The Sun.
London, England, 1812-03-23 00:00:00

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B URY ST . EDMOND's, Miacti '2l.

iItdMISE OF MARRIAGE.

A n-v)st singular cause was heard here in an ac-
tion AitCHEa v. HINCHES, in which damages- were
laid at i 0001.
It, appeared by the statement of Mr. Serje?nt
Seti.ox, that. the,plaintiff, Miss Eli2a Archer, wai.
thedlughter of a respeaable Attorney in the coun-
ty of Suffolk, and the defendant was a young Gen-
tleman of most respetlable family and conneaioni
in Essex. The parties had first seen each other
when the young Lndy. was on a visit at a friend'S
hou e on the confines of Hertlords'hire, wheret he
defendant first made professions of attachment tO
her. The Lady consulted her friends, and Dar.
Hinches was cordially received on his first visit to
her father'. His professions were most honourable;,
and after several months intimacy, when on the
point of marriage even, and arrangeMents having
been made for that purpose, the defendant became
suddenly enamoured of Miss Susan Archer, aE
younger sister of the plaintiff's, and he frankly
,as,
suralthe latter of his inability to marry her on that
score. • The Learned Serjeant stated that the plain-
tiff was 23 years of age, and the defendant about
the same age. This action was not brought (or the
objea of damages, but to convince the world, by
the public declaration-of the defendant, that he had
not made alareach in the •contraa of marriage• from
any levity or itnproper pinduet on the [nit of the
young Lady, who was modest and discreet, and pos
sessed every virtue that could -adorn the sex. The
Learned Counsel concluded' by•observing, -that the
families were both highly respectable, and the only
objea was to remove any doubts about the character
of the plaintiff.
Mr. Serjeant BLossaTr, on the part of the defen-
dant; observed, that his client bad become the vic-
tim of an unfortunate attachment. He entered into
a warm -.panegyric on the virtues of the plaintiff;
whom he described as an ornament to her sex. his
client was es anxious as the Lady's friends that the
world should know the motives which led to the
breach of attachment. The defendant _had become
most passionately enamoured with the plaintiff's
younger sister, and, that was the sole motive of the
breach of promise, as he expressed himself unable
ewer to make the plaintiff happy in wedlock altr
the second attachment to one so nearly allied to her_
The matter ended in a compromise satisfactory to
all' pat ties.

A grand national library, the colleBion of which
was begun by Catherine 11. h +5 been completed and
opened at Petersbutgh. It comprises 250,000 print-
ed volumes; 80,000 of which relate to theology,
and 40,000 duplicates. There ate 12,000 manu-
scripts, many of them exceeding curious, , being ob.
taMed from the remotest parts of the empire; among
them are some Epistles. of St. Paul, written during
the sth century, with marginal notes; and a book of
Mahornedan Prayers in Cufic &waders.
Wool, has experienced an advance of 30 per cent,
in Bohemia and Moravia, in consequence of its im-
portation into Russia by Lemberg being per-
mitted.

The Norfolk Assizes closed on Tuesday night,
when T. Suffolk and T. Temple, for burglary; 13.
Smith, for stealing two steers and a bay mare ; and
R. Lane, for killing and carrying away a s.heep, were
cap tally convialed and received sentence of death.
Suffolk has been left for execution: the others ate
reprieved.
The York Assizes closed on Tuesday, when G.
Stones, J. Williamson, 3. Armstrong, and J. Leach,
for horse-'stealing ; T. Simpson, and G. Simpson,
for sheep•stealing ; W. Chester, for attempting to
murder G. Oliver and his wife; and R. Winter, for
stealing money ; received sentence of death.

W. JoneB, of the 48th Foot, was executed 4
Northampton last week, for the murder of S. Leei,
of the same regiment, at Weedon barracks.
rue body of the Rev. J. Woolstenholtne, Mini-
ster of Peak Forest, was last week tontid in a *ditch
at Brough, in Derbyshire. It is -.supposed he till
in, and was suffOcWed.