Star.
London, England, 1817-09-02 00:00:00

STUART PAPERS.

Among the strangers, says the Arms: les Dehats,
who have lately arrived treat Rums at Lausanne, is
Mr. WATsON, a Scotch Gentleman, who is proprie-
tor of the archives of the STUART family. which be
purchased from M. TAASONI, CIACOIOT of the tene-
ment of the late Cardinal Yong. These papers are
actually on their way to England. the British Go-
vernment having sent two strips of war to Civita
Vecchia, in order to transport then.

They illustrate whatever is obscure in the history of
the latter Svomers, and throl many new lights on
the literature, history, and policy of the most interest-
ing period of Modern times. In the literary part oft
the collection is a • correspondence between King.
'Allis and FIDIELON, Sirup, ROCUISsTaIt, &MING-
-1110K;, and other slimily celebrated individuals.
—ln the political past, are snore than a thousand
autograph letters ni the tami!y of the Stumm% as
well as a great number of letters of CHAIM= XII.
Pena the GattAT, L-uis XIV. and nearly all the
cotempiirary Sovereign. of Europe.

Last week. Sir STAMFORD RAPTLISAIte Governor
of Java, and Lady RAFFLE* and suite, arrived at
Glasgow. and alto . taking a cursory view of that
city, set off for Portpatrick.
The Honourable Major Yakutsk M.P. and his
Lady, are at present on a visit at the Loan Cuter
BARON'S, Mount Prospect, in the county of Limes ick.
We :egret to state, that a most alarming fever has
been for some time past raging in the town of Stra-
bane, in • the North of Ireland, front the effects of
which, principally, not less than 107 corpses have
been interred in the Grave-yard, from that town and
its iminediate neighbourhood, since. the 27th of July;
and from the number of patients already confined,
and its being inferred that the contagion was likely
to spread, it was deemed advisable to fit up the Court
House for their reception. which was ordered by the
INOVORT, and a voluntary subscription entered into
by the inhabitants ; in consequence, forty patients
were removed thereto last week. It is generally be.
lieved, that this calamitr has arisen from the distress
and misery of the suffering poor.
Tuesday night, two chaise-drivers, named Brayne
sad Oliver, belonging to. the Lion Inn, in Shrews-
bury, on their return freak Ellesmere, rode upon the
bar of a chaise (one of the men having a pair of
horses loose), and drove it into the river at Bagley
Bridge, where the depth and rapidity of the stream
carried the horses off their feet. It was about ten
o'clock and moon light. Souse inhabitants hearing
the cries of the unfortunate men, hastened to the spot;
and they arrived in time to witness the chilies, horses.
and men, roll down the current and sink. The nn;-
salt, with the vehicle, floated to Mardol Quay next
morning, but the bodies of the men are not yet
taken up.
Friday night every valuable brat:obi was torn front the arts of
Mn. Howaao ieVaezball.tisgtisos. Mrs. H. was Mein on
tie arm Lord PrrIIISSAM lad into the Raids'
(the entrance to width :I ;spay ), when the thief
matched me bracelet in the most audadose and andlegebed new
net. Lord P. instantly made an effort to lay hold of the fellow,
but his Lordship was so pressed upon by several persons, appa.
reedy gentlemen, but must probably the colleagues of the rob-
ber, that the Wort was ineffectual, and he escaped through the
crowd. Mrs. Howaao is the widowdpf the late Major of the
ion) Dragoons, who so gallantly fought and fell at Waterloo.
Saturday sennight, Thomas Terence kl•Mahon,
alias Treelough, and Edmund Shaughnessy, were
executed pursuant to their sentence at the last Beni&
Assizes, for burglary arid robbery at the. home of '
Roston.—Same day, John Rogan, and his stye Mnr
lagh, were executed in front of the gaol, at Down
-
?crick, for wilfully setting fire" to their own house
tor the purpose of defrauding the British and Irish
tire Office.
Lax TaLioxis.—A young man, 19 years of age.
aho has been convicted in Hungary of having cola.
flatted the crime of fire-raising no less than seven times,
Lai been condemned to be harlot allvt.

AN EFFICIENT AND PRACTICABLE PLAN
PO& 1711
RELIEF of rig DISTRESS of ris COUNTRY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE'STAR.

Sin—As your Paper has, more than any other,
been the channel through which Mr. Owates Plan to
relieve the distress of the Country has been conveyed
to the Public, I presume on. your readiness to give
equal publicity to any other Plan that may appear to
have a just claim to Public attention.
In offering my views of what I deem most expe-
dient on the present exigency, I by no means con-
demn the Plan of Mr. °teen as impracticable and
visionary, although it appears to have received this
sentence from a large proportion of intelligent and
reflecting persons ; but if such persons reflect how
many establishments have existed, and.do still exist,
which would .have been equally condemned as vi-
sionary, had they been presented merely as Schemes
designed to produce the results that have attended
them : such a reflexion, I apprehend, might induce
some hesitation in arriving at a condemnatory con-
clusion, without actual and fair experiment. Who
could have supposed that out of the materials of a
silly credulity, a Papal Empire could hive been
erected that should have overawed at one time all
civilized Europe?—or that with such apparently ina-
dequate means, the order of the Jesuits could have
been so extended and consolidated?—or that the Me-
thodist and Missionary Societies could have been
established and supported in the manner they now
are I—or that a National Debt could have been raised
on the footing of a perpetual transfer, the transactions
of which are unintelligible to a large proportion of
the investors I—or that a National Post-Office could
be established to convey letters in every direction,
with a rapidity and punctuality equal to that which
would belong to a single message, preserving a suitable
check on such innumerable receivers of money, and
affording a competent, if not an infallible security tor
the transmiuion of money ? Suppose any of these
Institutions untried, and contemplating, at the out-
set, the ultimate perfection to which they have re-
spectively arrived, had been presented as Schemes,
how many difficulties, insurmountable difficulties,
would not at first sight have appeared to stand in the
way of their execution ? From such considerations
I am therefore induced to withhold a condemnation
of the Plan of this ingenious and worthy man ; and
to think it very possible, that with suitable support,
its practicability might be realized.
The objection to Mr. Owes's Plan appears to be,
that it goes to produce a total change in the frame of
Society t this objection, at least, will not apply to
mine, for mine is, unhappily, toe much in unison
with the present order of things, being nothing less
than • Plan of Taxation ; and as it has been Mr.
Owna's business to defend his Plan against the charge
of novelty, it will be my object to defend mine against
the Charge of commonness. I believe it will be
found that no objection can be urged against what I
am about to offer, that may not be urged against
any Plan, and when an estimate is about to be taken
of the merit of a proposition, 1 must be permitted to
suggest, that it is necessary to take into account the
character of the object that is to be accomplished,
and to be careful that we do not charge on the plan
of relief, the objection which is native to, and inn-
parable from the object itself. What the* is the ob-
ject I- It is twes-feld.an immediate relief of the'
wants of the Poor, and a restoration of Commerce.
To what source then must we apply to accomplish
these objects ? We do not profess to work mar, ks,
and therefore we apply to the Property of the Conn-
try.to the whole Property ; and by putting a suitable,
portion of it into active circulation, to supply at once
the necessities of the Indigent, and the wants of the
Manufacturer and the Trader. The Property of the
'Country consists of its Land, its Buildings, the Pub-
lic Funds, its Shipping, and Merchandise. The
-Public Funds are indeed no real Property, in a Na-
tional view—yet they become individual Property,
and are available for our present object.
By a reference to BROOKet Gazetteer, we shall
find the Land of the Country to be as follows--

linglend
Wales....-4
Scodand ..

iti,1,50.1100 Acres
.... SOOO,OOO
~. i 7,788,000

55,133,000
This Land, of more or less value, I suppose may at
least be taken at an average purchase of 4130 per
Acre. From the same authority, the Population of
the Country, in 1801, was as f0110w5...-
14land ••• ••• •• ••• $,331,454
Wales .... 541,346
53341401. 00000 ••• ••• 1,699,05111

10.4714048
And as Population is admitted to be always on the
increase, we may take the present total number at
12,000,000. It this u too low a computation, it will
be still in .favour of my Plan, because I advert to the
"Population merely as a guide to estimate the valets
of the Buildings. Supposing families on an average
to be composed of five persons, we shall have about
2400,000 families s every family does not occupy a
separate dwelling i but taking into account the great
number of costly dwelling-houses, the numerous and
large factories, warehouses, bgeweries, distilleries,
and public works throughout the country, we shall
not be liable to overrate the productive buildings at
2,600,000, at ASOO each. The produce of the Land
in cattle, fodder, grain, &c. I suppose may be taken
at I.6th the value of the Land ; and the Shipping
and Merchandise, and Coin of the Country, will at
least equal the Land produce. Any thing lite accu•
racy is not to be espected—ghe principal- error to be
avoided is excessive computation. and I presume to
think myself quite within limits. especially as nothing
is reckoned for East and West India Property. pos-
sessed to a large amount by British Residents.
The following will then be a summary of the fore-
going items

Lind, say 55 Millions at £3O, , 3,
7650 Million.
.11.1 toss 30050
Penis, say 750
Predated Law! 1 4tis • 2SS
Ifhlyplog mad Mardwoollee 17$
£3,700 Millions.
A tax of one per cent. on this property would pro-
duce £37,000,000. and if we allow /17,000.000 for
exemptions in favour of persons of teosmaa property,
we then have 30 millions drawn only from persons in
0310014 or at least in competent circumstances. This
sum weeld hunisi a milks pour families with 10$.

a week each for the space of twelve months, and
leave four millions for expense of management,
would produce an extra circulation of nearly, if not
entirely, the whole amount, and give a sensible and
vigorous impulse to every branch of internal corn.
coerce. My next busines; is to propose the mode of
distribution. and to answer the objections to which
the whole plan is liable.
As necessity is the parent of the plan, so it must
be the govern;n7, ptiociple in the distribution we
must, therefore, consider what amount is necessary to
supply the real wants of the objects of this rebel. In
a general way I suppose single men may be excluded
from a participation, though possible exceptions may
appear to such a rule, which may bring some of this
class under the protection of the fund.
I suppose then a man and his wile to require 110 s.
per week for all purposes, and for each child to the
number of four, ss. each. I know that thousands
must do with less, when general and urgent distress
is not complained of; and if, in my estimation of
necessary demands, I am:tou liberal, this error may
be easily corrected, and a less amount to be raised,
or a farther extension will be the result. The amount
necessary for the supply of real want being deter-1
mined, whatever a man's wages fell short of it,
propose to be supplied out of this fund—the manage-
ment to be committed to the Parish Officers, or to
persons expressly appointed—the labourer or me-
chanic. &c. to furnish a satisfactory certificate of the
propriety of his claim : punishment to be inflicted
for fraudulent representation. and the best security
against deception to be adopted by such subdivision
of Parishes, as would bring the receiver, generally
within the perscnal knowledge of the Officers.
The objections now come to be considered, and I
must beg the reader to keep in view that objection.
are inseparable from every plan—wherever an evil
exists that is not beyond endurance, the removal 01
the evil seems for the moment to be a greater trouble
than the suffering it occasions; and though the evil
I now propose to remove or ameliorate is really into-
lerable, yet as I du not address the actual sufferers,
but those who are at ease, and on whom I propose to'
lay a small share of burden to deliver the actual suf-
ferers, such persons I am afraid may be tolerable to
magnify the difficulties which the plan of relief ne-
cessarily involves.

The-first. and in my view the greatest difficulty is,
that the relict proposed would induce masters to give
less wages, and thereby increase the real necessity.
To this I can only reply, that even if it should be so,
still the evil attending the relief is not near so great
as the evil of necessity unrelieved. and that of two
evils we must chase the least ; but perhaps it would
nu operate so much as at first view we might be led
to tear—for first, the limitation of the fund would not
allow such a dependance on it, as would give the
masters full command of their own terms; and se-
tiondly, an iiicteased demand for labour from the
extra circulation of money, would give the labourer
some influence over the master. But whether these
expectations ate well founded or not, I contend that
the evil in its greatest magnitude. is not a valid ob.
jection for whatever consequencesresult, if the means
exist, want and 'misery ought to be relieved. The
objection only thews that the war in which we have
been engaged. and which deserves the most urqua.
lifted reprobation. has entailed evils that admit of nu
satisfactory remedy. The second objection is, that
*would encourage idleness end intemperance—sit this
be true, it is to be answered as before-4 is unavoid-
able and therefore must be submitted to.
But we here suppose the labourer to be in employ,
but with iusufficient wages. It he is out of employ,
be may be required to do any work that can be Wand
for him, and al he is only to be supplied with an
amount deemed necessary. fox his real wants, we
might presume on this being a tolerable security
against intemperance—And perhaps some Sunday re-
gulation might be adopted in the way of adult trawls
to bring such persons under more particular notice,
and by this measure their characters might be both
known and improved.—Third objection. The period
which is proposed is too short to do any essential
flood. Yet how is it to be extended ? Are the iich
to be taxed till they become paupers ? And what is
to be done alter the fund is expended ? I answer, a
little griod is better than none. If time is looked
forward to, to work a remedy of itself, it will do it
much better with the aid of a first impulse to set
things in motion..--The rich can never for such an
Object be taxed injutiously, for by the computation
Which forms the basis of this plan there is clearly a
sofficiency tor all, and as nothing like an equal divi-
sion is intended—nor indeed any sort of division, the
bulk of property mutt finally remain in partial hands,
after every want is fully supplied. But the benefit
of the fund ivould not cease with the first expendi-
tnre, for once put into circulation it would pursue a
course beyond the period of its first disbursement,
though iu a less proportion, its effect would be felt
a second, and perhaps a third year; and if necessity
still called tor farther relief, the degree of assistance
would be determined by the degree of necessity still
remaining. Admit that this is enough for all, and
that.the claimants are and must be content with a
iery small proportion, and it follows of necessity that
their wants must be supplied before the wealthy can
feel the tax press heavily upon them.—Tourth objec-
tion. But the tat proposed is of the nature of the
late property tax, which is wholly inadmissible. This
would have been a capital objection had it been urg.
ed against such an impost for carrying on war. but
it is none against a mode necessary for the relief of
the poor. On one side the payer of the tn is to be
subjected to the vexation of interrogating commis-
sioners—and on the other, the poor man and his
family are to be visited with cold and huttger—'
almost without food, raiment, or lodging t —Which
of iheie ought to be endured, if one is unavoidable ?
Who will maintain that the grievance of an inquiii-
torial tax is equal to that of extreme poverty ? But
let it be observed, that the property subject to inqui.
sitorial assessment in this computation is only in the
proportion of 550 to sso, or about one-sixth. And
if persons engaged in trade wish an exemption from
those examinations, which beyood doubt are very
unpleatant —still they cannot require to be exempted
from their proper contributions; and it is for them
'to prqpose any mode more agreeable to themselves.
But it is impossible to avoid this inconvenience and ,
at the same time to adjust•with precision the portion
due frost' each ; and if examination is objected to,
some visible bur unequal rule must be inbsuitted to;
and the liability-to excessive assessment must be-con-
-

. . . .
t;dered at tile price of etemption frarn scrutiny—in
such a case a choice of evils is all that can he given.
With respect to the relation th4t suhaist•. between
population and production, it forms no part of the
present case, because my object only extends to the
restoration of a proper proportion internal trade
—the mode of pr.viding for very distant gen. :scions
I must leave to abler heads than mine; and perhaps
even these must le.ive it to the care of that Puovt-
DPNCS which orders all things. At present. however,
I would observe, that computing the inh marts at
5e2,500,060 families, there :ippears to be in England
about 16t acre:, in %Vales 4:1 acres, and in Scotland
4R acres to a family, making an average of Tit acres
in all Great Britain:

Whether so much land is folly equal to the sup-
port of the inhabitants, is a question I de n,.t pretend
to determine; it it is, then is it a reproach to the
country that so much want, so much misery shouid
exist; and if our means are really insufficient, then
is itshighly inexpedient, that under circumstances of
a total deficiency, enormous inenualnies in property
should be suffered. The Government of every coun-
try possesses a controul over the property ot the
country, for the benefit of the State at large ; sad
where one part of the community possesses beyond
all measure, and another part is suffering intolerable
want, it is an imperative duty on the Government to
make the excess supply the deficiency. lam afraid
this doctrine will not be relished by the wealthy ; but
nature and justice proclaim its right to govern the
affairs of men; but nature and justice are like sove;.
reigns in exile, who assert, a right they have no power
to entotce. I consider myself now warranted is
saying, that I have exhibited an efficient and practi-
cable plan, highly beneficial to all, with the lean
possible pressure on the opulent, and involving no
objection but such as will be found inseparable from
every plan. I have only now, therefore, to recom•
mend it, with my best wishes, to the attention ot the
Government and the wealthy. Much more might be
advanced, but it is to be hoped that the Government
and the more favoured part of society are not so en-
tirely lost to a sense of the duty which the present
state of things imposes on them, as to require to be
reminded of the uncertain tenure on which even
Empire is held; and that the allegiance which is only.
maintained by military power or coercive late, is al-
ways in danger ot dissolution. Home affairs are, or
ought to be the first concern of a nation, as much as
of an individual, and every foreign transactiou ought
to have home velure far its object : the more this has
been hitherto neglected, or improvidently souvin, or
delusively preteuded, the more necessary it is -now to
set about it with determined sincerity and zeal; and
if sacrifices have been made to destroy a nation, they
ought not to be withheld to restore it. Yours, &c.
NUDE:4I'IM

The GLAstlow, of Si) guns, has been commissioned
at Deptford by the 14 Captain Meat woo.
Fria's?, the crew of his Majesty's late ship Atcmc
were paid oft and those lately returned from the
Likes on Saturday.

Since the Grew Shooting commenced, numerous
presents have betu forwarded to Mr. Sieeventoit r,
accompanied with letters from persons toikiiiiwo, but
handsomely complimenting him as Me Public's fr,
in having restored the Price of Tickets and Shares to
their present moderate rate, by the example set is hie
(*my& . No. greater induceMents can be blended
in a Lottery than a Sato Priced Tides and the chance
if very Farr Prises, a chAnce which exists in a supe•
rior degree. in that which is to be drawn the loth of
SRPTEMBRR ; for although it consists of only 2,900
Numbers, there are Two of d42u,000 Stirling Mosey,
and egret; £40,000 may be gained by One AiifiLer, as
the Schemee particujarize. These are the kinds of
presents which Mr. Sivewitiowr is anxious to return
for the Favours received at his Offices.
A ferociou; animal, of a singular kind, has been
killed the 20th of last month, in a wood belonging
to the Commune of Meziily-sur-Saone. (Cute d'Or),
by a farmer of that Commune. These who hive
seen it say it has some resemblance to the lynx ; it is,
however, thicker and longer in the body. Its head is
like that of the fcx, feet short, a whitish circle round
the neck. A 6:mid smell proceeded from it when it
-was k lied. The game-keepers and wolf-hunters, vino
had pursued it during six weeks before, never heard
it bark in the night like the wolves. This animal has
been the scourge of the country. It had already de.
!toured seven and wounded twenty children.
Sanas° MAU:D.—The grand Sailing Match for
an elegant Silver Cop. given by the Gentlemen of
the new Cumberland Fleet, was sailed for yester.
day, by nine Gentlemen's pleasure-boats, each being
distinguished by a broad white pendant, with red
spots and numbered. At four o'clock the Commo-
dore of the fleet hoisted his flag in Cumberland Gar.
dens, which was overflowing with company ; several
bands of music attended for their amusement. At
half past eight, there was not sufficient wind to carry
them round the boat moored off Wandsworth, in
consequence of which the match is undecided.
GRAND ROWING Marcit.—Yesterday the lovers of
aquatic sports were-highly delighted with the nume-
rous amusements afforded Ahem by the Proprietor of
the Royal Cumberland Gardens. The first was a
match for a coat and silver badge, to be rowed for by'
six young watermen, in the last year of their appren.
ticeship, to be decided in two heats : the first beat to •
start at four o'clock from the King's Antis Tavern,
Milbank, down the Surrey shore, row round the beep
con at Lambeth. and back to the King's Arens; the
first three boats of this heat were the only ones en.
titled to start for the prize. At the appointed hour
the following six started as above-mentioned, each
boat being distinguished by a small white flag, with
numbers fired in the stern of each boat

MAMPI.

WNW OlLOlllehlik NO. Or rrOfri•

James Greg y - Pepper-411r/ .a
Wfiliam George • Blockfclars -
Charles Maynlint • Lambed: . a
wttttaat liazass . Hon.:ferry . 4
Richard 1441.111/• Hungertard
William Pratt - Westminster -
The three_ first boats came in as they stand on the
list, and at half-past ,gve they started for a second
heat. The River, from their place of starting as far
as Lambeth, was covered with boats of every de-
scription. At seven o'clock they vane in in the settle
wanner, Gregory . first, George second, and May-
nard third, each being about two or three boats lengths
apart. The winner was then presented with the Coat
and Badge in the gardens, in the presence of upwards
of 2',000 persons ; the utile' twos were rewar*ed with
minor prises. •. . . .

CUMBERLAND ASSIZ.I.S.

NISI PMI'S llAtt.
calM. co,N•—nourLEvos v. 1111 tat.

Mr. Attmeruoso stated this to be an action for the
recovery of daitieges ageinst the_delecl int, for crie
nainal conversattim with the pleitiolr. w.fe.
Damages Wen! bid at a;5;rU.
Mr. COUUTNEY :cin ssed the Court Jury in a
very animated Teeth. praying for darn e;es against
the defendant, he having seduced and debauched the
plein:itt's wilt. 'Pie plaintiff, he etsserved, was
private in Cie Csimhei lend Militia; aid tie defendant
Was f .reitrly a Suieeon in the '.ante regiment. Tee
plaintiff hecame al Cisiailitcd iI:S wife at Hull, in
1814 whirr they lived happily, and comfortably to-
getl et. plein'ilf was selected by the defendent
as hi, reevant Mier this the regiment went to Ips.
wich, where th- wif- 41 the plaintiff was employed
in washing defendant's linen. They lived in perfect
harmony till the regimeet was disbanded at While.:
haven, in 181.5, at which town the defendant set up
as a priovete practitioner with half pay. The plaintiff,
and his wire also rerneined at Whitelleven. Up tol
this period there wa no ividence of A crimioid con-
nection between the parties; but everts have since
made appear what were the views of the defendant
at the time. In order to have a better opportunity
of gratifying his libid.nons desires, he sent the plain-
tiff int:, Rutlandsbire with a horse, and provided
lodgings ler his wife during his absence. de kept
the deluded men et this dietauce for the space of six
or seven mouths, and immediately alter he departed
commenced an intercourse with Mts. Rnieledge. In
a little time this intercourse became notorious to all
• Whitehaven, and she was turned out of her lodgings.
The plaintiff, now returned- to Whitehavcn, found
his wile in new lodgings, but had no proof of the de.
fendint's criminality with her : he therefore cohabi.
ted with tier in similar harmony AS before. In order
to facilitate his criminal intercourse, the defendant
took the husband as a showman, and the wife as a
servant. The master slept up stairs, and a bed was
provided tor the plaintiff and his wife. 139 t this did
net suit his views : he induced the man to sleep in
the shop, as he could not hear when people knocked
at ehe door. Mrs. Routledge now availed herself of
an excuse to sleep up stairs, the shop being tete cold
for her: Her absence from her husband's bed exci-
ted suspicions ; he mentioned these suspicions to a
friend, who advised him to be cautious. In conse.
quence of this advice, he went up stairs to her bed,
and found it empty, and proceeded in concert with
hte friend to search his master's apartment: he found
his wife actually in bed with the defendant. From
that day to this they have lived in open and avowed
*dupery.—" As to the consideration of the quantum
of (Images, Gentlemen," said Mr. Courtney, "Juries
are generally guided by the circumstances eat the case.
My client is in a humble situation ef life; but shall it
be said that the virtues are not of equal value in the
lower as in the higher ranks of sovety ? The pie.
sent creed of society goes to establish a different pro.
position. The middle and lower chows of society
are the spheres where the virtues best thrive. The
afßeent members of the higher classes have other
tourers at pleasure; but where can the labouring
man find assistance and support if it is not in the af-
fections of his wife ? And the same may be urged
in regard to the wile having a claim on the affections
of the husband. What, he would wish to know,.can
be urged in defence of a case of such an aggravated
nature? Has ant the poor man the same dread of
having tine finger of Siorsi" pointed at him as the
rich men ? Moreover, the defendant is a membet of
a noble and high-spirited profession—a soldier—who
continually lives in the dread of shame and the dread
of Alcorn. lam not aware what can be pleaded in
justification of the defendant ; but this I know, that
nothing can compensate a man for the list affections
of his wife. A man in such a situation is bereaved of
the nsost powertul hold on human klicity, and on this
impcietant consideration must a verdict in such cases be
founded. Large damages have been awarded where
g breach of confidence has been preyed. or where so
agreeable friend has been torn away, or for simi.ar
acts of treachery. These have all been dwelt upon ;
bat can they equal such a breach as is here commit
test by a master towards a feithful servant ? The
allegiance of a subject is compared to that lif a ser.
wane; who-giees up a part of his natural rights to se-
cure a civil or domestic protection. What will you
jay to die master who violates this trust? who seizes
eppii every opportunity which his superior station of
life affords-tim of gratifying his adulterous and libi.
dittoes lust I What imputations will be Can upon
the plaintiff in the course of the defence, I cannot an-
ticipate. Ido not challenge it here ; a better hives-
tigation may take place elsewhere. Consider. Gen-
, tlemen, the situation in which my client stands, and
the difference which exists between the higher and
- lower chisses. A rich man may obtain a divorce—
the poor man is precluded Prom this: It is not merely
• a temporary loss of domestic comfort, but a conti-
nual sting in the wounded breast, and a violation of
ailt he charities of life."
The register of the marriage between Richard
Routledge, private in the Comberland Militia, and
Mantle Steer, spinster, at Trinity Church, Hull, May
Ititte was here read."

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Thomas Watkins sworn.—Knew the plaintiff when
the Cumberland Mt.itia was
.quartered at Huil, its
1810. Knew hini befcre hi married; WAS a willies'
so the marriage register. The plaintiff and his wile
lived on good terms was in the Miiitia upwards Of
eleven years.
James Creigbtoa'sworn.—Was a serjeant in the
Cumberland Militia ; remembers the time of the
plaintiff's marriage, but was not present at it. '('hey
lived its a comfortable manner during the time they
were in the regiment. Remembers the regiment being
at -Ipswich. It is the custom of the Officers to take
the mist respectable of the men for servants. Recol.
Teets Routledge being defendant's servant a few
years. The defendant was surgeon to the regiment.
and now lives at Wbitehaven, where he practices as
a surgeon. Has seen the plaintiff's wile there, and
believes she lives with delendatit—wbo is OR the 'e-
duced pay of the Staff.
James Bowman sworn.—Knows the plaintiff;
and his wits came to live to witness's hutment While.,
waves ; they lived tune about four weekt
id weal away span his madn's blol2llls to his

'ether's hab ta' on n r atlintishire, and was absent
about seven months; his wife stopped during that
time at witness's house. She y.t in•oxicated with
liquor, and his wife locked the tour upon het,
took cwre not to let her in agaiu. A perwn upon
the Quay of the name of Lard took her in ; she
warieci for the Doctor. Witn:as saw the Doctor at
his house several times during• the period the plaintiff
Was away—pretty often hack and too ward ; once a
week or more; cannot tell how he staid at a
time. Saw her tipsey often baton, and after, or else
he would n"t have locked the do sr. Itymemi)ers the
Doctor coming to see her when her husband was
with her; the husband came cut of the to,un and
smoked his pipe with witness, and waited 6;1 the
Doctor went away ; pethaps a quarter of an hour.
Has seen this oftener than once, or twice, or three
times. Witness is a sailor.

Robert Truckling examined.—He has kn., An plain.
tiff and his wile about a year and a 11:11i. ItCMCM•
ben hawing a conversation with plaintiff relative to
his wife about three weeks belcire the last time he.
.eaueht the Doctor in bed with her ; was present when
he found his wife in heel with the Doctor on the 13th
of August, 1816, at Whitehavett, about halt. past five
in the turning. Witness slept about 101) yards fr.:m
the Di:ctor's house. Routledge came fur him that
morning. Routledge slept on a shake-down which the
Doctor had made lot him in the shop. Witness went
up stain with the plaintiff into the Doctor's room ;
there were two chairs set against the door; saw the
Doctor when he got out of bed from plaintiff's wile ;
she has lived with the Doctor since that time. Rout-
ledge leit the Doctor's service. and after that was
never employed by the Doctor, but he had been in
the hone since to demand his clothes.
•
Cross-examined. te-utledge old him three weeks
before he had caught his wife with the Doctor in the
same situation ; he made a demand for his clothes
several times, but his wile had pawned them..
Mr. RAINY, for the defendant, addressed the Court
and Jury. He commenced by complimentiog his
Learned Friend, Mr. Couttiwy. on the ability which
he displayed in his oppening address; indeed, he ex-
pected in such a case, and from such a person, a
display of considerable talent, and from no one was
an eulogium upon the happiness of the married state
more likely to come than Isom llr. Courtney,
who was himself lately monied to a must amiable j
and excellent Lady. He certainly :old the Jury
truly in what domestic felicity consists ; and he
agreed with his Learned Friend, that the hteach
of cinjugal &Witty was a great evil. If the arts
of seduction are employed to take away the affec-
tions of a virtuous woman. a greater injury cannot
exist ; but how different are cases of this kind !
Sometimes a Jury cannot give a verdict at all, and
in others, very small or nominal damages. Even
from the plaintiff's evidence this appeared one of the
most abandoned and shocking cases ever brought into
a Court of Justice. That this mot has had his peace
destroyed and his domestic comfort invaded by the
arts of the adulterer, is impossible. He has been
the pander of the dishonour of his wife, and the in-
strument of his own disgrace. He introduced Isis
wile to the defendant for the purpose of exacting da-
-1 mazes—that was his only object. It had been said
that the plaintiff and his wile lived condos tabiy, hap-
pily, and respectably together* Gentlemen, said Mr.
Rain*, comfortably and happily means, getting
drui.k and quarrelling almost daily as I will suffi-
ciently prove; and respectably means, submitting his
wife willingly to prostitution 1 It has been urged,
said Ire, that the domestic virtues are of as much va-
lue in low as in high life. GOD forbid that it should
be the contrary. My triertd Mr. Courtney urged Some
/trey good teasous for it highly creditable to his head
and heart; but will it be urged to a respectable Jury
its these days, th it drunkenness is one tit the domes.
tic virtues ? This violin!: Lady had such a predilec-
tion for getting ducat, that her landlord locked the
door upon her ! When the husband perceived her
bed empty, where could he conceive his wife to have
gene? Why, to the Doctor's bed most assuredly
—What more militates against the case of the plain-
tiff is this: when the Doctor visits the Lady the
plaintiff accommodatiugly leaves the room and
smokes his pipe.- A comrade told him, "That the
Doctor would be tailing foul of Kitty." He replied,
" d—o her, let him take his penny worths of her."
These, Gentlemen, said Mr. Paine, are some of the
map,* it married life which you have heard my
Learned Friend comment on so ably ! But, Gen-
' derneti, I shall not detain you longer wed; any obser-
vetions t t mine on a case so disgraceful and aban-
doned, when a pander of an adulterous woman comes
into Court and sues for damages. The case of Cib.
her o. Slaughter, has removed Any doubt that
might remain in the breast 11l the Jury on that sub.
jest. Gentlemen, since that time no husband privy
Ito his wile's dishonour has ever received the compeh-
sation of damages in a Court of Justice.—Mr. Rains
proceeded to call the following witnesses:
Grace Laird sworn.—Remembers Mrs. Roudedge
coming to lodge at her house about a year and a halt
ago ; she was there four months, and at the end of
that tune her husband time and lived with her.—
They soon after left and went to the Doctor's to live
as servants. During the time they lived with witness
they quarrede.l almost every day, and Mrs. Rout-
ledge frequently had black spots upon her ; scarcely
a week passed without their hearing her shout—
" Murder !" One day when witness was in the cel-
lar she heard Mts. it. call out Murder, and witness
went up stalls and asked what was the matter ?
*Fs. Routledge told witness that her husband want.
elf her to take a false oath, and to let her and the
Doctor be eddied io bed together. Witness replied,
" Fye, lye, don't talk of such things," upon which
Routledge aimed a blow at his wife, but struck witness.
Mrs. R. said she would rather have ber arm broken
or taken off than do it. Routledge exclaimed, " You'
th.-d b— and wh--, 'l'll make you do it ;"
and was going to beat his wife; witness got between
them and called her husband to come and assist.—
Plaintiff said he amid kill his wife if he could; wit-
one's husband and Routledge got to boxing.
Cross-enenined:—This was after they left Bow.
man's.
Eleanor Moffat sworn.—Witness was chare.woman
to the Doctor in May last ; remembers Richard
Routiedite coming to tip Doctor's house the taw
Thursday in Mays 1817 ; he then appeared very
teLndly to his wife, and gave. het a gamed note. He
came neat morning and breskfasted with Ism and I
bad his victuals there constantly. The plaintiff was

empinyed in May last ha washing b..ttles he also
brushed the Doctor's shoes, and cleane.' the kniv..s.
Witness recollects Mrs. Rnutledge asking her he
hand ahy he l•ad been injuring the aico.r in th
mantle, he had done Riiutledge said he was soli%
fir what he had done in injurin.: the•Di•oror, but h.
had b-en adv•sed by ill-advisers ;he said tee was very
glad his wife was in her place, and hoped khe would
c.nrinue there ;•he said he was goirg .Iw4),
asked her for the guinea note ; as on the 4t
of Jone.—Cross.elamined. Mrs. R d,..e did n• t
paws) the phontill's clothes; she lives with :lie 1) c
tor only at chance times; she is positive she 54w
Routledge in her master's house from lastT.,tus-
day in May till the lzh of June, beziuse he wanted
his money back on that day ; is certain of the day,
us the 4411 of June is kept at Whitchaven.

Grolge Palmer sworn.—Was a in the Cum.
bnland Militia when the plaintiti was ; and when
quartered at Hull in ISl'2, he lived oily the second
dam from him. He often saw the I) actor go to
Routledge's quarters, as he went past witness's door
to go there. When the Doctor went in, Routledge
came out and entered witness's room, and generally
smoked his pipe there ; witness has often spoke on
suhiect to R.outledge. Witness came up once
when Routledge was standing at the door, when the
Doctor came past witness went u. stairs into his room
and ltoutledge followed him and lighted his pipe.—
WitllCall said to him, " Dick, the Doctor has pone to
your house I how can you come out when the D ictor
has gone in ? he will be getting foul of Kitty."
Dick if I care, let him take funnerth:
of her." Witness has frequently kn:iwn Dick come
out of his room and smoke his ripe, wht.n nutiodv
was in tie room but the deleinLint
-wife. This was in turiiisliesl lodgiogs, cut a bar-
rack. —Cross.examisied. The plaintiff was gr,orti to
the Doctor and he always came out when the Doctor
went in; it was commonly night; the wile washed
for the Doctor; witness lives at Carlisle.
James White examined.— He lived servant with the
defendant between ten acd eleven years; Routledge
was servant at the same time. The regiment ••as
quartered at Normatincross barracks nine niiiiiths
about six years ago. and a knew has known Routledge
to bring his wife to his master's room when he came
for a sack of coals; coals were dear iliac, and the
defendant occasionally supplied the plaintiff; he got
them in a bag which he put un his back and went
away. The last thing witness did was to go and ask
his master if he wanted any thing snore for tile night,
and he generally saw the plaintiff's wife there, and
he observed her there also in the morning.
Here Mr. Baron Wool) interfered and advised the
plaintiff's Counsel to withdraw a Juror, which was
agreed to, and each party will pay his awn costs.

Thursday night the wash-house of Mr. VeKus,
Belgrave-place, Pimlico (adjoining the 'dwelling.
lonise), was broken open and robbed of one cloaca of
silk handkerchiefs, one dozen muslin ditto. and se-
veral pair of stockings ; a large bundle had als:
been packed up, containing a great variety of valu•
Able articles, particularly table-linen. Luckily the
servants having been obliged to get up, in of der to
let in the chimney-sweepers,' at three o'clock, the
rogues took the alarm, and the bundle mentioned being
bulky and weighty, they scampered off without it.
The following are further particulars of the late
murder at Petersfl •Id, near Poitsmouth :—ln endea.
• vouring to gain i uniter particulars of this transaction,
we have learnt that the murdered man lived formerly
at Lincoln, and that on application to the Magis-
trates of that city, they returned fcr answer, that
Searson's father, with himself, formerly resided
in that city, but had gone to London. Appli-
cation was then made to Searsnn's father, who
replied, that his son and himself had both been unfor.
tonate, and that he had not money even to inter him,
and requested it might be done by the parish, at the
same tim • stating, that he did not see the necessity
of his attendance. We afterwards learn that the
younger Searsen left London in company with the
bailor ; that at Ditton•marsh they met a farrier, whom
they attacked, robbed, stripped, and left him for dead;
he, however, recovered, and has acknowledged that the
knife, as also a key found on Searson's person. were
his. The conjecture new is, that Searson and the
sailor having a dispute respecting this man's property,
qua:tailed, and, it would seem, attempted to murder
each other. This conjecture in a measure accounted
1 for the dreadful cuts perceived about Seatsan ; dread.
tul gashes appear from bath ears to tl.e mouth, as
also on his shoulders, as if they were ii.flicted whilst
attempting Its throat, and which he, it would appear,
resisted by holding his head down. Between his eyes
a dreadful cut is perceived, supposed to Wive been
done to make him hold op his bead. But the blow
that finally deprived him of life is a most dreadful
wound in his side, directed upwards towards the op-
posite breast; to stop the blood that was running
from this wound when the body was found, a wisp of
straw was introduced. Nothing further has transpired'
to discr,vi•r the sailer.—Hearlishire Chronicle.

EXICUTION eon biLADRR. AT GLOUCESTER.••••••
Rekord Tenser, Richard Heath, and John Whiiiitisham,'
who were tried and convicted on Friday week, for
the murder of Mr. Henry Thompson, were executed
on Monday morning at the usual place of execution
in the city of Gloucester. From the lenient charge
of Mr. Baron GARROW to the Jury, it was anticipa-
ted by many who were present at the trial, that the
Jury might have been induced to entertain sonic
doubts as to the legal, whatever opinion they might
entertain of the moral guilt of the prisoners, and in
c.einsequence to have returned a verdict of Nat
Guilty. The Jury, however, alter a dispassionate
view of all the facts which were submitted to their
notice, with a firmness, at all times creditable where
a conscientious view of the case will permit it, per-
' formed their painful duty by pronouncing a verdict
of Guilty ; and the dreadful sentence and execut;on
of the law followed. The prisoners themselves de-
clared that they died innocent, because they had not
actually inflicted the deadly wound ; that atrocious
act having been done by W. Turner, who is still at
large. The -law, however, on this suhject was
clearly expounded by the Learned JtElge, and as they
had joined in resisting a constable in the executiou
his duty, murder having ensued, they were all
~tike guilty. The crowd who witnessed the awful
scene wars immense ; the wretched stifferers•wese tin-
tortously' bad characters, addicted to cvcryttiescrip-
i Lion of plunder.