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(aster, turthe'r than what she herself had detailed.
She says she is only 11 years of age ; and it was for
the Jury to consider whether she did not appear
older. The Defendant is an officer of the Water.
guard, and had been ib the Navy, and was now •
Lieutenant on half•pay. It was impossible that
any man who had borne his Majesty's commission,
fought his country's battle., and •ssisttd to raise
her to the pinnacle of glory she has attained,
would o► could be guilty of what has been so basely
insinuated in his Learned Ytiestd'S instructions.
What has Beets done was venial, compared to what
was attributed. The offence was mutual; end she,
even by tter own accountl was led •• nothing
loath." Could they believe that she arm so de-
Seely decoyed by drugs put into punch, •nd by
lozenges similarly medicated ? Could they for a
moment suppose, that had the Defendant been ac-
lusted by the motives ascribed to him, he wood,'
have given her drugs, which, in place of exciting
desire, would stupify and render her inanimate. sod
leave her like a corpse, to he sacrificed ? In despite
of the ►evere, and he would almost say, unwarrant-
able tirades and inuendoea of Mr. Holmes against
his client, he was bound to tell them boldly and
fearlessly, that not only the Defendant, but any man
whatever, hiving a desire of bringing her to hie
house and to his bed, would rather endeavour to
raise the spirits and excite desires, than to adminis-
ter such potions as hid been alluded to; and were
the Jury now to he told that they were deleterious?
They must and would counteract those very desires
he wished to gratify. It ors against reason and
against nature, to suppose that any man, much less
■n officer of the British navy, could be so base,
and so vile. as to mix up a potion which would
deaden the feelings of his victim. In the case
before them there was no necessity whatever for
such means being resorted to; she was coming
enough—she was not only that but she was more—
for, alter only one or two interviews, and more dors
not appear in evidence, she sends a message to him
to meet her in her father's garden; he comes, by
her desire, and, in consequence of the interruption
by the servant maid, they make a new assignation to
meet at the battery, where they spend half sn
hour in private. Do you, or can you believe, that
they went to the battery merely to hive • little con-
versation, and that the half hour, as she sap, was
spent in total idleness ? Well, let it be so ; they
left it, and made an appointment for the neat even-
ing ; she was there first, completely on the alert,
and, after sustaining some irritation and disappoint-
ment, she goes from the battery to the salt-pans,
and from the salt-pans she sent her feithful cousin
for him to Rogan's, where he was drinking. Stilt
for a man, who, perhaps, was in • state of it:toxic*.
tion, and without such menage she likely might
not have seen him. His blood was inflamed, he
received the message, and he obeyed the summoi a.
Why he mast have been more or less than man had
he refused. Counsel, after warmly animadve►ting
on the improbability of drugs having been adminis-
tered, and the mutual concurrence of the parties to
the offence, closed his speech by en appeal to th.r
Jury, if they found for the not to visit his
client with heavy damages, SJ, it was not to be
expected that a Lieutenant on half.psy could sus-
tain them.

The Learned JUDOS recapitulated the evidence,
and in a most luminous ret►ospect thereof, obaervrd,
that as the Defendant had called no witnesses, the
Jury were bound to believe that in despite of the
statement of the Counsel, and the insinuations con-
tained therein, the Plaintiff's character was irre-
proachable, and that had there been any of that
lightness, a corning willingness on her part, the
Counsel and Jury would not have been troubled
with the matter; for, in that case, their mutual
inclinations would have been gratified in a diffe-
rent manner, and carried on by frequent but
shorter meetings than a whole night. It appear-
ed In hint that the Defendant had created an
interest in the bosom of this young creature,
which was not at all unaccountable to any one
acquainted with the female heart ; that an officer,
either naval or military, was, and must be, a con-
siderable object of attraction in a village, and it
they believed the evidence (which his Lordship saw
no reason to doubt) hr (the Defendant) certainly had,
under the pretence of affection, taken a most base
and unworthy advantageof this unfortunate girl in the
absence of her only protector. Site had lost her ntotber
at ■n early age, and before she could have received
the benefit of maternal instruction, which might,
and would have guarded her against making such
hasty and unguarded assignations, or of listening
to, or putting her faith in any man upon so
slight an acquaintance. His Lordship here ex-
patiated with much eloquence and feeling on the
want of proper education to young female., and
the precarious situation in which they stood, who
were deprived of their mother so early as the Plain-
tiff, and subject to the occasional absence of fatherly
protection, and concluded by leaving the question
of damages entirely to the Jury.
Verdict for Plaintiff-100i. damages, and 6d.
costs.

The Heresies has arrived from Buenos Ayres,
with very distressing accounts of the state of trade
there, and on the South-west coast of America.
The letters and papers by her are only a few days
later than the advice' by previous arrivals ; but its
this short interval information had been obtained of
the total failure of some very extensive speculations
to Lima and its dependencies. The ship Night-
ingale, with eight hundred bolts of dry goods, had,
among others, returned from thence, finding that
the markets were completely glutted twit British
goods. It nerd hardly be added, that at Buenos
Ayres, under these circumstences. there was no
ch:u►ce of a productive rule being etireted.

The KiNG's moments of absence from his usual
places of residence have been accompanied by the
death of some important personage. He was on a
visit in Lancashire when Mr. Fox died; at Sunburn,
iu Suffolk, when the Princess CHARLOTTE died; at
Holyhead, on his way to Dublin, when the Qtims
died ; and on his way to Edinburgh when the
Marquis of LONDONDERRY died.

So great is the opposition between the coach pro.
prietors of Oxford, that passengers have lately born
taken from thence to Cambridge for the low price
of 5•.; and on Friday evening a bill was posted in
a window_.. Coke TO CAMBRIDGE: Insides,
What you please; outsides, dine." The distance is
about 85 miles.