The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-10 00:00:00

,c was a farmer.
Isiderahle landed
- children. and
f etch other,
meaner ; but it
trout the corn•
She defendant
The fruit of
tbs 28th of
part of his
to appear be-
when an order
week. The
Ivs damage%
ds sum fns
father was
Msgra is his
. noble birth.
dear to his
and by the
deprived
of that lees

r,Jatte Beal-
l. She live'
J to her
laced her. On
was tiles worth
acquaintance with

int,- erou•esa-
how old are

place, Jenny ?
bed, Sir, be-
got.
place P—She
second time, for
she took a
road ; yes, in
barn, which
She did sot
May,) There
.eiber it was
knows the de-

d ; no, I bor-
took the book

book Is bettor

work ?—Yes,
the Jery, sad
witness, pard-
tilt manner io

The book she
possession. He (the
bed wade the
, this a eau to
father would be
to the Jan
the plaintiff
rbose services
consenting a
laid the father
and some a
baci been de-
Seduction
called for se-
the evidence.
\ad give such
they believed
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151.
,RIAGE.
this VISO by_
th• plaintiff
compensation for •
damages were
in an eloquent
• limits, to do
.the plaintiff
in this reo•ty,
bn is now in

Harriet Cock,
lefendant is an
cads the Eagle
the affection isf
mother-la-law.
his going to
the plaiatif
imacy. and were
in which parish
fterwards went to
;ginning of ISIS.
always received
husband of Miss
received as
addresses to
sr of her age,
that timaimasy
the defendant
affertion and
he formed a
most cruelly left
s and lament her
ived it, and who
dint{ to him as
his Majesty's
rnell Sergeant
for their gal-
this particular
hirh h. hoped
. Here the Learn-
Jefendant, (the first
defendant expressed
, and breathed
Harriet !"
see borne " with-
_ mod all repose.
Ifouldig hour of their
Providence, under
`Athemost wretch-
praying, that
absence, and
Ides Mon."—
after this, that
solitude, like
; would be semi
of that peace
I again! Could
than to gain the
id then leave bar
ingestible, and

lit
ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
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COINWAILI...-...1110D11114, AVCI. G.
1111r1ILIT V. Inv.
The Conawl stated that the defendant w
Ming near Bidderford, and of considers
property. lie was a widower with sine cl
the parties liviez within half a mile of
they consequently were visiting acqnainta
was not until a year and a quarter fry
menceenent of the acquaintance. that she
, had reduced the plaintiff's daughter. T
t his base act was the birth of a chilli on
; . . I rabruary, 1821; bet the most unfeeling
conduct was the compelling his 'victim Il
fore a ?doctorate, to filiate the child, wh,
, was made for the payment of 2s. per i
Learned Counsel did not press for exressit
owing to the defendant's having paid this
I z •
'',l that period; bat he contended that the
nevertheless I/stilled to just as much dam
,:
lotrulde capacity as if she had been of 1
His daughter's character was equally deal
.
f ' The plaintiff was in his seventieth year.
sednction of his daughter, he had bees I
her assistance in his family, independent
1 - of character, which was yet more deer.
Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS called the daughter,
lee, who was the only witness examined.
,I. near ftidderford ; defendant paid his add,
near a year and a half before he iedece
,1 ) the 2sl of May, 1820, he told her be was
2.0001. per annum. She never had sequel
I t Any other man than the defendant.
iMr. Sergeant PILL, for the defendant
s r mined Jane, the daughter—Well, Jenny, 1
yoe ?—.Twenty-nine, Sir.
When did the first seduction take place
After father and mother were gone to I
;1 twee° eight and nine o'clock io the evenin
How long did he stop after this took p
* 'ir It did not know—it might be half an hour.
Now try. Jenny, and recollect the seem
i, 1 i I mast, indeed, know all about it ? Well
r• :. )It walk, but not in the fields—no, in the re
the high road, too, until they came to a I
1 o I she (Jenny) very reluctantly went in! S
I shut the door. (This was on the sth of 11
was a lock, hot she did not know sorbet
locked or 110 t—she did not try it—boo
k tendons's brother.
Did sire borrow a book of him ?—Yes I
I 1 row a book, Sir: 1 had a book of Isis. 1 te,
d 1 *' out of his cost.
Describe the book, Jenny ?—The boo
• known to yonr Honour than myself.
• ,
i You read it a good deal?—Yes.
On your oath, Jenny, was it sot a bad w
tj/ it was, row. Honour.
. The t d Sergeant thee addressed tb
3
i dwelt on the cross-examination of the wi,
i i tolarly as it related to the book, and At
. .i. ! which she bad given her evidence. Tb,
fi Il ' bad kept for two months in her possessiot
'l
. 4,
. defendant), Geld the Learned Sergeant, hi
easiest conquest man ever made. Was tb
call forth large damages ? No ! the Who
I : I well paid without; and he would leave it
'
I -,o to say, by their verdict, what was doe to
: , • for the loss of math a daughter, of who
, the plaintiff had been deprived in so co
o
• r .'
re11e1144,•
• i ' Ibe Learned Judge (111cnattemoe) soh
1' was certainty entitled to their verdict, am
11 1 r•N - rages for the loss of Arose services be It
priced of by the acts of' defendant.
ii . , was one of those cases which always ca
I • risme ceesideratiou. They bad heard th
1'
ilis I: and woild draw their own conclusions, an
1 ' >', temperate
temperate damages us in their judgment tl
l the plaintiff entitled to.—The Jury gave I
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BREACH OF PROMISE OF MART
Coca v. moss.
Mr. J. Caserta opened the pleadings in
stating that thia was an action brought by
? horsiest the defendant, to recover contras
Breach of Promise of Marriage. The dm
•
laid sit 2000/.
Mr. Sergeant Peat. addressed the Jory in
o
!perch, to which it is impossible, from our
justice. The Learned Sergeant stated that
' l : ,was the daughter of a respectahle farmer in
whoio,As:sii rno:r e
:whin 1
as sieni
encei
choit
ig:
sbto leesemrt2.l3dgai
jri
preysttnyl
at
thsnr
;do
service,
boys,ihoeecoreu.shsyseese .
dr. safeiToontdmhe i
gained
sd•
the
Coe 7351 year of his age. His daughter, II
d
•
,
'
It, to;
1 l4 is. Whitehead. Too years previous to I
sea, Mrs. Whitehead aid the family of I
were upon terms of the greatest intimacy
- * 4 constant visitors at each other's houses, in a
•
1 1 thev.had lived nine or ten years, but storm
* t reside at a place called Milo., in the iteginn
where the defendant resided. and was elm
',. in the plaintiff's family as the intended hush
i Cock, and his soother well knew be was
such. At the time the defendant paid his
' the plaintiff she was in the tweatieth year
the flower of her prime. and possessed at the
accomplishments of person and wind, and II
. ,
be his letters professed the most ardent a
attaelonent to her. This continned until
1; • connexion with a Miss May, when he most
the ohj-ct of his former care to pine am
a . ,
misplaced-affection for one who ill received
r
,II I 1 returned that affection in a manner degraslii
•man, and more especially as an Officer int
navy. of the members of which, the Learn,
outlet, he entertained the highest opinion fr
!entry and honour, and he was sorry in thi
I • instance to find that it was lost, and whirl
would be the only instance of the kind. Hee
7.1 Sergeant read the letters of the defenda
r without time io part) in which the defends'
the warmest attachment for the plaintiff, a
1 ;
11, ' out Lis *hole soul to Lis '. dearest, deares
, in which he writes that be could not leave h
era writing to her is whore his soulgr jbures
and to soothe her mind at the afoul og hi
1 , s', parting; and het for that Divine Peoria
:1 •
r d of turn in the world, sad concluded by p
- Almighty clod would protect her in boo s
1
• il ‘'
I acing himself her devoted lover. Cheri
o l' Id the fientlemen of the Jury believe aft
the young lady was to be left to pine in so
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some blighted rose. Yes! so it was; as w,
lill in the sequel, and which bad robbed her of
of mind which was never to be restored se
t there be a more creel act perpetrated, them
I . t loge and affection of a beautiful girl, and th,
. to the sport of the unfeeling? It was imp
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