The National Register. — London, England, 1817-06-02 00:00:00

174 LAW ENTTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCII, MAY 29. BREACH OF I'i;OMISE OF NIARRIAGE. ANNE EVANS, SPINsTLR, T. THOM 1S JOSEs, ESQ. This was an action to II rover damages for the breach of a promise of marriage. —The damages were laid at 50001.—The • defendant pleaded, that he had made no sorb promise. It appeared that the father of the plaintiff was Collector of the Excise at Caernarvon, a 111111 1 t great respectability, with a family of seven children, five of whom were daughters, and the plaintiff the eldest. At the time the defendant first be am) to pay his addresses, she was shoot twenty-three or four }ears old, and the defendant somewhat older: he had an • l'lltitte of 10001. a year, and expectations to the moonlit of 10001. a year more. The argil:amulee commenced in Me : in the beginning of the following sear the defendant pro -I:.ssed outsell a , luitor. Towards the close of 181 t, rumours were admit that the defemlaut was particularly attcotive to another lady of the name tie Lythall. Olio resident at Caer hart en • ; and it was even stated that promises had been made to her of a matrimonial union. These suggestions the de fendant repelled with indignation, and in 1111:), sonic preparations were made by him for the celebration of his ap proaching marl iage with this Evans; it hieing agreed that her father should give her 5091. money being esteemed by the defendant a matter of no consequence. In Angust 1815, . titer a trial ai shrew - slimy, the defendant took a most H&c tiotusteleave of the plaintiff and her family, professing that he sherald return soon : he did return, and renewed his ad dresses wide increased ardour, declaring, that a speedy union with•the plaintiff alone resold make hint happy. At this very moment he was a married man. having been united in London to illiss Lythall! The plaintiff and her relatives were, however, ignorant of the fact until some time after wards, when the slefendant again took his leave, informing the family tliat %he should return , but had never since made his appearance.—The defence, in extenuation, merely pleaded, that defeenkost's property was not so great as was stated, and that the young lady had not lost a husband of •situch value, as both iunt and his father had wetted in the lead mines of Caernarvonthire, and were as illiterate as the A.:v.4 of the taboo-m:3. _Lord Ellenborough commented nn the disgraceful dupll - of the delenslant, and his most Wallloll barbarity, in playing Avid' the tenderest feelings of the most tender sea.— film Jury gave a verdict, Damages 10001. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. CRIM. CON. ooroviTott r. FEU I M. A DE. VW% eras a rase in which much carelessness was apparent in the conduct of the husband, and much depravity on the part a the woman and sedaeer.—Mrs. Vouglitou was suffered to tide about with Vermicide, and go to balls, operas, 4ie. and lie , took advantage of such opportnnitivs to dishonour the man -whom he called his Iliecl.—Damages 4001. In the same Court, another action for critn con. Major •Aaeo. Griffiths plaintiff, Capt. Brown, 11th foot, defendant. 'the parties became acquainted at Gibraltar while in garri son there. Slns. Griffiths, who is daughter of a Baronet, re. turned to Wand in 1814, on account of ill health--the Cap. Actin sot% followed, and joined the lady at Southampton, 'where they lived together tiH the General soddenly arriving. beat up their quarters, after au absence of more than twelve months, and they retreated to Exeter, where the lady was delivered of a child.—ln defence, Commie! pleaded Isis client seas only-2S, and the lady 42, and that he bad been heolueed by the entauglingsnarts of an eaperionced WOlMlll.—Yerdict, 'Damages 10001. SHERIFFS COURT, E E won o-novr. A was Jury impanneßed tosissess damages in a crim. con. cause, Geo. Procter, Esq. r. Charles Standish, Esq. judgment having been suffered to go by default.—Plaintiff is a young man of considerable fortune-in the connty of Hertford, and married Main...eat wife, the daughter of Mr. Hill, also a gentleman of - fortune in the same county, in 1810. Mrs. Procter, at the time of her marriage, was but twenty-one %ears of alle ; she was beautiful and accomplished. They had no children, although Mr•s. Procter had several times miscarried. Mr. Procter, shortly after his marriage, prn posedan excursion abroad, conceiving that it would contri bute to the happiness of his wife. it was during this exenr sion,nt Rome, that the defendant, who is a young man of considerable fortune in West:wetland, became criminally -connected with the wife of the plaintiff.—After Mr. Procter quitted Rome, he perceived en estrangement in his wife's affections, bat it was aot until his return home, awl the arrival of a female servant from abroad twelve months after, that he was fully satisfied of his dishonour.—Dorothy Marque, the servant, deposed, that while at Rome her mistress told her a person (Mr. Standish) would call, whom she wished to speak to in her (witness's) bed room; he came accordingly, and she then called Mrs. Procter out of the sitting room, where sire waa sit ting with Mr. Procter, and she joined Mr. Standish in the bed room, which was next to the said sitting room— witness then left them together.—Mr. S. came frequently afterwards, and remained alone. with her mistress, in the same room.—ln reply to ■ question, if she knew any thing improper killer mistress's conduct before %sitters; replied in the negativc,excepting a few notes she wrote to M. Cicini , a Merman, while at Naples.—Mr. Gurney, for the defendant, laid nearly all the blame on !he female, and contended that the husband bat sustained little damage by the loss of a lady, who, after a short acquaintance of a %reek, •yielded to the sdultorer.—'Ybe• Jury, after consulting five minutes, returned a verdict, Damages 6001. Mr. Standish, the defendant in the slow* cause, took that came in compliance with the will of the late Sir Frank Shul 1-Ash, to whose large estates he succeeded. TITE NATIONAL REGISTM. SCOTLAND. COURT OF SESSION—SECOND DIVISION. Nst DOD r. It kTHORN, E. 31.). AND OTHEIDI. This simpler cause has for some time been depeuding before the Court. The for is are shortly these :—The farm s.ervants of tr. Hatboro, a gentleman who has an estate in the comity of Wigton, were, in the winter of 1812, cutting down, ua the estate, a large tree, situate at the side of a field inane diately adjnining time high road which leads to the town of Stranraer, when the tee happening to fall at the moment Mr. Linwood, a farmer, was passing on horseback, a large brooch struck hint on the neck, and oceassioned his almost instantane oar death. As this melauckoly eircomst ;MCI' made a (mushier able noise in the emintry, the robiic prosecutor, in order to discover if there was any blame or culpable neglect in the parties emicerned, indicted Graham, the man as ho was in the set of cutting down the tree when it fell, to stand trial at the Ayr Circuit, tor the culpable homicide of Mr. Linwood.— Graham Was accordingly tried at the Spring Assizes in 1.813, bat the Jnry, set nes no blame in him, acquitted him. Mr. Linwood kern widow and six children. This unfortu nate family brought au action against Mr. Hathorn, the pro prietor of the estate ; against another gentleman of the same mimeos ho ;occasionally took a charge in looking after mat ters on the estate; and against The above Graham and sillier subjects, who were attending or concerned in rotting down the tree, concluding for damages, for the lose the family bad sustained by the death of their natural protector. The cause Caine before Lord Craig., as Ordinary. It ap. peered, that althonah greater precautions might have been used to prevent the tree falling to the hi gh road, yet the etr e stanre was very Incidental. The case was formerly judged of by the Inner Houseoponinformation for the part ie-. The Judges were much divided. Lords Batinatyne and Madge being of opinion, that the pursuers had made out a ease whits!) might to subject in damages not only the persons emplotil iu the operation, but even the proprietor, 11 gli aliment 3111.1 knowing nothing of it. Lords Justice Clerk, (denies., and Robertson, entertained different sentiments, thinking there was not enough in the circumstances of the case to subject any of the defenders. 'the latter were therefore Absolved from the conclusions of the fiction. The case was reconsidered nn the 14th cnrrent, upon a re claiming petition from Mrs. Linwood and her family, and answers for Mr. Hathorn. The same Judges were present, and each adhered to his former opinion, so that it is now, by a majority, finally decided, that there was no sufficient ground for giving damages against the defenders. - -+-- The business at Nisi PrinN concluded in the Court of Com -mon Pleas on Saturday, at 44'esteninster.—What a falling o ff -for the Learned SerjeantsEonly three dabs employment after Term! Onr Quarter Sessions are generally occupied in trials for assault. the offspring it vulgar pa , faoll3 and drinking. Hut it lins lately appeared that this t...rultficy to assault has become so isiffetimes, that it is in contemplation to opt's, the Court in fu ture with the preventive ersenunry of binding over the Bur sig,ra to their good Is itflriGifr The following is ass extract of a letter front .Limerick dated May 22 :—" lAst night a mammon, •nints broke opt' ' carried Lie stare of Mr. Mark, iu the tom 11 of Clare t a.id carried off' shipped ; thirteen t above 2000 b.irrela of 8.113 imported by Go% entment, tbr to be well whipped -weed .They afterwards broke open obeis stoles at Ennis." and discharged, OLD BAILEY. MON niv, thirty-five prisoners were tried, one of whom was capitally convicted, viz—J. S. Britton, for breaking and enter ing the dwelling-house of R. Guodey, and stealing 33 screen slicks, his property.—Sixteen were convicted of felony. Urinal', Mary Butler was convicted of stealing a watch from the person of Isaac Martin. The prosecutor was waiter at the York Hotel, Picket -street, and on the 13th of May, in the evening, he wits going on an errand, when he was accosted by the prisoner, who persisted in tearing him with her impor tunities. At this time a man, who was proved to be mill ac quaintatiee of the poisoner, knocked the prosecutor down Alid stole his watch. The prisoner and the man made off, and the latter escaped.— Eleven were convicted of felony. WEnuEsnav, J. Grady, a poor half starved looking, Irish ' man, was uldictcd for stealing four pounds of beef, the pro perty ofJ. H. Hawes. The prosecutor is a butcher in St. George's in the East, anal observing the prisoner going nut of his shop, be omitted him, and found the beef tinder his jacket. In his defence, be said be had been three days with out any vichials; and he could not resist the temptation ex cited by e‘treniv lunar; r.—(iniity. J. Hallatt was indicted fur embezzling 21. .59. rid. the pro perty of J. Hilliard, his employer. The proseentor is a dyer, in the Hackney-road, and the prisoner was his errand boy ; but not as a clerk or accountant. He received this money from Mr. Plaistow, but never accounted for it to witness. Cross-examined.—He had reason to believe that the money was taken from the boy by another bigger boy of a yr i y bad character. The Recorder here asked Mr. Hilliard if lie wished, after that admission, that the trial should go on. Mr. Hilliard said, he had no such ti ish, as the boy had be haved well in every instance but this. The Recorder Olen asked Mr. Hilliard if he would have any objection to take the boy back into his se reice, as it might he the means of saving him from rutu. lie recollected Mr. Syr jeant Adair, when Recorder, prevailing on a master to take back a bey ruder similar eiremnstances, and he had the plea. litre of seeing that boy become one of the most respectable tradesmen in the city of London. Mr. Hilliard most readily accorded with the humane mtg. gestion °feint Recorder; and the boy was immediately order ed to be delivered over to hint, after be had received a suita ble admonition front the Recorder, as to the danger of keeping bad company. The Recorder passed the awful sentence of death on the following prisoners : Thos. Piper and Wm. Thomas, for stealing goods in a barge on the riser Thames; Benj. Harwood, fur stealing goods in a dwelling-horse: Wm. 'Julien, for stealing a grldio_ and a mare ; ltiobt . SnilUt , fig hiuliway roldwry ; Thos. Williams, for stealing privately in a shop; Siiitiou Collins, who was supported to the Isar on crutches, for stealing two mares ; Sib !onion Soh:mums untl Henry Purser, for lughw °lottery Jos. Clank, for stealing a 1114 re; Jog. titr burglary ; Chat:tate Thomas, for stealing money in a dwelling; house; Elie. Hopkins and Geo. Lane, for burglary; Geo. Baker and David Mil k -u, for highway rubbery; W. k. Get y, for enter ing a iiweltiog house iu the day time, and stealing goods to the v:11111! of 161.4 James Muse, for a like offence, and steal ing goods to the value of 61. Isaac Radford and J. S. Britton, for the like offence; and Rubt. Bridle, for stealing in a dwell ing house. Thomas C. ft - own, a letter-sorter in the General Post Office, who was con icted last Sessions of stt aling bills oat of n letter addressed to Sir J. Shaw, hot whose judgment was arrested on a point of 14w, which has been determined against him, was also brought tip, and received sentence of death. Six prisoners, for various felonies, were sentenced to be transported for life; two for If years; Chitty forse+ eu years ; thirty-nine, fur various felonies ansi misdemeanours, to be imprisoled and put to hard Labour, fur diflCrent pe riods ; otie to be publicly whipped; o ne t o si x months' impri- F onmcnt in the House of Correction, and to be publicly -en to vat ious periods of imprisooment, and in gaol; and two to be whipped in gaol POLICE. mAßtnonouctf•VrßEET.—T. Croxley abut Crokey (the boxer), ass% charged mita a highway robery. On Saturday night as .1. H. Willoughby, a gentleman's servant, was going through 11 de Park, he aas stopped by two then near Gros venor idle. They asked if he had a watch ;on his reptying in the iithrmative, oneaf them seized him by the throat, at.t4 after a short sti itggle threw him down, and tried to strangie him by kneeling on his throat. They then took a V4111;141c cold watch from him and went away; the prosecutor being too mach weakened to follow them, or make any ablint. Ott Sunday morning he went to Mat y-le-bonne a wel l -house, where he immediately recognized the prisoner, who had heels apprehended for disorderly behaviour scam atter the robbery. The prisoner made no defence, but said to the prosecutor " You have sworn my away."—He was fully committed. BOW-STRI:F.T.--WedilCsday, Sarah I:1110011e was charged by A. M'l.eish, licensed victualler, residing in Silret-street, Golden-srynare, with sti :ding from his person a pocket book, containing the foilnaing—Exelieciner forriaol., a chair() on Messrs. Barclay and Perkins, brewers, for Mad. and one Bank of Paiglninl note for 501. 1:11e priweentor stated, that on Thursday the 13th inst. be Was at a public-house drinking with two brother landlords 11110 a Isle hum. flu his way through Coventry- sin et, he aas met by two females, whO enticed him to convet•e. As they were proceeding along, he felt one of the prisehers put her band into his !locket, and supposing she was attempting to steal his watch, Its threatened to knock her down, upon which they both ran off. On ex: • . in his pockets. se distrovered that his pocket-book had been stolen. Prom the description given, the prisoner was ap prehended next Worsting. She was int:1.1111(d by Mr. The prisoner iienied having been at the place mentioned for more than a month. No pint of the stolen pro perty has yet been foam,. She was remanded. QUEF.N.SWJAItE.— . IIIIIIIOIIIy, J. Burnham was chanted with assaulting W. Gamble, a schoolmaster, of Clicalst a Common. The defendant arid to demand )d. for an hour's waxes for his wife,for washing at Ms. Gamble's holtse and, on being paid, he assaulted Mr. G. and accused hint a ith basing lakes liberties with his wife. The woman, who was present, per sisted that Mr. (1. offered her a 11. note for a particular favour.--rflie defendant was ordered iii timed bail. INQUES'fS. An inquest has been held at the Goat, in Pall Mall, ;Tots the bed'. of Cvault Barn Aaelen, lately a captain in the fit man 1,. alio shot himself• at the gate of Carlton Home. 'The Chevalier Run ini addressed the jury at great length, pointing eel die ht a% ery of the deceased at the bat tle of Waterloo and other plates, %%here he distinguished himself; and also the melancholy deranged stale of kis mind. 'Verdict—lnsanity. Hor remains acre removed, by order of the Prince Regent, from Pall-mall to Mr. Read's, jeweller to the Rosa! Family. tli, Jennyn-strect, and his miniature delivered him, for the in-pertiim of his friends. The Duke of Cumberland went to see the deceased Baron on Monday evening and lunch lamented the untimely fate of so brave a soldier. 'file fore; al took place on 'Thursday morning, in St. „larnes's burial ov-wl on the Hampstead-road. The procession consisted ot• a hearse and two mourning coaches, in which Wan Mr. Phillips, the surgeon who attend ed him witty the h 41.0 act nos !!!!!! Hugh Lewis r Esq. the Coroner who took the inquet•t on the body ; and the Chi valier Ruspini, who wa- a handsome contributor tonal r's the expellees of the funeral; besides several other gentle men, who took particular iuterest in his melancholy and tintertimate fate. Monday an inqaest was held at thetSwan, in Mansell street, Goodman's Fields, on the body of T. Ball, a youth 14 years of age, who romnutted suicide in the counting-house where lie was a clerk. His master gave hint an excellent charac ter for honesty and sobriety of condnet : belt obsers ed, that he had become very melancholy of late, and he thought him insane. The Jury return: d a verdict of Lunacy. An inquisition was lately taken at Cr:infield, Bedfordshire, nn the body of J Bush by, who was found dead in Mr. Cripp's barn, at Ampthill, where he had constantly slept, for two years, from an aversion to residing in the workhouse. This man had considerable property kit biro three times, and as often squandered it away; and declared, if he had more left him, he would do the same. lie was a notorious poacher. Verdict—Died by the visitation of God Au inqusition was held at the cricketers, London street, Ratcliffe, on the body of Mr. Livermore, a ballast master, who fell overboard from his lighter on Tutaiday Verdict, Accidental Death. _ _ An inquest has been held at the Horse and Groom, Church-street, Whiterhapel on the body of Sa►ah Moore. 'I he deceased had been separated from her husband for a considerable time, in consequence of which he allowed her Os. a week, until within these three months, shire which he allowed her bat half-a-crown a week ; in consequence of which she was without fire or bedding. Mary Cue, of Col• ehester-pbee, wholnew her deplorable situation, frequent ly kit some victuals at her door ; and on her going than' the preceding morning, she found her door fastened, and reeek • tug no answer to her calls, she proem ed the beadle to force the dour, when they foetal her dead, with a piece of thus blanket between her and the floor, and part of a horse rug over her, having died through want; bat the Jury not being able to come to a decision, prevailed on the Coroner to ad. joorn the inquest in order that a sargeon might open the body. This was done, and the verdict returned that she died a natural dead,. DEM II OF AN ECCENTRIC. On the 17th instant died at Hcekiugtuu , aged 6.5, Mr. Sam• net .1a SSIlp, an opulent grazier, of pill-taking menioey.=- lie lived in a vt ry eccentric way, aa a baelit lor, without known ea lative.s, and has died possessed of a good fortune, notwithstanding a most inordinate craving for physic, by which he was distinenished for the last '.!,0 years of his life, as appeared on a trial Mr the am omit of am ;apothecary's bill, at the last Assizes at Lincoln, in which llr. Jessup was the de fendant. The evidence on the trial atibrds the following ma terials for the epitaph of the deceased, which *ill nut be transeetatli d by the memorabilia of the life of any man :—ln 21 years (from 1791 to 1816), the deceased took 226,934 pills, supplied by a respectable apothecary at ItuttestOrd ; which is at the rate of 10,606 pills a year, or 29 pills each day ; hint as the patient began with a more la rate appetite, and increas ed it as he ;vula ded, in the last five years preceding Inia, he took the pills at the rate of 78 a day, and in the year 181.1 swallowed not less than 51,590. Notwitlistamling this, and the addition of 10,000 bottles of mi attire. and juleps and elec. tiotries,eatendine altogether to 55 closely written columns of an apothecary's bill, the deceased lived to attain the advanced ne of GS years!!! JUNE L.