Star.
London, England, 1821-04-20 00:00:00

WATERHOUSE, ESQ. v. COLONEL BERKELEY.

This was an action tried at the late Gloucester
Assizes, in which the plaintiff obtained a verdict for
£l,OOO damages. A report of the case appeared in
the STAR last week. The following contains a part
of the correspondence between the wife of the plain-
tiff and Colonel Berkeley, as given in evidence:

COLONEL BERK EL...Y.S LETTER 3 TO LIRS7_WATEEHOU.E.

" May 7,18 i 9.
" Again you are unkind, dear Jane. Do you think Ido nut
wish to be with you this week ? If you hrd told me when we
met last the desire was mutual, I would have remained at Chel-
tenham, in spite of the great inconvenience which might have
accrued to me and my affairs. My heart is with you now, and
where the heart is the body delights to be. I would not have
neglected to write yesterday, but I was obliged to devote the
whole of the day to my law agents. Though called daily to the
forms of business, still the wild impetuous strokes of love burst
upon me; for you have so far possessed yourself, Sorceress! of
my soul, that when your image is before me, I cease to lave
the command of my faculties. When 1 permit my memory to
retrace some of those sweet moments of the never -to-be-for-
gotten second of May, I am unfitted for the common concerns
and occupations of my life. But are you sure that your affec-
tion is so ardent that it entitles you to know how vehemently
and passionately I can love ? Tell me, sweetest, after this week,
where and how I shall'have an opportunity of breathing at your
feet those sweet vows of tenderness—those soft sighs of unal-

terable love so delightful to the female heart to luear, so plea-
surable to the soul of man to utter. I certainly shall come to
Cheltenham some time in this month. What is to be my fate?
Could you not endeavour to ►ehuld me?"
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" May 19, 1819.
" The severity of my letter, dearest love, was produced by
a feeling which ought to be gratifying to your heart. I could
Lot bear to hear such insinuations even from an indifferent
person, much less from one any soul cherishes as its dearest
treasure. You must not atsend to all the idle reports ydL may
hear of me. The world is full of those who are ever ready,
to invent tales to the prejudice of those whose situation in life
Is at all singular, or above the common level. But your last
letter is the sweetest I ever received, so devoid of injurious sus- I
picion and has endeared you to me more tenderly than before.
Ido forgetind forgive, and love with all my soul. You are
wrong, because I complain of want of time to write to you, to
fancy I do not wish to receive your letters—on the contrary,
my sole regret is to be obliged to estrange myself, in the pursuit
of business, from the delightful sensations which those letters
are calculated to produce. The only consolation I enjoy is the
prospect that, by application I may be able to emancipate
myself from my heavy shackles, become free front all ties but
those of love, and Listen to press thee to my fond bosom. Are
these feelings that you should complain of?—feelings which
overwhelm my soul with a pleasing delirium. Farewell! I hope
lo be at Cheltenham next week. perhaps on Wednesday. When
you write again be positive in your information. I did not
comprehend whether I was to write on Thursday, or whether
my letter was to be received on Thursday. To be on the safe
side I write to-day.
" Mrs. Waterhouse, Charlton."
" 15th June, 1819.
I am afraid, my dear love, that a letter of mine has been
lying in the Yost-office for some time. I wrote, according to
orders, before I received your last. Pray tell me when the
departure of part of the family takes place, as you mentioned.
Nothing then shall prevent my being with you. I shall write
no more till I hear whether the last, directed as this is, has
arrived in sa:ety."

" 22d June, 1819.

" You are in error, if you think, )pause my letters are ne-
cessarily short, that I dislike to receive long letters from you.
I assure you they give one the greatest delight, and are not
half long enough. Write to me, love, when the departure
actually takes place."

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want of that devoted: love in real life which rendes" them' so ar-
dent. I must write, dearest; oncil a week.. °natio, frtnifist is
too seldom. Tell me, sweeteln! shall I write? atitwhether I
shall direct under the first inittals—l mean those you first user)?
Think of.any place' sweet love, most cooveuieut to yourself to
meet me in when I come to Chariton. No difficulty, no danger,
nor weariness shall keep me from your antis. Consult yonr own
safety, and have faith in me and say devotion. " ?aunt.
" To IHrs: Waterhonso, o%oth-cottage," &c.
" My dearest Jane—Do not alarm yourself. The reason I
did not write on Tuesday last was, that I was obliged to go on
that morning to see my mother, who lives about fifteen miles
from Londo%. I conceived that I should undoubtedly have re.
turned in time for post, but unexpected business detained me.—
I bad resolved not to write again till I heard from you, that my
letters might not needlessly lie at the Post-office, as you know
there is some risk in writing. lam this instant going to the
Levee it Carlton House, and have only time to say I love.—
I told you on Saturday I was under the necessity of keeping
the appdtntment."
MRS. WATERHOUSE'S LETTEitiTO COLONEL BERX ELET,

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READ IN THE CASE FOR THE DEFENDANT.
(The following was written in a feigned hand :)
" The lost, depraved wretch, who has unwillingly cherished
In her bosom a guilty passion for these two years past, now adds
to her guilt by confessing it to you. What fatal spell drives her
to such a step, her evil .genius alone can tell ! But if you knew
balf the struggles she has had during that time with an infatua-
tion violent as unaccountable, you would pity at least as much
as you would despise. In that period she has studied every me-
thod to avoid being in your society ; and during your stay here,
has always pleaded illness as an excuse for not going anywhere
to have the chance of meeting you e but, alas ! all in vain ; and
what has occurred within this fortnight has increased her guilty
passion to madness; and though (as far as the moat determined
resolution could go) you shall never discover who the guilty
wretch is that now writes to you, yet the most tender of hearts
beats for you, and that she may still look on that enchanting
form, unnoticed as before. Shew this to no one : it will answer
no end, being so totally disguised as to render it utterly useless in
discovering the writer. Oh, should you discover her, too well
dues ake know her fate! But If she did survive that, believe
her, the bread: of surmise from an ill-natured world would be
berdeath-warrant ; and, it is said, the Berkeley. are not con-
tent without publishing their triumphs to that world. Can you
possess such a mind?
" March 20th. " A. F."
(Also in a feigned hand.)

" Fold up a sheet of paper u a letter, and put • Yes,' or • No;
in it, meaning whether you will be at the Rooms neat Monday
or not ; direct it with the two first letters of Affection, and the
most wicked and mpst miserable of women will act accordingly.
But beware of putting anything like a name in it, as it might be
my destruction and death. " A. F.
April 9th."
(Written in the natural hand of Mrs. WAritaneusz.)

el I have certainly been acting a ridiculous part, in confessing
an unfortunate passion, which, whether I discover myself to you
or not, can only raise contempt in your bosom towards a woman
who has solar forgot what is due to herself. Twelve months
since, how little would I have credited any human being who
had said—' The day will come when you will make known to
its object the guilty passion that now reigns in your bosom; and
yet in that short time what a sad, sad falling off of all those
good, and consequently happy feelings, I once possessed. Bat
I know you are an impatient man, therefore I will at once de-
clare, that silly as was my writing to you, and without any end
to be answered, except possessing a few lines from you, at the'
time I did it nothing could be farther from my intentions than
ever kitting you know from whom you have received that letter;
and the second was written that I might avoid going to the ball,
if you intended being there. Do net mortify me so ranch as to
suppose that from what I said I was piqued a► your not think-
ing me worth ,a second glance.' Oh! no; I have no claims to
admiration; but, feeling as I do, I may have wished you had
bestowed another on me. In that respect, I will be very can-
did, and ten you that, further than blue eyes and very white
teeth, there is nothing to admire in me ; and, knowing that, per-
haps you will no longer be desirous of discovering my name, for
I cannot agree with you in thinking, that because my heart has
chosen to bestow itself without your wish, or my consent, on
you, that I or any other woman who is mean enough to make
the first confession of her weakness is likely to inspire real love I
in a sensible man's bosom. Upon the most sacred promise of
secresy for ever on the subject, to every one, I may be induced
to mention one circumstance that will, perhaps, assist your dis-
covery—that is, U you wish it, after I have told you I live very
retired, and shall, probably, continue to do so for a year or two;
never receive or write a note or letter (except once a year) with-
out a person seeing them who would not be pleased at seeing
any from or to you; and, like a great many other women, do
not live in Cheltenham. If you wish now to let our correspon-
dence rest, only-give me the assurance that the letters I have
written, under the influence of an unfortunate and misguided
passion, are no longer in existence, and have never been seen by
any other eye than your own; for, from what a particular friend
of yours has told me, Ido indeed tremble. Excuse me if I say
you are much deceived in a woman to whom you have given the
credit of being able to keep a secret. I cannot at present direct
you to any jperiod for answering this, as I shall not be alone for
some time.

" Laadon, May 9,1519.

" Now, my dear pen, be careful what you write, for I do
not like to be called unkind by those I love anchveish to plead..
Yes, a day Is still an age in the annals of love ; and it did soothe
me, your saying for why you did not write on Thursday.
You thought I should be disappointed, and I am glad you
told me you did think so; but women should never interfere in
the thoughts of any one, when serious business is to be attended
to; and much as I must regret having lost the happiness I sigh
for, by my own folly, it is lessened by knowing that you said you
I would have been inconvenienced. Could I have wished such
a thing, knowing that It would have proved that I loved myself
better than Ido you? Which do you think I love the best ?
Do • I feel sure I love you ardently? Do I feel sure that I
exist? The one Is as uncertain to me as the other. Must I again
write? Think on what I have done, and never again say-4 If
you do love? Oh! you provoking creature! You long to
make me angry with you, but you shall not succeed. No, I
cannot endure that you shouldi be here and I not see you; but
how, or Where, is a great cousideration. I think I could con-
trive it some morning. I might walk up that lane, but after
rain it 4 impassable—or if you could think of any other spot, I
would endeavour to meet you; but, at the same time, to meet
you anywhere out of a customary walk, would, if I happened to
be seen by any one, consign me for ever to disgrace; and that
my proud and sensitive heart would not survive.
" For the first time in my life I feel that I love—fondly, ten-
derly, and affectionately love; and when I reflect upon every'
thing that has nursed that passion in my bosom, for an object so
long only known to me by sighs, I am convinced all exertions to
conquer it would be striving against fate. And oh ! it is a hap-
pines* so exquisite, such an indefinable passion, painfully
pleasing, such an acute sensation of delightful agony, that I
would not forego its soft pangs for any other Win this Mt can
afford. How much eetsern two hearts often feel for each other,
and fancy it love, whereas scarcely one spark of that vivifying
flame may animate either of their bosoms.

" But there are hearts that will not be satisfied but by an-
swering oars of tenderness and love, and such a heart is mine.
You may write once more, answer all these questions. Do you
think I might venture to hear from you once -a week, directed
as when first you wrote to me, or once a fortnight, for the blank
will be dreadful otherwise. Do you love musk and poetry? and
if you do, tell me something of both that you most admire, to
charm away some weary hours. Do you admire Liao Raukh T
• Ok there are looks and tones that dart
An instant sunshine through the heart,
As if the soul that minute caught
Some treasure it through life bad sought r

And pray do tell me if we are to be gratified by an Ama-
teur Play this month. Do write to-morrow, as Tuesday even-
ing some one's return is positively fixed. I have just had a letter,
saying he will be here by eight o clock. FatewelL"

Sunday, at Mr. CneirropEß's, an innkeeper, in
Eccleston, near Leyland, a man, in a state of drunken-
ness, sat himself down in a cradle, in which a child
was sleeping, and the mother, on removing the stulti-
fied brute, found that the poor ianocenthad breathed
its lag, baying died through suffixal:ital.

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' ' . OtD BAILEY.

- PERJURY AND ABDUCTION.
The following extraordinary and interesting case
occupied the Court from five until nearly twelve
o'clock on Wednesday evening:
Edloin Mosty,, Jones, a young man of respectable
family, was indicted for a misdemeanour in making
a false affidavit, in order !o procure a license for mar-
riage with Charlotte Lovell, and by that and other
false devices, inveigling-pier from the home and pro-
tection of her natural guardians.
Mr. A DOLPHUS, in an eloquent appeal to the Jury,
described this as a case of most gross fraud ; and this
fraud, he said, bad been followed up by conduct so
base, that it was almost impossible to conceive that
a person gifted with a liberal education, and moving
in the society which the defendant must have been
accustomed to, could have been guilty of. The pro-
, st4utor in this case was Peter Harvey Lovell, Esq. of
Cole Park, Wilts, and the defendant a Captain in the
North Gloucester Regiment of Militia. Mr. Lovell
was blessed with ample property and a numerbits
progeny, and bis happiness never knew any diminu-
tion until the unhappy period when the defendant
became acquainted with the family. This took place
at a review of the North Gloucester, at Cirencester,
in June last. After a short acquainfance, the de-
fendant wrote to Mr. Lovell, requesting leave tu'ad-
dress his daughter Charlotte, but met with a refusal..
This, however, did not deter him: he followed her,
from one place to another; and finally, having by
falsely swearing that the young Lady was of age,
and that he knew of no impediment, the defendant
obtained a license, he partly by force, and partly
by persuasion, induced the Lady to elope with him.
The marriage, however, never-took place. In conse-
quence of the death of the Rev. Archdeacon Wills
(some time before this transaction), a near relation of
the Lovell family, who was repot ted to have left im-
mense property, a rumour had gone abroad that the
Misses Lovell would have jot tunes of 30 or £3.5,000.
This the defendant, it was supposed, had heard.—
When he arrived in London with the young Lady, he
found that, by marrying her with the license which
he had procured, he should not obtain command over
her fortune, and he therefore placed her in lodgings,
and caused bans to be published. In the interval he
ascertained that the young Lady's fortune was I.:100O
only, and that not to be paid to her until she was of
age, and to revert to a relation in case of her death
before that time. Upon this discoyery, strange and
unaccountable, the defendant deserted the unfortunate
young Lady, leaving her in such a state, that ia hen
at length her father found her, her clothes were de-
tained by the landlady of the house for the payment
of rent which was due.-*Eflere aloud murmur of in-
dignation ran through the Court, but was immedi-
ately repressed with severe animadversions by the
Learned Judge.}—Mr. Adolphus having, with some
7further remarks, concluded his statement,
Messrs. ALLEY and ANDREWS took an objection to.
the form of the indictment, which was argued at
great length on both sides, and finally reserved by.
the Court for more mature consideration.

Mr. Charlton, from the Vicar-General's Office, pro;
duced the affidavit made by the defendant on obtain.
ing the license, in which he swore that he and Miss
Lovell were 21 years of age, and that he knew of no
lawful impediment to their marriage. The affidavit
was sworn on the 24th of November, 1820.
P. Lovell, Esq. deposed that he was the father of
Charlotte Lovell, and saw the defendant at a review
at Cirencester, in June last. About three days after-.
wards he was introduced to the family at Cole Park,
by Captain Vaughan. Before he went away, he said
to the witness, "I am ardently attacked to your eldest
daughter, and wish to be permitted to pay my ad-
dresses to her." He went on to say that he had pro-
perty to the amount of £5OO a-year, and the witness
said he would make inquiry. He did so, but the
result was unfavourable ; and he wrote to the defend-
ant, declining any further cbmmunication with him
on the subject of his daughter. This produced a
letter of remonstrance from the defendant. This
letter was read, and couched in terms of the bitterest

Idisappointment at the determination of Mr. Lovell.
Witness saw the defendant after this at some races,
and at Bath, and common civilities were exchanged.
Shortly after the elopement of his daughter he sad
the defendant, and asked him if he had married his
daughter? He said he had. He asked him where?
but he refused to tell. Witness told him he must
be aware that the marriage could not be legal, as his
daughter was not of age, and proposed a re-mar-'
riage, and offered terms, which the defendant con-
sented to; but witness afterwards discovered that he
was incapable of complying with those terms from
pecuniary disability, and having, in the interim, found
out where his daughter was, he determined, at all
risk, to break off the connexion, and to have her back.
He found her at a lodging in London, and when he
brought her away, her clothes were detained for
arrears of rent, &c.
Cross-examined.—He did 'once consent that the
defendant should marry his daughter upon certain
terms ; but, in consequence of various subsequent
discoveries, he altered his mind. He never said his
daughter had £.5,000. He never said that he was
sure that the defendant had not swoin falsely, for
that he must have taken Charlotte to be above 21.
Upon his oath he never did say so.
Reexamined.—His daughter had been more than
five weeks absent before he knew where she was.

, Miss F. Lovell, sitter of Charlotte, deposed, that
some time after the acquaintance, she and her sister
went by a stage-coach on a visit to their uncle and
aunt, Sir David and Lady Goodge, in Hertfordshire,
and on the road they were joined by the defendant.
In the course of conversation, he said to witness, " I
should have- thought that you were older than your
sister Charlotte ?" To which she replied, " Oh, no!
I am between sixteen and seventeen, and Charlotte is
nineteen years of age." He left the coach on the road,'
and some days after their arrival at Sir David's, he
was seen riding along a lane, in front of the house.
He once met them when they were out in .the car
riage with Sir David and Lady Goodge, and he was,
constantly presenting himself within view of the
house, but never was admitted. At length witness',
had an interview with him at the gartien-gate, and,
entreated him to quit the neighbourhood, as he had
been seen about,-and they would be sent home if he
continued there. He implored an interview with
Charlotte; but she told him it was impossible, and
,he went away. He still, however, continued hi ; ap-

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desired it, g diet up to. _ . part or the
sheet, howeverythere were a few sentences written with
lemon-juice (which were not discovered till a mono
ag-.), imploring-her to save him from distraction, aod
to rewnrod his fidelity by " running away with him.*
On a Sunday, shortly afterward.., when Sir David.
lady Goodge,'and all the men-servants, were poem
church,. witness and her sister being at home alone,
a message came that a Gentleman was waiting to
spealc'to -Miss C. Lovell. The latter went down to
the garden, witness followed, and found her convers.
ing with the defendant; the latter pressing her eo
elope, and declaring he had a license in his pocket',
and would marry her the following morning, at St;
Martin's Church, London. She begged him to go
away, as she would never marry him without her
friends' consent. Witness also begged him to desisti
and promised she would write to her fatlicr and be
his compliance. All, however, was vain: he sal/
such another opportunity would never offer, and no
earthly power should compel him to forego it. There
was a gig standing close by, in the care of one Marc.
tins; and the defendant, at length taking .Charicitet
by the arm, pulled her dowa the lane to the gig.
Witness-laid hold of her, and appealed to Rawlins to
assist, but in vain. He got her into the gig, awl
witness polled her out again. Ste all this timecried,
and declared she would not r ; but he swore no
power on earth should make him resign he:. Here •
her.again into the gig, and drove off. Her sister was
now in Court, having been subpoenaed in behalf of
the defendant.

Cross-examined.—Witnes; cried, but did not all
out. She. and her sister had both .the hooping-conch
at the time, which was the cause of their. staying*
home. They kpew they mete to be joined iti•the
stage-cdach *by Mr. Jones, but not until after they
had left their father. They made no secret to him
tiles of where they were going. At the elopement
scene her sister made no resistance either one war
or the other ; she seemed stunned..
Captain Vaughan, of the Gloucester Militia, swore
that lie communicated the citation of Miss Char-
lotte to her father after the eldpement, the defendant
having disclosed it to him. An interview took place
in consequence, between Mr. Lovell's brother and
the defendant, at- which witness was present. Mr.
Lovell's brother requested the defendant to give up
his niece, and fold him if he would say where she
was, no proceedings would be instituted against him.
He refused to' give her'up unless Mt. Lovell would
come down" with a settlement, and pay his (de-
fendant's). debts ! If.that were done, he would marry
her; but without it; he would.neither marry her not
give her up. The conference ended here; and akw
days afterwards the defendant called upon witness,
on his way to London; and told him that he had had
ap inseryiew: with Loiell and the Solicitors, but no-
thing aras.settled.. He added, that he had but a small
fortune, and had incurred considerab'.e debts in this
" running off."— Here the case ter the prosecu-
tion closed.

Mr.ALLEY addressed the Jary in a powerful speech,
for the defendant, who was found—Godly.
The Court suspended judgment on the defendant
till the first day of the nest Session; but ordered him
to enter into recognizances, himself in 000, and two
sureties in £lOO each, for his appearance on that day.

THE LUCKY PrrrtcoAT !—A few days since, a
woman of the name of THompsos, purchased a flan-
nel petticoat, which hung up for sale at the shop of
Mr. MUNDAY, pawnbroker, Golden•lane, for which
she gave two shillings. On
.undoing one of the tucks,
to lengthen it, to her great surpise, she discovered a
Bank note concealed in it. Elated with her goad
fortune, she went immediately to the same shop, and
tendered it as a one pound note, in order to redeem
some articles of wearing apparel. Mr. Two-to-ant
stared with astonishment. Instead of a one pound
note, it was a fifty ! He questioned the woman as El
how she came by it, and on her declining to tell his,
took her to Worship-street Office, where, ambulant
being investigated., the woman was discharged with
her prize, to the no small chagrin of the pawnbroker,
who claimed the found note as his property.

BIRTHS
At Kentiatvhere Cottage; Jersey, on the 29th March, tie
Lady of Colonel Ross, of the 7th Royal V. Bat. of a daughter.
Sunday sennight, at Teignmouth, the Lady of Sir Edina
Francis Stanhope, Dart. of a son.
Saturday, in Upper Harley-street, the Lady of Dr. Clate,d
Jamaica, of a still-born son.

MARRIED.
April 8, at the house of Captain Orde, at Portobello, mg
F.dinburgb, Hugh Moises, Esq. 7th Dragoon Guards, to loo•
bells, youngest daughter of the late Robert Lislehhsq. of Acta
House, Northumberland.
April 9, at Dublin, Captain Francis Stupart, of the Sold
North British Dragoons (Scots Greys), to Anne, daughter d
John Jameson, Esq. Alloa.
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DIED.
At Copenhagen, on Saturday, the 24th of March, after ale
geeing illness, Benjamin Porter, Esq. the only son of Thorne
('hinnall Porter, Esq, of Birlingham, in the county of Wonting.
Thursday se'nnight, Mr. John Cawxhorne, of Carreverect
Sheffield. Ile was engaged in complet:ng an organ for tic Cal
vinist Chapel in Howard-street, which was intended to be timed
on Easter Sunday next, on which he was playing, in 'Plod
good health, at three o'clock, and was a corpse at tear.
Friday, aged 53, Mr. Thos. Wesison, of the Mount, widtost
Micklegate-bar, near York. Ile had been vi.iting a Magi the
preceding evening, was suddenly attacked with a spasmodic aL
fection, and died in a few hoors.
Friday se'nnight, at Maltby, near Doncaster, Mr. Geer
Flower, surgeon, in the 58th year of his age.
Saturday ae.nnight, after a long illness, aged 57, Joseph Pardue
Esq. Alderman of Newcastle, and one of the joint Connuiiiienre
of Greenwich Hospital for Northunillerlaa
Saturday se'nnight, at Bramharn Park, Yorkshire, after SWF
years 111 health, but at last an illness of a wet k., James Lane Fah
Esq. in the 55th year of his age.
Sunday sennight, Mrs. Nl'laitelock, wife of the &v. IL it
Whitelock, of Manchester.
Monday se insight, wat his nthn's hatme, at Whitby, noels
Bateman, M.D. of London.
April 2, Mr. Gairns, farmer, New Posso, near Perbiev: en tie
turning from the House of Muir Narkct, he was uutottunatelf
drowned in the Tweed, at Lynefurd. It is :opposed his last
had stumbled in the water, mid that Mr. Gairns had felled ego
as the animal returned home without b]s rider. Th.: body 10
not found till Friday se'nnight. Nlr. Gaits' watch, rcWP
book, &c. were found in the pockets.
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