The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-04 00:00:00

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Re-examined by Mr. RoLursirosta—Mr. Phi li'stls :).
us 1/. 17s. and solve money since. I can't say how trktiehaft %MI
has given Hll. 1 lett my mother's house because she treated-44
me batily. I told tny dada-so.- -My motheranted-t•-upbraid
me about hitt. My father 'told Me to go by some other
name besides Arabin, and my
.mother bid me call 'myself
Thompson. I said, my father used to ;write to me--(letter
produced)—that is one of his letters to nie. • ,-•
Elizabeth Arabin, a girl about 12-years Old,- was then put
on the table, and having answered faeveraliquestiotir to his
Lordship to show that she' Was acqiiaintecl*itia the nature of
an oathovas examiaedhj ita follpjys a
:Mater o! Mr. Krabin, and sister witness ; the
plaintiff is my mother. I often. saw Mr. A41;0 in my
mother's. house. -in Bride-street ; have, gone to!'hlm for
money for my mother, and got it p he paid for my schoiding.
The landlord of the house in Brid&styeet alluded to hi the
principal witness's testimony, was next- called,. hut 'as it ap-
peared that he was 'in Court all day, although an order was
made to exclude witnesses on both sides, Mr. Dw,yer declined
to examine him.
John Smith, examined by Mr. DWYER—I know William
Murphy. Was the proprietor of No. 12, New'Bride-street,
and is so, I think since September, 1841. He built the cot-
tage in which the plaintiff resided, and it became occupied by
her iu September, 1842, and her two daughters, Mary Anne
and Elizabeth Arabin. The inmates of Oat cottage were all,
l' believe, wall conducted. I never heard. anything against
them.. Mr. Arabin, the late Lord Mayor, paid the rent- He
paid it to me last year in the Mansion-house. I gave him
receipts for the rent for Mr. Murphy, and put the plaintiff's
name in them as paying it. •
The letters read by plaintiff's Counsel in opening the -.MSS
were then given in.
The plaintiff's case then closed, and
Mr. MITCHELL, Q.C., proceeded to address thi jury for
the defence. He stigmatised the entire case as a foul and
malicious conspiracy, got up by a party behind the screen, to
wreak upon the defendant vengeance for something he had
done towards him, or .supposed he bad done; m fact, be said
he was prepared to show that the plaintiff was nothing
more than a tool in the hands of others. The defendant,
however, 'night safely rely upon the case for the prosecu-
tion, and call upon a:jury for a verdict,; but lee would not be
satisfied without showing his perfect innocence of the
crime imputed to him, for he was enabled, under' Providence,
to remove all imputation from his character that he ever' was
the debaucher of his own child. The case, if true, would.
have been tried before a Dublin jury, but it was not; and.
why not? Because all the parties were well known there.
The defendant, who filled the office of Lord Mayor last year,
was no doubt well known there and respected by all; and he
(Mr. Hatchell) should inform the Court that there were
other parties in the case deeply mixed up in the transaction,
who also were well known in the metropolis, and perhaps
better known than trusted. That was one reason for leaving
the city; and very probably the additional Fasts that would
be thus incurred were expected to assist
~compromise of
a suit which there was no foundation for, for it was a well
known fact that such cases—such conspiracies--were often the
means of extorting money from innocent parties, who, in_ many
instances, would, from fear, pay any amount of money rather
than that such a case, although false, should come before a
jury. Mr. Arabin would uot, however, be imposed:en, and
therefore he boldly defied the conspiracy. He did not, and
could not deny, that when a young man he had formed a
connexion with the plaintiff, lived with her, and had some
children by her, amongst whom was Mary Anne Arabin; but
he repudiated the atrocious allegation that he washer seducer,
and that was clear from the evidence, documentary and
otherwise. The true state of the case was this—it was a
conspiracy got up by some underhand party, who urged
on the plaintiff to make this charge for the purpose of
extortion, and she was easily worked upon from jealousy;
for Mr. Arabin, from her conduct, • was obliged to dis-
continue all intercourse with her. She became a per-
son of the most abandoned character, being constantly
intoxicated, and in the habit of annoying him in the
public street; so much so that he was obliged to give
up rendering her any assistance, and she •then com-
menced her attacks upon him, and accused him of keeping
company with a female named Betsy Asking. As to the
letters proved to be in his handwriting by the first witness,
no doubt they were written by.him, but not to her; for they
were addressed to her mother, Mary, and were Lot shown to
be addressed to any one else. The Learned Gentleman then
proceeded to read a great number of threatening letters from
the plaintiff to Mr. Arabin, accusing him of infidelity towards
her, and of his acquaintance with a female named Ashins—
written within the last few years, and particularly last year,
when he was Lord Mayor, in which she threatened to expose
him to the public; but she never in any one of those docu-
'Bents insinuated in the slightest way his having acted
towards her daughter in the manner she sought hy..her case
to establish. In conclusion, Mr. llatchell read a great num-
ber of letters, written since the action was brought by the
plaintiff, wanting him to compromise the action and " come
on terms with fr. Walsh," her attorney; and submitted that
the proof of his client's innocence was established beyond all
doubt.

The defendant's case having closed.
Mr. ROLLESTONE replied for the plaintiff.
Mr. Justice BALL charged the jury, and in doing so de-
sired them to weigh well the evidence on both sides, and
consider if they could fairly find a verdict and damages for
the plaintiff upon it, after the admission and testimony
which went to show the case to be an attorney's action, and
that that attorney was influenced by bad feelings towards
the defendant. He said that the plaintiff herself also ap-
peared enraged against him ; and it was, therefore,_ for con-
sideration if her story was worthy of credit, when in all her
letters threatening Mr. Arabin she never once alludie to the
alleged seduction of her daughter, which it was most probable
she would have spoken of if tree. These were the Principal
considerations in the ease ; independent of which it would
be necessary to consider f there were not inaccuracies al-
ready shown to exist in the principal witness's testimony; if
other witnesses might not have teen examined in support of
the story, if well-founded, and whether it was possible that
the defendant could be so base and degraded as to have had
an incestuous connexion with his own child, for he did not
attempt to deny his parentage of her.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—l,oool. damages,
and Gd. costs.

The result of this case seemed to have surprised almost
every one in court.

It-is the intention of the defendant to move, at the ensuing
term, for a new trial.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

, ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCH 3, 1846.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major-General Sir
Edward Bowater, K.C.H. to be one of the Grooms in Wait-
ing in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Captain the
Hon. Arthur Duncombe, of the Royal Navy, resigned.