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her royal highness condescend- 

 ingly went to both the doors, ac- 

 companied by her attendants, and 

 courtsied to the assembled luulti* 

 tude. Her royal highness after- 

 wards presented herself from the 

 balcony on the first floor, where 

 she was also received with great 

 acclamations, and after remaining 

 there a short time, she retired to 

 her private apartments, and had a 

 select party to dine. 



The procession, on its return 

 through the Park and Piccadilly, 

 was greeted with the same testi- 

 monies of the public feeling which 

 it had received on its progress 

 from Guildhall, and the concourse 

 of people which pressed from 

 every quarter became immense. 

 The lord mayor abandoned the 

 line in Piccadilly, and took a less 

 frequented road to the Mansion- 

 house. 



A vast multitude had assembled 

 in Pall-mall, about Carlton-house, 

 in expectation of seeing the pro- 

 cession pass ; and Westminster- 

 bridge, and the way before the 

 Horse-guards, were literally crowd- 

 ed from nine to twelve o'clock, 

 under the impression that the prin- 

 cess of Wales would take that di- 

 rection from Blackheath to Ken- 

 sington-palace. Her royal high- 

 ness thought proper, however, to 

 avoid the burst of popular feeling 

 which must have manifested itself 

 on her appearance, by taking the 

 Fulham-road to Kensington. 



14. Scotch Divorces. — An im- 

 portant decision, relative to the ge- 

 neral principles on which divorces 

 are obtained in Scotland, took 

 place lately in the Consistorial court 

 at Edinburgh. The libel was at 

 the instance of Marianne Homfrey, 

 otlierwise Newte, daughter of sir 



Jere Homfrey, of Crom Rondda, 

 in the county of Glamorgan ; and 

 set forth, that she was married in 

 Dec. 1806, to Thomas Newte, 

 esq. of LlandafF, in the cathedral 

 church of Llandaff ; that the par- 

 ties cohabited together as husband 

 and wife; that in Jan. 1811, the 

 defendant had withdrawn his 

 affections from his wife, deserted 

 her, and began a course of adul- 

 teries in London, Bath, and other 

 places in England ; that there- 

 after he came to Scotland, resided 

 there some time, and continued 

 his adulteries for several months 

 in 1812; and, therefore, praying 

 for divorce against him, with li- 

 berty to marry again in common 

 form. After ample discussion and 

 mature deliberation, the Court 

 found, " that according to the 

 common and statute law, adultery 

 committed in Scotland is a legal 

 ground for divorce, without dis- 

 tinction as to the country where, or 

 form in which, the marriage was 

 celebrated ; and for this reason 

 also found, that whatever may be 

 the views which the law of Eng- 

 land takes of the indissolubility of 

 marriage contracted there, or what- 

 ever force the decrees of the Scotch 

 Consistorial court may receive in 

 foreign countries, all such foreign 

 views and consequences, especially 

 when, as in the present case, they 

 are directly adverse to the settled 

 dictates of the law of Scotland, 

 can have no effect in regulating 

 the decisions of that court. But 

 in order to ascertain whether there 

 was, or now is, any collusion be- 

 tween the parties, the Court, before 

 further procedure, appoints the 

 pursuer (Mrs. Newte) to appear 

 and depose de calumnia, and to be 

 judicially examined upon oath. 



