Housselaer 26.4.1795 at King's, 21.9.1795 there, 19.10.1795 adv at theatre, 9.11.1795 at King's, 3.12.1795 there
This was quite likely Godwin's mis-spelling of Haussoullier (sometimes spelt Haussoulier). See work notes below for similar names from the Low Countries, perhaps this was a French variant. At any rate Haussoulier was a very interesting character and a likely guest at John King's table. Notes & Queries Jan to June 1863 p 91 gave no sources but the facts check out well with records, saying he was a French Jew and fortune-hunter who married the wrong lady by mistake. The earliest reference I found to him was a Chancery bill (Nat Arch C 12/1413/27) dated 4.4.1795 where Isaac Lindo exchange broker of Stamford Hill complained that Lewis Jean Marie Haussoulier merchant of Lawrence Pountney Lane had arrested him for a debt of £42 which Lindo claimed Haussoulier well knew was a gambling debt (and therefore outside the law). Next came the five mentions in Godwin's diary (see above) where Housselaer twice appeared with Franco and twice with Davis. Then the item in Notes & Queries said he dined at Richardson's in Covent Garden on 18.1.1796 and set off for Bath with his particular friend Gilrary Pigott in pursuit of Miss Trist the only child of a tailor in Surrey St, Strand supposed heiress to £40,000. Richard Trist, tailor of Arundel St Strand had indeed died on 10.12.1795 and his will PCC 1796 left his fortune to his daughter Sarah Elizabeth and to Ann & Sarah Rogers, otherwise Trist, whom he generally called his nieces, living with him. One of his executors was his brother Thomas Trist of Totnes. Haussoulier was perhaps fortunate in marrying the wrong Miss Trist, as in 1798 and 1799 Richard Trist's property was being sold off as a result of Chancery cases Shephard v Trist and Coombe v Trist. I've found nothing of what became of Richard Trist's heiresses. Haussoullier and Elizabeth Ayshford Trist, daughter and co-heiress of Rev. Browse Trist, who had died intestate in 1791, ran off together to Gretna Green, after escaping the vigilance of her aunt (Evening Mail 2.3.1796). Newspapers called him a French emigrant and gave his name as Hosoltien. On 10.3.1796 Haussoulier's petition for naturalisation was put before the House of Lords (HL/PO/JO/10/7/1025), and was granted in 1797. As often happened after Gretna weddings, Haussoullier and his wife were married at Totnes on 29.10.1796. In 1797 several Chancery suits took place (Nat Arch C 12/225/18, C 12/229/19, C12/484/19) between Haussoulier and his wife's relations, which were resolved by an Act of partition in the House of Lords (HL/PO/JO/10/3/294/4) presented 22.4.1799, after Haussoullier's wife had died in her 23rd year on 5.3.1799 (Sun 9.3.1799), (according to the item in Notes & Queries of a broken heart). Their daughter born 10.2.1797 and their son born 14.9.1798 had been baptised at Mitcham Surrey on 23.12.1798 and (also according to Notes & Queries) soon died. In 1797 Haussoullier also began Chancery suits against John King (qv) and others including Daniel Lovell (qv) and Walter Gordon (qv) who had both probably appeared in Godwin's diary as guests of John King, Gordon with Housselaer on 3.12.1795 (Nat Arch C 12/258/15 & 22, C 13/2331/18, C 13/6/10). According to Haussoullier Walter Gordon had introduced him to Miss Trist when he was in financial difficulty and he agreed to pay Gordon 5% and even 10% of his wife's fortune if he married her. Lovell and King were both suggested as arbitrators in the matter but Haussoulier later believed they were confederates in fleecing him. He also brought a suit against John Cruikshank of Stowey Somerset (C 12/231/43) whom he claimed to have lent money as a friend in 1795. Deeds in Cheshire Archives (DBW 17-19) dated 25.3.1800 concerning the manor of Aptor near Totnes mentioned the marriage settlement of Lewis John Marie Trist, late of Paddington but now of Pall Mall (Haussoullier had by now assumed the name Trist) with Mary Brooling widow of Dartmouth, and also mentioned Gillery Pigott . Brooling was perhaps an error for Brooking but I've found no trace of such a marriage having taken place. An ad in the Morning Post of 21.11.1800 requested Trist/Haussoullier's creditors to send details to a Totnes solicitor. An ad in the Morning Post of 10.7.1801 promised "A Particular and Interesting Account.." of a trial for an assault by Lewis Trist formerly Haussoullier on Daniel Lovell at Judges Chambers, damages £100, including many letters from Trist to his "benefactor" Lovell. Nat Arch TS 11/90 folder 269 concerned a prosecution (which perhaps didn't go ahead) for a libel in the Statesman on 21.7.1808 titled "The Disappointment" about the Duke of York, though Daniel Lovell in a letter enclosed, referred to a letter to the Duke of Sussex on 20.7.1808. Lovell claimed he was proprietor of a quarter of the Statesman, along with Lewis Trist and Samuel Shewel Hunt, but had since bought out his partners so as to prevent paragraphs being inserted without his permission in future. Trist also signed an affridavit to say he knew nothing of the insertion of the article, and the printer George McArdell, the publisher Michael Clinch and the reader Alexander McDonald all stated that the editor John Scott had admitted that he was the author of the article. The Notes & Queries item also mentioned Trist's being implicated in the poisoning of race horses at Newmarket in 1811. Daniel Dawson was convicted and hung in 1812 on the evidence of his accomplice Cecil Bishop, who also mentioned that Trist was to have placed the bets. A letter from L Trist exonerating himself was published in the Morning Chronicle of 17.3.1812, and the Derby Mercury of 14.5.1812 stated that Trist had published a pamphlet giving affidavits in proof of his innocence. He did however admit having met both Bishop and Dawson. Newspaper reports of the trial sometimes spelt his name Triste or Trieste. See also Morning Chronicle 17.8.1815 "The Turf" referring to the Jockey Club and a "certain party", and a letter from George Osbaldeston printed in the Leicester Chronicle 26.11.1831 saying that "they" persuaded Dawson "a pardon was close at hand, even up to the moment of his execution, merely to keep his mouth shut". If Trist was in fact part of this scam, he probably had more powerful friends who ensured it was all covered up. On 24.9.1813 Lewis John Marie Haussoullier or Trist married Lucy Sisson at St Anne Soho. She was the daughter of Rev Thomas Sisson of Reigate (will PCC1800) and his wife Elizabeth (nee Condon) (will PCC1816). Their children Charles Phipps Haussoullier and Guillaume Haussoullier were born in Paris in 1814 and 1815. The latter was probably the artist known as William Haussoullier, born 1818 according to artists' dictionaries. Their daughters Laure and Lucie were married in 1837 and 1846 at a protestant church in France (familysearch.org). Gillery Pigott had married Charlotte Archer at Wickham Berks on 7.4.1794 and died on 8.5.1814 leaving no issue. In his will (PCC 1819) he suggested that his wife would settle his debts for him and sent her his favourite black pony, leaving the residue to Lucy Shipdham "now living with me". However Lucy Shipdham renounced execution in favour of his creditors and the will of Charlotte Pigott (PCC 1819) also mentioned the black pony that had been her husband's.