The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-03

Mir. Lamb. The latter has complained that the principal part of the arms found on the PcrtngUeS rebels, are Ofthe manu- factures of SeUiue, which arc under the im- mediate control of, and could not have been distributed without the consent of the Spanish government.
 Official accounts from Persia to the 17th of January, mention some further military successes obtained by the Russians over the PerSians.
 r Mas. GENERAL JAcKsON.-In our last, we gave a slight sketch of the abductiOns of Mrs. Roberts, now Mrs. General Jackson and are now enabled, through the agency of Charles J. Hammond, Esq. the very able editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, to lay the particulars of the whole case before the public. The facts that we now adduce, and the testimony we offer are matters of nOtoriety and record. From these documents, it will be seen, that Lewis Robberts the legal husband of Rachel, did, in the year 179O, obtain decree, dissolv- ing the bonds of matrimony, previously exist ing between him and his wife, and that the decree was granted on proof being adduced that she did elope from her husband, and lived in open adultry with another man,
 Gen. JacksOn.] But as the documents to which we refer, will prove far more sat- isfactory to the reader, than any thing we can say, we hasten to spread them before the world, together with the verdict of the jury.
 ''In the summer of 179O, Gen. Jackson prevailed on the wife of Lewis Roberts of Mercer county Kentucky to desert her hus- 1 band, and live with himself in the charac- l ter of wife.
 Kentucky was then part of the state of Virginia. Roberts applied to the Legislature for divorce. Upon that application a law was passed entitled " An act concerning the mar riage of Le,Ois Roberts" This law passed Dec. %, 179O, and may be found In the 18th vol. of Hemings Virginia statutes at large. It authorized certain judicial proceedings to be had in the District of Kentucky, between Rob- erts and his wife to ascertain the facts of de- sertion and adutery--and provided that If the jury, in case of issue joined, shall find for the plaintiff, or, in case ofinqury into the truth of the allegations contained in the declara- ton, shall find that the defendant hath de- serted the plaintiff, and that she hath lived in adultery with another man since such deser- ton, the said verdict shall be recorded, and thereupon the marriage between the said Lewis Roberts and Rachel shall be dissolved. Legal pEOCCCOluoS were iuStltuteu uuueT LNlS law. A declaration was filled charging that ''the said Rachel, in violation of her most sol- emn promise, did, on the 1st day of July. in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety, elope from her said hus- band Lewis, and lived in adultery with anoth- CT man, and still continues with the adulter- er." The attorney who filled and subscribed this declaration, was James Brown. our pres ent Minister to France.
 At the September term of the Court Q. S.. Mercer County, Kentucky, jury composed ofBradsberry, Thomas Smith, Gabriel Slaugh- ter, John LightfOot, Samuel Work, Harrison
 Davis, John Ray, Obadiah Wright, John Wiles, John Meaux, Joseph Thomas, and
 Benjamin Lewis, were empannelled and sworn
 ''well and truly to inquire into the allegations in the plaintiffs declaration specified" Hugh ] M'Gary was sworn and examined as a witness -and the jury returned verdict in these words ;-"We, the jury, do find that the de- fendant, Rachel Roberts, hath deserted the plaintiff, Lewis Roberts. and hath, and doth still live in adultery with another man. John Iightfoot, foreman" This verdict was re- corded, and the marriage dissolved. The record of this inquiry, verdict and judg- ment, may be found in the records of q. s. Court for Mercer county. No. l, for Septcm- Der, 1792, to September, l796. The Rachel Roberts, who was the defendant, is Mrs. Gen. Jaskson.
 Ishould not have detailed these facts,a at this ] time, but for call from the Advertiser. And | it must be remembered that the subject, so far as am concerned, was first introduced in- to papers by certain Jackson Editors of this city, during the last autumn-and for the pur- pose of defaming my character. It would seem that my fobearance then to publish wha,
 is now published has been misunderstood ;-
 and an inference drawn that the fact did not exist, or that was afraid to publish them. Their tendency to affect the fair fame' ol tone of the purest characters of which the U- nited States can boast" is, for the present left without cement or remak.
 Whether Gen. Jackson after possessing him. self of Mrs. Roberts became her lawful hus- or net, we cannot say, but it is certain that for more than twenty years he lived with her in open defiance ofthe laws of the land and of morality. We know, that he never married her, and we still further know, that that o. pinion, until within few years, shut the door of decent society against her.
 It would seem from the proceedings of the case, Lewis Roberts us. his Wife, that she willingly and ofher own free will and accord eloped, and became the partner of Gen. Jack sons bed. Such is not the fact, it is suscepti- ble of proof, that at the dead hour of mid