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London, England, 1826-12-19 00:00:00

THE WELLESLEY CASE.

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AFFIDAVIT OF THE HON. P. LONG WELLESLEY.
SAith, that he did, in or about the month of Novem-
ber, in the year 1822, with his family, arrive at Naples,
in Italy, where, very soon after his arrival, Thomas
Bulkeley, then resident at Naples aforesaid, was by
Captain Schomberg, of the Royal Navy, introduces/ to
deponent, and was employed by deponent as medical
attendant to his family.

That an intimacy (which had arisen in the year 1912,
between the late Catherine Pole Tylney Long Welles.
ley, the deceased wife of deponent. and Helena Bligh,
then Helena Patterson, and who then resided with her
faher and mother, Colonel and Mt g. Patterson, in a
house belonging to deponent, called the Banquetting
House, in the immediate vicinity of Wanstead House,
in the county of Essex, and who was in the habit of vi-
siting, with her said father and mother, at parties give A
by deponent and his said deceased wife, at Wanstead
Hons. aforesaid) was renewed by said Catherine Pole ,
Tylney Long Wellesley with the Said Mrs. Helena
Bligh, on their arrival at Naples.
That having himself a great disinclination to ferns
any intimacy with the family of Captain Thomas [nigh,
the husband of said Mrs. Helena Bligh, who were then
at Naples, he urged, in tht strongest terms, to his late
deceased wife, such his disinclination, and requested her
on several occa.i,ms not to allow the acqusintahee which
subsisted with Mrs. Helena Bligh to grow into intimate
friendship ; but that deponent's said deceased wife, feel-
ing a great regard for the said Mrs. Helena Bligh,
overruled such his advice, and did renew sdch acquaint-
*nee wi. h said Mrs. Bligh at the house of Mr. Hamil-
ton, the 11: i:ish Minister, then resident at Naples, un-
known to deponent, and invited said Mrs. Bligh to hii
(deponent's) house, without his knostledge of cohcdt-
tenet, and contracted after Wards habits of intimacy
with her, as appears by the following letter addressed
by said Catherine Pole Tylney Long 'Wellesley td said
Mrs. Paiterstin, the mother of said Helena !Nigh, Which
copies deponent received from Captain Serie. of Upper
Sermounstieet, Portaran-icluare, a friend of said Mrs.
Patterson, a few days since; etsrms, Om 4, 1823.
Due Matuitit—l ant Witted to take Of MO, of addrewih
myself to you, for the FAIN* of contradicting a **poet, kvlikb; I
understand, has been propagated (I am convineed by son* WNW
and malctrolent persons), namely, that I was illthpillell bp Mr.
Long Wellesley to offer to your daughter, Mn.it Blithe nit ptiatee-
tion idler the unfortunate step she took a Pew seethe since ; I send
you a copy of my note to Sir Richard Chunk upon that occasion,
width must refute such au assertion, and, 1 liopei convince you,
should you for one moment have entertained a doubt open the sub.
ject; how entirely I wan actuated by ray own teelings,towards Mrs.
Bligh, to offer to ber all the comfort I possibly entild afford, in bit
most dime:sing situation. Ido not hesitate to say, that I believe
never was there so vile and deeply laid a plot to ruin two persons,'
as that which has been formed against your daughter and Mr.. Long
Wellesley. Every arrangentent bad been made for Mts. high s
spitting Naples for Pais, or Thursday last; but it foreibif struck '
nie, salting a journey, to be performed alone, would be a wretched
one; I, therefore, as it was our intention to leave this place a very
few day, afterwards, requested her to remain with mat hr those
few days, and then accompany us to Paris. It will perhaps be
said, that I was also compelled to snake this offer ; however, pray
believe, dear Madam, that all I have done, and can do for Mrs.
B1143b) ii from my sincere wishes for her *drift. She hail been
titan groisly.persecuted and deserted by those persons W1%6101411
a hate been hit friends. We have every reason to believe, that
sitars p letters she has written to some of her friends in Ibiglanch
frill leiver reach them—Relict& me dear Madam, yours truly.
C. LONG WELLESLEY.

Anima 0, 18$3.
blt imutiSiankumti—Will you forgive me fiat Mehl)/
of requesting you to send me the address of Mrs. h, which
bear is known to jou. It was only last night thit I heard, from
Mr. Long Wellesley. of the unfortunate business which has, within
the last few days, occurred in her family. It is my intention to
tall on Mrs. Kish to-day ; but I wish to make my first visit to her
upon this occasion, without the knowledge of Mr. Long Wellesley;
for will I even ask ties to give sue her &dank's. My reason for
acting thus is, that an ill-catered world may have it not in ha power
to bay, that Mr. Long Wellesley has influenced my conduct in
any degree upon the subject.—Ptay forgive the' rouble I am giving
yob, and believe'me, your Mud obliged,

E. LONG WELLESLEY.

That his said late wife subsequently is►fArrned hire
she intended to proffer4.er protection to said' Helena
Bligh ; and that, on such occasion, that he, deponent,
remonstrated most earnestly with his said late wife on
the imprudence of tier to doing, and urged her re-
peatedly not to allow said Helena Bligh to become en
inmate in his, deponent's, family; but that his aid
late Wife 'overruled his, deponent's, 'objection, mid
eventually brought said Helena Wig% 610 brit, depo-,
tent's, house, and partinstirly requested hire, deponent,
to shew her, said Helena Bligh, the attention which her
unhappy situation demanded.
That his said late deceased wife did, as deportee(
Minna, recommend the said Thome: Bulketey col
surd Helenit Bligh, to attend ter. in ltis
profeision, but on. what acceuqt in parfictilar, or when,
or on what occasion the said Thomas Bulkeley did so
attend Mrs. Helena Mgt, deponent does not know.
That during his residence at Naples, a party, con-
sisting et a Russian Princess and her niece, the Hon.,
Colond Stanhope, Mr. Edward Bligh, the brother of,
the husband of said Mrs. H. Bligh, Mrs. Bligh, two,
English Gentlemen, friend of the said Princess, two
foreign Gentlemen, and deponent, besides the gulden,;
peasants, and attendants, amounting, in the *hole, to
upwards of fifty pei sous. was made, to ascend Mount
Vesuvius.

That such excursions always commenced at night,
from the tithe required to ascend and descend the,
mountain, and also to avoid the great heat, which du.
sing the day would render the ascent dangerous ; that
the said late wife of deponent had always refused to
attend a patty to Meant Vesuvius, having a bodily
malady which prevented her from taking any ♦iolent;
walking exercise, and particularly from walking up
bill; that during the ascent and descent, deponent was
constantly in company and conversation with the several
persons composing the said party, and not one moment
in the separate society of said H. Bligh. That the only]
house on the mountain shoe persons stop to take

r "refreshments, ceittsistwi at' elf as dlttionent-saw, of tst6
large rooms, which went filled, during the time the
• party was there, by • the seeer2l perions. who teccomb
pa-nied them..
That it is not true, is stated and sweita to by said
Thomas Bulkeley, that he, deponent, told him, said
-Thomas Bulkeley, during:, his residence at Naples,
aforesaid, that he had sehi for said Thomas Bulkeley
on account of said Mrs. H. •Bligh, who, he deponent
feared, was with child, and that her husband was in
very bad health, and not able to afford her the grad-
&scion she required; bet, on the contrary, deponent
saith, such statement is a mere fabrication and invention
- Of said Thomas Bulkeley, and is utterly false; and that
' the whole conversation which is stated by said Bulke-
fey to have taken place at the same time, between him
'and deponent, relative to said intercourse between de-
ponent and the said H. Bligh, on Mount Vesuvius, and
Ns, deponent's, reply, as to boasting of atady's favours,
is; in like manner, a mere fabrication of said Thomas
Bulkeley, and utterly false.
That the darkness of the streets, in Napier, when there is no
Moon, is quite proverbial and well known—.it is like tee darkness
of a cave or cell; and that it would be impossible so.diesinguish be-
tween persons walking in the streets after dark. •
That the statement sworn to by nisi T. Bulkeley,
that he was accosted by depopent one evening' , when
it was quite dark, and induced to get into his, depts..
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nent s, ciatiage, and the conversation which is also
stated by said T. Bulkeley to have passed in deponent's
carriage, on that occasion, is wholly like, and never
took place.
Thit during hil residence at Riples he was subject to an intim
nation of the eyes, Which tendered his sight ettremely defeetiee.
That conversation* did take place between deponent
and laid T. BM keley, regretting the health of said Mrs.
Helena Bligh, which had been ninth affected in cot e-
quenee of her having remained very late, after a riding
excursion to the Sago d'Agnano, in company with her
htisband, Mr. W. Hamilton, and deponent, at a bad
seisot of the year, which confined her to her house for
some dirt; but that such conversations were Mete in-
Tildes is to the general health of said Mrs. Helena
Bligh.
nit he is aware the laid Mrs. Helena quitted her husband, the
said 'Morriss Nigh, in omesrquence of his having beat and other-
wise ill-treated her, and subsequently deserted his said wife, and
left her destitute and without the means of support, at Naples.
That said Helena Bligh having been so deserted by
her said husband, said Catherine Pvle Tylney Long
Wellesley, deceased, took said Helena Bligh under her
protection, as appears by the letters aforesaii ; but de-
ponent inhst positively denies the conversation stated
and sworn by said T. Bulkeley, to have passed between
hint, said T. Bulkeley, and deponent, as to the advice
he gave deponent respecting such alleged elopement.
That said Thomas Bulkeley wa., as the Medical at-
tendant to the family, in the constant habit of visiting
the house of deponent, and frequently two or three
times a day; and that, on one occasion, he, deponent,
Mentioned the circumstance of the dilrerences which

1 1 servant of :la Helena Bligh, as is customary in Italy.
was ordered before the police, and desired to state if he
had ever witnessed any impropriety on the part of said
Helena high, which he repliei to on oath, to the effect
that he had never 'witnessed* any impropriety in the con
duct' of said Helena Bligh, during hisresidence in her
service. Sot deponent most positively denies that such
deposition was made at the instance of him, deponent,
or to obviate any damage to him, or to screen him in
any way, as regarded his conduct towards said Helena
!High.
That the statement sworn to• by said Thomas Bulkeley. of a cow
variation which toe& place between said Thomas Bulkeky and do.
pooeot relative to his, deponent, having hired the house adjoining
Capt. Thomas Bligh, for the purpose of carrying on an intercourse
with said irekna Nigh, is wholly false.
That the allegation by said Thomasßulkeley,relative to a *errant
named ilieheli Genfrini, having been placed in said Helena. Blish's
bon" and his being a selettrated bravo, Is tonally untrue.
That said Michell Genfrini, on the contrary, was re-
commended to deponent by his Dalian tutor, Bordeai,
a man of amt• superior acquirements, and that be, said
Genfrini, was recommended strongly to deponent, on
account °this known integrity, as the favour ite and con-
fidential gen.d'arme of King Murat, from whom he had
received the decoration of the legion of honour, for his
signal services as a soldier, and his tried probity, and
the fact Of his having kept the pal ice doors closed
against the populace during as insurrection, and wheie,
it-as said, he killed with his own sword, being then gen-
,d'arniepnine of the insurgents.
That he, in his cooscience, believes, that these circumstances are
well known to said Thomas Bulkeley.
That when he bad arrived at Albano, he desired,
'contrary to the wishes both of his said wife and said
HeletitiSligh, that she, said Helena-Bligh, should travel,
not with deponent and his said wife to Florence, but
should precede his family, and travel in company With
said Thomas Nulkeley. And that when the intention
of deponent was. communicated to said Helena Bligh,
she appeared much affected, and retired to her apart-
tnent, apparently in much agitation of mind.
That before be quitted Naples with his family, he was particu-
larly indent that said Mrs. HrlessaJ3ligh should not form a part of
his travelling smite; and that he, therefore, purchased a carriage for
her, and requested Mr. Landiton, the son of the Member of Par-
liament for Durham, who was more conversant with the modes of
travelling in Italy than deponent. to hire what are called Veturini
horses, which do not travel at the fate of those that post, and do
not stop at the same Inns, in order to avoid the meeting with said
Mrs. H. high and his family on the road; and that the agreement
with the proprietor of said Veuirini horses, to take said H. Bligh
to Paris, Was completed, to the best ofdeponent's recollection, by
Saidbir. iteMbton. (To be continued.)