Star.
London, England, 1807-07-10 00:00:00

NUMBER t.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

I &A endeavour, in the following letters, to (late
a few plain unadorned Ga., relative to Britith India,
without introducing a tingle Afiatic word, my °kith
being to enable the village politician to underhand
the fubjeft,leaving the flowery metaphors of the Eat'.
tern languages to the Members of the lit itlls Senate;
who, from official documents, if they will but take
the trouble, are enabled to fortis their judgment ;
though I candidly millet's, from the frequent intro-
duaion of words, whole meaning cannot be obtained ,
without a Gloffary, the Rudy of Elitism politics is
both a dry and very difficult talk.
In fo far as having been perfonally known td the
Noble Marquis, I may be conftdered as a partizan ,
but I declare upon my honour, that fince his artiva 1
in England, I have neither Peen or had any t one&
pondence whatfoever with him ; neither is he a e.
quainted with my intention of addreffing the fbllo• w-
ing letters to you : the purport of which will fol•ely
be to prevent my countrymen being again dereiv ed,
as we all know was prailifed b.at too Iticcelsfully by
the late Edmund Burke, in his eloquent fpeechet ; re-
lative to the Plinceires of On,le, and other illuth i 'us
perfons ; many of whom, it is now pretty gene rally
undertiood, were fathered on Eunuchs, who ar e hill
living to deplore the cruelty of their own Pri ;ices ;
for whole fake they were deprived try the poW bait),
of becoming parents, until they were fo &nom in aced
an.: generally believed to be„ by the Members of the
Bridal Senate and the Nati.m at large.

pLAIa i A.CTS.

SWANSEZ, yutr 7.

A new Theatre was opened here. ott Monday,
July sth, with lactAnia's Mnfieal Braft, aided by
the Recita;ions of Mr. Battris-r, of Drury -Lane
Theatre, who gave, with force, and Much prop niety,
many pertinent anecdotes introduCtory to the .tongs.
The Theatre has an elegant (tone front o f the
Doric Order, and a Portico is intended to be Aa,
fupported by lonian cola mut. The decorations and
fcenery have all been painted in London ; the pro
fiena, which is all that has hitherto been feet', is
finifhed with elegance, and does honour to the tally
and pencil of the artill. The houfe will hold a
hundred pounds.
Our Races began on l'uelday, the 6th of July.
A Plate of so guineas, given by the Stewards, for 1
horfes. mares, and geldings, foaled in the Plincipalit y
of Wales, that never won $Ol. at any one time oirt
of the Principality (matches and fweepßaket et-
cepted), the belt of three mom tile heats I 3 yrs old
to carry 7 (tone, 4 yrs old, 8 fl one 61b. 3 yrs old,
9 Hone, 6 yrs old, 9 Rone 4. lb. and aged, 9 (lone
7 lb. Entered,
Mr Jenne?s b as Moira, by Pedlar, 4 yro old, Sit 6111.
Sir L. Bloffe's br g Miller, 6 yrs old, soft .11b.
Mr R. Jones's b m Deceit, by young Ec lipfe, dash by High-1
flyer, 4 yrs old, ilft 6.b
This day was produdtive of little (port ; Os e Rate was as follows :
Mr R. Jones's b m Deceit - I t
Mr Tames bso Bioko - Is 3
Sir R. L. Strafe% br g Odder 3 dr
Wednefday, the Sib,* free Plate of fifty pounds, for all ages, two
inils beats. Entered,
Mr Wrizen's b is Green Dragon, by Sc. George. 6 Its old.
Mr A. Jonees bros Luck's-all, by Rockingi lam, dam by Trum-
peter.
Same day, a free Plate, Sol. for an ages, two-mile heats.
Mr it. Jones's br Is Frederick, by Whitney. dam by Volunteer.
Tburfday, the 9th, a free Plate of sol. for all ages, 4 mile beats.
Mr R. pace's be as Luck's all.

IPSWICH RACES. TUESDAY, JUIN y.
His Maklty's Plate of mega for 3 and 47, olds—a mile heats.
Lord jerfey's c. by Waxy. 3 yrs old - a I
Mr. Druwn's hr. e by Guildford. 3 yrs old - a s
Sir F. &saddles ch. f. 4 yrs old - - 3 dr

The body of the young lady who was unfortu-
nately drowned, on Monday fe'nnight, off Gravefend,
is not yet found. We underfland the was the daugh-
ter of Mr. Diane, of the South Sea Houle.

- .
It is not uncommon, among the unhappy, to hear
perfons complain that they never had an opportu-
nity, or chance, of bettering their ccndition. C
fuch individuals fay, that many chances are not
fenced to them, and at a very trifling expence too, in
the Lottery that begins drawing on Tnefday next,
of riling Ifud,lenly to independence ? Opportunities
are not wanting of trying their fortune—the fault
refs with themfelves in not embracing them.

SINGULAR Comm/Nos.—lt is a cutious raft, that,
within a few days after the Brewers had testified fo
much anxiety to purify themfelves from even the
fufpicion of ufing any unwholefome ingredients in
the manufaiture of Porter, a conviction fhould take
place in the Court of Exchequer, decidedly in proof
of the very point in quetlion ; and in which, as thofe
who were prefent at the trial very well know, more
than one confiderable Houle were implicated. Hence,
alto, we are enabled to explain the fcrupulous nicety
rerpating the words of the Oath by which the Lord
Chief Jullice of the Court of King's Bench would
permit there Gentlemen to expurgate themfelvis
If they are fiill very defirous to fatisfy his Lordfhip,
we would fuggeft to them to copy the affidavit we
obferve (worn to every three months before the
LORD Mime, by the Brewer of the Porter and Ale
fent out by the firm of Fatcomaa, Watsav, and Co.
at Batterfea, the only Brewers who teem hitherto to
have given convincing proof to the public that their
Beer is genuine.
The Pacific, STE•sae, from Boutdeaux, is loft on
the coati of Holland.
A patron, aged 36, had a (mall Scrophulous
ceration in her hand, giving her much pain; it then
broke out in her wrist, both her fboulders, and her
knee, eack laceration difcliarging much, and not dif-
pored to heal ; it then affeiled her right elbow ; and
theft ulcerations, with a difpofition to general debi-
lity, ihethffered for twelve years. Her kaee wab healed
in the Worcefter Infirmary, and the experienced fr me
benefit while a patient for a filo, t time in St. BAttllolo-
- Hofpital, where the made application for the
benefit of SPILSBURY'S PATENT ANTISCoRiUTIC
Dam's, at the Difpenfatory, No. 15, Soho fquare,
London. By the application of the Drops for fix i
months, her ulcers gradually healed, the regained
her ftrength and appetite. It is now a twelvenrot,th,
and the remains perfeCtly well. Any information of
the above fall may be obtained at No. 9, Duke's
Oman, Drury Lane, London.

L.i* 11VTELLIGENCC.

COURT OF RING'S BEFICH. JULY 9.

CRAM. CON.
SIR GEORGE itOGRARE t►. csrrAtw Ettrtit•
The plaintiff is Lieutenant Colonel in the Nntron
Militia : the defendant was lately a Captaih It the
fame regiment. This was an adliqn far a Cttminal
Cunt/edition with the wife of the plaiutiff.
The AYroamer Get:mat. faid, that the plaintiff
was formerly in the profeffion of the law ; but being
poff.effed of a large fortune, he had tetirt4 firm the
public ditties of fuch a ftcuatian, and refi,led princi.
patty, prior to his entrance into the Militia, at his
fe:/t in Norfolk. On the occatioh of the regiment to
which he belonged being called out in 1803, he ac•
companied it to Coiheath, Haftings, Calchetler, and
'le (meal plates, where it was either encamped or
in barracks. It was at Colchefter that fufpicioas

arofe in the mind of the pliintiff: his lady having one
day fudderily difappeared from the mefs, a fearch
was made for her, and (he was cv..rcovered in the

chamber of the defendant. Nothing, however, at
that time, fatal to the virtue and purity of this lady
had probably occurred ; but a difagreeable quarrel
arofe, in confequence of this fingular ad of indifcre-
tion, which was followed by a reconciliation ; and
to tranquilize the mind of the lady, it was propofed
that the thould take a journey into Yorkfhire, to vifit
her filler, Mrs. Store. She did fo, and it was ex-
paled that the fuciety of an amiable and accomplith-
ed woman, and her removal from the immediate
fcene of ditlipation and mifcondcd, would have an
effect favourable to her morals and connubial happi-
infs. It would fcarcely be believed, that as form as
, the departed, the defendant contrived to leave his
regiment, regularly met her at Cambridge, Newmar-
ket, Stamford, Newark, and other places, where the
flopped in her journey ; and it would be eftabliffied,
on the moft unqueflionable evidence, that he coin.
mitted the crime of adultery on the occafion of thefe
interviews. The defendant had been recei:•ed with
great hnfpitality by the plaintiff, and that intimacy
fubfilled, which is extremely common with brother
officers; not the flighteft fufpicion entered the mind
of the plaintiff, that the (acted rights of hofpitality
were to be violated, and that the honour of his wife
was to be affailed and deftroyed. The marriage s't
Sir George would alfo he proved, and the pet fed Bate
of matrimonial felicity he enjnyed, until this fcene of
iniquity was exhibited. The plaintiff was about 25
years old, when he accompanied his brother, in an
infirm Rate of health, to Bath. While in the exercite
of fraternal affection, he accidentally met with a gen•
tleman of fortune and confequence, of the name of
Whitfield, who had two daughters. With one of them,
who was the unfortunate lady concerned in this caufe,
he became enamoured, and with the content of the
father he married her. It was impoffible that the
Jury could reflore to the plaintiff his peace of mind;
no damages they thould affign could be an adequate
compenfation ; but they would take care to guard
i public morals, by not fuffeting the adulterer to ((cape
with impunity.
Mr. Peters, who lived within t*a miles of the feat
1 of the defendant, faid, that he had known the plaintiff
and his wife fince their marriage, and that the greateft
apparent affection fubtifted between them.
Mr. Cubit, a gentleman in the fame neighbour-
hc.od, depofed to the like died.
Anne Wyfe faid, the was lady's maid to Lady
Brograve ; that the lived with her from May, 'BO5,
to October in the fame year; and that the accompa•
nied her in one of her joutnies to Yo►kfltire. She
faid, the defendant ufed frequently to arrive at the
inn they were to fleep at in a poft chaife before her
Ladythip, when he befpoke beds for himfelf arid the
Lady in adjoining rooms, and the witncfs was de-
fired not to come to her miftrefs until the was either
called or rung for. She particularly (poke to the
means of intercnurfe in this way afforded at Cam-
bridge, Stamford, and Newark. On her crofs-exa.
mination, file laid, that Colonel Birch, Colonel
Harwood, and Captain Bevan, were nut admitted
by the lady to the fame intimacy as the defendant;
and being Aced to diflinguifls the peculiar civilities
!hewn to the defendant, the witnefs (aid, that he
ufed to be permitted to affift ber in mounting her
hark t that he ufed to accompany her with a book to
a marquee on the lawn, while Sir George was fitting in
a boat, not in the water, but in a fort of fancy Rruc-
ture on the adjacent eminence. In addition to this,
whether walking or riding, attended or otherwife by
her hutband, the Captain was always of her party.
Mr. Hope, Pay mailer of the regiment in which the
parties ferved, proved the hand wri:ing of the De-
fendant to certain letters, adclreffed to the lady.
Thefe letters being read by the Misdate, it ap-
peared that they contained expreffions of the moll
animated and ardent affc!tion. Life was of no value
to the Defendant, but as it would enable him to con.
duce to the happinefs of his adorable Emma ; —and
the letters likewife noticed the threatened action by
the Plaintiff, the bell means toeftablilh her innocence
before the world, and to avert its confequences.
Further evidence was offered to prove the guilt of
the Defendant ; but his Lordthip and the Jury indi•
eating that they were fatisfied as to the ad of adul-
tery, the Attorney General doted the cafe on the
part of the Plaintiff.
Mr. GARROW, on behalf of the Defendant, expref.
fed great fatisfadion that, in addreffing the prefent
Jury, he had to fubmit the cattle of his client to men
of the world, puffeffing confiderable talents, and
eminently gifted for the difcharge of the duty they
had undertaken. He upbraided the Plaintiff for
great indifcretion, in permitting his wife, after the
difeovery at Colchefler barracks, to leave that place
on a journey to Ynektbire, attended only by a tingle
maid (errant, not even accompanied by that dome is
fuite which was continent with her Rate as a woman
of fafition and confecinence. If it were not perfectly
convenient for the Plaintiff to accompany her himfelf,
had a• confidential friend attended her, none of thole
meetings at Cambridge, Newmarket, Stamford, and
Newark, could have taken place. The Plaintiff was
of a mnft relpedable family ; he was poffiffed of an
ample fortune, and made a great figure in the ccunty
where he refided ; he was fur rounded by a numerous
fociety of friends, and it was ealy for him to procure
Come one of thefe to have protected the lady on filch
a diflant excurlion. Did not the Baronet cape& any
thing when his brother officer was abfent from the
mefs and from the parade ? After the affair in the
barracks, was it pollible for his credulity to be any
longer deceived ? No one could doubt that the lady

was herfelf the feducer. It was not the Care of A 0
tild firmer furrounding a female with tricks and art ;.
fices to undermine the form& of her honour. St,e
met him at the 6rQ tlage by her own appointmen.,
and for every future interview he was indebted to int-
information. In England .hey did not travel incerd i
the fervants of the itinerant party, and :he domeitics
of the inns, were etetnally quizzing thole who paid
and employed them, and it was not to be fupputrd
that the intimacy of the lady and Defendant could
efcape their inquititire curiofity. It was moll fingu•
lar in this caufe, that the regimental acquaintance of
the Plaintiff,
the rAceri, and their wives, who mutt
be bell acquainted with the habits of intercourfe or
.
Sir George and his wife, had none of them been cal-
led to depofe to the ardour of their affeetioto, and
the purity and innocence of her deportment. Had
they chofen to trufl tittle witneffes in the boa, in the
comic of the trek-examination, ionic fads might
have been difclofed, at lean not direaly indicative of
his dilcretinn, or of her limplici.y. The tellim. ny
refpeaing the marquee, the lawn, and the minus
fpecimen of naval architeaure on the fummit of a
hill, where no water could approach, reminded him
of a Reverend Prelate (Dr. Horfley) who was molt
religioufly attentive to his important duties in the
Houle of Lords, on every occafion where an illicit
intercourfe between the foxes was the fubjed of invel-
tigation. " My Lords, (laid he, on one occafinr)
I defire to know if their green honks are built in Ire-
land in the fame manner in which they are contly;c-
ted in this country ?" to Yes, they are, my Lord,"
Paid the witnefs. 41 What, dd his Lorain)). are
they glazed on three of the tides?" " Yes," returned
the witnefs. " I only wanted to know, (refumed the
Ecclefiallical Peer) if they did thefe things in Ireland
in a lanthorn ?" What furniture was there in this
marquee ? Not a table nor a chair ; the verdant
bank, defcending to the lea, was the natural loin on
which they were to recline, and what more was me-
ceifary to fulfil the purpofes of the amorous god ?
The Defendant was there drinking deep of the
draughts of love ; he was imbibing to excels and in-
toxication fuch libation., with the cognizance of the
hufband ; and to a boy, educated in military habits,
the confequence was inevitable. Who was the wife ?
Her father forced her to a marriage to which the was
difinclined ; and it was fomewhat derogatory to a
girl of fpirit, that the propofal for the marriage was,
in the fiat ;finance, made to the parent, as if her
content were the necefrary refult of his fiat The
Learned Connie' admitted that the verdia muff go
for the Plaintiff; but he was confident that the Gen-
tlemen of the Jury would comprife in their obferva-
don all the circumßances, and that this boy would
not, by their verdia, be configned to ruin. -
Lord ELLEN anttouclu Rated the general nature of
the aelion, and laid, that, in the confideration of da-
mages, the Gentlemen of the Jury would not fail to
c‘infider the evidence that applied to the negligence
of the Plaintiff, as conducive to leffen the damages.
With refped to the adultery Wolf, there was no
doubt ; and if the crime *ere not fatisfaiftorily eaa-
hlifhed, no human evidence, in any cafe, could be
fuccefcfully employed. His Lordfhip here entered
very fhortly into the particulars of the tettimonrs
commencing with that of Mr. Peters, and termi-
nating with that of the Sall witnefs whole evi•
dente was not of any importance in the caufe. The
misfortune, perhaps, had originated in the removal of
the Plaintiff from donsellic habits, in Norfolk, to the
dapations of a military lite. In the acquaintance
of Colonels Birch and Harwood, and wilt Captain
Bevan, there did not appear any thing tending to con-
taminate her cantina, or which a prov:dent and ju-
dicious hulband fhould not allow. It was very pro-
( perly put to the ccnfideration of the Jut y, whether
the plaintiff himfelf were inttrumental its the Mho-
! nour of his wife, as their view 1,1 this part of the tub-
-1 jell would materially affe& the quantum of damages.
The defendant was epprefented to be a man of ami-
, able manners, who was received in the family of the
plaintiff wish peculiar civility and confidence. He
I went on horfeback with this young lady, and be was
permitted to afilft her to mount her honk. We must
bring ourfelves to manners familiar in counties •
where jealoufy was particularly indulged, to fuppofe
any indifcretion in a cafe of that kind, and to ima-
gine, that if a lady permitted fuch a freedom, the
favoured perfon was to have the door of the houfe
flint upon him by the hufband. Another confidera-
lion fn• the Jury was, if there were any thing is the
sthacactufe
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di nfht
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behaviour of the lady by which the defendant was
bneitsraLy
per-
haps he had very unneceffarily occupied the time of
the Jury, in (Meriting on the fads of this cafe : he
molt confidently and fatisfadorily refigned it to their
decifion, fully perfuaded that they would exercife a
fober judgment, and diaribute juftice between the
parties.
The Jury, without retiring from the box, after a
few minutes confideration, found a verdidt for the
plaintiff--Damages 20001.
SATURDAY, JULY 4.
SYNC, CUL V. LAWSON AND OTHERS, ASSIGNEES
OS N•Iltillt.

This was an Me direfted from the Court of Chan-
cery, to try whether the fignature to an inclorfkment
on a deed, dated the t7th July, 1798, were the fig-
nature of Thomas Nairnc, the bankrupt.
The ATTORNEY Gletaat. timed the nature of the
rubjeCt, and raid, that no doubt would remain on the
minds of the Jury as to the fignature being the iden•
Lica hand %%lilting of the bankrupt, as he thould
produce Mr. Burke as a witnef., who was a proter.
(tonal Gentleman of high reputation, and was the
forsiving witners to the esectionof the inarument. Mr.
Burke would diainOly fatter, that 'thomas Nairne,
in the houfe of the witnefs, figned it ; that he raw
him apply his hand to the parchment, and write his
name upon it. Such a cafe could not eafily he re-
fitted ; it feemed to be in itrelf complete ; but, if
contradiflory evidence lhould be adduced after he
had fa launch d the cafe, he was prepared to produce
other tetlimony to repel it, and, in the fsquel, the
Jury wi uld be perfectly lath fled of the truth of the
fa& it vas his duty to rupport.
Mr. Burke being called, during a long examination,
in the moth dire& and unequivocal terms, depofed,
that he raw Thomas Nairoe put his fignature to an
indorfernent upon the deed, which was a kale gran-
ted by the Plaktiff to the bankrupt, of e tain pro.
perty in the tile of D)gs, pairing under the name of
the Ninth Mill. 'the kale itself was produced,, and
the witoefs, on infrding the fignature of Thomas
[ 7 urn over.

Nairne t 3 the indorfement, (wore that that was the
.fignature he himleif Caw applied by the perfon then
- in Court, Thomas Nairne.
Mr. att./Noir, on behalf of the Defendant, raid,
that the kale in queflion was for a t years, from 17913; •
that the premifes were under let to Spratley by
Nairne, for the firm of 401. and the indorfement pur-
ported to be a lurtender of that kale to the original
grantor. The quelion would turn upon the credit It
the Jury th-tild give to the evidence of Mr. Burke.—
He under flood, that a witnefs was prefent, of the
name of Lumley, who, dining the whole proceedings
in Chancery in this calif:, had never been heard rrt,
and it was now to be Paid, frir the flirt time, that
Lundey was in company with Burke and Nairne at
the time when the indorfement was figned. It was
moft, liogrilar, that Mr. Burke had never flared this
to the attorney, by whom the Learned Counfel was
iniirtified, although- his charaftir for purity, truth,
and honour, was immediately concerned. It was
natural for Mr. Burke to fay, " I hope my own at-
tell 'Tim) is luffirient, but, if neceffary, Mr. Luntley, I
wit, was prefent, will confirm my liatement." That
faristaelion Mr. Burke had referved for this morn-
ing ; and it was not a little fingular, that his Learn-
ed Friend had doled his cafe, thus far, at leak with.
nut venturing to examine this moll important witnefs.
It might, however, be a matter of prudence on the
other fide, that, before Mr. Luntley entered the boa,
he lhould Mien to the depofition of the witneffes on
the part of the Defendant. It was true, that, if the
effea of Mr. Birke's evidence were to be meafured
by the length of his details, he was a molt powerful I
ss itnefe, for every anfwer would have compoled a
a little pocket volume. The witnefs to be produced
for the Defendant would be that perfon, who mull be
htil acquainted with the fall, who had no intereft in
concealing the faa, and who, at the hazard of eon.
dign punithment, would positively (wear that it was
not the fignature of Thomas Nairne, that is, that it
was not his own fignature, for Thomas Nairne was
the witnefs he fhould call before the Jury. If it were
pollible to eftablith the defence on grounds yet more
fatisfattory, other witneffes would be called, who
would &pore, that, to their bell judgment, the fig-
• nature was not the hand writing of Thomas Nairne;
and further, that they never yaw his name fuhfcrihed
in that farm.— l'homas Nairne was theft
tZ Are you the letke to that leafy ?—A. I am.
Q_ Is that fignature to the inlarfement your hand writing ?
A. It Isnot my hand writing.
Q Did you ever fee the indorfement be fore ?—A Tits Gen-
tleman who fits there (Thomas Price) (hewed it to me.
Q What did you fay to him when he Chewed it to you ?—A. I
told him it was not my writing.
Q Did you ever hear of the indorfement before I—A. T have
beard many times that there was a lomothing upon the back of the
kale, but I never could believe it.
• Did you mention it to Mr. Burke ?—A I law Mr. Burke
next morning, and eared him what he meant by having that writ-
ing at the back of the leak 1 Ott which he told me, I meant to
charge him with a forgery. 1 laid, in antwer, that I did not mean
to charge him with a forgery, but that the wti:ing had ereeped on
in his office.
Q., Had you any communication with Mr Byng on the fulled
of the kale ?—A. I had an offer from a gentleman at Deptford,
who was (hot (Mr. Bligh) and I went to confer with Mr. Byog,
Upon letting him the premifes.
et:. Who prepared your ha examination before the Commif-
fioners of Bankrupts I—A. Mr. Burke. When I colifulted hint.
hz afked me what I meant to do with the ground in this leak ? To
which I anfwered, that it Inuit go to my creditors, to be fore, along
with the in ft On hearing this, he fall, that the Plaintiff had or-
dered him to give me sot if I would fay nothing about the kale of
that ground; arid I r.plied to hlm,that : could not think of con
sealing any thing of the fort.
Q. What did Mr. Be. he fay to this ?—A. He was rather huffed
at it, and laid, it was worth inaing, and that it would be of no
ufe to put it with the relt of my tffcdts.
Craft examination by the ATTORNEY GENUAL.
tZ Did you ever fee the leak in the pretence of this gentleman,
Mr. Luntley I—A. I never law the leafs in his pretence, and, to
my knowledge.never law that perfon before.
Q....Y0u have figued your name in different ways, fo-netirnec
T. at others'Thor. and Thomas ; when did you alter your mod.
of fignature—.A. I changed it about the year 18ot : a man had
owed me for bread two or three voyages, and, although he had not
paid me, he bad imitate,.'. my name on a receipt, and then I chang-
ed it.
Lord ELLIMPOROUGB ....Q.What is the name of t!...^ perfon
who yet up the them receipt I—A. He has been dead Come years.
Q. What is !Assume I—A. (After Gone befitation) Ewen.
Lord ELLevioaottax.—" Can you believe a man
who fays he changed his fignature under thee cit.
cumllances, and befitates fo long-as to the name of
the perfon who led him to channe it, and by whom
• fraud had been put upon him ? Was that interval
of hefitation the period of honed recolleaLn, or to
put a name upon us He fays he is dead, but I
cannot predicate of the life or death of a man eddy,
Without fuggetting alto his name:"
Mr. DAUMCILY..•••6 I confefs, my Lord, 'that, in
the whole proceedings in the Chancery fuit, having
never heard of Mr. Lumley, the produCtion cf fuck
a witnefs hls made an imprellon upon me which
cannot be removed."
Lord ELLENBORPVGI4—a Had you brought a
man here to deny what is Elated to be his nwrr figna-
ture, and that man were an unblemithed witnefs, it
would have been a very anxious confederation."
The Arroattly GENERAL. —" My Lord, I will
call Lumley to remove all poffibility of doubt."
Q.,•• Mr. Luntley, what are you, Sit I—A. lam ftcward to
Fir George Ofhorne."
Wcre you prefent when the lag witnefs put his name to
the indorfernetit of the deed ?"—A. " I was."
Thomas Nairne—" I deny the affertion "
• To Mr. Lunt Icy. " You arc confident of it ?"—" I law
him write it, and law Mr Burke atteft it. Nairne came in with
Mr. Burke, and tigned it in the parlour, where I was with Mrs
Purke. I have a difttnel ;I am quite flare of it. I
yaw his hand upon the paper.
Crofs.examined by Mr MAR RTAT.

Q linty 00 you know it was that leak which he figned
A. •• I remarked the palpating of a plan .'on the !cafe, end parti-
cularly ohferved it, becaufe it was drawn Extremely well by Mr.
Burke% filler."
An affidavit was here produced and (hewn to the
witnef,.
tz." I, that fignature to the aifi.lavit your own handwriting /'
—A. It is'•
Mr. MAR RYAT.—" My Lord, although this affi•
davit is dated fome time back, and is intended as
evidence in the Court of Chancery, yet, inllead of li
being upon the files of the Court, it is tiill itt the
pofftffi,trt of Mr. Burke.
(t...! Where do you live " At No. 10, Shoreditch,
where I have refided 4o yeare
Mr. Ca sow—Q." You are ei Surveyor, and it wag a fort of 1
balm upon you that the tidy al mild draw plang,and iutericre with I
your Wind'. 1--A. That made tae obfcrve it."
Lord ELLtimunanvou en Mr. DAVNCEy.—es I
sirithed the Attorney Get eral to call the !all witnefr,
that you might have an opportunity of feeirg him.
He has called hint ; yon have obferved his demea.
Linn ;•and, if you think you CM change the cafe,
Utl may go on."

Mr. DAUNCET....-" I cannot with, my Lord, to
proceed, after what your Lnrdfhip
,has laid, if I
cannot ftippiqt the cafe, and the Gentlemen of the
Jury have made up their minds."
The Jury having fignified that they entertained no
doubt, no further evidence was called ; and the ver-
diet was given, Rating that the fignature to the in-
dorlement on the kale was in the hand-writing of
Thomas Nairne.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL.—" My Lord, Mr.
Bur ke has determined to profecute Nairne for per-
jury, in confequence of. the tetlimony he has miw
given, and I hope your Lordfhip will think it right
that he Ihntild be immediately committed."
Lord ELLENEOROUGN.—" A commitment, tinder
filch circumflances would be a prejudice to the party
accufed at the trial, and I never have yet done fn. I
do nit know that an occafion may not mile, in which
it may be fit to be done.
Thomas Nairne was permitted, therefore, to leave
the Court.

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