The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-13 00:00:00

as to procuring abortion. The defendant In. d been already
severely punished fir tavino forgotten' I tis station and
nilsted with such persons. Ha was obliged to pay 2s. Gd.
a week for the support of the child—he had this action
brought against him, aid on the death of his mother
would be liable, according to the evident' given to-day,
to another for breach of promise of marrir .ge. He would
prove that the plaintiff was a most profligate, aban-
doned character, and set such an example before his
children that it was impossible fur the ma to have any
notions of virtue. He married a womato named Mary
Wyse, in 1807. After a few years he left her, and ran
off with the wife of a man named Spritagthorp, who
livel till 1823, when, on his death, his children came to
their mother, who was living with the plaintiff. Plain-
tiff's wife, Mary Wysa, died in 1838. The fruit of the
illicit intercourse with Mrs. Springthorp was two girls'
and a boy. With such parents and such an example,
what must be the conduct of the children? Tho Spring-
thorps had had bastard children. The girl Anne he
would prove to have been a most abando 3ed character,
long before the defendant know her. If he. should prove
that the father so misconducted himself, And that this
girl wis a iewi character before the defeiadaut became
acquainted with her, he was sure that tho jury would
nor give more than a farthing damag, s.
The marriage of the plaintiff with MaryWyse, and his
running away from her with the wife of Springthorp,
and the death of Mary Wyse and Springthorp were then
proved.
wit..atn We'll, a servant of Mrs. Harford's, swore
that he was at a dance at the plaintiff's tour years ago;
that between twelve and one at night he west down to
the cellar for a pot of beer, and there saw one Frank
Agar with his hands up Anne Bristsw's clothes.
In cross-examination he said he mentioned it that
night to his wife. aad soon afterwards to a fellow-aer-
rant, George Rackley, who was now in town. Agar was
alive, and he had teen him since the meeting of the
justices at Maidenhead.
Charlotte Chapman, who livel in Clewer-lane, Wind-
sor, swore she saw Anne Bristow with a Life Guards-
man at Simpson's beer-house in Bescot-street in the
evening, about seven er eight months ago, and asked her
the next morning what made her look so ill, when she,
Anne, said she had not been home all night.
In cross-examination she said she never mentioned
this to any one till she saw Mr. Ward (defendant's at-
torney), last week.
Two frail sisters, of the name of Sorrell, were next ex•
amined, to prove that they had seen Anne Bristow with
a Life Guardsman at the house of Mrs. Goodchild, in
Clewer-lane, about eighteen months back. One, Sarah
Eliza, said he was known as "Jem," and had left Wind-
sor about twelve months. That she had been spken to
by Mr. Ward prior ti the inquiry before the justices,
but did not attend the inquiry, and had not said she had
seen Anne with the Life Guardsman till to-day: The
other, Elizabeth, said he wa; not known by any name
that the knew of, and that she was first spoken to on the
subjects fortnight ago.
Hester Turner swore she bad seen Anne about a
twelvemonth ago once speaking with a civilian and a Life
Guardsman.
This was the defendant's case.

Mr. Sergeant Jones, in his reply, characterised the
evidence ad luced to impeach the character of the young
woman as rank perjury. Why were not Agar, Rackley,
Mrs. Goodchild, and " Jem" called ? Clearly because
they would disprove this tissue of falsehood. If the
plaintiff were guilty of irregularities in his youth, was
that to be a reason why his daughter might be se-
duced with impunity ? There was not a particle of
evidence to show that he had committed any irreem-
larities for the last thirty years. He trusted to the good
sense of the jury, and hoped that they would see the
true character of the evidence offered on behalf of the
defendant, and would give such a verdict as would warn
him from again attempting, after he had made a poor,
virtuous, innocent girl the dupe of his designing arti-
fices and want of faith, to blacken and blast her cha-
racter for ever, by the aid of lying worthless witnesses.
(Tho conclusion of the Learned Gentleman's address
was received with slight symptoms of approbation from
the audience.)
Lord CAMPBELL, in summing up, said the plaintiff
was clearly entitled to damages, and the jury would have
no difficulty in saying that they ought not to be nominal;
as he had been put to expense, and obliged to hire an-
other person to do the work that his daughter used to
do before. Another question, however, for their con-
sideration would be, whether the plaintiff was an honour-
able respectable man, and whether he brought up this
girl in the ways of modesty and virtue—whether she
was the victim of the artifices of the defendant, or
whether the plaintiff was not a person who had led a
vagabond life, and had set a bad example to his children;
and whether, independently of all connexion with the
defendant, she had not lost all character for modesty and
virtue? The evidence against her character came from
a most suspicious source; and if the case on the part
of the plaintiff had been without much suspicion,
they ought not to pay much attention to that on the
part of the defendant. It was his duty to call their
attention to the manner in which the plaintiff con-
ducted the beer shop, and to ask them whether they
thought it possible that a man who allowed such scenes
as had been described there could have brought up his
family virtuously and modestly. Such dances were most
disgraceful and demoralising. God forbid that innocent
dances on the village greens should be interfered with,
they were innocent—not only innocent, but laudable
amusements. But what were the dances described here

—the house ope❑ all night—everybody aimitted who
paid at last came the cushion-dance, where all
sense of decency and propriety was thrown aside. It
seemed to him that the plaintiff, by tolerating and en-
couraging such scones within his house, showed that he
did not care to conduct himself and his family along the
piths of innocence and virtue; and thst that was the
very course of training which might well prepare this
young woman for gniug to Clewer-lane, and to Simp-
son's and Goodchild's. The damages were entirely in
the hands of the jury, and he wished that they should,
in finding their verdict, act altogether on their own
judgment.
The, jury deliberated for about ten minutes, and re-
turned a verdict fir the plain!iff—Ditn qt.'s 401.