The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-15 00:00:00

THE LATE SGANDAI4 CASE IN PARIS

The following are extracts from Lord William Paget's
statement of this-extraordinary affair :
" Another trifling circumstance had also some little weight
in deciding me ' • which. was, that upon my remonstrating
with Mr. Cassidy on the brutality and indecency of his con-
duct, he exculpated himself by placing in my hands a note,
bearing the initials of Miss Bellew, making an assignation
to receive him in her bedroom.* Under these circumstances,
I ventured to decline the honour proposed for Lady William,
and Miss Bellew took her departure from Paris. I heard no
further on the subject until I learnt, by the public journals,
that Lady William and myself had been engaged in inveigling.
a young heiress from Devonshire to Paris !
" Unfortunately, however, for the veracity of •their in-
formants, neither Lady William nor myself had been in
Devonshire at all ; nor bad either of us accompanied Miss
Bellew to Paris, nor did 'we leave London for several days
after leer departure with Mr. Cassidy' nor had our original
intention of visiting Paris tt e ITIOS remote reference to her ;
although, from the accidental Circumstance of my detention
in- London, owing. to the illness of two of my children, I
unfortunately made her acquaintance, and thus became ea-
tingled with her and her friends in this. affair. And, .after
all, our whole• knowledge of -this arniableyoung lady, extends
butt° five day's' Acquaintance in London, (if, indeed, such
trifling intercourse- as we had with her during so short a
period can be 'called an acquaintance,) and fo,ur.days in Paris.
" The public, I think, wilt wonder that a young lady of
rank and fortune (and with clean hands) should resort to the
columns of a Sunday paper,
instead of the laws of her coon-
try, to address her wrongs and to establish her innocence.
** *. And here I may ask, had Miss B. no friends,' no
*
father, no uncle, no brother, no male relative to come for-
ward, and brinr, to a just account, by some means or other,
some one, at least, among those who have so wronged. her ?.
It would appear she lead not.
"'lt has always been quite clear to me what has been the
head and front of Lady William's offence and mine towards
this young lady—namely, the rejection of her appeal- to us
for protection, under circumstances in which I think, as a
husband, I was fully justified. But, even for this Lady
William is not to blame (if blame there be); for so utterly
ignorant was she of my motives for declining to make her the
future depository of Miss Bellew's virtue, so entirely with-
out a suspicion• was she that Miss Bellew entertained any
but the most • friendly feelings towards her, that, unknown
to me, (and quite as a matter of course), on her arrival in
London, she wrote to know when and where she would see
her. Ido not feel caned upon to .nake a single remark upon
the conduct of any person connected with this affair, but that
of Lady W. and myself ; but I cannot help declaring (which
I most solemnly do) that I never saw on thee part of any of
the famous conspirators the' slightest attempt to influence
or control Miss Bellew in anything ; or anything but the
greatest kindness shown towards her ; and, without at-
tempting •to defend the conduct of Mr. Cassidy, I will
say.that- no man could receive the encouragement which
he—always received from Miss Bellew without having a
right to suppose that she intended to become his wife.;--
For my own part, I am quite ready to confess that I
looked upon a marriage between Mr. Cassidy and Miss
Bellew as so probable an event, and I believed the parties
to be so equally matched, in point of worldly position and

circumstances and both so fully aware of what they were
doilfg, that if I did say or do anything which might have
had a tendency to the furtherance of this object (but of which
I am ignorant), it was only in accordance with my feelings.
and with my belief that there existed no grounds whatever
against it ; and 1 am sure if I had been asked by Mr. C. to
do anything to forward it I should unhesitatingly have done
so. On the other hand, if Mi. Cassidy was himself• aware
of his impending bankruptcy (which does not at all follow as
a matter of course), or if any of the other parties mentioned
were aware of it, which I do not believe, I can find no words
to express my detestation and disgust at such atrocious vil-
lauy towards Miss 8., as well as towards Lady William and
myself. In conclusion, I shall only add, that every syllable
which has, been uttered or written, whether by Miss Bellew
or her friends, to the prejudice of. Lady William Paget
and myself in regard to this affair, is a scandalous and infai
mous falsehood.'

" * This letter is in the hands of my solicitor, Mr. Bebb,
of 12, Argyll-street, who has my full permission to show it
to the curious in such matters."

• The Rev. R. W..-Sibthorp has,.we have, just heard from
private sources, subscribed two thousand pounds towards the
erection of a large Popish meeting-house, at Nottingham,
and that he is about to be sent on• a mission to that town as
soon as the intended meeting-house is completed, to pervert
people from .the Catholic church and the simple Catholic
faith to the Popish sect • and -the Tridentine faith.—Church
Intelligencer.

PtuiLous haling been found necessary to
make some repiirs •in the weather-cock on the spire of St.
John's.Chufch, in this city, the work was commenced this
week, and the operation' has developed instances of daring
courage, and cool presence of mind in circumstances of un-
eipected dange•r, Which are almost romantic. The turret of
the church is about 40 feet high, above which a slender spire
rises, we should suppose 100 feet... The only workman em-
ployed in removing the weather-cock was a young man,
named John Shipway, 26 years of age, a native of Stone,
Gloucestershire, in the employ of Messrs. Wilcox and Sons,
of this city, but acting in this case on his own account. Of
this young man, who undertakes such business, it may be
propet to state that he has ascended the spire of Salisbury
Cathedral, 399 feet high! and those of several other churches,
by the same daring and singular process as he used in this in-
stance. On • Wednesday morning last, shortly before eight
o'clock, he raised ladders reaching to 54 feet of his distance,
which he ascended. From that point he clambered, amidst
the gaze of hundreds of astonished spectators, by only his
hands and feet . clinging to the holes in the sides of the spire,
to the summit. He there found that the vane was planted
on the top of a strong iron bar, 7 feet 4 inches in height. As
this was beyond his reach, he formed-, in that dangerous ele-
vation, a noose in a rope which he carried up with him,
slung it strongly over the weather-cock, and, ascending by it
to the required height, while he clung with one arm to the
.
iron bar, with the other he took off the min- is bird. Placing
this in due equipoise on his right shoulder, he descended in
the same manner as he went up, and safely carried his trophy
to the office. of Mr. Alexander, the churchwarden, in Broad-
street, by one o'clock. But John Shipway, on his voyage
into air, hall, like other voyagers, made discoveries. In his
descent he clambered round the steeple at a certain part to
examine if it was perfect, and Observed a place where a block
of stone about two feet in length was loose, and likely to ooine
down. He also saw that it was necessary, for some purpose,
to shorten the iron bar by two inches. Accordingly, about
half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning, he again ascended
in the same manner, to commence cutting the bar. When
at his highest elevation the gale was so strong that he •was
unable long to keep his footing, and lie commenced his de-
scent. In coming down he felt his knee touch the loose stone
above-mentioned, and knowing the consequences that would
follow, in full confidence in his own nerve, he called " Ware
the stone" to the crowd below, in time for them to be out of
reach, when it fell to the ground, and then firmly keeping
the grasp with his hands, directed his feet to a place on which
he could stand. After this he came down in safety.
Bristol Journal. •