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Members, he observed, were .Tr. Collett, a hop.
tuerchesst in the borough, sod Mr. Teed. Wit-
ness asked what olojection tl.ere was to Mr. Col-
lett ? The answer was, " Ile 1114 ill-treated 1111.
and we will oppose I • . A. to Teed, he is a very
gootl inan—hut he has been ssiihirisioate, nod we
don't think he Ita4 et 1111 l ev enough to stand the
election." ‘WitsieNs sa;splied at the instance of 'Mr.
Teed. who war ail gild friend—lna he did not tell
the Defendants for whim] hr eame. The followiii4
day he saw Lukt-, Wain, Croggaii. and Cooke.
fie told them he is come to sem-
tileia with respect to Tieg..iiv, us wet
Croggati rm.! Fur would give all aletvr,r
three hours. Wit lc,: told him to direct In " Ma-
jor iVilliams, Slats4liter's Cotree.linipse, gt. Mar-
tin`-lane." A hotit two o'clock the same day
Crnggats gave Inns a Irtter 61/1111 Middleciite, di-
rected to Mail,' Winivean.in winch he said, " That,
from whet he had heard since on a certain subject, lie
begged to decline any farther conversation re•pret-
ittg It." Croggait said they were gnus Ili return
hkome. Winton revised them to stay till the
ru-
R Friday, NV Mr. Teed wished In see theist.
They said it 44144 very expeusive. Whiten raid,
" titter mind that—it ran be eysdy settled,,",
They• all then said that ciirarepoust4l was not (lir
poseil of. -• •
Cr,....,..r.ram;ced..—Witosevti lived at Camberwell
for tw• lee mantis... Was a 1111111 Cr in the awry..
Saw Croggau before lie west to ilia Bell and
Crstwar, but did Riot recollect seciug any of the
other Defendarits. Did ant state to them who lie
was. That remained a secret till he gave directions
fur Writing to I . 'llw tonne Of Mr. Pritchard was
also unknown to the parties. Pritchard lived with
witness, slid was elm • purser. Mr. Teed lived at
Plymouth for several years.
William Pritchard confirmed the evidence of the
last witness with respect to the find conversation
Ite•hast with. the Defiadmits.

Benjamin .Taylor ',taw" that he was a ship-
agent. and resided in Bore-street, Reit Smithfield.
He vies k friend of Mr. Teed. In June last, he
went, at Mr. Teed's request, to the Bell awl
Crown, where lie saw the Defendants. He had
known none of them before, nor would be know
any of them now, with the exception of Middle-
cote. He asked,. whether there were not Dome
Gentlemen from Conies!l in the house? The
waiter anso crest " Yes." and called NW.lle-
cote, with whom witness went up stairi. Ile
asked Aliddlecote whether he was tint one of the
persons who came Up front Cornwall to dispose
of some seats ? Ile answered, that lie owl some
others had come op for that purpose, but that the
seats were engaged, or as good as engaged. Wit-
ness asked the similes of the boroughs they came
up to dispose of—and was told Grampound and
Tregony. These, Aliddlecote said, were disposed
of, but he believed another. namely, St. lees,
might be obtained. lie then inquired, " Do you
amply for your.elf, or as an agent ?" Witness an-
'weted. " I apply fir myself and another gentle-
man."—" Are yon aware," said Middlecote, " that
all Act iv passed, called Mr; Curwrie's Act, by
ehich you and I endanger ourselves in treating
for a place ?" ‘Vitivess answered, that be knew
nothing of that Act—and that, if Middlecote were
not disposed to treat tor the place, he could say
nothing further on die stihjeet. Witness then
yoked. tehethet both t:ie places, Grampound and
Tregotiy,- were gone ? 11141(1R-cote *flowered, tiro
two gentlemen were in treaty with him for Tiegooy,
and that the ansospottud men bud just gime out to
speak with a gektletuan respecting that borough.
He said the business of Tregony was not finally
settled, as there was some little difference between
him and the gentlemen respecting the mode of
paying the money. They wished to pot it in the
Imo& of • third person. till they were returned,
but he was desirous that it should be paid down.
Wittiest said, " Do you expect any person to pay
the money down on an uncertainty ?" Middlecote
answered, " I con give security to guarantee the
two seats for 6,000 guineas." inked,
4" What is necessary to constitute a voter ?" Ile
was answered, " Pot-wallop." Witness inquired
what be meant by that ? Middlecote answered,
" The right of every house-keeper in the place to
vote. There are about g4o—and, if I had the
G,OOO guineas, I could settle with theist as I pleas-
ed. I could fettle the business more easily with
the money thin by a promise." Ile added, " I
will not pay every one alike. I ought to have some-
thing for myself, and you will make a good thing
an, I dire say." •Witness asked what number of
rotes was there its Grampound ? Ind Middlecote
answered, that 30 would bee majority.
Cross.essalinetL.—.Wituess formerly lived at
Dartmouth, in Devonshire. Ile W. 14 stilt a bank-
rupt moil two years after he left that place,
He ISM not go to the Bell and Crown
Did not give any name. as he was not asked for
any. Knew Cornwall very well—but dud not know
Sir C. Hawkins. Went only once to the Bell and
Crown, which was on Tuesday, the ill of Jour.
Samuel Cooper, landlord of the Bell sod Crown,
recollected when Mr. Penny celled at his house..
He understood that he was Major Williams, an
tsst loth Nabob.
litre the case for the prosecution closed.
tlr. GURNSY addressed the Jury for the Defeo-
dents. He agreed in all that his Leeward Friend
had said with respect to the enormity of the *deuce
imputed to these intliiiduals—but the Jury would
not forget, thut the strength of evidence, rod the
respectability of isituesses, ought to„4w rsactly in.
proportion to the magnitude of the crime which
was charged against any party. Who. he asked,
westhe prosecutor of this indictment ? No one had

case ? It opiwroetl th.it Penny. the r., .1 of Mr. i
Teed, pissed himself oil far Major
his story, nail .1- the oilier witimises, was
s,l slily this, that they went to delude the parties,
and dill delude them, under like warners. Now,
if they succeeded, al, uccuriliiii: to !lieur state-
ment, they had dour, whit security had the Jury
that they were out entleavaiiritig to deceive them on
the present oceesina ? Was it a fair title to 'lie
ready belief of the Jury ie their veracity, that they
hail conducted themselves in this way ? No man
wished more than he did that corruption should lie
removed Trom aft elections for Members of Parlia-
ment ; lint, in effect's% that object, he hoped care
would lie taken not to sacrifice cent men, to
those persons who wished to drive them from a par-
titular borough, in order that they might hare. the
whole iiiiiisgement of it themselves. The present
ease, he contended, hail too sinipicitinv au aspect. to
justify the Jury in convicting the Defendants, who
were prosecuted by individuals who hod in view an
object widely different from parity of election.
The CHIEF Justtcs. in Stllllll ll 11l g rip, directed
the Jury to consider this case with reference to
Cr:impound only, as the evidence with respect to
„TArgouir, affected only two of the Defrinfaiits.
. question was, whether those live persons came
op to town. for the purpose of procurim! a slim of
money, nn etindition of exerting their influence in
returning two individuals to serve iii Parliament
for the borosigh of Grainpoutul. It was urged by
the Counsel for the Defendants, that the witnesses
were unworthy of credit, os they went to the De-
fendants will, false representations. It rano, how.
ever, he observed, that, in ewes 01 eiiimnirary, it
w;l4 altruist impossible to procure evidence, exeert
from those who hail, by some meams or Other, conie
in contact with the conspirators. It remair.ed, how.
ever, for the Jury to judgr of the weight that
due to the ieNtiottuey of the witnesses, If they 1,..
sieved the witnesses they must return a verdict of
guilty.
The Jury, after is short deliberations found all
the Deletidinits Grsi/iy.
Counsel for the prosecution—Messrs. Per.r.,
Masuteate, and GASFLEF. For the Defendants,
1. Messrs. GURNEY and l'ur.r.mt.

LIBEL.
CUTT C. TErtr.Y.

This wan no action for libel. inctituted by Mr.
Robert (;:it•thaeoe Butt, against 'lr. Perry, the
Proprietor of The Mornin, Chsoniele. When the
case was called—

•Mr. ScARLETT said, he aline:m.4 for the De-
fendant, but Le understood that the Plaintiff had
on repre•ientative in Conrt. Ur was not surprised
sit this, as he saw a number of idle:ails posted
about, in winch Mr, Butt complilllied, in no very
mild tertns, that he was deprived of legal assist-
mice. Under these circuingtances, the Plaintiff
must be called.
'rite Plaintiff was non-stilted.

BREACH OF pßomrsE OF MARRIAGE.

DrAre the Sherzr of Surrey.

GIBBS r. PACKVIOOD, IVIDOW.
The Defendant having. permitted judgment to
go by defssnit, a Jury of the County of Surrey rps-
semi-sled before the Sheriff, to assess the damages
which the Plaintiff had sustained.
Mr. BARRY, for the Plaintiff, stated the case.
His client was, lie said, a farmer, and had been a
publican, both of which oat.ions iii society he tilled
with great credit to himself. Hi. circumstances
were so comfortable, that he began to look about
for a wife, and was indifferetit as to the weight of
her purse, so that she possessed those qualities,
without which the matrinionial state was liable to
become worse titan ally other warfare. His age had
attained that season when " the he3day in the
blood is tame, %is humble, and waits upon
the judgment," and his eye no longer rested
upon those extrinsic beauties which too frequently
threw the judgment into mean captivity. Di-
rected by a inind so constituted, it would have
been improbable that he should select it virgin for
his companion. his habits were too much in the
honest and sincere Jam Ball style to admit of the
folly of sentiment that delicate cominnisiratiois
which preceded the most important event of
man's life. Conscious that he must look for
happiness in congeniality of soul, he cast a glance
at the widow of a worthy citizen in Loudon, who
seemed to him, ;root the fulness of her years, ht-r
person, and her t.isilerstaiiilling, to he well adapted,
either to the task of ohetilence or authority, which
men alternately bestowed upon their wives as temper
or occasion dictated. She vc•ii the widow of a man,
whom every oLati hail resent) to bles..—at least once a
day, aft( r shaviii„o himself —the widow of the cele-
brated Packwood, who had proved that she was
worthy of his choice, by leaving her in his lust will
and testament Goo/. per annum. The annuity %ca.,
the Learned Gentleman repeated, not is prominent
object, although, to be sure, it was by no means an
objection ; for his client sensibly considered. that its
the marriage state it was desirable that the sense ofiti-
feriority, which the want of fortune usually inspired,
should not exist, obligation being a feeling rat her
remote from love. About four years ago the Plain-
tiff awl Defendant first saw each oilier; they were
delighted. The widow's eve was lighted up aids
unusual ; the Defendant felt its power;
it was an intellectual eye—not one of that bold anal
irregular motion which claimed familiarity with n
stranger, but conveying an expression of per-
manent and undivided attachment to the object oil
whom it was fixed with a constant gaze. Language_

declared that fact—tio persuit affected to know who Noun burst forth —der; snit ions of never-failing aft-c-
-hild empli,yed r. Loin be nod given him his in. Linn were reciprocally mole, and the widow !lack-
int uctions tin this occasion. Tuts w.Vy a toy re- wood, who 11311 already been so happy in a husband,
two kable circumstance. The Learned Setiroot I consented to try the experiment a second time,
had said a good deal uhout purity of election. If I and pledril herself to become the wife of Mr.
he had spoken of it lit Cornwall, there was not a GAL; but unfortunately for the client of the Learn-
voter th.st would not II:ye laughed at, and made a t ed Counsel, her name, though now changed, was
jest (.1 the idea. Let the Jury look at the character not Gibbs. It might to be flinlia, for she had trade
tattsitnun nt lite of the witnesses for the pri.k.e. a promise in the face of Heaven—it ought to he
cution—cud, above all, lit them scrutinize their Gibbs, for the recording Angel had wiitten it
conduct in this business. Though they applied to down, and no tear, except that of scalding re-
the Defendants under citcutostatices of the most petitstice, could ever obliterate the impression...-
suspicious nature—circumstances which induced it ought to he Gibbs, for Mr. Gibbs had fixed his
them to enticesl their names—yet they would per. heart upon the rape:ll'lton, and nothing could
strode the Court, that the Defendants entered into recompeoce bun for the injury he had sustained.
conversation with them as freely as if they had been The widow was one of the most extraordinary
old acquasutauceo. What was the evident* is this, widow. that ever came into a Court of Juvice. It