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shewicg what, he am do this Odeaskin) for tie is
living, and you-mayxamine him." -
The Witness then proceeded—" Miss Wood was
very much with Mrs. Giroux, what passed' betweNi
them I do not-know---She was not more than any
other of the Scholars, but more than many of them..
I have sent for her td say her lesson, but she has
said, she would come another time.' She .was
then with Mrs. Giroux, bur I do not know what
she was then employed in."- •

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care thaterarents ought tc) take of•theii Children, to
'essential to the well-being of the Community in
which we live. But there were puti of the-evi-
deuce for the Plaintiff ,which did not stand in so
.meritorious or fair alight before the Jury as they
had, a right to expect co be laid before them by a
person claiming damages at theirliands. The con-
trad here between the
.parties, was not that this
young Lady.shouid be brought 41 like the other
§cho:ars; 'she was to be .educated differently from
the, rest;' she was to be instrueted "in house affair's,
for she was CO be qualified to keep a School herself,
and for that reason the, care of this child was ton-
- fided to her,.." for the care of children was a branch
.very likely ,to, occur to lrer when she came to,have
the care of a School ; and instead of making that an
'article of charge of negligence,in.the Defendant,-.he
ought to be thanked tor it as a favour conferred On
this young woman. Nor was there any foundation
for all or any part of what had heen said concerning
the scrophuloos complaint, and •the unwhoicsonwess
of the child of, which this „young woman had the
care., ,As little foundation was there for the in_
sinuation that Mr. Giroux had.caused the. Apothe..
eary • ,to administer improper medicines to: Otis
young Lady. All these were points introduced into
the Cause for the purpest of creating prejudice:
His Learned Friend, Mr.eGiBBS, had said to the
Jury, that' eole was not the sum that he asked for
in' Damages, but a lima larger -Stun ; but he knew
the humanity of his Learned Friend so well, that
he was sure, .he would sooner give a Draft upod his
Banker for sole than _wish any such sum to _be
given_ against the Defendant in this: cause ; he only
said 'so in the coarse of lis Syeechas; an Advocate,
who is compelled by the: perverse'. tenlper .of` ills
qieht to keep up.a cause,,._ long after his 0v0n.,,g;00
sense had abandoned The Defendant stood ber
fore his Lordship and
,the jury for his existence.—
thiS Adion 'having been,commenced, the School
4%-vindled and dwindle.d away, and at last the re-
maining few SchniarS, were„ taken away to their
parents, all cif. which,- he. maintained, ,to
.be -the
efred of mere malicidus 'slander. The Defendant
was 'Master, of this School, and derived a cornfOrt,
• able liVelihood for hirnself and family by keeping
it ; but such care have virtuous Parents
cation of, their children, ,and so delicate is time trust
that is reposed in the Masters of Schools, that stis,
liipion ,operates in. the, fitst instance,. in the same
guiltmyatancr
Lion excited this suspicion, and it
iahsi d
had.the effect which was maliciously intended by
it,''a'ff the carnilieS took' away their Children at
.once, and, unless the Defendant's -reputation was
restored': by the event of this. Aftion, he was un-
done.o.; 'Mr. ERSKINE. then- proceeded to observe,.
on the Letter, -wttich.he said, .I\4r. Moore wrote to'.
Mrs. Giroux, thanking her for the care she-had'
'taken of his children. But -Mr. GLBBS -said, " that
this Letter ought not to-be alluded to, because it
could not, in any shape whatever, be. made evidence
upon this issue." -
Lord KENYON said,:.that certainly this Letter
could'not be made Evidence at all.
Mr. EasktNE submitted, that it should be made
use of to -aired ,the credit of one of the Wit-
nesses. Mrs. Moore, with whose testimony that
Letter was inconsistent, as was indeed the conduft.
of the Witness, while ivir, Moore paid his addresses
to her, for, if the -;-,chool Was COntillaedtaS .She now
Stated-it to be, she had betrayed her duty'.to her
intended husband. However, the fact being known
to be as :he had stated it, he'.ihould not press the
reading' of the Letter[litire Mr. Giroux, who
appeared to• be a good 'deal affeded, went out of
Court by the advice Of Mr. ERSKINE].—Mr.
ERSKiNE then proceeded to comment upon the Evi-
dence that had been already given in the cause, and
Maintained,. that there was not -enough to support
this Afiia-h• • His Learned Friend had said, that all
. the 'nob of childten at the door of the-COutt-were
his.Witneses, and yet not one of them was called.
Mr. Staunton was called as a Witness for the Plain_.
'tiff: was he a married man ? He supposed'sn.;. and
that hi - four•children, were not natural 'children--
Where was hiS wife ? It was, the 'mother and not,
the father who ought to'speak of the treatment of
female children, at least. And.then came a species
-of Evidence which, he..stibmitted, .it was very
wrong to, produce, because it was very dangerous
in its effect. He meant the Evidence of; the young
woman, whose treatment at this School was the
subject of Adioni Miss Wood. She had been
called, however, and certainly her
,EvidenCe de-
served, particular attention, not that he thoUght
would affect the Defendant in the cause„ but, if it
was true, he did not see how Mr. -May hit-itself
could escape the'animadversion of the Cdurr. 'For
the first three months, she was treated as she ought
to, tie, according to her .own Evidence; She ad-
,
mitted; that from' November to February she
• , ,
made no complaint. In February' she. 'told Mr.
May, that she had thi's' diseitied child to nurse, in-
stead of attending to her lesson ; that she was em-
ployed in the most indecent offices ;' and yet, until
the month of August, this young girl is continued
in this. situation without any further 'complaint from
This father,, this affectionate father, whose tender-
ness for the welfare of rhis-child-letd generated:this
Adion ; but hestaid till Christmas, for near eleven
monthS, ten monthS after the complaint was:made
by the girl herself to him. 'What 'inference was'
there to be drawn from this ?. Either that Mr. May
was. negligent of the interest
ofthis "young girl, Or
eiseehe was aware, that the complaint she 'had made
was unfounded. .

LAW REPORT:

- COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
SITTINGS BEFORE LORD XEN.YON ANT) A SPECIAL

iTIRY IN WRSTMINSTEIt-HALL.

MAY v. GMOUX.

(Continuerlfi-omgizr Paper, of 2: nnday .)

Isandla L—On , her cross-examivatiOn,.iiid,
" Mrs. Giroux and had some words, an I told
her I wished to away—bat I did not come
away before a complaint was made against me by a
young Lady, Miss Ann Taber. I was dismissed
from my situation in the Boarding-School in conse-
quel:ze of i complainonade t 4. Mrs. Giroux by Miss
Ann' Taber. She slept with me; she is a very
young girl. I was dismissed!in corkeepence of the
complaint she made against me. 'did not know
the Plaintitf.before that time, but afterwards I did.
I have occasionally' held some conversation with
him, but I visited him very seldom." .
Here Lord KENYON, asked " whether an end
could riot be put to•this Case, without any further
investigation ?"

Here Miss was called in. afrain,, and the
,Plaintiff's Counsel said—‘,..' Miss Wood; Mrs. Moore
-has said that you. were frequently with Mrs. Giroux
in a private room with her, and
.that she used to be,
away from the Scholars, and that when Mrs. Moore
has sent for you to say your le,son, you, have said,
You Would come another time."—How was you
employed at that time ?'
A. " Doing the grorend work of tkat
[pointing to a piece of embroidery.]
Matgaret Heath—" I lived as Cook with Mrs..
Giroux. I came in November 179.9, and .catne
away in February in i goo.—l. had an opportunity
w
of seeing all the visuals that ere*ovided at that
house, for the family and for the. children at the
School ; I had. some good meat, and I had.very had
meat ; I have
had it for sate young Ladies, ;testi
have had it for the family, good and bad—l
took it in, and Icarried it up to my Mistress—The
meat for the young
.Ladies, was sometimes very had
indeed ; and I have carried up hashes to the School,
which were made from the fat of the meat, and
which was.very bad indeed.; some of it J. could not
have ate myself ; what has been offered these
. _
young Ladies, I have given ,to the, dogs—My
Mistress had meat for my Master to m.ik.e soup of,
which was very good 'meat 'indeed, from Islingrwl,
but very bad indeed for the young Ladies—l' cannot
say what price was 'paid for the meat,; I never went
out to know :the price.—We had bad meat three Or
four times a week, but r cannot Say exaaly the days
it came ; we never sent any meat back again,'.'
Charlotte Beaztford—,, I,was a, half... Boarder at
this School at the time that Miss Wobd was
the latter part of it—l did not, See much of Miss
Wood in the-School ; I do not know de all how she
was employed in the house; she was but very little.
in the School." •
Lord ICEnvort asked whether Mr, Giroux, the
'Defendant, was not a -person who attended-Queen-
square School ? .
Mr. GIBBS said, Mr. GiroOx was Paneino:-
Master of Queen-square School until Christpias last:
Elizabeth Chapman—". I was at thiS Sehool at
the same time, that 'Miss Wood Was there,—About.
three months after I came there, I remember a, child
coming there, between two and three Year's old ;
believe Miss Wood- had the care of that child.—
Miss -Wood, sat with .us at. the. table:—As to the
meat we had, it *as sometimes verrsood indeed,
but latterly. it was sometimes so ill done, that I
could not eat it ; sometimes'the meat.itself was not
good.—There was a good deal of alteration in the
mode of living ; after I had been there about three
months, it was much worse.:•—•As.to theinstruaion,
I was'not :in.struaed as I- had reason to expea
should.—Till.Christinas 1799 we had, a, Drawing.
Mater, and after that .no Drawing.Mastet attend_
ed ; Mr. Girodx himself took that upon bins ; and,
after than, the lessons were much-shorter
I afterward& left the ..School, and the reason for it
*as, that my Parents were 'not. satisfied.with -the
progress of my improvement there."
On her cross-examination she said, parents
live at Pentonville ; I was a day scholar.,, at this
School ; my father and mother are v.e.,v good to
ii-re--.—they are very .affeetionate parents ; fnev would
never suffer me to be M.:treated. 'I told my father
niwlier, from time to- time;. as I came home,how the School was conduced. When I came home
used to tell them I had very little.to ear, and that
the children were ill fed there. I told my papa
when t came home .I could have eat more for dinner
if they would have given me more ; I was only .1-
lowed to be helped. three times at dinner; I ivery
often could have eat more if I had it, but I never
said. so to. Mrs. Giroux."

Mr:- ERSKINE said, " That the malice which
diaated this Adion had ruined and undone the
Defendant ?nd his Wife,•and he. trusted for,_i Ver.
dia in his favour."

Mrs. Moore—" I .was the first Teacher in this
School. Miss Wood was there before I came. She
was OM played in a great deal of needle-work, and
she had also the care of a little child there., and her
attendance on the child took up a considerable time.
I think that prevented:her from taking some op.
portunities, which she.otherwise would have had,
of improving herself..: She did not repeat her les.
suns to me as often as. Leonid wish. If_ she had
been permitted to attend. me oftener, I should have
instruaed her further than I did; but she was ge-
nerally employed with iVlrs. Giroux -in another
room—but I .do not know'how she was employed."
Here, a book with some Exercise in French was
produCed, .which exhibited very indifferent speci-
mens of progress in that language.) The Witness
then went on, and said, " I do not think that Miss
Wood had the fair proportion of instruCtion that a
young woman of her situation ought to have dur:.
ing 'that time. I. do not think that justice was
done to her as a Scholar at this School'. She- was a
young Lady of good 'abilities, and I think, with
better instrulion, she would have made consider.
able progress. I think- she would have improved
More if she had been properly instruCted. As to
the meat at table in this .School-house, I think it
was of inferior quality ; I think it was not such as
young Ladies ought to have had.. They were.
served with 'joints hashed very much, and of a sort
of meat Which I consider as very indifferent ; and,
making allowance for very good appetites, I do-not
think that the meat they hid was fit for these young
Ladies. I have-lived in other Schools as a Teacher.
I have made complaints to Mr. Giroux ; the ani4.
swer was, ' that it shoUld be remedied,' but I did
not find it was." •

On cross-examination she said, ". I came to this
School, as Teacher, at Christmas 5799, and conti-
nued till Christmas 1800, and I came away because
the situation did not suit me. I married Mr.
Moore, an Attorney. I was disgusted and shocked
at tic.e manner in which these children• were fed;—
theV were all fed in the same manner. Mr. Moore,
my.present husband, had children there algo during
the whale time that he was courting me. I believe
the eh)est% of them was about fourteen years, and
the yotingeSt, believe, was
.about nine. They
-were. all ledlike the rest. OM- courtship was for
about fourteen mon4hs I believe.y I did not
.inform
Mr. Moore Of tbe. treatment of his children.atthis
School. Mr. Moore, after our marriage, tool his
children away at Christmas."

Mr. EItiKINE proposed" to produce some letters
whichNlr..Moore wrote to this Witness, to spew

. •
that there was no complaint made of the tri atment
.'of his children at this School—but Mr. GI z as- ob:
jetted to them, as not being legal evidence upon
thjs issue; there-was rip necessity, he said,
_to read

Lord KENYON—" I believe it' is the.pradice of
every well concluded Boarding-school, 'to give., to
children less than they desirebut.a case like this
should be judgedof uporvits own circumstances.,---
The situation of this child, IVlisc Wood, .vva'S differ,.
ent from,the rest of the Scholars in this School :
there was no other person there on .tlv2 smite terms.
She was in the'course of an editcation which took in
a little of the) house-keeper., for she was to --be
Brought up to know how to take upon herself the care
of a family, for she was to have been qualified to
be the mistress of a Boariling-schOol, and therefor
we should not judge of her instrudion by the. same
rule as we would of the other Scholars. It is in
fear, to recommend any thing to the patties
[meaning to hint that a Juror should be withdrawn,
the consequence of which would be, that each party
should par.his own costs]..—The decision of the
Jury, I have no doubt, will be- as justice. requires ;
but, I think, the parties. may save -themselves a
great deal of unnecessary trouble."
Mr. ERSKINE said, there never was a person
who had, as long as himself, attended the. admi-
nistration of Justice, who had a greater 'task to per-
form than he had on the present occasion ; for the
question now before his Lordship, and the Jury
involved in it much of the morals' of 'the Country
.in which we live, since most of the female part of it
received some .parts of its education at Boarding-
schools. He was instructed that this was an infa-
motisattack on a well-conducted Boarding-school,
and which the Keeper of it had been obliged -to put
down in consequence of this Adion, which had pro-
duced, so much scandal against- the Defendant, and
had placed him in such a situation that his ruin
was inevitable,' if he did not obtain a VerdiEt in
this Cause, which w'ould,, and which alone would,
re-establish his Charades in Society.
Mr.,ERSKIIiE then proceeded to address the Jury.
He observed, there /never was, a Judge who had'
more distinguished himself than the Noble and
Learned Judge who presided in this Cause did., in
the course of the administration-of Justice, in fak-
ing care of the morals of the Public, and partieu,
larly
,that' of Youth, and in inculcating rules for the

any iettcrs which were written.by Mr. Moore to
`shew what he thought upon the usage of his child-
ren at this School, because the Defendant, if he
chose it, could call Mr. Moore himself as a Wit-
ness.

Lora K.rwroN—"j cannot hear the contents of
these letters, certainly.".

Mr. EksKlNi to the Witness—Q. Do you not
'know of Mr. 'Moore's writing to Mrs. Giroux,
thanking her for her attention to his children ?
Mr. Grses—" i objet to that question : whet
Mr. Moore wrote td the Defendant's wife is no
evidence in this Cause."

Mr. ERSKINE—" The objeet of my examination
of this Lady is this—She has stated, upon her oath,
that the children of her husband, by his former
Wife were -at this school, and that they were dealt
with in the' same manner as the other scholars--
That for 14 months, Mr. Moore paid his addresses
to her, for "12 of which, she was Teacher in this
school, during which she must have had frequent
correspondence with Mr. Moore, Which I cannot ex,
amine, as your 'Lordship has decided ; she has told
your Lordship, .that she did not communicate to
IVIr. Moore that his children were ill.treated.-By
which I infer there was no objection then to their
treatment:—Now, I want'to shew that, on the con.
trary, Mr. Moore expressed his satisfatlion .at the
treatment of his 'children at- this School, assigning
reasons for continuing them, which would go ma-
to.affed the credit of the testimony of this

(Tc be conthrued.j

Witness; for, considering that .she Was -going to
' form the most solemn engagement that is kqown in
a social state, it was her duty to have informed Mr.
Moore, her intended Husband, of the real truth as

One day last week a child about three years old,
daughter of John Standen, Gardener to his grace
the Duke of. Riclunond, died. in consequence of hav-
ing eaten berries of the deadly nightshade.
On Saturday night a:young man, latelY from
Country, was decoyed into a hottie of
_ill-fame in
Fetter-lane, Holborn, by a woman, ivho foul-id means
to pick his pocket of upwards of 751.• in Notes and
Cash, and left him asleep in the room, in a state of
intoxication; • She was taken into .custody soon .
after,'and searched, but none of the, property found
on her ; she was, howeiver, taken to the watch-
house.

to the treatment of his children at this. School."

Lord KENYON---" The inference is, perhaps; a
strong one in your favour, Mr. ERsKINc, but Lean-
not hear any thimg of what Mr. Moore said or did,
to affect the interest of either of the parties here ;
for he was not Agent to either, nor authorized by

either to say or—do any thing on their behalf.

would not hear .it if Mr. Afloore were dead—but
you have. here no rc;ls'.:n to coffiplain for want of

DIED.

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