THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON TRIED FOR BIGAMY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 202, 1 August 1862, Page 5

THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON TRIED FOR BIGAMY.

Mrs. Delany to Mrs. Port, of Ham, St. Jaraes'splace, 15th April, 177 C I begin to-day for fear of interrupters to-niorrow; at present I am in as quiet a solitude (excepting London cries) as it" ou the top of Bunster or pinnacle of Thorp clou;l, for all the world, threat and small, arc gone to V» restiriinster-hall! This accidental rhyme is enough to draw me into a poetical rhapsody, and had 1 as fluent a talent as the author of " the .Election \ Hall," I have .subjects enough to have added a second part. The solicitude for tickets, the distress of rising early to be in time enough for ap!nce,theaiixieiy about h:iir.-lre.sser.s, (poor souis hurried out of their lives,) mortifications that ftatlu-rs and Hying lajmetH should be laid a.«do for that day. as they would obstruct the view from those who sit behind/all th-^se important matters were discussed in ;ny little circle last nit'lit. Bernard dino-1 here, Mrs. Boseawen came by appointment the evening to Kettle their going together this morning to the tri;d ; here they met at sov<;n, and | went together in Mrs. Boscawen'a coach. Bernard ! hal his ticket from the Duke- of Beaufort. How long j it will List, nobody knows. I bravely refused a ticket i for the Queen's box, and going with our dear duchess j fur I f._-arc 1 the l>u«tle my spirits would be in now unused to such splendid appearances, and doubted whether my eyesight an-1 hearing would have been at all gratified, a,s both those .senses are a little clouded by old leather Time. Sj I content myself with my I own ehhnnc-y corner, and have resigned my place to I I one more worthy of it. My young men return hither to a mutton eh op as soon as the busineias of the day Ls over. I Tiu-s lay 10th.—To go on. Nothing now is thought! of but the Duchess of Kingston's trial, for such she is, till publicly declared otherwise. I waited no longer for my guests than half an hoar after four, and"at seven they came starved, having been twelve hours fasting ; ami «;at their little dinner voraciously (mut-Uin-ehop.-i and lamb pyc, lobster and apj.le puff*, drank their coffee between eight aud niue. and then came to my little drtwing-roooi, where they found Lady Mary Mordauut and Mrs. Gordon. Tile show ot the trial was awful and splendid l>eyond imagination : but very little more done than a preparation for y.hal's to come, and nobody can guess yet what time it will take. The prisoner walked in very decently, dre:-:<e i in black silk, two damsels in mourning at t.jjnlinjr her, nnd led in by :i }HT*:<n also in mourning. The L>ui-h(\ss <A' Portland wt-ut in the Queen's box to the trial, liked it very much, dined at home at four | o'cWk, itud La. ly Andover, who went with the ticket I was to have had ; they don't gi to-day, but come to j me in thy cvc-iin;:,— Anlo^iof/rapfii/ and (Jorrctputt'ffiff of Mar;/ (iranri/le, (Mrs. Ddarvj.) Kditui hn the li'vjht H»n. thr Lmhi Llaauver.