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London, England, 1822-11-04 00:00:00

BREACH of PROMISE of MARRIAGE.

In the Court of Castle Bathe'', in the Isle of
Men, on the 9th last, au action was brought by
Miss Ritchie, daughter of the late Captain Ritchie,
of the East India Company's Naval Service,
against Lieutenant Bluest, Royal Navy, for a
breach of promise of marriage.—When the father
of Plaintiff, Captain Ritchie, last I.ft India, be
tended to return, and therefore did not take that
pains in arrstigisig his affairs that he should have
done; the consequence was, as is too often the case.
his property wrs destroyed by shore whose care lie
left it in. Illness prevented his return; end et his
d.ath the Plaintiff, and u very delicate young mass.
her brother. found themselves fatherless. and almost
pennyless. Expecting to leave his children in
affluence, he had spared nothing on their educa-
tion ; end the Plaintiff, in her seventeenth year,
found herself excluded by her circum.tonces from
that 'elk of life of which her accornplishmeiria
qualified her to he sit ',moment, In November,
1818, the Deferidaut met the Plaintiff at the house
of bra aunt. and an intimacy was thereupon
formed. De was then a Lieutenant in the Navy,
un half-pay ; but he had some time previously,
as Mr. Barrymore, travelled through the several
vitiations of a player's life, from • country
stroller up to • second-rate performer. From
the time of the first intimacy taking place, the
Defendant was in the practice of engaging Miss
Ritchie in parties with his family to various public
pieces. Oa all those occasions Miss Ritchie paid
fur the party ; the Defendant came to attend the:
young lady, and received her purse; he attended
her home at night, and, on parting, returned it;
so that he had ell the dashing appearmiee of a gal-
lant and liberal lover, when in fact lie was sucking
the last shilling from the unfortunate and innocent
girl, who had too much the feelings of a gentle..
woman to regret the money, and too little know,
ledge of the world to know that this conduct wan
any thing extraordinary. This system of plunder
continued from the end of December till the Nth
of June, at which trine he had reduced the young
lady's little property to one hundred and thirty
pounds. lie was all this lime full of love end
ardour, vowing eternal fidelity, sod had made a
promise to marry the Plaintid in September. But,
finding this time approaching, be instantly chauged
his plan, to evade lilt engagement he never intended
to fulfil, The Plaintiff.elready an excellent performs r
on the piano-forte, end ready to work fur her bread,
and the bread of her worthless lover, is persuaded to
transport herself in Ireland. to learn music ac.
cording to the system of Logier, which was then
taught there by a man of the name of Blurt,
The Defendant, in the name of Miss Ritchie's
brother, who, front a compleiet in his eyes, could
not write, carries on a correspondence witb Blurt
in Dublin; professes to inquire into Blurt',
character, and at length makes the Plaintiff go to
Dublin. and pay one hundred gullies' for tie',
teen mouths 'twosome under that man, for the
professed purpose of marrying the Defendant,
and working its a music mistress for his sup-
port, Having srranged all this to hie wade-
iron, then calculated that 'he had better be ar
mall in June, as by that time he would have neatly
eximusted her moiety, arid left bet barely sufficient
piny her hundred guinea" to Bluet. fie pursued
this disgraceful course until at length lie desert,
the Plaintiff, rind becoroes 14A/icy-moo of e pros-
lititte....orit who lutes with a woman of levity, anal
!suffers-himself to be supported by her on the vete-
lags of her prentettitiors with other lovers, on whose
admission to her presseice he retires. This discovery
was made by the aunt of the Plaintiff, who went to
the theatre, and there saw the Defendant and the
woman together.
Counsel made a speech iu defence, but culled
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Verdict—rDsmegeo 500 i. and all coats.

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On Tuesday last Mr, THOIIIA9 JITIVIVI, of
Melkshain, gave a diuner to sn of Inc iiright,ours,
all ►e►id.ruts in that paribh, •fuse tinned ages
amounted to 9.000 years. The hard winter on
Christ/ea:neve, 1739, bas very familiar to many of
the company, and some well remembered the ice to
have been more than one yard in thickness in many
of the pout'. 114 the viviaity,

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POLICE.

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MAN3:OII- HOUSE.

•EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT rItACD.

On Friday Neck lie, was brought we fee etiamination
'fore the Lord Mayer under the following etrciimateares
1)* Friday • Velem calling himself Mr. Payee applied at
the race of M. Bush. the stockbroker, in Coraldll, for the
iiiftpame of selling 2,040/ Brattish bend% sad 1,0001. Co.
lonitaisit bond.. It being a holiday at the Bank. the prin.
ripel clerk, whose departmeat it is to m . the stork lea.
a;meso, was absent, and the junior clerk uoneritiok to eTret
the sa'e of the bonds for him, althoseh to do business for a
.cringer win quite contrary to Mr. Dish's practice. Accord.
Jody, without consulting Mr. Dish, the el. rk sold them .1
Om Royal Exchartge, sad paid over to Mr. Bayne the pro.
dare, amounting to 11641, by 204 enveretinv (which he p tr.
t .ctslat ly asked fee) and 1,0601. in Batik notes, among which
were two of 1.0001. each. .'on ater the busier,. was co.
Coded, notice was give& that those boats had lees stalest,
.0011 which they were returnee, to Mr. glob by the person to
whom has clerk had sold them—be, of comae, refusing to
fulfil his contract under such circemsinures. lonmerliale
*ter, were taken to slop the notes, and elide the arc. siary
instructions were being gives at the Bask, a woman pre.
sealed the two 1,0001. molest dent indium 2,000 sovereigns,
baking wanes*, the bark of 'rich mole a fictitious name and
resideace..-. Maria Palmer, 30, Titchield-street, Oxford.
stmt." On below questioned as to the memo by which she
breams mweemed of Mem, she declared she had fiiiiist4 them
(the two 1,0001. noire) in a street near the Bank, stM.nt ao
boar before. II appeared, how. err, by paper. forted in her
pocket, that her real name was Maria List, iif 30, Atte street,
e:oodwian's.fielda; sad under these tints... she was
Aro to Giltspur.strest Compter. lo the coarse of the after-
noon "I second notice was distributed, offering a reward of
1001. for the recov.ry or the beads, and ref...rise to a sta.
trotter wader the 'Change, where it was aserriaireil that sorb
endive was pot forth by Mr. Juba List, as the owner of, and
the perms who had lost such heads; Mr. John List heist she
on. of Ala Maria List. Being interrogated on Friday eves..
iog as to his Imo of these bond., be stated that he was in the
habit of jobbing sad dealing in foreign securities, on ths Royal
Exchange; that he had thu.e hoods, together with 3,0001.
more Colombia. hoods, in Isis possessioa that mut meg ; that
I.e misted the whole of them shoot two o'clock, and left a
out.ce at Messrs. Haldimands. Soon after that, on his friars
to his counting.house at four o'clock, be fotrird 3,0101. of
the Colombian hoods gad bee. placed there; but the remits-
tier were missing, and be knew not how. His story at the
Alassion.Honer, however, was very different, as be there
avowed that the persoo who called himself Bayne, and who
employed Mr. BIM to sell the bonds, was as agent of his
(List's); that he was himself privy to the sale ; that his loa-
ther, the Prisoner, waste) bare recrtved the mosey; and that
he put forth the notice stating that he bad lost such bond.,
for the purpose of SCl'Olllllll4l to his creditors for the nos-
fulfilosest of his engagements.
After t his declaration, 110 charge mold be preferred against
Mis. List; the money was ordered to he paid back to Mr.
Dish,and the Pil•Oliff was-discharged.

MAILIOROUGH-lITIZET.

ELOPEMENT EXTRAOR DI NA II Y.

Saturday Mr. Turner, the proprietor of the Fritter Regret
pobloc.house, Woolwich, brought to this office bistros wife,
alid• person maimed John Locke, an exciseman, i■ the custody
of two officers, and sobasitted to the sitting Magistrate the
complaint which he bad to allege against his wife and the
exciseman. He said that some days ago Locke came, as
was his (-unicorn, to take stock as ganger at his (Proems-
roe.) house, in IVoologich, and he contrived that opptorta.
nity of inducing Mr.. Turner to elope with him—she tak-
ing at the same time the provideat precaution of remov-
ing with herself about 6001. in cash and other property.
Turner immediately commenced a pursuit after his faith-
less lady, and obtaining some information which led
him to think the pasties bed gone to Dover, oa their
way to Fraser, be went thither, and met his wife
at Hover is a packet office, with her child, a boy meta yeses
of age, •ad was engaged is arreneieg fur her passage in one
of the packets from the post, whets he► husband seised bee.
She, on being upbraided with her -coudnet, expressed great
coutrition, and soon agreed to return with her hogshead.
The latter, satisfied with her expressions of reformation,
stopped • day or two with 'her at Dover, and was prevailed
upon by ►ee to rebore as quick as possible to Wouhrgeh for
hie light chaise cart, that she, Ike husband, and child, might
get home comfortably together i• their own faintly vehi-
i le. He yielded to her request, rode to Canterbury, sad
from deuce to Woolwich—hastened bark with the family
change to Dover, where, to his gogrprive and grief, ►e could
thind an trace of either wife or chill; bat allot' some iw
gieory, be aseeriabied that the wife sad the exciseman 'hod
started from Dover in • post-chaise, op the Loadoa reset.
Hr followed their track and got some traced of them at
Whitechapel. He immediately obtained the aid of two of
the City police, ■nd 'followed the parties to the Boar and
Castle, Oxford-street, and beyond that be could footsie tie
clue. until late oa Friday he suddewly.pounced opus the fe-
gitires in Oxford street, near Rathboar-place, sod seized the
wife and the eicioengems, after a violent iotouggle is the street.
He immediately charged a constable with the parties, and
ibis day, after etatiag his case to the *Wine Magis►rate, he
te..ilicited.prrmission to charge them with felony, both, he be-
hoved, concurring iu acid concertiag the removal of hts.pro-
perty.
The Magistrate informed him, that against the wife he
could not soatai• the kind of .barge be contemplated,
although be might against the man, if Ire could bring for-
ward roof of any colleen in t►e removal of his property.
Plank, on mooching Locke, fumed loose in his breeches
pockets 112 sovereigns, une guises, sad 13s. thl. in silver,
mutt tied op t■ • piece of old stocking, is his coat pocket,
were 60 sovereigns. Locke and the 110111312 were them both
asked where they resided in lowa, but they declined answer-
ing the question ; however, a card of • tailors address war
found in Locke's pocket, sad auspectom that it might lead
toe discovery of their resideree, the officers sent thither,
(gond that the parties bad slept there fur two or three nights,
sad also found several boxes cot:tabling a good deal of pith
petty, which Mr. Tamer ideatillect as being that which bad
bees ink... from his house at Woolwich at t►e rime of Ilse
elopement. Hr could toot, be said, swear to the sovereigns;
bet he had stn doubt of their being his property, as the
gauger was • very poor maw, and could not bare had such a
sum of mower of his own.

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The Magistrate gave directions that the parties Avoid be
'essayed to the place where the plreNce was said to haws becu
committed. tie said, ha had ao imam that the W•oltrich
Magistrates would deal with it as it deserved.