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London, England, 1808-12-24 00:00:00

On her cia se.examinationby 'Mr. GAnn,,w, 51,e said
that after obst ry mg the see ,e in the parlour she slept
as soundly as usual, and knew not why she should
not. She had never gone by ally other name than
that of Etches. She had ind:ed ni4i,ied a man of
the name of Hobbs, but understanding he had been
previously married, she had immediately after this
resumed her own name.
Mrs. Thornton, who had been nurse in Mr. Knight's
family, proved that while her mistress and Colonel.
.Fuller was at Brighton, during the races, she had
gone to the parlour door to send in one of the chil-
dren, but found it locked. Her mistress, however,
called out that she would open the door immediately.
When she did so, her dress was in disorder, and she
herself apparently in great confusion.
Sarah Franklin lived as house-maid with Mrs. Im-
pey. Colonel Fuller and Mrs. Knight were in the
habit of visiting her mistsess. They were often left'
alone together. One day her mistress, Colonel F
ler, and Mrs. Knight, were in the drawing-room to-
gether. Her mistress came out and went into the
adjoining room, leaving the others alone together.—
After they came out, the witness observed, the dress
of Mrs. Knight in disorder. She went into the
drawing-room, off which there was a bed-room, the
only way to which was through the drawing-room.—
She found the bed much tumbled, and exhibiting the
appearance of two persons having been in it.
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD was about to address the
Jury, when Sir J. MANSFIELD informed him, that he
did not think it necessary for the Defendant to prove
that criminal intercourse had passed between these
parties, subsequent to the execution of the deeds.
Charles Goring, Esq. and Colonel Gould, were
then called on the part of the Plaintiff, to prove that
the visits of Colonel Fuller to Mrs. Knight had been
occasioned in consequence of proposals to the parties
by Mr. Knight himself. It turned out, however, that
Mr. Knight had never sanctioned any visit, except in
one or two instances while the negotiation about the
action was going forward.
Mr. Serjeant Blur contetided, that if his case had
wanted any thing, that deficiency would have been
fully made up by the evidence now produced by the
Plaintiff. He particularly dwelt upon the circum-
stance that Colonel Fuller was in Court, 'and if his
witnesses had said any thing that was not true, the Co-
lonel might have been called to contradict them, and
to disprove, if he could, either the previous adultery
or the subsequent visiting. But both he and Mrs.
Knight had confessed the adultery already—he, by
allowing judgment to go by default, and she, •in a
letter to Mr. Goring.
Mr: Serjeant SHEPHERD was heard in reply. He
thought the meaning of the words in the second deed
was, that Mrs. Knight and Colonel Fuller should not
so associate as to give the world reason to presume
any criminal intercourse, and nothing had been prov-
ed to shew any ground to believe, that a criminal in-
tercourse had passed. He also obserVed upon the
improbability of the stories told by Etches, Thornton
and Franklin ; and upon the curious nature of the
delicacy ascribed to Mr. Knight, who was not con-
tented with proving his wife an adulteress, but had
also endeavoured to prove his sister a bawd.
Sir J. MANSEIELD said, that the question here was
a very simple one. It was, whether, subsequent to
the execution of the deeds, Mrs. Knight had received
the visits of Colonel Fuller, as an ordinary acquaint-
ance ? This he conceived to be the conslraction of
the second deed, and the husband might have had
good reasons for such a stipulation. 'The husband,
at the time of executing the deeds, certainly suspect-
ed a criminal intercourse ; and it must have required
a good deal of invention in the three last witnesses
.for the Defendant to-grave made up the story they
told ; and besides, if they had said what was not
true; Colonel Fuller might have been called to con-
tradict them ; and he must have been the most
extraordinary man in the world to allow judgment to
I go by default against him, if he had been innocent.
I The husband's object appeared to have been to pre-
vent any intercourse between them that could afford
an opportunity for criminality. Mr. Knight seemed
to have imagined that, having paid at the rate of
8001. after the visits of• Colonel Fuller, he had a
right to deduct the
.overpltul. This, however, he
could not do, and Therefore the Plaintiff must have a
verdict for the arrears of the 4.001.
The Jury immediately found for the Plaintiff only to
the extent of the arrears of the inferior sum of 400.
being 3951. subject to the deduction of the Income-
Tax.

FATAL DUEL.—On the Bth instant, an inquest was
taken at Packington, by Mr. CHARNEL Barioiax, Co-
roner for the county of Derby, on a view of the body
of Captain FORT D I'S EGOS, French prisoner of war,
aged 47, lately residing at Ashby-de•la-Zouch, whose
death was occasioned by a sword wound, received, it
is conjectured, in a duel, fought with some one of his
fellow prisoners. The body was found by a labouring
man near five o'clock in the afternoon of the 6th inst.
in a field in Packington, about a mile from Ashby,
and warm. The coat and waistcoat worn by the de-
ceased, had been taken off before the-supposed com-
bat, as was evident from their not being pierced by
the weapon ; the former lay loose upon, and covered
the body, and the waistcoat, with a pocket handker-
chief, was found within a few yards, and another
handkerchief lay on the feet of the deceased, but no
weapon was found, nor was any person observed near
the place.—The sword entered the breast on the right
side, between the 4th and Sth ribs, passed through the
.lungs, and pierced the heart ; the left hand was also
slightly wounded between the second and third fingers.
The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder, against
some person or persons unknown.—lt appeared that
this gentleman in the course of the same afternoon,
had acquainted the person with whom he lodged, he
expected a letter to be sent for him, and desired if it
came he might be called from a public-house he fre-
quented ; that he soon afterwardscrettuaed, to inquire
if the letter had been received, and again a third time;
and, about four o'clock, finding no letter, he left his
lodgings, apparently in some haste. No further cir-
cumstances have yet transpired which throw any ma-
terial light on this transaction, nor is it conjectured
with which of the prisoners this fatal rencontre took
place.
Sunday se'nnight, a young woman from Houghton,'
was buried at Blackburn, whose death was occasioned
b'y having swallowed a quantity c fruit-stones, at
least seven years ago