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:kitten, also a miniature in her box, but heard some thing about it. Heard it was a sketch, but did not see it. Mr. Cowland did not say there were letters from a dozen Gentlemen, he merely said he had found a packet. He told her, however, there was more than one. Mary Sewell is the daughter of a farmer residing a few miles frcim Chelmsford. and knew the plain tiff and his wife . from 1804 to 1811. She saw them frequently ; he treated her well, and they lived hap pily together. Crass.etamined.—Witness lives within four miles of Chelmsford, and merely saw Mr. and Mrs. Cow land as a visitor, someiimes to dinner, and some times to tea, hut never remained long t knew Mr. Cowland to be a shoemaker when married, but could hot say when he enlarged his premises for the reception of Officers : nor did she ever hear that an Officer could goat any hour he pleased; and get a bed. H ug h Symons was acquainted most intimately with Mr. and Mrs. Lowland from the period &their marriage; they lived most happily until the year 1811, when, for two years, they appeared to dislike each other : they bad since separated : it is about two years ago. . Cross•esamined.--Witness lived sting miles (toil Chelmsford, and be .and his wife 'visited Mr. it'd Mrs; Cowland. for some time after their tnarriage.— His wife ceased to visit in the year 1806, but he con tinued to do so up to the present time. He never particularly remarked OEMs about the bows of the p e wit, but knew. he aeconamodees4 tt l i e Often n saw therm. in the shop, but ever , savi in the parlour or drawing-roam. Mrs. Cowland was a very h a nd s ome woman, and used to dress gay. He once saw her siding in company with an Officer, but Mr. Lowland was also riding ;tear her. Mn. Mary Buttressinew Mr. and Mrs. Cowland as long as she could recollect, *up to the year.lBl l. They lived happily together, and the parties visited each other up to that, time. Miss Harriett Sewell was in . the habit of visiting the plaintiff and hi* wife until 1811 they lived hap pily together, as far as she. knew. They might be living as happily, for aught she knew, in 181$, as she had dropped the acquaintance us the former feat mentioned, on account of the bad conduct of Mrs. Cowland: Ruth Cooke deposed, that she lived servant with Mr. and Mrs. Cowland in the year 1811, for six months. Major Dacre, during that time, lodged there three times. In the month of September, 1811, she remembered her master going upon as journey.— The defendant was not then lodging there, but he tame quite sudden and unexpected in a few days.— He arrived there on a Sunday, and slept there that night. The following morning witness bad occasion to go op stairs at an early hour, when she saw the bed-rdoin door of Major Dacre open. The door her mistress's bed-chamber was on the same passage. The clothes of the Major's bed remained undisturbed, and be was not himself in it. Witness went imme diately to the door ot her mistress, which was net quite closed, and beheld the Major with her in bed. were quite visible, and she could not be anis :aka. She went down stain without taking any notice; but her mistress shortly rung the bell, and upon het arriving at the top of the stairs, she observed the Major glide swiftly into his own room. It was she Sunday preceding that the plaintiff had left borne. Thinks it was Sunday the 2d of September when the circumstance between her mistress and the Major took. place. Witness saw them salute each ether on several occasions before. Cross•exazoined.,—Lives at present as servant with' Mr. Sweet, an attorney, in Staple-inn, Holboro.— Her master is at present single, but a widower: has lived with him twelve months. Lived with Mr. Cowland two years, and goes by the name of Ruth Cooke, in town. John Burrowes, a servant to Major Dacres in 1811, was then called, and the letter already mentioned ahem' to him, which be believed to be in the hand writing of his master. ' On his cross-examination, he said, be was no great scholar, but had seen his mas ter frequently write. Lived with him one year from the spring of 1811, and was generally with him, but not always. Never knew him to be in the course of the year at Bristol Hot-wells. His master lodged in the house of Mr. Cowland for three weeks in 1810, but he did not see any other Officers there. Here the plaintiff's cue closed. Mr. GURNEY then rose on the pait of the defen- dant. He observed, that in cases of this kind too much caution could not be exercised, and he was sure, from what had been heard, that his Learned Friend was not fully aware of the kind of testimony Fat he had ventured to produce. His Learned riend had called upon the Jury to give sober da. wages, but he would now ask, in turn, would it be sober for them even to give a verdict for the plaintiff? The plaintiff and his wile, it appeared, had separated in the year 1814; and he would ask, whether it had been proved that they lived in perfect happiness until that period ? Was it even proved, by proper testi mony. that antecedent to this they bad_lived so Certainly not: for though they. had the selettion of the best. testimony, whom bad they produced? Why, one or two women, who lived several miles apart from the plaintiff and. his wife, and who paid an oc casional visit .one who knew nothing of them since 1806, and another who actually declined the ac quaintance of Mrs. Cowland four years since, on ac• count of her bad conduct. Thus were witnesses brought seven miles from one side, and five from the other, to, prove the happiness of the plaintiff and his wife, while not one soul of the good people of Chelmsford, who knew the character and virtue of the parties so well, was produced on the occasions this, too, in a place where the very stones of the town might be said to have known them. ' But there were still stronger eiactimstances in favour ot his chetah- 1 Why, he would ask, did the plaintiff, after discover. lag the imprudent conduct of his wife, when "Tag her female at qdaintances had - deserted her, continue to live with her as if nothing bad happened ? Why did Ise not twins his action for the injury be now com plained of immediately upon discovering the Act of the adultery, and that fact confirmed as it were by be:elopement? Why was it thus kept pending for two yeah and not have the courage to bring his mitnesaes into Court till now ? Why, because be new the story of his servant and her extraordinary /elation/ of intrigue was incredible, and became be could not procure testimony to bear out this most in conceivable representation. He would ask also, why was the packet found in the box of Mrs. Cowland not produced ? Why, because she has many lovers beside Ma i ler Dacre, and because he (Mr. Gurney ) verily believed the.one produced was not the produc tion of his client; or if it had been, why w.is the testimony of an ignorant groom set up is preference to the agents and'other respectable persons who were well acquainted with his hand-writing in Chelms ford ? But there was still another circumstance, the ininiature—whY was that not produced ?—why, be' cause it was not the picture of . Major Dacre, but that of an earlier favourite, (who, notwithstanding that the plaintiff had such a regard for the protection of his wife as to be induced to garrison his house with soldiers), bad fogad access not only there, but to the. tenderest feelings of Mrs. Cowland. These were circumstances worthy the attention of the Jury ; and was it to be for a monslat - supposed, that a question fir damages would be entertained for the loss of a woman who had flirted about with officers under the eye of her husband, and who had been :offered to live with that husband for two years after her con. duct had b•come most notorious He was.convinced not; and when the _Jury would look as men to the extreme improbability of the evidence of Ruth Cooke —to the weak,. and indeed injurious testimony given by the plaintiff's Witnesses--and, above all, to the conduct of the parties—if a verdict of damages were given, no man would be safe. Mr. Justice BOILIKIVON, hr itimMing up the evi dence to the Jury, observed, that the cam of dui plaintiff was in no wise made out, if the testimony'. of the witness, Ruth Cooke; was not believed; at. die sterns time he saw no reason why her evidemes was to be ' rejected altogether. If they did believe her evidence also, there was a sort of confirmation in the circumstance of the letter, which he saw no reason to think was not fairly proved to be in the de fendant's hand-writing. It was, however, not a little extraordinary that the plaintiff should keep this action so long pending, and that he should have lived with her for two years, after there had been at least a ma nifest departure on her part from the roles of pro. priety. The question ; however, for the Jury, was simply whether the case was established against the defendant by the evidence be had already mentioned, and if so, what damages they would be inclined to give, under circumstances where no essential injury was proved to have been sustained ? The loss of do mestic comfort, and an inroad upon conjugal happi ness, called for summary retribution in paint of da mages; but where the conduct and character of the parties could not be viewedin tbislight, it became the duty of the Jury to consider impartially what amount would fairly compensate for the alleged injury. The Jury having deliberated about two minutes, returned a verdict of damages--Oesfarikisw. CROWN •m& . Roaming A CHILD —Efisakth Healer • aged 46, and Atoms Jarvis, aged 21, were indicted for feloniously auatatingr an infant child of about 5 years of age, named Adam Davis, and wilfully. and maliciously scorching, burning, and otherwise ill-treating the said infant, with intent to do it some grievous bodily harm.. There were other counts in the indictment,• one of which charged the prisoner with committing a commons-slunk. Catherine Evans deposed, that she resided at Bark. ing.sidep and was employed by the prisoner to rash and iron clothes. The prisoner, Hunter, was in the habit of receiving the parish children to nurse, and Adam Davis was one of those under her care. Re becca JAMS was her servant. On the morning of the 24th of May last, she went at an early hour to look for work, when she saw the two risoners. Hunter was in the act of chastising the child, whom she told to strip. The child did so, and the former took two pieces of riband and tied them together. With this she then bound the bands of the child to its own body, and was proceeding to bind its feetulso. when Witness was about to leave the place. She risked the prisoner Hunter what she was going to do with the child I To which she replid 44 lam going to roast it!" Jarvis being asked a similar question, an. swered, “I am going to help her." Witness then left the place, and went to inform Mrs. Wright, a neighbour, of the transaction.. In answer to a ques. lion from the Court, she said that there was a Ere in the room in which the prisoners were, but it had not buisit ag % Wright stated, that she went in company with the last witness to Mrs. Hunter when she en. tared the apartment she saw the child before the fire, and it was then stripped naked down to the waist- band. The prisoners, she thought, were holding the bottom part.of the child to the fire, but as they stood before her, she could not well distinguish. The child was very close, and cried oat very much b Witness was much ala rmed, and inquired " for Gov's sake what are you doing i" The prisoner Hunter replied, " I am routing the child ;" and the expressions and sight so shocked her, that she was obliged to quit the plAce. Having recovered in some tune afterwards, she returned to the house, and asked to see the child, when Mrs: Hunter said it was out playing. Witness wools" not believe ibis,, and insisted upon seeing Soon after it passed through the house, but was hew dully stairs, to prevent its being examined. Wit. nest then determined upon making the matter known, and the Parish Officers were informed of the .1. Wilson, an of fi cer of Barking parish, went on the 27th of lay . to the.house of the prisoner, and insisted upon seeing the child. At first much reluct. ance was manifested, but the witness persevering, the child was brought. He bad it taken into a parlour, stripped and examined. There was then a large burn on the right shoulder, which came some distance 'down the back. Daniel Moore is a Stigma and Apothecary at Ilford s on the 27ch May last; Wilson called upon him to examine tbo child. tie found a large barn on the upper part of the erns which extended across the whole shoulder, and came half-way down the back. It was taken to the work horse, and subse quently before a Bench Of Magistrates, when, being *pin examined, two large burns were discovered on the lower part of the back, sae on each side. Witness thought the child was the n in a dangerous state. In six days there were symptoms of fever, and he was of opinion they proceeded from the burning. Neves heard a .namt before fa or against the prisoner Hunter. Mr. E. *ors astAlist titteii al Oademese ooM • firmed the testimony of p artslat witness. thonght the wounds on the lower p were occashinei by the child snuggling and rubbing against the bars. The Jury found both prisoners Guilty upon the first count. Lord ELLENBOROUGIi t in passing sentence upon them, animadverted in strong terms upon the horrid offence of which they had been convicted✓—an offence, he said, which, had it been attended with the fatal consequences it threatened, would assuredly have cost them their lives. In measuring the punishment, however, he would now award against them, he would make some distinction as to Jarvis, who might possibly have acted somewhat under the influence of her mistress's orders and example. No servant, however, added his Lordship, should become subser vieat to the acts or views ot a guilty master or mis tress. The prisoner, Rebecca Jarvis, was then sen. Kneed to six, and Elizabeth Hunter to 18 months imprisonment in the county gaol. •'This morning Peter Beard was put to the bar, to take his trial on an indictment, charging him with having violated the person of Mary Peartree, at Tolleshunt•Darey, against her will, in the month of March last. The facts of the case were shortly these s—The prosecutriz, who is an interesting looking girl, about 18 years of age, was on the way front the house of her mother to that of her master, when she was met by the prisoner, who had previondy spoken to her at the church•door. He asked her if she did not know bin) ? and_on her answering in the negative, be knocked her dowo, and in despite of her resistance effected his diabolical purpoxe. She acquainted a female friend that day with what-had happened, and the next morning the prisoner was apprehended in his master's stables. In his defence, the prisoner denied that he had committed the violente imputed to him.= Guilty—Death. Lord ELLINBOROUOII 9 in passing sentence, com mented with beconting severity on the atrocity of the prisoner's crime, and intimated that he need entertain no hope of mercy. He was left for execution. Thomas Merritt, was found guilty of stealing two asses, the property of John Cook, from a field adjoin ing Ipping Forest, on the 15th of May last. The asses were seen safe in the field the preceding eve ning, and on the 15th the prisoner sold them to a man named Wm. Street for a ill note. He was sen tenced to be imprisoned for two years in the Howe of Correction. Lord expressed a hope that he would be kept to hard labour, as under any other cir cumstances imprisonment only engendered habits of idleness. Hasa Odense was indicted for receiving 816Ibs. of carraway seeds, value £3O, the property of John Rovett, well knowing them to be stolen. Upon call ing evidence, however, the property could not be sworn to as belonging to the prosecutor, and the pri soner was acquitted. John Calvert and IYillram Larnloert were indicted for stealing a bushel and a half of flour. Upon the in dictment being read, it proved to be erroneous in consequence of a specification of the value of the flour having been omitted. The prisoners were acquitted, but ordered to be detained. The whole of the Crown eases having been gone through, the capital convicts on whom sentence had been passed were pnt to the bar, and sentence of death was passed upon them with the usual solemnity. The Learned Judge, however, intiTated, that in all pro bability they would not suffer the full pena.lty of the law. Ambrose Death was respired before his Lord• ship quitted the town. The only prisoners left for execution therefore were William Naylor, for bur .glary, and Peter Beard, for a rape. The Court then broke up. HATTON GABIDEN.NOt a post reaches town with out bringing letters from the convicts at Wool% ich, Sheerness, Portsmouth, &c. containing charges against the.wretches now in custody for a conspiracy, and giving particulars of fresh plots. Some of these let ters name various persons not yet in custody as con. nected with Vaughan. I.imbrick, Reid, and other Officers, are, in consequence, making every effort to apprehend them. We hope they will be successful, and that these vigilant Officers will be duly sec'nded. We are persuaded that there is yet much to discover. The letters from the convicts have been laid before the Magistrates ; but it would be improper to disclose the contents of them. VAuxnact,...Though the variableness of the wea ther has tended to lessen that influx of company which was expected last week, still these Gardens might justly boast a display far exceeding such unpromising nights. Madame Santa was welcomed with peculiar warmth on Friday last, and revaulted with an agi lity that astonished the numerous spectators. Since she sustained no injury from her former slip, and in tends to renew her matchless flight, those illustrious visitors to whom allusion has been repeatedly made, will doubtless soon grace these Elysian scenes. Saturday a man of mean appearance endeavoured to force his way into Windsor Castle, saying the pre ' 11111111 b beloved to him, and those who were in it were luipostors: he also broke several of the window/ of the Castle. On being brought in custody to Lon don, it was ascertained that he was the unfottunate maniac who lately broke the windows of the Secre tary of State's Office with penny.pieces. Saturday afternoon, an inquest was held at the Light.horseman, in Castle -street, Leicester-square, on the body of Mrs. Sarah Pottinger, wife of Mr. Pot. tinger, coachman to her Majesty's Master of the Horse. On Friday morning the deceased got up in her usual, state of good health, and was no way ill. About one o'clock she went down stairs to the scul lery with some plates and dishes, whereshe was found shortly afterwards lying near the sink on her back, quite dead. Verdict—i-Died by the visitation of God. Saturday afternoon a young child, about two years and a halt old, fell from a two pair of stairs window, at btr.ANDeason's, corner of Clare-courr,' Drury lane, Into the street, and miraculously escaped being killed. The little infant is severely bruised, but thtre are hopes of its recoliery. MUCK OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. ask Stook,— . I Osmium X I per E Kok 11$11 64 Rif India Stott -.- 3 par CLCaas. 11 India Sonde aII pr. 1 par GM Tie £xcb. Bills 6 8 pr. S par Coat. Navy 9Sif ' Comb for Acc. 631111 Lag dm 14184rfolf i I Lowy Tickets, yea& 19e. cLBRICA lATSLLIGENVE. OXFORD, AUGUST 3. Yesterday the elecrion at Merton College took place, opt, ei Mr. Mills, of Christ Church, Mr Midway, of Brisenriose C o t, lege, and Mr. Cockerel!, of Trinity, were tlettad Erlbw s oi th. 4 Society. Thursday ee'nnlght the following Gentlemen Wi-re ord a i urd bt the Lord Bishop of Worcestvr : DLACON —James Edward Compton, B.A. Patzers—Robert Peel, B.A rrrnis Gotwete, R.A. Sarno,' D'Oyley Pesball, B.A. Bright Glover, B.A. W.l„ w rqge. B.A. ECCLESIASTICAL PHOSItiIIONS. Rev. Henry Portmore Cooper, M.A. has been licensed to ti n perpetual curacy of Great Hampton, Evesham, Woreesitrshire. Rev. Weteahall Soeyd, B.A. to the vicarage and parish chute* of Newchutch, in the Isle of Wight. Rev. Robert Williams, to be head master of the eudo*ed g ra d. mar school, Bangor. The Rev. W. M. S. Preston, of Queen's College, Oxford, h i lately been Instituted to the perpetual notaries o! Achia to mi d StUddlebro', in the North Riding, Yorkshire. Dr. John Fleming. mini ter of Disk, has been elected to tit! Professorship of Natural History, In the Institution at Cork. SINGULAR PETITION. TO THE RICH F HON. THE SECRETARY AT WAR, a. Tie Memorial of ELIZABETH HOPKINS, wife 0, JEREMIAH HOPKINS. Berjeant of the 104u 1 . (New Brunswick) Regiment cf Foot. MOST HOMILY SurwaTa, That she was born of British parent , / at Philadelphia, la de year 1741; has her husband, six sous, and a son in law, vit. Jere. nisei Hopkins (husband), Samuel Woodward, Timy. Woodward, Robert Woodward, Nathaniel Woodward, Archibald Wood ward _ Nish. Hopkins, (ions), James M'Donough (-on In law), s oni ,i his Majesty in the loath; and during the course of her hig, from her zeal and attachment to her King and country, she b as encomatered more hardships tban commonly fall to the lot of her sea. That is the year 1716; being with her first husband, (John Super), a sajeant of surioesa,on board the brig hunity, tend e r to the Roebuck, she was wounded its her left kg, hs.an engage. meat With titres French vessels; when She Was actually wee* at the SSA& That UN marines having been 'Muted dt Cipe May, in Ame rica, her husband was takes prisoner by a Captain Plof the rebel army, war Mud Fort Nied, and sentenced der death; that by her means he was enabled to escape, with gg American deserters, to whom she served arms and asnatualtioa, and an their way to join the army, their party was attacked by thi enemy's light horse, she was fired at, and wounded in her kit arm; but, undismayed, took a loaded *clock, that the tebd, and brought his horse to Philadelphia, (the beadles:tat of tbi army), which she was permitted to sell to one of General * Wm. Howell Aid-de-Cansps. • That alter many fatigues and campaign; her first husband died, and she married (seined Woodward), a soldier in Calm a t Chambers' corp., was with the troops under the command of General Campbell,taken at Pensacola, having, however , during the. siege, served at the guns, and tore her very clothes fwwad ding. That having been exchanged at the peace of 1713, bout attachment to the Royal cause, she embarked on board a tram poet with part of Delancey's and Chambers corps, wassbipwruk. od on Seal island, in the Bay of Fundy, when near three bundled men, and numbers of the women ant children were lost, that 4ie si.ffered unparalleled distress, being pregnant, with a child ia hef anus • remained three day, on the wreck, was taken up with her lxissband and chUd,by fishermen off Marble Head, and shortly atter being landed, delivered of three sons, two of whom are in the 104th, the other dead lastly, that she has had the huneur of tieing mother of Et children, viz. is tons and four daughters, seven of the former being alive, and three of the latter. That Memorialist humbly prays, that you may consider her as a fit object to some allowance from the Cempassiocate Filed towards her maintenance in her old age, having lost all her pro perty, and as a reward for her lung and faithful service to Lei King, and as in duty bound, shall eve: pray, c. uorKiss. Fredericton, New Brunswick, 12th April, 1816. he subject of this Memorial is a wonderfel oh! woman, Ruch above seventy, and wus well and hearty at Qeebec tan muntasAho. la coaliesucnce of her Meoviriai, the obtained a peuliuo of £lOO a-year.---t be following is anuther in.:ante d her strunrb of mind : at Fort Erie, the pride of her heart, bet twins, ; also McDonough, her son-in-law. On Lar.eg the news, she called her husband and her children round her, gods them a most animated speech, charged them to be revenged us the Vanities for their loss; and next time they wen: i..tJ aln they were cheered awl encouraged by Mammy 1 lopkies, :ye name she goes by in the regiment j BIRTHS. - Tuesday, at Colisford, Oxf..sr.liture, the Lady of Major Ed ward Fitzgerald, 60th Regimen., of a daughter. Thursday, at Camberwell, the Lsdy of the Rev. Edw. Smyth, of a daughter. MARRIED. Saturday, at St. lantes's Crsurzb, Mr. Milligan, jun. to ?ibl Stifling, youngest daughter of St. Walter rho;, hart. Rev. J. Li.caland, ot Hantrou, to Fiances, youngest ditogluet of the late Wm. At :told, fly ot Wight. • Mo day, the Rev. Kenneth M. R. Tapley, Vicar of Flower, Northantironshire, to Charlotte, yht.gest daughter of the late Dr. liorosby, :•aviliast Professor ot iibtronomy. DIED. 041 Saturday evening, In Albemarle-street, of a rapid decline, Emily, youngest daughter of the late George Clark, Esq. of West Hatch, Esse'. W etinedslay. in Caroline•plate t Caroline, the fourth daughter of Captain Lochner. Thursday, la Hinde-street, - los-illness, the Rev. EdnardDawkiu%, in ldeoeth year. July Si, suddenly, in the night, after going apparently in good health to bed, Mr. James Field Osborn, aged 7a years; many of which be was one of the Fellowship of Pilots, Deal, but Wetly a superannuated Member of that branch. after a linguz luvalithque patrum From the taunt embrace Unmanly sons arisea puny race ! MARRIAGE ihould be the foundation of snail happiness, which is often disturbed through the parties tilt form the union, nut taking those precautions which would secure them the enjoyment of that great domestic blessing. Amid 4 the melancholy variety of disorders under which human tiaturti is known to suffer, there are none mere alarming or more clio tresidng than those which result front fashionable gaieties, early dissipation. or solitary intemperance. Messrs. CU lift IF. and Co. beg to state that the sedulous at tention of s practice exclusively directed to the treatment sed cure of Cal AIN COM VI,AINTS, entitle them to the claim ot superior acquirement. As regular Surgeons, they oiler a speedy and pecinavent cure for every stage of that disorder, Mkt.'s Is contracted in au unguatded moment, and which poisons the springs ot life and for every class of debility, which is the corm• quence of juvenile Indiscretions, preventing the Iticurity ot man- hood, entailing by anticipation, t.n irs unhappy victim all the its firinities of old age-4hr heady becoming enervated and dna , dated—the cheeks yellow and btoodiees—and the mind gloomy and dejected- ?or the result ot their success lu this perecu. far branch, they refer to that reputation, which, they flatter themselves, they have acquired, by 30 years experience, ill * much extended practice. la alight and recent cases of Sypliiiic 4 tic CG:nplaints, a perirct cure is completed in the short redod of two days; and in the most aggravated cases, a proper perseverance in their plan of treatment iusures to the patient an invigorated constitution. 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