The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-22 00:00:00

Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN addressed the Jury on
behalf of the Del...taboo. The adjudication of a
case like the one before the Court was distressing
to all parties concerned. The task of the De-
fendant's advocate was Hot the least so, for he felt
that the feelings of the Jury were up in VIM
against whatever could be urged in his client's
favour. Allowing every merit to his brother's
statement of the case for eloquence. he must yet
say it was greatly exaggerated. He hoped the
Jury would calmly consider what their duty was.
They were not there to scourge the adulterer as •
criminal, but to award the Philos such compels.
wino as was adequate to the loss lie had sustained.
The question was, what had the Defeodatit lost,
and bow hail he conducted himself ? What da.
insges was that man entitled to, who kept his wife
so lung under his very nose in a state of which he
knew himself could nut be the author—who
bad kept her as lung as any thing could be
made of her talents, and then got rid of her?
What had lie lost ? The foundation of the action
was the consortium, the solace rod iomfort of
which the husband hes been deprived. On the
other side, it had been attempted to he established
that the mode in which Mr. anti Mrs. Vaughan had
hived above a year, was the reeult of medical advice;
hut that position was not sustained by the evidence,
fur such a e unication, it appeared, had never
been made to herself. He would appeal to them
as men of the world, as men who knew how hard it
was—

" When looking, loving. longing, in ah.tain
Fioni love's duress and nuptial loud embrace i"
whether the feelings and affections of a man who
had lived fur digs, and weeks, and months with his
wife as Mr. Vaughan had, must not have been cold,
and decayed, and dead ? To live in so regulated a
manlier, if their arch 111 l s had been mutual and re- ,
ciprocal, was a thing impossible. Their pecuniary
intrtestN indeed, were the same, 10 was as cheap
that his wife should live in the same donee for a
time as in a separate. esteildisliment ; the farce was
earned am at the head or his own table, and the ex-
plosion did not take place till after her benefit. He
should nest make so ungallant a defence for his
client as 40 say that lie was seduced—but he should
nut discharge his duty did lie not call to the mind
of the Jury the disparity between the age of him
and Mrs. Vaughan. Was it to be supposed that a
woman of tox-and-thirty, the mother of six children,
strong in her attachment to her natural lord, and
iii principles of virtue and innocence, would for a
moment have listened to the love-tale of a mere
youth, that she would not have repelled him with
scorn and indignation ? No, the seduction us against
his client was et least negative. His Learned Bro-
ther "iiticiPatittir, and anticipating truly, the circum-
stances of his client (for ►t might he said he was not
worth u shilling, his whole income being about 701.
or FUi. u-yeeirj, had said, that, though poor, yet it he
had sinned, he must lay for hi► sinning ; but the
true consideration was, what injury had the De.
feud:int sustained. His client had the misfortune
to he thrown into the varlet, ate lady of elegant
accomplishments, and virticularly in that exqui-
sitely fascinating one or music—he had been taken
in the net—he had fallen into the snare ; hut he
was conscious that they would commiserate his
situati 111 l ; that they would consider where there
was no resistance there was no seduction ; that, re-
I flecting there was MI Isis. of that ou which the action
hinged, cnoingal atfet tow, sympathy, and solace,
they would award hot nominal damages,
After a very hintioniss charge finial the CHIEF
JESTICL, the Jury retired for about half an hour,
and roweled u venial for the Plaintiff, Damages
—slit. Thussand l'ussds.

The FA or SHAN Noir has purelts•erl that besot.
tau! seat, called 1.3 ',lord HsII, near Brandon, in
Suffolk. Ili. Lurtialtip's late resalence, called
00%11114W !Lill, w the same county. hub been re-let.