Star.
London, England, 1829-07-25 00:00:00

CRICKRTING.

Wednesday a match for Su soy.. was played on Blackheath. be-
tween eleven young Gentlemen of that vicinity and eleven of
Bromky. which, after a fine exhibition of skill on both sides, na.
won by the former.
BLACKInATII. 111L0MLIT.
First Innings llB Fir►t Innings
Second do.

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This match was witnessed by Mossy fashionable', and the crle
brated Lambert, of Brumley, one of the first crickriers is the
empire, was umpire, and evinced much condescension in pat! mann+
the juninr professors of a sport in which be has dimwit won so
many laurels.

Yesterday ntorning the tan men, Knight and Budd.
irnlflicated in the robbery committed in the house of .lr. Bramah.
on 'footing-common, were txamitied at Tooting, before S. Flyard
and Weston, Esqrs. The prisoners are both very youtia men ;
and from the manlier in which the afence %V:l% committed, and
their subsequent conduct, evinced that they are nor old or
hardened offenders : they seemed much alarmed dating the clam,-
nation, and cried unceasingly. In addition to the gold watch given
up by one of the prisoners to the steward of the scam-packet
keep Mr him, three valuable diamond pins (the property of Mr.
Bramah) were also found in their possession. Knight had vrty•
recently worked ots Mr. Brantah's premises, and had been pre-
sented by that gout man with a atilt of old clothes, with the initials
of Mr. Brantah's name written on the waistband of the troutets.
These identical onusers were found in the Green-lane coutiguout,
to Mr. Bramab's house, where, it will be recollected, the 'hirers
changed their dress after the robbery. This oversight on the pait
of Knight immediately led to the supposition that be rniiit have
been concerned in the affair, as the subsequent circumstancis justi •
fled. It appeared that an entrance was effected into the house by
means of raiiing a ladder against the rear of It, and lifting up the
sash of the staircase window. The prisoner Budd was es trisniely
anxious to turn approver ; but as the evidence was cont.i.lered
sullidestly strong without rendering such a step necessary, the
prisoners were both committed for trial. The intention of the
prisoners was to have gone to America. and for this purpose they
proceeded to Gravesendoind would have waited there until they
got on board an outward-bound vessel...

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were ordered out of Court.
Mr. Platt opened the pleadings.
The defendant pleaded not guilty.
The Attorney-General, for the prosecution, said, that
the defendant, Susannah Scott, was charged with the
crime of wilful and corrupt perjury. The circumstances
out of which the prosecution arose had unfortunately oc-
cupied too much of the public attention already, and he
therefore would not now go more into the details than
was necessary for the proper understanding of the evi-
dence which was to be offered in support of the prosecu-
tion. It was probably known to the Jury that Mr. Wel-
lesley was engaged in a suit with the Duke of Beaufort
and others respecting the right to the controul of his
children, and one would have thought that it would
not be material to the public which party succeeded.
In the course of that suit numerous affidavits had been
filed, and in these the defendant made a very con-
spicuous figure. She and others connected with her
made affidavits containing allegations deeply affecting the
character of a lady, known then as Mrs. !High, now Mrs.
Wellesley. After that cause was determined, it appeared
that Mrs. Scott, who had been at one time a servant of
Mrs. Bligh's, went to Paris and lived there with a person
named Pedley. It appeared also, that subsequently to
that •period, Mr. Wellesley received an anonymous letter
from Paris, telling him that very important information
might be obtained as to the manner in which the evidence
was got up, in the cause in the Court of Chancery against
him. At first Mr. Wellesley took no notice of this letter.,
There was no signature to it, but it stated that an answer
intended for the writer of it would be received, if ad-
dressed to a particular place in Paris. After some con-
sideration, Mr. Wellesley wrote to Paris to say that he
could not act in any manner, or hold any further inter-
course with parties who would not avow their names. The
result was, that Pedley wrote to Mr. Wellesley, informing
him that he was the author of the original letter, and pro-
mising to bring Susannah Scott to London, in order to sub-
stantiate the fact alluded to in it. As soon as Mr. Welles-
ley ascertained that those were the persons who offered
to give him the information, he determined not to see them,
himself, and not to allow any of his servants to come in
contact with them, except a foreigner, who had char.* of
the hall-door. It happened that when Pedley and the
defendant arrived in town, Mr. Wellesley was confined
to his bell by illness; and he gave directions to the
foreign servant, that when Pedley and Mrs. Scott came
to the house they should be shown into a room, and that
no one should see them but Mr. Powell, his solicitor, a
gentleman well known to the profession, and possessing
as high a character for honour as any other in it. Pedley
and Scott called at Mr. Wellesley's house, in Baker-street,
in Fehreary, 1828, Me. Wellesley being at the time at-
tended by a medical gentleman, who was to be called as
a witness to-day, and who would satisfy the jury that Mr.
Wellesley was so ill as not to be able to go more than
a few paces front his room. Pedley and Scott, on ar-
riving, were shown by the valet into the library, and
were supplied with wine and biscuits, the valet cau-
tiously guarding the door until they departed at four
o'clock. They returned again at eight, and saw Mr.
Powell. Mrs. Scott detailed to him circumstances of
a most extraordinary nature, and such as would repel
some charges which had sunk deep in the public
mind. The communication made by Mrs. Scott was
truly extraordinary, and tended to implicate Mr. Nixon,
clerk to the solicitors engaged against Mr. Wellesley.
She stated, indeed, what would require very strong
evidence to make any man believe. She assured Mr.
Powell that she had been solicited to make affidavits,
and that many of the facts contained in them were
untrue.. She was induced to do so, she said, partly by
money, and partly by other means of persuasion, and
she was urged to get others to join her. She said that
she had been travelling through the country with Nixon,
that she had had illicit intercourse with him, and that
she slept with hint at Dartford, Leatherhead, and Henley
on Thames, and other places. The whole disclosure ap-
peared so extraordinary to Mr. Powell, that he thought
it would not be right for him to receive it alone. He
wished that other persons might be witnesses to so sin-
gular a communication, and applied to Mr. Whitelock,
solicitor, and his clerk, for that purpose. To these gen-
tlemen she repeated her story, and specified times, places,
and persons, in corroboration of every part of it. Her
statement, as taken at the time in writing, was now in
Court. One of the gentlemen remarked to her that it
was quite impossible. "Do you mean to say (he asked)
that the persona who saw you at the different places with
Nixon could identify you ?" She assured them that they
could; that there could be no difficulty on the point ;
that Nixon had a particular bump on his forehead which
could not fail to attract the notice of those who saw him.
She then proposed to go round to the different places
where she had been with Nixon for the purpose of being
identified. It was her own suggestion, and to have
adopted it showed a very proper caution on the part of
Mr. Powell. He and the two other gentlemen thought
that it would be unsafe to advise any proceeding on so
extraordinary a statement as that of Mrs. Scott. She
accordingly proceeded to Leatherhead, Henley-on-
Thames, Walthamford, Oxford, and other places, accom-
panied by Pedley and Mr. Whitelock's clerk, and it
turned out, as she anticipated, that she was recog-
nised, and that Nixon was described as having been with
her. A circumstance occurred, too, which strongly cor-
roborated her account. In one of their excursions toWal-
thamford the one-horse chaise in which Mrs. Scott and Mr.
Nixon were,lbroke down near the house of a Mr. Clarke, a
miller, from whom they received shelter; he sent them fer-
n and in his own chaise; she stated they had dined with Mr.
Clarke, that Nixon gave him his card, and assured hint he
would be very glad to have the pleasure of his company
whenever he came up to London. Mrs. Scott was in-
troduced as the wife of Mr. Nixon, and it occurred to
her that it was a very imprudent step on his part to give
his address to Mr. Clarke. " When be calls on you in
town," said she, " he will find that you are a married

. man, but he will discover that I am not your wife ; go,
tlasn, and get back your card." He did get it back, by
telling Mr-Clarke that he was about to leave his lodgings,
snd that probably before that gentleman came to town he
would have removed to a new residence; under these cir-
cumstances he preferred giving his address at the office
of the solicitors, whose clerk he was. After this informs-
tinn was given, and they had received from Colonel
Paterson a sum sufficient to defray the expenses incurred
Pedley and' Mrs. Scott, Colonel Paterson gave Ped-
ley 1001. more. Mr.Wellaeley declined from the begin
ning having any, communication with them, and the
whole responsibility devolved on Colonel Paterson. .Mrs.
Scott almost immediately disappeared from London, and
Mr. Wellesley new felt persuaded that . &aro. war,. Immo
l'orratpt motive at the bottom, that Abere•-was acme con-
spirecy on foot, in which she vac sir aigent. ?dn.

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4IC 111 _ LLIGENCE.
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BENCH, Jinx at.
1' st.friter-uivo V. SCOTT.
This Aso lilitiireciiition instituted against Susannah
Scott, fei'-wilfui and corrupt perjury.
At the request of the Common Sergeant the witnesses