The National Register. — London, England, 1808-07-17 00:00:00

:~ JULY 17. _,"„ . . 463 • THE NATIONAL REGISTER derirtui • ;he:: appeared to lie a yonsiderable intimacy b ; a ce') the Detendant and the Pl;:in'ilf s wifa who always set him tea and Inneheon; and introdueeii him into the house, to degree Of ietitracy - that she had never done before. I wou' appear in evidence, bev ond all loubt, thit there had been criminal it treolv,e bets+ e, , a the Defendant at d Mrs. Fowler. A.,ne Aullv'y; a meld -Arrant of Mr. Fowler's, proved, tha• immediately' aff,:r licr Master went to Niargate last summer, Mrs. Fowle ery much in the back oltice a ith the De fendig, and - 'after had him in the drawing-room with her; that whenever she '.ll seen them together in the drawing-room. the blind nar the tire was Oros% down, and that she had fre quently :troughs tea to the Defendant by the order of her I‘l i • tre,,, aud chat she also sometimes delivered letters to him. h, r , :enlar facts to willed this witness deposed were, that on the 2ist of December last, on going into the hack office, she sae Ai ,- Fowler and the Defendant together, in a most indecent si• ttia••on t% to the el , thes (the witness described this situation in bad' a manner tha. the intercourse must be referred). Mr. Serjeant 13c11.made an eloquent address to the Jury, 'until:Winn of dam', rs, in case the Jury should belies e the story told Ir, the Plaiaisll's witnesses. lie prinripall argued that it am:eared from tee eviderce, that if there had been any sedue tion, it was on the part of Mrs. i'owler, and that her husband could tot he said to have suffered any very heavy loss in losing the society of a woman so indelicate and abandoned. Sir James Mansfield thought that the proper measure and da mages in such cows was the value of actual loss of society and comfort which the husband sustained. lie knew that a new doe tr.ne had been introduced lately, that in order to prevent the in ce •tir-e of adultery, Judges and Juries should be disposed to rise ver, large damages as pui.ishment for the moral offence. 11 , not think, the law meant fa give that 'Amer to Judges and u ri c , o f this speoos of action ; but that was merely an actin„ a a civil injury, and that the damages should be proportioned • that civit in;ury. 'le then shortly - recapitulated the evidence, id observed that the seduction appeared to come altogether Airs. Fowler, mai to have began from the moment she had got her husband on board of the Mar,,ate boy. The Jury retired for a short time, at.i brought in a verdict for the Plaima—Damages 150/. _ e., .; bn a;.oat ten years old, son of the male prisoner, Ina -L AI-house belonging to Mr. Rhodes, at Kingsland, in the parish 4* St. John, Ilack:•ey on the 2d of J tote last. Ile was in ano ter cqunt 61.tr A ed with r Hull% and maliciougly setting fire to hie said house, whereby the said boy lost his life. The only sq.:(low of criminality consisted in two circumstances —the one, that a female brickmaker swore she heard the male :aisoner declare with an oath in a public house, that he would ...Ira down the sand house; and the other, that he got a match ran the rublican at a late hour on that night. Neither of the ercumstances were proved. The humanity and afiectionsite con .luct of the father towards his son, were circumstances not a little it:.iis favor:—the tom; was muck affected during the trial:--- . e..e way not a tittle of evidence against the woman. The trial con:laded wi , ii a humane charge to the .lury, from Justice Le Blau., and which was immediately followed by the Jury pro nouncing the prisoner; Gui Po. 01.9 BAILEY. vrEDNEsn, v, nits 13. The Court was ocenpieo the ! , .renter part of the day by the trial of Isaac Deiv berry', on a capital indictment, fur a rape co emitted by himself and two tither persons. named Raymond and Courtney, the 12th ~ f• April last, on the body of Margaret West, spinster, aged eighteen years, in Duke-street, Lincolet's• inn fiel.t.. The circmustances of this have already been prett . fully e..taited to th e pu bli c. Ilaymord and Courtney have fled, and nay!. since eluded all pursuit for their apprehension ; there fore Dow berry was the ni•ly prisoner brought to trial. The ;trusectitrix under„ ent a long cross-examiltat ion ; in the course ni ..n.cit, site ark:tow hedged t hat She bid been sometime in the habit of tiriWciog spirits ; that she had sometimes dram. six Alai , es of .; dal , particolarl% on the very night after her disaster; hut site 5%4 ore positiyelv that she was quite sober at tile II meta she sooke Lit 16 mond, and perfectly chaste to that da' ; that her dress and address at the time were not immodest ; th u every improper free/tom ti.ed towards her was against h. • will and resistance; that site was positive at the time that the prhun..r was one of tnose nho had maltreated her, though the lea.t bad Of them; but I hit she never did say she would for mots, . tin( line toe ;mitten' t fir.. ;Ind her two servants, deposed to the cries heard how the pro-ecutrix. Fur the pri. net, a number of witnesses were brought for ward to prove, that the pr sectorix• was much addicted to drink lb.: Am' our p rt ietilar, swore hart!, that she had seen•her daily at all hours, fr;on seven in the morning till nine a' for noark two years and a half, and never saw her te slitter. One witness swore, that the pro-ccutrix then :•ti(l .lies prisoner had done her no harm, hut that these who r•• I, ere the woes'. There were , everal wit. who g...e he pris one r a good ell:a:icier. !sir Allan (it ,rtihre re r"ltit.elti.ed toe evidence for the Jury, woo , after retiring half ail 'lour, hrougat in their verdict—Not Guilty. FitIDAY, JULY 15. Y "lrritav Reuben %,ain the • eller, and Sarah Smith, !tete tried under a e-)4:!iaitial Iry the warrant of .1. W. la• • of the Corot,. r- of the County. of Middlesex. Char ti i ":; b" with the Wilful murder of Rcubea Main the yowl, - INTENSE Hr.AT OF Tllli WEATHER. The thermometer, under the northern entrance of the Royal Nas Thursday at noon at Si. The thermometer in the shade at a window in the open air, opposite St..lames's 'ark (without any reflection of heat) was on Tuesday last, at liree o'clock, P. 111. at 84, and on Wednesday at 91. In a an parent glass thermometer at a window in the Strand on %Yetbiesday afternoon, it was 101. Thursday morniax, :yed half past six o'clock, a tornado ''assed :em the northern suburbs of the metropolis, in an oasiern direction. It was ushered in, as in the tropical cli mate, by a profound calm. and then by a small. but gradually ;el:aging black cloud. the progress of which was accompanied v a thick column of dust. At the different places where this henomenon was noticed, its effects were felt for above five minutes. A similar phenomenon passed over the metropolis about three o'clock, in the direction of the river. Two trees in St. James's Park, nears. opposite the !',glare, were completely -tripped of their branches, and left like flag-staff:. It was sin.. • valor, that at the same moment there was hardly a breath of air felt out of its mope. The heat of the weat her has been found so last five days, that not les; thlo tiny mai horses have been killed by it in their worl North Road. NAUTICAL IV! Pt.ir MOUTH., .11; I.Y 8. --T 'au rs da v presented tt spectacle to a tainther of spectators aysefithle" dear Mill Bay. Au order was issued b.v Captain COTC. tI A V I: 1 Soperititendant of Pri this port, to embark all the Spae,i,n p t i so „ crs on hoard seven transports lynr; between the it was a lively animating: srene..-11 bile the. !tit° the beach, some panics were (bowing tl tango to e ft sound or theguitar; atter part tie beach sioging vatiolial airs, and ma isiq •tore ; a still greater. number were t;jowly mo .ity of Spaniards, as V meditating cu the akin;', , place in Sp:liu. Covr, or ConK, Jot.v R.—Sir A. Wry._ tie is now (three o:ciock) vi.siting the different • 0 orders have as yet been given out, hut hitt! tiined as to our sp,i,lin4. reghtients em bat 9t ti, 3Sth, 40th, 45th, 6111, i fat, and e •mpanies of the 95th, two troops of ,Comini part of the 290 Light Dragoons, and the . t lions for G:bralter. The :Ember of 'transi everal came in this mornia.: ; more, I belie troops under orders to till. The Atasters of flit ereived open instructions, and in case of part .ov, Tangier HaV p0i111:'1 out as the place of their orders ti,re on no account to allr,npt ' :libralter without prot•-etion. 6; I On Friday marnino:, at f.oir o'clock, after a hi s ioltHent Catot)....rwell, the 1.0 of Timott , A melauchnk in.ta.)ce of the co cc:ainty of n-curie t'••• ramilv of fir Frt-aerick c tm- lot4t week from ito.ollicg• schwa, i fever, Lod 1.. c itilecipot and mien, woo had only a week, Or, e infection, ;tint tote:. i.4Jxpressible4ri4:f of lime, died Lit Tbursda. .. . . • " 4 i , hardly a breath of i • • oppressive for the . il-costeh nod post% • lc upon the Awl . . if; li. • • NI nr.oct interetang :41 on the oer.,4•o\ lN - • citnirat 1: i,o, c a to' • ri ,, otterii . ig , wn} n 1 •. , rs 1:// in 'nu.Mber, • 1 Island- and main. , boats' were rowing. ~. their favnurittrfan." tie , . were 4..at t •li on tili_segars fora slit' , wing., with the gm.; great events nuw " . ra.rstrit Is here; ' .. rerent troop Rhipc.. tie - doubt - is enter.; • •: trked are, the ritli e , ~ El 910, beside% four , 1 n6saLiate Drivers, ' • i ' • .four veteran bat. -purls exceedg SO. r ' 1.%e, than there are • • ••. he transports hank . ‘. • rtiug with thstoilist ', . S ' ..., 4 of reautezvpus,itild I' 4P to. 'MSS ow 4w or . I. ,• : , i .. . * . ' X feW, bona Moe% . 1 rvis Plummer, Esq. of II urotwlife b - - . . . .p.. Bart.!. itif, ' . ill milk the sae ll , . •,. a X if.ty , oc. . t:1 rt lait:onagll4..: 14; . i a',l h•nr likeivnAtitt4 . • i . uvamhz • : fi. ' ! • '•,.. • . 1 . , . , • , , i',l. 1 , •