Extraordinary trial! Norton v. Viscount Melbourne, for crim[inal] con[versation] ... A full and accruate report ... / by an eminent reporter ... Embellished with a portrait and memoir of the Hon. Mrs. Norton. &c., &c.

  • Norton, George Chappele, 1800-1875
Date:
[1836?]
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Credit: Extraordinary trial! Norton v. Viscount Melbourne, for crim[inal] con[versation] ... A full and accruate report ... / by an eminent reporter ... Embellished with a portrait and memoir of the Hon. Mrs. Norton. &c., &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I don’t know who don’t.-—(Muchlaughter.)- The best of us take it, masters and servants.—(Much laughter.) Did Mrs. Norton complain of you ?—Yes, although I was a very good servant. Did they not say you talked a good deal ?—Yes, I did tell my mind pretty fairly. Had you a wound on your head ?—No, but I had a little touch of Waterloo on my hip. That was nobody's business for I never complained of it. How often did you take a drop too much?—Witness (with surprise)—What, sir, in tour years ?—( Roarsof laughter.) I want to know how often to the best of your recollection ? —Ah, sir, you put too heavy a question to me. How often on a moderate computation? Why, sir, some people carry their liquor so well that you can’t tell when they have got it.—(much laughter.) I can't answer that question. Did it happen every afternoon ?—Oh, sir, l was not drunk every day. What then ?—Why 1 should say middling, as we are all, more or less.—(Shouts of laughter.) Were you drunk driving to the Queen’s Ball'?—-No, sir, I was sober then ; but going to the Marquis of Lansdowne's in the evening I certainly had a drop too much. That was when the black horse gailopped. Did you not say you were the principal witness against the Premier of England ? 1 said I was one of the witnesses I do not know that I could have said that. Martha Morris examined : Did you ever live in the service of Mrs Norton ?—Yes. I bel'eve you know her handwriting ? Yes, I do. [A letter was here handed to the witness.] Thai letteris in Mrs. Norton’s handwriting ? Yes, it is. The following letters were then read: Tuesday, July 12, 1831. Dearest Geor >-e.—Our chicken came safe to hand this morning, it having rained torrents nearly all the night. He rested at Meie, anil came on in the gig Seymour sent, and 1 have just seen him washec an put to bed, in a large high airy room; he has been in high spirits ail day, playing with the pet lamb and beagle puppy, the latter oi nhom shows a decided attachment to liis little companion; but the lamb is