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It was now nearly twelve . Mr . Thackeray proposed «« The health of Mrs . Macread y and her family . " Lord Dufferin that of " The Ladies , " soon after which the company separated .
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HEATHCOTE'S DIVORCE . The case of Captain Heathcote , -who seeks to be divorced from his wife , came on for hearing in the House of Lords on Tuesday . He -was married at Newfoundland in 1844 , to Elizabeth Lucy Law , daughter of Colonel Law , a gentleman holding an official appointment in that island . They resided in her father ' s house till April , 1846 , when he returned to England , and brought his wife with him . Soon after his arrival at Portsmouth , he bought a house and grounds at Fritham , about two miles and a-half from the residence of his father . On the 1 st of
August , 1846 , Captain Heathcote set sail for South America , and was absent till the 24 th of November , 1849 . On his return , he resumed his place at home , having the fullest reliance on his wife ' s fidelity , and having neither heard nor seen anything to make him suspect that she had been false to him . He continued to live with her up to the 15 th of May , last year , on which day he went to pay a visit at Bath . On his return , he was informed that Mrs . Heathcote was exceedingly ill , arid went immediately to her room to inquire after her health . The monthly nurse , who was present , describes what then took place in very affecting terms : —
" I was present when he came into the room . He went to the bedside and kissed his wife , and said , ' Dear Lucy , how are you ? ' She said she was better . I had the child at the far side of the room . The captain walked to the other side of the bed , the baby cried , he looked round and saw it . He had Mrs . Heathcote ' s hand in his , he dropped it , and he never spoke to his wife , or to me , or to the baby , but walked out of the room . " Prom the evidence of the servants , and from the confession of the wretched woman herself , it appeared that the seducer had been the lady ' s brother , George Francis Law . He had returned from India
in October , 1848 , after an absence of six years , and was a visitor at Fritham for a month or six weeks at a time , up till Captain Heathcote ' s return . During those visits the servants frequently remarked that Mr . Law ' s bed had not been slept in , and that Mrs . Heathcote ' s bed had the appearance of having had two occupants . The housemaid has found her mistress ' s bedroom bolted sometimes . This excited her attention , and on going to Mr . Law ' s room she did not find him there . She had sometimes seen him standing beside Mrs . Heathcote ' s bed , with only his trousers on .
In a conversation with the brother of her husband , after the discovery had been made , Mrs . Heathcote said " she did not know Avhat had possessed her , it was a sort of infatuation . " Her conduct previously serins as if she hud been equally infatuated . There was no atteinpt at concealment , cither as to the criminal intercourse or its results . Charlotte llolfe , the monthly nurse , speaking of a . conversation with Mrs . Heathcote , on the ' 2 nd ofJMav , savs : —
" I recollect Pnyin'j something to her about , her size . I said to her , ' Ma ' am , 1 think you are getting very stout . ' Slip said , ' Do you think so , Rolfe ? ' Captain Ilenthcote ' s naiue was mentioned . After I told Mrs . lleathcott' slip was getting very JKtout , she said , ' I do not know that I have a day to go ' . ' I looked quite confounded . JShe said , ' Rolle , do you understand me ? ' I s-iid , ' Ma ' am , the captain lias not . been home more than nix months , and scarcely that .. ' 1 then said , ' lliveyou informed the captain ? ' She said she had nor , and asked me if I could keep a secret ; for if the captain knew , it would he a deathblow to him . When I told her that the captain hud not been home , more than nix months , she said , ' Oh , Rolfe , 1 know no one hut . my brother . ' "
It was stated that an action for crini . eon . had been tried in the Court of Common Picas , when a verdict by default avus taken fur £ 1000 damages , but nothing had been paid . Since then ( Jeorge Frederick Law was tried at Southampton for having fraudulently obtained money under false pretenoen , and been sentenced to transportation for seven yearn . 1 lie bill Was read a second time on Thursday . Maclean ' s Divorce Bill was also read a second
tune . Tin ; petitioner , Major Maclean , was married ni lK . 'M , „( fturat . In lKlf > Mrs . Maclean returned t <> Kngliind in ill health . At Cairo she was joined l > y Ji Captain Cristall , a friend of her liusband ' " n , and 11 criminal intimacy took place . She returned to India on the ' 2 liul « , f December , 18-10 , and a child was born on tin ; o ' th of . July , 1817 . After tin ; birth o | 'he child Hh ,, confessed her guilt in a letter to her husband .
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DEATH FROM STARVATION . Notwithstanding the general prosperity of which Ministers boast , deaths from starvation are of frequent occurrence . Few of them cause much noise , owing to the class among which theyhappen being familiar with the symptoms . Now and then a case comes before the public through the coroner ' s inquest . An inquest of this description was held last week at the Uoot , Cromer-street , Brunswick-square , on the body of "William Barton , engra \ er , aged seventy-four . He had been " a very well educated man , " accoidir . g to one witness , and " had moved in very high circles . He and his wife were A-ery reserved , and could not bear the idea of applying for parochial relief . " For the fortnight before his death , he and his wife had had no fond except a bit of bread soaked in beer . He died at four o ' clock on Tuesday morning , and his wretched widow , half-witted apparently from mere starvation , went off to St l \ incras workhouse , at an early hour that morning , to ask for a coflin . On being asked by a . neighbour how her husband was , she . said "he had died during the night , and as he lay in a dreadful state , she did not like it to be known , and therefore laid him out herself . " The surgeon , who was called in to make a post mortem examination of the body , said he had never seen anything like it . The body was " awfully emaciated , " but the Avhole of the organs were perfectly healthy . "There Avas not a trace of food in the stomach , nor had there been any there for days ( sensation of horror ) . He died of starvation . " There was neither food , lire , nor furniture in the room . " Coroner : —It really is awful that in the nineteenth century , and amidst such wealth as abounds in this neighbourhood , and in which are so many charitable institutions , a fellow creature should die of . starvation . "Mary liurton , deceased ' s widow , whose idiotic ; stare too clearly proved that , reasoa had been dethroned , stated that her husband had died in her arms at . four o ' clock on Tuesday morning , lie had been a le > ng time ill . Their support , was a cup of tea or coeoa . She did not , know how to apply for relief . The poor creature , who wan sinking from exhaustion , and whose mind was wandering , began to fuller in her ppcech , when Mr . l'opham , Hug- gested that , it would be > pi udent . to question her no more . " Coroner ( much n fleeted ) : — I see that too plainly . 1 ' iay , Mr . 1 ' opham , gel . her into the workhouse ; before she dies from want , and neglect . " Mr . l ' opham : —I leel it . my duty to do ho . " The Jury returned , without , hesitation , the following verdict .:- ' William Itaiton died from exhaustion , pro- dueed by the want , of the common necessaries at lile . '" . .
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DEATHS . Charles Stanhope , Earl of Harrington , county Northampton , Viscount Petersham , county Surrey , and Baron Harrington , county Northampton , died at Brighton , on Monday , in his 71 st year . In his early days he was an intimate companion of George IV ., then Prince Regent , and was a lord of the bedchamber to that Sovereign as well as to William IV . He succeeded to the earldom , on the death of his father , in September , 1829 ; and on the 7 th . April , 1831 , he married Miss Maria Foote ( the celebrated actress ) , by whom he leaves an only daughter , Lady Jane St . Maur Blanche Stanhope , his only son , Charles Viscount Petersham , having died at the early a ^ e of five years . Since his marriage , he has led a retired life , rarely mixing in those circles of fashion , of which , for many years , he had been a distinguished , leader . The earldom and family estates in Derbyshire and . Cheshire devolve on his next surviving brother , the Honourable Colonel Leicester F . C Stanhope , who Avas born 2 nd September , 1784 , and married , 23 rd April , 1831 , Elizabeth , only child and heir of the late Mr . William Green . Lord De L'lsle and Dudley died on Tuesday afternoon ' at the family seat , Penshurst , Tunbridge , alter an attack of bilious fever of some days duration . He was the only son of the late Sir John Shelley Sydney , of Penshurstplaco , was born in 1800 , and married , in 1825 , Lady Sophia Fitzclaience , eldest and favourite daughter of Kin « William IV . by Mrs . Jordan . Lady De L'lsle died in 1837 , leaving two sons and two daughters . The eldest son , now Lord De L'lsle and Dudley , married last : year Miss Fonlis , only'daughter and heiress of the late Sir William Foulis , liart ., whose name la ; assumed .
The Reverend Lord Berner . s expired at his family seat , Kirby Cave Hall , in the county of Norfolk , on Wednesday week , in the 80 th year of his aj » e . He succeeded to the title and estates in 1838 , on the death of his brother , Robert Lord Uerners , better known in the sporting world as Colonel Wilson , and is succeeded in the title and estates by his only surviving son , the Honourable and Reverend Henry Wilson ( now Lord Uerners . ) The Honourable and Reverend . Gerard Thomas Noel
died at the vicarage at Komscy , Hants , on Saturday . The daily papers add that he was brother of the Karl of Gainsborough , the Honourable and Reverend Baptist Noel , the Honourable and Reverend Leland Noel , and the Honourable and Reverend Francis J . Noel . He was born December 2 , 1782 , married Charlotte , daughter of the late Sir Lucius O'Brien , Bart ., who died in 1838 , leaving a large family . He was appointed one of the canons of Winchester in 1831 , and was appointed by the dean arid chapter of that see vicar of Romsey , Hants ,
' \ ] ' . ' * ' ' in 1810 The Honourable Caroline Vansittart , died on Monday evening , at her residence , Helgruve-Bquaro , after a short but painful illness , in her ( i !) th year . Mr . John Bell , M . P . for Thirsk , died on Wednesday evening , after a prolonged illnesH . He was a stanch Protectionist , and has died young , being only about forty yearn of age . He was unmarried , and his estates go to his two sisters . Mr . Melly , well known an an entomologist , died at Gegit , in Mgypt , on the UHh of January , while returning from an expedition to the junction of the Blue and White Nile . He wuh head of the firm of Melly , Romilly , and Co ., of Liverpool , and held a high position on 'Change .
• ' } J < ' I Napoleon . Junot , Duke of AbrantcH , tin ? elder of the ' two hoiim who survived the Marshal , ban just died in th « llih year of his age in u lunatic , asylum near Puria . Not withstanding the great , irregularities of bin life ; , which e . ouhl only be ; explainer ! by partial insanity , the ; noa of . 1 idiot possessed talents of no mean order . He was the init . hor of several dramatic ; piece's , published a c : onsiderable , number of romances separately , or in literary pei inclirals , and was an exe'ellent . classical scholar . l '' or the > lust few years of his life , nnel during the ) intervals of his niitlitdy , be- devote'd himself to the" pioeluction of what he 1 con nidcrccl his most , important . we > rk- —a t mutilation of Nhakspeare , in verm' and prose ' , into l 'renc ; h . The only surviving . son of the great Mamhul , and the . inheritor of his title , in now a captain on the stall of General M'Mnlion , in Africa . A let . tiT from . Frankfort aunounccH the death of M . George Brent a no , banker , of that , place , aged eighty-eight .
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A QUKSTIONAHJ ' . K CASK OK LUNACY . . A commission do hmatieo inepiiieuelo of a ralhei Mn « r , ilar character wan held at the Shire' hall , ( ilou' •• hut , last week . The object , of the ; inquiry , which us hrou ^ ht to a eloso at . midnight < m . Saturday « "ter having lastcHl live ; clays , was to ascertain the Minity or Hitmmty of Mr . l . oveday , fanner mid millvneic . i Pain . Mwic . k , near Stroud , and the ; petitioner ! '""' her of Mr . Loveday . The , evidence was ' V co m ., „! ,, tory . ()„ hchalf of , | H > petitioner n K «; number of witn . > M-H were examined to prove « -M »>« -o , Uus ( , ent with ]» e . feetSMnity- ^ ju-het of
business , cutting down an orchard while bearing fruit , forcing matrimonial proposals upon two women , discontinuing his attendance at market , selling a mill at half its value , sending rings to a lady to choose one for her marriage to him , calling in a fly for another lady to proceed to church with him , and , though last not least , labouring under an impression that he was entitled to some property out of the estate of the celebrated Jemmy Wood , the Gloucester banker . On the other side the evidence was not less voluminous . Tt was shown that he had been discharged from two asylums by the visiting magistrates as sane , and several medical men gave
their decided opinion that he was sane and fit to manage his own affairs , while for the petitioner several others gave evidence diametrically opposite . A number of witnesses , with whom he had been in business dealings , declared that he was a most shrewd man of business , and was celebrated for driving hard bargains . Other witnesses affirmed that the cutting down the orchard was an improvement ; that one of the ladies on whom he had pressed his attentions had been seen walking with him , and that they had been regarded in the neighbourhood as lovers : that his attentions to the other lady had only been paid when he became intoxicated , which it was proved had formerly been on the average three times a-week ; and in the examination of the alleged lunatic himself , he betrayed few , if any symptoms of aberration of
intellect , and he complained greatly of having been inveigled into the Gloucester County Asylum by a trick . The medical superintendent admitted that he had been got into the asylum "by a little ruse . " The Commissioner concluded his address to the jury at halfpast four o ' clock on Saturday evening , and the jury were locked up for five or six hours without fire or food , when they gave in a verdict which the Commissioner decided could not be received , as informal . The jury , therefore , again retired , and a few minutes before midnight they returned a verdict to the effect that Mr . Loveday was insane , but dating his insanity from a very recent date , so as to confirm his bequest of his property to his ( illegitimate ) children . When the jury , however , came to sign the verdict one of them refused to do so . The jury requested that the lunatic should not be confined in an asylum .
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A 11 ALLOON PANKAUK TO FRANCK . A rather bold experiment in aerostation took place from the gardens of " Tin ; Royal Property , " Vauxhall , on Tuesday . The Duke ol BruiiHwiek , accompanied by Mr . Charles Green , the well-known aeroliuut , made ; an ascent in the ; " Royal Nat-wan balloon , " with the intention of proceeding to France . '
At seven o ' clock on Tuesday morning everything was in readiness for the inflation , and by eleven o ' clock the balloon was in a fit state for the ascent . The Duke of Brunswick , accompanied by a few friends , arrived on the ground with a large quantity of provisions and viands necessary for a lengthened voyage , consisting of hams , fowls , pheasants , partridges , breadstuff ' s , chocolate , coffee , &c , with Soyer ' s apparatus for cooking . The ascent being strictly private , the event was a surprise to the inhabitants of the vicinity . Thirteen tried carrier-pigeons were placed in the car for the purpose of communicating with those interested in the feat ; and precisely at twelve o ' clock , accompanied by Mr . Green , he stepped into
the car . Mr . Green pulled the liberating-iron , and the machine arose . At the time of the ascent the wind was blowing from N . W . by W . The ballast carried was 13 cwt ., with , air-vessels , water-drags , and gutta percha lines . The balloon , on arriving at a sufficient altitude , took a south-easterly direction , passing over the counties of Surrey and Kent in the direction of the Continent , and , from the favourable nature of the ascent , it was fully believed the attempt would be successful . After being up two hours , however , the wind suddenly shifted ; upon which the Duke thought it might be as well to come down to terra firma . He accordingly descended at Gravesend , but with the full intention of crossing the Channel the first favourable opportunity .
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March 8 , 1851 . ] tR ^ t QLtati e v * 219
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Leader (1850-1860), March 8, 1851, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1873/page/7/
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