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before he used to stay with ow late at might. Ile oeyer reproached
me with having said or done any thiag truing.
This was tho plaintiff's case.
Sir Jtlt V P.—facade:nen of the Jury, my Learned Friend Mr.
aiiipbell. after trying to be very plain, has contrived to be very
eloquent because helms used the language incidental to his na-
ture. and has n.idressed himself mote to your hearts than to your
amts. It will be my duty to offer a few observations, such as I
the case calls for on the part of the defendant ; and in doing
su I 'foil not ask you to dismiss from your minds those feelings
which, as fathers and as men, you ought to have, and I am sure
you PnOsets: because, in appreciating the injuries of the plaintiff
as a facia-. you will not fail to recollect every thing which can
fairly ar d honourably suggest itself to the mind of a man who is
the pants of an in.prudent youth. My Learned Friend has, with
a great deal of ingenuity, mixed up in this case facts and circum-
st-oces which have more to do with an action for a breach of pro-
hose of marriage than they have to do with this case; and you will
by and by hear from his Lordship, as I tell you now, that you
must disia.:as all those circumstances from your consideration. In
awardirg :;:.rages to the plaintiff for the injury he has sustained,
you are not to take into consideration any compensation which
this your!: woman would have been entitled to receive if she had
been the plaintiff in an action against the defendant for a
breach 0" promise of marriage. If you contemplate, lien.
demen, for a moment, you will observe that there are some very
extraordinary features in this case. It is very extraordinary, for in-
stance, t:.at in the outset of the case they begin by proving the sub.
stance of the defendant. Usually I have only seen that done after
the points of the case have been gone through with respect to the in-
jury complained of. On the present occasion my Learned Friend
sets out in his proof by codeayounng to hovers upon your minds
an idea that my client is a man of very considerable fortune, in
order that you myandip your bands deeply into his pocket. That is
G not the fact, en en ; and when my Learned Friend represented
my client had received so much money by legacies, he ought to
have produced the different wills by which he supposed my client's
wealth had been aggrandised. The fact is not so, and my friend's
statement is only founded oa the instructions which the imagination
of the plaintiff's attorney has created. You will not fall also to ob-
serve that my Learned Friend told you in plain terms, if my client
could not suffer in his purse, he ought to give such damages as
would make him suffer to his person. " Only give a few thou-
sand pounda," says my Learned Frieodar" that we may have the
pleasure of sending this man to gaol for the remainder of his life."
I hope you will do no such thing, though I have no objection to
your giving itch fair and temperate damages as you think the case
calls for. With regard to the fortune of the defendant, his farm
has been estimated as worth 5,0001:; but you will not fail to recol-
lect that there are life-charges upon that which very much decrease
its value ; and therefore you must not be induced to give an extra-
vagant amount in damages under the idea that my client is amply
able to pay. Another extraordinary feature in the ease is, that to
increase the affliction of this lady, she had unfortunately relinquished
another lover, in order to make room in her heart for the defendant.
.1 %mild not advise ladies to have ten strings to their bow in this
way : nor &.-t think the ladies who do us the honor of their pre-
sence here to-day wouid treat one loves so cruelly as Miss Knott
d:d the poor nameless huller, in ceder that she might oblige another.
think thin was u.ing him exttemely ill. But, Gentlemen, let me
guard eaciu araii.st becoming in a degree juds es in your own cue.
My Learned Friend told you to give such damages as you would ex-
pect to receive in a similar case of your own. That iii not the manner
an which you are to assess damages here. I recollect many years
ago, before 1 had sufficient experience to make the observation my-
se:''. a very eminent Judge, now deceased, heard me urge such a
sort of doctrine to a Jury, but though he had too much kindness
to interrupt me. he afterwards told the Jury that if they went
urn- such a foundation they would in fact be making them-
selves melees of their owls case. You arc only to assess such
damages es yen thitik, in justice, the plain facts of the
rase 1:3:: for. You are odd that here the plaintiff is a farmer,
all became my Learned Friend thinks ynu are also farmers, he
tries to iraluce you to make the case your own. I have mix J a
grest deal with the farmers of this country, and 1 know perfectly
wet that au event like this is not very likely to occur in their Non-
I:es, because the mode in which they, as an hostotirable and deco.
raise class of soeiety, educate their children, is calculated to prevent
teen slugs- The bosom of an English farmer's family is really
{lit ptapkr atmosphere of virtue, anti there no such events as those
which am the subject of this action can occur. Do you think,
lirotiamen, your daughters are very likely to receive the addresses
o: a lastlonan's butler, and then to discard him ? Certainly not.
*sod therefore, though my Learned Friend tries to throw an air of
-undue respectability mound this ease, you see the circumstances will
• warrant it. I could not wish or use an endeavour to raise a
bluish or the most modest woman', face now in Court, but this
poerg woman admitted that an improper intercourse had subsisted
between her and the defendant for two months previous to her be.
sensing pregeant. She admitted the very improper hours to which
aile-was soffered to remain up with the defendant after her father
and met* had gone to bed: sod therefore you must be convinced
rat tbe Cstidessnew of the plaintiff' was one of the principal sources
of hts praetor ground of complaint. What, gentlemen, can you
thick of tie virtue of a girl who could suffer a young man to stay
up wilt her until eleven or twelve o'clock at night, after all the
rerml•ers of the family had retired at eight o'clock and what
eta. yeti think of the prudence of that man who has thus given
nett Ie.:1111 to iris daughter's ruin, and then complains of it P
Fmk mast give the plaintiff some damages, the amount of which
I do net prezeral even to hint; bet whatever ma4erate amount you
=the defendant will be satisfied in paying. You must perceive.
ern that tie has paid the doctor's bill for at this young
gretrenever lahoeu, and he has since cheerfu supported
the usferturatc offspring of this unfortunate intercourse.
Mr. Itatir lauestolv—Gentlemen of the Jury, if the amount
al your verdict' is *ply to be regulated by the &Benet items
Thesh the n 4 Ciallateekarho impost add"l
4.,A1 tit the ant be pertietly setisfiedirl.Sr,
et. pay the surgeoo's >M far attending this young fln her
bout--if he is merely as support the child of his infidelitio—ifb.i
ute.rely to pompous* the loss which the father sasealaid fru.
Me want of lib daughter's, services during the period of
iaxteed he tray. le awn satisfied. flappy will be cr..:
awa estimation to And a Jury who would so anal= his 4.
issighery, sod send hint licensed by their verdict into the pse
liosocw of other famiiter, to inactive his arts its the yelling spd
unwary members ca' them. To be sure, if your verdict Is only .to
, •lar compose 4 ot these items, the defendant would haws greet ream,
so rejace. But I persuade myself that your regard fat comma
,:trey. your tegaisi fur mere justice. will never suffer that baba
• of verdiet pronounced upon the preamt occasion. It wapiti
pa: betome me to say that rou are to erect yourselves into the
e ardiine of putlic morals, and to lash and scourge vice where've
*he lifts bee bead, but you are to recollect that here you are to
tomperreate fora private injury." His Lordship then read over
JAW evidence, ton mentiag upon it with much eloquence.
Alter which the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages 1001.

'f nu OrrasssioN or IV sat.TH.An aged pair at]
Market Weightoo, baring last week- withdrawn a deposit
of tooL from the Beverley bank, in sovereigns, became so'
Much alarmed for its security, that after sitting up two
;sights to watch their store, they returned it on the third
day, with a reluest that the bankers would once more take
it into their safe keeping=nrk omernt.
The following is the number of vermin killed by the
Bight Ron. ard Gwydyr's vigilant gamekeeper, Mr.
Mir-hard Burniston, on the hills of Callender and St. Fil..'
las•g, from Deosiabes, 1824, to December, 1825:-7 eagles, .1
4 foxes, 28 • ts, 11 badgers, in mountain wild cats, i
12 pole' use cats, 13 stoats, .5 weasels. 8 hedge-
bogs, 40, cg s, 2 ravens, 13 hawks, 190 boody crows,
tooth
34 magpies, and 10 jays, 32 owls, dawn, Sic.-6-14 head in
all. ln oonssquenee of the destruction of so many of
dense :sections creatures, the game is rapidly becoming
plenty on those fineestates.—('o,edonian Mercury.
On Saturday mrertiog a person of gentlemanly appear-1
snee went to anew at-the North Shore, and retired to teat,'
sitar giOil teem instructions as to his being called in the
utorniug. WlTen lilirtfinc came he aso called, and, after
souse de.../y, •LiGt grying any answer, the door was opened,
an 4 he n as found snagendeci Ly a handkerchief to the bed.
Medical aseisune-As_iyas immediately! called in, but it ap-
mii-old the. vit Il*.ipaik hold been vice time extinct. An
1,-..0* r.7..s he)3 yesterilay on vies, eit the batty, when If
:ain:iiied That Via .name was Titonms Aarrop, of Wilmer
Skr.et, )4:ZiailE4ls. -Verdict, illionalY7*Liotir444ol
/is:, : • •

• .A idnw *Pnritio T tut r.— On Monday evening a fellow
luoketliito ,fr. 'ScoWs • . ;Tether Libbetton ; 'and
'On+se*.irg a sack-ield 1 %his hack, proceeded
to ria ii,ii, . e dtor, but coming in eon-
• tart with nu 1-stone cb seas placed on edge with-
out any F4port, and siliWully poised, as descended upon
his legs, and brought hfm to the ground, where he was
held hat hy l's enormous weight during the- whole of
the nigh:. Tuesday morning, when the Millet entered
the Mill, he was not a little astonished to hear the
"Callow groaning of a man, end then to discover him
prostrate upon the ground under the mill-stone. The
stow, being removed, • the culprit's legs were found to be
. pregiously swollen ; after which he was conducted to
p-oott, where he now rernainw—Cidetiottion Mercury.
• itsuunt:clic N MEN.—At a late hour on Wednesday
t last sonic persons passing by the church-yard at
were alarmed by hearing a noise there for which, at
'fir rk ~ y were quite-unable to account. However, having
e
pancored sisittairce, they surrounded the church-yard on
all sides, and were about to enter it, when three men
'tubed out, and, after a short struggle with the persons out-
side suceverled in making duly escape. On examining the
du:A-yard it was discovered that the body of • young
WGIA.III, named Bradburn, buried the day before, had been
disinterred, and put into a bag, ready to be carried off.
Th-deprolators left all their tools in the church-yard, and
one of' them lost the skirt of his coat in the struggle to
move from a man echo bad seised him.--Maaclierter
ilerekrs.