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country will go along wlthibem, whatever may he the issue.
With this watchfulnets on their part, her Majesty, if innocent,
need not entertain any fear that even the present corrnpt
Ministry can prevail- against her ; but if guilty, and her
guilt is clearly and satisfactorily proved to the perfect
"conviction of the independent Whig party of England. let
them boldly state., this conviction to the country, and it will
be satisfied.

have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's most obedient servant. •
AN OLD WHIG.

f*• The foregoing Letter was first published in The Morn-
'ing Chronicle of the .11th inst. and several of our Country
:Readers having heard of it, have desired that it might appear
in THE SUN. (bough we disapprove of some passages, yet
the Writer views the inquiry into the guilt or innocence of
Tue QUEEN in so clear A fight, and argues with so manly,
candid, and independent a spirit, that we readily insert it
intim We from the first eonoidered the inquiry as inevitable,
though we should have rejoiced if there had been a possibi-
lityi •
of averting t.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

STAFFORDSHIRE.
CRIM CON.

The Assizes were concluded by. a trial which
excited a great deal of interest amongst the most
respectable people .of that part of the country.
It was an action of damages brought by an emi-
nent .Solicitor against his apprentice, a young man
of very effeminate appearance but good euca-
tion and address, . whose age is little more than
twenty, for a criminal conversation with the
plaintiff's wife. The dainages were laid at ten
thousand pounds.
Mr. PEAnsorystated the case for the plaintiff,
who, he said, was well known in that part of the
country as a Gentleman of high honour and re-
spectability. Several years ago this Gentleman
was married to a young Lady of great beauty and
accomplishments, by whom he had a very nu-
merous family.. Most of the children unfortunately
were females ;.but it was not until lately that their
father had to regret that they were of that sex,
for until thedefendaut became an inmate, they; had
a mother to whose protection and examnple they
could look with confidence, and in whose solici-
tude they had seen the most undoubted evidence
of an attachment, not
,to be. destroyed .or di-
vided. The miserable change which had taken
place in the mind of the unhappy mother, by
which the connecting links .between mother and
child, and wife and husband, were broken, was
attributable to , a series of ingenious contrivances
by .the defendant, who, notwithStanding his
youth; had exhibited a maturity in those baneful
arts to which females in these days were so fre-
quently exposed, and which 'so ina47 had proved
themselves unable ..to resist. A few years
since the-defendant had been placed under the
care of the plaintiff, and had nearly served his
time, when it was discovered that there was an
attention upon his part towards 'the plaintiff's
wife, which was not reconcilable to the forms
that ought .to govern social intercourse. The
defendant was chargeable With the basest ingra-
titude, as well as with the offence which, of all
others, tended to rain the happiness of society.
lie had been treated with the greatest tenderness
while-a. boy by the plaintiff, who had gradually
raised him, as his years advanced, to a very high
and profitable station in his friendship. Bat there
were some minds upon which obligations ope-
rated to the disgrace of human nature, and it was
no novelty to find benefits reproached by the
immediate return of a train of 'evils-which seemed
to have grown out of the deepeSt sufferings: The
defendant took his rank amongst men of that de-
scription, and,it:was to mark their detestation of
Such an offence, as it would be proved lie had
committed, that the Jury were called upon, as
well as to give such damages as would recoth-
pence the injured husband for his loss.
'Several witnesses were then called, who prov-
ed that the plaintiff had always acted with atten-
tion to the defendant, and had introduced him to
the most respectable society. The plaintiff's at-
tention' to his wife was also stated to be such as
it would be the duty of a husband to'pay to
his wife. The ,adulterous intercourse was also
proved.
In the course of the trial, however, it came out
that the plaintiff had taken advantage of the
youth of a near female relation of his wife'R
while the young lady was upon a visit-at
.his
house, and seduced her. His wife's age was 38,
while that of the defendant was but 20.

Mr. JERvis commented upon the facts which
made so important a change in- the appearance of
things. He contended that the boy, whose cause
he had to defend, shouldbe Considered the seduced
instead of the seducer; that it was rather impossible
he should- be master of the deep, contrivances by
which the affections of a virtuous woman were to
be taken away from her husband and children,
and fixed upon a stranger, and that the conduct
of the husband was in truth :.o be looked 'upon
as the foundation of all thosecalarnitie's of which
that husband now complained in the depth of his
afflictions. The Learned Counsel than severely
animadverted upon the mischieVous'example held
out by this husband to his wife, in .his. treatment
of his wife's relation, and observed, that the mis-
fortune that formed the ground of the action
should4operate as a warning to all husbands who
were tempted to acts of infidelity, by having the
object of temptation under the same roof with
them.-7 Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages One
Shilling.

1-4121.-

COIINWALL ASSIZE ti, la.
MURDER.—Sarah Polgrean, aged 37, was ar-
raigned on an indictment, charging her with hav-
ing administered arsenic to her husband, Henry
Polgrean, on the loth of July last, of which he
died on the isth.

The JunoE recapitulated the evidence with
great precision ; and the Jury without hesitation
pronounced a verdict of Guilty.
Ilis Lordship then proceeded tapass the awful
sentence of the law, and ordered the prisoner to
be executed on Saturday morning, and her body
to be given for dissection.
The wretched prisoner was so greatly over-
whelmed by her dreadful fate; that she was ob-
liged to be supported during the time sentence
was passing, and was carried back to prison in a
state of insensibility.