The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-31 00:00:00

WADC V. BRAY.

The defendant is a clergyman residing at Tin-
angel; the plaintiff, who is a daughter of the for-
mer clergyman of that place, also resided there.
For several years a courtship was carried on.be-
tween the parties, which at one time had suffered
an inteernption, but on the solicitation-of.the de-
fendant, it was again renewed. This was in the
ear 1811, and the intimacy was continued until
the death of the defendant's father, in 1814, when
he became possessed of a property .worth ten or
twelve thousand pounds. •On this event taking
place, -the defendant discontinued his attentions
to the plaintiff, and in 1816 he married another
person. The plaintiff brought an action for da-
mages, end the defendant.allOwed judgment to go
hy-default.—Application was immediately made to
the Court of King's Bench,- on behalf of the
plaintiff, to have ,the damages, which were laid at
2,6001. assessed before the Jadge at the Assizes.
For this put pose a Jury, composed of respectable
householders in Launceston, was- empannelled.
Mr. Serjeant PELL-stated the plaintiff's case
Kith his usual ability ; iu the course of which the
Learned Serjeant read -a letter from the defendant
to the plaintiff, on which he commented to 'the
great amusement of the whole Court.
Mr. GASCLEE addressed the Jury. If the de-
fendant, he observed, hr.d broken his engagements
withlthe plaintiff, 'it was riot done through, ava-
rice, for he had married a:servant of his father's,
whom he bad deprived of respectability ; he was
sorry for his miacoaduct, and had endeavoured to
repair it.
The Learned 'Gentleman gas about to call his
witnesses';''Aen a compromise took -place, and a
verdict of 2001 damages was .entered by consent.

DU-EL.—A meeting •totik place' on Wingfield
Common, near IVindsor, on Tuesday last, be-
tween Lieutenant liavr, and T. A. 13nISTOW,- Esq.
of Firrney-hall, on the - Forest. The dispute
originated in an alleged insult by Mr. 13. to the
challenger's seroird. Two shots were exchanged,
and Mr. Hatsrow received a wound. The ball
did not lodge, and the wound is not dangerous.
Cotta STEALING.---Wednesilay afternoon, be-
tween three and four o'clock, the daughter of
Mrs. Susannah Bilks, of No. 2, Vinegar-yard,
Drury-lane, took out her little sister, an infant
four months old, to play ; they strolled as far as.
Parker-street, and• there met a man and woman
who pretended to be acqintinted with their pa-
rents. The woman took the child in her arms
from the girl, who is only nine years of age ; she
kissed the child, called her her pretty dear, and
gave the girl a penny to buy a cake for her. The
-hue,- ran and purchased the cakes, but at her re-
turn she could not tind the man, the woman, or
the child. She instantly ran home crying, and
told her mother of what had OCCIIIITAI ; the afflicted
mother, in a stare of distraction, alarmed the
neighbourhood. The beadles and constables were
also informed, and the Offenders instantly pursued,
but without avail. Since then every
inquiry has
been made, but no trace has been discovered of
the wretches. The poor mother is in a state of
distraction. The man was dressed in shabby black
clothes, and the woman in a straw bonnet,
trimmed with black ribbon, grey cloak, and her
hair crossed aver her forehead. The child was
dressed in a scarlet cloak. light-coloured frock,
and had a red mark upon her forehead.

SHOCKING SHICIDE.—An Inquisition was taken
last night at the Nag's Head, opposite Duke's-
place, Houndaditch, on the body of %Valiant
Brown, coachman to Mr. Alderman Thorpe, who
was found hanging in his master's stable-on Sa-.
turday afternoon.—Francis Weaver, coachman to
Mr.-Alderman Brydges, stated, that on Saturday
afternoon he went to the stables of Mr. Alder-
man Thorpe, and knocked at the door to call the
deceased to get his master's carriage ready ; he
found the door locked, and received no answer.
He suspected something had happened, and got
assistance and broke open the door, behind which
he found the deceased hanging from a beam. He
called a surgeon, who said the deceased had been
dead two hours. He had conversed with the de-
ceased several times during last week, when his
mind appeared Much deranged. Coroner.—Men-
don what he said, and .the Jury will judge whe-
ther or not such expressiobs indicated insanity.
Witness continued.—On Thursday last, the de-
ceased said, " You have no occasion to care how
you live, good or bad is all the same, for the
devil's dead, he and 1 agreed to meet to fight yes-
terday at twelve o'clock; we did meet, and I ran
hint through the body. I have sent a devil. to
IValthamstow, but he has used the poor vet), bad,
and when he returns I will discharge hits."--
Several other witnesses were examined ; the
evidence all tendril to prove the insanity of the
deceased. Verdict---." flanged himself in irate
. •
of insanity."