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,df this cotinfry to the Courrof Naples. Mrs. Bligh hart
ibeen under Mk care ; she was. acquainted with her up
'to illation of her marriggelishe saw her in 1817, shortly
After her marriage; At iaeriber at Naples, and visited
Captain and Mrs. Bligh ; they were very well re-
ceived, and visited in the most respectable circles ; she
Aever saw anything objectionable in the conduct of
Mrs. B. Mr. L. Wellesley was residing there at the
time they visited ; they were introduced to each other
At the house of the Minister; Mr. W. introduced him-
self as an old acquaintance; Mr. and Mrs. Wellesley
After this visited Mr. and Mrs. Bligh, and continued to do
so until Mrs. Bligh left. Mr.W.'s attentions to Mrs. Bligh
were particular ; she learned from Mrs. Bligh that she
vseant to leave; she gave as a reason that she would
not stay another hour in the house if her friends were
refused admittance; Mr. Bligh had refused Mr. Welle-
sley ; Mrs. Bligh,said that Mr. Wellesley was her best
end only friend; Mrs. Bligh afterwards became part
'of Mr. Wellesley's family; she was not alter that re-
veived.in the families where she had before been ad-
'mined ; she had seen them sitting together on the
terrace ; she informed Mr. Bligh when his wife left the
hbuse ; he was very much affected, even to tears.
Cross-examined—Mr. Nigh gave notice that Mrs.
'nigh was not -to be trusted ; she never saw any thing
'objectionable one toward the other ; she was aware of a
second marriage; before the month of July she had
`heard some trifling disagreement ; it was after she be-
*lone acquainted with Mr. Wellesley; she could not
'lay that Mrs. Bligh had lived as a happy woman with
Mr. Bligh. She had thought so till she told her to the
•contrary ; she saw them about six weeks after the mar-
riage; Mr. Bligh was not there; she saw her about 12
*months afterwards; she dined with them in London, at a
'family parry atCol. Patterson's; she afterwards saw her
at Cambray ; she had a house to herself ; Captain B. was
-Obliged to go to England on account of his health ; he
was absent abort two months. She heard Mrs. Nigh
say she was intimate with Lady Aldborough ; she did
not know that Mrs. B. was left in Lady Aldborough's
•care by Mr. Bligh. Mrs. Bligh made a eommorrication
to her, to which she'replied, " I could not have believed
it possible it related to Captain Bligh's conduct at the
Valais Royale it was of a gross nature. Mrs. Bligh
made some complaint, that her life was mi,erable, after
she became acquainted with Mr. Wellesley ; what she
said was, that she would not remain another hour in the
'house, if any of her friends were not admitted. She was
Always complaining that she was unhappy. She could
tot exactly say the time; she never said any thing of
her unhappiness, until after sl e became acquainted with
Mr. Wellesley. She never told her that she had been
-unhappy ; she, therefore, considered her happy ; she did
not refer her unhappiness to any thing in particular;
she did not consider she was unhappy with Mr. and Mrs.
d ward Biigh.
Re-examined—They sat up at Mr. Bligh's during the night, with
is light, to receive hers she made application to Mrs. Nigh Auk
"neat day to return, and assured her sire would be kindly received.
Mr. Edward Bligh—He saw his brother in 1817,
'when he returned from Cambray ; he was not much in
the habit of seeing him till he joined him at Florence, on
his way to It .me; he then appeared to be on very
good terms with Mrs. Bligh; at Naples he lived at
'the same table, and was constantly with them.—
From his {Captain Bligh's) state of health, it was not
thought 'advisable that they should sleep in the same
apartment. He was subject to violent perspirations.—
They appeared to be very happy together, but Mrs. B.
was of a very bad temper. He saw no change until
the renewal of the acquaintance, as Mrs. Illigh tailed
St. She was after that very violent in her conduct,
and appealed to act under the controul of another....
lie accompanied her to Mount Vesuvius; he missed
her for some time, arid afterwards found her at the
Hermitage, and learned that she had fallen down; Mr.
W. was with her; he thought they were about three
quarters of an hour ; Mr. Wellesley's attention was very
Marked. On the 31st of July she eloped ; Captain Bligh
was very much affected when he was told of it. Wit-
ness sat up until two o'clock in the morning, in case
she shculd return ; when he went to her apartment, he
found it locked; he found the key, looked into the apart-
anent, locked it again; and put the key in the same place.
Outside of the window there was a mark of a boot. He
examined the apartment the next day ; there was some
of Mrs. B.'s linen on a chair, and a mark on the floor.
Cross-examined—Saw his brother at S.indgate in
1817; he was there two or three months; his wife was
tiot there. It was in Duke-street, Manchester-square,
that he first saw Mrs. Bligh, in the year 1820; he next
saw Mrs. Bligh in 1821, after his marriage, in Sussex.
Mrs. Bligh was there a month, Captain Bligh about a
week; he believed they slept in separate beds at that
time. He next met them at Florence. He was, gen..
rally speaking, on good terms with Mrs. B. There was
a coolness when ti,ey met at Florence, on account of
what she had said of witness and of other mat-
ters; there was a proposition that the families should
join ;. there were quarrels, some. imes they were violent;
her temper was bad, the Captain's was not much better.
He did not think they had any quarrels wail they went
to Naples, they were then violent; they never came to
blows; he never saw his brother behave but as be
should do; he never struck her, nor had he heard Mrs.
Bligh say that he had. He did not know who inhabited
the Hermitage on Mount Vesuvius; there are persons
that live there; he never saw any Monks there;
there was a foreign Nobleman with them at the Her.
mitage, but no servant. At the foot of the cone of the
mountain there were guides. The Hermitage was the
place where strangers usually stopped ; there were three
Ladies, foreigners, of the party ; there were four bearers
to carry each Lady. He arrived at home before Mrs.
Thigh ; he left the party at Potoche ; be did not think
it usual to go there after being up all night at the
Mount; he understood that she went to an Hotel ; he
did not know that his brother sent a notice there not to
trust her; be (Captain Bligh) published notices through-
out Naples not to trust her, and that he would not be
answerable for her debts. He did not know that he did
all he could to prevent her having credit or protection
horn any one ; he sent every where. He might have
advised his brother to have published those bills; if he
did, he had forgotten it. On one occasion, Mrs. thigh
applied to him to advise his brother to let her go to a
party, of which the defendant was one. Upon her
asking this, he told her that he thought his brother was
quite in the right not to give her permission, and that
she ought net, consequently, to go. She replied, that
she would go, whether be consented or not. She did
go, and witness went with her. He had a quarrel with
his brother at Naples, in the carriage, about her, and he
(witness) certainly used violent words; neither of them
quit ted the car r iage. Hi:brother told him that he had told
his father he was bound in honour to marry this Lady;
he did not tell him thathe had told his father that be was
bound to marry her because he bad seduced her ; he was

noteonspelledvlpy her Lather, Colonel Patterson, to marry
her; he did not tell him that he had run away with
her; he Conceived that in' point of law the first marriage
was not legal—he supposed because she was not of age.
It was from a feeling of honour on her account. fie
never heard him say that be married her with Colonel
Patterson's consent. He certainly drew the inference
from what was said, that his brother had seduced her.
He had no knowledge at all of his having represented
that to her father.
lite-examined—He believed from what bad been said, that he had
cohabited with her before the first marriage. When he left Ms
wife at Cambray, be certainty said that he was sorry that his circum-
stances would not allow him 'to bring her with him to Cheltenham
and the other places. He should certainly say that his brother was
unable. The declaration of his inability, was made the first time
ha saw him after his return to England. He knew that Mr. Ha-
milton offered her money after her elopement. He frequently saw
Mrs. Bligh and Mr. Wellesley together at Naples after the elope-
ment; he had seen them at the Opera; Mrs. Wellesley was of
the party.
By Mr. SCARLZTT—Mrs. Bligh was not living with
Mr. Wellesley's family; she was received there ; it was
some weeks after this that his brother sent Mr. Welles-
ley a challenge; he could not say that it was on the 2d
of October ; he did not know dirt it was a few days
after they left Naples. During this period Mrs. Bligh
lived %%kit Mrs. Wellesley, and there was no reason then
to think that there was anything imprope►.
Wm. Richard Hamilton, the then Minister to
the Court of Naples, was ezAmined respecting a corre-
spondence that had taken \place, in consequence of air
application that watt made to him to present Mrs. Bligh
at the Court of Naples, which he declined, in conse.
quence of her having left her husband's house, and Mrs.'
Hamilton having declined receiving her at her house.
Dr. G. Hyde, Physician to the Embassy—l saw Mr.
Wellesley and Mrs. Bligb frequently at Paris in 1824;
they lived only a short distance from each other; 1
knew Mrs. Bligh ; in 1817 1 attended Mrs. Bligh ; in
1824, at the request of Mr Wellesley ; they quitted
Paris in July, 1824 ; they passed by the name of Smith ;
had several communications from Mr. Wellesley of a
private nature respecting his situation with regard to
Mrs. KO ; "cannot tell whether she had a child or was
pregnant at that time ;I attended Mrs. Bligh on the 15th
of July, 1824 ; she was at that time passing by the name
of Smith.

Mrs. Parker—l live at No. 9, Seymour-place, New
Road: a Surgeon named Arnold, took lodgings for a
Madame Ronzi; the Lady and Gentleman came on the
26► h of June, 1825 ; the Lady said the Gentleman was
her husband ; she was very near her confinement ; they
slept together; in the evening the Gentleman went to
bed, and the Lady took up some coffee to his bed•room;
afterwards heard that the Gentleman was Mr. L. Wel-
lesley, and the Lady, Mrs. Bligh ; was then satisfied
that the Lady was Mrs. Bligh ; they left my house in a
great hutry ; a Police officer came to the house on the
Satorday following ; the Thursday they left the house,
Captain Bligh also cattle to the house, and claimed the
boxes and papers.
The letters were heve offered in evidence by Mr. Jones,
after an objection from Mr. Scarlett, which was over-
ruled by the Lord Chief Justice; they were admitted in
evidence, and read as follow, by the officer of the Court :
(The letters in the opening statement of Counsel were
read according to their dates.)