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TueeeiY, Steel' QS. '
The LORD Come lissom and tfr. Justice
lIEATH arrival iii this town last night ; this morn.
ing they went to Church, and service bring con-
ciuiled, they proceeded to the Coml. Douse* , mid
opened their respective Consmissious.
The Calendar of Prisoners is 'very numerous, but
the cases are not likely to occupy much time, a.
they are chiefly for petty offences.
Cl/'IL NI DE....SEDUCTiON.
NINON. HOUNES.
Mr. Serjeaut BLiiT *tined, that this action was
brought to recover damages for as severe an injury
as a parent could sustain, iu the *eduction of no •
daughter. The Plaintiff in this case was a mini
win, had formerly been in bushiest' in the town of
Chatham, bqt lately had conducted the business •
of auother person. The Uetelitlinit was Purser at
His Majesty's ship Courngens, mid represented
himself. as I.er. fact wally was, a peniou of good
fortune. He should prove that he
himself to the daughter of the Plaiotiff aml her
family by a feigned mune ; bw real twine wet
Hughes, but with Ixtr lw exiled himself George
Jones—a factssithich of ita.lf fully dentoostrmeil the
haw nes, of his intention*. ilaving thus obtruded
himself: on the family of the Planitiff, he awned
them that his inteeuous towards the young woutaii.
who h:4- becume the tie t i ttt of his lust. were
perfectly honourable; and haring three acquir-
ed her coutideticc, he found nitrous to seduce her.
and the moment he bad ACCUlllpliblird his objes:t lie
ebtandoned her. lie had prontised that on the dry
following the day of hire blue act, he would make
her the only reparation, by marryiug her; but N.
stead of fulfilling his prouais., she received a letter
from lain: tip: next dad, in whieh he stated, that he
bad that in•eueut received a letter from his father,
informing hint that his mother cons at the point
death, and he mu-i immediately set off for %Vac-
wiekshire. He, accordingly, under this pretext.
abandoned the girl he had so basely seduced, sod
it leas not till alter he had gone that his real Witte
and station in tile were dist-oiered. lie trtorteit
the Jury would think, when they heard the evi-
dence, it was a carer for exemplary damages.
Anne King, the girl alluded to. said, she was
20 years of age ; that she lived with her father at
Chatham, and worked at the shoe-binding with a
Mr. Taylor of the same place. Doe evening last
May, as she was coining home with Miss Taylor,
the Defeudant crossed over the way and offered
her his arm. She desired hint to keep his distance,
which lie did, but he followed her home. Her
mother saw him, moil asked him what he wanted ?
lie said lie meant no berm, but wished to see her.
lie came aguin„ and told her thut his intentions
were honourable, and hinted at marriage. He
coutinued to visit her far swa.ly three weeks, when
he desired tier to tell her ma,ther to provide such
things as she thought necessury for her wedding ;
she accordingly did provide *eyeful things. A day
or two before the intendeu day,they walked nut to- •
get her, and as they value to the Star at Rochester.
he said he wanted to go into the Moire for a short
time ; she accompanied hint into a back parlour,
and they continued together foe iwar 011 hone, is
which time he accomplished his purpose. lie pea
wised, however, that the marriage should take
place the next clay but our. On the morrow she
received a I. tter, which she produced us follows:--
I " My dear Ann, I sin *whled ; I have just re-
I ceived ma letter front my father, infornsing me that
my mother is at the point of death, I am olrliged to
go at a moment's notice into Warwickshire, and
lett this place at one o'clock. lieveu bless you,
ond believe, &c. G. J."
She afterwards went to his lodgings, and there
learnt that his name was not Joists, hut Hughes.
She underwent a very long cross-examitiation from
Mr. G A IROW. in which she stated, that the first
night lie followed her hn:ne lie staid to supper, and
her mother went out to fetch them oysters. He
came daily afterwards. and she okays walked coat
with him ; and mu the evening" obeli she went to
the Star, he had not been in the, room a quarter of
'tin 1 before he began to be wicked, bat she de-
flied lie was wicked more than once. She oats me-
lancholy after it was over, to think he should tie
such a "deceiver."
Mr. C ARROW exercised Grind . ingenuity in this
part of his cross-etanlilwtinu, and led her into a
great degree of absurdity ; fur at last she swore
that she was downright ravished ; that she culled
out aloud; but that her mouth was stopped with a
bilk handkerchief; and yet, after all this violence,
she ;vent home quietly, avid never told of it, until
i her deceiver bud run away.
Mr. Gsaeow then addressed the Jury In an able
speech, is which he commented on the conduct of
the girl and liar parents, and insisted they could
nut find a verdict for • Plaintiff who had shewn
such little intention to the preservation of Iris
&lighter.
Alter the Lenrned JUDGE had snmmed up, tier
Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiff—Dasua-
grit 1101.
• Twenty-three Arsusand Ittp.stati troops, we are
concerned to state, have made themselves masters
of the Isle of Aland. in the (ulf of Bothnia ;
and IN Sweden is a prey to anarchy mid revolution,
since the arrest of Gusraves, we underbtaud, that
the Regent Duke of Suneasiseis has ••• nt a de-
putation to the Ruseien Cot ttttt ander, demanding
suspension of further hostilities, and the eviwit-
mina of the island. The result was 6.et krio.rti
at Stockholm when the last dispatches came away.
but Couriers had been sent off to Petersburgh, to
know the pleasure of ALEXANDER relative to the
proposition made by the Regent of SWEDEN.
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