f An affair of a singular nature has recently occurred
iu the county o Norfolk. We abstain from revealing the names of the parties, as we are informed a court of law will speedily decide on the merits of the case. It appears that the gentleman, Mr. —, was informed by his domestics that his lady was a great admirer of an officer in the Lancers, now quartered in the city of Norwich : indeed, so well-founded were the suspicions, and so strongly conveyed, that the injured hnsband de- termined to procure proof positive ; and to effect this, invited the gentleman and a brother-officer to dine and sleep, omitting to say in the invitation that some yens dames were to be of the party. The lady and her husband, it seems, have been long in the habit of occupy- ing different apartments ; and on this particular night Mrs. —, it was remarked, Visited her husband good night more affectionately than usual. The police, however, were on the alert, and stationed about the mansion. At about three in the morning, a figure appeared, slowly and carefully bending its way through the passages, and finally en- sconced itself in the lady's bedroom, and turned the key. To make assurance doubly sure, the gentleman's room was searched, but no ghost nor shadow was discovered there. Doors, in these fashionable and romantic days, are made of stout oak, and do not give way as in the times of Jack Sheppard. Armed with pistols, the police and husband were yet several minutes effecting an entrance, and the gay Lothario, doubtless without much hesitation, jumped out at the window in his role de unit and one slipper. It was (fortunate or not, our readers must determine) the merest chance in the world he was not killed on the spot, falling within two inches of a deep area : however, a run of three miles across ploughed fields proved that the gallant gentleman was more frightened than hurt. The end of this romance is, that Mrs. departed to her friends ; the enraged husband to the French, and the officer to the English tnetropolis.---Iforning Post. [The conduct of all the parties to this pretty story, certainly not excepting the " injured husband," scents to have been on a par.]
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