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London, England, 1808-12-06 00:00:00

Crost-ereatiordby Mr. GARROW.

She had been very ill, and could not come out
sooner. Her sister is a very pleasant girl. She did
not Loot/ any iiersoti of the name of Win. Thomas.
nor old she know that her sister ever sat upon any
person's knee at the hist merry.making. She never
saw any indecencies, nor ever knew her sister keep
ally other 111411 company. Mary Howell, her sister.
is aliont 12 years of age. and Charles, the Dilerid-
ant, is
Mr. Thomas Howell. the father of the Plaintiff,
deposed, that he had frequentl) seen the Defend-
ant awl his daughter together-4hey had been
barn and bred nearly in the same neighbourhood ;
ha knew of his attention to his daughter, more
from the information of his wife, now deceased,
than from his own observation. The Deft:afloat
came to hint at Abergavenny, and said he wished
to speak with him at a public-house called the
Loudon Apprentice. He went accordingly' and
net him. The Defentlont then said 6.i .have a
great in, ;minion towards your daughter if it meet
with yntor approbation." Ile answered, a 1 have
Ito oitte,!tion to you above any man I know." Hr
asked us hat he (the wituels) would give him with
her. Ile told him that he would give him 1001.
main the marriage, and leave hint 2001. at his de-'
cease. The Defendant had then a bundle of writings
which tcloaged to his estate; suds, the witness was
oil horselawk. and he ou fool, he begged him to
carry them home. lie aline that night to the
wititess's house, and matters were settled betwevii
them and his daughter, in pre-enee of the rest of
the fcn:l7. promised to come that week, or
the w,•el, following, to Ket the witlettient drawn
up, and thee were to be married the May there-
”ner. lie did not, however, :vase to the 11‘111441
111 i the mouth of June or July, but the witnrse

had no eanvealustion with tiiia *ben Ite foutanie
Wad fidse to hts ei:Aagetnear.. ki,! 'taw hin ngaia
to the cud of March, 1.307 at .:Iwrgavermy, at the
same !toast• as before. 'the wit..ess then baid .to

inno—‘. I wi,h you to leave my girt var
nitro!, a- you lipve nor crime forward wee0r.1.,.....; to
your promise. I thiuts you had better marr ' the
woman suu are mow courtiug, 1111 She hits had a
child by you ; ;r you do ao, neither I nor sny
daughter shad have any dispt.te with you." ll'
answered, there was no woman on the fact of th,

earth he would marry but the w;tuesob's daughter.
He had weever any IIiISM, t.ll SU'q WA! dougliter
conducted hunch improperly with soy usou.

(rus-e.i 4sNipied. )
After the first conversation, he understood the
Defendant used to come to }muse. utter he (the

witneo) had gone to bed, and bee and tibiae: a with
his daughter. Ile had pita Mr. liarris, she At
torney in this cause. 601. towards the espeinses of

the action ; but it was also as part of his daughter's
fortuue. Ile knew several persous of the name of
Thomas. There one of tbein iu par-
tictlar. R lIIItIIO Thomas, of 'lngle'', who used to
visit his house ; but he never knew of his daugh-
ter's having been Kuilty of soy improper
with any man. Wheal he i11'411,411 the Defeisdaut,
in the end of IS Ink Mier, istr7, of Whig a 'mar-
ried man. while he was addressing hit daughter, lie
denied it with a volley of oaths.
The certificate •f marsiage of the Defendant
with betty Jones. the blacksmith's daughter, dated
Nov. 41, 1607, was produced and read..
. .

Mr. i3rARIIOW, fir the Defendant, contended,
that the reason the promise of multiage was not ad-
hered to was, that Mary Dowell, the -Plaintiff, had
frequently been seen sitting upon the knee of
Thomas ; he did not mean to impeach
the chastity of this young woman, hot it was a •
practice too frequently adopted, that when women
think they have gained the ascendancy over men's
affetitious, and imagine they cannot possibly retire
from the promise of marriage they have made, they
tort with other men as it were out or fan, without
any purpose, hut with the intention of making theta
believe they love somebody else It well us them ;
they must do this at the risk of producing a breach,
as a mini must have but a dreary prospect Ia ore
him, when lie sees such practices adopted. In sup-
port of this lie tailed
Robert Davis, who u'ed occasionally to work for
the Plaintiff's father.—lle remembered seeing the
Plaintiff sitting upon Win. Thomas's knee, at a
Christmas entertainment, three years ago, at her
father's house. It was when the father playing
at cards. NVilliarn Thomas supped t: 'aith
their. lie afterwards blamed Miss ! i for per-
mit ing ouch familiaritiev, while Nhe., as encourag-
ing the addresses of Cherles. She said she only
meant to to igh and make fun of hint, as she liked
this inan, Thomas, better than him. She added
that she had no thoughts of 'marrying Cliarles, as
she did not know how affairs would stand. Wil-
liam Thomas continued to visit her at her father's
house. and he saw him Crate last Christinas, upon
which occasion she was shut up with him in a
room, and when called by her father, she desired ii
servant to i%form him she was absent, assisting at
the cutting up of a pig.
Susan Watkins said, she was at Mr. How
house in March, last year, and saw Mary Howell
and her sister in the barn winnowing. Mary asked
her if the Defendai.t still went to the liliseksusith's
shop? To this she answered, he did, and that if 3
had not a•fe:. for her, Miss Jones and the Defendant
would have Bern married long ago. To tins the
Plaintiff replie:f, she did not hinder him, as she did
net want him ; and that she (the Witness) might
go and tell Betty Jones to take him as soon r.. she
[dossed, because she hurl given up all right and
title to him, for she coald get his betters to wipe
her shoes.
The Arroape r-Geneaat. was heard io reply ;
after which Lord Et.i.etcaciarintia summed up, and
in doing so particularly animadverted upon the cir-
cumstance of the Defendant having renewed his
protaises repeatedly after the period %hen he was
desired by the father to marry Betty Jones, the
blacksmith's daughter, and even upon one occasion
after his marriage with Betty Jones bad actually
taken place.
Verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages 1501.