Star.
London, England, 1827-04-06 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

SUIT' ILDIMUNDS, Anus s.
howl a. /OLSON.
This was an action for breach of promise of marriage,
brought by Mrs. Brown, who occupies the Angel Inn,
at Yarmouth, against the defendant, who lately occu•
pied the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. Plea tbe general
issue.—Mr.lEara.v opened the pleadings.
Mr. Robinson stated the plaintiff's case, and detailed
the facts as they afterwards appeared in evidence. He
described the contract not as an engagement of early
and romantic affection, which could not be compensated
when wantonly broken, in a Court of Justice, but as a
sober and dispassionate agreement, entered into between
two elderly persons, the violation of which was a sub-
ject well adapted to the investigation of a Jury.
nexus Roe examined—Lives lo die Angel Inn, at Yarmouth ;
married a sister of Mrs. Brown; the idh belongs to Mrs. Brown
and her eldest son. Has known Mr. Bolton for many yeah ;he is
now a coach proprietor, living in a private home at Norwich; did
keep the Norfolk Hotel,llle largest establishment of the kind at
Norwich; he lives in a very 'Meant house, and very elegantly fur-
nished. He gave up the Norfolk Hotel to his son about a year
ago; Mr. Bolton told witness that Na son pays him 6001. a year
for the Hotel and a house attached to it. Recollects Mr. Bolus
visiting the Angel Hotel on the tsth of July but year, tieing .
Yarmouth races, where he stopped until the rfth ; the tip
brat toys
days had some friends to dine with him, and then bad a private
room, and paid fork; the remainder of the time he was the Om
of Mrs. Brown, and paid nothing. He came again on the ist
August, with Mr. Sadler. Witness was present when Mr. UMW
was making love to the plaintiff, and saying be wanted no money
with ber ; he bad known her a tong while. When be left cm the
13th be said be should be back ins few days. The parties' Spent
a great part of the day together. Witness sod his wife were in
, the bar together dories that time. The parties appeared to be on

the best terms.
Cruss•saandned—The house that the wittiest occupies be rents
of Mrs. Brown mid ber sea The Angst Inn is the largest in Nor..
folk. Mt.. Brown is a very regrettable looking woman. Nature
has not written many years on her countenance. One would not
seppues bar above fifty—(A laugh). Hu great doubt as to her
betas sixty. Does not come provided with her exact age. She is
not so handsome as she has been—(Laughter). She is a •ery de-

cent good-looking woman.
The Jonas—Whatever the Learned Counsel may prove with re-
spect to the Lady's age, he wiU hardly be able to sheer that she has
entrapped an inexperienced young mao—(A laugh).
Witness did not think the love-scene in the bar eke/ ridiculous.
The parties were talking and laughing, and doing a. -rug else—(
A
laugh). The plaintif attends in the bar, mixes liquor, sad does
anything of that kind there is to do. Mrs. Brown has a son who h
a linendraper. There is an inn called the Bear, at Smithtown,
which is a very respectable one, kept by Mr. and Mrs. Boast. She
has another son a clerk tip an attorney.
Re-examined—Does not know anything of Mrs. Brown's age
from appearance; thinks Mr. Bolton looks older than
Mrs. Brown,
Lucy Boost—ls wife of Mr. Jonathan Boast, who keeps the
Bear Inn at Smithtown, near Yarmouth. Has known the pisindff
and defendant many years. In August Ism Mrs. Brown and the
defendant were at the house of witness. Mr. Bolton and Mrs.
Brown came in the evening. In consequence of what the waiter
told her, she went into the room were the parties were. Mr.
Bohm slid he wanted to see her husband, and that he hatbroogist
Mrs. Brown to speak to bin. Told witness he was gong to take
her to Yarmouth. Asked him for what purpose? he addle matey
her. He said be should like very much to see her towhead,—
When her bosband came home he was sbewn into the roost. Mr.
8011011 before that sail there was a widow whom his Mends wished
him to marry; and who was a person of property, hut this " old
Lady (meaning Mrs. Browh) always stood beat the widow."..—
Mrs. Brown said, " I think it the greater compliment far I have
not any money." When her husband came, die told him Mr.
Bolton wished to see hint, as be was going tolake Mrs. Brown
away. He asked whether as wife or housekeeper ? She said as
wifr. Witness said to Mr. Bolton, "As you have bearlike the
subject forward, pray when is this wedding so take place?" He
mid. " At Alichaehriss."
Croswexamined—The words that Mr. Button said, when be
spoke of a widow that his friends wished him to marry, were " But
this old Lady always stood first." meaning Mrs. Brown. Witness
is on friendly terms with Mrs. Brown. There is no marriage be-
tween the parties. It Is uncertain whether any is about to take
ce
place. When the parties came to the Bear Inn, it was about take
o'clock in the evening. It was only a dry tneeelog—(A
The defendant calkd for a pint of wine. He paid for the wine sae
regular customer.
Francis Brown—Ts a daughter of the plaintiff. Saw Mr. Bol-
ton in the month of August last. He called upon her in the 15th
of August. Asked her if she would take a ride with him the next
day in his gig, for he had something particular to say. Dosing
that ride he said, " I am going to marry year mother, have you
any objection?" She said she had not, but asked if his friends had •
any objection ? He replied that they bad note and Mrs. Doran,
his daughter, told him he must do as he phased. He said he Was
to marry at hlichaehnas ; he could not before, because his home-
keeper would not leave till then. He askeileitness if she would
go to church with them as bridesmaid? Said the marriage was
to be at Yarmouth. She was to make the wedding dmses ; and
he asked if she would go to Norwich with them after they were
Married He said he intended to settle somethingisandsome yen
'colter mother; that he could have a Lady with property, but that
4 was not what he wanted—be had got plenty of money.
Cross-examined—Her mother had been with the defendant at
Norwich before this conversation. She hayed two on three dawn
his house. It was about the 57t6 of July. Ile did not-tell her
who was to make the wedding cake—(A laugh).
Re-examined—Was not at Norwich when her motherless there.
Her mother told her of it.
The marriage of the defendant with his present wife, a younger
Lady, was admitted.
Jonathan Sewell—ls the bookkeeper of three Norwich coaches.
Mr. Bolton is the proprietor of these coaches. Does not know
whether he is a man of considerable property.
Cross-examined—Mr. Bolton is only the part proprietor of the
three Norwich coaches. There is a brisk opposition en the read.

Mr. Stow (with whom was Mr. Aunaaws) made
an animated speech for the defence. He said his
Learned Friend had rightly described this contract as
having nothing of ardent or romantic feeling con-
nected with it. There was here neither passion nor
sentiment—no subject for pathetic eloquence, or for the
a elodious sorrows of the amatory muse—here was no
flying Cupid breaking his bow in anger at the perfi-
dious conduct of his votaries, or weeping at the shrine
of his deserted lover. There were no breathing epi
—no burning vows—no interchange of the magic
tokens of a fond affection—no ; all was quiet, &obey
cold, and business-like. There were no wounded feel-
ings to be repaired ; no blighted sensibilities with
which twelve sober Englishmen must sympathise. The
contract was described with great frankness, and the
action which arose out of it was as much a question of
value as the Jury would have to try (lovers would parr
don the allusion) in a horse cause—(Laughter). Tbe,
widow, it could not be disgifised, was an old Lady—
he was sorry he should be obliged to call any Lady
old, but so it unhappily was—and this old Lady having
failed in procuring the comfortable establishment on
which she speculated from the substance of a foolish
old Gentleman, had come into Court to get as much as
she could; the object was money throughout the whole
affair. Her friends, as well as herself, were resolved
that she should be provided for in some way or other,'
and hence the experiment first made upon the %Eft:
lions, and now upon the purse of his client. He
would, therefore, with confidence, ask the Jury if
this was not an action which in common delicacy
the Court ought to have been spared? He would
not deny that his client hid acted foolishly; they
were, in fact, a pair of old fools, who when they found
they could not bring their courtship to a happy termi-
nation, ought to have hushed it up and said nothing
about it, That it was a perfectly ridiculous affair was
evident. Could even the witnesses for the plaintiff keep
their countenances while they were giving their tel.
downy ? Even the daughter tittered when she spoke
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which. in its
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about the wedding dresses, and Mr.
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suppress a smile when he told of the love scene in the
bar. It would have been more befitting an aged matron
.to have kept out of such an action as thin. She might
be respectable—no doubt she was so,
the way to prove it—this business, which it was absurd
to connect with the name of-that affection,
purity, elevated and adorned human nature, was a men
Money speculation—it was nothing more than a matter
of pounds, shillings, and pence. The plaintiff and her
,family bad come into Court, to make the most of it, in
that way--there was no character rounded—no feelings
embittered. The old widow having once caught the
old Gentleman in her snare, was resolvel hesbould not
escape without paying dearly for talking of love to het
he the bar of a public inn, and under the enlivening in,
haute of a pint of port.—(Laughter). Nor was it w
be wondered at, that the Lady, though bordering or,
the sober time of sixty, was capable of making a con,
"mat, for she uniteni to the arts of youth the experience
adage. Tne Jury must certainly, in point of law, give
her a verdict—but as to the damages, he believed ,be
would be very thankful to them for any sum they wield
give her.
Mr. Justice GA scuts, in charging the Jury, comment.'
led severely oo the conduct of the defendant—he oh.
served, that it was clear be had entered deliberately
into the engagement, and without any artifice having
beenpractised on the other side, and had abreprii v 47.
hated it—not because he conceived he bad done a foon,h
thing in changing his condition of celibacy, bat becanie
he bad met with another Lady to whom he had trans.
(erred his affections, and whom he had since martini.
If he believed that he had done a foolish thing in making
the engagement with Mrs. Brown, it was quite possible
that he may have done a more foolish thing by enter.
ing into his new connection, and matrying a 'onager
woman—he believed the plaintiff to be respectable,
judging from those of her family whom he saw in Court,
and a more well-behaved and modest young woman
than her daughter he never saw examined in a Court of
Justice. lie thought, that under all the circumstances
of the case, the plaintiff was entitled to salons com-
pensation, and the Jury, if they saw he case in the same
light, would mark their sense of their treatment which
she had experienced at the of the defendant, by
exemplary, but not intemperate, damages.
The Jury, after consulting about a quat ter of an hour,
returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 4001.

KINGSTON, Anus. S. •
THi V.II.I3IIIALL Coneas.—ln the course of the
morning the Grand Jury brought into Court three true
bills against Daniel Beckley, Jeremiah Andrews, and
Daniel Pycraft, for high treason. and against Mary
Ain BtuAky, and Mary Ann Patrick, fir the misde.
Ineanour, the Solicitor for the Mint having aaercitully
declined from presenting a bill against the women (or
the capital offence. The other prisoner, Shadrach {Val.
he, has been admitted evidence for the Crown. The
trial of the indictments is fixed for Saturday morning;
and from the great number of witnesses to be examinee,
they are expected to occupy the entire day.
Daniel May, a person of respectable appearance, was
indicted under Lord Ellenborough's Act, for feloniously
shooting at Richard Valentine Bundock, with a lo ilea
pistol, at St. Mary, Newington, on the 28. h December,
1824, with intent to kill and murder him.—Mrs.ll,
its and Mrs. Burrows were about to be called, to shear
that the pistol went off accidentally, when the Jury in-
terposed, and said they were satisfied of the paisoores
• ounce upon the case as it stood, and they immedi•
otelj returned a verdict of Nat Guilty.
William Stevens was indicted for a burglary and rib&
bery, in the dwelling-house of John Woolley, Esq. at
Lambeth, in the night of the sth March.—The Jury
!found the prisoner Guilty—sentence of Death was
recorded:
MART-LA-BONNE PARISH.—The Committee appoint-
id to oppose the proceedings of the Select Vestry of
this Parish, with regard to the' Easter Offering Bid,"
met again yesterday at Sir GtIARD Noai.'s house,
when at was reported, that considerable excitement had
been already 'made among the Parishioners, most of
whom had declared their intention of co-operating with
this Committee.
The roads in Russia being once made, are maintained
at little comparative expense, as they consist merely of
the soil, which is either sand, or a kind of hardened
turf; and except in places where the water is collected,
afford the most easy and agreeable travelling in the
world. The road between Petersburgh and Moscow
used to be extremely bad, as, indeed, part of it is still,
consisting only of planks or branches of trees thrown
across it; but a fine chastssie, almost equal to any in
Europe, is now forming, and will greatly facilitate the
intercourse between the cities.
About a fortnight ago, a bet was laid with an inn-
keeper at Inchyra, by two Strathern farmers, that he
would not find, in the Cane of Gowrie, a man that
would carry a boll of wheat (not Imperial weight) os
his back for the spate of a mile. The parties concerned
met at the five-mile stone, on the road between Path
and Dundee, on Tuesday last; when the innkeeper
froduced Charles Kilgour, miller to Mr. David Gee
don, farmer, Cairniemill ; who carried the boll of
wheat from the five.mile to the six-mile stone aid be
yond it, within the space of twenty minutes, with greet
ease, and gained the wager.
An elderly woman, named Reid. who resides at Re'
gent-place, Chelsea Common, having a husband above
80 years of age, very infirm and distressed, case to
London on Monday and borrowed 8/..0f a friend; sadl
as she was going along Piccadilly towards her Waco
with the money in her pocket, she was surrounded by
a gang of street thieves, who jostled and robbed her.
She applied at Bow-street Office for assistance to Tree'
ver her property, in a very crutressed state of mind.
Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Vine, Gerratl-
- on the body of Peter de la force a teacher of
languages, who died in -consequence of falling from
horse, by which his skull was fractured.
Vadict--
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