The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-06 00:00:00

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WiresdaliThkadisidifitio &tort Its fethet''s
Wilion Ind Sin, of Boltoe. • The witness suld;lste
had ise;et heard the Defendant envie any ieisiti flee
breaking it the match. ()pot) his croiewzaminitiori
he statist, Anti the Defendant's accession of fAittiati
hads
he
rcell alb
ere! I lei; It' educationleoo school eact"PcideeitOtiiaen suitable
and ht t believedoilbirliealfsif°llcoirestt tina:1:8:
eho6ci
The witness-sitted that the wedding
to be so neural hand, that his sister's wedding cloihtni:
were poreheied. Witness a4mitteB that upon the.
mach hewing been broken olf, he'hatl iniehnrited Ma
*sin, (;apt. Wilson, lova! tipiwit the Defendant for
U eripleauje_a_ot. his Coudact, bUt the pride. An;
.teeter of iltit .iiseisigo 'Conveyed by Captain Wilton •
did not swear. The Witness had never heard that
captain Wilson had, paid his 413resseko his inter.
;lies believed his lister, when she wrote letter's, wrote
a colt), first for the sake of Atticttless and correctness:
che bad seed a Copy of that iiort which she hid pie.:
eerie&
The cOrtifial%te*Of the Marriage between the De;
fondant and Miii GrimilirKtt by the Rev. Jo.sepli
FLoWley, qffsciekng Minister Of Lapesiter, was broiled
by Mr. Jeffiiiist Clerk to Melina. Dried Sind Brook,
of liverkel.
Thornis Duncan, the Deferidant's strosierd, proved '
that the We:taint', rentals amounted to 50001.
.war. t•
James Crcipper, of Liverpool, one ri the trustiest
eider the will of Mist Orfcred's father, deposed to
the extreme respectability of the family, arid pie A
very high character of the Lady : he 'had eter NAO.;
dered her as exemplary in a very high degree. Both
.the Plaintiff and the family associated jilt!) the first
people of Liverpool.
Isaac Blackborde, Esq. brother to the Mem.. h for
the county, bore the aloft explicit testitudny to the
character of the Plaintiff end her frithily. With re-
gard to the Plaintiff, he hid always rodsidered her
as the most artless girl that he had bier. Seen In ,his
life. lie described her as a veil beautiful *timer,
and a woman of good sense end d scretion, Ifer con-
duct throughout life he believed to be ntsifurmlY corgi
rect.
Mr. Scaer.err addressed the Jury, oh behalf of thei
Defendant; at considerable length.
Mr. Justice BATLEY observed, tlhit the pieseet
action was brought by Miss Orford, a young Ladd;
of the age of 29, against the Defendant, Rotldi
Cole, a young man, rather more than 22, t' vex
cover satisfaction for the injury she had sustasid isi
consequence of Mr. Cole not having performed
a contract by which he bad 'bound himself to marry
her. The first question was, whether there ever had
been such a contract? If there hid, then the
contract not having been perforated, and the De•
Pendant having disabled himself from performing it
by marrying another Lady, the Plaintiff would
be entitled to a compensation, as far as money could
compensate her, for the iojury she had leceited in
being disappointed of her marriage. That there bid
been a contract of marriage, was beyond all question.
It was unnecessary to go through the evidence to
satisfy the minds of the Jury in that respect. It did
not rest on the evidence of Mist Orford's brother,
but was proved by the letter of the Defendant in
such a way as to leave no doubt. If he wag right
in considering the contract of marriegt alt proved,
then came the question, and it vies one Of grOt dif-
ficulty end magnitude, what was -the. measure of
damages which such a Plaintiff, under inch thrum•
stances, would base a tight to receive? The injury
the lady had received was of this description : that
Instead of being, as she expected td have both,: thd
wife of the Defendant for life, with the fort* theg
Ore Defendant possessed, to have supported her tint
maintained her rank through life, dhe *at still
in a state of celibacyo It had been Ingested that
the marriage, if it had taken place, might bate been
the foondition of unhappiness. Upon that sabjece
it was oat for the Jury to look forward IMO the:
book of life, to determine whether it would or *veld
not hive been a rnerilige peodoctive of heopintise::
They could look only to 'probabilities; etaform-
ing their ideas upon that view, how faritippinesu
was likely to have been the retell of such a Onion,
the probabilities were, that it would hate been at-
tended with that mutual felicity to be expected
from the marriage state. Thera wile a great deal of
difference in cases of this sort. If a woman of d'idtti
advanced age laid traps for a young matt; and drew
him into a promise of marriage, the young. man might
afterwards receive the prudent advice and 'Weide! 011
his friends, end withdraw from his prothiae. • Where
a change of mind resulted from the accesaleo Of atti
vice and prudence, that circsiontairce had iOrayill
diminished the quantum of damages which he *tight
to pay. Where, on the other hand, the. connective
was brought about with the sanction of those periona
to whom the young man ought t(look, and It did not
appear to have been sought for by the woman, but
was brought about by the friends Of
the man, then
the cease assumed a very different aspect. Its We
case the Jury had been 'apprised of the ages of the
different parties. The young Man had lived occa:
atonal? r! at Liverpool, from 1810 till the present pia
stud, it'd he bed during that time frequent littera
coursowith the Pidintiff's family, 'ln 1811, be hitt
oceonntsilidekrnaban to be accession a
o po
f fortune,
lwe ces
of great pfoperty,
or, at !Patt that he would be so when he came of
ate
age. Irilho irthoth of February, 1811, there came
ffsor and stg,
an irtvittlitiiir not from the young man himself, but
'from a person,. Who, of all others, was the proper
person, to.give the invitation, and fatlCtidd the visit of
the young women. It wee an Invitation proceeding
fries the 'Defendant's lbotbey. It was couched its
terms of Reset kindness to the Plaintiff's mother, moo
'kiting the visit of her daughter aid herself. It was
addressed to the mother at her residence at Lifers
pool, end entreated her to spend a fortnight at Kirk
land ball, a :Alined of between 10 and 40 miles.—
Whit would be one of the prehable consequences of
'visit of Ali description ? Here was a young men
just arrived it 21; just master-of his fortes*, thou&
perhaps not master of his passions ; that would
orminbe
the period of life when he would Wyk of fg
to establishment for life. . It was wider these cir-
cumstances the Plaintiff and her mother Went to
opportunities due gives to the young man end
belPel'iricitniader°rrereist, alft, Kirkland
-ball.
owfalithenortiMto,
wrestle, and that thsre might be some thoughts on
the "object of love. It had, in faa, trttovpited that

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