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London, England, 1819-08-02 00:00:00

that he knew nothing amiss of her, and never said
that she had right on her side. He had seen Newton

with her.
Hannah Bray had heard Esther Dawson say that
Moorhouse had thrown her down many a time in a
wood. Witness had seen Moorhouse and Dawson
many a time together. It was about six years since
she told her. • .
Joseph Corkell had known Esther Dawson twenty-
two years, and remembered her going about bare-
legged. He heard her say "God d—n and sink you!"
to her father. He remembered her father call and
inquire for her just before dark in summer.
John Charlesworth lived at New-mills, a piece of
a mile from Dawson's. He had known the plaintiff
four years last Christmas. He met her at the fair.
Lydia Bray was-of the company. Hannah Bray and
the plaintiff walked off together. They had been in
a public-house: they went to old Benjamin Bray's:
they were all in bed, but the door was not made up.
Esther Dawson and he went into the kitchen : he had
been in the fields with her till two o'clock. He was
once with her at New.mills and at Hulme-feast. She
went with him into a wood to avoid her brother.
They stopped an hour after in the wood. He was
once at Dawson's house: he saw the old father that
night : he got up: he had seen her before: they had
agreed in the day to meet in the night. She had
come out from the window to meet him. They went
into a dye-house till one in the morning.
Mr. ilatNE. made a most indignant • and spirited
reply, commenting with great point and severity on
the evidence for the defendant. The question for
the Jury was, whether there had been a promise ?----
That there had, they could not doubt. The next
consideration v‘as, whether her condition could re-
duce the damages? A doctrine so degrading to hu-
man nature, so inconsistent with reason and justice,
so foreign to all right feeling, they would not list
to for a moment: they would spew, if a man could
avow himself a traitor to love and honour, because
he had 1.:20,600, a Yorkshire Jury would give ample
damages out of the £20,000 to,aci innocent, a spot-
less, and an et: raged female.
Mr. i3aron WOOD summed up at great length.
The conditions of the parties were no objection.
Many of the happiest marriages had been formed in
similar circumstances. Many, of the practices at-
tempted to he used against her were quite harmless,
and fully warranted by the habits of that part of the
country. Most cruel it was in him to have inspit ea
her with full hopes of a marriage so advantageous,
and then to abandon her. As to Chaihesw•oi•tia and
Homer, wereahese two fellows to be believed? It

was mo.t discreditable; it was worse in young mcn
who probably had failed, though they Might have
attempted, to seduce her, to cqme into open Court
with such evidence. That she had not another silk
s: as no repreath, nor did any tine;? rca:on ap-
pear why the eclendua should not have performed
his promise. lf they believed that the promise had
been made, it was for them to say what damages
should be given.
The Jury retired, and after deliberating for up-
wards of an hour, tier returned a verdict for the
plaintiff, damages
The.defendwt, a fat, stout, coarse-locking man,
sa: during the trial behind his Counsel. The plain-
tiff is a handsome, modest, and interesting girl. The
verdict seentcsl to give very great satisfaction.

SEDUCTION.