(251) in Westminster Hall, before the House of Peers, for intermarrying with the Duke of Kingston during the lifetime of her first husband.  She was found guilty, but, pleading her privilege, was discharged without any punishment.  Hannah More gives the following description of the scene:—­“Garrick would have me take his ticket to go to the trial f the Duchess of Kingston; a sight which, for beauty and magnificence, exceeded any thing which those who were never present at a coronation or a trial by peers can have the least notion of.  Mrs. Garrick and I were in full dress by seven.  You will imagine the bustle of five thousand people getting into one hall! yet, in all this hurry, we walked in tranquilly.  When they were all seated, and the King-at-arms had commanded silence, on pain of imprisonment, (which, however, was very ill observed,) the gentleman of the black rod was commanded to bring in his prisoner.  Elizabeth, calling herself Duchess dowager of Kingston, walked in, led by Black Rod and Mr. La Roche, courtesying profoundly to her judges.  The peers made her a slight bow.  The prisoner was dressed in deep mourning; a black hood on her head; her hair modestly dressed and powdered; a black silk sacque, with crape trimmings; black gauze, deep ruffles, and black gloves.  The counsel spoke about an hour and a quarter each.  Dunning’s manner is insufferably bad, coughing and spitting at every three words, but his sense and his expression pointed to the last degree:  he made her grace shed bitter tears.  The fair victim had four virgins in white behind the bar.  She imitated her great predecessor, Mrs. Rudd, and affected to write very often, though I plainly perceived she only wrote, as they do their love epistles on the stage, without forming a letter.  The Duchess has but small remains of that beauty of which kings and princes were once so enamoured.  She looked much like Mrs. Pritchard.  She is large and ill-shaped; there was nothing white but her face and, had it not been for that, she would have looked like a bale of bombazeen.  There was a great deal of ceremony, a great deal of splendour, and a great deal of nonsense:  they adjourned upon the most foolish pretences imaginable, and did nothing with such an air of business as was truly ridiculous.  I forgot to tell you the Duchess was taken ill, but performed it badly.”  In a subsequent letter, she says—­“I have the great satisfaction of telling you that Elizabeth, calling herself Duchess-dowager of Kingston, was, this very afternoon, Undignified and unduchessed, and very narrowly escaped being burned in the hand.  If you have been half as much interested against this unprincipled, artful, licentious woman as I have, you will be rejoiced at it as I am.  Lord Camden breakfasted with us.  He is very angry that she was not burned in the hand.  He says, as he was once a professed lover of hers, he thought it would have looked ill-natured and ungallant for him to propose it; but that he should have acceded to it most heartily, though he believes he should have recommended a cold iron.”  Memoirs, vol. i.  Pp. 82, 85.-E.