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laded to is itv the hrtrls of the plitintirs solic'nr. Wheals tame
ilitertionally disguised from Mr. Lewis, sea. that the p;aintiellia
lived at Oxford.

(A letter was here Mown the witness, which he admitted tole
his hancl_wri.ing, in which he admitted that he had disguised the
fact of the pleintiff having lived at (htford.)
air. Lewis, senior, once put the qpestien to witness, whetlew
the plaintif'saa ever a her.nteid ? Witness replied in the nega- •
five. The plaintiff is 24 or 24 years of age. Will not swear that
she is not 21'. ; in tact, he does not knew his own age. The defend..
ant may, perhaps, he two or three and twenty. Gee. nay know
that be hail only met reached 21. IMes not know bow lung the
plaintiff wee at Oxford ; it miptithe one, two, or tine. years. .
Re-examined.-IVltifet at lfiGod the plaintiff' carried m' bus'.
roes as a milliner. Ohl .Me. Leeds offered SOL if he could discreet
the author of the emu plums letter.
George Wharton is anisette Imre her of the plaintiff 'a. Kepi the
king's Arms at Makleithead bridge. Knows the deferlant, Capt.
Lewis. Saw him at witness's hrothere house. at .Walerorth ; he
was also three weeks at witneee's house, at •iaidenhead I eta
plaintiff was also thee. The defendanteprested witness Enna
times to waist him to get privately merited to the nlaintiff; bat
witness always refuted lea amietance. Since the defendant has
broken off the match the plaintiff' lies been in a very bad state of
health, and at one time was deprived of her mean ; her health
is eerious'y injured at this time. Witness and his brother waited
on the defendant after he had deslined his engagement,
when the defendant treated the Matter quiie nneoneernedly. He
said he was certainly sorry for it. bat he could not help it.
f;erse.eusmined—leefendant did not say that In connote,* of
the deceptions practised on him he sholild decline haring further
eurrespondenre with him.
William Wharton—is the plaintiff's father—the plaintiff. is in
her four or ffre.and-twentieth year. The witness then proceeded
to relate farts similar to (hate deposed to by the firmer witnesses.
At the time when wit:teas undertook to pay a portion el the Olt
to India, lie was not aline hf his (Mr. (iwent) being In any diffi-
culties. When w•tnesys coniniunicated to his daughter that the
match was betoken off the went into fete, and has nit tints nee
nisieed in a bad state of health. She at one time was it a suite of
delitibin, and remained an for ten days. Stet was completely die-
traced, an4could only be kept its bed by fora--In her dreadful
state she Mrstdolf witness for Lewis, fell on her knees, sted crated
forgivencivr; her hsabli at this time is very bad indeed.
(lnieeezamli.ed—Witness lived upon what hie eon neatin
lowed him; witness has an unfortunate son named James %%tattoo;
he in a perly•et %norm. plug shout the country. suet has been soar.
witted to gaol (seller the % arrant Art ; he is"dietanted by the
roily; witness titer threatened to write to India art tan young
Levria, unless he manied his daughter there MIN a cleegethat•
courted the plaintiff; and probably witness might have said that the
pleintiffrieserved to have her legs tut whi;,if she did not except the
match ; I never said that the match between My daughter anti
Lewis had been broken off becat wattsere wattsnot give my consent,
in consequence of having ascertained that Levis was a mantel
r:ritere the evidence fin the prosecution closed.]
, . ScantETT addressed the Jury on the part of the defendant.
Notwithstanding the very favourable light in which the pleirtilt"4
Counsel and represented his client, he would stair onne tees which •
would give a different comply lien to the ease, and he wan entioui
to remind the Jury that it was not ti-e wish nr the desire of the dee
fondant to have these rote amine before the public ; he was e.:MI3-
pelled to it by the course which the plaintiff hat adopted—he had
Ito option, hut, as a necessary defence for himself, was obliged to
make public what lie would himself be naturally deeiroes to nine
cral. The father of the defendaet was a tierum engaged in a re-
speneble trade; he had five children, with very moderate means
of pmeition for them for one of them, the defendant, he procured
an eneigney in a regiment in the East India Company'a service.
Ile was barely of age, and now he wished to inform the Jitry What
was his pay as an ensign ; he had,just 711. when abroad, and whet
in I:ngland, where he row was on leave of absence, In consequent*
of illehealth, this sum was increased SO/. ; and this was all
he possessed, so that the Jury might judge how competent he Was
in means to contract a marriage with a lade, who, by her own con-
fession was not worth a shilling. The lose she must have sustained
by losieg such an esteblieltinent as that income netted rapport,
might be very easily estimated. The Italy was five end twenty
"ran of age, which gave her tie advantage of four years otrr hilts
In experience, an advantage of which the Jury weehl perceive she
well knew how to prod!. Mt. Lewis first met Miss Wharton, he
believed, on a party at 'Vauxhall, with her brother. end afterwards
he visited her at the house of her Mother at Walsecreth. Ile cer-
minty was caught by her personal attractions ; he (Mr. Searlett) was
mile to admit she ustle' a strong impression upon him : but ho
would beg to call the attention of the Jury to the misrepremeta.
Lions which had then been made of the teal situation in life of thie
woman. Iler either, who huh tailed in business, was repreiented ad
a person. who had retired f trade ; that he Mid not any
money then to spare, as he was serite,y for a thousand pounds
for one of the plainters brothy re. but at his death she would
have a porinn, end if there were any preference it tiouhl bo
be in her favour, as she was a faromite chile. She was herself re.
prevented to hate been a person win) heti never been from under het
tether's roof, except *hen she went for a short time either to a,
watering-plaee, er on a visit to her brother. Shortly .afterearde
however. a very different reptemutation was given of this lady's
habits. It watt at firm cmentinicated by al anenymeas letter,
which was addressed to the ranter of the defendant. This described
het as a person who haul tome to town to look for the situation
I of a barmaid; that she canted on a millinery establishment rat
' Orford, in partnership with soother woman, wile woe now in
keepieg t thet they there feed, and that their failure was tettri-
Mashie to their loose chaise:era, and that they were obliged to
leave Otfurd on enottet of ti.c a•teetions of the Oxonians. This
letter, which use anont moan, pi ofee‘ed to conic from a friend, who
said he felt it to he his duty to make the entninunicatimi, es he
understood that his son was abollt to contract mereage with her.
This letter, of course, was sheen to the father of the plaintiff,
who gave eo other explanation of it than the general assertion
that it ass fidhe. However, the intimacy was renewed between the.
plaintiff and defendant, end the eornmumestioe of the tonnymottai
writer no further noticed. t'ircumstanceth howevse, shortly suer.
wants occurred, el it gave a very significant explanation and
continent on the above nminiunicatioa. Mr. Emile cashed :Hits
illharton in the country. On one occlusion of these visits, he found
a glees of per which had the coo, Of an adeenieement written
upon it to the following effect :—" To Hotel and Tarentrepers.—
A young woman wishes for the above situation. She has been
accustomed to the duties of the situation from her infancy, and has
been • bar-Maid at an Butyl on the Beth Road. She perfectly
understands the hueiners; ran speak French, and can give muse
unexceptienyable references." The advertisement wee vend Neje
27, 1823. The defendant was of course, surprised at meeting
such a paper as this. The pialetiff; of course, protested that-it
had no connexion with his; but on inquiring in town, it wee
found that she was the idential person described in the ad-
vertisement, and that she had been actually engaged according
to an 'iternee mute by her brother, in the eapeeity. of
a bar-maid at filivart's lintel, and went there fur a din in that a tu-
mid'', but she only performed the prescribed daty for .174 hones, for
/divert, who had a daughter in the house, did not wish to cunt:nue
her there, end soon found that she was not a person that would snit
him, as she made much more use of her eyes than of her hands.
The brothers afterwards threatened Mt. Mivan with an *neon foe
not keeping her, but tlais threat he believed they had the good tenni
not toped into execution. So much for the &norm' of the retire-
scrim:ion of the brothers as to her laving never left her huh IN reef
except on a visit to her brother. He would bring the Mitnyhel
the University to prove that the house in which she lived in (extend
was a home of loose anti suspicious character, and that he was pars-
titularly instructed by the Monne to watch it, and that gowr.sreen
were actually sett to enter it. They acre uo sera itrueg free.
queerly there, aryl shoed/ deemed, to amnia attention and rodeo.
As to the illness, the plaintiff had been subject to spasms ever sheet
the defendant knew her, and that :recounted for her illness. The
Learned (*owned proceeded to mate the eirenmetwee of the tem as
detailed in evidence, and contended, that the urisrepreseritathine of
the character of the plaintiff by the brother, and the doeptioule
prartieed upon hint be them respecting her real situation in lite, wee
the cause of his not fulfilling the engsgeineet into which it wits el-
heed he had entered. This was the came that occasional and jute
tided his breaking on' the match, and be did not do so from sip
conslderatems connected with the failure of the brother, or front
any pecuniary emeideretions ettereetieg the inability of the frAer
to movidean mon% _

('harks Mason was introjaced to Miss M'llartort
in Demenber. 1ft2.1. Three day. after my intraducion I accom-
panied Mr to Vauxhall ; afterwards I amt with her to rooftop,
She told me shortly arferaarals that her brother went to Mr. Lewis,
act. to make arrangements respecting the marriage, and she hsped
everything wookl be satisfactorily arranger,. I and to Mr. Whir-
ion to inquire into the circuonstarycs of his sister : he told me Wet
she had loved with hey tither, and that she always res.:fled guider
his roof except on a few tocaaions that she visited watering•riares.
At present, he saiJ, her fathei, who had retired from brsinosa,
would give fo money, but at his death fshtlwould receive ate equal
portion, and that if there were any preference it would be in bar
favour, as she was a farmwife child. Ile further stateJ, that hie
roomer had been security a thcusand rounds for him at G/yon's
House. I saw the lady after the match was broken off; she tc -
qu Offal slr. Lewis; her tiff er was cent ming him, when she said,
Oh, don't, ffither.—he knot to Manor."

crou.reanor.ed by 31r. Ileoro nem —I have married the sitter
of 31r. Lewis.

Mr. bewit, ten. examined.—l a n the father of the defndant.
The attachment of my inn to the plaintiff' was made known to MC
in June, 111:11. illy ton em an Ensign in India; his pay at that
time was 71/. a yen.. Ile was then in England on siek-leave, and
had the additional pay of Set a year. Plar.itirs Imither tailed ea
me, in June. to tome that he was about to winery his suer, I %AA
him that my soli ITWT rut citable of maintainhag a wile; that he
was emir an Ensign ; that he had already met me 1,411,01. and Iv
had nothing more to rano from me As lone as he lived. I salted
him if he was aware of the expense of sending • person to India.
lie said not. I then told him it would coat shout 4001. He and
that should be done for her. I then asked North, had been educated.
Ileaaid, extremely well. and that she was lit to be Queen of England.
I next inquired at to her preperty ; her brother told me that she
would have nothing now. but that at her father's death thrt paw
party would he equally divided, and that if there were any prefer.
core it wouldhe in her favour. Ha nett told me that a difficulty
would arise iron the unwillingness of her father to let her go to
India and leave her friend., as she had always resided undue bar
failier'a roof. I sitirgeord that probably she would heise:f objet
to go ;he said, 0 no, she would go over ail the world with pow
ton." I then said, I ate afraid she it desperately in love. That ir
all that panal between us. I received shortly afterwards twit atm
annualetiers. Ply ten was 21 years of age at this paled. 1 saw
the plaintiff's brother subsequently. lie told OTC that all the sate
meant to the :star war.. fate; and the explm.atioa gins at 64.

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