Star.
London, England, 1806-06-30 00:00:00

N4llricAL INTELLIGIiiCR.

FALMOUTH, JUNG 37 —Yeperch), arrived the Da.
nifh brig Anna Margaretra, PlTaasnr, from Tene
rifle, bound to Toriningen, laden with coffee and
fugar, detained by the Eliza privateer, of Liverpool;
American brig Eliza, HALLOWELL. from New Pro-
vidence. bound to the Texel, laden with tea, nan-
keens. and tobacco, detained by the HARI. a quin hired
armed Chip; Eleanor, MAMAS. from Plymouth,
and Mary Ann, W , from Liverpool. Sided
to-day the HARLI.VIN armed flip, and Ca unfit
privateer on a croize ; FledAtiC2, MAN KIE, for Al-
tona, and Young Samuel, &imam. for St. lye's.
Ptvranura, Jumx 36 —Came in the Danilh fhip
Speculation, Captain SCNOLLAt, from Boordeaux. to
Tonningen, laden with wine ; Danilh (hip Enigheten,
Captain KoLatiao, from Bourdeaux, to Tonningen,
laden with wine'; Danilh (hip Griede Hat fight, Cap.
tain Flamm:, from Bourdeaux, to Elfinear, laden
with wine and brandy ; Danilh (hip Fortuna, Captain
Lama, from Bourdeaux, to Copenhagen, laden with
wine and brandy; Danins (hip Providentia, Captain
Nesteor, from Boutdeaux, to Copenhagen, laden
with wine and brandy, all detained by the Trafalgar
privateer: American (hip Difparch, Captain RAMS-
DILI., from Philadelphia, bound to Bremen. laden
with tea, coffee, and fugar, detained by the Vire"
cutter ; Dana': (tip Concordia. Captain. Hats a, from
Bourdeaux, to Tonningen, laden with wine, detained
by the Indefatigable privateer. Sailed the Endeavour,
of so guns. with a fleet of coafters, to the we award.
Poaramoutse, Julia s9.—Arrived yellerdat the
Vacua frigate, Captain WATSON, and the FURY
bomb, Captain Slaat.a, with • convoy of Well In.
diamea and Cattier', from the Downs; and the
HARDY gun brig, from a cruise ; alto to day the Am r
fchooner, from a cruise.—Sailed yeßerday the Lao.
raan, of so guns, Captain RACIOSTT, with difpatches
for Halifax. having General HODGSON on board, a
paffenger for Bermuda; the EXPLOSION bomb to.
day for the Downs; and the Anvils, H , for
Tonningen; and Underneihming, Kirin, for Am.
Iletdam. Arrived the Jane tranfport, Capt. Is.cs,
lions Jamaica.
Cows,, Jura 29.—Arrived the Atlas, Hams,
from Jamaica, bound to Hull, one of the difperfed
convoy; alto the American (hip Confiellation, from
Amfterdam, bound to China. Sailed the American
brig Mary, Fusiza mailer, from Charleflon for Bre•
men, with coffee, fugar, and rum. Several regular
tranfports are arrived at Cowes from Jamaica with
invalids. difcharged by his Excellency Sir Eras
Coor e.—When the (hips failed the Wand was pretty
healthy.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF RING% BENCH, JUNE a.

21,DUCTI011.--HARRIS O. C1.11.1214T 22100 t,
This was an attion brought by a father again his
daughter's Seducer, to recover a compenfation in
damages for the injury he had futtained in the lois
of her fervices, the having become pregnant.'
Sir VICARY Glass, on behalf of the Plaintiff, ad•
dreffed the Jury in an eloquent and impreffive tPxttch.
He Paid he appealed to them as fathers, in behalf of
a patent whole hopes in his only daughter had been
deflroyed, and the remainder of his life rendered a
burthen to him, by the arts and feduCtive influence of
one whole education and fphere of life Mould have
polliffed him with better morals. The Plaintiff was
a butcher and little farmer, at the town of Ragland,'
in Monmouthlhire, and had but one Con, and one
daughter, in whom were centered all the comforts
and happinefs of his old age, and a more virtuous,
well concluded girl, did not exit. The Defendant
was a gentleman of confiderable property, the fon of
the late Sir John Briggs, and refided with his mother,
Lady Briggs, in the fame neighbourhood. The
daughter of the Plaintiff, at the time the Defendant
became acquainted with her, which was in confe-
quence of his employing the father in fume agricul
toral concerns, was between feventeen and eighteen
years of age, of correft morals, and of an unfuf.
petting difpotition. The Defendant frequently
came to her father's houfe, and in the courfe of
time an intimacy grew up between them. One
day, in the month of December, 1803, She was
fort by her father to a neighbouring market, and
the Defendant obtaining knowledge of the fall,
met her in her way h:tme in the evening. It was
neatly cluflt, and he offered to fee her home, obfery
ing that it was improper the Should walk by herfelf.
She contented to his acct-tmpanying her, and leading
her from the public high road into a rdired lane, he
prevailed over her virtue, and effeBed that ruin which
the Plaintiff c mplained of. The Defendant faw her
frequently afterwards, and the bonds of virtue once
feparated, he made an eafy and willing conquefl of
her perfon. The confequence was, that the gill grew
with child, and her maternal parent finding it out,
the father turned her from his hon.e ; and, in the bit
mulct's of grief and chfappointment, vented a curie
upon the head of his child. But as the affeftions of
a parent for a beloved child will prevail over every
other feeling, be retrafted his curie, and again re.
ceived her to his bt-tfum, in the hopes of ref-cuing her
from future violation. Not Satisfied with the ruin of
the daughter, the Defendant threw out afperfions
againfi the unhappy parent's charafter, and 'Milked
, him by letters, offering pecuniary atenement for the
wrongs he had committed, exprefling a hope that they
might be on as friendly terms as ever. To the girl her.
fell he wrote, flandering her parents, endeavouring to
perfuade her not to attend to their admonitions or ad
vice, and enticing her again to forfake the paths of vin.
tue. The plaintiff was inflexible, and the yotung woman
went to the houfe of her aunt, where the was deliver-
ed of a dead child, the Defendant undertaking to pay
half a guinea a week during her confinement, to this
their common friend. But the gitl, deftrous of re.
trieving her former gond charader, and anxious once
more to gain the affeeinn of her father, refuted all
further conneftion with the Defendant, and intreated
that he would dircontinue his dithonout able import u.
nities. This fo ditpleafed the Defendant, that he
aftually put the poor gill to the difgrace of making
an oath of affiliation in the pretence of a Magillrate,
before he would pay the fin pittance h.: had agreed
to give the aunt for flipporting her doling ter con•
fioement. The Plaintiff, after a time, and at the
yolicitations of her mother, took back his daughter.
and brought this atter n for the injury Imi:6m-el in his
domestic comforts. The Learned Courffel akr,ain ap-
pealed to the Jury as l'lllhetSl and regretted that the

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Le/Mature had not inside h ethninal fir a man
darn, the peace end happinefs of a family in the
way he had defcribeyl ; hut, he laid, if they were
already Mocked at the Defendant's they
would be mare CI, when he told them that the De-
fendant had infulted the win he had occafi,ned,
fence the anion had been brought. The Rid w.a
waiting with the other witneffe.., in a neighhottring-
coffee.houfe. near Wel'mintier hall, nn Thurfday fall,
when the Defendant went up to f.er, and, in the pre-
f. nee and hearing of her father and of many Ilranger,,
demanded a fort of cnnverfation with her, nhferelng.
" that he had kept het, and furely had a righ• to
feta to a woman he had had a child by." He
tinned that fait would weigh with the Jet- y a, an ag-
gravation of the Defendant's conduit, and increafe
that: damages the Plaintiff demanded at their hands,
and which was the only remedy the law had pcitael
out, to meet fo ferinus and dial-eft:l4- an hints.
On the part of the Plaintiff. Elia theth 11.11rIS,
his only daughter, furore, that abut four year. .os,
the Defendant came to refide at Ragland, and h ising
employed her father about Inms buildings he was
erelling, he had frequent opportunities of teeing her,
but never paid her any partici:far attention before -
het parents. She was then abtoit eighteen years of
age. In the month of December, as (he was
returning from market, about fie ,-'cln-lc in the even.
ing, (he met the Deendani, who alked her what kept
her out fo late ? adding, that her falter was rine
home before her. He then perfuaded her to turn
into a byeanad with him, where he took indecent
liberties with her; and, in (hart, effeiled his purport..
They bad frequent oppratunities.ffeeing each other
afterwards, particularly on Satin-dam when her fa-
ther and mother went to mat get ; and, upon thefe
occafinns, a familiar ureter-urfe took place. There
interviews continued for upwards of fisteen months,
when the became pregnant, and near lying ins when
her mother difcovered ir, and the was removed to her
aunt's, about half a mile ditlant, where, after remain.
ing abcut three weeks, (be was brought to bed of *
dead child. It had been previnufly agreed, that the
Defendant was to pay half a guinea per week to her
annt for attending her, but this he afterwards de.
dined drain;, till the (hould (wear before a Magiitrate
that the child was his. Her father afterwards took
her home, on condition that the never would fee the
Defendant again. She had fence met him, but never
had.any conneEth n with him from that time.
On her croft examination it appeared, that the
Defendant had not nfed any force or flratagens to
gain her affeCtions ; but after a little perfuati .n he
prevailed on her. They had fregnent meetings in
the fields, at her father'., and elfewhere, during
thefe fifteen months : when fhe returned to her fa.
ther's, the again law the Defendant twice by appoint-
ment in the fields, and was to have met him once at
the coney of one Bet. Powell, but he thought her
father might know it, and they did not meet there.
Nothing improper occurred on thefe occafions.
It further appeared, that upwards of a year had
elapfed after thie, when one Griffiths, a neighbour,
brought an aBion againft her father for defamation,
and the Defendant was examined as a witnefs for the
.Plaintiff, and on his crofs.examination was pleninned
"to her feduilion. In a fortnight after that trial,
the prefent saints was brought. It alto appeared,
that the girl, with other witnelfes, was waiting in Oh.
ver's Coffee Houfe, on Thurfday lilt. when the De-
fendant came in, afked her how (he did ? and talked
to the neighbours familiarly, &c. but when a young
man, who was with them, reniondrated with him for
(peaking to the witneffes, he replies!, that he had a
right to (peak to women of the town, he had a child
by that girl (pointing to thawitnef.), and had kept her.
It alfo appeared, that before and tutee the above
tranfaCtion, the girl's charafter had been perfeely cot.
reet, and her morals unimpeached, except in this af-
fair ; and that the conduit of the Defendant, through.
out the whole amour, appeared to be wanting in de-
licacy and confideration towards the credulous girl.
Mr. Gautow, who ccnduf)ed the defence, con-
tended, that lurching like fedurgion had been proved,
and that a father could lofe but few is front a
daughter, whole virtue was of In (lender a fabric, that
it would yield to the firtt improper overtures of
man, in a way, and in a place, ouch as had been de-
lcribed—a fait which, he believed, it would be Amid
impedEble to ettablith againit thole ant
who nightly infell then:eels of the me-c As to
the Defendant's recent conduit ar the Coffee Houle,
it did not make part of the cafe, it might be faid jo.
entity, after the parties had travelled up from Mon.
mouth, and met together as delcribed. But the mo-
tive of the Plaintiff for bringing the metrs, was not
the lots of comforts in his daughter, hut in conic-
quenee of the Defendant's having given evidence
against him for calumniating one his neighbourv.
The aCti-n was not brought till aver that trial, and
wasfirstens wow& after he had loft the let vice. of his
daughter.
Lord E LLLLL nRut.tCH. after explaining the law
upon the cafe, laid, the prefent tranittaion was ft•os•
ped of many of tliote aggravating circumftan
which generally attended alv tlematic fednition. It
did not appear that the Defendant had been very ur-
gent in his profeltions, or that he had an, greet de.
gree of moral reltraint to overcome. He met the
young woman in a public highway, and !oriented to
accompany her into a lane. She atiott,-d, cone hack
in a quarter of an hour, and rent' ned home. The la-
ther, however, was unconfci us of hie daughter's
yielding virtue, and had been dept ived oilier let vices,
to hts great ii•jtiry and dillrefs of mind. The lifeless.
dant too had difgraced the girl, by obliging her to
make oath of the affiliati.n, before he vr told content
to pay the mil .table pittance ire had agreed to blmStith
her with, to pay the expences of her icing ih. He
had alto ltrr.ve to irritate the feelings of the parent he
had wronged, by publifhing hi, daughter's disgrace
in a ceffee.room. He Ihooild have recolleited, that
he it was who (educed hes incauti us orate, and
rtvide her what the war. n the whole, rh .ugh
nvo lelrcram..a oe
the grituir.sgevni,tgpurenfeffi ,
yetose
ithch.d ben made to
come,
,rsofae
P;aintdi had been invaded, hit, happ.nel. brr,ke in up.

Ott: and the hopes he enterbiineii in his daughter,
ruined and Jenroyed for ever. Jury, therriere.

under ell there corentnitances. would exert proper
moral feelings upon the c 41e. and give loch teen, able
damages to ihe father, as they flsoild confider a inf.
ticicnt cf,mpenfatfon for :he injury he had full:tined.
The Jury c oilfired a few minutes, and returned •
verdlif for the Pleisitiff-.4)ainage. Akre, liaLlted
['twat.

$•/OR INT E L LIGE CS.
;
BIBURY MEETING, THURSDAY, JUNE 25.,
Sir H. Lippincott% Slate, toil. 2111. beat Lord F.
r, 911. 21b. two miles. 25gr.
L0r..1 F. Bentiock's Bagatelle, 54. 61b. beat Loud
• lack v ille% Enchanter, t011.41b. Two Milts, sogs
. Fifty Pounds, by Horfes of all denominational Heath
New Mile. •
McDoiseltes Meat, tIR. S. 3 s I'
Mr. Lindow's La Manilla, r tit. 3 I lis
Mr Howarth's Norval, 10a. t sib. " • 4 • a
H. R. H. the P. of Wakes Pedefklati. soft. alb. 0 t 0 3
of St. Albaa's b. m by Yowl EeUrre. tat. 4 dr.
The Barrington Stakes of rigs. each, t,gs. ft. for all
Ages.
Sir H. Lippincott's Slate, 6yrs old, walked over.
Mr. Hnworth's Langlion, toll. 31b. ree. fc.. from
1 Mr. Stratton's Witchcraft, by Oberon, 9Q. t tlb.
Two miles, sags. h. ft.

At two o'clock in the afternoon of F-itlay left, Ike I
inhabitants of a very large double hoof's in Skinner's-
fireet,• Shoreditch, heard a cralh, accompanied by a
(mall Mock of the honk. Sane workmen were pro
cured, who More,' it up, and the people thought
themfelves fafe, until about eight in the evening,
when a fecund noire was heard, and a fecund thoilt
felt. The lodgers in the haute were then alarmed,
and ahoot 30 of them got clear off the piemife,.—
One Thomas Mails, a carman, and Ann his wife,
Slag Horn, a girl about 16 years of age. an ac-
qualentince of their's who-happened to be in the bottle
at the time, a wort.° of the name of Givers, and a
man who went into the houCe to affift Mails in carry-
ing off part of his property, were in the houfe at
half after eight, when it tell to the ground, and
brought two of the adjoining houtes.whh it. At eleven
at night the bodies were dug out of the ruins ; J.
Mails and the young girl were cruffied to death, Ito
the other three, though feverely bruited, were taken
out alive, and are likely to recover. The wife of
the man who was killed, could hear her hufband in
the ruicte.--theyfpoke and prayed together for Come
time, at laG he took his farewell of her as well a'
their flotation would admit, bid her take care of hi.
child, and then died. Their boy was then playing
shout the Ilreets. There was a moll curious intlance
of the initiative fidelity of dogs obferved on dig
ging is the noun; a dog was foetid alive clot.: by
the fidepf the girl who was killed, and when there
• was room for him to get nut, the labourers elide&
vowed to pull him away from the frit, but he would
not leave it until the body of the girl was taken up,
which he followed to the war khoufe. The hour's
have been condemned come time, and the Skinner's
Company intended to rebuild the entire area, bet
poor people occupied it in the mean while on ac
count of the chearnefs of the tent. Many of them
are in the moll deplorable fituations, having 101 l ali
their little property, furniture, looms, &c. in the ruins.
A very difirefling occurrence took placebo Satin:
day afternoon, •in Hyde Park. As Thomas Goodall,
a private in Lord Killington's Regiment of Life
Girard% was walking on the South fide of the Ser-
pentine River, about half paft three o'clock, he ob-
(creed on the oppotite fide a man and a boy in a gig,
daswn (as it afterwards appeared) by a grey snare,.
coming along the road near the Serpentine River, as
if from the Powder Magazine ; and when they
reached the north corner, nearell Grofvenor Gate,
the man drove into the river, with an intention of
giving the mare water. The animal at firs refuted,
and exhibited a femptorn of reltatance, by backing,
(hying, &c. but being violently whipt by the Gentleman
who was driving, and was anxious to cure the animal
of (hying, Bce. the mare plunged forward, and al.
moll initantanspufly funk, together with the chaife.
The man jumped nut on the ore' fide, and the boy on
the near. Goodall run round with all poffible cele-
rity, and, with the aloft laudable promptitude, daffi-
est into the river. At this time the man was alter-
nately riling and finking. Goodall caught hold of
his hair, and fucceeded in dragging him feveral
yards towards the (bore ; but the boy in convulfive
agony, clung round his right leg, and fo encumbered
him, that they all three went under water. The (ol-
die, was fo exhaulled with the exertions lie had made,
that it. was with the greateft difficulty he could ex-
tricate himfelf from the unfortunate ruff who
immediately funk, and had not the boat opportunely
arrived, Goodall himfelf would inevitably have been
drowned. The drag was then thrown, which
brought out the chaife and mare, the latter quite
dead and much (welled. It was near fix o'clock
before the man and boy were found The bodies
vete then carried to the receiving hoirfe of the Hu-
mane Society ; the ufual remedies were applied, but
firm the long period which had elapfed fince the ac-
cident, the vital fpark was totally estinEt. The
wretched fufferers were identified to be Mr. Molton,
formerly a Captain in the aid Light Dragoons, but
who, lince refigning his commillion in die army, kept
livery flables in Kentington, and has left a wife and
four childten ; the boy, named Street, was the fon
of a poor widow at Kenfington, who has four chi'.
dren halides.
A few minutes after this accident, the hody of a
young woman, about the ago of ax, which had been
driturbcd by the drag, was feen and was
brought to throe ; the was of 3 fair crnipletion, dark
Lair, black velvet ribbon bound 1,,ti,u1 her he...d. a
plain fitif_o embroidered white (ilk nor: flogs, Spanifh
leather (hoes, dark cotton gown, and black cloth
fpenctr ; the had in her poffefflon, one pocket hand-
• kerchief containing two Millings, two halfpence, a
thimble, and a letter, which did not fignify any other
purport than inform Ile had been a fers ant at Ken
fington; of the name of Sarah Collins; every effort
was made ale of for her recovery to no eurpofe,
for according to appearance, Me been feverish
days in the River.—There was a young man near the
' (pat when the body was taken •ue of the River, who
appeased very much affected, and rather interefled.
The man, woman, and boy mere taken to St. George's
Workhoufe, Mount•fireer, in order to be owned.
Preeifely at the (not where chi, unfortunate -acci-
dent happened, a groom of Lrod Gaosessoa's loft
his life about ten years fince. The place is dangerous
and deceitful ; for about four yards, the water is (bal.
low, arid then, without any gradual defeent, there is
a guiph upwards of fifteen feet deep. It mull nccafion
furprise that, notwithflanding the above warrrhig, lo
dreadful a vtat<c is not railed off, or at leaft a board
affixed, to warn the iocautiourpoienger of his danger,

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