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17 and IS, is sent from school to make his fortune in
; he is recommended to a Gentleman who was
Making a rapid progress in the situation in which he
was ; within a few months alter his arrival he is ap.
pein.eeL. et the age of Is, to an Ensigncy by Lord
Like; 1w removes From the regiment to the Upper
Provinces of India, and sees nothing of Sir George
B !law till the year ISO 6, when you find Sir George
Barlow was thade Governor General. At what age
w -IS he then t At the beginning of ISCG he was but
twenty years of ace, and on the very day I am now
iddreseing you, he is only thirty years of age, conse-
quently in Cie early pert of MG, in February or
March, when Sir George Widow arrived at Calcutta
as Governor-Geeeril, lie was not twenty-one years
'cif aro, : in the mean time he had been undoubtedly
meriting the gruel opinion of Lord Leke, and ,
the Roan opinion of Sir George Bailew by the ser.l
vices he was peilieming ; he had at that time been
promoted to a conmane, and Sir George Berloar
Mule him he. Aefeete.Carrip ; he had be, n app lilt-
ed by Lord Lake to the 7tith regiment, but on beteg
appointed Aide-dc Camp to it George Barlow, he
made an rich Inge into the 31411, ouc baitaholl of
which regiment was then in England ; and in I 80(3,
be receives melees fr nn Lord Lake to quit India and
j ui Vs regiment in Englend.
'• Now, Gentlemen. here is a case which my
(.earned Friend, Mr. Gurney, has given a colouring
te, which the facts do not jitstify : he calls upon you
to suppose that Sir George Bellew appointed hint to
be the protector of his wile ; I do not believe, as a
seen knowing the world, that he would have thought
it prudent to appoint a young man, of the age of (21,
gnerdian of a woman : tinder sea circum tances,
it is not usual fora man weo kitaws the world, and
kn Aiirs what men and women ate made of, to piece
tat confidence ie a young maa, -ellen at his period
of life his p +wens sere strone, to be the gneidian of
his wife. P. Avever, he qni led Indie for Etigland
becomes a passenger in the same vessel with L.ady
liarlow and three of her child:ea ; he proceeds to
England, she having no female with her, and having
se( sail in November, 18°6, they arrive in England
ia the month oh May, 18 ; and if you will take the
freebie to colipute tt, you will find it to he about six
months. My Learned Friend, Mr. Gurney, has
asked you to prefiume, that before the last return of
Lady 13 is law to this country, a connection had taken
place hewer!, ese parties, but his has not proved
any dates. Wired I say more, than that from this un-
fertunete period, this unhappy connection was form-
ed. Veit see hum the evidence, teat the good con-
duct et Lady Barlow towards her hu,basid, is only
pee.. &nen to the ye u IS ,G; all that has happen.
re sine... arises nit et the evidence of Miss Page. I
Leg pardon, there is one other witeess, Mr. Oakes,
ern i sails, diet at the hense of the Governor-General,
he uc ver saw any thing but at ectieeate conduct.—
Miss Page has proved, that eluting Lady Barlow's
atey in England, between 18(4' and IBeB, she col-
eted seine expressions, which led her to suppose
L Bellow h id a partiality fir the Maj though
he was not then a Mejer. A lcw weeks alter his
arrival, he is ordered to the hie i,f XVip,lit to inn his
regiment, and vet y ssitortiy utter 1w returned to India.
menti ni this, merely tit shew that mese things were
all an:live:ems in hi. military duty.
Gell!knirn, this is the nature of the case ; I do
co; deny the iejitry that F;r Geu'ge Barlow has re-
ceived ; the question is, by what rules you are to-be
guided in assessing; the damagi s, and, unfortunately,
the times in which we live are such, that it is almost
necessary for an Advocate to state the different cases
th it emir in which damages are sought ; in one case
you find the deliberate seducer selecting his oltjecti
for the purpose of gratifyirig that base passiar., which
dots not deserve the name of love, a man who knows
how to take advantage of the weaker side of the
weaker sex, and by various artifices overcomes that
virtae winch always requires a guatd, and always re-
quires discretion ; that is a case which a Jury will
consider as a very aggravated one, and will glee the
largest damage,: hut I n vcr remember a case, in
Vt 1116 3 Geitlem in so yenng as this defendant was,
at the time the ceetwatein was fumed, was ever vi-
sited by a Juts wish heavy damages. With respect
to iee sufferings of the plaintiff in such a case, un-
doubtediy to a nom who loses the society of his wife,
it is the saute whither it arises frem violent passions
ca from the deliberate seduction of a man of the
world, but the Mkt/ dove to the husband is very
different from a case in which the arts of seduction
have been made use of ; in such a case it calls for
ample damages ; but, Gentlemen, be pleased to con-
sider the vast differeace between the two cases. I
will suppose a' man of thirty or forty years of age,
who has spent his life in the army, and perhaps hardly
seen the face of a white woman, coming to London
and seeing such a variety of temalifs, it such a man
should come into the house of a married woman and
seduce her, he has a deliberate object in view, before
the passion is conceived in himself, in order to raise
a passion in Cie woman for the purpose of graeifying
his es it lust. That is a case which too often happens,
and when it does, it calls for heavy daina:....,es. In the
case of a youny married woman, living in scenes of
gaiety, of which a man takes advantage, that also is
aaether aggravation, but compare such a case where
heavy damages have been given, with the present.
l+:re is a yieing man goes out to India at a period
when trobehly he hardly thought of a womaa, en-
deavoereig to gain reputation and tame, seeking it,
as the poet say even in the CA1111014% mouth.' And,
Gentlemen, you will eemeinber, that there is not the
least evidence, tior the least insinuation respecting
him till after he left Calcutta, when you find them
b,ah en board the ship: a Gentleman has been called,
whe has spoke of the vinduct of Lady Barlow and
Sir George towards each other, and a respectable
Lady has also been called, who states, that, up to
that time they lived affectionately together. The de-
fendant could not contemplate what afterwards fol-
lowed, and I would appeal to your' own experience,
whether so young 3. man could have conceived any
thing sr, audacious, or so extraordwary, as to attempt
the deliberate seduction of a WOlll4ll so much supe-
riorg in rank, in station, and in age. I say the thin
impossible, till he was placed on board this vessel.
" Gentlemen—lt is one at the charges I have re-
ceived trom,my client to say nothing that can, as a
Gentleman, or a man of honour, impute any thing
to that lady, for it often happens, when an adulterer
has disgraced a wurtiath will made her wretched fur
dim remaiimier of her Wee that when he comes before

a Jury k is to heap further misery And disgrace upon
her head, lit how dills:mot the conduct of this Gen-
tleman. He is anxious to takovvwry possible blame
u! himself.

ipon
Gentlenien—You will look at their situation,
with the facts proved before you : the defendant was
just trenty-one years of age, they were placed on
board this vessel together, he had not much experi-
ence of the female sex, but placed in company with
a lady of considerable talent, and, as my Learned
Friend, Mr. Glirney, stated, ctf pleasing manners,
dining with her, being in habits of the greatest tarni-
liarity, no other object to attract his attention. and
that for six months. I sty, it is not to be wondered
that the passions of any young man, al such an age,
and io vie!' a SitUAIIOII9 should become too strong
bir his teas ; and you will recollect this Lady was
hoard without a female companion, with.
silt d screet trietid to suggest that she might possi-
bly go a step t.,4e fir in the familiarity she exetcised
towards a young man, thotigh he was connected with
her, in a certain degree, by the tics of relationship. I
say the same apology belongs to both of the-n; it was
not unnatural that such a passion should have arisen
an the minds of both. _ _ _

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Gentlemen—Gun forbid that I should impute
this as a matter of blame to Sir George Willow,
there may be a thousand things in a mail's life,
which, it they were to come over .1g 'in, he Avotii.l
not do ; but I have no doubt Sir George B ,rlow had
the utmos. reliance upon the virtue Alla fidelity of his
wife: ; but I do feel as confidently, though I have not
the honour of knowing him, that when this clicuin-
stance oze tarred to h's mind he has regretted 1w did
nut tike (he prec onion of sending witi her a female
companion ; we all of us do things tli.et sometimes
Are the CALIs:S of calamities which we do not feliesee.

" Gentlemen— I have made voyages, and long
voyages, and I know that when a single passicn lays
hold of the mind it leads it to every sort of extrava-
gance. I say, that if I had been Sir George Ballow
I would not have permitted my wite to make such
a voyage for six months, I will not say with this
young man, or any other young man, not merely
possessing natural passions, with a woman of such
fascinating talents, which made it mo,t dangerous to
trust her without a female companion. What is the
use of a female companion ? r.ey become gnardiaits
of each other, the me female watches the tither with
greater nicety than a man is likely to do, and there-
fore if she had had a female WWI her, to converse
with her, it probably would have drawn her atten-
tion Item the assiduities of this young man, and I do
hope you will think, when you look at the nature of
this case in the light in which I am putting it, you
will see it is not a case in which there is deliberate
seduction, but the effect of ain uncontroulable pas-
sion, which became too strong fur him to overcome.
We are not angels, the Brasu that made us also en-
dued us with passions, and it is by him alone we live
and move, and have our being ; you must therefore
make allowances both for men and women placed in
such a situation, in the cabin of a ship—together
morning, noon,- evening and night, they being the
only objects of each other's attention, it appears to
me they must come either very much to hate one
another, or very much to love one :wither ;•in long
voyages if a person is of a bad temper they are sent
to Coventry. These parties are placed in 'his situa-
tion, the one a young man who had known little of
life, who had passed only the last year of his life at
that time in England, and the other a woman full of
• attraction, she possessed a most agreeable person, and
he by no means disagreeable ; let me ask, how, un-
der such circumstances, it was possible that some af-
fection of a very strong nature should not arise be-
tween them ?

64 Gentlemen—lt is said by a Philosopher, and
said justly, that 16:ndship between men and women
who have strong passions at that time of life, is nearly
allied to love. Then put these two persons together,
leave them unprotected six months, and I defy
:iny one not to see what must be the inevitable con-
sequences. Do you then sit here to visit with severe
damages, that which rrhaps would have been the
coni.:uct of every other man in the universe ? Can
any of you tell what Is the force of those feelings
which o:,erate upon a man's mind ? Are ice not all
s,nsible that there are passions which lay hold c.f the
mind, to which reason would not have listened Is
any man here so complete a Stoic, that if he was
placed with the wife of his friend, who possessed
great attractions, upon a desolate island, can any
man say, can the most virtuous man say, he could
resist the temptation ? N.), we are born with passions,
and no man can answer for himself.

Gentlemen—l beg you to remember, that one
of the passions with which the CREATOR has endued
us is pity, and you will not severely visit those of-
fences into which almost every man would have
fallen.; what would that be but to shut the gates of
mercy to all mankind ? And you, Gentlemen, will en-
deavour not to administer an. imperfect sort of justice
in this lower wnrld,but would make it approach nearer
to that perfect jus:ice which an impartial Judge will
administer to yourselves. Here is a young man, shut
up for six months, without any means of escape, and
the woman the same, exposed to daily intercourse,
with all the relish that agreeable person could be-
stow upon such an intercourse ; I say, therefore, you
will not visit the imperfections of this young man as
you would those of the experienced adulterer, who
firms the course he is pursuing, having his mind
corrupted by his acquaintance w►th the world, he does
not possess that passion which is the most amiable,
and which unites the sexes together, but it is con-
verted into a baser passion, which does not deserve
the name of love.

66 Gentlemen—These are the topics I have thought
proper to submit to you. The defendant is a young
than ; he is now before you, to receive from your
hands the penalty due to his crime; and, Gen-
tleusen, what is he at present ? You hear he was
sent to India at the age of 17 or 18. to make his for-
tune ; he makes it, if it can be called so, in India ; he
returns with nothing but a Major's Commission, Sind
I have no doubt that Sir George Barlow, if he were
placed in your box as a witness, would testify that
he has nothing but this commission to depend upon ;
a Major's Commission, when he is in full pay, is only
about 4500 a year, but when reduced to half pay, it
is of course only half that sum.
66 Gentlemen—Under these circumstances, I hope
you consider the situation of this Gentleman ;
ihe is but 30 years of age, ind he wishes still to serve
ihis country, but if you give a severe verdict against

'him. by inflictiqg heavy damages, the tonsequence
must be a prison My Ciarned Friend was well
aware of the situation of the defendant, and cau-
tiously avoided stating him to be a person in Allier.
circumstances, but he 'alluded to his (whey, who !,:.
retired from business, and is living in affluence ;
I will Juries, in giving damages, visit the father with
the sins of the son ? Gentlemen, let me say, for the
honour of the family, that neither the father or the
mother, or any branch of the defendant's family, had
the least knowledge or suspicion of tl.e lints-course
that was taking place.
" Gentlemen—These are the topics 1. have thourdit
It right to state to )oii. 1 have mot had the least idea
of afidressing myself to your passinos, that was the
business of my Learned Friend ; it has been my gull
business to state the facts of this case, and
you to make those allowances for human frailties
which juries have before allowed, and which I tit:..;
you will again allow. This young rum, at Or: ri7e
of twenty.one, cannot be supposed to have meditated
any injury to the plaintiff, that will justify you -
Ii cling upon him a severe ; in a wi4d,
ti USt you will think 'llk I. inie those cases in wind)
the liptest damages will he