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London, England, 1824-09-06 00:00:00

she eeeved httn ; it *as not in a bed-rooin it ha Opened ; she will .nrell'
that she was never in a bed-room with him in her life ; it was in a
sitting-room, after he had something to drink ; be did not altirays stay
late ;he might stay perhaps as late as twelve or one o'clock in the
morning ; she was with him when he was alone ; sbe stayed with
him until he went away; It happened in July or August, 1623 ; she,
always thought he intended to marry her; she used to go into the
room, but did sot stay very long.
0 yes, Jenny, yos did now ; time used to pass very sweetly, now
didn't it?

No; it was with great pressure she drank of th, liquor ; it was
only with violence she partook of it ; she certainly drank when he
was so very pressing ; she has favoured him with a love ditty, a
song; she never sang to others, never; she was the only female; the
Gentlemen might shit to be sure; she did not 'take notice of the
songs they sung.
What, Jenny, said Mr. Brougham, did you never hear sung a
very innocent song, beginning—
" 'Twat noon in the pleasant month of May ?"
'Witness—l will swear, Sir, I never heard that song.
Conte, come, Jenny, continued the Learned Counsel, let me give
you another line—

" Whew the birds were singing on the spray."
There, said Mr. Brougham, now where can be the harm down-
ing you had heard sung that very Innocent pretty little song?--No,
she never did ; she cannot recollect it.
Impossible, Jenny' pray, do recollect this part—
" She had one aim here, the other arm there,
So sweetly lay this charming fair."
The Court shook with laughter.
Now, continued Mr. Baouanaat, was it not delightful' and then
the chorus—

" When sly young Hodge."
Witness—T tell you, Sir, I never beard it.
?4t. Beounitasi—Come, Jenny, let us go quietly on, like young
Hodge, you know.
Witness—l tell you, Sir, again, I know nothing about Hodge,
nor what you are talking about—ltepeated laughter).
Examination continued—The Gentlemen would have her mo-
ther in. She don't know if she ever sang to them, or ever heard
about young Hodge:—(Renewed laughter.)—lier mother did not
join the chorus—( Loud and continued laughter).—She never heard
her mother sing.
" What !" said the Learned Gentleman," not that exquisite part—
' The gentle zephyrs through the trees?'
Ah! you know, Jenny, all about it—new don't you? and then that
touching part—
' When sly young Hodge "
(The Court was convulsed with laughter).
Witness—l tell you again, that 1 know nothing about the song,
nor young Hodge neither—(Continued laughter). She recollected
nothing about it.
" Ah !" said Mr. Brougham, " and the less the better!"
She has heard of Isaac Lancaster, a Jew broker ; he was
a customer of her father's; the never heard anything
respecting money between him and her father; he had
nothing to do with her; she-knows him only by name ;
she don't live at Preston now; site did not sing very
often ; it was with great pressure that she sung at all ;
they forced her to sing, and to sit down; she only went
in to wait on them, and sat down ; she sang with vio-
lence ; she went to the races that year ; she set off in a
postchaise ; Mr. Sunderland and another Gentleman
was in it, whom she did not know ; she stopped at the
races rather late, owing to an accident ; the post boy
might have been drunk; he fell off the horse; Mr.
Sunderland was inside when they went to the races ; on
their return, Mr. Sunderland got out of the chaise ; it
was about half past nine or ten o clock when they got
home • they left Preston about six or seven ; they got
to Walton about eight. She knew another man of the
name of Lancaster; she went with him and her father
to Burley, about a license for his house; she has been
to Burley on a stage ; she thought a ride would do her
good; she was not very well, and thought it best to
stay all night, and return in the morning, which she
did. She knows Mr. Hargraves. She was in company
with two Ladies when she called upon him ; they were
passing by his house in the evening ; he was dining ;
there was another Gentleman with him; he is a bat-
chelor for anything she knows; don't recollect the
time; she does not recollect Mr. llopwood falling
asleep, and her father saying never mind it ; he might ;
her father has been in the room when she has been
there ; her mother knew he came, and her parents knew
he paid his addresses to her; her mother might have
heard her sing outside the door.
Be-examined by Mr. WiLLIAMS.—MI-. Sunderland is fifty years
of age ; her father knows him very well; they had four women
servants belonging to the house ; we have a person who keeps
chaises; he is not a publican ; he contracts ; the hotel is also served
by him in the same manner ; there is an ostler and boots; she did
expect be would have married her. _ _

James Barlow, examined by Serjeant Cnoss—l-le is
a surgeon, aad resides at Blackburn; he has an extensive
practice; he is now partly retired from business; he was
called in to see the plaintiff's daughter on an urgent
occasion ; he was called in on her confinement ; there
was another medical gentleman there; he was called in
to attend her; she was labouring under an inflamma-
tion; she was in imminent danger for some days; it
was on that occasion he was called in to attend her by
her parents' desire.
Mr. Serjeant Caoss—This is our case, my Lord. When

Mr. BROUGHAM rose to reply, and said—Gentlemen
of the Jury, you see what a case my Learned Friend
has made out and laid before you ; what a lass those
parents have sustained by the absence of an amiable and
accomplished daughter I—How that the defendant had
by false promises and allurements blighted the bud in its
blossom, and for ever marred the beauty of the flower !
But was it really so ? said the Learned Gentleman. Let
the Jury look to the facts as they really presented them-
selves before them by the evidence of the young Lady
herself, and judge by the tree what the fruit was—let
the Gentlemen of the Jury look to this fine attendant
of an inn, dressed out as she was this day with all the
finery it was possible to adorn herself with to bolster
up the case for folks to wonder and gaze at! What
was it done for? Why because, forsooth, it was the only
way to make the plaintiff's point. How absurd was
the case altogether—and how had it been made out?
Not a tittle of evidence about the breach of promise
of marriage—not a word about where the seduction
happened, except by her own shewing in the sitting-
room, nor the circumstances attending it. His
Learned Friend had not said he was the seducer, nor
spoke of any entreaties on the defendant's part to
accomplish her ruin—no; he was too good a judge—
he trod lightly over burning plonglishares—she was an
easy victim—and the action was as trumpery a one as
was ever brought into a Court of Record ; and who was
it brought the action ? Why the father, who ought to
have watched more narrowly the conduct of his daugh-
ter, and placed her in a different situation than that of
letting her attend in the garb of a vant on every per-
son that entered his inn; and more especially the younger
Part of their guests, and who allowed her to continue
up to an unseasonable hour in the morning. This was
a too much getting up money concern—the avosed ob.
ject was heavy damages ; but would the Jury give
them ? lie believed not ; and could the Jury think
his Learned Friend was serious when fie called this an
atrocious and flagrant case of seduction P—lmpossible!
It was anything but that. She sang, and she drank, and
was as happy as could; be—thisiinnotent and truth•
speaking witness ! Let the Gentlemen I,l* the Jury re-1
flect but for a moment how she gave her answer when
she was asked about the song, and then say u hat they
thought of this much-injured young Lady, and whatl