The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-16 00:00:00

I Dietey in lieu of a

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of the country' on artificial memory,
comes into court with title, family Bible, clergyma
certificate, titled lady witnesses, able attornies, and coup
of standing at 'the bar. Among the documents is
purporting to be an autograph genealogical declaration
the late Sir Hugh Smyth, declarinc, "Richard Hu
• Smyth" to be his legitimate son and heir; and the tale
the lost heir runs_ thus : He
.was the son of a first m,
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in every sc

riage, which the Sir 1
the victim of a '

ichard traA
rscally butler

lately, but an imperfect knowieuge or Ms owu 1.1111.11,
had but recently discovered a beloved half-brother and
uncle. He so tier succeeded with certain ladies as to c
vince them of his true heirship; and thus he entered
court the hero of a romance.
"It is under cross-examination that the case bre
down. The accomplished baronet, professor of mnemon
cannot remember a variety of essential circumstanc
cannot sell the names of his nearest friends, calling :
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Knox • Lora IN ox ; comesses isizu Liv imasuac,.. ~....
picture was that of his mother, and a Mrs. Forland gave
him ; avowed that he preferred to spell ' vicissitude
‘viacitudes ;' justified the spelling of 'sett asside' on tl
authority of old authors ; showed as a mark by which a
lost heirs ought to be discoverable, scars on his rigl
hand, probably the remains of scrofulous disease; pr(
duced a box in court which was to contain a family sea
though no seal was in it ; produced another seal with
family motto of ' Qui capit capitur,' engraved. ' Qt
cupitcapitor.'

The nature of the case was becomi
third day, Sir Frederick Thesiger,

the rightful owners of the title, asked the plaintiff how a
letter which he wrote, and which he dated on the 13th of
March, and sealed with a Smyth 'Seal, could contain the
1 impression of a deed which had not been obtained before
; the 17th of that month ? Sir Richard Hugh Smyth turned
pale, and asked permission to leave the court 'to recover
himself.' Sir Frederick objected ; and at that moment, by;
an accident which would be 'unnatural' in a melo-draina,
atelegraphicmessagehad arrived from London, announcingi
whom ' Sir Richard' had employed to makei;
• that the police had discovered an engraver in Oxford-street,
risreeold
man confessed that this charge. of .
ner to
family relics. Amidst a deep silence
forging the court,
was
gaol—not for the first time ;
true. The last heir and plaibentiistfa
t ble and audacious action
The defence of this unwarran a IrveasturliediedacoliTict."
for the
threw np their briefs in
issai
isd tao3lieauvnegcol,sidt3s,,eavieldrala tnillioluies;a.nd pounds. The defen-
dantAt the time when the counsel. d . _
rd
of
fifty .
The defence, we understand, would have been
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ebxlaememas.
ede tlfieerreurieemaplaniiieltiffupeAnad
esighty
defendants.
of the most complete kind. It would have been proved by
Mr. Herapath, the analytical chymist of Bristol, that the
deeds were forgeries, the ink and the sealing wax being of
modern date, and another peculiarity, not hitherto noticed,
would have been established in the seal. The distinctive
mark of the barontage is, as our readers are aware, a blood.
hand, and this hand is always engraved upon: a small
shield, which is placed upon the family bearings. In
making the seal ordered by the plaintiff the engraver was
only able to get in upon the small shield a hand with three
fingers and a thumb, and the fourth finger is likewise
deficient in the impression uil. n the
deed. The Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol has ascertained that Dr. Verney
Lovett, who was alleged to have married Sir Hugh in Ire-
land, did not take his degree of D.D. until 1809, which
was ten years after the alleged nuptials. It has also been
ascertained that on the day of the alleged interview • h
Sir John Smyth, Mrs. Wray was not at Heath-house,Nrintor
did the baronet go out at all. The prisonesrhisu,chhotwheavt
homee
service,subse-
quently, whilewashe
seen near the lodge-gate. We hear also that it howeverrwould
establisheddgetolkngelding
a rese
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dte , thetitioatown plaintiffhitlhe
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ne
trial,f left have been
gbieelaienn
in 1814, he was in Bath keeping a school in
accused while there of an abomi-
admitted to bail, which bail he
ceth,atanhde
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nijaadbremoeffaedn'
ran from and forfeited. A to
of theevent
his separation. from his then wife, Ma was
who had it is 'Said-before her m • ry Ann Whittick,
arrutge lived ' i service 4-
Asbton-court, and who subset l ' 11 a"
equent y, beyond all doubt,

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out, which have
been thrown up round the camp W ere torte
stormed and
grand field-day. To-day will also witness the performance
of a grand sham battle, and to-
blown up by gunpowder, during
marrow the same again.
the
operations of the
This latter day will be the last field-day which is ever
likely to take place at ellobbam, since next year the whole
of the common will be enclosed. On Thursday the troops will rest, and prepare for their march. On Friday the
first division leave, and on Saturday evening the whole
encampment will.