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lie went to`iramoOsiteroOn'a to imptire for Mr.
Fru!der, lamellae last summer ; e girl pointed
that he was op stairs. Witness went up Moira,
said found him in bed, and Mrs. Lawson standing
clove by the bed•ride.

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On ins croso.examination, he said he was sober'
the might before mentio►►ed ; had been at work all
di ,and in the course of the evening had drank u
fourth sl►are of five quarts of ale. Inswing a glass of
rum or brandy in each quart. Filthier never
mile Mrs. Lawson stand up to chew that she was

with child.
Mr. Justice PARK asked the witness if he was
quite sober, and was answered in the affirmativ,.
His Lordship vehemently and indignantly
repri-
manded him, and declared that his conduct made
him unworthy of credit. To understand this, it
mast be explained, that in that part of the exam.-
nation of Cornier which we have suppressed, he
stated certain expressions of the Defendmit ; and,
on inquiry, it appeared that they were used in pee-
srnce of witness's two daughters end his wife.
It was the permitting such language in the Si-
tuation described, and s-sociating with the man
capable of using it, which called forth his Lord-
ship's animadversions. While we highly applaud
his Lordship's intentions, and most silicerrly
wish that the correctness of his Lordship's mind
and manners were universally extended, it is
but justice to poor Canner to say, that we con-
jectured his Lordship knows little of rural life ;
and that we believe Cartier would be quite unable
to form any adequate notion of the nature of his
offence, and that his Lordship's admonition would
be just as incomprehensible to him as a section oat
of Reid or Hartley.
Thomas Taylor was the next witness: he appear-
ed a very young man. Lives at Burnthwaite; was
at Gilkerson's the Thursday after Martinmas last,
and slept there that night, with Wm. Gilkerson.
The parts of his evidence which bore upoet the
case are these:—The party at Gilkerion's, of which
the Defendant was one, had had three quarts of
ale, and about a gill of rum. The Defendant
wanted some more rum (it appeared he had made
Mrs. Lawson a present of two or three gallons)—the
Plaintiff would not confess with any more; De-
fendent said he knew she had another bottle,
and sent her up stairs for it. Defendant went after
her, and witness saw neither of them again dist
night. Worsens went to bed about half an hour
after, and got up about five next morning, to pursue
his journey, it was quit dark. The way to the room
in which he slept lay through another, in which
were two beds, in one of which Mrs. Lawson and
her daughter, six years of age, slept ; in the
other, her two sisters. Before witness got up iu
the morning. he laid a short time awake. Wm.
Gilkerson amid to him, " There is Faultier there
yet, I think." Witness heard Faulder go across
the room, and discoursing with the two sisters;
heard the voices, but not what they said. The
remainder of this evidence, which we shall not de-
tail, proved very clearly that the Defendant had no
objection that witness should conclude that he and
the Plaintiff occupied one of the beds. Witness
went down stairs, and could not readily find his
shoes. Mrs. Lawson struck • light, and cane
down stairs with a candle. She appeared to be
dressed. She said, " This Faulder is a sad 0ne....
there is no getting shot of him."
On his cross-examination, lie said •he told the
story to George Bell and another, it day or two
after; he never mentioned it to Fruitier.
George Bell has frequently been at Gilkersoles.
His evidence was not material _ _

After Mr. ScatLerr had replied, in au impas-
sioned address,
Mr. Justice Pau charged the Jury at great
length. The Learned Judge said, there could be
no doubt that the Plaintiff was entitled to damages :
a promise of marriage had been distinctly proved,
which the Defendant had put it out of his power to
perform, by marrying another woman ; and had
not shewu any conduct on the part of the Plaintiff
to justify his desertion of her. It had not been at.
tempted to criminate her with any other man : and
believing all the witnesses. in every instance of culp-
able behaviour ou her part, the Defendaut was irupli.
cated. His Lordship would not be sure, that if ■
man seduced • virtuous woman, under promise of
marriage, and so far debauched her sense of moral
rectitude, that she abandoned herself over to an-
other man, ■n action of damages would not lie
against het seducer. But. in this case, the Defend-
ant had to complain only of himself; and not only
was he a participator in all the criminalities with
which she was charged, but they were all subse.
quetit to her pregnancy, a circumstance which
threw her more cotupletely into the power of the
Defendant. The Learned Gentleman who address-
ed the Jury ott the part of the Defendant, would in-
deed have proved " a case more shocking than any
book which was ever written," if he had been able
to make out, in evidence, • case to the extent of his
instructions. The Learned Gentleman was not to
blame fur his statement of the disgusting scene
which was attempted to be proved, but the proof
of which wholly failed r the wife of Canner proved
nothing of it ; and if she had prevaricated, and
given a statement differing from that which she had
made to the Solicitor for the prosecution, why
was she not asked if she had .used such words to
the Solicitor ? and if she had denied them, then
the Solicitor might have been brought forward.
This had not been done. Neither did lie blame
the Solicitor fur so instructing the Learned
Gentleman; he must have had the informatiuu from
the Defendsut, who was to have appeared a promi.
tient actor in the transaction. and on him let the
infamy of bringing forward such au unsupported
statement rest. His Loid•hip said. he had come
into this county 90 years, besides beiog profession-
ally engaged in other parts of the kingdom ; but,
in all his life, he. lied never before witnessed any
thing so disgusting as this trial. His Lordship said
that the Jury, iu taking the subject of damage.
into cousidrratiuii, were nut to form their estimate
by the fortune of the Defendant. but by the injury
received by the Plaintiff; and that she had received
•q injury, in the disappointment of • comfortable
settlenieut in life, was most apparent. They were to
make a recompence to the Plaiatiff, not to indict •
pumalinitut ou the Defendant. At the same time, it
was proper to make a distinction between this ease
and that of • young girl of 13 or Id. The present
Plaintiff is • widow of 33 years of age, and from
her eepetience of the ways of mesa, might be a:-
potted to have been more upon her sward dram. on

iiiitzperiesiced female, of fewer years. Pia Load-
ship concluded with racomeserwiing the Jury so
give temperate, but sufficient, daramixer.
The Jury withdrew, and alter cosieultilag • short
time, came into Court with a verdict for the Plain.
tiff—Damages 5501.

IMPROVEMENT
IN THE PRACTICE OP AGRICULTURE.


Terri Opel."

In the early part of the Fear 1816, • person who
assumed the names of William Forbes and Alex-
ander Grant, snit whose real name is supposed to
be William Orson, once well known in Oxford.
shire, wrote from Ireland to • gentleman in Lon.
don, thin lie had the knowledge of • Chisese im-
plement of much better power snit economy than
our ploughs in common use, and of the practice of
China, with u cheap and universal manure, suited
to be of great advantage to husbandry. where dung
or lime could not be had, or only at great rspeos•-.
Ile offered the continuoication of these valuable
improvements to the farmers of Engtrod, with a
very plausible assurance, and with the evidence of
an intimate acquaintance with the general practice
■nd theory of agriculture. This offer was too im-
portant in be slighted, and every invitation was
given to him to impart the knowledge he assumed
to possess.
He, however. kept himself concealed, and
evaded any disclosure of the process lie had pro-
fessed to be able to impart. This person had pub.
lished, in 1812. • treatise, sold by Harding, en
the cultivation of wheat on the system of the ap-
plication of lime.
Some knowledge of the processes and results of
the agriculture of Hindostan and China, from
personal observation, report, mid hooks, amid an
attention at that time closely directed to the diffi-
culties and distress of that period, secured for this
pretension a regard in the quarter to which it was
proposed which was more justified by the public
importance of the matter than by the manner of
proceeding of the projector, who had engaged also
the attention for some time of a respectable prac.
tical cultivator in Wales.

The conclusion from these confident, plausible,
and mysterious assurances, long repeated. was,
that the conceit, whether borrowed from Chinese
practice, or imagined by the projector, who bad
evidently thought and bitxtured much and long •n
his subject, pointed to a new method of tillage,
by a light plough, or scarifier of the soil, and by a
top-dressing of some material of easy acquisition,
and every where present; of course, fire was con-
cluded to be the agent, and whet, or carbon of
clay, or of the common soil, to be the material
offered. Some experiment to ascertain this has pro-
ceeded in Wales, and is now prosecuting. to deter-
mine in the same manner. whether a similar int.
provement of the plough and manure can be offered
for mountain land and light soils.
The consideration of this pretension led to the
further conclusion, that a much more complete
opening, s ' ' ig, ■nd pulverization of our stiff
roils, was one of the things wanted to enable them
to imbibe th• nutrition of fertility which the air
and water afford for all the vegetable growths, and
which are assisted by light and heat.
Every one must have observed, on a large pro-
portion of the soil of Britain, how well our fanners
have merited the homely title, vo generally be-
stowed on them of " c/ud•hoppers," which they
will, perhaps, do well to resign for the future, by
suffering their land to return to "dust," as the
gardeners do.
An attention to artificial irrigation seems also to
be desirable, and is possible to • population as dense
as ours has become.

It is a pleasure to be able now to announce, that
all which this concealed and prevaricating projector
announced, but did not disclose, and all the con.
elusions which reflection on this pretence led to, is
at last proved, and produced to the British farmer,
after thirteen years of experiment and practice, in a
manner which is above the praise of this notice, by
Major-General Beano!), who, on a farm of three
hundred acres, at Kuowle, Tunbridge Wells, hay,
since the year 1813, proved, that by light or shal-
low ploughing, ou • stiff soil with one horse, with-
out lime or dung. and without fallow, lie can raise
crops of wheat and other grain, at the expense of
five pounds an acre, equal or superior to those of
his neighbours, obtanied at an expense, in time,
and labour of cattle (" lima, labor") of 161. an
acre ! General Beatson's report of his practice,
experience, and, as it should seem, most valuable
discoveries and improvements, does him great
honour, and deserves, first, the attention of the
agriculturalists, and then their thanks. or some
more solid reward. His book mint stand, for prac-
tical men, in the same tank of merit which Sir
Humpbry Davy's always will possess with the sci-
ent.fic.
It may perhaps now be hazarded to predict, that
in • few years it will be evident to all, that the soil
of Great Britain and Ireland, cultivated with skill
and economy, is as capable to supply the grain,
and other necessary food, of forty millions of
inhabitants, as it has been to feed and support
the mime of twenty million.; and can raise this food
too in the material elements of space, manure, and
the labour of men and cattle, as cheaply as
Russia, Poland, Flanders, the Climes, Egypt, or
America. It is a consolation. too. for those whose
philanthropy is chiefly sensitive for the numerous
millions who are to be born in the two next centu-
ries, that when the population of these islands shall
be increased to the whole number which " its soil
can curry," on the prescrit scale of consump-
tion, and with the present habits of diet and of
preparation of food. that these cats be improved in
economy, and for health, vigour, enjoyment, and
longevity. so as to admit of more than. ten addi-
tional millions to fare well (nut like Aldermen, but
like Princes) on this product.
I Let us hope that Profesaor Malthus will admit
this, and that his new volume will, with his usual
ability, afford a consolatory addition to the encour-
aging views of the excellent tract of Geo. Beeson,
whose work must be read, not reviewed here, nod
his practice tried on the land, not debated in print.
The best mode to pay WM/ natiewel debt, or
the easiest to bear soul to liglitee the whitetiew of
its aumaity-interest, is to isereose all the growths
of the soil, and to raker the eau of their prods&

lion. This is real riches, better than fine gold ;
and tree eco►►nov, of more power Ann foreign
trade, financial contrivances, or brllion payments.
When dank shall he no longer required, our land
will grow fewer weeds with the gran, ; our corn and
vegetables will be sweeter and sounder ►o their qua-
lity ; the straw will feed cattle, and we may we our
good hay fur tea, of which the Chinese do not now
furnish us with enefamexth part of what is wanted
for the sober refection and s►cial eujoyasent of the
poorer CllllllOl of ode population.

BRUTAL (PUTRAGE.

[Prose as Amonken Asper]
The following case Ina been recently decided in
the City Court at Clarkston, South Carolina :

IMPORTANT DECISION.
INFERIOR CITY COURT, MARCN 110111011, leto.
Mary Lloyd r. Hiotore Hompoey. Declaration
case. Tried before his Honour IVilliern Driry.
ton. Esq. the Recorder.
This was a special action on the case for
beating a negro woman, the property of the
Plaintiff. It appeared in evidence on the trial,
that some time in the month of Jime last, wink
the family of the Plaintiff, who is a respectable
widow lady, and no oilier children hut danglitos,
were at r, and the negro woman in question
was attending upon them at the tahlr, the Defend-
ant rushed violently into the room here they were
dining, and without asrigniiig any reason, or entering
into any explaoation upon the subject, commenced
an outrageous battery uron the servant, by beating
and striking her several blows on the head with his
fist, knocking her down and kicking her two or
three times in the back, swearing at the seine time
he would have her ears. The blows she received
were so severe as to cause the blood to gush front
her ears, and to deprive her of all sensslinta for near-
ly half an hour. Several of the neighbours, who
were either attracted or called particularly to the
spot at the time, represented that she was to all ap-
pearance dead. It was some time before she exhi-
bited any indication of returning life, sod as a coil.
sequence of this brutal violence, she was confined
to her bed nearly a fortnight, during which period
she was prematurely delivered of a still-born child.
The child was fully formed, mid had evidently lost
its life from the kicks which the mother bad reveiv-
ed. It was nearly • month before she was able to
return to the duties of her situation in the house. It
was for this injury done to the person of her servaut
that the Plaintiff brought the present action.
The defence set up by the Defendant was three-
fold :—First, that there was no evidence that the
slave in question was the property of the Pliintiff,
and therefore she was entitled to no action whatever,
it being as to herself damming chigoe injuria ;
second, that the negro had been insolent to him, mid
that the chastisement she received was no more than
she merited ; and third, that the Ytanrtitl was en-
titled to no more damages than what she had
actually suffered in the loss of service of her wench,
during the incapacity to perform the usual ditties of
her place, and that she could not recover any for
the personal injury done to her servant.
The RECORDER charged the Jury in favour of
the Plaintiff, who, after a few nsiiiiitee consultation.
returned • verdict of 500 dollars damages, and
costs, that being the full extent of damages recover.
able in the Court.

We sre gratified to find, that such a brutal and
inhuman wretch was so far punished for his barba-
rity ; but we should have been much better pleased.
if the damages had been applied to the comfort and
benefit of the poor creature who had been made to
sutler the cousequences of such savage abuse.

Tbc Carlota, from Bahia to Lisbon, has bees taken near
Fayal by an Insurgent privateer, and fitted out as a craiser.
The Liverpool, Bean, from Africa fur this Liverpool, was
lost on the Nth of May off Critics, wear Cahoot,.
Monday Wooled, as Mr. Irma, jun. of Week's', Nor-
folk, and Mr. Anima, jun. of Ilsaham, were returning from
Wells to the former place, the horse of the latter Gentleman
tame with pest violence against the wheel of a logger- cart
that was passing at the time; from the violence of the
shock, the horse of Mr. ADAMS was killed upon the spot,
Mr. A. was cooveyed to the lamest public-house, stub
bruised and otherwise injured.