The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-04 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- - -
Sia,—l was much surprised on being informed that
I Saturday's edition of The Sun contained such an in-
-1 correct account of the man Johnson, in an article
headed Thursday's Storm.
I have made every inquiry that is possible—the
father was more than a mile away from the place at
the time of the accident, and some benevolent neigh.
hour (knowing the poverty of the deceased, and his
widow being near her accouchetnent, and seeing that
many were anxious to see the deceased, to which there
was no objection ever made), of his own accord took
a bread tray, and placing his mite in it, was followed
by hundreds, not with pence merely, but more
substantial proofs of benevolence, which the father,
on his arrival at the sad scene, immediately
devoted to the service of the widow, pro-
mising to be a father to her and coming child, and
though but a working-man himself, with a large
family, agreed to bury the deceased at his own ex-
pense.
Now, Sir, there was nothing like an exhi-
bition at a penny per head, seeing it was entirely
a freewill offering, and I am further informed, the
father said to several when he arrived, they were not
desired to give, as they appeared poor themselves.
I hope your sense of justice will lead you to con-
tradict such an unfounded report in your next paper,
as I have known the father more than twenty years,
and do not believe him heartless, nor think it
indecent to suffer those of our neighbours whom it
has pleased God to spare to witness a solemn instance
of his Divine providence.
Now, Sir, surely it is affliction enough to
have a son cut off in the flower of his age without
being calumniated, without being called an exhibitor
of the hideous and horrible.

I remain, Sir, &c.,
W. KEMP.

Commercial street, Aug. 2, 1849.

HOUSEHOLD BRIGADE OF GUARDS.
The half-yearly exchange of Quarters of the Infantry
of the Household Brigade will take place on the Ist of
September as follows:
GRENADIER ISt Battalion, from Portman•
Ftreet to St. George's Barracks; 2d Battalion, from
Windsor to Wellington Barracks ; 3d Battalion, from
-str ; 2d Battalion, from
S
Wellington Barracks to Windsor.
COLDSTREAM GUARDS. Ist Battalion, from St.
George's Barracks to St. John's Wood ; 2d Battalion,
GUARDS—
from
to
Chichester.
ortan
street COTS FUSILIER GUARDS,-ISt Battalion, from St.
John's
the-woT(we
wood
d)tro
P m
Chichester to the Tower.— United Service Gazette.

THE WAR MEDAL.—\VC have heard from a quarter
upon vthich we ate accustomed to place reliance, that
the Government have consented to give further retros-
pective effect to the giant of a medal, and that this new
arrAigi.ment will include the campaign in Egypt. We
sincerely hope that the report may prove well founded.—
United
ON THE AC- Service Gazette.
n REPORT
SECON— I BEES —A correspondent of the Dumfries Courier
st4s:—The present has not been what is culled a great
CO.SI3IODATION OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
By the Lords Committees appointed a Select rarely see
swarming season- but the probable quantity
, nevertheless, is all guess•woik. We have
Committee to take into consideration the accommoota- ' greater abundance ot• white clover in Borgne (par
6,:cloudy
tion of the House, and to report to the House; and knee, the Hy bla of Scotland); the recent. mule
of
isms
to whom leave was given to report from time to time I weather retards its withering.
The
bitiethe finest of' the
to the House ; and to N 5 how. were referred several ' experience say that in propitious seasons
July to the begin-
of honey,
ercn.eia
petitions relative to the reporting of Parliamentary honey is gathered fromis nearly
.
proceedings :
" Ordered to report, as clear as spring water, .
the industrious insect, it ac-
comprehensible
delicious flavour, but the truly beaA-
" That the Committee have met, and further con-
quires, not only a
niug of Septembaeirc.hanEyarLol iymte i n meddlet li e
,
but, subse7:e°nutlhyo,nbeyy, some in-
sidered the subject matter referred to them.
CROP OF POTATOES —Mr. 11.
"The Committee have examined witnesses re-
Sboreditch Inn, dug in his gardews ts
specting the facility of hearit.g in the temporary Durk, of
thicetraordiliary number of 131 prime potatoes,
gallery erected for the convenience of strangers con- week tfhoeur e;talks,
tituEl
sumo of them weighing from eight to
tiected with the public press, and, in consequence of 1 under
xs7R-agoregilz.tr . . . ,
h.
the evidence given by them, the Committee feel . nine ounces each.—Somerset County Gazetto.

L&W INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, August 3.

(Before the LORD CHANCELLOR, at his private re,idence.)

IN RE EDWARD VICARS, AN ALLEGED LUNATIC.

Tnis was a petition of Hannah Vicars, of Liverpool,
spinster, a sister and one of the next kin of Mr. Edward
Vicars (the alleged lunatic), setting forth that the said
Zdward Vicars, of Liverpool, wine and spirit merchant,
now is, and for some time past has been, so far deprived
of his reason and understanding that he is rendered al-
together unfit and unable to govern himself, or manage
his affairs; and praying that a Commission in the nature
of a writ Lunatic° Inquirendo might issue to inquire of
the alleged lunacy of the said Edward Vicars.
Mr. Bolt, Q.C., and Mr. Renshaw appeared on behalf
of the petitioner; and Mr. Malins, Q.C., and Mr. Jolliffe
represented the alleged lunatic.
Mr. Edward Vicars, the ialieged lunatic, is 46 years of
age, and the son of a small farmer and cloth manufac-
turer in Eskdale, near Wnitehaven, who recently died at
the advanced age of 80 and upwards. The alleged
lunatic served an apprenticeship to a spirit dealer at
Broughton-on-Furness, in the county of Lancaster; and
eventu illy, in the month of January, 1835, went into
partnership with his brother, Mr. Matthew Vicars,
and Mr. John Newby Moore, as soda- water manu-
facturers, distillers, and wine-merchants, at Liver-
pool. This partnership continued until 1845, dur-
ing the whole of which time Mr. Edward Vicars
acted as traveller for the firm. In 1844, from the ex-
citing life he had been leading for some years, which
compelled him to live somewhat freely, his health gave
way; he was seized with delirium tremens, and having
also had some domestic differences with his wife, he
withdrew from the active part he had taken in the busi-
ness of the firm, and retired into the country, at a place
called Holken Ground, near Broughton-on-Furness, a:few
miles from his father's house, where, in the latterend of
1846, he had another attack of delirium tremens, from
which, however, he shortly recovered. In February, 1847,
he had spina still more severe attack,lwhich was of longer
duration, and as he was then much excited and suffered
under certain delusions, he was, under the advice of a Mr.
Atkinson, his medical attendant, removed to the Walton
Lodge Lunatic Asylum, near Liverpool, whence he con-
trived to escape on the 19th of March last, and has con-
tinued at large ever since.
Mr. BOLT, in support of the petition, read the affi-
davit of Mr. Joseph Churton, a surgeon of Liverpool,
who deposed that he had known the alleged lunatic for
fifteen years, and had been his medical attendant. On
the 25th of February, 1847 he, at the request of Mr.
Matthew Vicars, his brother and partner, visited Mr.
Ed ward Vicars, for the purpose of inquiring into the
state of his mind, and found him labouring under strong
mental delusions, amongst others, that he (the alleged
lunatic) had no stomach or intestines. Mr. Churton
then certified that he was of unsound mind, and upon
that certificate he was taken and incarcerated in the
Walton Lodge Lunatic Asylum, conducted by Dr. Lich-
field. On the 17th of January last Mr. Churton was
again called in to visit the alleged lunatic, and found him
labouring under mental delusions, the most conspicuous
of which was, that electricity was a powerful agent in the
production of insanity, that such agency was exercised
upon himself by the magistrates and other design-
ing people .withow. .the asylum, aided by those
within, for the purpose of keeping him in a
state, of_ luuucy, -so as to, justicy his deten-
tion -in the, asylum., A great. number of affidavita
teethe same eff! were read by .Me. Bolt, frotie which
he eeatendeel "diet, in Vebruary, 1847, when he wits'
taken to the lunatic asylum, the alleged lunatic was-not,
of sound mind.
Mr. MALINS said be should not dispire that.
Mr. Rove said, undoubtedly the delusions, such as
they were, of the alleged lunatic, had been very much
modified by the treatment of Dr. Lichfield, but
still they continued to some extant, and to such ex-
tent that his partners could not deal with him in
reference to the affairs of the partnership, or to
its dissolution, and that he could not be entrusted
with the marrigement of his own fortune, now very
considerable, arising out of the prosperous state of the
firm of which he was a member. The partners of the
alleg. d hineie. had offered that if he could produce cer-
tificates of his sanity by two eminent physicians, be-
tween whom there was no concert, they would at once
treat with him with a view to dissolve partnership,
and divide with him the capital and profit of the concern.
Mr. Mc:iv:taw toll ,wed on the same side. He con-
ten led that the affideves showed a very strong animu-,
on the part of the alleged lunatic towards lunatic asy-
lum., and that it was impoieible to say what that delu-
sion might drive him to do. The assassin, M•Naughten,
believing that the Government of the country bad per-
secuted him in some way, was driven to take away
the life, of Mr. Drummond, whom he mistook for the
Prime Minister. It was idle to say that the alleged
lunatic, Mr. E lward Vicars, was now a perfectly
mild and sane man. M'Naghten was remarkably
mild 'at home, in the bosom of his family, who had no
idea that he laboured under any delusion, and see the
awful catastrophe which resulted from his going at
large. Toe business in which Mr. Vicars, the alleged
hinatic, was a perm r, began in 1835, when each of the
thie;e partnere subscribed a capital of 1,0001. That
business had been eminently prosperous, and was now
worth 16,0001. Ought a man, subject to a delusion such
as had_ been described, to have the entire control of
his property? He submitted that under all the circum-
stances the case was one which called for inquiry by a
jury.
The affidavit of Dr. Southey was read, who deposed
that he had visited the alleged lunatic so recently as in
July last, and that on all ordinary subjects he was sane
and capable of managing his own affairs; but re-
specting electricity, and its powers of being applied
in such a manner as to enable the keepers of
madhouses to render their patients insane and to
keep them in that state, he laboured under a
delusion. The affidavit of Dr. Southey concluded
in these words—" Now, although I am convinced that in
bis present state of mind it would be an act of cruelty to
place Mr. Edward Vicars in any asylum, or, indeed, to
interfere with his free agency, yet I ern sorry to say that
I would not assert my belief that he is of perfectly sound
mind, in consequence of the above stated delusion re-
specting electricity."
The LORD CHANCELLOR said it would seem from Dr.
Smithey that a person may be of unsound mind, but yet
capable of managing his own affairs.
Mr. :Amazes said he appeared for Mr. Edward Vicars,
the alleged lunatic. In the early part of 1847 Mr.
Vicars was undoubtedly of unsound mind. That was
the result of excessive drinking, induced by his habits of
life, he being the travelling partner of his firm—that of
wine and spiris merchants, and compelled to drink with
their custom. rs. Though, in the first instance, he wee
perhaps properly enough confined in a lunatic asylum,
yet his delusion speedily assumed al modified and harm-
less a form under the treatment he received there, that
it amounted to a grievous and intolerable cruelty and '
wrong to keep him incarcrrattd there for a period of
two years. It that place he was never visited by his

friends or partners; they, on the conttary, stood care-
fully and coldly aloof, and never took any steps to
ascertain what modifications his malady had undergone,
or to procure his release from a place which he
loathed and abhorred, and so to restoee him to the bosom
of his family and the world. Tais treatment, added to
his own consciousness that he was perfectly able to ma-
nage his own affairs, so excited and irritated his feelings
as to induoe a degree of violence, in which his original
delusion was to some extent merged and forgotten. It
was under those feelings that he had effected his escape
from the asylum in March last; and no sooner had he
recovered his liberty than his delusion and vio-
lence left him, and his whole deportment assumed
that mildness and intelligence by which he was
chsncterized aforetirne. The Learned Counsel read
A voluminous mass of affidavits to prove the alleged
lunatic's sanity since his release, into which our limits
will not allow us to enter.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, independently of the
question, whether the alleged lunatic was of unsound
mind or not, there was the position in which he stood
with regard to his property.
Mr. MALINS slid he understoml the issue which the
other side raised was that there should be two indifferent
medical men to report on the state of his mind.
The LORD CHANCELLOR was much disposed to nomi-
nate two indifferent medical men, but he did not bind
the parties to it. It seemed to him that it would be
muoh better for the alleged lunatic if the partnership
were put an end to. The delusions of the- party had
certainly been very much reduced. He (the
Lord Chancellor) bad seen proof of a very
great improvement ; that was borne out by all
the medical men, except one. The weight, however, of
the medical testimony was, as to the degree of
recovery, but as to there not being an entire re-
covery, the evidence was very conclusive. Under
all the circumstances, his Lordship directed a com-
mission to issue, and within a week, it the paths
could prepare themselves. His Lordship also directed
that the sum of 2001. was to be advanced out of the
partnership estate to Mr. Bolden, the alleged lunatic's
solicitor, to enable him to prepare and conduct his case
on the forthcoming inquiry, Mr. Bolden undertaking to
account for that sum in such way as the Lord Chancellor
shall direct.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. Aug. 3.
BROGDEN v. THE SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
THE NORTH SENT LINE).
This case was again mentioned. and his TioNoun made
an order to this effect—viz: " The company, submitting
to such order as the Court might mike us to giving up
the line and the payment to the plaintiff of money due
and to become due under their contract, and the order
of the 16th of July, and to such accounts and inquiries
a'
might be directed, the Court ordered the company. to
pay to Mr. Broaden, within a fortnight, the balances of
all that was due,as certified by the company's engineers
in respect of the work done under the contract; and the
engineers were ordered to certify within a month what
was due to the plaintiff tip to the 21st alt , and to pay
the amount within a fortnight.
was
Master was directs d
to inquire whether th railway complete so as to be
fit for the public use by twalj, o',.aock S ttur,tay, the
eilsks it so
21st, and if not, what remained to be :on
fit, and to state any reasons for its non done
4
.to the 5,000/. expesit;on money it mustZet paid, into
;As
eourt to abide the result of the inquiries." ra—

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 3.
(Befure Mr Commissioner HARRIS.)
IN RE MATTHEW F. PEARSON.
This insolvent, formerly the proprietor of the Satirist
newspaper, was opposed by Mr. Cooke, on behalf or the
Duke of Brunswick; Mr. Birnie supported.
A clerk to the opposing creditor's solicitor prcdnced
the record of an action for libel instituted by the Duke
of Brunswick against the insolvent, in which he re-
30vered a 'verdict for 1,500/. The costs were tax, d at
2101., no part of which, or the damages, had been paid.
In reply to Mr. Coomt, the insolvent state that he had
now no interest in tthe Satirist, having disposed of it in
1146 to Mr. Carroll,

To Mr. BIRNIE the insolvent said, in December, 1843,
Mr. Gregory, the previous proprietor of the paper, ap-
peared as a theatrical performer, and a person was de-
puted to attend on behalf of the Satirist and criticise the
performance. On Mr. Gregory's next appearance at the
Haymarket Theatre, in June, 1846, the same course was
adopted,
Mr. COOKE said his Noble client sought the protection
of this Court to put an end to a course of the moat vio-
lent, cruel, and malignant persecution, by means of
libels, that ever any person had been exposed to. The
Duke had suffered an inconceivable amount of annoy-
ance, and had tried all the powers of the law to protect
himsell from the vile slanders, not one part of which
had ever, in the course of the manifold proceeding•,
been even attempted to be proved, although there was
scarcely a single crime, not even murder, that had not
been at some time imputed to him, and in this case the
jury appeared to have fully appreciated the Duke's po-
sition by awarding extraordinarily heavy damages in
hopes that the vile system may be stopped. During
these proceedings his Highness had been put to enor-
mous costs, and doubtless the parties had expected that
of the 15,0001. which he had expended in defending his
character from their base attempts he would rather have"
applied some part in a way more in accordance with
their wishes and interests. The jury had by their ver-
dict recorded their opinion of the enormity of the of-
fence, and he (Mr. Cooke) submitted that the case was
one meriting the application of th• full penal powers of
this Court.
Mr. BIRNIE contended that libels were not necessarily
malicious; and, although a proprietor of a publication
was civilly liable for the acts of an indiscreet servant,
yet it was necessary to prove the existence of malice be-
fore calling on this Court to remand an insolvent. I❑
this case the majority of the libels imputed to the insol-
vent appeared in the Satirist long before he had any
connexion with the paper at all; and the only two which
appeared while he was exercising any control over it
were critiques written by gentlemen on the establish-
ment in the ordinary course of their duty, who, having
gone to witness the performance of Mr. Gregory, were
disgusted with a scene most scandalous and un-English
in its character, which, in the warmth of their indigna-
tion, they described in fervent t-arms. But those articles
did not mention the Duke of Brunswick, nor was there
the least allusion to him, and the verdict had been ob-
tained at the trial by an ingenious mode of fixing upon
the insolvent the liability of articles which had appeared
in the paper before his connexion with it. The Learned
Counsel submitted that this Court, having the opportu-
❑ity, which the jury had not, of hearing the insolvent's
own evidence, and hearing his denial of any intention to
libel the Duke, would consider this case to be one in
which there was no malice proved, and consequently no
ground for a remand.
Mr. Commissioner lisaßts deferred his judgment
until Monday.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Hereford, Aug. 2.

_
Justicen
in
nLga.)
There-CRsN were C yRtTh COURT.—(Before
casesef° r
remaining
g for E
trial eto-
day. This first was a charge against a farmer, John Price,
of having, on the 4th of April last, at Medley, feloniously
set fire to certain farm buildings in the possession of one
John Smith. Mr. Skinner prosecuted and Mr. Cooke
defended the prisoner. The fire, which consumed several
farm buildings, and five cows and horses which were in
them, was proved beyond doubt to have been the work
of an incendiary, but the evidence was not sufficient to
affect the prisoner with more than a strong suspicion
that lie was the guilty party, and he was consequently
Aequitfed:'
Aasose—John Jones, an awkward-looking la*d, about
14 years of age, was ind cted for setting fire to farm
premises at Preston-on-Wye, on the 23d of April.
Mr. Cooke and Mr. Cripps appeared fur the prosecu-
tion. The prisoner was undefended.
The present was a striking instance of the terrible
amount of mischief which a revengeful child (for the
prisoner appeared little more) might perpetrate. The
premises were the property of the Dean and Chapter
of the Cathedral of Hereford, and were tenanted by
a Mr. Davis, the prosecutor. So rapid was
the conflagration that although numbers were
speedily assembled on the spot, it being not
later than eight o'clock at night, the whole premises,
consisting of two barns, several sheds, outhouses, stables,
&c., were entirely consumed, the loss smounting to above
1,200/. It appeared that on the morning of the 233 of
April, the prosecutor being dissati.fied with the prisoner,
who was in his service, had taken away from him the
care of his horses, and appointed another boy in his
place, putting the prisoner to what he considered some
lower occupation; and this prisoner, who had a few days
previously gone over with another boy to see the ruins
of the fire at Madley, for which the preceding prisoner,
John Price, :had been tried, appeared immediately to
have conceived the design of avenging himself on his
master in the mode that had unfortunately been thus
suggested. Some expressions were used by him during
the day which were not attended to at the time, but
1 which were explained by what followed. It was proved
that he was among the last party of workmen who left
the premises, and after parting from them to go home
he must immediately have run round to a barn at the
other end of the buildings, and, after applying a lucifer
match, of which he was shown to have pos-
sessed himself during the day, and running
away for a little space, he himself, as so commonly
happens in the case of an incendiary, was the first to give
the alarm of fire. With the exception of some trifling
matters of little weight, there was no evidence to connect
hint with the offence. But he had subsequently mude a
statement, amounting to a confession, to the siiBter of ,he
prosecutor, which, it appeared he had been induced to
do by a promise made by her to endeavour to obtain
pardon for him from her brother. The Learned Jutige
seemed to be of opinion, that as the sister had no au-
thority to make any such promise, the statement would
be receivable in evidence; but as the prisoner had sub-
sequently repeated a statement nearly similar to a po-
liceman' it became unnecessary formally to decide that
point. The st itement so made was t i the effect that he
had ignited the match in a stove, and applying it to the
straw in the barn, the whole was instantly in a
The jury found him Guilty, but recommended him to
mercy:on account of his youth; and
The Learned JUDGE, after commenting strongly
upon the enormity of such an offence, sentenced him to
be transported for fifteen years.
James Williams, 21. was indicted for burglary, and
his mother, Charlotte Williams, 52, for fel. niously re-
ceiving a quantity of silver plate, the produce of her
son's alleged crime.
Mr. Huddleston prosecuted; and Mr. Skinner defended
the prisoners.
It appeared that in October last, the house of two
Quaker ladies, named Chandler, who live together near
Hereford, was broken open and their plate stolen. Two
brothers, named Morris, amid the male prisoner, were ap.
prehended for the theft; the male prisoner was di-charged,
hut the Morrises were committed, and being tried for the
offence at the last assizes, were convicted and sentenced
to twelve months' imprisonment. After their conviction
they severally made statements implicating the prisoners,
who were thereupon apprehended. The Morrises, who
were brought from the gaol by a writ of habeas carpus,
now swore that the burglary was committed by the
younger Morris and James Williams, and that the elder
Morris knew nothing of it until afterwards, when he
endeavoured to dispose of some of the plate to screen
his brother. They also swore that Charlotte Williams
received the stolen property. On cross examination the
younger Morris admitted that he had been flogged in
prison since his conviction for misconduct, and that he
hoped part of his sentence would be remitted if through
his evidence the prisoners were convicted. He be-
haved, • however, with great levity in the box, and
it was evident the jury attributed no weight whatever to
his testimony. On the other hand, the elder Morris
professed great repentance, which he attributed to the
perusal of the Scriptures during his confinement., and
sirid he was quite willing to expiate it as far as he could,
by suffering the whole of his punishment. He, however,
admitted that he had previously taken a false oath, and
his wife, who was called as a corroborative witness, also
admitted she hoped the result of the trial would shorten
his term of imprisonment. The other witnesses called
to corroborate the Morrises spoke only to comp tratively
trivial matters, while, on the other hand, some neigh-
hours of the prisoners, who were bail for Charlotte
Williams, gave both of them an excellent character.
Mr. Justice EELS summed up the evidence with cha-
racteristic care and lucidity, and
The jury, after brief deliberation, returned a verdict
of Acquittal.
With this case (at five p.m.) the assizes at Hereford
terminated.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Bridgewater, Aug. 2.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS and a
Common Jury.)
MELMJIBII V. COLLIER.
Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Sergeant Kinglake, and Mr.
Leigh, were counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Crowder
and Mr. Smith for the defendant.

This was an action brought to recover compensation
for an assault and battery. The plaintiff was a girl
who had lived s=rvant to the defendant, who was a farmer
near Wellington, in this county; and it appeared that he
had two servant girls, and that he was in the occasional
habit of kissing these girls, which made his wife jealous,
and created unpleasant feelings in her mind. Upon one
occasion, the defendant was endeavouring to push his
wife up the stairs, when the plaintiff and the other girl
went to the protection of their mistress, and the defen-
dant struck the plaintiff on her breast, which had pro-
duced a tumour which was described by three surgeons.
The first said it was as large as a bantam's egg, the se-
cond described it as being the size of a walnut, and the
third said it was not bigger than a filbert.
For the defendant, it was urged that the tumour might
have been produced by other means, and that the matter
had been brought forward upon an expectation that the
defendant would pay some money rather than allow the
case to c,,me into court.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 50/.

PRATT V. HARDISTY.
lake and
counsel for the plaiht.—, and Mr.
Mr. Crowder, Mr.
iCirkburn, ti Mr. were
Mr. Smith for the defendant.
seduction of the p 1 iintiff's daughter,
This was an action to recoveren
ha Pratt that she
t
appeared from the evidence of Mart 1111Pa;tphscsati°Pnrafiotr. thel
was
p2B,2riyieharresiole. The
ffageHmerotmheort,hetrh(wmagsh poor.awidowha,
the best she could for her family. Her eldest daughter
had done
receiv-
ingwas servant to the defendant's mother, and the girl in
question had been apprenticed to a dressmaker when she
was 14 years old. She had for the last 'our or five years
employed herself in making dresses for different persons,
and, among others, for the defendant's mother; but she
lived with her ovvti mother, who was 60 years of ege,
and made the beds and did the household work. The
defendant was a silk-manufacturer, residing at Shep-
ton Mallett with his mother. When the girl was there
at work he used to take every opportunity of speak-
ing to her. On the 12th of August she had been to
' take her sister a frock, and as she was coming out

of the house, between nine and ten o'clock at
night, she saw the defendant standing at the gate.
As she was about to pass him, he, without saying a
word, seized her, took her in his arms, and carried her
into the counting-house. He then put bor down, and
closed the first door and fastened it. He then took her
into the inside counting-house, and fastened that door.
She reasoned with him but the injury took place. She
then reasoned with him on the case, and dared him ever
to interrupt her again, and told him she was not the
girl he supposed her to be. He said he knew that, and
he liked her the better. She said he had ruined her,
and she did not kn►►w how to get out of the house. He
said he would go and see if there were any one about,
and he left the counting house. She then found he had
put sums silver in her pocket. She took it out and
placed it on the desk in the counting-house, and went
Away. In about a month, as she was coming out of the
house of the defendant's brother, the defendant seized
her again and repeated the conduct he had before prac-
tised; He would not let her have any peace ; he was
Always terrifying her, and tried to repeat his conduct.
several times, but she would not let hi►n. In January
she found herself in the family-way, and she told her
mother, and such was the effect upon the old woman
:that she was ins,-nsible for a night and day, and in a most
,ad state of distress, and it was necessary to have a
dolor to attend her. The girl swore she was virtuous
up to that time. She was confined in May.
The girl gave her evidence with great propriety and
modesty.
For the defence it was untended that this was an
attempt to tur❑ a case, which was only one for an order
of affiliation, into an action of seduction, that all the
elements of seduction were wanting, and that it was
the most worthless action ever brought into a court of

justice.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, in summing up, observed that
there was sufficient proof of service, and if the jury be-
lieved the girl there was proof of the seduction. The
girl's character had not been impugned. The plaintiff
had produced witnesses to prove the good character of
the girl, but the defendant's Counsel had objected to
their being examined. The task they would have to
perform would be to award the damages.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages 1501.