The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-17 00:00:00

PROCTOR AG A I NST PROCTOR.

Sir WILLIAM Scorr gave his judgment on this
cause to day. The parties (he observed) to this suit
were husband and wife, and were married In Septem-
ber, 1810. The marriage was proved in the lanai
form, us well as their subsequent cohabitation, at
Thorley, la Ilettfordthire, and at Mardork's-ball,
in the same county, the seat of Mr. Proctor, end In
oilier places; in all of which they mutually rivet.
nixed each other as hesband and wife, and were so
received sad acceented by their friends and acquaint.
'vices. There appeared to have to base been no Isaac
of this marriage in mew' f the repeated mis-
carriages of Mrs. Proctor. In the month of August,
1814, Mr. Procter caviled his lady to the Continent,
he being attended by a valet, named Chides Been.
Ivry, and she by her servant Dorothy Marks. After
visiting in succession Paris, Florence, and Rome,
they %irked at Naples on the 10th of November,
where they remained till the 2311 of March, 1815;
and here they became acqoainted with Temple French,
Esq. Bet on the 28th of March they arrived again
at Rome, and there they Used in a house sitosted on
the Corso. In Roane they were introduced to Charles
Staudish, Esq., an English Gentleman of large for. '
lune, between whom end Mn. Proctor an adulterous
intercourse took place, which was known to the ser-
vants of this family, but which was cnknown to the
busbied till the month of February, 1810. when he
first received entice of her infidelity : in consequence
of which he brought an actions at Conirntin Law
spina Mr. Standish (in the Court of King's Bench),
and recovered, in May, 1017, 5001. damages. it
appeared that while they resided in Rome, it was the
astern of Mr. Proctor not to retire for the night,
till his lady sent her servant to inform him that she
was in bed ; and that it was also his habit to rise early
in the morning, and go Immediately into his dress.
ine-room. By the tenni f Dorothy Marks.
Mr. Standish was admitted, at sack times, into the
bed-room, where those scenes of infidelity took
place between him and Mts. Pretty'', which were
the subjects of Cpe 'present suit. But it was further
proved in evidence, that ow massy occasions (while
the parties so lived in Rome) it occurred. dist w ben
Mr. and Mrs. Procter were sitting together in the
drawing.room, Mrs. Proctor was often called out of
the apartment, leaving her husband remaining there,
by Marks, who was accustomed to say that she war
wanted by her shoemaker or by the milliner, but
which pretences were nude use of in order to permit
Mrs. Proctor's adjourning to Marks's room, where
the servant, having admitted him into the bowie, used
to secrete Mr. Standish, and where the illicit inter.
coarse of the parties was charged to have been frt.
qattutly repeated. In one instance, after Mr. Stan.
dish bad quitted the house, Marks found his watch
upon the table in her room, and curried it to Mrs.
Proctor, who appeared much confused, and Marks
took that opportunity of endeavuering to persuade
her mistress to break off her adulterous connexion
with him; bet she replied only, by protesting her
vehement affection for bins. Immediately spot, the
circumstances coming to the eats of Mr. Procter,
which happened by Standish's publicly mention.
ing his familiar intimacy with Mrs. Proctor, the
former of those Gentlemen adopted the Irgat steps
already noticed. It was in the same capital that Mr.
French visited them, and in constipsenceuf their former
society a Naples, proffered his company to them on
their 'Weeded jesuitry, which offer was accepted.—
They travelled from Rome to Patios, Florence, 13n.
logo., and Vienna ; and afterwards to
Schaffhausen, Frankfort, end finally to Brussels.—
Daring this toe, an adulteress intercourse appears
to have been formed between the same lady and Mr.
French, and carried on, on his part, with great adroit-
ness sod secrecy. It was his custom always to tra-
vel on before them to the rarities stages, in order to
inspect and hire the rooms at the different inns or
betels at which they were to stop, taking case that
his own bed-room should, if possible, adjoin theirs.
Bating accomplished this point, his nest care was to
borehole. with a gimlet through the partition, by
which means he was enabled to ascertain when Mt.
Procter went out of his room, and avail himself of
these opportunities to go in. At Patina he was ob.
served coming out one day of Mrs. Proctor's bed-
chamber, when her husband was not in the house.—
At Schaffhausen Mr. French's valet, one Lanterte,
a Frenchman, was brushing his master's coat, when
a note fell out of the pocket, which he, not being
able to read English, carried to Marks. It was di-
rected to French in Mrs. ('rector's hand.writiog, and
run thus;--" My Dear Love, for God' sake be
morecarefol, for Marks, who has just left me, has
noticed the holes in the door." At Frankfort Mr.
Proctor became very ill, and es he was sitting alone, i
his valet &miller/ first suggested to him one rseipitig.l
the suspicious conduct of his wife and Finch ;
be was eacteditsgly surprised at this intelligence,
bet could obtain no positive evidence, Mount.
ing to proof of the adultery.--Ile determined,
however, to part with his itavel.ing companion, and
on gettieg to Brussels requested Mr. French would
desist from acconspaoying them : some disagreement
ensued, and that Gentleman quitted them. A Fri.
vale and fraudulent correspondence was, however,
continued to be carried on between him and Mrs.
Proctor, after she, with her husband, bad returned
to England, through the kind (Ares or mid.,"
Detre', a milliner at Bromic, by whom Mr. French's
letters were forwarded to Mrs. Proctor, ender the
assumed name of Madame Woodforte, and addressed
to be left till called for, at the Saracen's Dead, at
Ware. The husband, having his suspici tttt s awakened,
and being determined to ascertain whether they were
well grounded, obtained possessies of one of these
racket., the Conteuta of which revealed ibe ebole