The National Register.
London, England, 1808-12-25 00:00:00

'PHE NATIbITAL R:

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DEC. 25.

can de,.were matters otherwise regulated in this
resperi. Is it not even irreligious, to convert the season
for 9) ritual gratulation into au occasion for temporal
lamentation t I humbly move, therefore, that the scttliii
of account-books, together with an preparations
ed for pav-
ing rents and discharging- unpaid bills,. be changtrom
Christmas, to Lent. These necessitous times fully war-
rant, if any consideration can warrant, the innovation that
t bade now recommended.
ISO& A Jrßw EfiGLISH.II,OI.

. • LAWnEEPORT.
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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, nic. 20.
SITTINGS AT GinimsuALL.
CRIM. CON.
PARR V. nENsoN.
The Plaintiff and Defendant in this ease are both Merchants
resident at Liverpool, and the action was brought to recover a
• • damages for criminal connection-with the Plain-
compensation .
les wife. Mr. Parke, for the Plaintiff, stated the ca'e as!is be-
low detailed iu evidence, and accompanied the_st:Uement with
the usual observations on the magnitude of theiniury_sustained,•
by the Plaintiff. The Defendant he said was %sell able to poy
nay damages which the Jury mig.ht award, as he had come into
thi. possession of a large fortune; and he trusted the Jury
.would think this was a case of exemplary damages, inasmuch
n§ the con;equenccs of the conduct of the Defendant had caused
a d...rmyement of mind in the Plaintiff. The parties lived upon
terms of Intimacy and friendship, and it was from the oppor-
timity afforded by this intimacy, that the Defendant found
means to seduce thew ife of his friend. The Plaintiff was mar-
led in the year 119 S, and resided at the village of Billingden,
shout a mile from Liverpool. Ile went into the town most days
at ten in the morning, and did not return until Your to dinner, In
the inte:•val between those hours it would be proved, that the
Defendant was constant in his visits to Mrs. Parr. But.
these were not the only visits he paid, for the Plaintiff being a
very
.lbcal man, had the Defendant constantlS7 dining Acids him.
Another cirtunistano of aggravation in the conduct' of the. D-
efendant was, that he was himself a married man, and had
children; he trusted that the Jury would think those circum-
stances of aztJavation merited a severer visitation than (mins:t-
idy was called for. With reTect, however, to the m-ntal de-
rinee!qout of the Plaintiff, he admitted that the malady might
ill part he occasioned by a fever which he brought on himself by
ever exertions at the Liverpool Elect ion,,,w here he actively and
U 311111% t.upiioried General Tarleton's intere:4.
TIP.• marriage of the Plaintiff and his wife was proved in the
heal 1;98.
Mr. Carey and Mr. Dixon proved that the Plaimiff and his
mfr It% e4l ou harmonious tt rms.
Mr. Wilkinson, clerk to the Plaintift, and who had been a con-
lithonial servant of his father's, saM lhoy lived on good terms.
thicto,s examination. he said that site defend:tot frequently dined
at their halm.. and al way! handed Mrs. Parr out of the room.
ako usually folio wed her a short time afterwards. Ile ,nice
heard the Pi:limit(' say, cisme back Raft ;1 and divert your time,
and leave ',Lary to her-elf. Several witnes.ses Wert' Ca
l It'd.
tl ° 4Poke nearly to the same facts, and that the Defendant and
Nit... Parr wort frequently together, but t hey did not see any
t:ting improper pass between them.
Mr. I). Parr, brother to the Plaintiff, also spoke to the afire-
timrtte inamter" in which the Plaintiff and iris wire lived. /le
suited, that after the discovery of Mrs. Parr's infidelity, his bro-
l':er became mei•tncliolv, and at lefigth so deranged that he was
"hliged to he committed to the care of Dr. Chute of Liverpool.
t)o cross eltallliliatliM by Mr. Carron, he said that hie brother
li.lilheen deranged before thikt time, and he attributed it to his
mcr exertions at the Liverpool election. •
lne Hughes, servant to the Plainta 5
, said, in the year 180
\i
Bet,'“ill a rrcif,uont in his visits at their house; she oh-
"'reed great familiarities bet.Yeen him and her mistress. On'
if'
Ole oat in the cellar, under the parlour where Mr. Bensiw
seed her mistru,s were sitting, she heard her mistress say, " Dtat,
L'eli-on; adone Venson." This raised her curiosity, and she
It's)! into the room where ',hey
.wete sitt on pretence of ask-
In 4 "heliler they would • have muffins for tea. She saw then, on
th'! !alphet.
„re a. toK'ler in the act complained of, Other persons
Aged who proved fa and traced Mrs. Parr at
1.1 to the house of Mr. !Season, at Lutwich Hall, in Lan-
ire
" rt. she "Filly Cohabited with the Defendant after
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Mr. Carroty, fur the Defendant, contended it was nut a case
for damages, inasmuch as the Plaintiff had brought his misfor-
tune un himself by his own misconluet in neglecting his wife.
and. exposing her to improper liberties, which he suffered to be
taken with her in his presence, without remonstrance, or appai
rently caring for them.
• To prove this; a Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Catharine Jones, and
lips, a waiter at the White Line, Shrewsbury, were called,
who proved the following facts.: That in August litOli, Mr. add
:Vit.& Parr, and Mr. Benson, were at the Shrewsbury Races toge-
ther. They could not be accommodated with beds-at the White
Lion, and w ere obliged to get beds at an adjoining house. ,Mr.
Parr did not sleep with his wife, but in the best bed below, and
Mrs. Parr slept in. a bed without curtains close adjoining to Mr.
Benson's bed room ; but at that time Parr had a shade liver his
eyes, and appeared rattles unwell. The waiters at the Inn at
tirst thought Mrs. Parr was Benson's wife, but when.they disco-
vered she was Parr's, they made it ajoke, that Benson paid •for
all, and kept both husband and wife. • ...
Several other w itnesses were called, who proved.' that famili-
arities had passed in the presence of the Plaintiff, such as cor-
rectly ought not to have been passed over by a husband without
notice.
Lord ELLENDOROUGII detailed the evidence at length, and
said it was a case for their serious consideration ; he left it for
them to determine, whether the Plaintiff had been consenting to
his disgrace, or whether he had not been culpably negligent.
l• The Jury found for the Plaintiff damages 1,0001. The dama-
ges were laid at 100,0001.
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NAUTICAL INTELLICIENCE.I "rr
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A letter from Dover, dated the 2`4cl instant, states, "that on,
the evening of the 21st it came on to blow tivineudonsly hard:
from the S. W. attended by a heavy fall of snow, and it being
very dark, no object whatever was to be discerned. In this
gale the brig Jane, of Carmarthen, Clpt. T. Jenkins, from
Limerick, with butter, feathers, and hemp, hound to London,
struck upon a rock between the. South Pier Head and Shake-
spear's CELT. The situation of the crew was most horrible.,
Without knowing whether they were near an enemy's country
or that of friends, with their limbs so benumbed, that all power,
of action was done away with, and expecting every moment
that the ship would go to pieres, the sole hope of preserving,
their lives, made them cling to the masts, but to no purpose, for
the ship dashed to atoms, and every soul, except the Captain„,
was drowned; he Was almost miraculously saved by get:iiiit
the bowsprit, and believes he was thrown from thence to hot
beach, w here he wandered about from eleven P. Ai nil
day-light, when he climbed the cliff and reached the tow r.
am sorry I have to add to this misfortune the loss of the brig,
Eleanor, Capt. Henderson, of Sunderland, with iron, supposed.
from Cardiff to London, w hien sunk nearly close to where the
Jane went to piece, and e‘ery person on board perished. Se-
veral of the bodies of the unfortnnate sulferers have been picked
up, and should the weather continue fine, most probably the
others will be found."
MA u GATE, Dix. After a dreadful blowing night, Sun-
day morning diseosercd a very distressing seem. The Avenel
brig, built by the apprentices at Chatham, went on shore near
lie Sea-bathing Intirniar on Thursday morning I:tst, and must,
or eoupw, be mate' ially injured by the gale of !ail. night. The
Walpole Last Indi,;man went on shorertear Margate on the ISth
inst. at tell A.M, and though the snip is totally lost, the whole
of the °dicers, crew, and passengers, got safe *oil shore. Mr.
Sutton, the Chief Officer, had his arm badly fractured by the
wheel, on the ship's striking, Thr greater part of the cargo is
expected to be saved. l'hree other ladiamen had this morning
the onion jaek downwards flying as signals of di;tress ; it is sup-
posed the met; on hoard will be got wit at low water (about T
&dor% Ilwre is a vast deal of damage done in sight of
i(tit is place to the shipping.

The Union East Indiamen, for whose safety serinus appre-
hen,ions had been entertained, anchored at St. Helen's on 'Hums-
day afiernoon. She had lost her cables and anchors, and was
uriveu over to the French coast, during the tempeituous wea-
I her.
A large fleet of light vessels, bound to London, last week,
three leagues from tile Dodgeon Lights, fell in with a French
lugger, which :11 tempted to board one of them; but, at that in-
the ship wore round, and struck the lugger in the mid-
silip with her stern, wilich sent her instantly to the bottom, and
the t► hole of he: crew perislicd.