Star.
London, England, 1822-10-30 00:00:00

LINES
TO Tyw. LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL MISS -, IN
ALLUSION TO SOME PARTNERSHIP IN A LOT-
TERY *TICKET. •

In wedlock a species of Lottery Ifet,
• • Where in black: and in Prizes we deal;
But how comes it that you, such a very great prize,
Sbouid so long have rentain'd in the wheel?
' If ever, by Fortuns's indulgent decree,

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T4i.nr: such a Ticket should toll,
A Sertecnlk ! Ikavax knows ! were sufficient for me,
For what could f do with the "'Ask?,

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

CASTLE RUSIIF.N (*SLR OF MAN), OCTOBER 9.

amnia V. awes. •
Mr. ROPER, as Counsel for the plaintiff, stated the
ease as, follows :—I am here the advocate for the
plaintiff, the daughter of Captain Ritchie, of the East
India Company's Service, who commanded an East
Indiaman for many years. He left India on the usual
leave of*absence, and as he intended to return, he did
not take that pains in arranging his affairs that be
should have done ; the consequence was, as is too
often the case, his property was destroyed by.those
whose care he left it in. Illness prevented his return;
and at his death, my client, and a very delicate young
man, her brother, having failed in recovering his pro-
• perty in India, found themselves fatherless, and al-
Most pennyless. Expecting to leave his children in
affluence, he had spared nothing on their education ;
and my client, in her 17th year, found herself ex-
cluded by her circumstances from that walk of life
of which her accomplishments qualified her to be an
ornament. You will find •that she was not only ac-
complished, but that she was impressed with an ho-
nest pride; that enabled her, while cursed with the
acquaintance of the defendant, to set him an ex-
ample of liberality and candour, while her youth
and inexperience disqualified her from discovering in
him that low and servile meanness that you will
fi al to be so prominent a feature in his character.
Though the defendant goes by the name of Bluet,
his father was not so called. The family, as I
am instructed, are respectable tradespeople in Taun-
ton, in Somersetshire ; and he, impatient of the
Tabours of honest industry, thought fit to turn player.
On adopting that employment, he relinquished his
family name, and,. as Mr. Barrymore, he travelled
through the several gradations of si player's life, from
a country stroller up to a second-rate performer at
Drury-LaneTheatre ; having attained that rank he has
regularly descended through all the minor theatres
about London. The levity of a theatrical life is ill cal-
culated for the education of youth. It exercises the
talents while it destroys the judgment; it stimulates
to pleasure without affording the honest means of
gratification ; till at length indulgence becomes neces-
sary, and it is grasped at without attention to the
Means by which it is acquired: The fruits of such an
education are easily known; and you will find that,
in the defendant, it will be impossible to mistake them.
It seems that he went into the Navy. With the Profes-
sion of a gentleman, he adopted the name of his
family ; and, as a half-pay Lieutenant, he met my
client in November, 1818 ; he having risen to nearly
that rank in society her undeserved misfortunes had
sunk her to. She bad retired on the death of her father
to the house and the protection of heraunt, Mrs.Wal-
tots, whose evidence you will hear ; she lived in Her-
cules-buildings, Lambeth. My client was then posses-
sed of about 1:350 in money, an income cifi.3o a-year,
and some mechanical instruments of value, that the
defendant contrived to convert to his own use.—
Mrs. Walton had been acquainted with Mrs. William
Barrymore, the wife of the defendant's brother, who
lived in the neighbourhood, and at her request she
a knitted the defendant into her house, he having been
represented to her as a most exemplar; young man.
While at Mrs. Walton'san intimacy commenced be-
t.veen the parties, which in the breast of my client, at
1 ngth ripened into love. From November, 1818,
down to April, 1819, there was an uninterrupted in-
terccurse between the parties ; and the defendant,
daring that time, acted the part of a most ardent lover.
About that time he left Mrs. Walton's house, and went
tolive with his brother, Mr. William Barrymore; he,
however, found his intimacy with Miss Ritchie very
convenient, and sought to continue it; but Mrs. Wal-
ton, very properly thinking matters should not go fur-
ther, objected to his visits being continued, without
some explanation ; she was requested to go to Mr.Wil-
Lam Barrymore 's to meet defendant ; he there told
her he had always assured Miss Ritchie of his attach-
ment; and he then assured Mrs. Walton that he ex-
pected to have all his debts paid in the September fol-
lowing, when, he had intimated to Miss Ritchie, and
then assured Mrs. Walton, they would be married; .he
was, consequently, allowed to renew his visits. Fsr ona
the time of the first intimacy taking place, as well at
111es.Walton's as after he had left her house, the defend-
ant was in the practice of engaging Miss Ritchie in
parties with his family to various public places. On
all-those occasions, Miss Ritchie paid for the party ; the
defendant came to attend the young lady, and received
her purse ; he attended her home at night, and, 'on
parting, returned it, so that he had all the dashing ap-
pearance of a gallant and liberal lover, when in futile
was sucking the last shilling from the unfortunate and'
innocent girl, who had too much the feelings of a vi-
tlewoman, to regret the money, and too little know-
ledge of the world to know that this conduct was any
thing extraordinary. This scandalous system of plun-
der continued from the end of December to the 12th
of June, at which time you will presently find my
ensfertunate client transporting herself to Ireland on
a speculation of the defendant's, when he-wanted to
evade an engageMent he bad entered into, without
ever intending to fulfil it. You will find by the evi-
dame of Mr. HaVard, the gentleman who had the
management of my client's affairs, that from Deceim
ter to June she reduced her riffle property 1301. that
bretpoitulated with her, charged her with &tile
Stoner to the defendant, and 'did all in his power to
chccli,:it. She. too honourable to tell a falsehood.
did scadeny it; and too higb•minded to disclose her,
own meaty, remained silent to those questions, bet.
parsevermi in her demand for money. From the
month of DeCember to April, "While the defending
wee. * 103 address himself to the priente
qt: my client, he was all lave and ardour; he satin.
died ter with private assurances of eternal fidelity,
lutawing bs could desert. and' deny bar the

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