The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-05 00:00:00

TH%.,STATLPQMAN

Pendent ,eked witelvel tie walk •p stoles, which h
did. After some conference het seen thefeedent eta

aurthrr i Pf{fltl in th► adjnininot roam hi returniti.

and said he maid not give the letters v'. Wilms*
had said below athirv, that deliverivg the letters alp
might be lb. means of preventing public esposare in
a Court of Justice. Defendant said, 'bat was m ist
devitable.

Crorf•eteminerl.—ln the energy of the singer!
which • lines% dearlbetl. Ma. Peacock nitt the letter

was not bet's. There was a great deal of confused
noise about the letter, one word of which witness
could oat repeat. Mrs. Peatisek did not aty it was
• letter finis her brother Henry. She might have!
aid so. She said she had nothing to do with it,
meaning the letter in the Plaintiff's hand at the time. I
When witness saw Defendant on thO Saturday morn-
ing, he said t• him (Defendant) he was sorry that
he had got into tech a *crape. Hee*Owed a ge.
venation between Plaintiff and himself about • Mr.
Maned, some few days after the letter was discover-
ed. The Plaintiff said he had suspected his wife a
lung while; for on going down to his office, after
dinner one day, be saw a person whom he supposed
to be a Mr. Mound; that be took no farther notice,
and went to the office; that on his return home, be-
tween nine and ten, be asked his wife whether any
body had been there? and she said, " No perm ;"
that he then asked of the servants whether soy body
bad b..en there? and they said, " Yes, Mr. Magri
bas been here for nearly an hour." Witness told
his brother, that as Mr. Masud was Ms wife's brother.
in.law, there was nothing In that circumstance to
eacite suspicion. This was after the Plaintiff had
said he suspected his wife with Mr. Mound.
membered • conversation also with hit brother 'bold
a Mr. Bandield, es to the treatment of Mrs. Pea-
cock's children. The Defendant was about 19 or
20 years of age. Mrs. Peacock was about VI. The
Plaintiff was a law-statioser in Chancery-lane; be
was about 36 or 37 years old-; his private hoes* was
io Burton-street, Berton-crescent.
Alexander Knight, clerk in the Ace of Mr.
Campbell, army agent, prov. 4 the band-writing of
the Defendant to the letter in question; Defendant
had been a clerk in Mr. Campbell's office, and was
now a half-pay ensign in the army.
The letter was then put in and read.
Mr. John Derbyshire, brother of the Defendant,
said, his father wasa surgeon and apothecary,in Bee-
ners-street, Ozford-street. Defendant boarded with
his father. Mr. Derbyshire, the elder, attended Mr.
Peacock's family professionally. Witness and De.
fondant visited at the Plaintiff's house. Never saw the
letter in question, bet beard it read Never
saw nor heard of the present mentioned in the letter.
Has seen Mrs. Peacock at his father's house in the
day time, in company either with her brother or her
husband. Never knew of the Defendant smooths
Mrs. Petcock in the street. Nicer saw any of bee
letters to him. Witness was the person whom the
Defendant consulted sheet giving up the letters,
which Lieutenant Peacock called about, and to Ishii*
the latter had spoken in his evidence. Witness said
to Defendant on that occasion, that if be really Mad
nay letters of Mss. Peacock he lipoid advise him net
'gait* them op.
Cross-ezamined—Witness bad sits brothers and
two sisters. vs. Defendant was on half-psy as an
ensign, and was ant twenty. Did not know of
any means of subsisting be had, wept bit half.

pay.
ite-examined.—Kilness hal since even Mrs. P.
c.,tlc accidentally in the street, but did not know
that the Defendant had men her ; etcept by chance
be might have teen her at a distance in the street. •
Ilene the Plaintiff's case dosed.
Alt. ADAM proceeded to address the Jury on be-
half of the Defendant, but
Mr. ScAnt.crr interposed, and said he did not
mean to interrupt his Learned Friend's ob aaaaa dons;
bet es he bad naturally anticipated the way in which
the case mutt be left to the Jury, he felt that there
was not st.fficient evidence of the fact of adultery to
warrant a concletion of c•iminality ; and, therefore.
with the consent of the Learned Jedge, he would
withdraw the case from the consiJeratroo of ti..
Jury, mere especially as he perceived his Lordship
i• be inclined to concur with him in thinking that the
nee coals: net with any expectation of a verdict.
The CHIEF JUSTICE appeared to acquiesce, sod tile
Plaintiff was aentaited.
COURT OF OF COMMON ?LEAS, Jrtv 3.

ASSAULT.
nitasn v. MAOOOx
Mr. &et seise opened the declaration in this case.
Mr. Serjeant la is stated the facts to the Joey ;I
end from his statement it appeared, that the Plaintiff
and Defendant we►e distantly ►elated. The Plaintiff,
had the happiness to be married to • beautiful s ass,
s circumstance, which, from some cause or other, es•
cited the envy of the Defendant, end be determined
to mar hi. happiness. To effect this diabolical pu-
pas*, be took frequent occasions to speak of the
Plaintiff's wife, and to sae gestures with respect to
his intimacy with her, such as left no doubt on the
minds of the spectators. as to the insinuation which
he meant to convey. Fortunately for the
be bad too much confidence in the honour of his wife
to permit these gross allusions to alter his affectiors.
towards her. Ile treated them with cootempt,
until
at last the Defendant thought proper frequently to
appear in the neighbourhood of his residence at LW-
osondsey, and by presenting himself in front of his
house, to give edditional weight to his *opposed if!.
'ague. On rime of these occasions, the 19th of Aprd,
the Plsiatiff observed him, sad immediately went
to hien to ask an explanation of the unmanly and
disgraceful reports which be had been circulating.—
The Defendant immediately struck him wit► his
umbrella on the aide, and then raising the instrument
in a horizontal position, ;slanged the ferrule end into
I his eye. The agony oecasion.d by this outrage, in-
duced the Plaisit.ff to crouch towards the ground,
and while is that siteation the Defendant, who had
retired for about five yards, returned, and Wm-
manly renewed his violence by plunging the um-
brella in the same way against his ribs. The Plain.
tiff was conveyed, bathed in blond, In a Surgeon,
and from thence in a senseless state to Coy's Hos-
pital, where be rectlaiued for two months under the
rare of Mr. Cooper, nephew to Mr. Ashley Cooper.
On esemining the injury which he bad received, the
bone of his eye was found dvtcosed) but t►e tight