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Sir Arthur Piggist moved that the injunction granted by
bis Honour the V.ce Chaneellor iu this care should be dassolv•
ed. A oill hail been tiled by the emit( holy of Imol,sellers
in London, against the defendant, a bookseller and printer,
at Berwick-upon-Tweed, to restrain Min font pnolishing
avai. called Criadeit's Concordanea." The question was,
whether the defendant made a piracy of the former work
In Isla a Mr„ Rye hail iitaPle some alterations in the wort:,
which he sold to Mr. Nlawinan for 13 il. 9s. among V..ese
Were 3.11 correelinna of punctuations, in nine?' the corrector
seemed to have had Innen refinement, as lie had discharged
tile colons 41111 SC all Caltaa. ; but AS he was paid only the tri•
thing sniff Of 11. Is. per sheet, hit labours could hardly he sup-
posed to constitute a copy-right.
tae Lord Clatot•e:lor—" Let me say, Sir Arthur, had
been employed al such it rate, I would goon have come to
is I,rdship 11..14 tltnt e piracy from a piracy,
was the same as if the piracy complainea of, was from the
original wink. This is an injunction granted tutu au es-pat le
application trout the Vice-Chancellor, without much discus-
sion whetlwr the plaintiffs had a cupy-erright Or lout, they
mist establish that point in a Court of Law before they come
bere„—lnjonction dissolved.

DISSENTERS.-MALNDER AND STEWART P. !PARSON AND

OTHERS.

The Lord Chatiet'llor observed, that this was an iuforma-
firm filed by' the Attorney General, at the snit of the
against the defendants, who were the trustees of
Disseetieg (Impel, at W OIVC Ohl MI toll. He sail, perhaps
there never was a question of lame importance to the His.
aentiug interest, as It involved some most material points as
to the Toh•ration Art, the Scots Parliament, and the Art of
the 9111 of King William. The defendants were cherged
with creating n trust for themselves, which was contra!•y to
the intention of the founder of the chapel. The question for
kiln to decide was, whether a snm of money, left to a Dis-
nenting body, in 1771, was intended to enable them to perse-
"vete in I.llloAliAll principles. which wi•rc at that time con-
trary to law. The plaintedi say, that in 17h3 some of the
congregation were Trinitarians and others not, and that the
fund was appropriated for the preaching the word of God, as
Dissenters from the Proteshot religion, and tel those of
Unitarians. He would send it to the Master to report whe-
ther it was the intention of the donor that the tenets ationtd
be Unitarian, and that in the mean time Mr. Stewart shotrid
be allowed to act as the officiating Minister. The Master at
these= time might point out who was the proper pr.rson to
officiate as the trustee. —Referred to the Master.

COURT 01? KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, JULY 17.

CRIM CON.-IN A 1.11112 D 11. STAINES.

This was an action broit4lit by Richard Milford, jun. Esq.
against Capt. Sir Thos. Staines, to recover from the defnd-
ant a compensation in damages for criminal conversation
with the plaintiff's
. .

Mr. Searlett stated the ease.—The plaintiff in this case,
an.' the defendant, were near relations. They. were the suns
of children of the same parents. They had been brought np
fro n their infancy in !Wilts of the strictest friendship and
conlidNlCe—they bad been amiched to each other as bro.
thers—and he could answer, at least, for the gentleman
whom he represented, that be worth] as soon have suspected
his own brother of injuring him as the defendient. The pine's..
tiff was a hawker :it Canterbury. of great respectability, and
of competent fm-tiow. Jo 189;, he married the lady whose
couduct was now the subject of investi4ation. She was a
beautiful and accomplished woman—his equal in birth and
etatian--aml possessing fortune and 111.11111VES that rendered
her an nl. ct of desire to any man that might possess her.—
Tlu: dettudanf' Sir Thos. Staines, Si/Jii an officer iii his Ma-
jesty's Nosy. He ccenpied a farm of considerable size, ne..r
Margate, called Dandelion. During the defendant's em-
ptily merit in the service of the Nary, the plaintiff was trusted
with the cure .of the farm, which be used to treat as his own
home. The defendant,when disengaged, was in the habit of
visithic him dining the winter, at Canterbury, and the plain-
tiff and Its family, in return, passed a ',maim' of the sum-
mer at Dandelion. lie would prove that the acted
towards his lady like a man of honour and of feeling. He
thought she was to be trusted. And if she walked with his
friend and relative on the Pier at Margate, he conceived
she was as sale as if she were walking wilt himtelf. Ile be-
lieved it would be said (and vet lie could scarcely credit it),
that liberties were taken with Mrs. Milford, in the presence
of her Inishaml, whirl ought to have alarmed biin--but be
would rebut the accusation. It might be said. that the de-
fendant was a poor man. Perhaps he was so. If the amount
of loss sustained by the plaintiff could be put down in ',minds,
shillings, and pchee, could it be said that the plaintiff night
not to Lave a verdict for the WI sum, becanse the deft Intent
could not pay it? His Lordship would doeet them ditfer-
ently. Hu would say, " the injury is proved, and it is for
the defendant to make the necessary reparation."—There
was one child, the ft nit of this marriage, of an age whirl', he
Loped, prevented the possibility of doubt with respect to the
purity of it, birth.
The it. v. IV. Tourney was then called. He stated that he
married the plaintiff and his lady about twelve years ago.—
She was a neice of his.

hi answer to questions on the subject of line attention not
having been paid to Mrs. Ha!foril by the plaintiff, witness
said--" I conceive the state of matintiony to be a serious
thing. At table, I have •foriniy seen improper couditet
On 11001 sidt a. I very seldom RAW the linsbami walking with
theswife,.luit slue was frequently walling with other people.
I ;Wight it the husband's duty to walk with the wife. I
have seen her walking with Captain Staines and other gen-
tleinen, but not with her luissban.l. I recollect Mr. Steven-
son driving her often ; un oae occasion they proceeded from
my house to Dover, which is eight unites fartlicr. Mr. Ste-
venson was an old lover of the lady, 'befo:e she married [lei
prcsr•nt husband.
Lord Ellenborough—" You had better examine to some-
thing else. In the ordinary course of ‘life it is common fur
friends and relations to mingle dins together. We 'mist be
iu 'flukey, if suspicion and jealousy grow from such an in-
tercourse.

Mr. John Baker, one of the members f.r Cinterbors•-
" inn what I litiVe Seem of lhelti, I should suppese they
were the tarot happy couple that eouid be. She is a pleasant
woman, with sera personal attrac jOll3 and accomplish-
/mots."

Other witnesses corrobnrstrA Mr. Baker's lectirnony.
Kiss Ssrah Halfortl—" lam limit In the p!aintitt.. Ikhont
ekg cute of June, Ibl6, i beard something to tier (lima-

TITS NATION.% REGISTER.

varitaze. I know Nlrs Steae,rt, the sister of the defendant
The discovery was toady to Jr. Illa:f9,11 :about the month of.
January in the present year. I W.V. prest tit at a nteenug
held in consequenee of that (tierce( ry.
Nlatgaret Stewart —`• I ion the sister of Sir T..Y.taines,
and first cousin to the !plaintiff. I have been all my life
living at Daudelion, nveept for 'lett years, when I was with
my husband.. I recoil% tit Mr. Halloril and his wife coming
in the spring of last year to visit Dandelion, Up to that pe-
riod I never suspected that there was any thing improper in
the conduct of Macs Halford. Dalidelion k an old rambling
farmhouse. Aly brother', bed room is situated at one end
of it, nod there is a sta:rcase conunonicating between it
am! the lower floor, which leads to a landieg place. Into
that landing place, three hell rooms open. I teineiulter, on
the plaintiff's last visit, ening to bed one intoning a limit one
o'clock. Soon after I heard snow one distinctly walk down
the stairs, and open the door, at the bottom of the flight,
which was bolted. Fearing that some improper persons were
in the house, I went to my itrother's room to inferin him, but
discovered that he was not in bed. Ali Isis dress, which lie
had wuru in the day, a:11 there, but his cireesitig gown and
SliimerA were gone. There was no person in the house, to
tr.: knowledge or belief, that could has e gone down bin him.
Al ent four o'clock in the mumble, I heard some person go
lip Blahs in the diteetion of lily brothel's room. The next
week I observed the same noise oil the stairs, and heard the
door unbolted. ry Roth. was with me. On hi trine the
no'se we went to the double door leading into Mrs. Halfold's
room, and having previously left part of the door open, we
could hear distinctly what mused in Mrs. Halford's bed-room.
We heard somebody come into the room softly, and go to the
bed. There is bat roe bed in the room. I heard the %Aid-
vering of voice.: sufficient to assure me that my brother and
Mrs. lialtind acre ni bell ing1.1111.1% litSfilre I evened to bed
I again went into his room, and foetid lie was not there. His
ordinary dies* was in the room—but his dressing gown anti
slippers were gniir. tfn subsequent nights I heard the same
noise ut.o person going doe n stairs, nod wirer. I 441, I okras s
went to my brother's town, from which he was regularly
ab-
sent. 1 first made the discovery in April, and, :theta fortnight
or three weeks afterwards, I mentioned it to Mr. and Mrs.
Cramp, who resided near Dandelion. and were nty intimate
friends. I went to them for advice to know how I should act.
In January last, I was present when a meeting took place at
Canter bnry, at which the friends of all parties were present.
I then stated what I have done this day. After the disco-
very I took more notice of the coniloct of Mts. Milford and
the defendant than I did before, and observed that a very
strong partiality exineel between them. Oil one occnsion,
having returned unexpectedly to the room where they were
sitting, I found Mrs. Halford plaeo4 on my brother's knee.
This witness miderat itt a long cross•examilmtion bt Mr.
Si rjeant in the course et it, she denied that she frail,
iu conselnence of a quarrel, given up the superintendence of
her brother's house. Her brother wrote her a letter, before
the month of January, stating that he did not wish her to
continue in the situation —but, till the moment she received it,
she had no ides of his intention.

Lord Ellent:ram:4h expressed his gvniirise that a well row
ducted 140111i111 should, when she had made such a discovery,
in the month of April, have retrained Iron' giving
notice of it to the person,' interested. At all events, she
should have withdrawn from the honse.

Witness said, she wished to hase.spoken to her brother on
the Athject— hot he was so hasty that she was arraid.

Mary Rolfe had lived three years in the service of Sir T.
Staines. She recollected, in the moan!: of April, accompa-
nying Mrs. Stewart to the double doors leading to Mrs. Ha
ford's apartment. She heard some person go into it, and also
noticed a whispering, too rte count not say who the pergons
were. She made Mrs. lialford's bed the morning after she
heard the whisptrin, and thought there was a larger mark
in it than could be made by one person.
The case fur the 4rroserution closed here.
Mr. Scrjeant Best addressed the dory, for the defendant.
He animadverted with peat severity on the conduct of Mrs.
Steuart, and contended that she isvtedl from malicious mo-
tives, in consequence of her lo whir having dismissed her
from his house. The Learned Gentleman called on the Jury,
should they a verdict for the Plaintiff, not to grant vin-
tive damages, ; I wa.ca 111;.1:" ac his client was by no anemia
a wealthy man, sista bins tip in prism] for the space of ten
years, and thus prevent him trout ser sing hine.elf, and, what
was of more importance, from serving his cumin y.
Lord Elientsurough simuneil up the evidence—and the
Jury, after a short consideration, returned a verdict fur the
Plaintiff—Damages, I,o:ol.—Costs, 40s.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DUBLIN, Jtzx 9.
HCFORE LORD NOIBUkY AND A SPECIAL JIIRY.

CON.--frnowxr: V. BLAKE.

Mr. Tro!well Walsh opened the pleadings. in which the damages
were laid at 30,0001.

Mr. Phillips stated the plaintiff's case with his useal ability, and
addressed the .lury as follows
MY LOUD AND GENTLEMEX—I new instructed by the plain-
tiff to hey this case before you, and little do I wonder at the great
interest which it seems to have excited. It is one of those cases whico
come home to the „business and loosen's" of mankind; it is not
confined to the individuals concerned ; it visits every circle from the
highest to the lowest ; it alanns the very heart of the community, and
commands the whole social family to the spot, where human nature,
prostrated at the bar of justice, calls aloud for pity and protectien !
"Cln my first addressing a Jury spun a wilijeet of this nature, I
took the high ground to which I deemed myself entitled ; I stood
upon the purity of the national character ; I relied upon that care.
thy which centuries had mule proverbial, and almost drowned the
ety of individual sultioing in the violated reputation of the country.
Ifuroblol and abashed I must resign the topie--intligaution at the
novelty of the offence, has given way to horror at the frequency of its
repetition—it is now becoming almost fashionable amongst
are importing the follies, and neutralizing the ricer of the Continent.
tiercely a Tenn passes in Mese Courts, during which sane unabaslicd
athilterer or seducer, does not announce himself, improsing on the
effousness of his offethie, by the profligacy of his justifie2tion, and, as
it were, struggling to record, by eri.nes, tde desolating progress of
Our barb3lTlllKCiliti4.ltiro. Gmtlernen, if this be suffered to continue,.
what home shall be safe ? what hearth shall be tiered ? what parent
can fora moment calculate on the pofrei..i.m of his child ? what child
shall be secure agaiost the orphanage that springs from pro:titution ;
what soli•ary right, whether of life, or liberty, or property in the
land, shall survive sonom,,st us, if that hollowed couch which modesty
ha: vs told love endeared. and religion tonsecrated, is to be M-
I valid by a vulgar and prmni-curnis libertinisro ? A time there was
when that couch was inviolehle in Ireland; when :anjugal infidelity
was deemed but an invention—when marriage was considered as a
sacrament of the heart, and faith and affection sent a mingled flame
together from the altar ! Are such nines to dwindle into a legend of
t:atlition ? Are the dearest rights of man, and the holiest ordinances
of Coil, no more to be respected ? Is the marriage vow to become the
prelude to perjury and pmoitution ? Shall our enjoyments debate
themselves Imo an adulterous participation, and our children propa-
gate an inccztuou.r comatunity ? Hear the cue whitt 1 am flact: to

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unfold, and then tell MC whether that endearing confidence, by
winch the bitterness of this life is sveetened, Li to b 'Arlie the instru-
of a paddy beyunil conception; and whether the protertion of
then) )f, the frateruity of Lie board. the obligation; a the alue, and
the d-votion of the heart, are to be :u many pander. to the hellish
abominations they should have purbiel ! II ear the case irrsich muse
go forth to the world, but wim 1, I net tin (Jo I, your vs:Mil will
ccompany, to tell that world, t it' there was Vl‘7o enough amongst
us to commit the crime, there is virtu enough to br.uiti it with an
indignaut punishment.
•• Of the plaintiff, Mr. Browne, it is (pike impossible but you must
have heard 'noel); his anefortune has given him a sad celebrity, and
it docs seem a weithar incident to such misfortune that the loss of
happiness is almost invariably succeeded by the deprivation of cha-
racter. As the less guilty murderer will hide the curse that may lead
to his dctection, so does the adulterer, by obscuring the reputation of
his tictim, seek to diminish the moral responsibility lie has incurred.
Mr. 3rowne, undoubtedly, forms no exceptera to this system; be-
trayed by ins friend and abandoned by his wife, hi: too generous con-
fidence, his too tender love have been slanderoody perverted into the
sources . i his calamity; because he could not tyrannise over her whom
he adored, he WAS careless; because he could no suspect him in whom
he trusted, lie was carries.; and crime, in the infatuation of its cun-
ning, founds its justification evert on the virtues of its victim ! I am
not deterred by the prejudice thus cruelly excited ; I aped from the
gossiping credulity tit scandal to the grave decisions of father:;
and of
husbands; and I implore of you, as you value the blessings of your
home, nut to comitenatice the calumny which solicits a precetlent to
excuse the spoliation. At the close of the year Mo 11. the death of
my client's Esther gave him the inheritanee of an ample fortune. 01'
all the joys his prosperity creat.d. there wet none but yielded to
the ovary of sharing it with her lie loved, the daughter of his fu.
then ancient friend, the respectable proprietor of Oran Casde. She
was then in the very spring of life, and never did the Sun of !leaven
unfold a lovelier blo.isom-s-her look vet.: beauty and her breath was
fragrance—the eye that saw her canglit a teste front the vision—and
ail the virtues seemed to linger round her, like WI many s; odess
spirits enamoured of her loveliness.
Yes, rho was good as she was fair,
None, none on earth above her ;
As pure in dueight a.. angels are,
o see her was to love her.
What 'years of tongueless transport might not her happy
husband have anticipated %%lig erre addition could her beauties,
gain to render them all perfect ! In the counubial rapture there
was only one, and she was bles,eil with it.—A lovely family of infant
children gave her the consecrated name of mother, end with it all
that I leaven can give of interest to this worthlessnes,. Can the
mind imagine a more delightful vision doom that of such a mother,
thus young, thus lovely, thus beloved, blessing a husband's heart.
basking in a world's smile ; awl while she breathed into her little
ones the moral life, shesing them that, robed in all the light of
beauty, it was still possible far their virtues to cast it into the shade.
Year after year of happiness rolled on, and every year but added to
their love a pledge to make it happier than the tanner. Without
ambition but her husband's love, without one object but her children's
happiness, this lovely woman circled in her orbit, all brig!it, 411
humorous in the prosporous hour, and it' that hour c'er daikeeed,
only beaming the brighter and the lovelier. What human kind
could mur so pure a picture! What punishment (60141 adequately
visit its violation !

Oh, happy love, where lore like this ii found!'
04, heart-tilt minim! beyond compare !

it was indeed the sunnier of their lives, and with it came the
swarm of saramer frisnds, that revel in the sumhins. of tile hour, and
vanish with its splendour High and honoured in that crowd, most
Kay, mod chenslied, most professing. stood the d. fentlant Mr.
Blake. Ile was the plaintiff's dearest, fondsst fti. nel ; to every
pleasure calleelsain every case con.atluu—his day's companion and
ovening'sguestasehis constant, truded. sesom cositeatit--aial tinder
vise of alt, Oh, hurnsn suture ! ha had iii, fellest, deaillisst, final
enemy l Here, on the tuthensiy of t'sis Intel. do I arraign hint of
having wound himself it. .thy slisnt's intimacy—of having en-
couraged that intimacy into file:As-4,-0f having edam rf tied a
sympathy in his Joys and in his sorrows—and whien 40./11 d too
pure even rm. scepticism to doubt hint. or basins, midst t. e very
sanctity of his roof, perpetrated an adultsry the most anarecedentsd
and perfidious! If this be true, can the world's wealth defrey the
penalty of such turpitude ? Mr. Browne, gentleinon. was a man of
fortune, he had no profenion, was ignoruit of every agricultural
pursuit, and unfortunstely adopting tile advice of his Either-in-law,
lie eu!tivated the amusements of the Curragh. I say untOstunattly
for his own attars, and by no means in reference to the pursuit itself.
It is not for rte to libel an occupetiun which the highest and noblest.
and most illustrious threughnut the empire, countenance by their
adoption ; which fashion and virtue grave by their attendance, and
in which Peers. and Legislators, and Princess are not ashhamsd to
appear conspicuous, But if the mar:44y that countenances it be
doubtful, by what epithet ,hall we designate tiiat which woold make
it an apology foe the most profligate of ortinices ? Paten if Air.
Browne s pursuits were ever sei erroneous, was it for his bosons
friend to to take advantage of them to nun him ? On this
subject, it is sufficient for me to rentaik that under no cir-
cumstance of prosperity or vicisitude was their connubial
happiness ever even remotely clouded. In fact the plaintiff Mire-
gained even the aniteeitients ILA deprived hint of her society. lie
took u hone: for her in the visinity of Kildare, furnised it with all-
that luxury could require, and arturiled her the greatest of all
luxuries, that of enjoying and enhancing the most prodigial Ohl:-
tiers From the hour of their tuarriase, up to the unfortunate dis-
covery, they lived on terms of the utmost tenderness ; not a mord,
except one of love ; not an act, except of mutual endearment, nabbed
between them. Now, gentlemen, if this be proved to your here I
take my stand, and I say tinder no earthly circumstances, lain a justi-
iication of the adulterer beathiced.—No matter ts it h what delinquent
sesphigry he 'tiny blaspheme through its palliation ; Cod ordained',
nature consented, happiness consecrated that celestial union ; and it
is complicated, treason against God and moan. and society, to intend
its vioation. The social compact through every fibre trembles at its
consequences ; not only policy but laws not only law but nature, net
only nature but religion, deprecate and denounce it • parent and
offs:l ins, youth and age ; the dead from their tombs, die child from
its eradhe ; creatures scarce alive. and creatures still unborn ; the
grandsire shivering on the verge of death. the infant quickening in
the mother's wumn ; all with one assent, re-echo God, and execrate
adultsty ! I say, then, where it is once proved that husband and wife
live together in a state of lieppiress, tin contingency on which the
sun can shine, can warrant any man in attempting their separation.
Did they so? That i« imperatively. your first consideration.
only hope that all the beasts religion pined together. may hats en-
joyeal the happiness that they Md. Their married state was one
continued honevnioon • and if every cloud rose to dim it, before
love's sigh it fled and. left its orb the brighter. Prosperous and
wealthy, fortune had no charms for Mr. Browne, but as it blessed
the object of his afLetions. She made success delightlnl ; she gave
his wealth its value. The most sVenclid equipanses; the most easily
Nannies; the richest retinue l all tint vanity could invent toe:task—all
that allbetion could devise to gratify, were her'sSand thought too vile
for her enjoyment. Great as his fortune ins, his love outshone it.
and it seems as if fortune was jealous of the preference. Pro-
verbially capricious, she withdrew her smile, and left him shorn
almost of eve ry thing except his love, and the fidelity that crowned it.
~The hour of adversity is woman's hour; in the fall blaze tf
fortune's rich meridian, her modest beams retire from vulgar notice;
but when the clouds of woe collect around us, end shades and
darkness dim the wanderer's path, that chaste and lovely light shines
totth to cheer him, an eull.ni and an ennui:Mon of the heavens!
It was then her love, her seine, and her power was visible. No, it is
not for the chesi fulness whet which the bore the change I price her ;
it is not that without a si'h sit surrendered ell the baubles of pros-
plity ; hut she pilloweehher noon husband's heart, welcomed adver-
sity to Make him happy, held up her little children as the wealth
dint no adversity could take away; and w'sen she Intand his spirit

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broken and hissoul tkjeeted,with a more than macruline understand-
ing. retrieved in some degree his deverate fortunes, and saved the
little wreck that solaced their retirement.

o Whet was such a woman worth, 1 ask you ? if you can stoop to
estimate by dross the worth of such a creature—give me even a no.
tary's calculation, and tell me then what was she worth to !dm to
whom she had consecrated the bloom of her youth, the charm of her
innocence, the splendour of her beauty, the wreath of her tenderness,
the power of her genius, the treasure of her fidelity ? She, the mother
of his children ; the pulse of his heart ; the joy of his prosperity ; the
solace of his misfortunes ; what was she worth to him ? Fallen as she
is, you may still estimate her; you may see her value even in her
ruin. The gem is sullied, the diamond ie shivered, hut even in its
dust you may see the magnificence of its material. After this they
retired to Rockville, their seat in the county of Galway, where they
resided in the most domestic manner, on the remnant of their once
splendid establishment. The butterflies that is their noontide flut-
tered mund them, vanished at the first breath of adversity; but one
early friend remained faithful and affecticnate, and that was the de-
fendant. Mr. Blake is a young gentleman of about eight-and-twen.
ty ;of splendid fortune ; polished in his manners; interesting in his
appearance ; with many qualities to attach a friend, and every quality
so fascinate a ferule. Most willingly do I pay the tribute of nature
-which nature claims for hint. most bitterly do I lament that he has
been so ungrateful to so prodigal a benefactress. The more Mr.
Browne':: misfortunes accumulated, the moi.e distressedly attached did
Mr. Blake appear to him. lie shared with him his purse; he as-
sisted him with his counsel ; in an affair of honour, he placed his life
and character in his hands; he introduced his innocent si -ter, just ar-
rived front an English nunnery. into the family of his friend; he en-
cunraSed every reciprocity of intercourse between the females ; and to
crown all, that no possible suspicion might attach to him, he seldom
travelled without his domestic Chaplain ! Now if it shall appear that
scr
een fur his adultery ; that he took advantage of ,
his friend's misfortunes-to seduce the wife of his bosom; that he affect.
ed conlidence.only to betray its that he perfected the wretchedness
he pretended to console, and that in the midst of poverty, he has left
his victim, friendless, hopeless, companionless, a husband without a
wife, and a father without a child. Gracious God ! is it not enough
to turn Mercy herself into an executioner? You convict for murder;
here is the hand that murdered innocence ! You convict for treason ;
here 's the vilest disloyalty to friendship ! You convict for robbery ;
here is one who plundered virtue of her purest pearl, and dissolved it
even in the bowl that ho..pitality held out to him. ! ! They pretend
that he is innocent ! Oh, effrontery the mast unblushing ! Oh, vilest
insult, added to the deadliest iniury ! Oh, base, detestable, and
damnable hypocrisy i Of the final testimony, it is true enough their
cunning has deprived us : but, under Providence, I will pour upon
this baseness s:tch a Rood of light, that I will defy not the most hon-
ourable man merely, but the most charitable sceptic, to touch the
Jloly Evangelists, and ay, by their sanctity, it has not been commit-
ed. Attend upon the now, Genthonen, step by step, and with me re-
joice
that, no matt t how cautious may be the conspiracies of guilt,
there is a Power those to confound a ul to discover them."
Mr. Phillips then produced several witnesses, who were examined
and Gros -examined, and who had known the plaintiff and his wife
from the day of their marriage. Mrs Browne was stated to be young.
cheerful, gay, lively, handsome, awl sweet tempered. She vied her
husband were said to have lived happily together. She had borne
Mr. Browne four children, and was delivered of a fifth, a boy, since
their separation.
One witness (A. Browne, Esq.) on his cross-examination, described
the plaintifias a sporting young man, boring no vices except horse.
racing, a little gambling, and pretty deep drinking ; that he fre-
quently spoke of amours since his marriage, but it was over the bot-
tle, to which he was attached.

Mary Hinds, a servant in the family of the plaintiff, swore, that
Am. a particulw occasion. she saw Mos. Browne, through a glass door,
which led from a greco-house to the grand hall, throw her anus
round Mr. Blake's neck ail kis, him. _ _

Honori Brettan, another servant. went one day into the drawing-
room, 'and fin and Mr. Blake and Mrs. Browne sitting by the fire,
and Mr. Blake kissing her mistress.
Mrs. Browne was stated to appear at different times in very loose
attire; that she attended the rate-ground, where she mixed ir. the
comptiny of numeroui gentlemen, and settled the bets of her hus-
band, who could not appear in public, through embarrassed circum-
stances; that she attended the stables, where there were mare horses.

The trial terminated in the evening of the tt:th, when, after the
most hnpartial consideration, there was a verdict for tlit defendant,
with Si.t:i)enre.cAuts.

OLD BAILEY.

SATURDAY, thirty-three privoners were convicted of dif-
ferent felonies.

AIOND A Y. —Alrocinuseace.—Sarali Prrrima n, apparently an
elderly woman, was indicted for having unia%%ful!y mid fe•
loniousty as.aulted A. Castk3.and for having tilonionsl3 at•
.tempted, by 41UVIIACCS and threats, to .elort money from the
said 11.•Casiles.

The prosecutor was an attorney, residing in Cursitor-street,
Clianeerylane; he was married, and hail several children. On
the night of the 27th of May, about half-past seven o'clock, as
he was going through the Park, he met the prisoner; she ac-
costed him, and said she had come there according to an ap-
pointment made by him on the preceding night a tll o'clock,
when he the prosecutor. Laid given her a 3s. peice. lie an
sacred that he had not set n her hetbre, and had never made
any appointment. He then walked forward, and the prisoner
folloned, jostling and interrupting him in his progress at dif-
ferent intervals. He proceeded across St. James's square,
am Charles-street ; and when he arrived at the crossing in St.
ltlartin's-lane, between lemming s-row and Chandus-street,
the prison( r put her. month (lose to his ear, and twit horrid
.accusations and imprecations demanded money of him ; she
repeated it in Chandos street,and at the same time endeavour-
-et, to step him. The prisoner then said, Yen had better
give me some money ; for I can tell you, you shan't get rid
of the until you do." Fearing a mob would collect. he turned
White Hart-yard, and knowing a person of the name
of Jackson there, knocked at the door and went in. The
prisoner made a great noise at the door ; but a eomstable hav-
ing been sent for, she Wab taken into custody, and carried to
the Police Office. When she perceived the-officer she tried ,
do get assay..
It was proved by the testimony of several of the children of'
the prosecutor, that on the night before this transaction, their
father was at home at LI o'clock.

Mr. Con/Wu Serjcant, iu samming up, obAerved upon the
atrocity of the crime charged to have been committed by the ,
prisoner. By the 2th•Cleo. 11. it was made a felnii:% to attempt
by menaces to extort money from any one, and therelbre the
present one came within that Art. If any money alall actually
been extorted by such means, it would have clearly been a
highway robbery, and consequently a capita! nifente : but,
the prisoner, if convicted, could by law tni:y be transported
for seven years --Guilty.
The trial of all the prisoners having been enrelmleil, the
the Recorder about five.o'cloek oroceedril to pass sentence..
Oct 43 prisoners sentence of death was passed ; 7 ,A ere sec-
tencetl to be transported fur their natural lives, tl to 14 years,
aail 41 t0.7.y ears.
J. Wrildit, for bigamy, was sentenced to I year's-imprison-
mesa in Neula,ate.
Two were sentenced to be confined 2.yeauf in the House of
Correction; 6 to 1 year's imprisoinnunt, 15 to 6 months, and
to 3 montni.--The Court adjourned to September 17: