The National Register.
London, England, 1817-08-11 00:00:00

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SUMMER ASSIZES.

LEICESTER.
BREACH or ruomrsy or NI tRRIAOE•

emor:Ar r. Evtatrus.
Mr. Clarke opened this ease. He said the plaintiff's father
is a most respectable Gentleman in I 1 al cot, in this comity : he
has eight children, four sous slid Oil,/ daughters; his sons are
most respectably settled in life : one of titan is nia9ie-1 to a ,
sister of the defendant; three of the daughters are married in
highly respectable families, the fourth is the unfortunate plain • ;
tiff in this case. The defendant is a young ilium in the same
rank in life ; Isis father has left him a tiartmic of 20,0001. ; he
has bees' at the University, and lives in the style of a (h stile.
He openly paid his auhlresses to the plaintiff; it was 'lll.*
talk not only *tithe family, brit of the itiglibitairliood, that they
were to be married In the confidence and affection of such
a situation, he meanly destroyed her happiness anti (amnia t
in life In an unguarded moment she surrendered ua !Inn all
that conk' render her respected, tampon ed, awl happy
in life. W hen he was called 1111111110 1/1.1.601111111S 111'1.1111,C, Ile
insulted her by brutally saying, 11e had moduli' Isis hoist, and •
turned them, to grass ; then he had sprained his leg; at last,
he could ton'at present, but lie is uald afterwards mai .y her :
hut atter the child- was born, anti she had been made the hap-
less victim of her unguarileil roufidt nee, and his intammas
Naseness, he tells her that she would get all the lan allowed
her, two guineas for her lying in, and 2s. 6111. a week lisr the
maintenance of tae child for seven years : he added to
procure this, she' must go before a magistrate and sit car the
child his.
Henry Cooper, brother of the plaintiff, was convinced all
*long, while the defendant visited his sister, that lie sta.: on
terms of marriage with her, fle heard him cull Ilcs.
Cooper " Mot het ." His sister kept house for him, anal then
the defendant visited her regularly. once in the week, some-
times oftener. He believed his sister to be 28. She was not
32. He thought the deft:tiding 20:
John Cooper, another brother, a draper in Leicester,- went
to the defendant on the 13th of June, 1816,-with a letter from
his wife. The defendant said," iv this the way they treat
rue? and no other person. coffered to marry lire in Ja-
nnary, February, March, and in April, aunt she refused me."
The witness iaitl, she is now at Langton (his !mother's house)
and expects you accoreitig to your ;malaise to lissrly her.
" No," Said the defendant, " I have taken the shoes off toy
horses, and turned them to grass.—" I will give you my
horse,"—" I cannot tide I have .sprained my leg.--His sister
mho was present, said," You ought to marry her, we'll get a
chaise and go both together."—" No, I'll not go to day."—
" Will you go tosmorrovei"—" tell on that day." lie then
left his home, mid witness could never see hint again till Ja-
nuary. The plaintiff was brought to bell in August thl6.
Ile then said, that he had given sip all thoughts of marriage •
now, and that he would give her two guineas fur her ill-lying,
at Vs. Gil. per week, for seven ye ass, which would altogether
amount to 70h He hail promised to settle a 1011. a year, tint
things were now changed. Witness said lie spoke of 20001.
"Well, isnot that foal. year?" He had proposed that the plain-
tiff should go to London, and he should meet Iler there and
marry her. He now said nothing, but that he would pay 701.,
only she must sssear before a Magistrate. Tile defendant
has a lariat and keeps two limiters.
Ann 'reality had game along with the plaintiff to Latter-
worth, to see the iletemlant in November last, when the fol-
lowing iliaLgito took place bets% test tue plaiutitidllll
dcfeud-
aut:lt is long since your have been to see nue ; 1 itave
Mme to see you, in order to know whether you are to marry
me according to your eitgagenn ot."—" I have now given
a,, all thoughts of marriage. I slid buy wedding doilies, but
I have now begins to wear them ; I offered to marry you in
Jaimaiy, February, March, and April, and you reinsert me."
—" Ala. Everton, is it likely that 1 could have refused your,
when I kacw the situation l was in ?"
Seijeaut Vangltan--Gentlemen
.of the Jury, I feel ninth
pain and great anxiety in addressing you on this stlllit`rt.
Subjects of this kind are always painful ; the present is pe-
culiarly so. It is distressing to say any thing against als node
in.siteli eircemstances ; but alit.y to my elitnt obliges me to
say, that the ease as stated by Clarke, and as represented
by the evidence, is very highly coloured. In the first place
recollect the disparity ()filet : slit. is 25 not 32; take the sue-
(limn, 30' He is 24 or Now this, then, is not the case
of a pea-son-in years, and practised hi the ways of the not Id,
etedueinga young, and inexperienced child. There al euther cir-
cumstances, too, that take the sting ant ran', and
place it is the plaintiff's. You have heard nothing of personal
beauty ; Gentlemen you know the inference. Haul she any pre-
tension to beauty, Mr. Chu he would have opened her up a'
the greatest paragon that es et dazzled the Gentlemen of
Leicestershire; but not one word have you heard upon that
point. My client is silly, foolish. and I will say, wrong ; but
if he is rich, would not this faindy have thought the match a
lucky one, paid liiin every attention, and given him every en-
couragement- Ia such eirmainstaneos, will you give as great
a price fur any homely Ipiece of goods as for the finest com-
modity? I will not say that he has been morel sinned against
than sinning ; but let the siaiiing be equally alas -
ware how you eneottrag,e eniteenselits Is, aserstils• 34111/1g 01(41
by your verdict. I; h.n been alledged, that my client was at
the Unive, sity. There is the proof? I suppose he took a
scamper through Oxford with amuse limiters he kept. He
might have offered to floury its Jaisslasy, w hell it was pOsbible
to conceal thedis rare of thl., Clll/1/14', have afterwards
refused, when that nas mot possible. She too might liaue re-
fused in Jatinary, whets she wee attached to another 111,111,
snd this supposition may account liar his wishing her to swear
she child to Mot. At any tate, these svas u call fur only
The Janke slimmed up with great elearne,m and impar•
tiality. Vciuler:t for the plaintiff—Damages 10001.