Star.
London, England, 1821-04-10 00:00:00

MURDER ON THZ COAST OF SUSSEX.

Mr. HOBHOUSE wished to know whether Eng-
land, tried at Horsham, and convicted of the murder
of Swaine, the Hastings fisherman, had received his
' Majesty's pardon ?
Mr. CLIVE (Under Secretary for the Home De-
partment) said he could not answer that question.
The ra,sicsu.os of the Excurciuxe was proceeding with the
next Order; but Mr. Canvas' moved, that the House should
be counted.

This Was accordingly done ; and there not being forty Mem-
bers present, an adjournment took place at Half-past Twelve.

GLOUCESTER ASSIZES.

CRIM. CON.
WATERHOUSE, ESQ. V. COLONEL BERKELEY.

This case, which has excited so much interest
among the fashionable visitors to the town of Chel-
tenham, and among the inhabitants of the surround-
ing counties, came on to be tried on Saturday. The
Court was crowded to excess as early as seven o'clock
in the morning. A full Special Jury was then assem-
bled in the box and sworn.

The Counsel for the plaintiff, were Mr. Jeans,
Mr. PULLER, Mr. RUSSELL, and Mr.Wisr.
Those tor the defendant, were Mr."l-10RACE Twrss,
Mr. TAUNTON, Mr. LUDLOW, and Mr. CAMPBELL.

Mr. %ST opened the declaration, which stated
the nature of the action. The damages were laid at
Twenty Thousand Pounds.
Mr. Jaftvis then proceeded to address the Jury.
They had heard, he said, from the pleadings opened
by his Learned Friend, that this was an action brought
against the defendant, for criminal conversation with
the plaintiff's wife. The plaintiff, Mr. Waterhouse,
was the son of the late Mr. Waterhouse, who was for-
merly a Merchant of eminence, carrying on business
in London under the film of Willis, Waterhouse, and
Company. In 1810 he went to the Isle of Man, where"
be became acquainted with the very respectable fa-
mily Captain Blake, of whom the unfortunate Lady,
who was the subjectof the present action,was the eldest
daughter. The plaintiff was then about twenty, and
the Lady nearly of the same age, but rather younger.
On the 15th of September, 1812, with the mutual
consent of their parents, they were married. Soon
after their union it was found convenient, from the
pecuniary circumstances of Mr. Watethouse,s-that he
should retire with his Lady to live in some cheap
part of the kingdom ; they went, in consequence, to
reside at Scarborough. In the course of the three
following years they were blessed with three children,
two girls and a boy. In the year 1817, from the state
of the health of Mrs. Waterhouse, it was thought ex-
pedient that she should remove to Cheltenham ; and,
after a short stay in that town, Mr. Waterhouse set-
tled with his family at a small village, called Charl-
ton Kings, about a mile from thence, where an aunt
of Mrs. Waterhouse, the Lady of Sir William Wrax-
hall, then resided. In the winter of 1818, a Mrs.
Probyn, who had been an early friend of Mrs. Wate-
rhouse, arrived at Cheltenham for the benefit of her
health. Their intimacy was, of course, renewed ;
and, through the medium of this Lady, the defend-
ant, Colonel Berkeley, was introduced to the plaintiff
and his wife about the beginning of the year 1819.
No particular intercourse followed between the Gen-
tlemen, nothing further having happened between
them than an exchange of cards. On the 16th of
April, in that year, Mr. Waterhouse went to London
to see his brother, who was at that time in an ill state
of health. It was material that the Jury should at-
tend to dates. He continued absent till the lOtli of
May, when he returned to Charlton. On the 10th
of July following, he was again under the necessity
of quitting home, for the purpose of going to Jersey,
to see a sister whom he had not seen for many years
before. On this occasion he was absent a little more
than a month. He returned to Charlton on the 15th
of August. These were the longest absences which,
up to that period, had ever taken place between him
and his wife, from the time of their union. It was
fit to state, at on both these occasions Mrs. Water-
house was left under the immediate protection of her
aunt, Lady Wraxhall, the sister of her mother. In,
the beginning of the year 1819, it had been proposed
to Mr. Waterhouse, in consequence of the increasing
state of his family, having had a fourth child born at
Charlton, to proceed to Jamaica, to endeavour to
obtain a situation, by which he might be enabled
the better to consult the comforts and happiness of l
these whom he so tenderly loved, for up to this time
he did not entertain a doubt that he was in the full
possession of the warmest affections of his Latiy..4-
Although, in the first instance, his feelings prompted

him to resist this solicitation, and to remain in the
bosom of his domestic circle, to which he was se
tenderly attached, yet prudence at length suggested
its propriety, and at the commencement of the year
1820, he resolved to prosecute that design, and on
the 18th of January, in the last year, he left Charlton
Kings for Bristol, with a view of embarking forth-
with for Jamaica. Adverse winds detained hind in
port till the 14th of February, when he proceeded on
his voyage. During his absence, and very soon after
his departure from Charlton, Mrs. Waterhouse, for
reasons which he would, by and bye, take the liberty
of explaining, removed from Charlton to a lodging
or furnished house which she took in the town of
Cheltenham. It might be proper here to remark,
that on thus leaving his wife for Jamaica, Mr. Wate-
rhouse left her under the same protection as he had
on the two former occasions, with au ample provision
for her maintenance during his absence. From Ja-
maica Mr. Waterhouse returned in July, and know-
ing that he had had no intercourse with his wife frem
the 10th of January preceding, the Jury might better
imagine than he was capable of describing, the age,
nized situation in which he was thrown on being in-
formed of the course which she had adopted, and of
her being then far advanced in pregnancy. He went
to Cheltenham, but took the precaution of avoiding
the abode of his wife. He remained there three dais
after the communication of this painful intelligence,
and then left the place, determined never to see her
again. At this time, not having sufficient evidence
as to the period of time when her delinquency had
taken place, so as to enable him to take any decisive
steps, he resolved to waif the time of her deliiery.—
In the meantime his suspicions, which were, unhap-
pily, but too well founded, were confirmed by an in-
tercepted letter—the contents of which, as had
come.from Mrs. Waterhouse, he was not at liberty
to state. It was addressed to the present defendant,
hi language calculated to excite sensations which be
would not venture to express. The suspicions were,
however, more fatally supported, for, on the 11th of
November, being a period of forty-two weeks from
the day on which the plaintiff Jeft his wife, she was
delivered of another female child, which, from the
course of nature, could not by possibility he his. He
had endeavoured to state these facts with the greatest
possible plainness. He had given nothing more than
a dry detail of dates; he would now proceed to state
also, in a plain and simple way, the evidence of which
he was in possession against the defendant, and from
which it would appear most clearly that he had been
guilty of criminal intercourse with the plaintiff's wife.
And this he would make out, not .only by the testis
mony of living witnesses,. but by letters in she hand.
writing of Colonel Berkeley himself, which would
leave no doubt on the minds of the Jury as to the
guilty fact. The first letter with ivhich he would
trourale them, and which was-probably the first that
passed between the parties upon the subject,was of the
date of thelstofMay,.lBl9: And now the Jury would
see the materiality of the dates, to which he had re-
quested their 'particular attention, for they would
have the goodness to-recollect, that the first absence
of the plaintiff on going to see his brother, who was
then ill, commenced on the 16th of April, 1819, and
terminated on the 10th of May. Now the letter in
question from Colonel Berkeley to Mrs. Waterhouse
was dated the Ist of May, during that absence. et
was in the following terms:
" Nothing, but the fear of losing an opportunity of seeing you,
could induce me to when, but I am obliged to be in Loudon as
Monday, therefore I now send. To-night, at nine, I will be at
the appointed spot. If you love me, do not fail me—there is
no danger."

He (Mr. Jervis) was in possession of twenty-four
letters and eight notes, written by the defendant to
Mrs. Waterhouse, which were obtained from that
Lady on the 12th of December, in consequence of
Mr. Waterhouse, with his Solicitor, having gone to
her lodging, and obtained them by means which,
under the circumstances, were not to be reprobated.
From these letters he had made a selection, which he
would now take the liberty of reading, and from
which it would be impossible to doubt that a crimi-
nal intercourse had taken place between the parties.
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to read the let-
ters in question, which were couched in passionate
terms, and contained allusions which could leave
little doubt as to the nature of the intimacy that had
subsisted. At length the defendant evinced the way-,
wardness of illicit love, and, in his last short and
hasty notes, proved that his once ardent attachment
had altogether subsided 1 The Learned Counsel then
went on to state the oral testimony with which he was
provided, as to the occasional visits of the defendant
to Mrs.. Waterhouse.—their private interviews, and
the subsequent disordered appearance of the Lady's
dress; and, finally, made an animated and eloquent
appeal to the Jury, to compensate, as much as da-
mages could compensate the plaintiff, for the injuries
-which he and his helpless infant family had sustained.
The witnesses were then called, and ten letters
from the Colonel were,put in ana.read.
Mr. TAUNTON, in a powerful speech, denied that
the act of adultery had been proved ; but, even if it
had, concluded that the plaintiff had but little reason
to complain of the loss which he had sustained, as
Mrs. Waterhouse had proved herself to be tlte tricr_t
abandoned of her sex,. by making the first advances
to Colonel Berkeley,,,who would have been more or
less than a man, if he had not fallen beneath the in-
fluence of her passion. theti'reid the letters of
the Lady, the first two of 'which *tre in a disguised
hand, aad the last two written in her own natural
character. • Those letters exhibited a painful picture
of the mind of a woman who bad fallen from that'
purity and virtue, which constitutes the greatest or.
nament of 14r sex. • _ _ _

Mr. JERVIS made an admirable reply, commenting
upon the baseness of •the defendant in betraying the
secrets of her whom he had destroyed, and insinu-
ating that the letters attributed to her were fabricated.
Mr. Justice PARKE summed up the case with per-
spicnity and impartiality ; and, at twelve o'clock at
n►ght, the Jury found• a verdict for the plaintiff—.
Damages, One Thousand Pounds—Costs, 40s.

DRlllit LANE Tunante.—Last night the new Tra.
gedy of Conscience; or, The Bridal flight, was re-
presented to a very full House, and the sustained and
increasing interest of the Piece was ackno‘sledged
the repeated and ardent acclamations of the audience.
The Actors supported their respective parts with zeal
and abilitt; indthe curtain fell amidst the loudest ex.-
pressious of approbation from all parts of the House.

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LONDON.

TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1821.

THE FUNDS.

This morning Consols opened at 7234, %, and went
to 7214 ; but a large quantity of Stock being thrown
upon the Market, they fell to 721/2. It is said to be a
very heavy bull account. Settling day is on Thursday.
CURRENT PRICES AT ONE O'CLOCK
Bank Stock 2211/2 22214 222
..S per Cent. Reduced 71 %.34
3 per Cent. Cons. 7234 Sfi 14
3% per Cent. 81 80%
'4 per Cent._B3 8878 891/2
* per Cent. Navy 107 .107% lAt
Long Anus. 18%7-16
India Bonds 495. 475. pr..
Exchequer Bills, 4s. os. pr.
Cons. for Acct. 72% 1/2 Vs A.

We apprehend that when the Public shall have
perused with attention the following important in-
telligence contained in a letter from Frankfort, or
rather an extract from thi Vienna Court Gazette, and
which originated at La} back, that seat of Legitimate
intrigue—we apprehend, we say, that when this do-
cument shall have been duly weighed, none will be
found able to persist in the assertion that everything
is quiet in Moldavia and Wallachia and that " the
three Allied Powers have communicated a friendly
Note to the Posit% offering military aid to suppress
any insurrection that may arise in that quarter

FRANKFORT, APRIL st.

We have received by express the Vienna Court Ga-
edit of the 29th nit. which contains the following in-
telligence : « LAYBACH, MARCH 25.

"General Fardella has brought to his Majesty the
King of the Two Sicilies, several letters from the
Duke of Calabria, and also a representation of the
Parliament; all of which, indeed; tended to submis-
sion, but, at the same time, contained proposals, the
acceding to which, was to facilitate to the revolu-
tionary party the issue of the affair. His Majesty,
without entering into any proposals, expressed him-
self, in his answer to the Duke of Calabria, in the same
language and sentiments as he held in his preceding
correspondence with the Duke and the Parliament, of
the 23d of February, and General Fardella returned,
on the 19th, from Florence, to the head-quarters of
the General in Chief of the Imperial Army, whose
operarions against Naples, as our accounts spew, were
not at all retarded by the mission of General Fardella.

" A short time after the death of Prince Alexander
Suzzo, an insurrection broke out in Wallachia, at the
head of which was a native of the name of Theodore,
who Will formerly a volunteer in the Russian service,
was promoted to the rAnk of Officer, and afterwards
assumed the name of Wladimerisco. This insurrec-
tion, in which only Pandours and Arncunts partici-
pated, and which, besides, according to the leader's
own declarations, was not directed against the Porte,
but against the Boyars and Public Officers of the
country, spread so extensively during the interreg-
num, that Theodore travelled with impunity a con-
siderable part of what is called tittle Wallachia
(the country about Crajowa), and apprehensions were
entertained respecting his further operations. It was
however hoped that the approaching arrival of Prince
Callimachi, the new appointed Hospodar of Walla-
chia, would put an end to these disorders, when,
suddenly, troubles of far greater importance broke
out in Moldavia.
" On the 6th of this month, Prince Alexander
Ypsilanti, son of the former Hospodar of Moldavia,
and Major-General in the Russian army, who for this
year past has been out of actual service, proceeded
with a numerous retinue of Amouts, from Bessarabia
to Jassy, and announced himself as the deliverer of
the Greeks from. the yoke of the Turkish Govern-
ment. On the same evening, the Turks who were at
Jassy, about thirty in number, were disarmed, and,
according to all appearance, put to death. It is cer-
tain that already, three days before the arrival of
Prince Ypsilanti, an insurrection, attended with
bloodshed, had taken place at Galacz, in which all
the Turks in that city, who would .not save them-
selves by flight, were massacred, and the city itself
almost laid in ashes. On the 17th March, Prince
Ypsilanti issued numerous proclamations, both to the
inhabitants of Moldavia and Wallachia and to the
Greek nation in the provinces of the Turkish empire.
" These Proclamations, which are drawn up in the
most exalted language of poetry, in which he declares
himself to have been called upon by many thousands
of his countrymen to undertake the work of their de-
liverance, describes the insurrection of all the Greek
tribes as a revolution which has long been determined
upon—which has been preparing for many years by
secret patriotic Societies—and is now everywhere ma-

tured for execution : and it is likewise expressly as-
serted in them, that the enterprise has to expect the
powerful support of a great neighbouring Power.
" At the same time, Prince Ypsilanti addressed a
Petition, drawn up in the same style, to his Majesty
the Emperor of Russia, and called upon that au-
gust Sovereign not to refuse his powerful support to
the Greek Nation, and particularly to the two Prin-
eipauties, which were exposed to great danger.
44 AS soon as the preceding intelligence was re-
ceived at Laybacb, the Emperor Alexander was

'pleased to declare, that he could consider the under-
taking of Prince Ypsilanti, only as an effort of the
unquiet spirit which characterises the piesent times,
as well as of the inexperience and levity of that young
man ; but, at the same time, his Majesty has re-
' solved as follows :
I. Prince Ypsilanti is excluded from the Russian seri*.
" 2, It is notified to him. that his Majesty the Emperor se-
tirely disapproves of his enterprise, and that he is never to expect
any kind of support in it on the part of Russia.
" s. Express orders are given to General Count Wittgenstein,
commanding in chief the Russian troops on the Posh and In
Bessarabia, to observe the strictest neutrality in the troubles
which have broken out in the principalities of Moldavia and
Wallachia, and under no pretext whatever to take any part in
them, either directly or indirectly.

4. These resolutions are communicated to the Russian Am-
bassador at Constantinople, with orders to communicate them
to the Porte, and to confirm the frank and open assurances
given to it on occasion of the late insurrection in Wallachia.—
Baron Von fitrogonoff shall expressly declare, that the policy of
his Majesty the Emperor is, once for all, alien to all and every
intrigue which may threaten the tranquillity of any country
whatever : that every participation in such commotion* would
be in contradiction to the upright principles of his Imperial Ma-
jesty, and that the Emperor, in his relations with the Porte,
has no object and no wish but the maintenance and punctual
execution of the Treaties subsisting between the two Powers.

" Orders have likewise been given by our Court
to the Imperial Austrian Internuncio at Constanti-
nople, to express himself in the same manner, and to
signify to the Porte, in the most friendly terms, the
sincere desire of his Majesty the Emperor, by the in-
violable observance of the Treaties, to preserve, un-
shaken, the relations of peace and amity now subsist-
ing between Austria and the Sublime Porto."

Can any person be deceived by the Royal profes-
sions alluded to in the foregoing letter—or rather in
the foregoing official document—emanating from the
Holy Allies, and communicated to the world through
the medium of the Vienna Court Gazette?

ALEXANDZR disowns his late servant I He will not
interfere! He will do nothing to disturb the amicable
relations which subsist between the Sublime PORTZ
and the Autocrat of all the RUSSIAS !—No, he will do
none of these things, nor will Austria interfere: on
the contrary, they will preserve a strict neutrality !
All this is declared in a document, which acknow-
ledges that the insurrection-had been long prepared—
that the Greeks had long determined to shake off the
Turkish yoke—and had solicited aid from a Great
Power, the better to enable them to execute their en-
terprize. But the Eniperor ALEXANDER cannot, it
seems, give countenance to anything that has the
semblance of originating in the spirit of change that
is now abroad in the world !

Now, what do the public declarations from Lay-
bath, respecting this affair, amount to ? There was
no need that ALEXANDER should appear to take an
active part in a measure like this, calculated to
weaken, if not to destroy the Turkish Power in
Europe--when matters have been so well prepared
to effect the measure without needing foreign aid—
without calling on him openly to violate existing
treaties. Prudence evidently suggested that, at least,
a shew of regard to the avowed principles of the i
Holy Alliance should be kept up. But Europe,
in general, will not fail properly to estimate the con-
sistency of the Holy Allies, and to mark with, per-
haps, more precision than Austria seems to have done,
the policy of the Court of St. Petersburg!).
Troubles break out in Spain, followed by troubles
in Portugal. The Great Powers do not choose to
interfere l—Why ? The insular situation of these king-
doms-.-inaccessible -but Ly the French frontier—pre-
sent difficulties not to be removed, either by cajolery
or by force. At the same time, a Revolution is fo-
menting in Italy !—and another, of no less import-
ance, in Greece! Now mark what follows:—Austria
is induced to take the field against the Italians, to sub-
ject them to the rule of legitimacy; while Russia con-
trives (and Austria is made to join in it) to have the
policy of neutrality approved of respecting Turkey!
Can mankind be blind to this system of right and
left-handed policy for a moment longer? The rights
of Legitimacy are no way threatened by the setting
up of a New Constitution in Spain or in Portugal
!
but the establishment of Me same Constitution in
Naples or any part of Italy is not to be endured. The
idea of neutrality respecting the claims set up by the
Italians to obtain from their Government a reform of
abuses, is found inconsistent with the principles of the
Holy Alliance, but they talk of Neutrality as a virtue
when the quarrel is between the Greeks and their Le-
gitimate Sovereign, the GRAND SEIGNOR !—Let us ask
only two questions. Is it fitting in Englind to lend
herself, in any way, to measures of such unequivocal
injustice? Are our Ministers to be the dupes of such
a contemptible system of political profligacy?

We have received this morning the Paris Papers.
of Saturday. From the following extracts, it will be
seen that the attitude which the Piedmontese Revo-
lutionists have assumed, is far from losing anything
of its imposing aspect. The defection of the Prince
de CA sioNAso has left the People to themselves, and
it remains to be seen whether a Revolution headed
by Royalty, or one without it, will succeed best :

PARIS, APRIL 7.
We are still without news from Naples. No Jour-
nal from that city has yet reached us.
A letter from Geneva, dated April 2, contains the
following particulars :—" The report of a distant
cannonade has been heard within these few days in
the Upper Valais. The Milan courier not having
arrived to-day, we are left to conjecture as to the

reality or the eattse of chit apparent cannonade, which

I-has occasioned considerable alarm here. At the de-
parture of the courier from Chambery, that town,
which was still subject to the authority•of the Senate
and the Governor, Savirna, was only guarded by a
Corps of 300 men, detached from the Regiments
which have gone over to the Piedmontese Junta.
Two howitzers were mounted at the entrance of the
promenade of Vernet. By the Governor's order, all
commercial communication and transport of met.-
ichandise are temporarily prohibited between Savoy
and the neighbouring countries. The introduction
of arms is prohibited under severe penalties. There
is a daily expectation of the arrival of a Political
Chief; appointed by the Piedmontese Junta, with a
military force sufficient to maintain his authority."
Our Correspondent from Lausanne writes as fol-
lows, under the date of the 31st of March :
1, Extraordinary Couriers have been passing and
repassing for several days in all directions. It is said
that the Federal Government has received important
communications, in consequence of which arrange-
ments have been made which will be speedily notified
to the Continental Governments.

" The road of the Simplon is so constructed that it
could be rendered impracticable in the space of a few
hours, and might be defended by a handful of troops.
The Valais throughout its whole length presents a
number of fine positions."

Five per Cents. Friday, 82f. 45c. Saturday, 82E9lic.

MUNICH, MARCH 29.

Prince Louis de Lichtenstein will, at the beginning
of April, enter Lombardy, with General Count de
Klebersberg, at the head of 22 Austrian Regiments.

MARSEILLES, APRIL s.

A vessel has arrived here from Naples. Immedi-
ately on her making port, she was surrounded by
armed sloops, which cut off all communication be-
tween her and the shore. This strange proceeding
has given rise to an opinion that the news from
Naples is not so favourable to the Austrian cause as
it was. Report says, that every night Austrians fall
victims to the stiletto in the streets of Naples ; and
that, in consequence, they have begun to take up po-
sitions on the neighbouring heights.