Star.
London, England, 1801-02-24 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH. FEBRUARY 23.

The SWAZI floop, bound for the coaft of
Africa, is put back to St. Helen's by contrary
winds.—Arrived the ROWCLIFFE cutter from
Plymouth.—Yeflerday arrived the TRITON, after
a paffage of near four months, from Madras. If
we may credit the accounts brought by this fhip,
the accounts that have been publifhed refpeaing
an expedition going againft Manilla, and another
to effeet a landing at Suez, are wholly without
foundation. The TRITON being principally man-
ned by Lafcars, and the, weather very unfavour-
able, fhe was in a molt critical fituation, till fhe
fortunately fell in with the HAZARD floop, off Cape
Clear, when Capt. Burrelt FIE LD, with the utmoft
alacrity, rendered her every neceffary affillance.
—The HAZARD captured the two Danes fent in
yenerday, one of them an extremely rich prize.j

SHEERNESS, FEBRUARY 23.

Sailcd on the soth init. his Majefty's fhips Tax-
EL, of 74 guns, Captain Isci.snox., and l'Es-
PIFG LE brig, Captain SLAD!, for Yarnouth.—
Arrived the sift mil the Cass IL itore-fhip, Capt.
EucKLL, from the river Thames; and the Mary
and Narciffus, hired veffels, from fea.—Sailed this
day the Momsscii, of 74 guns, Captain Mom,
and the AMON !loop, Captain HILL, for Yar.
mouth ; the former to join the North Sea fleet.—
The SPIEDIVELL brig, Lieutenant REDDY, arrived
from the Downs; and the Sol., II UK bOnlb, Capt.
Wxirru, carne into harbour.

LAW lA'TE/.I.IGENCE.

COURT OF KING'. &NCI!, sz.

(RIM CUM.-HOARE I'. At LEIC

This cafe had been formerly tried. ix for.: I.ord
)(Fa vox and a Special Jitt• , and a vei fiaind
for the Defendant. Lita i Mary To in !,Ir.
Les-
xtat moved for a 11CW trial, oat the grounds dial
the evidence allaced i,n the hilt tried did not ar_
rant the Jury in hri o ni in a verili& for the De
fendant, and that the teaintoay of Mr. Cl;i k, which
would havc proved nine!, :n favi air of the Plaint
c aufe, had been de..imed inadrniflible, though Mr.
Es SKIN/ laid he bad no heihation in maintaining
that his evidence was legal to go to a Jury. On
thefe grounds, a rule tOr a new trial was accordiiT-
ly granted, which came on this day.
Mr. Ets s tor, for the Plaintiff, opened the canfe ;
he obfervcd, that it was an action of the greaten
importance to his client. The Plaintiff, he faid,
was :•pprehetifive that, by the verdift in the former
trial, he might be contidered as having connived at,
and been wilfully accellary to his own fhame. Any
confederation of that fort, if fuch exitted, it was
hoped, would be completely done away in this trial
by the evidence of Mr. Clark, who had held many
conve ri;itions with the Lady, at her hufband's re.
que:t, previous to her departure. The Plaintiff,
Mr. Easi: Dated, was a Gentleman ()frank and
refpt.dability, having held the ditlinguithed office
of Payniatter-General to the Army in India, under
the command of Lord Cornwallis. The defendant
was at that time a Captain of a corps in the Eall-
In tics, and the Plaintiff confidered hint as one
of the fincerefl friends he had in the world. That
upon his arrival in this country laft year, he had
been received and treated by the Plaintiff with the
fame cordiality and attention he had (hewn him
while in India, without fufpicion, and without
difguife ,• that the defendant having fignified a
with to that died, he had been admitted to reticle
at the plaintiff's feat of Twyford Lodge, where he
continued for Tome time. That Mrs. Hoare, whofe
mind, it would appear, had been the flave ofpaffion,
one day took occafion to unfold to her hufband her
attachment to the defendant, which the laid had
taken root and inc reared fince the &ft day the law
him, and, on which account, the confidered herfelf
to be the mole miferable of her fee. Mr. Easetas
faid, he would leave it to his Lordfhip andthe Jury
to figure what mutt have been the feelings of the
plaintiff on this declaration from a wife he had ten-
terly loved and doated on to diftradion 1 The
latter part of it, however, afforded him force little
comfort ansidll his diftrefs% as he found his honour
had not yet been fullied; and this gave him hopes
that he might be able to regain his wife's affedions,
and induce her to forget her unlawful attachment to
the defendant. That Mrs. Hoare had communi-
cated what had pallid between her hufband and her
to the defendant, who left the houfe immediately.
after writing a letter to the plaintiff, expreffive of
his concern at whathad happened, fineerely affuring
him that he never had countenanced Mrs. Hoarei
paffion, and that he had done nothing againft their
honour. This affurance, Mr. ERSKINII raid, bad
come too late, for it was foon evident that Mrs.
Hoare was unhappy at his abfence. Had the de.
fendant meant to ad honourably by his friend, he
ought to have withdrawn himfelf much foonerthan
he did. That the plaintiff had ufed every means to
endeavour to divert his wife's growing attachment
for the defendant, but without effed ; and there-
fore he wrote for his brother, who was then at
Bath, to come to him, and Alb for his friend Mr.
Clark; the latter of whom immediately repaired,
to Twyford Lodge, and the Jury would bear from
his evidence what had pallid on the occation of
this difagreeable meeting. The only quellion,
Mr. Beaune laid, for the Jury now to decide was,
whether the plaintiff, whole condu*L was actuated
by to advice of his belt friends, bad been willful
ly acceffary to his wife's adultery ? and, as tie
c intrary would appear, he trulled the Jury woulu
return a verdid fur the plaintiff.
The witneffes adduced on this trial were the fame
ho were examined on the former, with the ex-
ception of Mr. Clark, whore evidence was in ful;.
(lance AS fellows :—He (wore that he had been
intimately acquainted with the plaintiff for near-
ly twenty years ; that lie knew his marriage with
Mrs. Hoare had been a marriage of love and af.
fedion ; that he never heard of any quarrels be- I
tween them, till he received the letter mentioned
by Mr. Erlitine ; and, in confequence of that
letter, he waited on the plaintiff, whom he found
in a 'tate of the deepett atilidion, and Mrs. Hoare,
likewile, very much agitated ; that the plaintiff
unbolomed himfell to the witnefs, and carrel-
l:entreated he mould rcalen with Mrs. Hoare
on the criminality and impropriety of her attach-
ment ;_ which he accordingly did. That the told
him, fhe could not look her hufband in the face,
fur Cie injuftice the had done him; and the withed
therefur.:, to he allowed to go on a vi'it to her
Major Coale, during which, the would fee
th dettiolant once more, and, alter remaining
a; her I'acle's a few day., and reenreiing her for-
mer ttaiiquility of mini, the would return to her
lintband. That having reported to the pl..;titiff
what had railed, it was agreed between them, that
th: lhoti!d be permitted to go. That Mrs. Hoare
&aired, that there was no collution between her
and the defendant, as to her going off, which he
and the plaintiff firmly believed to he the truth at
the time. That the witnefs remained with the
plaintiff and Mrs Hoare till the arrival of Mr.
Civvies Hoare, and on coming away be caution-
ed him not to influence
l his brother against allow-
ing Mrs. Hoare to gn to her Uncle's. as he
thought it the moil likely Sep that could be taken
t.' redo:cher peace of mind, and the peace of the
family, and that he invited Mrs. Hoare to flop
at his bottle, on her way back from her Uncle's,
'cilia:. her that Mrs. Clark would receive her as
ufual'in the aloft friendly manner. Mr. Clark
alfo (wore. that nest day, after he had left Twy-
ford Lodge. he law the plaintiff, who told him
lie had got a letter, notifying that the defendant
lad. received Mrs. Hoare at itagget's Hotel, and
that they had diced dun cat the day Ike strived

at London ; and that lie und-t!h—,l, from
perind. ea: plaintiff had abam!,,r-d L r
The AT EOKNEY ( ENESAi. ;lOW elii;il tile Jury'
in a Ipeech of conilderable length. His argu-
ments were mulch the home as he u!:el on the for-
mer trial. The pLtitnitF, 11, contended, from the
whole of his conduit, was not entitled to obtain
a verdiit. The cireumbnce of his allowing his,
wit_ to leave his bottle when flit ought to have
flayed, and her being Lot off in a common
ltitt;d putt-eh:tile, when he had two carriages of
in own, and without even a n:an fervant to de-
t-aid her againd any attic!.: or ininits, were fut.-
ticient in convince the Jury that he had abandon-
ed her for eve!, and theret;,re he faid, it was not
necelhuy to trouble them with any farther re-
marks, as be was convinced, from the proof of
the plaintiff's inattention and negligence, they
timid find a verdia for the defendant.
lord KENYON faid, that in judging by the evi-
dence which he had heard in this trial, he would
fity. that he thought the plaintiff had not take n
thole Reps which were necetlary to reclaim his
wife. He could put no other conitruCtion on the
defendant's letters to the plaintiff, than that if
Mrs. Hoare pertitted in her refolution of quitting
her hutband, the would be received by the de-
fendant, to his houfe and to his bed. After there let-
ters, and after Mrs. Hoare's own declaration of her
attachment to Major Allen, his Lordlhip faid,
the plaintiff certainly had it in his power to be on
his guard in protecting his wife. He knew the
was incontolable at the abfence of the de-
fendant, and though for this reafon he might have
catily Peen that her withing to go to her Uncle's
was merely a pretence to throw herfclf into the
arms of the defendant, yet he fuifcred her to go
off in a pa-thaife without any friend, equipage,
or the fmallefi protedlion againft the accidents of
a long journey, which argued that he had cer-
tainly abandoned her to her fate. Betides, his
Lordthip faid, it was very improbable that Ma-
jor Cooke, her Uncle, a man of honour and pro-
bity, would have received his niece into his houfc
under the imputations and charaCter the then bore,
and on which account the had incurred his fore
difpleafure and refentment : it was for the Jury,
therefore, to confider whether the plaintiff had
done all that a prudent hulband ought to have
done in the circumltances of the cafe, and return
their verdia accordingly.
The Jury retired fur a about Italian hour, and
returned their verdiCt for the defendant.

THI: RING 0. 301./LTIEE.

On Saturday the 7th init. in the Court of King's
Bench, Mr. ERSKINE and Mr.Ct.&RR fhewed caufe
againft a Rule Nifi, granted in Michaelmas Term,
for an information againft Mr. Boultbee, charging
him with being the Author of an anonymous letter
fent to the Rev. William Holmes, of Normanton
upon Soar, near Loo. borough, in September fall.
After reading the affidavits filed by each party,
and bearing the Counfel on both fides, the Court
difcharged the Rule, with cots to be paid by Mr.
Holmes to Mr. Boultbee.

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