Star.
London, England, 1804-02-23 00:00:00

PS.9.

Hr. 'Meagan Lae sot yet failed, sad I. am truly
concerned to Batt. that Helms is not better.
His MAMMY'S
rut has ceder bong
fenfstion of grief and here. sad I &could deny
my own feeling, and reader Welke to there of the
public. if I omitted to nseadotibe circuetheace. I
tarneriagniTi_ your nest publication will announce
Afro io a late of recovery.
%gra. Terry, who warts:Aare bees emoted this
day; according to -his fawn, at the New Prins,
foe linpsllloing; beso.refpned fora week.
The ytigDer lately !melted is the Interior, and
sraafasitted to Dahlia, is found to be a Dane, and in
this. country with so other viet/ than the parfait of
his.profethoo of a dentill.
The Poi boy conveying the man from Newt to
Merlat.hin, was murdered on Wednefday the tlith
in& Atha*. the hour of one o'clock is the aftweers
near-Lenity*, by come Woe or pukes =known,
who roblosid.> lei of the whiles( the email, ceotaiaing
the bags of lents% for the fullesdag towns, viz. Ar-
magh. Market hill, Riels.bsik,Cockilown, Wakens.
felt, Stewartflown, Dungannon, Moneymore. Tab.
befauxe, Urea, Moy. Tynan. A reward of sod.
is offered for the appsehenlioa of the Parties.

ii. ADDINGTON had an interview with Lord Sr.
Vracss, yefterday at his houfe in the Admiralty.
ThaDube sad Michels of bfseasosouon have
arrived is woo at their bade in Pall Mall.
The Receiver Cenentlflip of the Duchy of Corn-
wan, lately fo honourably bellowed on Mr. Semi.
eel by the Prince of Wats', is worth about stool.
per swum.
A tool. Bank note was, aura litany dueller
donations, found in the Charity Box of the loyal
Edinburgh TairmarYlately.
Three paper natonfafturers have been fenteaced
by the Coon of Ezebeetocr to pay the fines of wool.
Hod. aced toool, for sot rendering a jud account
of paper mtheir pollees.
•Aoesediag to a account probated to the Hank
of Common*, the produce of the permanent taxes
for the yew maim_ g the ph Janitor, lad, was
Loa,roagyL sag. opt. Infidel' the war tax of tilos,
"to 1,874.6ye1. as. t dd. making aboge•
(ether she fun of 35.5854191• sp. id.
Sy the Abated of the flubdivifies R.dls, returned
wader the Defeats Aft, to the ditteTAUT of STOWS
011 es, and laid before the Hoofs of Comments, it

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On Saturday the rids int- died, after a few days
inners, at his feat at Port Eliot, in Comma in the
Will year of his age. the Right Honourable Eswean
Cattoos Lord Um?, Baron of Bt. German's. A
nobleman, whole elegance of matinees. reined tab%
wad brilliant wit. rendered him the ornament and
admiration of fociety ; and whole kindnefs. hofpiudity,
and be:invoking to hie fries& and dependents, will
make hint be long and incemly regretted. He is
fucceeded h; his title and taste. by his Mei foe. the
Hon. lour Elam. one of the RepreCestatives is
Parliament for the Borough of Lilkeard.
Lieut. Wstsaattest is appointed to command the
Borer gun veal, in-the liver Colm, Effes ; Liam-
ant STIWAIT to trjackall gun-veffel ; and Lieu.
tenants Scamps& POPS to the FURS bomb..-
Mr. Gao.
VAISCS is appointed Surgeon of Hadar

Nofpital.
Information was en Sunday night received from
France by a moll refpeaable Quarter, and insmedi-
atel_y communicated to his Majefly's
The intelligence in (maim Rates, that one hun-
dred and fony of the 'styli clefs of gun boats, each
carrying four guns of heavy calibre, are affenablad
et Boulogne. together with an incredible number of
(mailer veffels of the third elafs. each armed with two
guns, for the carriage of Rotes, harks, and troops,
amounting to above goo in number, and calculated
for the embarkation of 60.000 men A force con-
fiders* larger than this is now affembled at Bon-
Inner and all boats already contratted for in the dif-
ferent ports of Flanders, Picardy. and the &Ran
Department of Normandy. have been ordered to at•
femWe at Calais, or at Boulogne. by the toth of this
month, under a very revere penalty in cafe of Jiro-
bedienee, and of having the expence of the default.
log boats throws wholly upon the contreactr—an or-
der which explains the exertions made in the lan
week, to get their boats under the proteaion of their
ports, in (pita of the exertions of out flotilla.
It is, however. clearly underßood that no part of
this Armament will fail, until! the force colleaed at
Brefi and in the Teed is fofficiently Rrong to fight
their wee through our Blockading Fleets. For this
Ptopofe Bourivarra is at this moment making the
mon -incredible exertions at Brea to fit for yea every
thing that can twins. And it is announced, that on
the nab of this month. he would have ready for yea
34 fail of the line, with which BONAPAITt has ero-
Mired to embark in perfon. And in the Tent, ot is
well known that five fail of the line have been for
feveral days perfealy ready. With Tepee, how-
ever, to the French (hips it mull be oblerved, that
though their crews have been Rrengthened by the
greaten part of the Genoefe (cameo, of whom 4,000
litre been impreffed and fent to France ! yet we
Nave every rearm for thinking the crews dill incom•
Otte, and Many of the (hips very unfit to encounter
ether a gal.: or a heavy thip. And we fitr.ild con-
gratulate our country at hearing that thefc 24 (hips,
*oth Bo AAAAA Ts on board. were ailually engaged
with the t 8 Britifh (hips ( to of them three deckers.
row blockading the port of Breß.) The expedition
f•orn that port and from the Teed are avowedly in-
tended for Ireland and Scotland ; and the Boulogne
flotilla will not move till the attempt has been made
°force Admirals Coe WALLIS and THOIOI soiov c
ets from their Rations. We are perfealy fatisfied
that the mink of this enntell at fca mull be to the
ulleft extent glorious to the Britifls navy. And we
re as little doubt that every thing will be done that
an be 'vetted from the bravery of our troops, if
• difcmbarkatioe of the enemy Onashi fucceed.

zifir oriLMIPINGL

tOUPT OF Inklo% WSCH, FBI 12.

uusisirucni.:s.
Till tend ir. Loom alio OTll6ll2.—Mr. Auer
opened the pleas in this Cafe : he kid this was
i an nformation filed by his Majefty's Attorney Ge-
neral. of which the following was the fubilanee s
The fir* count fiated. that John Locker, of Ted-1
dington, yeoman ; John Locker Wahswrighteof tht
fame place. yeoman ; and Ifabella Wainwright, his
wife, vs the all of Anna lab confpirod with MINN
to inveigles end clandeftinely to take away Bury
Pearce an illegitimate daughter of Thomas Pearce,
der.eafed. being a virgin, unmarried, and being un-
der the age of twenty-one years, viz. of the age of
nineteen years, and entitled to a large real and per-
fowl edam of the value of :spool. and upwoode I
and being under the culled and guardlisnlhig of
Jahn Cruehfield and John and living in
the dwelling-hence, and under the protettino of the
hid John Crutchfield, end to procure her to be mar-
ried to the Defendant, John Locker, in a Caret and
checkable manner, without the knowledge, sad
again& the coarse; of her Guardians, he the raid
John Locker being a perfon of low and mean con.
sedan and circoadiances. That in purfisance of the
Confpiracy, the Defendant on the 7th of Aug**.
',rind the will and without the content of the Guar-
dians, enticed and inveigled the Paid Mary Pearce to
depart clandeflinely t That the (rid 'John Locker,
and Ifabella Wainwright, on the evening of the Paid
7th of Angie, went in a poll-cheifit to Teddingmn,
where the raid Mary Pearce was, and took endear-I
reed her away to Gretna Green in Scotland, where
Ilse was married to the Paid John Locker. and that
they were afterwards married in the parids of Saint
Luke. in the county of IkEddle&x, without the knowl
ledge and content. and againft the will of her Guar-
dians; they. the raid Defendants, knowing that the
was an infant, and minded to dick 'real and perfocal
elate ; and that the laid John Locker was a perfon
of low and mean condition and eirmundaucescin
contempt. &e. mid again* the pesos. &c.
The &wad Coast differed from the fir* Gay by
&sting. that Mary Pearce had no father or mother
living, without calling her an illegitimate child.
The third and fourth Counts differed from the
others only by omit to defenbe the Defendant,
John Locker, as a peas of mean cireuniftanees.
The Defendants had pleaded Not Guilty, upon
which Sloe was Joined.
The Awreausse Gsssaat. opened the cafe for the
Profecutioa. Mkt he laid. was an information filed
aria* the three Ddendaats. Mr. John Locker, the
uncle, Mr. John Locker Wainwright. the nephew,
and Mrs. Ifehella Wainwright. his wife, and it was
a cafe which. milers be deceived bimfelf very much.
the Jury would think deferving of their very ferious
attention, and which the Court would think alto de-
ferries of wen ferrety punilliment in the event of
easivi&rie The law of all countries he believed, the
law certainly of this country applying
.itfelf to the
infirmities and wants of our nature, is careful in
protedting their who are Es** in need of proteitioo ;
and with this view it was a part of the fyllein of our
law. and the law of all well regulated Wades. that
perfoes who are either &fabled altogether from adliag
for thenifelves. without the advice, fspeAseasdiusee.
or contrail of others, are tube proteded by ether% end
efpecially by the law. Upon this principle an infant
is held by the law incapable of making any enacts&
except for his own benefit and fecurity : in Irma
the law affords him prixediou even spina his own
contrails, orders for his own advantage, and declares.
that if he does enter into any contrai, not for his
own advantage, that contra& is void. that is. it cats-
not be enforced again* him while he isan infant, nor
afterwards when be comes to maturity, if he chutes
to object to it. Thus Rood the law ; but there are
coitus& again* which even as infant can have no
fecurity agasnik the cite of them, nor than even the
infant be at liberty to diffolve them. and centred& of
that nature involved in them that points which are
mod ioterefting to the welfare and happinefs of ho-
mes life. Of that defeription was the contra& of
marriage. a contra& into which it might be ex
crawly interefting for a perfon to enter, though in
infaecy ; that is, it might be extremely interefting
and beneficial for an infant to enter into marriage, ill
diferectly chofen by a perfon of mature and Ready
underitanding. and it might be a great difappoint-1
meet to the expeitation of happinefs of a minor
to be prevented, in Come of thefe cafes, from en-
tering into marriage. But, on the other hand,
nothing could be more fatal than the marriage of an
infant, or indeed of any body. if entered into indif-
creedy and imprudently. If infants did this with-
out being under the protection, or ailing under
the advice of their parents, or did it without the
fuperintendanca of fame paten of difcretion, if they
happet.ed to have conliderable fortunes, 27 this young
lady had, they would hold forth an invitation to the
avarice of the world, and fo they were likely to fall
into hands who would bring them into diftrefs, and
perhaps mifery, for the red of their lives : with this
view the law prohibited the marriage of an infant
without the content of parents or guardians, or with-
out a courfe being taken which would give the pa-
rents or guardians notice of the intended marriage.—
The charge againit there Defendants was. that they
confpired among thernfelves, intending to cite, and
having effcecd by confpiracy, the marriage of this
infant, Mary Pearce, to the Defendant, John Locker,
without the content of her guardians. That was the
offence which was charged againft the Defendants.—
The aggravation of that offence, like the aggress-
trim of all other offences. depended on'the circum-
fiances under which the offence was committed, and
the Jury would find them abundant in this cafe.—
They would find it a cafe which called for the pecu-
liar animadverfion of the Conti and Jury. They
would judge of the wickednefs of it by the mifchief
likely to be effe&ed by it, and aggravated extremely
by the difpatity of ages and fortunes of the parties
between whom the marriage was contraled ; they
would find it particularly aggravated by the motives
that gave it birth, and the manner in which it was
effeetcd. It would be his bufinefs to *ate (hardy to
the Jury thefe circumftancrs of aggravation.
The Defendant. Mr. John Lrcker the circum-
fiances of whole marriage with this infant were now
tinder confederation. was the uncle of the other De-
fendant, John Locker W aiawright ; John Locker
‘Vammight, therefore.was his nephew ; Ifsbella
Walowright was the wife of Jobs Locker Wain.

weight, and the was the wide, of the father el ehlt
Win. Mr. Thomas Pearce, a very
brewer, who had carried on trade in IMbe=
Weentintter, who by inhiry in banners had as
(mired a very confiderable fortune, indeed a very
large one ; he left it. honver, all, or ahnoil all.
between his two Wegitiesthe children, of whom this
yeses lady was one. His real elate, bonne, did
set pals by this will, but weal to the heir at law.
bethefe he had Coffered a recovery of that iaftir the
emotion of his will. Yet the perfonal peederty.
which certainly and isafpetably did pea by his
will, went to theft chiles* mid that amounted to
togs& and upwaskis ; fo that this young Lady.
who was entitled to a moiety of it, would have at
leaft ts,OOOL when the came of age. He appointed
Mr. Cruel:field of Teddington, and Mr. Emmett,
of St. Alban's, executors of this will. and guardians
of there his children. Perhaps the Jury might
know that it was not competent to a fags; to make
guardians for his natural children, but the Court of
Chancery had the power of appointing loch par-
dins, and it was pretty much of courfe for that
Come to confirm the guardianthip of that. who were
named in the father's will. unlefs foam objceioe ter
Viesit; that appointment. Here the Court of
had dons to by approving mod confining
althea Gentlemen as the guardians of chefs infants.
The' father. he thought, died ha November, an ;
at. an early period of that year he married a Mitt
Mathey. He Mould fay nothing rdpeang ICA
Marra,' or any body. but what aro& out of tie cafe
seaChefore the Jury. Mr. Pearce died is Novellier.,
tan Nth Pearce, whoh marriage was the
of the resat trial, tedded with her fathae •
fee foie. time after his decade, upon the pranks
where the father had lived, and the Engem* and
Onaidians were not' aware of any inwreptiety
is peentittiog her to mane ender the panmer of
her apotberoe.law, if indeed he aisle sew, with
any propriety of lawn*, be fa called ; -is bet
after they found the married the Disinhibit . Mr.
John Leaser Wainwright, they had mafioso be on-
eland of the impro rof fairing her todsve the
care of this young Lady, in oonfamasnot el which
Mr. Crechfield, who lived at Trianon'. took Mls
Pearce ao his haute, and placed the boy, her brother,
ea felthel a little way tit This young areforhaed set
been long at the hoofs of her there
were font to her a packet of =rila:l;d there was
between her and Mr. and Mrs. Wain & a pww-
tualeorrelixindence, andthis railed thei prfpid.sof
Mr. Crochfidd, the guardian, and he nastiest one
of thee letters before it was delivered to Mifs Peens.
and took a copy of it. This was a letter written to
Ws Pearce by Mr. Locker Wainwright.. the Dden-
dant, evidently for the purpcife of preparing her mied
to the appointment of a guardian ether own choke,
until flee fltonld become of age—and that was not to
be Mr. Locker Wainwrighthimfelf, or his wife, who
had had for thine time the care of this young Lady.
bet, of all the perfects in the world, the was advifed
to fele& Mr. John Locker, the per on who afterwards
ran away with her, as the only fit pain for that
trolly office. Thus they deluded this weak young
creature tb appoint this rain her guardian ;they fent
her a letter which they defied her to copy with her
own hand, which the did, directing an Attorney to
apply on her behalf to the Court of Chancery, to
bave'Mr. Mtn Locker appointed her guardian. At
this time the Court of Chancery had not appointed
any guardian for this young Lady, and therefore See
had no guardian who had any power bylaw, bum f.
being an illegitimate child, her father's appointment
of a guardian fur her by his will, bad no force in
law antil Inch appointment was fanaioned by the
approbation of a Court of Equity. The Defendants
were about to apply to have this appointment of
guardian. for Mr. John Locker, the Defendant;
but before that could be done. the real guardians
applied to the Court for the confirmation of their
appointment ; but before that could be .said alto,
the Defendants had fo worked upon the nind of this
young girl, that as her brother came from kinds
the allied leave to walk out, and ha obtained
it, the eloped from the houfe of Mr. field,
at Teddington. and went to Richmond, where Mr.
and Mrs. Wainwright had taken lodgings, and
where Mr. John Locker life was, and which lodg-
ings were taken, probably. to facilitate the elope-
ment of this young girl, for it was only three seam
from Teddington, where the was at her Guardian's
houfe ; this was on the AIR of July. Mr. CID
field, upon this, loft no time in making two
apfpii-
cations to the Court of Chancery : the one be ore
the MASTIR of the Ross% to have his appointment
lot Guardian confirmed ; and another to the LORD
Coarsest:At, for an Order for the prodaaion of
this young Lady in Court, both of which appli-
cations fucceeded, for the was a 'Ward of the Court of
Chancery. Accordingly the three Defendants sp.
peered before the CHauctiemt on the 6th of Auguft,
and produced the young girl in Court, on which
occalion his Lordfhip gave the Defendants, as might
have been expected, a fuitable admonition not to
interfere any further with this young Lady, but to
let her go to her Guardian, and to let her remain
under his care ; and alum, as might have been ex-
petted from nis Lordfhip, lie gave them a very
friendly aid kind caution about their future conduit,
informing them of tl.e confequence of their dig*.
obedience to the law, which he explained to them in
this cafe, fo that hey were totally without ex-
cute. His Lordfhip told them very plainly what they
ought to do, and what they ought not to do, and at
what peril it was if they fhould not follow his admit.
oition. The young Lady was then delivered to bar
guardian, Mr. Cruchfield. This was on the 6th of
Auguft laf. As they were going out of Lincoln's-
Inn Hall, where this took place' Mr. Locker (poke
to Mils Pearce afide, and Mr. Locker Wainwright
lifted perrniffion for Mrs. Waiowright to %grit MA
Pearce, at the Houfe of Mr. Cruchfield, which Mr.
Cruchfield thought improper. and therefore refuted.
The child was then carried to the houfe of her guar-
dian, Mr. Cruchfield. at Teddington. On the yth
of Auguft. the very nest day, the fubjea matter of
all this complaint in the information took placesl
namely, the elopement. The Defendant. John
Locker who had been at the lodgings of his nephew
at Richmond. during the latter part of this time, and
who had been there tomtit Mire Pearce,on her firft ar-
rival on the s ;ft of July, tame and Dept there
frequently : on the 7:i of Auguß, be and Mr.
Locker Wainwright ordered a pole chalk to be got
ready to to take him, Mr. JAus Locker, and his party

. t••••Ao, • . .
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la d ielmeeing. Mr. Leeks IMM todm WSW& big
nephew. Mr. Locker Wainwright, at 4 'lnc
trees* anions to have the driver be wd bine MOO
to have, god Vats the other pothbriy two
to give up his turn to the other driver, who= i
Locker likml bed. Mr. John Locker (pent the Irbil.'
of the day of the lei of Aqua with hie thaws,
Mr. Locker Wainwright, and his mat: Mn.
Wainwright. Mr. Locker sod Me.. 1111olimpisiot -
came . together and took the poliehmileveglidiors-
veilel on the driver to take with Idisallersi
frame of the carriage. a ladder. for the
facilitating the ekape of Milo Pearce over
her Guardiao's garden. which the was
not of the fueseser.boefe, and go into a id*
led into the road, and from which the 111;110.
gain Balky-park gate, where the polldmith ems to.
be ready to take her op. Aiieoedlasky t1rII&
chaife was taken about eight at night, beirri64
door of Mr. Wainwright, where- Mrs.
and her fervent Mary t, wait iota the pell.dkedei.
together with Mr. Jobs Locker. the Dtkeithei.— •
Mrs. Wainwright was to iodic the yoraiLeddiz
and prevail open her to be tree to hOt
if there lbould happen to be any didkohy iewsks_
in her soiled on the (odds.. sad Miry Cor, the hint
vane. was to attend doe parties to Graft Gram Thef •
pea-choice filled, and the ladder heft Um fades(
to it, a pas of the same of lieweefes was sew
ployed tobfe with
ii them ea the monde (.r the per.
;sok of • the lady over the wall, cad eke
due pert she bulimia wawa, he was to mere •
with the ladder. The peillms wps thin ordered to
drives a place sear lideMis kink at Ted. •
*ere whets Mu Pewee this was. Thine!"
we es the wall of the genies Mr. •Idd a •
when they got so she plan Ma. Waiewright mer
chaifi but Mr. Leeks did est fefiya lung
ape Iheeld fee them iliogistrom sad
wi The chaife then wee *kill to bay ANL-.
dim Weiewright breeot thew= L
AM ady theme
mil Mary Cs walked Airs_ by Pearce
wee them takes into the alike reed away it dregs
towards Richmond t they ported from lieweefem
with Is ladder. haviggi no fartiser watfies fes him.
They "et down Mn. Wainwright ea the bridges 06
the walled boos to kr Weed. wbaslM his pesky
seedy the pelbeliaifee mad ell lase
The &rife was that drives es lit
Wiedoodlditeet, where audio was
ie drive, and was aeorosey driven to limes
from thence to a Geademmealtaith in
and from thou to Gretna Geese, when din jelia
Locker and MICA Pearce were monied. They ono
beck to Leaden. and having pet
.*, Isazdasais Pl'.
via ehereb Mamba Lek, *hi* iw
the 7th, toth. sad sad of Augollo-let tl6—r—et.gaa
wore manias ea while they were resakg MI dray
were neerried here to the tees of the
Church of Eaglaad, era y went at the heeler
of Mr. and Walawrigrie they were re.
caved as they impeded. . Cos amempeolail
them through the whole if thane to thretleada
where Ow few them married. and bask eel& The
parties were afterwards
Theft the Arreasevarettfaid. were the eira
madames of this mot atireciess ode. Ms bad Lid
Wen the Jury the oethoss sf it, obi*, if doable(
asks bad emesed.they weeklies k was asphis aut. • .
of
crofearney to betraZL this wog girl. sad to gee
her married to this defied ore. es wee seem beam a
Coen of Jake. *mein erikr to &web. beim&
of this coofpireey, it was set aeostery that he Ihrieddi
fay notch: the leading homes of it sto-611, that
one of the defendants is this vale (chess teas the wi.
doer of the father of this add. the it was. who boles
kilt married Mr. Waiewlike thought Kerr to
aid oa inveigling her. sad is nemenearieg her.eo
marry s men of no Ws ea age then 60. If this woman
had say of grotitede oboes her. the troikas,.
reminaboed that bar hothead, the father alibi, child,
was the plies who ambled her to live es he sew
did is aMesite, andtherefore the sreghtle have a feel.
he of Addeo for his child, but -the hadrobitrera
this child. and given her op for the loafs et
Istisfyieg the fordid avarice of an old lame. was
reprefenta to him to be as low is eircatalleases ea
outfit to poise of age, to be the hothead.' this yeses
woman ; the oegU to bare beat the guardian and
proudior of this unhappy girl. who had been them
completely facrifieed to the artifice of there three
vile and fordid confpir,tors. The aggravatios of
the cafe of Ifabella Wainwright, therefore, was too
great to require comment. The aggravation of the
cafe of Locker Wainwright was, that be lent his af-
fiance barely to terse the porde of his uncle. The
aggravation of the cats of Mr. Locker bintfelf was.
that he did this with the fordid view of pealing this
girl's fortune, caring nothing for bee pace of mind
or pagan. as was muffed from the wanner to which
he behaved to her. Under tuck a combination of
atrocious cireumftances, he bad no doubt the Jury
would readily hand over to Jake all there dors*
cunfpirators, who would in doe feafon feel the pas
cinilbment of their guilt.
He then called his witneffes. The palms of sheen
the chaile was hired by John Locker and John Lee.
her Wainwright, who proved the taking of the eheife,
the ladder. the going to Bullay Park with Mr. John
Locker. Mr. Wainerright. and Mary Cot. together
with Hewetfoo ; of their midair wp Mike Pearce Is
Bulky Park ; of their parting with Hewetfea there,
and of their fitting. Mrs. Wainwright down at the
bridge ; of their going thence to London aid fades
of towards Barnet in mother pod chaife.
Mary Cos related the whole dory from Menke
to end, of going to Gretna Greta, of the parties
being married there and returning to Eaileadl_and
coming again to the haute of Mr. and we. was.
wright.
Mr. Crachlield, the Guardian, proved the Coin.
fpondence which prepared the fesse of the elopement.
of NW. Pearce being prevailed on to dein ao Astor.
sty to apply to the Coen of Chancery. and copying
a letter tent to her for that perpok. in order to have
Mr. John Locker appointed her Guardian —He
proved alto all the proceedings is the Court of Chan-
cery, precifely as =,:loty. the Aerialist, Gars.
tat., and alto the
Both the Gordian, proved that the marriage was
svithoet their knowledge nod aphid their eindent g
that the young Lady'tiWt. was upwards 155.0001.
which was to condense under the &thee. will. is
their bands, until the ball attain the age of es. That
the is a Ward of the Coen of Chancery.
The marriage by beast is Si. Luke's was proved

II

y the
t .eafvenua:Wo..., .
A Vvottavot4llsslfct
On behalf of the defendant, Mr. John Locker, Mr.
SuiteciuuNE made a very able Ipeech, the purport
of which was, to imptefs nn the Jury, that although
this was an improper and illegal ad, that of marry-
ing a minor and a ward of the Court of Chancery
wfdrout the content of her Guardians, yet that it
was not amerarily a confoiracy, and that before: the
defendants could be convided of a confpiracy, it
mill appear that they all had a privity of purpofe
from the beginning f the acquaintance between this
Gentleman and the yawing Lady whom he had mar.
ried.-That they all took a there in the whole of the
ottfinefs from the heginnieg to the end of it—fuch a
there/ as that, without their aid, it could not have
beds nceonsplitheel. Now he fubmitted, this Lady,
oldlatugh wader axe, was far advanced beyond the
that il Which. byibe Law of England, the was ca-
pable df giving Iftrelf in marriage, that being the
OA sal the being 59 when the marriage was
age
easaised. and it having taken place here by banns,
thenairdage was iudiffoluble. That it was compc.
tour lb-14r.that he ad fo, Locker to addrefs her with a view to ,
ilwillhige.and his addielfes had their
ebb; lid Ilse cessfeited to marry him ; and, there.
foiet'•there erase vat inveigling or enticing in. the
eaklaad that there therf could be no confpiracy.
At *the chadvarscet of Mr. J. Locker, they had
beentaillwarefiated on the part of thefe ho furnids•
ea Mr Attorney General with indrultions in this
wel. "The hi was, that Mr. Locker was al:teatle.
aim who bad lately come from Initial en eubic
Imilleaffleilitiee to the Paper Currency of hemsthis
s.
wait** mess iftfrialtte. at leall equal to that a
regolt Lady. to elakite was at Mat art espatmeali
utilte4 and the*** that be *vermin hichres:
fannation, that be was a man of low aaS tnesera.
acetyl.; ...told be UMW. If. aerate% Ai ,
ils he ut (*Woo. that Mr. Loehr".
wen fetaciesitly agreeable to ale ?mop Jolt
iba
tom Winced her to go of with Mm,bottosooof
Ober ddeiddats appeared to aid blew seta, this
amid' be's* etostpi!acy, sad the deiendeluioatd be
wilided to be acaseatted. 4
'frit Itigtsilloa. iota TAM, late Spoke, of the
Heafe if Crimedse itt leaked. reweibe knew Mr.
i. Leeks.. sad estalkitrsd Mar ayeefealy retreat&
.Ims, tra-wiewrekuived In the genteel chats sa Deb
Vailaillidandirldst
tje a pertbn ef proven/. He bet
Lined at few ' Mit Sew Hess. &edema mom
aatt oiled Lataestabe mated a fareattroL .a rex
iitkeland; ;ballets* it stain anew, lidd fold his
Wald. , '4 f'. • 1 % -' - "
.116 HUM ldr.:Piike, brother to.dis''Marqttis of
Tie
:=4ldefiettint Weis. Lttityekteerschsid ameifiderua;
.al arrears tilt short the time be parted his
the propely of
......i2leitsfy; MN. academe's ef femme is
sil imams' ef peoperty which
Micuumnyttatetace""' bit gielkaut in Irelaal. to the amount
4 .ieliamet b*t4s tont this ft nu the repte.,
al Mr. Zdoibrlttaifelf, he set !Bowies whir ,
%sr_ . .ires ipatimbevided set. ..,
rldeigastitnseikaa behalf of the other
loas ado Ida ("mai bet adopted the metaFa unt +,a„ t'~ttttfes were lAtti"
Fri:1114;11W. Bubarnrgabosil
effirWoorther, all defended by different i
Homer ,mswwal the conduit of the de. 1
I&A.ealluleiOt be, sad no one thought of it
mese difapprobe&ailhan himfelf. yet milers this
w$ a stetirca., . as Sated in this information, it
ilYs'lbilleit, s W,4llsWernie. the Defendants seen
w an, acquitted. . He propofed to examine Dare
Waite, yew lees. Lecher, to one Cal only. and fah.
asitted that the was a witnamefs. beafaem&. Ihe
elwas
that I
the• conittned to go with this gentleman, and was not
tit all famed or enticed away. She was ready to do
this on account of Mrs. Wainwright, for whom the
*tkied undiminilbed affedion ; not that the .viated
Mr (seen her hatband, for thatthe had too much yea.
ea to be fatisfied that her fortune was the only at.
amities to him.
• When Mr. Erikine called Mrs. Locker,
LortEttearottovuo laid, that the cafe of Perry,
helm* the Recorder of Drilla, to which Mr. Er(kine
alluded in his addrefs, whether the &awn was
• Reialy legal or not. relied on very different grounds
from the prefent cafe. I cannot, faid his Lordthip,
fuffer a wife to give evidence in her hatband's favour
without breaking in upon the law of England. I

ted It : So that
at opened by Mr.

dare W.t deb.
The Arroaisv GIWIRAL replied very ably. in
the coca* el whiih he obferved, that one twit of
this et inse. althongh a confiderable feature in the guilt
of tie parties, bad horned out fortunately, namely,
the haße with which they secnnsplillted it. Had they
laid till neat °antler. the young lady would have
been of age, and her fortune woild be her own, and
fro would become her hofbasd's abfolutely. by virtue
of the tnarriage. as it was perfonal property t—but
law it a et in the Court of Chancery, and it would
be diffteolt for him to get a (billing 01 it.
Lord Etcesecienvon delivered • WC,' proper and
able charge to the Jury. He pointed out clearly
that this was a confrracy. in ail the parties. As to
the laws alibi.ngh themarriage
a/Welt wasad valid, br
enure the lady wai ahle toma contrl.mnd h aaually
contritaed nimri.ige• yet the mode in which it was
brought shoots was illegal, for as the was a ward of
the CMttt al Chancery, it was decided by Lord Mac-
clesfield and Lrrd Hardwicke, that marrying a mi-
nor and a ward of the Court of Chancery againfl the
confent of her getardi.ais was a crime, and a fit ab-
le!! of an information. The marrying of her by bee
own confetti did not make it the lch attune by law;
h was criminal in all the patties even to peduncle
leer to do it 'said the will and confetti Of her pare
diens, while The was an infant an ot
d a ward the
Court of Chancery. Her goardians had not eon
felted, and ahl ~,,, gh ender the will they were not
?ter legal guardians, as floe Mien authorityimate, yet they
were bee( Ant in by the apprand of
the Conti of Chancery. As to the property of the
fiell. Mr. Locker. there was CO proof of it, tsecaufe
the very refpettable gentlemen who gave Omit !chi-
spotty upon that fubjea, had am (poker' of their own
:—lredlate knowledge. but of what they ttrictiti,rd
fr nt the flefendatt biotic'''. His ha. in 7 din. dv. ill
t .c Speas.er of t Houle of Commt.n.,
tretata.l w Englanhe
d. will a very high :woour, taus it

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