Report of the Cause Between Charles Sturt, Esq. Plaintiff, and the Marquis of Blandford, Defendant, for Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff's Wife; Tried in the Court of the King's Bench, Westminster, on Wednesday, the 27th May 1801, Before Lord Keny (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801. Excerpt: ... to have any further intercourse with his lady. She was then near her delivery of a child which Mr. Sturt knew was not his. The letter he had intercepted afforded ample conviction of his dishonour; for why else did Lord Blandford, if he had not had a criminal connexion with Lady Anne, consider that it would be improper for 'him to be with her? You will find there was a communication on the part of the relation I have mentioned to Mrs. Sturt, of the unhappy state in which, by her guilty conduct, she had placed her husband. You will find also, that she communicated this to Lord Blandford; and you will see how he endeavoured to prevent the repentance of this unhappy lost woman, and plunge her deeper into the jaws of destruction. In a letter, to which there is no other date than " Nine o'clock, Thursday," he says thus: No. 7. ' I HAVE just received, my dear Mary Anne, your extraordinary letter, perhaps the most extraordinary I ever got from you. 1 am, as you must be convinced, miserable at the prospect of your being talked and frightened out of the remains of love you may have for me. With respect to my not being upon my guard at Weymouth, I can positively affirm, that I never did or said any thing to Lady S. that could possibly authorize her to say all she did to you; and as for being uneasy when I did not hear from you, how could she tell when I did, for I never showed her any of your letters, of told her I had heard; so that this is a downright lie. What she means by my not going to town till you are there, I am also at a loss to conceive j for I repeatedly told her, my house would not be ready to receive me. I am persectly convinced, that whatever her ideas are, that I have neither done or said any thing to her to induce her t& form those opinions, though, ...