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Cregson, against hiss:oachinaa,and another case io
yorkblaire, a gentleman against his groom. where
Judgment went by default, said the dainsges were
assessed before the Sheriff; althouiji it was proved
the mistress was the seducer, and that the crimi-
nal act tool; place in a park near a foot-path com-
mon to the Inhabitants of the whole country, the
Jury gave the gentleman damages for £31.100. and
he trusted that the Jury would, in this instances
give cleavages equal to what a fond husband must
sustain from being robbed of the atfections of hie
.wife, and more particularly so as the Plaintiff's
conduct and character were unimpeachable. He
then proceeded to call the Witnesses.
Mr. Joseph Ashmore, parish-clerk of St. Diaries,.
_ret's,.Westininster. prowsd.Vmeiagisirf of the mat.
Wage betviesa the Plaintiff a Cecilia Franeet
M'Guire, his present wife,en the 4th of' November,
1787
Mrs. Maria Begg, and her daughter, Mrs. Jane
Croker, both refatioas of Mrs. Fowler, peeved,
that the Plaintiff and Mrs. Fowler always appeared
to live happily together, and that the Plaintiffs
conduct was completely atlietianate towards Mrs.
Fowler, and that fte lead nearly lost the use of his
limier, through cold. for the la.t eight years.
Anne Aubrey. a pretty lookiog girl, about 18
years of age, deposed, that she lived with Mrs.
Fowler, and at . present was servant to the
Plaintiff; that during eight months, she heed in
the family before her master went to Margate, be
and her mistress lived on the most happy terms.—
The Defendant was living with the Plaintiff, es his
clerk, when she came to the house, but did not
diet or lodge there. On the 11th of Aug. last, the
Plaintiff went to Margate; he and her mistress
break-fisted before he sweat. The Defendant se-
corn him to the boy. Abqut eight o'clock
the Defendant rs.• ,-aed, when Mr 2. Fowler asked
him to breakfast ; they hieakfaited in the drawing-
room,- he stopped the whole of. the day. After
this she began to hare some Suspicions ; they ewe
almost always together in the drawing-room, and
the blind of the window was always pulled down ;
they used to have luncheon and tea up stairs. Mrs.
Fowler used to send the Wituese out lOr brandy.—
they drank tea generally about six, and Defendant
used to stop until' ten at night. About a fortnight
after the Plaintiff went to Margate, the witness
went up to the drawing-room, the Defendant and
her mistress were sitting very close together—wit.
ness told them she thought they had been asleep
as they had aot row the bell for candler—Mre.
Fowler said " No, bet they bad been talking about
old times." Two evenings they went out at six
sirdec.k. and did oat Return uutiltwo is the morn-
lug; one of the Moorings Mrs. Foa ler prtased the
Defendant to sleep in the house—he acquiesced,
and slept in the Plaintiff's bed, he having a sepa-
rate bed from her mietress. The Platuutf returned
from Margate in September, after which time,
whenever he went oat, the Deiendaut was either
with Mrs. F. in the drawing-mum, or Mrs. F. was
with him in the office. Every evening Mrs. F. used
to give the witness tea and sugar to make tea for
Defendant, which she did, and gave it to him in
the office. OO the 21st of December, the Plaintiff
briez from home, between five and six o'cloAt in
the evening, a black beaver hat came home for her
mistress ; having heard her go into the beck Ace
some time before, sloe wedf there and- was enn-
',laced of the ennaimility of the birfeadant and
Idea Forster, who wavily a curious situation; : e
being stated on an off re stool. When they _per-
ceiver! the witness, tbe)• si4ocated themselves from
the situation they were in Mrs. Fowler took
the witness by the shoulder, and
sad desired her to go
down stairs and get tea ready. She went to the
kitchen and burst into tears, newer having wit-
nessed such a scene before. Mrs. Fowler continued

half an hour in the office afterwards. On the
Christmas duy following, Mrs. Fowler came down
into the kitchen, naked, except her shift end a
flannel petticoat, at which time the Defendant
was in the office. Mrs. Fowler called hint down
to put in her ear-rings; he came down, and
the wi'ness left the kitchen and went up stairs.
The Plaintiff was not then at home. A few even-
ings afterwards, %he was telling a 3frs. (4lover, a
charwoman, of the indecent conduct of her mis-
tress, when Mrs. Fowler ciime into the kitchen

without bei winced, and overheard their con-
versation, soon that niVt she gave the witness
warning, who left her in ebruary, a month after-
wards./Sirs.Fowkr made the Defendaut two shirts.
—The witness earned several letters from Mrs.
Fowler to the Dtfeodant, and answers from him to
her, but did not know theft content;. About a
week before she left Mrs. Fowler, she seat her
sat for about two hours ; when she returned she
found her master's bed very much tumbled; there
was no one in the house but the Defeudant and
Mrs. Fowler.

Cross-examined by Mr. Serjespit PELt.
Mrs. Fowler was 45 years of age ; she was very
lame, and had been so from the time she first knew
her. The Defendant was about ti or #2 year• of
age ; she did net go to service after leaving Mrs.
Fowler, hut bred with her father; Maria Will
succeeded her. Mr. Fowler asked her to go back
again, and live with him, after Mrs. Fowler left
the house, and gave as a reason, that it would not'
he proper for Mary Wild to be iu the house
without another female with her. The witness and
Mary Wild had slept together ever sinee.
Maria Wild deuclited that she had lived servant
with the Plaintirtihtiat four months. Sloe .wei
hired by Mn.a Fowler en the 4th of lahruary,
the day following 4(4 iitistrautent her for smile
brandy, which she took np stays to the dra‘vrils=l
rpm. When she went lute the room, fOw
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con., eltulny . genies belied Mb.
Fowler say to the Defending, "Myoh .a Choler,
how use yea ?" He replied, he was very po.rly.
and almost dettf. She said, she wait lorry she wes
like him, for her leg was much samln and she be+
tiered be was the cause of it. On winch be said, it
could riot be, for he was perfectly Fier from :.!re ur
chapitaition.—She apologised, and *ant .he we- bitty
jesting. He said. w damn ark je• te, ht diction, Eke
them." On the Ist of %who the Witeees informed
the Plaintiff of bee somoi..ons, whiseleeketiberteleL,
oil the watch. She bored a hole through deliver, fro.
the hed-reom ions the•drairring-reosa. with a gime
let ; she looked theough the hole, acid low Mr..
Fowler sitting eta the sofa-bed, and the Defeedeat
standing 10414 her. She put pi r arias modal Ms
week and kissed Wok. flea kit the day iskrwards
reduces letter to the Delo admit. and my," My dear
Clucks, w- must be ou our guard, for s lady next
doer hes reset this letter to me, saying. that Lase
Aubrey. (the wittiesi4, and Mrs. Glover, ars OW
spiiiug against irk, and tryliig to slie ate my hus-
band's assertions from her.' The Defeating said
•." hes would be d—d if he cared, for he had dope
noatinv that he was aslism.d erf."
Sarah Glooir, widow, cornitiorated the evident*
of the last ague's.
Mr. Serjaust Oristow observed that here his
case closed.
Mr. Serjeont Petri thee erldreseel the Betels
end the fury. and observed, that the fiort question
for the Jury to consider was. whether the Defend-
ant had been guilty of the entities! conversation
charged against him ? If they found be was. the
'next question for them to ceusider wart, whet do.
magea they would give against the Defendant. a.
ening man just of age, an arti.iled Clerk to the
atilt; an inexperienced young man. just from
the rouutry ? He would ask them if the Mint.
if had any right to corr.lain of tie lea of
such a woman as represented by the Wits/sots ?
—This unfortunate young man. unfortunate, es
living in a house where such a woman was de
mistress, and hy being placed in a house with suds
servants as the witnesses, front their te-tirautty. ap-
peared to be. he would not ofead the Jury by
saying they would behave the whole of the evi-
dence given by thews. He would be Gerry to cast
an improper resection on those young females, bet
from their own evidence they appeared teethe par
den of the lust of Mrs. Fowler. is to the evidence
of the Arse wit lies', relative is the situation she foamd
them in, en tee Q tat Dee. she asserts. she cried—l be-
lieve, if she did, it was Tether frees lust than front
shame. On the scene on Christie m.day. lobes Mrs.
Fowler appeared naked in the kitchen, with the ex-
ception of her_fleanelpetticest, sad the topfertunate
Defending was called down to put in her ear-rings.
the modest Witless, who has re-capitulated these
circumstances to you, Geutlemen of the Jury, ieft •
the kitchen, although as she asserts. she was wit-
ness of the criminality before. Why did not she
tell her master w hat • eicions woman he was nur-
turing? Why i.ot inform her fa:her ? For if one
were a girl of character, after witnessing the scene
she has represesented to you, stn would have
called on her father. to have takers her from
that place. Why did net Mrs. Glover. of whom
we have heard .so, much, open the circuntstatice.
• liken her inedeety could not here been
'Pet to tli- Masi?? She took letters between de
parties. the baobab/I in the house, and she did not
Anesaaunieete ~ It is for ;on to rounder whet
credit you will give to such a ogee's. What was
the object winch ildured this '<meg man to form
a criminal connection with a woman of forty-five,
lame, and with • Imola kg ?--Cah you believe that
the defendant would bethesedocer? I feel conlident
that you cannot—sad if there was any erimical
intercourse between the parties, too will take into
consideration the poverty of this younj man, -plied by Mrs. Fowler ago neeeireari, a and acrow.-
modations that his own funds world not afford
Shim, with Lrandy, with eggs, with tee, i b
luncheons, and with other articles, which base ant
been adduced in evidence. There was Dot beauty,
there was not youth to entice thr Det admit ; it wit
'iliferent—ehe was agcd and derrzpid, and riot only
bee, but had an infirmity or disorder in the Moot.
that would disgust the greatestappeute for I test, -
amity did nut olilige Son to acquiesce. He vont:lad-
ed by observing, thgt, if the Jury thought that the
criminel intercourse had been pruned. they ought
only to consider how much thumps' ought to to
given to the wee who had lore such Itiffeetons cores
panion. His Learned Friend wise Waled the (Ira
had brought forward peredetits, tie of Mr. Grew-
sem, a respectable Solicitor, against his coact:map.
which was tried in the Kling's keireciy in.d he fti
reeved damages of two hundred minds ; he knew
not Mr. Gregsun, except by character, and he
believed it to be perfectly rooperrahte. The der!.
in that case, gave a verdict of two hundred pounds
&usages, akhmerh, it was ascertained that the v.-
duction from the affection' of the husband had
taken place before the crianmilitet, of the De-
fending in that cause. H.- trusted thst the
prr.mt Jury would never eke damages *bete
the wife of the Plaintiff had put her-elf on a
level with an actual prostitute. As to tut r sae in
York, he knew nothing of it ;he reonected the mare
tier state as much as any man ; 'it'd as ea ado, -
*lle at that bar, he would feel seers to oay • word
tint would throw a partial. of .nano on it ; and
he loopirt. that there never ars an Eh/filth Bar-
i litter that wcold stand fo-aard to deferd
the • leseentinirc that se ot,id disturb the 1,4,-
beams or pewit of the marriage state. TI e
tkelendout alai root eer.uce the Plainitiirs wife. sl e
hind egkitri him; poverty oblige:! bias so put
:to *ifh tn.- :matt•-. i.e. task toot het-ic! to . -rearm.
fie leftrittft it: Jury to wlit•rertiry
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e was also recommended to bathe la the I ler Was sitting on a sofa bed. and the littedendeit
4u August he went to Margate. sad ; wastet:tildi n 1 before her in a snopicititie '
posture.t period the criminal connection eeili Whin she waiiierceised, the Defendant wesit,ovet
,etweeti Mrs. Feeler otid the Defendhst: ~Ciriside..lioart,- and pretended to he main.: it
lot wish to trive a statement of einmak .Reelapirn,•'' Mtal Foolcsr got up; she ten d
for
would be to prove the fact, es.4,liskieved • irf fecelifiiitiiciTiler clothes were mach rumpled.
lisp and the Just would be siskjelybritliee She pII to the/Withal* " I suppose opals were bore
hearing the account the Wifwacswoulld in the a," tuie,Feufthed het out of t.iv reem •t. e
i he expected hila liarivornericf it 91141, iiit;ssis 'Arden, and Mrs. Fowler ordered
him an oppoittenita• .of tepllping, he.; ,lif. totem I Nome water and sogitr, which she
t his duty to sayreohnektishig as is &Magas, „d ;' . was not at home* On the
sot doubt but .it, mask be said by the U. • '4_,.fefirivring, she was pessing the
Counsel ins the opposite side, that the beetli
..„'athen she heard Mr*. Fowler say to •
the seducer ; but ergo so, he had were- the Added. "My dear Charles. you must bare
'hew, where even the female was the se- this- 1464:i. delivered ;" but he refused end the
se Jury gave very con.idvrable tlamages. 'Vrituess did out wait to hear the remainderef the
case of that. respectable Attoroey, Mr, conversation. Oe Friday the Witness beard Mn.