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`'f`` , , y~~_a L . . shewicg what, he am do this Odeaskin) for tie is living, and you - mayxamine him." - The Witness then proceeded—" Miss Wood was very much with Mrs. Giroux, what passed' betweNi them I do not-know---She was not more than any other of the Scholars, but more than many of them.. I have sent for her td say her lesson, but she has said, she would come another time .' She . was then with Mrs . Giroux, bur I do not know what she was then employed in." - • . , . . care that e rarents ought tc) take of•theii Children, to 'essential to the well-being of the Community in which we live. But there were puti of the-evi deuce for the Plaintiff , which did not stand in so .meritorious or fair alight before the Jury as they had, a right to expect co be laid before them by a person claiming damages at theirliands. The con trad here between the .parties, was not that this young Lady.shouid be brought 41 like the other §cho:ars; 'she was to be .educated differently from the, rest;' she was to be instrueted "in house affair's, for she was CO be qualified to keep a School herself, and for that reason the, care of this child was ton - fided to her,.." for the care of children was a branch .very likely ,to, occur to lrer when she came to,have the care of a School ; and instead of making that an 'article of charge of negligence,in.the Defendant,-.he ought to be thanked tor it as a favour conferred On this young woman. Nor was there any foundation for all or any part of what had heen said concerning the scrophuloos complaint, and •the unwhoicsonwess of the child of, which this „young woman had the care., ,As little foundation was there for the in_ sinuation that Mr. Giroux had.caused the. Apothe.. eary • , to administer improper medicines to: Otis young Lady. All these were points introduced into the Cause for the purpest of creating prejudice: His Learned Friend, Mr.eGiBBS, had said to the Jury, that' eol e was not the sum that he asked for in' Damages, but a lima larger -Stun ; but he knew the humanity of his Learned Friend so well, that he was sure, .he would sooner give a Draft upod his Banker for sole than _wish any such sum to _be given_ against the Defendant in this: cause ; he only said 'so in the coarse of lis Syeechas ; an Advocate, who is compelled by the : perverse'. tenlper .of` ills qieht to keep up.a cause,,._ long after his 0v0n ., ,g;00 sense had abandoned The Defendant stood ber fore his Lordship and ,the jury for his existence.— thiS Adion 'having been,commenced, the School 4% - vindled and dwindle.d away, and at last the re maining few SchniarS, were„ taken away to their parents, all cif. which,- he. maintained, ,to .be - the efred of mere malicidus 'slander. The Defendant was 'Master, of this School, and derived a cornfOrt, • able liVelihood for hirnself and family by keeping it ; but such care have virtuous Parents cation of, their children, ,and so delicate is time trust that is reposed in the Masters of Schools, that stis, liipion ,operates in. the, fitst instance,. in the same guiltmyatancr Lion excited this suspicion, and it i a h s i d had.the effect which was maliciously intended by it,''a'ff the carnilieS took' away their Children at .once, and, unless the Defendant's - reputation was restored': by the event of this. Aftion, he was un done.o.; 'Mr. ERSKINE. then - proceeded to observe,. on the Letter, - wttich.he said, .I\4r. Moore wrote to'. Mrs. Giroux, thanking her for the care she-had' 'taken of his children. But -Mr. GLBBS - said, " that this Letter ought not to-be alluded to, because it could not, in any shape whatever, be. made evidence upon this issue." - Lord KENYON said,:.that certainly this Letter could'not be made Evidence at all. Mr. EasktNE submitted, that it should be made use of to -aired ,the credit of one of the Wit nesses. Mrs. Moore, with whose testimony that Letter was inconsistent, as was indeed the conduft. of the Witness, while ivir, Moore paid his addresses to her, for, if the - ;-,chool Was COntillaedtaS .She now Stated - it to be, she had betrayed her duty'.to her intended husband. However, the fact being known to be as :he had stated it, he'.ihould not press the reading' of the Letter[litire Mr. Giroux, who appeared to• be a good 'deal affeded, went out of Court by the advice Of Mr. ERSKINE].—Mr. ERSKiNE then proceeded to comment upon the Evi dence that had been already given in the cause, and Maintained,. that there was not -enough to support this Afiia - h• • His Learned Friend had said, that all . the 'nob of childten at the door of the-COutt-were his.Witneses, and yet not one of them was called. Mr. Staunton was called as a Witness for the Plain_. 'tiff: was he a married man ? He supposed'sn.;. and that hi - four•children, were not natural 'children-- Where was hiS wife ? It was, the 'mother and not, the father who ought to'speak of the treatment of female children, at least. And.then came a species -of Evidence which, he..stibmitted, .it was very wrong to, produce, because it was very dangerous in its effect. He meant the Evidence of; the young woman, whose treatment at this School was the subject of Adioni Miss Wood. She had been called, however, and certainly her ,EvidenCe de served, particular attention, not that he thoUght would affect the Defendant in the cause„ but, if it was true, he did not see how Mr. -May hit - itself could escape the'animadversion of the Cdurr. 'For the first three months, she was treated as she ought to, tie, according to her .own Evidence; She ad , mitted; that from' November to February she • , , made no complaint. In February' she. 'told Mr. May, that she had thi's' diseitied child to nurse, in stead of attending to her lesson ; that she was em ployed in the most indecent offices ;' and yet, until the month of August, this young girl is continued in this. situation without any further 'complaint from This father,, this affectionate father, whose tender ness for the welfare of rhis - child - letd generated:this Adion ; but hestaid till Christmas, for near eleven monthS, ten monthS after the complaint was:made by the girl herself to him. 'What 'inference was' there to be drawn from this ?. Either that Mr. May was. negligent of the interest ofthis "young girl, Or eise e he was aware, that the complaint she 'had made was unfounded. . LAW REPORT: - COURT OF KING'S BENCH. SITTINGS BEFORE LORD XEN . YON ANT) A SPECIAL iTIRY IN WRSTMINSTEIt-HALL. MAY v. GMOUX. (Continuerlfi - omgizr Paper, of 2: nnday .) Isandla L—On , her cross-examivatiOn,.iiid, " Mrs. Giroux and had some words, an I told her I wished to away—bat I did not come away before a complaint was made against me by a young Lady, Miss Ann Taber. I was dismissed from my situation in the Boarding-School in conse quel:ze of i complainonade t 4. Mrs. Giroux by Miss Ann' Taber. She slept with me; she is a very young girl. I was dismissed ! in corkeepence of the complaint she made against me. 'did not know the Plaintitf.before that time, but afterwards I did. I have occasionally' held some conversation with him, but I visited him very seldom." . Here Lord KENYON, asked " whether an end could riot be put to•this Case, without any further investigation ?" Here Miss was called in. afrain,, and the ,Plaintiff's Counsel said—‘,..' Miss Wood; Mrs. Moore -has said that you. were frequently with Mrs. Giroux in a private room with her, and . that she used to be, away from the Scholars, and that when Mrs. Moore has sent for you to say your le,son, you, have said, You Would come another time."—How was you employed at that time ?' A. " Doing the grorend work of tkat [pointing to a piece of embroidery.] Matgaret Heath—" I lived as Cook with Mrs.. Giroux. I came in November 179 . 9, and .catne away in February in i goo.—l . had an opportunity w of seeing all the visuals that ere*ovided at that house, for the family and for the. children at the School ; I had. some good meat, and I had.very had meat ; I have had it for sate young Ladies, ;testi have had it for the family, good and bad—l took it in, and Icarried it up to my Mistress—The meat for the young .Ladies, was sometimes very had indeed ; and I have carried up hashes to the School, which were made from the fat of the meat, and which was.very bad indeed.; some of it J. could not have ate myself ; what has been offered these . _ young Ladies, I have given ,to the, dogs—My Mistress had meat for my Master to m.ik.e soup of, which was very good 'meat 'indeed, from Islingrwl, but very bad indeed for the young Ladies—l' cannot say what price was 'paid for the meat,; I never went out to know : the price.—We had bad meat three Or four times a week, but r cannot Say exaaly the days it came ; we never sent any meat back again,'.' Charlotte Beaztford— ,, I,was a, half . .. Boarder at this School at the time that Miss Wobd was the latter part of it—l did not, See much of Miss Wood in the-School ; I do not know de all how she was employed in the house; she was but very little. in the School." • Lord ICEnvort asked whether Mr, Giroux, the 'Defendant, was not a - person who attended-Queen square School ? . Mr. GIBBS said, Mr. GiroOx was Paneino:- Master of Queen-square School until Christpias last: Elizabeth Chapman—". I was at thiS Sehool at the same time, that 'Miss Wood Was there,—About. three months after I came there, I remember a, child coming there, between two and three Year's old ; believe Miss Wood- had the care of that child. — Miss - Wood, sat with .us at. the. table:—As to the meat we had, it *as sometimes verrsood indeed, but latterly. it was sometimes so ill done, that I could not eat it ; sometimes'the meat.itself was not good.—There was a good deal of alteration in the mode of living ; after I had been there about three months, it was much worse. : •—•As.to theinstruaion, I was'not :in.struaed as I- had reason to expea should.—Till.Christinas 1799 we had, a, Drawing. Mater, and after that .no Drawing.Mastet attend_ ed ; Mr. Girodx himself took that upon bins ; and, after than, the lessons were much-shorter I afterward& left the ..School, and the reason for it *as, that my Parents were 'not. satisfied.with -the progress of my improvement there." On her cross-examination she said, parents live at Pentonville ; I was a day scholar.,, at this School ; my father and mother are v.e.,v good to ii - re-- . —they are very .affeetionate parents ; fnev would never suffer me to be M.:treated. 'I told my father niwlier, from time to- time;. as I came home,how the School was conduced. When I came home used to tell them I had very little.to ear, and that the children were ill fed there. I told my papa when t came home .I could have eat more for dinner if they would have given me more ; I was only .1- lowed to be helped. three times at dinner; I ivery often could have eat more if I had it, but I never said. so to . Mrs. Giroux." Mr:- ERSKINE said, " That the malice which diaated this Adion had ruined and undone the Defendant ?nd his Wife,•and he. trusted for,_i Ver. dia in his favour." Mrs. Moore—" I .was the first Teacher in this School. Miss Wood was there before I came. She was OM played in a great deal of needle-work, and she had also the care of a little child there., and her attendance on the child took up a considerable time. I think that prevented:her from taking some op. portunities, which she.otherwise would have had, of improving herself..: She did not repeat her les. suns to me as often as. Leonid wish. If_ she had been permitted to attend. me oftener, I should have instruaed her further than I did; but she was ge nerally employed with iVlrs. Giroux - in another room—but I . do not know'how she was employed." Here, a book with some Exercise in French was produCed, .which exhibited very indifferent speci mens of progress in that language.) The Witness then went on, and said, " I do not think that Miss Wood had the fair proportion of instruCtion that a young woman of her situation ought to have dur:. ing 'that time. I. do not think that justice was done to her as a Scholar at this School'. She- was a young Lady of good 'abilities, and I think, with better instrulion, she would have made consider. able progress. I think- she would have improved More if she had been properly instruCted. As to the meat at table in this .School-house, I think it was of inferior quality ; I think it was not such as young Ladies ought to have had.. They were. served with 'joints hashed very much, and of a sort of meat Which I consider as very indifferent ; and, making allowance for very good appetites, I do-not think that the meat they hid was fit for these young Ladies. I have-lived in other Schools as a Teacher. I have made complaints to Mr. Giroux ; the ani4 . swer was, ' that it shoUld be remedied,' but I did not find it was." • On cross-examination she said, ". I came to this School, as Teacher, at Christmas 5799, and conti nued till Christmas 1800, and I came away because the situation did not suit me. I married Mr. Moore, an Attorney. I was disgusted and shocked at tic.e manner in which these children• were fed;— theV were all fed in the same manner. Mr. Moore, my.present husband, had children there algo during the whale time that he was courting me. I believe the eh)est% of them was about fourteen years, and the yotingeSt, believe, was .about nine. They - were. all ledlike the rest. OM- courtship was for about fourteen mon4hs I believe. y I did not . inform Mr. Moore Of tbe. treatment of his children . atthis School. Mr. Moore, after our marriage, tool his children away at Christmas." Mr. EItiKINE proposed" to produce some letters whichNlr..Moore wrote to this Witness, to spew . • that there was no complaint made of the tri atment .'of his children at this School—but Mr. GI z as- ob: jetted to them, as not being legal evidence upon thjs issue; there-was rip necessity, he said, _to read Lord KENYON—" I believe it' is the.pradice of every well concluded Boarding-school, 'to give., to children less than they desirebut . a case like this should be judgedof uporvits own circumstances. , --- The situation of this child, IVlisc Wood, .vva'S differ,. ent from,the rest of the Scholars in this School : there was no other person there on .tlv2 smite terms. She was in the'course of an editcation which took in a little of the ) house-keeper . , for she was to -- be Brought up to know how to take upon herself the care of a family, for she was to have been qualified to be the mistress of a Boariling-schOol, and therefor we should not judge of her instrudion by the . same rule as we would of the other Scholars. It is in fear, to recommend any thing to the patties [meaning to hint that a Juror should be withdrawn, the consequence of which would be, that each party should par.his own costs]..—The decision of the Jury, I have no doubt, will be- as justice. requires ; but, I think, the parties. may save -themselves a great deal of unnecessary trouble." Mr. ERSKINE said, there never was a person who had, as long as himself, attended the. admi nistration of Justice, who had a greater 'task to per form than he had on the present occasion ; for the question now before his Lordship, and the Jury involved in it much of the morals' of 'the Country .in which we live, since most of the female part of it received some .parts of its education at Boarding schools. He was instructed that this was an infa motisattack on a well-conducted Boarding-school, and which the Keeper of it had been obliged -to put down in consequence of this Adion, which had pro duced, so much scandal against- the Defendant, and had placed him in such a situation that his ruin was inevitable,' if he did not obtain a VerdiEt in this Cause, which w'ould,, and which alone would, re-establish his Charades in Society. Mr.,ERSKIIiE then proceeded to address the Jury. He observed, there / never was, a Judge who had' more distinguished himself than the Noble and Learned Judge who presided in this Cause did., in the course of the administration-of Justice, in fak ing care of the morals of the Public, and partieu, larly ,that' of Youth, and in inculcating rules for the any iettcrs which were written . by Mr. Moore to `shew what he thought upon the usage of his child ren at this School, because the Defendant, if he chose it, could call Mr. Moore himself as a Wit ness. Lora K.rwroN—"j cannot hear the contents of these letters, certainly.". Mr. EksKlNi to the Witness—Q. Do you not 'know of Mr. 'Moore's writing to Mrs. Giroux, thanking her for her attention to his children ? Mr. Grses—" i objet to that question : whet Mr. Moore wrote td the Defendant's wife is no evidence in this Cause." Mr. ERSKINE—" The objeet of my examination of this Lady is this—She has stated, upon her oath, that the children of her husband, by his former Wife were -at this school, and that they were dealt with in the' same manner as the other scholars-- That for 14 months, Mr. Moore paid his addresses to her, for "12 of which, she was Teacher in this school, during which she must have had frequent correspondence with Mr. Moore, Which I cannot ex, amine, as your 'Lordship has decided ; she has told your Lordship, .that she did not communicate to IVIr. Moore that his children were ill.treated.-By which I infer there was no objection then to their treatment:—Now, I want'to shew that, on the con. trary, Mr. Moore expressed his satisfatlion .at the treatment of his 'children at- this School, assigning reasons for continuing them, which would go ma to.affed the credit of the testimony of this (Tc be conthrued.j Witness; for, considering that .she Was -going to ' form the most solemn engagement that is kqown in a social state, it was her duty to have informed Mr. Moore, her intended Husband, of the real truth as One day last week a child about three years old, daughter of John Standen, Gardener to his grace the Duke of. Riclunond, died. in consequence of hav ing eaten berries of the deadly nightshade. On Saturday night a:young man, latelY from Country, was decoyed into a hottie of _ill-fame in Fetter-lane, Holborn, by a woman, ivho foul - id means to pick his pocket of upwards of 751.• in Notes and Cash, and left him asleep in the room, in a state of intoxication; • She was taken into .custody soon . after,'and searched, but none of the, property found on her ; she was, howe i ver, taken to the watch house. to the treatment of his children at this. School." Lord KENYON---" The inference is, perhaps; a strong one in your favour, Mr. ERsKINc, but Lean not hear any thimg of what Mr. Moore said or did, to affect the interest of either of the parties here ; for he was not Agent to either, nor authorized by either to say or — do any thing on their behalf. would not hear .it if Mr. Afloore were dead—but you have. here no rc;ls'.:n to coffiplain for want of DIED. LONDON : Printed by BVCIIANIAN M'MI!.LAN, (of Bow-street, Covent-Gaiden); 'and eLiblished by WILLIAM AR GSR• ScitipPs (of Flora -ferry-road, Westminster); At the SvN.OrrlcE ) ,No, 3122 Strand ; where Advertheirsextx, Orderi for • the Paper, Lcucts for the Editor; : &C. ('post laid), must be addressed, On Monday evening, at a very advanced age, Singleton, Esq. At her house, in Great Denmark -street, Dublin, 11 . on. Lady Hannah Stratford, eldest daughter of the Earl of Aldborough. In Upper Dorset -street, Dublin, in an advanced Bayley, - reliet. of the late Thomas Bayley, Esq Clerk of the Pells in I reland. - - ----~-....ti._ S'eion,AND. ABERDEEN, • On Wednesday we 110 a tremendous. thunder and lightning, attended by heayy of rain. - It began in,.the morning at and taking a South-east course, reached, tl in the afternoon. Many of the, peals . we. and longer than any ever remembered i n ti try. In the evening, one Forbes, a w Etlon; travelling towards Ne‘.vbiirgh, NV by the lightning. shirt was burned t part of ills watch-case melictl, and his bud disfigured. . . At 'Mkkleftilla, jn the Gar!bch, - 'the ; came through the roof *of 'a !louse into ti and bjoke some articles OffurnitUre", but fo 'no per Son ..wa§ there at. the' tine. In' neighbourhood a horse was kiiled by it. Last week the Salmon Fishing on the S . uncommonly successful: 1 It is-computed tl 59',000'1b. were caUglit-- ) .They were sold and 3d. per pound. Yesterday arrived here another Troop o Dragoon Guards; and , this morning flier went off for Peterhead, F.ra3ersburgh;;and COUNTRY NEWS. LEEDS, AUGUST 31. It is'highlx satisfa6tory. to us to •be ah nounce the g6!eral,,revival of the cotton tr. in such sort, that not a, single weaver ‘vh( to.work has occasion to complain of Juan ployment. On Tuesday last , at the . 11 r titation,-(,:flice, ,toivn, a ptiblieofrOen.Holbterz ',in this pal conviaed and paid"_thd:tien4lty of forty and costs, fOr refusing to take .. a billet from man.---A : butcher . penaliy of fOur pounds and costs, for iibt skins stamped according to‘ati.of ParliaMet On Saiurday lasr,..Edwaid Hiighes Was at Tyburn, near York, pursuant to his scn a . rape on the.body-of .Mary. Brawn, of To he.was 3 genteel; ‘vell-iooking young man, haved.during his confirieMent, and at the execution, in a very.beroming..manner.. , , .A correspondent: says, that the trial at York Assizes, —concerning- an ofttifrafion pears to him to have been very much misre - ed ;• for instead:of daerminin.g„ that' afi oe , road, is a road for all purposes,- Sir ,A. gave it as hisop;ition only, that.the r•944,7;it was not an occupation road merely, but a alt purposesinrwa ; reserved f o r the f ar .final the j 5( j e n t i c o r 7; l 4 tf irla t t h i e " g's Kin Beech.. TO.THE LADIES. e T of both,Sexes is so connefi th e e rc h a increaseeth 'that all3 e rn' in , v of n ale , ctz iv genius , ge i t iu should is not t() tiered ployed to diScover what may be •ipnocently assist Nature, hi keepinc , the tyrant man ii Of,pleasing bondage to the softer sex. Th very is now Made, and as irnio4ition has f: too frequently raised upon the creiltilc Gentleman who is the inventor of the Mn CREAM, haS consulted the'delicacy of the committing the sale 01 this curionl and - eleg-, paration - to a Lady - of honour and reTe6 who has , , authority to return the , ment.y, nocent Liquid dOes'.not give to' the skin th liar fairness, which, as well as bestowing bespeaks health, and throws an -- animation countenance, which shall giire the eye polder .to charni•lmd. fascinate. For the 1, arm it is prepared in adifFerent form, and if , would permit the 'lames of those Ladies to - tinned, who have approved this innocent C tion, their number would. exceed belief ; and fashion.• It can be had only itt No. 13, logy-street, near 6ray!S-Inn, Holborn, in at •zoi. 6d. each.,. . N.B: 'Ladies residing in . the Country, closing a one-pound note,_ may have tw o sent to them, safely. packed in a box, with direaions.to any part of the Kingdom.. A most powerful atthaion upon every created 'by the revival of that excelieni Rinaldo Rinaldini, at the Royal Circus, .Si, ( Fields,----the narrow escapes, and daring exi thit bold but generous, robber, atrord. grea tainment to every tnind, and. the char, throughotit most charmingly represented Bologna, ,jun.; the Aurelia of-Miss Kenn} -a most capital performance : this, Piece, splendid Scenery and. excellent. Mthic Eclipse,` or .1-tniequin in•. China, yields .a flowing Audience every evening. 51111' Ig;IPS. GRAVESEND, StPT: • Passed by—the Hazard, Parish, ,from Tobago ; , from /Virginia ; Har e riot, • StoclOart, lion Fancy, Barnett, .from St.. Kitt's ; Marnic,r, Chiv Demerara ; Arlthusa;Ward ; Mary Ann, Ward; a botland,i Drummond, from Surinam. • Sailed—the Suier, Jones, for Waterford ; Go Wires, for Amsterdam ; Drie, - V fu: lery ; !)rie t;ebrotiers, tor ; Hoffili andalernian Thesni'ulda;, for,Hambro'., .*IRRIED • On Tnesdav the ttt inst. S.andford Pcaeocke, ti Ntarmaduke.Peacocke, Esq. of , CoNn4ish-square, Apreece, only daughter of Si . t T. ,aussey Apreet.e. Washingler Hall, Huntingdonshire. an S:atlirday the Bth h ilt. at Margate, Mr. H great Surrey-street, Blckftiars, to Miss Aknnh daughter of Dr. Robert Akenhead, M. D. of - Margi On Saturday last, at Wesiharn Church, Mr. Sai nes, of Limehouse, to Miss Place, of Maryland P 4 Stratford, .Essex. • - 1 P I • 1 I