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ing . You request me to make my communication in . writing in reference to my friend , Captain Aaron Smith , and , making it a matter of pounds , shillings , and pence , you request a reference as to my respectability . My reference , then , will be to the secretary of that League , of which Richard Cobden was once the head , and of which I was a member . You have availed yourself of the sacred shelter of the House of Commons to make use of language respecting my friend . Captain Aaron Smith , which you well knew to be false , and . which you also know you dare not have used in any other place , without being certain to receive personal chastisement . —I remain , Sir , your very obedient servant , " E . Gaebett . " Richard Cobden , Esq ., M . P ., &c . " ( No . 4 ) " 103 , We 8 tbourne-terrace , May 29 , 1850 .
<« Sir , I will not allow the insulting tone of your letter to deter me from offering to do justice to your friend , Captain Aaron Smith . You say that my statement respecting him was false . Disprove that statement , and I will retract it in my place in Parliament , with an ample apolcgv for the wrong done to his character . If , instead of disproving it , you seek to evade the question by . blustering about ' personal chastisement , ' it will afford the strongest possible proof that I have not mistaken the character of Captain Aaron Smith or his friend . As for such threats , I pay my police rate in order that society may be protected against ruffianly violence , and am obliged to you for the hint .
" Do not suppose that I have sought to shelter myself behind the privileges of Parliament . If your friend should again obtrude his offensive presence upon a respectab ' e body of philanthropists , as he did at the public meeting respecting the Bornean massacre , and should I chance to be on the platform , he shall be told to his face all , and more than all , that I have said in the House , unless , in the meantime , he clears his character by better arguments than menaces of physical outrage . And I am , sir , your obedient servant , " Richard Cobden . "
( No . 5 . ) Mr . Garbett rejoins : — " Had you written in the first instance in a different spirit , you would have found that the interview I sought with you was not intended to intimidate , but to show you what the facts in reference to Captain Aaron Smith really were ; and if I satisfied you that you were in error , I simply wished you to do justice to a calumniated man . " You stated in your place in Parliament that my friend , Captain Aaron Smith , ' was a most atrocious pirate . '" After giving his account of the facts connected with the trial and acquittal of Captain Smith on the charge of piracy , Mr . Garbett concludes : — " 1 am at a loss to understand the concluding paragraph of your letter .
" If parties will call public meetings with the avowed object of casting censures on an absent individual , they must submit to the inconvenience of hearing their proceedings censured by those who are still fond of the old English maxim of * a fair field and no favour . ' " I have the honour to be , Sir , " Your very obedient servant , " E . Garbett . " Richard Cobden , Esq ., M . P . "
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THE LINCOLN DIVORCE BILL . The second reading of the Earl of Lincoln ' Divorce Bill came before the House of Lords , on Tuesday . The Earl of Lincoln petitioned to be divorced from his wife , the daughter of the D uke of Hamilton , on the ground of her illicit intercourse with Horatio , Lord Walpole , the eldest son of the Earl of Orford . Lord and Lady Lincoln were married in 1832 . They lived together till August , 1848 , and were the parents of five children , still living . On the 2 nd of August , 1848 , Lady Lincoln left England for the continent , without consulting her husband ; but professedly on the ground of visiting a physician of eminence in Germany . She was a woman of
very delicate health ; and at times had undergone great suffering . She proceeded to Baden , where she had some relations . Soon afterwards she removed to Ems , not very far distant , where in two or three days she met Lord Walpole . She remained there for two months , living on most intimate terms with him . They had separate hotels , but Lord Walpole visited her at all hours . From that place they went to Wiesbaden , where Lady Lincoln Htnyod one night , hut Lord Walpoc stayed two or three nights . Lord Walpole afterwards went to Basle , and Lady Lincoln eamc soon after . They stayed at the same hotel . From Basle they went to Louvaine , from Louvninu to Geneva , from Geneva to Turin , from Turin to Genoa . They travelled in the same carriage , and alone ; and used to take t \ u ir meals in the same room on the
road . Sometimes it was a sitting-room , sometimes was Lord Walpole ' s bed room . At Genoa Lord Walpole ' s servant , going one day into their sitting-room without knocking , found Lord Walpole and Lady Lincoln on the sof . i together . From Genoa they proceeded to Home , travelling in the same carriage us Jar ms Civita Vccchia , nnd thenec in separate carriages . Similar arrangements of precaution had been ndopti-d on their entering Genoa At Rome they lodged at separate hotels , but continued to see each other daily
at all hours . When they reached Rome there were appnarances of pregnancy in Lady Lincoln ; and in the course of two or three months , Lord Walpole took apartments for her in a retired situation at Frnseati , where she lived , and where Lord Walpole continued to visit her on terms of the closest intimacy . At . that time , and when her pregnancy had become apparent , Lady Lincoln dismissed her servant , Poligni ; Lord WalpolV having also dismissed his servant . From Rome , it appeared , they went to Naples , but , in consequence of their having taken new servants , all trace of them was lost for some
weeks , but they were afterwards found living in the Villa Mancini , on the Lake of Como , where the lady went by the name of Mrs . Lawrence , and Lord Walpole was an inmate in the house . Though they passed as brother and sister , it was evident that they lived together on a different footing—he being a nightly visitor to her private apartments . At the Villa Mancini they continued up to the end of July , when rumours of their conduct reaching the ears of Lord Lincoln , Mr . Gladstone , M . P ., who was intimate both with Lord and Lady Lincoln , repaired to Italy to find out if possible where Lady Lincoln was , and to induce her to return home . After seeking traces of her in vain at Naples and Rome , Mr . Gladstone was directed to Como , where he heard
that a lady was living under the name of " Mrs . Lawrence , " who he had reason to think was Lady Lincoln . He sent in his card to her as Mrs . Lawrence , but it was returned on the ground that " Mrs . Lawrence did not know Mr . Gladstone . " He then enclosed his card to Lady Lincoln , and it was again returned on the ground that " Mrs , Lawrence did not know the Countess of Lincoln . " The same night Lord Walpole and the lady left the Villa Mancini aud went to Verona . Lord Lincoln then dispatched Mr . Rafaell , a solicitor , and a confidential servant named Esmond , who knew Lady Lincoln , to ascertain if Mrs . Lawrence and Lady Lincoln were one and the same person . When they left Como , in the month of Julv . 1849 , Lady Lincoln was far advanced in
pregnancy . Mr . Rafaell and Esmond arrived at Verona on the 8 th of September , and they proceeded to the hotel , the Torre di Londra , where they ascertained that a lady was living in retirement , with a nurse , an infant of a few weeks old , and a female attendant . It was afterwards ascertained by Esmond that this lady was Lady Lincoln , and that she had been brought to bed at Verona ; though of that he had no distinct evidence beyond this : — the fact that she was far advanced in pregnancy when she left the Villa Mancini , and that she was found at Verona with a child of a few weeks old , and she herself so far recovered that she was nearly able to go out . The identity of Lady Lincoln and " Mrs . Lawrence" was proved by Esmond , who not only saw her at Verona , but also some little while afterwards at Nice . He met her there when he was walking with a person named
Trenconalee , who at once said — " That is Madame Lawrence , with whom I lived at Villa Mancini . " The landlord of the hotel at which the Countess was staying , only knew her by the name of Lawrence ; and it was also proved that at Ems , carpet bags with the name of Lawrence upon them had been noticed in Lady Lincoln ' s apartment . A certificate of the baptism of the child was obtained . It was to the effect that , the priest had baptized the child privately at the hotel by the name of Horatio , and that the landlord , who stood godfather , declared the name of the child ' s father was Horace Lawrence , aud the mother ' s name was Susan .
It was also proved that no communication had taken place between the earl and countess since Lady Lincoln had left England in August , 1848 , she not having returned , and Lord Lincoln not having quitted England between that period and August , 1849 . No opposition was made to the application for divorce ; and their lordships considering the adultery fully proved , the bill was read a second time . The bill contained no clause for bastardizing the child ; that being left for future proceedings .
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MURDERS . An appalling murder has been committed atBallaugh , in the Isle of Man , by a man named Corlett . A boy of ten years old had b * en sent to the house where Corlett resided to borrow a gorse hack , when he , without the least provocation , seized the weapon , and thrust it through the boy ' s eyes . Drawing out . the instrument , he repeated the blow , fracturing the skull , and killing the lad outright . Corlett at once surrendered himself ; but showed no symptoms either of contrition or alarm . A coroner ' s inquest was held , and the prisoner was committed to Castle Rushen . Since he has been in gaol lie has spoken freely of the horrid affair , says that he had no enmity against the boy , hut he was longing to he hung . Upon all other subjects he appears quite rational ; but , when speaking of hanging , he is in an ecstaey of delight that such an end awaits him . — -Mono ,
Herald . A verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been returned against Ann Goodall , aged twenty-three , the daughter of some labouring people , for destroying her child , at Fareham . She had left her service on account of Us being discovered that she was with child . She was returning home by the carrier ' s cart , and about two miles from Fareham got down , and was soon afterwards observed by a labouring man , who saw her sitting by the
road-side , nnd heard the faint cry of a child , winch was in her lap and covered by her gown . He walked on , but soon returned to the place , and was induced to mnke a search : it resulted in the discovery of a child , which was then alive , in a wheat field near the spot where th « woman had been sitting . The infant was taken to the union-house , where it died a quarter of an hour after it was brought in . The child ' s face was terribly out aud liruispcl . There was a fracture of the skull extending
from the right ear upwards over the top of the head and half wav down on the left side . A wo ' man named Seaborn , the wife of a mechanic , livin " on Primrose-hill , destroyed herself and one of her children , on Monday , in consequence of jealousy . She imagined her husband was gone to visii a young woman of his acquaintance , and during his absence she flung herself and her infant into a well . 1 wo elder children were in the cottage ; one of them found its way to a public-house where the father was drinking , and brought him home . Life was extinct before the bodies could be extricated . , , , . , ... , . .. Patrick Barry , charged with having killed his wife at
Kensington , on the 21 st of May , by kicking her violently on the head , has been committed for trial for manslaughter . The neighbourhood of Pwllheli , Carnarvon , has bee n in a state of considerable excitement , in consequence of the discovery of the body of a female child , in a lonely field , in the parish of Llanaelhaian . The mother , who was arrested on the coroner ' s warrant , is about twentyfour years of age , and a native of Llangian , which neighbourhood she had quitted for many years , and subsequently lived in the vicinity of Carnarvon , until she became pregnant , when she was admitted to the Carnarvon ,
workhouse to give birth to the child . About a fortnight ago , a family wanting a wet nurse , the prisoner was hired , she stating that she had some relatives in Lleyn who were willing to take her child . After being at her new situation on trial and approved , she was permitted to absent herself in order to take her own infant to Lleyn . She was seen by some of her acquaintances rather early on the following morning , which caused some surmise as to where she had left the child , it being observed that she had not had sufficient time to have carried it , as she had said , six or seven miles beyond Pwllheli . The prisoner refrained from making any statement , and was committed to the county gaol at Carnarvon , to take her trial at the
next assizes . On Monday evening a man of the name of Samuel Law was killed in a beer-house , at Sim ' s-croft , Sheffield . A quarrel arose out of his refusing to pay for some beer which he had ordered , when one of four young men who had been taunting him got upon a table , swearing that he would "jump Law ' s entrails out . " He immediately leaped with all his weight upon Law ' s breast , the suddenness and force of the contusion causing the blood to gush from the prostrate man ' s mouth and nostrils , and imparting such a shock to his entire system that hs died almost instantly , without uttering a wore
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MISCELLANEOUS . The accounts from Osborne speak of the Queen and the other members of the Royal Family as taking daily exercise in the park and grounds of that beautiful marine retirement . The Queen ' s visit to Dunrobin Castle , the seat of the family of Sutherland , is again postponed . Her Majesty is not expected there this season . The reports to the contrary , recently circulated by some of our contemporaries , had no better authority than vague rumour . — Inverness Courier . In stating that the Queen and Prince Albert have extended their patronage to the Cork regatta , the Cork Examiner adds , it is not unlikely that her Majesty may honour the Duke of Devonshire ' s seat at Lismore with , her presence early in August .
The Duchess of Kent , with the Prince of Lemingen , left Osborne at noon on Saturday , came up to Portsmouth in the Fairy , royal yacht , and landed at the Clarence Yard , where she was received by the usual naval and military authorities . At half-past one her Royal Highness and suite left by special train for London . The Duchess of Kent is expected to arrive at the Castle of Aber ^ eldie ( a lease of which she has taken ) about the end " of June . When her Majesty arrives at Balmoral , she will be in the immediate neighbourhood of her mother , the two royal residences being at no great distance apart . —Aberdeen Journal .
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Lord Gough has purchased by private contract the castle , demesne , and estate of lviilymoon , the property of Colonel Stewart , and is about to become a resident in Ulster . A royal sign manual warrant has just been issued , granting a pension of £ 25 a-year to Mrs . Harriet Waghorn , widow of the late Lieutenant Thomas Waghorn , " in consideration of the eminent services of her late husband . " Among the deaths announced this week is that of Miss Jane Porter , authoress of " Thaddeus of Warsaw , " The Scottish Chiefs , " " Pastor ' s Fireside , " &c . She died at the residence of her brother , Dr . W . O . Porter , uf Bristol , on Thursday week , from a second attack of
pulmonary apoplexy . She was in her seventy-fourth year , and maintained the vigour of her intellect and her habitual cheerfulness of disposition till the close of life . The Queen has appointed the Reverend Thomas Garnier , chaplain of the House of Commons , to the living of Trinity , Marylebone , vacant by the promotion of the Reverend Gifbert Elliot , to the deanery of Bristol . A selection of book * , from the valuable library of M . Guizot were sold by auction on Friday and Saturday . The students of the East India College , at Haileybury , have presented their late dean , the Reverend James Jeremie , D . D .. who has been elected Regius Professor at Cambridge , with a beautiful clock , surmounted by a magnificent bronze statuette of Michael Angelo in Jus studio , and supported by a pedestal enriched with mediajval mouldings in ormolu , and bronze caryatides , as a testimonial of their regard . , dinner at London
The Patrie , giving an account of the given by the Cnhlstrcam Guards , says : " The Duke ot Canibringe , the Duke of Wellington , the Minister of > V ar , and other illustrious personages were present at this dinner , when the most loyal toasts were drunk . 1 * "' the chairman was the portrait of Monck , bought by tne regiment , and hearing this inscription : ' General George Monck , Duke of Albemarle , first colonel of the regiment of the Coldstrearn Guards . ' England has reason to remember his honour and fidelity . " The Limerick Chronicle says that General de la Witte , the French Minister of Foreign Affairs , is married to the grand-daughter of a Limerick lady , " the in comparably beautiful Jane Harold , the nonpareil of her time , wno married Mr . Cotter a Cork gentleman . " General Cabrera was married on Wednesday to Miss Marianne Catherine Richards , only child and heiress or
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Leader (1850-1860), June 1, 1850, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1841/page/6/
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