The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-06 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

Hugh Leach and John Ambrose, Bristol, linen-mer-
chants, Sept. 26, at eleven, one, and three, at the Bush
Tavern, Bristol—Solomon Johnson, Margate, coach-maker,
Sept. 27, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Margate—Robert
Holmes Marshall, Plymouth, draper, Sept. 26, at ten, at
the Court of Commissioners—John Browne, Whitebrook,
Landogo, Monmouthshire, paper-maker, Sept. 29, at
one, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol—John Bogg,
Tattershall, Lincolnshire, scrivener, Sept. 27, at three, at
the George Inn, Horncastle, Lincolnshire—Timothy Law-
son, Manchester, cotton-spinner, Sept. 27, at two, at
White's Hotel, Manchester--Ebenezer Birks, Shef-
field, grocer, Oct. 3, at two, at the Tontine Inn
Sheffield—Thomas Flint, Burlington-area%le, bookseller,
Sept. 26, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—
Ruth Hobhins, Cheltenham, innkeeper, Sept. 29, at twelve,
at the George Hotel, Cheltenham—William Dinny, Lan-
caster, saddler, Oct. 6, at eleven, at Mr. Pritt's, King's
Arms Inn, Lancaster—Samuel Parsons, -Chorley, Lanca-
shire, linen-draper, Oct. 1, at ten, at the office of Messrs.
Topping and Mackenzie, solicitors, Chorley—William Bis-
six, Richaid Sloper, jun., and Charles Bissix, Bristol,
vinegar-makers. Sept. 30, ut ten, at the White Lion Inn,
Bristol—Mary Agard, Francis Stringer Agard, and Wm.
Stringer Agard, Borrowash, Derbyshire, millers Sept. 23,
at eleven, at the New Inn, Derby.

CERTIFICATES, SEPT. 26.
John Atkinson, Oxford-street, oilman—Richard Bahiall,
Leek, Staffordshire, banker,—Edward Butt, Ledbury,
Iferefordsbire, grocer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
John Warden, Willliani Walker, . jun. and Peter Hill,
Glasgow—William Walls and Willoughby Marsden, Wrag-
by, Lincolnshire, surgeons—Thomas •S;ndys and William
Falc,:ner Walker, Austin-friars, solicitors—James .Newshain
and William Smith, Preston, corn-dealers--Andrew Ru-
therford and William Finlayson, Dunfermline, thread-
manufacturers—Thomas Barrow and John Griffiths, Man-
chester, cotton-n!anufacturera—Myer Nerwich, Dublin,
and Abraham Nerwrch, Birmingham, jewellers—James
Riding,sen. and James Riding, jun., Habergbara Eaves,

and Burnley, Lancashire, innkeepers—Benj. TI. Dowson,
Joseph W. DoWson, Edw. U. Dowson, and H. G. Dow-
son, Gclderston, Norfolk, corn merchants—Edward Utting
Dowson and Henry Gibson Dowson, Gelderston,
Norfolk, brewers—J. Buchanan and W. Moss, Ashton-
under-Lyne, Lancashire,. machine-Makers—D. Stephens
and J. Stephens, Overbury, Worcestershire, millers—
William Eaton and Robert Clarke, Fenchurch-stroet, car-
penters—R. Blyth, John Darken, and Thomas Theobal,
Norwich, iron-founders—Bryan Thomas Balguy, Sinckler
Porter, and John Barber, Derby, attorneys---Thomas Penn,
Charles Williams, and Thomas Mitchell, Birmingham,
coffin-furniture-manufacturers—John Tanner Trangmsr
and James Trangtnar, Brighthelmstone, grocers—Joseph
Atkinson, jun., Henry Atkinson, Frances Atkinson, and
Thomas Atkinson, jun. Beadley Mill, Kirkheaton, York-
shire, fancy cloth manufacturers.

SUMMER ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER, SEPT. 4.

Thomas Leather, aged 22, was indicted for rob-
bing Fryar Hayes on the highway, at Lyme, on the
25th of April.
The Jury found a verdict of Not Guilty.
Upon leaving the bar, the prisoner raised up both
his hands, and, looking towards his Counsel (Mr. J.
Jervis), exclaimed, " Well done, thou good and
faithful servant, thou bast cleared me!" The Court
was convulsed with laughter, and the Learned Gen-
tleman not a little embarrassed, at this unexpected
approbation of his professional labours.
SEDUCTION.-BAILEr V. KYLE.

Mr. J. 11. LLOYD opened the pleadings. The
damages were laid at 300/.
Mr. J. JERVIS stated the case for the plaintiff, in
a very florid speech, in which he described the plain-
tiff as bedutiful and accomplished, the child of
humble but respectable parents, but now; by the
conduct of the defendant, consigned to infamy and
disgrace ; her prospects blasted, her spirits broken,
and she herself plunged into the lowest abyss of mi-
sery and despair. The Learned Gentleman then
called the following witnesses.
William Bailey—l am a small farmer, residing
about a mile from Cheadle. I am father to the
plaintiff, Charlotte Bailey, who is now twenty-two
years of age. Mr. Ryle, the defendant, is a sur-
geon, practising in Cheadle. He was twenty-five
years of age in February last. I went to see the
defendant in September, 1825 ; I found my daugh-
ter with him, I told her, angrily, to get along home.
Defendant said, don't put yourself about so, but
come and walk with us. I said, Mr. Ryle, I don't
like this; I have had many misfortunes in my fa-
mily, and I don't want any more. He said, I know
you have, but you shall have none through me. I
said, she is your equal, Mr. Ryle, in person, but
not in family. He said, I have property enough to
keep her and me, and a family, if we should have
one, even if I do no business; and I'll marry her if
lam a man alive. He continued his attentions to
her, as her suitor, afterwards. In May, 1827, my
daughter, the plaintiff, was delivered of a child. I
saw the defendant about two months afterwards.
He said, the overseer wishes her to father it, but
you don't need to say any more about it. I shall
not let it- to come to that, for I'll marry her. I
know that the defendant was married last March to
a young lady named Vawdrey. The plaintiff has
been in a very delicate state of health ever since.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant JONES —I oc-
cupy four Cheshire acres. That is the extent of my
farm. My (laughter, the plaintiff; used to weave
silk. She might earn about twelve shillings a week.
The first time I knew about Mr. Ryle's acquaintance
wills my daughter, was in September 1825 ; that
was at Cheadle wake time. It was at the wakes. I
went to speak to Mr. Ryle, because I did not want
any more misfortunes in my family. I have seven
daughters ; three of them have had misfortunes of
this sort—not four. One of them had two at a

birth. Martha went with Charlotte to Cheadle

wakes. Martha is one of those who had
fortunes. I don't know that the defendant used to
come to my house of nights. I left my wife to make
the doors fast every night. There was a bed in the
loom down stairs. There was a window in the
room. A person could tap at the window, so as to
be heard by any one in the room. It was after
Cheadle wakes that the bed was placed there. I
brought it from Stockport. It was Charlotte that
desired me to go to Swindell's for it. I did not pay
for it. 1 don't know that she paid for it, nor who
it was that paid for it. Before that the bed was
brought, Charlotte used to sleep up stairs with
Mahe. Phohe is one of the unfortunates. After
the bed was brought, Charlotte slept down stairs in
the parlour. She was pregnant then, but I cannot
say hew long it was before her confinement.

Martha am a (laughter of the last wit-
ness, and sister to the plaintiff. I have had a mis-
fortune myself. I remember Mr. Ryle coming to
my father's house a week before the wakes. He
asked if Charlotte was in ? I said she was at my
brother's, at the next house. We went together to
see her. I said, Mr. Ryle, I am afraid of your being
with her; if you seduce her it will do you no good,
nor her either. He said, if I can remain unmarried
for two or three years, I can then marry without say-
ing a word to any one, and I will marry her. I
fetched Charlotte to him, and left them together.
He continued to visit my sister afterwards. He
always came at the edge of dark, and about the time
my father was gone to bed. My father did not see
him on these occasions, until after my sister was
confined.

Cross-examined by Mr. COTTINGHAM—My sister
is not so ill now but that she does a little work. She
walks to Stockport sometitnes, which is nearly four
miles off. After we got the bed from Stockport,
Charlotte slept init in the room below stairs. There
is a window in that room. I never saw any one ge
in through it. A person might come in at the win-
dow. I never saw the defendant come in at that
window. I never saw him in bed in that room with
my sister, nor did I ever hand him brandy and water
while in bed there. All this I swear. The de-
fendant always came at dark. I have a mother. I
don't think she ever saw the defendant come.

Mr. John Vawdrey—l am a surgeon tit Bradbury.
The defendant married my daughter. I receive
rents on his account, but there are incumbrances to
be paid off before he can get any thing. The lease-
hold property is about 401. a-year, and the freehold
about 1001. a-year. The incumbrances are 1,0001.
to his sister Winifred, and about .500/. to Mr. Ryle's
family. He keeps a gig.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant JONES—The
defendant has no property at present, nor can he
have any until these incumbrances are paid off. He
had a few hundred pounds from his grandfather, but
he spent it all.
This was the case for the plaintiff.
Mr. Sergeant JONES addressed the Jury in a hu-
morous speech for the defendant. He ridiculed the
importance given to this action by the glare thrown
over it by his Learned Friend. The respectable
farmer turned out to be the occupier, of foar Cheshire
acres, who sometimes.. amused himself with sitting
on the roads breaking stones. Of the plaintiff'sl
beauty and personal charms the Jury knew nothing,
for they were not indulged with a sight of her. Her
accomplishments, it appeared, were limited to weav-
ing silk at 12s. a week, and the laceration of her
feelings might he well supposed under her present
unfortunate circumstances, from the fact that she
was one of three sisters who had been similarly un-
fortunate, and was living in the house with them and
their illegitimate offspring.
Mr. Justice JERVIS summed up the evidence; and
the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages
ten pounds.

MORE PIRATICAL VESSELS.-ST. MI-
cHAEL's, AUG. 6.----Yesterday appeared off here a very
fine schooner, under Spanish colours, and after procuring
refreshments from the Vice-Consul, who was not per-
mitted to go on board, made sail; she would allow no
communication with the shore, nor receive the Health
officers, but reported to be from the Havannah with su-
gar, and for the Canaries, out 26 days ; had 18 guns and
two stern chasers, and about 40 men. This morning
another fine brig appeared off; they both seem to be pri-
vateers, who plunder with impunity every vessel near these
islands.