown,
Southwark.
G. Miller and R. Blackie, joiners, Liverpool.

S. Colman, miller, Shottisham, Norfolk.
A. E. Fowler, merchant, Liverpool.
W. Homer, innkeeper, Stamford.

G. Stoddart, timber:meichant, Bowness, Cumberland,
R. K. Snape, victualler, Manchester.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

T. Evitt and G. Price, attorneys, Haydon-square, Minories.
C. Wood and T. B. Collier, attorneys, Manchester.
S. W. P. Farrar and G. It. Inall, law-stationers, Kingston-
upon-Hull.
W. and W. Pearson, flax-spinners, Bishop.Monckton,
Yorkshire.

J. Southward and R. Ascroft, solicitors, Preston, Lancaster.
H. L. Lobeck and F. Strong, merchants, Great Tower-
street, London.
T. Vivian and T. Stevens, dealers, Plymouth.
T. Hovell and W. Eaden, linen.drapers, Cambridge,
W. and J. Hilton, butchers, Sedgley, Staffordshire.

E. B. Knight, and J. Mammatt, land-surveyors and valuers,
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
J. Green and W. Hunt, silk-throwsters, Chester.
J. Till and W. Hollis, plumbers, Stafford.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 21.
—We have had au animated demand to-day from the trade.
The sales amount to about 3,000 bags, chiefly Americans,
which may be quoted id. per lb. higher than could be
obtained for the same qualities last week. In Brazil and
East India cottons there are scarcely any sales.

Mr. JEMMETT for the prosecution, observed that
some time ago Mr. Cook at' ended the defendant's
family professionally, who afterwards insinuated that
the prosecutor had seduced his wife, and carried his
threats to such an extent that he actually threatened
his life. Owing to those throats the prosecutor was
compelled to bring the defendant before that Court
in July last, and he was then adjudged to enter into
sureties to keep the peace for twelve months. The
very same month that those proceedings were
adopted against the defendant he circulated libels of
the most atrocious kind, attacking the character and
conduct of the prosecutor, although the latter had
sworn that there were not the slightest grounds for the
aspersions contained in the printed papers which were
circulated all over the parish in which he resided.
The Learned Counsel here read the libel. It was
headed." The Parish Surgeon of Waterloo District,
Lambeth, James Cook, jun." It then went on to
say, " This person first became the surgical atten-
dant of my wife about June last, who was then in
an advanced state of pregnancy, and, scandalously
availing himself of the privileges of his professional
attendance, has foully poisoned the domestic happi-
ness which for years previously had existed bet ween
me and the mother of my children. This James
Cook, jun., of No. 5, York-road, Lambeth, is the
person set apart for assistant in the performance of
the surgical duties of a large district in the parish
of Lambeth, in which he must necessarily come in
contact with men's wives under like circumstances
he did with mine. To such men, as husbands and
as fathers, I would appeal, and ask, dare you trust
those whom you love or respect to the honour,
delicacy, or control of a fiend like this ? Are you
sure that, were you to confide, as I have done, you
might not have to curse this cold-blooded and deli-
berate seducer, and who dares even to sport and
jeer over the wretchedness and anxiety he has
created ? Yet this is the conduct of James Cook,
jun., a man from whose station in life, and from
whose education, we have been led to expect very
different practices. He is a vile, mercenary, and cruel
seducer; for, not satisfied with alienating the wife's
mind from the husband, he has the atrocity and mean-
ness to desert his victim, and leave her to earn her
existence by prostitution, or otherwise, as chance may
direct. Were Ito detail the atrocities of this man,
the studied villany of his acts, the revolting propo-
sitions and schemes he poured into his victim's mind
to withdraw her attachment from me, its relation
would be of that character that I should subject
myself to the suspicion of misrepresentation ; yet I
relate nothing but what the woman herself has since
admitted. Beware, then, of James Cook, jun. I
say, beware of him, for the man who can thus cooly
and malignantly blast the peace of an honest family
is a pestilence to be dreaded ; and what man is se-
cure if the sacredness of profession and confidence
is to be polluted to the gross passions of an abomi-
nable deceiver like this ? At the time I first dis-
covered this vicious connection I was laid on a sick
bed in a dangerous state, with a child on the eve of
death; yet, indignant at the woman's faithlessness,
I drove her instantly from my home. Her seducer
turned her to the parish or the streets. The parish
summoned me for neglecting to support her. I stated
my grouro fin. doing
not support a woman who could be corrupted by a
vagabond like this James Cook, jun., surgeon, of
No. 5, York road, Lambeth.
(Signed) " JAMES COTTER.
"Printed for J. Cotter, 7, John-street, Union-street,
Lambeth-walk." . .

YLL
Mr. JEMMETT proceeded to state that the de-
fendant had gone to such lengths in circulating the
libel that he actually went round himself to different
houses in the parish to distribute the bills contain-
ing the offensive matter, and had even had the au-
dacity to call at Mr. Cook's house, and place one of
these obnoxious papers in the hands of his wife.
Stephen Smith, late inspector of the L division,
on the 6th of July last saw the defendant knock at
the doors of several houses in the immediate vicinity
of Dr. Cook's house, and leave printed papers con-
taining matter such as that which constituted the
libel.
Another witness corroborated the fact of the de-
fendant having distributed the libels all over the
parish of Lambeth.
The prosecutor was then called into the witness-
box and examined. He stated that he was assistant
to his father, who was the parish surgeon of Lam-
beth, hesides having extensive practice in the neigh-
bourhood. He produced a copy of the libel left at
his house by the defendant soon after its publica-
tion, and declared that there were no grounds what-
soever for the aspersions which it contained.
In his cross-examination by Mr. DUNBAR, the
prosecutor admitted that it -was about three years
ago the libel was first put into circulation against
him. He attended the defendant's wife when she
was ill, as also other members of his family. Never
saw defendant's wife at the house of a Mrs. Austin,
in Brook-street, nor ever had made any assignation
to meet her at that house.

Mr. DUNBAR—You have already admitted that
the libel you have charged the defendant with having
published appeared upwards of three years ago. I
request to be informed the reason you did not pro-
ceed against him at the time.
Prosecutor--I consulted my solicitor at the period,
and be advised me not to notice ir, saying that I
had much better not proceed against a beggar.
In his further cross-examination, the prosecutor
said, that he at first thought it was the intention of
the defendant to have ewered an action against him
for crinz. con., and he was desirous that he shoLid
have done so, as it would then have been proved
that there were no grounds for the accusation, and
that the defendant was labouring under a delusion
of mind upon that paricular subject. The defen-
dant assaulted him in July last, accusing him at the
same time of debauching, his wife, and threatening
his life in language of the most violent kind. On
that occasion he obtained a warrant against the de-
fendant, but the Magistrate dismissed the case; and
the defendant, emboldened by the decision, still con-
tinued to harass and annoy him in every possible way.

!kir. DUNBAR, for the defendant, did not mean to
justify the libel ; but then, when it was taken into
consideration that the feelings of the defendant were
strongly excited in consequence of his wife having
been ruined by the individual against whom he had
taken that means of exposing the transaction—
Here the COURT interposed, and said the jury
weie not hying that question ; all they had to de-
cide upon was whether the defendant was guilty or
not of having published the libel attributed to him.
The defendant, who, during the trial, appeared to
be a good deal excited, here exclaimed that if he
mil allowed he should produce evidence, then in
Court, to substantiate all that was alleged in the
libel. He then with much warmth of manner ex-
claimed, pointing at the prosecutor, " That's the
villain who has destroyed my happiness ; I actually
caught him in the fact with my wife, but I was so
ill at the time that I was unable to serve him as lie
deserved
; If I had had a pistol I would have blown
his brains out on the spot." He then complained of
the dreadful sufferings he had experienced since the