The Sun.
London, England, 1811-04-03 00:00:00

COURT ..11.4 107.1 L.

Chcbea Colleges April t.
ktdr6IIOLMES' EV(DENCE,
Concluded from our Paper of Yesterday,

Mr. Holmes. deposed, that he was acquainted
With M ,jor NAlhey. He ,aw both him and Capt.
Langton at the George Hotel, Cheltenhrn, on the
the It'll) of 06tober, and it was the first day he had
ever seen either of therm He .accompanied Ma-
jor Northey to the Hotel. He saw Capt. Langton
come dowo stairs,, and heard the other call to'hien,
saying, he watited to read a paper to him, the sub.
lance of what passed betw,een thou!, in the morn-
ing. Captain Langton' turned about,. -and Maj-tr
Northey then said, " I will repeat what I said to the
morning—" You are a villain and a scoundrel.--
You have traduced my chataaer.r.and I now de-
mand, the reason ydu will not give me satisfaction i"
Captain Langtiin then lifted up his stick, appa-
rently with the intention of sit iking. Major Northey,
but was prevented by Capt. Hopkins Northey at d
Captain Guthrie, who said there had been tluite
enough of that work already. Captain Langton
asked if Major Northey had informed the Gentle-
men what led to this rencOre? The witness.
said, he should be glad to hear from Captain
Langton the: circamNtatictts. Ile then slated,
that about a year and a halt before, in Portugal,
tilajor Northey had' appropriaied the property of
ther persons to his own use—th it he (Capt. Lang-
had stated to the Boarctof General Officers, that,
he was a thief'! and still held the same opin:on—t hat
Maj•l Northey called on him fur satisfaction, tbr
giving evidencebelore the flu rd, which he neglected
to do when he personally st the same charge to
him in Portugal. The witness 'hen replied, that
Major Northey had 'old him that Capt. Langton had
charged him with bent a thiet, and shewcd trim (the
witness) 'his honourable acquittal before. the Board,
when the charge .was investigated. He also strewed
him aletter from Colonel Turrens, the Secretary of
the Commander-in-Chief, in answer to a cre.norial
for a Court .Martial, ref-Using him, on the ground
.that the opinion of the,Cuttrt at Inquiry was suffi
ciently exphcit to clear him of alt the charges. He
also took the liberty of saying, that the acquittal of
the Board,:-and the letter df the Command.
Chief, were more titan outficient to drown tie voice
of Captain Langton; and he could not conceive hovt,
he' still persevered in calling Major Northey "41
lhief." • •

Question by the Court.
How was the witness induced to accompany Ma...
jot Northey to the George Hotel, when that was'
the first day he had ever seen him He.ex-
petted the question, and would solve it. His time.
Was married to Captain Hopkins. Northey, who was
a relation of the Major. The Captain's faMily were
to have dined-with faith on that day,
,on the morning
of which Captain NOrthey itifroduced htiu to the
Major and Captain Guthrie. In con of conversa-
tion, Major Noi they told him of Chet circumstances,
Ithewe& him his gLquittril by the Boqd, Ate iettut
from the Commander in Cht,.4-----and also stated
marriage with Miss Vyse having been woken ny
the, c.ilutrinieii of Cala in.. Langton. nine
O'clock at night, a neighbour of his (Mr. Cox)
called on him, and said, that he had a gentletoan
dining with him, of !‘vhom atiolher gentleman at
the George Hotel had buasted, 'ihat 1)4 had broken,.
hisstick over ht head, and that he vas going 'to
leave.town or.the following inntning.He (lhe tx it-
'ness) vousidered it to be the 'duty of Major Northey
to unmediOely (Li away with this report, on which
account he attended bins.

Q. How 'did AiNor Northey coriduci himself M-
ier the ailert 4)114 'lade by Ca;nain Langton He
retired intu another room, and the whoes6 fQUurveil
tutu.

SECOND DAY, ArielL 2.

'rho Court assembled,- Captain Langton
begged permission to':tu4ke some addition to his
evidence of yesterday respecting the occurrence at
Cheltenham on the of October, The Court
assented, and Captain Langton said, that having
stated yesterday his not having heard any thing
further ItorwMajor Northey at 7 o'clock that even-
ing, and in consequence also of an alarming account
he received of tne illness of one of his family, he
had taken his place in the Bath coach ; he wished
further to add, that belore he took this step, he
waited upon Sir John Sherwbod, who strongly re-
,
cornmended him to go away on account of the leiter
he had just received. Early on the morning, of the
itth he-Again waited on Sir John Sherwood, and
told him of the new circumstances which.had taken
place on the preceding evening, ,and strewed him
the letter he had receive tl ; in consequence of which
Sir John Sherwood still recommended him to leave
Cheltenham; and he left at the bar of the boarding.-
house where. he lodged, a paper, referring any per-
son who' doubted the motive of his departure, to
Sir lobo- Sher Wood.

Captain Noribey Hopkins examined by the Pro-
treentor, stated,, that he knew Major. Northey, end
accomE►anied him to Sheldon's Hotel, on the even-
ing of the lith of October, where he saw Captain
Langton, and heard Major Northey 'call Bien " a
And a hco und rel," and afterwards " a .cow-
ard ;" 'the Major said, Captain Langton had Ara-
(Woad 'hii character, and called him a coward .a
second time.

Major Northey declined putting any question to
the wiwess.

Captain Langton was then examined by Major
Spicer, a Metliber olthe Court.
Q. You stated in your evidence yesterday, that
you bad no recollettion of having,, at a patty of
Lady's Ahdy's, represented any interterenceof yours
as toe cause of breaking oft Major Northey's mar-
riage-.4)oes your recuisettion now scree. you,whe-
ther you did snake use of such expressions, at any
time, and at any puny at Lady Abdy's have 00
recolledion whatever of my being at a party at
Lady Abtly's : I used to visit at her Ladyship 'S
louse sometimes in the mornings; and one evening
1 recollect calling on the farnilY to go to the Ploy
WWI them, but no eutiverktation whatever occurred,
respelling Major Northey.