The Mysteries of the Court of London Vol. 7 — page 336: what you’re looking at

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. oda igre GREG quyeneaiDcieig Passe eseintiath Ea aD Ea Sw THE MYATKRIES OF THE COURT. . 429 vailed on behalf of that nobloman. Hoe, as well as Christian, was clad in mourning: for inasmuch as his brother had died penitent, Bertram did not LORD CLANDON. conceive that he ought to refuse that tribute to the memory of the deceased. We peed hardly inform the reader that iramenac} The jury having been sworn and tho indictment whs the public excitement whan it beeame re- | read, thero was a pause, to afford an opportunit ported abroad that Lord. Clandsn was innucent of | tur the prosecuting counsel, if auy, to rise and the murder of histiucle many sears back --that he f open tho case. But there was none: and the who had so long borne the ducal title eines that | judge observed —gluncing with much kindness aud tragic event, was the veritable assassin — that | sympathy towardesthe prisoner,“ It is notorious having ine last illness made a full confession, hy | that in this case the nobleman who btande in the had prematurely paid the debt of nature—that Iis| dovk will in @ few minutes make his innocence unhappy wife, as innecont as he was guilty, bad | cumpletely manifest; and it is therefore a most perished through afiliction at the sume time—and { unnccessary humiliation to keep him in a place that a youthful heir had been found for the title | which criminals only should oecupy.” of Marchmont. But it did not transpiro by what} This hint was immediately weloomed by mur. means these revolations and these circumet:nees | murs of approbation; and the turnkey at once re- had been brought about: tho secret of Queen In- | quested ord Clandon to issue from the dock and dora’s arrangements in respect to tho tribunal,| take a seat at the barristers’ table. Then several was faithfully kept by the old stoward Purvis and] noblemen and gentlemen, who had known bim in the other domestics at Oaklands whu iad been} his younger days, crowded round to shake bim by necessarily privy to those choasures. the hand: aud several friends of a more recent The Queen and the twins returned @co Londgn : | date likewise pressed forward for the same pur- Cirisiina remained with hor Majesty--but Chris- | pose. Amongst these latter were Sir William tian, by the advice of Mr. Columan, and hkowise |} Stanley, his son Captain Stanley, and Sir Frederick at the carnost reeoromgndation of bis cousin Lord | Latham. Me. Coleman was likewise there, —hav- Clandun, proceedo’l to take up his abodo at March-|1ug in hie possessian the important docuafnt mont ouuse in Belgrave Square. Thero, at aj which bad recently been drawn up at Oaklands, mansion in which he had formerly filled a com-| and which was now to be produced. This was the paratively humble pusition, hc was now reccived as{ confession. u ford aud a muster; aud the carriages of the] In the first place Purvis the ateward, and the highest aristocracy were continuously driving up{ physician who had attended at the murderer's tv the door that cards might be Jeft fur the young | death-bed, were placed in the witness-bux and Duke of Marchmont. sworn; and they declared that they had attested The day for Lord Clandon’s trial was now at] the dooument which was now exhibited to them. hand: tho law rm quired that this cereniony should] Mr. Goloman went through the same ceremony, take place, though every one knew that it must{ aud the clerk of the Court then read the confes- prove « mere toutter of form, and that the inno-| sion. I¢ was listened to with the attention and concy ‘of his lordship would be fully made mani-| interest which euch a narrative was so well calou- feat. Ifidecd, immediately after tho even.s at| lated to excite; and when the readitg was termi- Gaklands Lord Clandon ccased to’uccupy a cell in| nated, the foreman of the jury at once rose, saying, the prison uf Newyate—but was lodged in the beat} “It is with anfeigned pleasure thét ewe formally upartmenta of the Govornor’s h8use, where he wae| proclaim that with which the court was already “treated with all possible distinction. Lio did not] acquainted; nately, the innocence of Lord Olan- however avail himeclf of the altcred circumstances | don.” of kis case to demand permission to issue from the} “ Beforo your lordship pronounces my dis- prison-walls: but he was dnily visited by Qucen| charge,” gpif Bertram, rising from the seat which Jndora, the young Duke of Marvhmont, aud Lady} he had fs at the barristers’ table, “I woulu Christina Vivian. e@ | cfsve yotfr indulgence and thet of the jury while * The day of the trial arrived; and the court was| 1 speakea jew words on my own behalf. I admit crowded to excess. Indora and* Christina wero | roy object to be that they should go forth to the not there: they considerod that it wuuld not be} public through the ordinary channela of intelli- scemly for them to make their appearanco thus in| gence, I have two diatinot purpuses in view: in public. But Christian was present; and as he| the first place, to rescue the memory of a deceased sat upun the bench near the judge, he was an ob- | lady from even tho slightest remnant of suspicion ject of the utmosé interest un the part of all the spectators. Clad in mourning—which he howover woro rather for the sake of the hapless Luvinia than for that of the assassin of his own father— | for even some time aftor that intelligence reached looking pale and slightly careworn with tho effcots | me, I was auable to take any steps towards the of much excitement,—the young Duke maintained | demonstration of my Ynnoocence.” a demeanour in which diguity and gnodeaty were| Lord Olancdon paused fr a few moments: be blended; aud he longed for the tarmination of | was deeply affected at that allusion which he had these proceedings that ho might accompany his| made to the deceased Duchess Eliza. Having re- loved relative Lord Olandun to the home prepared | gaincd his self-prssession, and auuidst the breath- for hie recéption in Belgrave Square. less silence which prevailed in the court, be piree A profound silence for a fow minutes reigned feeeded as follows: — in the Court when Lord Clandon was ushered into} “Not for an inatant do I attempt to deny that the dock; and a feoling of deep sympathy pre-!I fondly and devotedly loved Lian Lacey, with CHAPTER CXLV ITT. pluce to prove how tor several long years I was in utter ignorance of my unole’s tragic end, and how epeyrtahs TTR A a earns A, eng ame ap ei? &b PER Oe ee ee amp ase quieren nes pee et which ‘may rest against it—-and in the second | COMIC OOO© SS (CO)