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London, England, 1826-03-17 00:00:00

MUNTER V. WEVDIIAM.

This was an action to recover a compensation in damages for
the loss of services *obtained by the plaintiff in consevence of the
seduction of his servant, by the defendant.
Mr. UROUGHAU appeared fur the plaintiff. •
Mr. Seximare for the defendant.
• The facts were shortly these; the plaintiff is a trades-
man residing at Burton, and keeping the post-otlice
there. Three or four years ago he married the daugh-
ter of a respectable farmer; and shortly after her sister,
Hannah Dunn. came to-reside with them. At that time,
she was about fourteen >eats of age. The defendant,
an exciseman, lodged in the plaintiff's house; and about
ten or elt ven months ago she was discovered tirfal.- preg-
nant by him. As might be styposed, he was obliged
immediately to quit thchouse, and the girl followed him
to a place called Silver-dale; alter an absence of a short
time, she returned with Lim to Burton,. and was there
delivered of a child on the I I th of January la,t.
Mr. SCALILETr, for the defendant, contended that
this was the most extraordinary case of the kind that
had ever appeared in Court. It was not an action
brought by the father or mother of the girl, or with the
consent of any of her religious, but was a suit cops

hsenced by ha brother-in-rawinot to heneSt her, int to
sit whatever damages it might produce into his.own
pocket. When the lather sued, th • faun of action de-
manded a proof of service, and the loss sustained by the
seduction., Here there was no such thing: there was
no evidence to maintain that there had ever been any
servitude or breach of contract. The 'plaintiff had not
paid the expenses of the girl's lying-in, and there was
nothing to chew that ,he might not have left his turnkey
or alleged service, at any time prevtous to the Nur,
complained of.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Danuget,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO W-ST MEET.

Peter Nadett and William Leech, the two men ehurgod with at
highway robbery upon Mr. John Moulton, a farmer at Pr; .1)
Birnet, as described in our paper of Tuesday last, were broi.gbi,
before Sir R. Biome, for final examination. -
At the first examination the prisontrs protested their
.total
cence of the robbery, and declared that the prosectowe, whom they
confessed having seen at the Orange Tree public house, was ,very
drunk. The ch.srge was of so serious a complexion, that lie Chief
Magistrate felt it to be his duty to have the strictest inqoity
tuted into all the circumstances; and with that view he on Moo.i;:y
directed Ledbitter, an active constable of the Ettablishmeot, to re

down to Colney Hatch and the neighbourhood, and to lose impair*
in ascertaining a/i that was necessary to the investigation. The•
prisoners stated that they slept together at Leach's nvither's on the
night of the robbery; this Ledbitter ascertained to be false, au he
also procured the following evidence in corroboratiOg of:the testi.
many of the prosecutor.
Lorton Ely, a carpenter, living at Colney Hatch, stated that on
Saturday night last, about a quarter before twelve o'clock, the.pro.
secutor knocked loudly at his door, and called oat a for Goo's sake*
let me in. I have been rubbed and nearly murdered by two foot.'
pads." The witness let him in, and saw that be was bleedirg.
dreadfully, and in a, very taint state. lie erotic.' and dressed hi 4
wounds as well as he could, and assisted him home. The woken-
tor appeared to the witness to be perfectly sober.
John Jewett, ostler at the Orange Tree, deposed that be sari the
prosecutor at that house on. Saturday night last. The two prisoters
came in between nine and ten o'clock, and had a pint of porter.
Mr. Moulton had some beef for supper, and drank some pofter,
but at a very moderate rate. Witness went to bed at a little Otte
ten o'clock, and Mr. Moulton was then perfectly sober.
The prisoners merely repeated that they were innocent. Leath
seemed agitated and tomewhat desponding. Nadas, on the isms
trary, seemed perfectly at his ease, and evinced a good deal of levity.
The prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial. Na-
den's father, a decent old man, was present, and it was impossible
to observe his extreme grief and anxiety without foam's of cow.
miseration.
ATTON-GA R
Yesterday a curious ease came 'under the cognizance of the pa.
gistrete. It was a complaint made.by an old deerepid man, verging
on 70 years of age, named John Harden, and Mary Elizabeth, his
daughter, against Willions Turk, husband of the latter complaloaut,
for assault and battery.
It appears that the defendant has lived for some time past in the
house of the old man. The daughter about thirteen months since
lost her husband, since which event she has lived with her father.
She bad fallen in with a swain named Trimmer, a few weeks ago,
and at length he, by his. vows, Made a conquest of " the young
widow." The day was fixed for their " nuptials." frocierstr, sues
was the " widow's whim," that she transferred her &freedom' fiom
her affianced husband to a more sprightly Adistils,_which she dis-
covered in the person of the present defendant, Turk, wholm,..
ploted her, for the sake or her aged father, as well as the interest
of her child (she had a child by her first husband), to become
Mrs. Turk, and that he would do for her child. By his fair pro-
mises to do for her and her child, he induced her to countenance

him as her future husband, and every thing was prepared f r the
wedding, which took place on Monday last, at Spite!field's Church.
After the knot had been tied, the bride and bridegroom, followed
by their friends, returned home, where there was a handsome dinner
provided. All were seated at the banquet, when the bridegroom
began to take liberties with his bride. The latter felt disgusted, and
told him there was time for all things, and she should not think of his
kintlerence before all the csufspney. Turk felt hurt, and abi-uptly fear— • .
ins the festive board, took up his bat, and left the room, saying, 6, Veil,
never mind,nta'am,notbing has been done but vat can be undone, and
so here goes." Nothing was seen of him till Wednesday, when he
went to old Harden's house, and with a poker demolished four or
five looking glasses, all the crockery, and several articles of the
household furniture, and assaulted both the old man and his laugh.
ter, who went to her father's assistance. His eaclise for hurdling
the property was, that he had beep to the Minister that had man.
ried them, and to the Lord Mayor, who told bim that all, that
belonged to his wife before marriage, now belonged to him ; and
therefore he considered be bad a right to do as be liked witis,his

' own property.
The wife declared that she would never live with such a rasca4.
indeed, she did not consider herself bis wife, as she had never bedded
Leith biro. H. had declared he would turn her child out of doors.
and she felt satisfied be would make good his promise before mar-
rage, teat he would do for her and her child.
The old man, who was scarcely able to stand from the beating he
had received, declared, that be was in bodily fear, and theretbre
hoped the Magistrate would hold him to good bail.
The defendant said, that be bad been told that it was the inten—
tion of blow& to run away with Trimmer, the nun whom she had
nude choice of first, and that be thought he had sufficient cause for
what he had dune.

He was Immediately held to ball for the two assaults, and to give
24 hours' notice.

MA RI.BOROUGMSTREP.T.

In order to prevent the dangerous overloading of stage coaches
With passengers, the Legislature made a LAW directing that every
stage coach should have the number of passengers it was licensed to,
carry Inscribed sin the under side of the footboard, in conspicuous
characters; so that any person might see whether the coachman
was carrying more than his legal member. Fore breach of this
very salutary law, Eames, the proprietor of one of the Lints•
coaches, was summoned before the Magistrates at this office yester-
day, on an information charging him with having omitted the in-
scription altogether; but, instead of appearing to the summons try
his own proper person, he sent his solicitor, who contended that'
the law in question had bra virtually repealed by subsequent Aim;
of Parliament, and that the omission of such an inscription Walll3ol
longer an offence, The Magistrates were of a different oplabirs ;.
but so (Wear was the wording of the different statutes bearing upon.-
this subject, that at least two good hours were occupied in argument •.•
before their Worships felt justifietpn pronouncing their npialottto
be correct; and, having decided so fan, they were under the seas—
sky of postponing their final adjudication, because the defend.ro,
trusting to " the glorious uncertainty of the law," ha 4 nut thought. .
it worth his while to attend.

CORN AVERAGES.—IL appears, from a return pre—
sented to Parliament, that the Average Price of Wheat
for the six years, duling which the British ports have
been closed against foreign c,.rn, is as fullowsv+lBlo,
655. 10d. per quarter ; 11121, 545. 5d.; 1822, .48i.36.t
1823, 51s. 9J.; 1824, 625.;_ 1825; 665. 61-6Ghsing
for the aggriigate average of the siX years, 575. 31

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DIED.
Oa the 27th of February, at Lisbon, Smog Selnartinn Jae de
Varvalho, after a long illness, in the 50th year of Isis Be had
NW with hellOilf various (Aces, was the Portussm hthrister.
Secretary of &ate for the Department of Finance, and President of
'the Royal Treasury.
Tuesday, at bis apartments to the British hlosemn.
Weehlom, LLD. F. R.S. Assistant Keeper of the Antiquities in diet
istabiliheeiot.
The 54 instant,. Mrs. Roberts, wife of Lieutenant General
Roberts, d Wrexham Ledge, Burks.

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