The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-16 00:00:00

MR. SWIFT AND MRS. KELLY.

This affair has already excited considerable interest, from its
singularity and the indefatigable perseverance displayed on
both sides. Mrs. K. far from being disheartened by her late
defeat, has renewed the attack with unabated impetuosity. Oa
the 25th of March, 1831, a marriage' was contracted according
to the Italian laws and customs between Mr. Wm. Swift and
' Miss Kelly. Her mother, who was opposed to the match, con-
trived to leave Italy with her daughter, and arrived in England.
Mr. Swift immediately brought an action against her in the
Arches' court, which he lost, but having carried the case before
the House of Lords, the decision of the former court was an-
nulled and the lady summoned to the conjugal residence ; to
prevent which Mrs. Kelly left England for France, whither she
carried her daughter. Mr. Swift followed them, and on Wed-
nesday last lie met her in Paris, and little persuasion was neces-
sary to induce her to repair to her husband's residence. Be-
tween eight and nine in the evening an individual, who an-
nounced himself as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, ar-
brother, who was the bearer of the message, and the wi-disant
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deputy, who insisted on seeing Mr. S., and added that if that
gentleman refused, fie would have both him and his wife arrest-
ed by the gensdarmes. Nigh words ensued on both sides, and
the altercation began to take a serious turn, when Mr. Swift,
fearing the consequences, opened the door of the apartment
and demanded the purport of the strangeee intrusion, who
pretended that his quality of member of parliament authorised
his intrusion, into an Englishman's house—but his menaces
making no impression on Mr. S., be took his departure,
threatening to send the parties to prison. To avoid the scandal
which such scenes might occasion, and to screen themselves
from the fury of the mother, who would not fail to make
every attempt to carry off her daughter, the young couple
decided on going into the environs, and chose St. Cloud for
the place of refuge. But the pretended member was waiting in
the street and attempted to arrest them, crying d la yards, on
which Mr. Swift put his hand before his mouth. During the
scuffle the lady got into the coach, and Mr. S., with the assis-
tance of his two brothers, succeeded in extricating himself from
his antagonist, and drove off. The disappointed member cried
out in vain to have them stopped. On their return to Paris
thep lived happily together until last Saturday, when between
three and four in the afternoon, the substitute of the Procureur
du Roi, accompanied by the Commissaire de Police, and es-
corted by police officers, arrived at the house, and carried Mrs.
Swift, although a protestant, to the Convent des Dames St.
Michel. Her husband has protested against this strange pro-
ceeding of the Procureur du Roi. Mrs. S., will probably re-
main a prisoner in the convent until the decision of the tribu-
nals set her at liberty.—Paris Courier.

The Chief Justice of the Connnon Pleas has written to the
town clerk of Yolk to decline, on the part of the Judges, to
receive in future the gratuity of eight guineas presented to
them, instead of a supper at each assizes, from the mayor and
corporation, and returns the eight guineas paid last summer.
Lord Melbourne has granted a pension of £lOO per annum
to Mr. B. Thorpe, the learned- translator of " Rask's Anglo.
Saxon Grammar," and "Cmdmon's Metrical Paraphrase."
Bea!: Literary Advertiser.
BANK FAILURE.—The bank of W. Brereton and Co., of
Briuton, in Norfolk, has suspended payment. The Bury Post
says—" It was not a.bank of issue for reissuable notes, but, to
the sorrow of a great number of industrious hardworking
people, it was a bank of deposit. The liabilities are roughly
estimated at £70,000; the assets, it is feared, will fall miserably
short of that sum. Amongst the creditors is one to the amount
of seven or eight hundred pounds, who would scarcely allow
himself fire and candle."