By M. Kinservik
This e-book tells the tale of the sour feud among the Duchess of Kingston and the actor, Samuel Foote, which led to a couple of scandalous trials in London within the innovative 12 months of 1776. Set opposed to the backdrop of the yank Revolution, the duchess's nation trial for bigamy and Foote's legal trial for tried sodomy engrossed the eye of Londoners, together with George III, Parliament, and the the Aristocracy. intercourse, Scandal, and famous person deals experts and normal readers a meticulously researched and dramatic narrative that relates the fortunes and misfortunes of its protagonists and exposes the social and felony hypocrisies approximately love, intercourse, and marriage within the age of George III.
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The motion passed, and for the moment it looked as if Mansfield’s vaunted powers of persuasion had spared the duchess a trial in Westminster. But there was a backlash immediately. A few days later, the St. James’s Chronicle printed an angry letter denouncing Mansfield’s speech and motion. Signed “A Friend to real Virtue,” the writer was particularly upset with Mansfield’s suggestion that the prosecution be quashed. The letter insisted that just because the duchess would escape punishment even if convicted, the trial must go on, reasoning that if she were really innocent, she would never consent to avoiding a trial.
Lord Gower moved that they defer the issue until the state of the duchess’s health stabilized. Her doctors had testified that she was too ill to stand trial now, so the proceedings had to be deferred anyway. Then Lord Sands tried to move the issue to a new committee. These delaying tactics were in vain. 18 This was like the devil preaching against sin. ”19 That Lyttelton could deliver such a potent attack is proof that the Duchess of Kingston had a very weak hand, indeed. In the eyes of most, she was neither virtuous nor modest, and so she deserved no special considerations because of her gender.
The next year Cumberland married Ann Horton, an attractive young widow who was better known for her long eyelashes than her discretion. ”25 He held out no hope that with matrimony might come maturity, and the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland lived down to his expectations. The hypocrisy of the process against the Duchess of Kingston was not confined to her noble jury. Among the lawyers who would prosecute the duchess was Edward Thurloe, the attorney general who had refused to halt the prosecution in December.