Volume 1

Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield. From Andrew Stuart, esq. [On the Douglas Peerage Cause.] / [Andrew Stuart].

  • Andrew Stuart
Date:
[1773]
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Credit: Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield. From Andrew Stuart, esq. [On the Douglas Peerage Cause.] / [Andrew Stuart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -p* 529j Purf. proof, p. 962, B» Dcf. proof, ?• 52^*F' -—'P* 527j Purf. proof, p, 969, D. J5ef, proof, f- 527>. s' [ 62 ] E, Upon the crofs examination, depofes, ” That from, the manner in which Delamarre fpoke, the Lady was about forty-eight years old, though he did not tell him her age precifely :■—That when Mr. Delamarre told him, that the aforefaid Lady was from beyond the lea, he did not alk him of what country lire was, and that he did not know :■—That he did not afk nor know, and that Mr. Delamarre did not tell him if the Lady’s hufoand was with her at faris, but only that the was a married woman. / f/ie Time of the Delivery. iS That it may be about lixteen or feventeen years fince this delivery happened, the deponent not re- A membering precifely :——That he thinks he recol- *”le£fs it was towards the end of the Spring, or in, the months of June or July, fo far as he can re¬ member.” At his fecond examination, upon a queflion put to him on the part of the defendant, he depofed, <c That the delivery of the Lady from beyond the fea in queflion happened after the deponent’s re¬ turn from the army, which was, as he has already laid, in the year 1747 , that otherwife he would not have had knowledge of it ; that is to fay, if the de¬ livery had happened while the deponent was at the army, Mr. Delamarre could not have fpoke to him of it in the time.” The Houfe where the Delivery happened. e( That Mr. Delamarre did not tell the deponent precifely in what place, or in whofe houfe, th* Lady was delivered, becaufe he was piqued on ac¬ count of the deponent’s not being prelent at the delivery; but that the faid Mr. Delamarre had fe¬ vered lying-in houfes (depots) where he brought women to bed : That lie had fome places of this kind near the Hotel Dieu, in the quarter of St. An¬ dre des Arts, and in the quarter of St. Honore; ai\i and the deponent fulpebfs this delivery may have happened in the quarter of St. Andre des Arts, becaufe hefaw Mr. Delamarre fundry times turn to that fide in taking the llreet de l' Eperon, which kads into the llreet,Paon f