The National Register.
London, England, 1822-11-10 00:00:00

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

In the Court of Castle ILithen, the Isle of Man, osa
the 9th ult. an action was brought by Miss Ritchie.
daughter of the late Captain Ritchie, of the East India
Company's naval service, against Lieut. Blued, Royal
Navy, fur a breach of promise of marriage. When
the father of plaintiff, Capt. Ritchie, last left India, he
intended to return, and therefore he did not take that
pains in arranging his affairs that he should beiv.- dune;
tile consequence was, as is too often the case. his pro-
perty was deAroyed by those whose care he kit it hi.—
Illness prevented his return; and ai his death l'ae plain-
tiff, and a very delicate young man, her br,dl). r, hound
themselves fielterless, and almost penityless. Expecting
to leave his children in a i uence, lie spared oohing on
their education ; and the plaintiff in her seventeenth
year, found herself excluded by her circumstances from
that walk of life of wh.cli her accomplishments qualified
her to he an ortiairsent. In Novendier„ 181$, the de-
fendant met the plaintiff at Me house of his aunt, and
an intimacy was thereupon formed. lie was then a
Lieutenant in the Navy on ball-pay; but lie had Sallie
time prevtously (as Mr. Barryinore) travelled tb.rouglt
the sevtral gradations of a player's life. front a country
stroller up to a secontbrate performer. From the time
of the first intimacy taking place, the defendant was in
the practice of engaging Miss Ritchie in parties with his
family in various public places. Oti all those occasions
Miss Ritchie paid for the party ; the defendant came to
attend the young lady, and received her purse; he at-
tended her house at night, and, in parting, returned it v.
so that he hail all the appearance of a gallant and liberal
lover, when in fact he was sucking the last shilling from
the UIIII/flunate and innocent girl, who had too much
the feelings of a gentlew ttttt ah to regret the money, and
too little knowledge of the world to know that this con-
duct was any thing extraordinary. This system of plun-
der continued trout the end of December till diet gth of
June, at which time he had reduced the young lady's
propery to 1301. He was all this time full of love and
ardour, vowing eternal fidelity, and made a promise to
marry like IM3IIIOI in Sep;entlier. But, finding this time
approaching, he instantly changed his plan, to evade an
cugagetnent he never intended to fulfil. The plaintiff,
an excellent pernirmer on the piano-forte, and ready to
work for her Dread, and the bread of her worthless lover,
is peisitatled to 1.-ansport herself to Ireland, to learn niti.
sic according to the system of Logier, wincii was then
taught tht!ie by a 111.111 01 the name of Bluet. The de-
fendant, in the name 01 Miss Itheille.* brother, who,
from a complaint iii Isis eyes, could not on,. curries
on 3 correspondence vied' Bluet in 1)i. a . •.- • •
inquire lion 131 net's character, dila
plaintiff go to Dublin, and p..y title nn... • . a ,
eiiehteen mouth.; instruction mid," Mai t.af • 11**111.0.
tessed purpose of marrying the defendant. anti v..a.kinig
as a muse toisueaa lor hi, Latham. at,....,,
all this to his satisfoc;itni, iv: then
she had better set off early in Jude, as ivy was :nue .se
would nearly have exhausted ter y, and kit her
barely sufficient to pay her hundred gum, to
lie pursued this hlS4faCel.lll course 11.11.4 at he
deserted the plainiid, and becomt-s Isle fancy mama a
prostitute—one who lives with a woman of irvuv, and
sutlers huusell to be supported by tier on the earnings of
her prostitution with other lovers, on whose admission
to her presence he retires. This discovery was wade by
die .tiot 01 the who went to the theatre, and
titer, saw the deiviulatit and the woman together.
Counsel made a speech in defence, but called nu wit.
nesses.
Verdict—Damages 5001. and all costs.

On Friday lent an inquest was held at the Dandee
Arius, Bethnal-green, by \I r. Unwiti, coroner, out the
body of an tenant named Mary Jones. It appeared from
the e‘ittetice that the deceased, whoie laying asleep its
bed, had been s cry incautiously lett there, in turned
up with the bed, by which she was suffocated. The
Jury, alter annuls ming Ter) sestrelv nit the conduct of
tile parent of the could, rtturned a serdict of—Acciden al
death.

A young woman, of the name of Sarah Heinen, has
been committed to Appleby gaol for trial on her own
ciintession, for ha‘ mg unordered her liete.hurn infant.
by carrying it across a field to a small ri‘illet, where she
strangled the helplers innocent, and held it multi the
water until it was quite dead. The body was attetwarils
imin I iii the Will( r atiout 100 yards !torn the place WigCre
it was lliiirdercd Ly its mother.
ACCIDI.NT roof( FIRE.VIORILS.—Between one
and two o'clock on 'Monday after soon a young man alike name
ni Freeman, a lodger in the house of Mr. Leatea, 11, Pellinni-
street, Uricle-lane, Spite Melds, umling some atioiba ai.d other
lire•works, held a paper of guilpom,Jer braid, wallet
with the other lw went to throw souse loos: powder Mtn the
lire. The sudden flash communicated with the powder in Iris
hand, which exploded ; firs face Dud eyes ten 1.. censeyu: oce
shockingly burned, and it is feared ies, the siglit of
both Ins eyes; his hair was burnt, cis! aim ehockingly
maimed ; be w.s immediately cat tied to tile Lorielna hi spiral.
apprentice to Mr. Duribald, paeneeroker. Mariner-o.feet,
S ttttt eistoven. met wilts a similar accident in making fire-works
a kw (hip, ago, on which oc,:aeion the house had a very narrow
escape from tieing set on lire, the shop•wiinities being blown 10
pieces, nod severed of the pledges destroy ed.