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London, England, 1811-12-21 00:00:00

"LAM REPORT. ~„r

COURT OF COMIVION PLEAS, DEc. 19';

EROWN,AND ANOTHER V. CREVETTO ANP OTHERS.
This was a case on an issue front Chancery, to try
whether Maria BrOwn, the wife of the plaintiff' was
, the M
legitimate claug ,
l3ter of a 'Mr.Mangin, deceased.
Mr. Mangin died intestate, leaving property behind
him to the aansoant of 65,6001.'; and the question
' was, wh, titer Mrs. 13rown,'or the defendant, was
Mr Matigin's :heir-al -law.
Mr. Setjeatit -Su ern Ban stated the. case very
eloquently for the plaintiff, and then called a num-
liet vi:itneses, who gave evidence tolhe folltawing
etre&
• Rachel Storer said, that when a young girl, and
' an appreiniCe to d shroud-maker, she waxextreme-
-ly well acquainted with Mrs. Mangin, the mother
of Mrs. Brown. One day she, 'Mrs. Mangin, met
her in the street, and told her that she had got
flurried' to Mr. Mangin, and invited her to come
aid see her. This was before. IVlrs. brown was•
burn •
A Mr. Brind proved the marriage of Mr. and
Mrs. Brown. 'Mts. Brown having been under age
when Mr. Brown was proposed tol• her, it was ne-
cessary to get a license ; 'but before the license could
be obtained, it was necessary for the lather of • the
young lady to make an affidavit that he was her
natural and lawiul father. He did make such an
affidavit, and his daughter was hccordingly married
to Mr. Brown. Mr. Mangin hada house at the time
(1792) in Sun-court, Corohill, and a country house.
either at .flackney, or somewhere on the Surrey side
of Blatkfriars Bridge. •,
• Joseph Sharp, one of the Clerks in the Faculty
Office; produced the original 91 this affidayit. The
affidavit which Mr,, M. made is the 'one getierally
made by fathers under the Marriage Aát,When they
conient to the marriage of their children.
Dr. Baty prOved that he administered the oath,
and in adtpiiiiitering it took thensual precaution 'to
inquire whether the deponent knew every' thing he ,
swore to be true. '
Daniel SiMon Maceron, a • Frenchirinn, swore,
. that he had translated truly several letters which
were exhibited to him by the Counselomd which
avere copies,. of letters written in the French. language
(Mr. Alangin was a native of Genoa), by Mr. .
to his daughter, Mrs. Brawn, after her marriage,
and while site was hying with her husband in Arne-
These letters were then 'read in Court ; and
it appealed, from the, style of tenderness in which
they %Vere written, that Mr. Mangin was On the best
pos,itale terms with hi's daughter and 'soil-in-law,
from the tune of their marriage in 1792; to the pe-
, Tiod of his death in 1803.
Ric' and Morgan Davis said, he was collector of
.' Hackney for a considerable time while Mr. M. lived
there. Mr. M.'did not, pay, taxes as a bachelor, but
as a widower ; and he would have been liable to a
surcharge, if it had been found out that be was a
bachelor.

Mis. Burner knew Mr. and-Mrs. Mangin twenty-
six years ago, Mrs.
.Mangin , lived in Thonnaes
Rents, in 'the Borough ; site sometimes saw Mr.'
and Mrs. Mangin together ; Mr. and Mrs. Mangin
separated because an old lover of Mrs. Mangin';;
a Mr. Darley; came home toiler. Worn Ameriea.--
When Mr. Darley canto- home, a conneBion be-
tween him and Mrs. Mangin ensued, which was the
cause at Mr. Mangin withdrawing himself from
'Mrs. Mangin. She understood from Mrs, Mangin,
that Mr. an ley and slut were lovers long.befote she
ever saw Mr. Mangin; indeed. almost from their
infancy, playing girl and boy together. • When the
separation took place, Mr. Mangin continued'. to
support his two children, Elizabeth. Mangin, and
Mary/Mangin, the wife of the plaintiff. Mrs. Man-
girt lived with Darlev one or two years in, this
country, 'and then both went to Arnerita. Mrs..M.
Mangin never went by any other name to her (the
witness's) knowledge, but that, of Mangin.

Cruss-examined by--111r. Serfeant VA U G HAN.

Q. Did you ever know. Mrs Mangin by the name
of Sarah Kent ?
.A.,Never..—Did Mr. and Mrs M.
part good friends ? It is not very natUral, that they
should.—Did net MIS. Mangin, after her separation
• from 'her supposed husband, continue to live in the'
very
,same house where she lived while he used to vi-
sit her She did.—Had she not a. child by, Mr. Da-
ley ? She had ; I, was at. the christening of that
child.—Aye, and was not that child baptized.by the
name of Jane Harriet, 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
parley ? It was; but I knew. that she Was not the
wite-ot Mr. Darley,'—Mrs. Mangin Was a haidsome
woman, wasn't she ? 0 yes, Sir, very beautiful. in- ,
deed.—Did you never keow lu by the name of,
Mrs. Salt ? Never.—When did she go 'to America ?
About twenty-10dr years ago. Yes, she, left her
child hefted her, and pour Mr. Mangin. in rhe
Lurch,
Mary Jell' kept .a school' in Senthwark, about' 30
Or 40 years ago" she remembers Mary Mangin
coming to school to her when about six or seven
years 01(4—knew her mother, apd never heard'her
called by any other name except the: of Miangin,
her's was a day.schoo4 arid each scholar paid I od,
week: She never saw Mr.. Nlangin in her
Mr. and Mrs. Mangier lived on that spot where a
wing of Guy's Hospital is now built, in a remark-
able liciuse, which used.t
4 o be called theTurret4ouse,
The registry of MN Ilror:s baptism, in the year
1777, 84 the (laughter of Mr. and MN Mailgitl, was
then produced, and theme eiused au the part of
tilai4
atltt
Mr. Serjeant VAuonitN, for the defendant, spoke
at' great length, and was. particularly ingenious in
his 'endeavours to shew that the whole of the evi-
dence on ttie part of the plaintiff, amounted at best :
to a mere presumption of a marriage 'between the
lather arid mother of Mrs. Brown. This presump-
tive idence 110 would beat doWn by,strongefpre.
somptive evidence,on the other side ; and when his,
N.Vitneibe° were heard, he had no doubt oh a verdia
lip the defendant! tie ridiculed the idea of a man
of the'consequence and respectability of Mr. Man-
:gni, (fur he wars, befeie_Y:the French Ilevelutitm, the
Genoese-Consul in thin country, and an extensive
merchant) keeping his wife in a, paltry lodging
iu
the Boioug,h, where two or three fam'swere in
she same house with her of payinrrenpence a

Wcelt.for.the educ4on of.ins child, its she was a le!
gi • •
ttnitite one ; and he scOuied the abstiiditV of
thinking. that Mr. Mangin would-out haVe institut-
ed home proceS4 et Itw agaitAl Dartey, it it had
been really his wile-whom Dailey 'had-taken away
from him. ThiS was an insult and an injury, which
no man with the feelings of a Imi!! could patiently:
bear ; and would •the Jury believe, that with such
'provocatiOn IC, resentment, Mr. Marfgin not only
suffered in silence, but even degraded him•!elf so tar
as to go to Mrs.',Mangin's house, while Mr. Dailey
was living with her It was-also very astonishing,
that ricit Otte-of Mr, Mangin's friends was called by
the plaintiff's Coun4l,, to give testimony t tr.) whe.,
then he had or not in hidhte-tilne.the rentltation of,
being a married man.;, being w4s, inJeed,.
sUspiciOns; but the Jury would draw 'their own
Conclusions, When they should hear from„other it-
nesses, that Mr.'Mangin never was considered to be
a married Mati.at all. Mr. Serjeant Vaughan then
examined hi, v.ilnesSeß.• . •

Eleanor Rubdge is a Married woman, the wire of
a commercial traveller, ;n al re'des at Camberwell.
She is a cousin of Mrs. &OWL) by her mother's nide.
Recollects going to live, whan a young girl, as-play.
fellow of Miss Mangin. She did not know: Mrs,
.Mangin until after her children were barn.' :Eliza-
beth, her eldest daughter, is now deed.' Mrs.
Mangin was away from all
,lier friends fora camber
ofYears ; and no•one knew- wh, re she was, until
one day she came very gi niielly dressed to tier (Mrs.
Rubidge's) -mother's house, and told her. the
married to Mr. Mangin. Her mather_in
cbnse-
quence visited 'Mrs. Mangin, and was s 6 well
Fele:iSed with all she saW,. that 'their intimacy;•which
was for a long tune interrupted, was renewed.
The witness and, Miss Mangin -lived- together •as
companions.
.in 'the honsti of Mr. Mangm, after
Mrs. Mangin Went with Mr. Dailey to Amcrica
witness was then sixteen years'of age .;'sbe ,:onti-
nh,ed'to-livewith Mr. Mangin as his housekeeper
for 12 or 13 years after, at South Lanibeth. Mr.
Mangin always evaded' any conversation about his
Mrs. Mangin never went by any Other name;
and Mr.-Mangin paid many bills which she contracted
in that 'name. Witness adMitted that Mrs. Mangin
told her site had a child of the name of Sally Salt,
before she went to live with Mr. Mangin. Sbe
also' had a child by Mr. Darley after ; and that, as
Mrs. Mangin used to say, was the cau,:e of her
overthrow. ,
Mr. Serjeant VAUGIIAN-4Her oVerthrow ; uhY
it appears that, she 'had been 'overthrown ol ten be-
fore.. , • • • ,

Sarah Steril, Elizabeth Sharp, Efizabeth Crosgop,
and,SUsan Hatton, said, thartheykr!ew Mrs. Man-
gin whet) she lived in rhCmias's4entii with , Mr.
fVlangin-and Mr. Darley she: was considered by
every perscin as a woman *of light character, 'and
looked upon by 'no One as the'wite of Mr. Mail& .;
Mi. Margin used to•COme 'there only in the' dusk,
and never slept the're, ,

,The Rev. Mr. Hodgkinson produced the registry
of the baptism of Jane, Harriet, the daughter of Wil-
liam and Mary D.rJrleY ; 'and, one of the above four
female 'witnesses, proV:ed thit 'Mrs.. Mangin, alter
her .separation front Mr, Mangin, used to be in a
great passion whenever she was called by any other.
name (hail that of Mrs. Dailey.
Mr. Fermin De Tastet was very intimately acr
quainted, and was. a partner in trade, with the late
.Mr. Mangin. Mr. Manic) never told him that he
was married,
,and he never considered him a married
man, He, hovvever, introduced his daughter, 'the
wife 'of the to him*, and begged him to
take means to have her educated in France. Mr.
Dc,Tastet did so, without ever inquiring whether
the daughter was a natural or a' legitimate child.
Site was sent :to Calais, and educated there. druss-
oicatnined.—When Mr.,Mangin died, did you not
'enter a caveat at Doctors' Commons, lest any one
one ihould take (fut adMinistration of his affairs,
except the heir at law did. ',And did you not
withdraw that caveat,in favour. of
_Mr's. Brown, his
daughter, when she came over from. America) --
I did.

John .Hushe, John Worley, Gaspers) Stilly, An-
gel,. narrio, and others, all acquaintances of Mr.
Mangin, deposed to his being always Considered by
them as an unmarried man.

The defendant's case being closed, Mr. Serjeant
SFIEPHpILD was about to reply, when the Jury told
the Court, that their minds were fully made up on
the verdict which they IntettOed to give ; -his Lord-
ship signified his assent to receive it, and a verdict
-wAs in consequence returned tor,the plaintiff.

The Camperriounr:transpprt arrived safe nt Lisbon
on the 2811 i ult.' with the' follotvitigiOdice;-s on
beard ;--Major-Getteral Borthwick ;. lira Forbes,
Physician to the Forces ; Brevet Major Da Burge
Baron Dakenhousetn:; . Captain Rlla'
Engineers ; Capt. Smith, Royal Staff; 'Capt. Hay,
Royal Staff ; Capt. Mackenzie, sth Rest. of Foot.
On Tuesday, the 3tl instant, Sir Belingharn Ora-
ham turned down a stag near Beadale, and utter a
severe'course olOne,hour,' the lionitds ran' up to
him in grand style, and took hitrr near Mr. Mil-
batike's,,at Thorpe, :about seven miles S. W. of
Readale, after Makink . various angle: the river
•
Ure. Captains Healey. and Fowlis -re the only
Gentlemen up ;. the former rode a mare of Sir
lingliank's, and the latter his own favourite tiurse,
Buckram.

Last week, a society, who style themselves Odd
Fellows,*tnet wilt) nn odd accident at their Lodge,
in Norwich. About sixty of them had metro de-
bate UPon weiglity.Offirs, when their weight' being
,too much for the second floor, it gave way, and the
whale were precipitated. to .the first, while, the im-
portant, question was arguing for the removal of the
Lodge to another hott.,e.
'I he following method of. killing pigs is recom-
mended in preference to the common one :—Di-
re6tly before using the knife, strike the pig a ,smart
blow on .the head, between the tars, with a small
wOr.den .beetle ; he immediately falls down stunned,
bleeds freely, and feels nothing. And similarly of
tur4ies.. BefOre cutting them, place the head upon
Abe edge ofsome'other thin Bab.-
stance, and strike the back of the neck, close to- the
head, two or three times with a cudgel: this renders
the turkey insensible,, and does not.prevent its bleed-
Should,a pig, be troublesome to manage, throw
a rope with a nousexound his upper jaw, and fasten
it to 'a post! , .

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