The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-11-23 00:00:00

ABBOTT V. YOUNO.

This was an action fur a breach of promive of
marriage, tried brfo►e Mr. Justice Bayley, at
York, at the Assizes of 182:2, when the Jury found
a verdict for the Plaintiff—damages Wt.
Some time since Mr. Setjeant 1-hillock obtained
a rule to chew cause why a new trial should not be
had, on the ground that two of the Plaintiff's wit-
nesses had sworn falsely at the trial that they could
not write, by which the Defendant was prevented
from putting two letters in evidence, which the
Plaintiff had sent him.

Mr. RAINE now appeared to shew cause against
the rule Nisi. lie had, he said, a number of affi-
davits completely to establish the truth of the
testimony given by the two witnesses (the Plaintiff's
sisters) at the trial, as to the circumstance of
their being unable to write; and the Learned
Counsel further contrinled, that h.id the letters
which those two witnesses were to prove, been read
at the trial, they would not hale d the De-
fendatit's case, but rather have tended to confirm
the other testimony, which went to prove, that a
promise of marriage had actually been given by the
Defendant.

Mr. Serjeant HuLLocK (with whom was Mr. J.
Wtwassa and Mr. BROUGHAM) admitted that the
affidavits filed by the Plaintiff pletely removed
the grounds of his motion on the case of the Plain-
tiff's witnesses being perjured; but he submitted,
on the ground of surprise. that the Court should
grant the Defendant a new trial ou the payment of
costs.

The Court were unanimously of opinion that
there had lint been such surprise as would justify
the Court in disturbing the verdict of the Jury.
Rule for a new trial discharged.

The Naples Journal of October 29 give. a very
particular detail of the uniform to be worn by the
Ministers of State. The exact cut of the coat and
waistcoat, the buttons, the colour, and even the
shape of the hat, ure described.

The 11th regiment have 'earthed from NOM for Dublin,
and are replaced by this lblb foot, just arrived hum Eng-
lama.

T►e 371 h, 70th, end 76tts regimmite, io Cana& expect
to ►e relieved by three regienerna from England, next
April. The report of the 60th returning to Eutupe is
without fouutimion.

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..,1,1/1 LIFE," OR, CORINTHIANS IN SOUTHWARK.
Seery fiesrley, Francis MO.:less, and John Elliot fihrs
here charged with making a " 7am, Jerry, and Logie" row,
after midnight, near St. Thomas's Hospital, in the Borough.
Two of the dashing yang gentlemen are pupils at the hos-
pital, and the other is an attorney.
John Bassett, a watchman, stated that at three o'clock ih
the morning. the Prisoners were making a great noire is
Maze Pond, knocking against the (loon., ane crying," Go it,
dewy !' —" Gra jl, Top ! Co it, I.ogic &c. One of them
pN"lilew,we lloorthe d—d Chalky." They then ran with
1041 three waist his watch box, and endeavonred 10 upset
it so as to enclose him inside of it, as represented in the
*Soda* spectacle, called "Lica In Larkin." Their *m-
eson., were not able to effect their object of " boxing a
Charley," though they broke the Lig, and forced the door *IT
Its %%get. The Prisoner Fug *as must violent and Assanited
him.
The ease was fully proved In evidence.
Mr. Alderman Smith said, not a night elapsed but what
la some part of the town the peace was broken by young
litowebile.rs fellows, •pcing " Tam, Jerry, and Love," in
ottempliat to perform, in real jiff, what they had witnessed
ea the stage. He was also sorry to find that they bad used
very iherestimy Isolyeare, unbecoming the character of per-
mte calling themselves either Corinthians or Gentlemen.
itkag,ikerefore, deserved prniahment, and unless they paid
a afarokf money to • charity, and satisfied the watchmen, he
sAtsitM kel it his duty to order them to And bail to answer
the atom...

They agreed to give three guineas to St. Olive's Female
Charily School, and having paid the watchman, were repri.
mended and discharged.
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EXTRAORDINARY iNvErrtgATtort.
Yesterday Messrs. Allen, Swaby, and Hedger, the Maria.
Irate, of this Office, were occupied a considerable lime in
agitating the case of a very prepossessing female, apparently
about 17 years of age, of extremely mild manners, Rod of a
delicate appearance, who gave her name Louisa Williams,
otherwise Evans.
The charge against tier was for becoming chargeable to
the perish o► St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, refusing to
give a saiNfaclory account of herself,
the assistant overseer of the parish, attend-
ed en Wednesday last, and preferred the above charge against
her. He I:serrated his testimony by 'observing to the
Magis-
trate that she .as either of a family of respectability, and
had deserted it fur some rause ur other, or, on the contrary,
s►e was a Most artful impostor.
Mr. Holland then stated, that some time since the accused
became chargeable to the parish of Bermondsey. She was
brought into the workhorse, in the most abject misery.
Upon the Governors interrogating her, ■be said she was a
native of Malts, soil that her father was many years in the
19th regiment. When she attained the age of yawl,
she proceeded to Jamaica with her parents. Her father after-
wards went to Hsbfax, where he remained for five year,. ; be
afterwards returned to Jamaica, and died there of a fever.
After the dissolution of her father, she, with her mother and
a sister and brother, went to Malta, her place of nativity,
and her mother opened a wine-house in Stradmparrati. They
remained at Malta about four year', when her mother, her
sister, sail herself (her hrotber having died) arrived is Eng-
land. On their arrival, her mother proceeded to Newcastle
to reside, sad she and the remainder of the family ■ceompa-
nied her. They stopped at her lust's, Mrs. Brown's, who
kept the Black Horne public-house at Royston, where
they remained some time ; •tler which they pursued
their journey to Newcastle, and had not resided there long
before her mother ►ecame acquainted with'a Mr. Ernes, who
was belonging to the blockade service at Hythe, in Kent,
whom she afterwards married, and sent to eeside at Hythe.
She lived in Newcastle some time afterwards, and then went
in pursuit of her mother. She left Newcastle on the Ist Sep-
tember, with only 6.. in her pocket, and walked to Loudon, a
distance of 300 mites. After she had expendedwhat mossy she
possessed, she slept in fields, under hedges, and other places
is the open air, suffering the greatest hardships. She pro-
ceeded ea till see arrived at Hythe, where her mother, she
supposed, was living. On her reaching that place, she made
every inquiry after her parent, but without success, and
finding all her efforts to trace her out abortive, she deter-
mined on • j•ersey to Loudon, sad on Om 17th of Septem-
ber, she arrived i■ Bermondsey parish.ane being so cabalist-
eel flout fatigue and hunger, she fell to the greeted, and is a
state of insensibility, was taken to the parish weikhouse.
Mr. Holland further said, after she had given the foregoing
account of herself, she was requested by the Goys/inure to
give some account of the family in whom she was compacted,
lent she refused. The parish, in consequence, from motives of
humanity, kept her in the work Moue, end made Inquiries
about her at the places she named to her narrative, and
after t►e strictest communications, all her matemenm wire
proved so be erroneous; still the gist persisted in bee as-
sertions.

Mr. Allen, the Magistrate, suggested that Ale better
course would be us hand her over to the Aleudicity Society,
who would use every exertion to true eat, the authenticity
or her statement.

Mr. Holland said be would eons:tit with Mr. Bodkin, the
Secretary to the Society, and the girl should be brought up
seal day (yesterday.)
Accordingly, at two o'clock, Mr. Bodkin, the Secretary to
the Mendicity Society, attended, aud d>o I other
Gentlemen belonging to the establishment, and the female
was placed before the beucb, sod the case was further in-
♦estigated.
Mr. Bodkin said, that he had no hesitation in saying the
Prisoner was a disciptiued impostor. On the 11th of Sip.
tember last the Prisoner was recommended by Dowager
Lady Stamford, who in a subscriber to the Society, as an ob-
ject of compassion. She had been recommended by Lady
Louisa Grey to ►er (the Dowager) through the medium of
Miss Walpole. The Society investigated her case, and it
was taken upon Lady Stafford's recommendation, vaich ad.
wised her being atilt to Hyatt to her parent.. The Prisoner
was seat to the Society's Asylum io Suffolk-street, Batik
Bridge, and letters were dispatched to a Mr. Dewar, at
Newcastle, to levier into the truth of ►er at:dement as to
her mother living there; and also to Mr. Crawford, the rest.
dentiary Minister of Hythe, as to her mother living there.
From the former Gentleman an answer was received, stating
that no such individuals described as the pan opts of the Pri•
goner ever resided there, and enclosing a paragraph from
the Tyne Mercury of the 14th of May, which was to t►e fol-
lowing effect

" On the might of Friday last, between seven and eight
o'clock. as Mr. Elliot, the tobacconist, was passing through
a field at Rams•bridge, near this town, he observed •
young woman lying ■ear a haystack, apparently unconscious
of the dreadful storm to which she was exposed. She was
nearly benumbed with cold. Mr. Elliot raised her with dif-
ficulty, and condartril her to a pablie house hard by, kept
a person named Robinson, and by his kind humane conduct
idle recovered ■nd remained unde► his roof fur some time,
■nd was furnished with food and lodging. Her name is
Maria Wallace. She said she wasiunrneyorg from London
to Edinburgh (where ber mother lived) on foul, and she only
had • halfpenny in her pocket. Msuy of the respectable
people in the neighbourhood raised a subscription fur her 10
enable her to pay her passage to Leith, and after she bad
got it she abscuirded.
In answer to the inquiry at II ythe, of the Rev. Mr. Craw-
ford, it turned out, that nu such peraws as Evans belong. to
the blockade service.

Flefore the above answers could in• obtained, the Prisoner
absconded from the &witty's A•ylum, in Suffolk street, 8,14
nothing was beard of her till the was sent to the eviablish-
mein by the Magivttates of this office, when she was in-
stantly recognised. _ _

Mt. Bodkin said, that to liis knowledge the Prisoner was
an adept in imposition, and her statements were on circum-
stanced that it was should imporaible to lace her delinquen-
cies. She hart gone by no less than fire different names,
viz. Louisa trilliums, Maria f•L'allare, Elisabeth Huntley,
E. William., Evans, sod Louisa Htiebes.
Mr. Higley, the
stepped forward, and said, ihat the Prisoner belonged to
the above palish, by firing apprenticed to Mr. Mime; a
coachmaker in Whilechaltd. Site hail a butther non in the
workhouse, and she herself was also an inmate, bat abscond-
ed, sad not long sitter wit Laird home iron) K4lOlOll.

upta-Tharnes. SoMe time before Mat she WM found in Sti
Mistia's parish, and was taken into the ►ervice of M►. Bel-
tinge. in the Shand, shorn she afterwards robbed of upwards
0(401. Her father and mother, he understood, were dead,
sod when the youngest child came of age she would come
into the possession of 6001.
Mr. Allen now called on the Prisoner to slate who she war,
stud to whom she belonged. All she raid was, Hirt she
longed to IVbiterhapel, and if the Gentlemen wanted to know
any thing more shout her, Mrs Low, of Whitecrossiarert,
Cripplegate, would furnish them with the particular, of her
history.
The Magistrate ordered her to be remanded till Friday
next.
Thus the ease rem•ins, and her f4mily it *opposed to be
highly respectable, but (tons motives of delicacy she causes
to disclose who they are.