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' face of the earth—a befit ! The Defendant hint
done her wruhg, and he was hippy the lady whom
lie.represented had told the tirmilcss to make tier
complaint to an Judge and at English
Jury,. to award her a compensation in damages fur
the injury she had Their verdict could
only be a pecuniary compensation ; hut the wound-
ed feelings, the agitation%of a fencile mind, their
verdict cupid not heal. As far us they could it.
dress her wrongs, lie was perscat:ed they would ;
. .
and he was happy to assure them thet, when they
were countering the•ainoulit of the damages, they
had a bank to draw upon that would answer all de-
mands; for he would prove Out this man (the Dr-
•fendaisi), if he deserved the Aanar. of man, had a
clear income of not less titan B,citufi. a yeer. Thos
was the bank upon ihich the check of the July
war to be drawn, aid he *as, sure they would not
he limited in their dr.ift. for lte was addressing men
on the part of au injured and Moulted lad), nod
he was calling upon4liesis to give 6amages aluiost
a man, whoreAsertinis of her had been
U11,1110it;
Ide, cruel, and s!ishotiouriihle, mid who, hy hie
conduct, had proved himself altogether uoworthy
the twine and character of n man. •

The letters were all proved to. havc been of the
baud-writing of the .Defendant; but I;efore they
were read as evidence. Mr. Scarlett objected to
them, and lie submitted, that if they were intended
to he put i.r as evidence of a coutrect of marriis6, ,
they ought to he se Iteen previously stamped.
Mr. RAISE %aid, he apprehended his Learned
Fririwl was not setiods iu the objection which lie
had taken. . •
Mr. SCA RLEIT said he was in earnest, and meant
to rely upon it.
Mr. PARE remarked. the Stamp Act was only
relative to contracts of a pecuniary nature.
Mr. Justice BATLEY said he should not stop so
important a cause by such uu object's/li, taken in
limiae.
The letters were then read.
It was attempted to be sheen by cross.examina.
lion of the Plaintiff's brother, who Kroft(' the De,.
Pendant's hand-eirsting, that his sister, the Plain-
tiff, kept copies of the answers she had written.
'nouns. Orford, the Lrother, deposed to the
terms of friendship on which tha families haul lived,
and to the familiar visits which the Defeoulent was
in the habit of making. previous to, end ut the pe-
riod when the contract in cp./elution was entered
into. He stated, that in a conversation with the De.
fetidant, they had referred to a projected. journey
to gyre. Mr. Orford had expressed his desermilet?
tion to go in time, upon which the Defelidaist said
that it was too early—how would, his siSter like
that ? It would flat do fur a iteurty-inarr,ed OUR
to leave his wife so scan—this was on the 43 I of
April. The same witness stated, that the Defend-.
out had visited Isis mother at Liverpool. mid.
had
.been uniformly received in the character of
her future at:in-in-law.
The witness stated lie had treated Mr. Cole as his
future Incither.in-law; lie said, that at his desire,
he had handed over to him the wills of his father.
stud grandfather, with a view to an ariongeluent of
die property on the marriage of his sister, and that
the Defeudasit had laid them before his fathet's
solicitors, Wilson stud Sun, of Bolton. 'Elie wit.
nes* said he had never heard the Defendant ullego
ally reason fOr breaking of the its itch. Upon hi*
cross-examination, he stated that the .Deitielitte4
accession of foi time was rather uliexpectril. au:l he
believed lie had not received. an education qiiite
suitable to his fortune; lie had been at school at
Prescot. and haul left it ill. is la. witness
stated duct the wedding Vitus considered to be so
near at hand, that his sister's wedding chalice were
purchased. IVittiess admitted that upon the snatch
haring been broken off. he bud 110101i.rd bit
cousins, Captain. Wilson, to call onosi the l)e-
-feudeut for ataexplaitation of his conduct, but the
precise character of the message cenveyed b) Capt.
Wilson did not appear. The witisess never.
heard that Captain Wilson bad p-iid his addresses
to his slater. Ile believed his sister, when she
wrote letters, wrote is copy. first for the sake of
quickness and corrector", : lie had seen u copy
of that sort which she had preserved.,
The certificate of the marriage hetreen the De.
feudent and Miss driseishaw, by the Rev. Joseph
Rowley, officiating minister
.of Lanca.ter, was
proved by Mr. Jeffries/. clerk to Messrs. drred and
Brook. of Liverpool. . .
TI tttttt as Dunclui, the Defendant's steward.
proved diet the Defendant's rentals amounted to
5,600/. a year.
James Cropper, of Liverpool, one of the trustees.
ussder the will of Miss Orford'a father, deposed to
the extreme respectability of the fancily, and gave
a very high character 'Wiese lady : Ise had ever cwt.
sidered her, se, etteraplasy in a very high degree.
Both the Plaintiff' and the family eructated witli
the first people of Liverpool.
Isaac Blackbarne, Esq. brother to the Member
for the county, bore the most explicit testimony to
the character of the Plaintiff and her. fetidly. With
regard to the Plaintiff, he hod always considered
her as the most turtles. girl that he had ever seen in
his life. He described her as a very beuutiful wo.
man, and a rvutuan of good sense stud discretion.
Her conduct throughoot life he believed to be uni-
formly correct.
Mr. SCARLETT addressed the Jury, out behalf of

nut
but
such a way as
iu consideting
then came the

to leave no duulst.
.If ws. ligt,i
this eosin/et or tow"? JO proved,
question, mid it wits O. ot gica

the Defendant, at coustiderable length.
Mr. Justice BAY LEY observed, that the present
of
ftitohue ai.igaes borfoucfBll.t
47,1,11,1.7 s
lonerfopreel.feaudyaouut:gß.luadtitr;
Cole. a yowl; limn, rather tunic than etl,
.to re-
cover satisfaction for the injury site luta sustained
in consequence of Mr. Colanctf: having perforine4
a contact by which he had &mad himself in merry
her. The first que n, stio tisk O'hethise titere ever lout
been such a contakt ? it theist'. bad, then the
contract not having beenpttfprspeif, stiff the Ifet
fendent having disabled frelf (rims' performing
it by Marrying anotkier lady, the Plaintiff would
be entitled to a coMjieriasitims. lis fur astunitef could
compensate her, for the, injury she bail received ti 4
being disappointed offer tuemage. That there he
beesuieontract of marriage; was beyond all 4ties.tiu.s.
It welt unnecessasys to go through the ev:dence to
satisfy the minds of Jury oil that respect. It did
nut rest int the evidence of Miss Orfold's brother.
but was proved by the letter of the Defendant in
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