Star.
London, England, 1814-12-06 00:00:00

LifiV MELLICENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BEACH, DL'2EMBIIt S.
Th! KING V. LOUD 1!1YI.If.
This wig at. i •icrtivit preferred against the Ho-
nouresle J,•iin Boyle, commonly called Lord Boyle,
tor ..n assau!, committed by him upon the person of
Peter Richalson, Esq. a Nlagistrate of the county of
Midi lest while in the cltcharrie of his hia,gisterial
ch&cs. In eft um counts the defendant was c.hargcd
having, committed a common assault.
I apoes:.ed that the defendant, who had s-rved his
country in the naval department, had art ved in Eng-
land !font France, where he had beer a prisoner, only
within aim days of the transaction in qn In
the coarse of hit perambulations about town, it ~as
the defendant's misfit :tine to get into an affray with
sorne of the Bow-street officer; in coom•quence of
w'tich he was carried to that Office, and while he was
there, under examination, on the 80th of June last, the
yrroecutor, win is a f tgistrate of the comity, mile
in and took his seat upon the Benck, along with Sir
N. Connant, and the other Magistrates. Lord Boyle
was at this time conducting himself in a manner
highly indecorous, and soon after the prosecutor had
taken his place, L. led Boyle, pointing out to some of
the officers standing in the Office, said, " Those fel
lows, standing there, are rogues and pickpockets ; I
am a Nobleman ; is there no protection for the No-
bility of this country ; are all to be put on an equa.
lity ; am I to be put on a footing with those thieves
and pickpockets r The prosecutor, upon thus, ob-
served, " The laws of this country are made fur the
protection of every oae 1 and you, my Lord, as a
Gentleman, ought to know that." In reply to this
observation, his Lordship exclaimed Who are
you ?" The prosecutor replied, " I am a Magis-
trate, and have a right to be sitting here." I'o this
his Lordship said nothing ; but addressing Sir N. Co-
nant, and pointing to Mr. Stafford, the Clerk, who
was taking the deposition, said, " That fellow, sit-
ting there, is a coward, a low fellow, and a pettifog-
ger." Of these obiervations, no notice was taken by
any one, till the prosecutor observed—" That the
conduct of Lord Boyle was unmanly, thus to attack
k man in the discharge of the duties of his office, and
at a time when the patty assaulted could not, by pos-
tibility, defend himself." The defendant, upon this,
turned towards the prosecutor, seized him by the col-
lar, and exclaimed " You shall come out, old gent le-
Than—you shall come out." The prosecetor, rising
from his chair, and shaking the defendant off, r plied,
" Go out with you! why you are in custody !" His
Lordship replied, " You shall meet me, d —it me—
you shall meet me, old ~oy.'"lhe prosecutor re-
plied, " If I meet you it will he by accident. ; and I
carry a stick in my hand, which will er:itc‘t me and
chastise you, if you shou'.l tie,tave so violently as you
have now done." . Mr. bketchly here interfered, and
said, to Lord Boyle„ 'bat Gentleman is a Magis.
trate,. and has 4 right to sit hen." Upon Leitrim
which, the defendant held his hand out to the pr..se.
tutor, saying, 66 Then let us make it up ; let us shake
bands." 'to which the prosecutor replies, "No ;—.
you haxeheetk guilty of very gross behaviour, and it
it not to be made up in that way."
On thepart of the defendant, the Art JIINLY G ENE.
ItAl. stated, that the defendant in this case Lhe
dispai the assault complained of; just 41TIVCLI i r town,
isimiliois discharge from a French prison, where he
had blinfor acme tire; that be had Sot very drunk.
and had been driving ablut town i al. Olt chaos and
foilirillitteleis action o! his life which he so
such regretted as the transacLions of this day ; and he
had since- &reeled his attorney to wine a letter to the
solicitor of the promcdtor expressive of his regret for
the conduct of whichohe had been guilty. This he
had hoped would have satisfied Mr. Richardson, as

the apology contained in the letter Was a most ample
one. Here the Attorney General read the letter in
question. •
Lord ELLEIMOROUGH said, that, and much less
than that, might have done, had the letter been
signed by his Lordship ; as it *as written Ey another,
however,- it was not enough. 'rh, feelings of•an in-
dividual bad been grossly insulted : and be had a
tight to expect the person giving the offence, if die was
of superior rank, should descend from his high sta-
tion, and make an ample apology in person. A ver-
dict of guilty must be taken. He trusted such a step
los be had alluded to would be taken, and that. the
Court would hear no more of it.
The Jury found the defendak Goilty. If, there-
fore. the pr secutor should piay for judgment, his
tordeltip srillbe brought up in the coarse of next term.
. ,;s wa csi
,ant action brought
Dl b
Try Dy General
uNNE'
Dyott,
*Out the Zdeadant, a medical man, recently re.
sth at B ith, for criminal conversation with the
Put nni's wife.
ArITORNET-GENZRAL orened the case for the
Oaiutiff. The Lady was a daughter, and one of four
Co.heireeses of Mr. Thompson, formerly of Grosve-
nor-square. She was married in 1606 to General
Dytat, who, as General of the District, bas lately
res.ded at Litchfield. Mrs. Dyott went to Bath in
the last summer, where the detendant was introduced
to her as a medical man. His visits at length became
very frequent, and he was received by Mrs. Dyott
upon very lamiliar terms, going nut with her in her
carriage for two or three hours at a time. The G. '
neral visited Mrs. Deco ocamiemally, as his proles.
sional duties would permit, but in the beginning of
October she left Bath with her servants, and came
with Mr. Dunne to srlodging-house in Sloane-street;
trom thence they removed to 7 house in the Rules of
the King's Bench, and from this bottle Mr. Dunne
.7:ts removed to the Fleet Prison, where he now re-
and where Mrs. Dyott was seen with him a
cale before. eight o'clock Os morning. The mar-
rage being proved, Tnompson, Esq. Charles
Date, Esq. Aid-de-camp to General Dyott, and Mrs:
Dale, niece of General Dyott, were called to give
tefidence to the harmony and happiness in which the
tie:feral and his wife had lived together. They cha-
r..sterised his conduct as =Est kind and attentive to
her, she bad borne him three children,, and they
teemed to be perfectly happy.
Mr: Harman, a trustee ender the marriage settle.-
wient, provt,?.. the regular payment of ,Cl3OO a year to
fir'. Dyctt.
Robert-Peek, st foetatan hived by Mrs. Dyott at
bath, gave evidence as to the frequency and familia.
T•ty of Air. Dunne's skits, and also to their travel.
31g together in Dyat's carriage from Bath to
carrot,- r • i
ttssz.t girls funs the lodgirgbonse in Sloane.

street. proved that Mr. Dtinne slept fn ha own heti
only the two first nights that they Were thete, and
that for the rnm.rind:•r of the time he puled :,is
nights in Mrs. Dyott's bed roam. She IrAti tound
Mr. Dunne's ch:nnivr canillestick in Mrs. llyott's

rourn, and one rnOrning as she was coming down
stairs she saw Mr. Dunne coming out of Mrs.llyott's
room vitt' nothing on but his night gown. Upon
seeiu.% the girl he looked very much confused, turned
back Imo dic room and shut the door; directly B:ter,
he cam?. out and went into the bed-room where Mrs.

Dyott's tn.tid slept. This wetness made Mrs. Dyott's
bed, w!eich phieely appeared to have contained more
persons than one, and she observed some pArticether
marks upon the sheets which she pointed out to her