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derirtui • ;he:: appeared to lie a yonsiderable intimacy b
;ace') the Detendant and the Pl;:in'ilf s wifa who always set
him tea and Inneheon; and introdueeii him into the house, to
degree Of ietitracy- that she had never done before. I wou'
appear in evidence, bev ond all loubt, thit there had been
criminal it treolv,e bets+ e,,a the Defendant at d Mrs. Fowler.
A.,ne Aullv'y; a meld -Arrant of Mr. Fowler's, proved, tha•
immediately' aff,:r licr Master went to Niargate last summer,
Mrs. Fowle ery much in the back oltice a ith the De
fendig, and-'after had him in the drawing-room with her; that
whenever she '.ll seen them together in the drawing-room. the
blind nar the tire was Oros% down, and that she had fre-
quently :troughs tea to the Defendant by the order of her I‘l i •
tre,,, aud chat she also sometimes delivered letters to him. h,
r,:enlar facts to willed this witness deposed were, that on the
2ist of December last, on going into the hack office, she sae
Ai,- Fowler and the Defendant together, in a most indecent si•
ttia••on t% to the el ,thes (the witness described this situation in
bad' a manner tha. the intercourse must be referred).
Mr. Serjeant 13c11.made an eloquent address to the Jury,
'until:Winn of dam', rs, in case the Jury should belies e the story
told Ir, the Plaiaisll's witnesses. lie prinripall argued that it
am:eared from tee eviderce, that if there had been any sedue
tion, it was on the part of Mrs. i'owler, and that her husband
could tot he said to have suffered any very heavy loss in losing
the society of a woman so indelicate and abandoned.
Sir James Mansfield thought that the proper measure and da-
mages in such cows was the value of actual loss of society and
comfort which the husband sustained. lie knew that a new doe
tr.ne had been introduced lately, that in order to prevent the in-
ce •tir-e of adultery, Judges and Juries should be disposed to
rise ver, large damages as pui.ishment for the moral offence. 11,
not think, the law meant fa give that 'Amer to Judges and
uric, of this speoos of action ; but that was merely an actin„
a a civil injury, and that the damages should be proportioned
• that civit in;ury. 'le then shortly- recapitulated the evidence,
id observed that the seduction appeared to come altogether
Airs. Fowler, mai to have began from the moment she had
got her husband on board of the Mar,,ate boy.
The Jury retired for a short time, at.i brought in a verdict
for the Plaima—Damages 150/.

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e., .; bn a;.oat ten years old, son of the male prisoner, Ina
-L AI-house belonging to Mr. Rhodes, at Kingsland, in the parish
4* St. John, Ilack:•ey on the 2d of J tote last. Ile was in ano-
ter cqunt 61.trAed with r Hull% and maliciougly setting fire to
hie said house, whereby the said boy lost his life.
The only sq.:(low of criminality consisted in two circumstances
—the one, that a female brickmaker swore she heard the male
:aisoner declare with an oath in a public house, that he would
...Ira down the sand house; and the other, that he got a match
ran the rublican at a late hour on that night. Neither of the
ercumstances were proved. The humanity and afiectionsite con-
.luct of the father towards his son, were circumstances not a little
it:.iis favor:—the tom; was muck affected during the trial:---
. e..e way not a tittle of evidence against the woman. The trial
con:laded wi,ii a humane charge to the .lury, from Justice Le
Blau., and which was immediately followed by the Jury pro-
nouncing the prisoner; Gui Po.