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There were nine causes ,::0y entered for trial,
all of which were tried in L' coarse of the day,
anti verve unitnpornint in their n.tture au,'. circum-
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MAP ili C. 1114ItlETT.

Mr Gaertow stated, that rle Plaintiff in this
cause WAS 4 re.petlable, though not very opulent,
fernier. The aelion was brought to recover a corn-
pensAtinn in damages for one of the worst injuries
that a man ccaild sustain from anoth-r, namely, the
debauching tif his daughter by she Defendant, who
seas the son of a neighbouring and opulent farmer.
The case al.() was the more aggravated, as the De-
fendant had gained access to the Plaint,rs house as
the hrtrvigrAlble suitor to his daughter. He had
*bused the tree,loms Allowed him in that eharaaer,
seductd tbse gist, and left her with child ; which
child had ever since been maintained at the Plain-

tit rs etpt nee. He was sure the Jury would con-
sider ?Ifs as a rase for ample damages, which they
wo,ll.lreadOy pronounce, when they heard the eel-

o Marn s lid, her father WAS a farmer, the De-
f.:n.l nc was tha son of a neighbouring farmer ;
they i•a i known each other from children; she lived
abrior two miles from her father's house. About
two years ago he first began to court her, and he
ths:n prnmi.ed, that nothing bad should happen to
her tiaril she was married. He visited her until the
et i.f (s'a'ber last, which was the last time she saw
him folder that day, when she saw him in Court.—
When ft first began to keep her company, she told
him, :liar she had only 1121. left her by a relation,
and th 4 her father was not able to give her any
thing, and she WAS afraid his father would not con-
sent to :he march. lie answered, that money did
not make happiness, and that he amold nor sell
• himself for money. She became pregnant by him,
and he promised he would marry her as soon as he
could get a place to go to. On the Ist of Otlober
he promised that he would go to Billericay to get a
licence, she never saw him again. She lay-in
a: her brother's house.
nn ctoss examination she said, she went to live
with her broth: sr abaft: two years ego—she always
sl-pt at her house, but she went backward
and forward to her father's, where she assisted her

mother, as usual, to do the household work of the
family.
Thu., being the evidence for the Plaintiff,
Mr. Serjeant Bess, for the Defendant, insisted,
that there must be A non-suit, on the ground, that
the adon could n.it be maintained by the father,
unless the daughter funned a part of his family,
which, he argued, she did nut, in the present in-
stance.
The Learned Judge said, he never recollected
any case 'sadly like the present, and therefore he
w-suld save the point for the consideration of the
ci.altt. '
Mr. Strjeant lIST then addressed the Jury on
the merits of the case. He lamented that this sort
of admit had been so mods encouraged, which was,
in lilt, to permit a Plaintiff to swear in his own
emu( ; tor althongh the aOion was brought in the
name of the father. yet in all these cases the da-
rnages were for the slaughter. Thus, In this fit-
turn of law, one of its first principles was violated.
He then adverted to the circumstances of the pre-
sent case. and contended that it was not one which
the Jury would think worthy of heavy damages.
The Learned Judge. in summing up, told the
Jury, that the evidence of the girl herself was to
be seceived with a great deal of caution. She was
swearing to cover her own indiecretien; it was her
interest to represent herself as seduced by a promise
of marriage; add to this, that she was most proba-
bly adaated by a degree of resentment against the
Defendant. for the disappointment at.d disgrace
she had suffered. Ile thourght thAt the present was
one of the weakest fasts he had remembered, It
did not appear in evidence that the Defendant was
received by the Plaintiff's family, as the admitted
suitor of ti-,e girl; and it did appear, that she
Jthought his father would not consent to the match ;
and ern Airily it "as her duty nut to encourage or
tredve his visits without his father's consent. Un-
der the* circumstances, the Jury would say what
was the proper reatuerot the damages.
Verdi& for the Plaintiff- Damages 1001.
On the Crown side, only two cases were tried.
Lb:abed I.l,fer was ClPM6'ilitti of stealing Sank
totes, the property oilier master, John King. 'lle
Prisoner, by her own confession, picked the lock of
the drawer where she saw her master deposit the
notes, and being accused of the raft, she ran away,
but was afterwards aporelwnJed. She was wow
traced to twelve nur,-,ths' imprisonment.
luar Latch*, Jasepb Lecho. and Cac,•!eir Lotche,
three brothers, were terev.Ced of stealing a variety of
copper articles, 2 great coats, linen, and other things
horn the h ,use of dohs. I larman. LA. at Waltham
stow. By the oath, of Debby Vinnicomkre, Elisa-
beth Cousins, and Haflnais 'Popp, servants of Mr.
Harman, it appear-J. that when they got up, on
the ehr,rning of the 7th of Ncvember, they folusi
the !souse has been brava open, ar.d the articles
above-mentioned sto:en.
Vickary, ka), and Armstrong, Officers of Wor-
aiiir-street Police Office, seeing the robbery adver-
tised, searct,ed the premises of the Prisoners, where
they found the stolen goosts, and took the Pt isoners
into custody.

The following serious accident occurred ern Thurs-
day in the New toad, leading from Battle Bridge
ro I otteubam Court. Mr. Muse, a merchant, re-
siding in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, accompa-
nird by his Lady and soil. a boy of siz years old,
tied been to Islington. and on their return through
:i0171014. town, the untie triok fright at an exh,biiton
ot Punch. Ike. became unmanageable, and went off
at full speed. The chaise was ultimately overturned,
awl Mr. list tv was eeprived of his senses by the
sr% ehi 111 i: 4 h sustained, and the Lady and child
tri47).sla latter having bad his arm