Star.
London, England, 1817-07-03 00:00:00

I; A W LYI ELLIGENCE.

COURT Or KING'S LUNCH, JULY R.
CRIM. CO`.
lIARLAND DAYLIT.

This was an action against the defendant to reco-
ver a compensation in damages for criminal conver-
satiotr with the plaintiff's wife.
From Mt. GUUNEV'S opening statement to the
Jury, it appeared that the plaintiff was R plate en.
graver and chaser by trade, residing in Bateman's-
buildings, Soho, and that the defendant was a clerk
in ame canine house. The plaintiff and defendant,
were school fellows, and bad been intimate from
their youth They had been separated for suing',
years until the year 1812, when they net again, and
their intimacy was renewed. • The plaintiff had then
been married six years, and lived in the most perfect
state of happiness with his wife. He had by her four
children, two of whom were now living. The defen-
dant became a constant visitor at the plaintiff's, and
in the year 1814 his resort to the house was almost
daily. After the fatigues of the day the plaintlff used
to spend his veering: at a respectable public house
in the neighbontlive.!, whither the deleadint used
sometimes to accampany him, but the continued ab-
sence id his friend horn borne of an evennig, gave
him an opportunity of communication with the wife, i
of which he availed himself for 11,e piirpese of de-1
bauching her moral., and violating the chastity of •
the p 1 ne.i. This facility of intercoui se with
the wile became greater in consequence :•te Ilen-
dant's being employed sometimes to look user the
plaintitr's books in I. is leisure hours, and settlia his
accounts. A criminal intimacy with the wile was
the emisequence. The defendant was in the habit of
visiting her after the husband left his residence to go
to the public house, and going away just before his
return home. In these intervals they were found
locked up together, a imetimes in the plaintiff's bed-
room, and at others in the sitting-room. On one oc•
casion the wife had occasion to go out of town for
short time, and on her return the defendant and she
met each other'in a manner evincing the strongest
criminal affection. At a subsequent period the ser-
vant was sent out by her mistress to buy some ar-
t des of haberdashery, and on her return she looked
through the keyhole of the door, and saw the detain
chant aitel the plaintiff's wife under such circum-
stances as lc leave no doubt how they had been em-
ployed The Lady's bosom was completely expo-
sed, her dress dishevelled, and the defendant in the
ay of tying her gown behind. Ac another time the
savant earned a message to her mistress from a per-
son %ilia called about instructions for the grave-stone
of one of her children who had recently died, and
found the door of the room locked upon the defen-
dant and the Lady, when the latter, in an unfeeling
manner, exi retAid discontent at being troub:ed with
loch messages, and desired that the man should tali
again. One night the
.plaintiff happened to return
from ttia vithlic house at an unexpected hour, when
the defendant w', locked up with Mts. Harland in
her bed teem, and apprehending a discovery, lie re-
treated into the children's bed room until Mr. Har-
land had gone to bed, and then the defendant
left the house privately. During all this time the
plaintiff was totally unacquainted with the inadclity
of his wife, but perceiving that her affections were
unaccountably estranged from him, he sent her to
live for a short time with an aunt of hers, and then
lie was informed by the servants, who bad been wit-
tresses of these transactions, of the criminality of the
defendant and his wife.
John Knight, palish clerk of Christchurch, pro.
diced the registry of the marriage of the plaintid
with his wife, Mary Russell, in 1807.
Mr. John Chapman. formerly a partner with the
plaintiff in business, proved that the plaintiff lived on
affectianate teems with his wile. •
Mr. Charles Smith, who knew the plaintiff for 14
years, was called for the same purpose. He had vi-
sited the plaintiff and his wile csistantly, and they
always appeared to live happily together. On his
crosaexamination, it appeared that the plaintiff used
to suffer visitors to go into his wife's bed-room, when
she: was confined in bed. 'Witness could not deny
that he had been admitted a visitor tinder such cir-
conesteaces, when the husband was vicuna. Win
secs begged leave to decline answering whether he
ever had saluted the plaintiff's wife. He admitted that
taw plaintiff had told him, after his wife had been
seat away, that the cause of their separation was her
tinfartun to addiction to drinking. He never saw
Mrs. Harland absolutely drunk;'but he bad reason to
believe that she was in the habit of indulging in strong
lequora
Mary Marrison and Jane Williams, who had suc-
cessively lived in the serviee ot the plaintiff, proved
the_circumstanies as stated in Mr. Gurney's opening,
relative to the supposed adulterous intercourse be-
tween the defendant and Mrs. Harland. They under-
went a rigid cioss.eaamination by Mr. &catkin and
negatived several questions put to them, respecting
decimations they acre suppled to have made iu
lavoui of Mrs. Hatland'a innocence, &c.
Mr. Scastnera addressed the Jury for the defen-
dant, and contended that a husband like the plaintiff
was not entitled to recover eery heavy damages for
the less of a.wile whose society he could habitually
abandon by going to the public house every night after
his work was over, and never returning to her but is
a state when his presence could nut be acceptable;
still, less could he experience much loss of comfort
en the society of a lady, front whom it appeared be
had parted because of her habits of inebriety, *ud not
on account of any infidelity to his bed ; which charges
was trumpt up for the purpose of getting rid altoge-
ther of a wile, for wham, it would appear, he had
agreed to make an allowance of lOsa per week, long
before any suspicions teem entertained of her chastity.
Four witnesses were called for the defendant, the
dbjecnof whose testimony was, first, to contradict the
halal= s examined in support of Meaiti4 Lei p_a's case, in
several particulars; secondly, that the husband Mu
in the habit el making his a ae's bed chamber a place
'eh visitation for strangers, when she WAS in bed; thirdly,
athat the lady was unfortunately addicted to strong
liquors, and that her husband hear parted from her on
that account; and fourthly, that she was in habits of
f dine"
Jury,
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101rRT MAR ma, AT BIRAHNOII4II.

Hone Connie, 19th hoe, 1817.

Stn—Having laid before the PRINCE Rrortst the
proceeding.: of a General Court-Martial, held at Bir-
mingham, on the 12th of May, 1817, and continued
by adjournments to the 20th of the same month, for
the trial of Major the HonourableMutat,' ERSKINE
COCHRANE, of the Ira, or the King's Regiment "1
Light Dragoons (Hussars), who was arraigned upon
the undermentioned charges, viz.—
" let. for 6lghly irregular and Improper condi:et in causing a
horse which had torn cast, of his own troop, and told u unet
for troop service, to be mustered as one of his own pro;:er
chargers, and fur drz.v. nig forage for it as such the greater part
of the time, between the .24th of Apr.!, Selo, and the Ist Sep-
tember, ISIS, or thereabouts, contrary to the Orders of
_the kis
!insult, and the Rules and Itegulr.tions of the Service.
" Sd. For conduct unbecoming the character of an Officer
and a Gentleman, in having received from Lieutenant John
Carr, of the name Regiment, at Ilrconrage, in France, on or
about the latter end of January, or the beginning of February,
1814, insulting langtisti:, such as nir Officer in his Majesty's ser-
vice °vein to have borne, and of vs Inch he, Major Cochrane,
did net take due and sufficient notice, but by some means cum-
promi,ed the trarnaction, after the return of the regiment to
Enelaed ; site's conduct twing not only derogatory to Isis own
character, bat to that art dn• let vire, highly prejudicial to military
diaciphne, and to the good conduct of the Regiment.
" Sd. For havisig, contrary to his duty, embarked three
horses, his own ptivate properly, with the depot of the 15th
Hussars, at the Corer of Cork, in Ireland, on or about the .24th of
June, 1 tl 144 cm hoard the transport Xantlttot, over and above his
full complement of ehargeri, whereby two of the three hor es
died in conse.prence of the crowded stale or the versed—For
their two horses, he, at. slid Major Cochrane, applied fee,
and received from Govcrunio.it remuneration as chargers, al-
though they were wit being contrary to the espress
and Regulations o: the Sri Viet', AS they never Lad been nutstsred
as s-.ch, nor were they from their age adapted for such purpose,
and particularly as he, the said Mac,r Cochrane, had besides the
three horses before mentioned, his lull complement ofl chargers,
winch he had muster il as such on board tte same vessel."

lipon which charges the Court came to rl e tot: owing decision t
" 'Pile Court Laving with great del:titration weighed and
cco-sidered the whole of the evidence addle:cid by the Prosecutor
in his endeavour to prove the eharpeis against the Prisoner, to-
gether with the &tette-, and the testimony ouAht forward in
support thereof, is of °polio'', its res:sect to the First Charge, that
he, the Hon. Vs illiain ErsioneCocivaiie, Mejor of the I Sib Hus-
sars, is Not Guilty, and cloth therefore tidily acquit Win of the same.
" With respect to the ziecond Charge, st.e Court is of tipirsion,
that he, Major the Hon. W. E. Cochrane, is Not Guilty of the
same, and doth therefore most fully aud honourably acquit him
of all and every part thereof.
" With respect to the Third Charge, the Court is of opinion,
that he, Major the Hon W. E. Cochrane, it Not Guilty, acid
do:h therefore acquit him thereof.
" The Court, in justice to the service, conceives it cannot too
strongly mark its reprobation of the mode adopted by the Pm.
secutor in collecting a body of Charges against the Prisoner, the
alletaricms of same of which extend to the most remote period
allowed by the Articles of War far the tiogniaance of military
cffiincrs, and which it is conceived °ITU and would have beets
noticed by the o.nunauding Officers for the time being, had
there then appeared sufficient grounds for au appeal to a Ge-
neral Court Mar-sal. And the Court more particularly repro-
haus the Second Charge, as renewing the recollection of ani-
mosities in parties wiio have anncably adjusted their difference
to she satisfaction of their brother officers, and who lad been
living In the habits of perfect cordiality for sitar three years be-
fore this charge war preterred.

" The Court is further of opinion upon the...whole that three
char.:a have tern exlobited from and other in.iives than those
dales pod of the serlesCe."
I am to acquaint you that his Royal IligLnepi teat pleated, in
the name aril on the belial of his Majesty, to approve kid con-
firm the fiedwg and sentence of the Court.
1 he Prince Regent was afro pleased to confirm, by the 'rpm:-
Ceti et lli. r•rrLed itsplemittre, the terms of reprobation by which
the, Court Ewe eorveyed their censure upon the conduct of the
Prosecutor (Captain ruekley) in presuming to volumeer on.
focr.ded accrAtions against another and a superior Officer for
supposed raw Irregularities, because he had himself become the
ob,ect of :eprebendon upon grounds totally irrelevant to the
allegations he kt forth against the honour and character of Major
Coen:are.

I am further commanded to intimate to you, that the just anl-
madverbions of the Court Martial upon the prosecutor's conduct
would have called fur a more signal mark of the Prince Regent's
dagplasure than the exprc•sion of Lis Royal Highness'r censure,
If Captain Beckley had not already been placed upon the half pay
list fur irregularity spun &recent occibion ; and, being unwilling
to deprive an old soldier, who has served nearly 114 years, of to-
tal subsistence, his Royal Highness was pleased to extend his '
gracious clemency to that officer, by withholding from him suck
merited punislimet.t. But his Royal Highness at the same time
directed coat t vi1..:14 be intimated to Captain Buckley, that the
ernwire upon 0,4 uccasiou will be noted as a bar to leis re•ertl.
ploymeat fr. the Service .----1 am, Sir, yours,
FRLDIRICX, Commander in-chief-
To Malor-C:en. Sir J. Lyon, K.C. d. the Officer commanding
the Troops in the Inland District.

Bart nrote.—Thurslay last three Gentlemen, Captain Caere
Canis, of the fat Lite Uuards, Mr. RUDDOCX, Of the 7th, and
Mr. itstatiose, of the Unliterary of Cembridge, were driving
round the Steyue is a auricle with a pair of fiery bfeods in the
carriage, the horses, by some accident, became unmanageable,
and dashed tiff with furious speed, and coming in contact with
one of the cornets of Donaldson's Library, Captain C. was thrown
out with such violence as to fracture b:s leg; Mr. Kunnu..a
leaped out, but cut his knee in a dreadful manner : Mr. Amsao se
at still, till the horses, approachirg the Cliff, ran over the lead-
ing horses of a wagon,
__ when he made Ids escape behind, and
Was perfectly unhurt. Mr. R:ropocz and Captain Cum.:anti
are doing
The French Papers contair. the followingnarrativc
" Au individual very remarkable both to see and bear, has ar-
Heel at Calais with the Russian squadron. He Is a native of
bourJeauz, and is named Joseph Cabris.—Ernharked in 1784,
on board the privateer the Dumuurler, be was taken by the Eng
Usk, and suliseltiently enrolled in the corps of !'migrants in the
English service. He formed past et the expedition to Quibc7om,
, fazed blotted/ by swinimlag, and regained the English frigates.
I On reiumieg to London, he triaged as an under officer on beard
a merchant vessrl fur a long voya6e. This vessel vim lust at the
Marquesas (or Marquis of Maideaa's Islands), and an English-
man and he alone were saved. Received by the inhabitants of
one of those isaudarto which be gave the name of Hamlin, be
was adopted by them, and tattood irons head to feet like the rest
of the islanders. 1 bey gave him in mamage the daughter of the
Iting, and be bred nine years with these savagta perfectly happy,.
having la abunuancx fruits without the trouble of cultivating
then:, and Muni on the produce of the be. ad-tree and fish. 'them
per pie are Atgariimphazi, and eat the prisoners whom they take
in war. lle has seen several of these repasts, el which be gives
circumstantial drta:ls, as well as of the manners of the natives. I
The Russian Captain Kroneustern touched at this Island, in
rnyage round the world. and took him on board. He left the
found of IV:loam Sei:b regret. He was landed at KleetPeheee4, li
and stitered the Russian betViCe as a Lieutenant la the Navy.—
He caw returns to France, and intends retiring to iioardeauv,
Ids nar.ve c.;untry. The tattooing with which his skin is narked,:
from the forehead is the feet, fa done with art. The designs of
it are considerably varied and traced with much neatness."