The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-15 00:00:00

Leaned rriend to porgy all boroughs of corruption
In eti•ellons ; but let es falterer, that we do oat ascii.
tire intioceot men to those who wish to driest thews
irons • borough, it, ostler that they may have filo sole
oisniterrneol of it to themselves. This case cows to
:O. r ii ut.ties circamstances much ton sespitiuts. to in-
?ore you to become the instruments of persons who
bate other purposes, and those of a most corrupt
SWUM, ill

The LOUD CHIEF JOinCT sommell vp the cam to
111,. Jury, and stated. that they bad better consider
11.ia indictment as relating to Grampound only, as
ll.e evidence rrriwrtlr,g Tregoay went only to two of
the Defendant,. 'Else only question. therefore, +se,
m limber the) helieval that the five Defendants came
up to tows to procure money for winning persons to
verso in Parliament for Grampoond. It had been
urged that the oilman were not worthy of credit, as
they went to tins ponies with a false ropremotatiou ;
Not in mini:ado it was hardly posssible to get at
the ullohco without receiving the statement of those
who had became acquainted with the conspirators.—
Still, ii Leinngeti to a Jury to judge of llso weight of
their evidence. In this case, if they believed the
witnesses, it "mold be their duty to find the Defend-
on:s guilty of a conspiracy with which limy were
charged.
Tne Jury deliberated for a short time, and thou
misused a indict of Guilty against all the Defend-
ants. _ . .

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TM, Comm! for ihr P►aaealios were Mr. Sorjeast
Pell, Mr. Marryai, Mr. Gate's', and Mr. Miriam:
for the Defeodauts, Mr. Gamey lad Mr. Puller.
it ICRAIID GATUORAZ BUTT IP. JAMES FURY, WO.
This was so action for a libel. _ -

Mr. SCARLET!' said, that he *mitered the the De..
feudal'', bat be did not God that any Gentlemen ap-
peared fur the Plaintiff. Ile was not sorprlsed at
ibis, as be bad beard tbst bills had been placarded
lo the streets by Mr. Batt, statiog that be bad been
deprived of legal advice.
T►e Loan Cum JUITICe sold, that es oo Counsel
appeared for the Plaintiff, be west be smelted; sod
be was ociasuited accordingly.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Join 14.

BREACH OF FROMM,. OF MARRIAGE.
moven V. cots.
Mr. Setjeant Vat:coax stated, that this action wss
brsught by Miss Maria Spencer, to recover damages
from Mr. Wm Cole, for a breach of promise of mar-
riage made to her. He would briefly state an (tro-
th* of the ease, leaving it to the Jury to decide upon
lb* 'widest., hid before them, to what unseat of de.
males his Client was entitled. The Plaintiff, Miss
Spfileff, is now V )ears of age; the Defendant, Mr.
Cole, ate attorney I.y profession, is about 201. His
father i.• respectable slik.sterchant.reslding is Wood.
street, Cheopside. The young Lady is the sister-in-
law of Mr. Reynolds, who keeps the Bell Tavern,
in Wood.street, Cheopside, at which house the
Plaintiff was on a 'hit is the month of Angst last
year. The Defendant, living in the neighbourhood,
occasionally visited the Bell, and there became ac.
quainter' with the Plaintiff, who appeared very assi-
duous in his attentions to her. An epistolary coolie.
scondence having taken place between the parties,
Defendant succeeded in gaining Miss Spencer's •ffec.
films. Subsequently to this the Defendant wrote to
Plaintiff's mother, a respectable Lady residing at
Cledby, in Leicestershire, stating his admiration of her
dueller, sod after some observations on her sweet-
ness and amiability of disposition, requested to be in-
formed what her fortune was to be. The young La-
dy's mother havii:g replied to this letter, eatery pre.
'motion was made for their smoothie. The licence
was procured, the weddiopring was bought, and the
young Lady's bridal clothes were made sp. After
*bit, however, the Defendant, in March last, became
less hewn, in his visits, sod more cool in his Wert-
sinus to the Plaintiff, and I.e at length declared to
Miss Speneer's brother-in-law that Le could not mar.
ry her. The Defeedsot's father had from the cos.
',tenement been aware of the courtship, end Miss
Spencer visited in his family. Nothing appeared
which algid eceoest for the alteration of the Defeo.
dint's intentions. Mr. Reynolds having noticed the
coolness of the Defendsnt, waited upon him to know
if be still continued his intentions to Miss Spencer,
stating, at the same time, that amity preparation was
crude for their nuptials. The Defendant replied,
certainly, I do mean to marry her, end will mike 1
her my wife as soon as I can." Notuithstandisig
thls declatation, Defendant did nothing towards the
(raiment of his promise. On the 25th of March,
the Defendant, alter having been for some hours hi
the coffee-roost of the Bellosent to the bar,and told Mr.
Reynolds that his sister-in-lsw was a girl of no charac-
ter, that he would not merry her, and that he believ-
ed be (Mr. Reynold') was as intimate with her as he
was with his wife. This laugusge was not of course
allowed to pass animated by Mr. Reynolds, nor
would it, he trusted, escape the attention of the re-
spectable Jery whom he then addressed. Miss Spen.
car had a decided objection to any proceedings being
instituted, and her objection to have the matter openly
canvassed, marked the sense of delicacy and feeling
by which she was actuated. lire friends, however,
felt it doe both to her character and their own, to
bring this action. Their object was 00i to recover
heavy damages, but in order to rescue the characters
cf the young body and her brother-in-law from the
most foul and unmerited imputations. He now boldly
called epos the Learned Counsel for the defence
(Mr. Serjeant Copley), to apologise for the grossly
sit.ultitrg language toted by his Client—language used
without either a shadow of troth or of provocation.
Serjeant Coetir cheetfolly accepted the chat-
1..0ge of his Learned Brother, and begged to state to
Ow Court and the Joey, that he bad been instructed
Ly his Client to make the apology called for, and
.•:lect the imputations which bad been impropetly
c.. 1 upon the characters of the Plaintiff and her
f. ienth. His Client bad begged of him to state his
sincere cootrition for the esprassions be bad used its
reference to the Plaintiff sod her brother-in-law,
Mr. Reynolds.
Mr. Serjeant Vattanan observed, that the evil
biting been done, a bare apology could not now be
accepted.
Mr. Serjeant Conte aid, the apology had been
r.BrreJ berme the trial, v6;111 the addition of la%
by .n) f compensati...l, Lot both Lad been refused.
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