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 MAJOR HOOK's 
 
 D E F E N C E, 
 
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 TO THE 
 
 CRIMINAL CONVERSATION, 
 
 BROUGHT AGAINST HIB* 
 
 CAPT. CHARLES CAMPBELL, 
 
 TRIED AT WESTMINSTER, 
 
 2.6th February, 1793. 
 
 LONDON! 
 
 PRINTED TOR J. MURRAY, FLEET-STREET.
 
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 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 A HIS defence contains obfervations upon the 
 teftimony of the witneffes on whofe evidence the 
 verdift againfl me was found, and on a variety 
 pf evidence contained in affidavits and letters, 
 which are annexed at length in the appendix, to 
 which the defence refers. It is thought proper 
 likewife to annex an account of the trial taken in 
 fhort hand % by Mr. Blanchard, becaufe the de- 
 fence neceiTarily refers to the trial, and cannot be 
 ynderftood without it.
 
 DEFENCE. 
 
 I 
 
 T will naturally occur to the reader, that if 
 I had had a defence by which I could have proved 
 my innocence, I would have brought it forwards 
 at the trial. In anfwer to this J have to fay, that 
 moft of the material facts of which the prefent 
 defence confifts, were contained in the inftruc- 
 tions given to my counfel ; whether all the ob- 
 fervations upon thefe facts contained in the fol- 
 lowing meets occurred to them, I cannot pretend 
 to fay. Indeed, I mould be very much furprifed 
 if men, even of the talents which my counfel are 
 univerfally allowed to poflefs, could embrace in 
 the inftant everything that might occur upon 
 mature confideration of the fubject. And I would 
 farther remark, that although the arguments and 
 qbfervations might not occur at once, it does not 
 2 follow,
 
 ( viii ) 
 
 follow, therefore, that they are lefs grounded in 
 truth, "or concluftve in reafon. 
 
 No perfon can hold in higher refpedl than I do, 
 the invaluable privilege of trial by jury. But 
 with the mod perfect attachment and veneration 
 for that inftitution, I may remark, that it^will 
 happen that fome cafes might be better tried by 
 a more deliberate mode of inquiry ; and that pre- 
 judices will fometimes be created in the courfe of* 
 a trial by jury, which more temperate difcuf- 
 fions would prevent or remove. But as on the 
 one hand, I by no means intend to infinuate-, 
 that becaufe a few cafes may be mifguided by that 
 form of trial, that, that is an argument againft 
 the inftitution : fo, on the other hand, if by deli- 
 berate inveftigation and difcuffion, I can make 
 out my cafe, and prove my innocence, it wifl 
 not be faid, that I am lefs intitled to the effect of 
 a deliberate and ex trajudicialj unification. 
 
 The public and my friends will not be furprifed, 
 if in vindication of my character, fo deeply and 
 feverely wounded by the verdict given againfl me 
 in this action, I mould take this method of of- 
 
 fering mv defence to their consideration. 
 
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 I am impelled to this meafure by every motive 
 which can operate upon the mind of man. 
 
 r he protection J owe to the innocent and inju- 
 red reputation of a young woman, whom I am 
 bound by all the ties of parental affinity to fup- 
 port under ci re um fiances of the moft afflicting ad- 
 verfity. The tjuty of a parent to hand down 
 his reputation unfuliied to his children, as their 
 beft inheritance and fureft fecurity for virtue, and 
 the regard I have for my own character, which, 
 J am bold to fay, has been uniformly moral, pure, 
 and upright, all induce me to make this appeal to 
 the candour and judgement of an impartial public; 
 and I am left, indeed, without any other means, 
 at prefent, of vindicating myfelf, becaufe I un- 
 der (land that the rules of law will not, in the cir-r 
 cumftances I (land, admit of my obtaining a new 
 trial, whatever may be the actual merits of my 
 cafe. 
 
 Before I proceed to ftate the facts and argu- 
 ments on which I reft my innocence, I feel it in- 
 cumbent on me moft distinctly to declare, that I 
 flo not meat}, in what I fhall fay, to impute the 
 flighted: blame to the ji\ry who found the verdict, 
 p.r to the noble and learned Judge who prefided at 
 the trial of the caufe : on the contrary, I admit 
 
 b that
 
 that the obfervations made by the judge, and the 
 verdict given by the jury, were the natural refult 
 of the impreffions made at the time, by the pofir 
 tive teftimony of the witnefles. 
 
 But I have many obfervations to mnke which 
 will, I trufr, upon deliberate confideration, repel 
 thefe impreffions ; and I have many facts to ftate, 
 fupported by affidavits, which will give a very 
 different complexion to my cafe, infomuch, that 
 I have no doubt of convincing the world of that 
 innocence, which I am ready to proteft under all 
 the fanctions which religion can impoie. 
 
 It will appear from the annexed account of 
 the trial, that the cafe opened for the plaintiff, 
 t>y Mr. Erikine, was a cafe of deliberate feduc- 
 tion, calculated bv a lonsr train of artful addrels. 
 
 * o * 
 
 well-contrived opportunities, and indecent in- 
 citements, to make a young perion, to whom I 
 ftood in the relation of A parent, and to whom I 
 owed all the duties of parental affection, yieiJ to 
 my bafe defigns upon her virtue.* 
 
 The evidence produced was meant to fupport 
 the cafe thus opened by the plaintiff's coimfel. 
 
 \ppendix, p. 59, E. 
 
 It
 
 It is by no means neceffary for the eftablifli- 
 ment of guilt, of the fort in queftion, either to* 
 jftate or prove a deliberate plan of fedudtion ; but 
 if a fyftem of feduction is laid down as the ground- 
 work of the crime, and is propofed to be made 
 bflt by evidence, it is eflentially neceflary to the 
 truth of the charge fo made, that there mould be 
 a conformity in the evidence to the nature of the 
 cafe propofed to be made out, and that there 
 fhould be a coniiftency in the evidence with 
 itfelf; and it is fair to draw this conclufion, that if 
 the evidence eftablifhes, or aims at eftablifhing in, 
 part, a cafe totally inconfiflent with fedudtion, 
 opened and refled upon by the plaintiff, fuch evi- 
 dence not only removes the ground on which the 
 guilt is meant to be founded, but deftroys the 
 credit due to it, both as founded on fedu&ion, 
 and as founded on the very facts which repel the 
 prefumption of feduction. 
 
 The doctrine here laic! down cannot be more 
 perfectly illuftrated than by the cafe whiph gave 
 rife to the verdict under which I now fuffer. 
 
 I returned from India, as has been rep re fen ted 
 in the caufe, in the month of July, 1 788 ; I had 
 tefided there for one and twenty years, with the 
 exception of a vific to England of a few months 
 
 b 2 in
 
 in the year 1773. Mrs. Campbell was about 18 
 years of age when I returned to England in 1 788, 
 and I had never feen her from her birth but once, 
 when an infant in arms, at Madras, where (he 
 xv-as with her father and mother, at the time of 
 my voyage to and from England, in 1773. 
 
 She was confequently, as (he has been defcribed, 
 an abfolute Granger to me on my arrival in Lon- 
 don, at which time fhe was at her mother's houie 
 ill Brook-ftreet, my refidence being at Keuiing- 
 ton with my children. 
 
 I had at that time, as appears from the open- 
 ing of the plaintiff's cafe, but few opportunities 
 of feeing her, for fhe went Ihortly after my ar- 
 rival in England with her mother to Ramfgate* 
 
 It is itated that I went to Ramfgate in Septem- 
 ber,* and joined the family with an intention of 
 taking her to Scotland, on the pretence of feeing 
 her relations, but in reality to accomplifli the bale 
 purpofe of feducing her from a hufband with 
 whom flic is represented by his two brothers, Mr. 
 Donald, and Lawrence Campbell, and the wife 
 
 of the latter gentleman, to have lived in a ffote of 
 
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 perfect domeitic happinei"-. 
 
 ,* Appendix, p. 59, G. H. 60, A. 
 
 This
 
 is {Wy, thus told, is a confident tale, bear* 
 ing the mark of probability. 
 
 If the depraved natufe of a man, ftanding in 
 the relation of a parent to the object of his illicit 
 delircs, of an age nearly paffed the middle period 
 of life, had imagined to himfelf the diabolical 
 purpofe of feducing a girl of eighteen years of 
 age, he might have contrived fome fuch fchemt 
 of exclulive intercourfeand familiarity as the jour- 
 ney of Scotland. 
 
 It is moil: material to my exculpation, there* 
 fore, to difcover how far the evidence in the caufe 
 fupports the cafe relied upon, and flated by thtf 
 counfel for the plaintiff. 
 
 The witneiTes againfl: me fwear pofitively to 
 als, fituations, and expreflions ; to this 1 mead 
 to oppofe an examination of their evidence, by th 
 laws of probability, and the evidence of witnefles 
 contradicting their teftimony ; and Relieve I do 
 not hazard an extraordinary poiltion, when I af* 
 fert, that the credit due to poiitive teftimony may 
 be overfet by the improbability of the circum- 
 ftances, and their incompatibility with any ra- 
 tional fyftem of belief. 
 
 3
 
 The examination of Elizabeth Herbfon, the firfl 
 toitnefs called to prove the fact of my guilt, was 
 as follows : " * Q. I believe you lived a cook 
 *' with Mrs. Frafer r A. I did. Q.^ We re you 
 " in that capacity with her in the year 1788 ? 
 *' A. Yes, Sir, I was. Q. Do you remember 
 *' the family going to Ramfgate in the year i ~8S ? 
 tc A. Yes, Sir, 1 do. Q. How long was that 
 " after Major Hook's arrival-^ do you remember 
 * c in what month ? A. I believe it was in July* 
 *' Q^Mrs. Frafer went to Ramfgate? A. Yes; 
 " Q. And Mrs. Campbell ? A. Yes. Q. Was 
 " Major Hook there ? A. He was not. Q. He 
 *' came there after you went ? A. Yes, he did; 
 " Q^Where was Captain Campbell ? A. I be- 
 " lieve at Chatham or Portfmouth. Q^ Was he 
 *' with his regiment there ? A. 1 cannot fay; 
 ^* How lono; were thev at Ramfsrate ? A. I be- 
 
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 *' lieve ten weeks. Q^ Do you remember feeing 
 " any thing particular between Mrs. Campbell and 
 *' Major Hook ? A. Never but once, Sir, when 
 " I went in with a bit of bread; Q. WHn you 1 
 " went in where ? A. To the parlour. Q^What 
 " did you fee there ? A. I law the Major luting 
 *' with his arm round her neck, and his right leg 
 ** upon her lap. Q^ Did you obferve any 
 
 Appendix, p. 6^. D. 
 
 " thing
 
 t< thing refpedYmg her hair ?* A. Yes, Sir, her 
 ?' hair was rolled round his arm. Q-JState what 
 ?' you law ? A. Her hair was rolled round his 
 f* arm, his left arm. Q. Did you obferve any 
 f* thing farther ? A. His right hand in her handr 
 ?' kerchief. Lord Chief J-uJiice. Q^The hand- 
 f kerchief that covered her neck ? A. Yes, 
 " CounfeL Q^ Did you obferve any thing elfe ? 
 *' A. No, Sir, I did not. Q^ Do you remember 
 ?' Major Hook's arrival at Ramfgate ? A. Yes, 
 " Sir, I do. Q^ Did any thing particular pafs at 
 " the time ? A. -f- Mrs. Campbell was very much 
 11 alarmed, and fainted away upon his coming in j 
 " I remember that, Sir. Q^ That you remem- 
 f her? A. Yes, Sir. Lord Chief Jufiice. Q^At 
 ." vvhofe coming there ? A. At Major Hook's, 
 *' the defendant's. CounfeL Q. Where did they 
 ." return again from Ramfgate ? A. To Brook- 
 
 * This was furely a leading queilion, and objeftionable 
 in the ftrongeft degree, as it pointed precifely to the vvit- 
 nefs what anfwer to give, which is the ground on whicU 
 leading queftions are illegal. 
 
 t Mrs. Frafer, Mrs. Campbell's mother, is now in 
 India ; when there is the means of obtaining her tefti- 
 mony, ihe will prove that this agitation arofe from her 
 haying* for the purpofe of furpriiing her daughter, in- 
 troduced my brother to her from Jamaica, fuddenly and 
 unexpe&edly. 
 
 f ftreet.
 
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 " ftreet. Q^ To Mrs. Frafer's ? A. Yes, to the 
 *' houfe they came from. Q. Did they all come 
 *' together ? A. No, I believe the Major went to 
 *' his houfe. Q^ You returned ? A. Yes. Q. To 
 *' Brook- ftreet, Mrs. Frafer's houfe ? A. Yes. 
 *' Q^ Major Hook went to his own houfe ? A, 
 " Yes. Q. What time was it you faw that at 
 " Ramfgate you have been defcribing ? A. It 
 '* was fome time in the morning. Q^Iu whac 
 t' month ? A. I cannot fay. Q^You faid you 
 **' went there in July ? A. Yes, I believe it was 
 " about Michaelmas time. Q^How long was it 
 5' before you returned to town ? A. We came to 
 ** town fome time in September. Cr of s- examined 
 ** by Mr. Bearcroft. Q. \Vhat was your litua- 
 i4 tion in the family ? A. A cook. Q-JVou went 
 4 * by order to the parlour r A. No, I went to 
 " carry a bit of bread by Mrs. Frafer's order. 
 ** Q^ For whom ? A. For Mrs. Campbell and 
 e< Major Hook. Q. They took as if they ex- 
 ** peeled it \ A. I do not know whether they 
 *' expedled it or not. Q^You carried it and gave 
 * k it them ? A. I did not look at them when I 
 " gave the plate. Q^ You went for the purpofe 
 " of carrying the bread there, and it was received ? 
 '* A. Yes. Q. Nobody faid for what it was fent ? 
 " No. Q. It was expected therefore r A. Yfcs, 
 The door was open when you went in \
 
 " A. Yes, "Sir, it was. Q. Was it quite open ? 
 *' A. Partly open. Q. You delivered the bread 
 " and went away ; you did not ftay, I fuppofe ? 
 " A. I did not flop a moment, hardly. Q^ You 
 *' flepp'd in and delivered the bread and went 
 *' away ? A. Yes. Q^ Did you flop at all ? 
 " A. No. Q^ Did you let the plate fall ? A, 
 " No, I held it fo, and one of them took it, 
 " I don't know which. Q. Did you not ex- 
 " prefs any particular furprize ? A. Why, I 
 " cannot fay I liked to fee them. Q^ You made 
 " all thofeobfer vat ions \ A. Yes. Q^Ofcourfe 
 44 you thought it very improper r A. Very, Sir. 
 " Q. Did you ever fee Mr. Campbell, the huf- 
 " band, after that ? A. I believe I did fee him 
 " once, he came in the hall once ; I don't re- 
 " collect I ever faw him but once after that. Q^I 
 *' take it for granted you told Mrs. Frafer, the 
 " mother, immediately r A. No, I did not, Sir. 
 *' Mr. Holroyd. Q. How came you to take the 
 " bread up ? A. Mrs. Frafer ordered me to carry 
 *' the bread. Lord Chief Jujlice . She faid ip 
 " before. Q. Where was Mrs. Frafer ? A. She 
 *' was in one parlour, and the Major and Mrs. 
 " Campbell in the other." 
 
 . 
 
 The fituation here defcribed, if it could be 
 fuppofed to have exifted at all, leads to a proof of 
 
 c criminal
 
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 Criminal intercourfe ; but it is totally inconfiftent 
 with a plan of feduftion for the purpofe of a cri- 
 minal end, and confcquently muft be held to repel 
 the foundation of the general tenor of the charge, 
 by raifing a decifivt prefumption of its falfity ; a 
 prefumption which increafes to abfolute convic- 
 tion, when the evidence is examined by the ftan- 
 
 dard of probability. 
 
 * 
 
 The pofitive evidence is, that within a day of 
 my arrival at Ramfgate, where I only refided 
 three days in all, I was found by the witnefs, 
 Mrs. Frafer's Cook, in the parlour, with the 
 door open, in a fhuation of the groffeil: indecency, 
 fuch a perfon of the moft profligate habits 
 could not be fnppofed to be found in with thi? 
 moft abandoned proflitute, And yet this fitua- 
 tion, according to the cafe opened by the plain- 
 tiff's counfel, is fuppofed to have taken place 
 between a young woman of 18, and a man df 
 40 years of age, between perfons who were td- 
 tally ftrangers, till within a very Ihort time before 
 .the fituation fworn. It proceeds upon the fup- 
 pofition that all the natural feelings of relatioil- 
 Ihip, as well as difparity of years, were over"- 
 ome in this iliort period ;* s^nd that all this took 
 
 , p. 63 to 6<}< 
 
 place
 
 place in the cafe of a female, who, according to 
 the evidence of the plaintiff's neareft relations, 
 lived at that time happily with her hufband, in- 
 ibmuch, that a long train of fubfequent feduction 
 is fuppofed to have been neceflary, firft to de- 
 bauch her mind, and afterwards to obtain her 
 perfonal favour. To increafe the improbability, 
 this feene is fuppofed to have been in the middle 
 of the day, in a parlour, in a lodging-houfe at 
 Ramfgate, with the door partly open, Mrs. Frafer 
 fitting in the oppofite parlour, and giving orders 
 to the fervant to carry in fome bread to Mrs. 
 Campbell and me, and the parties are fuppofed, 
 one or other of them, to have taken a piece of 
 bread from the witnefs, but which (he could not 
 tell. 
 
 Such a place, for fuch a fituation, is very little 
 marked with probability, efpecially in a lodging^- 
 houfe, and in a watering place, where familiarity 
 of intercourfe and accefs to the apartments ' is, 
 from the eafe of living in fuch places, conftantly 
 open to all the family ; and it is jnconiiftent with 
 every rule of probability, that under thefe cir- 
 cumftances, they fhould have coolly and delibe- 
 rately taken the bread, without moving from their 
 fituation or petition. 
 
 C2 I
 
 It can hardly be doubted, therefore, pofitive 
 as the teftimony is, that it is to be rejected as urn 
 worthy of belief becanfe it eftablifhes a cafe in- 
 conliftent with the future plans and meafures to 
 led nee an innocent woman and beloved wife ; 
 and becaufe it is in itfelf incompatible with thofe 
 probabilities, on which the belief of all human 
 
 teftimony, however fanctioned, muft depend. 
 
 i 
 
 The next part of this extraordinary cafe re- 
 lates to the journey to Scotland, which I am fup- 
 pofed to have propofed, as affording an opportu- 
 nity to corrupt Mrs. Campbell's virtue, already, 
 according to the account of the laft witnefs, com- 
 pletely corrupted ; and to aggravate the wicked- 
 nefs of that act, and render my fcheme more 
 practicable,* I am fuppofed to have ufed means 
 to foment a quarrel that fubfifled between Cap- 
 tain Campbell and his father. 
 
 As thefe circumftances were not proved, but 
 refted merely upon the affertion of the plaintiff's 
 counlel, I might be allowed to pals them by with 
 cbferving that they remain unproved. But I cannot 
 permit fo vile a {lander to reft even in affertion, 
 and as the learned counfel could fpeak only from 
 
 * Appendix, p. 60, B. C. D. 
 
 the
 
 the inductions of his client, it is mpft important 
 to my vindication to expole the character which 
 could give fuch inftructions, with a confciou- 
 nefs of their falfehood, of which confciouihefs I 
 fhall convict him, by the 'evidence of his own 
 letters. And it is equally important, that I fhould. 
 efbhiim the real motives and inducements which 
 led me to take that journey wjih Mrs. Campbell ? 
 as my companion. 
 
 Soon after my arrival in England, and long her 
 fore my journey to Ramfgate, and confequently 
 before I am charged with any defign upon Mrs. 
 Campbell's virtue,* I wrote to Captain Camp- 
 bell, whofe father was my vuicle, expreffive of 
 my wifh to reconcile him to his father, with 
 whom he had been at variance, fignifying to him 
 my wifh that he /hould accompany me to Scot- 
 land, previous to his departure for India, he be- 
 ing about to embark with his regiment for that 
 quarter of the globe. His letter, f dated the 
 2yth day of Auguft, proves the fact as I have 
 ftated it, and eftablifhes without the evidence of 
 my letter, to which it was an anfvver, that taking 
 Mrs. Campbell with me, was not propofed by 
 
 * Appendix, p. 16, 17. 
 f Appendix, p. 18. 
 
 me
 
 ( xxii ) 
 
 me, nor even in my thoughts, for his letter con- 
 tains no obfervations upon any fuch proportion. 
 Captain Campbell's letter, of the 3Oth of Auguft, 
 1788, fhews that I ftill continued to prefs him 
 to the journey, which he continued for various 
 feaibns to decline ; and in this letter, he himfelf 
 luggefts the idea for the firft time it ever occur-^ 
 red, .that Mrs. Campbell fhould accompany me 
 to Scotland. 
 
 After flating at large his grounds for declining 
 the journey himfelf, he fays,* " I hope, after 
 44 this, you will not aik me to go to Scotland, 
 46 when, independent of my firft reafons, the 
 " ftate of my regiment renders it incompatible 
 * c for me to get away, nor is there one Jingle of* 
 *"* ficer of the regiment abfent with leave. 
 
 " Mrs. Campbell, fome time ago, had a wifh 
 _'* to fee her friends in that part of the world, 
 " and, perhaps, if it would not be inconvenient, 
 44 (he would like to go as far as Edinburgh : but 
 * on this fubject I muft refer you to herfelf en- 
 44 tirely ; for my own part, I am not partial tc 
 4t that country, having been but little in it, nor 
 44 have J a defire of feeing it, unlefs to fee my 
 ** fifter, whom I believe to be a good woman.'* 
 
 * Appendix 1 8, H. 1 9, A. B. 
 
 This
 
 ( xxiii ) 
 
 This letter containing the propofal, was,-aslhav<f 
 obferved, anterior to the fuppoiition of my having 
 any intercourfe with Mrs. Campbell, for me went 
 to Ramfgate foon after my arrival in London. 
 Combining the letters with the time at which they 
 were written, the plan fuppofed to be laid me by 
 me for the fedu&ion of Mrs. Campbell by the 
 journey to Scotland, is thus completely refuted, 
 and proved to have originated with Captain Camp- 
 bell himfelf. 
 
 The extraordinary proceeding of the plaintifP 
 in the fequel will be beft feen, and his character 
 moft completely unfolded, by his father's letters 
 and his own, contained in the appendix. 
 
 Notwithftanding his propofal that I mould carry 
 his wife to Scotland, it appears from his letters 
 that fome extraordinary caprice had induced him 
 to quit his regiment without leave,* to poft after 
 Mrs. Campbell. It appears that when he had 
 got within a ftage of her aunt's houfe, in the 
 Tounty of Argyle, at whole houfe we were, upon 
 our return to London, after a viiit of four days 
 to his father and our other friends, in the town, 
 
 * Appendix, p. 4, E. to p. 10, A. p. 26, A. to p. 
 , B.
 
 ( xxiv ) 
 
 of Campbell-town, he wrote a letter to his xvife 
 from the inn, calumniating his father as an adul- 
 terer, exprefling a kind of dark fufpicion of me,* 
 and ufing the moil violent language towards 
 her. 
 
 It became neceftary for me to communicate trre 
 extraordinary meafure of this journey to his father j 
 whole letter to me, in anfwer to that communi- 
 cation, will mew the reconciling fpirit in which 
 I had reprefented the conduct of his fon ;-f and it 
 will hardly be fuppofed, if my object had been an 
 inceftuous intrigue with my own niece, that I 
 fhould have chofen, as the fcene of my depra- 
 vity, the'bofom of the families of our nearefl and 
 dearefl: relations, and the center of a populous 
 town like Campbell- town. Befides, it is to be 
 remarked, that there is not in the whole evi* 
 dence an attempt to trace actual guilt at that pe- 
 riod, and on that occaiion ; though no pains has 
 been fpared to inveftigate my conduct, and trace 
 my proceedings during the period of five years, 
 throughout England, Scotland, and Wales ; 
 and although Captain Campbell followed clofe 
 upon our heels, traced us in our journey from 
 
 * Appendix, p. 9, B. 
 
 J- Appendix, p. 25, to 31.
 
 ( XXV ) 
 
 ftage to ftage through England and Scotland, an<J 
 that at a time when, from his own letters, I muft 
 have conceived that he could not quit his regiment* 
 
 If I was to have aimed at familiarity with Mrs. 
 Campbell at all, it may be fuppofed that I might 
 have confidered myfelf in a fituation of fecurity to 
 have done it upon this journey. I do not there- 
 fore aflume too much if I fay, that as his induftry 
 then, and that of his agents fince, have not dif- 
 covered any evidence of it, the want of proof is, 
 in fuch a cafe, decifive of the non-exiftence of 
 the fact. It is farther to be remarked, that if the 
 profligate familiarity fworn to by the cook at 
 Ramfgate had been true, a fimilar conduct would 
 have been traceable in the journey to Scotland, 
 in all the actual and fuppofed fecurity of that 
 journey ; and that its not being traced, is another 
 proof of the falfehood of the evidence, 
 
 His letters written after his return from Scot- 
 land, while they prove the moil unreafonable and 
 wavering difpofition, fufficiently refute the im- 
 putation which his letter upon his arrival at the 
 inn in Argylefhire may feem to convey againfl 
 me ; and, indeed, thofe letters difplay a mind fb 
 deformed by unreafonable and unnatural fufpi- 
 cions, as to make even the female friends of Mrs. 
 
 d Camp- 
 
 *
 
 ( xxvi ) 
 
 Campbell the object of his intemperate paffion and 
 jealous expreffions. It will not be wondered at, 
 therefore, if at one time his letters * mould have 
 the appearance of jealoufy of me, and if others, 
 written about the fame time, fhould ftate me 
 as the innocent caufc of his ever loft ing wretch- 
 ednefs. 
 
 The letters will prove that we returned to Lon- 
 don about the 2oth of November, when I left 
 Mrs. Campbell at her mother's 'houfe in Brook- 
 ftreet, and that her hufband lived with her until 
 the firft of December, when he left her, and re- 
 mained in England till the 8th of March follow- 
 ing, as his letters fbew. Upon thofe letters, 
 I mail have occafion to obferve hereafter ; at pre- 
 fent, I (hall purfue my examination of the wit- 
 neffes in the order in which they gave their evi- 
 dence upon the trial. 
 
 Jofeph Rippington f was the witnefs next cal- 
 led- It appears from his evidence, that he came 
 into my fervice when I was at the Bath Hotel, 
 Piccadilly, in May, 1789 ; that I remained there 
 about three weeks, and then went to refide in 
 
 * Appendix, p. 5, C. 
 f Appendix, p. 73, C. 
 
 Sack-
 
 ( xxvii ) 
 
 Sackville-flreet, where, he fays, I refided nearly 
 three months. This witnefs does not attempt to 
 prove any fad of actual intercourfe, unlefs what 
 may arife from the vicinity of Mrs. Campbell's 
 chamber and mine, a circumflance which if I 
 repel, the probability of his teftimony can raiie 
 no reafonable fufpicion of guilt, efpecially as any 
 other fituation in fmall ready-furnifhed lodgings 
 is not to be had. This witnefs is produced prin- 
 cipally for the purpofe of proving that I endea- 
 voured to excite the paffions, and corrupt the 
 morals of the lady, in order to complete my plan 
 of feduction. With a view to eftablim this, he 
 fwears that I ordered him to buy fome fmutty 
 prints, the moft fmutty prints he could find ; that 
 he did fo, and that he went into the room one 
 day when I did not expec~l him : that I was look- 
 ing at one of thofe prints, and Mrs. Campbell 
 was looking over my moulder ; that when he came ' 
 in, me turned her head, and walked away to- 
 wards the window. 
 
 The effecT: of this evidence, to ufe a common 
 expreffion, was to run away with the court, the 
 jury, and the audience, and to make an impref- 
 fion which was not removed while the trial 
 lafted. 
 
 d 2 Pofuive
 
 ( xxviii ) 
 
 Pofitiveand direct, however, as this teftimony 
 is, and flrong as the impreflion may have been, 
 I folemnly declare it to be falfe, and I fhall pro- 
 ceed to (hew, that upon deliberate confideration 
 it muft appear fo to every candid and diftinguifli- 
 ing mind. 
 
 In the firft place, the object of this teftimony as 
 given, and the impreflion it made up on the Judge 
 who tried the caufe, was to fupport and perfect 
 the plan of feduction. I afk them, if it can be. 
 fuppofed true,' upon any principle of reafon, that 
 I fliould have found it neceflarv to have taken 
 
 */ 
 
 that means to feduce and excite a perfon to the 
 j>raclice of vice, in the month of June or July, 
 1789, when I had found, upon the fuppofition of 
 familiarity at Ramfgate, fuch ready accefs to the 
 object of my fuppofed deiires, in the month of 
 September, 1788, after an acquaintance of only 
 three weeks duration, and an actual in tercourfe 
 of two days ? A caie fo contradictory delerves no 
 credit, and the natural concluhon is, that both 
 accounts are equally falie. 
 
 But fuppofing that I had the defign of infla- 
 ming tli^ pallions, and feducing the virtue of this 
 young woman, by exhibitions of obfcenity ; is it 
 probable that I mould have defired a common fer- 
 
 vant 
 I
 
 ( xxix ) 
 
 Vant to have been the purchafer of fuch a thing ? 
 Even if I had been abandoned enough to have 
 meant them for the private gratification of my 
 own profligacy, it is a kind of fecret I mould 
 have kept to myfelf, and therefore would have 
 been myfelf the purchafer ; and I mould have 
 been ftill more anxious to have concealed fuch a 
 purchafe, had I meant them for the fecret pur- 
 pofe of corrupting another. Above all, I mould 
 fcarcely have employed in that purchafe, a fer- 
 vant who was quite new to me, who, according 
 to his own teflimony, had been but a few weeks 
 in my fervice ; and one whom 1 had thus em- 
 ployed, I fhould hardly have been improvident 
 enough to have turned away in a few weeks after, 
 without a character, and with every mark of di? 
 pleafure and diiapprobation, leaving it open to his 
 malice and vindictivenefs to expofe me by 3 f a ^ 
 of fo grofs and vicious a nature. 
 
 \ 
 
 That this perfon did buy prints for me I do not 
 difpute, but it will appear from the faft of his 
 having bought them, how completely incredible 
 his ftory is. The prints I employed him to pur- 
 chafe were caricatures, to fend to India for the 
 amufettient of my friends ; and when he brought 
 me the caricatures, he produced at the fame time 
 fome fuch as he defcribed, which Ireturned to 
 1 him-
 
 ( XXX ) 
 
 him with difguft and reprehenfion, and ordered 
 him to take them back, giving him money to pay 
 for the caricatures only the others remained 
 unpaid ; and it appears from the affidavit of Mr, 
 \Vhitehurfr., with whom Ilodged in Duke-ftreet, 
 Manchefter-fquare,* fome time after, that the 
 printfeller repeatedly called for payment, and .that 
 it was peremptorily refufed by me. Now, I alk 
 whether it is confident with any rational fyftem 
 of conduit, that I mould not only have authorifed 
 a public purchafe of fuch things, by a common 
 fervant, after three weeks acquaintance with him, 
 but that I mould publicly, peremptorily, and re- 
 peatedly refufe to pay the printfeller, and that at 
 this moment they ihould remain unpaid, thereby 
 leaving it open not only to the fabricator of this 
 tale, but to the printfeller likewife, to eftablim a 
 fail of fuch a complexion againft me ? The wit- 
 nefs flares in his evidence, that he had the prints 
 in court. Now, how could this be upon any 
 other fuppolition than that which I have made, 
 viz. that I returned them to him, when firft pro- 
 duced to me by him ? 
 
 Is it to be fuppofed not only that I (hould have 
 authorifed him to buy the prints, but that having 
 
 Appendix, p. 37, D. E. F. 
 
 beea
 
 ( xxxi ) 
 
 been difcovered in exhibiting them, I fhould 
 f either then have given them back to him, or put 
 it in his power to get them. The explanation is 
 clear, he mud have retained the prints, notwith- 
 ftanding my orders to reftore them ; the print- 
 feller, therefore, not having received them, de- 
 manded of me the, money, and the witnefs re- 
 taining them in his pofleffion, brought them out 
 to confirm his teftimony. I cannot, therefore, 
 for a moment doubt, whatever may have been 
 the firft impreffion of difguft upon hearing this 
 evidence, that when it is examined deliberately 
 and difpaffionately, it will appear to be a wilful 
 and fcandalous mifreprefentation. 
 
 The next witnefs called was Robert Green.* 
 As he ftates a variety of fails and circumstances, 
 tending to prove attuaj guilt, and eftabliming the 
 completion of my fuppofed plan of fedudion, it 
 is material to attend to his evidence rnoft mi- 
 nutely. 
 
 He begins by faying that he came into my fervice 
 when I refided in Duke-ftreet, Manchefter-fquare, 
 1 790. The particular month of the year he does 
 not mention ; that he had been in my fervice fix 
 
 * Appendix, p. 77, F. 
 
 weeks
 
 ( xxxii ) 
 
 weeks and a day or two, when he fays that he fuf- 
 peded there was fomething improper between an 
 uncle and a niece ; that he had the curiofity there-; 
 fore to watch, and upon going into the drawing- 
 room one evening, faw us fitting on the couch, 
 which 'flood behind the dogr, in a very criminal 
 way. This is a fingular (tile of expreffion, and 
 not very like the language of a perfon in his Na- 
 tion, nor at all fimilar to the general turn of ex- 
 preffion in the reft of his evidence. It bears marks 
 of fuggeftion from fome perfon of better educa- 
 tion than the witnefs. But I would afk, how 
 fhould he have feen us by going in at the door, 
 fitting on the couch behind the door ? If he could 
 fee any thing, it could only be by advancing into, 
 Or towards the middle of the room. He then de- 
 fcribes the poiition to be, my one arm around 
 Mrs. Campbell's neck, and the other under her 
 petticoats, and that he could plainly fee her na^ 
 ked knee. Now, examine this teflimony by the 
 laws of probability. 
 
 Firft of all, it is not probable that upon his ap- 
 proach, we fliould have remained in any pofition 
 from which we could have withdrawn or reco- 
 vered ourfelves : becaufe it is not to be prefumed 
 that we meant to exhibit this to the view of the 
 fervant. This is not to be prefuraed in any cafe, 
 
 but
 
 ( xxxiii ) 
 
 but in this cafe it arifes out of the nature of the 
 evidence that we wimed to avoid difcovery, for 
 according to his own ftory, he was obliged to 
 watch his opportunity to difcover us. 
 
 He had a fufpicion, he fays, but not at firfl ; 
 after a time, he thought there was fomething im- 
 proper going on between an uncle and niece ; and 
 then, more from curiofity than any thing elfe, he 
 went in the drawing-room* 
 
 Nature has implanted in the breaft of man an 
 impulfe which leads him inftinctively to avoid 
 difcovery in the connection between the fexes, 
 even when it is moft innocent and irreprehen- 
 fible, fo that a difpofition to withdraw from any 
 Situation which may indicate it, upon the riik 
 of being expofed to the view of others, is imme- 
 diate. Surely this inftinclive difpofition is not di- 
 minimed where the connection arifes from an un- 
 lawful intrigue, and is more particularly to be 
 prefumed in fuch a cafe as the prefent. The pre- 
 fumption therefore is, that on hearing a foot on 
 the flairs, ftill more on hearing the opening the 
 door, we mould have retired from the pofition we 
 are defcribed to have been in had it been prac- 
 ticable. Now, what is the pofition fixed on by 
 the witnefs ? The gentleman's one hand in the- 
 
 e lady's
 
 ( xxxiv ) 
 
 lady's bofom, and the other up her petticoats, fo 
 as to (hew her naked knee. The firft noife on 
 the flairs, or movement of the door, would have 
 led him to withdraw his hands, and her to drop 
 her petticoats, an arrangement which could have 
 been performed in an inftant, replacing every 
 thing in a foliation to deftroy all appearance of 
 any thing Improper or criminal. If an alteration 
 of a portion, fuch as the witnefs defcribes, could 
 have been eafily accomplished on the nrft noife, 
 it would have been accomplished to a certainty 
 before he could have advanced to any part of the 
 room, by which he could have feen the couch 
 behind the door, and the pofition of thofe who 
 were .upon it. The witneis, therefore, to have 
 preferved verifimilitude in his tefHmony, mould 
 have chofen fome poiition from which it would 
 have been more difficult for the parties to have 
 difembarraffed themfelves ; for as the teftimony 
 now ffonds,- it violates all the laws of probability, 
 and makes it natural to lift with fufpicion every 
 word this witneis fays. 
 
 The witnefs then proceeds to tell a very mi- 
 nute ftory respecting a quarrel between Mrs. 
 Campbell and myielf, as follows : " After this, 
 " that one day, Major Hook faid to Mrs. Campbell, 
 " I am going out now, and I will come in to 
 " dinner. I rememberwe had that day for din- 
 i ;ier
 
 ( XXXV ) 
 
 ner a Cod's head and founds, and Major Hook 
 never came in to dinner. Mrs. Campbell 
 waited very impatiently till fix o'clock, when 
 " fhe feemed to be in a violent paffion, and or- 
 " dered me to take the dinner down, {he fhould 
 " not eat any dinner. She feemed much enra- 
 ** ged to think he did not come home to dinner ; 
 " with that he came home, about half paft ten at 
 " night. When he came home, I left him in ; 
 " he went up into the drawing-room, I went 
 *' down into the' kitchen. When I had been down 
 " there the courfe of a quarter of an hour, I 
 " heard a violent fcream, and a cry of murder ; 
 " with that I went up flairs into the drawing- 
 " room, and I perceived Major Hook (landing in 
 " the corner of the room, with a chair before 
 " him, and me trying to ftrike him with a po- 
 " ker ; with that he deiired me to quit the room, 
 " which I did ; I went down into the kitchen. 
 ** I had not been there above five minutes, when 
 " I heard a violent crying out again, and Mrs. 
 * 4 Campbell run down flairs ; this was about half 
 " paft eleven, or near twelve : me ran out into 
 " the flreet, Major Hook followed her, and de- 
 " fired me to go after her, which I did ; I fol- 
 " lowed her out, and I overtook her a little way 
 " down Duke-ftreet : fhe was in a deplorable 
 " condition, her handkerchief tore all off her 
 
 e 2 " neck.
 
 ( xxxvi ) 
 
 " neck, and Major Hook with his waiftcoat tore 
 " open, and down as far as here.^ With that I 
 " faid, fays I, for God's fake Mrs.' Campbell 
 " come in. Q^Did me come in ? A. I fol- 
 " lowed her, and overtook her, and faid, Mrs. 
 " Campbell come in, confider what condition 
 " you are in, and the time of night, and you will 
 " be taken up by the watch, and put in the 
 *' watch-houfe, wirh that (he returned, and (hut 
 " herfelf up in the parlour. Q^ Did any thing 
 elfe happen ? A. She mut herfelf up in the- 
 parlour, and Major Hook came and faid, Har- 
 riet, Harriet, I iniift upon your coming out, 
 I pray you to come out ; me came out, and was 
 running up fbirs, her foot flipp'd, and (he fell 
 down upon the landing-place, (he fainted away, 
 or pretended it, with that Major Hook ftood 
 " over her, and proclaimed thefe words : ' You 
 
 * are a whore, a d d whore, and the worft of 
 4 whores.' She replied, I am a whore, but it is 
 4 only to you, who ought to have been my fa- 
 6 ther, my friend, and my protestor ; inftead of 
 4 that, you have been my utter ruin, and my 
 
 * friends. Oh my poor hufband !' 
 
 * Pointing to about three inches from the waift. 
 
 The
 
 ( xxxvii ) 
 
 The cry, he fays, was a cry of murder, at a 
 late hour in the evening, in a fmall houfe, where 
 the landlord and the family lodged, as well as my 
 family. I was heard from the drawing-room to 
 the kitchen, and yet no perfon feemsto have been 
 alarmed but this witnels ; nay, it will appear 
 from the affidavit of the landlord of the houfe, 
 and his fervants, that they were in the houfe that 
 very night, and were regularly in the houfe one 
 or other of them every night, at that hour, and 
 heard nothing of the cry of murder. Mrs. Camp- 
 bell returned, as the witnefs fays, and went into 
 the parlour, and that I begged and prayed her 
 to come out, and go up ftairs, and that me fell 
 upon the ftairs, and fainted away, or pretended 
 to faint. Here again, I would deiire the pecu- 
 liar turn of expreffion and fet form of words to be 
 remarked, and would aik if it is agreeable to pro- 
 bability that I mould have taken the particular 
 moment to proclaim the words fworn to. The 
 fervant, according to his own account, was L alarm- 
 ed, and had gone out in queft of Mrs. Camp- 
 bell, after the cry of murder ; he was upon the 
 watch, and to a certainty within my hearing, for 
 no part of the houfe was out of it. Is it agreeable 
 to probability, that I fhould have chofen to utter 
 thofe expreffions the moment when (he fainted, 
 and that too upon the {lairs, where the words 
 
 fpoken
 
 ( xxxviii ) 
 
 fpoken "muft have been heard by all the family ? 
 And laft of all, is it probable that Ihe fhould have 
 made the obfervation fworn to in the midil of a 
 fit, into which he fays fhe had juft fallen, or pre- 
 tended to fall ? And is it not very inconfiftent to 
 fuppofe, that I fliould have been excited to fuch 
 expreffions by the event of her falling, or appear- 
 ing to fall in a fit, my temper of mind having 
 become fb different (according to the tefK- 
 mony of the witnefs hirafelf ) from that of rage 
 or paffion, or any difpolition of mind likely to 
 dictate opprobrious language; for he reprefents 
 me as coming to the parlour door, and in a 
 foothing manner, intreating her to come out r 
 
 Mr. Whitehurft fays, in his affidavit,* that he 
 remembers the night on which Mrs. Campbell 
 went into the flreet, and was brought back by 
 Robert Green, when fhe {hut het felf up in the 
 parlour, and morrly after went up to her bed- 
 room; that he did not on that evening, or at any 
 other period of time whatever, hear Mrs. Camp- 
 bell cry our murder, or Major Hook fay to Mrs. 
 Campbell, you are a ' whore, or a d d whore, 
 6 or the worft of whores,' or any other expreffions 
 or words to the like purpofe or effect. He fays 
 
 * Appendix, p. 36, 37. 
 
 his
 
 ( xxxix ) 
 
 his niece Jones, and his fervant White, were in 
 the houfe with him, and that his houfe is but a 
 fmall one, that violent words fpoken in any part 
 of it, muft be heard throughout the whole 
 houfe. , 
 
 Alice Jones, the niece,* fwears to the fame 
 
 effect. 
 
 Elzabeth White, f the houfe maid, fays, fhe 
 remembers the night that Mrs. Campbell went 
 into the ftreet, and identifies it by the fame cir- 
 cumftances as Mr. Whitehurfl, and Jones, and 
 Green, viz. Green following her and bringing 
 her back, and her going into the parlour. She 
 then fays fhe came out to go up flairs, thatjhe 
 was with Mrs. Campbell upon the flairs, and at- 
 tended her up to bed, and did not then, or at any 
 other time, hear Major Hook ufe the expreflions 
 mentioned by Green ; and that they could not 
 have been ufed at the time without her hearing 
 them, . becaufe fhe never was a moment abfent 
 from her, from the time fhe fell in the fit, till the 
 time fhe put her to bed and the fame witnefs 
 fwears that fhe did not hear the cry of murder. 
 
 * Appendix, p. 40, 
 f Appendix, p. 38, 39. 
 
 The
 
 *The evidence of Green, therefore, is not only 
 improbable in itfelf, but it is directly contra- 
 dieted by perfbns who muft have heard what paf- 
 fed, and by one in particular who fwears fhe was 
 with Mrs. Campbell during the whole time, in 
 which, by tKe teitimony of Green, the very ex- 
 traordinary and difagreeable words were fpoken. 
 
 I beg leave now to consider before I go farther, 
 who, and what is the character of this witnefs, 
 and who are and what is the character of thofe 
 who make the affidavits. The witnefs is a me- 
 nial fervant, whom I turned off without a cha- 
 racter, and who admits we parted in bad terms? 
 who fays I underminded him, and hired another 
 lervant before I let him know my intentions, and 
 that he underflands I life all my fervants ill a 
 (ingular charge againfl a perfon fuppofed to be 
 enoa;ed in carrying on an inceftuous intrigue. 
 
 o o Jo o 
 
 Green therefore is a perfon upon whom motives 
 of an indirect nature may be fuppofed to operate ; 
 while the others are perfons of credit and reputa- 
 tion, whofe houfe I have long left, and who are* 
 liable to no prejudice, as they are under no obli- 
 gation of any fort ; and thofe are the perfons who 
 all fwear they never faw any improper conduct 
 between Mrs. Campbell and myfelf : and White- 
 hurft fwears, that he would not have permitted 
 
 us
 
 ( xli ) 
 
 us to remain in his houfe if he had. It is like- 
 wife to be attended to, that thefe witnefles, par- 
 ticularly Whitehurft, fwear that I took the 
 lodging for myfelf arid my niece, and that her 
 mother and family came conftantly to vifit us. 
 Thefe are circumftances which go a great way 
 to repel the prefumption of an intrigue. 
 
 The witnefs next proceeds to ftate the appear- 
 ance of Mrs. Campbell's bed in Duke-ftreet, and 
 fays he was mewn it by Betty White, the houfe- 
 maid of Mr. Whiten ur ft. The reprefentatioii of 
 this matter refts upon his teftimony alone, while 
 Betty \Vhite might have been produced to have 
 confirmed him. It is very material that fuch a 
 fact fhould not be left on the teftimony of a llngle 
 witnefs, but fhould be confirmed. But if the 
 fact was to be left to the credit of one witnefs 
 only, two being equally in a fituation to be pro- 
 duced ; it muft be evident that the perfon who 
 difcovered and fhe\ved the bed, muft be the 
 moft credible and fatisfa&ory ; but if that witnefs 
 is not called at all, but the witnefs who was 
 brought to fee it, called, it muft raife a ftrong 
 fufpicion in the mind, that the original witnefs 
 would not have confirmed the teftimony given. 
 
 f The
 
 The teftimony of that witnefs, as well as of 
 the others, appears in the affidavits, and me gives 
 a pofitive contradiction to this fact, faying that 
 fhe never called Robert Green into the bed-room, 
 nor obferved to him the mark of two people in the 
 bed,* and that fhe never faw any fuch marks in 
 the bed, nor had any fufpicion of them. 
 
 The witnefs then gives evidence reflecting my 
 conduct at Swanfea, particularly to his difcovering 
 Airs. Campbell and myfelf in a moft indecent fitua- 
 tion in her bed-room. " Q.^ Do you remember 
 ** while at Swanfea going to a room adjoining 
 " to her bed-room ? A. I do, it was one day 
 *' after dinner ; I was in the court-yard with 
 " the children, and Major Hook's fon faid I was 
 *' wanted ; I went up flairs. Q-^Did you go 
 " into the room adjoining, where Major Hook 
 " and Mrs. Campbell were ? A. Yes, 1 went 
 " into the room, and I perceived that Major 
 ** Hook and MKS. Campbell were laying at the 
 " foofof the bed. Q^Was it in her bed-room ? 
 " A. In her bed-room, and on her bed ; as foon 
 '* as they faw me, it put them in a furprize, he 
 " ftarted up, and the flap of his breeches hung 
 44 down, and his face was as red as fire ; the co- 
 
 
 *- Appendix, p. 38, D. 
 
 " lour
 
 ( xliii ) 
 
 " lour came all up in his face, and Mrs. Camp- 
 " bell walked to another part of the room. Q. 
 " At that time did you obferve any part of the 
 " perfon of Mrs. Campbell ? A. Yes, I did, I 
 " fawat that time up as far as here, (pointing to 
 " her knee.) Q^ Her thighs ? A. Yes, I did. 
 " Q. Her naked thighs? A. Her naked thighs." 
 Green fays he only went into the children's room, 
 in which cafe it is impoffible he could have feen 
 the bed, as this plan mewing the arrangement of 
 the rooms will prove. 
 
 Major Hook's 
 bed-room. 
 
 Children's 
 room. 
 
 1 bed. 
 
 Mrs. C.'s 
 . bed-room. 
 
 Paffage. 
 
 Now it is very fingular that a fervant mould, 
 without ceremony, have thought himfelf intitled 
 
 to advance to the door of a ladv's bed-chamber : 
 
 j 
 
 he therefore finds it neceflary to account for it by 
 faying my fon faid he was called. Now I muft 
 either have fent my fon for him, or the boy muft 
 have made a miftake, or the whole mult have 
 been a pretence : as to the firft, it is incredible 
 that I fhould have called him, in the fit U a lion he 
 delcribed me to have been in ; as to the lecond, 
 
 f 2 it
 
 it is not very likely that a boy of eleven or twelve 
 years of age (hould, by miftake, clefire that to 
 be done for which he had no authority ; and if 
 his pretence is falfified, it follows that but little 
 credit is due to his fact. 
 
 It is to be obferved likewife, that all the rifles 
 'of difcovery are run without a fmgle precaution 
 upon any part. For the door is left unfecured, 
 although the room adjoined that occupied by the 
 children, who were then (as appears by his evi- 
 dence) actually running about ; I was therefore 
 expoling myfelf to be feen by a fon of twelve years 
 old, and daughters nearly the fame age,, in an in- 
 ceftuous correspondence with a niece. Surely ij 
 would require very confident, corredl, and cre- 
 dible teftimony to effoblim the belief of a ftory 
 fb iingular and improbable. 
 
 In giving an account of the distribution of 
 rooms at Swanfea, he feems inclined to make an 
 impreffion, as if the room in which I ilept was ad- 
 joining to Mrs. Campbell's. Whereas the evidence 
 of the next witnefs (his wife) makes it quite 
 clear that the children's bed-room was between 
 Mrs. Campbell's and mine, in the manner de- 
 fcribed in the plan, and that there was no door 
 into her bed-room but through that of the chil- 
 dren ;
 
 dren ; this he corre&s by being re-examined, and 
 comes into the fame {lory with his wife ; but his 
 original evidence mews a determined difpofition 
 to make fuch a ftory, and to eftablifli fuch ar- 
 rangements, as will lead to the fuppofition of in- 
 tercourfe ; fuch a mifreprefentation, making his 
 bias manifeft and clear, muft lead to difcredit 
 every other part of his teftimony. In ibme fadls, 
 it is evident that he has fworn falfely, in others", 
 his pretences have been untrue ; in all, he has 
 violated probability. I do not go too far, 
 therefore, if I fay, that a witnefs who prevari- 
 cates in fome inftances, and tells an improbable 
 ftory in all, is to be believed in none. 
 
 Sarah Green,* the wife of this witnefs, was 
 next examined. 
 
 She eftablifhes it clearly as a fa6r, that at Swan- 
 fea, where we were fettled in family, Mrs. 
 Campbell's room was not next to mine, but that 
 the children's feparated them ; and that there was 
 no approach to her room, except through that of 
 the children's. But me fays, that upon the road 
 I was particular in having the bed-rooms toge- 
 ther ; and that I ordered two rooms only, I and 
 
 * Appendix, p. 83, F. 
 
 2 my
 
 ( xlvi ) 
 
 my fon flept in one, a imgle beded room, and 
 Mrs. Campbell and my girls in a double room* 
 She fays that at the next inn to Swanfea, we 
 would not take the rooms if they were not adjoin- 
 ing, if we travelled all night, and this fact is 
 refted on as a proof of our guilty connection ; 
 while, inftead of founding a prefumption of 
 guilt, I confidently aik whether thefe facts do 
 not eftablifh the ftrongeft prefumption of inno- 
 cence ; and whether taking the whole of this part 
 of the evidence together, it does not prove that 
 the motive of this arrangement was not a guilty 
 intercourfe, but was that of giving protection to 
 an apprehenfive perfon ? In the firft place, it is 
 evident that I was travelling publicly with my 
 whole family, with fervants attending my niece, 
 myfelf, and my children, and not clandeftinely 
 for the purpofe of an intrigue. The orders 
 for the bed-rooms were openly given, and when 
 the accommodations \ve required were not to be 
 had, it feems we preferred travelling on to re- 
 maining. If the object had been guilty enjoy- 
 ment, there could be no motive for continuing 
 to travel, for that prevented its completion as ef- 
 fectually, as if the rooms had been a-part ; there- 
 fore no rational ground can be given for my con- 
 duct, but the fears which many females are liable 
 to in fleeping at an inn-, without any perfon whom 
 
 they
 
 ( xlvii ) 
 
 they have confidence in near them to protect 
 them. 
 
 Some flrefs is laid, however, on her ordering 
 her door, and that of the children's room, to be, 
 left open, at Swanfea, when no other inference 
 can be drawn with fairnefs, than that me might, 
 by that means, have it in her power to have 
 communication with the children, for it did not 
 preferve the communications between my room 
 and her's. 
 
 There is one circumftance, however, men- 
 tioned by this witnefs, on which me feems to 
 reft fome proof of guilt, viz. that at night I 
 mould have come frequently into Mrs. CambelFs 
 room, half undreffed, when Mrs. Campbell was 
 undrefled ; this fhe accompanies with an obferva- 
 tion, that on thofe occafions I immediately retired 
 when I faw her. Now if all the circumflances 
 are fairly weighed, it is apparent that my motive 
 for withdrawing could not be a confcioufnefs of 
 guilt, but muft have ariien from my perceiving 
 Mrs. Campbell's fituation : and it will not be 
 fuppofed, I truft, in the habits of domeftic in- 
 tercourie, that the father and mafler of a family 
 mud have impure intentions, becaufe he is feeu 
 going about his houfe in undrefs, a fituation very 
 
 diftind
 
 ( xlviii ) 
 
 diftinct from nakednefs. Had my object then 
 been a guilty intercourfe with Mrs. Campbell, I 
 fhould have probably been cautious not to have 
 expofed myfelf a fecond time to Mrs. Green ; and 
 the having been feen repeatedly in that fituation, 
 is in itfelf a flrong prefumption of innocence of 
 mind. But if not in itfelf a proof of innocence 
 of mind, is it to be taken as evidence of open in- 
 tercourfe and frequent guilt ? Open intercourfe 
 and frequent guilt muft have been attended with 
 great facility in proving numerous inftances of 
 intercourfe, or very evident marks of it. Now, 
 the evidence of any thing like intercourfe at 
 Swanfea, is confined to the fingle and extraordi- 
 nary cafe fworn to by Green, and reprefented to 
 have taken place in the afternoon in a room with 
 an open door, when all the family were flirring 
 about, and the children running to and fro at 
 play. And as to the marks and appearance of fre- 
 quent intercourfe, Mrs. Green, who was exa- 
 mined very minutely as to the bed, declares {he 
 obferved nothing particular ; no appearance of 
 two people having been in it at any time. Had 
 my object been to have gone to bed to Mrs. 
 Campbell, when I was feen in undrefs by Mrs. 
 Green, going into Mrs. Campbell's bed- room, it 
 is impoiiible that the fame witnefs, who fays (he 
 always made the beds, fhould not have perceived 
 
 the
 
 ( xKx ) 
 
 the condition of the bed, if it had betrayed any 
 marks of intercourfe ; and it is very unlikely that 
 if there had been any thing of this kind to dif- 
 cover, that Green, who flates the condition of 
 the bed from Betty White, fhould not have 
 ftated the fame fafts from the information of his 
 own wife, with whom the delicate fcruple of not 
 pointing out particular marks need not have 
 prevented his evidence from being perfect ; a de- 
 fect, which, upon ' his crofs-examination, his 
 evidence feems to labour under refpecting the bed 
 in Duke-flreet. 
 
 Befides, the fact of my going to Mrs. Camp- 
 bell's room with a criminal view, in the manner, 
 and with the frequency defcribed, eftablimes a 
 prefumption of fuch frequent intercourfe, as mu{l 
 have led to eafy detection. How comes it then 
 that Green, the hufband, who avows his early 
 curiofity who fwears he watched us in the 
 drawing-room, in Duke- {beet who fwears he 
 came without ceremony into Mrs. Campbell's bed- 
 room at Swanfea, mould have been unable, not- 
 withftanding this fuppofed opennefs of inter- 
 courfe, to have difcovered, either at the inns on 
 the road, at Swanfea, or elfewhere, any more 
 decifive fact of crfminal intercourfe, than the 
 indecent but impoflible difcovery in the drawing- 
 
 room
 
 ( 1 ) 
 
 room in Duke-ftreet, and the equally impro- 
 bable one in the bed-room at Swan Tea ? For this 
 reafon, that my intercourfe with Mrs. Camp- 
 bell was of the purefb nature, that it was (in 
 the abfence of parents) the intercourfe of a pro- 
 tefting father, with an innocent and forfaken 
 child, and upon that principle, all appearances of 
 familiarity, which in another connection might 
 afford a prelumption of guilt, are to be explained 
 and accounted for. 
 
 Elizabeth Hearne,* the next witnefs, fet out 
 with fwearing that I lived at Mrs. Frafer's in 
 Brook-ftreet, a good while ; the fact is, as ap- 
 pears from the affidavits, that I never lived 
 there at all. At Walton again me fays, I came 
 occasionally ; whereas there Mrs. Frafer and her 
 children, and J and my children, lived together 
 in family. 
 
 This woman fays that me watched, from a 
 curiofity railed by having heard me go into the 
 room before ; and that me made the bed in the 
 morning, and it appeared as if more than one 
 bad Jlept m it. The precife form of expreffion 
 in this cafe is fingular, and not free from fufpi- 
 
 * Appendix, p. 88, A. 
 
 cioii :
 
 cion : but the teftimony is moft extraordinary, 
 indeed, when confidered under all its circum- 
 ftances; {he fays it was in November, 1788, that 
 (he faw this, but is not fure as to the month ; 
 but flie is fure that there was nobody in the 
 houfe but the gardener and his family, and my 
 fervant ; that Mrs. Frafer was not at Walton. 
 In fad, the houfe at Walton was not taken till 
 the end of December, 1788, and Mrs. Campbell 
 and pyfelf had gone there to give directions 
 about the houfe. There could .therefore be no 
 opportunity to excite that curiofity which led her 
 to watch ; and as to the opportunity of feeing us 
 any where elfe, it is out of the queftion, for I 
 never did live in Brook-flreet, nor under the fame 
 roof with Mrs. Campbell, until her mother, Mrs. 
 Frafer ? s family, and mine, united at Walton. 
 
 The fame witnefs fwears to Captain Campbell 
 having been at Waltqn ; when it will appear by 
 his own letters, that he never was there, nor 
 ever faw his wife, from the month of December, 
 i ;88, although he did not fail from Torbay till 
 March, 1789. This circumftance may give 
 fome idea of the veracity and accuracy of the 
 witnefs. 
 
 i The
 
 ( ffi ) 
 
 The conduct of the next witnefs, Andrew 
 Addifon, when he was brought to be fvvorn, will 
 (hew the complexion of the teftimony produced 
 againft me. 
 
 " 
 
 Andrew Addifon called,* the oath being ten- 
 " dered, he was obferved not to kifs the book, 
 u upon which Lord Kenyon faid, adminifter the 
 " oath to him again, what is the meaning he 
 " will not kifs the book ? The oath was re-ad- 
 " miniftered. Lord Chief Juftice. Now kifs 
 ' the book. The witnefs then kifled the book, 
 " and faid, I never was in a court before to give 
 " evidence. Mr. Mingay. Now you are upon 
 " your oath, had you any intention to avoid kif- 
 *' fing the book upon your oath ? A. Upon my 
 " oath I had not. Lord Chief Juftice. If I was 
 " upon oath, I fhould fay I believe he had. Mr. 
 " JLr/kine. Then I certainly will not call a 
 " witnefs that my Lord makes fuch an obferva- 
 
 " vation upon."-|- 
 
 Arabella 
 
 * Appendix, p. 92, C. 
 
 t JAMES WALKER, fervant to William Paxtan, 
 Efq. of Queen-fquare, Bloomfbury, in the county 
 of Middlefex, maketh oath and faith, that he knows An- 
 drew Addifon, and that on Monday the 25th day of Fe- 
 bruary, 1793, he, this deponent attended the court of 
 King's Bench, Weftminfler, to give evidence in a caufe 
 
 depend-
 
 Arabella Kennedy,* fpeaks to nothing that 
 
 can give occafion to difcuffion, as fhe eftablifties 
 
 o 
 
 no 
 
 depending between Major Archibald Hook, and Captain 
 Charles Collins Campbell, for criminal converfation with 
 Mrs. Harriet Campbell, wife to the faid Captain Charles 
 Collins Campbell, and which was expected to have come 
 on that day, but for reafons unknown to this deponent, 
 was deferred till the Tuefday following : And he, this de- 
 ponent, further faith, that on the faid 25th day of Fe- 
 bruary, 1793, he met the faid Andrew Addifon in the 
 lobby near the Houfe of Commons, and converfed with 
 him, the faid Andrew Addifon, on a variety of fubjets, 
 among which the then depending trial was one, whereupon 
 the faid Andrew Addifon told him, this deponent, in the 
 hearing of John Lewin, fervant to the faid Major Archi- 
 bald Hook, that he the faid Addifon would give his evi- 
 dence in court, but would not kils the book. 
 
 JAMES WALKER. 
 Sworn in London this I $th Day 
 
 of March, I793> before 
 
 Hugh C/egborn, Efq. one of 
 
 his Majejly's Juftices of the 
 
 Peace for the County of Mid- 
 
 dltfix. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN. 
 
 JOHN LEWIN, fervant to Major Archibald Hook, 
 maketh oath and faith, that he knows Andrew Addifon, 
 and that on Monday the 25th day of February, 1793, 
 he, this deponent, accompanied James Walker, fervant to 
 William Paxton, Efq. down to the court of King's 
 
 * Appendix, p. 92, F. 
 I Bench
 
 no fact that can be perverted into a fufpicion of 
 guilt. 
 
 As to WoodrorT,* the gardener's evidence, he 
 eftablifhes nothing but that I was in the paflage, 
 not fully drefled, a circumftance to which it will 
 be ftrange to attach criminality. He, however, 
 afcertains the time of our being at Walton, and 
 the purpofe to have been to fix the houfe for Mrs. 
 Frafer, and in fo doing, he renders the tefti- 
 mony of Elizabeth Hearne incredible, on the 
 ground flated in the anfwer to her teftimony. 
 
 Bench, Weftminfter, and that near the Houfe of Com- 
 mons they, the faid James Walker and this deponent, 
 met the faid Andrew Addifon : And he this deponent fur- 
 ther faith, that the faid Andrew Addifon. told James 
 Walker, in his, this deponent's hearing, that he the faid 
 Addifon would give his evidence in court, but would not 
 kifs the book ; whereupon, he this deponent obferved to 
 him, the faid Addifon, that if he did not kifs the book, 
 his evidence would not be taken. 
 
 JOHN LEWIN, 
 Sworn at London this I $th 
 
 of March, I?93 before 
 
 Hugh C/egborn t Efq. one of 
 
 bis Majeflys Juftices of the 
 
 Peace for the County of A4'id- 
 
 dlefex. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN. 
 
 * Appendix, p. 94, F.
 
 It may not be improper to remark, that all this 
 clafs of witnefles, who fpeak the conduct at 
 Walton, fpeak of a period antecedent to the fup- 
 pofed difplay of the prints ; and in that refpet, 
 contradict the cafe as founded upon the groundof 
 deduction ; for it is abfurd to fuppofe that I 
 fhould have attained my ends in December, 1 788, 
 and that I mould yet have been attempting to fe- 
 duce in June 1789. 
 
 The evidence of Jane Grimes* of the Situation 
 at Bourne is, indeed, of a moft fingular nature. 
 The looking through the key-hole of my bed- 
 room door, on fufpicion, created by no motive 
 that appears, but becaufe accident had led her 
 up flairs to receive orders from Mrs. Campbell 
 for the grocer. The feeing me laying ftark 
 naked, with my face downward, and Mrs. Camp- 
 bell fitting by, full dreiled, a poiition fo abfurd, 
 that the vvitnefs herfelf thinks it neceflary to ac- 
 count for it by fuppoling I had come from bathing. 
 Mrs. Campbell's drawing the curtain, and thereby 
 preventing more to be feen, is altogether fuch a 
 tale as would require fome better teftimony than 
 
 * Appendix, p. 96, H. 
 
 that
 
 Ivi ) 
 
 that of a common liar, (which this woman is,) to 
 make it obtain the fmalleft credit.* 
 
 It is moft fingular, that if fuch was our inter- 
 courle, we fhould never have been difcovered but 
 in this one inftance, by this prying and fufpi- 
 cious woman. I lived at Eaft Bourne, in a very 
 fmall lodging, with a large family, confiding of 
 Mrs. Campbell, a young lady of fix teen years old 
 (Mifs Hay) who conftantly flept in the room with 
 Mrs. Campbell, three children, and all the fer- 
 vants. Nothing improper could take place with- 
 out a difcovery, and Mifs Hay's affidavit-f will 
 fhew how little ground there is for fufpicion ; 
 therefore, the only ftory that this woman could 
 contrive, was one fuch as this, in which fhe 
 could not be contradicted by any witnefs, how* 
 ever at variance with probability. What muft 
 {hike as equally fingular is, that this woman 
 lived with me as cook at Ham. If % the connec- 
 tion prevailed at all, it prevailed then, and yet, 
 
 inftead of fixing: on any acl of intercourfe there, 
 
 & * 
 
 fhe confines her evidence to that fingle and ex- 
 traordinary polition feeu through the key hole at 
 
 * Witnefles were in court to prove her chara&er as a 
 liar. 
 
 j* Appendix, p. 46, 47. 
 
 Eaft
 
 Bourne, and obftructcd by the drawing of a 
 dartain, when there could b no reafon for draw- 
 j:; . it, became nobody was fufpected of ob- 
 
 fei'ving. 
 
 M : fs Macaulay,* the laft witnefs called, 
 4 - - positively to the correft behaviour of Mrs. 
 Campbell, and there the evidence ends Evi- 
 dence whi."h, with the exception of Sarah Green, 
 Arabella Kennedy, and Mifs Macaulay, I have 
 no hefitation in branding with every epithet 
 which confcious innocence can apply to delibe- 
 rate guilt. 
 
 I am aware of the riik that attends this charge ; 
 but I -boldly- make it, being determined to trace 
 and bring to juftice thofe who have contrived the 
 plot by which I fuffer ; a- plot palpable, as I con- 
 tend, from th'e obfervations I have made ou the 
 teflimony of the witnefles, but rendered ftill 
 more clear and decirive, by the extrajudicial 
 condud of the parties. 
 
 In the BON TON MAGAZINE, f publimed for 
 the month of February 1793, there is an additional 
 
 * Appendix, p. 99, F. 
 f Appendix, p. 109. 
 
 h leaf
 
 ( Iviii ) 
 
 leaf annexed to the number, entitled, " AJin- 
 " gular Account of the Trial of Major Hook for 
 " Criminal Converfation with his Niece, Mrs. 
 "Campbell, tried before Lord Kenyon on the 
 " 26th of February." After this title, and be- 
 fore proceeding to give an account of the trial, 
 which is given in a mofl unfair and partial man- 
 ner, there is the following entry or notandum : 
 
 " See the plate entitled " The Mar row- bone 
 " Uncle, &c. and for a tete-a-tete of the par- 
 " ties turn to the firfl article of this number, 
 " which was printed off before the event of this 
 f * trial was known." 
 
 . The fcandalous and beaflly indecency of the 
 plate is fhocking to the lafl degree : but as it ap- 
 plies to this cauie, it is mofl important to de- 
 note the malicious mind which has beeii at work 
 again ft me : the plate or engraving is meant to 
 reprefent Mrs. Campbell and myfelf, and it 
 aims at being a caricature of my face and perfon. 
 Now is it poffible that this could have been ac- 
 complifhed without the aid and communication 
 of my profecutors ? How were the ordinary pub- 
 lifhers of a magazine, or thofe employed by them, 
 to obtain any traces of a perfon, a ftranger to 
 England, not known in public life, very feldom 
 j in
 
 ( 11* ) 
 
 in Loridon fince 1789, and living in retirement 
 with a narrow circle of friends, unlefs I had been 
 pointed out by thofe who knew me, through the 
 means of this caufe. The fuggeftion is con- 
 firmed by the other part of the publication. It 
 appears tha the tcte-a-ttte was printed off before 
 the event of the trial was known, contains a ftory 
 refembling that brought into court, defcribing 
 the connection and the country of all, and giving 
 the names of fome of the parties, and mentioning 
 feveral facts and circumftances which belong to 
 this caufe. Now how could thofe matters come 
 to the knowledge of the author of the magazine, 
 fo as to be printed off before the trial of the 
 caufe had taken place, unlefs they had been 
 privately communicated, as I have already ftated ? 
 I am a retired individual, little known in Eng- 
 land, Mrs. Campbell equally Unknown. The 
 mere bringing of the action could difclofe none 
 of the fads or circumftances, becaufe the record, 
 as every body knows, gives no information, but 
 ftat.es merely the nature of the injury in formal 
 words. 
 
 The connection between the parties tending 
 to aggravate the crime, could, therefore, be 
 known to thofe only, who were acquainted with 
 
 h 2 the
 
 the private circumftances of the caufe.* It is 
 evident, therefore, that there was an unjuft, ma- 
 lignant fpirit, fecretly at work, fupplying prints 
 and ftories for a magazine, in a matter not with- 
 in the fcope of the knowledge of the authors of 
 fuch a work ; and, therefore, directly imputa- 
 ble to the aclors in this wicked confpiracy to 
 ruin my peace, and tending ftrongly to manifefl 
 the difpofition of the parties to procure proof in 
 court to fnpport that cafe which they fabricated 
 by anticipation for a periodical publication. 
 
 In addition to the other proofs annexed to this 
 cafe, I have added an affidavit of innocence made 
 by Mrs. Campbell, and I have added affidavits 
 and letters in fupport of her character and my 
 own,f by thofe who have long known us, and 
 have lately lived in intimacy with both : I have 
 likewife annexed the letters of Captain Camp- 
 bell to her and to me, and letters from his father 
 
 * This extraordinary production concludes with an 
 addrefs to the fathers, brothers, and uncles, who may be 
 jurymen in the caufe, calling upon them to give exem- 
 plary damages. A feature denoting ftrongiy the motive 
 which actuated the publimer in this cafe, and making it 
 clear that the publication is not fupplicd in the regular 
 courfe of magazine intelligence. See the end of the 'Trial, 
 
 t Appendix, p. 50, 51, 52, 53. 
 
 to
 
 ( Ixi ) 
 
 to me at the time I went to Scotland with Mrs. 
 Campbell in 1788. 
 
 From thefe documents the public and my 
 friends will be enabled to form a judgement of 
 the characters of the different parties, and from 
 thence to conclude refpecting the probability of 
 the truth of this cafe, and to decide between the 
 alternative of actual guilt, or falfe charge. 
 
 Under the afflicting calamity of this verdict, 
 it is a folace to me to find that my character is 
 ftill fuftained by the refpedtable- perfons who 
 have made the affidavits and written the letters 
 annexed. 
 
 The letters of Captain Campbell are given at 
 large in this appendix, and they contain much 
 matter for oblervation and difcuffion. I (hall 
 only obferve here, however, that they eftabliih 
 this fact, that from the commencement of his 
 marriage, Captain Campbell and his wife lived 
 without interruption in a flate of domeflic mi- 
 fery ; a fact of importance to my cafe, becaufe 
 when contrafted with the pofitive teftimony of 
 his brothers and his fifler-in-law,* who fwear- 
 
 * Appendix, p. i, to 24. 
 
 to
 
 to their unvaried domeftic happinefs, it (hews 
 the latitude they had given thcmfelves, efta- 
 blifhes what I have repeatedly remarked, the 
 ftrong bias of the evidence in favour of the 
 plaintiff, without regard to truth, and manifefts 
 the determination of the plaintiff in contradic- 
 tion to his own letters, and in fpite of his confci- 
 oufnefs to the contrary, to aflert and endeavour to 
 prove whatever he thought would benefit his 
 6aufe. 
 
 This facl: is of equal importance in another 
 view, by eftabliming a prefumption, at leaft, that 
 no traces of affection or family delicacy would 
 {land in the way of his ufing every mean to ac- 
 complifh a fcheme which might tend either to 
 the gratification of his caprice, his avarice, or 
 his malignity. Captain Campbell writes in one 
 letter that they were miferable from the begin- 
 ning of their marriage ; in another, that he ne- 
 ver could feel a moment's peace till feas and feas 
 divided them, and that he will never write to 
 her again ; and in a third, that all the world 
 faw their mifundei (landing, that he had come 
 to a determination to keep a miftrefs. This re- 
 folution to feparate from Mrs. Campbell runs 
 through the whole, and it appears that he had 
 
 even.
 
 ( Ixiii ) 
 even ordered the deed of reparation to be made 
 
 out. 
 
 His capricious difpofition is manifeft in every 
 line, and it is difficult to decide whether the bad- 
 nefs of his temper or his* heart, is molt likely to 
 have dictated his conduct. The letters of his 
 father,* which in my own vindication and that 
 of Mrs. Campbell I am forced to make public, 
 and which nothing but this perfecution could 
 have wrung from my moft fecret repoiitories 
 difplay an aged and afflicted father, lamenting 
 over the vices of a profligate fon. Such tefti- 
 momes from fuch a quarter authorize me to af- 
 firm, that the motives which I have afcribed to 
 the plaintiff are the real motives which dictated 
 his proceedings againft me, and confirm what is 
 fworn to in fome of the affidavits refpecting the 
 undue means taken to obtain the teftimony which 
 was produced againft me.f Upon the whole? 
 when it is confidered that the cafe of feduction. 
 opened and refted upon as the ground of my 
 guilt, was contradicted in the very firft ftage of 
 the proof by evidence, which, in place of feduc- 
 tion, eftablifhed a fact of flagrant proflitution in 
 
 * Appendix, p. 24 to 32. 
 
 f Appendix, p. 34, G, D. and p. 45, E. A. 
 
 the
 
 < Ixiv ) 
 
 the fuppofed fcene at Ramfgate. When it is 
 confidered that my taking Mrs. Campbell to Scot- 
 land was fnggefted by Captain Campbell himieif, 
 and never propofed or hinted at by me. That 
 on that journey no familiarity is alledged, nor 
 any trace of evidence given of it, although Cap- 
 tain Campbell followed us almoiY immediately 
 from ftage to ftage, and his agents have .fince 
 traced us in our route. 
 
 When it is confidered that the laws of pro- 
 bability, thofe fure, unerring, and eftablimed 
 rules by which to try the credibility of all human, 
 teftimony, are violated in every part of the evi- 
 dence given by the witnefles ; and that the tef- 
 timony of the witnefles, efpecially that of Robert 
 Green, is contradicted pofitively in its moil ef- 
 fential parts by affidavits in which the fats fworn 
 to, coincide with and are fupported by the nature 
 of the tran factions, and the circumftances in 
 which they took place. When it is contidered 
 that Mrs. Campbell has now for nearly five years 
 lived in my houfe, and under my protection, and 
 that in all that period four inftances only of guilty 
 intercourfe or indecent fituation are fpecified by 
 the witnefles, although thole fituations, and the 
 whole tenor of our conduct, according to the 
 teftimony of the fame witnefles, reprefent us
 
 as the moil unguarded and inconiiderate of 
 human creatures, and although the witnefles 
 reprefent themfelves as excited by the ftrongefl 
 curiofity to difcover our connexion. When 
 it is confidered that difinterefted witneffes fwear 
 to the propriety of our mutual behaviour, and 
 that there is the ftrongeft teftimony to cha- 
 racter that can be given. When it is confi- 
 dered that the black and fufpicious character 
 of the plaintiff is derived from fources which 
 cannot err, (the evidence of his father's let- 
 ters and his own) and that attempts upon wit- 
 neffes have been traced, fpecified, and fworn to. 
 When all thefe things are confidered, I fubmit 
 to my friends and the public, with anxiety, but 
 with confidence, that I have completely efta- 
 blifhed my innocence. It mall be the unremit- 
 ting object of my life, to confirm the belief of 
 that innocence beyond the poflibility of doubt, 
 by difcovering the means of obtaining juftice 
 againft thofe whofe crimes have brought upon 
 me this unforefeen and dreadful misfortune. To 
 fecure fuccefs to this great and important object, 
 I was told that in prudence I (hould poftpone the 
 preient publication.: in compliance with this 
 fuggeftipn I deliberated, but found the continu- 
 ance of fuch an exertion totally deftructiye of my 
 peace of mind. 
 
 i APPEN-
 
 No. I. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his Wife. 
 
 London, Feb. 15, 1788, 
 
 A A M at a lofs how to write, accufed of every thing 
 that is bad, and every thing to make a woman mife- 
 rable, &c. I never fhall forget what has paffed be- 
 tween your mother and me j to her I fblely impute all 
 my misfortunes all I have fuffered, and all that I have 
 yet to fuffer , and although I never will fhew her my 
 feelings, 1 never can be at a moment's eafe in her 
 company. This, Harriet, is your mother I am talk- 
 ing of, &c. 
 
 I have made up my mind to go to India, but, 
 Harriet, you fhall not go with me. 
 
 I was not a week married when your mother faid to 
 me what would Jlamp any, and every, man's mifery in 
 the marriage Jlate, &c. 
 
 I am going to a country that is expenfive, and fhall 
 have enough to do to keep myfelf, &c. 
 
 (Signed) C. C. 
 A No,
 
 NO. ir. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his Wife. 
 
 Monday Evening , March 31, 1 7 8 S . 
 
 I HAVE obferved for fome time paft, that your 
 fitter's governefs, inftead of knowing her diftance, 
 has made herfclf more familiar (than I chofe to be wit- 
 nefs to) with you. I obferved her more than once go 
 into your room, &c. 
 
 It was always your way to keep low company. It 
 is not long fince fervants were your intimates. You 
 are adopting the mode Mrs. M'Niel began firft the 
 goveFnefs, {hen the governor, //'// // arrived at the mojl 
 menial fervant in the kottfe. Do you think that I can 
 return to you with any degree of fatisfaction, after 
 knowing your ajfaiaM ? 
 
 (Signed) C. C. 
 
 No. III. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his JPlfe. 
 
 Chatham, July 18, 1788. 
 
 I HAVE ferioufly reflected on your going to India 
 with me, but for various reafons I wifh to propofe your 
 remaining at home the firft feafon, and I wifh you to 
 confult your friends upon the fubjedl, before you make 
 any reply. I really am of opinion it will be condu- 
 cive to both our happinefs and my intereft, which, in 
 the end, you will find the benefit of. I hope you will 
 have my intereft fufficiently at heart to give up all 
 thoughts of going at prefent. I hope you will feri- 
 oufly weigh this matter : I, myfelf, am decidedly 
 of opinion to remain at home, in preference to your 
 going out with me. 
 
 Your's affectionately, 
 
 (Signed) C. C. 
 No.
 
 C 3 ) 
 
 No. IV. 
 
 Captain Campbell to bis Wife. 
 
 Augujl 24, 1788. 
 
 I HAVE received your letter from Ramfgate of A. 
 the doth, and am much obliged by your fending the 
 mufic I afked for a fortnight ago. The idea of your 
 intended excurfion to Ramfgate, I fuppofe occupied 
 your mind fo much, that you had not time to give 
 yourfelf the trouble of fpeaking about it : if I wait for 
 it till you fee me, I ajfure you I never will have it. But 
 I did not depend on you for if , for I have already wrote R 
 to IVJifs Macaulay to get it fent to me, &c. 
 
 Do not oblige me to repeat fo often that we never meet 
 qgain on any account whatever. It is aftoniflring to me that 
 you have FOR THREE YEARS TOGETHER afted in direft 
 opposition >to every thing I could wijh. If is evident you 
 prefer living with a mother, and you are perfectly 
 right; at the fame time I fhould expofe myfelf as a 
 fool, were I to allow you to come to me again, &c. 
 I fay you are not true \ no, never can I feel a moment's 
 peace , till feas and feas divide us. 
 
 I fhall go up to London and take away every article 
 I have in that curjed houfe 1 once lived in ; and re- 
 member you may fed before many years are over your head, 
 the juft recompence for your conduft As I hope to 
 be faved I never will write you again. 
 
 (Signed) C. C, 
 
 No. V. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his Wife. 
 
 (Extrafts.) Hilfea, iytb Sept. 17%*. 
 
 <( YOU fhew your mother your diflike to me ; (he 
 " told me you faid you never could like me as a huf- 
 A 2 " band :
 
 fC 
 
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 band : you deny it, but in all your actions you (hew 
 it. <The whole world fee there is a mifunderjlanding 
 between us, and they believe it. I am afked why I 
 do not bring you with me ; would you have me fay 
 A " you will not come ? Muft I expofe my foolifh fub- 
 " miflion, &c. 
 
 (f I hope you have been happy at your bathing j it 
 " has been dear bathing to me, it ought to be of feruice 
 <( to you. Is the water of Ramfgate better than elfe- 
 <c where ? Your mother ought to have told you, you 
 /' had a hufband, and to have thought of him irrftead 
 " of Mrs. Barclay but I mean to write to your mother 
 <c as foon as I have fettled my affairs, for which purpofe 
 " I am going to London, &c." 
 
 Again, loth. " It is your decided choice and wifh 
 cf of being away from me that hurts me, and not your 
 <e abfence itfelf. / had once determined publicly to have 
 tc taken a miftrefs, &c t &c." 
 
 C " Notwithstanding the diftance, I fhould not have 
 " thought of the expence had you ever in your life 
 " told me you wifhed to fee me j but I perceive, Har- 
 <f riet, that abfence is the only means of making us 
 " happy, &c. &c. &c. 
 
 '* If you have any thing to fay to me don't wait my 
 <e writing as I have plenty to occupy my pen. 
 
 (Signed) C. C. 
 
 D N. B. All thefe letters are previous to my journey 
 to Ramfgate, and moft of them prior to my return to 
 England, 
 
 No. VI. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his Wife. 
 
 Pool's Coffee-Houfe, 
 Edinburgh, Oct. 25, 1788. 
 
 IT is now too late to fay any thing on the fubjeft y 
 but I can never have an opinion of you : I am confi- 
 dent
 
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 dent you will ftick at nothing to gratify yourfelf. I have 
 told every body, that I knew nothing of your plans, 
 and am come in purfuit of you to know your reafons, 
 and why you avoided me. I have fubmitted long 
 enough, and you have now brought matters to a pub- A 
 liccrifis, and a little time will put it out of your power 
 to diffract me more, &c. I am now perfectly calm 
 and decided in my future conduct towards you -, not 
 that I tell you this to make you uneafy, for your heart 
 is as hard as a ftone, and long as it has troubled me, 
 felf-prefervation requires that I fhouid think no longer B 
 of you. Your uncle has been the caufe, though, in- 
 deed, you only wanted an opportunity to fhew your- 
 felf j and your uncle, of ivhom I had a good opinion, 
 may now be forry all bis life-time that he has been the 
 innocent caufe of my everlajling wretchednefs. While 
 I am in Scotland, I will arrange my affairs, &c. &c. C 
 As foon as your uncle arrives in London, I will 
 take the liberty of defiring him to meet me, when 
 our feparation fhall be fettled, without difturbance 
 or argument between us, all of which I wifh to 
 avoid, as perfectly ufelefs and unneceflary. 1 inclofe D 
 you a copy of my letter to your uncle, which is all till he 
 leaves Campbell-town. As your uncle has a fortune, 
 it will enable him to be oifervice to you : I hope he 
 will act liberally, which I intend to recommend to him ; 
 you can furely expect nothing from me, &~c. 
 
 (Signed) C. C. 
 
 No. VII. 
 Captain Campbell t& his Wife. 
 
 Campy ) near Edinburgh.^ 
 Saturday Morning. _ 
 
 THAT ciir-fed girl Py M'D d. I warned you 
 before marriage, I warned you fince, and you know 
 I felt my bed proftituted by her having flept with my 
 
 love.
 
 love. Make ever happy by afluring me you will 
 ever renounce P -y Af'Z) d. Drop ker for ever. 
 Ever fince I have known her, which was before you few 
 her, fhe viasjlightfy talked of ; my honour is at flake, 
 &c. &c. 
 
 Again. My fitter tells me you afked her to go to 
 Campbell-town with you, but her aniwer was, " that 
 " fhe could not, as it might not be agreeable to her 
 " hufband." Even a father, who was always mod 
 indulgent to her, did not make her forget the duty of 
 a wife, even to that hufband who you know is fcarcely 
 more than a brute, &c. &c. 
 
 Again I muft refume the fubjefb of P -y. You 
 know fhe muft be notorious before you knew it, &c. 
 I told you of Mlfs Wejt, dec. &c. 
 
 I fhall know by your anfwer to my queflion whe- 
 ther you are deceitful. I faw your letter and the 
 contents ; it was lively, and every thing I could wifli, 
 but touched an improper fubjett. Never, never fhall 
 my feelings be the fame. Am I your Charles ? Yes ! 
 And who is your Blair, that you write to P y about, 
 and where is he ? I know you have entered into her 
 love affairs, &c. &c.* 
 
 (Signed) C. C. 
 
 * To explain the foregoing, it is nececeflary to mention that 
 Mifs Mary M'Donald, at the defire of her intimate friend and 
 companion (Mrs. Campbell) had fent her picture in profile, which 
 was brought as far as London by one gentleman ; and as Mrs. 
 Campbell was then in France with her mother, it was given to 
 another gentleman who was going to France (one Blair) and who 
 crigaged to deliver it ; but from unforefeen circumftances, he never 
 went to the place where fhe was, nor has fhe ever in her lire-time 
 feen him. In all her letters to her amiable friends, file exprefTes 
 her anxiety for the picture; fometimes faying, where is Mr. Blair ? 
 where is he gone ? and in one, where is my Blair ? alluding to 
 the picture which he had for her, and in the letter which Captain 
 
 Campbell faw to Mifs P y M'D d. " I hear my Blair is 
 
 ' now in London; I fhall at laft get my dear Mary," meaning 
 the picture. 
 
 No.
 
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 No. VIII. 
 
 Captain Campbell to bis Wife. 
 
 Inverary, Tuefday, NovS^tb, 1788* 
 
 I AM juft arrived herewith my fitter and Betfey ; I A 
 could have fworn I fhould have found you here. Har- 
 riet, you have deceived me from the beginning of this 
 bufmefsj nothing but your fixed fefolution of being 
 but two days in Kintyre induced me to fubmit to 
 have an aflent extorted from me, which, after ex- ~ 
 prefling my feelings, &c. I was much hurt to find 
 you fo ready to grafp at. Neither my time nor my 
 fitter's will admit of my proceeding to Kintyre ; 
 indeed, I never had a thought of it when I fet out 
 from Edinburgh; but had I had the leaft idea of your 
 notions or plans, or had I not thought you had deter- C 
 mined to adhere to your promlfe to me of flaying but 
 two days, I could with eafe have overtaken you at 
 Dunbarton, before you fet off on Sunday morning. I 
 mufl now defire that you will immediately, on receipt 
 of this, leave Kintyre : you have been imprudent to 
 travel by day, and too late at night to fly from me. D 
 I mutt expect you will do the fame to come to me. 
 Whatever your plans are, I defire they may by no 
 means prevent your leaving Campbell-town, or where- 
 ever you may be, on receipt of this, which will be on 
 Friday the yth inftant, and I expect you will travel to 
 be here on Saturday. I will ride on Saturday as far as 
 Lochgilp-head, which is twenty miles from this; but I 
 mutt return the fame day here, as I repeat, neither my 
 time nor my fitter's will admit of longer delay. I can- 
 not fuppofe Mrs. Campbell of Saddle has any ways 
 detained you ; it will be but a lame excufe, indeed, to F 
 have facrificed the feelings of a hufband a fecond time 
 for the gratification of any living foul. You have 
 X judged
 
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 judged for me and my feelings in this affair I will for 
 A you in going to India. Write me alfo by Friday's 
 port to Inverary. 
 
 (Signed) C. C. 
 
 No. IX. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his Wife. 
 (Extract.) ^fuefday Evening, 1788.' 
 
 I WROTE you this morning. 
 
 " You have acted deceitful and bafe. I wrote you 
 <f from Edinburgh, which you would receive lad Fri- 
 e< day, and did ! But after your promife of two days, 
 " &c. What you did fince, I muft keep to myfelf, 
 " but you have acted brutally to a hufband : but you 
 " may feel the weight of my refentment," &c. &c. &c. 
 Running on in the fame flile for upwards of twenty 
 pages. 
 
 (Signed) C. C. 
 
 No. X. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his Wife. 
 
 Wednefday Night, Tarbot. 
 
 D I AM juft arrived here, and Ihall deep at White- 
 houfe., and to-morow morning fliall proceed to Saddle, 
 there being a good road that way. On receipt of this, 
 I defire you will immediately fet off for Saddle, as I 
 
 E ihall wait there till you arrive : but I muft infift on 
 your coming alone, as I want to fpeak to you 5 and if 
 
 a living
 
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 a living foul comes with you, I fljall fet off for Invera- A 
 ry, without waiting an hour in Kintyre. I wrote you 
 a letter yefterday from Inverary, which you will re- 
 ceive the fame time as this. 
 
 (Signed) C. C. 
 
 No. XI. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his Wife. 
 
 fyhite-koufe, Wednefday Night, 
 Eight o'Clock. 
 
 YOU have drove me to defpair. Is this your pro- B 
 mife of flaying only two days with a man living in adul- 
 tery a baftard child and a whore in his houfe 1* I 
 would mod willingly have refigned my commiflion, in 
 preference to your being in Scotland with your uncle, 
 where is your pride, your honour, to facrifice a huf- C 
 band for an uncle of three week's acquaintance ? He 
 fhall know the weight of my refentment. I lhall fet off 
 for Saddle to-morrow at feven o'clock. God fend 
 you ftrength of mind to bear what you will have to fee 
 but, by G d, I am determined. I defire you will D 
 rife early, and fet out to meet me in a carriage. I 
 cannot come on this night, for neither my horfe, the 
 agitation of my mind, nor fatigue 1 have undergone, 
 will admit it. I defire you may be by yourfelf, for if 
 there is a fingle perfon with you, by the eternal God I E 
 will ride back as foon as I fee you : be collected, for 
 I am refolved on explaining every thing, and having 
 an explanation before we feparate. You have acted 
 deceitful and bafe unworthy my attention. I have 
 
 * The perfon here meant is his father, Col. C. Campbell. 
 
 B wrote
 
 wrote Major Hook of what he may expsft,* but I have 
 taken the necefiary precaution of not inclofing it 
 to you, 
 
 (Signed) C, C. 
 
 No. XII. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his Wife. 
 
 Hllfea, Dec. $th, 1788. 
 
 MY DEAREST FRIEND, 
 
 A I RECEIVED a letter from Major Hook, your 
 uncle, with one inclofed from my father. I had al- 
 ready made up my mind on this fubjeft, becaufe I was 
 urged to it by the ftile of your conduct to me fmce I left 
 Saddle, &c. 
 
 B I bear no refentment God forbid I fhould to- 
 wards you. I will write no more on this fubject, till 
 you have fully converfed with, and confuked with 
 your friend. Be fo goo'd as to a'fk the papers of fepa- 
 ration to be made out by a ftranger, for I have yet feel- 
 
 C ing left : fign them and fend them to me to be figned. 
 When time has operated the change, we can deftroy 
 the papers, and in the destruction of them we may feel 
 the greater pleafure. Let it be fecret that fuch papers 
 exift, if you pleafe, but this I leave to you. I will 
 
 D moft cheerfully correfpond with you, if agreeable ; but 
 by this meafure neither of us have a right to find fault 
 
 * See letter alluded to, No. XVIII. from Captain Campbell to 
 Major Hook. 
 
 with
 
 with one another's conduct, while feparate. I fequeft 
 that you will Jet your uncle know of my anfwer and re- A 
 folution to his letter of yefterday, which anfwer is en- 
 tirely comprehended in what I wrote you. You may 
 let him know that I fhall aft confiftent with other cir- 
 cumftances that are now depending; but that I mean 
 to a<5t entirely from my own feeling, but I thank him B 
 for his advice, and that my mind and actions are fixed, 
 after the mod .deliberate reflection. If you are in- 
 clined that every thing fhould be carried through the 
 medium of your uncle, and nor yourfelf only, let me 
 know it, and I will appoint fome friend of mine to adt 
 for me, and anfwer to him. Decency and delicacy re- C 
 quire that you Ihould infift on this with me, and not 
 have it faid that matters were done without my know- 
 ing whether they are as you wifh, and to your defire. 
 (AJhort paragraph torn off.) 
 
 Pleafe return the inclofed letters of your uncle's and D 
 my father's. 
 
 I have wrote to your mother by this poft, but not a 
 fyllable on this fubjecl: or you, as I leave you to in- 
 form her all. 
 
 I muft requeft you will by courfe of poft fay you 
 have received this, elfe it will oblige me to go in E 
 fearch of this letter, even to London. It is not a fub- 
 jeft for every body's perufal. Pleafe to let me know 
 what name you wijh to keep, that I may addrefs you ac- 
 
 (Signed) G. C 
 
 B 2 No.
 
 No. XIII. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his Wife. 
 
 Hi/fea, Dec. loth, 1788. 
 My DEAREST FRIEND, 
 
 A I HAVE this day received your note of yefterday. 
 Mine to you of yefterday's date will by this time have 
 explained my fentinrsents and refolutions, to which I 
 now refer you, and to have done with the fubject. 
 
 Had you correfponded with me, and let me know 
 what you wifhed, I was moft readily inclined to do 
 B every thing you could have wifhed ; but had you been 
 writing to a flave, the manner you have addrefied me 
 could not have been more infulting. I have bore it 
 till I can bear it no longer. When I defired your ad- 
 vice relative to my writing to my father, it was becaufe I 
 thought it unneceflary to write him at all. I know not 
 
 C even what you alluded to, what you meant by it : yet, 
 becaufe you defired it, I would have done it, had you 
 not put it out of my power. You made me make 
 eoncefllons to your uncle for your fake I did it ; 
 when, at that time and this, I look upon his conduct 
 moft unjufliriable. I allude even previous to my being 
 
 D at White-houfe j and although you was fubje&ing my 
 feelings to the moft contemptible infult, it was merely 
 intended to gratify the feelings of others and yourfelf, 
 and at the fame time refolved on feparating. 
 
 Whatever my affection for you might induce me to 
 do, 1 never will fubmit to^be trampled on by any 
 
 E man not even thoujgh you wifh me to be fo fer- 
 vile. I conclude by referring you entirely to my 
 letter of yefterday and, my friend, allow me to have 
 
 feeling
 
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 feeling to aftuate my decifion as well as you. I am A 
 
 now fatisfied to believe it is your feeling, and for once in 
 our lives jince our marriage , we have one feeling, one fen- 
 timent and we part with fuch. 
 God protect you. 
 
 C. C. 
 
 No. XIV. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his Wife. 
 
 Hilfea, Dec. itfh, 1788. 
 
 My DEAREST FRIEND, 
 
 I EXPECTED to have heard from you relative to B 
 my letter to you of the 9th inftant. It was not my 
 intention to have troubled you no more, but as our 
 orders for embarkation are now arrived, I fhall once 
 more addrefs you for the laft time. 
 
 The Warley, the Ocean, and the Sulivan India- C 
 men, are the Ihips we embark in. The Captain of 
 the firft takes leave of the Directors on the i6th inft. 
 and is to be here immediately, the other two the 2Oth 
 inftant. As my flay in this country now is but a few 
 days, it is abfolutely necefiary that the papers I wrote 
 you about fhould be prepared and figned, and not left D 
 to the laft moment to drive me to greater diftraction. 
 You have forced me, it muft be done. My duty with 
 the regiment will require more attention than I ever 
 will be able to pay. I therefore muft infift that our 
 tranfadlions may be finally ended. 
 
 Your condud long, long has hurt me. I mean E 
 your indifference your want of confidence your de- 
 cifion always againft me-^-ali has provoked me to un- 
 i war-
 
 A warrantable words and exprefiions, but unmeant to of- 
 fend but they never can again. 
 
 Laftly, your conduct fmce I left Sad3le to this 
 hour, has made greater impreffion on me than God 
 knows what time can erafe. I thought they were not 
 
 B your feelings, but I am now convinced. To eafe you 
 as well as myfelf, I embrace your firfl intention of fe- 
 farating. I tear you from my heart and from my 
 thoughcs but I cannot help loving you. We ne- 
 ver, never more meet after this my decifive refolu- 
 
 C tion. I again requeft that you will immediately have 
 the papers drawn out, and keep me no longer in this 
 ftate of mind, in this fervility. 
 
 \* \?< 
 
 No. XV. 
 
 Captain Campbell to his Wife. 
 
 Hilfea, Dec. zyth, 1788* 
 
 D ON receipt of your laft, I came to the refolution 
 (which every part of your conduct towards me ought 
 to have made me do before) of never feeing you again. 
 I have only now to obferve your threats of publilhing 
 I am ready to meet at any time, and my fiience fmce 
 
 then has proceeded only from a defire of allowing my- 
 felf peace, and no longer fubje&ing myfelf to the in- 
 fults you have offered me. 
 
 As my wife, you are entitled to a fhare of my for- 
 tune, but as 1 have none, the fole reafon of my not 
 
 F finally figning the feparation, is not to deprive you of 
 any future advantage Should I be fortunate j but as 
 foon as I have any thing worth your acceptance, then 
 you may rely on my bringing matters to a decifion. 
 
 I fome
 
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 I fome time fince wrote your mother of my refolu- A 
 tion, and my reafons for fo doing, (but nothing to 
 your prejudice) it was that neither fhe, nor you, nor 
 any perfon (hould have reafon to fuppofe that any fu- 
 ture tranfactions fhould influence me to change my 
 fentiments of you, or purfue another mode of living. B 
 I do now mod folemnly declare, that you (hall, in 
 every refpect, be the object of my future intentions ; 
 at the fame time I now tell you, that you may take 
 any fteps you think proper, to declare that we never 
 meet again. C 
 
 I beg you to confider me your friend, a friend 
 that will never have it in his heart to do jujlice to you ; 
 and depend upon my word of honour, that I never will 
 moled or give you a moment's pain or uneafinefs, ei- 
 ther by word or deed. I have only to recommend, D 
 that if any thing fhould happen, and that you fhould 
 change your fituation of life, let me tell you as a 
 friend, that you muft put more confidence in your 
 hufband, treat him with affection and more refpect, 
 this will not only endear you to him, but make you E 
 t>oth happy. 
 
 I do not expect to remain in Europe many days ; 
 J requeft of you, the lad favour I have ever to afk of 
 you never to think more of me to forget I have 
 faults to forget I was your hufband, and never to F 
 put pen to paper to me now or hereafter this is my 
 lad to you for ever. Wifhing you long, long conti- 
 puance of health and everlafting happinefs, 
 
 I remain, 
 
 Ever your mod affectionate hufband, 
 (Signed) CHARLES CAMPBELL. 
 
 No.
 
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 No. XVI. 
 Captain Campbell to Major Hook. 
 
 Hilfca, Aug. 27, 178$. 
 MY DEAR FRIEND, 
 
 A I WAS this day made happy by your letter of 
 yefterday, and it gives me great pleafure to hear that 
 you are fafely arrived in Europe once more, and all 
 your little ones in good health. It is not for want of 
 inclination that I cannot comply with your defire of 
 
 B accompanying you to Scotland, as I would not hefi- 
 tate to embrace the opportunity was it in any degree 
 pofiible; fituated as I arn> you may reft aflured the 
 object of my going, which you allude to, would be very 
 pleafing to me, and I have only to regret that it lies 
 
 C out of my power. I have every inclination to come 
 to a perfect underftanding with a father, and to part 
 on good terms, when the chances mod probably are 
 that we never meet more. If inclination did not 
 prompt me, it would be my intereft to wifh it j but I 
 
 D allure you, laying every interefted view afide, I Ihould 
 feel it as an happy hour. 
 
 You will naturally wifh to know my reafons, and 
 the obftacles which prevent my accompanying you : 
 in the firft inftance, from the ftate of the regiment I 
 
 E am the only Captain at quarters, and in a few days the 
 command of the regiment falls upon me : as our Lieu- 
 tenant-colonel never refides here, in order to accom- 
 modate another gentleman, Captain in the regiment, 
 who is married, and goes to Scotland to bring his 
 
 F lady here, I have undertaken the paymafter's accounts 
 for him during his abfence, and are doubtlefs apprifed 
 of the neceffity of my conftant attendance on this ac- 
 count. Independent of thefe reafons, I would not 
 
 think
 
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 think it fafe to be abfent any time from the regiment, A 
 as we expect to leave this in the firft fhips, and fhould 
 there be a fudden order for embarkation, which hap- 
 pened before, and which mod probably will happen 
 again, to keep the real intent as long as poffible from 
 a raw body of men, would be hurrying me very much, B 
 and be attended with very great inconvenience to Mrs. 
 Campbell in preparing for any fudden embarkation, 
 provided I can arrange my affairs fo as to be able to 
 take her with me. I hope, however, I (hall fee you 
 before you leave London, and if you will let me C 
 know when you are decided on going, I will be in 
 London for a day or fo j let me know your addrefs, 
 and believe me, 
 
 MY DEAR FRIEND, 
 
 Your moft affectionate 
 (Signed) CHARLES CAMPBELL. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 . 
 
 Captain Campbell to Major Hook. 
 
 Wife a, Aug. 30, 1788. 
 MY DEAR FRIEND, 
 
 I AM juft favoured with your letter of yefterday. 
 With regard to the importance of going to Scotland, 
 it does not ftrike me fo forcibly *as it does you. My 
 friend, you ought to know my father's difpofition 
 well ; irideed, the laft time you was in Europe you had 
 good reafon. I cannot judge whether you have had 
 any letter from him on the fubject ; but I have fb re- 
 peatedly been difappointed from interccffion of friends, 
 
 C that
 
 C ' ) 
 
 A that I am perfectly of opinion, that the lefs the fubje& 
 is mentioned to my father, the fooner a perfect under- 
 ftanding will take place; and, indeed, at prefent I 
 know of no great mifunderftanding between us. My 
 father, from his manner of living, has contracted dif- 
 
 B ferent ideas, and there is no harm in father and fon not 
 being of the lame fentiments after a certain period of 
 life j particularly in the fituation our families are in : 
 independent of this, I could not think of going to 
 Scotland to make him a vifit, unlefs he was previously 
 
 "C prepared to expect, me, and that he expreffed the wifjk 
 to UK himfelf, which I have ever told I -at ail times 
 would be happy to embrace. It is confident for fons, 
 at all periods of life, to have due refpect for parents ; 
 but parents are only parents while they aft as fuch, and 
 
 D the moment they alter and are defirous of fhewing 
 themfelves as parents, filial refpect requires that every 
 thing fliould be forgot -and my heart inclines me to 
 forget that conduct, that I would not have expected 
 even from my bittercft enemy. Though my father 
 
 E had not the early advantages of education, but enter- 
 ed early into life. from his great intercourfe with 
 mankind, and an experience acquired by long fervices, 
 and fuccefs far exceeding his once grtatejk a?nbition y he 
 ought to have curbed a difpofition that he was certain 
 
 f would tend to divide his whole family, and which fa- 
 
 *tal experience has taught me to feel, and the whole 
 
 world to fee. You fee, my dear Sir, 1 open my mind 
 
 Co you as a friend, though I was too young when I 
 
 laft few you to remember more than the great atten-* 
 
 Q tion jkni jhcwcd to me while a boy at fchool. I hope 
 after this you \\ill not aik me more to go to Scotland. 
 Even independent of my flrft reafons, the (late of the 
 regiment renders ic perfectly incompatible for me to 
 get away, nor i* there one lingle officer of the regi- 
 
 J-j merit abfcnt on leave. 
 
 Afrs. Ctimpbiftl feme little time ago bad a wife to fee for 
 friends in that pjrt of tf,* -:i-or!a ;. and t perhaps % if it 
 
 2, KQl'ht
 
 ( '9 ) 
 
 not be Inconvenient to you, foe would like id go as far A, 
 as Edinburgh ; but on this fubj eft I mitft refer yon to her- 
 felf entirely : for my own part, I am not partial to that 
 country, having been but very little in it ; nor have la de~ 
 fire of feeing it> un/efs to fee myjifter, whom I really be- 
 lieve to be a good woman. B 
 
 In regard to my profpe&s in India, I afiure you I 
 go with the idea of fpending rny time as happy as I 
 can. I know there is nothing to be got in my profef- 
 fion in this country, fomething may by chance fall to 
 my fhare in India as it has to others : but think your- C 
 feif, do you not believe that what you have acquired 
 is dearly bought, when you confider the period of time 
 you have been abfent from your native foil ? I go de- 
 termined to like the country, becaufe I cannot better 
 myfelf becaufe I am too young to be idle : but I af- D 
 fureyou, was I ten years farther advanced in life, a very 
 little would fatisfy me to remain in England : but at 
 prefent a good deal would not induce me to give up 
 m Y foppofed prbfpecis in India, or retire from an active 
 life. I wifh to know when you purpofe leaving Lon- E 
 don, as in all probability, in the courfe of a month 
 or lefs, I ftiall be obliged to be in London to fend 
 down my cloaths, &c. &c. and to fettle fome little 
 matters that I have to do, as moft probably I fhall be 
 no more, in London after it, and then only for two t\ 
 days. I hope you will be able to make out your in- 
 tended excurfion to Ramfgate, as I am fure you will 
 make Mrs. Frafer, Mrs. Campbell, and all the family 
 tery happy ^ 
 
 I am perfectly fatisfml it is through your goodnefs G 
 of heart that you have pfopofed my going to Scot- 
 hand, and I allure you I feel it fc- believe me, 
 My DEAR FRIEND, 
 
 Your molt affectionate, 
 (Signed) CHARLliS CAMPBELL. 
 
 C 2 No
 
 XVIII. 
 
 Captain Campbell to Major Hook.* 
 
 White Houfe, Wedneflay Night, 
 Eight o'Chck 
 
 MY DEAR. FRIEND, 
 
 I AM this moment arrived here from Invcrary j I 
 [A am fo fatigued, that I cannot come on, but have fent 
 to flop your proceeding till I arrive with you. It is 
 a long two days you have been in Kintyre, and my 
 Feelings have been well tried, more than I ever ex- 
 pected. I have wrote Mrs. Campbell to meet me in 
 B a chaife, after (he has breakfafted, early. I have de- 
 fired her to be alone, as I want it mod particularly, 
 therefore hope you will fee it done. Write me by her. 
 Till to-morrow adieu; 
 
 C. C. 
 
 No. XIX. 
 
 Captain Campbell to Major Hook. 
 
 Inverary, Friday Night. 
 Mv DEAR FRIEND, 
 
 I AM ' come this length, and fet off to-morrow 
 morning for Glafgow. Alas I whai has my rafhnefs 
 brought on my mind I canno.t defer ibe may you 
 be more calm, and your feelings more at peace I 
 
 * The above is the threatening letter alluded to in the one of 
 the fame date from Captain Campbell to his wife. 
 
 fincerelv
 
 fincerely hope, and my Harriet Alas ! why did 1 
 write what I never meant, or never, never could have 
 exprelfed (he forgives yes but that is not enough to 
 quiet my feelings, confcious of having wrote what&e 
 never deferved I am quite overcome farewell. 
 
 Your moft affectionate, 
 (Signed) CHARLES CAMPBELU 
 
 XX. 
 
 Captain Campbell to Major Hook. 
 
 Edinburgh, Nov. io/, 1788. 
 
 My DEAR FRIEND, 
 
 WHEN you reflect calmly on the difappointment B 
 of my not having accompanied you to Kintyre, when - 
 you know the reflections, the feelings I have experi- 
 enced, you will not then think me fo culpable as I 
 may now appear to you ; the undertaking of your 
 carrying my Harriet to Kintyre, I thought and felt C 
 moft arduous after the fatality I had experienced, after 
 the manner my now living fifter was treated there 
 her hufband told by common fervants of the houle, 
 that a certain woman had defired him to fend her away. 
 The decifion known to the world her hufband had J> 
 made, of never entering the doors while the fame in- 
 fluence prevailed the wifhes of my fifter to accept 
 any invitation to that country, but prevented by thofe 
 very feeljngs that has guided and overpowered my ac- 
 tions in this affair. Yes, my friend, I dreaded my jr 
 Harriet remaining there longer than the two promifed 
 days in that Houle that had obliged a poor unfortu- 
 nate iifter, broken-hearted, to put an end to her own 
 
 cxiftencc
 
 A exiflencc from the ill-treatment fhe received there, 
 and at an early period of life. You was twenty years 
 abfent from that country, you know not what had 
 pafled, or what motives had determined all my near- 
 eft connexions to avoid that country. Your affection 
 
 B for my father your friendly defire for bringing on 
 a reconciliation between father and fon, induced you 
 to act from your own fincere feeling?. How could I 
 have expected, after the prefling letters of my Har- 
 riet's father, the foft perfuafions of her mother availed 
 
 C nothing, that you could have brought matters to a bet- 
 ter bearing j yet notwithstanding this, I own nothing 
 fhould have induced me to ufe harlh expreflions to my 
 Harriet nothing fhould have induced me to have 
 faid a word to hurt the friend whofe only object was 
 
 D my good my intereft I wrote you of my feelings ; 
 I could not bring myfelf to write what I have now 
 done but I fent you a letter inclofed to my Harriet, 
 telling you* of my intentions of going with you to 
 Scotland ; but why my Harriet fhould have thought 
 
 I? it neceflary for delicacy or appearance to conceal my 
 wifh, I cannot fay all might have been well with my 
 father had I gone at firft. J judged for the bed when 
 1 followed, and even while in Edinburgh, I was ad- 
 vifed by all fince my wife was there, to go even but 
 
 jr for a day. I had a letter from Mrs. Frafer faying, it 
 would make her happy if I faw him, even fhould Har- 
 riet wait on the road for my return ; however, all I 
 can blame myfelf for is ufing a Tingle harfh word 10 
 my deareft Harriet, for never did fhe merit it; but the 
 
 Q agitation of my feelings urged me beyond the bounds 
 of propriety but I am the greatefV fufferer my Har- 
 riet knows me well, and forgives ; yet J feel for what I 
 have done, fince my father has received her fo kindly, 
 and yet is inclined to forget all that has happened be- 
 tween him and me, I will write a mod affectionate let- 
 ter, and am happy to think it may avail, which I had 
 
 * N. B. No fuch letter, he threatens her that he would fay fo. 
 
 deipaired
 
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 clefpaired of, had not your friendly afliftance over-prc- A 
 vailed. I have only now to add, that you, my dear 
 friend, after this candid explanation of my feelings, 
 and the caufes from whence they fprung, will do me 
 the juftice to put a better- conftruction on my actions 
 in this affair than you have j at the fame time let me B 
 allure you, that no perfon can be more fenfible and 
 grateful for your kind endeavours, both for me and 
 my Harriet, than I am ; had I come to Scotland with 
 you every thing would have been explained to you on 
 our journey before we reached my father. 
 
 Your's affectionately, 
 
 CHARLES CAMPBELL. 
 
 No. XXI. 
 
 Captain Campbell to Major Hook, 
 
 Brook -ftreet, Monday. 
 
 IT is impoffible that I can defcribe the feelings that 
 have racked my mind for Ibme time pad, and that 
 you, who have acted in the mod affectionate manner 
 to the object of my affections, fliould have reafon to 
 think me ungrateful. Compofe your mind, that has 
 been fo long difturbed on your dear niece's account, 
 and truft that hereafter all will be well. On the moft 
 ierious reflection, my actions will be guided towards 
 her whom you fo much feel for ; I truit to God, fuch 
 as will be latisfactory to you, and inftrumental to the 
 future happinefs of her I moft love. I would yet wifh 
 to fee you, if you will permit me, before 1 leave Lon- 
 don, which will be very fbon. 
 
 Your affectionate 
 (Signed) CHARLES CAMPBELL. 
 
 No.
 
 No. XXlt. 
 
 Hook td Col C. C. dated London, ijl Sep* 
 t ember) 1788. 
 
 (After a paragraph on bu/inefs.) 
 
 A cr I WOULD now proceed to indulge in a vifit 
 " which I have long wifhed to have it in my power to 
 cc pay, and as I cannot but feel myfelf fincerely inte- 
 " refted in every thing that concerns the happinefs of 
 (t an uncle, and the latter part of a life that has con- 
 B ft ferred fo many advantages on his relations, it fhall 
 * c be my unceafing fhidy to mediate conciliation ; and 
 as there is fo near an approach of a long feparation 
 between your fon Charles, on the eve of embark- 
 ing for India, and his good father, I could not help 
 afking him to accompany me, he tenderly expretfed 
 " that fuch a meeting would be an happy hour, and 
 " with modeft referve left me to conclude that the un- 
 <c certainty of his reception would prevent him. 
 
 " Give me leave to beg of you on receipt of this^ 
 ^ " to write him two lines, expreffing a wifh-to fee him 
 " before he fets out. I fhall ftay till I hear from yoii, 
 (< or till he writes me that he has heard from you; he 
 " knows nothing of this letter, and I would wifh 
 cc to accommodate him in the trip. Poor fellow ! 
 E tc with a growing family his profpecl is but dark. Let 
 <c him have every encouragement that affefHonat* 
 (( treatment can afford ; I am certain fuch a meeting 
 fc will be highly grateful to you hereafter, at thofe fe- 
 (f rious moments of reflection, which, fooner or later, 
 ** we muft all experience. Remember me, Sec. &c. 
 
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 No. XXIII. 
 
 'Colonel diaries Campbell to Major Hook. 
 
 Barr,>]thSept. 1788. 
 MY DEAR ARCHY, 
 
 {Being all matters of bujlnefs no ways connected, till) 
 
 '. AS to Charles, I would with pleafure A 
 
 comply with your requeft of defiring him to accom- 
 pany you herej was it not for very fubftantial reafons, 
 which I doubt not will appear fatisfactory to you at 
 meeting ; therefore he had much better remain with 
 his corps. Take your own method of mentioning 
 this. 
 
 (Concludes upon bufmefs.) 
 
 Your uncle* 
 CHARLES CAMPBELL. 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 Colond Charles Campbell to Major Hook. 
 
 YOUR card, my dear Archy, has furprifed and B 
 aftoniihed me fo much, that I am quite unhinged and 
 made almoft diftracted ; not, I aflure you, on account 
 of Charles's conduct, becaufe it is all of a piece with 
 his behaviour for ten years back ; it is poor Harriet, 
 whom I pity from the bottom of my heart, and who 
 I declare I love as much as ever a man loved his 
 
 D own
 
 A own daughter, and whofe happinefs I have as 'much at 
 heart as you could wifh; but, alas! at prefent, it is 
 entirely out of my power to give her the confolation 
 fhe fo much merits. I would comply mod chearfully 
 with your defire in any thing but going to Saddle, 
 
 B which I would not take the world to do, becaufe I 
 know my own temper fo much, that a meeting with 
 Charles would be fuch as to expofe us both for ever 
 to the talk of the world In fhort, I am already almoft 
 in a fever, and can fcarcely hold the pen in my hand. 
 
 C This attempt of his to force a reconciliation with me, 
 exceeds all attempts ever made by mortal man ; and 
 not a perfon but himfelf would have thought of it : 
 he muft now go back as faft as he came, for if he was 
 to come here, or remain in the country twelve months, 
 
 E pofitively I would neither fpeak to him, or receive him 
 into the houfe. You know I told you what a felfiih, 
 opiniated, wavering, reftlefs difpofition, he had : in 
 fhort, my dear Archy, nothing poffibly can ever re- 
 form him, but a firm, Heady refolution not to give 
 
 F way to him in any refpect, for while a hope is left of 
 yielding to him, there will be no end to his unreafona- 
 blenefs. You have really a difagreeable tafk, and I 
 pity you moft fincerely. I repeat, that Charles will 
 never obtain either favour or countenance from me 
 
 G by following fuch conduct as hitherto ; and he ought 
 to know, from the intimation frequently made to him- 
 felf, that I have done more for him than he deferves. 
 To conclude, by Heavens, I will not fee him, nor 
 ever correfpond with him, .unlefs he returns inftantly. 
 
 H Love to Harriet. 
 
 I am, DEAR. AIICHY, 
 
 Your moft affectionate, 
 
 CHARLES CAMPBELL. 
 
 P. S, In fhort, his treatment to me has been fuch as 
 ro make me hate to hear his name mentioned ; and he 
 mifbikes himfelf and me very much, if he fuppofes he 
 
 can
 
 can fliake my fixed refolution refpecting him : no, A 
 by G d, he fhall not ! and it requires but one ftep 
 more to make me declare to the world that I give him 
 up as a fon ; and if he dares to come near me at pre- 
 Tent, that declaration fhall be made. 
 
 XXV. 
 
 Colonel Campbell to Major Hook. 
 
 Friday night. 
 
 I HAVE, my dear Archy, received your's ; I can B 
 cafily conceive the diftrefs of mind you and poor Har- 
 riet muft have fuffered on account of Charles's con- 
 duel: ; and forry am I to fay, that I have long obferved 
 Ib much ficklenefs and overbearance in his difpofi- 
 tion, that no action man can be guilty of but I appre- C 
 hend from him ; and had not that been my opinion, 
 an opinion grounded upon years experience, I ihould 
 moil certainly have, long ere this, acted towards him 
 otherwife than I have done. I know many blamed me for 
 what they were pleafed to call cruel treatment j but I D 
 cared not for that, as I was perfectly convinced, in my 
 own mind, that if I had acted otherwife, or yielded more 
 to the whims and unreafonablenefs of my fons, I was 
 undone ; and I have not a doubt, from what you have 
 feen and know of them, but you will now be perfuaded 
 I had too much caute to act as I have done. Good Mrs. 
 Frafer-s indulgence to him has done him no/ervice; 
 he took advantage of it, and treated her more like 
 mafter of the houle than one under numberlefs obliga- 
 tions : in fhort, he liars not fenfe to perceive betwixt 
 common civility and great kindnefs : his heart is con- 
 
 P 2 tinually
 
 ( 28 ) 
 
 A tinually bent on fomething new, and he has the va- 
 nity to think he is intitled to direct every thing j that 
 his conftant teafing and plagueing people will bring 
 every body to his way of thinking ; and the very thing 
 which he would this night be perfectly contented to be in 
 
 B poffeflion of, the next day he diflikes, and pants for 
 fomething new ; and to you only do I tell it, that he 
 does not care much what he fays or does to obtain his 
 wifhes : to be plain, he is a truly bad-hearted, deceit- 
 ful lad, and I would not give two-pence for any pro- 
 
 C mife he makes., as I can allure you there is no reliance. 
 to be put upon any thing he fays j that, with one of 
 the worft tempers man ever pofTefled, gives a moft me- 
 lancholy chance of his ever reforming. I ihall, how- 
 ever, write him what you defire ; but reft allured, it 
 
 D will avail little, as I fhould not in the Icaft be fur- 
 prifed that, though he promifed to allow Harriet to 
 remain in Europe, he repented the moment the (hip 
 was to fail, and returned for her. For my own part, 
 I know no way of treating him, but not to give way to 
 
 E him in any thing ; for when he rakes it in his head, 
 that by obftinacy, paffion, and fractioufnefs, he will 
 fucceed, he will perfevere ; but if any body would fliew 
 a difinclination to yield to his unreafonablenefs, he would 
 foon fee his own folly ; and the fame difpofition will 
 
 F make him behave to Harriet with cruelty, if fhe does 
 not fummon courage to fpeak to him, and threaten to 
 demand a feparation for bad ufage. Confider of this, 
 and act accordingly. I really think you had better com- 
 municate to me on paper what you have to lay, rather 
 
 G than tome here, as your coming would occafion many 
 conjectures, fome perhaps favourable, and fome as 
 much to the contrary ; and when you get to London, 
 let me know how he conducts himfelf. Be fure to let 
 Harriet keep the lad threatening letter fhe got from 
 
 H Charles i for if matters come to an extremity, fne can 
 fhew reafon for complaint again!! him. Mrs. Frafer 
 will now lee, when roo late, how much fne was'de- 
 
 % ceivtd
 
 ceived in him, and how little regard flie paid to the A> 
 opinion I gave her of him : nay, I really believe (he 
 was bewitched by him, for every thing he faid to her 
 \yas gofpel, and every fault I told her he had, (lie be- 
 lieved proceeded from my ignorance, or want of 
 knowledge of mankind. Had fhe treated him as a B 
 perfon dependent upon her good offices and friendfhip, 
 it would have humbled him, and made him lefs ty- 
 rannical ; but he found out her fweet, friendly temper, 
 a.nd he has made a mod ungenerous ufe of it. In 
 ihort, from my foul do I believe he does qot care if C 
 fhe, me, and all that belonged to us, were in mifery, fo 
 he gets what he wanted by it. I alfo believe, from my 
 foul, that he is as bad a tempered man as exifts, void 
 of affection and gratitude. I have faid fo much, that I 
 am allured you are tired and diftrefled at my opinion ; I) 
 but to you I divulge the fecrets of my heart. Comfort 
 I never had by fons, nor ever expect ; and I do not 
 know but even you might, before you were fo well ac- 
 quainted, with Charles and my other fbns' difpofitions, 
 think I -..was to blame ; but believe me, dear Archy, had E 
 I acted otherwife to fuch unfeeling beings, I might this 
 day be a beggar, as I am convinced it would give joy 
 to have all I am poffeiTtd of divided amongft them, if 
 I fhould ftarve. Farewell, love and bleffings attend 
 you and Harriet. 
 
 Your moft affectionate uncle, 
 
 CHARLES CAMPBELL. 
 
 No. XXVI. 
 
 Colonel Charles Campbell to Major Hook. 
 MY DEAR. ARCHY, 
 
 THE accompanying is wrote that yon may read it 
 to Charles, and it is potitively my fentiments in every 
 
 refpecl,
 
 ( 30 ) 
 
 A refpect, as I would not take the world and fpeak to 
 him. In fhort, his treatment to me has been fuch, 
 that I Can fcarcely bear to hear his name mentioned j 
 notwithftanding which, to give Harriet all the comfort 
 in my power, if on his return to London he writes me 
 
 B fuch a letter as his conduct entitles me to expect, I 
 fhall write him back what we agreed upon. This is 
 all 1 can promife, and I truft when you fincerely con- 
 fkler what I faid to you concerning Charles, you 
 will not only pity me, but approve of my fixed deter- 
 
 C mination. Love and bleffings attend Harriet. 
 I ever am, 
 Your uncle, 
 
 CHARLES CAMPBELL. 
 
 P. S. I befeech my dear Harriet and you to put the 
 true eonftruction on my refufing to comply with your 
 requeft. I repeat again and again, if I was to get the 
 whole univerfe I would not fee him. I lhall certainly 
 
 j) write Ihortly to Mrs. Frafer and Harriet. Charles's 
 conduct will never lefien my regard for them ; on the 
 contrary, if you do not fhew firmnefs towards him, he 
 will have the vanity to think, that by continuing to 
 plague, he will at laft be fuccefsful j for that, 1 affure 
 
 E you, is his difpofition, and by it he has already loft 
 many good friends : nothing can reclaim him but 
 every body's convincing him he has nothing to depend 
 upon but r his own good conduct. Mrs. Frafer ought 
 not to give too much way to his humours, for he will 
 
 jr overbear and command with haughtinefs where he can. 
 Farewell, my dear Archy, Heaven preferve you from 
 fuch grief and heart-break from fons, as I am con- 
 flantly meecing with. The fooner and more privately 
 you get out of this country the better. Hard hard 
 fate, to have fo unexpected and difagreeable a compa- 
 nion with you. 
 
 C. C. 
 
 No,
 
 No. XXVII. 
 
 Colonel Campbell to Major Hook. 
 
 MY DEAR ARCHY, 
 
 I DELAYED thus long in expectation of hearing ^ 
 of your arrival in London, which I hope happened be- 
 fore this time, without any accident to either you 
 or poor Harriet. Inclofed is a letter for Charles, 
 which, after perufing, you may deliver either open or 
 fealed, as appears beft to you ; in it I have expreffed j> 
 the fentiments of my heart, and what I am unalterably 
 determined upon ; and I think it better for both him 
 and me to know what he has to depend upon, rather 
 than be conftantly plaguing my foul : and I am per- 
 feftly convinced, the ftrifter he is obliged to keep to ^ 
 his duty, and the lefs hopes he has of pecuniary aid, 
 the more he will attempt doing for himfelf, at leaft, if 
 he has either prudence or ambition ; for I know his 
 reftlefs begging difpofition fo well, that until he is 
 made thoroughly fenfible of the folly of depending - 
 upon others for affiftance, he never will exert himfelf 
 like a man, fo that he may be independent. I have 
 hitherto faid fo much to him, and it has always been fo 
 much difregarded, that to tell you the plain truth, my 
 hopes are by no means fanguine of his ever being what - 
 I wifli him to be. Good Mrs. Frafer muft really 
 fummon courage and fpxrak freely her fentiments to 
 him j the goodnefs of her heart, and tender re- 
 gard for her children, he has mod certainly long fince 
 takt;n the advantage of, and treated her rather as one - 
 dependent upon him than otherwife. And I repeat, 
 he and all his brothers are of fo arbitrary, overbearing 
 tempers, that they will domineer over every perlbn 
 
 who
 
 A who wiJI fubmit to it, and of all of them, he has riot 
 the leaft of that difpofition, as I doubt not, you have, 
 long e'er now obferved. In Ihort, my fole dependence 
 on his afting at all properly, is from the impreffioa 
 your advice makes upon him, therefore, will fay nd 
 more on that fubjeft. 
 
 Your uncle, 
 
 CHARLES CAMPBELL. 
 ar, zytb Nov. 1788. 
 
 This letter concludes with a paragraph upon money 
 matters, not appertaining to the above. 
 
 AFFIDAVITS.
 
 AFFIDAVITS. 
 
 AMES CROSBY, of Thames Ditton, in the A 
 county of Surrey, maketh oath and faith, that he 
 knows 'Major Archibald Hook, and Captain Charles 
 Collins Campbell, and Harriet his wife, and hath fo 
 known them for fome years pad : And this deponent 
 faith, that he came from India with the faid Major B 
 Hook, and arrived in England on or about July, 
 1788, and lived with him till the April following: 
 And this deponent further faith, that he accompanied 
 the faid Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell to Scotland, 
 as far as Campbell- town, in Argylefhire, and returned C 
 with them to Brook ftreet, and married in the faid 
 Major Hook's fervice about April, 1789, whereupon 
 this deponent quitted his fervice, and fet up a fhopj 
 but that not anfwering, he, this deponent, returned to 
 the faid Major Hook again in October, 1791, and lived D 
 with him 12 months : And this deponent faith, that 
 on the return of Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell 
 from Scotland, the faid Major Hook lived at a hotel 
 till a houfe was taken at Walton, about which time 
 he, this deponent, thinks that the faid Major Hook E 
 flept a few nights at Brook-ftreet, but never before 
 lived there, having lived at Keniington : This depo- 
 nent further faith, that in the month of December, 
 
 E 1788,
 
 ( 34 ) 
 
 A 1788, he accompanied the faid Major Hook and 
 Mrs. Campbell to Walton, about the middle of the 
 month ; that he, this deponent, always flept at the inn, 
 and that after that they had been there a few days, 
 Elizabeth Heron came down, and that he, this depo- 
 
 B nent, left Major Hook about the beginning of May, 
 1789; that Captain Campbell went to Hilfea from 
 Brook-ftreet about the beginning of December, 1788, 
 and never was at Walton while Mrs. Frafer lived 
 there j that he, this deponent, in the month of July, 
 
 C 17911 accompanied Major Hook and Mrs. Camp- 
 bell and family to Leoftoff, and returned to Twick- 
 enham, and remained with them till the month of Oc- 
 tober, 1791, when he, this deponent, quitted the faid 
 Major Hook's fervice : This deponent further faith, 
 
 D that he never law any indecent or improper behaviour 
 
 between the faid Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell, nor 
 
 'did he ever fufpect any: And this deponent faith, that 
 
 in travelling, and at all times, they, the faid Major 
 
 Hook and Mrs. Campbell, had always feparate apart- 
 
 E ments : This deponent further faith, that on or about 
 the i4th day of November, 1792, one Samuel 
 Jackfon, who had formerly been fervant to Mrs. 
 Frafer, and now keeps the Betty Chop-houfe in 
 the Strand, went to this deponent's houfe at Thames 
 
 F Ditton, and told him that Captain Campbell was 
 with him, the faid Jackfon, and at the inn : And 
 this deponent faith, that he, Jackfon, accofted him as 
 follows : " Crofby, I am come to you about a bufi- 
 " nefs in which, if you will fpeak the truth, it will be 
 
 G " pounds and pounds in your way. Have you not 
 " iccn Major Hook frequently going into Mrs. Camp- 
 " bell's bed-room r" To which this deponent made 
 anfwer (expreffing his furpriie at fuch qneftion) yes, 
 that he, this deponent, often faw Major Hook in Mrs. 
 
 H Campbell's room when other people were there alfo : 
 And this deponent faith, that he, Jackfon, went to the 
 inn where Captain Campbell then was, feemingly 
 
 mucli
 
 ( 35 ) 
 
 much difappointed : This deponent further faith, that A 
 the faid Jackfbn came again to his houfe, on or about 
 the 2 jd day of December, 1792, and after infinuating 
 a great deal of what other people were to fay regarding 
 the conduct of Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell, he, 
 the faid Jackfon, again endeavoured to prevail on B 
 him, this deponent, to fpeak : And this deponent 
 further faith, that he was afterwards ordered in by Mr. 
 Hawkins to the faid Jackfon's houfe, and that Jie, 
 the faid J^ckfon, faid to him, in the hearing of feveral 
 of the witneffcs, " Crofby, come, you feem low ; I C 
 ff know you will fay the fame as other people when 
 " you will appear at the trial ; Major Hook knows he 
 " will lofe the day ; it is not the firft time I have 
 <c given ten guineas for an oath, for the beft people in 
 < f the- land." This deponent further faith, that Major D 
 Hook never lived at Brook-ftreet, but that he might 
 have flept there two or three nights previous to his fet- 
 
 off for Scotland. 
 
 JAMES CROSBY. 
 Sworn at 'Twickenham, this nth 
 
 day of March, 1793, before 
 
 Hugh Clegborn, Efq. One of 
 
 His Majeftfs Juftices of the 
 
 Peace for the County of Mid- 
 
 tjlefex. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN, 
 
 HENRY WHITEURST, of Duke-ftreet, Man-? E 
 chefter-fquare, in the county of Middlefex, gentle- 
 man, maketh oath and faith, that he knows Major 
 Archibald Hook, and Captain Charles Collins Camp- 
 bell, and Harriet his wife : And that this deponent 
 faith, that on or about the month of October, 1789,
 
 ( 36 ) 
 
 the faid Major Hook agreed with him, this deponent, 
 for ready -furnifhed lodgings in his, this deponent's 
 houfe, in Duke-ftreet aforefaid, for him, the faid Ma- 
 jor Archibald Hook, and his niece, Mrs. Harriet 
 Campbell : And this deponent further faith, that the 
 iaid Major Archibald Hook, and Mrs. Harriet Camp- 
 bell, accordingly entered upon, and lived in, the faid 
 lodgings, until the month of April following, during 
 all which time, he, this deponent, never faw, or had 
 any fufpicion of, any improper intercourfe or connec- 
 tion bv, or between the faid Major Archibald Hool$. 
 and Mrs. Harriet Campbell : And this deponent 
 further faith, that he perfectly remembers, that one 
 evening during the time, the faid Major Archibald 
 Hook, and Mrs. Harriet Campbell fo lodged in his 
 houfe, as aforefaid, the faid Harriet Campbell was 
 fom home, from whence fhe went in a job-coach. 
 One Robert Green, who was then fervant to the faid 
 Major Archibald Hook, was fent out for the faid 
 
 . Mrs. Campbell, but returned without finding her 5 
 upon which the faid Major Hook requeued this depo- 
 nent to go to the coachman, and learn of him where he 
 had left Mrs. Campbell ; and this deponent faith he 
 did fb accordingly, but found that the coachman was 
 gone to bed ; that about eleven o'clock the faid Mrs. 
 Campbell came home, and fhortly after ran into the 
 ftreet, and that Robert Green went after her, and 
 brought her, the faid Mrs. Campbell, back, and that 
 Ihe fhut herfelf up in the parlour, and fhortly after 
 went up to her bed-room : And this deponent further 
 faith, that he did not, on that evening, or at any other 
 period of time whatever, hear the laid Mrs. Camp- 
 
 '- bell cry out murder, or the laid Major Hook fay to 
 Mrs. Campbell, " You are a whore, a damned 
 " whore, and the worft of whores ;" nor any other 
 exprefTion or words to the like purport or effect : 
 And this deponent faith, that on the faid evening 
 above-mentioned and alluded to., there were in 
 
 2 his
 
 ( 37 ) 
 
 his, -this deponent's houfe, with him, this deponent, A 
 Alice Jones, his niece, and Elizabeth White, his fer- 
 vant : And this deponent further faith, that his houfe 
 is but fmall, and believes, that no expreffions, delivered 
 in a violent tone of voice, in any part of the houfe, 
 could poffibly be ufed, without his, this deponent, or " 
 Alice Jones, or Elizabeth White's, hearing them : 
 And this deponent faith, that in his, this deponent's, 
 houfe, regular hours were kept, and that fome one of 
 the family was always at home: And further faith, 
 that had any indecent expreffions, or improper beha- C 
 viour, been either heard or feen, between the faid Ma- 
 ^or Hook and Mrs. Campbell, he, this deponent, would 
 not have fuffered them to remain in his houfe : And 
 this deponent further faith, that he remembers a print 
 ihop-man coming repeatedly to the faid Major Hook, D 
 \vhilft he was at his, this deponent's houfe, demanding 
 payment from the faid Major Hook for fome prints, 
 \vhich had been bought of him by one Jofeph Rip- 
 pington, fervant to the faid Major, which he, the faid 
 Major Plook, on fuch demands, always refufed paying E 
 for : And this deponent remembers the faid Jofeph 
 Rippington's faying, that it was hard that he, (the faid 
 Jofeph Rippington) fhould be obliged to pay for them 
 himfelf : And this deponent further faith, that a gen- 
 tleman, whom he fuppofed to be Mr. Hawkins, at- F 
 torney for the faid Captain Campbell, called upon him, 
 this deponent, in Dnke-ftreet, and addrefTed himfelf to 
 this deponent, by ftating to him, that when Major 
 Hook had run away with Mrs. Campbell from her 
 mother's houfe, he brought her to Duke-ftreet, to his, G 
 this v deponent's, hcufe, and there lived with her; upon 
 hearing which, he, this deponent, told the faid Mr. 
 Hawkins, that in his, this deponent's, opinion, that 
 could not be true, as Mrs. Campbell's mother, bro- 
 ther, and fitters, frequently vifited them, and that the H 
 
 fitters
 
 ( 38 ) 
 
 A fitters ufed frequently to ftay feveral days and nights 
 with Mrs. Campbell. 
 
 H. WHITEHURST, 
 
 Sworn at London, in the 
 County of Middlefex, 
 this i$th day ofMarch^ 
 1 7 9 3 > before Hugh 
 Cleghom, Efq. One of 
 His Majeftfs Juftices 
 of the Peace for the 
 County of Middlefex. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN* 
 
 B THE voluntary declaration and depofition of ELI- 
 ZABETH WHITE, who upon her oath faith, that 
 Hie lived in Mr. Whitehurft's houfe, in Duke-ftreet, 
 when Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell lived there a 
 from the month of October, 1789, to the end of April 
 
 C the following year, and faith, that fhe never faw any 
 thing improper between Major Hook and Mrs. Camp- 
 bell : She further faith, that fhe never called Robert 
 Green into Mrs. Campbell's bed-room, nor obferved 
 to him the marks of two people having lain on Mrs. 
 
 D Campbell's bed j and further declares, that fhe never 
 faw fuch marks, nor had any fufpicion of them, and 
 that fhe always made Mr. Campbell's bed : And fur- 
 ther faith, that Mrs. Whitehurft, in confequence of 
 fome obfervations of Robert Green's, defired her and 
 
 E Alice Harpur to obferve, which they did accordingly, 
 and informed her, that they had never feen any thing 
 improper : A.nd further faith, that fhe remembers the 
 night on which Mrs. Campbell went into the flreet, 
 when Robert Green went after her, and brought her 
 
 back,
 
 ( 39 ) 
 
 back, and when fhe fhut herfelf up in Mr. Whitehurfl's A 
 parlour : She further faith, that fhe was with Mrs. 
 Campbell on the flair, and attended her up to bed, and 
 did not then, or at any other time, hear Major Hook 
 make ufe of the following cxprefTions, " You are a 
 " whore, a damned whore, and the worft of whores :" g 
 And this deponent further faith, that no fuch expref- 
 fions could have been ufed by Major Hook to Mrs. 
 Campbell at that time without her hearing them, be- 
 caufe fhe was never a moment abfent from Mrs. 
 Campbell, from the time fhe fell on the (lair until fhe, C 
 this deponent, put Mrs. Campbell to bed : And this 
 deponent further faith, that (he did not, on that night, or 
 on any other, during Major Hook's refidence in Duke- 
 ftreet, hear the cry of murder: And further faith, that 
 fhe heard Robert Green fay, " That he would make D 
 " Major Hook fuffer for it, if he would turn him 
 Ic away j and that he would find ways and means to 
 " make the old rafcal's money fly." This deponent 
 further faith, that Mr. Whitehurft, Alice Harpur, (his 
 niece) and this deponent, were in the houie on that ]? 
 night ; but that the threat about making his money fly 
 was faid to her alone in the fcullery. 
 
 ELIZABETH WHITE. 
 Sworn at Brentford, this 
 
 qth day of March, 
 
 1793, before Hugh 
 
 Ckghorn, Efq. One of 
 
 His Majejly's Jujlices 
 
 of the Peace for the 
 
 County of Middle fe** 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN. 
 
 MAR-
 
 ( 40 } 
 
 ALICE JONES, of Duke-ftreet, Manchefter- 
 fquare, in the county of Middlefex, maketh oath, and 
 faith, that fhe knows Major Archibald Hook, and 
 Captain Charles Collins Campbell, and Harriet his 
 wife : And this deponent faith, that (he lived with Mr. 
 
 " Henry Whitehuruft, of Duke-ftreet, at the fame time 
 when the faid Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell came; 
 and took lodgings in the faid Mr. Whitehurft's houfe, 
 and that fhe, this deponent, was in the fame houfe all 
 the time that the faid Major Hook and Mrs. Camp- 
 
 ^ bell lived in the faid lodgings, during all which time 
 Ihe, this deponent, never faw any indecent or impro- 
 per intercourfe between the faid Major Hook and Mrs. 
 Campbell : And this deponent further faith, that fhe 
 remembers one evening; during the time the faid Ma- 
 
 DC? O 
 
 jor Hook and Mrs. Campbell had the faid lodgings as 
 
 afbrefaid, that Mrs. Campbell ran out of the houfe; 
 into the ftreet, about eleven o'clock at night, and that 
 Robert Green went after her, and brought her the faid 
 Mrs. Campbell back, when fhe the faid Mrs. Camp- 
 
 E bell went into the parlour : And this deponent further 
 faith, that fhe did not hear the faid Mrs. Campbell, or 
 any other perfon, cry out murder ; nor did fhe this de- 
 ponent hear the faid Major Hook > either that even- 
 ing, or at any other time whatever, fay to the faid 
 
 IF Mrs. Campbell, c: You are a whore, a damn'd whore, 
 " and the worft of whores :" And this deponent alfo 
 faith, that the abovementioned houfe is fmall, and 
 that Mrs. Whitehurft, Betty White, and herfelf, this 
 deponent, who Jived there during the faid Major Hook 
 
 G and Mrs. Campbell's refide^ce in the faid houfe, wae 
 very quiet and regular in their hours : And fhe this 
 deponent thinks, that if anv fuch exprcfiions had been 
 
 ufed
 
 ( 41 ) 
 
 tifed, fhe muft have heard them, which fhe this depo- A 
 nent declares fhe did not. 
 
 ALICE JONES. 
 
 Sworn at London, in tie 
 County ofMiddkfex, this 
 $d Day of April, 1793, 
 before Hugh Cleghorn^ 
 Efq. One of his .Ma- 
 
 J e Jfy's Juflices of , the - 
 
 Peace for the County of 
 Middlefex. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORNi 
 
 MARGARET BUCHAN, Cook to Major Hook, 
 
 friaketh oath and faith, that fhe knows the faid Major 
 Archibald Hook, and Captain Charles Collins Camp- 
 bell, and Harriet his wife : And this deponent faith, 
 that fhe entered into the faid Major Hook's fervice in 
 the year 17911 in the month of October, and conti- 
 nued in it till the May following; and that fhe never 
 faw, or heard, or even fufpecled any thing improper 
 between the faid Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell. 
 
 M.B. 
 
 Szuorn this nth day of 
 March, 1 793, at Twick- 
 enham, before Hugh Cleg- 
 horn, Efq. One of His 
 Majejlfs Jujlices of the 
 Peace for the County of 
 Middlefex. " 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN, 
 
 FLORA
 
 A FLORA STEWART, native of India, and fer- 
 vant-maid to Major Hook, maketh oath, and faith, 
 that fhe knows the faid Major Archibald Hook, and 
 Captain Charles Collins Campbell, and Harriet his 
 wife j that fhe lived many years with the faid Major 
 
 B Hook, and came from India with him : And this de- 
 ponent faith, that fhe was at Walton during the time 
 1 that the faid Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell were 
 there, and that the faid Mrs. Campbell was in a bad 
 ftate of health : And this deponent faith, that fhe ne^ 
 
 C ver faw or fufpe&ed any improper conduct between 
 the faid Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell : And this 
 deponent further faith, that at Eaft Bourn bathing- 
 place, where fhe accompanied the faid Major Hook 
 and Mrs. Campbell, and the family, fhe, this depo- 
 
 D nentj an d Maria Stewart, another native of India, 
 flept on the fame floor with Mrs. Campbell, and that 
 fhe, this deponent, neither there or any where elfe, at 
 any time, ever faw or heard any improper behaviour 
 or exprefiions between the faid Major Hook and Mrs. 
 
 E Campbell : And this deponent further faith, that Jane 
 Grimes, who was then cook, never told her, while ac 
 Eaft Bourn, that fhe, the faid Grimes, had feen or 
 heard any thing improper. This deponent faith, that 
 Ihe doth not remember when fhe went to Walton, nor 
 
 F can fhe fpeak as to time -, and that fhe could not fpeak 
 or underftand much Englifh when fhe came home, 
 and but very little of it even now ; And this deponent 
 further faith, that at Eaft Bourn the faid Mrs. Camp- 
 bell and Mifs Hay, with Major's Hook's two daugh- 
 
 p ter's, flept in one room, and that Major Hook and his 
 fon flept together in the next; and that Maria Stewart 
 flept with this deponent in the room oppofite to that 
 in which the faid Major Hook and his fon flept : She 
 
 further
 
 C 43 ) 
 
 further faith, that Jane Grimes and the man-fervant, A 
 Arthur Bane, flep on the garret. 
 , her 
 
 FJ.ORA + STEWART, 
 
 marjc. 
 
 Sworn at Twickenham, 
 this i ith day of March, 
 1 793 > before Hugh Cleg- 
 horn, Efq. One of His 
 Majefty's Juftices of the 
 the Peace for the County 
 of Mddlejex. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN, 
 
 MARIA STEWART, native of India, and fer- B 
 vant-maid to Major-Hook, maketh oath and faith, that 
 (he knows the faid Major Archibald Hook, and Cap- 
 tain Charles Collins Campbell, and Harriet his wife; 
 that (he lived many years with the faid Major Hook, 
 and came from India with him : And this deponent 
 faith, that fhe was at Walton during; the time that the C 
 
 * *J 
 
 faid Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell were there ; and 
 that the faid Mrs. Campbell was in a bad ftate of 
 health : And this deponent faith, that fhe t never faw or 
 fufpefted any improper behaviour between the faid 
 Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell : And this deponent D 
 further faith, that at Eaft Bourn bathing -place, where 
 fhe accompanied the faid Major Hook, Mrs. Camp- 
 bell, and family, fhe, this deponent, and Flora Stewart, 
 another native of India, flept on the fame floor with 
 Mrs. Campbell ; and that fhe, this deponent, neither 
 there nor any where elfe, at any time, ever faw or heard E 
 any improper conduct, or expreffions, between the faid 
 
 F 2 Major
 
 ( 44 ) 
 
 A Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell : And this deponent 
 
 further faith, that Jane Grimes, who was then cook, 
 
 never told her, while at Eaft Bourn, that fhe, the faid 
 
 Grimes, had feen or heard any thing improper : And 
 
 this deponent faith, that fhe does not remember when 
 
 B fhe went to Walton, nor can fhe fpeak as to time j and 
 
 that fhe could not fpeak nor underftand much Englifh, 
 
 when fhe came home, and but very little of it even 
 
 now: And this deponent further faith, that at Eaft 
 
 Bourn the faid Mrs. Campbell and Mifs Hay, with 
 
 C Major Hook's two daughters, flept in one room, and 
 
 that Major Hook and his fon flept together in the 
 
 next, and that Flora Stewart flept with this deponent 
 
 ' in the room oppofite to tbnt in which Major Hook 
 
 and his fen flept : And this deponent further faith, 
 
 D that Jane Grimes and Arthur Bane, the man-fervant, 
 
 flept in the garret. 
 
 her 
 MARIA + STEWART, 
 
 mark. 
 
 Sworn at Twickenham, 
 this i itb day of March, 
 1 793, before Hugh Cleg- 
 horn, Efq. One of His 
 Majeftfs Jujiices of the 
 Peace for the County of 
 Middlefex. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN. 
 
 E MARY CROSBY, of Thames Ditton, in the 
 county of Surry, inaketh oath and faith, that fhe 
 knows Major Archibald Ho 3k, and Captain Charles 
 Collins Campbell, and Harriet his wife ; And this de- 
 ponent
 
 ( 4.5 ) 
 
 ponent faith, that fhe lived with Mrs,. Frafer at Wai- A 
 ton ; and that Ihe, this deponent, ufed to affift in 
 making the beds; that fhe never faw any thing inde- 
 cent or improper between the faicl M?jor Hook and 
 Mrs. Campbell : And this deponent further faith, that 
 fhe afterwards lived with Major Hook and Mrs. B 
 Campbell at Twickenham, and accompanied them to 
 Loeftofffea- bathing, and returned with them, the faid 
 Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell, to Twickenham, 
 and left Major Hook's fervice in the month of Octo- 
 ber, 1791 ; during which time,, this deponent faith, C 
 that fhe never faw, or even fufpefled, any indecent or 
 improper behaviour between the faid Major Hook 
 and Mrs. Campbell : And this deponent further faith, 
 that on or about the i4th day of November, 1792, 
 one Samuel Jackfon, who had been formerly fervant 
 to Mrs. Frafer, and now keeps the Betty chop-houfe in D 
 the Strand, came to her houle at Thames Ditton, and, 
 in the deponent's hearing, faid to her hufband, James 
 Crofby, " Crofby, I am come about a piece of bufi- 
 " nefs, in which, if you fpeak truth, it will be pounds 
 ft and pounds in your way : Have you not feen Major 
 " Hook in Mrs. Campbell's bed-room?" with other E 
 words and expreffions to the fame effect : And this 
 deponent further faith, that on or about the 2jd of 
 December, 1792, he, the faid Samuel Jackfon, came 
 again to her houfe, with Mr. Hawkins's clerk, and 
 after fhewing papers, which they faid contained 'the F 
 depofitions of other witneifes relative to Major Hook, 
 they endeavoured, by queftions and other expreflions, 
 to induce them, the (aid James Crofby, and this depo- 
 nent, to fpeak on the fame fide: And this deponent 
 faith, that fhe and her hufband were both afterwards G 
 ordered in by Mr. Hawkins, to the faid Jackfon's 
 houfe : And that he, the faid Jackfon, faid to James 
 Crofby, this deponent's hufband, in the hearing of fe- 
 veral of the witnefTes, " Come, Crofby, drink, you 
 '? will fay the fame as the reft, I know, when it comes 
 
 "to
 
 ( 46 ) 
 
 A ff to the point : it is not the firft time I have given 
 "ten guineas for an oath, for the bed man in the 
 " land :" and words to the fame effe<5t : And this de- 
 ponent further faith, that {he had almoft conftant op- 
 portunity of obferving the conduct of the faid Major 
 B H'.iok and Ms. Campbell, and never faw or obferved 
 the lead improper behaviour. 
 
 MARY CROSBY. 
 Sivorn at 'Twickenham, 
 this 1 1 th day of March, , 
 1793, before Hugh Cleg- 
 horn, Efq. One of His 
 JMaje/ly's Juftices of the 
 Peace for the County oj 
 frliddlefex. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN, 
 
 MISS MARY HAY, of Hammerfmhh, in the 
 county of Middlefex, maketh oath and faith, that fhe 
 knows Major Archibald Hook, and Captain Charles 
 Collins Campbell, and Harriet his wife : And this 
 deponent faith, that on the ijth June, 1792, ihe ac- 
 companied the faid Major Hook, and Mrs. CampbelJ, 
 and family, to Eaft Bourn bathing-place, where they, 
 the faid Major Hook, Mrs. Campbell, and this depo- 
 nent, remained till about the 2ythday of July follow- 
 ing : And this deponent further faith, that while at 
 Eaft Bourn, the faid Mrs. Campbell and Major Hook's 
 daughters, and fhe, this deponent^ flept in one room, 
 and that the faid Major Hook and his ion flept in an 
 adjoining room : And this deponent further faith, that 
 i two
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 two women, natives of India, flept on the fame floor A 
 in a room oppofite to that in which the faid Major 
 Hook and his fon flept, and that the fervant-man and 
 a cook-maid (commonly called Jane) flept in the gar- 
 ret apartments : And this deponent faith, that Ihe was 
 constantly with the faid Mrs. Campbell and Major B 
 Hook's daughters, and that they, the faid Mrs. 
 Campbell, and Major Hook's daughters, and this de- 
 ponent, ufed to bathe in the morning before breakfaft, 
 and from that time till dinner generally employed hear- 
 ing the faid Major Hook's children reading and prac- C 
 tifing mufic and drefling for dinner, and that in the 
 evening they commonly walked: And this deponent 
 further faith, that neither then at Eaft Bourn, nor at 
 any other time when fhe had been at Major Hook's 
 houfe, did fhe fee or hear, or had reafon to fuppofe, D 
 any thing inconfiftent with the higheft honour and the 
 molt refined practice of virtue. 
 
 MARY HAY. 
 Sworn at Hammerfmith, 
 
 this 1 2th Day of March, 
 
 1 793, before Hugh Cleg- 
 
 born, Ejq. one of His 
 
 Majefty's Juftices of the 
 
 Peace for the County of 
 
 Middlefex. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN. 
 
 MRS. MAGDALINE LOGOUX, of Harley- E 
 ftreet, in the county of Middlefex, maketh oath, and 
 faith, that Ihe knows Major Archibald Hook, and 
 
 Cap-
 
 ( 48 ) 
 
 A Captain Charles Collins Campbell, and Harriet hl$ 
 wife, and hath fo known them for fome years paft$ 
 and this deponent faith, that fhe went to live with Mrs* 
 Frafer, the mother of the faid Mrs. Campbell, fome 
 time in the month of February, 1788, as governefs 
 
 B to Mrs. Frafer's youngeft daughters, at which time 
 Captain Campbell and Mrs. Campbell were living 
 with Mrs. Frafer, and this deponent continued in Mrs. 
 Frafer's family for three years, or thereabout : And 
 this deponent further faith, that very foon after fhe 
 
 C went to live with Mrs. Frafer as aforefaid, (lie obferved 
 that Captain Charles Campbell and Mrs. Campbell 
 were lipon very bad terms ; and that as her chamber 
 was near the room in which they, the faid Captairi 
 Campbell and Mrs. Campbell flept, fhe, this depo- 
 
 ) nent, often heard violent quarrels between them after 
 they had retired to their chamber, and that on one of 
 thofe occafions, Mrs. Frafer was obliged to go tor 
 them, the faid Captain Campbell and Mrs. Camp- 
 bell, and take the faid Mrs. Campbell into the faid 
 
 Mrs. Frafer's room, and that the faid Mrs. Campbell 
 was very ill for the greateft part of the night ; thai 
 Mrs. Campbell was in general fo much affected with 
 thofe quarrels, that Mrs. Frafer was frequently obliged 
 to remain with her fome time after them: And this 
 
 J? deponent faith, that not wifhing to pry into family 
 concerns, is not particular as to the caufe of fuch 
 quarrels, but that they were very frequent : And this 
 deponent further faith, that Captain Charles Collins 
 Campbell did not pay that attention to Mrs. Harriet 
 
 G Campbell his wife, which this deponent thinks fhe, the 
 faid Mrs. Campbell, deferved, and that he was very 
 much from home, and. often ttaid out till two o'clock 
 in the morning : And this deponent aifo faith, that 
 Captain Charles Campbell left Brook-ftreet about the 
 H beginning of December 1788, and never vifited Mrs. 
 Campbell, (who afterwards lived at Mrs, Frafer's 
 
 houfe
 
 ( 49 ) 
 
 houfe at Walton) as this deponent verily believes : A 
 And this deponent further faith, that whilft he, Cap- 
 tain Campbell, was fo abfent from the faid Mrs. Camp- 
 bell his wife, there were frequent quarrels between 
 Mrs. Frafer and Mrs. Campbell, and that they gene- 
 rally happened after they, the faid Mrs. Campbell and B 
 Mrs. Frafer, had received letters from Captain Charles 
 Collins Campbell, and that Mrs. Campbell was fre- 
 quently indifpofed in confequence of fuch quarrels, 
 and that her health vifibly fuffered by them : And this 
 deponent faith, that the faid Mrs. Campbell endea- C 
 voured to conceal her fituation from the world, and 
 this deponent verily believes that no perfon, except 
 Mrs. Frafer (mother to Mrs. Campbell) knew what 
 ihe, Mrs. Campbell, really fiiffered : And alfo faith, 
 that Captain Charles Collins Campbell feemed to her, D 
 this deponent, to be of a jealous temper; and that 
 he, the faid Captain Charles Collins Campbell, could 
 not bear the fmalleft attention to be paid to her, Mrs. 
 Campbell : And this deponent further faith, that from 
 her fituation in the family fhe, this deponent, had E 
 more opportunities of obferving the conduct of Major 
 Hook and Mrs. Campbell, after they went to live at 
 Walton, than any of the fervants : And alfo faith, 
 that fhe, this deponent, was almoft conftantly with 
 the faid Mrs. Campbell, and went very often into her F 
 bedchamber, and fometimes in the middle of the 
 night : And this deponent further faith, fhe never ob- 
 ferved the leaft impropriety of conduct on the part of 
 the faid Major Archibald Hook towards Mrs. Camp- 
 bell, but that he was very kind and attentive to the G 
 whole family, and feemed to this deponent to treat 
 the faid Mrs. Campbell and her fillers, more like a 
 good father than a more diftant relation : And this 
 deponent further faith, that Major Hook had been 
 frequently at Brook-ftreet, but did not live with Mrs. fj 
 prafer till Ihe went to Walton, he, the faid Major 
 
 G tiook.
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 A Hook, having had then a houfe of his own at Ken- 
 fington. 
 
 . MAGDALINE LOGOUX. 
 
 S^'orn at London, in the 
 County of MiddlefeXy this 
 1 2th Day of March, 
 1793, before Hugh Cleg- 
 horn, Efq. one of His 
 Majejlfs Jujlices of the 
 Peace for the County of 
 Middlefex. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN. 
 
 B HARRIET CAMPBELL, of the county of 
 Surry, maketh oath and faith, that fhe remembers the 
 circumftance of her peevifh and petulant behaviour to 
 her uncle at Duke ftreer., and that fhe went out one 
 day in a job coach, and remained out till about 1 1 
 
 C o'clock at night, that fhe is not quite pofitive as to the 
 hour, that fhe returned home in a hackney coach, ha- 
 ving fent home the job coach before : That fhe re- 
 members on her uncle's beginning to find fault with 
 her, and attempting to take hold of her hand, flie, in 
 
 Q a violent tone of voice, exclaimed f< Don't touch 
 " me, I'll do as I pleafe," or to that effect, and ran 
 down flairs and went into the ftreet ; that the fervant 
 (Grern) came after her, and fhe immediately returned, 
 
 . went rirft into one of the parlours, and then went up 
 
 r flairs : That the fervant, Elizabeth White, attended 
 her to bed, and that her uncle fpoke to her about her 
 foolilh behaviour j fhe offered fome kind of excufe for 
 having vexed him, upon which he made ufe of fome 
 warm exprefTior), alluding to her fituation with refpect 
 to Captain Campbell's mother and relations. She 
 
 pofi-
 
 ( 5' ) 
 
 pofitively denies having heard the expreffion from Ma- 
 jor Hook which the fervant, Robert Green, has fworn 
 to : and fhe folemnly declares, by this oath, that Ma- 
 jor Hook never committed with her the crime of 
 which he has been accufed, but ever afted the pare 
 of a good and tender father to her in the ftricleft 
 fenfe. 
 
 HARRIET CAMPBELL, 
 Sworn at London, this 2.6th 
 
 Day of March, 1793, 
 
 before me, one of His 
 
 Maje/fy's Jujlices of the 
 
 Peace for the County of 
 
 Mddlefex. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN. 
 
 WILLIAM PAXTON, Efq. of Queen's-fquare, B 
 Bloom/bury, in the county of Middlefex, maketh 
 oath and faith, that he knows Major Archibald Hook 
 and Mrs. Harriet Campbell : And this deponent 
 faith, that his acquaintance with the faid Major Ar- 
 chibald Hook is nearly of nineteen years (landing, 
 during all which time he, this deponent, had frequent 
 opportunities of obferving the conduct and character 
 of the faid Major Archibald Hook : And he, this de- 
 ponent, further faith, that heaver found both emi- 
 nently diftinguifhed by a mod fcrupulous attention to j) 
 every principle of virtue, integrity, delicacy, and ho- 
 nour : And this deponent further faith, that the above 
 is not only the refult of his own obfervations, but 
 what he, this deponent, ever undeiftood to be the 
 faid Major Hook's general character; and he alfo 
 faith, that he, this deponent, never heard even the 
 flighted infinuation to the contrary from any perfon 
 
 G 2 what-
 
 ( 5^ ) 
 
 A whatever: And this deponent faith, tli.it the fa id Ma- 
 jor Hook, with his three children, (on whofe welfare 
 his very exiftence feemed to depend) arrived in Eng- 
 land in the month of July, 1788, and that his mind, 
 from family diftrefTes, was in his, this deponent's opi- 
 B nion, grievoufly afflicted, and his conftitution, from 
 the fame caufe, as well as a long refidence in India, 
 impaired to fuch a degree, that the commiffion of a 
 crime of a lefs heinous nature than that with which 
 he the faid Major Archibald Hook is charged, is in his, 
 C this deponent's opinion, highly improbable : And this 
 deponent, to evince the character of delicacy which 
 he hath long fince fo juftly formed, and herein gives 
 of the faid Major Hook, faith, that on this late occa- 
 fion, when his all was at (lake, and it appeared that 
 D the teftimony of a young lady would have been of the 
 utmoft importance, he, the faid Major Hook, de- 
 clined to fubpcena her to court from motives of deli- 
 cacy, notwithftanding the prefiing remonltrances of 
 friends and profeffional gentlemen to the contrary : 
 E And this deponent further faith, that he faw the faid 
 Mrs. Campbell with Major Hook in Wales, and has 
 frequently feen her fince in the faid Major Hook's 
 houfe, and never obferved in the conduct of either 
 the faid Mrs. Campbell or Major Hook, any thing 
 F but what was conformable in his, this deponent's, 
 opinion, to the ftridteft rules of propriety as uncle 
 and niece. 
 
 WILLIAM PAXTON, 
 Szt'orn in London tJ:ls i$th 
 Day of Miircb, 1793, 
 before Hugh Clegborn., 
 Efq. one of His A%V/?v'j> 
 Ji'Jlices of the Peace for 
 i',:-: County of Middlejcx. 
 
 HUGH CLEGHORN, 
 
 No.
 
 ( 53 ) 
 
 No. I. 
 
 From Colonel Ironjide. 
 No. 29, Upper Brook-Jlreet, March 16, 1793. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 I RECEIVED your letter of the 1 5th mftant, and A 
 very readily accede to the requeft it contains. 
 
 No gentleman with whom I had the honour to ferve, 
 bore a fairer repute than Major Hook, for worth, and 
 for refpect and attention to thofe moral duties and 
 obligations, which conftitute the valuable intercourfe B 
 of focial life. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 
 (Signed) GILBERT IRONSIDE. 
 
 No. II. 
 
 From Colond Blair. 
 Stratford Place, No. $, March 27, 1793. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 I HAVE received your letter of the i5th inftant, 
 in anfwer to which I have no difficulty in declaring, 
 that whilft I ferved in India, I always underftood 
 your conduct to have been that of an officer and a 
 gentleman ; nor have I ever heard, during my refi- 
 
 dence
 
 ( 54 ) 
 
 A dence in that country, reflections of any kind againft 
 your moral character. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 
 WILLIAM BLAIR. 
 
 No. III. 
 From Colonel Duff. 
 
 London 23^ March, 1793. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 IN reply to your letter of the i ^th inftant, I de- 
 clare, that during the time I had the honour to ferve 
 with you in India, no man bore a higher character 
 for honour, and all the principles of a gentleman, 
 than you did ; and I am perfuaded every perfon who 
 ferved with you will readily confirm the fame. 
 
 SIR, &c. 
 
 PATRICK DUFF. 
 
 No. IV. 
 
 From Captain Tkomas Blair. 
 
 Welbeck-Jlreet t 1 6 th Mard- , 1793. 
 SIR, 
 
 C IF my declaration can in the fmalleft degree tend 
 to remove improper impreffions againft you, I now 
 
 give
 
 ( ss ) 
 
 give you my permiffion to declare, that during my A 
 refidence in Bengal for. nearly twenty years, I neither v 
 know or ever heard of any the moil diflaat imputa- 
 tions againft your moral character. 
 
 SIR, &c. 
 THOMAS BLAIR. 
 
 No. V. 
 
 From Captain Howe. 
 
 ? London, March 22, 1793. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 I HAVE pleafure in faying, that during a reft- B 
 dence in India of between fixteen and eighteen years, 
 I never directly or indirectly heard a fyllable which 
 could in any wife impeach your moral character, and 
 if this teftimony can be ufeful to you in what you are 
 about to publifh, 1 mall be happy to fee it made ufe C 
 of. 
 
 SIR, &c. 
 
 J. HOWE. 
 
 No. VI. 
 
 From Major Scott. 
 
 26/ March, 1793* 
 SIR, 
 
 THOUGH our fituation in the army when we 
 
 ferved about twenty years ago, kept us afunder, yet 
 
 2 I cer-
 
 I certainly have had every opportunity of knowing 
 the eftimation in which you ftood with all the officers, 
 and no one in the- army bore a fairer character as a 
 moral man and a good officer ; this teftimony I bear 
 with the utmoft readiness, and ever am, 
 
 SIR, &c. 
 
 JOHN SCOTT. 
 
 No. VII. 
 From Charles Ceckerelly Efq. 
 
 No. 7, Seville Row, 1793* 
 
 SIR, 
 
 g IT having been intimated to me by a particular 
 friend, an acquaintance of yours, that under the cir- 
 cumftancc of the decifion lately palled againft you in 
 one of the civil courts at law, fome teftimony to your 
 conduct whilft in India, from thofe who had the 
 
 C pleafure of your acquaintance in that country, would 
 be acceptable to you ; I cannot delay a moment not 
 only to exprefs my concern at what has occalioned, 
 but to allure you that I know no perfon whofe con- 
 duct had been confidered as more attentive to, and 
 
 > tenacious of the ftricteft obfervance of every moral 
 duty which can tend to enhance the value of the fo- 
 ciety where we live, than that of yourfelf whilft in 
 India. 
 
 SIR, &c. 
 
 CHARLES COCKERELL. 
 TRIAL.
 
 TRIAL. 
 
 /;/ the Kings Bench, 
 
 Feb. 26, 1793, 
 
 CAMPBELL againft HOOK, Efq. 
 
 JVlR. Holroyd. May it pleafe your Lordfhip, A 
 Gentlemen of the Jury, Charles Collins Campbell is 
 the plaintiff, and Archibald Hook the defendant. The 
 declaration complains, that the defendant made an 
 aflault upon the wife of the plaintiff, and debauched, 
 lay with, and carnally knew her, and likewife that he B 
 has taken her away : whereby he has loft the comfort 
 and afliftance of his wife, to his damage of 50,000!. 
 The defendant has pleaded, he is not guilty, upon 
 which the ifiue is joined. 
 
 Mr. Erjkine. May it pleale your Lordfhip, Gen- C 
 tlemen of the Jury, I am of counfel for the plaintiff, 
 Mr. Campbell ; and though I feel upon this occafion 
 for the unfortunate fituation of my client, as my fide- L 
 lity in this place requires I muft ftate it : yet, as it \. 
 fuggefts itfelf to me, I will fairly admit to you, if I D 
 could difcharge from my mind the painful fenfations 
 
 H he
 
 A he muft have had, if this caufe had been poftponed, 
 or entirely put to an end, I ihould have derived parti- 
 cular fatisfaction, as far as perfonally concerns myfelf. 
 I do not know a more painful fenfation that belongs to 
 an advocate, to ftate a cafe that muft bring reproach 
 
 B upon human nature itfelf; which, if proved, ftrikes 
 at all the confidence and comfort of human life. 
 
 Gentlemen, the defendant, who is charged with cri- 
 minal converfation with the wife of the plaintiff, is an 
 uncle of the lady not an uncle by marriage, but her 
 
 C mother's brother. That I am perfnaded is fufficient to 
 engage all your attention, and excite your indignation 
 in the caufe. 
 
 I am informed the 'adultery and the inceft is to be 
 denied, and that denial is to be infilled on as a prin- 
 
 D cipal part of the defence ; for what other can exift, I 
 cannot tell. I have no difficulty in ftating and con- 
 ceding to my learned friend, it ought to be perfectly 
 eftablifhed in proof: but I, in point of fact, fhall prove 
 the adultery, and not wafte your time or mine in fta- 
 
 E ting preliminary obfervatipns upon the nature of the 
 cafe ; all I fhall do, will be to ftate the circumftances, 
 fo that you may underftand the evidence. 
 
 Gentlemen, the plaintiff, Mr. Campbell, is a Cap- 
 tain of the 74th regiment, a fon of "Colonel Camp- 
 
 F bell, of Campbell-town, Argylefhire. i 
 
 The lady was- born about the year 1770, or 17715 
 and married in 1786; is the daughter of a Colonel 
 Frafer, in the Eaft India Company's fei vice ; was moft 
 religioufly educated and brought up in morals, that 
 
 G unfortunately, however, have not been proof againft 
 the feduction of this relation. 
 
 It appears that Mr. Campbell being appointed 
 to his regiment, that was raifing in Scotland, it be- 
 came neceffary for him to attend on the recruiting fer- 
 K vice. Afterwards, his regiment was ordered to the 
 Eaft Indies. His wife, with whom he was living in 
 the greareft affection, was to accompany him, and 
 
 Colonel
 
 ( 59 ) 
 
 Colonel Frafer's lady being to accompany them to A 
 Hilfea barracks, at leaft it was expelled the lady ot" 
 Colonel Frafer would have been there. When Cap- 
 tain Campbell came to Hilfea barracks to fettle his af- 
 fairs, and his wife was to accompany him to the Eaft 
 Indies, there was no reluctance on her part to go- B 
 ing ; (he (aid it was painful to part with her mother, 
 but (he was defirous to o;o with her hufband. Whilft 
 
 D 
 
 the plaintiff was at Hilfea barracks, the defendant, a 
 Major in the Eaft India Company's fervice, returned 
 to England with a confiderable fortune : when he came C 
 back to this country, he found his own niece under 
 the protection of her mother, the hufband, the plain- 
 tiff, being abfent. 
 
 Gentlemen, one is forry to lay any charge of a cri- 
 minal nature again ft any body ; I am forry to be obli- j) 
 ged, profeffionaily, to lay fuch a charge againft any 
 individual, much more when it is a crime againft hu- 
 man nature which we all wear and carry about us ; 
 but the caufe is fuch as obliges me to (late it. 
 
 The moment the defendant came to England, he 
 conceived the diabolical purpofe of debauching her 
 from her hufband. So early was the plan offeduzi'wn on 
 the part of the uncle, that the hufband found, before 
 the uncle had been three weeks in England, a differ- 
 ence in the ftile of her letters. She began to raife ob- p 
 ftacles againft going to the Eaft Indies. There was 
 fomething dreadful and aftonifhing in the ftile of thofe 
 letters, and he could not guefs what the meaning of 
 it was, it did not occur to his mind how fhould it ? 
 How was it poffible he could conceive there could be. Q 
 any criminal intercourfe with her uncle ? yet he faw 
 fhe was under his influence, and fhe was to take a 
 journey to Scotland under pretence of vifiting the fa- 
 ther. Without making any farther animadverfions 
 upon it, that which took place was, that notwithftand- pj 
 ing all he could do, his wife was adverfe and contrary 
 to his inclinations, and the advice of the uncle had led 
 
 II 2 her
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 A her mind to obey his will and inclinations inflead of 
 her hufband's. 
 
 Soon after this the plaintiff embarked with his re- 
 giment to the Eaft Indies. The defendant had had the 
 art to procure even the father of Captain Campbell to 
 
 B infift upon his uncle taking a fort of guardianfhip and 
 charge of the plaintiff's wife. The plaintiff and his 
 father, I am told, had been at variance, and the de- 
 fendant blew the coals. He went down to Scotland, 
 and carried his lady with him, and pretended there had 
 
 C been great quarrels between her and her hufband, and 
 that it was unfafe for her to accompany him to the Eaft 
 Indies, and that fhe had better remain with the mo- 
 ther. All this while, as I fhall prove, he was carrying 
 on this feduction that gives rife to this caufe. The 
 
 D defendant's purpofe was carried on for fome time. The 
 niece remained under care of the mother, till fhe 
 (Mrs. Frafer) went to the Eaft Indies to ker huf- 
 band, and he remained in a connection with this wo- 
 man, pretending he fhould take care of her as a pa- 
 
 E rent, during which time he held this inceftuous com- 
 merce. As the witnefTes come from the other end 
 of the town, I fhall not perhaps be able to begin with 
 that witnefs who is to prove what is very material 
 to this caufe. That before the defendant, the uncle 
 
 F of this lady, had been three weeks in England, under 
 pretence of going to the father, i fhall be able to prove 
 the defendant was in fuch a fituation with her, as to be 
 able to feduce her; (though I do not afk you to be- 
 lieve it as proof of adultery,) it will be fufficient to 
 
 G convince you he had caft his eyes upon her at that 
 time, and therefore every thing that happened after- 
 wards, muft be referred to that criminal purpofe 
 which at that time had taken poiTeffion of his mind. 
 This was three or four weeks after the plaintiff was at 
 
 H Hilfca barracks, and it was in that place he firft law a 
 change in his wife's correfpondence. It was in that 
 place he firft found, but did not know, why her affec- 
 tions
 
 tions were eftranged from him, and of which he com- A 
 plains now ; and that her uncle had given directions to 
 fupply her with fine clothes, and accuftomed her to 
 difljpation, which at firft feemed to be only the effects 
 of an indulgent and affectionate parent, but in the erd 
 proved deftructive and of bad confequence to him ; fo B 
 far was he from imagining that inceftuous commerce 
 took place. My learned friend comes here to main- 
 tain, that his client is not only innocent of the inceftuous 
 commerce, but that his mind and imagination never 
 fuggefted fuch intercourfe. If that is to be fet up, it B 
 never can be fuggefted that fuch inceftuous commerce 
 has not in fact taken place. 'To Captain Campbell it 
 was difficult to believe it when he heard it, when he 
 came firft from the Eaft Indies. I underftand, and I 
 am extremely glad the caufe has not gone off upon ac- D 
 count of the great diftance the witnelTcs come from. 
 J have them now in court, they will be called, they 
 are many in number. I will prove firft of all, the de- 
 fendant was found in a fituation with his own niece at 
 Ramfgate, three weeks after his arrival in England, E 
 fhameful and fhocking to relate. I have witnefles that 
 he was feen almoft in che very act of adultery, and that 
 repeatedly; and if that proof be not fufficient, where 
 ihall we prove it ? I ftnll prove it was his courfe and 
 conftant habit to deep with her every night, in the fame F 
 bed, for the whole of the night. It will be fuggefted 
 my witnefles come to mifreprefent fa<5b then they 
 muft come with a confpiracy. I Ihould be glad if my 
 friends will lay the foundation for your belief of it. 
 The witnefles are perfons of character, and fome of G 
 them difcharged from places of perfons, over whom 
 my client has no influence ; and unlefs you believe 
 them to be corrupted with money, to come here to 
 face God and man, againft their confcience to fwear 
 againft innocence, you cannot but find a verdict upon H 
 the facts being proved, which is the object of the ac- 
 tion. It is a cafe of the moft ferious nature, and muft 
 
 depend
 
 A depend upon the complexion that belongs to it, when 
 you have heard both fides. - 1 fhall lay fuch a cafe be- 
 fore you as I have dated, and happy fhail I be, as 
 every man muft, if, inftead of ftanding up to fpeak to 
 you again, I fhould fee upon the evidence, he was not 
 
 B guilty, as every man would wifh it not proved againft 
 himj but I am apprchenfive the evidence is fuch as 
 will urge it upon you, fo far as to deferve your fe- 
 rious attention and confideration. 
 
 The Reverend Alexander Clee fevorn. Examined by 
 Mr. Mingay. 
 
 Q^ Do you know Mr. Campbell? 
 
 A. Yes, I do. 
 
 Q^ Do you know his wife ? Was you prefent at the 
 marriage ? 
 
 A. I married them. 
 
 Q^ When ? 
 
 A. On Friday, February 17, 1786 that is the 
 precife day. 
 
 Q._ Did you know the lady before fhe married ? 
 
 A. I did. 
 
 Q^ Who was fhe ? 
 
 A. She was a Mifs Frafer. 
 
 Q^ What relation was Ihe to Major Hook ? 
 
 A. I underftand they were coufins, that fhe wjis the 
 daughter of Mrs. Frafer, the wife of Colonel Frafer, 
 and her father was in India at the time. 
 
 Q^ Do ycu know what relation fhe was to Mrs. 
 Frafer ? 
 
 A. I do not. 
 
 Q^ What age was the lady when ihe married ? 
 
 A., I can-
 
 A. I cannot fay ; fhe was thought to be about fe- A 
 venteen or eighteen. 
 
 Examined by Mr. Bearcroft. 
 
 >^ You have not faid yet, according to what ce- B 
 remony they were married ? 
 
 A. According to the Church of England mode of 
 marriage, which is ufed at the chapel where I prefide. 
 
 Mr. Lawrence Campbell fivorn. Examined by Mr. 
 Holroyd. 
 
 Q. I believe you know the plaintiff, Captain Camp- C 
 bell? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Were you abroad with Captain Campbell and 
 Mrs Campbell any time ? 
 
 A. I was in France with them. D 
 
 Q^ At what time ? 
 
 A. In 1787. 
 
 Q^ Shortly after their marriage ? 
 
 A. After their marriage. 
 
 Q. I believe Mrs. Campbell, your wife, was with 
 her? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Was Mrs. Frafer, Mrs. Campbell's mother 
 with her ? 
 
 A. Alfo. F 
 
 Q._ At that time the plaintiff and his wife lived 
 with Mrs. Frafer ? 
 
 A. They did, Sir. 
 
 Q._ Now in what manner did the plaintiff and h's 
 wife conduct themfelves to each other ? Q 
 
 A. I always underftood with the greateil harmony. 
 
 Lord Chief Juftice. They appeared fo ? 
 
 A. They 
 '
 
 A A. They appeared fo. 
 
 Q^ Mr.'H. How long were you with them in 
 France ? 
 
 A. About three weeks. 
 
 Q^ Were you particularly acquainted with them ? 
 JJ A. Certainly, Sir, we lived under the fame roof. 
 
 Q^ Do you know the defendant ? 
 
 A. Perfedly well. 
 
 Q^ Do you know what relation he is to Mrs, 
 Frafer ? 
 A. Brother. 
 
 Q._ And therefore uncle to Mrs. Campbell ? 
 
 A. Ofcourfe. 
 
 Q^ Mr. Bearcroft. What relation are you to Mrs. 
 Campbell ? 
 
 A. I am brother to the plaintiff. 
 
 Q^ What time in 1787 was it you were in France ? 
 E A. I think it was in the months of July, Auguft, 
 and September. 
 
 Q^ There or thereabouts ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Had you feen them together before the time 
 E they were in France ? 
 
 A. Not before. 
 
 Q. That was the firft opportunity you had of feeing 
 ' them ? 
 
 A. I was with Mrs. Frafer, the mother, in the 
 F fame houfe. 
 
 Q._ You faw them daily ? 
 
 A. I faw them daily. 
 
 Q._ Do you mean to fay, according to your obfer- 
 vatipn, you believed that they lived in perfect har- 
 G mony ? 
 
 A. Certainly fo. 
 
 Q^ You had no reafbn to fuppofe the contrary ? 
 
 A. I had no reafon to fuppofe it. 
 
 Q^ You never faw any thing particular to lead you 
 to it ? 
 
 A. I.
 
 C 65 ) 
 
 A. No. A 
 
 Q._ You never obferved any thing particular in the 
 temper, difpofition, and behaviour of the plaintiff to- 
 wards his wife ? 
 
 A. No, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Did you come home with them ? * 
 
 A. No, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Then the only opportunity you had of feeing 
 them together, were thofe two or three months in 
 France ? 
 
 A. The only time. 
 
 Q^ You know the plaintiff's hand writing ? 
 
 A. Yes, certainly, Sir. 
 
 Q._ Do me the favour to look at thefe fubfcrip- 
 tions, and 'tell me whether they are the plaintiff's ? 
 
 A. Yes, 'I do believe that to be his writing. D 
 
 Q^ Look at that fubfcription ? 
 
 A. I believe that is. 
 
 Q^ Do you know what age the lady was when fhe 
 married ? 
 
 A. I fancy about fifteen or fixteen. E 
 
 Q^ Juft come from fchool, 1 believe ? 
 
 A. Juft come from fchool. 
 
 Q. Was Mr. Campbell, the plaintiff, living in the 
 houfe with Mrs. Frafer, the mother, and his wife, at 
 that time ? F 
 
 A. I underftood fo from him I cannot fay. 
 
 Q^ Mr. Holroyd. Did you know the lady before fhe 
 Was married ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, 
 
 Q. Was it a match of inclination was it a love G 
 match ? 
 
 A. I fhould fuppofe fo. 
 
 Q^ Mr. Bearcroft. Of the parties, moft undoubt- 
 edly i 
 
 A. I fhould fuppofe fo. pj 
 
 I Mr.
 
 ( 66 ) 
 
 A Q. Mr. Erjkine. Pray, Sir, do you know the hand' 
 writing of Mrs. CampbeJI ? 
 A. No, Sir, I do not. 
 
 B Mrs. Campbell faorn. Examined by Mr. Erfkinc. 
 
 Q._ You are the wife, I believe, of the gentleman 
 who has juft now been examined ? 
 
 A. I am -the wife of Mr. Campbell. 
 Q. Mr. Lawrence Campbell ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Was you acquainted with Mrs. Campbell, the 
 plaintiff's wife ? 
 
 A. I was. 
 D Q. Did you know her before her marriage ? 
 
 A. I did. 
 
 Q^ Who was fhe ? 
 
 A. She was a Mifs Frafer. 
 
 Q^ How long before this marriage ? 
 A. Two or three years. 
 
 Q^ Do you remember the courtihip between Cap-* 
 tain Campbell and her ? 
 
 A. No, I do not. 
 
 CX Do you remember her marriage i 
 p A. I hear ! of it. 
 
 Q^ Where did you fir ft fee her ? 
 
 A. In France. 
 
 CK You was there with your huibana and Mrs. 
 
 Frafcr r 
 
 Q A. Yes, at Paris, in France, and likewife at Bou- 
 logne. 
 
 Q^ How long ? 
 A. About a month. 
 
 Q Tell my Lord and the jury, whether you had an 
 
 H opportunity of feeing, by living in the manner you 
 
 described with them, whether Captain Campbell and 
 
 his
 
 h'is wife, Mrs. Campbell, lived in affecYion with one A 
 another ? 
 
 A. They always appeared to me to be upon very 
 good terms with one another. 
 
 Q^ Did they appear fo from that fort of circum- 
 ftance a recent marriage from inclination ? B 
 
 A. They did. 
 
 Q._ You did not keep much company with (Irangers 
 in that country ? 
 
 A. No, we did not. 
 
 Q^ Of courfe lived in each other's company almcft C 
 entirely ? 
 
 A. Almoft entirely. 
 
 Q,_ Did you ever obferve, during that time, any 
 want pf affection from her to him, or he to her 
 
 A. No, I did not. D 
 
 Q^ What age is Captain Campbell, the plaintiff. 
 
 A. About thirty. 
 
 Q^ DO you know Mrs. Campbell's hand writing ? 
 
 A. I believe I do. 
 
 Q^ Look at thofe letters ? E 
 
 Q^ Mr. GarrcKV. You have feen her write ? 
 
 A. I have, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Mr. Erjklne. Are they her hand writing ? 
 
 A. To the beft of my knowledge they are. 
 
 Mr. Erjklne. You will crofs examine her to that F 
 if you pleafe. 
 
 Mr. Gar row. No, we (hall not, we might as well 
 examine Chevalier d'Eon to it. 
 
 Another letter Jhewn her. 
 
 Mrs. C. I don't know that hand writing. G 
 
 Tke witnefs proved feveral different letters tz bs her 
 hand writing. 
 
 I 2 Donald
 
 Donald Campbell fworn. Examined by Mr. Mingay. 
 
 , You of courfe know the plaintiff and his wife ? 
 
 A. I do, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Now during the time, from the time they firft 
 came together, till the time when you heard of this 
 unfortunate affair with the family, did they live happy 
 together, or otherwife ? 
 
 A. They always did. 
 
 Q^ Did they afibciate much out of their own par- 
 ticular family ? 
 
 A. I had not an opportunity of feeing much of 
 them, I lived moftly upon the continent ; I rather 
 think they were moftly living in happinefs together. 
 
 Croft- examine dl>y Mr. Garrow. 
 
 Q.^ From what time to what time, are you able to 
 *^ give any account of them ? 
 
 A. From the time of their marriage till I firft heard 
 of this bufmefs. 
 
 Q^ Where did you fee them, upon the continent ? 
 
 A. No, I did not, they were in Brook-ftreet, they 
 took lodgings there. 
 
 Q._ Was that after they returned from the conti- 
 nent, or before they went ? 
 
 A. I rather think it was after they returned. 
 
 Q^Do you remember what year it was in ? 
 
 A. I do not recollect. 
 
 Q^ I took it for granted you did not, from the man- 
 ner my friend put his queftion. You cannot tell any 
 year or length of time, from the time of Noah ? 
 
 Q^ Lord Chief Jujtice. Can you tell about what 
 time ? 
 
 A. I cannot. It might be four or five years ago. 
 
 Mr.
 
 m Q. Mr. Garrow. For how long together might you A 
 fee them ? 
 
 A. For a very fhort time, as I mentioned I was 
 moftly upon the continent. 
 
 Q^ A very fhort time might mean a month, a week, 
 or a day ? B 
 
 A. I was about three weeks there, every day al- 
 moft, to pay a vifit. , 
 
 Q^ And you an accidental vifitor ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Mr. Bearcroft. The defendant returned to Eng- C 
 land about February 7, 1788, as appears by my 
 brief. 
 
 Elizabeth Fterbfon fzvorn. Examined by Mr. Holroyd. D 
 
 Q. I believe you lived as cook with Mrs. Frafer ? 
 
 A. I did. 
 
 Q^ Were you in that capacity with her in the year 
 1788 ? E 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, I was. 
 
 Q^ Do you remember the family going to Ramf- 
 gate in the year 1788 ? 
 I A. Yes, Sir, I do. 
 
 Q^ How long was that after Major Hook's arrival ? F 
 Do you remember in what month ? 
 A. -I believe it was in July. 
 
 Q._ Mrs. Frafer went to liamfgate ? 
 
 A. Y.- 
 
 Q. And Mrs. Campbell ? G 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Was Major Hook there ? 
 
 A. He was not. 
 
 Q^ He came there after you went ? 
 
 A. Yes, he did. pj 
 
 Q^ Where was Captain Campbell ? 
 
 A. 1 believe at Chatham, or Portfmouth. 
 
 3
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 Was he with his regiment there ? 
 
 A. I cannot fay. 
 
 Q^ How long was they at Ramfgate ? 
 
 A. I believe ten weeks. 
 
 Q^ Do you remember feeing any thing particular 
 B between Mrs. Campbell and Major Hook ? 
 
 A. Never but once. Sir, when I went in with a 
 bit of bread. 
 
 Q^ When you went in where ? 
 
 A. To the parlour. 
 C CX_ What did you fee there ? 
 
 A. I faw the Major fitting with his arm round 
 her neck, and his right leg upon her lap. 
 
 Q^ Did you obferve any thing refpefting her hair ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, her hair was rolled round his arm. 
 J) Q^ State what you faw. 
 
 A. Her hair was rolled round his left arm. 
 
 Q._ Did you obferve any thing farther ? 
 
 A. His right hand in her handkerchief. 
 
 Lord Chief Juftice. Q^ The handkerchief that co- 
 E vered her neck ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Counfel. Q^ Did you obferve any thing elfe ? 
 
 A. No, Sir, I did not. 
 
 Q. Do you remember Major Hook's arrival at 
 F Ramfgate? 
 
 A. Yes, I do. 
 
 Q^ Did any thing particular pafs at the time ? 
 
 A. Mrs. Campbell was very much alarmed, and 
 fainted away upon his coming in j I remember that, 
 G Sir. 
 
 Q^ That you remember ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Lord Chief Jufece. Q^ At who's coming there ? 
 
 A. At Major Hook's, the defendant's. 
 j-j Counfel. Q._ Where did they return again from 
 Ramfgate ? 
 
 A. To
 
 C 7' ) 
 
 A. To Brook-ftreet. A 
 
 Q^ To Mis. Frafer's? 
 A. Yes, to the houfe they came from. 
 (i_ Did they all come together ? 
 A. No, I believe the Major went to his houfe. 
 Q^ You returned ? B 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ To Brook-ftreet, Mrs. Frafer's houfe ? 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Major Hook went to his bwn houfe ? 
 A. Yes. C 
 
 Q^ What time was it you faw that at Ramfgatc 
 you have been defcribing ? 
 
 A. It was fome time in the morning. 
 
 Q._ In what month ? 
 
 A. I cannot fay. j) 
 
 Q._ You faid you went there in July ? 
 
 A. Yes, I think it was about Michaelmas time. 
 
 Q._ How long was it before you returned to town ? 
 
 A. We came to town fome time in September. 
 
 E 
 
 Crofs-examitud by Mr. Bearcroft. 
 
 Q^ What was your fituation in the family ? 
 
 A. Cook. p 
 
 Q. You went by order to the parlour ? 
 
 A. No, I went to carry a bit of bread, by Mrs. 
 Frafer's order. 
 
 Q^ For whom ? 
 
 A. For Mrs. Campbell and Major Hook. G 
 
 Q^ They took it, as if they expected it ? 
 
 A. I do not know whether they expeded ic or 
 not. 
 
 Q._ You carried it, and you gave it them ? 
 
 A. I did not look at them when I gave the plate. 
 
 Q^ You went for the purpofe of carrying the bread 
 there, and it was received ? 
 
 A. Yes.
 
 ( 7* ) 
 A A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ No body faid for what it was fent ? 
 A. No. 
 
 Q^ It was expected therefore ? 
 A. Yes. 
 
 B Q^ The door was open when you went in ? 
 A. Yes, Sir, it was. 
 Q^ Was it wide open ? 
 A. Partly open. 
 
 Q^ You delivered the bread and went away j you 
 C did not ftay, I fuppofe ? 
 
 A. I did not (top a moment hardly. 
 Q^ You ftepp'd in, and delivered the bread, and 
 went away ? 
 A. Yes. 
 
 jy Q^ You did not flop at all ? 
 A. No. 
 
 Q._ You did not let the plate fall ? 
 A. No, I held it fo, and one of them took it, I 
 don't know which. 
 
 j? [The witnefs held out her hand with the bread one way, 
 and turned her face the other way.] 
 
 Q^ You did not exprefs any particular furprife ? 
 A, Why, Sir, I cannot lay I liked to fee them fo. 
 Q^ You made all thefe obfervations ? 
 p A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Of courfe you thought it extremely improper ? 
 A. Very, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Did you ever fee Mr. Campbell, the hufband, 
 after that ? 
 
 Q A. I believe I did fee him once he came in the 
 * hall once. I don't recollcft I ever faw him but once 
 after that. 
 
 Q._ I take it for granted you told Mrs. Frafer, the 
 mother, immediately ? 
 TT A, No, I did not, Sir. 
 
 Mr. Holroyd. How came you to take the bread 
 up ? 
 
 A. Mrs,
 
 ( 73 ) 
 
 A. Mrs. Frafer ordered me to carry the bread, 
 Lord Chief Juftice. She faid fo before. 
 Q^ Where was Mrs. Frafer ? 
 
 ^ A. She was in one parlour, and the Major and Mrs. 
 
 Campbell in the other. 
 
 Robert Green called and appeared. 
 
 Jofeph Rippington fworn, Examined by Mr. Er- c 
 
 Ikine. V 
 
 Q^ Did vou live, Sir, at any time with Mr. Hook, 
 the defendant ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, I did. 
 
 Q^ In what capacity did you live with him ? 
 
 A. I was hired co him as a valet. 
 
 Q^ At what time ? 
 
 A. In the year 1789. 
 
 Q^ At what time of the year ? 
 
 A. In the beginning of May. E 
 
 [Green was ordered to withdraw, on motion of 'defen- 
 dant's counfeL"] 
 
 Q^ Do you know the witnefs that is juft now ig- 
 tired out of court ? 
 
 A. I faw him after I left the Major, but while I F 
 Jiyed there, I have feen him. 
 
 Q^ Did you live there before him ? 
 
 A. Before him. 
 
 Q. You came there in May 1789 ? 
 
 A. Yes. G 
 
 Q^ Where was your matter living at that time ? 
 
 A. At the Bath Hotel. 
 
 Q^ Was he living at the Path Hotel, when you 
 lived with him ? 
 
 A. Yes, he was ; he had been there iome time, H 
 
 Q^ That was his place of refidence ? 
 
 A. Yes.
 
 ( 74 ) 
 
 ^ Who lived with him there ? 
 A. There was a lady living with him there, that I 
 underftood to be Mrs. Campbell. 
 
 Q.. Do you know now who it was ? did you ever 
 .hear the defendant fay who it was ? 
 B A. No, Sir, not the defendant, only by calling her 
 by the name of Mrs. Campbell. 
 
 Q. You heard the defendant call her Mrs. Camp- 
 bell ? 
 
 A. Yes, every time almoft that I wen; into the 
 C room. 
 
 Q^ How long did you continue at the Bath Hotel ? 
 A. I continued about three weeks. 
 Q. Where did your mafter go from the Bath 
 Hotel ? 
 D A. He went into Sackville-ftreet. 
 
 Q^ How long did you continue there ? 
 A. About two months. 
 
 Q^ Be fo good as to tell me whether, when he wa$ 
 living in Sackville-rtreet, the defendant gave you di- 
 E reftions to buy any thing, and what ? 
 
 A. He defired I would buy fome prints. 
 Q^ Of what fort ? 
 
 A. He faid fmutty ones, the moft fmutty ones I 
 could get. 
 Q^ Did you in confequence of thefe directions buy 
 
 any ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, I did. 
 
 Q^ Did he tell you what he wanted them for ? 
 A. He told me he wanted to fend them W India, tq 
 G a friend in India. 
 
 Q^ Did he tell you where to find them ? 
 A. No, Sir, he did not know where. 
 Q. Did you buy them I 
 A. Yes, 1 did. 
 
 H Q; '1 hey are of a nature I fhould thjnk it very 
 fhameful to exhibit in the court ? 
 A. They are. 
 
 Lord
 
 ( 75 ) 
 
 Lofd Cbiefjuftice. I am very fo'rry there is a mar- A 
 ket to be found for thofe things. 
 , Mr. Rear croft, Jt is a pity but it fhould be known, 
 that the Attorney General may hear of it. . 
 
 Mr. Erjkine. Q. Are they prints of the mod in- 
 decent nature ? 
 
 A. Yesi they are the moft fo .that I could get. 
 Q^ Did you ever fee any of thofe prints that you 
 purchafed for Major Hook, in the Major's hand, and 
 and upon what occafion ? 
 A. I went into the room one day. 
 Qi Did he expeft you at the time you went in ? 
 A. No, Sir, he did riot. 
 
 Qi You went into the room at a time he did not ex- 
 pect yoUj with a meflage ? Tell us what was in the 
 room when you came in. s 
 
 A. There was Mrs. Campbell and the Major. 
 Q; Now be fo good to tell us what you faw ? 
 A. He had one of thofe prints in his hand I had 
 been purchafing for him, and fhe Was looking over his 
 fhoulder. E 
 
 Lord Chief Jujlice. Q^ She was looking over his 
 flioulder at the prints ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir; when I came in, flie turned her 
 head, and walked away towards the window. 
 
 Q. Now, Sir, I afk you, upon your folemn oath, F 
 whether you are now relating what you pofitively 
 know ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir j I do, Sir; I know it to be a fact. 
 Q. NbWj Sir, in confequence, of your having feen 
 this, did it occur to you to have a fufpicion of con- G 
 neclion ? 
 
 Mr. Garrowt Sufpicion is that a queftion ? 
 Mr. Erjkine. I think your objection is valid, and 
 will not continue it: Where was Major Hook and 
 
 Campbell's apartments in Sackville-ftreet ? H 
 
 A. Their bed- rooms adjoined one another. 
 
 K z Q^ Major
 
 ( 76 ) 
 
 A- Q; Major Hook's bed-chamber and Mrs. Camp- 
 bell's joined together ? 
 
 A. Mrs. Campbell's and Major Hook's joined to 
 one another. 
 
 (^ Was there any opening between one room and 
 *> the other ? 
 
 A. Yes, there was a door that went out of one 
 room into the other. 
 
 Q. Did you ever travel with Mr. Hook and Mrs. 
 Campbell ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, I did all the fummer. 
 (^ To what parts did you travel ? 
 A. Travelled all through South Wales. 
 Q^ Did any body accompany them ? 
 A. Nobody at all, no other fervant but myfelf. 
 ^ Q. No other perfon but the defendant and Mrs. 
 Campbell ? 
 
 A. No, Sir, nobody. 
 
 Q. Be fo good as to tell us whether you remember 
 any particular diredion given by the defendant, in the 
 E courfe of your journey, at any particular inn ? 
 
 A. When he went to take any lodgings in town,, 
 he would not take them unlefs there were two bed- 
 rooms communicating with one another; and it was 
 (b at all the inns j if not fo, he would not flop, but go 
 F to another inn. 
 
 (^ Was this in particular, or in general only ? 
 A. It was in general, at all the places that ever I 
 faw ? 
 
 Q^ Do you know what time Captain Campbell 
 G went to India ? 
 
 A. No, I do not. 
 
 Q. (To Mr. Hawkins, attorney for the plaintiff). 
 What time did he go ? 
 
 Mr. Hawkins. A. He went on board, December 
 M 1788, and failed in the beginning of January, 1789. 
 Q. (To the ivitnefs.) Did you ever fee, befides that 
 
 print
 
 ( 77 ) 
 
 print Mrs. Carrtpbell was looking at, any publication A 
 laying in the room ? 
 
 A. Yes, I did fee a book of a divorcement. 
 
 Q. What book was it ? 
 
 A. It was either the Marchionefs of Carmarthen, 
 or Lady Tyrconnel. 
 
 Q: The trial ? B 
 
 A. The trial, 
 
 CX Did you fee it laying open ? 
 
 A. Yes, I faw it laying in the Drawing-room. 
 
 Q. The drawing-room where the defendant and 
 Mrs. Campbell lived ? 
 
 A. The very room, Sir. 
 
 Q. Have you ever had any opportunity ? 
 
 \_Here Mr. Ganow objected to the leading quef- 
 tlon.~\ C 
 
 As I don't wifh to lead you.' Do you know any 
 thing elfe material to inform the court any thing that 
 you obferved particular between Mrs. Campbell and 
 the defendant ? 
 
 A. When I was at the Ivy Bufh at Carmarthen, they D 
 had two rooms, one behind the other. Mrs. Camp- 
 bell fleeped in the other one. 
 
 Lord Chief Jujlice. Q^ Did you obferve any thi,ng 
 there ? 
 
 A. No, my Lord, I, did not, only from the chain- E 
 ber-maids, what they told me. 
 
 Robert Green fzvorn. Examined by Mr. JVIingay. 
 
 jp 
 
 Q. Did you at any time live with Mr. Hook ? 
 A. I did. 
 Q; When ? 
 A. In the year 1790. 
 
 Q. Did you go in 1789, or 1790 ? Q 
 
 A. 1790, Sir. 
 
 Q^Do
 
 ( 7* ) 
 
 A <}. Do you know whether at that time Gaptalii 
 Campbell was abroad ? 
 A. He was abroad. 
 
 Q. Where was ic firft of all you lived with Majof 
 Hook ? 
 ** A. In Duke-ftreet, Manchefter-fquare. 
 
 Q^ Do you remember going into the drawing- 
 room, and feeing any thing particular between Mr. 
 Hook and Mrs. Campbell ? 
 
 A. I had been in Major Hook's fervice about fix 
 C weeks and a day or two; but before that, I had a fuf- 
 picion from what I had fecn between Major Hook and 
 Mrs. Campbell, I thought there was fomething going 
 on improper between an uncle and niece. After din- 
 ner, more from curiofity than any thing elfe, I went 
 D up into the drawing-room, and I faw Major Hook and 
 Mrs. Campbell fitting on the couch, which flood 
 behind the door, in a very criminal way, with one 
 arm round Mrs. Campbell's neck, and the other under 
 her petticoats ; I plainly could fee Mrs. Campbell's 
 E knee. 
 
 Q. Her naked knee ? 
 A. Her naked knee. 
 
 Q. Did you go out of town with Mr. Hook and 
 Mrs. Campbell ? 
 
 F A. Yes. After this, one day, Major Hook fays to 
 Mrs. Campbell, I am going out now, and I will come 
 in to dinner. I remember we had for dinner a cod's 
 head and founds, and Major Hook never came in to 
 dinner. Mrs. Campbell waited very impatiently till 
 G fix o'clock, when fhe feemed in a violent pafllon, and 
 ordered me to take the dinner down, and fhe would not 
 eat any dinner. She feemed very much enraged to 
 think he did not come home to dinner ; with that he 
 came home, about half paft ten at night. When he 
 came home, I let him in ; he went up into the draw- 
 ing-room, I went down into the kitchen. When I 
 had been down there the courfe of a quarter of an 
 
 hour,
 
 ( 79 ) 
 
 hour, I heard a violent fcream, and a cry of murder; A 
 with that I went up into the drawing-room, and I per- 
 ceived Major Hook (landing in a corner of the room, 
 with a chair before him, and fhe trying to (bike him 
 with a poker ; with that he defired me to quit the 
 room, which I did j I went down into the kitchen. I B 
 had not been there above five minutes, when I heard a 
 violent crying out again, and Mrs. Campbell run down 
 ftairs ; this was about half paft eleven, or near twelve: 
 ihe ran out into the ftreer, Major Hook followed her, 
 and defired me to go after her, which I did j I fol- B 
 lowed her out, and I overtook her a little way down 
 Duke-ftreet : fhe was in a deplorable condition, her 
 handkerchief tore all off her neck, and Major Hook 
 with waiflcoat tore open, and down as far as here. 
 
 [Pointing to about three inches from the wa(ft t ~\ D 
 
 With that I faid, fays I, for God's fake Mrs. Camp- 
 bell come iq. 
 
 Q^ Did fhe come in ? 
 
 A. I followed her, and overtook her, and faid, for 
 God's fake Mrs. Campbell come in, confider what E 
 condition you are in, and the time of night, and 
 you will be taken up by the watch, and put in the 
 watch-houfe, with that (he returned, and fhut herfelf 
 in the parlour. 
 
 Q; Did any thing elfe happen ? J? 
 
 A. She fhut herfelf in the parlour, and Major Hook 
 came and faid, Harriet, Harriet, I infift upon your 
 coming out, I pray you to come out ; fhe came out, 
 and was running up ftairs, her foot flipp'd, and fhe 
 fell down upon the landing place, fhe fainted away, G 
 or pretended it, with that Major Hook flood over her, 
 and proclaimed thcfe words : " You are a whore, a 
 <f d d whore, and you are the worfl of whores. 
 She replied, " I am a whore, but it is only to you, 
 f f who ought to have been my father, my friend, my H 
 <c protector ; inftead of that, you have been my utter 
 cc ruin, and my friends. Oh my poorhufband !" 
 
 Q^ Repeat
 
 ( So ) 
 
 Repeat it again ? 
 
 A. He faid, " you are a whore, you are a 'd d 
 "whore, you are the worft of whores." She faid, "I 
 " am a whore, I own, but to you only, you ought to 
 " have been my father, and protestor, and friend, in- 
 B " ftead of that you have been my entire ruin, and my 
 " friends. Oh my poor hufband \" 
 
 Q^ Do you remember any thing while Mrs. Camp- 
 bell and Mr. Hook lived in Duke-ftreet, having feen 
 what paffed before, having the curiofity of going to 
 C her bed -room ? 
 A. I had. 
 Q^ When ? 
 
 A. There was a perfon living there, one Betty 
 White, a fervant to Mr. Whitehoufe, in Duke-ftreet, 
 D (he came down and joked with me, and faid, come 
 here, and look at the bed, I faid, by G d, here has 
 been more than one in the bed to-night, for when I 
 went up, I perceived the print of two people in the 
 bed. 
 
 E Q^ In Mrs. Campbell's bed ? 
 A. In Mrs. Campbell's bed. 
 
 Q^ Do you recollect going to Swanfea with Mr. 
 Hook and Mrs. Campbell ? 
 
 A. Perfectly well. 
 "F Q^ When was that? 
 
 A. In 1790, or 1791, I don't know which. 
 Q. Do you remember patting through the bed- 
 room what obfervation did you make ? 
 
 A. I recollect Major Hook always took care, where - 
 G ever we went, to whatever lodgings, to have two rooms 
 communicating with each other. 
 
 Q^ Do you remember, while at Swanfea, going to 
 a room adjoining to her bed-chamber ? 
 
 A. 1 do, it was one day after dinner, I was in the 
 H court-yard with the children, and Major Hook's fon 
 faid I was wanted ; I went up flairs. 
 
 2 Q^Did
 
 Q. Did you go into the room adjoining, where A 
 Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell were ? 
 
 A. Yes, I went into the room, and I perceived that 
 Major Hook and Mrs. Campbell were laying at the 
 foot of the bed. 
 
 Q^ Was it in her bed-room ? B 
 
 A. In her bed- room, and on the bed ; as fbon as 
 they faw me, it put them in a furprize, he ftarted up, 
 and the flap of his breeches hung down, and his face 
 was as red as fire ; the colour came all up into his 
 face, and Mrs. Campbell walked to another part of the C 
 room. 
 
 Q^ At that time did you obferve any part of the 
 perfon of Mrs. Campbell ? 
 
 A. Ye%, I did 1 faw at that time up as far as here, 
 (pointing to the knee.) D 
 
 Q._ Her thighs? 
 
 A. Yes, I did. 
 
 Q^ Her naked thighs ? 
 
 A. Her naked thighs. Then we went from Wal- 
 ton, and took a houfe at Twickenham. I left them E 
 at Twickenham. That is all I know. 
 
 Crofs-examiued by Mr. Garrow. 
 
 F 
 
 _ Pray, Mr. Green, how long did you live in the 
 
 fervice of Major Hook ? 
 
 A. About eleven months. 
 
 Q^ Did your wife live there ? 
 
 A. I was married when 1 lived with Major Hook, Q 
 and he afked for my wife to go down to Swanfea, to 
 attend the children , fhe was there about fix weeks ; 
 ihe was a weekly fervant. 
 
 Q. Were you at lad difcharged without warning ? 
 
 A. I gave him warning frequently. |-j 
 
 Q^ Was you at lad dilcharged without warning ? 
 
 A. I was, Major Hook undermined me, and hired 
 
 L another
 
 A another fervant, before he let me know his interi- 
 tion. 
 
 Q^ After, you fay, you giving him warning fre- 
 quently, had pafifed by you, and you continued ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 B Q^ The warning was not exifting at the time you 
 were difcharged ? 
 A. Yes, it was. 
 
 Q^ How long had you given warning before ? 
 A. Several times. 
 C Q^ He undermined you ? 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ And did it unhandfomely ? 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q._ You have frequently exprefied yourfelf fo, that 
 E> he had ufed you extremely ill ? 
 A. No. 
 
 Q^ That you have frequently expreflcd ? 
 A. That I never exprefled. 
 Q^ To no perfon upon earth ? 
 E A. No. 
 
 Q. You never complained Major Hook uftd you 
 ill? 
 
 A. I cannot fay but I may have faid he did not ufe 
 me well ; I never heard he ufed any fervant well. 
 F Q^ This gentleman never ufed any body well ? 
 A. I heard he never did, not as a fervant. 
 Q^ Your reafons for going to look at Mrs. Camp- 
 bell's bed were, that Betty White invited you there ? 
 
 A. Yes, frequently. 
 
 Q Q^ You have ftated you faw the imprefllon of two 
 perfons having lain upon the bed ? 
 A. Yes, Mrs. Campbell's bed. 
 Q^ Did you obferve^iny thing elfe particular ? 
 A. Yes, 
 
 H Q^ Perhaps Betty White Ihew'd it you ? 
 A. No. 
 Q. It was in her prefence you faw it ? 
 
 i A. She
 
 A She was in another part of the room. A 
 
 Q; Did you communicate it to her ? 
 
 A. No, 1 did not like to do fo to a woman. 
 
 Q. Not to a woman that defired you to obferve two 
 people had lain in the bed ? 
 
 No anfwer. B 
 
 Q.^ You faid '"hv.- was a fervant to a perfon of the 
 name of Whitelnn r e ? 
 
 A. She was ; Mr. Whitehqufe certainly has heard 
 me mention it. 
 
 Q^ About that time ? C 
 
 A. About that time. 
 
 Q. How often might Betty White invite you to 
 look at the bed ? 
 
 A. Upon my word I cannot tell, I did not take 
 any particular notice of it. D 
 
 Q; It happened frequently ? 
 
 A. Frequently. 
 
 Q^ Perhaps two or three dozer* times ? 
 
 A. No, but very frequently. 
 
 Sarah Green fworn. Examined by Mr. Holroyd, 
 
 Q^ You are wife to the laft witnefs ? 
 
 A. I am, Sir. 
 
 Q. Did you live witfi Mr. Hook and Mrs. Camp- 
 bell '? 
 
 A. I was not a hired fervant, but I was with them 
 about the courfe of fix weeks. 
 
 Q; Did you go with them to Swanf^a ? 
 
 A. Yes, I did. 
 
 Q. When was that ? 
 
 A. In the year 1791. 
 
 CK When they were atSwanfea, how were their bed- G 
 rooms fituate ? 
 
 A. They were all upon a floor, there were three 
 
 L 2 upon
 
 A upon the floor. The Major had one, Mrs. Camp- 
 bell had the other, and the children the other. 
 
 Q. Was there any communications between Mr. 
 Hook's and Mrs. Campbell's ? 
 
 B A. Yes, Sir, the children's room was between 
 them. 
 
 Lord Chief Jujlice. Q^ Did the rooms immediately 
 communicate, or was the children's room between 
 them? 
 
 C A. The children's room was between them. 
 1 Lord Chief Jujlice. Q.. The other man faid they 
 opened one to the other ? 
 
 A. They were fo, the doors that communicated 
 D with the children's room, was between them, but the 
 doors all opened to communicate to the other rooms. 
 Q; Was there any communication from Mrs. Camp- 
 bell's room to Mr. Hook's, except through the chil- 
 dren's room ? 
 E A. No, Sir. 
 
 Q. Did the children always fleep in the room ? 
 A. Yes, moftly j fometimes the oldeft fon flept 
 with the father fometimes, though not always. 
 Jury. Q^ Were thofe Mrs. Campbell's children ? 
 A. No, Sir, they were Major Hook's children. 
 F Mr. Holroyd. Q. How many children had Mr. 
 Hook ? 
 
 A. Three, Sir, two girls and a boy. 
 Q. Do you recollect any particular directions given 
 at the inns where they came to ? 
 G A. No, I cannot. 
 
 Q. How were the rooms ? 
 
 A. Always joining together; they always refufed 
 
 to take rooms, except they joined. I remember when 
 
 they were at the next inn to Swanfca, they would not 
 
 H take the rooms, becaufe they were not adjoining, if 
 
 they travelled all night. 
 
 Q^ The apartments for themfelves and children, all 
 joined together. 
 
 A. Yes,
 
 ( *s ) 
 
 A. Yes, fbmetimes the children ufed to fleep with A 
 her when there might be two beds in a room, the chil- 
 dren ufed to fleep in one, and Mrs. Campbell in the 
 other. 
 
 Q. Who attended the children ? 
 
 A. I always attended the children. B 
 
 Q^ Did you fleep with them ? 
 A. No, I ufed to fleep up flairs in a room juft 
 directly above them. 
 
 Q^ About what age might they be ? 
 A. I fhould fuppofe the eldeft fon was about eleven C 
 or twelve years of age, the others younger. 
 
 Q. Who attended Mrs. Campbell when fhe went 
 to bed ? 
 
 A. I always attended her. 
 
 Q^ You left her of courfe when fhe went to bed ? D 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q. How was the door left ? 
 
 A. Always open ; fhe always defired me to leave the 
 door of her own room, and the door of the children's 
 room open, both. E 
 
 Mr. Mingay. Q^ Do you mean the door of the 
 paflage ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, that which opened to go into the 
 immediate room, next that which opened to her 
 room. F 
 
 Mr. Carroty. Q^ And went off the flair-cafe into 
 the room ? 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q. Did you leave that door open ? 
 A. Yes, Sir, I did. G 
 
 Q. You went out of the (lair-cafe into the room ? 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Whofe room ? 
 
 A. The children's room on one fide, and the lady's 
 on the other. H 
 
 Q^ Was there any way into Mrs. Campbell's, but 
 thorough the children's room ? 
 
 A. No,
 
 ( 86 ) 
 
 A A. No, Sir, not at Swanfea. 
 
 Q. When you were in Mrs. Campbell's, has any 
 body come into the room ? 
 
 A. Yes, the Major has frequently come into the 
 room before I left it. 
 B Q. And Mrs. Campbell quite naked ? 
 
 A. Airnoft undrefled, and he half undreffed. 
 Q. Did he fee you there ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, he did, and when he faw me there, he 
 ufed to return again to his own room. 
 C Q; Has that been once, or oftener ? 
 A. Why, Sir, oftener. 
 Q. Where was this at, Swanfea ? 
 A. Tes, Sir, at Swanfea, during the courfe of the 
 time I was there. 
 
 D Q. Have you obferved any thing about the bed ? 
 A. No, Sir, I never did oblerve it. 
 Q. Did you make the bed, or the maid of the houfe 
 make it ? 
 
 A. Why, fometimes I, and fometimes the maid of 
 E the houfe, it was not a particular rule for either. 
 
 Crofs- examined by Mr. Bearcroft. 
 
 jr Q. What time of the year was it you were at 
 Swanfea ? 
 
 A. Why, I went about the middle of June, and 
 came home about the latter end of Auguft. 
 
 Q. You occafionally, perhaps, helped to make the 
 G bed? 
 
 A. I did, Sir. 
 
 Q. You made no obfervation upon it ? 
 A. I never did, Sir; I never noticed it. 
 Q. Your hufband never made the bed ? 
 -} A. No, Sir. 
 
 Q. Did you go away when your hufband did ? 
 
 A. Yes,
 
 A. Yes, Sir, I did. A 
 
 Q^ Was you turned away ? 
 
 A, No, Sir, I was net. 
 
 Q. You went away, becaufc he went way ? 
 
 A. No, 1 went away on the Friday ; they faid they 
 would take me back again, and my hufband was not B 
 willing I fhould go. 
 
 Q. Your hufband was ill-ufed, you thought ? 
 
 A. No farther than they had words ; my hufband 
 did not wifh me to go back, as I was not in a fituation 
 for fervice. C 
 
 Robert Green called again. 
 
 Lord Chief Jujlice. Q. You fay orders wefe given Q 
 in the courfe of your journey, the apartments fhould 
 be together ? 
 
 A. He never gave me any other orders about the 
 apartments, but that I fhould always take care to 
 have his apartments together. 
 
 <^ His family, that travelled with him, were this 
 lady, his niece, and the children ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q; How many apartments did they confift of? 
 
 A. He cbofe to have two adjoining rooms, and the p 
 doors communicating with each other. There were three 
 rooms on the floor at Swanfea where we lodged : Major 
 Hook's was on the left, here was the children's, and 
 here Mrs. Campbell's (defcribing them by motion of 
 his hand) at Swanfea ? P 
 
 Q. Was there any immediate communication at 
 Swanfea between Mrs. Campbell's and the Major's ? 
 
 A. The children's room parted them. 
 
 Elizabeth
 
 Elizabeth Hzrnfworn. Examined by Mr. Erfkine. 
 
 A C^ Did you live at any time with Mr. Hook ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, I did. 
 
 Q. When did you go to him ? 
 
 A. I lived with Mrs. Frafer firft. 
 
 Q. How long did you live in the whole with Mrs. 
 B Frafer did you live with Mr, Hook afterwards ? 
 
 A. Yes, when he came up to London. 
 
 Q._ Was you fervant to Mr. Hook, or only fervant 
 to Mrs. Frafer ? 
 
 A. Servant to Mrs. Frafer. 
 
 Q. When did you go to live with her ? 
 
 A. In February. 
 
 Qi In what year ? 
 
 A. In February 1788. 
 
 Q. Where did Mrs. Frafer live ? 
 D A. Mrs. Frafer lived in Brook-ftreet. 
 
 Q; Did Mr. Hook live there ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, a good while. 
 
 Q: How long did you continue to live as fervant 
 with Mrs. Frafer ? 
 A. I was Mrs. Frafer's fervant the whole time. 
 
 Q._ Had. fhe any houfe any where elfe except in 
 Brook- ftreet ? 
 
 A. Yes, at Walton upon Thames. 
 
 Q^ Did Mr. Hook come there occafionally ? 
 F A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q. Did you at any time obferve any thing particular 
 pafs between the defendant and the wife of the plaintiff ? 
 
 A. Never but once. 
 
 Q., Will you ft ate to my Lord and the Jury what 
 G that was where it was ? 
 
 A. At Walton. 
 In what year ? 
 
 A. In
 
 ( 89 ) 
 
 A. In 1788. 
 
 Q^ Do you remember in what month ? 
 
 A. I think it wac in November. 
 
 Q^ You are not particular as to time what did 
 you lee ? 
 
 A. I faw Major Hook go into Mrs. Campbell's 
 room, between ten and eleven o'clock ni the even- 
 
 ing- 
 
 Q. How came you to be in a fituation to fee 
 
 A. I had the curiofity to watch. v 
 
 Q._ Why had you the curiofity to watch ? 
 A. Becaufe I thought I had heard him go into the 
 room before. 
 
 And where did you ftand ? 
 I (laid upon the landing place. 
 ^ In, what drefs was he ? 
 A. Only in his fhirt and night-cap. 
 Q^ Do you know whether Mrs. Campbell was in 
 her room at the time ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir. E 
 
 Q^ Who had attended her to bed ? 
 A. I, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Do you know whether the door was fhut or 
 open ? 
 
 A. No, Sir, it was left a jar. 
 Q^ Do you know why it was left a jar ? 
 A. Yes, becaufe fhe told me to leave it Ib. 
 Q^ Had you left it fo at other times by her direc- 
 tions ? 
 
 A. Yes, I have. G 
 
 Q^ Were the family gone to bed at that time ? 
 A. There was nobody in the houfe but the Major 
 and I, and the fervant, and Mrs. Campbell. 
 
 Q^ Yourfelf, and the Major, and Mrs. Campbell, 
 and the man fervant ? H 
 
 A. Except the gardener and his family. 
 
 M You
 
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 A Q^ You from fufpicion of courfe watched ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Was his head covered ? 
 
 A. He had his night-cap on. 
 
 Q^ Did you fee him go into the room ? 
 B A. Yes, I did. 
 
 Q._ Was the door fhut afterwards ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ How long did you wait ? 
 
 A. I did not wait at all there, I went down imme- 
 C diately. 
 
 Q^ Was Mrs. Campbell in bed, or up, at that 
 time ? 
 
 A. She was in bed. 
 
 Q^ Did you go to bed immediately after that ? 
 D A. Yes, I did. 
 
 Q._ Did you fee the bed in the morning ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, 
 
 Q^ Did you attend Mrs. Campbell in the morning 
 before fhe was up ? 
 E A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Did you fee her rife ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Had you an opportunity of feeing the bed before 
 any body elfe came into the room ? 
 F A. I, myfelf, made the bed. 
 
 Q^ Did you fee it as Ihe rofe from it, without being 
 touched by any body elfe ? 
 
 A. I cannot fay that, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Except the Major, Mrs. Campbell, and you, 
 G you fay there was none in the houfe but the fervant, the 
 gardener, and his family ? 
 
 A. No, Sir. 
 
 Q^ You made the bed upon her getting up ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 H Q. How did it appear to you ? 
 
 A. // appeared to me as if more than onejlept in it. 
 
 Q^You
 
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 You faw him go into the room, and the door A 
 was left a jar you faw him go in his ftiirt and his 
 night-cap ? 
 
 A: Yes. 
 
 Qj_ Is there any thing elfe you can communicate to 
 the court ? 
 
 A. No. 
 
 Q^ Where do you live now in what fervicc ? 
 
 A. I don't live in fervice, I am in bufmefs for 
 myfelf. 
 
 Q^ Whofe fervant was you at the time ? 
 
 A. Mrs. Frafer's. 
 
 Q. Where was Mrs. Frafer at that time ? 
 
 A. Mrs. Frafer was not at Walton. 
 
 Q^ Did you tell any body elfe of it ? 
 
 A. There was a woman with me. ** 
 
 Crofs- examined by Mr. Bearcroft. 
 
 Q^ You was Mrs. Frafer's fervant ? E 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q._ When you lived at Walton, Mrs. Frafer had 
 quitted her houfe in Brook-ftreet ? 
 *A. Yes, Ihe did. 
 
 Q^ Do you mean to fay it was in the year 1788 ? F 
 
 A. To the beft of my knowledge. 
 
 Q^ We are now in the year 179,3 how long was 
 it ago was it after Captain Campbell went abroad? 
 
 A. I lived with them at the time he went abroad. 
 
 Q^ Did you ever fee Captain Campbell there ? G 
 
 A. I have feen him at Walton. 
 
 Q^ Leaving the time to fhift for itfelf, are you pofi- 
 tive of what you faw ? 
 
 A. Yes, I am, Sir. 
 
 Q. Mr. Erjkine. What bufmefs are you in for H 
 yourfelf ? 
 
 A. In the public line. 
 
 Ma Q.. What
 
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 A Q^ What room did Mr. Hook fleep in at Walton ? 
 
 A. Next to Mrs. Campbell's. 
 
 Q^ She defired you to leave the room door a jar ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Do you know whether Major Hook's was fo ? 
 B A. I don't know. 
 
 Andrew Addifon called. 
 
 The oath being tendered, he was obferved not to 
 C kifs the book. Upon which Lord Kenyon faid, ad- 
 minifter the oath to him again what is the meaning 
 he will not kifs the book ? 
 
 The oath re-adminiftered. 
 
 Lord Chief Jujlice. Now kifs the book. 
 D The witneis then killed the book, and faid, I never 
 was in a court before to give evidence. 
 
 Mr. Mingay. Q^ Now you are upon oath > 
 had you any intention to avoid kiffing the book, upon 
 your oath ? 
 E A. Upon my oath I had not. 
 
 Lord Chief Jujlice. If I was upon oath, I fhould 
 fay, I believe I had. 
 
 Mr. Erjkine. Then I certainly will not call a 
 witnefs that my Lord makes fuch an obfervation upawi 
 
 P Arabella Kenedyfworn. 
 
 Q^ Did you live at Walton ? 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Did you live fervant with Mrs. Frafer?. 
 A. Yes. 
 
 G Q. Where do you live how ? 
 A. I live now with my friends. 
 Q^ Do you know Mr. Hook, the defendant ? 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q._ How long did you live at Walton, with Mrs* 
 Frafer ? 
 
 A. I
 
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 A. I went to Mrs. Frafer in the year 1790, or A 
 1791, I think. 
 
 Q^ We are now only in I793> how long is it ago ? 
 
 A. It is two years next April fince I left hen 
 
 Q^ When did you go to her and how long did 
 you live with her ? B 
 
 A. About eighteen months. 
 
 Q^ And it is two years next April fince you went 
 away ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Do you remember Mrs. Campbell being there ? C 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ And Mr. Hook being there ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q^ How far were their rooms apart how were 
 they fituated t 
 
 A. They were next adjoining each other. D 
 
 Q^ In what capacity was you there ? 
 
 A. Sometimes cook, and fometimes houfe-maid. 
 
 Q^ Did you fee at any time, and when, any thing 
 particular between Mr. Hook and Mrs. Campbell ? 
 
 A. At one time, at Mrs. Frafer's, I faw them ftand- 
 tjp near each other, and Mrs. Campbell's hand in E 
 Major Hook's hand. 
 
 <>._ Did you fee any thing elfe then ? 
 
 A. No, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Did you fee any thing elfe at Walton ? 
 
 A. One night I faw Mrs. Campbell's room door F 
 open, and Mr. Hook went into her room, after Ihe 
 had retired to bed 
 
 Q^ In what drefs ? 
 
 A. He had at that time all his cloaths on but his 
 hat. G 
 
 Q. What time was that ? 
 
 A. It was after the children were in bed. 
 
 Q^ Did you fee him come out ? 
 
 A. No. 
 
 Q^Had
 
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 A Q^ Had you an opportunity at Walton to fee the 
 bed Mrs. Campbell laid in ? 
 A. Yes, I made it generally. 
 Q^ Did you ever make any obfervation upon the 
 bed, when you made it ? 
 B A. No, Sir. 
 
 Crofs-examined by Mr. Bearcroft. 
 
 Q^ His cloaths were on, you fay ? 
 C A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Do you know whether Mrs. Campbell was ill 
 at that time ? 
 
 A. No, Sir, Ihe was not ill at that time. 
 Q^ I want to know whether it did not happen fre- 
 D quently at Walton, that Mrs. Campbell was ill, and 
 in violent fits of paffion ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, 1 have been informed fo, but I never 
 was prefent at any of thofe fits. 
 
 Q^ Have you ever remembered her having fits in 
 E town ? 
 
 A. No, Sir. 
 
 James Woodroffeyow;*. Examined by Mr. Mingay. 
 
 _, Q^ What are you ? 
 
 A. A gardener, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Did you live at any time with Mrs. Frafer ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q._ The mother of Mrs. Campbell ? 
 r A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Where did flie live ? 
 
 A. At Walton. 
 
 Q^ Was that after Mr. Campbell, her huiband, 
 was gone abroad ? 
 
 A. Yes, it was after Captain Campbell went abroad. 
 
 Q. Was flie with her mother then ? 
 
 A. Yes.
 
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 A. Yes. A 
 
 Q^ Do you remember any time when Mrs. Frafer 
 was not at her houfe at Walton, Mrs. Campbell and 
 Mr. Hook coming there ? 
 
 A. Yes, Mr. Hook had taken the houfe. 
 
 Q^ Mrs. Frafer was not there when they went to B 
 look at it ? 
 
 A. No, Sir. 
 
 Q^ What obfervation did yon make of the conduct 
 of Mr. Hook and Mrs. Campbell ? 
 
 A. I don't know, Sir, I thought they were very C 
 loving. 
 
 Q. What did you fee ? 
 
 A. 1 faw him between his own room and her's, Sir, 
 in his fhirt and night-cap. 
 
 Q^ Where was he coming to or from ? D 
 
 A. From her bed-room , it appeared to me it was 
 between her room and his, in the pafiage, in his Ihirt 
 and night-cap. I did not perceive any thing elfe. 
 
 Q^ Who was in the houfe at that time ? 
 
 A. There was my wife, and a nurfe, and me, and E 
 Betty Hearn. 
 
 Q^ At that time the mother was not there ? 
 
 A. No, Sir. 
 
 No Crofs-examination. 
 
 William Lewisyw0r#. Examined by Mr. Holroyd. 
 
 Q^ You were groom to Major Hook ? p 
 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q^ What time did you go to him ? 
 A. About Auguft, in the year 1790. 
 Q._ How long did you live with him ? 
 A. I lived with him about ten months. Q 
 
 Q^ Did you go with Major Hook and Mrs. Camp- 
 bell to Swanfea? 
 
 A. I
 
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 A A.I was hired by Major Hook in CarmarthenfHire, 
 and went from thence with him to Swanfea. 
 
 Q^ Do you remember how the bed-rooms were at 
 the inn at Swanfea ? 
 
 A. I was not there, they were lodgings. 
 B Lord Chief Jujlice. It is pretty well afcertained that 
 the bed-rooms adjoined together. 
 
 Mr. Mingay. My Lord, I muft beg leave to ftate 
 to your Lordfhip, with refpedt to Andrew Addifon, he 
 came to prove no facl; at all in the caufe, but when 
 C Captain Campbell left England, and when he re- 
 turned. 
 
 Lord Chief Jujlice. I obferved nothing more about 
 him than my perfonai obfervation, merely as to not 
 killing the book -, it raifed fufpicion. 
 D Mr. Mingay. It was only to prove that Captain 
 Campbell went abroad in the beginning of 1789. 
 
 Mr. Ganffiv. In point of fact, he failed from Tor- 
 bay on the 26th or 27th of January, 1789, and went 
 on board in December 1788. 
 
 E Mr. Mingay. And he did not return till 1792. 
 MF. Bearcroft admitted ir. 
 
 Q._ To William Lewis. Whilft you were living 
 with Major Hook, did you make any obfervations on 
 Mrs. Campbell ? 
 
 F A. When I went there, I did not know but they 
 were fingle j when I came to Swanfea, Mrs. Campbell 
 was with Major Hook, I inquired, and found ihe was 
 his niece. 
 
 Q^ You remember his coming from Swanfea ? 
 G A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Jane Grimes fworn. Examined by Mr. Erfkine. 
 
 H Qi. Did you live in the fervice of the defendant any 
 time, and when ? 
 
 A. I lived with Major Hook five months. 
 i
 
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 Q^ In 1792, was it ? A 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ You Jived there as cook ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Did Mrs. Campbell live with him at that 
 time ? B 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Did any body elfe live with him ? 
 
 A. No, Sir. 
 
 Q^ How long did you continue in his fervice ? 
 
 A. Five months. C 
 
 Q^ Did you go to Eaft Bourne with him ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Qi. Was Captain Campbell gone abroad then ? . 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ During that time whether you faw any thing D 
 particular in the conduct of Mrs. Campbell and Ma- 
 jor Hook ? 
 
 A. What I faw was when I went up (lairs when the 
 grocer came to fpeak to my miiirefs, 1 went to her 
 room and rapped at the door and fhe was not there ; E 
 I went from thence, and was coming by the Major's 
 door and I found it (hut. 
 
 Q^ How was the Major's room (kuated in refpedt 
 to her's ? 
 
 A. Almoft clofe. F 
 
 Q^ Were the doors next to each other ? 
 
 A. They went out of one into the other. 
 
 Q^ Was it (hut ? 
 
 A. I tried it. 
 
 Q^ Was it upon the fpring or locked ? G 
 
 A. I tried it and it was fait. 
 
 Q^ What did you do then ? 
 
 A. I had the curiofity to look through the key- 
 hole. 
 
 Q^ Tell my Lord what was your reafon for look- * 
 ing through the key-hole. 
 
 A. Becaufe I thought Mrs. Campbell was there: 
 
 N What
 
 A Q^ What was your reafon for thinking fo? 
 
 A. Becaufe I had frequently feen her in his room 
 before. 
 
 Q^ You fwear that was the reafon of your curiofity ; 
 you had feen Mrs. Campbell there frequently be- 
 B tore ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ What did you fee ? 
 
 A. I faw the Major laying along the foot of the 
 bed, (lark naked as he could be. 
 C Q^ Where was (he ? 
 
 A. She was fitting on the fide of him with her hand 
 upon his back. 
 
 Q^ Was me dreft or undreft ? 
 
 A. She was dreft. 
 I> Q^ Had he no mirt on ? 
 
 A. No mirt on at all. 
 
 Q. Was he ftark naked ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Did you continue long there ? 
 E A. 1 continued there for fome minutes, and as I 
 ftood there, Mrs. Campbell took her hands and draw- 
 ed the curtain at the foot of the bed I went down 
 ftairs. 
 
 Q^ Did that prevent you feeing any thing elfe ? 
 
 A. Yes. ' 
 
 Q^ When the curtain was drawn and he was lay- 
 ing ttark naked with his face to the bed, you went 
 away ? 
 r A. Yes. 
 
 Q^ Where do you live at prefent ? 
 
 A. I live with Mr. Campbell's brother. 
 
 Q^ Did you fee any thing elfe at that time > 
 
 A. No, Six, but 1 have heard fay 
 
 Crojs-
 
 Crofs-examlned by Mr. Burrow. 
 
 Q^ What time of the day was this ? 
 
 A. As near as I can tell about 1 1 o'clock. 
 
 Mr. Erjkine. This was at Eaft Bourne ? 
 
 A. At Eaft Bourne. 
 
 Q^ Do you know whether he had been bathing ? 
 
 A. Yes, the Major had been bathing, but (he had 
 not. 
 
 Q^ This was when he returned from the fea ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Mr. Burrow. At eleven in the morning ? 
 
 A. About eleven. 
 
 Q^ What other fervants were there in the houfe ? 
 
 A. There was Flora and Maria. 
 
 Q^ Had Mrs. Campbell been out that morning ? 
 
 A. She had been out, I was not with her. 
 
 Q^ What was the (late of her health at Eaft Bourne ? 
 
 A. Often complaining of illnefs. P 
 
 Q^ Were Flora and the other woman the only ^ 
 women in the houfe ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Where are they ? 
 
 A. I cannot tell. 
 
 Mifs Macaulay/:wr. Examined by Mr. Erfkine, 
 
 Q^ Be fo good as to tell us whether you are ac- 
 quainted with Captain Campbell and his wife ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, I am. 
 
 Q^ Do you remember the time when Captain G 
 Campbell was preparing to go upon his voyage to 
 India with his regiment ? 
 
 A. I do. 
 
 Q^ Do you know whether it was intended at that 
 time Mrs. Campbell (hould accompany him ? 
 
 N 2 A. I do
 
 ) 
 
 A. I do not. 
 
 Q^ How long was you acquainted with them ? 
 
 A. 1 knew her before (he was married. 
 
 Q^ Did you know her after (he was married ? 
 
 A. Yes. 
 
 g Q._ Did you know her foon after was you in the 
 habits of intimacy with her after (he was married ? 
 
 A. Yes, Sir, (he was fome months with me. 
 
 Q^ Did you fee any thing improper in her beha- 
 viour during that time ? 
 
 A. I never faw any thing improper in her behavi- 
 our. 
 
 Mr. Erfkine. Q^ Do you remember who (he was 
 left with ? In whofe care was me left when the Captain 
 went away ? 
 
 ) A. She was at her mother's houfe in Brook-ftreer, 
 I think fo. 
 
 Mr. Erjklne. I reft it here for the plaintiff. 
 
 Crofs-examination of Mifs Macaulay. 
 \ 
 
 ,, Qi. Did you fee much of Captain Campbell and 
 his lady together ? 
 
 A. No, Sir. 
 
 Q^ Very little, I fancy ? 
 
 A. Very little. 
 
 Q^ So little as not to be able to form any idea of 
 F what terms they were living upon ? 
 
 A. I had not fuch frequent opportunities of feeing 
 them. 
 
 Mr.'Erfkine. I have done, nnlefs it fhould be 
 
 neccflary to give evidence in reply. 
 
 * 
 
 j 
 
 Mr.
 
 Mr. Bearcroft. May it pleafe your LordQiip A 
 Gentlemen of the Jury, the evidence which has been 
 given on the part of the plaintiff intitles me to your 
 full and patient hearing. My title 1 put upon the 
 circumftances that the caufe as it now (lands is of a 
 nature and of a complexion that mud ftrike every B 
 mind as undoubtedly a very aggravated cafe, and it 
 is of confequence that every good mind will allow, 
 when fuch a cafe is proved, that thofe who are to de- 
 cide upon it mould well weigh and confider it, in or- 
 der that that judgement, which they ultimately (hall C 
 give, may be temperate and moderate, for unlefs it 
 be temperate and moderate, it cannot be juft. 
 . Gentlemen, I fhould not be entitled to a moment's 
 attention from you if I attempted to diiTemble re- 
 fpecting the weight which I feel upon my moulders. D 
 The cafe which has been proved upon the part of the 
 plaintiff, has been ftated, and muft be ftated, upon 
 this evidence, in two very ftrong words, a cafe of 
 inceft and adultery. I admit it, and I allow that fuch 
 a cafe calls ferioufly upon the feelings of thofe that E 
 hear it, and thofe that are to determine upon it ; but 
 it is my duty to remark to you, and it will be the 
 principal remark with which. I mall trouble you, to 
 diftinguifh the fituation in which you are placed there ; 
 you are not put there, nor does my Lord fit there, ** 
 as I am fure he will tell you, to punim the defendant 
 criminally for any crime or any offence : perhaps it 
 may be thought an opprobrium on the common law 
 of England, to fay, it entertains no criminal jurif- 
 diction for puniming fuch offences either of adultery ** 
 or inceft ; but you all know very well there are dif- 
 ferent departments of different difpofitions as to the 
 power of puniming in different courts of different 
 defcriptions, becaufe the common law has no fuch 
 jurifdiclion ; do not let it be thought by any one that 
 3 fuch
 
 ( 102 ) 
 
 A fuch offences cannot be punifhed in England; for it 
 is certain they may, and ferioufly too ; but that ju- 
 rifdiction is an ecclefiaftical jurifdiction, and not in 
 common law courts. I venture to remark, that not 
 to defend fimply the common law from imputation, 
 
 B that may arife in the mind at firft view, to fuppofe it 
 rakes no notice of fuch conduct, but to remark that 
 there is a place where the criminal part, and that only, 
 is to be confidered. 
 
 Gentlemen, my Lord will tell you the queilion in 
 
 C this caufe, (for lam bound to tell you I do not mean 
 to trouble you with witneffes in a caufe of this kind) 
 the only queftion will be, the damages you are to 
 give what is the fatisfaction you are to make by your 
 verdict for the plaintiff. 
 
 D Gentlemen, when I am endeavouring to guard you 
 
 againft mixing and joining together the jurifdiction 
 
 you have, not of the trial of a criminal offence with 
 
 the jurifdiction you have, that of afcertaining civil 
 
 .damages which you are to give to the parties. I de- 
 
 E fire to be underftood as not to be contending for fo 
 abfurd a doctrine as that you are to diveft yourfelves 
 of ali attention to that kind of cafe, and not to take 
 it as matter of aggravation ; but permit me to fay it, 
 and I do fay it, becaufe I think (and I do fubmit to 
 
 F the direction of the learned and noble Judge) that 
 you are not, that you ought not, and that you have 
 no power in the firuation in which you ftand, to give 
 that which I know fometimes is called vindictive da- 
 mages. Vengeance and punifliment of the crime 
 
 G belongs to another jurifdiction you will take care in 
 the verdict that you (hall pronounce, that you will 
 not by any means mix punifhrnent which you have 
 no right to take any notice of, upon the prefent occa- 
 fion, with the queftion of damages you are to give 
 to the parties. 
 
 Gendc
 
 ( '03 ) 
 
 Gentlemen, it was faid in the outfet, it was under- A 
 flood the counfei for the defendant would infift upoa 
 the innocence of the defendant, and impure a good 
 deal of what you have heard to-day to the effects of 
 perjury. 
 
 Gentlemen, no power, no perfuafion, after the B 
 evidence given to-day, mould prevail upon me to 
 ftand up as counfei for the party, to attempt to do 
 any thing of the kind. It never entered into the 
 mind of the defendant to give any fuch inftrudions ; 
 it would have been groifly abfurd to have done fo : Q 
 it would have been an additional load, I confefs, at 
 prefent I feel it is a heavy one ; but I fliould then be 
 put in this condition, in endeavouring to quit the de- 
 fendant, I ftiould charge the plaintiff with a foul and 
 a black, confpiracy, without any foundation of truth, Q 
 and with bringing fuch a charge againft the defendant 
 and fupporting it by a variety of fuborncd and per- 
 jured witnefles. My client difclaims any fuch idea 
 fo much, therefore, as fuch an item, and it is a large 
 one defalcates from the damage that might have been 
 given ; I claim upon the part of the defendant. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Jury, having faid this, and 
 marked the line which Separates trial and punifhment 
 in a criminal court from the queltion of civil damages, 
 I am under the neceffity of chiefly relying upon that, p 
 and fubmitting it to his Lordfhip. 
 
 With regard to the damages, I have but a few, a 
 very few observations to make and to fubmit to your 
 cool judgement and obfervation. The plaintiff quit- 
 ted his wife, went to the Eaft Indies, and left her Q 
 here. It has been attempted to bring a witnds to 
 prove he intended to carry her with him as far, 
 therefore, as that is an ingredient I call upon you 
 for a piece of juftice, to obferve that is not proved. 
 
 I prefs my obfervation further, I fay I have a right fj 
 
 to aik of vou, and in fuch a caufe you will no: refufc 
 . ,'
 
 C 104 ) 
 
 A it ; I have a right to afk of you to conclude, that 
 the clear fact is, that Mr. Campbell, the plaintiff, 
 did not mean to take his wife with him, but to leave 
 her here, for if he had any dctire to take her with 
 him, nothing upon earth was fo eafy to have done. 
 
 B With regard to the manner in which the parties 
 lived together, I cannot help obferving to you, there 
 is not that full and fatisfactory proof that might be 
 expected in a cafe of this fort. Perfons who might 
 have been called, who were related and near relations 
 
 C to the plaintiff, the fervants and others are omitted to 
 be called, which feems to leave that liable to fome 
 degree of fufpicion ; however you will not under- 
 ftand me to be prefling it more than is necelfary. I 
 admit there is fome evidence of their living together, 
 
 D and, perhaps, my Lord will tell you, when fome evi- 
 dence is given of that, and it is not contradicted, it 
 muft be taken ; fuch was the fituation of the plaintiff 
 and his wife, and in juftice you muft. fo take it. 
 With regard to the damages, which is the only 
 
 E queftion before you, there is another circumftance 
 \vhichjuries, during my experience in the profe(fion> 
 have been always taught to look to, becaufe it is 
 eflential they ftiould, I mean the fituation and ability 
 of the party in point of fortune. My learned friend, 
 
 F who never forgets, even in the outfet of the caufe, to 
 (late his client's cafe with all the advantages that be- 
 long to it, though fometimes he referves the ftrongeft 
 powers for a reply, told you that the defendant in 
 this cafe was a perfon. who had reikled many years in 
 
 G India, and was returned to Europe with a great for- 
 tune, adefcripticm as would defcribe LordClive, Mr. 
 Harwell, or Mr. Sykes, and many of thofe perfons 
 we are in the habit of calling Nabobs. Alas ! that 
 defcription very lade fuits my client, which you -can 
 I hardly doubt, becaufe there is not a tittle of evidence 
 given,, nor a quelUo.n ajl^ed. about his drcumftanccs, 
 
 and
 
 and my learned friend has finiflied his cafe. Now A 
 as to that he is a Major, he has returned here moft 
 undoubtedly originally with a few thoufands in his 
 pocket, of a great part he prefently got rid here : he 
 is about, and was about, to return to refume his fitu- 
 ation in the army in the Eaft Indies. 
 
 It is in evidence before you he has three children, 
 innocent perfons they can be guilty of nothing 
 that is a circumftance in affefling damages againft the 
 father, which fathers, as fome of you are, 1 truft can 
 never be prevailed upon totally to forget. 
 
 Gentlemen, with thefe obfervations, therefore, I 
 muft furrender the cafe, again I fay, to your tempe- 
 rate and moderate bread I mall call no witneiles, for 
 the reafons I have ftated you are in poileffion of 
 the cafe you will recollect, as I have laid, you are * 
 not trying this man for crimes and offences, but to 
 afcertain the damages that fuch a perfon as this fhall 
 pay the plaintiff, under all the circumftances that 
 belong to the cafe. 
 
 Gentlemen, the doctrine I take the liberty of pref- 
 iing upon you at this moment, is the doctrine of good 
 fenfe and natural juftice. It is the doctrine I take the 
 liberty of faying, with fubmiffion to my Lord, the 
 peculiar doctrine of the law of England. We know 
 perfectly well that it is ftated by great authority, and F 
 we read it in all the books that an attention (hall be 
 paid in the quettion of damages, nay even of cri- 
 minal damages and fines, to the ability of the party 
 to pay it as to that in this cafe you are Teft to guefs 
 at it nothing is proved upon the part of the plain- G 
 tiff, but that this gentleman has refided fome time 
 here (ince his return to-Europe though many return 
 from India with great fortunes, many more return 
 without them. 
 
 This is the cafe I have a right to make ; having H 
 been diligent and careful not to Mate any thing im- 
 proper, I hope and truft I have fucceeded, becaufe 
 
 O moft
 
 ( io6 ) 
 
 A moft undoubtedly I fhould be (hocked, if in a caufe 
 of this fort I was, in defending a man upon the arti- 
 cle of damages, to do any thing to add to them, T 
 appeal again to your moderate temper and juftice, 
 
 B Lord Chief Juftice-rL.ord Kenyon. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Jury, you muft remember it is 
 between four and five years fince it has been a pain- 
 ful part of my duty too often to affift juries, as far as 
 
 C I was capable of giving them any affiftance, and to 
 aflift parties, that juftice might be done. I was in 
 great hopes the morals of the people would have 
 totally extinguiflied thefe kind of tranfactions ; if it 
 had it would have given great comfort indeed to me, 
 
 D for I proteft I never had ferious caufes of this kind 
 
 come before me, without my feeling extremely for 
 
 the diftrefs of the party that applied to the laws of the 
 
 country to obtain fatisfaction for the injury received. 
 
 The prudent, difcreet, and manly way in which 
 
 E the learned gentleman who is juft fet down left the 
 caufe of his client, delivers me from the painful ta(k 
 of dragging through all that horrible (lory the wit- 
 neffes have been examined to. It is admitted the 
 cafe is proved and the plaintiff entitled to your ver- 
 
 F diet and the ible confideration is the quantum of 
 damages he has received ; and you have been put in 
 mind, and very properly fo, that this civil action is 
 not a proceeding to punifh the party as having been 
 guilty and coming within any part of the criminal 
 
 G law of this country but when you are called upon 
 merely to apportion damages to the injury he has re- 
 ceived, I hardly know how I can tell you to mea- 
 fure that fatisfaction in pounds, millings, and pence. 
 There are certain cafes in which fome other mode of 
 
 H proceeding is to be adopted by juries, which their 
 good fenfe will lead them to better than any direc- 
 tions I can prefume to give them, in actions brought 
 
 for-
 
 C 107 ) 
 
 forwards againft perfons of urifullied honour and A 
 characterit may be faid in that cafe no damages 
 could be given, becaufe fuch character is unaflaible 
 by the tongue of calumny. Gentlemen, the perfon 
 who takes my purfe, is faid by a very able writer to 
 take from me that which has been flave to thou- B 
 fands ; but he that filches from me my good name, 
 robs me of that which not enriches him, but makes 
 me poor indeed. Whether this kind of injury may 
 not be referred to fomething of that kind is for you 
 to judge. I will barely call to your attention the C 
 main outlines of this caufe. The fituation of the 
 parties what the plaintiff enjoyed, and that which 
 the plaintiff has loft by means of the defendant. 
 You were told in the outfet, this was a match in con- 
 fequence of moft ardent affection; that it was a love D 
 match as far as fituation was difclofed, as far as we 
 reached they lived in the greateft harmony and com- 
 fort till he went to India, and it was then done away 
 in the manner you have heard ; but it was hinted 
 fomething wrong happened in leaving his lady be- E 
 hind him on his going to India. What, then, Gen- 
 tlemen, has every young officer that is called from 
 his family the means of doing it ? Will the funds he 
 is in poffeffion of enable him to carry with him all 
 the comforts he has left behind him ? And if he is F 
 torn away with a bleeding heart from thofe comforts, 
 is he to lofe them for ever ? Are there no hopes of his 
 being received in the arms of his wife he affection- 
 ately loves when he comes back ? Where could he 
 leave her in better when he went abroad, but in G 
 the houfe of her own mother ? What ! had he not a 
 right to expert from the nearefl and deareft call of 
 nature, that an uncle, who was the brother of her own 
 mother, fhould affift her that wanted the immediate 
 protection of her hufband ? But has l"he received that H 
 protection ? I have a right to appeal to the evidence 
 given is there not evidence of the confeffion of this 
 
 O 2 man,
 
 A man, who told her (he was a whore, a damned whore, 
 and the worft of whores; (he tells him that if (he 
 was a whore, (he became a whore through his means, 
 that fhe was his whore only ; that he ought to have 
 been her fattier and protector, but he has been the 
 
 B worft of enemies to her, and been the ruin of her 
 family, and herfelf ; alas, my poor hufband ! Did 
 {he fall into the arms of this inceftuous man ? We 
 find all poffible means taken to corrupt her mind : 
 books and prints to enfiame the paffions, too bad to 
 
 Q be exhibited to any body, are exhibited by the uncle 
 at a more advanced time of life to his own niece, the 
 wife of another man. 
 
 Gentlemen, it is very true, in afTefiing damages of 
 this kind, one would wi(h that they mould be ap- 
 
 j) portioned in s fome meafure to the circumftances of 
 the party who is to pay them. What his fituation is 
 I*do not know ; I do not know the iituation of either 
 <Z the parties, but poverty is no anfwer to a call of 
 mis kind, made by a man injured to the extent this 
 
 man has been ; I can point out no rule to you ; there 
 is no rule but that which has been fuggefted ; you 
 are certainly to confider it with temper and modera- 
 tion : but at what fum, temper and moderation in a 
 cafe of this fought ought to ftop, is not for me to 
 
 p 1 judge, but for you. I do not know how to adjuft 
 it. It ftands diftincl: to the difadvantage of this de- 
 fendant from all the caufes I ever heard before this 
 feems to have been a plan to ruin the lady by the 
 perfon who was this inceftuous paramour. It is for 
 
 Q you to confider of your verdict. 
 
 [The Jury retired fome time, and brought in their Ver- 
 dih for the Plaintiff- Damages ..3000.] 
 
 Extraft
 
 ( 109 ) 
 
 Ext raff from the BON TON MAGAZINE for 
 February 1793. 
 
 Subftance of the fingular Trial of Major HOOK for 
 crim. con. &c. before Lord KENYON, in the King's 
 Bench, Tuefday, Feb. 26, 1793. 
 
 See the Plate entitled " The Marrow-bone Uncle, &c." And for 
 a tete-a-tete of the parties, turn to the firft article in this number, 
 which was printed off before the event of this trial was known. 
 
 LOVE AND INCEST; 
 
 OR THE 
 
 AMOROUS UNCLE AND THE WANTON TRAVELLER. 
 
 HPHERE is nothing, perhaps, in which the boaft- 
 A ed fuperiority of man over the female part of 
 the creation is marked with a blacker dye, than the 
 impunity it affords him in the commiffion of crimes 
 which (lain the character of a woman with everlafting 
 infamy ; one falfe flep, one deviation from the path 
 of virtue, ruins her for ever ; while, on the contrary, 
 her feducer is confidered as having done nothing 
 which deferves the cenfure of fociety. 
 
 The paffions of the female fex are known to be al- 
 together as ftrong, if not ftronger, than thofe of 
 men ; but for the credit of feminine modefty, it 
 muft be owned that even while the fire of natural de- 
 lires rages in every part, it feldom happens that wo- 
 men can fo far out-ftrip the modefty of nature as to 
 
 make
 
 o 
 
 make the firft advances. Men, who know as well 
 their wifhes as their fears, are nine times in ten the 
 firft aggrerTors, they infmuate frefli poifon into the 
 blood already inflamed, and they {mother the fenti- 
 ment, as well as the apprehenfion which otherwife 
 would preferve virtue. 
 
 This is a fad too notorious to be dwelt upon or 
 denied, and, notwithftanding what may fometimes 
 be laid in ridicule or in praife of the afcendancy, it 
 certainly will not admit of philoibphical juftification. 
 
 But, however we may now and then fpeak either 
 lightly or warmly upon the of fubject feduction, in 
 the regular and natural indulgence of irregular, 
 though natural defires ; however we may delineate 
 the advances of love ; however tenderly we may tint 
 the foft approaches to enjoyment ; and however 
 highly we may colour the ecftacies of mutual indul- 
 gence, when no unnatural bar is caft between the in- 
 toxicated voluptuaries; we mud at all times con- 
 demn that hateful concupifcence which gratifies its 
 loofe paflions at the expence of nature. 
 
 The hero of our prefent tale, and a melancholy 
 tale it is, had been many years a Major in the fer- 
 vice of the Baft India Company, and as afoldier and 
 private gentleman always conducted himfelf with be- 
 coming propriety He is faid to have faved an im- 
 menfe fortune in India, and was known to have re- 
 turned home with a view of fpending the evening of 
 his life in tranquillity : the heroine is his own niece, 
 and in point of years might be his grand-child. In 
 addition to the repulfive qualities of age, nature has 
 been to the former unkind and niggardly, his per- 
 fon is rather difgufting than pleafing In addition to 
 the fafcinating powers of youth, to the latter, the 
 goddefs has "been profufe of her choiceft gifts ; fhe 
 is rather lovely than beautiful. The firft is, we are 
 told, an old bachelor, the latter a matron, and united 
 
 to
 
 to one of the mod accomplished and conciliating 
 men in Europe He is a Captain in the Britifh fer- 
 vice, and highly efteemed, not only on account of 
 his profeffional, but his private excellence. 
 
 The parties are all natives of Scotland, where it 
 unfortunately happened that Captain C p 11, our 
 heroine's hufband, had fome bufinefs to trahfact, 
 which could not be executed but by himfelf or his 
 frail mate ; the duties of his profeffien prevented him 
 from undertaking fo long a journey, and as the Major, 
 who fupported a parental intercourfe in the family, 
 was an idle man, it was propofed that he mould ac- 
 company his niece to Edinburgh : what fulpicion 
 could poffibly reach to fuch nearnefs of blood ? what 
 ideas of indelicacy even could arife from a journey 
 between two perfons fo allied by confanguinity, fo 
 feparated by years and perfonal difparity ? 
 
 The time of departure being fixed, every thing was 
 prepared, and the day of departure being -arrived, 
 the Captain himfelf handed his weeping wife into the 
 carriage, and not without fome fympathetic emotions 
 wiftied her and her parental guardian a pleating jour- 
 ney, and a fafe return. 
 
 It is remarked by writers of great reputation, and 
 indeed it is a univerfal and natural obfervation, that 
 if old women be not objects of defire in the eyes of 
 young men, old men cannot by the fame parity of 
 reafon, be objects of defire in the eyes of young 
 women. How, therefore, to account for the gallan- 
 tries which almoft immediately took place between 
 our amorous travellers is more .than we can poffibly 
 glance at ; but the moft probable fuggeilion is, that 
 the firft advances took place when they were both 
 locked in the arms of fleep, and that the " fancy's 
 midwife" had painted things as they really were not 
 that the antiquated hero forgot that he was an uncle, 
 and that the longing heroine conceived her hoary 
 i com*
 
 ( II* ) 
 
 companion to be a Hercules. In which character it 
 is not at all improbable but her warm imagination 
 might have formed fomething like a club ; at which, 
 under the delufions of vifion, (he might have made 
 an involuntary grafp. Some fuch accident muft have 
 expedited the bulinefs, for certain it is, that even be- 
 fore they left the poftchaife, the club was reduced to 
 adiftaft". 
 
 So very much delighted were thefe amorous rela- 
 tives with the ifiue of the chaife adventure, that they 
 repeated it at night in another {ituation. In fact, they 
 never ilept afunder during the whole journey, and fo 
 little caution did they adopt in the progrefs of their 
 indulgence, that every chambermaid on the road faw 
 them in fituations of the mod tender and critical de- 
 fcription. 
 
 The Mutton Bone incident, as defcribed in the 
 plate, took place after the adventure in the coach, 
 and fully accounts for the archnefs with which (he re- 
 ceives her portion of the marrow. 
 
 Upon their arrival at Edinburgh, the lovers were 
 not at all lefs cautious ; and fo public was the con- 
 nection, that the Captain was foon acquainted wiih 
 it; affecting, however, to be totally ignorant, he laid 
 his plan fo well, that he Jlole a march, and, like an 
 old foldier, furprized the enemy literally in the trench! 
 
 Upon being thus furprized, 5000!. was immedi- 
 ately offered as a ranfom, but the Captain thinking 
 the Court of King's Bench, with Lord Kenyon, and 
 a Jury of twelve uncles, hujbands, and friends, will deem 
 that fum very inadequate, has already commenced his action t 
 and the ijjue will be produced in the courfe of next term. 
 
 FINIS.
 
 ERRATA in the DEFENCE. 
 
 jPage viii. line 13, for mifguided read mif judged. 
 
 xl. 7, for difagreeable read difgraceful. 
 
 xli. 24, for original <witnefs read ferfon not called* 
 
 lv. 2, for the conduct read /<? /? condufl. 
 
 lix. 6, for tete-a-tete was read tcte-a-tete which was. 
 
 Ixii. 17, for Capt. Campbell's letters fee Appendix, p. 3. 
 
 C. D. p. 4. C. and p. 5. C. 
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