The National Register. — London, England, 1808-12-25 00:00:00

'PHE NATIbITAL R : •• , DEC. 25. can de,.were matters otherwise regulated in this resperi. Is it not even irreligious, to convert the season for 9 ) ritual gratulation into au occasion for temporal lamentation t I humbly move, therefore, that the scttlii i of account-books, together with an preparations ed for pav ing rents and discharging- unpaid bills,. be changtrom Christmas, to Lent. These necessitous times fully war rant, if any consideration can warrant, the innovation that t bade now recommended. ISO& A Jrßw EfiGLISH.II,OI. . • LAWnEEPORT. . . COURT OF KING'S BENCH, nic. 20. SITTINGS AT GinimsuALL. CRIM. CON. PARR V. nENsoN. The Plaintiff and Defendant in this ease are both Merchants resident at Liverpool, and the action was brought to recover a • • damages for criminal connection - with the Plain compensation . les wife. Mr. Parke, for the Plaintiff, stated the ca'e as!is be- low detailed iu evidence, and accompanied the_st:Uement with the usual observations on the magnitude of theiniury_sustained , • by the Plaintiff. The Defendant he said was %sell able to poy nay damages which the Jury mig . ht award, as he had come into thi. possession of a large fortune; and he trusted the Jury .would think this was a case of exemplary damages, inasmuch n§ the con;equenccs of the conduct of the Defendant had caused a d...rmyement of mind in the Plaintiff. The parties lived upon terms of Intimacy and friendship, and it was from the oppor timity afforded by this intimacy, that the Defendant found means to seduce thew ife of his friend. The Plaintiff was mar led in the year 119 S, and resided at the village of Billingden, shout a mile from Liverpool. Ile went into the town most days at ten in the morning, and did not return until Your to dinner, In the inte:•val between those hours it would be proved, that the Defendant was constant in his visits to Mrs. Parr. But . these were not the only visits he paid, for the Plaintiff being a very . lbcal man, had the Defendant constantlS 7 dining Acids him. Another cirtunistano of aggravation in the conduct' of the . D efendant was, that he was himself a married man, and had children; he trusted that the Jury would think those circum stances of aztJavation merited a severer visitation than (mins:t idy was called for. With reTect, however, to the m-ntal de rinee!qout of the Plaintiff, he admitted that the malady might ill part he occasioned by a fever which he brought on himself by ever exertions at the Liverpool Elect ion,,,w here he actively and U 311111% t.upiioried General Tarleton's intere:4. TIP.• marriage of the Plaintiff and his wife was proved in the heal 1;98. Mr. Carey and Mr. Dixon proved that the Plaimiff and his mfr It% e4l ou harmonious tt rms. Mr. Wilkinson, clerk to the Plaintift, and who had been a con lithonial servant of his father's, saM lhoy lived on good terms. thicto , s examination. he said that site defend:tot frequently dined at their halm.. and al way! handed Mrs. Parr out of the room. ako usually folio wed her a short time afterwards. Ile ,nice heard the Pi:limit(' say, cisme back Raft ;1 and divert your time, and leave ',Lary to her-elf. Several witnes . ses Wert' Ca l It'd. t l ° 4 P o ke nearly to the same facts, and that the Defendant and Nit... Parr wort frequently together, but t hey did not see any t:ting improper pass between them. Mr. I). Parr, brother to the Plaintiff, also spoke to the afire timrtte inamter" in which the Plaintiff and iris wire lived. /le suited, that after the discovery of Mrs. Parr's infidelity, his bro l':er became mei•tncliolv, and at lefigth so deranged that he was "hliged to he committed to the care of Dr. Chute of Liverpool. t)o cross eltallliliatliM by Mr. Carron, he said that hie brother li .lilheen deranged before thikt time, and he attributed it to his mcr exertions at the Liverpool election. • lne Hughes, servant to the Plainta 5 , said, in the year 1 80 \ i Bet , '“ill a rrcif,uont in his visits at their house; she oh "'reed great familiarities bet.Yeen him and her mistress. On' if' Ole oat in the cellar, under the parlour where Mr. Bensiw seed her mistru,s were sitting, she heard her mistress say, " Dtat, L'eli-on; adone Venson." This raised her curiosity, and she It's)! into the room where ',hey . wete sitt on pretence of ask- In 4 "heliler they would • have muffins for tea. She saw then , on th'! !alphet. „re a. toK'ler in the act complained of, Other persons Aged who proved fa and traced Mrs. Parr at 1.1 to the house of Mr. !Season, at Lutwich Hall, in Lan ire " rt. she "Filly Cohabited with the Defendant after err. • , , 1114 3er . ~ISTFR. SST Mr. Carroty, fur the Defendant, contended it was nut a cas e for damages, inasmuch as the Plaintiff had brought his misfor tune un himself by his own misconluet in neglecting his wife. and . exposing her to improper liberties, which he suffered to be taken with her in his presence, without remonstrance, or appai rently caring for them. • To prove this; a Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Catharine Jones, and lips, a waiter at the White Line, Shrewsbury, were called, who proved the following facts.: That in August litOli, Mr. add :Vit.& Parr, and Mr. Benson, were at the Shrewsbury Races toge ther. They could not be accommodated with beds - at the White Lion, and w ere obliged to get beds at an adjoining house. ,Mr. Parr did not sleep with his wife, but in the best bed below, and Mrs. Parr slept in. a bed without curtains close adjoining to Mr. Benson's bed room ; but at that time Parr had a shade liver his eyes, and appeared rattles unwell. The waiters at the Inn at tirst thought Mrs. Parr was Benson's wife, but when.they disco vered she was Parr's, they made it ajoke, that Benson paid •for all, and kept both husband and wife. • ... Several other w itnesses were called, who proved.' that famili arities had passed in the presence of the Plaintiff, such as cor rectly ought not to have been passed over by a husband without notice. Lord ELLENDOROUGII detailed the evidence at length, and said it was a case for their serious consideration ; he left it for them to determine, whether the Plaintiff had been consenting to his disgrace, or whether he had not been culpably negligent. l • The Jury found for the Plaintiff damages 1,0001. The dama ges were laid at 100,0001. - • • .17 11 NAUTICAL INTELLICIENCE. I " rr . 4 A letter from Dover, dated the 2`4cl instant, states, "that on , the evening of the 21st it came on to blow tivineudonsly hard: from the S. W. attended by a heavy fall of snow, and it being very dark, no object whatever was to be discerned. In this gale the brig Jane, of Carmarthen, Clpt. T. Jenkins, from Limerick, with butter, feathers, and hemp, hound to London, struck upon a rock between the. South Pier Head and Shake spear's CELT. The situation of the crew was most horrible., Without knowing whether they were near an enemy's country or that of friends, with their limbs so benumbed, that all power, of action was done away with, and expecting every moment that the ship would go to pieres, the sole hope of preserving, their lives, made them cling to the masts, but to no purpose, for the ship dashed to atoms, and every soul, except the Captain„, was drowned; he Was almost miraculously saved by get:iii i t the bowsprit, and believes he was thrown from thence to hot beach, w here he wandered about from eleven P. Ai nil day-light, when he climbed the cliff and reached the tow r. am sorry I have to add to this misfortune the loss of the brig, Eleanor, Capt. Henderson, of Sunderland, with iron, supposed. from Cardiff to London, w hien sunk nearly close to where the Jane went to piece, and e‘ery person on board perished. Se veral of the bodies of the unfortnnate sulferers have been picked up, and should the weather continue fine, most probably the others will be found." MA u GATE, Dix. After a dreadful blowing night, Sun day morning diseosercd a very distressing seem. The Avenel brig, built by the apprentices at Chatham, went on shore near lie Sea-bathing Intirniar on Thursday morning I:tst, and must, or eoupw, be mate' ially injured by the gale of !a i l. night. The Walpole Last Indi,;man went on shorertear Margate on the ISth inst. at tell A.M, and though the snip is totally lost, the whole of the °dicers, crew, and passengers, got safe *oil shore. Mr. Sutton, the Chief Officer, had his arm badly fractured by the wheel, on the ship's striking, Thr greater part of the cargo is expected to be saved. l'hree other ladiamen had this morning the onion jaek downwards flying as signals of di;tress ; it is sup posed the met; on h o ard will be got wit at low water (about T &dor% Ilwre is a vast deal of damage done in sight of i (tit is place to the shipping. The Union East Indiamen, for whose safety serinus appre hen,ions had been entertained, anchored at St. Helen's on 'Hums day afiernoon. She had lost her cables and anchors, and was uriveu over to the French coast, during the tempeituous wea- I her. A large fleet of light vessels, bound to London, last week, three leagues from tile Dodgeon Lights, fell in with a French lugger, which :11 tempted to board one of them; but, at that in the ship wore round, and struck the lugger in the mid silip with her stern, wilich sent her instantly to the bottom, and the t► hole of he: crew perislicd. le and to our r.l and cir ta r dear :hat of seen xl div a lear alcaY• The hot tle )f seri- er, who re vented cootie, them extond4 sown D We IS r , l here nd smut o f my be great n as the orftv Cott ioLt LLICY • 1 25. mai It. ql at I les la/srn its been )n of rhaps 4 thu 111n0- ,inesi. : scal- ~alhl~f 111Clitt wrful- Lead ,n the