The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-31 00:00:00

TUOMPSON V. ROTHWELL-SEDUCTIO.T.

Mr. STARXIE opened the pleadings.
Mr. SCARLET T stated the case to the Jury. The plaintiff
brought this action to recover damages for the loss of the ser-
vices of his daughter-in-law. The defendant was a young man,
son of a gentleman of property, in Hutton, near Kendal, and
himself a freeholder in Westmorland. He had seduced the
young woman under repeated promises of marriage ; they had
lived from infancy in the same place, and he had consequently
hid abundant opportunities of persuading the unhappy young
woman of his attachment.
Mary Thompson—l know the defendant. I became parti-
cularly acquainted with him ; I have had a child to him ; I
have been intimate with him six years ago. The child is 18
weeks old ; he was the father. I was 15 when he became inti-
mate with me.
By Mr. RAINE—He was, the first time he became intimate
with me, 15 years old, just when he went to St. Bee's school,
and the intimacy continued ever since.
Mr. RAINE—I must ask some further questions, I am sorry
for it.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—The action must be main-
tained.
Mr. RAINE—Had you not better arrange it ?
The witness, in answer to his Lordship, said a servant was
called in while she was confined. Her father paid the expences
of the lying-in.
Mr. SCARLETT—We have made two distinct propositions,
but they have been refused.
While some conversation respecting an arrangement was go-
ing on, the father of the defendant, who sat before Mr. Raine,
said it was a dirty action.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, after referring to a similar case
in Worcester, hinted at 51. or 101., and added, "the action
must carry costs.''—(Parties having assented), his Lordship put
it to the Jury whether they would give 51. or 101. He thought
they could not give more. It was merely the loss of service that
was before them, or for which damages could be given. Ver-
dict for the plaintiff—Damages 101.
[At these Assizes, the prosecution of Ridgway, at the suit
of the CONSTITUTIONAL AssocrazioN, was postponed, at
the application of the Counsel for the prosecution, for one day,
on the ground that a material witness had not arrived to give
his evidence. On the following day, the case was called on,
when the Clerk of the Court stated, that there was a certiorari,
removing it into the Court of King's Bench.]

A few days ago a sow belonging to Mr.IIAyEs,
of Leeds, in this County, farrowed thirteen "gigs, one of which
had three ears and only one eye. His snout was something like
the nose of a bat, and the under jaw was one inch longer than
the upper one. The animal lived about twenty minutes.—
( Kentish Courier.)
An Inquest was held on Wednesday last, at
St. Nicholas, Thanet, before T. T. DELASAUX, Gentleman,
one of the Coroners for Kent, on the bodies of Geo. Bedingfield
and Richard Johncock, who were killed during a thunder storm
on Monday afternoon, as stated in our last, when a verdict was re-
turned of " Accidental Death by Lightning." The deceased, it
appeared, had been mowing clover, and on the approach of the
storm, left their work for shelter in an adjacent chalk-pit, prior
to their reaching which, they were struck by the electric mat-
ter, which, it would:seem, was attracted by a steel-linked chain
to a watch carried by one of them, which was shivered to pieces,
and the silver case of the watch melted into a mass.—( Kenai):
Gazette.)