The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-10 00:00:00

Mrs. Goodman sod Mr. Pitt, except that they called each
other " dear."
Stuart, son to a former witness, spotter in Ii
East India Company's warehouse, had seen Mrs. Good-
man in May on London bridge, when, on asking her
how her husband was, she answered, May be and his
brother be doubly and trebly d—d."
Mr. Sergeant PELL, in reply, read the words of the
agreement, by which the wife was permitted after the
separation to live where she pleased, and was to be to•
tally free from " all authority, restraint, controul or di-
rection of her husband," but was to be "in every res-
pect as if sole and unmarried." lie then commented at
great length on the incredibility of the last witnees's
statement.

Lord Chief Justice DALLAS in charging the Jury, said. if
parties agreed to a separation, and the wife returned to live
with her husband, common sense would declare that the
agreement was at an end. But he should be very sorry to
declare that a casual visit to a husband by a wife on a night
of festival, as in the present case, should oblige the hus-
band either to turn her out at night, or should leave the wife
destitute, the agreement being destroyed by such a visit.—
As to the adultery of the wife, if the Jury thought It Was
clearly proved that she had lived in adultery, she was not
entitled to any further claim upon her husband. An agree-
ment of separation could never be considered as a permit.
slur for the wife to live in adultery, but, on the contrary, he
should hold, that under such circumstances the husband
would be entitled to bring bisection against any one who he
could prove had been guilty of a criminal intercourse with
the wife. In this particular case, the question was, whether
she had actually lived in adultery with Pitt? Before he en-
tered on the evidence on this subject, he must say, that the
plaintiff was, as to that, entitled to their favourable consi-
deration. for if she had been living in adultery, it was clear
from the defendant's own witnesses that the defendant was
acquainted with the fact, and he should have given notice to
the plaintiff not to make any further payments to his wife.—
If the Jury thought the adultery proved, the agreement was
at an end, but if not, their verdict must be for the plaintiff—
the wife's return for a single night not being sufficient to in-
validate it.
Toe Jury consulted for a short time and then withdrew
from the box. Alter remaining absent above an hour, they
returned a eerdict for the defendant, on the ground of the
wife's adultery.

OLD BAILEY, Mosnav, Dsc. 9.
GANG 01 BURGLARS.
Mark Herd, William Watts, James Browne, and
Thomas Fuller, were indicted for burglarionslv break-
ing and entering the dwelling house of James Alexander
de Reymar, and stealing therein fourteen ',flyer spoons,
value 101., and other property: and Charlotte Bastfield
for being an accessary after the fact, by harbouring
them, &c., well knowing them to have been guilty of the
burglary.
The witnesses, by desire of the prisoners, were ordered
out of Court during the trial.
James Alexander de Reymar deposed that he rented
the horse No. 12, Eonn-place, St. Pancras, and bad
lived there six years. His house was broken open in
the night of the 13th and 14th of November. When he
went to bed his doors and his shutters were all fast. lie
heard no noise to alarm him in the course of the night;
bet on coming down stairs the next morning about 7
o'clock, in consequence of what was said to him by his
cook, he found his back kitchen window up, the mark
of an instrument on the sill of the window, and a spare
hole recently cut in the shutter inside. The fastening
of the window was broken off, and was found on the
door. To get to this window, the parties must have
climbed a wall ten feet high, as the premises were not
open to the back, but hounded by a row of houses. The
witness then described the manner in which the burglars
had forced out the panel of a door to get into his par-
lour. and stated, that he found that 14 spoons had been
taken from the sideboard in the parlour, worth at least
91., a penknive, a plated wine funnel worth It., a tor-
toise-shell snnff-hox mounted in geld, value 10s., and a
deem. On the Monday following, he saw at the poliee-
office, Westminster, the whole of this property, and re':
cognised it as his own. He could not of his own know-
ledge state who committed the robbery.
Cross-examined by Mr. LAW.—It was broad day-light
at seven o'clock when lie discovered the robbery.
Charlotte Burge, cook to Mr. de Reymar, corrobo-
rated this statement, and added, that an umbrella of her
fellow-servant had also been takes away by the persons
who had committed the robbery.
Thomas Pace deposed, that he apprehended all the pri-
soners about seven o'clock in the morning of the 14th of No-
vember, at No. 13, Castle-street, Seven-dials, assisted by
his brother onicere Cooper and Ilandley. They found the
door of that house open, and went up stairs to the attic,
where they found an umbrella very ;vet. The witness lis-
tened et the door, and heard, as he thought, the voices of
several men conversing in a very low key. He then burst
into the room, and found some silver plate lying on the ta-
ble. Watts, Fuller, and Browse were thee sitting round
the fire; Herd and Banfield were in bed together. Witness
went up to Watts with a drawn cutiess, and told him ha
would run him through the body if he stirred a step. His
brother officer liandley ran to the bed, and placed a pistol
at Herd's head, whilst the other officer, Cooper, secured the
property on the table, which consisted of fourteen table
spoons. and a wine funnel. Witness then proceeded to
handcuff Fuller and Browne; whilst he was doing so, the
snuff-box dropped from Fuller or Watts, he could not say
which. Handley In the mean time handcuffed Watts. Af-
ter these three prisoners had been secured,' they ordered
Herd to get up and dress himself, which head. 'He put on
all his clothes hut his coat, which was hang* up on a
chair; as he took it from thence, a knife, which the witness
produced. fell from the packet. They then ordered the wo-
man Bonfield to get up also. Cooper then asked to whom
the plate belonged? but to the best of witness's recol-
lection none of the prisoners made any answer. The
witness then searched the room, and by the right-hand
side of the fire-place he found a board loose In the
door. Under that board, but at some distance from it, he
found five skeleton keys and several other implements
of housebreaking. On the back of the chair where
Puller sat there was a blue coat very wet, and on the
bed a pair of worsted stockings very wet and very dirty.
The prisoners were then taken to the police-office,
where they gave no account of the reason which brought
them all together. Browne's whole clothing was very
wet ; so had been the shoes of all the party; but at the
time lie apprehended them they appeared to he fresh
dried. Their hats were also very wet. On the Monday
following, the witness went with Cooper to Mr. de Rev-
mar's house, and on examining the marks of violence in
it,, found them to correspond with the implements of
housebreaking found in the prisoner's apartment. It is
Italian hour's walk from Mr. de Reyinar's house to the
place where that apartment is, and in his opinion the
breaking into the house and the taking away of the
property must have occupied at least three quarters of
an hour.
This witness was cress-examined at some length, hut
nothing material was elicited from him. lie said, that
the female prisoner was very ill when apprehended from
the effects of some blows she bad recently received.
Mr. de Reymar was here called to prove that the knife
and sand but prednced by the last witness •were his
property. To the first he spoke doubtingly, to the last
positively.
Joseph Cooper, one of the poliee-otheers who had ao•
companied Pace, corroborated his testimony in all mate-
rial points. He found 14 silver spoons, which be pro-
duced, on the table, wrapped op in a blue rag, very
wet ; be likewise Nand* wino funnel, which be also
produced.
Mr. de Reymar then kinked at the spoons ; he knew
them to be his by the initials. He could not speak so
positively as to the wine-funnel ; he believed it, how.
ever, to he his.
John Edward Handley gate the saw, account as the