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sons in this.country, and it I‘..ta3 the grind charac-
teristic by which this country was distinguished
Liam all the other countries of the earth, that, with

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ts, honour Avas known, felt and afted upon among all
ranks of People. This .Defendanc was admitted
as the intended. husband_ of this yoang woman. He
rid his addresses ta.her, and he gained her affec-
tion'under the 'solemn pledlyt.,' not. in' a few soft
words whispered in her e, t. in a corner, which might
he set .addle ley {he authority Of parents, but under
the solemn vd,v of a future marriage, and that in
the View of all the neighbourhood ; and that proMise
made ~--favelv to 'the father and the mother of this
.d
yrupg Torrian, and which vas verified by. the De-
fendant m.,king his solemn oath of sincere inten-
tio4 tn. carry that promise
_into, effed, for he took
out a Licence- for the aOtial celebt alien of the.olM-
tiage, which he could no have o,htained without, an
oain, stating, among other things,, therei w'as no
just impedim. art to the marriage; winch i;iipcdi_
ment there.inust be, if .he had any reason for. the
non..performance of his promise. Under these cir-
curnstances, one evening when this young lady had
been desired-to fix thy time of the marriage, hhe
said, it. was at- Ids discretion,--he presented her.with
a.iting, and-also with life Licence she thought it
indelicate for her to keep Alic Licence, _because she
did not appear to distrust him, as most assuredly.
she did not. He left it widi her, and he said it
was immetliaiely- to be followed up by marriage.
For this porpoehe invited the young lady's mother
to view his house, and to see whether any. alter;_
Lions could be made, agreeably to the wishes of the
young lady. Now, it had been insinuated to him,
that there was a Defence to be.,set up, and that, in

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support of ii, there was to be some attempt at shew-
ing that this young lady had shewn:a disposition to
expellee, which the Defendant could not, consistently
with prudence,
_undertake to indulge ; that she was a
person of spirit beyond the station of, the Defeo-,
aiant. lie should put an end .to that species of
defence and argument arising out of it :he
should chew to the Jury Itia the only cause of the
breach- of the promise of marriage in this Case,
after having gone this:length, was 'the sudden whiM
of the Defendant,. who had seen :tooter Lady, and .
tv whiim lie was afterwards matried. He not only
laid this Licencebeforethe Plaintiff, but he bought
alsz a ring for the purpose of celebrating the mar-
riage,-as Ile had said alrea:ly.. But having thus
suddenly-changed. his. mind, he was desirous of
getting the Licence out of the hands of the' Plaintiff,
for the purpose of robbing her of the evidence, as
he thought, of the promise of the mairiage.
_The
rennet- in which .this was" efFened.Was thean,.and
he was sorry to be obliged to state it :' there vaa.a
manliness:and a Gentlernan_like way even of doing
mischief, which this Defendant had no idea of;
as appeared from his conduitin this case.. He did
not come' forward and.5ay,,,.,4 am. sorry I cannot
perform my promise with you: I have determined
.on marrying another woman ; aod therefore the-li-
cence for our . marriage
,is Of no rise." He
not take that course ; he fOund he could not
get the Licence away withaat: djceit : hetlierefore
pretended to make an apology for an absence Of,
some time after the purchase of the, Licence. He
pretended that he wished the marriage speedily to •
take place ; and to. put this young woman off her
guard, he sent a messenger to her for the Licence,
—a very
.important grave charatlei, dressed up in
the gravity of his office, the' Beadle of the Parish.
—This was done to inviegle.. this young wo,
man, and to make her, give up theLicence; under
an idea that he was going to make .artangements
for the celebration of the marriage. The Beadle
.came, with the grave aspen .which belonged to so
grave a charaner, and it was enough to:deceive
a.ny man or woman. Ile said,. he came from Mr-.
Morrison, and that he .shonicl be obliged to her for
the licence, to prepare for the marriage ; upon_
which this poor young
.woman gave up the Licence,
and then the Defendant said
,to himself, now that
I-have got the Licence, I will never see you again.
He never did see her, nor her mother, brother, or
sisteri-'nor any body of her family : he left,ber
without apology, and deserted her ~vithont cause.
This Case being made out, the question_ of da„
mages would be to- be considered, and upon that
subjed he would, adopt the. rule laid down by -the
Learned. Judge who presided at this trial, and
Who presided at another at the other end of the
town lately, the substance of which was, that the -
Jury would-consider the rank of the Parties, because
what -was compensation to one description of persons
was nothing to another. NoW .he did not wish to
draw the Jury from that line of moderation which
was a charaaeristic of JUstice, at the same time :he
was persuaded that they ought to be considerable in
this Case, wjiich the Jury wouldfind required their
greatest- attention.. ,
Mr. William AndreWs, being
,sworn, said :, I am
the brother ofthePlitiptiff..' I know the Defendant
jarnea D. Morrison Very well ; he is a baker, in
busiilegs for himself, inGosWeli-street,,and has been
in business for himself ever since the.death,of hiS
father; which was in March last. .My father is
also dead. He was in a very resnenable situation.
of life as a tradesman, a Grocer. The Defendant
was born at the house opposite my father's, and has
been there eVer since. The Defendant often visited
at my father's house, in hislife-time, and still more
frequently of late. He 'came there upcm the foot-
ing of a suitor to my sister:.• Since my father's
death, and at the latter end of April or beginning
of May. this year he presented- my sister with a
ring—a plain gold ring.—He asked ,het "if that
would sio?". She replied ''it would.", then
Said, " There: was nothing faraher: to do but, to go
to church." He' asked- her, When.shall that
be ?" She 'replied, " That is. for, you, to say."
11, said, " Stall it ,be the-next week ?" ..She re-
plied, "If you please." [Here the. Officer from
Donor's Commons produced, the Affidavit on which
the Licence was obtained by the Defendant, to.ce-
lebrate the marriage With the Plaintiff, which was
on the 27th of April iBor.]
. The Witness,:Andrews, proceeded—" My sister
is about iq. years ofage, and Mr. Morrison is about
27, I believe. I have had some conversation with
I,lr. Morrison,' while the courtship was going on,
respeding.his property. He made it appear to me,
that he was worth 1501. a year, over and-above his
business. I had also-a conversation. With him, re-
spening what he was to settle on my siSter. He,
said, it was his ihtentiota. to settle the whole of