Star.
London, England, 1823-01-25 00:00:00

trainst his wife. To rebut this, the witnesses adduced
on the other side mere, Mr. Best's clerk, Wickham ;
Jefferies, his solicitor; Butterfield, his butler ; and
his groom. He should submit, that on one side the
vise of cruelty was made out, and that on theother,
that of adultery Was in no sufficient manner sustained.
Dr. LUSHINGTON stated, that himself and Dr. Do-
dson were under a difficulty in this stage of the pro-
ceeding, owing to the way in which the marriage had',
been pleaded, in the first and second articles of the
allegation. Only one witness had been examined to
the marriage ; and there was no witness in support
of the truth and accuraciof the regittry extract- of
marriage. He hoped, therefore, the Court would
allow the contlosion of the cause (after the evidence
should have been read) to be rescinded for the pur-
pose of pleading the marriage over again with ade-
quate proofs to the points.
Dr. PHILLIMORE objected to this application. He
was satisfied with the case as it stood; and if the
proofs were not sufficient, the neglect was with his
Learned Friends.

Dr. SWABEY held, that the proof of marriage
being the foundation of every suit for separation and
divorce a mensa et tlioro (as this was), whether by
reason of cruelty or adultery, that was necessary to
be fully pleaded in the first place. He declared,
therefore, that the conclusion of the cause was re-
scinded for the purpose of bringing in that preof.
The evidence was then read ; but it contained se-
veral passages, which, on account of their extreme
indelicacy, were passed over, at the suggestion of
the Court, sub silentio. A female servant deposed,
that on the very day of the marriage, some singers
being hired to entertain the Mrs. Best ad-
vanced to thank them, when she was forcibly pulled
back by Mr. Best. It was deposed, that once Mr.
Best called for his pistols, and swore " he would let
her know who he was." The same witness denied
that Mrs. Best ever got drunk, or spoke contume-
liously to Mr. Best ; and swore, that when the coach-
man entered the room, she heard Mr. Best " desire
him to take Mrs. Best with him to bed, for be
knew that was what they both wanted." She remem-
bered to have heard her master, on the occasion of
her having a wounded lip, decline that ititad been
occasioned by some favourite friend of h"r's, While
Mrs. Best protested that her parrot had bit it. At ano-
ther time the bell rang: witness went up stairs, and
found Mrs. Best complaining of her husband's ill-usage.
He told witness that his wife had been wishing for
her favourite, Captain Miller, and calling him (Mr.
nest) a snuffy old fool. They were certainly in the
habit of applying the most opprobrious- epithets to
each other. Other witnesses, and particululy those
examined on the part of Mr. Best, deposed that these
quarrels used to occur after-they had been drinking
their wine fogether--that Mrs. Best used to get drunk,
sometimes with brandy, andirequently before dinner ;
that she used sometimes to drink too bottles of
Champagne and Madeira, alter Poet, at one sitting;
that when drunk she uttered very obscene expres-
sions, &c. and that she seemed so intent on vexing
her husband, that she would get drunk for the mere
purpose, as she used to say,, " of kicking up a row.'
Mr. Best having forbidden her to go into the garden,
and locked the door of it as a measure of precaution,
she broke it open with the cook's chopper, and re-
quested one of the servants to be kind enough to aid
her with a mop-stick; which, being done, the gate
was forced, and she would walk in the garden in de-
fiance of her husband's prohibition. She was Fre-
i euently heard to say, " that she wonld make old
Jemmy (Mr. Best) as jealous as the' devil ;" and ac-
cordingly declare, on tothing from a walk, that she
had met this and that officer; whereas she. had, in'
truth, met nobody. The man Johnson, otherwise
Wash, deposed, that after due marriage Mrs. Best
sent him with a message
,to Mears, requesting ;the
latter to meet her at Mrs. Elder's. Among the ex-
hibits were two letters addressed by Mrs. Best to
Mears; and the latter, in his deposition, acknow•
lodged that he had given them up to. Mr. Best's
clerk, and that he had, according to the appointment,
met MIL Best at Mrs. Elder's, on the 6th of January,
1819, and there committed adultery with her.
• The evidence being closed, the cause was assigned
for another hearing.

Thursday a fire (the one seen by the guard of the
York coach) broke out in the coach-house of L. W.
PorrtNczn, Esq. near lliggleswade, owing to the
carelessness of a boy, who set fire to some straw. in a
loft in which he slept. The flames speedily commu-
nicated to the stables, which, were consumed, and
thence to the dwelling-house, the interior of which
was destroyed.
Last night an Inquest was hold at the Turf Tap,.
the back of St. George's Hospital, on the body of
Frances Jackson, the wife of Mr. Jackson, 13, Paris-
place, Edgeware road. It appeared that the deceased
was sitting at breakfast on Tuesday week, when she.
was seized with a fit, and her dress, whilst insensible,:
caught fire and burnt her so dreadfully before as-
sistance arrived, that she died in St George's HOspital.
on Thursday night. Verdict—Accidental Death.

Last week as Richard Clenow, an assistant hostler;
at the Red Lion, St. Columb, was sitting at break-
fast, he suddenly fell back, and expired.
Monday sennight, between three and four o'clock,
as Mr. James Keast, a respectable old man, was re-
turning to St. Columb, from Tolskiddiein the neigh-
bourhood, he suddenly dropped dead in the road;
he left the latter place apparently in good health and
spirits, and within five minutes was found lying On
his back, quite dead.

Lieutenant FRED;RICK FOLLET, on his way from
Ireland to visit his friends at Topsham, had the-mis-
fortune to be thrown from the top of a coach, by its
upsetting, and of having one of his hands so injured)
that amputation has been found necessary?
SALT.—The Public seem to requite continually to
be apprised, that in all the articles of domestic and
other uses, they are justly intitled to a considerable
reduction in their price: but that although the re-
duction of the du;y has taken place since the present
year began of' 14s. in the pound sterling, yet in bread,
butter, and other articles or daily consumption, they
have not yet reaped 'one farthing of benefit. The
purchasers of Salt, and the manufacturers• of every
article in which it is used, ate now reaping all the
profit, without granting. ally to the consumer; not
does there seem to be ally proapiett of it; until-this
subject shall be publielY,uirettigitett by authority of
the diet Magistrate.