The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-03 00:00:00

LAW .REPOR7'.

COURT (Y KING'S 14ENCI-1, Ituy 2.

A person o the name of Mullett exhibited arti-
ot the peace against her husband for cruelty to-
wqrcig her. By t..e ;Irides it appeared that her
hosband was a straw- hat-manufanurer. That she
wa4 married in the year 1806, and that he had been
uilty various and repeated acts Of severity.
• The Court direfied that he should find sureties
for keeping the peace.

BREACH OF eROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

BLANDY V. Tomumox.

Mr. GAR now considered the Present anion as one
which called for very serious damages. It was pain-
ful !hat circumstances of such a nature as h.e was
abou to disclose, should ever occur ; but when they
rld, it was the duty;, as it was the praise and practice
of a British Jury, to punish an offence severely, thas
which there could be few more afilivciing to the in-
jured person, or more deserving of punishment: The
story was short and plain : the defendant, an En-
waver, in a respeilable line, paid his addresses to
Miss Anne Blandy, the daughter of a respe6table
tradesman, in Bloomsbury-market, and his ad-
dresses were received. He followed up the matter,
and in the course of it, wrote a series of love-epistles,
-very fine and very 'nauseous ; full of love and full
of folly. •He (Mr. Garrow) would read some of
them, irj which the defendant opened his proposals
some, which tasked of the banns ; some of the
wedding dinner and the • wedding clothes it yet;
while matters were thus going on, the lover sudden-
ly started oft, and found out, as his reason, that
Miss Blandy's father would . not. give him a house
which was then part of his property. It was trou-
blesome and disgusting to drawl over the vulgar
epistles which issued from this tardy lover ; but the
Jury should blear them, and hear the defendant, -in
them, admitting himself to be infamous and a scoun-
drel for his conduel. There were some points on
which he (Mr. G.) was fully disposed to agree with
the defendant, anri.irecertainly would not venture to
contradia the Gentleman's own assertion in the pre-
sent instance. This was all of course deeply painful to
the young girl of eighteen, whom he had addressed.
She was in a certain degree blOwn upon by this
ie-jeai ion, and so far a girl might and must be,
seriously injured. But she might not in all cases be
able to withdraw her affeaions so suddenly, and the
injury might be irreparable. The lover forgot the
house at length, and reMembered the lady. He re-
turned, and was receive-rid The wedding-clothes
. were bought, the dinner was ordered, but when his
bride was waiting for him, this .faittiless one disap-
peared. The .present excuse was - singular. fle
was no longer mercenary ; be was the very quin-
teSsence of humility. The poor girl, whom he
had so cruelly insulted, was now a goddess,
an angd, something too good for him, or for
any one erne. A. man of his humble attainments
Could not think of soaring to the superior excellence
of Miss Ann Blandy, the daughter of an honest
poulterer in Bloomsbury-market ; but this explana-
tion was not quite satistatiory. to the girl's friends ;
they htsis,r:d on an esplanation, and he at length
acknee !edged that he had heard some atonic of
her !seeping irregular company, or esren publicly as-
:meta' ing with public prostri9tztf. After some further
I,b-ervatioDs, Mr. GAELUOW said, that the letters
which he could now baud to the proper officer of
the Court to be. read, woul I be the best evidence of
the low and vulgar f: cling with which the de-
fendant t ad been actuated, and of the cold-blooded
injwy Inch he had meditated against the'plaintff
in this cause.

Sir Richard Phillips, in whose service the defend-
ant worked as an engraver, was called on to prove
the hand-writing of the letters, but he could not re-
conea the hand. 'Mr. GARROW did not press the
evidence farther.

The letter were proved by Mr. Vincent, and read
as follows :

Odober 25th, OW.

" My own dear Ann.—lt•it my 'chief and only wish to put
every doubt to rest on the subject.of our marriage ; and for
the purpose of justifying your choice of me, I hereby so_
temuly declare, that I will make you my wedded wife be-
fore the eat of the year, and till then ! 'oust be your true and
loving sweetheart.—Yours, ever and ever,

J. "romuNsoN.

• A few more letters were read, full of hopes and
fears, and disappointments, and filially announcing
the utter rojeBion .of the match.

Several witnesses were then called to prove the
circumstances of the case, as disclosed in the state-
ments of Counsel.

For the defendant, Mr. Puu called a neison of
the name of Broume, Who hid lodged in Blandy's
l: use , and given 'he defendant the intelligence
which trade him break off the mitch.

This witness stated, that Miss _Ann Blandy was
heard to say that she did not care a damn for Tom-
;' and that now, since she was to be married,
she'd drink wine v, hen the b-s, her sisters,would
only have uater. He had also found\her reading
some grossly indecent books. Another witness,
-.vho had married the plaintiff's sister, deposed that
he had seen her walking with a woman of loose
charat'ter, and allutvirg indelicate freedoms with her
person.
_

Lord ELLENBOROUGH recommended, out of com-
passion toh,th parties, that a j,ror should be with-
drawn, which %as done accordingly.

Pressed as die Turkish Empire is from without by
the Russians, to arrest whose progress the whole of
her tbrce seems to be necessary, her Government
has found it incumbent to -aft with extraordinary
vigour in Syria, by detaching a considerable body of
troops against the Wechabites. These robbers have
for some time retained possession of Medina and
Mecca, and obstructed the Mussulmen in the exe-
cution of a 'religious duty, namely, that of visiting
those holy cities once at least in their lives. This'
ircumstance has occasioned great indignation, and
ri,d complaints among all classes, whi:.:l) have de-
rived additional force by the representations of the
Mahommedln doctors. The Government yielding
to the general wish, and desirous perhaps of acquir-
ing some little popularity,. hay • undertaken the ex-
pukion of the Weehabitei from those cities.