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Mrs. Shipman went to chapel, and Nit. soappnaii e one to Ines
while I was lying on the. bed, and insist, d on try going d rots
I told him I would cry tout der if he persisted Miami., nig me.
for I was dreadfully ill. He need all the persuasive argu-
ments he could to induce Me to go down: •aid lie had not
gone to chapel on my account, and all the le.! were tan. I
said lie was a bail 111411, and smtplieated him to leave me.
Fintlirg that I was bent upon not going doss it, he lorought up
Large goblet fall of brandy and water. I said il was not
brandy, and 11.1.11.4e1l to take any. lle threatened to drench
me with it, and stood over me till I drank it every 'hop. I
171-4 c IIIt•r iu hysterics, hail dreadful fits of crying, and lost all
recolleetion of what occurred. On the following, morning I
w•as awoke by Mr. Shipman's kisses. He told me how mach
his wife and children hared me, ❑nd that le. loved lite more
tea tunes. I complained of the insult he had (dieted me, and
still I should outman Mrs. S114)111011 ile condnet. I in—
fo:emit Mrs. Shipman of It. My illness outdated will un-
abated violence: and though I expressed a wish to see Mr.
Power, the surgeon, ate( another medical man, I seas denied
by Mr. and airs. 'N141)111411. At length I saw Mr. Power on
'Tuesday; told hint they hail given me different kinds of
medicine ; that I had requested to see hint, but had been re-
fused ; that I was very unhappy ; had been used very ill, butt
had neither time nor power to tell him ?hallo. I continued de
lirions for a fortnight : the last thing I remember was Mr.
Power's coming. From Mr. Shipman's I removed to the
vicarage in HSt 111111, 11111i1 I Vst,t Mater. In nn• bed -room there
was no hell. There ss..s, I lielies e, a key in the door, but
Mrs. Shipman begged I would nese,. loch the door, through
liar of the sir the illness of the childeen. I stayed a week at
the vicarage, from whence I went to my amt's lodgings at
lit foie the I relay she had taken salts and
calomel and other drags for a cell!, by de'irc of the pi isomer.
In her moss-examination by Mr. 1 )eitman, she merely re.rmated
her former statement. The ehit-et of the learned Counsel
was to obtain some admissions whit I might leave an impies-
skin that the prismpeca conduct was dietated by a feeling of
cnutp.l•sion, which was mistaken IM love. The witness• again
J1:11111, Ih•tt :11l I e:.6l,llitse was impossible; her breath as well
as strength having been affected, and an umiatnral sensation
having, in consequence of the drugs, pervaded her.
Clara Johnson deposed, that site lived as scrvant to slr.
Shipman, and gave an account of the cowling of her master
perfectly confirmatory, as far as it went, of that given by
Miss Dalton. Site ile,cribial the state of health of the yonng
lady as most deplorable, and remembered that when she toll
her master how ill she was, lie said that Has j,Nst wheat he
wanted. She added. that when her mistress went to chapel
on Sunday, her master came to her anti seat her out with the
child before she had time to clean herself; and that when Mr.
Power came to see Miss Dalton, Mr. Shipman dung down his
hat in a great rage, and said he was undone.

In her erois-exai ii iii she but increased the evidence
against the prisoner. She heard Miss Dalton say in her deli-
rium, that her master had broken her tooth : and while she was
deprived of her senses, Mr. Shipman put his hand upon her
person..

• Martha Hey, the nurse, As ho attended Miss Dalton on Wed-
nesday night, deposed, that she seas quite delirious, and that
Shipman had acted while she was so in the manner described.
Again he came, and asked whether Miss Dalton had asked
for him ? to which witness replied. " that she had ill her deli•
rinut." " Alt, poor girl," said he " she Ilse ays asks for me."
Mr. Power, surgeon, of Hinelley, said he visited Mks
Dalton on Tuesday the 23d of December, when he found her
soy Clint. She had a small and frenumit wake, and com-
plained of a pain in the head, and coldness in the feet, and
looked excessively ill. Ste. made the communication to him
which she had stated to the Cow,. On Wednesday morning
She was innek worse ; she had spent a delirious night, her
pulse had increased in ac,ian, and the witne,os recommended
another Opinion to be taken. She was vviy delirious, but
her complaint Was attended with lucid intervals. Witness
w. 15 hot prepared to say that laud:mum would pt mince Hindi-
nuosnes,•—a small dose would produce excitement—a large
onestiipor. . .

Denman, fur the derenee, attempted to show that Miss
Dalton most have construed the wish to lender medical assist,
alive iato nothing visa than lose, and the application of the
necessary medicines for the correction of a natural disorder
into the administering of philters and the fierce of
magic. He show ,d how 'Lenge, 01113 it Has to allow the child
to lie sepal:tied at so perilous an age nom her natural pro.
teclen and atu ibuted the madness of the gni to the impe-
tuous cu• lent of her passion.,
The Judge sin ttttt ed up the evidence, and quickly laid be.
fuer the jury the 50V1 lal iniquiticy of 1% ludo there had been
such abinedant Ile particularly dwelt upon the es.-
ample to a wife and children in the complicated baseness of
Shipman's conduct to an helpless and unprotected female.
The jury returned a verdict of—Gulley.
The Judge immediately pat .11•11 sentence to the delight of the
Court. Mr. Shiputau wits adjudged to pay a tine of 1001., tel
to he ;min isoned IV tale radar th onths. aas the only
inteicsting case during the assizes.

SUSSEX.—LEwt.s, Aim. 1.
NEWMAN V. lIINNLTT.

This was an action against the deli uaaut for a‘sanhing the
plaintiff, a chorister of (liteliestes (:Ii 'fife defendant
pleaded, Tile gentral too guilty ; and 2d, josti-
ticatien, that he 'wino( the master of the cliorisicis I.(
1111: had issued older, to the plaintiff' as vile of his
pupil*, wit to ill iewl a catch and gl. a chili ; awl the plain:in
hat itt4 disobeyed those °ethos. he hail currecied 6uu for his
di„.'heiliettec, at; he might lan fully 4.0.
Marryat and \I t. !Awes eolohleteil the plain:Rs case,
4111/ Mr. Gurney and Mr. Chit'y the defendant'..
iiivionstiiiives Uie case were these: 'rhe plaintitc,
01,1 ;omit tt as towel Ill.'ciluri.ter, ot(:hicht',tet
caliedrdl. and the defrnil.iiit etas the music iniener of the
choir. Li aopeui:ol that the 'left-to/ant V‘il, in 1111. habit ut
takinz the differ( singio.r, !toys occasionally to subset
einivei Is, at Yot tsoion th, .\tacid other places, tor
he paid them a complinietit of it few he pu)-
iiiL., 'heir expense,, hot ing into his own pocket a hateter
einolowelit aro•e it talents, He Initi is.ued 41101(1er
to ow 1'011,1.1.1:n4 tileir atteeihiece at any tutu slob or
r p.,we of Ailioseisieiti without his (i„lhe-Ithut
14-1 the :asked the ileiew'init's Irare to ulteud
a owl ultie (lob, in the to, it of Coielii oer,nliieli the
latti r tern,. J. 'lite plaintiff, however, itottvitlistantling this
retOsa:, went 1, the clot, Litt IWIII 111/1111111Z 11111 dt$111111.11;1, lirl"
111111 1111•1/1/1ilt.lIce and rionenipt of his 111111111111 gate him it
very sescii. Ito 4 14110, :elicit I.lo:hired several
Wick and Woe 111.11k11 11111/11 111 S •1111111111•11• rthl ulhrr viirts tt
Ins body. For .i.ll nljurt Ile I -•1-.1 nel..ul was
it brio:: contended, that lice defeitilmith4il no tight of control
over the platlitite3 Catithlct (Ail of .school bonus, or except
duripi the tilac he %i4S its at tettilituce tipuu the Cathedral.

AUG. 9

For the defendant, several witnesses were called, to prove
that the punishment inflicted upon the plaint,fl was part of
the discipline of the school, when the ellorigtet. thought pro.
per to go to private concerts or other places in amusement,
in c.intravention of the defendant's order.
The case-, however, went to the Jury, under the teamed
Judge's directions, cud they found a vet diet foe the plaintiti—
datinigeg 51.
The Crown Side produced nothing of any interest, there
being but I t indictments, and those for the usual crimes of
horse stealing and minor larcenies. Mr. Justice Abbott
finished the Calendar, with the exception of one case, on

DURHAII.—Acctxr 3.
CROWN SIDE.

Wm. Smith, aged 27:;;:ntlriediorihe murder of M. Reid,
in South Shield 4, on the 16th of June.

Flom the evidence for the prosecution, it appeared, that on
the day above mentioned two boats had been engaged at the
same spot in fishing. The prisoner was one of the crew in
one boat, the deceased one of the crew in the other. They
quarrelled as to the time of shooting their nets, and on corn.
mg on shore there was a general scuffle. The prisoner struck
one of the party with a progger. (a Ivng pole with a barked
fork used in catchiog dat halt), which he broke in two. With
one of the ends, which he still retained, he struck Reid on the
back of his head. Reid fell, and continued for some time he
a stupor. No indication of hart could be disease-I'rd on the
outside of his head. lie lingered in u miserable state till the
23d, when he expired. He had been drunk on the 161 h-
.- surgeons gave it as their decided opinion, that lie had
died of an inflammation, arising hum a concussion of the
brain, mid that the concussion had been occasioned by exter-
nal violence.

Sane witnesses far the prisoner stated, that the decease
had struck and thrown down the prisoner's mother, and that
he had Himself fallen with drunkenness, and struck his head
on a sprat tub which lay on the shure.—Guilty ot• Man-
slaughter.
CIVIL SIDE.
DEVANATION.—ASTON V. GEORG .7.
Mist Aston, the plaintiff, keeps a boarding school for young
ladies, in Durham; she brought the present action against
Mrs. George, for defamatory words used by her. The sub_
ject excited the utmost interest and curiosity in Durham for
mote than 12 months. The many reports and surmises which
it created were every where the topic of coins.' sation. It
was supposed to have Loess disposed of last year by a refer-
ence, but it revived with inereasrd vigour. Early last week
Friday was fixed for the important trial. The tow a was fur
several days excessively crowded with the multitudes burn-
ing with curiosity to witness the discussion. Nine o'clock
was the hour dissecting in the court. About half past seven
the street leading to the Court was covered with ladies and
gentlemen pressing tbrward to the scene of trial. It rained
the whole time till nine, yet it repressed not the ardour of
curiosity. Private carriages and post chaises drove up niers.
sassily to flue Court doo7. The door is never opened till the
cluck strikes Mlle; the impatience of the very respectable
crowd was thei et ore very great. In the service and fur the
accommodation of tile fiir, gentirillee are inventive and con-
rageous. About half past eight, a few adventurers scaled the
Com wall up to the whislow,ur rather climbed so far, for they
had neither ladder nor rope. A window was opened fur the
ladies below, thrones which they connived to make an ee.,
trainee —Thus the Count because crowded to excess beim e
the door wss opened.
Mr. Justice Bayley was obliged repeatedly to threaten
fines before the Counsel got admitted. Astuu and George
were at length announced.

Mr. Searlett said. Le was now to address them for an tin.
fortunate and most desei ving young lady, who, up to the
commencement of this question, was most highly and most de.
servedly respected by all who knew her. She was oleliged
to come into that Court to vindicate her character. The re-
paration of the st rung done to her character, and not damages,
wa► the object of the action. She had bee it injured in that
part id her character which no damages cooler compensate,
and which, when once injured and iniredressed, irreparably
ruins the female character. lie latneutcd vet y touch that he
was obliged to address them on this siitiject. He had trusted
that the defendant war• ensible that she had acted under sow e
illusion; and would %sitlinely acknowledge her error. NI hat-
ever might he the result of this action, the ruin of one at least,
it not of both, of the ladies, must be the CUlllieqiiener. By
coining into that Court, lie saw, Runt the andience which
surrounded bite, that they were about to make themselves the
spurt ut idle, ;mil perhaps malicious, curiosity. Tu the last
moment, tiles elm e, that it conld be ae•ailable, most heartily
should he hail anc prospect of is private arraignment.--(Mr.
Topping, who, s‘ .th Seijeant Hollock, was fur the defendant,
Wlll4lt led something to ',11i.. scariett, who then proceed-
eil).--lk hail stated to them, that vindication, and not da-
mages, was the plaintiff's object ; lee 'hetet:ore willingly ac-
c•ded to the proposal of his Learned Friends, to take a ver-
dict fur the plaintiff, and nominal damages, 1001.
Mr. Justice Ilayley.—" Ism very well pleased at the insti-
ller lii which yon have disposed of the ease."
We nude' SOUK! that the damages had been laid at 20001.

NEWCASTLE.—AuG. 3.
(:lIOWN SIDE.
James liindbangh, a youth of 21, was charged with the
theft of otore than 601. taken lima his master's desk. On
his ariaignment, he pleaded wilily, tint the Judge persuaded
hint, as it nits a capital offence, to plead not gutty. 'the fel-
lou nig glens wet e disclosed in evidence : Oil the •29t:t of
April the °trice desk of Mr. Anthony Lambet t, and Mr. Join
Lambert, his son, solicitors, in Alawick, was flitted open, and
621. were taken out yin. '1 he lot k was 101111 d in
such a state that the key could not be turr ed in it, and on e•x-
aminin a until piece of iron like the point of u Hal Mas
found in it. The prisoner had on the preeediag day borrow-
ed a picklock from etc be lett', tied next day ;
his prettmce was, that he had lost the key of his tintik. The
point was In oken of this picklock, and the point foond in the
hick tilted it exactly. The 'insulter, utter he Lad been
d, told the cook in that the money might be
found in a stone bottle under a bloke!' stunt in, the }i:.l d ;
there it nits found. The utntbe•re of the not;a ball not been
taken, l,iit 111.. A. Lambert had previously given ten of those
notes, which were Of the Batik of Em1,1.41,,1, to Ali.. J. 1.4110-
hert, antes lie hail fitiai a Slim of 2JO tunes,
whose 111111111 PIS horned a cealar aeries. L'pen looking at the
remainder, after the theft hail been ..rtinuitted, a chasm '. ae
1011111 i 110111\4).1380 to Int. In tue bti,.,t• weir found the
teit.nitc,li.ite 13 et.eihrli '1 he ptt.rucr had bee', the elder
Lamueti's fotman, and slept lii a 1.01,111 o 1 pusite to tilt entice.
The Aiee was part of the dtelitog house. 'the best chain: -
-ter v. 45 gust to the prisoner tall lu ibIS Chi/age. tlisl.ol,l-

ma

ATTG. A

•hip, in soitim ntt, up, lamented that he could Not find any
gronn,i oldonlit hi the evidence, and sunested to ll►e jury,
thl• no!! 1111111 left to them, to recommend him to mercy.
filo jury foand a verdict of guilts, hut recommended him to
'new/ in consideration of his youth and former geed character.
Mr. „Nit' Lambert ako strongly recommended him to mercy.
The prisoner's nnhayl►y father sat in Court doting the trial.

CIVIL SIDE.
DROWNT. JOHNSON.

The plaintiff, who is brother•in-law to the defendant,
limed payment of a bond for 1601. executed in net. and
a!rres! from that time, making in ail 3201. For the plaintiff
was urged, that the bind itsel; was quite clear, that an
..idorseinsiit upon it in 1801 proved the payment of interest
defendant, a man of 81, aeknow.
that year, and that the
led2eil to the clerk of the plaintiffs attorney, on Tuesday
last, that he had never paid it. For the deleutlaut it was
contended, that it had been paid, although the distance of
time made it impossible to show when it was paid. The en.
dorseinent was a fabrication; it happened to be so dated, that
'it was within 20 years of the date of the bond, and of the date
of this action; but it was not written in 1001, fur a copy given
to the defendant by the plaintiff since the action began cot.
twined it not ; further, it referred to nu account which ex-
pressed nothing of Interest, and could not in any way be
connected with the bond. A. to the pretended admission of
the defendant, the jury were to consider that the clerk had
gout to the defendant's house on pretence of subprenaiog
nephew, whom they did not call, but in reality in older to
risinp a confession uttt of the defendant. Neither life nor
property was safe if evidence like this could be recrire
lint the defendant had only denied that lie hail es er signed
such a bond, and with the belief that he had not, a want of
memory not surmising in u man of 84, he must have said that
lie had never paid it. The strongest circumstance, however,
'was, that the plaintiff had never demanded payment till 37
years aller the date, while he was so lunar that he was sup •
ported by the palish. and while lie lived fur many years en
the worst terms with the defendant. Verdict fur the De-
fendant.

NORTHUMBERLAND. —Acc. 4.
(Ann V.CIARKF.

Stentirrtost.--This e.tse had excited a very biglt degree of
exttectal ion, and crowded the Court at an early hour. Just
ax itwas opened, hist-ordship ordered the ladies to withdraw.
It %vacs special jury, Sir Charles Lorraine, Hart, foreman,
Mr. Ifolt stated, that this was an action brought by 'num..,
Carr apiast the Rev. Robert Clei ke, to recover compettiation
in damages fm the loss of his daughter's services.

Mr. Scariest thus addressed the jury :—lt has fallen to my
lot to address yon on behalf of the plaintiff, whose unfortu-
nate daughter has been seduced by the defendant. The ae•
Sion is brought on the ground of loss of service. It is an
action lung known to the law of England. It is the action of
a master to recover compensation for the loss of service occa-
sioned by the seduction of his servant. If that in ester be
also the father, as the service is endeared by that relation, so
the loss is greatly aggravated, and the damages mast accord-
ingly be higher. 'lite seducer in this case, it gives me the
greatest pain to mention, ie *clergyman, lecturer at tfexham,
a man of very considerable fortune, and hut half a year a
:widower when the transaction took place. He hal been
married to a daughter of Mrs. Shelter, at Hexham, and had
three children. He lived at Walwick, a few miles from
Hexham. But lie often visited in Mrs. Shafto's house, and
sometimes was there with his whole family for weeks. In
Mrs. Shalto's family was the iinfoitimate daughter of the
plaintiff. lam aware that a legal objection will be, upon this
grumid, raised by my learned friend, who will contend that
this action cannot be maintained, as the daughter did not
actually serve her fattier at the time this transaction occurred.
LI know that this action cannot be maintained by a fattier
whose daisgliter, of mature age, is at service out of his lionse.
I know, that it cannot be 'maintained, when a daughter, Mu-.
der age, is serving without any special intention of returning
soon to her rather's house. It ill in this case there are pectili-
-rarities which, I !wipe, will satisfy his .Lordship, and leave the
t!ecision in your bands. The plaintiff is a master tiler. He
lived till Martinmas, Inld, in Allendale town, in this comity..
He Lail allowed his daughter to servo Mrs. Shaft° for sumo
time, but with the intention of having her soon back again hi
his own limier,. Besides, being a poor 10:11I, he was assisted.
hy pat t the wages winch she received for her service.—
Gtrte at which lie removed to Bishop Auckland, he.
wished te bring his daughter along with him, and was per-
%welled to leave her only till nest May. At that time shit' was
in eirminotences which disabled her to serve him. The de-
fendant began his course of seiluotion by promise of marriage.
'Chose promises she did not believe, but often repeated that
they did effect hoe sentiments mid her conibict. You can
conceive, gentlemen, how the-nolinn declarations of a man
edam plis.ntiffs age, fur lie is past 410, of a man of his prides.
sion, the son.in-law of her mistress, anal at the very time in
his minim r-itislew's house— you can conceive bow promises SO
made could grastivelly gain the emisent, and excite the tomes
of a simple and innocent girl. lie made those promises fic-
qaerit enough and strung enough fur his purposes, but avoided
to enter lulu any covenant which could now sillijecl him to
111.ICli011 for breach of promise of marriage. Of this tutu
know nothing bur what I know of him as the defendant in
this cos..; and if I did, I should be sorry to glance at huh be-
yond the necessity of this case. After certain familiarities
had taken place, he contrived to effect his object. How he
ihil sn, I aO.rain from detailing to you ; I dare say my learn-
ed fi Mud will, in cross-examination, lay enough of this he-
Core you. Site soon afterwards found herself in a sitnetiou
which obliged her to write to the defendant ; out lie no
longer regarded her or tier letters. It is consistent with
oar knowledge. of human nature, and perhaps with the
experience many of us must have 11411 with the world,
that men, after a certain age, regard with loathing the
victims of attempts ,whieh are aimed at their honour,
and terminate in their ruin. She went to iier fathers
home, Lut her father being poor, sad the parish officers inter
firing to prevent a burden to the pariahs, (lie child was filiated,
aid the defendant ii.consequence gave a bond to the elect at
kat us securing the parish from any expense. ant to the
parents no compensation has been You will, therm
tore, Gentlemen, take into your eirmaidetation what sum in
damages should be given to the father. Vi; ere Ito ask %lint
would be an adequate compensation to the father for the se-
duction of his child, 1 siumild ask a most foolish and vain
question. No injury ran 1w inflicted liven a matt more
hitter andtasting, than the injury inflicted on a pat( /,3'
seduction of Ws daughter. The seduct.on of a Ville iS a
most giiiebosis injury, )et it is qualified w ninnyl:l re mimes.
lie loss of a wife subject to seduction c, tbe iiimc-
compaiiied with some alleviating consiirrations ; but the in:
jury of a fattier by the seduction ut hie tinagaier, is altogether
unmixed and unallaiiated. The object of „us affection, his