The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-26 00:00:00

Another letter was to the following effect

" Friday evening, Tulse Hill.
" Dearest Mary,—l am much better. I hope, dearest
Polly, that Susan will write and thank the Miss Waltons
for their unremitting personal attendance on me, for when I
tell you that they have put me on at least a dozen poultices
and fifty fomentations, you will think they have been kind
to me. (Laughter.) Recollect you will always be in my
thoughts as ever, "GEORGE.'
"P.S. Our engagement is known to all but the governor.
Now, all right. I did it capitally."
The learned counsel remarked that it was not the way to
please a girl to tell her that another girl had applied fifty
fomentations to his ancle. (Laughter.) All the while he
was writing like this to Miss Cooper, he was flirting with
another lady. He then proceeded to read several other
letters, in which expressions of this kind abounded : "My
sleeping thoughts are yours, and so are my first when
waking." As a proof of his vanity, the learned counsel read
the following: "We spend pleasant evenings at Mrs.
Elliott's. She is one of the best singers I ever heard in my
life in private. She quite labours to please me."
In another letter were these words : " I hope, dearest, you
will not slave for me. Will you, dearest, kindly get a little
book called James's Anxious Enquirer.' lam sure you
will like it. (Laughter.) God bless you. Pray for me,
as I for you."
In another he says : " I shall send you your portrait.
Rejoiced am I that I am going to have a good one—too
pretty it cannot be. Mary, you know you are pretty.
Girls always know. Oh, you little rogue. I want a kiss
very badly. I send you one inside the portrait. You
won't see it of course, but send one back the same way."
The defendant wrote several similar letters from Australia,
and then, after a short time, came this extraordinary
effusion :

"March 8, 1856.
" Miss Cooper,—lfy long silence is s-lely attributed to
the tenor of your letters to me. They contain the most ex.
treme jealousy without any cause in the world ; not one
of my relations but what you would set me against, and I
thought you had such a kind, affectionate heart, but you
actually mention with the greatest levity the sickness and
death of your ever to be respected uncle. Therefore, such
being your disposition, I have made a mistake, and I feel
assured I never could make you happy, or you me. 'Tis a
pity we ever met, or having met, did not know each other's
disposition better than we did before we parted. The music
you have learnt on my account will never be any injury to
you, but perhaps it has been expensive—if you will let me
know what it cost I will forward the money most willingly.
—I am your true friend, " GEORGE S. TRADER."
" P.S.—When I have more leisure I will send your
portraits and letters, but business is extremely urgent."

The learned counsel, in conclusion, said there was no reason
whatever for breaking off the engagement on account of
jealousy, and that that was a pretest to get rid of the girl
of beauty to marry the girl with money.
The learned counsel then called
Mrs. Cooper, mother of the plainCff, who said her daughter
was now about 26 years of age. Witness had known defen-
dant and his family for more than 28 years, and during that
period the two families had always been intimate. The
defendant's family formerly lived at Plymouth, but his
parents now reside at the Cape. In November, 1854, the
defendant visited i
P
--..Ymouth, and was frequently a guest at
the house of plaintiff's father. Ile soon paid great attention
to the platutaff, and one day he came to witness and said he
had asked the consent of plaintiff's father to marry her and
Mr. Cooper referred defendant to his wife (the witness).