Star.
London, England, 1824-12-16 00:00:00

THE ARM):

it k ttepe tee thilt I battalioa of the halms wm yottosediald
proceed to Ireland.
The lid Foot is now recrititing at Chatham in order to coos.
pine Its circa, previously to embarking for India.
Orders have arrived at Glasgow fee three companies of the tooth
Regiment, at present in the barracks there, to be in readiness to
march at a moment's notice; and they expect to be called away as
soon as the state of the *teethes OM pow& the transports, is which
they are to embark, to come round to Leith.
Paint, Doc. 10.—A dangerous allay ensued late on Wettue,jn
evening, in a house opposite the barracks, In which some of the
Dragoons stationed here and others were concerned. The neigh.
boars, being alarmed by a repeated cry of murder, thought it ne.
cessary to With* police. When a body of the pollee arrived, tae
horse presented a scene of awful confusion and uproar ; most of the
inmates were drunk, and beating one mother most unmercifully.
One Dragoon was to terribly mu and bruised on the head by a
poker, that be was not in a state to be removed, and he remains
dangerously ill. Another of the Dragoons, a woman of the tow„,
the landlord of the house, and a girl, Gilchrist, were brought to the
police office. We are informed that a party of Dragoons %third
forth from the barracks, armed with swords and other weapons,
and prevented the apprehension ii several others of the rioters, by
elfeeting their rescue, and covering their retreat. The case of thine
secured has been made over to the Procurator Fiscal of the county.
Thursday, the Clackkiannan Yeomanry Cavalry went into guar.
ters at Mos, for three days training.

Accounts from St. Kites, of the 3d of November,
state, thaf a meeting took place that morning, between Gaon&
Posses, Esq. barrister, and Joust Aasoav, Esq. when the former
received the first shot of his adverssfy in his head, and was dead
in an instant. Mr. Fortes was only 24 years of 4v, and Mr.
Amite •has very recently completed his 21st year. Ifutual atten-
tiaa to a young Lady on the Island led to the cause of this un-
happy meeting.
The greatest activity prevails in the different branches
of gun-making, in the neighbourhood of Goodman's-fields. Orders
are said to have been given for a quantity of arms for exportation,and
for three weeks past, every morning, from eight to ten, there has
been a continued discharge of musquetry, at the proof-house,
Gower's Walk, Commercial-road.

Sir Wm. Limos, Member of Parliament for the

county of Cornwall, breathed Lis last on Sunday afternoon, at his
seat, Carelew.
Tat ADTEINTURIS or £ Cow.—Yesterday, a Gentleman applied
to Mr. fabler, the Chief Clerk at the Mansion-House, to know
whether the Loss Maros could give relief in a case lo which it
could not but be considered very gross imposition had bt.-en prac-
tised ? The case, he said, related to an old cow, which had been sold,
and foisted upon the seller very soon afterwards as a young one.
Mr. Hobler requested to know how the deception W 23 practised?
as the nature of the imposture was only to be collected from the

The Gentleman said his friend had been already so much laughed
at for allowing himself to be so imposed on, that he could scarcely
appear amongst his neighbours. It would, therefore, perhaps, be
injudicious to mention the case in a place, whence everything that
is said appeared before the Public at breakfast the next morning.
Dlr. flout'a said, that perhaps the Public would be benefited by
knowing the nature of the imposition, and that the trick, if exposed,
would stand no chance of being repeated.
The applicant then made the following statement. About a
fortnight ago, a farmer, residing at Epping Forest, baying rather an
elderly cow, Which began to be very slack of milk, he was deter-
mined to get rid of her, and to purchase another. lie accordingly
took her to Routford fair, aril sold her to a cow-dealer for about

• 10s. but he did not we any cow in the market promising enough
in appearance, and returned home without a cow, but satisfied with
the price be bad got for the " old un." The cow-dealer calculated
upon Smithfield Market as a better emporium for disposlog of his
bargain, and accordingly drove her there, in order to sell her to the
polony pudding merchants, but there was a glut in that description
of dainty in consequence of the late floods, which have proved
fatal to so many poor beasts. The cow would not sell even for the
money which had been just given for her, and the owner was about
to dispose of her ibr less, when a doctor, who had been regarding
the beast fur some time, offered for a fee of Ss. to make her look
as young is she had been ten years before. The fee was imme-
diately paid ; the doctor took his patient to a stable, carded her all
over, prescribed some strange diet for her, sawed down her berm
from thorough sad irregular condition to which years had Swelled
them, into the tapering smoothness of youth, and delivered her to
the owner more like a calf than the venerable ancestor of calves.

The cow-dealer was struck with the extraordinary transformation,
and it immediately occurred to him (a proof that a cow-dealer
can be dishonest as well as a horse•dealer) to sell her for the
highest price he could get, without saying a word about her
defects and Infirmities. Having learned that the Epping farmer
was in want of a cow, he thought he could not send his bargain to
better quarters than those she was accustomed, to, and he forthwith
dispatched her to Romford market, where her old master was on
the look-out for a beast. She immediately caught his eye. lie
asked her age. The driver did not know, but she was a line young
un. * yve seen a cow very hke her somewhere," said the farmer.

" Aye r said the driver; "then you must have seen her a long
way off, for I believe she is an Alderney." "An Alderney
What do you ask for her?" The price was soon fixed. The driver
got XIS 7s. for the cow, and the farmer sent her home. The
ingenuity exercised might be guessed at from the fact that the per.
son who drove the beast home had been at her tail for the last seven
years at least twice a-day, and yet he did not make the discovery,
although sbe played some of her old tricks en the journey, and
turned into the old cow-bouse, and lay down in her old bed with all
the familiarity of an old acquaintance. At length the discovery
was to be made. The cow was milked, and 'milked. but the most
that could be got from her for breshfan was a pint, and that was
little beast than sky blue. The farmer, in grief and astonishment,
sent her to a cow doctor, who bad been in the habit of advising in
her case, and compWned that she gave no milk. " Milk I" said
he, " how the devil should she poor old creature !—Sure it isn'e
by cutting her horns, and giving her linseed oil cakes, and scrub-
bing beer old limbs, that you can expect to male her give milk
The fanner was soon convinced of the Imposture, and would indeed
forgive it if the laugh against hint could be endured.
Ileas.ms regretted that the Lord Mayor could not interfere.
He believed that the farmer mast be content with the benefit tio-
rivedTroin hie experience.
BOXING.

The Types of the P. R. bad yesterday morning. what may with
propriety be termed, nearly " a finished treat." The Hero of Bat•
tlebridge and alley, who conducted themselves with so much man-
liness is the early part of the summer, were the combatants. Not
until nearly twelve o'clock was it knows in the ticinity of the acre
where the fight would be (Roston, Harrow, and Edgesvue, were
hinted, nor was Battersea forgotten). The Old Reid, however, be-
yond Primrose swami was eventually fixed open, and at the time
sAirdthe parties in she secret were anxiously bending forward.
battle lasted but 33 minutes, but it was certajnly nothing
but real work, mixed with asmuch et the real thing as could be n-
ested from aspirants who-had before skews that they were 18 up
as something." It would be team to describe more of the ten
rounds than as follows, as the last five but one werecompletely in
favour of Sam, the hero of Battle-bridge, who, though be lost the
fight by an accident, deserved A better lot.
Rosins 1. Both eager to get the tirlzsling rain In the other's face,
and each equally cautious bow be gave the chance away. Ryky
at length let fly, ind was seat by Sam at the same moment. In fact,
so two blows could have boss gives with mere precision and effect,
1 and the conks of both kiwi chorus with the drops falling from
twat. Real hitting, with meted advantage, continued until they
whim Ryley hill mulleemest.
2. • awe deasembeeti nay we never saw. The morning was
by se mem iiveltbi to stoke child's play of It, and " get your
wilt dace as men as yea can" was the order of the day. Ryky
ateempted a fish hit, which told but slightly, and received full in
themouth, Wft his clapper, or at least one-half of it, quiet until
lassie' die kW joked it again. Ryley, however, caught Sam stain
eis She sunk, and in gig to earth, on the lug, which redsced the
glow of Ids Meads. flem; however, proved his game, and in
5,4, and /Waved be knew what he was about, and kept to
mitlighting, am adman was easy as him. Ryley was not behind
is courage, sad mill the sixth round be received punishment in
law In ebb ameed, Sam received a chance blow on the temple,
end Ityley weld to have brought himself, nearly bane, as a crib-
bage ykyer wadi all it. He, 100 ever, found oat he was ink-
takes, and up to &elm round, though in favour of Sam, there Was
nothing but hard Hub*
10th and last.—aida seemed determined to close the concern.
and it real braver, milliard hitting could do it, they fully satisfied
every one.- The *el flew freely from both, and what with their
disfigured feaumNa ant the pickle they were is from falling, to s
by-mender. dilly siselh,aly had done their morning's work.=Sam•
however. holikelingtleg to throw his opponent, missed his catch. and
by stem mews failing, half on his neck and half oo his head, pee
bk remit oak a twist as for some minutes put aside every feelings
kat list of kar for. his safety. Re, however, so far recovered, ae
sobs takes home to his lodgings, and the stake, ten sovereigns, was
Afilleerod es Ryley, who, with the exception of sise accident, was
at son pooldied than Sam.

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COURT 07 CHANT
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ibis was a motion on it
Giassitax. for an injunctir
certain proprietors of lan
river Merser,,from maki
ibor6,—..lnjunetion grants
COURT Of KING'S
GIMBAL IBUI
This action was brougl
Burton, against the defer
*trespass. The plaintiff,
that the defendant (a bail
wing his house, and w
The 2efendant pleaded tl
issued against one Capta
due to Messrs. Hurd and
he enteied the house of
posing the plaintiff•was
process in his hands app
logy was made in behal
was agreed between the
Dunham would repeat t
wants in his'town house
the plaintiff would acce
satisfaction and discha
apology was made in th
tiff received it in satisfy
Mr. BROUGHAM stab
the evidence that a bill
Mad and Johnson, wh
for a considerable sum.
the amount, and the di
January last an examin
Office, respecting an of
by his servant, and' he
to be the person again!
rant, went to his house
perty. The General IA
that he had proceeded
defendant not only we
but to his house at He
covered. It appeared
dead for some years, al
trespass had been come
Mr. SCARLET?, for
General Burton liavini
would have been at re
been active in biingin
evidence of the witness
was made, and the Gs
the way before stated, ;
Mr. BROUGHAM, in
the apology highly it
derive no advantage fr
he had done wrong.
proper impression fro
and the General was
made in their heating
respectability might
The General never ga'
The Jury, under all
diet for the plaintiff.—
BARON C
Mr. CAMPBELL opt
at the similarity of th
nerable Judge.
Mr. SCARLET? stat
material facts, said he
one of heavy damage
the hospitality of the
the marriage might 1
might have existed, s
with another man, not
With her. The plai
lived- upon £BO a-ye
when poverty comes
window. On £BO a
his return from Indi:
bad not been correct
her 15s. a week. 1
karat that she lived
name; they afterwa
David Laing saw
lung, a foreigner; h
India in 1816 ; in tl
saw them when the
he was twenty-two
only employment by
glass; he went to
was appointed to gi
June last ; she lived
road, Walworth;
was told by her tha
her lodger; I undo
longed to her ; the
member the house,
Mrs. Graham ; no
scribed her as havi
directed to Mrs. W
I mentioned the
April, 1823.
Cross-examined
lodged in my house
to sit for her ports
tember till Decem
return, he told me
sant letter respectil
He said he would
divorced from her
not to know what
his clothes, and to
of intelligence fro
her. • He is still ii
told me that she
By the Jary.—Sod
&same foe it.
James Leger 1
and Mrs. Graham
"he was Mr. Grab
had one and they I
dear." She tot
Graham, was he
Cross-examine
floor ; there was
no bed room ; th
that he was an ui
Beery Lanes, a It
Cross-examined.-
Mr. &alum ad
Thomas Saunders
there on the 6th of
MT. THRsBIGE
entitled to main:
Timbrell, it had
action was the lc
The LORD Cl
had not been so

LAW REPORI%

COURT OP CHANCERY, DECEMBER ta.
coatiottaTtos 01 LIVERPOOL v. THRRLFALL AND OTHRIUL
This was a motion on information by the ATTORNIT-
GoIRAL for an injunction to restrain the defindants,
Main proprietors of land on the Cheshire tide of the
peer Mersey, from making an embankment on that
charc.—lnjunetion granted.
COURT OV KING'S BENCH, DECEMBER 15.
GINZRAL BURTON W. DUNHAM.
This action was brought by General Napier Christi*
beton, against the defendant, to recover damages for
s trespass. The plaintiff, by his declaration, complained
Mat the defendant (a bailiff) committed a trespass in nib
tering his house, and wrongfully seizing his g00d5...-.
The defendant pleaded that a writ and execution had
issued against one Captain But ton, for a sum of money
due to Messrs. Hurd and Johnson, solicitors, and that
be entei ed the house of the plaintiff erroneously, sup-
posing the plaintiff was the person against whom the
process in his hands applied. It went on to say an apo-
logy was made in behalf of the defendant ; and that it
was agreed between the plaintiff and one Gray, that if
Dunham would repeat the apology before plaintiff's ser-
vants in his'town house and country-house at Homey,
the plaintiff would accept and receive the same in full
satisfaction and discharge of the trespass; that the
apology Was made-in the terms proposed, and the plain-
tiff received it in satisfaction of the trespass.
Mr. BRoUGHAM stated the case. It appeared from
the evidence that a bill of exchange was in the hands of
Bald and Johnson, which made Captain Burton liable
for a considerable sum. Process was issued to recover
the amount, and the defendant had it to execute. In
January last an examination had taken place at a Police
Office, respecting an outrage offered to General Burt.m
by his servant, and 'the defendant supposing the General
to be the person against whom he had the distress war-
rant, went to his house and made a seizure of his pro-
perty. The General told him he was not the man, and
that he had proceeded against the wrong person. The
defendant not only went to the General's town hotise,
but to his house at Hornsey. The error was soon dis•
covered. It appeared that Captain Burton had been
dead for some years, and in short, that an unjustifiable
trespass had been committed.
Mr. SCA RLETT, for the defendant, contended, that
General Burton having accepted an apology, the matter
would have been at rest had not the plaintiff's attorney
been active in bringing the action. According to thel
evidence of the witnesses for the defendant, the apology
was made, and the General consented to receive it in
the way before stated, and not proceed against Dunham.
Mr. Bnouonast, in reply, considered the story about
the apology highly improbable. The General could
derive no advantage from the defendant's admission that
be had done wrong. His servants had received an im-
proper impression from the blunders of the defendant,
and the General was desirous of getting an apology
made in their bearing, in order that his own credit and
respectability might not suffer by their tales abroad.—
The General never gave up his right of action.
The Jury, under all the circumstances, &and a ver-
dict for the plaintiff.—Damages £2O ; costs 40s.
BARON GRAHAM V. WRIGLEY.
Mr. CAMPBELL opened the case, and excited a laugli
at the similarity of the plaintiff's name to tbat of a ve-
nerable Judge.
Mr. SeaeLerz stated the case, and after stating the
material facts, said he did not mean to open the case as,
one of heavy damages. The defendant had not abused
the hospitality of the plaintiff. But, however unhappy
the mart iage might have been, and whatever differences
might have existed, still the wife had no tight to live
with another man, not had another man a tight to cohabit
with her. The plaintiff had returned from India, and
lived upon £BO a-year. It was a common saying that
when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the
window. On I:80 a year they could not live well ;on
his return from India he had learnt that her conduct
had not been correct in India, andhe left her, allowing
her 15s. a week. He went to Scotland, and soon atter
learnt that she lived with the defendant, and went by his
name; they afterwards lived as Mr. and Mrs. Graham.
David Laing saw them married. She was Miss Keis-
ling, a foreigner; he was a portrait painter; went to
India in 1816 ; in that profession returned in 1820; I
saw them when they returned ; they had• little boy ;
be was twenty-two years.of age when he married. The
only employment he had was from me, in painting of
glass; he went to Scotland, where his mother lived; I
was appointed to give her 15s. a week, which I paid till
June last ; she lived at No. 5, Somerset-place, Albany-
road, Walworth ; when I called at the end of 1822, 1
was told by her that Mr. Wrigley, or Mr.'Ridley, was
her lodger ; I understood from her that the house be-
longed to her ; the second time I went I could not re-
member the house, and inquired for her by the name of
Mrs. Graham ; no one knew of such a person; I de-
scribed her as having a foreign accent, and I was then
directed to Mrs. Wrigley ; I found her by that name;
I mentioned the circumstance to her ; this was in
April, 1823.
Cross-examined by Mr. THEssunta.—Mr. Graham'
lodged in my house when Miss Caroline Keisling came
to sit for her portrait. They lived together from Sep-
tember till December, in the year 1820. After their
return, he told me that he had received a very unplea-
sant letter respecting her improper conduct in India.—
He said be would leave her for a time, and must get
divorced from her. He was so distressed that he seemed
not to know what he said. I went at his desire to get
his clothes, and to tell Mrs. Graham that in consequence
of intelligence from India he would live no longer with
her. •He is still in my debt for advances to her. She
told me that she kept a lodging-house.
By the Jury.—Sometimes I went with the money, sometimes
she came for it.
James Leger lodged a fortnight at No. 5, with Mr.
and Mrs. Graham ; I know the defendant WI igley, and
lie was Mr. Graham ; there were but two bed-rooms, I
had one and they the other ; he generally called her " my
dear:' She told me that Mr. Wrigfey, calling him
Graham, was her second husband.
Cross-examined.—The bed rooms were on the first
floor ; there was a lumber room on the staircase, but
no bed room ; there was no second floor ; did not know
that he was an unemployed purser.
Henry Lunes, a lodger at another time, gave similar evidence.
Cress-examined.—l did not know that he bad only 3s. a day.
Mr. SCAILLITT admitted that be was a purser on half-pay.
Thomas Saunders, lodge:, then gave similar evidence. He was
there en the 6th of May, 1824.
Mr. THasSIGER submitted that the plaintiff was not
entitled to maintain this case. In the case of Wynn v.
Timbre% it had been held that the-ground of -such an
action was the loss of the comfort and society of the wife.
The LARD CHIEF. JUSTICE thought the separation
had not been so great as to prevent her (ruin applying for

restitution of conjugal rights, and therefore the;astion
was maintainable. But the circumstances were for the
Jury in mitigation of damages.
Mt. THROWER addressed the Jury; and argued
that for this most trifling of actions nominal damages
were fully adequate to the injury.
The LORD CHIRP JUSTICR summed up the circum-
stances.—Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages Is.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DECEMBER 15.
WYATT V. COCKS AND ANOTHER.
Mr. Serjeant-WILDS stated the case. This was an
action for loss of character. The plaintiff, Elizabeth
Wyatt, lived in the service of Mr. Cooks, a most re-
spectable Gentleman, and a banker at the Westend of
the town, and remained there two years and a half.
Finding the situation too hard for her, she gave notice
to Mrs. Cocks that she would leave. Mrs. Cocks
warned the plaintiff against 11 quitting her service, as if
she did, she would have to retura to the country—to
poverty, and perhaps disgrace." She afterwards wished
her to remain in her service. The plaintiff, after leaving
Mrs. Cocks, went to Mrs. Burnet, who applied for her
character to Mrs. Cocks, from which arose the cause of
the present action. Mrs. Cocks represented the gill as
being deficient in everything, that she knew nothing of
hair-dressing or dressing. Among other expressions,
she said that the girl was " unsteady.' Now that word
might bear many constructions, but with Ladies of edu-
cation, like Mrs. Cocks and Mrs. Burnet, its meaning
could not be mistaken—for Mrs. Burnet answered to

this effect—" If that be the case (unsteady) I have
daughters growing up, and she is very unfit to be about
them." This was the ground of the action. The plain-
tiff was in humble circumstances, but her character
was the dearest thing she had, and he trusted that the
Jury would so consider it. The plaintiff had been re-
fused service in consequence of Mrs. Cocks refusing to
give her a character. She had been teduced to great
distress.. As a further act of kindness, indeed, the only
one on the part of the defendant, he made this a Special
Jury case—no doubt thinking, that they being masters
would know how to deal with the case. He would only
add, that the girl had given general satisfaction to her
mistress,. and he did not see why a servant should be
compelled to remain in a moral prison, from the fear of
not getting a character from her mistress.
Mrs. Burnett—Remembers about a twelvemonth ago
calling on Mrs. Cocks, of Harley-street, for a character
of Elizabeth Wyatt, for honesty, sobriety, &c. Mrs.
Cocks said she was perfectly honest and sober, but that
there was a general want of steadiness in her conduct:
that was the whole of her answcr ; witness enquired if
'plaintiff was a good dress-maker? defendant replied,
that she knew very little of dress-making ; she said that
plaintiff was formerly a nursery maid ; after the ex-
Tression of,want of steadiness, witness said that she had'
daughters growing up, and that she could not take a
person of that character: defendant made no answer to,
this; she said that she afterwards took her to attend
about her own person.
Cross.examined—She said that her want of steadiness about the
children was the cause of her making the change of taking her about
het own person.
Mr. William Canary Jenkins had occasion, on Wed-
nesday, 7th January, to wait on Mrs. Cocks, in conse-
quence of what be had heard respecting Betsy_ Wyatt.
Ws. Cocks had been a pupil of his. He said, " Mrs.
Cocks, did you say to Betsy Wyatt she was to return to
her wretched hovel in the country, and that you would
take care that she should not get another situation in
London?'' She answered, " I believe I was hasty in
making the expression respecting the wretched hovel in
the country, but I did not say anything about a situa-
tion." I then said to her, " I hope you are not going
to refuse the girl a character?" She replied, "flow can
I give her a character for steadiness, when she left my
house at five o'clock in the morning, to go I know not
where? I awoke between dime and four in the morn-
ing, but waited till five or half past five before I rung
the bell, for fear of alarming the house—that was the
reason of ray discovering her being out." She did not
say at what time of the year it was. She believed it
was in the Regent's Pirk that the plaintiff had been.
The house of Mrs. Cocks is close to the Regent's Park.
I said to Mrs. Cocks, that if a servant of mine had done
so, I should discharge her instantly.
Cross-examined.—l asked the girl why she had de-
ceived Mrs. Jenkins by not telling her she had been out
in the Park in the morning ? She then wept, and said
she was willing to apologize to Mrs. Cocks for so doing.
I told her to consult Mt. Stephens, the attorney, and
Mr. Ballantyne, the clergyman, before she did anything.
Re-examined.—:-When I told her of the complaint of
going out at five in the morning, she did not say how
many months it was before she left. When I saw Mrs.
Cocks, she said that she did not refuse to give the plain-
tiff a character, but observed, gg how can I give her a
-character for steadiness, when she is not steady ?—I
cannot give an unjust character." I then spoke of an
apology, and said I would speak to plaintiff about it.
Elizabeth Lee remembers plaintiff leaving the house.
I am a servant to Mrs. Cocks. I remember Mrs. C. say-
ing that I might tell Betsy to go to see her. I said to
Betsy, go and make an apology. I remember the morn-
ing when Betsy went to the Regent's Park. It was
twelvemonths before she gave notice of leaving. She
attended the children, and afterwards waited on Mrs.
Cocks; she had the care of a child who fell ill. Mrs.
Cocks was satisfied with her conduct.
Cross-examined—l did not hear Sir William Knighton find fault
with her.
Recalkd—l did not hear what the apology was for. It was
something private between Mrs. Cocks and Betsy. The plain-
tiff remained a twelvemonth after the morning of going out to the
Regent's Park.
Barnard Stadds, butler in the family. I heard Mrs.
Cocks say to Betsy that she might stay if she-pleased; I
heard Betsy say that she got a pelisse from her mistress,
for her kindness to the child; I believe it was a new
pelisse; it was three months after the child recovered.
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN addressed the Jury for the
defendant, contending that there was no malice proved,
against her, and before a verdict could be given for the
plaintiff, the intention of malice must be proved. What
would the Jury think of a servant girl going out at five
o'clock in the morning, without the knowledge of her
mistress? But the girl was refused a character—she
might have gone into the service of Mr. Alexander it
she thought ptoper. He would net say that she was
not right in getting her character cleared. first, but that
might have been done without having recourse to an
attorney and an officious clergyman. The allusion to
the case being submitted to a special Jury was not at all
called for. Special Jurymen, as masters, must feel as
sensibly alive to the conduct of servants as other persons.
The girl could not be termed steady who was reproved
bySirWilliam Knighton for carelessness in nursing a sick
child, and Mrs. Cocks was justified in giving a character
as she found the girl to deserve. In tact, she denied
having had any intention of preventing her getting