The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-02-22 00:00:00

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net, and, for a vert slight challenge; iC COM
pis Wish the official cotrespondence dr the Engli4
Under-Secretaries altd their agent's WON th oae w how
they call conspiratoisi and make them the laugh.
ing stock and bye-Word of Europe. We ought
to say thus ranch to tranquillise the hihabitants of
the territory which Mr. Canning, were there any
troth in his stitement, would denounce to the
severity of the law... The Government his not
had to complain of a single Frenchman. There
hare been 'correspondences with England; but
they *yr° carried on by stibaltern agents of the.
police, under the authority of the Chiefs of that
department. Those were the spies Of Mr. Can-
ning."

DEBATE SN THE HOUSE OF LORDS O!( THE MO.

Ttom or rstastas TO LORD wur,Limaron.
Llrd Gain In all these respects; the malls of the
halite (of Nokia) were successful.'
Moniteur—" Military Europe sill see with
astonishnsesst the Parliament of England occupy..
ing itself about the affair of Maisla,4 veryincon-
siderable action, in Which 5000 English had to do
with 1800 Frenchmen, 1300 Pules, and about
1000 Neapolitans. The French did not, succeed
in routing the English, who were under the pro-
tection of their vessels. One shrugs' np one's
shoulders at seeing a Parliament a*4 &asthma. •
copied about so insignificant an affair. A. few
,days after that event, the Eitglish re.embarkede
happy in having landed on the Continent without
'being made ptisosters."
Upson the Marquis Wellesley's .reelew of his
Brother's campaign, the Moniteur makes the
following remarks:—
" Lord Wellesley is extreme!), maludroil. Tie
forgets the 'starch of the Duke of Dalmatia upon
Placentia with the '2d corps, of the Duke of El.
chingen aith the 6th, and of the Duke of Tre.
visa with the sth ; thai is to say, in all between
60 and 80,000 men. There is not a word of troth
in the whole of this passage. The battle of Tala-
vera was d,Subtful. The French conducted their
attack badly, and committed great faults. But the
allied army was superior to the French, as it con-
sisted of 38,000 Spaniards and 26,000 English.
whilst the French army amounted only to 45,000
mess ; and it is a f,sct that the English were
beaten and driven from the field as often ais thby
attempted to attack the French. flails the French
army been conducted with more experience, the
victory. would have been complete, and not an
Englishman would have escaped. The French
General ought nut to have committed the error of
attacking the Hagfish : he ought to have let them
.advance upon Madrid, in order that the 80,000
men under the command of the Duke of Valuta-
tia might cut off their retreat by the Tagus.
" The English had so little success at Talavera,.
that they suffered the King to fall upon and de-,
stroy the army under Venegas; and surely that
must be a very singular success, which could not
prevent an enemy from marching to destroy anal.
lied corps, the day after the battle. Lord Wel-
lington conducted himself with.little military skill.
When he heard of the arrival of the Frenchvst

Placental; 'th Writ Itttrstrere tpfibrin/TOM
and it was not until a few days after, that he saw
the itceessity of re-crolairat, M prelrent Mb retreat
being cut oil by the Duke of Dalmatia.
.There
was no success itt Portugal, because there was no
fighting there, and because the ,D•ilte of Dalmatia
evacuated it on learning that the English had joined
the Spaniards.
" Lord Wellington's march to Talavera disco.
vers the rash and' nnskilful General. To have the
whole.country at *command, and not to know
where the enemy is, is a thing almost inconceiv-
able. But this is not the first time that the Eng-
lish have lavished their money without any advitt.

(age.
6 4 Lord Wellington:did not, from einice, take
a position at Almenida; lie was coat died to it
by the Duke of Dalmatia; and, probably, the
French army, in which there were two excellent
corps, the sth and the Gth, ought not to have
taken the pains of moving for such an object.
The English thought that the war with Austria
had weakened the army in Spain : they were raja.
taken in their calculation. Had the war its Spain
been differently managed, with the forces which
were there, Spain would long since have bees re.:
duced 'to submission, and Lord NVellingtesitausaik
long since have ben` driven into rho sea.. One
shrugs one% shoulders at observing how regardless
of truth the English orators are in their speeches:
and what little knowlrtlge they suppose in the
Members who listen to (herb."
Marquis W rt. LESLE I wish to we a electrons Ex-
ecutive counted opine, mid co-operating with tut Assembly of
the Corms." •
lifoniteur—" Assemblies of the Cordes ! Vise
entreat Lord Wellesley to inform us where they
arc to ho held. Is it r.t Cordova, Setille, the Isle.
of Leon, or in the Canaries ?"
Marquis Irwt.t.est.ev.-,-" We have adopted a line of col,
`duct more geaersos mod more politic." .
Mtsniteur —" France whites you weal perslit
in that excellent policy. It will give her umoble
of conquering India and the freedom 11404101:
the plains of Spain. There ha wag.
tween fine praises and pad's, and the eitieUlations
of policy."
Upon his -statement respecting the numbers and:
discipline a the Purtugude army, the Meniikar
. .
says :--
'rhos, then, the English pretend to defend
Portugal. The r, nglish Ministers will, doubtless,
revert to more prudent au:wires. Lewd Wellesley
is a bad prophet. He manta a fleeting of the Cot.
tes ; and at the moment be speaks, the French
are masters of Seville and tidal
sit.
He wishes
to defend Portugal ; his brother will give him
better advice, and wilt adopt the plan of nobly
embarking in hit transports. The Admiral, more
prudent has prepared a great number fur his re.
ception."
So great a body of snow has fallen within the
last week its North Wales, as to have impeded
the arrival of the mails, soul other coaches, from
those roads, for many loan.

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Aad.r. -Zilf AWAiritiEnblia •
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tduar of kiNcrs rcll Fea
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itUNTAVD V. .orr.sEii.
'this 4sis a trial on an istue from' the Court of
Chancery to try the validity of a marriage.
Mr. PAR* kited the cases the Defendant
already named Wag a nominal nee, ;ad- named.
only as connecrcd with the deed on which this
cause was origiitallj' moved in Chancery. Tile
real Ddepdant was Mt. Daniels, lately a stock.
broker, and now residing at Hampstead. The
Plaintiff was also it stockbseker. Some months
before the Bth of April the Plaintiff, going
to tho- Defe.ndant's house on business of his
father's, a wholesale ironmonger in Castle.
.street, saw the Defendant's-daughter. His con.
nrsion with the Exchange enabled him to sere
Mr. Molds on some occasions in his. busi.
nets. This produced an intimacy,. in the cousin-
!of which the Plaintiff paid. his addressimr:
Miss Daniels, and was desired to militia:Am was
a few months older. One soiling; at supper,
' Mr. Daniels suddenly aftWomfted to his daughter
his consent that shelthoseld be married to the ob.;
Pet of her declared regard. She was a delicate
girl ; and tltcriutellkence prOduced such an imnie.
:effete nervous agitation, that Medical aid was ne.

strong Attachment, and bier habitual irritability
of frame, her friends advised•that the marriage'
should not be delayed. If it wore kossible that's
verdict should go against him this day, he could
nut conceive a man more hardly treated. 'than his
Client ; his addresses sanctioned, his marriage so-
lemnized by consent of both families, atid this
without any hope of emolument, excepting the
distant one of a, very moderate fortuae, from
the precarious and capricious bounty, or rather
from the inveterate and unaccountable enmity of
his 'fatlier.iu.law. On March 27, Daniels, his
daughter, aftil'a Mrs. Newnan,. her aunt, came to.
town from flanipstead, to buy clothes and trinkets
fur the wedding. On i•Jr return, Miss Daniels
went on a visit to the Plaintiff's father, who. lives
at Camden Town. She remained there from the
Ist to the 7th of March, without any appearance
of the insanity which was now alleged as the cause
of breaking off: a marriage contracted in the face
of the church, according to the forms of law.' 00.
the 3d of April, a dinner was given at Mr. Da.
niels's house, to which the .entire of the Mun.
yard family.were invited; Mr. Daniels was laid
up in bed with the gout ; but tho females of the
party 'were admitted to his apartment, and he ex-
pressed.himself in 4erms of. the wannest affection
for his intended son.ia-law ;- 'said that nothing'
should now delay the Match, and that he might
have taken *horse, and rode from one end of Lon:
don to the other before he could have me,t a rain'
in every way .so eligible. He afterwards went
with his daughter to Doctors' Commouv, to execute
the necessary papers for the niarriage ; iu short
wont every where with her but to the .altar. • If
he saw her insanq before that, why not forbid the
marriage ? the whj impupher there
Re attests the mikeriagc, eignsyse rvester,. and

...yol.nowooirienioirwoed to.istealidoto tho ceremoay
to which be had given his full sanction. I can be.
hove nothing low or insulting oldie Church : there
.Wrill a clergyman al-elating—would he not have
:refuted to go through the rite if ho had seen in.
ilnenity in either of the parties? The exhortation
,lit the fOrm of marrive was among the most so-
i lons Itelhe entire rubric. The Clergyman read it
Ireei theft was heard by the parties ; it- was heard
by the aunt, who was now: id be brought fur.
ward full of testimony to the insanity of her niece,
3114 Ileknowledging, with a base and bold deli.
atiCe of the feelings of a relative, and the faith i
of a virtuous woman, that she allowed her ateee '
to go a sacrifice to the altar, to swear to •the
' performance of duties of which she could not
know the nature; to vow obedience to a bus.
band, while her brain was distorted with. mad
Mess ; to contract a marrage which that aunt
knew must be a nullity ; and to toad a;; unhappy
*defeating husband with the shame, the burden,
Hat misery, of a lunatic wife, and propagate a race
or unfoirtunates, cursed with the dreadful visits.
,flint of that malady which had nsadelheir mother
eer objort of • tiring] e! compassion and hurter:,
plo ; this was. not credible; .it was •not in humUn
own to believe so weak affection ; it was not in
~tneen artifice to make that fiction strong ; the
4irry wald decide epee) the simple questitet, whe.
er at the time of solemnizing the marriage, the
'Bth of April, Mica Sarah Ann Daniels. was of was.
clot in a sound and perfect mind.
Mr. Muttyard sen. his wife, his sceond_son, his
sister, Mr; Gosling, his partner, at whose Una
the wedding dinner was given, wart brought to
prove the sanity of Miss Dsniels at the time of
'the marriage. • She diner, at Mr. Gosling's on the
following day also ; and, et Wittier, apparently
•throegh bashfulness, she 'shed tears on seeing the
attention uf.the party nett rally .turned on her;
.110 r father advised her to retire to compose herself;
'and, on her retiring, said, that it was merely ftom
uot.being in the habit of seeing company, and that
',fie Would soon reenver. They had heard that
'Miss Daniels was seized Stith a nervous affection,
which hall been explained to them as merely iris.
lag from her" esteem for Mr. Manyard,and her
-disappointment in having the marriage protracted.
;At that time she appeared weak, but in. suck spi.
"rite as might be expected. In a: few weeks after,
the had an attack of insanity, but recovered iu a
month, and contihned perfectly sane ever, since.
Thu Rev. Mr% White eras teeter or Ibunp.
stead. He married the _parties in 4utstion on the
Bth 'of April, between sight sail nine in the more..
-Nag. Though he observed a carelessness •and le.
vity of manner in the lady, which wade hint leer
it his duty to impress her with a sense of the im-
portance of the ceremony, she opted 'roiled at the
organ and galleries, and seemed unconscious of
the great oarsponsibility ender which the ceremony
mast pied, any one. •He had known but few in.,
stances of 'lightness on such an occasion. dew
' -.ended to the particatbo receiving the Holy
4 "by the directfon of the Rubric, at
possible. after their 'marriage, hot 14-
`-artnity. He Would not haw-
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-Tan ersi-esiii4ll*o4ssr feet* k
his mind. Hoolioisid'havall)..
of a great .ertme in adtising-tivo
a.person, not sane.
On the part of the DeVicaltit .
GENERAL ttated%:thlt object'
an unforttinataltnman front '
now onlyiTtireat her, and- resi
tectioe and fondness of a father,
ed to tins disadvantageous match.
lorn hope, to recover the'hurt
ter, and now wars only anxious.,
of protecting and cherighiug. hoe.
Several witnesses were called t
had been seized wititatfickiet
;.18011 and 1808, and WO. a few
marriage; s;:c hod' hail a'strait
wet Strappetrdtfwold her bed;
Monro,Symmouds,
vehreittalled, with the apothecaries
.fstst, to prove her returns of •insanit'
Mrs. Newman,, the aunt, w-
to' the facts already stated by
neral.-
Cren.e.ramitted-by Mr. _
.tuu . are, of course, greatly
your niece!"—" Yes" (observing
herself.)—" Pray, are -
by the heat 3"..-" Yes, Sir ; it

-“—rotrlllralttirptaitll- all lire7rsitrf.Wltlnftet
then mad?"—[Here the witnels See-- ' -
faint, and linable to prciceed.]
By the COURT.—" Madam, ,
the state of your niece's mind,
on ; or think that the marriage
burial service, to be read over
Did yea permit her to go into th,
she conks not hare the rights of
Pints the Claimi of children ? G,
Such things be dune ?"
After t &Case had closed on
Et:caws °eau recapitulated e
issue whi h the Lord Chincel.
be tried *as, wliFther'Serah A
competent mind et the Ath of
cognized by the wisest principli
acts of a lunatic, dune iii ' the
his disorder, were valid. W'
A right, to do in the most
of their facilities, they had
when the lucid intervals re
temporary and Inferior possession
was not necessary for'rights Or
he of a preeminent rank; or
even equal to itself. Sickness,
terious connexion by Which the
bend:under the calamities of the
duce the intellectual powers' of
of idiotism. Providence had,
'continningand supported, viinei ,
man ; but where the mines, 1111'
of thut,diieritninatlbn by w 5 ili
itself in the ordinary courses
'was competent to the, pOLSetiSin
rights to which it could be cuti
of the highest genius, and the mc,
wittier:: Ile-eemeni &fedi Nisi bel
relative to a Gentleman, whose
'fflititzsquarts ' heebeen • livened "
derstanding deraoged, as it was
Sequeuce. Ills madness grew so
was seer to an lsyln fur Una'
throp, a Guvernor of the Ban
in the course of his illness; hr
received directiout,' with anoti
will, and had it executed. 114,
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rageues immediately aftertoutkdifs,,
to invalidate the will) *halt. of
ready. to prove the violent _
:unfortunate man. Lord Elienberoegh
himself a 'Counsel against . the will '
it was established on the most het—
grounds of the lucid interval)
:which he was, of course; in DosseSsio,
faulty of conduct could nut deft'
Sacred iti the eye of the law.
case of a Noble ' Lord who dist,
14 the most ecteiitric oddities,
'day in a woman's old red cloak ,
ing a particular dish every night
other deviations from the usual
But those should not invalidate
secured by -the lawn Miss :
must have retained the vestiges
Madness left its deep impression!
mince ; there was the wandering
paleness, the wild and melan
when the mind had shaken
its last and direst calamity.
no feeling fur the Defendant
weighty and as dark as ever
Court. -Ile had but an eleeti
Ho had entered into a foul
conspiracy wish thc'Aunt toll;
down the heaviest vengeance of
to violets 'heartier which coma
should slot be contracted, %her
ease of the mind stoodle probe
or holm guilty of the still more
crime• of conspiring with that
down a-lawful marriage, to tear
1 husband, to make het marriage
laud her children bastards before
defied the genius of man to find
the miserable °mien of one of ,
against feeling, against society, as,_
against religion,
The Jury, after a short conaultatiorr,
' a verdict for the Plaintiff. L .
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Ersabeth Shaft', the young weatan)lll
vent to the Queen', dresser) *be, we
imoueev, was wounded us
..soteie4sty by!
it,edsis surtilealy *ruck het ethics * •
;iis the arm, coistinues estreibet tit)
,aail yeeterdays the Wound •sea Poe
4On TOesday afternoon, amailbois -
1401laqi,alipPed down, Opi:Osire' 4 4
'esemselansil broke ih 'aikag • '
Tuesday. about I
Man was pesibig along Meat' - iscify
'donee, ins was' pushed direei e
Arektt
id.& wiligoo paesintit *v.
er the wheel& 0em.04:-..- 0 -

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ffilismemes
etilliti *Wetl gesqty•
is filutielaetantunt' to ,
set c,ii
tot Jr4Ntr. ii!lit,
lita..inis it; release . 1
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hatqf *htch could -
;tore her to the pro« ,
4 .who had vonsent:.•
:h, •merelritsiofor. •
mind of hie diugh- • •
s.tailatti.iiit power
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I to piseStLiket She
!'iielentlnailseas id
gri weeks before her
t wAistcoat on,. and •
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moods, and Walker;
:aries who attended
ism:lily. .
is: called to demise
the Attorney. Ge. •
: Tatoisr.va.
ally interested for •
Tying her fanning .
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re you incommoded .
t is very weem;,,--. .
Ite-731111 trittrefel
s eppeared tug,*
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did you, knowing .
.I, allow her to gel -
te
ritual was like a •
inanimate beings
ist situition, where
,t it wife, or her In+ •
God Weis ate, can
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t both -slies, Lord '
the evidences-I'W • •
ilor had illrettedto
Inn Daniel& was of
April. It WSJ re. -
les of law, thet,the ..
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e lucid iotervals;44 '
(hatcrer 04' hki.•,„, : „
entire posie!skit • -.* - •
tt the same tight .:
restored even. the • .
inn of the mind. It . -
sat the mind atioaht • .-
that it shottld,jsi
accident, the. my*. _
e mind is fortted,to •
the bodyi may tt.4 '
' man to the verge
not allowed that . . '
t twltny thing hu.
1* retained en o . ask
ifs it could guide
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sof expediency, it . . ..
nit of all the legal . ~
titled in the exercise
nost subtle.discried‘ ' •
before the Delegate. •
nse house in Port. '
I dotitt; *1414. up. . , .
is supposed, id con. .
s 4 •viulent,• that ho
tidies. Mr, Wind.- .
rink, called on hint
he foetid him calm, •
,ithet. person, for a
.
o...letiottic grew nista • . ,
0. d' In the siit
,„ of witncsse*. were • : •
phrenty of this
Ellcnb►grough was. - •
1 . the will ; . bit .'.
tat Incontrovertible
It ettiVifie rights of ' •.
osseitaion.. Patticti.
feat those rights se .
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There was, the tate • '
listinguished hipaolf ..'`'•
, sitting daring the
.k in a.winflow, hair- •
glit for soPper,..end
it manner of ioeig.47, / • -
le the precioesei,gbts _
Dili kb, &POW leS4 • .
:cs of her disorder.
tins on -the counte. _
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ng of the eyes, the. •.
anrholy look, .suite -' : , '
off the *right. ;if . . •
There 'quid ,lie .
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it ; his case was. as. . .
er came before the
:lection of crimes. •
foul lied infamous
ofLl atuhito tint
swu
ilitiee drew
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ninands that marriage - .
ern this dreadful ills. ' •. . •• •
Itibit its eelehr4tion ; . •
ore fool and infaeous • .
lit woman to break 7 . •
tear a, wife from her .
;a an illegitimate rite, • .:.
ore the 'world. k) . .•
d out any other than • . •
r those great orenceS
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ly, against law, aid
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