The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-30 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

The above outline or sketch of the defendant's amours was re-
lated by the officer who toot hint Into custody.
The defendant, previous to the investigation of the charge. re.
quested his wife to speak as loud as she could, in order that he
might catch every thing that fell from her lips, as she knew that he
was rather hard of hearing.
The complaisant annplied with his desire, and proceeded to
stale, that she had been married to the dettndant twelve months.
but from the barbarous treatment that she received she wan obliged
to leave hint tour ranntatze Since that period she ascertained
that he had promised to several young women, and being
desirous of saving them from destruction, she took the pains to in-
form herself of their habitations, and warned them of the danger
Into which they were about to plunge themselves by listening to the
false promisee of a man to whom she (the complainant) was al-
ready unfortuoately married. !laving succeeded in breaking off
the acquaintance and courtship of the defendant with several
young temales in the manner above described, the complainant
said, that on the day preceding, as she was going to the defendant's
house for the purpose of claiming same of her property that was
left behind, she met him in the street walking arm and ann with a
young woman now in Court, named Anne Herne. On seeing them
together bile approached het husband, and upbraided hint tot his
scandalous conduct, telling the young female that he was a !
married num. The moment his companion heard It she expressed
great serpriae, adding. that he had promised her marriaget and that
the Ceremony was actually to have taken place on Sunday next. '
This piece of information, coupled with his formet conduct, so
exasperated the wife, that she vented her indignation by bestowing
a gaud deal of abuse upon him. which excited the ire of the de-
fendant, and he stntele her a blow is the face with his fist. For
thi• blow she took nut n wartant wired the defendant, and her
falittr.aawell as Miss Herne, were flume present, both of whom she
was ai.xitius to have examined.
The young woman Herne then stepped forward and said, that
the defendant had prreMsed her marriage. and represented himself
as a man worth 5,090/. a year. She added that she should have
been caught in a snare had it not been for ,Irs. Thomas, who saved
her in the manner above desciibtal.
The complainant's fattier, a respectable-looking old man, set
out with describing the defendant aria hypocrite: that he had mar.
tied his daughter, aiol no sooner hail the ceremony been performed,
and a few rimy% spent in her society, titan he commenced to treat bet
mere like a have than a human being. They had subsequently
discovered that the defendant, instead of beiog possessed of pro.
p .rt y, was as poor as Job ; anti, in addition to all other kinds of
half.starved his (the witness's) daughter.
The 31agistrate reprehended the conduct of the defendant, and
obse Yeti, that all he had to do with was t 1). question of assault, and
the fact being distinctly sworn to, he teas held to bail.
The defendant witiested two of his acquaintances to become his
sureties, but they refused on hearing the eircumetancea detailed by
his wife.