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London, England, 1810-05-19 00:00:00

PARLIAMEATARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 18. --
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to 7.lBills,amdllg
which were the Highgate Archway, the Scotch and Trish Judges'
Salaries Bill, the Innkeepers' Allowance Bill, the St. John's
Hampstead Burial Ground Bill, the Irish Road Bill, the Aberdeirr
Harbour Bill, the Newcastle Col Bill, the Thames and Med-
way Canal Bills, and several private Bills. The Conimis.ioners
were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Aylesford, and Lord Walalng-
ham.

Lord LAUDERDALE moved to defer the third reading of the
Cu Lights Bill t4l this day se'nnight ; but the Duke of AT not.
objecting to further unnecesspry delay on the subject, proposed
next Tuesday, which was agreed to.
The For;:igrt Linen Duty Bill went through the second reading.
Mr. Ashley Cooper, Lord Osborn, Mr. Kenrick, and others,
brought up from the Common, several Bills, among which was
that for the Duke of Brunswick's Pension.

GUARD'S DIVORCE RILL.
Mr. Bunaoucns, as Counsel for Colonel Guard,
stated concisely the facts of the case. His client, in
the year 1802, had married Miss Margaret Cockson,
and lived with her very happily till the pericd of his
Raving England for Buenos Ayres, on professional
duty, in 1505. Mrs. Guard was at that time the
mother of two children, and pregnant with a third.
It was her intention to have accompanied her hus-
band abroad, but the orders of the Commander-in-
Chief prevented her. After the departure of her hus-
band, she went to reside at Ottery, in Devonshire,
with a relation ; but, in consequence of her expected
accouchement, a separate house was taken for her where
she lay in. She shortly after became acquainted with
a Mr. Hodge, the son of the apothecary and man-
midwife who had attended her, and with whom the
intercdurse took place, which was the foun-
dation of a subsequent action. In the year 1807,
Colonel Guard returned to Ireland, and was shortly
after summoned to London, to give evidence m the
tiial of General Whitelocke. He wrote severaltimes
to his Lady, requesting her presence in the metropo-
lis ; but her answers were uniformly cold and repul-
sive. At length his client learned from some of his
friends, who had long observed the criminal conduct
of Mrs. Guard, that her neglect arose from the con-
nection which she had formed with ,Mr. Charles
Hodge. In consequence of this information; although
Mrs. Guard at length came to London, the
Colonel, by the advice of his friends, refused to visit
her ; nor had be seen her from the period of his
leaving England for Buenos Ayres to the present
day, having been employed in the service of his coun-
try, in Spain and Portugal, and being at present a
prisoner at Verdun. He should call evidence to
prove, that, at the time of Mrs. Guard's leaving
Ottery for London, she was again pregnant ; and
that, in June, 1808, she was delivered of a child;
which child, by comparing dates, malt evidently ap-
pear to he a bastard.
• Messrs. Walker and Lee proved their having en-
deavoured to serve Mrs. Guard with a. copy of the
Order of the House and the Bill, at Salford, near
Manchester, and at Liverpool ; but not having seen
her, the papers were left at Salford, her last place of
residence.
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