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respectable woman, and by Mrs. Slade ; heard
Mrs. Hamilton's husband had been a stationer ;
never heard who pawned the breeches; it- might
have been the Captain's servant ; can't say; re.
collects Mrs. Jackson living at the barracks ;
her inittrese was vi.ited by Mr. and Mss. Watts.
Mr. and Mrs. Priest, end many others ; all
her mistress% visitors were respectable persons ;
she did not pats as Mrs. NPlSTarnare to her intimate
friends; her old friends usually inquired for her iii
her own name, as Mrs. Cella ; witness did not tell
them she was married, because she Captain desired
her to keep it a secret ; her mistress was always
called Mrs. M'Nnmara at the barracks, at Brotnp.
tore, ut Lewisham. and at the two cottages. The
Captain took a house at Ilarossa-terrace, about
six miles front London ; whilst her mistress was
there she always passed as Mr.. MiNaniara ; Mr.
and Mrs. Reardon dined one day in company with
the Captain, at her mistress's house, in Upper
George-street; she was at that time called Mr..
M'Namara; her mistress has since been called Mrs.
Coils. Does not know if it is usual for a lady to
send the servant maid's love to a gentleinan when
she is writing to him ; had no wages from the Cap-
tato, he never paid her the odd change he has bra..
rowed front her.—(A letter was here rheum to wit-
arsa.)—Believesthat letter to be her mistress% hand-
writing ; sees the words " Caroline gives her love
to you." Tile Caroline meant there is wittiest ;
there was no other Caroline in the house; witne.s
always treated her master with great reepect ; the
Captain was not to be compared to Jerry : the re-
gard she had for her master was but as the duty of
a servant; she never made any charge to the Cap-
tain for what he owed her, it was out worth her
while, if she had. it was not at all times he had mo-
ney to pay her.—( Load laughter.)—Saw the Cap-
tain write the calumet, heard him read it, and wit-
sieved it in about two hours after; the Captain
wrote it with a pen and ink from his writing desk,
and put the desk in a travelling trunk, at he was
packing up preparing to set off for Ireland, where
his regiment was ordered; the trunk was to go in
the baggage-waggon; he did not like to unpack
the trunk ; she (witness) borrowed a pen and ink in
the house, when she was going to sign the contract;
the Captain handed it to her and told her to wit-
ness it.

In answer to ■ question from the Foremen of the
Jury, the witness said 6, her mistress had 3001. a
yeiir, and she always paid the house expenses—the
Captain never paid any—he had enough to do to
pay his own debts."—/A laugh.)
The marriage between the Defendant and M.
Payton was admitted by the Counsel and Agent
for the Defendant. .

James Menzies. Esq. attorney for the Plaintiff,
was examined, merely to prove that he wrote a let-
ter to the Defendant, on the 2d July, isle, ad-
dressed to his house, No. 8, Rutland-street, de.
mending payment of the original contract, and also
repayment of a sum of 6001. laid out and expended
by the Plaintiff for the Defendant's use—received
no answer to this letter. .

The letters from the Defendant to time Plaintiff
were then read in evidence. and the Plaintiff's care
closed.

DEFENCE.
Mr. HENRY DEANS GRADY then rose to Mg. I
dress the Jury on behalf of the Defendant, and
spoke to the following cake :
Gentlemen of the Jury, it has devolved on me to
submit. for your consideration, such observations as
have occurred to me in the course of this trial, on
behalf of my client, the Defendant. This is an
action brought against him, Gentlemen. for an
alleged breach of marriage promise : the damages
laid at 5,000/. Gentlemen of the Jury. where
Lady is the subject of am action, it requires your
most serious attention. The Learned Commiel who
stated the case for the Plaint ar, could not have failed
toinnke r great, a powerful impression ; I could not
but perceive nu impression had been made on the
minds of some of you of a mature so apparently
alarming and discouraging, that I Might almost
despair of succeeding even with the strongest case
on the part of my client. Gentlemen, I entreat
you for a moment to consider seriously the na-
ture of the charge against the Defendant, and the
milliner in which he has been introduced to you ;
the severe, unfounded. and nnnierited calumnies
and reproaches with which he has been assailed by
the Counsel for this virtuous English lady.—
Will you allow an Irishman, a young man of fa-
mily arid education, who had taken out his degree
in the University of Dublin, will you :Mow him to
lie down under the heavy charge of being a needy
adventurer ; • poor, pitiless, disgraceful fortune-
hunter, a merchant dealer in flesh. You will at
least hear him before you decide; ■s pious men, us
men disposed to do justice, you will say, we
have heel' premature, we have been carried away
by eloquence, but we will not yet decide." Gentle-
men. you are on your oaths to ret a verdict ac-
cording to the evidence, and not according in con-
jecture or wild inference. Allow me, Gentlemen,
to draw your attention to the statement of the
Learned Counsel fur the Plaintiff; and also to the
evidence produced in support of that statement.
The Learned Counsel stated, that the Plaintiff had
been married to a respectable Gentleman', Peter
Coda, Esq. living its the most fashionable part of
London, and visited by persons of the utmost re-
spectability. How has the Defendant been men-
tioned ? Oh ! Gentlemen, the contrast is very
great ; one is amiable, respectable, beautiful,
married to on Esquire ; the other a pitiful adven-
turer, a moral minister, a merchant-dealer in flesh.
The Learned Counsel then proceeds to his amiable,
beautiful, and virtuous diem, this highly respect-
able, pure. correct, and chaste lady. Captain
MlNainara, who ail along was only a Lieutenant.
was introduced to the Plaintiff by a Mrs. Hamilton.
who was herself an intruder, as the amiable Caro-
line has told you. In the words of the Learned
Counsel, the Captain " made a lodgment ;" this
toriune-hunter, this keen pursuer of female pro-
perty, having obtained admission, looked about the
room ; he liked the furniture, it was just what he
waisted. This visit having ended with niece erre.
money, the l'lsiutiff desired little " run about" to
deny hrr to the Lieutenant in case he should call
agate; now and then, however, the Lieutenant
slipped in; the little maid did her own business;
Jerry was drinking tea with little Caroline. The
mistress bring deterauintd to get aid of this Irish
Bergausi, let tier house, No. 32, Upper George-
street, Portman-square, laud having given directions