had been entrusted by his sovereign with high official situations. The plaintiff and defendant had been at college together, and were co-students on the same foundation, which was a circumstance, as he thought, of great aggravation. The lady to whom the plaintiff was united, was the second daughter of the earl of Westmoreland, who, at a very early age, attracted the affections of the plaintiff. He became acquainted with her in the month of May, 1804, and in the June following they were married; the lady at that time not being much more than eighteen years of age. They continued to live together in a state of the utmost harmony and felicity, as he should prove by many witnesses of the highest respectability, until the period when her affections were seduced by the artifices of the defendant. When, or at what period the criminal intercourse took place, he was not prepared to prove; but it was remarked, that lately Sir Arthur Paget was very constant in his visits to the lady, and those visits were always when the plaintiff was from home. His lordship was in the habit of strictly attending to his parliamentary duties; and as soon as he had left the house, the defendant came there; so that he must absolutely have been upon the watch, to avail him. self of the moment of his lordship's absence. Lady Boringdon was also in the habit of going to Kensington gardens in the morning, and sir Arthur Paget as regularly met her there'; and as soon as they met, she parted from her nurse and her child, and walked away in private with the defendant. This intercourse continued for some time before it

came to the knowledge of the plaintiff; but at last he received an intimation of the frequency of the defendant's visits during his absence, which induced him at length to mention the fact to the lady, and enquire into the occasion of them. The result of this was, that on the next day, the 10th of May, the lady quitted her husband's house, and had from that time been living under the protection of the defendant. The province of the jury now was, to determine what damage they would give the plain. tiff, as a recompence for the injury sustained. He asked not vindictive damages, for he admitted their duty was not to punish the defendant, but to recompense the plaintiff. They were not the custodes morum of the people, but their duty was to say what was the fit measure of damages to be awarded to the plaintiff for the injury he had sustained, and surely no injury could be greater, nor had ever man deserved it less. His lordship defied the world to show any spot on his character, either as a husband or as a man; and with respect to his conduct to his wife, her own letters would show how fondly attached to him she was before her affections were seduced. The learned counsel here read extracts from two letters, dated in 1804 and 1806, replete with expressions of fondness and affection, in one of which she apologizes for not going to church, according to his orders, on the ground of her ill health; and in the other she lamented the delay of his company for a single day. Having concluded these topics, Mr. Parke said he demanded such a verdict, as justice, reason, and religion demanded.

Lord Amherst said he had known lord Baringdon for nineteen years. He married the second daughter of lord Westmoreland in June 1804. He had lived with them in great in. timacy, and they always appeared a very happy couple.

The hon. George Villars said he married the sister of the plaintiff, and the families lived in great intimacy. The plaintiff and his wife appeared mutually affectionate, they frequented church, and partook the sacrament together.

Dr. Vaughan had attended lady Boringdon in illness, on which oc casion the plaintiff had shown the solicitude and anxiety of an affectionate husband.

'Sir W. Elford lived in their neighbourhood in Devonshire; he visited them, and they appeared affectionate, attentive, and polite to each other.

The rev. Mr. Hade, vicar of Crimpton, in Devonshire, in the parish lord Boringdon's seat was, said he was much with them when alone, and they appeared to live in great affection and harmony.

Elizabeth Croft, nurse to lady Boringdon's child, said the family came to town last. January. As the spring advanced, they went every day to Kensington gardens; there they always met sir Arthur Paget, who walked with lady Boringdon at a distance from her and the child.

Elizabeth Daniels, lady's-maid, said, sir A. Paget always visited at the house when his lordship was out; he continued with her lady in the back drawing-room for two hours at a time, and went away before his lordship's return.

The porter and a footman also

spoke to the visits of sir Arthur in his lordship's absence.

Mr. Garrow then, on the part of the defendant, addressed the jury. He insisted on the known inability of sir Arthur to pay large damages, and attributed the lapse of the lady to the fashions of high life, which leaves a woman exposed to the attacks of a seducer, and that she falls frequently before she is aware of her danger.

The jury, after some considera. tion, found damages Ten Thousand Pounds.

20. Joseph Bonaparte has at length entered Spain: he was crowned king at St. Sebastian's on the 9th instant. The most gloomy silence prevailed daring the cere mony. From St. Sebastian's he proceeded to Toloza, and thence to Victoria, where he was again preclaimed on the 10th, and intended to have prosecuted his route to Burgos. Advices from marshal Bessieres had, however, induced him to delay his departure, and he remained at Victoria on the 11th.

The conduct of the bishop of St. Andero is highly extolled by the friends of the good cause. Bonaparte had addressed a letter to him, full of promises, and inviting him to attend at Bayonne. The following is said to have been the prelate's answer:-"I cannot make it con. venient to attend; and if I could, I would not. I judge of your since. rity towards Spain by your conduct towards Portugal, and other kingdoms with which you have interfered. If you are in carnest in your offer to befriend the Spanish nation, let the first proof be your liberating our sovereign and fami ly, and withdrawing your troops E 4

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from among us: but this we do not expect you will do of your own accord; and therefore it becomes the Spanish nation to unite, as I trust they will, to compel you."

21. Execution of James Gilchrist. -The following particulars of the execution of James Gilchrist, for the murder of his wife, contained in a letter from Glasgow, dated July 21, will be found interest. ing:

This unfortunate man died as he had lived, solemnly declaring his innocence of the crime for which he was to suffer. Soon af. ter one o'clock, he was attended in his room by the rev. Mr. M'Lean, of Gorbals, Mr. Brodie, of Dove hill, and Mr. Macdonald, of Edinburgh. They conversed with him for some time, in the course of which he repeated his declaration of innocence in the strongest terms. Taking up one of the books, lying beside him on the bench on which he sat, and holding it before Mr. M'Lean, he said, I am as innocent of the crime for which I am to suffer, as that book is ;' then rising from his seat, and going to the window of the room, he poured out some beer or porter from a bottle into a tumbler, and turning round before he drank it, he said, "I never did any injury in my life to any man." This gave Mr. M'Lean occasion to observe, that such a declaration would certainly not bear an unqualified interpretation; for we might unintentionally and unknowingly injure our neigh. bour: every thing wrong in our behaviour gave him a bad precedent, and we might thus injure him by our bad example. He then explained, and said that by injury he meant "violence."

"Just as Mr. M'Lean had finished prayer, Mr. Gardner, the jailor, came into the room to tell him that it was the time, and it was an unpleasant part of his duty to add, that he must allow himself to be bound. He expressed his ready acquiescence; and, before leaving the room, requested that, in any future devotions, none of the clergymen should say any thing that looked like suspicion of his guilt, or doubt of his veracity in declaring his innocence. This seemed to refer to a sentence in Mr. M'Lean's prayer, in which he had alluded to the embarrassment and perplexity which the most candid mind must feel, in considering the judgment of an upright court, as set in opposition to his positive and continued declarations of innocence. The clergymen gent. ly hinted to him, that it was not their province to decide on the one or the other, but to take them precisely as they stood.

What passed in the hall may be summed up in a few words. After part of a psalm was sung, James asked for a glass of wine from Mr. Gardner. When the first prayer was finished, he requested the attention of all present, and, in a clear audible voice,

called the lord provost, and all who heard him, to witness at the tribunal of God, that he was innocent of the crime for which he was to suffer.' After the second prayer, the lord provost told him he might still have a little time longer. He replied I am ignorant of the rules of this place-I am ready-I go as a sheep to the slaughter.' The lord provost then suggested that Mr. M'Donald might pray with him. James expressed

"He appeared on the scaffold at a quarter past three precisely, de. cently dressed in black. There he acted just as he had done in the hall, calling attention, and declaring his innocence almost in the same words. Indeed, before he left the hall, he said, he thought it was his duty to do so, as it might be the means of saving some other innocent man, and asked permission from the lord provost to speak to this effect. After singing two portions of the 51st and 102d psalms, both selected by James himself, and which he sung with a clear and steady voice, he, with the most astonishing firmness and composure, mounted the platform, and at twenty minutes past three was launched into eternity. After hanging about half an hour, he was cut down, and his body sent to the professor of anatomy for dissec. tion."

24. Lacon v. Mosenau. This was an action to recover the sum of 281. for necessaries, &c. It was a case which excited an uncommon degree of interest. The plaintiff, a milliner and dress-maker, arrested the defendant under peculiar cir. cumstances. It may be necessary to mention, that the defendant was the unhappy young woman who received sentence of death at the Old Bailey, many months since, for purloining certain articles, the pro.

perty of Mr. Lacon. She afterwards received his majesty's par don. On being liberated from con. finement, the plaintiff arrested her for the above debt, contracted, as stated by two witnesses, during a residence at Brighton, in the autumn of the last year. The learned judge summed up the evidence. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the defend. ant. Mr. Garrow advocated the cause of the latter with great energy and feeling.

25. A singular Character.-A most eccentric character has lately appeared among the picture dealers in the garb of a Polish Jew. A mania for painting and dirty canvas has rendered this man very conspicuous in London. About three or four years since, he filled the exalted station of driver of a stage. coach, and he has recently driven a trade among the connoisseurs at Christie's, and other public picture. sales, which excites wonder.While the whip occupied his ambition, he exhibited pugilistic ta lents in the true Belcher style. Among his friends, the late George Morland stood foremost; and from the conversation of that celebrated artist, he was induced to quit his stable, and become a pupil in the school of picture-dealing. With a few drawings obtained from his friend George, he opened a shop in the neighbourhood of Goldensquare, and commenced cleaner and dealer. He then frequented a house near Seven-dials, the resort of painters and artists, who formed themselves into a society, under the insignia of a pallet. He obtained his admission by describing Hogarth's line of beauty, and was

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asylum he studied many technical terms used by the connoisseur, and in a short time he was able to spit upon a filthy piece of painting with profound gravity, wipe it, then shake his head, and pronounce it a vile copy of the divine original, which he had seen at Rome, the Louvre, the earl of Wilton's, the marquis of Stafford's, or in the collection of some nobleman, who, according to his information, was an admirer of the arts. By pretension he obtained some celebrity, and many picture-dealers considered him an instrument very use. ful in their line. He was missing among the fraternity some time since, during which he suffered his beard to grow over his breast, and he finally made his entrée at the sales as a foreign Jew of great learning; his garments, like the priests of the tribe of Levi, are long and loose, and he performs the part of a Jew admirably. It does not, however, appear, that any of the tribes of Israel have acknowledged him to be a convert, and many of his old companions are at a loss to determine whether his disguise is occasioned by insa nity or design. He lately sat to several distinguished artists for a figure in their historical pictures; and, under all the circumstances of his conduct, he is considered a most extraordinary character.

Joseph Bonaparte's Government. -The French papers state, that Joseph Bonaparte, in his assumed character of king of Spain, has made the following appointments:

minister for the Indies; admiral don Joseph Massaredo, minister of the marine; general don Gonzalo O'Farrill, minister of war; don Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, minister of the interior; count Cabarrus, minister of finance; and Sebastian Pinnela, minister of jus tice.

Captains of the Body-guards. Their excellencies duke del Parque, grandee of Spain; duke de St. Germain, grandce of Spain,

Colonels of Guards. Their excel. lencies duke de l'Infantado, colonel of the Spanish guards; prince Cas tel Franco, colonel of the, Walloon guards; marquis d'Ariza, great chamberlain ; duke de Hijar, grand master of the ceremonies; count Ferdinand Nunes, grand huntsman; count Santa Coloma, chamberlain. (All grandees of Spain.)

The following chamberlains have been appointed to attend king Joe, on his journey to Madrid:

Their excellencies count Orgaz, grandee of Spain; marquis Santa Cruz, grandee of Spain; duke D'Ossuna, grandee of Spain; count Castel Florida; and duke Del Sola Mayor, grandee of Spain.

Constantinople, July 31.-This capital has been, since the evening of the 28th, in a state of the greatest consternation. Sultan Selim wished to re-establish the authority of the Porte, and to keep a wellpaid standing army on foot. It was this which occasioned his fall on the 28th of May, 1807. Mus. tapha Bairactar, pacha of Rud. schuck, a man of the best inten. tions, proposed a plan for re-establishing that which the 28th of May had destroyed. He came to Constantinople with a corps of

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