The Sun.
London, England, 1809-11-20 00:00:00

MAYOR OF POOL.

Mr. Serjeant Lit Moved for • a rule to spew
'cause why a /Ildittlighiui,. by the way of a writ of
Quo tgarrafitb, trot - issue, directed 'to Mr.
Strong, requiring HIM to sinew by what authbrity
he executed the Office of Mayor of Pool: He
moved this, on the oath of Mr. Carter and 'others,
BOrgeiso of Pool. •
It .appeored, that the Mayor and Aldermen had
ghTen to tfterr selves a right of appointing three Can-
dida-tes for the Office of Mayor, onee-Out of which
three to be eleEted' by the Burghers, although there
was no such provision ih the charter; neither was
thje any .mention made of the title of Alderman,
although those that had served the Office of Mayor
assumed it. On the 15th of ,September laSt the
election came on the Mayor and Aldertten ap-
pointed Mr. Strong and two other persons as can-
didates, and Mr. Strong was elected olat_of the three
so appointed) and i‘.thrn in, although .the Burghers
had set up a Mr. John Garland, without his being
appointed by the Mayor; and the self-made Alder:-
men, and be hart a large Majority of votes over .Mr.
Strong.--aule granted;

At o'clock th 6 Court sat at Nisi Prius; be-
fore Lord ELLgNBOROUGH and a Special Jury.

SEDUCTION.

tATCHELLOR V. MOIitAUNT.

This. was an action to recover nineteen guineas
from the defendant, a widow, for the board of a
yolpg 'Woinari; who had been seduced by• :the de-
fendant's son.

Mr. G.timatv Stated, that fhiS action, be was
, .
_happy to find,Undefended, as it would save
him the pain of making observations, which would
be distressing for him to utter, and for the Court
and Jury to hear; a young woman Of the name of
Charlotte Matthews, formed a part of the Defend-
ant's family ; she was thed only years of age; in
the year 1807, she was sethiced by John MotdaUnt,
the son of the Defendant ; he would not say the mo-
ther winked at the iniquity of her son, he would
only state how she conducted herself; some time
before the month of September, 1807; she went to
the Plaintiff's house id Surrey, and told his wife
that she wished to get'. board and lodging for a
young woman who was in the family way, until
after she was brought to bed ; that she would pay
the Plaintiff half a guinea a week if the young wo-
=man cbuld be accommodated. The Plaintiff's- wife
cOnsented; and, on the Ist of September, 1807,
the Defendant brought the young woman to the
Plaintiff's house, and called her by the name of
Elizabeth Flint, and said she was a servant to her,
the Defendant's, daughter. The Plaintiff's wife in-
. quired 'was she provided with baby-clothes ? the De-
' feudant answered not, but for the Plaintiff's wife to
provide them, and she would pay for them, and all
other ezpences attending her lying-in; The young
woman was not brought to bed -for two months
'after, and remained at the Plaintiff's house near
twelve months, and the Defendant-had not paid her
board from that time to this; this was not all—she
persuaded the unfortunate object of her son'sseduc-'
tion, to put the child into the Foundling-Hospital,
by a fitSuitious name, gilder .the promise that she
- would get her a place as a wet nurse;
.but no per-
son-would take her into their family, in that capa-
city,- without she could strew a .certificare:of-her
marriage. The Plaintiff' did not charge tor the baby-
clothes or the expeuces of the accouthement

sued simply for thc half-a-gulßea a week for, board
and lodging. „
This case was folly made.. out in evidence, and the
Jury, under the direction of his Lordship, gaffe a
verdk,i,for the Plaintiff-191, l g.