The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-05-24 00:00:00

DUBLIN, MAr I.

EREACH OF PRuldiSF. OF MARRIAGE.
tITZGERALD V. HAWIESVORTI4.

Yesterday in the King's Bench, a verdWt for
25001. and tad. costs, Was given far the Plaintiff
against the Defendant. Few trials at 11 tai Przus
have more engaged the public attention, or excited
an higher degree of interest ; and whether we con-
sider the nature of the aaion, the porticn of time it
occupied? or the celebrity of at least one of the
parties, it was eminently calculated to call forth
much curiosity. The trial lasted three days, from
Tuesday morning till late on Thursday evening.
The Defendant is a young clergyman, Who has
figured as a preacher in most of the churches of
this metropolis within the last five years, and whom
his admirers consider as scarcely inferior to Kirwan
himself. In the year 1794, Mr. Hawksworth, being
then in his twentieth year, and ott the point of taking
his degree in College, became attached to Miss
Fitzgerald, who was then scarce sixteen. This
young lady was the daughter of a tespeaable
officer. who had retired from the service with much
honour, but no great share of wealth, ana had
fixed his residence in Castletown, a beautiful vil-
lage in the neighbourhood of Mountrath, in the
Queen's County. Mr. Hawksworth soon gained
her affeaions ; bat still be was not satisfied, as his
father was an enemy to early marriages, and, of
course, an immediate union was impossible. Time
or accident, he apprehended, might defeat his
hopes, or a parent's authority consign her to the
arms of another. In his letters, therefore, he urged
her with all the ardour of a doating lover to enter
into a solemn engagement never to marry any bat
him ; and to encourar her to make this vow, he
called upon his God to forsake him when he forsook
her. These letters were read in evidence; and
though they exhibited no very finished specimens of
epistolary elegance, they seemed, at least, to flow
from the bean, and were not 111 adapted to make an
impression on a girl of sixteen : at ler.gth they made
that, and thes the conneaion continued until the
year 1802. Meanwhile Mr. Hawksworth had been
ordained, had become r ,:upnlar preacher, and was
much In:lowed. la January 1802, he called on a
Mrs. Palmer, a particular friend of Miss Fitzgerald,
and after some preliminary conversation, be told
her he was ready to fulfil 44J figireilleXt with Miss
Fitzgerald, if her friends would give her 10001.
and begged she would communicate his intention to
them. Mrs Palmer delivered the message. A
council of war was summoned. Captain Fitzge-
rald, the father, agreed to give four hundred
pounds ; the uncle, also an old officer, agreed
to gin two hundred; and the brother to the 'Portal;
lady. who was then serving with his regiment
in Malta, upon being written to, immediately pro-
mised to add the remaining 4001. out of the ho-
nourable earnings of his profession; and though he
was then actually in treaty tor a Majority, lie chear-
fully posponed his own promotion to the happiness
of a beloved sister—be did more, he came to Ire-
land to be a witness of that happiness. Hawks►
worth seemed delighted with his arrival, every thing
was settled. the wedding cloaths prepared, a special
licence procured, and even the ring purchased.
Mr. Hawksworth and young Captain Fitzgerald
went dOwn to the country on Friday, the neat day.

' Saturday, was to be the happy day ; when to ! in-
stead of the bridegroom• a iellei dons was delivered
to the company at Castletowyt, begging to be ex-
cused, as be was obliged to ge from home on pecu-
niary business. From this period, until the
Affirm WAS brought, the interval WA< filled with
evasion ; the torch of love seemed completely
extinguished, and the visions of his early days to
have vanished for ever. The action was then
brought, and, the verdict 25001. Ls commensurate
with his property.

The f,,llowing fatal accident took place, a few
days ago, at Baitinglass, in the county of Wicklow:
Captain Corry, of the Militia, WAS last Septenilser
out rebel hunting there, and had with him a case of
screw barrelled steel pistols. One of them he lost, and
after some time it was found, but in so rusty a stati
it could net be unscrewed, and the powder so damp,
it Could not be discharged ' • however, it was
thought every precaution had been taken by pick-
ing the powder out of the touch•hnie, and
froM that time, it became A standing jest to snapthe p!stol at different persons without effeEt.—
A few days since, an F..nsi?,,n in the Regiment, son •
of the Conimander, and the most intimate friend of
Captain Corry, presented the pistol at his. when it
went off. and lodged the contents in the lungs of the,
Captain, who languished till the next day, and died
in great torture, in the 23d year of his age, univer-
sally lamented.

This morning the following Regiments and
Corps of Surrey Volunteers will march to Hyde ,
Park, to be inspected and otigaded together by fie-
neral the Earl of Hata:ninon :
The Surrey Regiment. Lt.-Col. Oa •
I.•nal 11,n:thwart •••, .• e,••••• it -C.,"
Loyel Lambeth• ed. Unwire.
Chnstchurh •••• ?A aim' Tee 0 ChM.
S'. SatiOuel. Major putt.
St. John's
Rutherbithe Mega, IV•Ils.
f:atusin Sh•w.
A Rifle Corps attached to the Z Dahl*.
let Surrey Regiment
It k understood some other Corps are to join than
Geosoe Hotronn, Esq is appointed Secretary
to the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs ol"
India, in the room of BENJAMIN Hosisocse, Esq.
who retires.
His Maierry has been graciously pleased to re-
store to their rank of Commanders in the Navy, C.
B. JONES and W. JENNINGS, EAT'S. from which
they had been dismissed by the ser.tences of Court
Manials.
The suceessor of Admiral PATTEN, on the Downs
station, is nut appointed.
We understand that in March lan a most tre-
mendous surf was experienced off the South side or 11
the Island of St. Helena, which did considerable.
damafe to the wharf, and broke in the South gate. •
General La Salle, Chief of the 4th Regiment ofit
Veterans, has called upon his officers and men to
sign with him an address to the First Consul, pray-
ing him to assume the Imperial dignity, and to.
make it hereditary in his family. "I he departments,
says he. the armies, &c. all desire the hereditary
sovereignty in the family of the Dees-dyene, «tear
reiriged du fed."
The Grand Judge has ordered that every finreigner
who enters France, is in future to ante down in a
book, deposited for that purpose in each frontier
town, not only his name, bat the deeeription of his
own person i and when hearrives at Pans, be is to
write it over again, and both writings are to be corn•
pared before he obtains permission to reside there.
The adventurer Nlnntreillard, who lately wrote*
pamphlet against Pichegru and Moreau, has pub-
lishedanother in honour of Bonaparte, called, "Prone(
Ender the Government of ameparte." By the Book-
sellers in the Palais Royal alone have been published,
within twelve days, two hundred pamphlets, in fa-
vour of an hereditary Imperial Dignity, in the Bo-
naparte family.
Lucien Bonaparte passed, on the 21-t ult. thresgh
Genoa, for Rome. He is erpeofted at Parma. where
rent preparations are made for tts reception. He
is to be invested with the Sovereignty of Parma and
Placentia, under the Sovereignty of the Emperor of
the French, as these Duchies are regarded as French
Departrnents.—( Crieren Franca.)
Several emigrants not inculpated in the late een-
spiracy, have been permitted to reside at Ratisbon.
At Frankfort, a new severe regulation has been
made against all French emigrants. Every person
who discovers the residence in that city of a French
emigrant. receives a reward from the Magistrates.
and every inhabitant who lodges an emigrant, skull
pay a fine of twenty dollars. Domiciliary visits will
now take place in this Imperial city, as often as in
the French towns. fhe duty of the Magistrates,
and the safety of the inhabitants require, that all
means to offend the Trench Government should be
avoided.--( Gazette de teener).
The marches and counter-marches of our troops
from France to Holland, and from Holland to Han-
over. and vice verve, continue to confound the spe.
culeions of one politicians, and this ebjett of Go.
yernment is therefore obtained.
The fair r.t Leipzig has been prolonged hr the
order of the Elea°, of Saxony, for four days, in ex.
pettation of the arrival of English goods. Whea
shall the time come, that the Loothaent w.ll despise
as much English ptodutti ,ns as it already detests
English politics ?—(Juursal Jr Conwnterre )
As some children were playing, one of their fell
into the New River, near Hertford; the cries of
the rest alarmed the neighbours, when two women
ran to its assistance : the first plunged in, but. being
out of her depth, she unfortu lately sank ; a man
recolleCting there was a long pole with a hook at a
neighbour's, went for it, and after some time brought
up both woman and child, to all appearance d-ad.
The gratuitous delivery of the Lo..tsuri HUMANC
Some les plan was providentially employed with
success—an only child, in about half an hour, was
restored to its fond parents; and the ssoman, who
had been deprived of life in her humane efforts to
preserve an unknown child, was happily resuscitated,
to the great joy of the spectators and her numerous
family. There are rh, 4iories• worik Pnremt of Gesii.

DWIDEND AT GUILLAIALL.
TO. Moll•ol. X
Thomas Sitkitt, Flt,ckwall, TOW il.o d 1 Htrts, vtrtztalle: t

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

POITSKOUTH, 94 4 22

Arrived the Mrlpwatar frigate from a cruise ; • iv-
. we, of SS rum. from Plymouth; Scourge sloop cf
war. from dm Eastward ; and the Thames, Walsh,
from Jamaica.

Dropped down to St. Helen's, the Braabee, of
44 gust, Royal Charlotte, Perseverance, and the Net.

Nod by for the D.% six sail of homeward.
booed East-Indiansen.—Wind S.S.E.
YARMOUTH, MAY 22.
• large ship, name unknown, from Amsterdam,
bawd to Tonningen, is detained and sent into these
"tired Toe Sisters, Renders, Master, from Keil,
to Amsterdam, with timber she is sent in by the

raft P.. Lewis. Master. with
Cdremer il_
De Lg. :7

Vail Dc Fathom, Raolt;. with corn ; Anna Cathc-
said. Mocks with oil, &e. all cut out of the Elbe,
W the Sara; aloop.—Wiad S.
WEAL, MAY 20.
Wind B. W. Bailed L'latisortahle fsig.tte, on .t
anise aff Boulogne.
Resent in the Downs, the ,r,verch, [(las piers,
Utrveit, and Ardent men of war ; L./ Virti.did frog.ite,
&meal sloop of wat, 2. bra bomb, gun.butg.
Abhirsok schooner. and the Speculator lu,Ner. which
/us a signal for a convoy to the Etstw.srd.