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'defendant. This was not a case which heavy damages
could touch. There was no breach of corfiderce or
previous intimacy between the defendant and the
husband ; and in addition, his client having no more
lean his pay to support him, being oow on foreign
service,, any thing, therefore, like moderate damages
he Could not pay.
Mr. Justice DALLAS observed, there were some
circumstances in favour f the defendant. There was
no breach of confidence, and his being so much
younger than the woman, but still he was bound to
reflect on the enormity of his crime. He had made
miserable an unhappy and deluded woman, and
brought disgrace upon six children of whom she was
the mother. Under the whole of the circumstances,
if they thought the defendant guilty, it followed that
he was guilty in no common degree; and if so, the
Jury would say, undo all those considerations which
arose out of ail the facts and circumstances of the
case, what daniages it would be fit and proper to give.
The Jury instantly gave a verdict for the Plaintiff,
with damages—One Thousand Pounds.

• SHERIFFS' COULttr, MAY 24.
PROCTER, ESQ. V. sratitnsit, LL:a.
This was an action to recaver compensation for
criminal conversation with the plaiatiff's wife. The
defendant having suffered judgment to go by de-
fault, the present inquiry took place before the Un.
der Sheriff and a Special Jury, to assess the damages.
Mr. Scaut.err addressed the Jury on the part of
the pia:laid: Ti,e plaintiff was a young man of con-
siderable fortune in the county of Hertford, and mar•
lied his present wife, who was the daughter- of a Mr.
Hill, also a Gentleman of fortune in the same county,
in 1810. They, had no childien, although Mis.
Procter had several times miscarried. Mr. Procter,
shortly after his marriage, proposed au excursion
aLroad, conceiving that it wouid contribute to the
happiness of his wife. It was during this excursion,
at Koine, that the defendant became acquainted with
Mrs. Procter. The defendant was a man of conside-
rable fortune, holding large estates in the county of
Lancaster. After Mr. Procter quintal me la. per-
ceived an estrangement in his wife's affections for the
first time ; but be had no suspicion of Mr. Standisli,
and it was not all some time afterwards that he bad'
reason to believe that she had formed an improper
connection with that Gentleman at !tome. Wnile
abroad he had two servants with him, a male :.nd
female ; the latter of wficio on his return to Eng-
land quitted leis service, and went into that of another
family—and it was not u::t:l tier return from abroad
a second time, that he was fully satisfied of his
dishonour.

Dorothy Marque, the servant alluded to by Mr.
Scarlett, was next called—went atr.•ad with them in
Jely, !SI I—was a good deal with her mistress, who
miscarried once abroad. Was with them at !tome.
Her mistress told htr one day a perm would call
whom she wished to speak to in her (witness's) bed-
ro::m. She did not then know it was Mr. Standish.
He came accordinply, and witness stewed him to
her icmn, v..here he was jf.ined by her mislress.—
Witness !eft them alone. He irecuienly alterwards
came, and remained alone with let mistress in the
sar.e room.

Several witresses were called to prove the affec-
tionate terms on which the plaint.ff lived with his
wife, rp to the period of her seduction.
Mr. (37.71tNEY addie.std the Jury on the part of
the defendant. The whole question for them to dr.
tent i:ie was, what damage the plaintiff had sus-
tained from the defendant ? It was not pretended,'
could it, that the defendant had seduced the
Lady ; be had merely accepted an invitation to meet
this Lady in the maid's chamber, and it was not pre-
tended that he had ever seen her before that time.—
There was, therefore, no violation of hospitality or of
friendship. Nothing appeared against the defendant
but the time naked fact of accepting an invitation to
the maid's room, where he was received by the Lady
at her own special appointment and request ; and,
consequently, the defendant's conduct WAS entitled to
the most charitable consideration.

The Secondary then summed up the evidence to
the Jury, leaving the' case of the defendant as one,
under all its circumstances, entitled to a lenient con-
sideration.

The Jury found fcr the plaintiff—Lamaies, Five
'Hundred Pounds.

The curious story of the marriage of Lord HER-
BERT, which has been so long a topic of cunvetsation
in the tashionalrle. citees, has at length come before
the pubic tribunal. This accomplished young No-
bleman, when in Italy, contracted a marriage, with-
nut the Earl of hustintoge's knowledre or assent, with
an tiepin' Lab\ the daughter of the Duke de Rosa
PARBELLA. Luria HERBERT was otdered to return
:to England by his noble father, who objected to the
marriage. Soon after which Lady HERBERT, ac-
companied by Ler hrothar, came to England to pro-
secute a suit against her husband, but he had again
departed for the Continent Wore her arrival. She
applied to the Consistory Court of Doctors' Com--
mens by motion, to pronounce Lord HERBERT M
contempt for nut having appeared to the citation
issued against him, in a cause entered by her Lady-
ship. Sir WILLIAM SCOTT said he was extremely un-
willing to retard the cmgress Of justice ; but he wiihed
the matter to stand over for tits consideration until
the neat Court day, and he would take care, that by its
so doing, her Lad; ship should &liven() disadvantage
front the delay.
Saturday, ;V. Curiae!, the drayman, wen was tried
with Hooper and Cash:nor, for tie wrack on Mr.
Beckwith's house, was brought before t?.e Lord Mayor
as a yap ant, having .been fescnd begg:ng ir. Cheap-
side. He was worn away to a skeleton, tad said he
had been wandering about for mar, weeks in a most
distressed state, as he could get no en:ploy:tent.—
His Lordship ordered that he should be Ea:se.l to
his parish in Northamptonshire.
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