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and found an apprenticeship, which 
might be the means of his future 
good. When that also was expired, 
he introduced him to business ; and, 
that he might be at no expence, gave 
him part of his own house at Bir- 
‘mingham for a warehouse. Under 
these auspices, he had acquired a 
property to the amount of 3000). 
The return he had made, shewed 
how well he had merited such singu- 
lar attentions and kindness. ‘The 
plaintiff married in the year 1790, 
had four children living, by his 
wife, who wasa very handsome wo- 
man, and, till within a year of the 
injury taking place, they had lived 
on terms of mutual love and ailec- 
tion, the defendant being considered 
asa brother in the family. From 
that period, the plaintiff discovered 
an unaccountable change in his wife’s 
conduct ; her affections appeared to 
be alienated ; as were her-duties both 
ofa wife anda mether. At this con- 
duct the plaintiff was greatly distivess- 
ed. At length, she begged she might 
be allowed to separate from him ; 
she had private reasons for urging it, 
and actually removed a short dis- 
tance from Birmingham, to a house 
in the town; from whence, on the 
llth of March, 1802, slie eloped 
with the defendant, wevt to Edin- 
burgh (living together in open adul- 
tery), where she miscarried of a 
child, the fruits of their criminal 
connexion. From the time of their 
_ elopement, the peace of the plain- 
tifl’s mind had been ruined, his health 
broken, and he had, ever since, been 
labouring under the effects of misery 
and oppression. The marriage and 
the adultery were proved; the latter 
bya Mr. Hayward, who féllowed 
the plaintiff's wife to Edinburgh. 
The defendant’s counsel endea- 
youred to shew, by cross-examining 
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the plaintiff's witnesses, that he had 
neglected her, and been the means of 
his own shame: but this turned out 
to be so far from fact, that every 
witness concurred in giving him the 
best of characters, asa kind, tender, 
and ailectionate husband. 
Lord Ellenborough delivered an 
excellent charge to the jury: who, 
after a minute’s deliberation, found a 
verdict for the plaintiff, three thou- 
sand pounds damages ; being, as they 
observed, all the defendant was 
worth. ) 
His majesty’s frigate, Resistance, 
of thirty-six guns, was totally lost 
on Cape St. Vincent, early on the 
morning of the 3lsé ult. the erew 
saved. y 
La Mimerve frigate, of forty-four 
guns, commanded by captain Bren- 
ton, unfortunately got upon a sand. 
bank, off Cherbourg, and is lost— 
the crew saved. 
As colonel Baillie, of the West 
Middlesex regiment, brother to lord 
Uxbridge, was riding in front of the 
line at Coxheath camp, he was 
thrown from his horse, and had his 
collar-bone broken, and his shoul- 
der dislocated. 
A horde of wolves has committed 
the most terrible ravages in the de- 
partment of Gers. The communes 
of Aignau, Risle, St. Grisiere, Plai- 
sance, and Ladivege, have suffered 
in an extraordinary degres. 
Sth. At the Old Bailey, came on 
the trial of Robert Astlett, who, be- 
ing put to the bar, was indicted, for 
that he, being a servant of, and em- 
ployed by the governor and compa- 
ny of the bank of England, was en- 
trusted with a certain paper-writing, 
called an exchequer-bill, of the value 
of 1000]. and another of the same 
value, and a third of the same value, 
on the 26th of February last, he be- 
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