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London, England, 1817-03-31 00:00:00

LAW IIVTELLIGRNCE.

INSOLVENT DEB TORS' COURT, MARCH 29.
The Rev. William Carter, Chaplain to his Royal
Highness the Duke of York, and Rec: or of Asheeds
Surrey, was oppcsed by Mr. A nIEiN, on behalf of
'several of the Insolvent's creditors, uvin various
grounds: the first Wils, for having contracted deb:
withont having the probable means of paying 0, .n: ;
the wenn,' was, for having squandered in a r..st
al) troviol manner the property of his creditors ; 'the
"third was for having given an undue preference to
two «f his principal creditors, to the injury ci the
remainder. On the face of the schedule it ap;seared
that the Insolvent bad contracted debts, within the
last four years. to the amount of se.R6*.
Mr. MANN said, that the Insolvent's living at
Abliteui produced him aC59i per annum, and he
ought to nave confined bis expenses to that sign' ; in-
stead of Join so, he lived at the rate of el.ou per
annum, wrongs his creditors, and comes to that Court
'to get clear of his burden.

wits rem4nded till the undue preference be
given up for the benefit of bit creditors.

Several other cases of very little importance, ex-
cept to the Patties, were he.tr,t, •od the Court
adjourned.

NOKFOLIC ASSIZES, HEW Al' THE I'PORD.
CRINI. co:4.
LATON, ESQ. V. BE 5I CLUE.
The Piaintiff is an officer in the army, the Defen-
den: is the younAer son of an Honourable Baronet
in this county, :sod has lately been admitted to Holy
Orders in the Church of England. The decla-
ration charged the Defendant with having bad
criminal conversation and correspondence with the
Plaintiff's wife, whereby the Plaintiff had been
deprived of the comfort and solace of her society,
and his domestic happiness had been destroyed. For
the injury thus alkdged, the Plaintiff sought, by the
present action, to recover damages.
Mr. GURNEY (by special retainer), as Coensel for
the Plaintiff, briefly led the attention of the Jury to
the several point; in evidence, which were about to
be adduced before them for the purpose of establish-
ing the truth of the allegations, which were made
against the Defendant upon the record. The mar-
riage of the Plaintiff and his wile having been first
established by an examined copy of the parish re-
gister of St. Bridget, in Ireland, it was next proved
by the evidence of Mary Matchin. who had lived in
the domestic service of Mr. and Mrs. Laton, then
residing at Newton Flotman, about six or seven miles
from Norwich, that in the early part of the year
1815, the Defendant, Mr. Beauchamp, bad been
very frequent in his visits there, and more panic's.;
lady so on Saturday mornings, when Mr. Laton was
regularly absent. On one of these mornings Mrs.
Latoa had ordered a fire in the drawing-room, say-
ing, that she expected' Mr. Beauchamp. Between
the hours of eleven and twelve, Mr. Beauchamp
came, and he, with Mrs. Laton, went into the draw-
in;-room. Prior to Mr. Beauchamp's arrival, Miss
Lawn, a little girl, then live years old, daughter of
Pl.tineiff and Mrs. Lawn, had been walking in the
garden with her Mamma. and the witness, Mary
Ntatchin (then Mary Williamson), hot knowing what
had become of Miss Laton, • after Mr. Beauchamp
and Mrs. Leto!' had gone into the drawing-room,
went to the breakfast tenni in search of her, but try-
ing the do found it fastened ; she still, however,
supposing that the little girl was there, said—m Miss
Leon. how dare you lock yourself up in the break-
fast-room? Open the door, or I'll tell your Mamma!"
Tile witness then heard a bustle in'the room, which
Listed for duce or four minutes, before she was ad-
mitted, when, to her surprise, instead of the little
girl, Mrs. Lawn herself unb:::zed the door, and told
her she might come in ; she there saw the Defendant,
s Ring with his face towards the fire, and her mis.
tress, who was usually pale, very red both in her
lice and neck, and her hair, which .had been very
neatly dressed and curled before Mr. Beauchamp's
arsival, wan now very much dishevelled t the witness
immediately retired, saying, she thought Miss Laton
lied been there (whom she afterwards found had been
sent :o a neighbouring farm-house), the window-
blind had been let down in the breakfast-room, al-
though the aspect was westesay, and it was in the tare-
noon ; the witness had not known of Mr. Beauchamp
and her mistress having removed from the drawing.
room, but supposed they had done so to avoid being
smelted, the drawing-room being apt to smoke. Oa'
her going again into the breakfast-room with some
refreshment, she looked the defendant in the face,
and thought he . looked confused. In answer to a
question from the Jury box, the witness stated, that
there was a sofa in the drawing-room ; in the break-
fast-room there was no sofa. there were cane-bottom-
' eJ chairs and a carpet. This witness also stated, that
one Sunday morning, whilst Mrs. Slapp was on a
visit at her master's house, and whilst the latter was
at home, the Defendant breakfasted there, that after
breakfast he went away, leading his horse ; that Mrs.
Lawn accompanied him on font, leaving Mr. Laton
and Mrs. Slapp in the breakfast-room ; that shortly
afterwards it rained, and the witness sent her father,
Robert Williamson, to seek Mrs. Laton with an um-
brella, with which Mrs. Lawn returned, having been
out about an hour and a half. The witness further
stated, that before 'she quitted Mrs. Litton's service
she had gone with her mistress to stay at Colonel
Laton's, at Drayton; that one day when her mistrsiss
had been to Norwich with.the Plaintiff's mother, the
witness missed an amber brooch, which had been I
affixed to Mrs. Laton's bosom in the morning: she
did not see this brooch again till about a fortnight
afterwards. when the Defendant came to Newton, in
the absence of the Plaintiff'. On that morning, Mr.
livauctiamp and Mrs. Laton were together without
interruption for at least an hour, after which Ars.
Laton came to the pantry-door, and ordered the tray
with refreshment, when the witness perceived that her
mistress's hair was veiy much tumbled, her face was
red, and her neck bore appearance of having been
pressed with an arm. Or her cross-examination,
Mary Matcbin said, she had been rather in the con-
fidence of her injure's; she denied that she had been
diamissed -Mrs. Litotes service, or that her mistress
had refused to give her a character, but admitted
that she was the lying b—h whom Mr. Laton bad
ordered should never come near the house again, and
that Mrs. Lawn had said, she would not sive.her a
second character. In the inatitial parts of her evi-
dence, this witness was corroborated by the testi
away of Robin Jefferies, who lived in the house

as faintritan at the sable time, and who stated. in
addition, that he had seen Mr. Beauchamp kiss Mrs.
Laton behind a glass dial., on taking his leave.—
' Both tie above wiinesses stated, that their master
had elatnine.l tham, as to the above matters, a
year or tan axis—that they then gave him the
same account, but that he had discredited them, and
dirat;sied them from his service in consequence.—
It further appeared, by the evidence of Mr. Self, a
schoolmaster at Siotlingham, that on the same Sun-
day marniag on which Mr. Beauchamp had break-
fasted at Newton, Mrs. Loon had walked away with
him ; that he (Mr. Set ) had observed Mr. Beau.
champ and Mrs. in a bye lane, standing close _to-
gether iii a very indelicate posture, and toil,
approaching, Mrs. Laton ran away, but after ward.
joined Mr. Beauchamp again, and the witness i:aised
.near them. Mrs. Laton was then holding Mr. Beau-
champ's arm, and appeared much agitate:. Mr.
Beauchamp was still leading his horse. Several wits
tresses sp .Ite to the fact of letters havialoccasionaily
passed between Mr. Beauchamp am! Mrs. Lawn,
but none were given in evidence.
The case being closed on the part of the plaintiff,
?slr. Serjeant Bear (by special retainer) of Counsel'
for t!:e defendant, expressed his indignation and asto-
nishment that a case no better supported than the
present should be. brought into Court. He denied
that the charge of the defendant hiving debaiiched
the plaintiff's wife had been substantiated, and even
admitting, for the sake of argument, that it had been
SO, still the most material and necessary proud, by,
way of introduction to a verdict of damages fair the
loss of a wife's affection, had been entirely omitted
in the present case, he meant, same evidence of the
domestic happiness of the parties previous to its in-
terruption by the supposed adultery, which latter he
firmly believed had never existed between the parties,
but that the whole was a story trumped up by the
plaintiff, for the double purpose of getting rid of his'
wife, and of putting money in his oan pocket.
Lieutenant Dowling was then called, by whose
evidence it appeared, that he had been introduced to
Mr. and Mrs. Lawn in the month ofSeptember, 1816,
at Yarmouth—that he had been in the habit of riding
out with Mrs. Laton, at the request of her husband
—that on one occasion Mr. Laton proposed, that
Mrs. Laton and the witness should ride together from
Yarmouth to Major Forster's, at Ditchingliam, a
distance of 24 miles; and that upon Mrs. Lawn's
observing that they should not be able to return that
night, Mr. Laton said, if their horses should fail,
they might have beds at the Crown Inn, at Haddis.
coo, which accordingly they had, and the plaintiff
himself paid the bill ot the house. That the plaintiff
having afterwards intimated a suspicion that they had
slept together, and having opened a letter addressed
by Lieutenant Dowling to Mrs. I.tion, Lieutenant
Dowling had written to hint, demanding satistactian;
to which the plaintiff had replied, that he had never
ahought Lieutenant Dowling had acted wherwise
upon this occasion than any mart would al:der simi-
lar circumstances, and that if in opening the letter
directed to his wile he had overstepped the privileges
of a husband, he was willing to :apologize for it.
This witness also proved an intimate connection be-
tween the plaintiff and a profligate woman named
Dodson, With whom he would walk ill the day time
on the sea beach at Yarmouth, sametitnes in the sight
of his wife, and at other tittles would request Lieut.
-Dowling to ride or walk with Mrs. Laton in particu-
lar roads and directions, so that she might nut catch
him with Dodson. The witness had likewise known
Mr. Lawn to leave his wife, with whom he was walk-
ing on the Jetty, to accompany Dodson, who appeared
on the sea side. That on ate occasion, when his wife
upbraided hint for insulting her h. his public inti-
macy with Dodson, the plaintiff replied uh the pre-
sence of witness, " D—n you, you b—h, what busi-
ness have you to interfere with me? I have been giving
you your swing for five years, in the bolas ot your
running away with some man of fortune; but d—n
you, you are too cunning fur it—should you do it.
I'll drink 'your health in a bUllaper," at the same time
filling his glass and that of tine witness. The plain-
tiff his also told his• wife, in the presence of the wit-
ness Dowling, that Dodson was a better figure, a
finer girl, and a more lady-like woman, than Mrs.
Laton herself. Oa another occasion, when Lieut.
Dowling supped at Mr. Lawn's lodgings, urn.s the
latter going to bed, Lieutenant Dowling proposed to
retire, but was prevented by the plaintiff, who said,
" Don't hurry yourself, you may as well sit up with
Mrs. Lawn, who won't go to bed yet." Lieutenant
Dowling having with difficulty prevailed on the plain.
till to accompany Mrs. Laton and himself to a ball
at Yarmouth, accused the plaintiff' with neglect to.
wards his wife; to which he replied, that be hated
dancing, that he had taken Mrs. Lawn to a ball at
Norwich, given by the Brunstvicks, at the Norwich
Barracks—that•he was to bring her back, but as he
would not go after bet, she was there all night.—
Speaking ot Dodson, he said to the witness," If she
should be the cause of my getting rid of that d-1
(meaning Mrs. Latin), 1 would give her Lid and
keep her all my life; I bad rather keep Dodson and
drive a Mail Coach, than live on any terms with Mrs.
Laton." The plaintiff also said, at the Officers' Mess,
on the 10th of last November, at Yarmouth, speaking
of his wife, " I wish to GOD she would ran away
with some man of fortune, I. would recover re. 10,000
damages, and would keep tour of the brit horses in
Norfolk."

This last speech of the plaintiff's was confirmed by
Mr. Taylor, a surgeon at Yarmouth.
Mr. GUMMY, in his very able reply, most readily
admitted the impropriety ut the nitscon.luct which
the plaintiff appeared to have adopted towards his
wits, his negligence of her domestic coent,,its, and
the indecorous expressions and disregard which he
appeared to have made use ot, burn in his letters and
in his conversation. But the Learned Counsel dwelt
' with great force on a most important fad, as it re-,
lated to the present action, namely, that every act
and even expression of the defendant which had been
upon this occasion brought forward against him; had
been proved to be subsequent to the time when the
defendant had completed the dishonour of his kite,
And thereby rendered her an object of his aversion.
At the same time Mr. Gurney fully allowed that he
was bound by a regard to his own honour to abstain
from making any observations justificatory of the
misconduct which was by the evidence alleged against
the plaintiff. He, however, very forcibly contend-
ed, from the testimony of the servant and maid,
corroborated by that of Jefferies, the footman, and

'other collateral circumstances which were in proof
frrm a Mr. Se::. it c schoolmaster, that the plaintiff
etas at least entitled to a verdict, leaving the quan-
tum ot damages to the Jury.
The JUDGE, in recapitulating the evidence, mid*
several observations tending to shew that the Jury
might exercise their judgment as to the question
whei her or not the fact ot aJuitery was or was not
pi-or:Mt

The Jury, after reerirg from the box for about ten
minutes, gave a verdict for the Defeatism.

SUSSEX. •
Ge^rze Faufierier and Edward Liowfey, the former
aged '29, an.l the I.itt;:r 16", were capitally indicted
for I..:ving violated Sarah Phillips, iii the Imibh of
Portslade, on the 9th of February last. Guilty—
Death.

KINGSTON. MARCH ea.
RALLAM V. !HICK AHD OTHERS.
This seas an action of trespass for entering the
Ploir.tiiPs dw-Iling.house. and breaking and injuring
his gtelali. The Plaintiff ia this case lived at South
Limheib, and relted • Ip:use of the Defendant ; on
the taunter day in the morti'ng the Defendant de-
manded his rent, awl the plaintiff said he
have it in the clerse of the day, yet he said he v.0‘.1.1
distrait' itnral:qatc4. I was contended that this
distress was , eguis', and that in addition to such
it regular:ty the De:rod int had wantoilly injired th.e
goods by Is;; carel.•ssne is. The witnesses ;novel tl.at
a cy.a:t.ity of crockery and other arrich-s were brol.eu
by bet.ig carekssly tariAris at.)out. Verdict for
tiff—Damages dr 5.
Saturday, 71emar Shapron was indicted for forging
and uttering an indorsement span a Batik Post Bill
for ,et;), with intent to defraud Alexander Alexander.
The mode, it was stated, of getting a Bank Post Bin
i: by going to the Bank, and giving a paper of. the
narin.s of the persons desiring the Bal. the person to
whus order it is to be payable, and for what sum ;
the Bill is then made out, and aray ['risen inquiring
for the Bill, and answering those particulars, ha, it
given him. On the 27th of N titerilber last, a Mr.
Green, having occasion to send £4.0 to a Mrs. Emma
Fitzgerald, hie sister, then at Southampton, sent a
Clerk to the Batik to get a Bank Post Bill payable to
her. The Clerk gave in the piper of instructions,
and went away ; returning again in Intik an hour, be
found some one else had in the reran time procured
the rall. ,Akan der Alex eider, a kruk-r, stated,
that the prisoner came to his shop, in Illackfriars-
road, Attain ball an hour of the time whiaa the Bill
was obtained, and said he wanted to tumid' two
rooms for his brother, who was coming to town; lie
looked out the furniture, and oflerrd a Bank P•at 13.11
in payment, pay4ble to the order of Mrs. Emma
Fitzgerald. He told the ptisoner it was nit indu: se J.
The prisoner replied, that Mrs. F. was his sister, and
he would go and get it indorsed. He cline back ia
half an hour with the bill inJoised, and added his
own name, as he said, Oe.ligc l'itzgerald.. lie took
the goods away in a cart, driven by a boy, and said
he lived near Walwsith Tuinpike. The Bill was
stopped at • the Bank, and atter sonic o.ifficuity the
prisoner was traced, by means of the boy who drove
the cart. Verdict—Guilty.

At Cirrickfeigns Attizes, two persons of the r•inße
of Greer, have kvfen found guilty of nvircferin; tLdr
own lather with deliberate malit.e, in consegittnce of
an old quarrel. .

'Vilest/ay, roniel Dryriill and Jam,: Erian (two
IrishmLa) or assaulting ?alt.. JOHN (...;1t1:)11D, ;I:t the
and of his po.t.:t-book, ;kr,
ith.lcrweiit the dre.adrul tctitence of the law At Flb:-a."
•
tlr: )3 gad, near Salisbury.
Saturday a ma.i was coa.victed it the 11tIblic
fice, Bow street, .n the pciiall of 472. kr haw lig
in his p .s.easion three doz.:ii of coo:Act-flit 8.-.0
tokens, without being able to give a s,tesi.tctory ac-
CO:i111 how he tr2ca:he possesiard of them. lie hataing
been detected in uttering them at A pUpliC.huUsC I t
Drury-lane. Tlie Act tat Pat liament m.ak.s it Lf,_
fence for aay person to have more ditto five contra-
fa it tokens at the same tone without being sible/to
give a satisfactory account Ot LLCM. 1111 toting the
first offence thevisuuer w As convicted io L:e penalty
of if tor each toki:n, which lie not beiag able to pay.
he was comtnitted to the Home of Correctiuu fur
three months.

Saturday upwards of 300 persons were summoned
to Hatton Garden Office by the overseers of the parish
of St. C!ement Danes, for not paying their PoLT
Rates. Tar tees on each summons were Ss.
A very handsome Monument has be:n erected it*
Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, by the African
Institution, to the tuentory of the 1 ite GRAN VILLS
SIIARP/4 Esq. It "as finished on Sattirday.
A CHALLENGC--Nl.my calculations having taken
place respecting the value of the Tickets in the pre.
set Lottery. G. CANWILL (of the old establid:ed
()dices, 2G, Oxford-street, ana 7, Coridnii), is w.1ti.14.
to bet any patt vt (sue Thounend Guincaa, that P.ir.
chasers liabe the tollowing alvatitages, namely,
Pounds cleaptr than the last Lottery (!or setireli
was net Contractor), and Four P.,unds irierea,ed iu
value—making a Jiff-Tenet: of Pounds per Tic-
ket ;at favour of this .I, ittery. These are tarts
need only to be explaiiit..l to the.Pu!rtic to make
them duly appreciate the Scheme t;tv invieta Lot-
[try. The Public :,111 recin,....ted to make immediate
application for favourite I:clobbers, to prevent disap.
pointment, as the Drawing takes place Naar MoNi
A harmer of capers:nee says, Ciat the wheat plant
never looked uts:r,- pr‘ tn.sr.g at this ..t.4313111 of tilt year
than at present between birstol and atvonshire.
COHN EXCHANGE, :SIA licit 31.—We had but a MC.
IBerate supply (.f English \`, heat this morning, but
have had considvrabie arrivals t.l foreign since this
day week; yet fine samples of our growth maintairf
last Monday's prices, bat there is but little doing •iff'' •
foreign.—Barley is full Zs. per qr. cheaper, and very
dull sale at that decline.—Oats are Is. per qr. higher,
and fine Corn sold readily at that advance.—fu Peas,
Beans, and other articles, there is no alteration.

CURREN r rnicas AS 11,41PEk:
Tick Ditt•,, 601.
Wheat. Rent and Esse!' OLI, Or 1, e, 44, 4SI.
80s lt2l. inico, Poltn..l, 464. 46 s
440.01 k, SOL ICOs. J'eto, Feed, 3:1,. 40g.

Nortur- bOs. 114 s. I Rape,ceti, £.50 t').e der kit
Rye, 60s 6Ss. Flwr, k Cos. tors. er tack.
dark", 26s 54s VOA
Mak,6os. 78s. - Wheat, DS,Ita•C, 1100. IS(%
White Peas, 50s. Si& boilers, Ditto, Baltic Red, 106 s. 1
545. Skis. i....nkb-cior LI: e men, ICON. 1.01
GrPv Pau, 44,. los. BrAl..iiir Red, 10,s. I ..:Jt
SW all Brans, 56..1545. gye, C. 4. vQa.