The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-12-09 00:00:00

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Ina.tehis and the SHAW"; .le4imiltietWelltectirey-
street amid's:Strand, tailed Old &ewe-court.
Sere she lilt the .Diefeedeat, .21r. Offerfteiwitra.,
twice or *tee times a week, hen two pair of stairs
roomi which it appeared that as Defendent had
takes. lent sprier, kelt before he .westt open .tlie
Oefuni Gircuit, is the atonth of March. •He took
the roe* unfurnished, saying his blame was Jones ;
that to was payind his addtessee tuba young lady
who was Wide, age; that the parents of both *ere
averse to the union, bet which he and hie intended
wore detetatined to accomplish; that he wanted a
place wherein to meet her occasionally, and there-
fore took' these !Aesop for that purpose, at the
rent of Isl. a-year. That he then wool on the
eircuit, dad returned in about five weekly-when I
some furniture came iii, that's, half adosen chairs,
a Perabroke table, a carpet, and a sofa; that ht
this place ho and Mrs. Taunton met two or three
time a week until the month of litay, whet the
people of the house suspecting them, had the es-
flashy *of dodging the lady, and found hereeter
her own dwelling-house, at No. el, Essez-street.
The'Defoodant was then accused of this, whoa he
made a number of eicuses, all of them absolutely
false; fi st, that ho had several ladies there orlea.
density, 14 that they conk! not tell who was there
in particular; secondly, that it was net Mrs.
Taantoss who came there, but smother who was
like tier, and that he would bring the woman who
dime, and who shoeld confess that she was the
women who did come, and he hoped dist all par.
tics -would then be satisfied; he did bring a wo.
maa-for that purpose, but instead of the genteel
and elegant* Mrs. Taunton, the woman he pro.
ducal was a chubby figure, withoet beauty or
gentility, a mere domestic servant in appearance,
and scythe Defendant was told that would not do:
then', driven out of that falsehood, he betook him.
self to another; be admitted that it was Mrs.
Teeittes who came, but thee he said he had taken
these lodgings for the purpose of giving profile
clonal advice to ladies whom he could not see at
home; that Mrs. Taunton was very unhappy at
borne, had a very bad husband, wanted to part
from him, end came to the Defendant fur his pro.
fissional advice, which he gave to her, and which
had the elltel of prevailing en her to stay with
het husband, who was so bad a man, that he had
criminal intercourse with the sister of his wife, &c.
These facts were all proved by the lodgers cat
this house where these lodgings were taken, and
by a respectable gentleman of the name of Dyer,
what is a coal.merchant and tas.collector ota part
'of the parish in whites this house stands. It sp•
peeved further, that Mrs. Taunton,, as well as the
shole family, of which she was a part, had beat
must morally instructed and religiously educates,
end had Always manifested a virtuous dispiesitiee.
As to their happiness, it appeared front the testi-
mony of Mr. Taunton, the Bartieter, a third
Wolin of the Plaintiff, that he esel his wife were
in the enjoyment of perfect domestic felicity be-
fore the Defendant, Weybetini, became acquaint-
ed with the family, an.; for some time efterwards.
This gentleman gave,eis evidence in most elegant
langetige, acid ototerved, that he did not believe
there was a mort• virtuous woman than Mrs. Taun-
ton lens et. first, nor a more happy ceeple than
beiself tnid husband in the King's dominions, be.
Novelle was seduced by the Defendant.
Ur. Psaaa, for the Defendant, addressed the
Jury hi an able speech, in which he endeavoured
to rescue the bar in general from the iniquity
whit,' this case imputed to the Defendant, of
whom he knew nothing except from the instruc-
tions he received of him in this cause. He was a
Barrister, but not called at the society ef which be,
Mr. 'Pine, was a heartier. The case which he
was instructed to state to the Jury was, that Mr.
Tautness was indeed a bad husband ; that he was
inattentive to the chastity of his wife ; had coil-
rend at her adultery with an officer at Ranisgate,
of the halite of Reed, whom she had, brought
home with her from a ball at Ramsgate to Broad.
stairs, where she: had a • residence, and in which
she remained a fortnight after her husband bad
souse op to London, leaving her and her servants
there fur that purpose. That he had neglected hr
chastity altogether, and bad spoken most lightly
of her, and said lie knew of her amours with
Rod, but that he preferred taking his action
against We; bourn, becaese he could pay, al-
though Reed could not • that if he should fail bp
his action against Weybouril, he would go against
Red. -That Mrs. Taunton hail taken Mr. Heed
into the house, on the occasion of coming house
from the ball, at two o'cloek in the morning, avid
• had entertained him there for two hours, which
thcseesants knew, although she did not think so ;
that she had given bins setae tea, and had after.
wards pia up the tea-cep to hide it, to conceal
the fact of a person having drank Sea with her.
That she let that gentleman oat herself, .as she
let bin in, for she lesh the key herself, telling the
servant who attended her at iLanisgate, that the
family might go to vest, and she would let herself,
in. That so careless was Mr. Tannest., and in
unmindful of the duties of a husband,- that he had
proposed to a young gentleman, a Lieutenant in'
the navy, Mr. Daniel Daly, to go along with him
to the play and thence to a brothel. That so lost
to all shame was .hit. Tawniest, and to all sense
of decency, thie he had acteally.elept in one bed,
at one and distaste dine,- with- his wife and her
!lbw, and tearhhi own servant cite. into dsired-
' loom and ohierved it; and that he hid wide ire
matter at itit to that 'abreast, and asked her what
she thongbt of it ; tp which the servant said it
were-all very rigbeir he liked if then ihiagi
wine true it wowed' be impossible for the Plaintof
• to-obtain a .verdict. Mr. Parke said he knew
eutlflog of the case, farther than es he was in.
Bimetal swish!. it in this manner, and to call Wit.,
easels ttepleere it. The proof was with them, if
tlipy mold prove it, mid the responsibility of Gall-
ing theist was is the Defendants who insisted on
it. Its was onlyaetiag la conformity io iestrue-
tions.,..?The priscipal..eritness, *deed the only
witness ato support this ease, set up by the De.
feadaae4 was, -•
Ann boll, *he had lookiserse is the family of
sir. Tomo*. She stated almost all the facts met.
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