The Sun. — 1812-03-23 (London, England)

MARRIAGE.  A n-v)st singular cause was heard here in an action AitCHEa v. HINCHES, in which damages- were laid at i 0001. It, appeared by the statement of Mr. Serje?nt Seti.ox, that. the,plaintiff, Miss Eli2a Archer, wai. thedlughter of a respeaable Attorney in the county of Suffolk, and the defendant was a young Gentleman of most respetlable family and conneaioni in Essex. The parties had first seen each other when the young Lndy. was on a visit at a friend'S hou e on the confines of Hertlords'hire, wheret he defendant first made professions of attachment tO her. The Lady consulted her friends, and Dar. Hinches was cordially received on his first visit to her father'. His professions were most honourable;, and after several months intimacy, when on the point of marriage even, and arrangeMents having been made for that purpose, the defendant became suddenly enamoured of Miss Susan Archer, aE younger sister of the plaintiff's, and he frankly ,as, suralthe latter of his inability to marry her on that score. • The Learned Serjeant stated that the plaintiff was 23 years of age, and the defendant about the same age. This action was not brought (or the objea of damages, but to convince the world, by the public declaration-of the defendant, that he had not made alareach in the •contraa of marriage• from any levity or itnproper pinduet on the [nit of the young Lady, who was modest and discreet, and pos sessed every virtue that could -adorn the sex. The Learned Counsel concluded' by•observing, -that the families were both highly respectable, and the only objea was to remove any doubts about the character of the plaintiff. Mr. Serjeant BLossaTr, on the part of the defendant; observed, that his client bad become the victim of an unfortunate attachment. He entered into a warm -.panegyric on the virtues of the plaintiff; whom he described as an ornament to her sex. his client was es anxious as the Lady's friends that the world should know the motives which led to the breach of attachment. The defendant _had become most passionately enamoured with the plaintiff's younger sister, and, that was the sole motive of the breach of promise, as he expressed himself unable ewer to make the plaintiff happy in wedlock altr the second attachment to one so nearly allied to her_ The matter ended in a compromise satisfactory to all' pat ties.  A grand national library, the colleBion of which was begun by Catherine 11. h +5 been completed and opened at Petersbutgh. It comprises 250,000 printed volumes; 80,000 of which relate to theology, and 40,000 duplicates. There ate 12,000 manuscripts, many of them exceeding curious, , being ob. taMed from the remotest parts of the empire; among them are some Epistles. of St. Paul, written during the sth century, with marginal notes; and a book of Mahornedan Prayers in Cufic &waders. Wool, has experienced an advance of 30 per cent, in Bohemia and Moravia, in consequence of its importation into Russia by Lemberg being permitted.  The Norfolk Assizes closed on Tuesday night, when T. Suffolk and T. Temple, for burglary; 13. Smith, for stealing two steers and a bay mare ; and R. Lane, for killing and carrying away a s.heep, were cap tally convialed and received sentence of death. Suffolk has been left for execution: the others ate reprieved. The York Assizes closed on Tuesday, when G. Stones, J. Williamson, 3. Armstrong, and J. Leach, for horse-'stealing ; T. Simpson, and G. Simpson, for sheep•stealing ; W. Chester, for attempting to murder G. Oliver and his wife; and R. Winter, for stealing money ; received sentence of death.  W. JoneB, of the 48th Foot, was executed 4 Northampton last week, for the murder of S. Leei, of the same regiment, at Weedon barracks. rue body of the Rev. J. Woolstenholtne, Minister of Peak Forest, was last week tontid in a *ditch at Brough, in Derbyshire. It is -.supposed he till in, and was suffOcWed.