The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-03 00:00:00

CIIM• C0N....-SHAW- V. ROBINSON.

Mr. CAMPIELL stated that the plaintiff was a surgeon
practising at Dudley, who had, in 1622, married Miss
Sarah Broad, a young lady of considerable personal attrac-
tions. The defendant was an attorney in very extensive
practice at Dudley. He was a married man of the age of
60, who had a wife living, children married, and a
numerous progeny of grandchildren. The defendant had
been the solicitor of the plaintiff; and availing himself of
the intimacy that subsisted between the two families, he
had gained the affections of Mrs. Shaw, and finally
destroyed the happiness of her husband. It seemed that
thin criminal passion had inspired the defendant with the
love of poetry ; for, at the mature age of 60, he composed
the following lines, which were found in the writing.desk
of Mrs. Shaw :
Oh' Sarah, when the grave holds all that's left
Of that unhappy, agitated being
Who knew no kappinese but in sight of thee--
Oh, when you take an evening walk,
Then think of IL--n!
Look toward the churchyard
That contains hie bones,
And see with pity how the evening breeze
Waves the high grass
That grows upon hie grave.
On the list of August Mrs. Shaw eloped with Mr.
Robinson, and they lived at Titley, in Herefordshire; and
after that they proceeded to Prestign ; and since that they
had been living at some place in Sonth Wales. This was
the ease on the part of the plaintiff.
Mr. Sidaway said—l knew the plaintiff and wife. The
plaintiff is a surgeon. His wife was Miss Sarah Broad,
who was one of six children. The defendant is a highly
respectable person. His age is about 60, and he has been
long in extensive practice as an attorney. He Las a wife,
and one of his sons is married. His sons are two of them
attorneys, and one of them is an iron merchant. I know
him to be a man of large property. He was employed as
the attorney of Mr. Shaw. Mr. Robinson used to visit
at Mr. Shaw's.

Mr. Humphry Broad said—l am the brother of Mrs.
Shaw. I remember Mr. Shaw paying his addresses to
my sister. He did so with the approbation of the family.
I have visited Mr. Shaw and my sister six or eight times
a year. He appeared to treat her affectionately. My
sister is now 27. She was married in 1822. Mr. Shaw
was about 40 when he married my sister.
Mrs. Jones said—l am the wife of Mr. Jones, the
iron-master of Dudley. I knew Mr. and Mrs. Shaw
before they married. Mrs. Shaw was a good looking
woman. I visited them after the marriage, sad they
visited me. I saw them often. They seemed to me to
live happily. Mr. Shaw appeared a kind and affectionate
husband. Mrs. Shaw would sometimes show little airs,
but he never appeared to return it.

Mr. Gilbert Shaw said—l keep the Barrel Inn at Dud-
ley. Ur. Shaw cornea to my house sometimes, and so
did the defendant. I saw Mr. Robinson in November
last, at Whistoncross, in Shropshire. He told me he bad
been living at Shobden with Mrs. Shaw.

Cross-examined—Mr. Robinson appeared to be in dis-
tress, and he asked me if Mr. Shaw would take her back
again.

- Mr. TAUNTON, for the defendant, said that nobody could
regret his imprudence more than the defendant did ; fur
he, the husband of an amiable and ♦irtuous woman, and
the father of a family, had suffered himself to be led away
in a manner almost amounting to infatuation. However,
that wad not the question for the Jury to try, as the only
matter for their consideration was the amount of damages,
if any, that the plaintiff ought to receive; and, there-
fore, if the Jury should find that the plaintiff had
been accessory to his own disgrace, the defendant
would be entitled to a verdict ; and even if the Jury
should think that the plaintiff bad only permitted the de-
fendant at all times of the might and day to have access
to his wife, and it should be shown that on the night of
the elopement the plaintiff all but handed his wife into
the chaise, then the plaintiff would be only entitled to
nominal damages. Ile would prove that the plaintiff and
his wife lived on the worst possible terms, and that Mrs.
Shaw had addicted herself to a habit of drinking, in *hid%
she was encouraged by her husband ; and that Mr. Ro-
binson was continually at the house, sometimes staying to
a late hour of the night, and it would also be show* that
this gave great uneasiness to the family of Mr. Robinson,
some of whom used to go te the house of the plaintiff to
fetch him away ; and on one of those occasions, when Mr.
and Mrs. Shaw had denied that Mr. Robinson was there,
Mr. Robinson, jun. asked that the watchman might
search. This proposal was acceded to ; but ultimately
the watchman was not permitted to search, and after that
Mr. Robinson was seen to come out of the house; and the
matter (as he was told) was so public in Dudley, that it
was chalked on the walls; and, besides that, there was
even a bill in one of the shop windows, with " Love, Law,
and Physic," written on it in large capitals. With respect
to the elopement the Jury had only heard the end of it--
namely, the driving away from the house of Mrs. Wilcox,
in Hall-street, in a post-chaise. Now the other facts
which would lee laid before the Jury would go to show
that the plaintiff was himself an accessory to what
occurred, as it would be shown that on the even-
ing of the Ist of September, Mr. Robinson drank
tea at Mr. Shaw's as usual, and it was the custom at
Mr. Shaw's for him and hie wife to drink two or
three glasses of ale before they had tea. However,
when Mr. Robinson came they set to it in good earnest,
and drunk two or three jugs of ale, and then they had
supper; but things taking an awkward turn, the next
that was heard was a violent quarrel between Mrs. Shaw
and her husband, the former being heard to say that she
would never live with such a d-1 as her husband; and
it would be proved that Mr. Robinson, so far from play-
ing the part of a seducer, had advised Mr. Shaw to be
reconciled to his wife. However, he was not successful,
as it would be further proved that this affectionate husband
actually pushed his wife out at the surgery door, saying,
" Go, and be —to you. Mr. Robinson still asked Mr.
Shaw to take her back, but he said, "I won't," and then
Mr. Shaw said, " Mr. Rubinson, if you won't take me,
somebody else shall." Upon this a chaise was sent for by
Mrs. Shaw, who asked Mr. Robinson to go with her to Wil-
sox's, and when the chaise came, Mr. Robinson and Mrs. S.
went away with. the full knowledge of the plaintiff; and
what showed that this was not a preconcerted scheme, was
that Mr. Robinson and Mrs. Shaw had gone away with-
out sufficient wearing apparel ; and it was therefore clear
that this was a sudden thought of Mrs. Shaw, in which
Mr. Robinson joined, he then being in a state of
intoxication from what he had drunk at the house of
the plaintiff.
Evidence was brought forward which corroborated the
Learned Counsel's statements, after which
The Jury retired, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff
_Damages, One Shilling.

BIRTHS.
On the 31st ult. at Catnbridge-heath, Hackney, the wife
of Capt. Mordaunt, of a sou.
On the Ist inat. at Brighton, the lady of P. F. Christian,
Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 29th ult. at Brighton, Capt. Stanhope, R.N.,
only son of the late Hou. General Fitzroy Stanhope, W
Elizabeth Rosamond, eldest daughter of Jam.■ Ward,
E.g., of Willey-place, Surrey, and of Regency-square,
Brighton.
DIED•
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On the Ist inst. at Shaftesbury, aged 75 years, Mr.
At not, formerly of Holt, Wilts.

On the Ist inst. at G. Byng's, Esq., St. James's-squaret
Harriett Selina, aged 14, months, only daughter of tho
Rev. Lord John Thynne.

On the 30th ult. in Great Queen-street, St. James's,.
park, in the 86th year of her age, Mrs. Sarah Sayers
relict of the late William Sayer, Esq. of bit Majesty'.
Victualling-office.

On the 28th ult. aged 15 months and S weeks, RO'
setts, the infant daughter of Samuel Cohen, Esq. jun. of
Park-place, Brixton.

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