The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-12 00:00:00

VitLit* 91714,41046 Jan. 10.

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This wav in action tom.ElMlV.'llitbicls the
defendant bad "pleaded there Wee. •• ,
It appeared that the fitaiutilt Imo a broke, la Illerenowl-
• 114, awl the &leaden' a thiywrieit ooptipyinir adjacent.
localises; 'lb* witness on his be snore, thatitved.tb after
some nrds, the defoodalst, setae% yoga e
plaintitr, as infiras aad eitl. esei shook him, dr, and
• kicked bite.
Us the part of the defeadant, witnesses were called to
show, in mitigation of damages, that the plaintiff bad need
• very insulting language t that behad provoked the deteltd-
' cut to commit the arsenic; and that the violence bOd been
Weal)! Oisigersted by the plaintiff's witnesses. •
Among the witnesses Lir the defendant. Jobe Usher, a
weadiei-beateri Man, but of very erect. appearance, and
striking, (lace. Was called ; and, after giving his evidence in
chief. was cress-examined by Mr. A.CAILLETT as follows:—
You werein tha Haeltioghemshire ; I was
in the Osfordshire.
'How did you happen to leave it?-1 was obliged to
Irate it for my snort behaviour. (A laugh.)
Your good holiaviour ! What, do they dog 'men in that
tr;iment for their good behaviour?—Yes; I was &card
'or refusing to kill an innocent child, which my colonel
ordered me.
Where was this?—ln Ireland; the child lay in a bam-
boo.. I was ordered to kill all. I refused. I was dogged
and discharged. I call tbat good behaviour.
Itereemnined by Mr. tiaseisa.—You have a pension
new ?—Yes ; and keep my old 'nether with it.
Mr. Scattier'', in reply, said no human being could
trAieve that goy colonel ordered this man to kill a
child, and that the witness was obviously entitled to no

credit.
At this moment a cat, who bas two days before visited
Ow Bro', appeared in the seat appropriated to the
King's couns,l, ran briskly along the desk, and took her
station in the mit of the Lord Chief Justice, from which
she quickly retreated amidst the laughter of his Lordship
end of the Court.
Mr. SCA RLIITT said lie 'apposed a cat would soon he an
emblem ofjustlee for she had now'three days successively
roads her'way totihe Bench. (It *as suggested by a gen-
ii:4pin of the bar, that she was looking for rats.)
The boat) Cuter Jusrice informed the Jury, that their
verdict must, on the pleadings be, for the plaintiff, and that
in estimating the amount of the damages, they would pro.
bahly consider whether any and what degree of provoca-
tion led to the assault.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff...AL-
rn ip s 101.
LORD CHIRP JURTICIL sat till past seven o'clock,
at which time lie hail got through all the causes in
Ale paper except three, which were wade eesourrets by
consent.

COUNTY HALL, WARWICK.-SATimmv.

lICIJRZ • SPECIAL JURY.

CARR V. LILLINGTON.
This was an inquiry before Ilse Sheriff to assess damages
against the defendant, for criminal conversation with th
plaintiff's *if., judgment having gone by default.—Da•
mister laid at 2,01)01.
The plaintiff is an eminent merchant and factor of
aid the defendant his clerk, who has
prince left the country, and is nos► stated to be in

America.
Mr. Auams opened the pleadings
Mr. Beaune., who VIA% brought down an -ciallT frt
London, stated the plaintiff's ease at considerable Length
He commenced by observing, that they were assembled to
award demean (or one albs most gri•vorss injuries man
could receive from man. The plaintiff, as they had heard'
trout his Learned friend, who had opened the pleadings,
sought a compensation in damages, as far as pecuniary
damages could be a comps nsation, against the defendant,
for seducing the affection and defiling the person of his
wife. The crime of adultery had, in all ages, been held
in the greatest abhorrence, as one of the greatest offences
egoism the well bring of society. Hy the Divine law, as
deny. red by Muses, it was punishable with death. The
awful sentence w .s, " The Adulterer and the Adulteress
shall instantly be put to death." The municipal law of
England, io that particular. was, as he must be permitted
to think, defective. .It did nut make it an offence •• to he
punished by the Judge.," hut lave to the injured lausbonif
a civil separation only by action for damages ; and
enforced no other punishment on the adulterer than the
paysneut of such damages as a Jury might award. An
excellent Hill had berm brought into Parliament a few years
age, and hall passed the Lower House, to make adultery an
offence punishable by fine and imprisonment. It bad,
however, been thrown out in the tipper House by, as a
great titan of that day (she late Lord Ellenhorough), most
eloquently termed it, a confederate host of titled winker.
ers. The only compensation therefore, inadequate as it was, ,
which the plointifi now could have, was by such damages as
tiny would think tit to give lam, • for the loss of his Isappi-1
sirs., and the desolation of his feelings, in finding himself
bereaved of the affeetlon of his wife and four infant chile
dren during their infancy, & the formation of their minds to
virtue and religion at a maturer age, which a virtuous tine
*her could but afford them. Mr. Header then stated Hilt
the plaintill, Mr. Carr. was a merchant of considerable
rininenceotial unimpeachable respectabilfty,resioing at Bir-
mingham. The defendant was his confidential clerk, at a
s.l try of two hundred pounds a year. The plaintiff mar
tied his present wife in May, 11116. He was at that time of
the age of 34, and she 111 ; a dlsparty, though somewhat
greater than may be wislid,yet not such as to preclude the
expectation of complete happiness. especially as he was
alien certainly the object of her exclusive affections. lie
-then stated with great force and perspicuity, the facts, as
. they afterwards appeared in evidence, and then read the
two following extracts of letters, which he said be would
afterwards prove were sent by the defendant to the pi aintiff,
within one short month of Ins seducing the plaiiitifl '6 wife
taideseet her husband. end her four children, the eldest of
• whom was but four years old, and the youngest not quite
months

is anseented to sot saihrri'bip 4a, L. veg *aired otTibie.
Hoping we okay be prepared. for oaf 'departure, what ki
esoietb,* l'esosslo. SIN. ,Fus
'ed obedisit. ' • ..!'•
fr W. D. Ltsmuureu.