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list Ogee die saw Mr. Patois atsvastortitini, %Agri
her mother had a horse. On the 19th of November

Mrs. Clithet:o—v;;air-.; to-wu to her mother's hawse.'
Durin the whole time that witness caw the Colonel
and It. Clitherow, rio person could be kinder to a
wife t an he was.
Cross-ekaiilined by Mr. Serjeant LaNs.—General
Burton did not object to the marriage of his daughter
with her brother ; but the marriage had beeri post-
poned some time in consequence Of money concerns.
John Fine, Esq. M.P. for Oxfordshire' had been
acquainted with Colonel Clitherow several years.—
After his marriage he and his Lady passed about
'three months at his house in Oxfordshire, and he
thought them the happiest couple he ever taw. }le
had kpown the parties rip to the present time ; When-
ever- Mrs. Clitherow was at his house she behaved
with the greatest correctness. Colonel Clitherow is
now about 33 years of age.
Mr. Eyres said he was on the Continent in 1816 ;
he was at the city of Tours, and there saw Mr. Peters ;
he also saw Colonel and Mrs. Clitherow there. They
were all together at his house. Some months before
this Mr. Peters lost his wife, after having been mar-
ried two years. Mrs. Peters died in London, and
then Mr. Peters went to the Continent.
Colonel Mercer said he knew. Colonel Clitherow
for some years ; he saw him at Paris in 1815, after
the battle of Waterloo.

Sarah Webb, a young girl 14 years of age, said
she was the daughter of a Serjeant in the Guards, tle
orderly Serjeant of the regiment ; was living as ser.
'vent to Colonel Clitherow, at Bexhill; the Colonel

lived there in
,barracks. Witness attended on Mrs.
!Clitherow. On the sth of July, 1817, Colonel Cli-
therow left Bexhill : on the 4th, her mistress ordered
her to go and bespeak lobsters, fresh eggs, and
shrimps, for breakfast next day : but not to bring
any order or message to her from any one, until the
person she expected to breakfast was gone. Her
master did not set out until the following morning.
After he was gone, her mistress desired her to go
and get all the flowers she could find; to make the
bed, and put clean linen on it. She also desired her
not to work in the bed-room, as she usually did, but
to take her work into the kitchen. In the evening
witness went into the bed-room for her thimble,
although desired not to go into that room, and then
she saw the things in the room plated differently
from what they had been. She did not remember
,anyinde coming that day. She was with her mistress
ha NOVeMber. On the Gth of July, the day after her
maker went away, a gentleman came in the morning,
le.had a piece of black sticking-plaister on his face;
this was on aStinday. Witness did not see the gen-
tleman
.until the evening, when be was sitting in the
, rlctur; she had never seen him. before; she saw
`m
the next day (Monday) again in the parlour.—
e same gentleman came again in November; her
aster was then gone to Windsor. She never saw
the gentleman since. She knew him the second time
.by the black sticking-plaister. 'She knew the dates
in July, because there was a fair at Bexhill at that
time. Colonel Clitherow kept a cook, a footman, a
grcom, and the witness, as his servants.
Jane Nutt lived as cook with Mrs. Clitherow at
Bexhill, in July; on the 4th, the day before the Co-
lonel went away, her mistress desired her to provide
a dinner for the next day, and not to call in or trouble
her about any thing ; she desired her to take a time-
piece out of the parlour, that she might see the hour,
sow not to have occasion to tense Into the parlour,
to see what o'clock it was. On the sth in the morn-
ing, after Colonel Clitherow was gone, her mistress
I gave her further directions about the dinner; the
dinner, however, was not served. Witness went to
bed that night at twelve; her mistress was up, and
a gentleman was sitting with her ; she beard them
talking ; there was a bed.rOom which communicated
with the parlour. Mrs. Clitherow*: bed was made
by the little girl, and not by the witness.
James Hillier, who is now a soldier; had been in
the service of Colonel Clitherow in July last year;
he acted as footman. On the sth a gentleman came,
between nine and ten in the evening ; witness opened
the door for him ; lie had a mark on his face; he first
aled for Colonel Clitherow, and when told that the
Colonel was not at home, he asked for Mrs. Claim-
row ; he then said he had a letter from Mr. Peters ;
the witness delivered the letter to his mistress, who
desired him to shew the gentleman in. When the
person came in, Mrs. Clitherow said to him—" Sit
down, my dear; I hope you have had a pleasant
journey." Witness then went out of the room ; went
to bed about twelve o'clock ; left the gentleman in the
parlour at that hour, for he heard them talking; the
gentleman might have got out of the barracks with-
out .the witness knowing it ; he came next morning,
about ten, to breakfast—went out in the afternoon to
dress, retutned at half-past four to ,'.inner, and re-
mained until two next morning. About nine at night,.
a messenger came from the inn near the barracks, in
order to know what time the gentleman would go to
his bed? witness went in to ask his mistress, and she
appeared very much flurried—but then she said the
gentleman was going, or would go, .directly; the
gentleman was not gone at twelve that night. The
next night (Monday night) witness saw the gentle-
man and his mistress walking together on the Pa.
rade. Witness did not mention these things to his
master until after Mrs. Clitherow went a..vay with
that gentleman.
On cross-examination, witness said, the servant;
had strong suspicions; they did not mention any
thing to the Colonel until the month of January or
February last.
. The LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE here said, it would be'
Inecessary to produce the person belonging to the inn,
Ito shew whether the defendant had slept. there the
eight the messenger came after him.
t- William Pritchard said, he went into the service of
Colonel Clitherow in the month of October last; he
succeeded Hillier. In the month of November, about
the 14th or 15th, a gentleman with a silk plaister on
the side of his cheek, came to the house, at Bexhill;
he dined there; witness went to bed at half-past 11.
He believed the gentleman was with his mistress at
the time. His mistress left Bexhill in December, about
seven in the morning. In August -last, witness went
to France to find Mrs. Clitherow and Mr. Peters; he
found them living in a private house, at a- place
called Pougeres; die gentleman was the same be had
seen at Bexhill; they were both together, and she
passed by the name of Peters. A Mr. Thompson
went with witness to France; when he saw the par-
ties, Mr. Thompson presented a paper to Mr. Passe,

w‘o signed his =4 tei . Mr. Peters zed are. CU-
therow appeared to be in a lodging!. .
Mr. Thompson, a Clerk in Doctors' Cdmmons and
Clerk in the Arches Court, saw the 4efendanton the
25th of June at Fougerds. He callid at their inn,
said that he understood there sere gentiemen
them who wanted him on urgent business. Witness
made him acquainted with their object, -and he apt
pointed next day to see them. Witness and Pritch-
ard went next day to their house; Mr. Peters wei4
rap stairs to prepare the lady for the visit; he did ma
Introduce her by any name. Witness asked if 'her
was Mrs. Clitherow? She answered—d Yes." , :
Cross-examined.—There was no disinclination
give him every information, or to shew Mrs. Claes
new. He asked the route they had taker, atid foluvl
Mr. Peters quite connitemicative, It was bS
Clitherow who signe4 her name, at his desire, to ats
authority for one to act as her proxy. lie had told
her that some person.must.appear for her in the Lc=
clesiastical Court. There, is no judgment yet.
Messrs. H. and W. Jackson proved the proceed-
ings for outlawry. They had proceeded to call hilt
five times.--This closed the plaintiff's case.
Mr. Serjeant Lets.—lf it depended on his own
feelings, he should not addre-s one wood to them
this can; •but his duty required that he should offer
.a few remarks. When they had now the evidence
before them, and when they consulted their own ob-
servation of the strength of human passion, and the
frailty of human virtue, they would at once be of
opinion that this case could not be eiempted from
common cases. All that had been said of her yur
nerable and unguarded state, when the planuiff was
on the Continent, had been pressed into the service,
for it was not until 1816, and on the Continent, that
the defendant became acquainted with them. The
ca,.e had nothing to do with military service. The
plaintiff came to London on military business foe one
day, just as other gentlemen came on other business.
How this attachment grew from accidental acquain-
tance to a criminal intimacy, was left a blank. No
such attention as his Learned Brother had alluded-to
had '

been proved; and, without casting any irnputa.
don upon the plaintiff, he must say, that they had ne
levidence whether this attachment was encouraged by
the negligence or inadvertence, or whether not by the
connivance, of the plaintiff. The defendant's loss of
Isis own wife had been mentioned, although itloraned
kw part of the case., He addressed.himself to their
feelings and understandings, and asked them whether
the blandishments of female charms would nut,

Inch a state of anind, produce deeper impressions?
That at least deserved their consideration, if they
gave weight in either way to the circumstance. Ile
next remarked with great ability on the nature of tlr
evidence and the disparity of their apes. The defel-
dant had fallen a victim to artifices:. be had sinned,
as others had done before—
., Against his better knowledge; not tonvitivta,
13 at fondly overcome with femali iherms!"
It was a great injury; but as to bow it originated,
how it was perpetrated, they were left in the (lark
Whethor this were viewed as a case df public justice
or of private justice, they would feel it to be not
case of aggravation, bct of commiseration and regret,
that a young man should have fallen into such a snare.

The Clue Jun.= went over the evidence to the
Jury ; and afterwards commented on the lead iag facts
of the case. He told them, that before they.gave a
verdict for the plaintiff, they must be satisned ihat
the act of adultery had been committed; mid for that
purpose they must view all the circumstances of
case. There was evidence of very improper conch.,
on the part of the Lady. She had prepared a dinner
for an unknown guest, and gave directions to he: ser-
vants not to come near her while he was there. Rot
even here there was a material defect in the evidence.
He was unwilling to put any questions to a child
14 years, with a view of ascertaining whether thcl
was any appearance of two persons having slept i
the mistress's bed; and, in the ccrirse of hisexperien,

he always found that it was necessary to give evideak
as to a fact of that kind. ' Nothing of the kind wa,
proved, and no person from the public-house came
ward to say whether the Gentleman slept there or nut.

It was clear that the Gentleman did mean to nett
to the public-house, because a waiter came to inqui
what time he should curve to occupy the bed whi

it was to he presumed, he had bespoke. Ills Lorcishi
went on to observe, that if the case stopt here,

should feel it his duty to give it as his opinion, t
the crime of adultery had not been made out.
the Counsel for the defendant, in that discrete
which he always exercised-with temper and wisdoJ
did not dwell on that point, nor attempt to deny
charge against his clieat ; for it %.as made out by'
elopement which subsequently took place, and t.
circumstance of the defendant and the lady living
together as man and wife. If the Jury, however, had
any dcubt respecting the adultery, they must fiat'
for the defendant. But if they believed him guilt
as there was strong ground to suppose,-1: he I
red lie must stiffer. If damages then must be given,
in estimating the amount of them, the Jury should
consider the state of happiness that had subsisted
between the plaintiff and his wife, as well as the V-
I and hospitable. manner in which the defendant
been received by the man whore happiness he ,
thus instrumental in destroying. And, indeed, except
the mere difference of age, the lady being ten sears
older than the defendant, he saw no circumstance
mitigation in the conduct of the latter. It was
therefore, a case of a slight description, but .
which required their most serious attention, 14
therefore, they thought the defendant had committed
the criminal act laid tobl: charge, it would remain
for theth, upon a view of all the circumstandes,
say what should be the arreunt of damages.
The Jury, without retiri7e. found a verdiet-fee'
Plaintiff—Damages Three nouttc-nd Perm&

CORN ExenANGZ, Arra-Lava, Die. 9.--Althoutt
there have been rio fresh arrivals since Monday,
quantity of Wheat left over from that day's supply,
was more than sufficient for this morning's dernando
for the sales were exceedingly heavy, and prices almost
nominal.—The quantity of English Barley on sale
was rather small, yet having but few buyers,
day's prices were with difficulty obtained.—tiats
also dull sale at Monday's pmts.—Bs other articlei
there is no alteration.
Rom, BRANDY, AND 11OLLANDS.—The prices
gum are without variation. Geneva unvaried.
prices of Brandy are entirely nominal.