Star.
London, England, 1828-03-24 00:00:00

ASSIZE. INTELLIGENCE.-

QAFORD CIRCUITs—StiItIIWSI3IIIIY,,Masca. at. .
Mr. Justice PARK and Mr.. Baron Vanuoast opened
the commission here yesterday ; but business did not
itimmetick tilt this Morning.
CIVIL SlDlC.—(UtiVire Baron Vincsas.)
saDomost,trusta•ca O. anruot.nt.
Mr. JtiariMi opened the pleidings. This was an ac-
tion by the plaintiff
.to' recover from the defendant a
compensation in damages for the seduction of his
daughter.
Mr. C. PlittLIPS, after a long speech, called the foi!
'vritnesses.
Ann Hunter said, I am the plaintiff's daughter. He
is a c4rver and gilder, residing at Bridgenoith. My
mother if nearly sixty years of age, and is greatly
alicted by ill health, and distress 'of mind, in conse-
-quente *of my misfOrtunds. I have two brothers and
three sisters. One of my brothers being anidiot born,
is unable to get his living. Lined to attend upon him.
,I am not twenty one now, and-ist I 4 began to wet k
at My business of a dress-maker, for whititi had been
!editeXted. I used to go out to work. Ise 1fi2.1. I be-
came acquainted with the defendant,' by his lodging
at my sister's. I at first believed the lady who lived
wih him to be his wife.' Shortly after I met him at
my sister's hsaet me in the street.; he said he respected
me, and if 4 wasted Sitis to set me up in business I
should have it, instead of going about to different
bones to work. I said I was mach obliged to him, but
would rattler not pilot 1 had got afe* shillings in my
prOet of my o*trand did not want his. Shortly alter he
met me again, wkentotepeated she same offers, but 1
di aped them. He used to watch me when I went Durand
returned from welt; and wait foram and walk with me.
He did not visit at my father's house. He didahis from.
184 to 1826; At last be told nit he war going.. to
leivi Aridgeitinth and go-to Richmond, Y-orkshire.
../Ie told me he was not married to. the Lady holieed•
with, that he was going, so leave her, and- allow hbr 301.
per annum, that the should binonicet troeblt"to
fleasked me to go with him to Ric:binned; Am said ill
refused, he would put an end to his esistenee ; he would'
bang or shoot himself, or I should see -him/throw •lihts-.
-self into the Severn. He made oaths andvdmisestha
if I would go with him he would settle dOl. per annum:
upon me, and marry me; he persuaded me to "we
Bridgcuorth, to go with him; be debited nag not t.'
take my box, but to buy another, and keep my own
boil locked, that my father and mother should not
knob what was in it, and take a few thinAs with me in
the new hoz. I accordingly did so, and sent by coach
from Bridgenorth to Wolverhampton on the Thursday
beforc-Christmis Day. He had gone to Dudley 'the day
pferribus to settle with the Excise Collector. He said,
before lie went, he would call at my father's house to
say farewell, it I did not think my-mother would base
arty stlepieion, and he would ask poor Tom, any idiot
lartither; in drink bis health before he went.; be came so
the house about seven o'clock the eveninghebveheekeat ;

my father wit out he said Tom should drink sebithottto
and he told my sister Hannah to go and fetch a
wine, if my mother had no objection. My mother said.,
there were no wine-drinkers in her house;. but be said
he was sure poor Tom could drink some wine, and it
was accordingly sent for; be gave him some, and said,
" I wish I was as sore of going to Heaven as you are,
Tom." He left Bridgenorth the same dAy. and 1 went
the day following. He met me at the 'Pew Hotel,
Wolverhampton, and from thence we went by coach to
Richmond. in Yorkshire. He told me to say that I
had been married to him two years; that I was t went y-
four years of age, and had one miscarriage. and that if
1 did not say as he told
.me„ he should lose his place in
the Excise. On our way down to Richmond we passed
as brother and sister. We lived there about three
months, when his wife came horn Bridgenorth. The
defendant was out at the time.. She showed me the
certificate of her marriage, and I then gave her up the
keys, and 1501. in money which he had left me to take
care of. He gave me a with which I went to my sister's,
at Birmingham. She got me a situation, but I was
unable to remain in it, as I was in the family way ; 1
therefore went home to my father's on the 21st of S p-
tember, and on the lath- of November. was psi' to bed.
The child is the defendant's, and is living. My tattier
suepolts it.
Cross ezamined by Mr. CA mruELL—We used to meet
in the streets, never in the fizlds or in any house ; he
behaved always very politely to me; I thought te was
single; and I allowed him when walking with me to put
his arm round my waist. At first I thought he was a
mulled man, till he told me he was not. The &fend-
ant is about fifty years of age; when he :used to follow
me about, I told him not to do so; I said be -yrouldtte.
the ruin of me. None of my family ever kiwis` Ot-Qty
acquaintance with him till I went way. He took ho
liberties with me till we arrived at Richmond, where he
represented me to be his wife. The witness shed tears
during pot of the cross•examination, which was very
long and severe.
John Hunter, a brother to the last witness, confirmed
her evidence with respect to the defendant's calling at
her father's house the night before. He went away, and:
described the state of distress in which his father and •
mother were involved on discovering that his siver had:
absconded.

Mr. John Collis, a supervisor in the Eicts44toyed
that the defendant at the time he left Bridgenortb had,
a salary of 1101. per annum. • He is now an examiner,
and his salary is raised, but the witness did not„kaow
to what amount.

Mr. CAMPBELL addressed the Jury for the defection
And Mr. Baton VAUGHAN recapitulated the evidence to
the Jury, remarking on the facts 'herein detailed. •
The Jury. after a consultation of abyut ten minutes,
returned a ♦erdict for the plaintiff—Damages. 7(g.