Star.
London, England, 1803-03-02 00:00:00

DUB! Ar, FEB. 28.

At the Commiffiln on WeancidAy, Darby Neale
and Th. Neale, a yrutth of 12 years of ate, were
found guilty of robbing the Ennitcorthy mail.--
The latter was recommended to mercy. On
Thudlay, Patrick, the fn•, of Darby Neale, wa•'
found guilty on three inotaments, for robbing rt,•
mail, taking money from the driver, and
part of the plunder. This robbery was cr-^--th.
ted at the Dublin fide of DonnOr,ok.
Yefferday John Fcrral was tried at the Ci:m
million on two indiftmenr<, one' for the wdi ii
murder of his father, end the fecund for tl.e nine.
der of his mother, at Tallagh, on the 2d inliaitt.
Upwards of twenty witnclfes were examined. The
trial tailed near la hours, three of which Judge
DowNrs occupied in funiniing up evidence and
charging the Jury. He took occafion, at various
intervals, to advert to the candid proceeding of
the Counfel for the Crown, Meths. GENE and
RIDGEWAY. The Jury returned a vcidia of—
Acquittal, without leaving the box.
Lail Thtirfday night, as Alderman PEMB varow
was returning to town with his fon, in a coach, he
was flopped by two footpads, who prefenting pif-
tols, robbed him of one guinea and a halt ; on
finding who he was, they wifhed him a good night
and made off, after civilly (hutting the windows
of the carriage, which they had opened.

In the parifh church of Sheffield, on Sunday
fait, 37 children were baptized, and on the follow
ing day 19 couple were married.

A niggardly farmer of Croflock, in the parith
of Working, Surrey, had flared up fn great a quart
city of wheat in an old granary, that a few days
ago, it broke down with the weight. A very con
fiderable portion of it is IA to him and the public,
by being mixed with the ruins of the building. He
was forewarned of the danger, but from the hope,
of a tying markt, he kept platting in.
Baron DE of ceconomieal memory, had
every apartment of his houfe filled, when he died.
with the various articles upon which he fpeculatcd;
even his bed room was flared with coffee, till oily
a pottage, large enough for him to creep through,
was lett to his bed. Dying without a will, his
immenfe wealth goes to a daughter, whom he has
long entirely negleaed.

A fervant to a Captain SPARROW was yeflerday
charged by that gentleman, at Marlborough lireet,
with alraulting him. The fart was proved to the
fatistidion of the Magiflrate, who ordered the man
to find bail to anfwer the affault. The worthy
Captain diced the Magi(lrate what bail was ne-
cefrary, and was anfwered two perfons, " why,
then," Paid he, (wilhing to kill two birds with ont
lone) ‘4 I'll be one of his bail, and get another !"
—The Magiftrate feemed aflonifhed at his conduct,
and difmiffed the complaint.

It is one of the little fingularities of there mb
dern times, that the oftener you hear of a Lady
being at home, the lefs domeltic is her charafter ;
and that the wider the opens her doors to her ac•
quaintance, the more impenetrably barred are the)
to her friends and her tradefmen.

There is now in the Callle-yard of Chaille, in the
department of Deux Sevres, in France, a Linden
tree in blotfom, whole trunk is forty-five feet in
circumference, it is 61 feet high, and has fir per-
feta horizontal branches meafuring 43 feet, fo that
the tree covers a circle of 3 t 7 feet.
Yeflerday, at t: o'clock, the remains of Colonel
DESPARD were taken from his houfe, in Mount-
ftreet, Lambeth, accompanied by three mourning
coaches, in which were his private friends. The
proceffion, accompanied by a vall number of fpec-
tators, proceeded to St. Paul's. The whole paired
off with the greateft order. The body was inter-
red on the North fide of the Church-yard, a little
diflance from the principal entrance.
Colonel 1112 PAID was of a very ancient family
in the kingdom of Ireland. The family feat, where
his eldeft brother refides, is a moll charming place,
having an elegant manfion, f mounded with beau-
tiful gardens and groves. The feat is called Do-
fore, within three miles of Montreath, Queen's
County. Moftly all the males of the family have
commifflons in the Army.

Saturday Mary jobnfon, indiCted with Captain
Pierr, for Mooting at Cobb, the butcher, was dif-
charged from Newgate, the having given bail for
her appearance at the nest Seilions.
Saturday Colwell, who was found guilty at
the IA fellions for attempting to commit a rape
on a child thirteen years of age, flood in the pil-
lory purfuant to his fentence,one hour,at Ratcliffe-
crofs. A great number of perfons attended, who
were prevented by the conllables from pelting the
culprit.
A bale of India muffin check handkerchiefs,
containing too pieces, value near :dol. and in-
tended for exportaiirn,was fome nights fince
from a Chip lying at Middle Tier, Horticydown,
by thieves at prefent unknown. A big-boat, wi,h
37 quarters of corn, was flolcn from among the
craft near the Culiom.hottfe, and has not yet been
found. AP
On Saturday morning, a girl ibont 14 or is
years of age, was unfortunately thrown down in
Park-lame, Liverpool, by a boy that was palling ;
at that intlant a cart was going by, the wheel of
which went over her head, and killed her on the
fpot.

Lan Thurfday a boy was taken up and corn.
mined to Maidllone ga,l, charged with robbing
the mail which he war. curtailed to convey from
the above place to Tunbridge, of a letter contain-
ing a NI. bank note, which he tendered for cant to
a perfon in that neighbourhood. It is w, r.hy of
remark, that the above boy, about three years
ino, when he was in a fimilar employment, charg-
ed a man with robbing him of the mail, who was
tried for it, and on his evidence 210111: convicted.
He fuliered on Pennendon Reatly and war after-
wards jibbeted in chains, where Apart of his
Ihcle-
ton is Rill remaining. The unfortunate man, in
his la* tooseath aloft folcmaly declared hW in.
OCCUM.

CORN MARKET, MARK LANE, MARCH 2.

There have been no fince Monday
and the rew Sales which retti.tin wi,h-
out aiiy alteration.

ASSiZr •-••F BREAD.-- Yeit:TTIV L"ll3:\t*.Y
ordered the price of the t•te:a i.e re-
duced rher an z!rze, or 11 •::e 71; 1..,31,
:0 take place to-morrow, tLe ..f the
)aartern Loaf of 'Wheaten will b: !.; 1. .inl the
I...tile:lold ;id.

At Gltildi,rd-mill on 6,1—0 r 11.-'i:zht, the
challes of it young Tll.lll :II l% ,:k entaii4led 1.1
tl tackle, by which Le in 4111011 g the
clothed to death.

A floe boy, about f:ven rars of age, fume days
ago attempting to roll the root of a 110411 tree in-
to a pit at Mordiford, in flerefoidtbire, one of the
brandies caught hi, clothes, and pr..cipit ttcd him
likewife into the pit, and cruflied him to death.
A gill, in Moor areet, Birmingham, fix years
°rage. (landing near the fire, for the purple of
drying her frock, which the had wet by fume acci-
dent, it caught the flame, and (he was burnt to
fuch degree, that after (offering extreme torture
for three days, fhe died on Tuefday fe'nnight.
The following lamentable mortality lately hap-
pened in the family of Mr. Ws LLIAM sow, of Gring-
ley, near Gainfborough :—On Monday fe'nnight
one of his children died; on the fucceeding Wed-
nefday another, and the following day, from grief,
his wife, who was in a flare of pregnancy. They
were all buried in one coffin.

Thurfday about eleven o'clock, a boat with four
men pallingers, going down the River, ran foul
of a (hip's cable near Limehoufe, by which acci-
dent the boat was overfet. Three of the men
were fared by a !hip's boat, the other poor man
was unfortunately drowned.
A few days fence a young man and woman, of
genteel addrefs, went to the honk of Mrs. am-
t. m, hair &tiler, of Newmarket, and engaged an
apartment for a Ihort time, under prete;xe of
awaiting there until the re•arn of their father from
Norwich, %horn they affected was gis!!e to that
place on important bufinefs. However, fe.arce two
days elapled before thefe gentry thought it mutt
advii.sble to decamp, leaving the hollers minus va•
lions articles of plater a pair of fileets. &tc. and the
lio:lefs's daughter a black filk cloak, mu flin fhawl,&c.
On Sunday night a foldier of the 83d regiment
of foot flopped a farmer near Chelmsford, and
drawing his bayonet on him, demanded his money,
of which he robbed him to the amount of Bs. The
foldier, in running away, dropped his bayonet ;
the regiment was mußered early neat morning,
when it appeared that this culprit had deferted s
feveral parties were immediately fent out in fearch
of him :—fcarcely a night palfes but a robbery is
committed in the neighbourhood of Chelmsford
barracks.

On Monday evening one of the mail carts, driv-
ing in the ufual mad manner along the Strand,
run againff a Gentleman's carriage, and was over.
turned ; a man was thrown on the pavement, and
was moil feverely bruifed ; the Gentleman's car.
riage was alfo injured. The fellows who drive
thefe vehicles call themfelves his Majay's femme:a
hut they have no confideration for the lives of his
Majelty's fu6etb.
On Tuefday fe'nnight a poor man in the neigh-
bourhood of Kilbrue, in Ireland, had four fheep
nolen off his ground, almoft the whole of his little
(lock ; he traced them to a field near the Crofs-
Guns, where they with fix others had been left by
one Kelly. On application being made to Mr.
Juflice GODFR EY, he caufed fame of his conftables
to watch the thief, and when Kelly came for them
to drive them to market on Thurfday morning,
he was, after a very clofe purfuit, apprehended,
having ran nearly a mile acrofs the country.—
On his perfon was found a quantity of Bank notes,
of which he refufed to give any kind of account.
He has been committed for trial at the next Com•

On Saturday fe'nnight the body of a man was
found upon the ebbing of the tide, near the en-
trance of Leith harbour. It proved to be the body
of a young man from the weft country, one of the
labourers employed st the New Balm $ who, on
Saturdayfc'nnight, left his lodging in North Leith,
to procure fome necefraries for himfelf, but did not
return back again. It is fuppofed he had miffed
his way in the dark, and had fallen into the harbour
at the entry to the draw-bridge, as the body ap-
peared to !rase been fome time lying in the mud.
A letter from Torryburn, dated the a :ft ult.
Pays—" Early on Saturday morning, a man was
found dead at the toll.bar,a (port mile eaR from this
place. The body was depofited in the church, aul
lubmitted to the infpetlion of two medical gentle-
men ; but nn marks of violence appeared to lead
to the firfpicion of his being murdered. The de-
cealed was in the habit of travelling the country
with a fhow boa, amd is fuppofed to have been an
Irishman.' He had upon him when found al. t ts.
in filvcr. It is conjectured he perilhed through the
fere, ivy of the night. He was decently interred
in the church yard here, on Sabbath."

A laughable circumflance took place very lately
at Thornhill, near Wakeheld :—an artful girl de-
termined nn having a hufband, or on making as
much of her lover in a pecuniary way as pante,
pretended to be pregnant. The deception was car-
ried on till the lady was in the/ram, and produced,
as (he reported, a dead infant. A funeral in conk-
qucnce took place in open day ; but the lying in
being condußed with great fecrecy, and nobody
but the motlwr's immediate atiociates permitted to
the child, the parilh officers imagined, and rea:
funably enough, there had beer, fume foul play an
ingot+ was accordingly taken as loon as poffible,
and the coffin: dug up and opered, when lo! the
arbirlithad jurors diicovcred, of an in-
fant, the coffin was fitted with rabbi/b only ! It
appeared the girl had never been a (bit,' an
th.itigh the had f dinl e • principal aim, &else I
contrived to iwindle her imam. aro uut IA • .arse
Cum by way ot h•fh mow, /

Pr

r,HE WARDEN .1%.13 MINOR CANONS OF ST. PAUL'S
'. MORRIS AND OTHERS.
This important cattle was farther proceeded on
to ila).
'h. ATTORNET•CENFRALs Mr. RR:masers, and
Mr. 8 rasLEY, difplayed great learning and
ties in hewing cattle againll a motion for a third
trial ; and Mr. NIANSFIELD and Mr. ILEAC!! in
firTiorting the motion.
The LORD CH A mcLt.I.OR, .both in the entitle of
leer at giiment, and at the conclufion of it, made a
01 trill important oblervatious on the to-
) hi apprehenflon, ought to be ca.
.1 :knit his conlideration, and alto on the
it would be his duty to excreifi.
rii:;;r .spun. His Lordlllip flood Oleic
icflions with ~4t :at perfpicuity, and laid he was
not then piepared to deliver his judgment upon
them but if this v.-as to go to a third trial, the
parties thuuld nit be delayed ; and another con-
sideration would be, what was to be done in mat-
ter of ;colts.
COURT OF RING's BENCH, MARCH I.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
LREDS V. COOKE AND ANOTHER.
This was an action of trefpafs on the cafe againll
James Cooke and Elizabeth, his wife. The de-
claration timed that the laid Elizabeth, before her
marriage with the raid James, had promifed to
marry the plaintilf, which promife the had broken
to the damage of the plaintiff of gcool.
Mr. EasitiNE olderved that he was Counfel for
Mr. Leeds, a gentleman in a refpeaable fitaation
life, who, before the death of his father, had
formed an attachment that promifed him the
reateft felicity, but which had produced nothing
tut difappointment and mifery. The object of his
affection was the daughter of a Mr. Cat dinal, a
gentleman t f coallderable landed elate in the
county of Efftx. Me paid his addrelTes to her, and
bad no reafon to complain of the reception he met
with. The young lady herfelf confented to be-
come his wife, and their union was fan/Honed by
the approbation of the pa,rents on both fides.—
This was not a light and incontiderate engagement
entered into in a moment of paffion or thought.
lefsnefs. Such an engagement was not to be held fo
very !acted—it might be infringed without any
very great inconvenience, and without a deep
wound to the feelings. Here nothing but the ce-
remony was wanting to join them inditTolubly.—
A fettlement had been executed, whereby aoool.
advanced on his part, and the like Cum on hers,
were limited to the tile of themfclves and the Ate
of the marriage. The ring was bought, and the
fo'eninity was only delayed by an accident. Old
Mr. Cardinal, who parted with his money molt
relnetantly, withed Midfummer to be over, that he
might receive the dividends upon his flock before
he bid for ever adieu. The molt ferious conic-
quences followed. Before the day fo anzioufly
expelled came round, a gay and gallant failor
flepped on time, and captivatei. the heart of Mifs
Cardinal. This was Mr. Cooke, who, with a full
knowledge that the lady was engaged to another,
knowing that the had figned her marriage !mic-
a:tent, had the indelicacy and injuftice to think of
her for himfelf. His arts were but too fuccefsful,
and the eloped with him for Gretna Green. It
had been whifpered that an attempt was to be
made to impute what had happened to the ill
condo& of the Plaintiff. But the evidence of the
lady herfelf would repel this infamous Bander, and
(hew that the could affign no reafon for her breach
of faith but her own caprice and volatility. Soon
after her return from Scotland the wrote the plain-
tiff the following letter :
Sit—Since my departure from my father's hook I have felt
very weedy in nos having apologized to you for my improper
aoudad. I am genfible I have injured you In Dot perasenana
the prontife I came under, be which was given without confi-
dent,: what I was doing, or attending to the winfequenees of
fads an angeipentent. 1 am well allured that the ill treatment
you hats received from melt not to be ceded. I confect that
you always behaved to me we land that you &terve one more
worthy of your favours. and whit May make you harrier than
It was ever in my power to do. I never could fumnson up re-
&dation to give you a flat denial, though I Imagined you never
could contra upon re that biplanes I enjoy In the Gentleman
wl.ll whom I eloped. I acknowledge that your views were to-
nnurable, and that your offer was advantageous—but there
was af.:retisuireGisg, which forbade met • hope I fb.auld ever
feel that love for you which ought to exift between two perfons
to be joined in the marriage tie. Front my knowledge of your
good princip'es. I titiag you will pardon say indifcretian, and
pity my wealniefe. With the ladling of Goo may you be
apyy lor ma c y years, and united with an amiable and virtuous
woman—may you enjoy every plcafure that this life affordio—
TM. prays yoar Gocere intud and cdolged humble fcrvants
ELM. COOKS.
Mr. En sit IN 1, allowed, that if a young girl had
entered into an improvident engagement, the mutt
be permitted to recede front it. But was this let-
ter a full apology for having jilted a man after a
two years' courtihip, and thus rendered him ridi-
culous to his acquaintance and to all the world I
This pie-thine might be urged by every
one w.bo tidied to take t ne..v lover. Why had
the not e;ifeovered "firivt.6,nehing" ',elute the
appearance of Mr. Cock:: .'Atter reading a letter,
which we Bull innoduce in th- fequel, he raid he
ci4.l not pretend that tl..s injui y was as great to a
mar. as to a female. Th: former did not littler the
fame tlifparagement, nor could his fenfitnliiy be
fuppoted to be fo cruelly outraged. He was not'
trillruCed to fay that Mr. I.et:J.4 was pining for
grief, or that he had deteriniaed to 1.:v.7
But he had Coffered a IcTis.
which lie was entitkd to a recompenm
being t:ifappointed and espied. 'he I;ad parted
with ties property. The old Fnticman refuted to
reconvey, unleta the Plaintill thottld bear all the
e :pence of the fettlement. But an appeal WAS now
roade to men of jostler ptincipl-c a•la more lateral
fentiments, who would no: 1.11 to grant ample
rulrefs.
Mr. Thofll2ls the att-o-rity. fa: d, that applica-
-6'll was made to hir.a about the t...tlernent ea the
vienning of tBcr. It was at firti pr•-•iii.fed that
7ocnt. fhoi.ld Le advanced I.n each fide, h it 40,7,01.
as rile fit',' it; nn. Old Mr. CAT:I:n.II, 11;1
1'1..1.1 • , , and ::.;-ne to to • rd.

old gentleman Veined to have the mat rhtge defer.
red till after Midfummer, which difplcafed the
Plaintiff. Mils C. being preffed for an early day,
gave her confcnt, and the Plaintiff entering into
an undertaking not to claim the Midfummer divi-
dends, the old gentleman waved his objettion.—
Oa the afternoon of that day they returned, and
(hewed the witnefs the licence and the ring. The
lady raid fie fluarld like to be married in London,
but he told her that, natwithilanding the licence,
one of the parties muff have rcfided tour weeks in
the parifb v here the ceremony was to take place.
Ile had not fume drawn a letticment between the
Plaintiff and Mifs Turpin.
The hand wi iting of the letters being proved,
they were then read, and this was the Plaintiff's
cal:. It was admitted that Mils Cardinal eloped
with Mr. Cooke on the 9th May, and that they
were afterwards married tor ether.
Mr. Ga avow, an the part of the Defendant, raid,
he did not difpute that they were married. The
queftions for the Jury to confider were, What da.
mages the Plaintiff was entitled to expeCt, and
what, under all the circumflances which had ap-
peared, and which would appear, the Defendant
ought to pay ? It had been rightly conceded that
a breach of promife of this nature was not fuch
an aggravated injury to a man as to a female.— j
Certainly there could he no foundation for Paying'
that the peace of mind of this Plaintiff seas ruined,
and that his hopes of happinefs were blabbed. No
weeping willow would be biurthened with his car-
cafe, and if lie hanged himfell it would be rotund
the neck of Ififs Turpin. Ile fhould prove that
Mr. Leeds was the latt man who fhould have pre-
rented himfelf in a Court of Juftice with fuch a
complaint. Damages would have fent the De-
fendant to gaol. His father had left all his pro-
perty to a trullee to be fold, and the money wiling
from the Isle to he veiled in the funds. The truf-
tee complied with the fir direCtion of the will,
but negleited the fecond, for the whole of the mo-
ney arifing from the fate he had appropriated to
his own Me. Much had been raid about his gal-
lantry : but this hero who Itepped on fhore cover-
ed with glory to dazzle the eyes of a lady was on-
ly the puller of an extra Indiaman, who, having
loft his all, was obliged to viftt foreign-climes for
a fubfiftence. Mr. Leeds was faid to be all impa-
tience to poffefs this woman; but with him all
women were the fame. It would appear that on
the very night when the rettlement Wit executed
' he behaved in a manner the moll contrary to Flo.
rality and delicacy. He was guilty of milconduCt
which no man could have been betrayed into who
was on t'he eve of being married to a woman
whom he loved, and who looked forward to the
happinefs of being father. It was the three per
cents. that he was impatient to polfefs, and riot
Mifs Cardinal. He would difhonour the gown he
wore by fuppofing that an apology would be made
for fuch delperate, abandoned profligacy. It ad-
mitted of no palliation, and would excite univerfal
abhorrence. Perhaps it would be Axed, WAY this
known to Mils Ca:dinal ? Was this the ground on
which (he broke off the match ? He anfwered—
No ! But that did not affea the meafure of the da.
mages. Who complained ? A man who, from
figning the deeds that feeured him what he pre-
tended fo earneftly to with, retired to a brothel.—
The turn of money awarded by the Jury would
not go to a public charity—it was not a line upon
this lady for her inconnancy. It was to go into
the pocket of the Plaintiff as a compenfatton to
him for his ditipprintment, which mutt have been
In ft were, from the tender attachment lie (hewed
for his future wit:, and his anxiety for the welfare
of his polterity ! if a nonfuit did not take place,
the turn the Jury awarded would be infamy, not
damages. He had even behaved to Mifs Cardinal
in her prefence, with the utmoft cruelty and bar-
barity. As loon as the fettlemcnt was executed,
he thought that all was fate. Immediately after
he would be found ufing the following language :
" Now, Madam, recollea that you have no will
of your own ; my will mull henceforth be your
rule." They were taking an escitrfion together,
and the lady laid (he chafe to walk. " No, (laid
he) I chute that you (hall ride ; fo is my will and
pleature ; I will break your bones if you refute."
In proper feafon, he intimated that he would flog
her : her anfwer was, " I am not married
i yet, when I am. you may perhaps do I
Many grave difputes had taken place with „
re-
gard to the thicknefs of the thumb flick with
i which the law of England allows a man to cot..
reel his wife. But Mr. Leeds was determined that
there fhould be a precedent to which, in all their
lubfequent quarrels, they might refer. He ex-
claimed, " I will thew you before hand what you
have to expea," and threw a herfe whip at her
with violence and paftion. In fuch a form any
port was ddirable. She doped with the Putter.
It was only filial duty that prevailed upon her to
liften to the plaintiff's addreffes. The match be-
tween the fathers, to fay the truth, was only a
matter of three per cents. what he would not call,
in the vulgar phrafe, a Smithfield bargain. She
made a fair trial of his temper and principles ;
but a regard for the peace of her future life re-
quired that the Humid go no further. On another
occafionwhiljhey were in London,the young lady
went to pay a vifit to a friend. On her Teflon the
door of the honk wasftiutagainft lier,and the Plain-
tiff laid Ihelliouldnot cuter. Whenhe returnedtothe
country he gave proofs, if poftible, of ail' greater
profligacy. Mr. Garrow then gave an account of
his fohciting the chaff y of the wife of one of Mr.
Careht.al's krvants, and put it to the Jury, Whe-
ther, if a man courting a daughter of theirs were
to behave in this manner, they would not inwne•
diatel dilmjfs him with ignominy ! He afterwards
went on to the letters. He faid he was glad that
two had been produced. It was evident that the
fiat had bent tranfcribed from a copy, evidently.
indited by another perfon, who, he believed, was
Mr M'Leod, who thus hoped to makepeace bet ween
the two families. it could not be at all confidered
as (peaking her fentiments. What became of all
her elegance, cerreanefs, and proper fpelling, when
the fat down to write without aftittancc ? Her
feeond letter was as follows :
• '•• the Ring to !ate this opp:rtunity to var
:Lc camas over to toy fathas to-suorrow morn

in, and 1 DWI be at Wheatley Crofs at ten, where 1 willsl r
to tell you the reafon of my vie:peeled departure. as I nev,r
meant to aft dilbonoras4 to you, which "nukes me • ry ekly
" Yotiihuniblefehiant, " CLIZAICT:I C. It 'MAL..
Mr. Gmtkow concluded a very able fpeech, by
admonifhing the Jury to confider the value the
plaintiff had let upon this lady, together with the
grief he felt upon lofing her, and to deal out da-
mages accordingly.
Lydia Burnby, a maid fervant of Mr. Cardinal's,
laid that (he had heard Mr. Leeds declare to Mil.,
C. that he would flea her alive, and that he would
break every bone in her Hein. He added, that be
would murder bee if he were married to her. Milb
C. anfwered,' we are not married yet.' She is not
lure whether this was before or after the execution
of the fettlement. .

.....
Mr. John Cardinal, the brother, confirmed this
evidence, and name that the quarrel took place
after they had returned from London. He added
other Wks of the fame kind.

James Hart, Mr. C.'s carman fworn. Gave an
account of his throwing the whip at her with kern-
ing pillion, but did not overhear what was faid.
After the elopement, the plaintiff declared he was
glad the was gone, it was a good riddance of bad
rubbifh. Two or three days after he gave witnefs
a letter to Mifs Turpin, and faid if the would come
to his propofals, he would fettle upon her the in-
tereff of aoocl. Witnefs carried the letter to Mifs
Turpin, who could not make it out, and applied
to him to read it for her. He brought back a mcf-
rage, defiring the plaintiff to go to her the next day.
He went accordingly.
Sarah Hart, the wife of the laft witnefs, de-
fcribed how the plaintiff made her a prefent of a
quarter of a pound of tea, with a view to bring her
to his criminal purpofes. When the defired him to
go to Mifs C. to whom he was to be married, he
exclaimed,' d—n Mifs Cardinal—the is nothing to
me.' This was between the acth of April and
9th of May.
Mr. Cardinal, the father, fail that after the
plaintiff's father'sdeath he came to his houfe, where
he remained two years. He fwore that as they
were returning from Mr. Thomas's, the attorney,
to the Blue Boar, Whitechapcl, the plaintiff went
off with a wanderer in Fleet-ltreet, and that when
he met him, about two hours afterwards, he con-
Idled that he had been home with her to her lodg-
ings in Milk-ftreet. He related this anecdote to his
daughter when he got home. When the went off
he asked him to go after her. His anfwer was, 4to
oblige you I will; but for my own fake I will not
(lir a Itep.'
Mils Turpin was next called. She received a
letter from the plaintiff in May laft ; all the recoi-
led* of it is, that the plaintiff laid he would din:
with her the next day. He came. CZ What pi u•
polal did he then make to you ? A. He offered
himfelf as a (tutor; but I refufed him. Q Was
there any fettlement propofed ? A. No : I did.
not choofe to keep him company. Q When did
he come to lodge with you ? A. He remained a
week at Mr. Cardinal's, and be has lived with u►
ever ante.

Lord acaddooon then examined her.—Q
Did he not make propofals of marriage to you ?
A. No. Q Did he offer himfelf as a fititor ? A.
Yes. CZ You don't mean to fay that he addreffed
you with dithonourable views ? A. No, my Lord.
Qyas there no word ofmarriage ? A. No,m y Lord.
Q.._Did be addrefs you as a wife or a miftrefs ? A.
As a wife. Q. Did he not offer you marriage
then ? A. Not the right away. (I._ Yon mean to
fay that he did not fay he would marry you imme-
diately ? A. Juft fo, my Lord. (Mifs T. is very
beautiful, and was not by any means fo much cm-
' barreled as might have been ezpe&ed.)
Mr. ERSICItia made a moft eloquent reply. He
gave up his client to infamy if this evidence was
true ; but he contended that a low, vulgar, ftupid,
abominable confpiracy bad been entered into to
deftroy his reputation. He took up the witneffes
feparately, and made many ftrong obfervations
upon their teftimony. He was particularly fevere
upon the old gentleman, whom he pronounced
equally infamous, whether what lie (wore was true
or falfe. To allow a man to continue his addreffes
to his daughter, in whom he had witneffed Inch
brutal conduit, was nut inferior in criminality to
the guilt of perjury.
Lord Eccseadoucit laid, that though the
hufband and wife were joined in this aetion for a
breach of promife of marriage ; it was to the wife
exclutively the Jury were to look, the kutband be-
ing joined only bccaufe fhe ceafed to have any
feparate property, and all the damages muff come
out of his pocket. As the breach of promife was
admitted, there were only two queftions to be con-
fidered—t. Whether it took place under circum-
(lances that rendered it venial ? and 2. If it did
not, to what furn was the plaintiff entitled as a
compenfation for the injury he had fifflained ?
This fpecies of caufes were capable of more fhades
and gradations than almoft any other. The dif-
appointment might occalion fo much mifery even
to a man that he had a fair right to complain of
it in a Court of
_Wake. But before it waa fup-
poled that the feelings of a party were wounded,
it was neceffary to enquire whether that party had
any feelings. If he remained indifferent, much
more if he esprelfed joy, the moil minute damages
could not be too (mall for him. I think, laid this
Lordflaip, the brutal condo& of the plaintiff to-
wards the Lady has been fuiliciently proved. If
on that the had relied her defence, the law would
have borne her out. A woman is not to commit
her happinefs to a man that threatens to flea her
and to break her bones. If the has come under
an engagement, by fuch language the is releafed
from it. But a fufficient ground is not Rated in
the letters, and to them we mitt look. They were
written at a time when it was important for her to
urge every thing that the could in her juftification.
It may be proper that a woman fhould break off
a match with a man for whom the can feel no af-
ration, but the law does not fandion this Rep.—
' She may aft with prudence in difmiffing him, but
the mutt abide by all the legal confequences of
this breach of her promife. She is bible to oom-
penfate in damages to the man for the injury (he
i has occafiohed to him. Bad condo& on his part
can alone exotic her. There is wig ueflionably a
great difference between the letters, in lc/A:aunts,

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nominal damages, it is for you to confider.
The Jury, atter confulting together a few mi-
nutes, returned a verdia for the plaintiff—Da-
mages One Shilling !I

ISHMAEL V. CLANK! AND ANCliliEll.

The plaintiff is a flopfeller, and a jew ; he was
going to Gofport, and took a place in a Rage-
coach, of which the defendants are proprietors,
and en the way it broke down, in confequence of
which he was hurt, and brought this anion to re-
cover a compenfation. The defence was, that it
was matter of pure accident.
After a number of witneifes were examined on
both fides, the cafe was left to the Jury to fay whe-
ther it was the effea of accident or not?

Lord ELLFN.BOROUGII laid, the proprietors of
Rage-coaches were bound to be careful and atten-
tive to infped and examine their coaches, at fre-
quent intervals, lel' any accident fhould happen.
He fail, as common carriers, there was not any
queflion whatever, but that they were anfwerable
for all accidents happening to goods, with which
they were entrufled, the aift of Con and the King's
enemies excepted. He did not fee, upon any prin-
ciple of reafon, why the lives and limbs of his
Majefiv's lubjeets Ihould have a sower degree of
protefion and infurance. However, he was not
aware of any cafe that had been determined to
that extent. Verdiq for plaintiff, damages 351.

nct fettling. But firs, though err';-
another perloo, pion. he filppered ti
written from her iintroetions:. I cania).
evidence for the defendant. Matt
unwilling witnels, proves that a pro-
larriagt was n:ade to her three cltyi
opcmcnt, and thus veldts coedit upori
of Hart. What then are we to think
'tiff's conduit ? Though the is eltopped
ors to plead the excine that was
you mull look to hint before you hz
iipeulati.ln. He loitered no misery.__
nevented It om looking forward to mar_
source of comfort. The evidence of
extraordinat y. He does, indeed, feern
lid old man, more careful about his'
han the happinefs n: his. child. It teems
;e: that the piAintiti ihould not only
manner on the of the execution
:trent, but that he amid,' make a tuil
o Ins future father-inlaw. But ionic.
id exhibics we have had, Thew this to
he coarielt families in the kingdom.and
nod impollible in another cafe, may be
tough in this. Upon the whole, Uen-
ot opinion that you mull find for the