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London, England, 1826-03-15 00:00:00

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Lashbury says it tells lath, as she never hie* me to but one brim.
Krim mint servant is sword **texas amnion, would mow and
Nee will Om, we shall want one b —plike. Serval* ii &lite
this country. I ha.ff vie rid Si visit to Mt; and. Mrs.
, the weber, has been so utifaustable. ere came a gentle-man
inns Mr. Smith's shop, who inqUifed of Aft. Said& if I Wargotng
la in marred to Mrs. Peake ; be answered he timid not tell. There
was a woman in the shop at the time from this parish, who made
answer that she was sure that it was going to take place, for I add
dor fere wesgon loadtrof wines. Mrs. Perkins desires me to give
her duty to you. I have eased my cote at Dignall End Catery, a
penny per draft, which is about 3 cwt. I am selling at Is. pet
draft. The name of our curate is the Rev. Mr. Winnsry—he is
very good, and gate to teach the welters at the Sunday-scoot, and visit
the sick. I long to see you, that I may enjoy a sweer salon,. and
remain your ever affectionate and sincere lover,
JOHN WEDGWOOD.
P.S. Yoe put into my hands an.advfrtiserneut to the ladies. I
want a Wife in rrurn. I give you the invocation of a hopeless
virgin an the other side. I have got a mat and two busses meld for
my pew in Audley Church. Mr. Kinnersley's cariage was there
this morning with some part of the family ; they ate returned front
the Ile of Wife. The ladierin this county wars half bootee maid of
thick kessonere cloth wove on purpose, with tether balm to go over
the Moose, whichfastion I apptove of.

PAT oua Errr—l have received yowl of the 30th of November
today, by your old faithful servant, and am happy to hear your
•Relth is so much restored, and that you take my advice in being
clothed warm. I shall see her to-morrow about half-past three in
the afternoon, at Newcastle, in order to receive front her what she
'has collected of your money that is outstanding. It is not conve-
nienffor me to come to Stapely at the time you mention, but will
do myself the pksatre of seeing you on Thursday next, if the waiter
'permits. -Itaw Mr. %%wetly on Friday last, who seems to he an,
agreeable kind of M2ll, he gose about to the poor pepks to enquire if
they have a pore book or Bible in their houses; if they have not,
is will furnish them at a reasonable price, cheper than they can ity
them at the stadonees; god hoping to see you in a short time will
give piastre to JOHN WEDGWOOD.
Dec. 4, 41111.5.

• • lath of Febreary, 1825.
Dun Manast.--Yours of the fSth instant came to band yester-
dayorkkitipme site grate pleasure to here you had recovered from
yew ladispedshm. I called at Mr. Mare r and was disappointed
at net Ohm a letter which led me to apperend all was not right.
sot soh bone, and shall be happy to here from you, to know when
I shall have theplenste of seeing you. Sincerely yours, J. W.
April the 4th, 1825.
DaAa Manam.—Tt gives me no small pleasure to bad ?anchor:is
reetwasoL I was rtieised to lad you took my advice and took
:Isidro enjoyed-sold state of lath since j have arrived
' U -VA I hope IMO to WO you at Chester. Since I add
tiffs stammer is approaching. I aye a apri-
cot tree WHO 4111a0 WM k as big as a Spanish nut, and a nec-
tarine metal/ illaelOwl potatoes that are to be nips above the
pound green. Idea erase in theses& to Chester. .Tbe
amen potters in Mean. J. and W. Wood's factory, at lerrel-lent,
have turned out fur an advance of wages, and there masters mu
'Nies to comply. It Is expected that the men at the Borilent *S
roes, and the ovaries in the potteries will also tern out for as ad-
vance of wages,—BoNeve me to be yours assuredly.
JOHN WEDGWOOD.
[Much laughter was racked daring the reading of this letter, and
continued for some time.]

Mr. Thames Hemp said, these letters are of the defendant's
head-writing.
Crosaesaasined by Mr. Jesus —I have known the defeadaat
far many years ; Mis near seventy ; riot fat short ; an old bachelor ;
he is nor gay in his apposraawa
fits,exaniard--lje is a wealthy man.
Mr. Thomas Sutton—l am a friend of the plaintiff,
my wife was intimate with her; 'I have known her
twenty-vii or twenty-stem years; bar age is thirty-six
or thirty-seems. I live at Lake, bat I was at Chester
in October last; I. saw the defendant there; I dined
with the defendant at Ars. Peake"s, with some other
fiends. The defendant directed is to purchase wines
for his marriage with Mrs. Pe.k. I was to purchasesuch
wine as I liked. I afterwards saw him again, and he
desired me to be oneof the trustees under the marriage
settlement; j consented. He wished Mr. Copeland to
re the settlements. He said he wished to make his 1111sedepeadent-of all his elations.
Crowesiminset by Mr. C. I saw Mr. Wedgwood
often ; he is trots shay to *moan he mated in good health.
Mr. Charles Copeland-- I have known the plaintiff
thirteen or fourteen years. In October last, I was on
a visit at Mrs. Peak's with my wife. She then lived at
Chester. The defendant resides about seven miles
from Newcastle. He was also on a visit to Mrs. Peak,
and slept in the house ;my wife and I did not. The
defendant was very attentive to her, and their-approach-
ing marriage was talked of by him. He said he was
making a new read to his own house, and he should
marry as soon as the road was complete. He said,
that the plaintiff had ever been very attentive to him,
and was likely to contribute to his health. We went to
see Lord Grosvenor's house at Eaton Hall, the plaintiff
and defendant being of the petty; and the latter said,
he wished to see Mr. Sutton about the settlements, and
told me, that he wished that I would prepare the set-
tlements, as he did not then feel disposed to employ
any of his friends in the profession at Newcastle or
Burslem, as he wished the amoent to be kept a secret.
The settlement was to be 5001. a year.
The letter declaring off the match was also put in;
it was in terms stated by Mr. Campbell in his opening
speech ;• but there was on it a memoranium in the
land.writing of Al's. Peak, apparently with reference
to the pound-note mentioned in that letter, which was'
in these terms :--

Four Media Haodkerelges -

14#. Od.

Pahl Savants at Mrs. Wakeman's - 6 0
Balance to Mr. Wedgwood - - 1 o
Eltirniatat'on resumed.—l called on Mr. Wedgwood
on the 2d of January; I told him I came to ask an
explanation of the last letter. The defendant- said,
41 1 have been extremely ill ever since I wrote it, and
lamin an exceedingly low state. I ant very much
attached to Mrs. Peak ; and my only reason is, that I
have ben advised by my medical man, that I am not
ino fit state to rnarry:'
Cross examined by Mr.Jakvta---I know Mi. Chid-
wick, the surgeon. He is y. unger, I think, than
Mts. Ptak. I unierstOod that he was her admirer,
and paid his addresses to her. He was received by her
as her lover. That continued up till May, 1825. -I
never advised her to prefer the old man to the young
one. Mr. Wedgwood told me he was 66. He is very
nervous, but not shaken. 1 have visited the defendant
tu ice: he d ,es tint live in great style He keeps a one-
horse chaise, and a tuan.servant. I (Wet know that his man is the
Scrub of the Cattily. The plaintiff coasuannicated the letter to the
on the 17th of December, and directed me so apply to Mr. Wpdp
wood; and on the 224 of January, 1 bad directions to commoace
an action.

Re examined—The defendant said he amid not value his pre-
puny, became of the extensive mines nudes' it.
Mr. John Wakeman said. I live ou my property, at Stapely.
am a cousin of the plaintiff, whine father Urea in the county of
Carmarthen; the bad been visiting me, and on the 7th Deceinbet
the defendant tame to my lacistee, and paid ber peat attention ; he
`went on the Mb wends. I did sot hear of the intended marriage.
Aly wife is not here, she is not very well.
Crosa•essinined by Mr. C. Puuzias—The defendant was more
tbau ordinarily polite, but he did not seem very ardent. —(The
'witness was much pressed no to what the great attention was, but
did not captain further.)

The_______ _ - to
mama, and, on the Deno, we observed Lady W. Bent 0116 Mrs.
Maine, Lord Engestrie, the late and.present High Sls, and
a great number of the gentry of the county.
KINGSTON, Masco 14.
John Jacobs, alias the Hon. John Julian Hamilton,
was indicted fot feloniously intermarrying with Ca-
-1 therine Fitzgerald, spinster, at St. Michael's, Bath, an
the 23d of January, 1817, his first wife, Dorothea Do-
novan, being then alive. This case stood over from the
last Assizes, at the instance of the prisoner. The pti-
soner was a young Man of fashionable appeataace, and
wore a formidable pair of mustachios.
Mr. Mummer opened the case for the prosecution, and stated;
that it was conducted at the instance of a Lady named Frances
Vitale, Raspaldo, the widow of an Italian, and with whom the
prisoner was supposed to have formed a third matrimonial alliance.
The following witnesses were called:
Mr. Benjamin Jones, brother of Mrs. Raspaldo, produced an
examined copy of the register of the marriage of the prisoner with
`Dorothea Donovan, at Cove, Cork, on the 6th of April, 1813, at
the church of St. Union/ in that parish.
William lingers, water baiiiff of Cove, proved that he
was present at the marriage of the prisoner with Miss
Donovan, whose mother had kept a hotel and tavern in
Cork, but had failed in business. The prisoner lodged
iin witness's house at the time. Miss Donovan went to
the church from her aunt's house, and her mother con-
tented to-the match. tier father was dead at the time. .
Mary Hare proved also that she was relent at the
'marriage. 'fbe prisoner was married by the name of
John Jacobs,, About two years since the prisoner
called upon witness to prove the marriage in a Court of
Justice. She knew the prisoner to have lived, both in
England and Ireland, with Miss Donovan, as man and
wire. At the time of the marriage, Miss Donovan was
about 16 years of age.
On her cross-examination by Mr. LAW, she said she
did nut know the age of the prifonerat that time.
Joseph Tucker, parish clerk of Walcott, in the city of Bath, pro-
duced an examined copy of the register of the marriage of the
.prisoner with Catherine Fitzgerald, which took place on the 234
January, 1817.
Captain Butler, formerly of the ilfe Guards, was present at the
letwelsie of Miss Fitagerald with the prisoner. Witness was him-
leaf seatsled melee maw day to analog lady.
I setrose PMlsb, clerk of the papers in the King's Noel prim,
lika,ever was apprehended in that prison on a war.
start Ise lairMsay, and takakto Union Hall.
Frances Vitale: Raspaldo, the widow of air Italian,
proved that she was introduced to the prisoner ht Paris,
by the name of the Hon. John Julian Hasrsilton. She
produced a paper, which she said was the certificate of
her marriage with the prisoner. About two swathe
since, she received from the prisoner's first wife a
of which the following it a copy. Witness could sal
read or write.

M Truly, my dearest Dore, I have came tube wretched and on.
happr; but never minds-nothing but Ovalness sad resolution must
now bear me through this dreadful fate: Cheer up, haw, and be
assured of this, that let my fate be what it may—let me go where
It will, never, never Audi I so fondly love another as I sie you. Let
me do what I may, be assattd, my fleetest creature, you alone
will be my Ant and only love; do not, Dora, desert your poor
unhappy Jack. Do what you an to extricate your poor fellow
from the fake that awaits him. Leave no stone unturned to And
Mary Hare, and see if you cm keep her out of the way until the
Kinston Audios are ever. Should you do that. an wag° on wen;
if two on &amine bay brows' *hat will be my tato Most
truly do I grieve to hear your are so truly wrecked and miserable;
for Goo's sake, sod for my sake, do not—do net fret; you will'
add to my misery by so doing. ace knows any dtnadon is most
dreadful without ether additions, net having a penny to get bread,
and compelled to accept favours from strangers. Never mind, Dors,
if my fate ordains me to leave this country, my conduct abroad
most be such as to merit the lenity and notice of the Governor, and
thereby lighten du severity of my fate; and I hope I shall have this
cheering prospect upon my return Of Wag), to be received in the
arms of my own dear Dora. If possible, come down on Friday
about four o'clock, and I will be at the gate to receive you. Truly
do I commiserate your present trouble. Cheer up foe my sake,
and dun's let me see you miserable when you come down. If she
should call again, eodeaveur to learn if the payment of the money
will induce her to desist from the trial; if so, we must endeavour
to get it for her. Geo help me! Why did you not get Mary Hare's
address ? Try if you can, and let MO know. Adieu, Goa bless you.
I shall rely upon seeing you et Friday. Believe me ever your
attached sad most faithful " JACIL"
This letter was put in and read, he the purpose of establishing
the validity of the Met marriage, and the anxiety of the prisoner to
suppress legal proof of its ealebeatios. This was the case fur the

priieention-.
TIM prisoner being called open for his deftest, raid be did not
whit to say any thing.
Mr. Isaac Jacobs, a glass-manufacturer of Bristol,
father of the prisoner, was then called by the prisoner's
Counsel, to chew th4t at the time of the first marriage
he was an infant. under the age of 21, and that it
had taken place without the consent of parents. Wit-
ness being a Jew, was sworn on the Old Testament. He
stated that the prisoner was his son, and was born on
the 4th of June. 1796, and wanted five years and two
months of being twenty-one at the time of his mar-
riage with Miss Donovan. Witness had known no-
thing of the marriage until afterwards, and he cer-
tainly never gave his consent to it. The paisoner's
name was Jacob Jacobs, and in the Hebrew. lan-
guage Jacob and Jalut were the same thing. The
prisoner arrived from Ireland in 1814; but witness
bad never seen his first wife. The prisoner bad told
him that he was married, but he did net believe him.—
At the age of sixteen, witness had sent the prkoner as
supercargo to Demerara, having confidence in hi;
ability. Did not know of the second ,marriage with.
Miss Fitzgerald until after it took place ; understood
that by her the prisoner had two or three children. Did
not know what the prisoner was by profession or busi-
ness. Never knew biro to be a Captain in the army;
saw him in the King's Bench about two years Awe.
Mr. LAW and Mr. PLATT submitted, on this evi.
dence, that the first marriage was void, it having been
c•intracted by the prisoner during infancy, and without
the consent of patents, arid consequently that the second
marriage was lawful and binding.
Mc. Barn:laic:, contra, urged that infattcy was no
objection in the first marriage, under the circumstances
stated, inasmuch as the prisoner had affirmed the con-
tract, by living with his first wife after he came of age.
In addition to this, he relied on the letter above men-
tioned as decisive of his argtittient.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM said he would reserve the point for the con-
sideration of the twelve Judges, if the Jury should be satisfied that
the flat marriage had been in fact wieninized.
The Jury, under -the Learned Judge's direction, found the pre-
sonar Guilty, and the judgment was postponed.

Last week, Jos. Hardwick, a woodman employed in
a covert on the estate of the Eat' or A•hbuinharn, in
the occupation of W. It. James, Esq. of Barking Hall,
hawing gone into an a4Vining covert, las shot in the
fate, body, and legs, by a spring gun, whilst in the act
of stooping to cut some bent to ue up bu wotk ; but he
is in a lair way of recbvery.

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and that Ipt quite fat. I wish to sot re at Stapzly iwrur Mr.' Mr. Richard Heywood said, I know the defendant; be is -eonsi
Sutton puyi me a visit • . you will 'Scum nee •ssapping all night ! &red a man of wealth. ' •
—You will mut* mum 'cake to hit maid for soy rotations, which Crowesottlittod—Ho hot oold some of his Portly lately, to the
L are twit many. I afraid yon h lasi dm an of solicitingjtat. t otsuveral thousand pounds. ~..
awes. You midi ale give it up, atones. est agaisosillif, Me 114 large pruperty near in-lautt mid mines.
he oumpileavalth youressasst. Ins/Wog fan aepossible wage kb. ;voilie, bie the defendant, edam's**. Jury la a illiltable
there'd, tioseslise is wit numiragainst III.• I shaN be enabled to aufbugHeaue speech. This IMlnted Counsel called nomitailots.
informs yaw; whim I graft at Sturdy, lotto -it will be completed. 70. Xtstice Pant hiatus mattned up the avidendb
I have seen Mrs. WOolisaudiscocher, wkis•-dMirs not saidoanything IttiiiJury consulted together for a few /Ideates, and thou found
to the about you. I hisught a cows rowan Monday last. Mrs. a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages LSOut:
v... 54........... 5, hat. sass_ as she never knave me to Mr) one beer. , Thsodel excited immense Interest. Tice Court was crowded to