The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-02 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 31.

JIegNETTS V. AUviASY.

This was An. action for 15/. Ss., being the sum alleged
by the plaintiffs, who keep a boarding school at Brook -
green, to be due to them for the board and education of a
daughter of the defendant, at the rate of 251. per annum.
Mr. Pottoci, for the plaintiffs, to-make out his case,
called Mes.• Jerinett, who proved that the money was
justly due. This lady was closely cross-examined by Mr.
THISSIGER for the.defendant, in order to show that she
was at the head of the establishment, and ought to have'
been a plaintiff before the action could be sustained. She
denied, however, that she had any concern with.the„sehool,
which belonged solely to her daughters.
A person of the name of M'Cormick; who called himself
an engraver and printer,•stated tint he had, at the defend-
ant's desire, gone twice to the school at Brook-green, and
learnt from Mrs. Jennett that she was a partner in the
concern.

Mr. Pot,Lock animadverted severely on this mode of
proeeedingi.and asked the witness hvi., long it was since
he had taken up this li a
• Lie tr,
....spionage. The
lady denied pasitrvel, itasrl.,
,:t.o this man
that she hid a share in the concern, and it was for the Jut y
to say to which of the two witnesses they would give credit.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Fifteen pounds eight shillings.

GRIENLAND V. DTE/t.

Mr. CAMPBELL, for the plaintiff, stated, that it was au
action upon a-. bill of exchange for 85/. lbs. 3d., and then
put in the bill, and proved it in the usual way.
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Verdict for the plaintiff f0r.85/. 15s. 3d. with leave to
Mr. chitty to move the Court•for a Nonsuit.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 31.
Lan' u. S3l ITII.
This action was brought to recover damages for false
arrest and imprisonment. The defendant keeps a kicking-.
house at No. 10, Upper Park-place. The plaintiff is a young
woman, who had for some time lodged with her sister at the
defendant's house. It had been , usual to have a light at
night upon the, landing-place up stairs, for the convenience
of the lodgers; blitthis indulgence the landlord had thought
fit to remove. .On the 19th. of February last, the plaintiff
and her sister went out with another young woman to
spend the evening with a Mrs. Nixon, who resides very
near Smith's house. In going Miss Lait too': a candle of
her own, in a brass eandlestiar•Of the defendant's, for the
purpose of having a light at her return, as the defendant
would not allow one to remain upon the staircase. The
young woman hid only proceededs short distance, when
Smith followed them, and charged Miss Lait with having
some of his'property. She said she had a candlestick, and
stated the object for which she carried it. He, however,
insisted on having is hack, and it was accordingly de-
livered to him. The young women proceeded to their
party, and returned home about •11 o'clock, accompanied
by the daughter of the lady at whose house they had spent
the evening. On approaching the door of Smith's house
they found him in the street with a couple of watchman.
to whom Sinith gave Mies Lait in custody upon the charge
of felony. 'The young woman fainted, sod her sister went
into hysterics. The plaintiff was, notwithstanding, car-
ried at Seiith'atinstance, to the watch-house at Marylehone,
where the constable remonstrated against giving the young
woman• in custixly upon a 'charge- of felony, of which it
wrists unlikely that she should' he guilty. Smith, hew-
ever; persevered, insisting that she should be locked up all
night, although respectable bail was offered for her appear-
ance. ' Nott morning she was taken before Mr. Rawlin-
sOn, the Magistrate, by whom she was immediately dis-
4:barged.
Mr. Sergeant WiLoz called witnesses who proved all
these facts very distinctly.
The Jury, after a few-minutes' consultation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff..-. Damages tio!.

SHERIFFS'-'COURT.—Mai SI.
MAJOJIL LINDItaM V. nEv. IL. VALLOCK, CLERK.
This was a writ to assess tbe damages in an action for
crim. con. which the defendant had allowed to go by de-
fault against him.
Mr. Broughams, Mr. Sergeant Merewether, and Mr.
Comyn, appeared for the plaintiff; but there was no
Counsel for the defendant. A. solicitor, we believe, attended
to watch the proceedings in his behalf, but be declined
cross-examining the witnesses, or otherwise taking an
active part in the proceedings.
Mr. COMYN opened the pleadings. The &images were
laid at 10,0001.

Mr. BROUGHAM began by observing that this case, in
the afflicting nature of its circumstances, exceeded almost
any other that he ever knew. The gentleman that be bad
the honour of representing was Major Lindbam, a gallant
and honourable officer in the service of his Majesty,
and who, he believed, had gone through most of the
dangers and the difficulties of the last war in which
this country had been engaged ; not only haying served
during the Peninsular war, but having been left for dead at
the battle of Waterloo. The Major had come home with
all those honours attendant on such a participation id war-
fare, with the approbation of his Sovereign, as expressed
by the elevation of his rank, and with the knighthood of
the Guelphic Order attached to his name, having belonged
to the German Legion. Two years after the termination
of the war, lie had become acquainted with the lady,
whom he afterwards married, and whose conduct was so
intimately connected with the present inquiry ; she was
the daughter of a Mr. Cocker, who, as many of the Jury
might. probably know, had been a most respectable solici-
tor, residing at the west end of the town. Miss Cocker,
as he understood, was a young lady of considerable per-
sonal charms and accomplishments, and at the time of her
marriage with the plaintiff was 23, he being 27. After
paying his addresses to her for some months with the en-
tire approbation of her father, the plaintiff was at length
married to her in September, 1817. Seldom bad there
been more happiness enjoyed by any couple than by this;
in addition to the approbation of all relations, they ap-
peared to have entertained the most ardent affection for
each other, till within a short time of their final sepa-
ration ; his former devotion to his Sovereign and his
country had not been more ardent than his affection
then was for his wife. Owing to ill health the
lady bad removed to Buckinghamshire, and further
change of air being deemed advisable, they went
to the South of France for a considerable period,
where her health was thought to be entirely re-established,
and they consequently returned to this country, taking up
their abode in Devonshire, residing in 1825 at Teignnaoutb,
and removing early in March, 1826, to the parish of Tor,
in the neighbourhood of Torquay : of this parish the de-
fendant was Clergyman, and here it was that they first be-
came acquainted ; the defendant was a man of very con-
siderable talent and information, and likewise of great ac-
complishments; generally speaking, be was also, as the
Jury would be apprized, a man of more than ordinary
pretensions to purity of conduct—and to pretensions, per-
haps, still greater (though more unfounded they could not
be)—to extraordinary zeal and piety : in fact, the whole of
his demeanour, as to morals and religion, was such as to
give every one who came within the scope of his attentions
the most implicit confidence in his right feeling. Major
Lindham was himself a religious man, and brought up his
family in the fear of God ; he was therefore naturally at-
tracted by the morality of the defendant's behaviour, and
by the elegance of his manners, and his religious accom-
plishments : besides which, being Minister of the parish
in which the plaintiff resided, it was most natural that an
intimacy should grow between the parties. Accidental cir-
cuinstanceshaa increased that intimacy still further—for in-
stance,
it happened that the defendant came some distance
to perform service, and it therefore was natural that he
should make the Major'; Louse his resting place between
the morning and evening service. 'Another of these cir-
cumstances was, that the Major took a house that belonged
to the defendant's father, on the understanding that he was
to make some additions to it ; and as the defendant had
some taste for architecture, he superintended the whole of
long on that
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the alterations and improvements, which, of course,
brought him into, still closer contact with the family of the
to chew how the seduction of the lady took place, step by
plaintiff. Another circumstance, he might also mention,
step ; and that was, that her unmarried sister was at that
timefe n ldiavinntg waswit paying them,ying his
generally supposed
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Lindham had continued innocent, at what time the seduc-
tione and
miitdavresases ge
had begun, and at what time the defendant had ac-
complished his wicked purpose, it , was impossible to tell—
these circumstances were knOwn only to these who could
not be called as witnesses, and, th&efore, they must still
remain unknown. This, however, they did know—that
for a considerable time before the lady finally left her
home, and accompanied the defendant to the Conti-