Star.
London, England, 1828-01-04 00:00:00

at the request of a Much injured young Lady, to en.
foree,• as far as in him humbly lay, her claim to com-
pensation for an undeserved and aggravated insult put
upon her by the defendant. Miss Ward was of very
tender years, as yet in her minority, as would be seen
'by her suing bylet next friend. She was of respectable
connections, unimpeachable messeiatione, lad amiable
perienalluelitias:Ver station in life was met of the moat
brilliant, bat it rift. at least on * par with the defen-
dant's.'ilse being the sister-hi-law of a heir-dream hr
this town, he the son of an affluent-paper mould,inakes,
and himself practising' that respectable and profitable
employment. There was nothing therefore, inconsistent
in an alliance between these parties. It would be shewn
to she Jury that the defendant, who, at one time, boasted
of being' the oldest friend of Miss Ward's brother in law,
in this town, was in the habit of frequenting that person's
shop, in which' Miss Ward occasionally assisted when
her brother and sister were otherwise engaged. In one

of those meetings, a feeling of preference was engen-
dered in the defendant's bosom, which, in the sequel,
he disclosed to the plaintiff. and which he had influence,
enough upon her to make her believe was of the most,
enduring as well as most tender kind. She certainly
possessed within herself many attractions, which would
warrant a fair shaie of admiration from any man.—
But her, beauty was not all her -recommendation; for,
besides being passing fair, she was withal candid
and honest, in-her dealings with her lover. At the firm
development of his feelings to her; Mis Ward fairly
eiplained to Mr. Green that she had no property—that
`she had no prospects.—and that, unleis he was content
to be enriched with that alone which she had to give
—an unsullied and devoted heart (and what can be cf
more ,value ?) their prospects must be altered. She
begged him to consider the important step which he
was about to take, and entreated hien to do nothing
rashly. - He acquiesced so far as to take trine to con•
rider, but mature reflection seemed only to confirm
what his. first impulses had suggested, and he repeated
his entreaties to her, with increased force, to become his
wife. "The Lady's doubts were by this step dissipated,
and undoubtedly from that moment she surrendered
her mind to the workings of affection, breathed riper
and strengthened by undiminished confidence and un-
doubting mutuality. It was not pretended that the
defendant was as yet insincere—for what man at the
age of 24 was insincere to a beautiful young woman?
He was then 24 ; she not 20—the very' season for love.,
The Jury, and he (Mr. A.) who had passed the fiery
ordeal of that impetuous epoch of the feelings. when
reason holds but small sway over the passions, might still i
imagine how this defendant loved, and hose he was be-
loved. It happened that, about April 1826, the de-
fendant had occasion to go to London. The parting
from the plaintiff was painful ; but, in his absence, he
found solace in that resource which art has supplied as
a substitute for the oral interchange of the heart's
speaking,. and which has been said to be able
" To waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole."
IHe wrote her two letters, which would be put in evi-
dence. These epistles breathe an odour of pure and
ardent affection ; they paint—as letters ought to do—
fairly and truly, the miserable state to which the de-
fendant
was reduced by absence: and the Jury would
judge of the strength of the affection by the writer's
stating that he could not take a walk into the fields at
rogsland—a village near Hackney—without sighing
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for the company of his best beloved. He would re-
serve the reading of the letters to their proper
place, and only remark now that the allusion to a
golden key, -which opens the lock of the heart,
was conclusive upon this subject. Now, it might
be said, when the letters in question came to be looked
at, that, from the peculiar style of them. they were not
to be regarded with great attention. He (Mr. A.) ad-
mitted that they were not written in the purest English,
and that they a ere not the production of a man who had
'finished his education at the universities of Orford or
Cambridge. But were they the less genuine for that ?
The language of the heart is simple and single—end so
I that it pours out its effusions intelligiblf to another re-
sponding heart, it mattered but little whether the first
person ought to housed instead of the third; or that all
the obligations of grammatical rules were coiripiied
'with. For his own (Mr. A.'s) part, he never could laugh
at any thing which seemed to come from the heart.—
Language was but an invention of art ; and, however
finished it might be, where the soul spoke not, it was as
insipid and unpleasing as a highly chiselled marble,
which lacked expression. After souse time the defend-
ant returned from town, and he then proposed marriage
,in the following September.
The defendant—No, Sir,it was in August. '
Mr. ADOLPHus—He was correct in saying September.
The ceremony did not, however, then take place, and
the brother-in-law of the plaintiff felt himself called
upon to ask some explanation of the defendant's con-
duct. He saw the effect which the delay was causing
upon the young lady, the danger to her health created
by the irritation of her feelings, and the prejudice to
her character by the notoriety which the affair bad al-
ready obtained amongst all her acquaintance. The
defendant repeated his professions of attachment, and
fixed the final day for some day in the January follow-
ing. He, at the same time, avowed that an impediment
had somewhere subsisted to the match; but that it was
then entirely removed. This impediment had since turned
Oat to be the opposition made by his mother, who, it
appears, was wicked enough to, throw out some insinua-
tions against the plaintiff's character. January came,
bat no wedding. Another month was then fixed; b
eventually the defendant broke off altogether, and thus
entirely violated his solemn engagement to the young
woman. Then came the action, the outline of which'
he had stated to the Jury. It would be for them, under
all the circurnelanceir, to say to•whardatnages the plain-
tiff vas entitled. tier ebeencree weeenimpearled and