The National Register.
London, England, 1808-03-06 00:00:00

WA RCII 6.

familiar together, and he kissed her, and afterwards in taking
her down from the coach box, he put his hand upon her kg and
laid hold of h•r Ririe,
Mrs. Dowler was the wife of a porter, who took care of one
of the houses of Mr. tiregson, in Angel-court, where Mrs. 6.
slept when she came to tuwu. In January 1807, a lied wns put
up tOr the wituess to sleep there, in the garret ; and on the Yd of
Jannars, the coachman (the defendant) and Mrs. G. went up
stairs together, and came down in about a quarter of an hour.
The bed had been made in the morniug, and nobody had been
in the house between that time and their going up together; up-
on examining it, she found the bed, although it had been smooth-
ed down, had evidently been laic upon ; at another time her
mistress sent her up stairs to make Mrs. tiregson's mother's bed,
easing that she Would sleep in town. The coachman and Mrs.
6. were down below, but when the witness got up stairs, she
leaned over the bannisters and heard them come up stairs and ge
into the dining-room in the dark ; there was a sofa in the room,
axed the listened and heard no conversation, hut could distinctly
hear the parties breathe hard. After this had ceased, which
was in a short time, she returned up stairs to the room immedi-
ately over, but came don n again upon hearing a ringing at the
bell, and met the coachmanand Mrs. 6. running out of the room,
and observed, that the clothes of the latter were disordered. In
Octul►er last, knowing that Mrs. 6. and the coachman were in
the dining-room, and the shutters were shut and the candles
lighted, she and her husband went and listened, and heard a sort
of romptag,from which they both concluded that a criminal in-
tercourse bud taken place at that time. Upon her cross-exami-
nation by Mr. Topping. the Defendant's Counsel, she said she
bud seen a Gentleman, a near neighbour of her muster, at Lay-
ton, who is a widower, and a most intimate friend of Mr. (lreg-
sou, who, as long ago as February IbO7, had called at Angel-
caart, when Mrs. (=nelson was alone. That moment he came in
she pulled down the blind of the window near the tire, ss here she
was sitting, and the Gentleman sat close by her. The witness
quitted the room, hut listened at the door, and heard a noi-e of
the moving a the chair, and from w hat she overheard, she had
so doubt of a criminal intercourse taking place at that time. She
then only thought it an odd circum-sauce, hut now she thought
st must have been a criminal intercourse. When the witness
was asked as to her mistress's infidelity with Centlemen of her
master's acquaintance ? she said she could not Say Gentlemen,
bat she did recollect one in particular.
Mr. Topping, for the Defendant, said it was impossible the
Planaiff could demand damages for the loss of the affection of 1
Jan svife, for it was clear she must have solicited the Defendant,
and had been common to others. The slightest damages, if any,
were all that he could be entitled to.

Lord Elienborough, in summing up the case, commented with
great force upon the conduct of the unknown friend of Mr. Greg-
son, nho was, perhaps, more to blame than the Detendant iti
seducing the affections of the wife of the Plaintiff. Affections
iudeed, such a woman could have none, her mind %vas possessed
crity by inordinate desires and unruly lusts, ss hich made her
lavish of her embraces to any one, The wantonness of the wife
might therefore he some 'satiation for the offence of the sersunt,
but it could not justify his continuance in defiling the bed of his
master, and whatever guilt attached to the woman, the man who
violated at once bin fidelity to his master, and the honour of his
mistreu, must be visited st ith some punishment, though not
equal to that which he ought to suffer, if he found her innocent
and undefiled, instead of wanton and shameless, courting the gaze
6f the passengers as she rode fin the coach-box, and kissing
openly in the noon day. Were she not almost entirely the
seducer, nothing short of the full damages should he given. The
.1 acs instantly returned a verdict for the Plaintillt—Daniages 9001.