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George Btadahaw, Esq. stated himself to be
a Lieutenant in the Army, and was upon service
at Northallerton the latter endinf March, or the be-
ginning of April, and left it about the beginning
of June; he said he was never introduced to Mrs.
Dighton ; the first time, he saw her was at the
theatre, and her sister, Mrs. Godfrey Hirst, was
then with her. He entered into conversation with-
them. They were there every night during his
stay at-Nott'eallerton, except once or twice. Saw
Mrs. Dighton once near Mr. Dighton's house,
about ten o'elock at night. About three weeks
after he got to Northallerton, he was passing by the
Plaintiff's house, and the servantegirl of the Plaintiff
being then at the door, he spoke to 'her, and gal-
lamed a little with her. Mrs. Dighton was then
at the window, and told him not to flirt with her ser-
vant, He then went-up to Mrs. Dighton, and she
pot out her hand to.him, and said, You had bet..
ter Come in, as you will catch cold ; Mr. Dighton is
not at home, and if you stop there you will be ob-
served.'' The Witness accordingly went in, and
staid about ten minutes. Nothing particular passed
at that time.
:She proposed taking a walk the next
day ; he told her; that if her sister would accorn. '
.pany her, be would go, but did not like to go with
her alone. The Witness did walk out with her
and her sister, Mrs. Godfrey Hirst ; and conti-
nued to do so almost every day he was in North.
allerton. Never walked with Mrs. Dighton.
alone before Mr. - Watts came to Northallerton.
Sail Mr. Wdtts came tos Northallerton about a
fortnight after him. He .his frequently been in
the house alone with Mrs. Dighton, but never was
there when Mr. Dighton was in the house ; often
there before the Defendant, Mr. Watts, came to
Nord:aileron ; has frequently been in the habits of-
meeting Mrs. Dighton in the Paddock behind the
house before the Defendant citric to NotthaLerton„
from notes sent him by Mrs. Dighton and Mrs.
Godfrey Hirst, requesting him to meet them ;
walked out with them almost every day when the
weather would permit ; Mre Watts never' accom-
panied him in these walks ; drest often in regi-
mentals, and often out of them ; said that he
was at a Whist Club the night previous to his
leaving Northallerton, and that he left it bee-
fore the club broke up, on purpose to keep an ap-
pointment with Mrs. Dighton, at which dub Mr.
Dighton, (the father of the Plaintiff) was also
present ; ynong Mr. Dighton never attended.;
that soon after he had 'got to the Plaintiff's house,
Mr. Dighton the elder came, and called to the
Plaintiff to get out of bed, for he, the Witness,
was then with his wife, upon which the Witness
made his escape. That he- was at the 'Plaintiff's
house another night, when he was tipsey, and Mrs.
Dighton requested him to go up stairs to bed ;
that she and Mrs. Godfrey Hirst assisted him up
stairs, otherwise he could not have got up ; upon
getting into the bed-chamber, Mrs. Dighton
locked the door on the outside, and left the Wit-
ness and her sister (Mrs. Godfrey Hirst) in the
Loom together; and that upon suddenly perceiving
his danger of being detected by the Plaintiff; he
requested the door to be opened, that he might
escape, but it was refused : the Witness told them
if they would not open the door, he would get out
at the window.. After being kept a quarter of an
hour prisoner, he was released ; that Mrs. Dighton,
Mrs. Godfrey Hirst, and the servant girl, Harriet
• Merryman, began to laugh at him, and told him
he was a coward for not daring to stop. He be-
lieves that he was e night in the back kitchen
with Mrs. Dighton, Mrs. Godfrey Hirst, and the
servant, Harriet Merryman, when the Plaintiff (Mr.
Dighton) came home, thinks Mr. Dighton did not
see him. as he made qff. He farther believes, that
up to the time of his being confined a prisoner by
Mrs. Dighton and Mrs. Godfrey Hirst, that the
' Defendant had never seen Mrs. Dighton. •
Mr. To ?INS again addressed the Jury, and af-
ter making some observations upon the nature of
the Defendant's evidence; he said, that the intro._
du lion of such a Witness as Lieutenant Bradshaw,
who came unblushingly into Court to publish his
own wickedness, and to proclaim -his own. guilt,
he had never seen equalled in all his pradice. fle
only once remembered a case something similar to
it, and within the knowledge also sit his Learned
Friend, Mr. Serjeant COCKELL ; it was that of a-
man who, on an order of bastardy, rushed forward
into Court, and swore that he was father of the
child they were contending for; and what was
done to the fellow oa4leaving the Court ? Why,
said Mr. TOPPING, the women did what
I wish the women may do in all such cases :
they took him upon their shoulders, they carried
hiin under a pump, and pulling down his small-
clothes, they pumped upon him for half an hour,
by way of cooling his. effrontery. {Here suns a
general laugh.] But with all this avowal of Lieut.
Bradshaw, who so nobly voltinteered his own
wickedness:, was there any thing insinuated against
the eharaaer of Mr. Dighton himself? On the
contrary, when Lieut. Bradshaw heard he was corn:.
ing, he ran away ;—a plain proof that the Plaintiff
was not accessary to his oWn shame ; for they were
scarcely acquainted with each other, and lie could
have no suspicion of what was going on in his
house. That from' the account given even .by
Lieut. Bradshaw himself, it might be inferred,
that his visits were paid to the sister of Mrs.
Dighton, and nut to herself; for it could scarcely
be credited:that they all should be so abandoned—
wives, sisters, mistresses, arid maid—as to join in
.one indiscriminate debauchery, .and set up with
Lie Ute Bradshaw as co-partners in vice.
The Learned Judge recapitulated
:the whole of
the evidence in a full and *partial manner, and
considering the vicious charades of the Plain-
tiff 's wife, the Jury were to 'judge of the loss sus.
tamed by the Plaintiff, and to measure their quan-
tum of damages accordingly.
The Jury returned a verdid—Damages tool.

The Plaintiff is a surgeon and apothecary of
great eminence, and resides at Northallerton ; and
the Defendant an Officer in the 3d Dragoon Guards,
who was stationed there on the recruiting service in
the months of May and June last. This Action vas
brought to recover a compensation in damages for
the seduttion, Sec. of the Plaintiff's wife by the De-
fendant. The damages were laid at 50001.
Mr. TOPPING, as leading Coansel for the Plain.
tiff, said, the Plaintiff was a man of property, and
also an eminent surgeon and apothecary at North.
'allerton. In tSot, he married one of the daughters
of Mr. Swift, of Beal House ; they in June, ISoz,
had a child. The Defendant was an officer in the'
3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards ; and came upon a
recruiting party to Northallerton in the last spring.
The Defendant then sought, and too unhappily
succeeded, in seducing the affeCtions and prostitut-
ing the person of the Plaintiff's wife. After dwell.
ing for some time on the nature of the offence, he
called several Witnesses to prove the fad alledged ;
one of whom, a Robert Wilson, stated that he
lived direaly Opposite to the house of the Plaintiff;
that one night, about eleven o'clock, as he was
standing at his door, he saw the Defendant and
Mrs. Dighton in conversation together about three
quarters of an hour ; Mrs. Dighton was standing at
the dining-room window, and the Defendant on
the outside in the street ; Mrs. Dighton then re.
tired from the window, and the Defendant went in
at Mr. Dighton's entry door ; the Witness then
suspeding that there was something improper going
on, was determined to see the end of it ; so went
down an adjoining yard which led to the back
lane ; on looking through Mr. Dighton's paddock
gate, he saw Mrs. Dighton and the Defendant in
such a .ituation as could leave no doubt of their
criminality ; that he saw them for about half an
hour; was at first seven or eight yards from them,
afterwards came nearer, within four or five yards,
and was sure as to the persons of the Defendant and
Mrs. Dighton.
Several other witnesses were called on the same
side. After which Mr. Strjeant COCKELL, on the
part of the Defendant, addressed the. Jury. He
said, he ahould prove that Mrs. Dighton was sunk
deep in vice before the Defendant reached North.
allerton ; that she was guilty of that sort of levity
and indiscretion with a Mr. Lascelles, which was
ill becoming the character of a virtuous wife ; he
should call a Capt. Bradshaw, who would prove,
that nut only Mrs. Dighton and her sister were the
willing objeds of his amours at any time, but were
so long before the Defendant came to Northaller.
ton ; and that the Plaintiff himself was well ac.
• quainted with his wife's amours long before the De-
fendant came to Northallerton. Gentlemen, said
he, in this case no sedudion on the part of the De.
lendant took place ; the List in possession,. Captain
Bradshaw, upon his leaving Northallerton, lariipted
Mrs. Dighton, as well as her sister, over into the
possession of the Defendant ; and having perhaps
exclusively enjoyed the tiossession for a tim,e, they
were now sunk so deep in vice, Gentlemen, that
will not hurt your feelings by stating their situation.
I understand they are now following a life of dire-
ful infamy. No, man would more sincerely wish
than myself, that the man who had_caused this ca-
lamity should meet with that punishment which he
so justly tnericed ; but my client was not the cause
of it : Mrs. Dighton was ready prepared to, his

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