122 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



He took all the pains that an ho- 

 nourable, an affectionate, and a 

 feeling man could take. He rea- 

 soned with her. He endeavoured 

 to prevail on her not to run the risk 

 of permitting Mr. Bingham to throw 

 himself in her way, nor to liirow 

 herself in his way, for fear of con- 

 sequences that might prove fatal to 

 Jier honour and to his peace. A 1 

 the entreaties of Mr. Howard pro- 

 ved unsuccessful, and at last, on ac- 

 count of theapparent partiality which 

 this lady shewed to Mr. Bingham, it 

 was agreed between herand her hus- 

 band that she should go down to 

 lord Fauconberg's, in order, if pos- 

 sible, to shake otF from her n^ind 

 that impression which the defendant 

 had made upon it by his addresses. 

 This was on the 24th of .July, 1793. 

 On that day Mr. Howard went into 

 thecountry to Lord Petre's, and ( Mr. 

 Mlngay said) no m?.n could tell the 

 agonies of his heart who had not 

 seen him. He said, he was an eye- 

 witness to the agony which that 

 transaction had occasioned. On the 

 same day, this lady ordered a car- 

 riage, and went to JNIr. Gray's shop 

 at the west end of the town. Her 

 husband no more expected the con- 

 sequences that followed than any of 

 the gentlemen of ihe jury. Insleadof 

 going down to her father's as slie had 

 agreed with Mr. Howard to do, she 

 •went from Mr. Gray's shop in a car- 

 riage (provided by Mr. Bingham) to 

 the house of lord Dungannon, in 

 Park-lane, to whom Mr. Bingham 

 was related by m nriage, and where 

 he then resided. He said, the state- 

 ment beyond that would wound their 

 delicacy. 



Mr. Bingham and this lady had 

 lived as husband md wife ever since, 

 and she was far advanced in pregnan- 

 cy, and that child would be born be- 

 fore a divorce could possibly be ob- 



tained. The whole house of HowarcJ 

 had a right to complain ; for sup- 

 pose the plaintiff's son to die, and 

 that child of which this lady was 

 pregnant proved a son, what was to 

 prevent him from being duke of 

 Norfolk? He said, he might be told 

 that the wisdom of parliament would 

 set all this to rights. But he said, 

 that the time of this lady's departure 

 from her husband, and the birth of 

 this child, would come so near, that 

 parliament would find itself puzzled 

 in doing justice between the parties. 



He said, we lived in an age in 

 which the most important questions 

 were decided by the newspapers. 

 It had been stated in some of the 

 daily prints, ofl^ensively, in the hear- 

 ing of all the noble relations, that 

 it was notorious that Mr. Bingham 

 had the heart of the lady, that the 

 father told Mr. Howard so, and that 

 the lady herself told him, she could 

 give him her hand, but could not 

 give him her heart. He said that was 

 not true. He could call the whole 

 family to contradict it. Could the 

 gentlenr.n of the jury suppose for a 

 moment, thatearl Fanconbergwould 

 have sacrificed his child to a man of 

 the first rank in England, and would 

 not allow her to take the most va^ 

 luable of all possessions — the man of 

 her heart ? This should not have 

 been said any where, inasmuch as 

 it could not be proved. 



This case deserved the most se- 

 rious attention ; and after they had 

 heard it, they would, to the best of 

 their judgment, do justice between 

 the parties. 



The marriage on the 24th of 

 April. 1789, was admitted. 



Ann tiancock said, she lived 

 with Mr. Howard in the capacity 

 of nurse to his child. Lady Eliza- 

 beth left Mr. Howard on the 

 24th of July last. Tliey were 



then 



