The Sun.
London, England, 1821-04-20 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

PERJURY AND ABDUCTION.
The following extraordinary and isteresting
case occupied the Court from five until nearly
twelve o'clock on Wednesday evc.ing _
Edwin MostynJones, a young man of respect-
able family, was indicted for a misdemeanour itt
making a false. affidavit, in order to procure a
licence for Marriage with Charlotte Lovell, and
by that and other false devices, inveigling her
from the home and protection of her natural
guardians.
Mr. ADOLPHUS described this as a case of most
gross fraud, which had been followed up-by
conduct so base, that it was almost impossible
to conceive that a person gifted with a liberal
education, and moving in the society which
the- defendant must have been accustomed
to, could have been guilty of. The prosecutor in.
this cast was. Peter Harvey Lovell, Esq. of Cole
Park,. Wilts,„and the defendant a Captain in the
North Gloucester Regiment of Militia. • Mr.
Lovell was blessed with ample property and a
numerous progeny, and his happiness never knew
any diminution until :he unhappy period when
the defendant became acquainted with the family.
This took place at a review. of the North Glou-
cester Regiment, at Cirencester, last June. After
a short acquaintance the defendant wrote to'Mr.
Lovell, requesting leave to address his daughter
Charlotte, but met with a refusal. This, how.
ever, did not deter him ; lie followed her from
one place to another, and finally, having by !
falsely swearing that the young lady was of age,
and that he knew of no impediment, obtained a
license, he partly by force, and partly by persua-
sion, induced her to elope with him. .The mar-
riage, however, never took place. In consequence
of the death of the Rev; Archdeacon ‘Vills (some
time before this transaction), a near relation of
the Lovell Family, who was reported to have
left immense property, a rumour had gone
abroad that the plisses Lovell would have for-
tunes of thirty or thirty4ve thousand pounds.
'Phis the
WnhiEn he eaferrnidveadlil'iiitt 11-v,aosnM"wsrtdh' had heard.
the youue;
lady, he found that by marrying her with the
license, which he had procured, he should not
obtain col-hi-nand over her fortune, and he there_
fore placed her in lodgings, and catiaed banns to
be published. In the interval he ascertained
that the young lady's fortune was 1,0001. only,
and that not to be paid to her until she -was of )
age, and to revert to a relation in case of leer
death before that time. Upon this discovery-,
strange and unaccountable, the defendpat,t. de-
serted the unfortunate young lady, leaving her
in such a state, that when at length, her , father
found her, her clothes were detained by the land-
lady of the house, for.the payment of rent which
was due.--(Here a loud murmur of indignation
ran 'through the Court, but was immediately re-
pressed, with severe animadversions, by the
Learned Judge.)—Mr. Adolphus having, with
sonic further remarks, concluded his statement,
Messrs. Awn, anti ANDREWS took an objec-
tion to the form of the hitlictwt4, which was
argued at great length on both sides, and finally*
reserved by the 'Court for ,more mature consi-
deration.

The evidence having been
,gone through,
ALLEY was heard for the defendant. Verdict

The Court suspended
,judgment on the,do."-
'dant till' the. first day of the next Session, but ""
dered hint to enter into recognizances, himself in
2001. and two sureties in 100!. each, for hiS:•11"*
pearauce the. first day of ,next Session.

LONDON BRIM-JIM—It would seem, from the
examination of witnesses before the Committee
on the London Bridge, that the old bridge can-
not be patched up to stand much longer without
an expenditure nearly equal to a new bridge
that if attempted to be repaired it must be by e%"
perimental coffers to each arch, which will cost
each 18,0001., proceeding progressively with eacl,l
arch, and to these multiplied sums must be added
92,0001. besides the expenses of improvinz
two approaches. These sums will even in a!

probability exceed the cost of a new bridge, estl"
mated at. 430,0001. ; and if a new bridge be re;
solved oni- the approaches on a parallel rate of
expense will actually cost as much more—makillg
a sum little short of. 000,0001. The questio";
therefore is, whether it is most judicious flou
economical to expend 900,0001. in a new bridge/
or to hazard thu repair of the old bridge at a►l el"
pense not far shut of that same—(llan:la)

. , EIRTUS.
At .his seat in Perthshire, -Kilgarston-house, the 4'lll-aY °f
John Grant, Esq; of a deugliter.
' On 1171;:inu:tlay morning, Mrs. Clark, wife .of Mr. C.lar fit of
st
the Antelope, VI, hits Hart-yard, of a daughter, being •
chill aft-,:r a marriage 0f.17 years.

Yesterday, Richard. WilletA RR
t 1-ledes,
• 'MIED.
Esq., to Miss Charlote
Fentharn, youngest daughter of the late ThomaS Fentlial,
Esq., of the &rand. • •