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plaintiff! M. fferjeant Owes and Mr. MILNER for the de.
lerilantg.

Mr. A Li:ZANDER opened the pleadings • and
Mr. Scaairrr stated the case to the jury. He prefaced his
opening address by saying, that he should not be doing justice to
his own ft chap, if he were not to tell the Jury. that he had not the
elighteat complaint to make against her Ladyship ; on the con-
trary, he had every reason to speak of her as possessing the most
amiable qualities of her sex ; I..nd he had the greatest esteem for
her lamented and worthy consort Sir Watts Horton. whose friend.
ship he remembered, and ever should, with affectionate regard.
(Here the Learned Oentleman paused, and was observed to be
very powerfully affected•.) The tat is of the case were shortly
these. The plaintiff was a woolstapler at Halifax, and the defend.
nen (Lady Horton) was the widow of Sir Watts Horton, late of
Uhailering. near Rochdale, who died the 211th of November, 1811.
On his death it appeared that Lady Horton, and her only child,
,flies. Horton, took by his will a parcel of ground which he pos.
seated at Halifax, and disposed of it in lots, for which four por-
t:its...7s came forward. The plaintiff was one, and Sir John Lee,
of Roehdale, who had been for many years the steward and agent
to Sir Watts. and enntivued to bear the like offices to her Lady-
el•ip and Mks Horton, was employed to make the conveyance,
witch was done by way of feoffment. The decd of May. 1813,
set out In the declaration that her Ladyship and bliss Horton
granted to the plaintiff a plot of land in Thomas-street, in Halifax,
in fee. subject to a certain ground-rent, and by that deed her Lady-
ship and Miss Horton entered into covenant the right to convey,
with peaceable enquirement, without interruption by Lady Horton
or :11,tis Horton. Upon the execution of this deed the plaintiff en.'
tere.i uenn the ground, and. built revere! messuages. In 11121. the 1
plaintiff was served with a notice by the agent of G. Morrett, Esq.
of linarbPsrk, apprising them that, by a mortgage of May 24,
1;92. Sir Watts
London, spinster, then the wife of the said Monett, the ground-rent
reserved by the feoffment had been assigned by Miss Stanley,
in whose right Mr. 111orrett was entitled to it, and requiring
that h should he paid to him in future. This mortgage was
complete surprise upon the plaintiff; although it made no difference
to him to whom he paid his rent. Other demands taring been
;rtie upon them, the plaintiff declined paying any more, when a
diitress was made upon the plaintiff's property, on the premises,
fir the arrears of rent, 1741.31. Rd. The plaintiff, to avoid trouble,
paid his proportion, being 7111.65. Sd. to a Mr. Head, who gave j
him a receipt. Another distress following, the plaintiff applied to
ber Ladyship and her solicitor In vain, when plaintiff sought his
remedy, in a Court of Justice, for a breach of covenant.
The deed of feoffment being proved, a verdict was taken for the
plaintiff—Damages 1311. Is. I Id., costs Ida.

• We believe that this family was the first to notice the shining
talents of this eminent ornament of the bar, when on the Northern
Circuit—a friendship which was of the greatest consequence to

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, A PilL 1.

Homy !Fells, a lad of respectable appearance, was found guilty
of stealing, on the 3d of March, a silk handkerchief, from the
person of a man whose name is unknown.
The prisoner's brother, a person of respectability, addressed the
t ours with tears in his eyes, and interceded for his unfortunate re.
!mire. He stated that the prisoner had been In town several
months under his eye, and his general character had been ex-
emplary until lately, when he feared he had been led astray by
s.:+rming nn imptoper connexion. If the Court would pass a lenient
sentence, he would provide fur and take eaten( him.
The CHM R %lAN said the Court felt sorry on account of Mr.
tl'elles situation, and they would consult together what was best to
be done. Addressing the prisoner, he told him that it was a for-
tunate thing for him that he had so respectable and kind a brother,
tut fur which circumstance the Court would have passed a much
liravier sentence than it was about to pass. Hoping that this would
I:e a warning to him, the sentence of the Court was, that he be im-
•nr•mted for two calends? months In the House of Correction, and
kept to hard labour.
Directly after the prisoner left the Court, his associate in the
robbery, who, forgetting the old proverb " Harm watch, harm
citch," was waiting in the lobby to know the fate of his compa-
nies. was identified and brought Into Court, when the Magistrate
ordered hint to be detained and a bill preferred against him. The
prisoner Is a well known character. lye was conveyed to prison.
In the course of the day 71; prisoners were discharged by procla-
mation. 23 of whom were females.
Eiimsbeth Stevens, a mpectable-looking middlosiged woman,
steal indicted for assaulting Miss Eliza Beale.
The proseeutrix stated, that on the evening of the 23d ult.. she
*l3 Coining along the Strand, in company with *gentleman named
Stevens, when the defendant, whom she had never seen before,
came up, and, addressing 31r. Stevens. said " So you are going
home along with your wife." Before 31r. Stevens had time to answer
her, site struck 'witness a blow in the face, and ran away. Mr.
Stevens pursued, overtook her, and gave her in charge.
31r. Stevens corroborated this account. .

Tl'e prisoner, in her defence, said, that eleven years ago Mr.
Stet ens had seduced her, under a promise of marriage. She lived
with ltim daring nine years, in the course of which he had repeat-
edly assured her of his intention to many her, but always fixed
some distant day for the ceremony. At last, finding him to be in-
sircetc, she left him, entered into service, and had sccceeded In
reestablishing her character, when he again, by delusive promises,
Ind Jced her to return. lie was then on the eve of being married to
the prosecute's, on learning which she left him, and soon after
meeting him in her company, attempted to strike him, but by at.
cident struck the prosecutris instead.
The Jt.ry, under all the circumstances, returned a verdict of Not
fluilty.
The Court, at its rising, adjourned till Tuesday, the 11th inst.