The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-21 00:00:00

ASHIONABLE

WINDSOR, AUG. Ns forenoon his MA-
JESTY, with his Household attendants, heard Divine
Service at the new Chapel Royal. The Very Rev. the
Dean of Salisbury officiated.
On Friday his Majesty, with his attendanta, dined
at Virginia Water.
Yesterday forenoon Lord Farnborongh arrived at
the Royal Lodge, and had an audience of his MA-
JESTY. In the aftermson, at half-past- two o'clock,
his MAJESTY, accompanied by his Lordship, enter-
ed his pony phaeton, and, followed by his usual at-
tendants, in other phaetons, drove to Virginia Water,
and embarked, as usual, Opposite the Royal Marquee,
upon an aquatic excursion. Ai eight o'clock his
MAJESTY returned to the Royal Lodge, when Lord
Farnborough took leave of his MAJESTY and left, for
his seat, Bromley-hill.

BRIGHTON, AUG. 20.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of York is much better to-day ; his appetite
is
much improved, and he slept extremely well last night.
The answers given at the Pavilion this morning are,
that his Royal Highness is considerably better. At
three o'clock he drove out in his cabriolet.

The Earl of Glengall and Sir Godfrey Webster are
amongst our latest arrivals.
The weather has been extremely hot (thermometer
at 120 in the sun) yesterday and to-day.
The Duke of Gloucester attended Divine Service
yesterday at St. George's church, Hanover-square. •
Sir Herbert Taylor, Military Secretary to the Duke
of York, left town on Saturday afternoon for the King's
Pavilion, Brighton, on a 'visit to the Royal Duke.
Mr. Macmichael arrived in town from a visit to the
Duke of York. His Royal Highness bore the jour-
ney from London extremely well, and took his usual
daily airing from the Pavilion.
The Duke of Gloucester honoured Mr. A. Stan-
hope with his company to dinner on Saturday, at his
residence, Bute House, Old Brompton. There was a
select party to meet his Royal Highness.
Sir Henry Halford left town on Saturday, for his
seat, Whiston Hall, Harborough, Leicestershire.
Mr. Secretary Canning left town yesterday afternoon
for Brighton.
Mr. Secretary Peel held a consultation on Saturday
with Mr. Canning and Mr. Huskisson, at the Foreign
Office. After the consultation, Mr. Peel sent off Mr.
Newman, the King's Messenger, with despatches for
the Earl of Liverpool, at Langothlin, North Wales,
where his Lordship had gone on a tour of some
weeks. _ .

Mr. Huskisson arrived in town on Friday from his
seat at Earth, Sussex. Mr. Secretary Peel has also
arrived in town from his residence at lgroadstairs.

Mr. Hay, Under Secretary of State for the Colonial
Department, left town on Saturday for Tonbridge.
The Countess of Eldon is recovering from her late

indisposition.
A King's Messenger was sent off from the Foreign
Office yesterday evening, with dispatches for the Con-
tinent. •

CRIM. CON. IN BATH.

1\ EBTIE V. SMALLCOMBE.

On Saturday last, a most respectable Jury assembled at the
York-house, Bath, for the purpose of assessing the damages in
this case, which was nominally an action for seducing the plaintiff's
servant, and assaulting him in his own house. The defendant
had suffered judgment to go by default.
Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS addressed the Jury, in aggravation :
The plaintiff and defendant, he said, were most respectable
professional gentlemen at Bath ; the former an attorney, and the
latter engaged in the conveyancing department. The circumstan-
ces which led to the transaction were briefly these :—Mr. Webbe
had a country house, at Weston, to which he was in the habit of
retiring about half past four o'clock every day, after the business
of his office in Bath was concluded. One day he found it
necessary, accompanied by his son, a mere youth, to go to the vil-
lage of Box, a few miles distant, for the purpose of superintending
the cutting of some timber, belonging to him. The day was wet,
and his feet becoming extremely damp, he and his son found it ne-
cessary to return to the country house much sooner than usual.—
On reaching it, they retired to the parlour, where they were much
surprised on hearing a loud clatter up stairs, and the noise of boots
as that of a person walking hastily across the room. The son itn-
mediately went up stairs, when he found his mother in the draw-
ing-room, very much agitated, and in company with the defend-
ant (Smallcombe), and another gentleman, of the name of
Hooper. There were wine and fruit on the table, and
every thing laid out as if the parties had been fully
enjoying themselves. The mother then entreated the son not to
tell his father, but he said it was his duty, and he would do so.
He accordingly returned to his father, who instantly armed him-
self with a large cavalry sword, and rushing to the door of the
drawing-room, which the delinquents had by this time locked,
he thrust it smiler, and threatened the inmates. Afterwards, how-
ever, fearful that dangerous consequences might ensue, if he re-
tained this weapon, he threw it aside, and having taken up a
small stick, he and his son burst open the door, when Smallcombe
snatched up the catch of the lock, which had fallen to the ground,
and struck Mr. Webbe across the forehead, which bled profusely.
Hooper, in the mean time, made his escape, and soon afterwards
Smallcombe contrived to make his exit also. The Learned Coun-
sel then proceeded to state that Mr. Webbe's servant, a girl of the
name of Recker had become pregnant by the defendant, Small-
combe, and that for the loss of her services, and for the assault
upon Mr. Webbe, the action had been brought. The whole affair, he
observed, was calculated to excite the strongest disgust against the
defendant. Had these enormities been committed by a man of low
education, the fact would not have been so surprising ; but when
he found one professional man meanly and secretly stealing to the
domestic hearth of another, guzzling his wine, and robbing him of
his domestic peace, he could not find words strong enough to ex-
press his detestation of such conduct. Ample room, however,
was now afforded for the punishment of such flagitiousness. The
case was somewhat similar to that of a father who brings an action
for the seduction of his daughter. Counsel were technically
obliged to prove the loss of some trifling service, in order to main-
tain the action ; but the Judges laid it down that the compensation,
as far as pecuniary compensation in such a case could go, was for
his wounded feelings. If the Jury, therefore, did not wish to en •
courage such flagitious conduct as that of the defendant—if they
were anxious to maintain purity of morals, they would give such
heavy damages as might operate in the way of punishment, and
restrain others from the commission of similar offences. He
should now call Edward Webbe, the son of the plaintiff, much as
he regretted to be obliged thus to call the son ati a witness against
his mother, he had no other way of proving his cue, and there-
fore strict necessity compelled horn to adopt this course.
[Master Webbe, an intelligent and nucleonic youth, 16 years of
age, was then examined. He detailed the circumstances of t
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case exactly as described by Air. Williams. Atr. Erskine, as
Counsel for the defendant, cross-examined the witness, but no-
thing material was elicited,, with the exception that the father was
in a violent passion at the time the assault was committed.)
Mr. Easetus addressed the Jury in an eloquent speech, in mi-
tigation. He entreated the Jury to bear in
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nature of the action was; viz. to recover compensation for the loss
proof whatever, and, in fact, an action was
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that the wound had been severe. Altogether, therefore, as his clientroe
was a young man, in the dawn of professional life, with all his
passion' fresh and warm about him, he hoped that the Jury would
not visit the impropriety of which he acknowledged himself to
have been guilty with heavy damages,
which would press, him to
the earth, and, perhaps, ruin his prospects for ever.
The Jury retired for about an hour, and returned damages
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The Arteltl4tY-GENERAL (Mr. Scarlett) stated the case on
die part of the plaintiff. It wag an action, he said, for a compen-
sation in damages against the defendant for malicious and
slanderous words. The learned gentleman said tae plaintiff was
in possession of large estates in Ireland, and the owner of Ferlin
castle, in Kirkby-Lonedale, in this County. The defemVants were
butler and housekeeper in the service of the plaintiff; and the
slander complained of was supposed to have been caused by malice
occasioned by their discharge from their situation, which was
a lucrative one, in consequence of vets of mutation and fraud
that had been discovered thtough the medium of a nephew of the
plaintiff, who, being the orphan of a deceased brother he took under
his protection, intending to forward his fortune. The plaintiff., it
appeared, having occasion to spend some time in London. left this
young gentleman in charge of his establishment, at Ferlin Castle,
and he, feeling grateful for the confidence reposed in him, kept a
watchful eye on the conduct of the servants. Discovering that the
defendant was making extremely free with his uncle's property, he
reported the same to his uncle. The plaintiff not wishing to interfere
in the business until he came down to the Castle, dismissed the
circumstance for awhile from his thoughts, but hearing a second.
time from his nephew that the defendant's wife had propagated
some infamous slanders miudicial to his character, the plaintiff
came down to Ferlin Castle, and instantly dismissed the defen-
dants from his service, and would have resorted to legal messed-
ings could he have discovered any thing to found an action
upon. Hie most intimate friends looking shy upon him,
he applied to his Counsel, Mr. Alderson, at London, for ad-
vice as to how he should act, when Mr. Alderson recom-
mended him to institute a strict inquiry, in order to sift
out if possible the originator of the *sandal ; and, after enduring.
fin the apace of slights from his friends, whom •he
wife of his late butler, ban insinuated that he had taken improper
highlyesteemed,h':ll:at years,
length discovered that Mrs. deafen), the
liberties with his nephew.
The cause was entirely andek,,O, and no justification was put
upon the record.
Mr. Baron Hisersce, in his charge Eo the Jury, enimadverted
on the infamous nature of the charge, and %Pt vital consequences
to the honour and character of the plaintiff.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages Ml.—costs
40s.
During the Attorney-General's statement of the ease the plain-
tiff shed tears.

CROWN SIDE.
Patrick Rafferty, for highway robbery at Manchester, received
sentence of Death. He is left for execution.

The business on the Crown side finished this day, with the ex-
ception of Wakefield's case, which will come on, it is said, on
Ntonday morning; it is expected to last two days.

LEVIEW IN HYDE-PARK, BY HIS ROYAL
HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.

This morning the second battalion of the 8d Regiment of Foot
Guards were assembled in Hyde-park, under the commend of Col.
Clitheroe, for the purpose of being reviewed by his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Gloucester, as Colonel of the Regiment (and, as
we understand, for the last time this season). The line was formed
on the right of the Serpentine River, near Cumberland-gate.
About nine o'clock, on the signal being given that his Royal High-
ness, attended by hi, Staff, was approaching towards the spot, the
band instantly commenced playing, and the line presenting arms.
After the Staff had proceeded along the front and rear of the batta-
lion, the firing began in line, succeeded by volleys, and in solid
squares repeatedly. The battalion was then formed into comps-
nies, and marched in military order round his Royal Highness
and Staff, in slow and quick time. Colonel Clitheroe having
moved the battalion again into line, they tired a grand volley. The
band then struck up the national air of " God save the King," the
soldiers presenting arms ; and, at the close, his Royal Highness
rode up in the centre, where he entered into conversation with
the Officers, and soon after retired from the ground, apparently
highly pleased with the discipline of the men. His Royal High-
ness looked remarkably well, and left the Park by Cumberland-
gate. The firing was excellent ; and the populace assembled
seemed much gratified.