The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-19 00:00:00

AND WIFE.

Sir J. SCARLET'', with whom was Mr. KELLY, stated
the case for the plaintiff. It was an action brought by
Mr. Henry H. Riches, to recover a compensation in de -
nines for a breach of promise of marriage by Mrs.
Sophia Ruddall, the widow of a Lieutenant in the navy,
but now married to Mr. Pugh.
From the evidence of various witnesses, and from letters
written by Mrs. Pugh previous to her marriage, it ap-
peared that the plaintiff was only about twenty-eight
years old, while she was forty-five, but very good looking.
About May, 1830, she came to town from her then re-
sidence at Kidlington, in Oxfordshire, and the plaintiff,
after an acquaintance of a few weeks, proposed mar-
riage to her. His offer was accepted, the courtship
continued, and the bans were published in Trinity-
church, New-road. The plaintiff's affairs were, however,
rather embarassed, and the marriage did not take place,
but they continued upon intimate terms, and corresponded
together, expressing great affection for each other for some
time afterwards. But in Nov. 1830, she became ac-
quainted with Mr. Pugh, an old gentleman of 76, and
married him, after an intimacy of about a month. Her
income was stated to be 501. a year, from 10001.
five per cent. and a pension of 501. as widow of an officer
in the navy.

Her brother proved, that it was by his advice that she
broke her plighted faith with the plaintiff.
Mr. F. POLLOCZ addressed the Jury for the defendant,
and said he would be able to show from the plaintiff's own
letters, written after the connexion was broken off, that
he considered the whole afftir as at as end, and
that he so treated it. He did not ask the Jury to
cut down the plaintiff's claim in propor-
tion to his merit, but he asked them to give
a verdict for the defendants, for it could not be tolerated
that the plaintiff should consider the courtship at an end,
and court another female (which he avowed by his let-
ters), and then to turn upon Mrs. Pugh, and seek to get
from her pocket by this action that which he could not get
by his threats or exposure. He, Mr. Pollock, would
read the letters, and the Jury would judge whether the
plaintiff was entitled to a verdict at all or not; but if they
should be obliged, under his Lordship's direction to find a
verdict for the plaintiff, then if they could split a farthing
into ten thousand pieces, he was sure that the len
thousandth part would be the utmost they would give,
and that grudgingly. He would show that the plaintiff
never complained of the broken engagement, or of her
marriage, unta he found his attempts to wring money
from her unavailing; it was made a complaint that she
married Mr. Pugh after a month's acquaintance, but it
should not be forgotten that the plaintiff was about to
marry her at only five weeks intimacy. She had
only 501. a year from the funds, and a pension
of 501. the latter of which would, as was understood, be
taken away on her marriage, so that those two parties, the
one 28, and the other 46, were to live upon love and af-
fection, and 501. a-year—(Laughter)—for it would be
provcd that he had no property. He (Mr. Pollock)
would now read a letter from the plaintiff, dated the Ist of
October, 1830, and he would leave it to the Jury to say,
whether the writer did not know of her determination to
close the connexion, and that from his language he ac-
quiesced in it. The letter was partly poetical and partly
prosaic. It began thus :_..

An, I have received your last letter !
And is it then thus that we part ?
Can you coldly declare in this letter ?
Oh, Sophy ! how changed is that heart.
--(Loud laughter.) The prose part was written very
affectionately; it asked for two tickets for the Zoological
Gardens—(Laughter)—and said " I long to see you, but
I suppose I must not call." This showed that she had
had prudential reasons for preventing his calling upon
her, and the whole tone of his letter showed that be
acquiesced in a separation. He also said, that if she
had another lover, he would be generous, and would take
no advantage of the promise she had made him. Whether
this action was an instance of that generosity the Jury
would judge. The letter proceeded to say that the
writer had met a lady at a boarding-house at Chebiea,
with 400/, a year—but "you have spoiled me for matri-
mony, by making me so very fastidious ; I told her I
could not love her, and we parted." So he had been court-
ing another lady, and yet he now turned round upon Mrs. P.
He had borrowed money of Mrs. P., and he expressed
his intention shortly to wipe off the obligation. That
letter concluded thus—" I remain, my dearest friend,"
&c. After her marriage he wrote to her " Dearest Ma-
dam," made no complaint about the marriage or the
broken engagement, but wishing to borrow 30/., for which
he was then in custody, and 201., the amount of another
detainer against bim. He still wrote upon the most
friendly terms, and with every sentiment of esteem ; but
not receiving an answer, he now assumed the tone of a
threat and an attempt to extort money by an action. He
wrote a letter, in which he said, " you well know what
it is in my power to do." The Jury would see by that
letter whether the plaintiff possessed any one quality to
entitle him to maintain this action. He therein reproached
her with her base conduct towards him, and said if it had
not been for her he could have married a lady of 400/. a
year, who had been willing to have him, and who had
written some verses to him, beginning thus :
A lover came wooing with wealth in great store,
And vowed he'd obtain all my wishes;
I replied, I care little for you or your gold, .
Though my heart is devoted to Riches.
(Loud laughter.) The last line would certainly have bet-
ter ended with "breeches."—(Laughter.) The plaintiff,
in that letter, which was written after the action was
brought,
pghetx,aossku. He wouldedrewhatber now leave the ca
relations and friends would
fouldtr hink
of an the
Jury to give what damages they thought the plaintiff de-
served. _

---The letters were proved to be in the plaintiff's writing,
and were read.

Sir JAMES SCARLETT, in reply, said if be were to
consult his individual feelings, he would never consent
to bring an action against a female, for a breach of
promise of marriage, but would bury his woes and
griefs in silence. However, the law placed both males
and females upon the same footing, and either party ag-
grieved had a right to bring an action. As to the letters
of the plaintiff, they were no answer to the action : they
were written under feeling of disappointment, but in no
part did it appear that the plaintiff acquiesced in a sepa-
ration.

His Lonnsuir having summed up, the Jury found a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, One Farthing•

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)

HALL V. FORGET AND ANOTHER.
This action was brought to recover the sum of 781. for
wages due to the plaintiff. The defendants are brothers,
one of whom carry on business in London, and the other
in Birmingham. The debt was clearly proved, but they
attempted to set up a defence by saying that they were not
in partnership, but in that they failed, as it was proved,
that while the London brother was in France, for the pur-
poses of the business, for two months, every year the

ther always came up, and attended to the concern i
London.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the ful
amount claimed.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.-(THIS DAY)

EX-TARTS WIGOINS, IN THE MATTER Or NICHOLS.

This was the petition of Wiggins against the assignees
of the bankrupt Nichols, presented under the following
circumstances :—The petition stated that the bankrupt
hired a horse of Wiggins, on the 2d of February, 1831, at
seven shillings per week. The horse was kept from that
time to April, 1832, when a commission was issued
against the bankrupt. The assignees took possession of
the horse as being the property of the bankrupt. The
question was, whether by the Act of Parliament the horse
could be considered the reputed property of the bankrupt.
Mr. MONTAGU, for the petitioner, said that there were
no grounds upon which the assignees could take possession
of the horse, the horse being only hired by the bankrupt.
Mr. SWANSTON, who appeared to oppose the petition,
said that the bankrupt had the horse upon the agreement
that he was to purchase it if he liked it : but at any rate
AO long an uninterrupted possession was sufficient to con-
stitute the reputed ownership contemplated by the bank.
rupt act.
The COURT said, that it had not sufficient facts before
it to enable it to decide the question, which would mainly,
depend upon whether there was a usage by which trades-
men hired horses by the year for purposes of utility, in the
same way as horses were hired by the wealthy by the year,
for the purposes of luxury.
After some discussion it was settled that the case should
stand over till Friday, in order to give the petitioner an
opportunity of proving the usage referred to by the Court.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JUNE 18.—Wind S. W.—Sailed the Atlas,
Hunt, for India.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE IS.—Wind S.S.W. to S.S.E.—
Arrived his Majesty's ship Tyne, from South America;
Morley, Douglas, from Ceylon ; and James Sibbald, Darby,
from London, for the Cape of Good Hope,
Pr.vmouTH, JUNE 16.--Wind S.W.—Arrived the
Jessie, Gilmore, from Charente ; Cyren, Waton, and
John, Murray, from Memel. The Betsey and Sophia, of
London, late Fotheringham, was wrecked in the Island of
Disolation, on the 16th of March, 1831 ; the mate and
14 of the crew arrived at Hobart Town on the 4th of
February last.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 17.—Wind S.S.W..—Arrived off
port the Zenobia, Owen, from Bengal, sailed the sth
February, and Madras the 25th; and Harriet, Loch, from
Sierra Leone.

FALMOUTH, JUNE 17.—Wind S.S.W. to S., fresh
breezes.—Arrived the Barracouta packet, from Vera Cruz,
t.ailed the 3d ult., and Havannah the 19th, with 16,000
dollars on freight; and Leda, Lyell, from Rio Janeiro.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 17.—Arrived the Leds, Lyell, from
Rio Janeiro, fell in with on the 31st ult. in lat. 35. long.
35. a brigantine, bottom up, apparently American, about
200 tons, coppered.

GRZENOCK, JUNE 16.—Arrived the Rowley, M'Larty,
from Trinidad ; and Breezes, Chapple, from Alexandria.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 17.—Arrived the Gondolia, Rhodes,
from Arecati and Ceara; P daskie, Post, from Mobile;
Greyhound, Cochran, and Wolga, Tuliff, from St. Peters-
burgh; Economy, Levant, and Narva, Brother, from Are-
cati ; Liverpool, —, from Charleston ; and Sheffield,
from New York. _ _ .

VERA CRUZ, MAY 2.—VespelB bringing clean bills o'
health are not subjected to quarantine.

The Favourite, Simons, from London, ran on shore in-
side of Archangel Bar, 19th ult.
The Sterlingahire, from Liverpool, arrived at Havanah,
after being on shore and throwing part of her cargo over-
board.

SHOCKING MURDER AT SWINTON,