The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-08-02 00:00:00

• Will you
—I will.

Yon are sure she
am tare of it.

Used Capt. Smith dine at your house?—Sometimes.
""ncire?-111 the cdffortems.—
be iu the habit of takinswine after dittner?—Or-
4aly.
to did he take his wine ?—in the same ptere
lit was not true that he used to go up stairs to
take his wine ?—He used not.
. Aod of course your sister did not go up to take.it with
him I—Certainly not.
Now I wish to ask von one qnestion. Dill you never
see Captain Smith take any liberties with your sister?—
Netts,. •
•MI yen never see any one else take such liberties ?-1
have not.
Than, of course, vou have not seen four or five other
gentlemen take libe.rties with her, even in the present:cot
her husband ?—I have not.
Do you think such liberties used to be taken ?-1 do
think tiiey wOre not.

• That ii, you did not see them !—lf such things hap-
pened 1 should hare seen them.
-Now it was abort 1819 that you say you observed the
change in your sister's Ma 11716111 ?—lt was.
, And before that you have told us they were very happy?
—I thought so.
Was thrro no talk of a separation in 1817 or 1818 ?
None thit 1 heard.
Was your brother all gentleness and kindness to his
wife up to that time?—Entirely so.
Did he never OSP ill language towards her ?—1 have
no recollection of I.i, having done v..
%Vas he trite content and happy ?—Perfectly so.
Hid von never bear this constant and happy husband
call his wife a 11----4 b—h ?-1 do not think he used
am h words towards her.
. Nor any such words ?—Perhaps he might have spoken
(aura to her sometimes.
What times were these ?—Generally when lie was
He never did it but when Mr. a orsten made him
tit.: often barren ?—Very 141011.
•t don't know what you Mean by very seldom ; was it
as often as twice a week ?-,Not so mach as that.
Will von swear that yonr brother was not tipsy twice a
?-1 cannot s.vcar that he was.
Now iluri le lel7 and lelB how did your sister con-
d.,..t her.elt ?—She was very. reserect in her manner.
I fill have never beard her talk freely a ith some gentle-
um a ?-1 have not. If she had talked so,l meat have
heard l:er. 1 staid with her within the bar, and had al.
Wel vs a good °ppm tuuity of seeing what she did.
Hare on ever seen any man hiss your sister but her
licclund ?--1 do not recollect that I have.
Have you navel .ern Mr. Yorsten kiss her ?—Yes, 1 be-
lit Ire 1 saw him kks her mice.
Kat you saw nobody else kiss her ?—1 did not.
Now upon your oath, without mentioning names, hare
you not seen slur men kiss her ?-1 never saw any one
Liss her bet Mr. forsten.
That yoo swear ?-1 do.
‘Vhere did you see that ?—lt was within the bar.
Re-examined by Mr. Selialigrr....•••As to your sister
go:ng out with Captain Smith in his tilbory—what time
of the day did the go with him ?—Early in the day.
Tell us about what time ?—They went out at twelve,
an•i were Lack by four.
And you say this never happened more than twice ?-
1 cut sure of it.
You have told its that yonr brother was made tipsy by
Mr. Yorsten, did this often happen ?—Oh yea; Mr. Yor-
steu often wanted him to drink. 1 remember on one oc-
e.o.ion that be was so tipsy, he was obliged to be put to
bed.
The bar was not confined to seven or eight gentlemen
—Oh dear uo, most gentlemen that came to the house
usNl to Kit in there. •
When did you remark the defendant there first?-1
oliseeved that the first day he came to the house he went
inside there ; my brother often tried to keep gentlemen
out of the bar, but could not.
Ellen Neiman, examined by Mr. HOLT.--1 live at the
Bear and Staff lan. at Critylord, of which Mr. Laxton is
landlord; 1 was there in the summer of ISIS, and re-
member two persons coming there, who passed as Mr.
eel Mrs. Coveney; they came on a Saturday in June or
July; the lady came first, and the gentleman afterwards;
the gentleman went into the lady's room ; I do not re-
collect how they addressed each other; they came in the
morning and dined together; they staid at our house
ten nights ; I have seen these persons since and know
them; I have ascertained that the gentleman was Mr.
Yorsten, and the lady Mrs. Coveney.
Cross-examined by the Soeicerda-Ortteeat..—l saw
the lady at Walworth, she *as pointed out to me by Mr.
Covedey, the witness who appeared Were; he chewed me
her house; I went and asked fur Mrs. Coveney at the
door, and i was shewn into a room where there was a
woman that I believe was Mrs. Covedey. As to Mr.
Yorsten, 1 was directed by the Attorney in this cause to
go to his shop and boy a stamp ; I did so;• and sew Lim
there.
Re-examined.-1 saw Mr. Yorsten in the Shop at the
time 1 said, but have not seen him since; they told me
it was his shop, and that 1 should see him there; as to
Mrs. Coveney, the house was pointed out by Mr.
Coveney, and when I went to the door another woman
came out, who, upon my asking for Mrs. Coveney,
showed me into a roost where there was a woman sit-
ting that I believed *as the person that I wanted; 1 do
not know the number of the house where 1 was shows
to ; 1 went into the r and saw a lady. but nothing
passed between us; ascot stop five initiates; I never
saw Mr. Yorsten bat gate.
James Lesion said, I am landlord of the Bear aid
Staff, at Craytoak is Kent ;1 remember a lady and gentle.
seen coming evisy hottse in June ISM on a Saturday;
they stopped there that Right and the night following;
the gentle's!' Rave his address, " Mr. Cowen,' ; 1
know 'HAM, more of them; 1 never saw the parties

since.
Cote, Jusuct.—" Is that your case, Mr. Scarlett ?"
Mr.'ACARLETT.--" My Lord, I do not think I can
carry it farther.
Tte SOLICITOR•GENIR•L.—Then, my Lord, my
Learned Friend mast be called. I submit that he has
made out no case to go to the Jury. We have nothing
to show that it was Mrs. Coveney who went to Cray-
ford with the defendant, and for aught we know upon
this evidence, it might be any other woman in the
world. What Ellen Norman says she gives on the
testimony of the plaintiff's own friends, fur she seemed
to take it for granted that the woman poiated out was
Mrs. Coveney, merely because they told her so.
The Cater► JusTtcc.--1 certainly think this M-
ame is too defective to send the case to the Jury.
There is a total want of satisfactory evidence as to the
Identity of Mrs. Coveney, and it would be too much
for us to assume that it was she who was at Crayford
with the defendant. The plaintiff must be soassiteti.
The pialatiff was called accordingly. Verdict—
Nenuieei.
This cease collected a considerable crowd of per•
sees in the Court, and we understood that Messrs.
Kam, Oabseri, and other hailing performers at all
the ?knot's, were is sttestlateee es wigwam

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There was PothAsti crnot importance.
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ff. its asaalsosaactiog, is sot Mr. Henry,
• otnedi.in and prowietor of The King
•11.sfreit, Drury-lone. The excellent
eot—idisirFoT and Mrs. Covenev, and their re-
spectful attention to the frequenters of the brise, have
gained them the esteem of all their friends and at-
quaintanee. It is thrrefore hot justice to prevent our
readers from falling into an error by a simila-ity of
names.

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of Pr, Alfa, Wy

MR. BODKIN AiVI) THE RUES: eu, PACK
THEATRES.
[num THE NEW TINtEM or Tilts my.]
TO TfIE Etfll'Oß OF THE NEW TIMES.

Melolicity °Mee. Red Lion-square. !terse 1. Weal.
Sta—After the full and explicit statemeot which has
appeared from Mr. Brock in reference to the attack
made upon me by The Tiairs, I should have felt it per-
fectly unnecessary to intrurleSsprin the public any obser-
vatians of tios own, but that Mr. Walter, in his journal
of this tlav, affects still to attach some importance to
the eircunistanee of my not recollecting (when he first
mentioned this suisject to me) that I Was in poss. talon
of a seal similar to that u hick the tette; be complatuedi
of appeared to be lemur .ned.
It will scarcely be believed that this seal, about whirls
so much has been said, i• a mere common wafer stamp.
such as is to be found in almost every eaunting•housot
and nothing could he more abserd than that the par-'
denier shape or form of an article was likely to
be home in my recoilection, especially when bee months
had elapsed since it had been used, and when the fact
was (as Mr. Walter knowe, although hr has not had the
candour to state it) that the seal was not mine, but had
been brought up to me from the Houseless Poor Com-
mittee in a box of papers (at the time I was preparin(
the Report of their proceedings) anal had by accident
been left behind when the floe iv... returned. The mo-
ment I found it (consciuts. I had never made any illO-
- use of it), I carried it to Mr. Walter at list Times
office.
Mr. Walter has steed in hi% first article that I pressed
fur an assurance " that I should not he prowcnted,"
and as lie rails this " a pretty request truly, and of very
pregnant meaning,— it may be proper to state the fact
as it realty ors-tared.
Whets Mr. Waiter prefer:l,d his complaint before. the
Mendit ity Board, the Managers intimated in we the 114-
lure of his charge, at the sanui time observing, that they
of course had no power to call me before surfs a tribunal,
but as Mr. Walter was a subscriber to the Society, and
as Mr. Tooke awl myself were officers dB, I was asked
if I was willing ta leave the invesiigrtion of the trposac-
lion to the Board, and to abide by its decision. I replied
that I could hare no objection to such a course, hut that
I had been given to understand the transaction was
likely to be made the subject of legal proceedings, in
which caseit would not only he improper but useless for
me to enter into any explanation. I therefore wished to
know if Mr. Walter also consented to abide by the deci-
sion of the Board, or it lie contemplated any other mea-
sures; and this question, which would, I think, have
naturally suggested itself to any person similarly sir.
curnstanrell, Mr. Walter distorts, into a demand on my
part that I shonbl not he prosecuted. anal designates as
" a pretty request truly, and (Avery pregnant meaning."
Mr. Walter has entirely suppress. al in his stauseet the
letter which he receiver) from Abr. Poole. On being re•
quested to attend at the Alendicity Office, Me' Poole
called upon the Lord Mayor, and having represented
the very unpleasaut situation in whirls I was placed,
begged his Lordship would favour him by explaining
the circumstances to Mr. Walter, adding, at the same
time, " Your Lordship knows mmatida of nie to be able
to assnre Mr Walter that I am not A Man likely to' lend
myself to any %mato 'by proceeding and least of all to
any thing calculated to injure The 'Antra.- Ills Lord-
ship :caddy undertook this task, anal desired Mr. Poole
to refer Mr. Walter to him. which lie dill. This is
Mr. Poole's statement, and if it is tintrue, Mr; Walter
can easily enable himself to contradict it. Ile Call, alias,
perhaps, explaio why he did not rail upon the Lord
Mayor on receiving Mr. Poole's letter, in order to learn
the nnture of the cutiounnication which Mr. Poole had
made to his Lordship. Mr. Walter professed to be actu-
ated by a desire to elicit the truth, hut by declining to
receive any information at variance with .his own view
it aoald seem he wished rather to tic Outset spots a par-
ticular individual ; and this impress' is not likely to
be removed by Isis subsequent conduct, in libelling the
tribunal whirls he himself selected, because its decision
happened to be more consonant with justice than with
his preconceived notions open the subject.
I may perhaps be permitted to make one remark upon
the transaction itself. Its the first place, the letter was
not sent to The Times until after that Journal had as-
serted that the audiense was packed, and therefore can-
out be quoted in justification of that assertion. Nor
could it (as it arpears to cur) have imposed upon or in-
jured The Time: ; because, even if the communication
had been inserted in that piper, and its contents contra-
dieted, the production of Air. Tooke's same (although
not written by that gentleman) must hare absolved Biel
Journal from all blame. I confess I hare been all along
astonished beyond measure at the circuitous construc-
tion which Mr. Walter has, in the calesture of Ids brains,'
put upon a letter intended evidently to convey to him
information which the writer believed te les correct, and
was certain would be pleasing.
Of Mr. Walter's reasons for the vindictive course he
has adopted I know nothing, and it wools' be as ntine-
cessary to ask for his motives as to *Wield any reply
to the petty insinuations of a collateral mature itt which
he has thought proper to indulge.
Having disproved his facts, 1 shall be excused fur
passing orer Ids abuse in silence. ..
I sin Sir, your most obedient arrant.• W.. H. Booatx.
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ACT OF GRACE
TO FSRSONS CONFINED FOR TRNALTIRS I:NDER
*MINUS LAWS.
We have great pleleare in communicating the fol-
lowing " Copy of a letter to the several Bert-nue
Boards in England, Irelaud, and
lease of certain prisoners, in consequence
jirsty's Coronation."
Treasury Chambers,
Gentlemen—l am commanded by
miesioners of his Majesty's Tressut
that, in consequence of his Majesty
Lords are pleased to sanction the
sooses cosilued for Penalties foe `react
of the Revenue under your management,
have been confined for any period
mouths ; and I am to desire that
tabs the necessary measures fur
these should be aoy special ease n
is gaol, er of very flagrant shar►eter,
desire the saint say be submitted
deratios sad directions.
My Lords are also pleated to =feed .
Grace, under the same aver 's. Is slipsiseseis

on
' ail further to acqoaint you, t►at 11- Lords are in
lika manner pleabadia.sanction the relzaaz of all pi-,
soners confined for debt, due to the Revenue under
your management, less in amount than IOU!., who
may have been confined, or when they shall haste been
confined, Mree months ;. and-they are pleaked to au-
thorize you to discharge the books Of your depart-
ment from the amount due from inch persons, ind
desire you will take measures accordingly, unless
there should be special circumstances attending any
liar before iuen►ioned, when my Lords

particular case, as ,
desire you will lose no time in submitting the same
for further directions.

I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant,
(Signed) S. It. LusufNuToN.

THE KING'S EMBARKATION FOR IRELAND.

PORTSMOUTH. TUESDAY EVENING, SEVEN O'CLOCK.—
His Majesty arrived here this evening at half-past five
o'clock, and got on hoard his yacht at a quarter before
six. Every thing happ,ned precisely as I stated in
my letter of yesterday. I believe he remains in the Ivor-
hour to-night, and if he gars to Cowes to-morrow I shall
follow him, and stay there until he sails for Ireland.
Wednesday, August I, eight o'clock, a. m.—Early
yesterday morning signals were made to the Royal squa-
dron at Spithead, and in a few minutes the whole con-
voy were at single anchot, in line, according to seniority,
prepared to receive his Majesty.
About -leven o'clock Admiral Sir J, AI. Whitsherl,
Commodore Sir C. Paget, Lieutenant Governor Sir G.
Cooke, and several naval officer., went down to the large
platform, which is I iose by the Sallyport, and remained
there for some time, observing the rate of the water.
It was then blowing fresh (tom the 'West, and as this
prodn-ed a strung surf, it was upprelaeaded that his Ma-
jesty might sulf-r inconvenience if lee were rowed in his
barge to the Royal George yacht, which lay moored.
a considerable distance, at Spithead. The Admiral
therefore, on consulting the other officers who were pre-
sent, resolved to have the Royal George brought into
harbour, and accordingly signals were made to her for
that purpose. She was immediately slipped from her
moorings, was under weigh about twenty minutes he-
llfire twelve, and in eight minutes after she was in the
karhour. Having gassed in, she stood out and in again,
for the gratification of the numerous spectators who
crowded the platform-battery and the beach, and was then
moored at the lower buoy, near the mouth of the harbour.
When it was known generally through the town that
his Majesty was to he bete in the course of the after-
noon, the isoliabitants closed their shops as on Sundays,
and arrayedthenaselves in their holiday attire, and where-
ever a convenient standing-placeoffered itself, it was lined
wills people. It was market day in the town ; but the
business of the howl- was either anticipated, or deferred,
in expectation of the arrival of his Majesty. At two
o'clock the Royal Marine Artillery marched in front
Gosport, commanded by Sir It. Williams. The 15th
and 10th Regiments then proceeded from their barracks,
as also did the Royal Marines to their several stations.
This took up some time, and at length, about 4 o'clock,
the ditferest troops were formed in the following order :
—At the New Sallyport a (heard of Honour from the
10th Regiment, consisting of a captain, two subalterns,
four serjeants, and nearly 200 privates were stationed.
They bad with them the King's colours. The remainder
of the 10th Regiment, commanded by Colonel Stewart,
formed in files en their left along Iligh-street, the rear
rank on the edge of the foritway, and the front rank
about eight paces f\ one them its the road. The filea
were placed at smelt distances as enabled the regiment
to occupy the street nParly to e Old Court-house,
whiels takes op so much space, 1 deforots a street
i
that otherwise would present a e open vista. The
Royal Marine Artillery formed with their right adjoin-
ing the left of the 10th, and after these the Royal Ma-
rines and live companies of the 15th Regiment, cote-
manded by Colonel Davison, formed in the same man-
ner along the whole length of High-street to the bar-
rier-gate. The Royal Sappers suet Miners were also is
attendance, and the South-East Hants Yeomanry Ca-
valry, consisting of the principal tradesmen of the town,
and commanded by Col. Lindegren, were stationed on,
the Parade.
The bterre having considerably abated, the tempo-
rary stage was laid down from the stairs of the Sally-
port, and declined, by an easy descent towards the
water, until it was on a level with the edge of the Royal
barge. The side rails (Idle stairs were covered on earth
side with rich crimson cloth, and on the platform, im-
mediately near the door, the Admiral of the station,
Sir J. H. Mashed, the Conciiitioner of the Dock-
yard, 84 4. Grey, and several Marine °Seers, its fall
uniforms, waited to. receive his Majesty. The Royal
barge was in preparation at the lekaide of the extremity
of the temporary stage. chi • the right, the boats frees
the different vessels of the tillitadron were stationed se-
cording to seniority, the Captains in them, the oars
raised, and the pendants streaming over their stems.
In the front, at some little distanee en the water,
were several private yachts, filled wish the families of
the proprietors, and the space all *rotted was occupied
by innumerable small boats full of ladies and rim"

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Will you swear she did not gu out twice twenty timetf •
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owassoikeasi. aAwiassalimoasoo-so wow'• vial. stscral cases, so that tkey.may ILL leased oi_ tile-dal.
.11.1jesty descended, accompanied by
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