The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-09 00:00:00

TIM KING V. INHABITANTS OF YORK.

Mr. MARSHALL moved the Court on affidavit for the recog
nisance of certain of the inhabitants of York, for not repairing
particular roads,"to stand over until the Magistrates should
look into the case, and see whether they could not remedy the
evil complained of without further proceedings or interfer cc
of his Lordship.—{;ranted.
Ntsx PRlUS—beibre Sir JOHN BAYLEY, Knight.
intrAcu or PROMISE OF MAIMIAGF..

Mr. BLACKDU aN opened the pleadings,and Mr. Bacitra si
stated the case to the JuCy. It was brought, said the Learned
Counsel, for a breach of promise of marriage under an engage-
ment in writing, and given by the defendant, When he well
knew what he was doing and the engagement he had entered
into. The plaintiff' was the daughter of a poor widow woman,
Sarah Malloy. The plaintiff had been a servant in the eni-
Mploy of the defendant's father and mother, who resided at New
all, near Sheffield. The defendant, Richard Swallow, con-
ceived a violent attachment for her, and agreed in writing to
marry her, which promise he had given to the ear, but broken
to the hope; this action was brought for a compensation of that
breach of promise. The Learned Gentleman-then called
IVm. Ashmore, who proved that the parties had been to his
house and had dinner, where the defendant met the plaintiff;
he was 28 years of age he. believed, and hid known him 20
years. The witness then described that the clergyman at
Sheffield had refused to marry them without the consent of his
parents; he afterwards said he would not marry, but give her
in lieu thereof. . _ _

Cross-examined by Mr. ScAuLETT—Ilad heard her say, if
he did not Marry her, she should have 40001.; he did not think
the young man a weak person, but should not think him clever
in giving such an instrument.
Re-examined by Mr. Ilitoyanist—lle knows, gliard
Swallow's hand-writing ; the defendant is a man of property,
and has a colliery; he has managed the business three or four
years ; he is a man of considerable property.
Martha Swallow examined by Mr. Ilnottattau—She mar-
ried the brother of the defendant on the 27th March, 11123;
she.kztew the plaintiff; they hired together as.fellow-servants'
in the sarnelrouite; therwere at Mr. Ashman's on the 211th of
March all together, where the defendant said be would marry
her, and never run off his promise, although his uncle Parker
had advised him never to marry her; had heard that the plain-
tiff'had had a child, and that the defendant had said he thought
her none the worse fin that.

Cro* examined by Mr. ScAn LE T T—ller age is 24. She has
lived in two places before. She was under maid, and Sarah was
housemaid. She did not gain the affections of John so soon as
Sarah did that of Richard. lie told her he did not want his
papers hack. She never thought him a ninny. The plaintiff
told wittiest:she had, had a child by the butler in the family where
she lived; she thought her none the worse for that. The but-
ler was a married man. She did not get a.contract from John
us Sarah had done froni Richard. She never act her cap at him
herself. Her husband John was sober when be married. Sa-
rah had eight: guineas a-year. —Agreement put in and read
,4 I, Richard Swallow, do agree to marry Sarah iilalloy, or
forfeit all my proryity.—Feb. 14th, 1824.'
The defendant it appeared had made an appointment to meet
the plaintiff; and not being able to •keep his word, he wrote
the following love epistle:—
_ _

" My dear SaralC—You will feel by no means surprised at
my not coming over at eight o'clock according to appointment
—don't be afraid I shall run away from my. wind. My mother
keeps a good look out, and father is on the watch : make your-
self comfortable, and I will never forsake you. I hope 1 shall
not be in prison lung.
" Your ever faithful lover,
NICHATID SWALT.OW.
" P.S. I hope to call you my wife very soon, when all your
troubles will he over."

But then came the one that was to blast her affections,
couched in these cold and laconic words :
" Miss Sarah Malloy—After I saw you at Sheffield I pon-
dered on the great impropriety I had been guiltrof, and which
has set my friends against me. I shall not marry you, and
therefore won't deceive you any more. - My friends say I shall
not marry any person so inferior to myself. I hope you will
not trouble yourself any more about me.
" P.B. I%ly servant will ask you for some papers."
Mr. ticattLETT replied, and 'with, it was a paltry action,
brought by a servant for the eyidentpurpose of gain. Mrhat did
she want, the man Or the m,,ney,l why the money to be sure,
4,000/. ; aye " There's the rti). ' What would the Jury think
of this case ? Where was his ',earned Friend's tears, his sighs
—he had shed none, nor heaved his bosom at the dreadful tale.
Where were the blighted hopes of his. client, her loss of time,
the trifled affections of the heart ? It was a conspiracy between
the two servants, and nothing else,-•to make a fortune. What
did Sarah say, why, he, the defendant, should not have. his
papers back under 4,0001. • This was her loss ; and it would
now ho Keen what datuagea.the ory. woahl give nmicr such :cir.
curnstanc!:s as these. It was a catching bargain, and reminded"
him of a case (probably a York one) where a person had agreed
to sell another a horse at a farthing a nail doubled every nine.
The .1u oat —And that woilid be a million twice doubled,
Mr. Se...ma:TT—This was just such a case—a catching
bargain.•
The,filvrretited,. main half an hour brought in their ver-
diet for the plaintiff—Damages «OM •

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BURY ST. EDMUND'S Ago. 7.
(afore Mr. Jaßticc (FASELEE and a Special Jury. )
M.:FA MAT lON.—ronn V. runricosE.
This was an action for words spoken. The plaintiff' was a
farrier or veterinary surgeon, at Mildenhall, in this county ;
the defendant is a surgeon residing at the same place ; and
the charge was, that the defendant had said of the plaintiff'
(under circumstances specified,) " he" (the plaintiff) " was
the death of his first wife, and he ought to have gone to
Bury for it;"—the inuendo alleging this as an imputation of
murder, or at least manslaughter, against the plaintiff' Bury
being the assize and jail town of the liberty. There were other
counts, charging the defendant to have said, on the death
Of the plaintiff's housekeeper, Mary Wing, that the matter
ought to be most rigidly inquired into, for that he (plaintiff)
had murdered his former 'wife, or woman, by giving. her
proper medicines for a peculiar complaint, which caused her
death. Further counts stated the mere words to have been
used, without any inuendo as to their import; and there was a
plea of special damage to the plaintiMin his business. The
defendant pleaded the general issue, without setting up any
justification.

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Mr. H. Coot, c: ft opened the case, as one of the highest im.
portance to the plaintiff', whose livelihood, as well as his moral
Character, stood deeply implicated in. its result. No verdict as
regarded damages could compensate for the injury which the
plaintiff's feelings had sustained ; but the Jury might do some,.
thing by making up the loss which he had suffered in his call.

ing and consequent income, owing to this conduct of the de-
fendant : and at all events their damages would so far restore
him to his proper place and reception in society, as that they
would mark the sense which his country entertained of the un•
merited attack to which he had been subjected. The Jury had
heard, from the opening of the pleadings, the nature of the
slander charged against the defendant.; the words used were
such as admitted neither of misconception, nor of compromise.—
These words had not been spoken either hastily or in passion;
the defendant had uttered them at two different times to two
different-individuals. They were words which imputed= to the
plaintiff. not a crime of ordinary magnitude or infamy, but Sc.
tually the almost inconceivable villainy of having 001
first his own wife, and afterwards a woman with whom (for the
fact must come out), and being Married to her belied cohabited.
It was fit, however, that the Jury should know the chew-
stances under which these accusations had been put forth by
Mr. Primrose; and the einem, or at least some of the imme-
diate ones, with which they had been attended to the plaintiff
—The first set of words complained of had been spoken to
Joan Wayman, a gentleman &Feat respectability, one of the
Coroner's of-the county. Mr. n ayman, it would appear, had
come over to Mildenhall, in the execution of his office, to ts!:
an inquest upon the body of a child which had lost its life
by accident. This had happened about the time, or on the
same day, on which Mary Wing (Mr. Ford's housekeeper)
had died ; and the defendant, coming up:m3lr. Weintel
in the street, had told him, unsolicited; that the plaintiff bait
been the death of his former wife, or mistress (using one of
these terms or the other, the witnesses were not positive which);
that he had been the death of his former wife or Mistress, and
that he deserved to be sent to Bury for it. On subsequent ee'
casion, Mr. -Pritnose was found again Klieg to Mr. Ceegca
a surgeon of alildenliall, " I think this business (the (lona
aldi3nlgaryfuartVbienrg,)
tohlaigtltithetoobaientlifins. Fhtasil: r
ictly
murdered Ins fcrn. r
wife, by administering impropzi medicines to le r :r aI;
euliar complaint, the nature of which,was too lee:I-eine ta
(unless upon necessity) adverted to. Now, toatter ,santlae;4
words and allegations, there was not a juetificetien yen elza"d.
The delendanediel not dare even to assert tlett had eeistsu
the slightest foundation for them ; and if the e ll
pre net su'
words as deserved to draw upon him .the inaiauetion of the
Court and the Juty, he (Mr. Cooper) did not well know wh4
slander could ever produce such an effect ; and the eperatiee
of these wends ::s charges had horn as ample ns the heart of
the defendant could desire. Mr. lawman, in consequence of
inquired into ;
what was stated to him, had felt himself bound to hold an
inquest on the body of Mary Wine. This must have been
no slight matter of distress to the 'feelings of the plaintiff
as it were, . accusing him publicly in his own house of having
caused the death of a woman to whom, whatever wue tl:e ne-
tore of his connexion with her, lie had at least for rimer
years been attached. For the result of this inquest, the Cc'
roner'e Jury had been satisfied in a moment. They had not even
desired to have the body of the woman opened ; but the eff'c't
of the defendant's malevolent insinuations was not yet to be at an
end. The Coronerhed left the body,the funeral arrangements had
proceeded in the usual course, and the corps of this unfortunate
woman, follOWeit: be, ebe plaintiff and her own relations, had
been carried up to the church in order to its being interred;
when here again, owing to the general suspicion which the de-
fendant's words had raised against the plaintiff, the clergymen'
notwithstanding the inquest; had refused to bury
Eventually, it had been carried back to the house of the plain-
tiff; and lain there five days longer, before it was permitted the
rites of sepulture. Now there was no affirmation, even by the
defendant himself, that these things which he had spoken were
true; and there was evidence in the case to show that, while be
spoke them,'he bad known them to be false. The defendant bad.
asserted that the plaintiff's former wife died in conseleence at
his adminis'ring Improper medicines to her for a pecu iar corn%
plaint; wofflid it be believed that the defendant himself andag
tended this very woman, as a surgeon,in her last illness ? His ho'
was extant, and through the whole brit, there did not appear
single medicine which would have been given to a person la'
bouring under such an aihnent as that he alluded to. The
fact was, that it was a seandalotia falsehood., the having insinuate
the. body
the existence of such acomplaint at all. The plaintiff's wife
had died of a dropsy, accelerated by a general decay of the
system. The medical
_gentlemen who had attended her, after
the defendant's attendance on her had ceased, would.prore
that the whole story, as to the nature of her complaint,. vale
a calumny of the foulest description. Now this case was to
be met by the defendant, he (the Learned Counsel) could Or
very well imagine. He had heard 'suggestions that something
was to be done in the way of attack upon the character of t%'
plaintiff: But if, in answer to such charges as were open
in the present cause, the Jury were to be told " that the !that'
tiff had cohabited with a woman to whom he was not married,"
he hoped such a defence would be treated with the cons
tempt which it deserved. .A course like this would amount
to nothing more' than an aggravation of the injury which
Mr. Ford had already sustained.. If, the plaintiff had corn'
mitted a slight act of misconduct, - the way to reform Ilan
was not to hunt him out of society—to drive him to despair.
The Jury would recollect that a greater power than they
held did not disciala to pardon the offender who resolved to sin
no more--that there was mere joy in, II oven over one shiner
who repented thati over ninety-nine righteous men who had no
need of repentance. In conclusion, the Learned Counsel sub-
mitted that no choice had been left to the plaintiff but to bring
the present action. After such imputations as had been thrown
upon him, he could not continue to exist in society, withe,l
giving his accuser an opportunity to prove the truth of themt`
they were true) before a Jury of his country.
Mr. John %remain one of the Coroners for the count/'
proved the words stated in the declaration.
Cross-examination continued.—Every person who spoke,
said how strange it was the yeoman should have died ad se"
denly. She had miscarried, but was thought to have got Pe: ;
fectly well. These reports were accompanied by remarbeOr
the plaintiff 's former wife bad 'died very stiddenly ; anit'e
woman, with whom lie had formerly cohabited had also llt
very suddenly:
Mr. Justice GASELtt said, that the last fact was not Mimi!.
able evldence.

ess— he reports which I heard in this way excited WI
suspicions, and induced me to take an inquest.
at
Mr. Arthur Lloyd (edge said-4 am a surgeon,
Mildenhall,and recollect the 11)th of September, when rilr.l re:
man came over to hold the inquest on the child. I had,:tc,°lllfr,a,
nation with the defendant, M r. Primrose, on that day. t
speaking of .„
the death of Mary Wing, " I think the
business ought to have the most rigid inquiry, for he line el
.tiered his wife" (meaaing hordes" that iss, he gave her
tu-
proper medicines for a certain complaiat, which was the col
of ]ter death." I attended Mary Wi generally,. 00
was going to the, house to see her (on my way) alien the
died. That bill [a
.bill was shown to the witness] in an
hand..writing of the defendant. It is a bill for attandancethe
the plaintiff's late wife. It contains no medicine fit (tuts
complaint, of which defendant said she died. This other .eter
secondiie My lather's bill, for attending the same 1.1311,h,-„,,,
the defendant left nfr attending her. I cannot say vitet"c't in
father attended her to the day °flier death. The last artic ;iris
'the defendant's'bill is charged on the 6th of •Marell the •
in my father's is on the Utli. evi-
Mr. Justice GAN E r.E— The defendant's bill may b°
thence, subject to this remark—that it wits possible for thflel7o4
man to have had this complaint after he left off late ahe
woul her. The bill of the witness's father Ido not think
evidence at all.
Mr. COontit used it mcrily to
fendant, in making a statement whicli the ;tons in this mi
proved to be untrue.. with
Mr. Justice f 1141:1,1:E—You &intuit fix the defendant
knowledge of the, is
defendant,
Mr. STO tu'f; ialdre,ted the Jury on the part of the
and contendul that the circittristance`a'had warrantee' hie
in the course which bad take be "ill cr
n n,,,, tta
ly, tlie verdict 110m:11;10M.: • ,I's
tic . .
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case had never la•en brought into e , . :•' spt eta ..tot
alleged, there was not an iota of reit.. • • ;: 21011
the charge nuaa dismiss:l.d altoe•e,' ; for the ird
elm the matte of the
which the defendant •ens ca.•t • with it
n . ,i.t . ,
"IStMCUY slieWn that. they had exiAce. in full cirettletton 1-0, it,
he opened his mond). Attu-der, or any crime approachleg cant
take the iieftavie•nt'a words at (kir it'or,t—had never been °oat
to,be iniputed ;_for'abe sisfeftio, ,:;*4 rJairtly (and uterel„qt had
the plaintiff h..d given:- hiS wifi! Litre-an- niediciaes,elVile to be
caused her death. Siippose the falseheeci of these charge;tte re-
admitted .by the want of a plea 'if Justification put 14'4)n • I the
cord, ~till the ineliee of them was not admittt.d, nor hathittg
plaintifra Counsel been able to show any thing arPr"c
to it. .
one
Mr. Justice GasimEt: said, the charge was laid in the
ways, to meet the cireutnstances of tile probable P' 1' ittiffa
case ; and the Jury, it' they thought fit to give the I"3lthel
'Die Jury retired fir stbnut half an hour,
verdict, would 114 re the:good/les - ton what cattle,•
found their (Luna:tali. • s .4 1
at the end °Fewtaling
they fbund a vertliet for the -pia intitF—Damages CO'. ; " the
upon the Talicount only of the declaration, which charge'
words spoken without tiny inuendo.

t
theyily
pescnted the sum of
A Letter from Frankfort mentions, tin'
the occasion of the late marriage in the ROTSCJI11.3)(8140
to the Authorities in that city, to be distributed among'',
cessitous individuals of chrititian communion. I r
M. DE CIIEZY to appointed teacile pt
the Persian Languaze in the room of the late 31.1,07°141b5s
the Oriental School in Paris. And N. ABEL ftrsl,ll:l,-S
been appointed to the Conservatorship of the Oriental 5000 ilorens (about 5001. Ste":„,,
the King's Library rice N. LANGLEd.

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TUE SUN.

►I Q ICERE PAESUM .417044 T

LONDON,
MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1824

We have in a preceding column given extracts
from the Paris Papers, inclu ding the Etolle of
Saturday. The Nuremberg correspondent of the
Qualidienne mentions, as one of the reports
arising out of the Congress of Johannisberg, that
in the event of the Emperor of the Brt.Azte.s not
complying with certain aemands, troops will
be embarked for the New World " with
Cr without the consent of England," and
also, that a squadron is to leave a port. of
the North, and to proceed to Cadiz, where
it will he at the disposal of the King
°f SPAIN. 'These rumours are of course not
entitled to much consideration, though it is cer-
tainly somewhat singular that an article from Madrid in the Pilote also affirms that Russia has
"de so offer of 1(30,000 men to Spain for the
4"cl)ntitlest Of her South American Colonies.—
The emperor A LEX kNDER, as we have more than
°nee stated, is personally favourable to the
maintenance of peace ; but there is no saying
how far he may have been prevailed upon by
4itnificant hints, as well as by persuasion, to
i
„
-yeld to the wishes of some of the personages by
Nhfun he is surrounded. A Russian Czar, though
It
Despotic Monarch, is not much more of a free
ageat than an Eastern Sultan, and is, like the
latter, sometimes obliged to shape his conduct,
not according to his own wishes, but according to
those of the Persons upon whose fidelity depends
Lit awn safety.
'Pte idea is pretty generally entertained that
prance is really assimilating her foreign policy
de to that of England,
VI of
and that the triumph of M.
EL; and the seemingly irrevocable dis-
grace. of
ler M. de CHATEAUBRIAND, are incontrgrabbleproofs of the decline of Russian influence
at Paris, and of the ascendancy, on the other
hand, of principles and views more consistent
with the honour and high spirit of the French
no
"i°4l and more conducive to the interests of
14 taanity and rational freedom. We shall sincerely
if this expectation should prove to be
well
f"ttiled. A sincere coalition between Great Bri.
taint France, and the otherConstitutionalStates of
r4".°Pe and Arnerfcti, would be the greatest bless-
ing 'which their respective statesmen can confer
on the civilize.d world, and would be more than
an effectual counterpoise to the confederac of
despoticd monarchies y
at whose projects so much
read ir,entertained.
t W w
e have, hoever,' a
lwhich abitual and confirmed distrust of the finesse
the Cabinet 'ow to of Paris knows so well
secret employ' for the furtherance of its
purposes, and are not easily to be per-
sitth. 54d that so salUtary change has taken place
Cncils. must wait for the progress
of eventsou We. must
.1)0

Atra. B.—A Russian squadron of two
ships
of the line and three frigates passed this
°n Friday morning, to the Eastward, un-
der
the Command of Admiral CROWN, whose flag
*ns flYiag in the St. Andrew, 74 guns. It is re-
Ported that they were bound to Croustadt.-.llls
ereaa Highness the Prince LEOPOLD arrived
Bete last night, and embarked this morning in

his Majesty's picket Spitfire for Calais, under a
royal salute, from the Western Heights.—His
Excellency M. IcA DE BertmunEz, Spanish Am-
bassador to London, and recently called to the
Spanish Ministry, is expected down this evening
to embark for France. A Post-011ice packet is
ordered for his conveyance to Calais.

In a letter from tlu Agents to Lloyd's at the
Mauritius, stating the lois of his Majesty's ship
Delight, it mentions the names of some of the
crew who were on shore at the time, amd provi-
dentially saved, and for the satisfaction of their
families We here <insert theta, viz.—WlLLtAtt
111IttrtAr, Midshipman ; WILLIAM ADAMSON,
Assistant Surgeon ; JOHN POPE, JOHN JEN.
NINGS, and JOHN HENDERSON, seamen; AUSTIN
BROWN and JOHN FERKINS, marines.

His Excellency M. ZE4 DE BERMUDEZ, the
new Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, left
town yesterday evening for Madrid.

Charleston Papers have arrived to the 4th ult.
The following is the only. article which we find
in the worth extractinz

CHARLESTON, Jui.Y 2.—Our city has for some days past
suffered under an intenseness and continuation of heat seldom
or ever experienced here before. IVe have endured almost
literally an atmosphere of fire. Several valuable lives have
fallen *Actin* to the excessive warmth.

New Brunswick Papers have Rise arrived to
the 30th of June, and Quebec Papers to the 6th ultimo. The
melting of the snow and incessant rains from. the 24th to the
27th June, caused the river Gouffre, which passes through the
parish of St. Paul's Bay, to rise rapidly to an unprecedented
height, and it swept off twelve dwelling houses, twenty other
buildings, and forty saw mills. The total destruction of pro-
perty is estimated at'2,6001.

THE ALGERUNES.
(Front the Flanipshire Telegraph.)
We' lately adverted to the accounts received
from the Mediterranean, by which it appeared that the boats of
bis Majesty's ship Naiad, Captain the lion. Robert Spencer,
had succeeded in destroying an Algerine vessel of war, under
the batteries of Bona. We are happy to have it in our power
to give now a more detailed account of this event, written by an
officer on the spot. The public in general are too apt to under-
*eine a bloodless enterprise, and to conceive that where on lives
are lost; there cannot have been much resistance. Weare per-
suadekhowever, that every reader who peruses the following
account will admit that, not only the success of the measuris
but the safe return of the .gallant officers anti . men employed.;
are owing to the judgment with which the whole watt-planned, as
well as to the discretion and spirit displayed in the execution ;
and that any defect in the one or the other would have proved
fatal to.the enterprise, and destructive of numberless saluable
lives. In thes6 " piping times of peace," it is very gratifying
to see that the 'judgment and courage of our officers and men
arc as true as ever ; not that we could ever doubt Ortheir being
so, but it is pleasing to see it so nobly illustrated. The writer
observes—

" Ife:anchored after dark pretty close. oft the town, and the
boats were sent away under command of Lieut. Quin. Owing
to the darkness, and to the boats having taken a circuitous
route, they did not reach the town until late,• and then got on
board a large 10-gun brig of war ; they soon set her in a blaze.
At day-light she had burned to the water's edge, she soon blew
uiv and sunk in deep water, so that by seven in the morning
there was no vestige of her left in sight. She was strongly moor-
ed head andlitern with chains, at the distance of 20 yards from
the fortreas, on which were mounted 40 pieces ofcannon, none of
which were further than canniuer range, and some within her own
length. The garrison consisted of 400 men, who were station-
ed with musquctry at the embrasures, which looked down on
the brig's decks : in short, the position was one of extraordi-
nary strength. Nevertheless, the good order and regularity of
our men, and the judicious manner in which the approach was
made, were such, that they got alongside, or nearly so, upper.
ceived ; not a whisper was heard till the enemy's lirst discharge'
of grape shot, which was answered by three cheers. A terrible
fire was from this moment kept up, but ieotenrint Quin and
his gallant companions did not leave her till she was fairly
on fire fore and aft, and so hot that they were obliged to re-
turn to the boats. Not one was killed, and only a few slightly
hurt. Strict orders were given by Capt. Spencer, who suspected
her situation to be what it proved, not to attempt bringing out
the vessel ; and it was fortunate that his orders on this point
were imperative, since, had any discretion been left, an en-
deavour to cut Iter out would have been made, which,
considering the manner in which she was secured to the walls
by chains, must have led to the useless destruction of many va-
luable lives. The brig was entirely empty, and in consequence
floated so high out of the water that she was boarded with dif-
ficulty ; but every thing was so well arranged previously, that
no confusion took place, and in all its parts no enterprise could
ever have been more complete and satisfactory In its result."