mer replied, that he did not think his brother would agree to that proposal, because the living mentioned by his lordship was, he understood, situated in an aguish part of the country. His lordship then proposed taking a lease of the glebeland, and of some small tithes; Mr. Trimmer told him he would submit his proposal to his brother's consideration. On the next day, or the next day but one, lord Huntingtower again drove to the vicarage, when Mr. Trimmer told him that the plaintiff declined to let the land or tithes, as he meant to reside at the vicarage. His lordship observed, that the vicarage house was too large for a man of his income, and would consequently ruin him, if he resided in it. Mr. Trimmer replied, that perhaps his brother might obtain leave to let the house to some gentleman for the sporting season, whilst he resided in a small one himself. "No," said his lordship; "no gentleman will live near me. -“ -"Or perhaps," added Mr. Trimmer, "my brother may increase the number of his pupils, and bring them here to reside.”—“He shall bring no pupils here," observed his lordship, and added that he should take measures to prevent him. Mr. Trimmer said, his lordship would of course do what he pleased, but if he acted illegally his brother, would certainly seek redress. To which his lordship replied there was nothing he should like better than to engage him in a law-suit. He had already beaten the corporation of Grantham, and afterwards the duke of Rutland, at law; and it was therefore not very likely that the plaintiff could stand against him, for he would willingly spend 10,000l. upon a law-suit with him. There the matter rested, and the plaintiff

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went back to Surrey. month of September, in the last year, he came down to Buckminto reside permanently, and was accompanied by two pupils, Mr. Brown, a young gentleman from Ireland, and Mr. Dalton. In two or three days after their arrival, the young men were amusing themselves by firing with a small pistol at a target, in the plaintiff's field, through which there ran a public pathway. The defendant drove in his carriage as far as his steward's house, which was about one hundred yards distant, and sent his servant to desire the young men to desist from firing. Mr. Brown replied, that they were on Mr. Trimmer's land, and they would do as they pleased. His lordship then drove up to the house, and called out to Mr. Trimmer, "I'll have no shooting here from those d-d boys;" upon hearing which Mr. Brown replied, "D-d boys! You scoundrel." Lord Huntingtower then observed, "You'll see what I shall do to-morrow," and drove away. On the following day, his lordship's workmen commenced erecting a pinfold in a field immediately in front of the plaintiff's house, at the distance of about thirty feet from it. As soon as three sides of this pound were built, a bull was turned into it, which was only shut in on the fourth side by the paling of Mr. Trimmer's lawn or foreground. To this animal, cows were brought daily, generally about the hour of three o'clock in the afternoon. A male ass was also put in, and she asses were led to it, even on Sundays, about the time when the afternoon service was over. For some days after the last-mentioned conversation had taken place, Mr. Trimmer and his two pupils continued to amuse

themselves firing at the target, Mr. Dalton occasionally using his gun instead of a pistol; but the firing was discontinued on the 12th of November, after which day none took place, at least with Mr. Trimmer's knowledge. In the mean time various modes of annoyance were resorted to by the defendant. He drove almost every day in his carriage to the front of plaintiff's house, and stopped there for a quarter or half an hour, either giving directions for what was going on, or threatening to add to the stock of nuisances. He had a sign erected in front of the pound, on which was painted "Trimmer's shooting academy." There was a cottage contiguous to it, to which he also had a sign affixed, with the words, " I spy Trimmer's shooting academy." In this cottage a Woman named "Sally Hand" resided with her husband; and her sister, a common girl from Stamford, came there also about this time. One day the defendant called the woman out of this house, and then addressing Mr. Brown, who was about 18 years of age, told him, that she had got a girl for him who would invite him to drink tea and sleep with her. Mr. Trimmer immediately came forward, and asked his lordship, how he dared to address such language as that to his pupil? The defendant denied having addressed it to the pupil, saying he had merely spoken to the woman Hand. Another pupil, however, declared he had heard him address the words to Mr. Brown. The defendant then drove home, and returned in about an hour and a half, upon which the plaintiff, together with his pupils and servant, treated him to a concert of "rough music," Mr. Trimmer performing on a poker and

fireshovel; another of the party rattling an old kettle with stones in it; whilst the third extracted "sweet sounds" from the tongs. This was stated to have been done for the purpose of preventing the defendant from being heard, in case he made a fresh attempt to corrupt the pupils, and also of driving him away. All this time the disgusting exhibitions at the pinfold continued without abatement, in the immediate view of the plaintiff's family, consisting of his wife and two children, a boy and girl, and three pupils; a Mr. Langdon, of Cadogan-place, Sloane-street, having been added to their number in February. The defendant allowed a she-ass to remain with the male for some days, and then separated them, in order that they might make the more noise braying for each other. He ordered his steward to put a mule into the pound, as it would make more noise than the ass, and being informed that a horse would make more noise than either, he threatened to add that to the stock. Young Brown, in some time afterwards, said to him, "Well, my lord, you have not put in the horse;" to which his lordship answered, that he would do so to-morrow; and he kept his word. This was after the 12th of November, when the firing, which was the alleged provocation, had been discontinued. Mares were then brought to the horse, and the nuisance rendered as disgusting as possible. Sometimes the mares were kept outside, in order that the horse might make the louder noise. All the time, however, his lordship was not altogether free from having divers petty annoyances retorted on himself.

When his carriage made its appearance near the plaintiff's

house, his brother would approach it, and jumping up, look in at him by way of insulting him, whilst the plaintiff himself would ride round it for the same purpose. The pupils, too, were not backward in manifesting the absence of much respect for him. His mode of addressing his coachman, "Drive on, Tommy," was mimicked, and he was told to go home, for he was an old wretch. Prior to the 12th of November, Brown sometimes would fire off a pistol, only charged with powder, within twenty yards of his horses, his lordship, who is paralytic, being unable to quit the carriage. The horses, however, were never frightened by the report. Whilst firing at the target, the young men used to stand within forty or fifty yards of his lordship's paling, but they always fired in a different direction. Upon one occasion the defendant told Brown that the plaintiff was a brick-maker's son from Brentford, to which Brown replied, "I don't know who his father may be, but I know that his grandmother was one of the cleverest women this country ever produced." "D-n his grandmother," said his lordship, "who the devil cares about her?" At length, the defendant informed Brown that he meant to advertise his name, and that of Langdon's, together with the plaintiff's, in the Leicester and Lincoln newspapers; and here again his lordship was as good as his word; for, on the following Friday, the advertisement appear ed. It was addressed "To Butchers who are free of the town of Grantham." It then stated that there was a butcher's shop to let in the town of Grantham, and referred for particulars to his lordship's steward, who resided at

Buckminster, where the rev. Henry Trimmer, and his pupils, Brown and Langdon, amused themselves daily, by shooting at a target, with guns and pistols, in the most frequented thoroughfare in the parish, to the great danger and annoyance of all their neighbours who had occasion to pass that way. Another advertisement subsequently appeared, commencing as before, but adding, that some poor Irish labourers had been set upon, and one of them shot, by ten ruffians, for merely saying that a Roman Catholic priest would not have acted as this parson of the Church of England had done. Some of them, however, it went on to state, had been lodged in gaol, and the others were known, so that there were hopes that they would all be transported at the next Leicester sessions for their ruffianly conduct. Young Langdon having gone home for the holidays, a letter addressed to his mother was delivered by the defendant's servant to the village postmaster, and was received by Mrs. Langdon, after her son had engaged his place in the coach to return to the plaintiff. This letter, which was in a disguised hand, was couched in the grossest language, acquainting Mrs. Langdon that her son, in company with the plaintiff, shot at a target, witnessed the scenes at the pinfold, had had a criminal intercourse with a girl named Sally Hand, who was pregnant by him, and lastly, had shot an Irishman, for which he was likely to be tried. Mrs. Langdon wrote to the plaintiff on the subject, informing him that she did not believe one tittle of the imputations attempted to be cast upon him or her son, but adding her extreme regret that, from the dread of having his name associated with

such charges, however false, she durst not allow her son to return to Mr. Trimmer's house. The boy, therefore, for whose instruction Mr. Trimmer was receiving 150 guineas per annum, was kept away. A letter, in a similar hand, was received by the bishop of Lincoln, to whom the defendant stated to Brown, first that he would write, and afterwards that he had written. The bishop transmitted it, under cover, to the plaintiff. It was signed "A Farmer," and, in coarse terms, described the plaintiff as a disgrace to his sacred profession. One day in the present year, while the plaintiff was from home, Mr. Brown, in company with Dalton, went into the fields with a gun in his hand. Some person having started a hare, the animal passed him by, and, unable to resist the temptation, he fired and shot it. Lord Huntingtower's steward laid informations against the two young men, who were convicted in the penalty of 251., which sum Mr. Trimmer immediately paid for them. Mr. Brown then went

COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN DICKINSON.

Portsmouth, August 26.

On board the Victory. The Court-martial was composed of the following members :— Hon. sir Rob. Stopford, President, adm. Rear-admiral hon. sir H. Blackwood. Rear-admiral sir R. W. Otway. Captain G. Mundy, M.P. Captain the hon. Robert Gordon, M. P. Captain the hon. George Elliott. Captain A. W. Schomberg. Captain Inglefield.

The following letters from sir constituted the charges:E. Codrington to the Admiralty

"92, Eaton-square, June 14, 1829. "Sir,--In obedience to the directions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in your letter of the 8th of this month, I have the honour to inform distinct Russian orders having got into their lordships, that the mistake of two the possession of captain Dickinson, appears to me to have arisen from one

of them having been sent to the Mediterranean through count Heiden, without its having been known that another had been conferred upon him in England through count Lieven.

"As I understand that the government do not think the commanders

and did not afterwards return, until now, when he came as a witness for the plaintiff.

An objection was taken, on the part of the defendant, to the admission of the above letters in evidence, as not having been sufficiently brought home to his lordship as the writer of them. The lord chief baron having taken a note of the objection, told the jury they were to pay no attention to them, if they were not satisfied they had been written by the defendant; but if they thought that they had, then they would take them into consideration. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full sum laid in the declaration, namely 2,000l. damages.

to either of these Russian distinctions, I cannot but regret that captain Dickinson should have been placed in this respect above those two officers; since I have every reason to approve (as I do most highly) of the conduct of captain Baynes and captain Campbell, and have no reason to approve of the conduct of the Genoa from the time of the command of her having devolved on captain selection of captain Dickinson for the Dickinson. As it is probable that the distinction in question may have arisen from captain Bathurst having been reported in the return, signed by captain Dickinson and the surgeon, as killed in the action, it is incumbent on me to in

form their lordships, that captain Dickinson himself conducted me down to captain Bathurst in the cockpit of the Genoa, at eight o'clock in the evening of the 20th October, several hours after the battle was over, and that both he and the surgeon must have heard cap

tain Bathurst calmly and collectedly describing to me what had passed upon deck before he was wounded. In fact, captain Dickinson, when subsequently reproved by me for having made this false return, acknowledged his recollection of having so conducted me into the cockpit, and of captain Bathurst not having expired until about three o'clock in the morning of the 21st. I have, &c. (Signed) "EDWARD CODRINGTON. "To the Secretary of the Admiralty.”

"Eaton-square, June 24, 1829. "Sir,-In answer to the directions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, contained in your letter of the 22nd instant, that I should state the particulars in which I saw reason to disapprove the conduct of captain Dickinson, after he had succeeded to the command of the Genoa, I beg to inform their lordships, that the Genoa did not use her springs as the other ships did, but engaged with her stern and quarter guns only;-that her mizen-mast was allowed to go by the board the day after the battle; that although less injured than the Asia, the Albion, or the ships of either of the allied admirals, she was the last ship ready to leave the port, even after having had a whole watch of the Glasgow to assist her ;--that captain Dickinson reported captain Bathurst killed, although he did not die until about three o'clock on the morning of the 21st of October, and after he had himself conducted me to him in the cockpit at eight o'clock in the evening of the 20th. I think it right also to add, that according to a copy of what I understand to be the ship's log, the Genoa is stated to have used her springs; although captain Dickinson admitted to me that she had not done so, owing to his inability to get the men away from their guns; and that she is there reported to have successfully engaged all the three Ottoman ships of the line, and one more double frigate than there were in the fleet; when the fact is, that owing to her not using her springs, the fire of her own opponent would not have been silenced, but for the exertions of the other ships of our squadron. It did not appear to me that any benefit would be derived to the service from my publicly reporting at the time this inferiority of conduct evinced in the Genoa, after she fell

under the command of captain Dickinson, more particularly as I had had the pleasure of expressing my marked approbation of the manner in which that ship had taken up her station under captain Bathurst. But under the circumstances of captain Baynes and captain Campbell not being considered as entitled to any Russian distinctions, although their conduct was most satisfactory to me in every respect, I cannot but regret that any such distinctions should be conferred upon captain Dickinson. "I am, &c. (Signed) "E. CODRINGTON."

"Eaton-square, July 17, 1829. "Sir,-In obedience to the desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that I should state specifically all the points of captain Dickinson's couduct with which I was dissatisfied during the period of his being in temporary command of his majesty's ship Genoa, in order that the same may be investigated before a court-martial (a measure which their lordships are pleased to consider due as well to the character of captain Dickinson as to the interests of the public service), I have the honour to state for their lordships' information, that from not making proper use of her springs directed by my order of the 19th of October, 1827, to be placed on the anchors, the broadside of the Genoa was not directed to her regular opponent in the Ottoman line, and that in such a position, she could not fire any of her guns except those of her stern and quarters, without endangering the Asia, and others of the allied squadron on her larboard side, and the Albion and others on her starboard side; that, consequently, the shot which injured the Asia, and which came in that direction, were apparently fired by the Genoa, and that the Genoa did positively fire into the Albion, probably (according to her logbook) mistaking that ship for one of the Ottoman fleet, although the Albion had an English ensign at her mast-head to prevent such mistakes ;--that captain Dickinson having been reproved by me for not using the Genoa's springs, and having accounted for it by his inability to get the men from their guns for that purpose, it was nevertheless asserted in the ship's log-book, that the springs were used that the account of the battle given in the Genoa's log-book erroneously implies, that she had three