The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-08-20 00:00:00

Jug of the My was reposed. Ask that h should be
towsertow? Impossible; but time briags tail thisp
ahem. "If it should be told to Mr. it will
"Mei me Volta ashappy." This must have Imes emit
jestet, trim Weald make hermicendertable Me
*the talbjeet. " Nene of my raladons Weald disar
ms
pave of ih IA them °Nerve that. Disappteve
IWrist?i The directions lbr !skier a houses the Vl"'
s of Meeks, the referees. to dm' bringing
sheet all thins, that was clearly NW Weddle, day
Mee the Bibulous to the month ot May prettid tits-
Sadly what step the lady meant to take. She direct-
ed that Mire cows would be sell‘ieet. This was re-
diet &Nook*. She further retretted that she had
Wet bees able to go to Aytoa on arrertaisday to shish
lies, bat she would go on a certain day for the sieetri-
&lug lahthine. (Here the Learned Counsel was in-
tempted with laughter.) He would explode what
this meant. Her ?Gang nephew was supposed to ro-
quire electric shocks, and she weed p to Ayten for
the eleetri(yiug machine, and this see Capt. Davison,
whew she had disappointed by not hating kept her
INlSeratit in the going to tea. This was a pod
niselsee fir going to Ayton. She had been Welted by
none Mends to the York Aselses. The Spring Assist.,
at Talk were pleasant. He uoderetood that there
were festivities on those occasions, of which pats
w*rek who did not work so bard es " yea sad I."—
May time, too, was approaching. That was the hap-
py swath which time, that brought t,
was to brief. That was the.month which v
Imitated as the month of marriage:—
" New from the virgin's ebeek a fresher bloom •
divots, less, and less. the live carnation round.
Ups blush deeper sweats-
shlniag moisture swells into her eye.
- her wishing bosom heaves.
With palpitations wild : kind tumults seise
Her veins, and all her ykidiag soul is love."
(Repeated bursts of laughter.)
" Whenever you marry again, Hentienten. May is the
proper time." She intimates to her accepted leene
that she was to be gay next week at York, where she
was to attend concerts, and other amusements, salted
to her prospects, and she directs him to take the in-
tended house only for six years. This was extremely
prudent and proper, for the house might not be large
enough is course of six years. She approved of his
advice to communicate her intentiou to Hr. and Um
Dodds, because they were good religioes *INK aid
very friendly to her and her family. She next cor-
responded respecting her residence after her retire;
from York till the merry month of May, and in one if
her lettersets' wrote." I am very much watched hen."
She felt inconvenience is writing her letters and

. get-
dog them into the Post-office. It been all proba-
bly kind attention 'air, bat she thought, as ladies in
seek circumstances were apt to think, that all eyes
were upon ber.—(A laugh.)—an ibis sorrespoadeues
it appeared evident that she was to change her sites-
that she hoe* the plaintiff's attashment, and ap-
proved of it, sod that her welding day was put off till
May. fee that was the time fo *kw ttttti/a tike
Aston sonsoltiog Mr. and Use. Detirlirs chairs or
nag task plan, sad oho writs a isohtolui ambits'
Whir. He asked ao tapiocas's.. gbh easseered crith
the same eoldnose sod reserve. This was no &obi
the advice of respectable persons. Vs did Reed der
Mr. and Mrs. Dodds. every oat had tilialiediimet
happiness. • -
Mr. NW.. Irafyi:t:grilatalt It was is
pataalltittem from doing a very * thiiig.
Mr. SraaLarr.—Anotber. is written, Intl
elating that the house would net Slittired, and this
letter was iubseribed "your obedialit servant, Rachel
Wilson." (The former subscriptions had been " yours,
sincerely,") The Jury would set from those circum-
stances the ground of complaint. She was meet cone
petent to judge fur herself. There was a great deal of
good feeling and good sense in the letters which
he bad referred to. If, then the contract was such
as she bad thought proper to make, and then to
tweak, ought not some compensation to be made to
the plaintiff ? There were many reasons which might
induce a man to look to marriage for happiness, Look-
ing up to a matrimonial situation was surely a tnerito-
riot's thing in any man. For the last fifteen years the,
plaintiff had been intimate with the defendont, and he
wad now thrown back oil all the miseries of solitude..
He was deprived of die prospect white her psi,-
miss had encouraged him to look to, an 4 he lost el
companion to support his old age.
He would prove the promise from the letters of which
he had read eztrasts,

Mr. Junks BAT$llllr.-4194 the kiosk too, I sup-
pose ? His Lordship then held a sign aoversation
with Mr. Searktt, we nippier la fecpemastediag an
arrangement of a cause which hie Lordship evidently
thought was ill fitted for a Court of Jostle,. The
attempt, however, appeared in the first instance to
fail.
Mr. George Dodds looked at a voluste of letters
put his bands, and said he believed they Were Miss
Jio Wilson's head writing. I think! have *ot irol
Mr. Davisow's letters to the defendant. r
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from Miss Wilson that she received smite. thigh.

she did not show me any. At my age I nenot*ausegn-
her things as I ought. I think I 4W not bear any
of them read. I don't know from bliss Wilson that
she intended to marry. She diii mention her is:ul-
timo of changing her sitestim—ie respect to the
house takes at Ayton. That was the only change
of situation she communicated to me. I swear it.
She did not communicate any ether change ltd ei•
tuition to Mrs. Dodds in my hearing.
An arraegeeneet was agsdaattenspted.
Mr. ScantATT.--Sentimese et the Jury, I
to a proposition from say Lind ee take a verdict/or a
very small sum. and proceed no further in this
I beg to say that I did set mean to east a n•
Seetlea'on the lady. Person have it right to gd
what is isdat suitable for theorists's' at every Oiled
of life; and though oelerni premises are act to be
Woken with impunity, yet, entselderiag the oats of
the parties, and their situation in Ilkt mai& not
OltpllCi each damages from yen Si if they, leere
younger, sad there were more love mid sestintest.in
their attachmetit.

Mr. Rao t.-4
tst SIC pet se met*.

Mt. ivattee
do eiteuesumei
decided to.
TML Poirisrair,
lellipent It Et&

Mr. Andel ata happy that We have the
we naderstiadhig oo the subject.
'Watt fat the pisintiff--Damages 20/.
The Coin eith extremely crewded; especially with
bibs, nod wo haver sew mote merrinsent exalted
by the allictint of disappointed love.
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ostoNSittgx AssislN.
Setters!. Ann.—This was an indictment against
the debudaat, Mr. Isaac Cox, a very respectable soli-
dest, at Mahon. In this county, as the avowed autism
of mime paragraphs which appeared in Trewman's
Basler paper of the first of February, and in the Afftorf
Reeler paper of the same mouth, with some additional
observations. The alleged libel was as follows :--
Jan. 39, 1921.
4. Sidabouth.—A a instance of the most brutal cruelty
was witnessed at this place last week. A young man,
almost 19 years of age, a student at the Royal Military
College at Sandhurst, after riding his horse on the
bench, ordered his groom to take it into the ding-court
of the York Hetel stables. The groom soon discovered
his inteatlon was to destroy the animal, and petitioned
la vain that it might be spared. The young man fired
a small pistol at it, and the ballet entered4ust under
the eye. The poor creature flew out of the Lands of
the groom, and dashed itself against a wall : as it
west off, another pistol was fired at its hind parts. He
rhea bad it caught and brought up to him, in order
*sibe might again ire. The wretched state of the
oieekanimal beggars description; it bad a wound
under its eye, where the first shot entered, the eye
partly destroyed, and blood and water narking pro-
fusely down its face; whilst every part of its frame
trembled with agoiy! it was thus kept whilst the
young man sent his brother, a lad or 11 of 12 years
stage, to east fresh ballets. A quarter of as hour
Aired before the bullets were brought, and the poor
nesters was twice more fired at by im inhuman master.
The repeated discharge of pistols brought several per-
mase into the yard ; who, at length, sent for the proper
people to pat the suffering animal out of misery ; but
this was not effected till it bad been kept in a most
magiod wed pitiable state three quarter• of an hour
lirese the first shot. Those who witnessed this savage
molost loaded the young wretch with reprosches, but
drew Alsa him as expressisa of feeling or sorrow.
Many of the inhabitants determined to institeie a cri-
minal prosecution against him. sod wesseboot to open
a subscription for the purpose, when they were in-
formed, totheirsorprin sad sorrow, that there is no
law topsails acts of this description, however bar-
barous or cruel." This was inserted in Trewmaa's
paper of the Ist of "'Amery haod on the lith of ti.at
month it again waned. with. tome very trivial alte-
rations, in the .47red paper of the 6th, with the fol-
lowing observation, prefixed We cannot avoid di-
recting the serious attention. of out readers to the fol-
lowing circumstance which lately occurred at Sid-
on*. The atrocity of the desd'has excited, where-
; inn Integra, a penal feeling of abhorrence tpwards
'Abe wretch who possesses a heart so lost to the feelings
of Mimetic. as to imbrue his heads in thi bind of a
awful mad sooffooding animal. We have not been
able,to ascertain what Induced the youth to act thus,
but it proves a savage tonicity of nature greatly to be
deplored, and it is a subject of regret that there is no
law In our code to recognise and punish the perpetra-
ton of such cruelty. The frequent instances of bra-
talky to animals that have of late disgraced our land
will, it is hoped, induce some philantrophic member of
the Legislature to bring the subject before Parliament,
and provide a mode of punishment for °Sans of a si-
milar nature." Then followed the former article.
It was stated by Mr. Sergeant Pau., on opening
the case for the prosecution, that it was not the pa-
stakeout of Mr. Cox, the defendant, that was the ob-
ject of the prosecutor or of his family, but that it
was to clear the character of the young man from the
stain which had been thus cast upon it. and which,
unless removed, would not only prove a bar to his ad-
vancement to the honourable profession which be bad
embtaced but in every other. That being the ob-
ject, the learned counsel courted the inquiry to the
fullest extent, sad for that purpose called the following
witnesses
Fronds Stevens, the solicitor for the prosecutioe.
'tilebled at Sidesouth ; saw the defendant at the hotel
at Exeter. daring the assize week is March or April
fast, produced the newspapers in question ; in conver-
sation with Mr. Cox respecting a prosecution against
the newspapers. Rr. tax observed that under all the
circumstances the man was justified in the common
or expressions which he made rase of. This alluded
to the observations in the Alfred, Mr. Cox basing be.
fore admitted that he was the author of the paragraph
in Trewman's paper.
Thomas Norman. the father of the prosecutor. was
living at Slimouth at the time in question ; has a wife
and six children; the prosecutor, Charles. is the eldest
son ; be is a student at the Military College at Saud-
bunt; he is not 17 ; in January last bad a mare la his
poesesoleo ; the same that was afterwards shot ; bad
had it three years aid a half; It was too light to
Jaggy witness; gave it to his son to ride at the vaca-
tions ; his eon hunted It ; the mare was astound at
the time of the purchase; she had been fired, and at
the time in question was visibly declining) he wished
her to be•shot, and desired his toe to dispatch her.
The mare was a Airoarke, and treated more like a dog
than a horse. This expatiators, at the siegtostiot of
Mr. Baron Graham, was qualified to that of a “ fa-
vourite dog." He saw his sou load the pistols. sad
desired him to shoot the mare in the head, aad it mead
do the basins'. 1

Charles Norman, die promeator, said, that the mare
bad inefsfties in her hies and kgs ; she bad hes"
fired; rode the mare on the tab of Jawaory fora
time ots the beach; the same was kept at the g
iota stables; it was a half blood mare; she was
is the logs, add had cracked heels; his father lassitid
bias to shoot the mare in the head, as Je iroaW kill
bar; he treat dews to the stables, aid ordered the mare
be biailaged ; holding the halter is his left bawl, he
fired the pistol with his right; .the ball entered jest
awe the eye ; the pistol was loaded with two &allots I
broke in the agitation soother pistol
she mend near kis feet; it
mare; he desired Drew Ai
ballets, which bring promised
whimd be men hare pawed a
Ire dill aft takeeisst ; is was.
b•-
. again, end isised ; he fired
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