Star.
London, England, 1827-07-02 00:00:00

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Merles Jones.
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of the departure of the Baroo.
This was the whole of the evidence for the plaintiff.
Mr. Enamels then rose, and addressed the Jury on
the part of the defendant. -He observed, That it was a
most difficult task for an advocate to address a Jury pn
the part of the defendant upon cases of this painful na-
ture, and it became more difficult when he had to ad-
dress a Jury on the part of a defendant charged with
offences such as are imputed t' Lord Sussex Lennox.
Thi., state of difficulty and embarrassment was often
deeply aggravated, from the necessity the advocate was
under to shape his course in such a manner as, while
he sought to mitigate, might not in reality inflame the
mi-conduct of the'clefendant; and in the discharge of
this painful and delicate duty, a slip in judgment on
his part might often prove fatal to his client. Some-
times an advocate sought to mitigate the offence of the
defendant by casting the original cause of that offence
on the misconduct of the plaintiff ; and at other times
it was his painful duty to shew that the responsibility of
the defendant was diminished .by the worthlessness of
the object for whose loss he was to answer. From tits
pain of having recourse to such topics of defence, he was
released by the explicit directions of his client, who had
expressly desired that he should not cross examine a sin-
gle witness, nor call a witness himself, for the purpose
of casting the slighest imputation on the character or
conduct of the Baron de Robeck, whom he felt that he
had deeply injured. This conduct on the part of Lord
Sussex Lennox, chewed that, even under the heavy cala•
mity that had befallen him, he still retained the feelings
of an honourable man, and could not seek to palliate
his offence by exciting the slightest suspicion against the
conduct of the man he had injured. He acknowledged
himself guilty, and felt it would be most disgraceful to
attempt to throw any portion of the responsibility on
the innocent. He not only did not attempt to deny, but
even did not seek to palliate his offence. Still there
were circumstances in this ease, which, notwithstand-

ing the instructions of his client, he thought it his duty
to mention to the Jury ; and which, notwithstanding
the eloquent and powerful appeal that had been made
to their feelings, they would not think undeserving
their consideration. They had heard from the plaintiff's
advocate, the age of the Lady, her never-surpassed
attractions. They had heard the age of his client—
they would recollect the unsought for and unexpected
manner in which they had met, and they would then
say whether it were possible to charge his client with
having formed a deliberate plan of seduction ? and
whether the melancholy event that bad taken place was
iiot to be attributed to the resistless power of that !As-
siott which all had felt? and which, when oncti it gets
possession of the mind, like a torrent sweeps **sty what-
ever would resist its progress. This all•powerful passion
had unhappily gained the ascendancy in his client's
youthful bosom, and • overcome his better feelings, and
Wt him in the painful State in which he now appears
before the Jury. Mr. Phillips had stated one circum-
stance, which, had it been founded in fact, would
certainly have been a great aggravation of the de-
fendant's conduct. He bad declared that Lord Sussex
Lennox was so lost to decency as to appear publicly in
IParis with the Baroness de Robeck, beardipg the Baron,
her husband, in every public place; but its statement
was answered by the evidence, which proved that
another part of the Learned Gentleman's statement was
correct, that the police had been applied to, and Paris
ransacked, in endeavours to find her out; and this
proied that the defendant went with her from one hotel
to another, and lived with her under a feigned name.
not for the purpose of courting, but of avoiding pub-
licity. Stir of that aggravation, what was the case?
.A melancholy case, indeed, afflicting to all the parties;
bat they would look at all the circumstances (and the
plaintiff's Counsel had correctly told them that their
duty was not to punish, but to compensate). The Baron
de Robeck, they had heard, was to come to the possession
of wealth; Lord Sussex Lennox was the youngest of
fourteen children. They all knew that, in noble fa-
milies, the fortune was given to the eldest son to sup-
port the family title. Lord Susses Lennox was a poor
man. He did not mention this in justification of his
conduct, nor even in palliation, but that the Jury
should recollect the state of the defendant, and of the
plaintiff, and that compensation, not punishment, was
their duty. What compensation could it be to the Baron
Robeck to ruin the defendant ? It could be no advan-
tage. By heaping ruinous damages on the defend-
ant, they might make it impossible for the plain-
tiff to get any, by making it impossible for Lord
Lennox to return to this country.—Mr. Phillips,
in the conclusion of an address, the most most calcu-
lated to excite the feelingi of a Jury of any they had
ever heard, had called their attention to the important
consideration, that they were to give a verdict of judg-
ment, not of passion : they were not to pronounce a
verdict of indignation, but coolly to compare this case
with others, and say, under all the circumstances, what
would be a moderate compensation to the plaintiff. He
Might allude to other facts in this case to shew, that it
was not surrounded with those 'circumstances of aggra-
vation by which 'others were. distinguished. These
had been cases in which a plaintiff bad sought conpen-
sation from the friend by whom his confidence had'
been betrayed. Here it was admitted there was no
such aggravation: no friendship had been betrayed,'
no hospitality had been violated. It did not appear
that there had been any acquaintance between any of
the parties before the defendant accidentally met the
Lady at Brighton, in the absence of her husband, and
fell into the grievous error for which he had now to an-
swer ; and it, as had been mentioned by his friend, it
WAS the defendant's intention to make her every repara-
tion in his power, they would recollect that it was from
his means of doing so they were to take damages for
the plaintiff; and though the plaintiff was not to be de
prived of his damages on this account, yet the Jury
would consider that Lord Sussex Lennox yielded to
their verdict with the greatest submission, and the
deepest regret that he had caused so much pain to
others.
The SECONDARY charged the Jury very brit fly, ob
serving, there were shades and degrees in all cases, and
it was their duty to look at all the circumstances, boils
in aggravation and mitigation, and give such temperate
damages as, on a consideration of thevihole case, they
should think justice demanded.
The Jury retired, and after continuing in delih,ra-
, tion fitly minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages, 'lwo j housand ive Hundred Pounds.
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Tu-sdity, I. ,rd Fonowicii, the eldest son of Earl
C.twr►a, attained his majority. The occasion was celebrated at
Wingham with great glee : the bells rang merry peals throughout
the entire day, and all was harmony and hilarity.