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London, England, 1831-05-30 00:00:00

SEDUCTION-EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

(Abridged from the Dublin Morning Register of Friday.
and Saturday.)
COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
REV. SAMUEL ADAMS D. MAJOR PHILIP DUNDAS•
This ease, which has excited a great deal of interest,
attracted to the avenues of the Court a much greater crowd
than is usually found in the ball at an early hour in the
morning. As soon as the doors were opened, the Court
was crowded to excess, while the place usually occupied
by the Registers of the Judges was filled with different
officers of the cavalry and infantry regiments now sta-
tioned in Dublin. Upon the Bench we noticed Lord
Howth, Lord Dungarvan, and Lord Crofton.
The defendant pleaded not guilty. Damages were laid
at 20,0001.
Mr. NORTH, K.C., rose and said—l am now, my Lord
and Gentlemen of the Jury, called upon, under very pecu-
liar circumstances, to address you upon a case the most
remarkable and the most distressing that in the whole
period of my professional experience it has ever been my
painful duty to state to any Jury. The plaintiff Mr.
Adams, is a dean of the Established Church ; he is the
Dean of Cashel ; he lived with his family in a very re-
tired part of the county Cavan, in a place called North-
lands. He married a lady of high respectability, and one
of the best connections in the county to which be belonged;
she was a Miss Harvey, of the county of Wexford. By
that lady he had a family of six children, three daughters
and three sons. The eldest of these children was Miss
Dorothea Adams, who, at the period of this unfortunate
transaction was about 19 years of age. The eldest of the
sons was about 13. Caroline, the youngest daughter, was
about 15 years of age, and the unfortunate victim of the
defendant's sensuality and vice, was an interesting, a beauti-
ful, an innocent, an artless, and a happy creature, of the
age of 17. In 1829 or 1830, perhaps earlier, this family
resided in the county Cavan. Mrs. Adams, unfortunately
for them, had very weak and infirm health, and had been
recommended by her medical advisers to try the bracing
effects of sea-bathing. She had on former occasions gone
to Dundalk, and she had taken lodgings, such as sea-
bathers are in the habit of occupying. She had in 1529
taken lodgings at a place called the Blackrock, near the sea-
side, and about two miles from Dundalk. The Adams's
repeated their visit to this place in the summer of 1830.
They were living there in the July of that year, when un-
fortunately—most unfortunately for them—unfortunately
for the interests of society— unfortunately for the character
of the Church, and still more unfortunately for the honour
of the army, there was quartered in Dundalk one of the
finest regiments in the service—the 7th Hussars, commis-
sions in which are sought after by the noblest and most
distinguished of the aristocracy of this country. You
will not believe I am in any degree colouring facts in this
respect, when I name as amongst its officers, Mr. Jocelyn,
the brother of Lerd Roden, Lord Dorchester, one of the
ancient and honourable nobility in England, " and
though lest not least," the defendant himself, who has
sullied the name and reputation of the family of Lord
Melville; he is the nephew of that distinguished nobleman.
It was the habit of the Miss Adams, to walk out from
their father's lodging in the forenoon and afternoon, for
the purpose of exercise. They were interesting from their
time of life, and the two sisters, Elizabeth and Caroline,
were singularly beautiful, and it is not to be supposed that
they ecaped the attention of the officers in the neighbour-
hood. I think my brief states that it was about the 12th
of July, upon a Monday, that these unfortunate young
ladies first saw the defendant Dundas. The defendant was
then a Captain, he is now a Major. '1 he defendant was
on that occasion, accompanied by Mr. Philips, the riding
master of the Regiment, he appeared to have rode out from
Dundalk, and was riding on the Blackrock road. Pro-
bably he had seen this young lady before, and now carne
there fur the purpose of forcing his acquaintance upon her.
Finding the ladies walking along the road, he stopped short
beside them, turned round to Philips, and declared they
were " devilish handsome." When they saw these gentle-
men, they walked on, perhaps they heard what lit had said
of them. On their return, the defendant and Philips crossed
them in their path, and entered into conversation with them.
The terms of that conversation I shall not now dwell upon.
It is sufficient to mention that some words passed between
them, and the defendant laid a foundation for a futua e
acquaintance with this young lady. This took place on
Monday, the 12th July ; I am not sure whether the par-
ties met on Tuesday and Wednesday, It is material,
however, to observe that it so unfortunately occurred on
the 15th July, which was the Thursday following, that
Dean Adams was obliged to come to Dublin on particular
business ;he left home on that day. On the 16th July,
which was the day after Dean Adams came to Dublin,
Captain Dundas, accompanied by 'Mr. Jocelyn, met Miss
Adams walking again—this was about four o'clock in the
day—he entered into conversation with her. He told
her he was sure she would be late for her dinner. After
telling her this, which was for the purpose of introducing
a conversation with her, he then renewed his acquaint-
ance with her, and thus, by these successive meetings, the
defendant established an intimacy with those artless chil-
dren—artless they were blond the common period of their
life. They were brought up in extceme ignorance of the world
—they had no governess to instruct them... Alley wet e under
the guidance of a foolishly fond and indulgent mother.—
At this second interview Captain Dundas was in company
with Mr. Jocelyn, and these poor young girls were some-
what alarmed at the intercourse into which they were un-
expectedly drawn by apparently accidental meetings, but
which would seem to have been purposely contrived. The
next person with whom you will find the defendant con-
nected is Lord Dorchester. Lord Dorchester rode out on
Wednesday, 21st July, with Major Dundee, and they saw
these young girls again. The defendant then had men-
tioned his plane for the ruin of Miss Dundas, and he pro-
ceeded with military address to open the trenches and lay
sic ge to the citadel in which her honour ought to be se-
cured. The scheme devised by Captain Dundas was, to
ask them to see the scenery of Rostrevor. It is well
known that Rostrevor is one of the most beautiful spots in
Ireland, and inferior only to Killarney. It lies at no
great distance from Dundalk, He asked Caroline and
Elizabeth Adams had they ever seen Rostrevor. ey
said they had not. " Good God !" he exclaimed, They
see Restrover ! how happy I should be that you would
see it, and that I should accompany you there."
How easy could the snatter be arranged between
them ! He proposed to them to get their father's
jaunting-car—to persuade their mother she was too
ill to stir out, (and it was easy to persuade her to
that), that they would gu out on the car, and, then, said
Captain Dangles, I can frame a story for you—no man un-
derstands better how to do so—you can say the car broke
down, and in the mean time we can go to Rostrevor and
spend a delightful day there. This party, however, was
rat off, and the girls refused to think of it. Accordingly,
another engine was to be used, one, too, that has been too
often found to succeed with poor, fond, and confiding
woman, with a woman who deliberates betwe en her honour
and her love, that best, I should rather say, that worst of
all the arts of the seducer was employed—the promise of
marriage. Then it was that Dundee proposed that Eliza-
beth should he married to him, and her sister to Lord Dor-
chester. Captain Dundas proposed to the two young ladies
that they should accompany Lord Dorchester and himself
to Newry ; that there was a clergyman there who would
celebrate their marriage ; that Elizabeth should be the
honoured and the wedded wife of Dundaw, and her sister
of Lord Dorchester. It is sufficient for me to say that the
two innocent and artless creatures fell into the snare ; they
agreed with Lord Dorchester and Captain Dundas that they
would go to Newry for the purpose of being married, and
the appointment was fixed upon; the meeting was fixed at
a particular hour, eleven at night, when they were to ac-
company the two officers to Newry. The family of the
Adams' were in the habit of retiring early to bed. On the
appointed night, the family were in bed at ten o'clock. Eli-
zabeth and Caroline Adams slept In the same room ; they
retired, but they did not go to bed. They watched for
that signal which it was agreed Captain Duedae should
give. When they found that their mother had gone to
bed, they opened the chamber door and went down
to the parlour. The signal, tapping at the window
twee times with a whip, was heard ; they opened the
_alud
all door, and they got upon the jaunting car. Captain
D as and Elizabeth upon one side, and Lord Dorchester
and Caroline upon the other, and they drove into the town
of Dundalk. Onw la
theiri way they passed by a small lodge,
which belonged to
tooire Shirley, and Captain Dundas, as
they passed it b
milees Miss Adams very
ar ;,ed much. oceasian to say—Major Shirley ad-
not scsrajor Shirley a u Elizabeth asked him W:l9
with him is not 17iaan 7siaisal.:no ;
,the lady
that livers
way for any man to live—it is inconsistent is 4 s
ntw with virtue
and I never Can
and happiness, approve of a moan submit-
ting to it. He twined her also, if she would be verys glad to
see her mother or: her return? She s eid to
he u she
would, provided her mother would see her. Surely,Le. said
to her, your mother will never be. angry with you, when you
are married. He then told her stet he heard she had 3 for.
tune of 6,0001. ; she said as he was. marrying her without
getting her father's consent, he would not obtain it. To
this he replied, it would be a good thing to get your
fortune, but if I do not, I am rich enough without it, and
it will only be an additional proof how much I love you.
The car drove on to Dundalk, but the party in it stopped at
a,
Lords
v.s Dorc
iced hee
short distance from the lodgings of
which were near the harrickl;. 313ss Adam werestr,

they not going on to Newry ? " Impossible," said Captain I
Dundas, "at this hour of the night." They then walked
into this house of Lord Dorchester's ; into the lodgings of
that Nobleman these innocent girls were inveigled.
Caroline grew exceedingly alarmed. Dundas walked np
to Elizabeth Adams, and said, " I do not lodge here, I
sleep at the barracks ; there is a room for you in this
house, and I will presently show it to you." He led her
into a room, which was certainly prepared for the purpose.
He there renewed to her his promise of marriage, his
constancy, his fidelity—he won upon her—how ifar you
Rill he able to get from the afflicted and half-phrenzied
spirit God only knows ; but the circumstances will speak
for themselves. We want no evidence of the transaction.
She went into that bed as his wedded wife, and he re-
tired to his own barracks, leaving her an abandoned
and a dishonoured woman. Her unfortunate sister was not
carried away by the same love that betrayed Elizabeth—
the same passions of our nature, in a moment of intoxica•
tion, did not so fatally invade her as they had done her
sister. She had some better glimpse of the situation i❑
which she was placed—she applied in an agony of grief to
Lord Dorchester himself—she told him that her life de-
pended upon him, and I must say to the credit of this
young man, that his better feelings returned—nature re-
sumed her sway—remorse struck at his heart, and he told
her that he should not lose a moment in restoring her to
her family. He armed himself with pistols, and he that
very moment accompanied her back to her mother's,
and left her there in safety between twelve and one o'clock
at night. Mr. North here mentioned the conduct of
Dundas to Elizabeth Adams the next morning, as de-
tailed in her evidence, and continued by saying—Gra-
cious God ! does there exist a being who, wearing the Di-
vine lineaments, shall thus insult and contumaciously treat
the victim of his villany, and thus fling her off to wretch-
edness and ruin? Dare a man bearing the King's com-
mission, who would act thus, present himself to society,
present himself amongst them, and above all things, dare
to face a jury of his country ? Tell him, through your
verdict, that the honour of an Irish female is not a matter
of little worth. Show him that every Englishman and
Scotchman, who is over wealthy, that comes here
cannot traffic with the virtue of the daughters of
our clergy and our gentry, as if they were the coin-
. mon prostitutes they are accustomed to meet in the
I alleys of London and the streets of Paris. Tell him
that if such things as these are the results of our con-
nection with Great Britain, we are ready to spurn at it.
Miss Elizabeth Frances Adams was the first witness
called on. Before coining on the table she sat for a few
moments in the side bar, during which she wept copiously.
When placed in the witness's chair she did not affect any
feigned extravagance of emotions, nor any studied bye-play
to extort sympathy. She told her tale of wrong and of
sorrow with an ingenuous simplicity that made its way to
the hearts of all who beard her. She seemed an exceed-
ingly mild, gentle, and guileless creature. Her personal
appearance is very interesting. She is of the middle size,
rather approaching to entonpoint. Her countenance even
I in the wreck that grief has left, possesses a remarkably
soft, gentle, and snare expression, and in the days of her
innocence she must have been a sweet and prepossessing

. .
girl. The sisters very much resemble each other, but the
youngest, Caroline, seems to be the prettiest. The same
deportment marked them all in giving their testimony.
They were fashionably attired in black silk, and wore
fashionable bonnets of white silk.

Elizabeth Frances Adams examined by Mr. WALLACE,
K. C.—Whilst at Black-rock last year, met the defendant
about a few days after she went; papa and mamma, and
her two sisters, were with her at the time ; he made some
remark when passing, which witness did not hear ;
another officer was with him at the time; on Monday the
12th of July, she saw him again ; her two sisters were
with her ; 'Mr. Philips, the riding-master of the regiment,
was with him at the time ; he made some remark, and
said, " they are very pretty ;" they met him and Mr.
Philips a second time, when they passed 00, and after-
wards rode after them ; the Captain asked, " do you live
in one of those houses" (rointing to her lodgings :) witness
said they did ; he asked did we live together ; no, said
witness, we have a father and mother, with whom we
live. Are they old, said he; no, said witness; so much
the pleasanter, sail he. He then raid he would like to
take tea with us, and asked me would I introduce him to
my father. I said I would not introduce to him any per-
son whom I didn't know. Mr. Philips then turned round
and said it was a shame for him to be so rude, and they
turned their hor-es and rode off. When going, Captain
Dundas said, do you love your father ? She said, yes ;
and he asked, would you love your husband better than
you do your father? Witness said she supposed she
would. On the Friday following was walking with her
mamma, and they passed ; witness and her sisters met
thew, Captain D. said, you won't get a bit of dinner,
I saw the cloth laid, and somebody ea ing ; they did not
answer, but hastened on. She met him next on Wednes-
day, the 21st ; her youngest sister and herself went out
to walk ; her eldest sister had been out riding, and was
taking off her habit. They met Captain Dundas and
Lord Dorchester, and lie asked did her father return ;
and he then said, allow the to introduce my friend Lord
Dorchester and myself, Captain Dundas, and asked what
were their names, and they told him ; he then said they
are very pretty names ; Lord Dorchester said the same.
Captain Dundas said it was in witness's power to
make him happy ; Lord Dorchester said if her sister
would not marry him she would never be forgiven either
in this world or the world to come ; Captain Dundas said
if they' would be ready he would come out at eleven
o'clock, and give three knocks at her father's window, and
!.e then asked would not witness positively go; he then
looked at her younger sister, and said, you look more
serious, won't you come; she said she would if her sister
would come, if be would marry her ; he said never mind
bringing any clothes, we will buy you plenty in Newry;
they agreed to go on those conditions of marriage; he
came at eleven o'clock accompanied by Lord Dorchester:
they both went with them ; Captain D. held his arm to
witness, and Lord D. to her sister ; the vehicle they went
in was a car, but they did not bring it to the Rock; it
was a quarter of a mile and they walked. The car stopped
Just at the entrance of the town ; it did not come into the
town, and witness said, sure the car is not going to stop
here, and he said, it was too late to go on, and tat they
would go to Newry in the morning; that she should sleep
with her sister at Lord Dorchester's lodgings, and that he
would sleep at the barracks; he then told his car to wait,
and they went to Lord Dorchester's lodgings ; they all
went up into the sitting-room, and Captain Dundas ordered
candles., and Lord Dorchester lighted two candles that were
on the table ; Captain Dundas said to witness, come,
and I willshow you to your room ; she went with him;
they walked into the room which was next the sitting-
room ; he turned round and bolted the door, and she
asked was she not to sleep with her sister ; he said not,
and that if she would go to bed he would most posi-
tively go and many her in Newry in the morning; he
came over to her and asked her did her clothes fasten
behind, that if she did not lot sen them he would ; she
went to bed in consequence of his promise, sad he Caine
after her ; he left the bed-chamber that night ; whilst
they were in bed witness got out of the bed, and he en-
deavoured to bring her back ; be said if she would not cry
and disturb the people of the house he would dress and go
to the barracks ; she was crying at the time ; he said he
would come back early in the morning to go to Newry ; in
the morning got tip and sat a long time in the room, and
when the clock struck eight she went to see about her
sister; lie told her be would come back very early in the
morning, and then they should go on ; she understood it
was to Newry; she got up about six o'clock; about eight
she went over to the door of Lord Dorchester's room to
see about her sister, and she asked about her sister ; and
he said lie had left her at home, and asked where was
Captain Dundas she said she had not seen him since one
o'clock the night before, and was surprised he had not ar-
rived ; make yourself easy, said Lord Dorchester, and I will
send to the barracks for him ; Captain Dundas came in
ten minutes ; when he came he walked over and attempted
to kiss her, which witness prevented ; she asked him why
did he not come earlier ? and he said, for what? she re-
plied, to !miry me as you promised ; he said he was sorry
he could not, as he was already a married man, but that he
would take lodgings for her, and she wool I b as happy as if
she was married ; she said it was wrong of him to bring
her away under that promise ; be said he would take lodg-
ings for her, and she said she would go to her father's house ;
be walked out of the room ; she went to Lord Dorchester
and told him Captain Dundas was married ; he told her
he was not, and that he was an unfortunate man to have
any thing to do with her ; she then went back to her room,
and was not more than a minute there when Capt. Dun-
das retained, and she told him Lord Dorchester bad told
her that he was not married ; he said was it not unlucky
he had not depended on Jocelyn and he would not have
deceived him, and he asked her would she go into the
breakfast room, and she said she would not ; Captain Dun-
dies said, sure she would not tell her father ; she said she
would tell him every thing about it; Lord Dorchester said
t he would send fur a car, but she took her bonnet and
walked out of the house without waiting for it, and then
went home ; on her way she was overtaken by her cousin
iroit,er.
.tCosliy Adams ; her father was net at home, but her
in
Was ; she told her nothing, but she told all to her
sisters ; she afterwards to Captain Dundas ; the first
laeltltetrbastliehaaiejrzpVne.d
;att7e mamma's consent, who then knew
letter ut as written about a
fortnilit after her return :o Northlands. On the follosv-

ing Saturday after the occurrence her family returned to
Northlands; her mother was in ill health and her father
had also been ill about seven months; he took ill at the
retreat, her grandfather's residence, near Cootehill ; during
that illness she attended her Either principally.

Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant O'LOGIILIN—Her
father's illness was a year before she went to the Rock ;
her sisters are in town ; it was in the litter end of June
or beginning of July she went to the Rock ; she had been
here two seasons before, three months the first and one
the second ; knew the neighbourhood well. Knew some
of the officers of the 17th, to whom she was introduced at
a dinner party ; they were Mr. Mitchelson, Mr. Wilkin-
son, Mr. Nead, Mr. Wentworth, and a Mr. Tongue ; had
met Mr. Tongue before at a pie nic party ; might have
afterwards met him casually ; once she saluted him, he
was in company with other officers she knew, and it was
a mere passing salute. She got a letter which she thought
was from him ; from the time she knew him in 1828,
nothing else passed between them ; has not the letter
which she burned ; the letter she got in June had no
name. The reason she suspects it came from him was be-
cause it alluded to the plc nic party and came from Dublin ;
all the officers of the regiment were at the ball as well as
he. She danced more with him than any other ; she wrote
a kind of humbugging letter in reply, but put no name to
it, and directed it to Mr. Tongue, at Newbridge ; the rea-
son she directed it to Newbridge was, because she thought
it would come from no one else ; she (lid not strew it to
ker mamma or sister ; her youngest sisters saw the letter.
She had never seen Captain Dundas before the 12th, ex-
cept a couple of days before ; the interview on the 12th
lasted a few minutes. Never kissed hand to him nor to
any one who was with him ; had seen but had never
spoken to Lord Dorchester before the 25th, nor had her
younger sister ; and after that brief acquaintance she con-
sented to go to Newry. She should think that the de-
fendant is about thirty. When she went to Dundalk that
night she went into Lord Dorchester's lodgings ; Mr.
Dundas took a candle and shewed her into the bed•chatnber
next to the sitting room ; he asked were her clothes
fastened behind ; he did not assist her ; she undressed her-
self ; she was some time in the room before the un-
dressed, but was not long undressing ; he was undressing
at the same time ; about eight o'clock the next morning
she went to look for her sister to Lord Dorchester's bed-
room ; lie was in bed at the time; she expected to see her
sister there, and was surprised when she heard she was
gone ; she staid in the room for a few minutes, Lord Dor-
chester being still in bed ; and it was whilst he was in bed
she complained to him of Captain Dundas not coming back
according to his promise.
Catherine Adams examined by Mr. DEERING, K.C.—
Is the third daughter of Parson Adams; cannot tell the
day in July she first saw Captain Dundas ; her sisters,
brothers, father, and mother, were with her at the time;
it was on the road near the Blackrock ; heard that he had
made some observation, but did not hear what it was ;
Captai❑ Dundas was not more than three yards distant
from her at the time ; her father replied to the remark of
Captain Dundas, that it was hard to stand the impudence
of officers ; that was the first time she saw Captain Dun-
das ; saw him a few days after; Captain Dundas asked
her sister Elizibeth was she fond of her father and mother;
she said she was, and lie asked her would she like her hus-
band better; she said she would, and he said it was a'l
right ; she next saw Captain Dundas on the 16th ; he
was then accompanied by a Mr. Jocelyn. The next time
she saw him was on the 31st ; he then proposed to her
sister to go and marry him, and he'd take her to all the
balls and parties ; and her sister said if she could be sure
he'd marry her she'd go ; Lord D was present, and asked
witness would she like to be married, and that if she'd
marry him she'd live so happy along with her sister ; they
said they would not go sinless they were sure of being mar-
ried ; both gentlemen pledged th-ir honours as gentlemen
that they would marry them in Newry ; their usual hour
of going to bed was ten o'clock ; her sister and she slept
together ; heard taps ; were then in the parlour ; she then
went out and met Captain Dundas and Lord Dorchester ;
the car stopped near Dundalk, and she asked Lord Dor-
chester were they not going on to Newry; he said is it at
this time of night, child ; she then asked where her sister
was ; he said she had gone on with Captain Dundas ;
Lord D. walked twine with witness ; this was about half
an hour after she came ; after this witness wrote one letter
to Lord D ; they retired from Blackrock on the 24th
July ; after her sister's return she was ill for some months ;
heard her sister crying after she retired with Capt. Dundas.
Dorothea Adams examined by Mr. LITTON, K.C.—
Was not walking with her sisters on the 21st ; did not
miss her sisters on that night ; it was witness's habit to
remain some time in her mother's room ; it was some time
after she got up the next day that she saw her sister Eli-
zabeth, about eleven o'clock ; her father returned about
twelve ; her sister was after this in a very bad state of
health.

Mr. Cosby Adams examined by Mr. North—ls related
to Miss Adams ;is about a third cousin. Has been ac-

quainted with the family since he was a child ; always
looked upon the Misses Adams as most artless girls, and
had particular opportunity of knowing it.
Rev. Frederick Fitzpatrick examined by Mr. DARCY,
K.C.—ls a beneficed clergyman of the parish of Sher_
cock ; knows the plaintiff; the number of his children;
his family were in the habit of frequenting the witness's
church ; knows the family since 1813 ; a❑ interval
elapsed; knew them latterly for five or six years; always
considered the daughters well conducted, very innocent
and artless girls, and from their retired education quite

ignorant of the ways of the world.
Cross-examined—flis residence is remote from Dun-
dalk ; only speaks of what he knows of in his own imme-
diate neighbourhood.
Mr. Kilpatrick examined.—llas always considered the
'Misses Adams to be innocent young ladies ignorant of the
world. _ .

Edward Jenkins examined by Mr. Deering—Lives in
Dundalk ; is sub-inspector of Police for the county
Louth ; knows Dean Adams and his family : has seen
them at the Black-rock three seasons ; he and his wife
visited there ; the girls were young and innoceat, and
seemingly ignorant of the world and its ways.
Documents were read as to the amount of the defendant's

property. Mr. John Whiteck proved the identity of some
documents. When the book was handed to him, he re-
fused to be sworn, as being a seceder from the Presbyterian
church. He then made affirmation after the form pre-
scribed, all the time holding up his right hand.
The property left by his father between himself and his
brother was proved to be 91,000/.
The defendant's moiety
Value of his Commission

45,5001.
- - - - 10,0001.

Amount of defendant's property 55,5001.

This was the plaintiff's case. -
Sergeant O'LouGnuN, as leading Counsel for the de-
fondant, said it was very strange that when their mother,
who saw the officers pass on horseback, felt fatigued, in-
stead of preventing her daughters from going out, told
i
them they might go walk, and they went to walk n the
very place where they were likely to meet the officers.
They went on the public strand, and though the officers
had saluted them without having been introduced, instead
of appearing to resent it, they went to walk on the public
strand, where they knew the officers were. Was this con-
duct that would induce those gentlemen to imagine that
they were modest or respectable ladies, the daughters of
Dean Adams ? The first time that Lord Dorchester s
tw
these ladies was on the 21st of July, in a car with their
mother. He met them again in a few minutes after. They
began to converse with him and Major Dundas without
the slightest restraint, although they did not know the
Major's name until that interview, and agreed after a con-
versation of twenty minutes, to marry them unknown to
their fathi r. Recollect, gentlemen of the Jury, that
Caroline had nevcf!,een Lord Dorchester until that day,
when she saw him riding with Major Dundas. Now, we
never heard of marriage until the 21st, and you know,
Gentlemen, that when an affair of this kind occurs, the
lady, in order to give some salvo, requires a promise of
marriage. She generally says, " I am ruined ; I would
never have consented to such liberties only he promised to
marry me." Can you believe, Gentlemen, that two per-
sons in the situation of these two officers, would have
agreed to marry those two ladies, after a courtship
Of
twenty minutes. When they arrived in Dundalk they did
not temonstrate but went immediately into Lord Dor-
chester's lodgings. Gentlemen of the Jury, is this the
conduct you would expect from an educated or respectable
girl ? Is this conduct that you would sanction ? When
she asked was she not to sleep with her sister, she was
told that she was not, and instead of remonstrating, after
a few minutes she went to another bed-room along with
Major Dundas, and undressed hereself before him, he Un-
dressing himself at the same time. What opinion are we
to have of the modesty of a young lady, even if she were
married that day, who would undress herself in her bus-
band's presence? Was that modesty ? There is another
circumstance in her own evidence which I would wish to
call your attention to. It is this—when she went into
Lord Dorchester's room on the following morning, she said
she was surprised at not finding her sister in Lord Ws
bed-room although she knew that Caroline was acquainted
with Lord Dorchester but twenty-five minutes. Recollect,
gentlemen, that she was not at all abashed when she went
into his bed-room ; so far from that she entered into con-
versation with Lord Dorchester, he in bed, and she stand-
ing alongside the bed. I call upon you, gentlemen, to
consider in the finding of your verdict, that thought there

has been much indiscretion gt onggiAre these !ass been more
on the other. . _ .

H. Philipps, Esq., sworn.—Belongs to the 7th Hue-
ears
; knows Major Dundas ; recollects having met the I
young ladies when riding with Major Dundas; was riding
towards home in company with Major Dundas ; met three
ladies, and of course cast a look ; the Major said, these
are pretty girls; the ladies smiled; witness and defendant
looked back, kissed hands to the ladies, and either one or
two returned it ; Major Dundas rode after and joined them.
Is a single man ; is not quite sure that lie did not kiss
hands ; it made no impression him ; can't say whether
one or two kissed hands—one certainly, but may he two.
The lady with black hair was walking in the middle; she
either kissed hands or bowed; perceived her hair dark. and
took notice of her countenace ; he might have thought of
the ladies that night. After passing, Major Dundas said,
these girls will do for us pretty well—you shan't have my
pretty one.
Lord Dorchester sworn—Was quartered at Dundalk in
July last; never before the 21st had spoken to any of the
young ladies ; first saw them on a car with an elderly
lady ; Major Dundas was with him ; saw two of the young
ladies soon after coining after himself and Major Dundas;
there were three roads; the ladies might have gone in two
other directions if they did not wish to meet the officers ;
the officers rode slowly, and witness went down to them ;
they entered into conversation ; the ladies in the middle
of the road, and the officers at each side. Witness told
the young ladies they would send three ships for a clergy-
man to England ; they consented to leave their father's
house at eleven ; did not hear Major Dundas say anything
about marriage. Witness told the youngest girl on the
car positively that he would not marry her; did not hear
Major Dundas say anything about marriage ; she told wit-
ness who her father was, but he did not believe. When
he arrived at his lodgings witness took out a latch key and
opened the door ; all the tour went in ; they went up
stairs ; thinks a candle was lighted ; Major Dundas held a
candle to one of their bonnets, and said 'tis all right ; she
went soon after to Major Dundas's room with him, after
having made some observations ; saw her in the morning ;
witness was in bed and one sheet over him ; she staid ten
minutes ; did not appear to be embarrassed ; she said she
had asked Major Dundas to marry her, and he said he had
a wife; witness did not say Major Dundas had deceived
him; witness told her that Major Dundas was not mar-
ried, and that it was a shame for him to have left her ;
first conversation did not exceed twenty minutes, when
they agreed to go off.
Cross-examined by Mr. LITTON, K.C.—Had never
seen the ladies to speak to them till the 21st, when Major
Dundas and the witness were riding ; Major Dundas sail
to witness he had got a job in hand, and witness might
have a part in it ; Major Dundas told him that the job
was two girls; defendant did not say which of the girls was
to be his share; Major Dundas did nut tell witness that
the only protectors the ladies had were two brothers, one
thirteen and the other nine; is a peer of England; does
not recollect that defendant knew the young lady's father
, was to have returned the next day ; defendant left the
country, as also witness, for they understood that a rape
was to have been sworn against them ; witness did not
wait to give the father any explanation of the matter;
defendant then lived in the barracks ; there were two beds

in witness's lodgings ; one of them was Jocelyn's bed ; it
was into that bed defendant went ; he knew what de-
fend ant wanted by going into the room ; said on the car,
and before they got to it, that he would not marry Caro-
line:; did not say any thing about the happiness of not
being separated from her sister ; Caroline did not ask to
go back; witness persuaded Caroline to go back, and he
brought her borne, and put her in *he was rather ashamed
of the thing ; does not exactly know why he brought her
back ; it was mixture of remorse and shame; his con-
science struck him ; before his conscience struck him, he
had taken the young girl upon his knee ; he put his hand
round her waist ; he asked her to go on the bed, and she
refused ; be told her he would not marry her; she would
not go on the bed ; he then brought her home.
The Learned Judge then charged the Jury. He said
the ladies had acted with extreme levity and imprudence ;
but that should not excuse the defendant's guilty conduct.
He hoped they would steer a middle course in finding their
verdict, and show by it that they were not influenced by
passion.
The Jury retired, and after about forty minutes re-

:urned to the box, when their names were called, and the

foreman delivered the verdict to the Registrar, who an-
nounced it as follows:—Verdict for plaintiff 3,5001.
damages, and 6d. costs.
This appeared to give very general satisfaction. We
heard a slight cheer from the gallery.

NEW PARLIAMENT.

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