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Miss Elizibeek Franco Adams I'm the Ent witness called on. Be.
fore coming or the table sbe sat for a few moments in the site bar. dur.
SEDUCTION.—EKTRAORDIN ARY CASE. fog which she wept copiottaly. When placed in the wimese'a cha r she
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DUBLIN, MAT 26 AND 27. did net affect any feigned extravagance or emotions, nor any retdied bye.
Rat. SAMUEL ADAMS V. MAIO& PHILIP DUNDAL play to extort sympathy. She told her tale of wiring er.d of sorme with
This cum which has excited a great deal of interest, attracted to the an ingenuous simplicity that made its way to the heart* of all who Nerd
avenues of the Court a much greater crowd than it usually found in the her. She seemed an exceedingly mild, gentle, and guileless creature.
ball at an early hour in the morning. As soon as the doors were opened Her evidstice coincided with the statement of the Learned Cows-
the Court was crowded to excess, while the place usually occupied by eel, and cor.cluded as follows : I went to bed in consequence • f
'the Registrars of the Judge'', was filled with different officers of the his premises to marry me; he went away about ewe o'clock in the
cavalry and infantry regiments now stationed in Dublin. Upoe the morning, saying that he would tame back very early the next morning
Bench were noticed Lord Howth, Lord Dungarran. and Lord Crofton. to go to Newry ;in the morning I got up early, and sat a hing time i
The defendant pleaded Not Guity. Damages were laid at 23,000 L roan, sad when the clock struck tight, not seeing hint. 1 went to
Mr. NORTH, K.C. Mee and said—l am now, my Lord and Gen. see about any siste ; about eight I went over to the dour of L Dot-
, demen of the Jury, called upon, under very peculiar circumstances, chester's room so sec about my sister; I asked Lord Doreester where
to address you upon a cue the most remarkable and the most dithers. was my sister ; he said he had left her at home on the night befere; ion
sing, that in the whole period of my professional experience, it has then asked me where Capt. Dundee was ; I said I had not ,een him
ever been my painful duty to state to any Jury. The plaintiff, Mr. since before one o'clock on the night before, a d I ',itd that I w 0...
Adams, is a Dean of the Established Church. He is the Dean of Cashel. tiered that lie was not cure hack emir it: the moraine, as se heti
He lived with 1111 family in a very retired part of the county of Cavan, promised to go on to Newry. I returned to the roNe, i,) ten
in a place called Northlands, he married a lady of high respectabi. minutes after Captain Dundas entered. He said lie mot: heed I
lay, and one of the best connections in the county to which be be. was up so early. rr Why did you not come earlier ?' said
longed ' • she was a Miss Harvey, of the county of Wexford. By this I. He said, " What to do ?" I said he had proin::ed to
lady he hall a family of fl children—three daughters and three sons. The marry me, and would he nun fulfil Lis prenti. e ? He said thi t
eldest of these children was Miss Dorothea Adams, who at the period he was sorry he could not fulfil it, fm le was already a retard d man;
of this unfortunate transaction was about nineteen years of age. The but he said I should Le as harry at if I were retuned to hit... he he
eldest of the sons was about thirteen. Caroline, the youngest daughter, would take a lodging for me in the n. I said No to this. for I
was about fifteen years of age, and the unfortunate victim of the De. would go home. When he said he ras married, I said tt u sheadd
liendant's sensuality and vice, was an interesting, a beautiful, an bum. rot have told me you were unmarried, Red have brought mt. awl. wider
Net, an artless, and a happy creature of the age of seventeen. in 1819 I the ides of being about to lie married to me. lie then left tee. I then
sr 1830, perhaps earlier, this family resided in the county of Cavan. said I would go home. Captain Dunda. said I should not, but that I
Mrs. unfortunately for them, had very weak and infirm should go into his room in the barrack ; said 1 would rot. Ile the.,
health, and gad been recommended by her medical advisers to try said that if I sent home, would I promise not to tell my father whir
the bracing effects of sembathing. She had on former occasions gone had harpened ? I said I would tell all that had take,' place. The
is Dundalk, and she had taken lodgings, such as sea bathers are in Witness subsequently described that she lift the house hetet-en nit e
the habit of occupying. She had in 1829 taken lodgings at a place and ten in the roornirg, and was met by Mr. Cosby Adams in t'. e
sidled the lilackrock, near the seaside, and about two miles from gig, who brought her Lame.
Dundalk. The Adams.' repeated their visit to this place in the Miss Adannes s'st.rs were examined in corroboration of hi r state.
entiMisar of 1830. They were living there in the July of that year, mint, and several whets-ea to prove the respectability of the 'tweeter
when unfortunately—most unfortunate) y for them—unfortunately for of the Dean's family ; they were considered Innocent, young, igeorvit
the interests of society—unfortunately for the character of the Church, of the world.
and still more unfortunately for the honour or the army, there was Evidence was also given tint the dektdant's father left him 45,000%
quartered in Dundalk one of the finest regiments in the service—the 7th and that his conintission was worth 10,0001.
hussars, commissions fn which are sought *ter by the noblest and most Sergeant O'Couatthix, as leading counsel for the defendant, said it
distinguished of the aristocracy of this country. You will not believe was very strange, that when their mother, who saw the officers pass on
lam In any degree colouring the facts in this respect, when 1 name as horseback, fit fatigued, instead of preventing her daughters from going
amongst its oaken, Mr. Jocelyn, the brother of Lord Roden, Lord Dors out. toll! them they might walk, and they went to walk in the very place
cheater, one of the ancient and honourable nobility of England; "and where they sere likely to meet the effieers. They went on the
though last not least," the defendant himself who has sullied the name and public strand, and though the officers had saluted them without having
reputation of the family of Lord Melville; he is the nephew of that disein- been introduced, instead of appearing to resent it, they win. to walk
'Welted nobleman. It was the habit of the Misses Adams to walk out from on the public strand, where they knew the officers were. Was this con-
r father's lodging in the forenoon and afternoon, for the purpose duct that would irduce those gentlemen to imagine that they were mo-
st exercise. They wve interesting from their time of life, and the two dent or respectable ladies, the daughters of Dean Adams ? The first time
sisters, Elisabeth and Caroline, were singularly beautiful, and it is not that Lord Dorchester saw these ladies was on July 21, in a eat with
Is be supposed that they escaped the attention of the officers in the I their mother. He met them again in a few minutes after. They iset;an
udghbourhood. I think my brief states that it was about the twelfth to converse with hint and Major pundit' without the slightest restraint,
of July, upon a Monday, that these unfortunate young ladies first saw although they did not know the Major's name until that interview, and
the defendant Dundee. The defendant was then a Captain, he is now a agreed, after a cooversation of 20 mittutea, to marry them unknown to
Major. The defendant wu on that occasion accompanied by Mr. Phi- their father. Recollect, gentlemen of the Jury, that Caroline had never
lips, the tiding master of the regiment ; he appeared to have rode out seen Lord Dorchester until that day, when she saw him tiding with Ala.
from Dundalk, and was riding on the Blackrock Road. Very pro- jor D. Now we never heard of marriage until the 21st, and you know.
bably he had seen this young Lady before, and now came there , when an affair of this kind occurs, the lady. in order to give some salves,
fur the purpose of forcing his acquaintance upon her. Finding requires a promise of neariage. She generally says, " I ant ruined ?
the Ladies walking along the road, he stepped short beside them, I would never have consented to such liberties, only he promised to
turned round to Philips, and declared they were "devilish handsome." marry me." 11 hen they arrived in Dundalk they did not remonstrate,
When they saw these gentlemen they walked on; perhaps they had ! but went immttliettly into Lord Dorchester's lodgings. Gentle: en of
bard what he had said of them. On their return the defendant and i the Jury, is this the conduct that you would expect front an educate;
Philips crossed them in their path, and entered into conversation with •or respectable girl? Is this the conduct that you would sanction d
them. The terms of that conversation I shall not now dwell upon. It The learned counsel proceeded further to argue that Miss Adams had
Is sufficient to mention that some words passed between them, and the ' conducted herself with uebecoming levity throughout the transaction,
defendant laid a foundation for a future acquaintance with this young ' and called several witnesses in suppert of the assertion.
lady. This took place on Monday, the 12th July ;I am not sure H. Philips, Esq. sworn—Belong% to the 7th Hussars. Knows Main
whether the parties met on Tuesday and Wednesday. It is material, ! Dundas. Recollects Navin, met the young ladies when riding with Ma-
however, to observe, that it so unfortunately occurred on the ! jor Dundas. Was riding towards home in company with Major Dundas
16th of July, which wu the Thursday following, that Dean ; met three ladies, and of (own ca-t a look. The Major mid, These
Adams was obliged to come to Dublin on particular business,- are pretty girls. The ladles smiled. Witness and defendant looked
he left home on that day. On the 16th of July, which hack, kissed hands to the ladies, and either one or two returned it. Major
wee the day after Dean Adams came to Dublin, Captain Dundee, ac- ; Dundas rude after and joined them. Is a single man. Is not quite sure
csmpanied by Mr. Jocelyn, met Miss Adams walking again—this was that he did not kiss hands; it made no impression on him. Can't say
about four o'clock In the day—he entered into conversation with her. ' whether one or two kissed hands—one certainly, bat may be two. The
He told her he was sure she would be Use for her dinner. After telling lady with black hair was walking in the middle. She either kissed hands
her this, which was for the purpose of introducing a conversation with or bowed. Perceived her hair dark, and took notice of her countenance.
Ist, he then renewed his acquaintance with her, and thus, b these l Lord Dorchester sworn—Was quartered at Dundalk in July last ;
successive meetings, the defendant established an intimacy with those never before the 21st bad spoken to any of the young ladies ; first saw
artless children—artless they were beyond the common period of their them on a car with an elderly lady : Major Dundee was with him ; the
life. The were brought up in extreme ignorance of the world—they 1 officers rode slowly, and witness went down to theta ; they entered into
had no governess to Instruct them—they were under the guidance of a conversation ; the ladies in the middle of the road. and the officers, at
hellehly food and indulgent mother. At this second interview Captain etch side. Wi.nesa told the young ladles they would aced three shins
DlMldea was in sompany of Mr. Jocelyn, and these poor young girls were for a clergyman to England ; they consented to leave their father's
1111111ewhit alarmed at the intercourse into which they were unexpectedly ' house at eleven ; did not hear Major Dundee say anything about
deans by apparently accidental meetings, but which seemed to have been marriage.
c= ly contrived. The next with whom you will find the de- Cross-examined by Mr. LITTON, K.C.—Had never seen the ladies
connected is Lord. Lord Dorchester rode out on • to speak to them till the 21st, when Major Dundee and ti.e witness
Wednesday, the 21st of July, with Major Dundas, and they saw these were riding. Major Dundas said to witness he had got a job in hand,
nonigeZeorains. The ddendemt dies bad mentioned Lis plans foe the • and witness might bate a part imit. Major Dundas told him that the
Ida and he pseessied with military address, to open job was two girls. Defendant did not say which of the girls was to
is INMAN and lay siege to the shadel in which her honor ought to be be his share. Major Dundee did not tell witness that the only protec-
asawssi The scheme devised by Contain Dundas was, to ask them to see i tors the ladies had were two brothers, one thirteen and the other nine.
diem/snag of Rostrevor. It is well known that Rostrevor is one of the tls a Peer of England. Does not recollect that Defendant knew the
mut beautiful spots in Ireland, and inferior only to Killarney. It lies at young ladies' father was to have returned the next day. Dee edam left
Nguema distance from Dundalk. He askedCarollne and Elizabeth Adams the country, as also witness, for they understood that a rape was to have
bad they ever seen Rost:ever ? They said they had not. " Good Goo !" been sworn agrenst tb.m. Witness did not wait to give the fath, r any
he exclaimed, "not see Rostrever bow happy I should be that you • explanation of die matter. Defendant then lived in the ba racks. There
wolahl see it, and that I should accompany you there." How easy could were two b.ds in witness's lodgings. One of them was Jowlyn's boil. It
the matter be arrang between them 1 He proposed to them to get was into that bed defendant went. He knew what defendant wanted
their father's jaunting-car—to persuade their mother she was too ill by going into the room. Said on the car, and before they got to it
to stir out (and it was easyit,
to persuade her to that), that they would that he would not many Caroline. Did not say any thing about the
go out on the car, and then, said Captain Dundee, 1 can frame a story happiness of not being separated from her sister. Caroline did not
for you—no man nnderstands better bow to do so--you can say the ask to go back. Witness persuaded Caroline to go back, and be brought
car broke down, and in the meantime we can go to Rostrevor and spend her home and:put her in. He was ashamed of the thing. Does not
a delightful day there. This party, however, was put off, and the exactly know why he brought her back. It wua mixture of remorse
girls refused to think of it. Accordingly another engine was to be and shame. Ilis conscience struck him. Before his conscience struck
used—one, too, that has been too often found to succeed with poor, him, he had taken the young girl upon his knee He put his hand
food, and confiding woman—with a woman who deliberates be- • round her waist. He asked her to go on the bed, and she refused. lie
twcen her honour and Iter love—that best, l should ember say told her he would not marry her. She would hot go on the bed. He
that worst, of all the arts of the reducer was employed—the pro. then brought her home.
mise of marriage. Then it will that Dundee proposed that Eliza- l The Learned Junes then charged the jury. He said the Ladies
beth should be married to him, and her sister to Lord Dorchester. had acted with extreme levity and imprudence; but that should not
Captain Dundee proposed to the two young ladies that they should excuse the defendant's guilty cordite* He hoped they would steer a
accompany Lord Dorchester and himself to Newry ; that there was a middle course in finding their verdict, and show by it that they were
Clergyman there who would celebrate their marriage; that Elisabeth not influenced by paeeion.
should be the honoured and the wedded wife of Dundas, and her sister I The jury reined, and after elven forty minutes returned to the box,
of Lord Dorchester. It is sufficient fur me to say that the two ham- when their resents were calkd, and the foreman delivered the verdict to
cent and artless creatures fell into the snare; they agreed with Lord the Registrar, who announced it as follows s—Verthet for plaintiff,
Dorchester and Captain Dundee that they would go to Newry for the 3,6001. damage*. and Cl. costs.
purpose of being married, and die appointment was fixed upon ; the SHERIFF'S COURT, Rut Luau Seeress.
meeting was fixed at a particular hour, eleven at night, when they were
REACMONT AND ANOTHER V. LORD tILENTWORTIE
to accompany the two officers to Newry. The family of the Adatases This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are einment coach.
were in the habit of retiring early to bed. On the appoieted night I makes,, upon a judgment which had been obtained by them against
the family were iu bed at tea o'clock. Elisabeth and Caroline Adams Lord Glentweith, in the Court of Common Pleas in Dublin. The de.
slept in the same room ; they retired, but they did not go to bed. They fe.-elant had suffered judgment in thi . action to go by default. The
watched for that signal which it was *peed Captain lhand. a should I amount of the judgment was for principal, interest (about ten tears. at
, give. When they found that their mother had gone to bed, they six per mut.) and costa, 2.7211. 7d. tla the rhiutiffs only cell:toed a
!opened the chamber door and went down to the parlour. The signal, verdict for the sum of 2,2251. le. 6J.
with a whip, was heard; they miet.eo tapping at the window
The Uoder-Sheriff advised the Jury to give a verdict for the fall
three times
the hall door, and they got upon the jaunting car—Captain Dundas and amount of the judgment in the Itish Court, as the defendant did not
Elisabeth upon one side, Lord Dorchester and Caroline upon the tato, that any part was pew off, laving the plaintiffs to tome teem.
other, and they drove into the town of Dundalk. Oe their way tics aal for the smaller sum by them.
m they passed by a %ull lodge, which belonged to Major Shirley, and T J
he ury found a verdict for the plaintiffs for 2,7211. 7a. 7d.
Ce.et. Dundee, as they passed it by, tusk occasion to say—Major VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Mav 30.
Shirley adin.res Miss Adams very nhich. Elisabeth asked hint was JUDGMENT.—HHTCHINGS V. CLARKE.
DM Major ri .irley a married men ?Hs said no; the lady that lives In the Arigna Mining Company ease, the Vice-CnurcEehoa con.
with him is net rots wife—that is a shameful way fur any man to eluded an elaborate judgment by • bverting, that he did rot wish to
ressl
live—it is inceunistent with virtue and happiness, mei never can p hard on the character ofndivlduals who came before the Court,
*Prove 01 a man submitting to at. lie caked lies also U she but, as a Judge. lie must ray. that it was a transaction of such a nature,
would be very glad ,o see her mother on her restitn. She said that no Court of Law or Fluky could sanction it. His Honour then
LO be sure she would, provided her mother would see her. Steely, he made the decree in the terms prayed by the bill.
saki to her, your :nuttier will never be angry with you, when you are COURT OF KING'S IIENCH, MAT 30.
monied. lie ti er; told her that he heard sl.e had a fortune of 6,0001. THE APOTHECARIES' COMPANY v. GREENWOOD.
In this case an action was brought by she Arabs-cant se Contetny
she said us h. was marrying her without getting r let:keit consent,
he would hot obt.sist it. To this he repliec, it would be a good thing
to against the &realign!. fur officiating as au spoehreary, Ise hot being duly
get your tot Lute, but if 1 duo 1 aut weiugh without it, and it licensed acem-dirg to the proviaiorso of the Act of ritillMent.
will male be all titiiiitionol mout how touch I love toil. The car drove It appeared that the &feed:it was apprenticed to his brother, who
left a house in which he carried on huainesa, and went to reside at a
on to Dutie e.k, hut tile party in it stal.peti at a anort distance from
the lesigieb% el LAti 1 terehrater, whide were mar the barracks. Miss place which wu eight miles distant, leaving, however, the defendant to
Aaaaus asked wire they out going on to Newry ? • •Impossible," said attend to the business. The question for the Court was, whether an
Client Dmidare -• time hour of the mein. ' They then walked into apprentice could practice in cases where the muter never hed been
this house of Lord Derenester's ; low ;he lodging. of that nobleman eo„solted,
Lord Tntrsattax said that the question was exceedingly import., t.
three innocent girls were inveigled. Carolute grew exceedingly alarmed.
Dander walked up to Kliwitieth Aclenis anct said, e• Ido not lodge The Court would, therefore, take time to consider it.
here, 1 seep at tile herrAcks ; there is a room for you in this TODD V. THE EARL OF WINTENTON.
Webe ad ,'gran and la, 'grasnown ly sow at to you." Ile led her into a 100 M, A Learned Counsel mused for a writ, in the nature of a dishier as.
which was Certainly prepared fur the purpose. lie there renewed to her against the property of the Eaal of Winterion, who was an lush pew,
his promiseof 'manage, his constancy, his fideltiy— be won upon hers" and of course was privileged from avast. The debt was NI. and costs
how far you will be able to g.t arotn tne sill cud and half-frenzied spirit about 101. zoom The Learned Counsel therefore asked fel the writ to
(Jon only knows ; but the thrum/nieces wall speak for themselves. We the emoting of 1001.
want no evidence of the transaction. She went Into that bed as his wed- Die Lordship said it was not to hate a writ fin n ate threw
d-el wile, sad he retired to his barracks, leaving her an abandoned and a the debt, and for that amount the plaint might take it.
dishonoured woman. Her unfortunate sister was not carried away by the
same love that betrayed Elisabeth--ther same passiuna of our nature. is a
moment of intoxica.ion, did not Ritually invade her as the/ had done her
sister. She had • better glimpse of the situation she was placed in—athe
applied in an agony of ;pin to Lord DoreMaater himself—she told him
oat her life depended upon him; and I must say, to the credit of this
young man, that his better feelings returned, nature resigned tier sway,
remorse struck at his heart, and be told her that he should nut lose s
moment in restoring her to her family. He formed Minimal with Diesels.
and be that very Moment accompanied her back to her mother's, and
left her there in safety between twelve cad UDC o'clock at toight,—(llr.
Hued% here mentioned the conduct of Dundee mu Elisabeth Adams the
nee. morning, as detailed in her rtideuce.)

LAW REPORT!.

It seen* pretty clear that if the Reform Bill passes :we
las., the present Corn Laws will not long exist. Lord A Itho
some weeks ago, hinted to a deputation of Millers that au :•,-
teratiou was contemplated. The general impression i., it a:
by a Reformed Parhamtat (in which the influence of hi,
landed interest must necebearily be less than it now is) h.•
ittipurtatiou of Foreign Corn will either be rendered free or
the duty Le so low as to present scarcely say obstacle te is
i itroductica lord this costar) ,