294 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



captain Gore coming from the op- 

 posite direction in a curricle, along 

 with a lieutenant Lister, or Leices- 

 ter. They passed on without any 

 thing having been said. But cap- 

 tain Gore came to them soon after, 

 and persuaded them to go to his 

 lodgings. They went and continu- 

 ed there till it was pretty late. He 

 gave them three kinds of wine- 

 Claret, Madeira, and Hock. She 

 drank of them all. In answer to a 

 question from the lord chief baron, 

 she said, that she had sometimes 

 before drank wine. They then pro- 

 posed to return home, and captain 

 Gore said he would walk home with 

 them. They however went to walk 

 by the wall of Bushy Park. Soon 

 after she heard a noise, as of one 

 walking behind. Captain Gore 

 whistled, and called out Henry, 

 and then Mr. Lister, or Leicester, 

 came up. The latter took the arm 

 of miss Bear, or Vear, and walked 

 on with her before — leaving the 

 witness and captain Gore behind. 

 She soon after saw somebody with 

 a lanthorn coming up, upon which 

 captain Gore proposed to her to 

 cross the road, that they might not 

 be observed. From the voice of 

 him who passed, who pronounced 

 the name of " Strange," she knew 

 it was Mr. Vear. She then said to 

 captain Gore, that she was afraid 

 to return home after being out so 

 late — upon which he proposed that 

 she should go with him, and he 

 would take her to ayoung lady who 

 would take care of her. She re- 

 fused at first, but he afterwards per- 

 suaded her. They then walked on 

 for some time — when she asked 

 whether the residence of the young 

 lady was far off. He said not very 

 far off. They got a post-chaise, at 

 a place which she afterwards under- 



stood to be Hounslow. This chaise 

 broke down, but they got another, 

 and proceeded straight to London. 

 They were set down at a place 

 which she afterwards understood to 

 be Leicester-square. From this they 

 walked to a house in Chandos- 

 street, where they had refreshments 

 and wine. She went to bed, and 

 soon after captain Gore came to the 

 bed-room undressed. She asked 

 him if he intended to sleep there? 

 He answered " yes," upon which 

 she said, he should not sleep there 

 — but he said he would, and in 

 fact did sleep with her. Next 

 morning they went to a house in 

 South-street, Soho-sqare, where 

 she saw a miss Dunn, and there 

 they continued for that night. Mr. 

 Lister, or Leicester, called next 

 morning, and they went to the 

 house of a Mr. Dessin, or Vessey, 

 an attorney, where they staid half 

 an hour, and then drove to an ho- 

 tel in a hackney coach, where they 

 dined. Lodgings were then taken 

 for her in Thanet-place, Temple- 

 bar, where she and captain Gore 

 lived under the names of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Graham, till they were disco- 

 vered by the Bow-street officers, 

 and she was carried to her father's. 

 —The whole of this took place be- 

 tween the first and l*2th of Janu- 

 ary. 



Cross-examined hy Mr. Serjeant 

 Best. 

 She admitted that she had nod- 

 ded to captain Gore from a win- 

 dow in Kingston, before he had 

 ever spoken to her. She often talk- 

 ed of captain Gore among her ac- 

 quaintances, and was sometimes by 

 them called in jest, " Mrs. Gore." 

 Her mother had been dead eight 

 years — her father had two years af- 

 ter taken into the house a woman 



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