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

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BREACH OF or MOMS OF MAfitilACll.
DAVISON .. WILIIIOX.
51r.Ceit.tittat opened the pleadings.—The plaindli;
.la net Davison. 'shod ewaspermation in damages for
trench of ramie, of by Ribcpa Wen.. the
gitartgove
defendant. The dialed that any premise
l•ad bees gives, tyit hat lime was Jaime!.
Vt. Seeniute.-1150 bed to Rate to them the case
efeandby his Leaned Piked. The piaistiff sew ap
plied to them Owasso reparatiee is damages be the
kes belied seetsdned In being deprived eta marriage
which had bees eeetrasesd; and hem which he had rm.
mato expose seated and happimees. A oeiebrated
tells/ who would be sinked soles( as the kneel)
leregeogsiked, sad whose obeervaless on life. man-
ate, and lama atom focused the surest authority to
whieb their Weida maid be directed—be meant
Loyd Bases; this selebeated writer had said, that
; • a a rmag gum marries kw a mistress; a Edda. aged
• • maikfier a companies; as old visa fir a worse."
woes* 'weatherised by the highest species of Ogle-
- swishy, aid by thejuseest views of human ware. alt
iv sot good hr was to he slow" Solitude at any pa-
sled of life was sot geed : we were made ter society,
lied for commanicadog sad eajoyiag piastre or ia►
eoliths by reciprocity of ateutieet sad Madam. 11l
made these remarks. uses he observed a smile spill
some fates en accost of the age Obis client. He ad.
ruined that he was SO: sad if at WM he maid set
provide himself with a scree os accoat of the
defendant's coeds" he was entitled to damages, and
mat feel as sensibly as a younger man the lose be set
tired. The defendant was sadiciently advanced in
life to be answerable for her premises ; she had at-
e:dawdle° all the disereties which years ensured; she
was lot a giddy, thoughtless, extrsvagaat girl ; she
was not of an age thatimmild make her marriage with the
plaintiffsa oohs many cases which occurred. She
*as every lisZly, a very discreet, a very sensible lady,
Sad of as age quite satiable for the y 1212110. Miss
Wilma, he saderstood. was 64 years of age. (The
burst of laughter infected the Learned Counsel him-
' mit sod occasioned a shirt pause is the leve-otory.)—
They saw how dilikult it was to smite sympathy for
law et this age. He wished be possessed the galas
and the doomed of a celelirated writer. a foreigner,
litho charmed all his readers by the description of
...., love at the age of 00, or that he felt the genial sad
poetic are of a -great triter of oar own age and ear
try, Lord Byron who had. made the love of an old man
of MI the subject of a tragedy. The love which be bad
to state to the Jury was oneof the soberest views which
the passion presented. But there was great advantage,
after all, in aged love—in having the comforts and ad-
Yastages of a steady sad matured solos of sentiments.
A true friend was net to be found in any other state,
if it was tree that there was no real friendship bat in
palms somslitaisy of interests. The plaintiff tad
btu ellyleatty* :seaderieg nue awl by hie dada-,
gsished gallantry os board of a ;essel which be coin.'
mended he bad raised himself to bedew. He bad been
married, sad had had a family, of whom some were
new living. His wife bad died I. 1805. Since that time
he lived in Aytos, where the defendant lived with her
father, mother, sad yowler sister. The plaintiff's
and defendant's families meeting, Ii the same line of
life. they became acquainted. From long acquaintance
Mrs. 'Davison sad Miss Wilma learned to esteem each
other. When be became a widower his visits were more
more frequent. She bad then a brother, who was his
particular ftiead, bet was now dead. rhey thus be-
cape extremely weilacquainted with each other, and ehe-
ll:7ltire greatest mutual respect. At length, her fa-
er, mother, and her youngest sister died, leaving
her alone of the family. He (Mr. Scarlet) was able
to slow, that before this period great intimacy and con-
stant intense», had subsisted, though there had been
then no views of • matrimonial connexion, but of-ftiend-
Ship oily. Bat at that time the mutual attachment
which had been se long increasing had taken a different
tom She was left desolate, not in fortune, for she had
MOM ; but she was alone in life, having lost her fa-
ther, mother, brother. and sister. This gentleman con-
tinued to be one of her most intimate friends; is him
she reposed confidence; him she consulted in the ado&
riltration of her affairs. In this state she would set
Pied it inconvenient to have the affection and attachment
of one who understood the world, and who could be of
• great eve icneastagto her Weirs. She, living atom is
die house which her family had occupied, had resolved,
hoes the extreme ieeeevealences of the house. which
was old, sad see large, to sell it. She quitted it, and
reek lodgings of a Mr. Williams, in Oisbrougb, leaving
the rieintiff to arrange the various matters which she bad 1
to settle in Aytoa. -At this period he should begin to
lei before them evidence of that contract, the breach of
*filch was the ground of the present action, although he
*ft averse to expose the enlightened commueications
ithich were made upon this subject. She had actually
made the plaintiff *agate a house in order to live tope-1
ther in it as man and wife. How it was, then, that tie 'I
talon had not taken place would be shown to them. He
fAir. Scarlet) did nut mean to say that his elieat bad
been so absurd as to despise the sHidonal comforts to be
derived from a wife's (octane ; but her fortune had not
been his object. He had said—" with respect to fortune,l
a* eat a Ihrthfing r lOUs it us' yea please, except
what may be necessary for our living comfortably."
get as matters approached a crisis, and after she bad
'licit tl.e house at Ayton, he wrote her a letter, which
the other party were now challeaged to produce, say-
mag—" that .Me ought to communicate to Mr. and
Mrs. Dodds hir inteatioa of changing her condition."
Th:it was the cause of the present action, for they, one
or both, had dissuaded her from fulfilling her enrage-
inept. He weald now lay.before them the correspood-
..
'Ms:. They weeld sot find in it the strong expres-
timrs of passion which a girl of 18 might be expected
to use ; bet the abet. discretion and the prudence
which were Bernd is a wife predominated. (Tee
fiteirried Genital here reed extracts of several lettere,
ta4bich the sraddea lady made arrangements respect-
ing her iephrie; William Wilson, an organ, and the
.aortOge of as estate, lad from which the Learned
Vaunt interred usbestadell maidesa ii her Plight-.
'ed *ever). Her letter 'of Oct 7, 1820,ebe directed
him to bora. Why that nation ? What she wrote
firiptittite iellitant It it, time a moth etation
;tip* *SA ti h. hirer letter if Oetobir 10, the
Ileseledikaikii•Of ler Isthmian to &Age her Coati-.
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