The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-29 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BEN Cil.-S 4TURDAY.
MAINTENA NICE OF A LUNATIC.
NRO V. MI)(IRV.

The plaintiff in this c7ise was Dr. Munro, the proprietor of
Se oke-House 11611'411C y) ,at Clapton ; the defendant was
Mr. Thomas 510. ire, a inert haul, having an establishin• ut in
this comitry, and also at lirant, in:Spain. In 180 a, Mr. Moore
applied to the planitiff to receive under his rare Mr. Peter
Moore, his brother, who was at that time iu a lunatic asylum.
Accurdinoy, in consequence of an agreement being come to
between the plaintiff and defend tnt, Mr P. Moore Was taken
to Rroke•Huuse on the tUth cf June. Here he remained till
lnIg; his lislfytarly bills being regularly transmitted to Mr.
Taos. Moore. a.,d regularly paid by I . lu ISIV, however,
the drfendae,t, on payee); the summer's half year's b:11, stated,
that he was going to lie declared himself perfectly sa-
tisfied with the manner in which his brother was treated. and said
Inc was happy to have him He !aril au asylum; he might perhaps
be gone to Spain mule titan six months ; but he desired his bro-
ther should stilt be treated in the seine manner; and that at the
rod of it months, if he, the defendant, should not be back by
that time, he &sired the bill should be sent to his mother, with
whom be would leave instructions to pay it. At the end of six
smooths, thee efore, the defendant not being come hack, the bill
WAS sent to MIA. Moore, who, however, said she lead no fonds
is) hand, all Nlr. Pet.'e MotHloi property being in the hands of
Dlr. Thos. Moore. Prom this time the plaintiff had received
Nothing, though Mr. P. Moore remained there till July 15th,
1514; when he was removed in consequence of a commission
of lanary leaving been taken out a;ainst him.
The defence set op was, that the plaintiff well knew that the
defendant Was not solely liable tier the maintenmere of his bro-
ther; beet that an elder brother, Mr. George Moore, was the
person in whose hands ,Mr. Peter Moore's property was ; that,
ao far f the plaintiff comadering the iletemlant as the per-
eon having a control over the lunatic, he had, on one occasion,
forbidden Nlr. Thos. Moore from corresponding with his bro-
ther, and had evt n sent a letter addressed by Pt ter to his bro-
ther, the defendant, to his other brother Mr. George Moore.
lt also appeared, that at one time the plaintiff's bills were
made out to Me s. Moore, and at another period to Mr. George
Moore.

The witne;ses on the part of the plaintiff, however, proved
that this was only in consequence of Mr. T. Moo. e's absence;
and further, that the orders for Mr. P. Ittuore's accommoda-
tion and treatment, were always given by Mr. I'. Moore, the
defendant, and by no other person. These facts were proved
by Mr. Holmes and Mrs. Richardson, the Suiterintenda it and
Matron of Broke-Hoene ; and the Jury, under these circumstan-
ars, found a verdict fur the plaintiff.—Damages Smell. 14s. 6d.—
Costs, 401.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, GUILDHALL, JULY 23.
CRIM. CON. —SPECIA L JURY.
WRIGHT V. BR.SSSAM.
This was an action for the recovery of damages, brought by
Mr. Wright, the Plaintiff, against Mr. Brabant, of music cele-
brity, for criminal couveisation with his wife. The damages
were laid at 5,0001.
Mr. Serjeaut Lens stated the case to the Jury. This was, he
said, a ease of a sery different description from sonic of those
which, though they arose from a similar offence, were vet at-
tended by extenuating circumstances. It was one which re-
quired the most SerIOUS atte11:10(1. The Plaintiff stood in a
high and responsible situation in life—he was a Purser in the
• East India Company, and was of course, fiewicutly absent on
his professional ditties. What aggravated this Cclse was, that
It was at such periods the Defendant took advantage of the
friendly and unsuspecting intercourse which subsisted between
him and the Plaintiff's flintily, and seized those moments which
ought to be doubly sacred, to commit the crime which led to
the present action. During the absence of Mr. Wright, lie
Lad, of course, made every provision in his power fir the
proper maintenance of his wile, whom he bad ever treated with
the greatest affection. He had lung been intimate with Mr.
Brabant and Madame Storace, and this intimacy was preserved
in his absence with that confidence which one man places iu
another. Madame Storace lived with the Defendant as his
Wile, and was so received in respectable families; although, for
loam objects of a professional nature perhaps, she did not as-
sume his name; there could therefore be no surprise at Mrs.
Wright's recta% ing and visiting Madame Storace, whose com-
pany, as well as Mr. Brabain's, was of course much courted.
It was during this confidential family intercourse that, in the
&absence of the Plaintiff on his professional duty, the Detimilant
thought proper to quit Madame Storace, and to carry off the
Plaintiff's wife from her husband's house, where she lived with
her childri n, net only with adeipiate means, but with that cre-
dit in a pecuniary point of view, which belonged to her hut-
baud's station in life. (hi the retain of the Pla;nliir to this coun-
try, he found to his spier and astonishment that this seduction
lad to►en place, and that his wife was then in a state of preg-
nancy wider the domestic root' of the Defendant, for wbich
she had been induced to quit her home and children. Up to
that incinent ht• could prose that the Plaintiff and his wife lived
in the utmost harmony and affection. What defence could lie
set up for such a I iolatim of confidential friendship, he could
not anticipate or speculate upon—it would be for hint hereafter
to advert to that, and for the Jury to appreciate it. But in
hark big at the quantum of compensation, so far as a pecuniary
verdict could admihist2r it, it would be for the Jury to remem-
ber that the Plaintiff• was affectionately attached to his wife tip
to the moment of her departure from him—that his absence
from her was not volimtary, but fir their mutat benefit; they
would then weigh well the reparation to which such a husband
was entitled, from one who had so grossly violated the ties of
40121itletice and friendship. 'the degree of damages was only
important so far as it would denote the feelings of an upright
Jury on such an occasion ; for, it must be obvious that nothing
could I rubor the wounded feelings of the sutl'erer. The Learned
Serjeant iegretted much, that a man like Mr. Brahma should
thus exposed himself. If, by this act, he had fat felted
the hopes and expectations of an admiring public, the fault
was his own--his own inileosolort had occasioned it ; he had
*based the confidence• of a friend, and openly %totaled the mo-
ral &tics of society. Much as they may lament such a de-
parture frail) rectitude on the part of such a man,they would feel
that toe hilher duties which devolved upon them, rendered it
nee"ssary for 'h • ei.aserill good, that the offender should be
road. to feel the responsibility be had incurred by the flagrancy
of nos act. He wankd now punted to ca-1 his uitne,‘es, and
the Jury would, flow a ieview of the evidence, apportion the
measure of that t espial/66114v.
Me 'tt-bert Cayeh provA that the plaintiff, who was a mate of an
Raft Indianian, !named his p-•ss.nt Mra ight. then the wi-
dow of al:. Fin( 4. with three chikiren, on the tat January, tisua, at
yarish o. St. George the :tiariyr, Queen's-square. At the
sta., or , tihrs. Wright was thuty yuars of sae; he was 41C,

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eustomed to visit the plaintiff and his wife, and they appeared to live in
the greatest harmony.
On his cross-examination, he said, that in 1811 they lived in New
Millman-street, Foundling Hospital; att.r which they went to live at
No. 33. Lamb's Conduit-straA. lie did not know that Madame Sto-
race and Mr. Witham lodged in the same house with the plaintiff and
his wife. Ile had seen Mr. Braham, but he did not know him at that
time.
Miss Walphew, a lady about 35 years of age, said she had been ac-
quit:null with the plaintiff and his wile since itOI. She had vi.ueil
and been well acquainted with them ; they appeared to live very happily
together. Mr. Wright was a very affectionate anti tender husband,
and Mrs. Wright returned his affection with equal ardour. On her
cross-examination, she said she had silo in the sante house with Mr.
and Mrs. Wright since Mr. Brahma had become acquainted with them
in t'll2. Mrs. Wright was a pattern of wives. It Muss did not re-
member the plaintiff and his wife and Mr. Braham going to Cheltenham
together in the carriage of the latter. Mr. and Mrs. Wright were very
intimate with Madame Storaee, and they used to visit that lady very
frequentll at Herne Hill. Mrs. Wright frequently went to Madame
Sumice's in Mr. liraham's carrisge, but she never saw the latter alone
with Mrs. Wright in the carriage. Maitame Storace and Mr. timhani
had lived together for many years as man and wife, they slept in the
same bed, and this pattern of a married woman nevertheless visited
Madame Storace. The latter never went by the name of Braliam, or
was married to the defendant.
Captain John Dechamp, who had been formerly in the line, but now
a Captain in the Militia, said he had known Mr. Wright for many
years, and had visited him since his marriage. Ile had considered the
plaintiff and his wife to lie a very happy couple.
Wm. Patterson had been t'oottnan to Mr. Brahant for about three
months. and entered his service in the month of March last. which he
quitted about six weeks ago. He was with the defendant at Tunbridge
`Vella, where Mrs. Wright lived with him as his wife. Ile was after-
wards with the defendant and Mrs. Wright, at No. 50, Tavistock-sq.
where they also lived upon the same terms.
Cross-examined.—During their residence in Tuvistock-square Mrs.
Wright did not go by the name of Braham, but was often called so in
the tradesmens' bilk Witness, when he first went into their service,
found them living together as man and wife. Witness was discharged
from Mr. Braham's service about six or seven weeks since. when he
was told that he and his wife, who lived as cook in Mr. ltraliam's ser-
vice, were no longer wanted, as Mrs. Wright was going abroad. Upon
leaving the defendant's service he was told that he should have a good
character and a month's wages in advance. Witness never knew any
thing about Madame Stowe.
lie-:xamined.—About two months ago Mr. Braham told witness,
that Mrs. Wright was going ahmml. This was just after Mr. Anne,-
ley, the defendant's attorney. had called upon the latter and haul dined
with him. in Tavistock-square, the defendant kept two man servants.
and two maid servants. Ile was quite sure that the defendant and 51rs.
Wright slept together in Tavistoek-square.
Hester Patterson. the wife of the last witness, corroborated the fact of
the defendant's living with Mrs. IVright, as man and wife in Tauis-
tock-square.
Mary Dryer lived servant to Mrs. Wright in October last. Mr.
Wright was then absent upon a voyage to the East India. Mrs.
Wright then lived in New-street. Foundling Hospital. The defendant
was a comtant visitor at Mrs. Wright's. Witness remembered that
one day in Christmas week last, the defendant dined with her mistress;
and in the evening of the same day, her mistress left her home in a
carriage with a person whom she supposed to be the defendant, but as
it sva, dark she could not speak positively as to his identity.
Isabella Delpini, a midwife, proved that she visited Mrs. Wright
about two months since; her husband being then absent for above a
year, and found that she was pregnant, and that she expected to be put
to bed in next September.
Cross-examined.—She had never visited Mrs. Wright, except in her
professional character. She had delivered her of twins a few years
since.
Here the case closed fur the plaintiff.

Tho Solicitor-General rose on the part of the defendant. He
prefaced his obscrs ations on the case Ly observing, that it was
impossible to defend or justify the criminal connection of one Milli
with the wife of another. But in this rase, as in all other cases,
there were shades of character which in fact defined the
na-
ture. of the offence—different circumstances altered its com-
plexion, and dictated the amount of damages which it became
a Jury to give. In the present case there were some singular
and peculiar features which distinguished it from others. Here
was a gentleman, the plaintiff in this cause, professing to leave
his wife, when his avocations absented him limn her, in proper
society, well protected, and with ample means for her support ;
if he had made out his case, and :hat under such circumstan-
ces the affections of his wife had been estranged from her by
a seducer, then indeed lie would have a right to demand from
a Jury excessive damages. But was that the case here? The
plaintiff knew perfectly well who Madame Storace and Mr.
Witham were, and the first female witness called here to prove
the domestic felicity that subsisted between the plaiutiff and
his .wife, was herself in the odd predicament of being also an
intimate acquaintance with Mr. Brabant and Madame Storace.
She, as well as Mrs. Wright, was in the habit of passing her
time with them; that is, in plain Engli,h, in familiar and inti-
mate association with a man and his mistress. Now it could
not be concealed that in the present state of society there were
many connexions that were overlooked, because they were in
a certain degree domiciliated, and their example not prominent.
in the crowded concourse at rotates, assemblies, fetes, and
dejeunes, great professional abilities were always a passport,
without reference to the immediate moral habits of individuals
—and ? because neither men nor their mistresses could
influence such assemblies, nor did their appearance there im-
ply any thing like familiar intimacy with the party. There
was in fact no contagion in their pretence—no implied intro-
duction or intimacy. It was most certain an object of regret,
that in such societies, or in any large circle. there should be such
inmates, but he remembered to have beard it observed, that
on such eceasions, however objectionable the momentary as-
sociation, it was vet not calehmg. But he was afraid that in
smaller circles in private life it was caching, and he was per-
suaded that no husband who felt for his outs honour, and the
character of his wife, who wished her (as lie ought), like Caesar's
wife, to be above suspicion, could for a moment stutter her to
hold an intimacy, or allow the visits of those, who, though ad-
missible in public company, were not the most tit associates
elsewhere. He would not say, that by allowing visits of that
kind, the husband could be said to give a license to his wife
to play an improper part, but he would say, that such negligent
conduct on his part went close upon the last degree of pro-
priety, and that lie in a great degree diminished his claim fur
ulterior compensation, by admitting such a course. If he al-
lowed his wife to become familiar, by association, with the ex-
ample of a man and his mistress, he had no great right to com-
plain that she, in her tarn, became a mistress also. It was in
evidence, that Mrs. Wright was in the habit Of going with Mr.
Brahma to Herne-hill. Now Ile was instrnrtcd that the di,
froth:met rotild in evidence further show, that the plainness neg-
ligence as to his wife wits more 111.111 that before his last voyage.
He had angered au iiit imitcy between hit wife and the il-feadant,
which no met of delicacy or affinities sense VUUlli bit as Instant
allow. [fonder such cireutaststiees he had not respected what
was passing, he must have shut his eyes upon what was as clear
as day. A great deal had been said by the witnesses about
Lama's Coadoitateeet and Verne-lull; but it was 111111:(11:11'.
twat none of the witnesses proved that Mr. Brahma lived in it.e
toriner with dlr. and Mrs. Wright. Now, lie would prove

JULY 29.

that such was the fiu•t. and that Ali. Wright was privy to it.
When the defendant was with Mrs. W. she was denied to every
node else, even her own 1111Sb/1111i walked out. A husband who
could be so easily satisfied, had no right to compiaim that if
he bad nourished a Slllytilarillg 11/1111P, it at leugth found a vent
and binned itself into a Maze; he had 110 right to hose his story
told in a Court of Josh, c with sympathy for I • self. It would
also be proved, that so late as eleven o'clock at night, Mr.
Brabant had called at the plaintitiss house, Is hen be was himself
at home, and taken his wile away on a visit to
whet.. she staid that night, and longer. On some occasions
the ace of the would account for such volatility, but
here was an experienced lady, thirty seven years of age, who
must be supposed to know and feel the consequence of such
acts. Ifthose facts be proved, as he was instructed theywould
he, if thi y did not go the length of calling for a verdict tar
the defendant, they would at least reduce the claim for damages
to a mere nominal sum. 'I he defendant, like every other wen
in the profession of w hick he was all ornament, depended fin'
his means of life on the estimation of his talents in the public
est.. In an inquiry of this Port, he stood in so delicate a si-
tuation, that he ought rot to be prejudged, or incoosiderately
condemned. This delicacy was occasioned by that pood and
honest principle of to. rats about Joiia Bak which led him to
make a rigorous comment upon the mural characters of those
dramatic personages, over whom he holds ■n exclusive and
commanding control—'this was a feeling salutary in itself,
and one of which he (the Solicitor• General) was proud for his
country. Hitcyet it was, from the nature of things, zealous,
and sometimes rash in its decisions—it W. 4 therefore right to
protect an individual from the eveess or 14 operation. Ile
therefore felt it incumbent upon him to point out to the Jury,
that in this case there was no wanton or profligate violation of
friendship on the pait of the deli 'Maid. It w•a; 110 such cir-
cumstance. lie haul notoriously fallen into the al ins - iii a
mistress, with the eyes of the husband wide open. The latter
was therefere deprived of that right which other men, who
poed differently. would has e u right to receive the besitlit of
from the hands of a seducer.

Mary Clarke and Elizabeth Bavvr.oack, who had lived with Mr.
and Mrs. Wright in Lamb's Cunduit-street. during the year Itsl4,
awl pail of the year ISIS. proved that Mr. Witham was in the constant
habit of visiting at Mr. Wright's; that Mrs. Wright frequently sat up
for hours after her husband was gone to bed; that she often went ou►
in the defendant's carriage with him alone; and that the defendant fre-
quently slept in the plaintiff's lodgings in tounb's Conduit-street.

. .
The case of the defendant being closed,
Mr. Serjeant Lens rase to reply, and observed, that Its
had opened the case. by stating, that he could not anticipate the
defence, and he really was uninformed, until he heard it, of
any of its bearings. It did certainly appear, that a cautious
or a jealous man would not have countenanced that sort of con-
duct on the part of his wife that might be deemed equivocal s
so far the plaintiff might, perhaps, be blameable. But could
such an unsusideions confidence on his part be misconstrued
into an absolute license on his part? Certainly not, nor any thing
like it. lithe whole of the evidence for the defendant could
be soppeitil to im!ily the easy conniva.ice of the hits baud to
his own disgrace, where was the necessity for the defendant's
carrying away the woman? Did it sound like common sense,
that with such such open intercourse as it was attempted to
establish, with such a facility and accommodation fur his pur-
pose, he wankd be driven to the necessity of carry ing away the
object of his pr,ssion, and thereby publishing to the world the
whole story of the intercourse? That the plaintiff, in his ins-
plicit confidence, had been wrong, no one could doubt—that
he was connected with unguarded circumstauces, might also
he surmised; but it should be recollected, that matters which,
when committed, appear trivial and not worthy of notice, are
oftentimes, by subsequent steps, rendered glaring and impor-
tant. then, was the unsuspecting and confideutial friend
and h to divine his own disgrace in the spirit of pro-
phecy? ,onsidering the intimacy that subsisted between him
and Mr. Rraham, there could be nothing thought of from the
late hours of his visits. Mr. B. was in the evening profession-
ally occupied. If he slept in town, he came occasionally to
Mr. Wright's, to save the expellee of a town residence. If
Mr. or Mrs. Wright wished to go to Herne-hill, they availed
themselves of his carriage, either by day or night, as it suited
their convenience. If the Jury could believe that conduct,
fur which the plaintiff could so fairly and rationally account,
had a right to be weighed against him, they would of course,
lean that way. If, on the contrary, they thought, however
careless in the confidence of friendship, it was yet natural and
likely, they would, of course, not allow him to puffer more than
he had done by such unsuspecting intercourse.

Sir Virary Gibbs, in charging the Jury, said, that the Coun-
sel no both sides had put the question fairly. The plaintiff had
said, that if there were no alleviation, the case would be a most
serious one ; and the defendant, that it was one subject to a va-
riety of shades, according to the facts of the case. It was on
those facts that the Jury were to found their vendet; and from
those circumstances of alleviation (it' any there be), that they
were to measure their damages. The facts proved, in the pre-
sent case, furnished a striking instance of the danger that at-
tended a deviation from the strict and decent rules of propriety.
It exemplified, that when persons indulged in a course of
life that cannot be justified, they not only contaminate them-
selves, bat taint whatever approaches them by contact. This
observation arose from the circumstance, that the only allevia-
tion which the delimilant's Counsel was instructed to make, fur
the act of the defendant, was, that, living in the state in which
lie did, the plaintiff hail carelessly antlered an intimacy to sub-
sist with his fancily. The Learned Judge made some strong
al animadversions upon this feature its the ease. In consi-
derations of this kind a Jury had Letter take a middle cours:.,
and well consider, that though the plaintiff hail diminished his
claim fur damages, bv allowing such an intercourse as that
which had 1.111040 A fl'elWeell 1104 41114 and the defendant, it
by mu means follow ed, that, a hen he committed his wife to such
society, he had consigned her without rust rve into the arms of
a seducer. He had also the natural confidence iu her behalf,
which the age of his wife afforded. When he married her she
was a %Wow, of the age of 30, with three children. When the
.ntiinary with Mr. Witham was cariied on, she was 37 years
'frue, indeed, he allows d her to mix with such company ;
but this fact, faulty as it certainly was, did not deprive him of
his remedy against the act of the di fundant. The Learned
Judge here recapitulated the evidence to the Jury, anal com-
mented on each part of it with his 111TUFW111141 perspicnity ;
leasing to them to determine, from the retrospect, the 4111Ulliwn
of damages to which the plaintiff was entitled, under ail the
circumstances of his case.

The Jury, after a eunmdtaiion cf ten minute'', returned a
‘r edict fur tht Plainnti—Darnages, One Thou Atria founds.

BRECON CIRCUIT.
Prestrigne, Monday, Auptst 26.
B, own, Satunlay, Aurubt 31.
Cardiff; Saturday, brirtaaulwr

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DISTRESSES (g' the IRON-MANUFACTURERS.

The following affecting details are extracted from two let.
it., .i, one from the viriiiiry of !Instals, and the other from that
of ftirminahain, addressed to a respectable iron-merchant in
London, on the subject of Mi. distresses Hader which the peo-
ple employed in the iron-works and collieries of tho,e districts
now labour. The fulliming extracts horn these most affecting
elmpositions exhibit a picture of misery which we really be-
lieve to he unprecedented in thin country, and of which very
few of our Renders could have had any conception
u Costly, near Baster.. Staffordshire. July 21. NIG.

a When tome of onr principal iron-works first failed, the
whole extent of the 'onset Belot distiess WAS not i 1111 l
apparent. The poor manulactorets had minty of them made tl
little money I this, with the greatest frog:110y, did not last lung:
when expended, they ran in debt where% er they could gain
reedit; and whets they could not be trusted any longer, they
pawned or mild their Atrititnie, article after article, till they
id 11411' to sell. W lit is tie ir goods were gone, they wore
(I:Ili:v.11 to have reeosirse to their parishes and to begging. The
parishes were overwhelmed by the numbers for aiiplying for
their aid, and f :Maid out little comparative support. The
community in general t tov cominereial district* are usually
gesiermis) nude great AM ts to relieve their necessities. Fur
my own part, I determined that I would fuse It inlet, and that
my Milliken and household should do so like:vise, in order to
administer to tin ir wools: and it was try' desire that none woe.
tips of relief should go at • unrelieved. It is true, the sue-
gone was but small ; they asked for nothisig lint a piece of
brand, and bread for some time great nutithei sof them received :
lost I mum room! that my eery limited income, swish': chiefly
trout uncertain sources, would not even furnish this se:intV sup-
ply ; and
sI was reilticisi to the necessity --to one a niust painful
nue -of contisiing shy chanty within much smaller boundaries.
Companies of 5, or ts, 01 Ig poor manntacturers, able and will-
ing to work, have been many times in the course a a riay at
lily floor, soliciting bread; and, what has often cut me to the
licart, necessarily soliciting in vain.
Nultitudts went through the country, offering to wink at
any thing merely for a little food, not even expecting wages,
nod tilos stained a little temporary employment and subsistei:ce ;
but st.!, their wives and children were at home in the greatest
possible ihstress.
s. Within a small distance of my lionise is a large iron-work;
the machinery extends for nearly half a mile ; it tees u noble
olanulacnny ; I passed by it one rimming after its operations
is ere •mpendeti, stud exceNlingly affeeted wish the sight :
it little betiire, it was all animation and industry, affording the
hullollra We Means of livelihood to many thousands of any fellow-
creatures ; the sit nee that now pervaded it spoke more elo-
Anil impress's cly to my heart than any language con) i
possibly do--it was the silence of mustingled tiesolittion. 14i-
sited a row of houses occupied by the workmen : the doors
were used to be open, inviting the eye of the stranger to glanee
as he went along at their neatness, cleanliness, and felicity ; lit-
tle grolipes of healthful children were accustomed to appear
about the cottages, full of merriment and joy ; and the inhabi-
tants, strong and healthy, saluted you as you went by. lint the
scene was lamentably changed ; it produced a melancholy on
sny spirits that I did not lose for a considerable period : the
cottages were closed—tile inhabitants could not bear to have
It known that they were stripped of their little ornaments—ne
children played around the doors—the very plants trained up
in their windows had pined and died—one man only appeared,
emaciated mid ghastly, a living spectre, its if the peaceful st•-
',Myhre hail sent forth its inkabitsulta to till with terror the
tuuks of the living.
*6 W hen I lime told these poor creatures that the palish t
filod them food or labour, they have replied, 'Sir, they, cannot
do either ; mid some who hese Cored the best a !Ali our inane-
fiSeturies were flourishing around us, have said, • We Auld ra-
ther die, Sir, than be dependent on the parish.'
" It is its unanswerable proof of the excellent disposition of
these poor mantafactmers, that although there are many thou-
!Moils of thesis in the most distressed condition imaginable, there
is very little depredation in the country.
" It it will aid you in your benesolent designs, I will go through
any part of onr neighbourhood, from house to house, and give
you a particular statement of the cireionstances of each tansily ;
the labour will be to one a delightful remuneration ; doing good
I have lung found to be its own reward. I would devote any
portion of my time to procure you information.
**Some, I believe, have really flied of starvation ; and in many
c use-, if not iumiediate it wan the rinfory canon,. An
iusnNi-
c.rnev of wholesome liourisliment where they had been accus•
tains si to great abundance, produced diseases which ternintated
its dissolution.
" Even I /rarity, Sir, hat left some of onr districts. She has
given all she had to give ; the stream of her benevolence is dried
up, and molting remains but the gratefid recollection of the
ell moil through which it flowed, or emotions of despair lest it
fiso,olst never again be replenished.
" I could send yogi many intlividnal cases that come under my
own persoual knowledge. Nut far front my house, a respect•
able individual, possessed of extensive information in the iron
trade, who had been a confidential foreman in a large concern,
anti lived in much credit, has been for some time, with a Wife
Anil eight children &emote of a sufficiency of bread. Many
poor families distinguished for their sobriety and iiithist yovith
U, 7, or S children, at e in the saute disastrous CM mustances:
I have repeatedly saved a math his wife and six children, from
absolute stars anon, who were redneed to eat the eahmige-stalks,
and the refuse of their little cottage-garden, as the only toed
they could obi lin.
*: I fail I the pleasure, Sir, of being present at the meeting of
your Motown ole Society, I think I could plead the valise of
these p oar rnanufaciltreis till my strength would tail me, and
I could plead no longer, their gr,at distresses has e takeii deep
hold sir my heart. Shadthe injuredAfriean readily tied a
multitude of the most able mid elequent of our nation, to de-
fend his ranee, and secure oils rights; and shall there be none
to cominiss raie our perishitig A:gm-sou/11i yuisa, ahuse hogs-
niiity mid industry lists e •Iseaol Use glow) sot In itoli tilfolighont
11.0. ‘s bole hanitaule globe% shall no friendly hand he extelided
to wipe AWAY flair tears, and to pres tut them f • sinking for
es er tinder the insillopoi tanks pleasure of accumulated wets?
Fut bid it honour, steces.cy, humanity, reliAitior'

•• Tibbington.houar, near Birmingham, July 25, 1816.
'• 1 have not to-t a sssss 111Clit ii, J,. rimiting rionation of
51. t some of the most iliAressing caw', in my neigh-
bourhood ; aaJ al lu.ugb the narmiit lu r•teti 1..1.111:1y war sIII:111,
aficr iii Viltilie it iiiii not aril. of 341, yr tit de.
eretahle, that ►io.aria of trauma.. Boned from the Cl.rs of
tho.•e who owtouk of it. Nor 1• l'4llliUt Ineaur titr glotita.
pro ~1.1% in situ ; 41111 Ghat ,1111 0111 W, ii
to utcr•a,r r4ieltli). Jl..ny tsi the .trou•vsutie., :ruts