The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-14 00:00:00

BIOME CIRCUI

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' ChOYDON, FRIDAY, 1t,t,1G..11.
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• 6eAeLNEa U. Atinaitsom.
• -Nr.'SerjeatPt SHEFEIERD stated, that this was ari
anion • I N •
= fO' recover a recomience; -aS'far asttioney''
could 13e:areconinentt, • for pee ogibeandst grievous
:injuries Which o.ne man conld.qeeive frOM the- hands'.
of atiother, namely, for the seduetion. of the Plain-
'tiff's wife ; at the 'same tine; he knew that the 'de-
gree of damage which a :'Plaintiff sustained itate
.action of! this sorti, was peculiarly to,be gathered
from the circumstances of the case.. The Plaintiff'
-was
a farmer resident in the: neighbourhood of this
town, and was a man .estitilated to be peculiarly
„skilful in his profession, which, indeed, was,,the
-primary cause of his Misfortune. The Defendant
was a' young-Gentletnah of Considerable West In- •
dia property, who wished •to.' become acquainted
:with the agriculture of England, and as the Plaintiff
was esteernedla skilful agriculturist, he was_ placed
by hiS friends in the house of the Plaintiff: he had
'not long been -therebefOre he seduced the affeaion s
of the Ppietiff's.wife;, but, as it does notruneorn-
rnonly happen, an injured husband, is the last persoe,
to be inforMed of the wrong that is done him.. It
was so with the Plaintiff ;- he had not the most re.:
imote suspieion thathe was injured in the tend.ereSt
,pnint, until he, himself one day accidentally disco-
- vered hi 4 wile and the Defendant in the at of cri-
minal intercourse ;: and then, as he had no witness
,near him, he could only do that which he did, name-
ly, dismiss both his faithless wife and her paramour
from- his house.' He understood the subsequent con,-
duet of the Plaintiff was to be urged against him, but
when that conduct came to be eXplained;' it would
add.to his honour, in the mind of every feeling man.
; It seemed the enhappy-end guilty woman, soon after
her deteatioo, from remorse of conscience, he hoped,
was fixed to a bed of sickness, from which she was
never more .expeaed to rise, and -on that occasion
she solicited an interview with her husband—and at
such a moment who would have refused even a
guilty -wife- that small consolation in the supposed
hour of death—yet he understood that that ad Was
, this day tb be urged as' a, reason for„dimihishing the
. damages which, by the present action, he sought to
recover: He shoti;d prove the case, and he was sure
the Jury 'would give a verdi6l which would answer
the demands el:justice.* •
By a copy '.of the register, it appeared that the
and his wife were married on ihe 1 2th 'of
Febrtiary; .1795.
A Mrs. Johnson and a Mr. Hitchin, proved, that
• the. Plaintiff and,his wife lived togetherin -.great ap,
parent alfeclion and harmony ;, he was a farmer at
COlesden, and the Defendant they knew b 5,7 vi' idng
atint;hhuse. He was a young Geetteman by birth,
a West Indian, and, as they understood, was an
agricultural pupil_to,the Plaintiff,. ,
Anne Bell, servant to the Plaintiff, said, sl-6-re-
merriberc.4 the Defendant coming to -live with the
Plaintiff in 1807. One day in the month ;of Febru- •
ary, she saw the bed-curtains in a spare bed-room '
much agit.atedias she passed .the.door, and she sup=
posed her mistress had been taken suddenly ill., She
went into the room, and saw her mistress and the
Defendant in a very unequivocal situation. 'Sh'-e.did
net'speak, but immediately retired; on tw.o other
occasions, she also saw them in the same room ih.
like situations, but she never said a word to her
master, or anyone else, Until after she quitted the
family. She then told it to several persons, when
she heard that the: Plaintiff had one day hintse)fde,
tented his:wife: She did not tell, she said, because
Abe did not•like to disturb the peace of the farnily.
The Noble, and Learned Judge 'observett`tO' her,
that her morality did not seem to be QLW of the
soundest sort. The Defendant, she said, appeared
about 21 or 22,' and her mistress,-s1 e Supposed, Was
,near-40.
. Wm. Flopkies...dePOsed; that be met flip, Del-
fondant about twelve months, ago in Tooley-street,
when he told the Witness it *as a lticl4 thing for
.the Plaietiif-...as he would get rid' of a d d bad
wife. . .
.Mr. COMMON SERTEANT addressed the Jury on
behalf of the Detendant. and. in, Mitigation ef
:nags, urged -that the relative ages of the parties
warranted a suspicion that the defendant was not
the Seducer, but the seduced. •
. After 'the stitntuing up of the Noble and Learned
Judge, the Jury found a verdit for the:Plaintiff—
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'Daniages 4001.