The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-08-04 00:00:00

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Thfi thill he action brought to tweeter ennitieli:
cation in demages for theiniiit, sitskaillott try the
Plaintiff lithe haelkiletd• criminal
conversatidu with Phintire Wife: • '
Mr. Geassoi e,• es Counsel Plaintiff,
stated the case. The Plaintiff weed II inten e'f de.
spectability, being a carver, gilder, and print.
seller, residing id Long Acre. o.•fthni.itat
was a 'min in a great way of trade, a gol.l,lteat•tr,
and also residing in 1: ni4-Acre.. The Plgin titf
being then a widower, with threechlitlteli;'• tnar.
rind the woman whose affections the Defeedient
had seduced, in June, 1807, at Ciirivt (:hart'' lei
Spit:illields. They hail lived vtcry: contort.
able and happy manner till Ilk Defeitiltitvi • 'Ade
inroadewp.iii their domestic peaiec hecornpllellid
by the most studious- plans, atid'ilit Meat twitting
;Wiles, and had ultimately sticeliedeifii4 dhieetliat
fur which the present action was • iireaght. • He
And, iu she absence of the hutbend; einsitrived to
ingratiate himself into the goo& gritevi Of the
wife, by often going into the Atop under Serious
iprutclices, the consequence of -which wad, her tic-
auction from the path of virtee, 'which 66' alone
can render bliss seeure.W Thelfeets *bled 'he
proved in the moat iacontrovehible inatriteP, and
het sheuldthen be ontirted.:ite r• verdict • tot the
.Plaintiff, and whatever The ihilaegliatiiglii he; tiny
would be far toe little, • bevaliselllie Plaintid thd
lust what could never ite''reateibi—the scunifild
and solaeatifia wife, tit". ,e' .lao
• The marring@ was pesssedr4..46.
Hannah filikbutts delisted/ *it 4Riss 4ralrifilifebt
44 the. Plaintiff seen afterbisisa4ritlg.• in MOTs
Thu ,Defendant, Isho said,;,eatfis to • the shop Wits
after/that period, first under the pretense of Ob.
,sinew, bet afterwards :canto very often to seer kir
•utiatress, in the. &Wawa of Mr.' Athertutt, 'her
inastei. • • 11e- almost always contrived • to• Mete
whearher.mistress was sitting in a 'little. iaeleitr,
which overlooks the hlitip, and Whets her timaiec
was eiiher eat or up stairs *Winding to'hhi'beii..
ails, and he used to go into the partite te•iiir.
When they were tei together, the slessiMillsil to be
*hat and locked, and the .cortaina •to Iliac' *ass.
door leading into the shop, were ineirlably
drawn, when they were so together, ositog to
which precaution witness could never `qua.
*as passing, w hen the 'parties 'were en
She remembered once attempting ,to go' into tie
parlour when the Defendant and the Plaintiff's
wife were there, with the curtains drawn as ninth,
but found the dour lucked. She Hire ise
bered that the afee tans once knocked liked*
street dour, and thee ran over to the opietaile-iifie
of thq way, where her mistress saw 'him, eh.° sit.
terwards baring dressed herself, went to him; and
walked away with him. The witness never •salln,
any thing criminal between the Defendant addittlie
Plaintiff's wife ; she only saw those ,etrottglyi
picieus cirOnotslllllCOS that she had relmore.:i. •••.
Sarah Smith deposed, that she eattnot labgbilien
from t iel,countsy, end-bail livid wilt the Phisnift
.as savant since lost Lady-day... Shelled -
beed the Defendant coming to theehivp,teraglably
inquiring for her mistress, whom *hew be sihn
they went late a litrle parliourafthe back br the
shop, taking the precaution of locking the ditite
and drawiag the curtains. • She rcusembereethe
Defendant once-coming to see heemistresr, who
was in the parlour, while witness: mac winkle/ the
yard. liar osistress immediately epee to be4aatid
told ter to take, the pail sail water, and go sad
scour some.other part of dilations, and shale
tnediately obeyed' her ordess.i • • Wllivise then 'weld
to scone the passage, and wheaalten), she Wawa.
ed the Defendant look intveryikesik at her thews&
, the glass door leading from that pokier y ha soon
afterwards drew the curtains, *et, did not drew
them so as to prevent the witness front being able
to look into the parlour, for a small span, of the .
glass) at one sids of• the door, was left uncovered,
So as to afford Winters an opportunity; which' Cite'
enbraeml,. of looking into the parlour withoetbt.
ing observed. When she looked into the parlour,
she as* 4he Defendant and Plaintiff's wife on IMO
sofa, in a situation which could only be ptoperty
allowed to a husband. She looked fur some time,
and saw that take place which she couceivoil to be
criminal. • •
kgreat.number of •.-witnesses were brought fore
ward to speak as to thehappy manner in which lip
Plaintiff and-his wife, were wont •to live hercbie
fore. • • •
. Among others, appeared the landlord or the •
house in which the Plaintiff resided, who, with
other circumstances, stated, that he one day ieet
•ilte Defendant, while the Plaintiff was in prison
16r debt, he having been somewhat anfortaaate,
Who said to witness, lifter some conversation aboat
the imprisonment, " Atherton is in my dibt ;"
" And," added witness, 64 ha wife (Plaintiff's
Jeff") owes' tattler rent." "1f that bathe case,"
add the Defendant, 66 why don't you take flout JP'
thereby significantly.. hinting at the' Plaitifiell
wife. ,
• The ATIOSMV-GB.NSISAL addressed the'itn4y
-on the behalf of .the Defenditnt. The tact of the
criminal conversation had been proved, therefOswil
verdict must go against the Defendant; but as It
appeared from evidence, the Plaintiff's wife wag
so•wanton ai woman, having formed a ecuteectioa
with the Defendant almbst immediately after Ithe
marriage with the Plaintiff, that the Plaintiff could
not have lost much in losing the comfort and Solaro
or suede a woman •as the Defendant, had seduced.
As to the moral principle and virtuous eftertiden
they were entirely out of the question ; nut the
least vestige of either could hate ever gnided the
conduct of the Pleintiff's wife after she because
such wife. What was the Defendant's opinion of
her longbeforehehad the most distant idea of tie
,present action ? 'lle spoke of her as a eitinmOit
prostitute, and seemed to be surpvised at hearing
the Plaintiff's landjprd talk of the wife's being in
his debt. "If she be in your debt, take it oast,!'
said the Defendant, speaking of harries he et ,ld
of one of those onfortuenle creatures w Ito rat
the " loathed embrace," it) order to obi tin the
moans of dragging on a miserable eailfteuish. As

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