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s this :.iieerpad fllse- iiii tit Miss Metres father,
Xllll left a widow and a large ly, consisting of sons and
several married and unmarried &emblem, upon the disco.
*try of his affairs being embarrassed, there was a meeting
of the different members of the family, for the purpose of
arranging some mode of providing for them. It would appear
Thal the Plaintiff, who hail married the eldest sister of Miss
rilimr, had ameirrel with her a portion of lust lest than three
thousand pounds, anti this was the only timelier who had
received any portion, she others
of their lather's relate. The Plaintiff by this time having
himself fallen into difficulties, was unwilling, or onside,
to rend In the family any part of the 3,0001 rotator lie hail
received with his wife, bill he agreed to take charge of the
youngest daughter, who, for some time previous to her father's
death, had been on a visit to his honer, Ace:wilingly, he re-
ceived the Usfenolsist into his family precisely sin that foot-
ing, wool, hot fur his distress, it was impossible he might have
resorted to the expedient of chat-gent her with a ii. tit which
be must have been sensilee wen urigui.elly gratuitous, and the
subject of family •rraiszeinent H. would shrew, that Wog
after the period when this young laily easeinspriarld es hare
expressed her anxiety to discharge the obligation& drer hail
to him, he had written lier title,., entreating her to use her
inflitence with the person whom she had sleet married.
in wire to toaster him to savant-es her the slum of Mot
on his account, to relieve his lemming so cessitiee wh:le
Ile was at Paris; and i tette* had nude no mew
tin.' whatever of any e f Alias Glover to him,
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or any demand he has upon lier—e.teircionietalice wholly
ineredible if any debt told actually existed; for it was
mil to be suppmed he w..sill hir terve/ her to borrow mon, y
for hint from aitother when be might have avoided his per..-
. glary difficulties by calling upon her to pay him the debt she
owed bins. The first of these let trim was dated at Paris, May
1 I th, 11416, and wan in this effect : 0 My dearest Emily--.
S !re us limn our state of misery, and show the eisclmed letter
to —ray, It will interest you mere than ever in his esteem."
llbheispelftliet:iirlaPinde.ll"ThdethPelaiinnt,tfrihiailmet wravneirloiitrhsi so Ime t Vre, "usei t conrubt .v 1
neither he Illre,miye to herself nor to him, but would operate
favourably in, his mind, sexing a letter written with suds
sincerity, and apparently sot 'suntan! to be alteson to him."
Then the letter said, " he (Vold not doubt the Defena iet's
success in obtaining the money,sod he desired hi r to keep 31./.
herself, sod only send him 70/., which she might rely no his
puiwinalls returning within a certain period." Then the letter
Went ma to stale a great variety of circum.tances,•hewing the
dismays to which the ratio iff was minced, and how his very
existence, and that of his wife, the Defendant's sister, de,
pended iipiiii her succeeding in obtaining the money for him.
lie ileseribeil to her the lodgings they had in Paris--ten
amine he had to the preceding year hared in order Ii see the
amputee of the usurper. He expressed a wish to secure them
for the l), feminist ; lout uhserved,lliat all his hopes might tie
blighted, himselfplaced to a prisms, and tier sister destitute
of everything. lie stated that their rent was up, Limit how
to go un till he could even have an answer from the Defenil-
ant, with ilw dons about him, he slid out know. Fly tskain
they could not ; elle), hail no where to go; it was life or
death After much more to the same effect he reiterated his
e.licitations In the Defendant to procure Stir money fur him—
. want of which would he inevitable rule. In all this letter,
he loser staled a single word about his having any demand,
The enclosure, which was to be laid before the per... Vow
whom the writer +opposed her to possess such eutionice,
oral, of his high character fur 1)foot-ie.-wee, nod made use of
that flattering sort of langonge which he thought would lie
most laic& ly to operate ml his mind. It praised him fur
tin discernment in the sage ' lie hail made of one posse ea
jug so much merit as the Defendatit ; and had recourse to
that ar•fiol kind of language algid li he thought must likely
to made ais impression upon the person fur whose vim w
it wee ante:life& The sister, however, it appeared, ii s.
slain. d 10 net in • manner which she very properly thought
wonl.l 1,, nolo-coining of her. She refused to interfere in
the way she Plaintiff had requested her, and wrote to that
Or, ci. And even upon thin occasion the Plaintiff nevi r
entertain, il the smallest 'ilea of asking li. r fur the debt
she owed him, which undoubtedly he would have thaw had
be had any a. maisd upon her; but instead of so doing, he
wrote her a letter, stating that 17 dal. had elapsed since his
lad address, and it was only yesterday that he received hen's
in answei. lie ulseerveil, that his feelings could not be ex-
i reseed; that her letter had added a blow he never expected
to have felt. Ile deer, ilea his distress and that of his wile,
soil represented her as destitute of apparel and thrown on a
bed ref sickness, and !nowt/scarcely able to hold his pen.
Throughont this, and a great variety of ohsr letters, still
be never made she lea•t eluint upon the Defendant for any
debt due from err Was it, therefore, p ussihlc fur the Jury sts
annum he roiil-111:es, so written if there bail been any foun-
dation for the claim which he had tiow trumped up? It was
impossible Ile, could conaiiler this an action which the
Plaintiff had a right to bring imaiost his sister ; and be had
no hesitation in perissuiding himself that they troul.l dismiss
his nation tint of Court, and &id a verdict for the Defendant.
Peter Glover, the brother, was mainlined, and confii used
the circumstances stated by IM Leaner/I S iksile, lie men.
tinned, that upon Mr, tleath alibi f other, and the discovery of
his insulverry, there was a neettiog of all them. mbere of the
faintly at Henley Castle, at which the Plaintiff, who hail
received 3,0001. e ith Ilia wife, was present. The Defendant
was the younger sister, end had receive,' 111.1 poi tiou what.
ever; she had resided with the Plaintiff some tune before.
The Plaintiff atretelkio sdvsnce 501. to relieve the mother's
immediate necessities, and Emily was to continue to ',fade
with him as she had previously dime, hi cause Mr. Thompann
said it was not convenient to return any part of his wife's
porno'. Emily should therefore live with him, and he
wend.' ii.lze care of leer. That was the ariangement which
was acted tiptoe. The Plaintiff had expressly given lion.
the witness, to understand, that he would take care of
Emily till her faillei'• alfaius were arranged. They never
yet had hero arraugril, but very far from it. The %Vila. at
:dieted that his mother hail sit, n,leit i %ice whew this
cause st I for Iris(, hot that Ile Plaintiff had post-
poned bi itiging it on. The mother hail been dead but two
months.
The witness, on his cross-reaminstion, said, he haul
gone by a eill, lent name from his win, hut it wen foe Ho.
purpose of •voidong ass i at the suit of tt.e Plaintiff,
who, he knew, hail a writ out against hum. He stated that
the Plaisit:ff had arrested Ilia mother, when she was Iv tween
70 sod kd
~ear• of age, and bail !trough' her from &admit'
gaol, in Cornwall, mod at her advanced period el life had
lodge,' her in the Ilitug's Deitch; but the resell was, that
after haviag kept her rinslinest, she hail a trttalles in bee
favour. 'the witness concluded his testimony lay oisservinz
that his sisternrigiuully went to the Plaintiff's house by h. i
jii%illiioll, mid as be conceived, continued with him ou that
footing.
Mr. Jessie, therirs officer, slated, that he was applied
is by the Platutiff to Emily Glover. He rangier(' •
very accurate description of the lady, and was informed float
she resided at Putney. He was ordered, if be found her,
to be very cantinas what boil he took, for that she wool(' en-
deavour in impose that kind of bail uncle him which would
ii It mime', lie the menus alining him with the deist. Hewes
ointshierrupecter'siotens"wil htoomtalwk•ecotihe baililsli of S
tame, tibro.till;linhe'au' endkoe severalwthmt
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be persons of the greatest respectability. lie wasparttrodarlv
urged, if possible, nut to take bail for Muss Glover, but to
persist in confining her; if he slid so, the Plaintiff' nas Sllle
the money would he paid. The witness went to Putney,
but did not succeed in finding her there; he stated the ex-
pense that would attend his frequent jonenies out of town,
but the Plaintiff told bin. not to mind, a. he would give
horn fifty guineas for his trouble if he soeceeded in taking
her.
This was the evidence for the Defendant, which was fol-
lowed op by reading the different letters which bad been re-
(erred its by the Learned Stsjeset.

Mr. Serjeaot °aglow replied at considerable length.
lie el.:attained Ibe evidence ua buth sides; and contended,
that the letters written by the Plaintiff from France by
no mesas went to impeach, or contradict, Its testimony
given by Mr. Henson expressive of the Dcf. iiilant's
anxiety to discharge her obligation. Ile insisted, that
the motive by which he avoided making her fur payment,
slid merely soliciting her to obtain • Ivan fur him
from another person, was, because be was appetites.
sive, that if be urged her to pay • slim of money so consi-
deri:ble as be wanted, it would have been injorions to her
affairs, sad the posports sbe had in view at that period.
With regard to the ease of the Plaintiff, as it stood tea the