The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-24 00:00:00

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gyibo Jart,.,as a.profeisca,iirian— i &Ili" ~_
reey, when 41;;;;;;;;;ET T— stof the birth was tivenl
of litsjuloi I,,hyd*P. if dot 4 'than .of iiitseirM Waled). i 'Op to him ; hut 1w still habit ktfewrtedge as to who was
have seen Mr, Cembe• IP 19Stratkerrle. . Whet 1 wag # the adulterer, or where her re-Mita was ; when she emitted,
Atiestbonte the. strmitttstiO#n*ed to treat iv Loll ..witil his battle rife left ti letter. issigning the reason of her
proper respect, bill raildetip *as .Of weak ic m -a.;t .¢.t leavins it worse pret ions disagreeasent;'aal recolloseswl:,
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, not. think Lord P: coalit • laife 'be of shied d dila ing hecchild to his care.
without my diecoYesing it. Thi Count ordered the libel to be reformed, as there
Qiefilioned by Dtr.•Dialitt..—tkeyOu cinitiler a man were' many farts pleaded in it, rrhielitaight be reti'eattied,
of sound mind who woald gaffer his' servants to heat withcitit prejudice to the case of the ha4and.' The edge
.hint in his house, without insisting on their die- *AI ecothe on at the neat Term. '
charge? , . ,
Witriess.-1 think thie is'eathe?.i paitlitig onestion.
Mr. 8AN1(28...4 think so too.
Mr- Serjeant Pirtt. objected- to the. "observation of $
Juryilin upon any aaswer which a witness might give
upon bis oath. -
Mr. Timm said, it was, time' this eonversa ion I
should. be put an end to. The eximintition then pro-
wetted : , . •
!never saw any thing diffetent iit the conduct of Lord
P. from, other Gentlemen: I have heard of Lord P.
ringing bell., bat 1 know nothing of it of in); own know-
- r. Woodham, exansined by Mr. Serjeant Pity-1 ant
Clerk of the Peace for the county of Hants ; 1 have
known Lord P. for 24 years; 1 last saw Lard P. in July
list, at the Winchester races; myrrhl gentlemen were in
Ids carriage with him; the races lasted three days; Lord
Portsmouth was there tWice ; bis Lordship seethe I very
mach pleased to be amongst his friends ; I had not seen
him for three or font years before ; when! first saw Lord
P. it was during the life of the first Countess ; 1 remem-
ber in 1814 soliciting for the office of clerk and treasurer
of a • wapiti': road,; there were other candidates; I
wrote to Lord P. canvassing him for his vote, and he
came to the meeting of the trustees; tire present Earl of
Caroarvon was'there; it was a very large meeting ; there
were four or five and twenty persons present; Lord Car-
name proposed me, and Lord P. seconded the proposal;
on that occasion Lord P. conducted hitnself.vcry proper-
ly, and very mach like a gentleman. The other condi•
dates withdrew; there was other business relating to the
roads talked over; Lord P. certainly took part; from any
thing I my on that occasion Lord i"i manner was as cor-
rect as ally other gentleman present ; there was waiting
siugolar in his conduct; from all that 1 have seen anu
prsonally known of Lord P. 1 should say be was of
sound mind; 1 have a note written to me by Lard P. At
the races, previous to this letter being written, 1 had soots
eumntunication with Loid P. respecting his acting as a
magistrate;' be directed me to sue oat his deditnus, is
order that lie might become a magistrate. (The note
was then produced and read. It was as foil )ws : —•• Lord
Portgthouth presents his complirrenta to Mr. Woodliain,
and begs to know whether he has received the writ from
flown yet; and if he has, to inform his Lordship of it.—
H. P. Sept. ta, 11414,)"—Directed to Mr. Woodliam.
Cross-mnibed by Mr. 'BROLTOIMI—I sued out the
writ; but his Lordship did not qualify or act as Ma-
gistrate. -
By the Jury-A do not know the date of Lord Ports
month having been appointed a kagistrate ; 1 judge of
Lord Portsmouth's mind only from what I have seen of
him; Lord P. either wrote to rue, or told toe personally
that he would decline acting as a Magistrate for the
present.
l'he Rev. W. Pedden-1 am Citrate of the parish of
Andover; I have been sego:tinted with Lord P. '25 years;
I have sgen his Lordship chiefly at pnblie meetings ; I
have seen him at the Bailiff's feast, and at the Corpora-
tion dinner at Andover; I have seen him also at my awn
hoNee and elsewhere; tilifortuly his Lordship's conduct
has been unobjectionable and gentlemanly; his Lord-
ship's conversation was chiefly of a trifling retire ; he
conversed on ordinary topics; his Lordship's conduct in
church has been most exemplary; I have dined with
• Lord P. since his return front Edinburgh ; h. was better
dressed, and in worse spirits than before ; from what I
' know of Lord P. before I heard what I have beard in this
• Court, I should not have hesitated in adurialrering the
sactainent to him.—Aeljourned.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, OrsLtx, YEE. 15.

IPLYNN V. LANGAN.
This was an a-tion brottett by the plaintiff for the
recovery of FiOtll. damages, for the seduction of his daugh•
ter by the def.ndaut.
Cntberitte Flynn Obi proiecuttix) was the first witness
ealled.—Shoe said she resided .in liowstiret, %there she
beeauie aequai tett wi'h the defendant. On her way to
visit ber sister-in-law on the Ist of Oet... she was overtaken
by Langton; who insisted on tre -Hug her; he then 'custard
las former courtship ; again talked of marriage, Of which
be bad before spoken ;he gave r a en!, mid asked her
it it would fit ; her r. ply was, that it did a. weil ac if
her Measure bad been taken for it. They went into a ;
tavern, and subseqaenly to Cole's-lane and Mary's-lane ;
the refused to uo into the loose be invited her to; she
made regiment.. ; he took bet in his arms, and famed ber
in, 'lying, that the strevttli of Seventeen men would
nut be sufficient to take her front him; he said they
should Le married the next morninvand as a pledge of
his truth, offered the ring,* tt hich abe to tk ; she. then
went to her remit, th--loCk of Which the defendant faced;
on the second morning lantern said he would KO for
money, and dre-s, bat lie did not return; her brjiher and
sister-in-latv CAMS for her, and took her home. Witness
did the whole service of her father's bons-.
Witness cross-examined by Mr. hi'llo 'pl.—Said As
milked the cows, &C.: was itinetet n years of pp.; got Os-
cash's to fret; site did net islyttV ti:e defendant's age ;
brought the ring to produeo ill Court ; when defendant
and witness dra ik iu the public-limns they made use of
burnt whisky; she or .nit half is glass; was trr• ally .nr-
prised to hear that ittiuted:ati le after lanpan left tier (the
sane soortniug) he rot married to anoilter ; she had b en
shun lotted at a boast! in Sailesulley, to which, on let.v
int, Langan said fie mould return, tilt never did; Mrs.
Rotherford, Langu:i's sister, a ever told witness that lie
was going to be usUried: s!te told Mr. Hickey, her At-
torney, and her father, what she tvi;ulll swear.

The mond witness was Mrs. Rutherford,—*lte met thr
defenclaat the day he had left the first witness; she asked
where Catherine was ; he reddened up, and said he would
Dot wish for 9UOI. that what had occurred had taken place,
but added edit he would not liartry the beat girl in Iri :and,
as he was going to fight for 3001.
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Cross-examined by Mr. Rolleston.—Tbis misfortune has
made great havoc In the plaintiff's family ; supposes Ca-
therine would not have gone in company with the defendant
only that she tined Lim ; had no objection to hi.n because he
was a strong bruiser.
A Roman Catholic Clergyman, the Reverend Ricbard
Herring, was examined by Mr. Grady. lie said he had seen
Catherine employed in her father's house in domestic wed;
ow the day alluded to, lie married the defender t to another
female; before he did so, Lamm had sworn to this witness
that he bad not promised warriip to any one ii %leg.
Phi Mir, case closed.

Cecilia Rutherford was extmined.---.llad a clate2reation
with Aliss Flynn about Luni;an ; she told witness Ott he
was a rough bachelor, and knew out how to make love;
witness cautioned her to avoid his house sad company ; she
(Miss Kitty) sail her people were displeased with her for
going into Langan's house so often; she (witness) told her
that Langan was going to be united to another female, and
she replied she knew that.
Cross-examined by Mr. frady.—She said she did not con-
sider Catherine too forward.
Other witnesses were examined on the same side.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, File. 22.

Lord Norbury charged the with much precisio • ; they
returned a verdict for the plaintilr—Dsiusges, 1001., and
W. casts.

POLICE.

HATTON-0 innEN.—Saturday Wm. Proescr was charg•
ad with stealing a pitted ran Ilestick out of the house of
Joseph Cholas mdeley, Esq. 51, Hatton-gar-lea.
Mr. Cholinondeley's footman deposed, that on the
preceding evening the prisoner caws to his maver's
house and gave bins a letter, which he said repsired an
immediate ens,' er. Witness tusk the letter up stairs,
leaving the prisonar in the rassage; the letter was then ,
opeivd, but the name of the writs r WAS unknown, and the
subject unintelligible; on witness's retort', the prisoner
was Ron«, having stolen the Candlestick, which stood on
a side tahie in the ball. The officers stated that several
robberies of a similar nature bad lately been committed '
in various parts of the town by a person answering the
description of the prisoner.—He was remanded fur further
esaraination.
Friday afternoon, a little girl, eleven years of age, ac-
companied by her father and mother, attende I to prefer
a charge of rape against Little Waddington, who is now
a prisoner under a sentence of the Court of Ki..2's
Bench in the blouse of Correction. Coldhath-fields, fur
selling some of Carlisle's publications. The girl stated
that she wis sent by her parents with some victuals for
Wadding-ton ; she was admitted within the iliure gates
without the accustomed order front a Magistrate, when
Waddington conducted her to Ills room. and there
egcted the rape, stopping her mouth with the lied
clothes to prevent her making a noise, and threatening
her, if she said any thing aboat it to her father or too.
ther, he would have her confined iu a solitary cell, or
kept to work at the tread mill.
fhe Magistrate dispatched an officer for-Mr. Viciccry,
the tiosterwir of the douse of Correction, to know by
what authority the child was admitted to Waddingtou's
roam? Mr. Vickery heing unable to attend on 'account
of the Sessions, and Waddington being already in safe
custody, the further inquiry was postponed till a future
time. _ _

MARLBOROUOO-STREET.—SAtUrday, two of those fel-
lon s who are a perpetual naisance to the public in Picca-
dilly, eittled cads, namely, Aletish and Caper, were
brooch t before the Magistrate by Medbury, the inspector
of Nuns seers far the p wish of St. George s, upon a ch 'eke.
of cresting a riot and obstructing passengers on the foot-
way, ahont four o'el3ck on Friday.
Medbory ssatrd th tt these two fellows were contending
for a lady as.a passenger, who was 4roing by one of the
Richmond coa'st's, and that they literally dragged the
lidy out of One coach and forced her into another, tearing
tired° heft from her back. l'he fell° ws then began to fig:::,
land collected a mob of upwards of IWO persons, whose
roilduct was so riotous, that Medbury was afraid 10 inter-'
•fere without assisfance, but beiag called upon by Lord
Sefton awl other genlomen who witnessed the disgeace-
•fol 3,200, to do kis duty, he, with much difficulty arid ha-
tc seized and secured-the prisoners. Several trades-
wen in the-,port Isicraitilly declared ohm the
jury to, their, business by 'the conduct of these ma was
ear/MOUS.
They ss era both ordered to find good bail :e answer the
charge at the Sessions. • ,