Star.
London, England, 1827-10-30 00:00:00

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VICE CH COURT, Ocr.ite.
ANA4r.l.iig
His Honour the VICITHAVEIItGoIt sat this clay for
'An lititsolle of giving- judgment in key or five causes
Wtsjcttliall stood or-r from the last term. There war
'trier} thih attendance of the bar, and of the king's
Counsel'. Mr. Sonia was the only one present. His
Hithosiegaimindgment in several causes, which con!
Mined nistbing of public interest, and he promised to
p ot his judgments into writing, and transmit them at
a !mare period to the parties concerned.
Tbe Court rose at one o'clock. On taking leave of
'the bar, his Hoaova observed, that he was under the
necessity ,of leaving town early on the following
morning: •
Cotner or ICING'S BENCH, Wssruntsent.'ooe. •sts.
Mow Lont TILUTERDEN and Common Juries.
CARPIIITIR 0. Noumea. • .
This was an action for a libel, by which the plaintillt
who was a servant, alleged.she had lost her place. 'N
defaideft pieaditd the general issue, " not guilty," and
' alto a justification that the libel was true, livid& list
plaintiff in her replication denied.
Mi. ihrefUOUAlt said, the plaintiff had always main'
carotid srrespectable character, and it was impossible f '
her to submit to sick a libel upon her as the defend*
hart beta guilty ot, after he had refused to retract ;
slander/Jot even if that tardy act of justice had boon'
dna% to action would have been brought. The plaintiff
was if idoemble, but useful stition ; she had beets honsie
Wont to• Mr. Pottier, a Gentleman of large fortune, mid,
• Sink Olvector, living in Portland Crescent, and Mead:
irk rit-thrf same time was also, unfortunately fir her,*
footman in the service of her master. Housekeepers
Imettriao:litile control over the other servants, and it
• stamed• mem that the plaintiff, in the exercise of this
control, had green some offence to the defendant; (
• sikatMet Cadge, however, it was that toe defendant'
malt* proceeded, be thought fit to gratify it in
adekt unquietly way. Mr. Portier was, atemit the end
August, 1926, preparing for an excursion on the Doe:
tinent ; and the delendait, on the 30th of that monde;
wrote the letter containing the libel complained of, which
•csaa addressed to Mr. Pottier, but was net delivered so

him tUI a month afterwards, when it was pot upon his
dressing table on the ;30th of September. The de-
fendant's object was to prevent any inverrigeti:m into
the scuds of bis tenet; he hag; imagined that his
master would hive set off for the Continent, as he
bad intended to have done at the end of August •
hut Mr. 4'ortier delaying his departure, the de:
fendant thought it most prudent to delay 'the deli-
very of the letter until the eve, of the departure, when
there would be no time to make inquiries Mr.
Brougham here reed the letter, whick, though delivered
an the SOth of September, was dated the Sikh of August,
making varionscommems on it as he proceeded. -.The
letter imputed is the plaintiff a criminal intercourse
with ',lfralla Geary, the butler of Mr. Pottier, the de-
fendant stating, 64 that having been induced to suspect,
he had watched, aud had seen them togethee through
an aperture formed by that part of the bed mem duet
which was neat hiss being open." .He said, "he was'
aware the world would not justify him as a man,
• for publishing the theme of a woman, but seeing how
ill she had behaved to those poor girls (meaning the
other servants), who could no longer endure het
petty tranny, and how is a refinement of. hypocrisy
she had fed Mr. Pottier to believe her a pattern ol
goodness and virtue, be thought it an act of cowl.;
anon justice to penalties her real character, and eon-
chselei with stating, that be was deterred from send-
line she letter before-, as the plaintiff stood so high in
favour ; but as his master was now ring abroad, be
thought it right to so:lnsist him with the character of
the person in whose care he was going to lekve his
house." Mr. Brougham asked why the defendant, if
• he had really seen what he had states, and lied honestly
thought it his duty to have disclosed it, did not iintne,
*ate', go like a man and tell bis maws without visiting
At all; but if he needs must write, why did be, not rend
the lesserdireetly ? and why did he mix ether apattet
tilh ? he reference to the other servants ;mopped

the malice of his motive in legible cheractets. and was
prossf of ilie falseness -of the charge.
.The plaiotiff
oat past the heyday of youth—she was upwards of
gaty-tive years of age—.tad was besides, as he (nr.
lisetagham) understood, extremely plain in bet person,
4.0.4 to say ugly; aqd Geaty. the btoler, was also ai
person of a certain age. From. the place, too, where
the defendant stated that he stood, it was impossible lot
kilns' to have seen the bed. Geary would be called be.
(ore the Jury would hear and decide upon his evidence.
If the charge had been really true, the plaintiff must
fume been the most foolish of women to have come into
court, but it being altogether false and persisted in, she,
idibitice to herself, was bound to rescue her character,
aa reek compensation for the libel which had occa•
staffed bet to lose het place.
Mr. Pottier proired that the plaintiff had been his
cis* and housekeepek, add had hied with him lot
semi? three yeartbefore the beginning of October in
last year. She had alwael borne a good character.—
Watson was aim to set GE for Asa tonsioent. when
he found the letter oalds dressing table. The defendant
acknowledged it to be bie.ieslar. • 'Witness had no time
to • investigate the Maims,. to be discharged both the
plaintiff, defendaot, and Gast*.
tbees elansinedo—The *fondant told him he was
teedp to make affidavit. of the truth of the letter.
Jolla Geary had brew is the service of Mr. Portier
for 14 mon;hs revisor to October, 1826, as butler,
Witness swore most positively the he had never had
any criminal intercourse with the plaintifE whom be
took to be about-41i et 46. He was then in the service
of Mr. itersisbrittow, the Member for. Windsor, and the
plaintiff was in the steak* of Lady Smith, at Hyde
• Park-cot arr.
Cross-esamißed—The foot of the bed might have
been, seen from the place where the-defendant stated
filial be was. WO** bit 4 sometimes sat in the howe.
keeper's room with the plaintiff. He was 45.
indecorous or improper ever
passed bet wren hie and the plaintiff.
'llse COMM,* SUOilAbir, in defence, would not
allow, that, pons oh different saws, of the age of 45,
cook': at *tunes be left alone together in such perfect
safes,. as his friend suppq,ed ; it was rating human
virtue a little too high. kits cheat could not be_ a
vitae's, but Geary could, and a successful lorjr was.
what; pot into the witness boa, placed in the most
difficort sitiaation, as he most either contadtpelluryp,
or betray female coo4deose, The olahniff ha el not.
aostainesk lunch damage. 'kit appeased she was now
alf eaceUCPt PLlCies which the. tcla.smon-*tge.allt
hoposi:ahe Might loog,hegroist=e waif not altogether
• gisYs csl* wlw.klstsatclel4- more deeply iljP•ied
ha. boa owst clout, try. tha. oefertdant; for he
remesolimai am old nary of tato,Ladieequaueellingand ,
a setplaotan *jog applied to to roaltp up. matters, who
wet informed that they had called each other all man.
per of horrible oasmis, some beginning with b, and
others with w, littt," said the Whtletiloq, " hovel