The National Register. — London, England, 1817-08-11 00:00:00

`” . 4 SUMMER ASSIZES. LEICESTER. BREACH or ruomrsy or NI tRRIAOE• emor:Ar r. Evtatrus. Mr. Clarke opened this ease. He said the plaintiff's father is a most respectable Gentleman in I 1 al cot, in this comity : he has eight children, four sous slid Oil,/ daughters; his sons are most respectably settled in life : one of titan is nia9ie-1 to a , sister of the defendant; three of the daughters are married in highly respectable families, the fourth is the unfortunate plain • ; tiff in this case. The defendant is a young ilium in the same rank in life ; Isis father has left him a tiartmic of 20,0001. ; he has bees' at the University, and lives in the style of a (h stile. He openly paid his auhlresses to the plaintiff; it was 'lll.* talk not only *tithe family, brit of the itiglibitairliood, that they were to be married In the confidence and affection of such a situation, he meanly destroyed her happiness anti (amnia t in life In an unguar ded moment she surrendered ua !Inn all that conk' render her respected, tampon ed, awl happy in life. W hen he was called 1111111110 1/1.1 . 601111111S 111'1.1111 , C, Ile insulted her by brutally saying, 11e had moduli' Isis hoist , and • turned them, to grass ; then he had sprained his leg; at last, he could ton'at present, but lie is uald afterwards mai .y her : hut atter the child- was born, anti she had been made the hap less victim of her unguarileil roufidt nee, and his intammas Naseness, he tells her that she would get all the lan allowed her, two guineas for her lying in, and 2s. 6111. a week lisr the maintenance of tae child for seven years : he added to procure this, she' must go before a magistrate and sit car the child his. Henry Cooper, brother of the plaintiff, was convinced all *long, while the defendant visited his sister, that lie sta.: on terms of marriage with her, fle heard him cull Ilcs. Cooper " Mot het ." His sister kept house for him, anal then the defendant visited her regularly . once in the week, some times oftener. He believed his sister to be 28. She was not 32. He thought the deft:tiding 20: John Cooper, another brother, a draper in Leicester,- went to the defendant on the 13th of June, 1816,-with a letter from his wife. The defendant said," iv this the way they treat rue? and no other person. coffered to marry lire in Ja nnary, February, March, and in April, aunt she refused me." The witness iaitl, she is now at Langton (his !mother's house) and expects you accoreitig to your ;malaise to lissrly her. " No," Said the defendant, " I have taken the shoes off toy horses, and turned them to grass.—" I will give you my horse,"—" I cannot tide I have .sprained my leg.--His sister mho was present, said," You ought to marry her, we'll get a chaise and go both together."—" No, I'll not go to day."— " Will you go tosmorrovei"—" tell on that day." lie then left his home, mid witness could never see hint again till Ja nuary. The plaintiff was brought to bell in August thl6. Ile then said, that he had given sip all thoughts of marriage • now, and that he would give her two guineas fur her ill-lying, at Vs. Gil. per week, for seven ye ass, which would altogether amount to 70h He hail promised to settle a 1011. a year, tint things were now changed. Witness said lie spoke of 20001. "Well, isnot that foal. year?" He had proposed that the plain tiff should go to London, and he should meet Iler there and marry her. He now said nothing, but that he would pay 701., only she must sssear before a Magistrate. Tile defendant has a lariat and keeps two limiters. Ann 'reality had game along with the plaintiff to Latter worth, to see the iletemlant in November last, when the fol lowing iliaLgito took place bets% test tue plaiutitidllll dcfeud aut:lt is long since your have been to see nue ; 1 itave Mme to see you, in order to know whether you are to marry me according to your eitgagenn ot."—" I have now given a,, all thoughts of marriage. I slid buy wedding doilies, but I have now begins to wear them ; I offered to marry you in Jaimaiy, February, March, and April, and you reinsert me." —" Ala. Everton, is it likely that 1 could have refused your, when I kacw the situation l was in ?" Seijeaut Vangltan--Gentlemen .of the Jury, I feel ninth pain and great anxiety in addressing you on this stlllit`rt. Subjects of this kind are always painful ; the present is pe culiarly so. It is distressing to say any thing against als node in.siteli eircemstances ; but alit.y to my elitnt obliges me to say, that the ease as stated by Clarke, and as represented by the evidence, is very highly coloured. In the first place recollect the disparity ()filet : slit. is 25 not 32; take the sue (limn, 30' He is 24 or Now this, then, is not the case of a pea-son-in years, and practised hi the ways of the not Id, etedueinga young, and inexperienced child. There al euther cir cumstances, too, that take the sting ant ran', and place it is the plaintiff's. You have heard nothing of personal beauty ; Gentlemen you know the inference. Haul she any pre tension to beauty, Mr. Chu he would have opened her up a' the greatest paragon that es et dazzled the Gentlemen of Leicestershire; but not one word have you heard upon that point. My client is silly, foolish. and I will say, wrong ; but if he is rich, would not this faindy have thought the match a lucky one, paid liiin every attention, and given him every en couragement- Ia such eirmainstaneos, will you give as great a price fur any homely Ipiece of goods as for the finest com modity? I will not say that he has been morel sinned against than sinning ; but let the siaiiing be equally alas - ware how you eneottrag,e eniteenselits Is, aserstils• 34111/1g 01(41 by your verdict. I; h.n been alledged, that my client was at the Unive, sity. There is the proof? I suppose he took a scamper through Oxford with amuse limiters he kept. He might have offered to floury its Jaisslasy, w hell it was pOsbible to conceal thedis rare of thl., Clll/1/14', have afterwards refused, when that nas mot possible. She too might liaue re fused in Jatinary, whets she wee attached to another 111,111, snd this supposition may account liar his wishing her to swear she child to Mot. At any tate, these svas u call fur only The Janke slimmed up with great elearne , m and impar• tiality. Vciuler:t for the plaintiff—Damages 10001. HUN J ane, t h e widow or J. Scarborough, a relicetable keeper at Boaden, on the North rea , l,nas tried fora larceny. Thu prisoner a respectable looking woman abont 10 year, of age, stood at the har,:meompaideil by her daughter. 'rho in dictment char_rd her with feloniously stealing a letter, con taining a remittance of a 201. Hank of England note front It. Pi eston, of Liaeol n's Inn, parr islet at Law, M. was addressed to his son, V. S. Proton, Lsq. a pupil of the Rev. Dr. Maltby. at INgden. Mr. OlilaAi on stated the case for the prosectition,and called a noodler of vi itnesse.. J 1 ,arp stated that he will tierk to Mr. Preston, sen. On the tt;tit of October, 11815, Vltness rerei‘ eil direetion , from idr. e•lton I'VeliVC '2Ol. fora cheque upon Mcssrb. Praed , ad and to , r . vat d the tame to hi., seti, at litigdeti.-- W itnest accordingly this 201.. n hieli he marked vi ill, Utt name Of Prat:Jana C.,1. MAI nottii the. nutnher, being 301. TIIE NATIONAL. REGISTER. The saute day he gave the letter to Mr. Cromattne which he saw him give to the letter eart ier. Witness sw, re to his mark and 0:e Wen! sty of the note prodoci d. W. Cox stated that he is a post-mister at Hogilen. 011 the 17th of October, ISt 5, he recei% ell from the hag don a letter, which he delivered to the prisoner. Ile took it to her because be could not make out the directly'', which wits notch blotted end not legible. She said, " I know the Gentlemao for whom it is directed, and will deliver it to him, von had better leave it." Witness sacs Mrs. S, a few days After, who informed bun the letter hail berm safely delivered. Witness admitted that he was frequently in the habit of de livering 'letter. to the prisoner f r pet sons whom lie . did not know, andperticidarly for travellers who pat up at her inn: Ile is positive that letter was never returned to him. When Dr. Maltby came to the witness seine days after this letter should have been received, witness told Hr. M. he had no recollect' of having received any such letter. It was not till seed' al months after, whet) witness received a letter on the subject from the Post Mater General, that he recollected that on the day in question he livered a letter to the priso ner, the direction upon width he could not di.tinetly read. • Mr. W. S. Preston stated, that lie never received the letter, nor its inelosure. Mr. It. Bond stated, that he is an Attorney at Leicester. Ho had a debt against Mr. Green, son of the prisoner, and came to the Inn • for the purpose o(obtaining, payment. Ile saw the prisoner, who paid - him the note in question. On Thurs day follawittg he paid . the 201. to Mr. Price, of Leicester.-- This w us about the 20th of September test. Mrs. Scarborongh (who bore this investigation with a de cree of composure that might have credited her innocence) gave in a written defence to the following eft ct :•-" She trusted in her deliverance front the pr eseitt charge, which she did not blame her proieentors for itistittiting against ht r. She could (tiny lament that she luta fallen under It through the most strange and milt:spry circumstances. Site trusted the J u d ge a nd t h e jury would allow her to know herself incapa ble of such a crime as ilishotteAy. She had held her •itnation for :la et ars, and for 20 an joke( per herself, since the death of her lot:band. She had brought tip a family in vet,peeta bility, all of whom except the one who sat beside her, were well married, and themselves had families. Many thousad of pounds had passed through her hand; in cartying on an ex tensive business ; and the first (notifies, inchitling Nobility, were in the habit of using her house. 'I hese would not sus pect her of dishonesty, notch less that she would have com mitted such :111 act as that with which she was charged. She had no knowledge of this letter. Letters were frequently left at her house for strangers, whom site I.IICW not. The 201. mite she gave to Mr. Bond, she received of a stranger who came to Stilton and changed hoases-only a day or two bet Ore. She hail no means of finding out who lie was ; he sat on the dickey of the cu. eo n and her servants would prove the fact that she so took it; out slim added, she did put believe it was the 14:11e note cilliell she was charged with payiug to Mr. flood. She lamented that the Geutteinen of the Post-office, who iv ere, in fact, both prosecutors aud witursses against her had thonalit proper to bring her to trial. All she could rely upon for her &knee was a character until this time not oterely imitopeacheil, lint free from suspicion. She regretted the altsetice of the Parlay of Lincoln and of J. Hodgson, Esq. as they would have added to the honourable testimony she should produce in favour of her general character. She trusted to the fa vonrable reception she hoped to receive from the Court and Jory, that she and her fanAy might be mire more restored to happiness and peace of mind ; and that whirls alone could restore bar to society and the respect of mankind, which she and her family had so long enjoyed, and that was a verdict of Not Guilty." • T. Standish, a waiter, said, he retorned this letter to Cox. the Post master, by desire of his mistress. Ile 11111 not put it into his hand, butt laid it on the tattle of the kitchen where Cox then was. Her housekeeper and hostler case her lake a 201. note of n stranger the day before she paid Mr. Bond.— They could not swear to the identity of the note. The follow ing witnesses were then called to her general eharaeter 7-- sir. S. Jubilic, 0. Thorton, Esq. 1.. Reynolds, Lsq.l)r. Maltby, G. J. Gora, Esq. banker, Itr. Alaway, .sze. Chief Justice Gibbs remarked upon the coincideure 471 l'ilT11111011111:CS to-prove the prisoner guilty. There was, how ever, great allowance to be made for persons iu her situation not being able to account for the possession of notes ee hirh inteht he changed at her house by strangers, and whom she eanbl Limo mulling of. The Jury would sue nn whirl' side the ev idenee prenunderated aud give their verdict accord 111_h Tile Jury retired to a late hoar. The Judge having gone home to h s lodgings, waited to receive their virdict. After several hoots ileliberatom, they timid the prisoner Guilty 'ln else months impriso kkkkkk nt in the County Geol. . ‘EIIIXTION.-1131 r. P.t nsieVv. The plaintift and defendant were farmers. The firmer was the f.tt !vet of a numerous offspring, one of nhom, an inle t est. Mg gill of 11, seflored by the defend,mt. The y ommv lady gave her evidenee in a most imaff.eted manner. She Slillftli that OOP had borne a child to the defendant. Mr. Cao. herd addressed IheJury in mitigation of daiimges. Mr. Mann tiraliaiii viininied tip the evidcuce. in which he e•tprtssed his abhorrence at tee clituc , and the Jury gate 1001. damages. DORCHESTER. ci•lnurrnm ALLEN r. titAt PN, JUIF. Ti'!i actin was hi might uy a n Wow lady, for the seduction of ht r only daughter, under the moat aggravating eireiint.tac ces ; and, in order to avoid public disclosure (e Inch i. always desirable in cases or this nature) an idler of 5001., simile by the defesoltitit, %tam arecpied try the plaintiff, and it verdict w as recorded fir that 1411111 w ith 101 l costs. The plaintiff lives oil Ds entistoti its the comity of Lttor.et. The *fetid:sot who is (9,v eats of age, resides wills Isla father at Chart 11111 l th, in the same C omity. The young lady Woe only 18 ys ars of :Ige when .eiliteed, wineli took place last inntitter, while she was a vi-i -tor of the defendant'. mintier, in his lathes . J bootie, under the protection ot au aunt. NEN I. wormwmen O. tF.P. This ivvis -also an 3C111.111 of assault-- Corwitml opened the picadings, and )11. Gurney staid the ea,e to the Jolly. It appealed that both parties `sere taxmen; of eel enmity ii) the equine department of two intig at esentl,-from ss hid) rival stage coach( s started, one called the jAll 41 Nt;ISMII, and dm other tbe Rine 1')::.1 Maid, fur London. 'the pla.ntilf, cc ho catered ler the itlue Eyed ;Flail!, exeited the envy of th defendant, by the number of adherents %chick he enlisted oil the side of his patroness, the lattee'eurteeiving that the greater CSpeCt ..c as due, iu these " riving times ti peace,' to UAL. fame AUGUST 11: and memory of his hero, for whom lie wished to nionopol;zt all the itenerants from thavesend to the metropolis. Fora considerable time the rival companions kept within the boinols of legitimate emulation, but on S lay the !Atli of June last, an incident occurred which brought their e%ertions to a van. guinary ituie. A soldier, attracted by the charms of the Hine Eyed Maid, paid homage at her shrine, and was immenediat el v admitted amongst her votaries; but the defendant thinking, a hero of Wales 100 a fitter ally for the Hero of the Nile, took offence at the osinquest moire by his fair rival, and iiiimethati ly COMlllentell an attack upon her antis e champion. to a 1 10 , e iiisidnons attikee he attributed the seduction of the soldier. He planted a drentlnd blow upon the nasal promontery of die plaintiff 's visage, f which immediately gushed a dreactiil 1111 l and before he had time to recover the composure ollik nerves., another blow from the defenthuirs sinister feel. er, pot one of his optics in semi-narrning, and utterly inca• 'iodated hit► for a fair trial of his pugilistic prowess. Ile took refugue under cos er of the Bine Eyed Maid, hut his an. tagonist following up the assault with tremendaolis fury, laid him prostrate amongst the horses, feet, where it was probable he would have been trampled to death but for the interposi tion of the bystanders, by whom he was reicued fr his per ilous situation, and carried out of the reach of the detiaidant's further violence. For till.: ontralemisna:atilt the plecent action wac brought; awl the , tinder all the circumstances of the cAim, found for the plaintiff—Damages ins. POLICE. mAssioN nousr. Tlntr‘(lsy a very corpulent gentleman, a Lieutenant ord . ', Royal Navy, applied to the bud Mayor mt,le.t the following circumstances. He stated, that the lady of the house whet I' he lived, her daughter, and several lodgers, had conspired to deprive him of his existence, by the means of " electricit and the attractive powers," that they had utterly deprived him of Isis uncle bones, the knobs of his wrists, and had so perinduerd a consamption. His Lordship remarked, that his appearance by no means warranted that conclusion ; but he assured his Lordship, that his rotsmdity was occasioned be their contrivances, and that it consisted entirely of inflates - - limbic matter; that they had cut three scions in his neck, bled him four time~ on the arm with lancets, and seven limes on the forehead wills leeches, and that the young lady had applied the attractive power with so much violence as to extract two of his teeth !! which teeth lie produced in the Court is corroboration oldie fact; at the same time he hand ed up a voluminous written statement of his grievances, and concluded by claiming the protection of his Lordship. The Lord Mayor remarked, that he did not see how he could interfere with the attractive pow ers of the young lady, though she had used (Item with such strong effect. 1 he Lieun•uant said it was not against this particular fa mily only that he had to complain, but that mullitudes wet e in the habit of tormenting him with a tube and a spring, and other vile contrivances, and it was lamentable and scandal ous to see a great nation conspiring against an individual who had set ved his country in so many battles. tidigALmimmiumismni 110W-NTKEET. mml l y. J. Lake, whose tiight to Liverpool, Ike. with his brother's property, lately made so numb noi.e, was brought lip and discharged, his brother declining to prosecute. The prisoner received a suitable admonition from the Magistrate pros toes to his discharge. A 111411 was on Tuesday taken to Row-street, by the colter. for of the toil at Waterloo for refusing to pay a pen ny for the pass42e of his child. , The Magistrate told him, that lie was to a penalty of fas. for attempting, to cross but as this was the first decision under the new Act, he would merely order him to pay the penny, aunt :is. costs. 'this the man did, and was discharged. .1 broker, named finer, was convicted in 61. penalty for an overcharge for a distraint.' The charge by the new Act. oti. , ltt to have been only sa. whereas the defendant made a claim of 21. Gs. ed. MAK,}IO ROUGH-STREET. iNtonday, T. alias Old Patch, was charged he his master, NI r. a hackney man, in Cimino land ws, with cruelty to a horse. The prisoner went with a fare to High gate on Sunday morning, and ou his roam accompanied by ,aoother man on the box, lie gallopped the horses down High gate-hill, %%lieu one of them fell, and the wheel of the coach dislocated the hoof, so that it only hong by a sinew. The an im a l was tied behind the coach, and the.zged along upon three legs, whilst the other drove the Sillree 1101:4r in the coach, to a farriers shop in Kentish Town, who afterwards killed the lame horse, at the reioicst of the owner.—The prisoner a bsemillril, and his companion went to apprize Nlr. Gates of w bat had 'minicar:ll. Nlagist rate regretted that be could on•y sentence the prisoner to one muntlfs hard labour in Bilden cll. G. ,utlit.►n,.'en. and jun. E. Sullivan, J. Sullivan. mid J. Holland' acre charged with riotously assembling in Charles street, Drury.laiie, and assatilting S. Forzenian, an Officer, atilt several other p••rsons. 'Fite Vestrv•Clerk of St. Giles's stated, that near :;00 peisons se , senthled on Sunday nioreiniLf, of a !Iwo 0. Sunkist), s•e u. Willi leader, illl4l cmnmeuced a wanton attach, on --Brown. The cries of murder 11l ii t and his brother to the spot, who sii.taiiied re p. at ell a•-tans: and tot , ether ai,liJetteries from How sti t , t, oilier thlleeis, %ere at tirst overpowered ; but they a , lagt se- cured then►. attacked itidtse•rinlinatcls all a ho passed. The a hole as , atilteil Enratuoint, with the except,on ut I f knocked 1141W1) a youth, mitred Pi till , he to as eitilea soul ing to save another )0111 11 from his violence. whole mere c 'tt, 11. lt. Smith, a Parish Con-table, of St. Mary-le-bone, was eliartzed violating the person et au inteivoing ,voint4 le imale. 19 y rata. of ere, under the ti,l; n win g extrmiri tin o cy 61- eittli-taisees:—The cionplainant hail nee', •aptly a few pe io trow•.lie country, and rr,iidett with her brother, a rta,•ectabie ortnieti mita. A note seas lost from the bUtise , and the pi oSeentliX being suspected, the l'orisistele Smith was sent tee to take her to the watch 'muse fermi PadQinauu ; %%Olt this provision, that it•he confessed the robbery, she was to be liberated. Her innocence on this charge was 111e11.1st, from the lost note having been mislaid he the owner. As In the violation. the proseentrix stated, th•tt the prisoner first took he•r to a pnblie-house • ft um thence to a cook's shop, and las.- ly to a i 1,144,4. Of •, st hich she believed to be in Joules sweet, (IstOritstreci. He took her to the latter place, as he said, to avoid conveying her to ylan ie-boste w.ttelt•lt tt hen in she brothel, the prisoner inicinlitt e.I a female, who soon after left the room, and the prisoner locked the dour, and ptesssil lift t.) tied. lle oeisaved rudely, aut . she as etc