The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-04 00:00:00

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'n Monday sennight Sir MARK K Sib hounds
tried Major Torsi Am's plantations around the 'Vold
Cottage, but did not find till they reached Mr. Li..
Arto's plantations, when a Fox broke cover, and
went over the Wold in a very gallant style; but being
headed by some farmers, who were coming to join
in the chase, he went into a plantation above Wold
Newton, where he was killed. Above so horse:
men were in the field, and, what is more singular,
not above one farmer, though they were in Martin.
'VMS spirits, was thrown from his horse, or rode over
by another. -After leaving M.ijor TOPHAM'S plan-
tations, Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND'S Covers at Boyn-
ton were tried, and two foxes were found, but with.
riot affording any run. Lora M I DDLETON, Sir
MARK ByKra, and a very large assemblage of Gen-
Ilemen, were of the party.
On Friday the z3d ult. Colonel THORNTON'S
lap-dog beagles met at Langtoft (a charming coun-
try), had 'two very fine runs, and killed without a
check. A pack of hare hounds were out within a '
mile or two of them, but they found the scent so
bad, that the owner said they could not run at all :
the air was certainly very frosty. The diminutive
size of the beagle' hounds causes them to bring their
noses so much nearer the scent, and being chosen
from all the worst scenting countries, may account,
in some measure, for the advantage they seem to have.
A Buck of the first head (kept up a year on old
corn) was turned down at Falconer's Hall, as the
Hart had been before ; and though all the pains were
taken to dash the mettle of the hounds, they, after,
*Worst of about ten miles, caught a view of him.
He topt unfortunately Ganton Warren, and though
every exertion was made to save him by a field of
the best mounted and must anxious sportsmen, yet
in attempting to leap the warren wall he fell, and,
as the hounds were all in a body, he was instantly
torn to pieces. As soon as the horses had recover-
ed their wind, the company were indulged with a
. run of the lapdog beagles; and they then gave, as
they have done hitherto, universal satisfaClion.

MODERN FURNITURE.

tiftAwlNC.ltoot.t CHAnts, &c.—The newest
fashion is after the Egyptian style, the backs re.
ambling a scroll, which extends over after the
Manner of the Grecian couches; they are stuffed in
the centre, and, are aurrnounted by an enriched
tablet. The elbows are all made very full, with an
tasy sweep from the top, and are supported by
-'whole.length .antique chimeras, or female figures.
The seats Di these singularly elegant and unique
Chairs are thinly stuffed, to contain a very thick
eashion. The frame of the chairs are a mixture of
'bronze, or or.mnulu ; the coverings are of crim.
ton, or black velvet, after the style of Mr. Ttics
HuTE's splendid mansion, in Dutchess.street, but
then they .are enriched by very beautiful specimens
of needlework or embroidery.
PIER TABLAS—Are of statuary marble, inlaid
with gold ornaments, richly chased, and supported
by a single tomb or leg ; the latter idea is taken
from the model of those found in the, ruins of Her.
culaneum.
Lungs' WORK l'AuLus—Are made upon the
same principle as the latter article, but upon a
smaller scale, with tops to imitate marble, ornament.
...td with bronze, or or.innuln feet. The fisltionable
shape is oblong, after the antique.

THE TMEATRE.—The fame of Master BITTY
naturally attrafted another crowded audience last
night to Covent-garden Theatre, when he made his
second appearance in the part of Arbeet. We have
nothing to add to the favourable accounts which we
yesterday gave of this extraordinary youth. He
fully confirmed our high opinion of his merits. He
displays a degree of judgment much beyond his
years. His conception of the part is just, and his
execution spirited and interesting. He was more '
in possession of his voice, and there was greater
variety in his tones. In one respect his titling was
better than on the former night, for there was more
eppearance of affection towards freer, but it was
judiciously mingled with, and subdued by what he
conceived' to be his duty to himself and to his coon.
try. We shall not employ ourselves in the invidi-
ous task of animadverting on what we consider as
errors in his siding,
,because we have not yet had
an opportunity of observing the extent of his powers,
and because he presents beauties sufficient to demand
the tribute of admiration. Mrs. LITCHFIELD
I n acquitted herself very ably in Zaphira.—
HARGRAVE was more successful in Barbaroua than
on she former night. The audience obviously dial i
not treat CORY with their usual liberality ; possi-
bly a sense of the ludicrous might strike them from
a comparison Of his figure with that of Little BET.
Ty. CORY, however, returned their unkind le,
lily with an humble deference, that turned their
feelings into a more generous channel. It should
be mentioned, to the credit of the Managers, that
they took efredual care, by an addition of Peace Of.
hers and Guards, to prevent any riotous excesses
'without the Theatre, and to secure the places with-
in from violent intrusion.
'LLISTON made his second appearance last night
at Drury-lane Theatre, in the charader of Hamlet,
befute a much larger 'Audience than could reason-
ably be expated considering the powerful attrac-
tion of the other House.—He sustained the part
throughout with improied spirit, and threw a new
light upon some .passages, which did not seem to
arise from affedled 'refinement.
On Sunday Master BETTY had the honour to be
esented to the Niece of WALES, at Carleton
House. His Royal Highness had witnessed his
itbet on Saturday night, and he expressed the live-
iy eatisfaftion which he had felt at his performance.
flt highly flattering to the youth that his Royal
Highness has then honoured him with his protetliort.
?As every thing of-and about the wonderful boy,
laster Bs UT, is interesting, it is material to know
his exaa height and weight. He was Yeale"l3Y
measured and weighed. His height is 4 feet to
Inches and a half. His weight 6 swot! 3iihs•
The Proprietors of the Newcastle 'Theatre are re-
lilaiallng and beautifying it in a very liberal manner;
STet stria KlNic LE endeavour-
on his part,
tug to discharge his duty as Manager, in providing
them with all the novelties he can obtain.

A;4' REPORT.

COURT OF KlNG's BENCIt, DMEtintit

GEORGE CHAMBERS, ESQ. V. 7. CAULFIELD, ESQ.
The Plaintiff' is the son of the late Sir William
Chambers, Architect to the King, has a Commission
in His Majesty's Service, and was employed in die
Expedition to Holland. The Defendant was also a
Captain in the Army, is well known in the circles
of gaiety and fashion, and as an Amateur of the
Dramatic Arr.
. The Plaintiff married one of the daughters of Ad.
miral Lord Rodney, in the autumn of the year
1784.. It WWI a match of the purest sensibility
and affeBion, formed between two young persons,
the one eighteen, and the other seventeen, and
consummated after a rapid expedition to Gretna
Green. On their return from this Northern flight,
the union received the sant-lion of the parents on
both sides, and this happy couple were joined ac.
cording to the holy rites of the Church of England,
when Sir William Chambers was present at the ce-
remony. The issue of this marriage extended to
nine beautiful children ; eight of them were boys.
For a ' long succession of years this early par-
tiality seemed to be confirmed and strengthened.
Such was the joyful situation of these parties,
until g short time before they met the present
Defendant at a Ball at Huntingdon, in the neigh.
bouthood of which town the Plaintiff resided.
'I subsequent lofts will be more satiscati.utiy
collected from the particulars of the trial, than from
any detail we could give from our knowledge of the
circumstances.

Messrs. ERSKINE, GARRoW, and SCARLETT,
were Counsel for the Plaintiff; Messrs. DALLAS,
e Hsi and BURROUGH, for the Defendant.
Mr. ERSKINE, on the part of the former, dis.
closed the fads of the case. He said, this seas an
anion seeking a compensation, in damages, for the
criminal intercourse oP the Defendant with the
wife of the Plaintiff. The Lady was exquisitely
beautitul, pettedly accomplished, of most fasci.
nating manners ; and, notwithstanding the nume-
rous progeny which she had given, to become
the ornament of society, she retained all the
appearance, of vernal loveliness. . The Defendant
is a man possessed of an elegant person, of
a finished address, and endowed with those ta.
lents and powers which find a vigilant and insi-
dious advocate in the female bosom. He saw, and
he admired, this Lady at a dance given in the prin.. •
cipal town of the county where she resided. Most
melancholy it was, that these sentiments were not
confined to himself—she also ,saw, felt, and ad-
mired—and from that moment the felicity of her
husband was for ever destroyed. The Plaintiff
immediately observed a sudden change in her man.
nets; on every little domestic dispute, she threat-
ened to leave her husband, and the fond circle in
which she had appeared ; and future events could
alone explain to the aftided husband. this grievous
revolution. During this miserable interval, the
Plai.ttiff discovered a letter in her hand ; urged fay
jealousy, he attempted to seize it.; in consequence
of this scuffle, she deserted the mansion of her
husband .and her children ; but\at this rime he had
attained nu knowledge o her criminality. Soon
after this fracas, he was, in his ostensible charader
in the service, called upon to embark to join in the
attack on Holland. Jr so ha;-pened, that the in.
disposition of this Officer did nut admit of his re-
maining in that humid climate, he therefore unex.
pettedly returned to his house at, Hartford, near
untingdon, where his wife then was. She ap.
Feared, on his arrival, extremely agitated, and the
next morning left the place, abandoning an infant
of only seven months old, wholly unprotetled.
Mrs. Caine, the sister of the Plaintiff; deposed
to the marriage 'of Mr. and Mrs. Chambers, on
the. t ath Sept. 1784.
The Rev. jobs: Weller gave testimony to the
harmony and affedion that prevailed in the family,
in which he tatted in the capacity of tutor.
Mrs. Little was in the situation-of Housekeeper,
and had also the superintendanee of the children.
She first observed a change in the deportment of
Mrs. Chambers in the year 11798, and she had some
time before observed a disposition ioffiet with se-
veral Gentlemen ; but she noticed nothing very re.
markable until 18ot, when Capt. Caulfield had a
lodging at Huntingdon, and was a frequent visitor
to her Master and Mistress. Being interrogated
if she noticed any thing peculiarly familiar in the
behaviour of Captain Caulfield and Mrs. Chambers,
she said they were accustomed to sit on the sopha
together), in the absence of her husband. After
the departure of the Plaintiff for the Fielder, the
Captain was received on a footing of much nearer
intimacy ; he was accustomed to be in the house j
late in the evening, and early in the morning, and
none of the servants knew when he went or when
he returned, so that suspiciOns were entertained that
he was an inmate all night in the family. The
men. servants, were usually sent to bed at this period
at an early hour. Mrs. Chambers had also altered
her plan in one particular ; it was usual with her
to admit the children into her room as soon ae
they rose, with the witness, who attended them,
but during the whole of this interval, they were
excluded, and both the doors of her apartments were
locked.
Mary Smith remained in the service of the Lady
two years, 'tom about Christmas, 1801, to the
same festival.in 1803. Her mistress then lived at
Farnham St. Martin's, near Bury Sr. Edmund's.
She thought Captain Caulfield was then a lodger
with her. From thence she removed to Prince's.
street, Hanover.square ; thence to Fulham ; after.
wards to Mint Farm, near Reigate ; and again
to Battersea ; and in all these situations the De.
fendant attended her, and seemed to continue as a
lodger, and an acquaintance in her family, and no
illicit intercourse was detetled. Afterwards they
went to Chertsey, and there likewise they had two
separate beds and apartmenti ; but from her ex.
pet fence in her office of chamber-maid, what, from
their previous coridud, and the proximity of the
rooms, she strongly suspetted that both beds were
regularly made, and constantly disordeted ; affil
from other more minute circumstances, which it is
neither delicate nor necessary to explain, she had
no doubt that the Defendant had critnioal inter.
1 cootie with her mistriii.

, .
MT. tml.okt, Tod the befendant, aarhittetl thati
the case were proved, and his Client had alienated

the affeelions of tills lovely seraph, retaining all the
charms, even at this hour, of virgin beauty, no
damages could be to serious, and no comperisa.
tion could be adequate to the injury suffered by the
Plaintiff. However, the claim of Mr. Chambers,.
in a Court of Law, must depend upon the merit of
his pretensions. The Learned Counsel, after the

evidence that had been last adduced, 'would not,
and could not, pretend that the adultery had not
been proved ; but whether the Plaintiff had any
just demand for damages must depend on the fads
by which the defence would be supported. It was
singular, that though Mrs. Corine, the sister of the
Plaintiff, was brought forward as a witness, not a
single question was proposed to her by his Learned
Friend, on the harmony subsisting between the
Plaintiff and his wife, although it might be thought,
from his representation, that this conjugal union
was a sort of matrimonial elysium, which could
alone be exceeded by the joys of Paradise. The
happiness of this pair was to be proved by the un.
supported evidence of a single domestic, E. Little,
whose depositions, in several respeCts, were ab-
surd and contradidory. The son of Sir William
Chambers, and the daughter of my Lord Rodney,
must possess a regular and habitual intercouse with
those who held a distinguished rank in the fashion.
able world, and yet not one of their associates had
been produced to give testimony to those mutual
endearments, avlticin appeared only in the brief of
his opponent. He should, make it appear why
this sort of evidence could not be supplied ; he
would produce to the Jury a series of letters; he.
would produce a deed, sanctioned by all the for-
1-utilities of the Law, which would expose a system
of brutality in the conduet of the Plaintiff; after
which he could be entitled to no damages ; and it
would equally excite the astonishment and the
compassion of the Court, or perhaps its contempt,
that he should have presumed to claim of the justice
of his country, what virtue and humanity alone have
a tight to require. Mr, DALLAS then produced the
letters to which he adverted.
.The first was dated in
May 1798, in which the Plaintiff assented to a se-
paration ; speaks of the terms on which it is to be
effected ; and intreats her not to take one of the
carriages with her, as it would expose him to an
assessment of 401. a year. The next was dated the,
zd of June, wherein he implores pardon for his past
misconduCt, intreats a union, and says, he shall he
ever grateful if she will not refirse his request.—
On the third letter, which is dated four d,tys pos.
tetior, he beseeches her to he 'reconciled to him,
if not on his account, at least from her attach-
ment to her children ; from her resped for her own
dignity ; and from every motive of policy and
expedience. He was now going abroad on a pub.
lic and dangerous duty ; in his absence he should
be perfedly composed and resigned to every peril
in the service of his country, if site would restore
to him peace, by extending her forgiveness ; then,
alluding to some threats which he had uttered in
an unfortunate hour, he. adds,. " with regard
to the pistols, I never intended you the smallest
injury, and what I uttered was under the mo-
mentary influence of hurry and intoxication."—
The ,Learned Counsel then proceeded to a deed of
reconciliation, to which John and Jane Chambers,
George Lord Rodney, John Rodney, and John Mil.
bank, Esqrs. were patties. He said, that in this
deed there was on absolute covenant, that in case
of 'differences, she should be admitted to part at
the time her own discretion should dired ; that
cool, in dress and furniture should be allowed her,
with an annuity of 2001. per annum. She was
likewise to have the two youngest children, until
they were eight years old, under her care, and per.
mission to see the other children, at the hour of
the Plaintiff, whenever her maternal affeCtion
should be so disposed. The whole tenor of the
defence was direded to shew that the Plaintiff; by his
own gross conduit, had alienated the affedions of
his wife ; that she had obtained terms of separa.
tion with his own concurrence, in consequence
of his brutality ; and than therefore, for any act
of infidelity, however successfully shown, he could
maintain no action for damages in a Court of Jus.
lice.
The deed and the letters having been proved by
Mr. Bootle, they were ,read according to the
order of their dates by the Clerk of the Court, by
which it appeared that the Plaintiff expressed the
most poignant contrition for his ,own errors, and
not a syllable of the smallest discontent arising
from any part of the deportment of Mrs. Chambers.
Mr. ERSKINS then rose, in reply, with strong
marks of indignation. The most infamous re.
ports had been circulated by this Defendant, in
order to deter the Plaintiff from seeking the redress
to which be was intitled at the Bar of his Country.
By the instruction with which his. Learned Friend
was supplied, he was now made acquainted with
the corrupt fountain from which they issued. This
profligate adulterer, reposing in the arms of this
beautiful and unfortunate woman, had prostituted
the confidence to which he was admitted, bail ran-
sacked the papers in het possession, in order to con.
vent the proofs of the ardent affedions of her bus.
band into instruments of destrudion to. the man
over whom he triumphed. This, on o thousand
occasions, he had called the adulterer's- course ; if
it were, sometimes the race of success, it was al-
ways the path of infamy. It was objected, that
nut a single question was proposed on his side
to Mrs. Cotine, in evidence of the matrimonial
happiness the Plaintiff so long enjoyed. The
Lady came into Court under the most distress.
ing perplexity ; and it was riot .the. wish of the
Counsel for the Plaintiff to protract het anxiety ;
yet no such impressions seem to have existed in
the breast of his Learnt's! Opponent, and he might
have sifted the truth if he had doubted the fad of
this mutual, felicity ; but he knew the experitnent
would injure the cause of his Client, and therefore
he desisted from this inquisition. It was. extrane-
&nary that he should complain of the deficient io-
ito,try of the Counsel for the Plaintiff in this parti-
cular, when in another instance immediately con-
neArti with it, he had at least been equally sparing
of hi, cxci lions. Mr. Chambers, the son of that
Architril so long patrotAted by his Sovereign, and
who had rendered himsdi *mortal by the migni.
ficent mouurnents of his genius ; his wife, the

datiglittr of at ilitsiiiOns arnl gafiani
who had destroyed the Naval Armaments of France;

coold not be confined to a cantraaed circle of sol,.
.ciety : wherever taste, fashion,. a.nd honour, were

admired or respeded, they would be seed and ac,
:knnwledged. if then Mr. Chambers .bad been
guilty of any misconduct ; if he had frequented
,garning-houses and brothels ; if he had pradisetit
the arts and the vices of the 9pcmiihrift and the de,
banchee, abundant testimlny would have been
afforded, of which his Learned Friend might have
availed himself, in order. to chew that the
gacy of the Plaintiff' rendered.him unworthy of the
atiettion of his accomplished wife: nut not a tit..

tle of evidence had been adduced, sot with,tand-
ing all the advantages with which the Counsel were
supplied ; they had contented thetnselvei with al-
lusions made by the Plaintiff; in the noble and gr.

nerous spirit of. repentance, which itself argued, he
was incapable of the offences with which was
charged. A scramble about a contemptible slip of
paper had been adverted tu, and a story about an
unloaded pistol was blazoned forth, to support the
feeble narrative. Suppose, in the moment of inc.,
briety, either from the effens of wine, or froth
the more deadly poison of jealousy,- he had done
what had been represented ; was the film pin=
drawn by the masterly hand of subiirtie artist
of our Country to be forgotten ? arid wer: the
human passions never to b*t reopened ? Listen to
the voice of the noble Moor : in the CAWS of hit
-passion, lie exclaims—
Oh monstrous ! I will tear her With from limis."
Then driven alternately by hope and fear—
By the world,---
I think my wile is honest, and think she is not;
I think that thou art just, and think tint' art not
I'll have some proof. My name, that wls as fresh
4s Dian's visage, is now liegrint'd and black
As mine own face. Cf there he cords, or knives,.
Poison, or fire, or sulneating, streams,
I'll not endure it. Would I were sahsfiedl"
Such were the feelings of a great and genertrzs
mind under the dominion. of this tormenting pas.
sion This demon had been driven from hell to
transfer its fires into the breast of this vielim. A
Lady of noble alliance is conducted from town to
town, and exposed in a itate, of proStitution to the
ridicule of fools, to the compassion. of the wise, and
to the contempt of all. A Soldier returning from
the field of battle to the embraces of the obita of
his early affection, is .rejened with disdain.; he is
deprived of that society which had converted the
days of trouble into a season of taninterropti fe.
licity ; and for the loss he has sustained, he
reparation from the honour and the justicc

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Country.
When Lord ELLENI3OItbUCH W 39 about to :Jul%

up the evidence, one of the issror4 desir:l to
propose a question to the lisuiekeeper. Mrs
Little being called, he inquired, if, a:l,re the
cimacy,of the Defendant wish her Master, she tth.
served any thing inconsistent with tnutuat love and
harmony to subsist between the Phintitf and his
wife ?—The reply was, that she had noticed nothing
of the kind, excepting the dispute regarding th►e
letter.

Lord ELLENZOROUGH (to ttte jUly).-15 Afrer
this brillient display of talent and eloquen,:e, it
becomes us to withdraw ourselves from the iefita.
ence of the passions, and inquire into the La 3„
as sober and reasonable men, It seems •to toe, she
Gentlemen on each side have assumed propositiona
stronger than the evidence will Support, in favour
of their.respeetive clients. On the part of the De..
Pendant, it is argued, that this deed of =cilia.
tiots is • to be considered as a complete renunciation
of the right of the Plaintiff to the society of
his wife, so as to preclude him from .a right, of etc,
tion under the present circumstances. Perhaps
articles might be so framed as to reacts to this tit.
tent, but these are not of, That description, and they
were formed with a view, at least, to the increase,
of the mutual happiness of both the wife end the
husband ; but the latter, however, put himself
so far in the power of his wife, as to admit. her
to withdraw whenever her disctetien should dictate
her doing so. On the other side, too much is
charged against, the Defendant, when they say be
WAS the sole cause of the alienation of the :dec.
dons of the wife; for, atteoding to the dates of
the documents produced, we cannot avoid seeing,
that as early as May, 1798, before Captain Caul.
field had access to the house, very serious diffe.
rences prevailed in the family. Hven in the most
comet domestic circle, from the occasional ebulli_
lions of ill.temper, disputes will arise ; and it by'
no means is a necessary consequence, that bet:auto
family quarrels sometimes take place, the door is
to be thrown open to every adulterer, and our
Courts arc to be Closed upon the claimant seeking
redress for the injury he has sustained. The ques.
tion then is, in what degree the Defendant was in.
strumeotal in ereefing or heightening these tests."
(Ilis. Lordship here entered into the particulars of
the evidence, both on the part of the Plaintiff and
Defendant, and concluded with these observations
" We certainly have the confession of the Plaintiff,
that in the early state of these disagtcements he
was the sole cause. You will, therefore, consider,
if by his own miscondua he has destroyed the
alfedionr of his wife. If he has deprived her
of that. love and attachment, which are the best
guardians of female honour, this will materially
Weft the proportion • of damages to be assigned.
But this will not excuse the man who, Ley his
conduit, has rendered reconciliation
To the extent to which the rJaintiff has suffered
real injury, be will:exped at your hand's repara.
tion,ll •
The Jury having withdrawn, in less than half art
hour returned with a Verdid for the Plaintiff,---
Damages, Ave Thousand Poundh

On Friday evening the 23,1 ult. at Mt: jOnatilao
Wilson,,, nt Uiitletwood, near' Coeicermouth, the
flour of an upper tOOOll. in wliia a great nutubtr of
people were aNsemhled, suddenly gave wly, and the
company, with the tutniture, &c. were ptecipitated
to the ground floor. Providentially, it hoppened that
none of the family were in the lower apartment at the
time; anti as the flouring did not sepirate, no ma.
teria injury was sustained by testy person present,
The shock, however, was very violent, and the
alarm &fem.