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MRS. CROUCH'S MEMOIRS. This work, in addition to the life of this celebrat ed lady, may he considered an history of the stage, its writers, and performers, since the year 17.80, in terspersed with poetry, favourite epilogues, pro logues. Bcc.; and is full of anecdote. As an example, we have made the following extrafts ; speaking of Mrs. Crouch, then Miss Phillips, the author says, •' In these her youthful days, Miss Phillips was •ery lively, and, to her family and most intimate friends, frequently displayed a great share of comic humour, partioularly in her criticisms on the num berless paragraphs which praised her beautye One morning, she gravely laid a newspaper out of her hand, and placing a folio dillionary on the floor, stood upon tt before the mirror. Her father ex claimed, What are you about, Nancy! surely you are tall enough to look in the glass, without stand ing on my books;' As Nancy Phillips, I am, Papa ; but now I am Vanity trampling on Good Sense, that I may the better admire the beast fa Grecian note, which the newspapers have given me this morning;' And pray how do you like it ?' asked her father, laughing; Why, in truth,' she replied, stepping off the book, not a bit better does your Nancy like it, than she did the true-born Eng lish nosy which you gave her.'. When she sat down, she wrote a few lines, and then giving them to Mr. Phillips, said, There is a paragraph far to.inorrow's paper ; I haie made it up, like Mrs. Candour's cousin, QV', in The School fix &want, from various parts o f gybe.' "Mr. Phillips read as follows :--• Last night, the lirgli‘b &may again adorned our Albion stage, as the Persian Princess, and weeping Oriental pearls for her Arbors', she, with a Frank cambric handker chief, gracefully wiped her Grecian nose.' " The two Mr. Kembles were friends and ad- miters of Miss Philips, and constant visitors. One day, the conversation turned upon supernatural ap pearances in the night. when Mr. S. Kemble hap pened to be present at Mr. Phillips's ; he said, that he once felt himself extremely surprised by a noaur nal visitor, when he lay at an inn. It was about three in the morning, and being summer, light enough to distinguish objeas, when he heard some thieg moving in his chamber, and presently beheld, at the side of his bed, a dwarf, singularly habited, ;who gazed in equal astonishment. Mr. Kemble recovered first front his surprise, and asked the little .figure what he was, and what he wanted I the dwarf, assuming courage, replied, I I am, as ycu may perceive, a dwarf, come to spew at the fair to ; I have mistaken the chamber, no doubt, aod was frightened when I saw you, who are a giant, come, I suppose, tit be shewn as a sight at the lair, like myself.' " IVORWICJI, Juma 28. Wednesday last, the Ross•shire Militia, marched from hence to Yarmouth, and the Anglesea regi ment, commanded by Colonel Hughes, came in to replace them. The same clan. Lord Waldegrave and the detachment of the 7th Light Dragoons un der his command, marched to Ipswich, being reliev ed by another detachment from the same regiment, under ale orders of Baron Toyll. In the beginning of the nest month, Lord Walde grave will be of age, and property to the amount of 30.0001. a-year will then come in.to hie possession. Tian roost, we understand, he means to celebrate by a ball and other festivities, at the Load-quarters of his regiment. Priori() his Lordship's leaving Norwich, he played three grand cricket matches with a seleft number ef the men under his command, against a party of gentlemen of this city and neighbourhood. The first match was played on Thursday se'nnight, the second on the following day, and the third last Tues day.—The second match was the only one which he lost. Lieut. Col. Keppel has addressed a letter to the Commanding Officers of Volunteer Infantry, in forming them. His Majesty has dispensed with his .services as an Inspecting Field Officer ; at the same time, requesting them to accept his thanks for the attention paid to their duty, and readiness t* comply with his orders on all eceastous. In consequence of a circular letter addressed fit; the Commanding Officers of those Volunteer corps, serving under the June allowance', being received •by Lleut.-Col. Patteson, Major Cole, on Monday evening, after parade, read the same to the batta lion. It goes to state, that those corps are to dis cmuinue their exercise, after the 24th inst. until the allowances, proposed to be made under the new re• gulations, are made known. These will be made with a view to public economy, and to obviate jea lcusies, a-.-isin,g from other corps being on a (Lffier ent fourit,g, as it is the intention of Government to place the whole of the Volunteers under the new ectablichm-nt.—The Major requested the men not to consider this as a dismission. but that they would rest upon their arms until the intentions of Govern 'scent were made known, when he would have the .har.our of cal ling them together again. to renew their services tinder their present officers. At the grai :d dinner given by Mr. Coke, upon the second .y of his Agricultural Fete, on Tues. day last, at ft Ikharn, Mr. John Herring, jun. pro duced three slx manufaflured by Messrs John Herring andirons, of Norwich, entirely of Mr. Coke's bcantiful! South-Down fleece, which obtaind such general ad:tliration, as to induce the company present to orders nany of the same fabric. Mr. John Herr ing, jun. introduced these shawls, by observing, tht :t having received a South-Down fleece from Mr.. Coke, weighing 41bs. and of an exquisite tartuse, it was found so applicable to the produce of yarn. that he was enabled to fabricate the shawls he had then the pleasure of submitting to the approbatier of the company, and that they not only did hoci our to the worthy donor of the feast, but likewise exhibited another proof, amongst very many, of hi laudable endeavours to benefit the country. Mr. Tollett sail , he had tried all kinds of wool, and had proved th at we can grow in this country, wool, equal, if net superior, to the finest Spanish.— The shawls made of Mr. Coke's S. D. wool did infinite credit to the manufaeturers to whom he had recommended the,: xperiment, which had exceeded his expeCtations; lip feed these shawls were so Vght and elegant, that he sincerely hoped our fair cons iflwoaten would iti s t efer such dresses for die winter. LAW INTELLIGENCE. OURT OF KING'S-BENCII, WtsrmiNstes, Jowl 28. Sittiast at Nisi Prim., 4/Lre lord Chief justice EL‘ L ENSOROUGN. SEDUC F NARRIS O. CLEMENT BRIGGS. !Sq. This was an illaion brought by a father against his Daughter's Seducer. to recover d compensation in damages for the injury .he had sustained in the loss of her services, s! - ..e having become pregnant. Sir VICAR Y Giens, on behalf of the Plaintiff, addressed the Jury in an eloquent and impressive speech. He said he appealed to them as fathers, in behalf of a parent 'chose hopes in his only daugh ter had been destroyej, and the remainder of his life rendered a burthen to him, by the arts and se duClive influence of one whose education and sphere of life should have possessed him with better morals. The Plaintiff was a butcher and little farmer, at the town of Ragland, in Monmouthshire, and had butone son, and one daughter, in whom were centered all the comforts and happiness of his old age, and a more virtuous, •well-conduEled girl, did not exist. The Defendant was a gentleman of considerable pro petty, the son of the late Sir John Briggs, and te 'idA with his mother, Lady Briggs, in the same neighbourhood. The daughter of the Plaintiff, at the time the Defendant became acquainted with her, which was in consequence of his employing the fa. ther in some agricultural concerns, was between seventeen and eighteen years of age, of correCt mu rals, and of an unsuspeding disposition. The De fendant frequently came to her lath: r's hcuse, and in the course of time an intimacy grew up between them. One day, in the month of December, 18G.1, she was sent by her father to a neighbouring market, and the Defendant obtaining knowledge of the faS, met her in her way home in the evening. It was nearly dusk, and he offered to see her home, observ ing that it was improper she should walk by herself. She consented to his accompanying her, and leading her from the public high-road into a retired lane, he prevailed over her vittue, and effeeted that ruin which the Plaintiff complained of. I'he Defendant SSW her frequently afterwards, and the bonds of virtue once separated, he arade an ersy and a Ming conquest of her person. The consequence was, that the girl grew with child, and her maternal parent finding it out, the father turned her from his home; and, in the bitterness of grief and disappointment, vented a curse upon the head of his child. But as the affef‘ions of a parent for a beloved child will prevail over every tither feeling, he retrafted his curse, and again received her to his bosom, in the hopes of rescuing her from future violation. Not satisfied with the ruin of the daughter, the Defend ' ant threw out aspersions against the unhappy parent's charafter, and insulted him by letters, offering pecu niary atonement for the wrongs he had committed, assuring him that it was not the least of her suffer ings that she had offended so good a parent, and expressing a hope that they might be on as friendly terms as ever. To the girl herself he wrote, slandering her patents, endeavouring to persuade her not to attend to their admonitions or advice, and enticing her again to forsake the paths of virtue. The Plaintiff was infk-xible, and the young wo man went to the house of her aunt, where she was delivered of a kale/lit/4 the Defeuaant undertakiog to pay half a guinea a week during her confinement, to this their common friend. Bnt the girl, desirous of retrieving her former good character, and anxi ous once more to gain the affection of her father, refused all further conneflion with the Defendant, and intreated that he would discontinue his disho nourable nip Itun t es. This so displeased the De fendant, that he eau illy put the poor girl to the disgrace of making an oath f affiliation in the pre sence of a Magistrate, b fore he would pay the small pittance he had agreed to give the aunt for supporting, her dining her confinement. the Plaint iff, after a time, and at th-. soncitatiosis of her mo thee, took back Lis daughter, and brought this aftion for the injury su•!ained in his domestic comforts. The Learned Counsel again appealed to the Jury as fathers, and regretted that the Legislature had nut made it criminal for a man to destroy the peace and happiness of a family in the way he had described ; but, he said, it tle.'y were already shocked at the Defendant's multi.% they would be more so, ellen he told them that the Defendant had insulted the ruin he had occasioned, since the eaten had been brought. The girl was waiting with th- other wit nesses, in a neighbouring coffee-house (Oiiver's) on Thursday last, when the Defendant went up to her, and, in tire presence and heating of her father, and of many strangers, demanded a sort of cm-Jen:vino with her, observing " that he had kept her, and surely had a right to speak to a woman he had had a child by." He trusted that fait would weigh with the Jury as an aggra. vation of the Defendant's condufi, and increase these damages the Plaintiff demanded at their hands, and which wan the only remedy the law had pointed out, to meet so serious and distressing an injury. Os the part of the Plaintiff, Elizabeth Harris, his only daughter, swore, that about 4 years ago, the Defendant came to reside at Ragnor, and having employed her father about some buildings he was erefbng, he had frequent opportunities of seeing her, but never paid her any particular attention be fore her parents. She was then about eighteen years of age. In the month of December, 1803, as she was returning from market, about air o'clock in the evening, she met the Defendant, who asked her what kept her out so I it..? adding, that her father was gone home before her. He then persuaded her to turn into a bye-road with him, where he took indecent liberties with her; and, in short, effilted his purpow. They had frequent opportunities of seeing each other afterwards, particularly on Saturdays, when her father and mother went to market ; and, upon these occasion!, a familiar intercourse took place. These interviews continued for up wards of sixteen months, when she became pregnant, and near lying in, when her mother discovered it, and she was removed to her aunt's, about half a mile distant, where, after remaining about three weeks, she was brought to bed of a dead child. It had been previously agreed, that the Defendant was to pay half a guinea per week to her aunt for attending her. but this he afterwards declined doing. till she should swear before a Ma gistrate that the child was hid. tier father after wards took her home, on condition that the never sennld see the Defendant again. She had since met bins, but never had any cukseeseen that time. 1 On her cross-examination it appeared, that the Defendant had nut used any force or stratagem to. gain her affections ; hot after a little persuasion he prevailed on her. 'I hey had frequent meetings in the fields, at her father s, and elsewhere, during these LE; months: when she returned to her father's, she again saw the Defendant twice by appointment in the fields, and was to have met him ones: at the cot tage of one Bet. Powell, but he thought her father might know it, and they did not meet there. No. J thing improper occurred on these occasions. It further appeared, that upwards of a year had I elapsed after this, when one Griffiths, a neighbour, brought an anion against her father fur defas nation, and the Defendant was examined as a wit ness for the Plaintiff, and on his cross-examination was questioned as to her sedation. In a fortnight after that trial, the present action was brought. It also appeared, that the girl, with other witnesses, ' was waiting in Oliver's Coffee house, on Thursday last, when the Defendant came in, asked her how she did? and talked to the neighbours familiarly, Ike. but when a young man, who was with them, re monstrated with him for speaking to the witnesses. he replied, that he had a right to speak is women CI the town, he had a child by that girl (poieting to the witness), and had kept her. It also appeared, that before and since the ahtere transaftion, the gran cheraSer had been perfally corner, and her morals unimpeached, but in this affair. • The Learned Counsel, who condaled the de ferrite, contended, that notlsing like seduction had been proved, and that a father could lose but few einnforls from a daughter, whose enure was of so slender a fabric, that it would yield to the tirst ini pioper overtures ct a Man, In a way, and in a place, such as had been described—a fan which, he be lieved, it would be almost impossible to establish against. those unfortunate women who nightly In fest the streets of the metropolis. As to the De fendant's tecent conduit at the Coffee-house, it did not make part of the case, it might be said jocosely, alter the parties had travelled up from Monmouth, and met together as described. But the motive of tie Plaintiff for bringing the anima, was not the loss of comforts in his daughter, but in conse quence of the Defendant's having given evidence against him for calumhiatir g one of his neighbours. 'Die anion was not. e tanugrit till after that trial, and was sixteen menthe after he had lost the services of his daughter. Lord EL L L74IOIOt:CH. after exptrifning the law upon the ease, said, the present tsanniClion was stripped of many of those aggravating circum stances which generally attended a systematic se dunion. It did not appear, that the Defendant had been very urgent in his professions, or that he had any great degree of moral restraint to overcome. He met the young woman in a public highway, and proposed to accompany her into a lane. She as sented, came back in a querte7 of an hour, ancle•e turned home. The father, however, was uncon scious of his daughter's yielding virtue, and had been deprived of her services, to his great iejury and distress of mind. The Defendant too had dis graced the girl, by obliging her to make oath of the affiliation, before he would consent to pay the mi. seeable pittance he had agreed to furnish her with, to pay the eapences of her lying-in. He had also strove to irritate the feelings of the parent he had wronged, by publishing his daughter's disgrace in a coffee-room. He should have recollefted, that he it was who seduced her incautious virtue, and made her what she was. Upon the whole, though no stratagems or urgent professions had been made to overcome the girl's virtue, yet the comforts of the Plaintiff had been invaded, his happiness broke in upon, and the hopes he entertained in his daugh ter, ruined and destroyed for ever. The Jury, therefore, under all these circumstances, wouid ex ert proper moral feelings upon the case, and give such reasonable damages to the father, as they should consider a sufficient compensation for the injury he had sustained. file Jury consulted a few minutes, and returned a verdiet for the Plaintiff—Damages THKEE HUNDRED POUNDS! !I POI. /CC. 'My-STREET. On Saturday, RA:, the celebrated pugilist, and Tr.scers and licarh, his companions, were brought before AaeoM GRAHAM, Esq. for a second ex r rnination, on the charge of robbing James Ridley, the apprentice of Mr. Gee, of Han.p.tead, of a gui nea ar-1 51. Batik note, at the Cock pliAlie-house, in Tottenharn-court-road. The particulars we stated on their first examination. Berko and Travers were fully committed for trial. Beach not being proved to be of the party, was committed for further examination, another charge being expected to be made against him. He had been sent on board a mall of war tram the Office, and lie produced a piece of paper, purporting to be a discharge from the service; but, on examin ation, it proved to be only a discharge from one ship, to enable hint to enter another. The examin ation of Berk: attraded a very great crowd of the professors, as well as amateurs of the fist. Among them were Belcher, Cribb, gee Nortoq, Richmond, the black, and little Smith the shoemaker. Bow street was crowded as well as the Office. A man of very genteel appearance was charged with sheaving obscene prints, and behaving in an indecent manner, to a girl about twelve years of age. The Piisoner was observed by a gentleman in the Strand, showing a print. in a bock, to the girl ; by a glance at it, he had no doubt of the subject, and caused the fellow to be apprehendei ; on searching him, the book proved to be " ►lemsrrs of a Woman of Pleasure." which contained several obscene prints. It appeared from the evidence of several witnesses, that the Prisoner has been in the habit of behaving in a similar way to several girls in the ■e:y t hbourbood of the Strand, for snore time past. the Prisoner refused to tell his name. He was committed for trial at the Sessions. Mr. Butler, the Herbalist, of Caveat Garden, charged a man with obtaining leeches from him to the amount of 131. under the false pretence ;hat he came from Mr. lioulston, Apothecary, of Brewer. wee:. Golden square. Ha was committed fm trim, SPORTING I:VTR I.LIGEWCE. • NEWCA.STI.F. R ACES --(Continued.) w21.1' 4 45 nay. ' T ue Mernbcts Pbte of sot. Mr. Aure•l's h. f Fortuna. 3t rs o'd . . . • 1 Mr I (learnt'. br e Sta., 3 yrs u 4 • . . 2 tbr Mr Aa . Maid of the Illlt a 9 yrs slit. . dT Mr. J. Seer:low% b. e Sweet IS.Via.n, 3 cre old • . dt . Mr. c The Non, 4 yrr, n4l . . dr 51,. br c. Smasher; by Star, 3 yrs old . dr Wou in a caater...o and to to 1 on Mr. Acted's b. f. . --'llsnowe- BMW( MEETING, 1466 -.11-11.1RSDAT. Joie 4 6. Sir H. Lippincott's Watt., lOst. 21b. brat Lora F. 3.t. 215 two mitre, Cap L iii F. R•qaiti,l.. Fissatell4, tint 61b beat Lord Sackeil!tra Enchanter, I'M 4b. Tern m iles 50s; h it Mr. Menishs Lill, John MC tt. ho.n Mayor Hervey's Ale riates,.lflst. nth. New Mite. 2545. fail by looses of as deriecuinat: , ros; heau, New We. MI. DnuOas's Ducat, 12. t. 5 9 1 Mr. Linens'', La Mancha, 11.5. 3 3 dr ' Mr Huworth's Norse!, 11,5 111 b 0 4 0 * Prince of Wet-es Polesttian, 104.41 b. 0 1 4P. 0.. Duke of St "are , . b re. by Y , iting Eclipse, Inst. 4 The Bartirst•rn Stakes M 250 each, IC(.. It fog •11 Sir 11. I.lppirtentes,3l.4., 7 yr.oid, walked aver. Mr. If swurth's Lan , ,tston, 10st 3h. roc. ft from Mr Stratt• ton's Witetcrsit, by Oberon, 9.t. 111 b. Two Mike, WO. h. ft. •"* • - FATAL ACCIDENT. Last Saturd fy. evening, between eeeion end eight o'clock, a; Mr. Molton, a horse-dealer in Ken sington, attended by a boy of therearseet Street. was driving a one-horse chaise doom Hyde Park; when he came to the bridge by the Serpetritte River, he attempted to water the horse ; the stainsall being.very spirited, it was wirtt dilltelly he coal he driven into the water; when there, he su ideidy plunged cud got cut s:f his depth. in consegaence of which. Mr. Molwss, his boy, and the horse, wen unfortunately drowned. They were imrnediatery dragnd for and found, and canveyed to ti.e Sways Public-horse, in MOunf-street, where an inquest will be held on the bodies this day —His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent had offered seventy guineas for the horse in the morning. - A vast con.. enlace of people surrounded the house unr.l a late hour on Saturday night.—The wife and daughter of Mr. Molton came to own the body. The ,no. Cher of the boy also attended. Sbe is a widow. and in distressed circumstances. Mr. Mellish. on hearing her case, humanely subscribed ten guinea s * towel ds her relief. etimeneme---rfelx DR.LADFL'I. ACCIDENT. On Friday night, between eight and nese o'clock, a most dreadful accident happened in Skinner street, Bishopsgate-street, by the sudden fallnf two old houses. The houses in this street belong to. the Company of Skinners, who had given notice to the tenants to quit, with a view to pull down and ree build the houses upon an improved plan. Some poor people, however, still continued to inhabit the premise', though in a very dangerous state, and some workmen had been employed in the course of the day to prop them up, but the old buildings were pr obabl y loosened in the attempt, as they fell suddenly w th a great crash, after the men had left off work. Several women and children were buried in the ruins, whoa* rearms were pee-Coal? heard by the wesimess and ethers. who exerted themselves with the greenlet alacrity to extricate them from their perilous and de plorable situation. In one of the houses were a man, his wife, and five children. 31. e mitts was killed on the spot, and the wife dug oat of the ruins almost dead.—There are various reports of the fate of the children ; some say that they all perished.—The groans of the persons who were only bruised in the fall. were frightful.— Among these was a young woman, who lay with a beam across her breast nearly three hours before she could be extricated from her dreadful situation. Several were dug out ct the ruins, and coste•yed to the hospital. 'the number lost is not esearstained, but it is supposed to be considerable. Th;s day the Sessions of the Peace for the city of London, will be holden at Guildhall, before the Right Hon. the Loan Mayo., the !trans. SU LI tr Ts Arid AL T 1 I. 111V4 for the trials ofies•nalts, • rnisdemanJurs. and heating of appeals; and on Wed nesday. the Sessions of Oyet and Terminer, and G Delivery. will cnntmence at lattice Hall in r: e Old Bailey, at which there are upwards of s:aty prisoners for trial for variona felonies. We are requested to state, that the Defendant in the law case of Rosati rs and Co. w Dawsom, re ported in Test Barr;sn Passe of Saturday. is not Mr. DA% son of Warwick.areer, Golden-square. Several conviels lately escaped from Prince of Wales's Island to the Ache,* territory, when they were seized as spies. and thrown into prison. They have since been delivered up to as °Corr seat to &mend dui& Las: Saturday afternoon, ass gentleman's servant was walking by the Serpentine-river, with a New. fnundland dog, be threw a stone into the water, and the sing plunged in after it. and brought up by the hair of the head, a young woman, genteeily dressed, in a white gown and a black silk spencer. The body had the appearance of having laid in the water for several days : it was conveyed to the Swan public-house, in Mount-street, and was owaeA yesterday morning. The deceased molted to b servant ot the name of Cm a. L t PfS. about twenty-years of age, who had lived last with a family to Ken sington-square, and had been missing since last Tuesday. A mason's labourer, some day; since, eloped with the apprentice of a milliner in Whitechapel, and married her. The gul is not yet fifteen, and, not coming of age, will be entitled to property, to the amount of 6,01.01. The millinet pursued the bride. ha I her taken into easterly, and carried to the , Whitechapel Police Office ; but there appearing to be a Claw in the indenture, s;e teas discharged ♦ rnbliery, of a cgriges nature, it is reported, has bz(ndiscovered, withinthese few days, upon the Bri tish Museum, whaler a very considerable number of the most valuable riots has been stolen ; among the test, a beautitul impression of the famous Hem dred Guilder:, by Raw t carrot, so called from its being sold for that sum. Several prin:sellers have , purchased considerably from the pilferers, whose names we do not choose to mention. until the 'fair shall have been mole fully ascertained. rr. 2%.!