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feel reluctance at parting with 

 your father and mother : but you 

 will be used to that. I have, since 

 I saw you, been offered two large 

 sums of money in marriage : but 

 if I fail of you, I shall remain as I 

 am : I would not have the queen ! 

 The moment 1 got your letter, I 

 was consulting with the doctor 

 about Maria's health— for, as Dr. 

 Watts says — 



' The dear delights we doat on now 



And fondly call our own, 

 Are but short favours borrow'd now, 



To be repaid anon.' 



Every part of your letter gave me 

 great joy ; don't think of any un- 

 kindness in my answering you now. 

 1 am in great trouble. Yours, 



" B. F." 



This was followed by a note 

 from Stoney Stratford, mention- 

 ing that the journey disagreed 

 with his daughter, and that he 

 would be in Coventry next day to 

 dinner. 



The rev. Mr. Brooksbank, dis- 

 senting minister at Haberdashers' 

 Hall, was called to prove that the 

 defendant was now a married man, 

 and that he had a child since his 

 last marriage. On his cross exa- 

 mination by Mr. Garrow, he sta- 

 ted that the defendant was re- 

 markably sickly, and had had a 

 paralytic stroke. 



The defence set up v/as, that 

 there was a concerted plan on the 

 part of the plaintiff, to draw from 

 the defendant, who was in a very 

 infirm state, apromise of marriage, 

 which neither the lady's age nor 

 his own constitution would permit 

 him to fulfil ; and that he had since 

 married a grave matronly woman, 

 more suited to his age and infirmi- 

 ties. From the defendant's own 

 evidence, however, it appeared, 

 that the lady whom he had mar- 



ried was several years younger 

 than the plaintiff; and that since 

 his marriage, notwithstanding his 

 alleged infirm state of health, his 

 family had been increased by the 

 birth of a fine boy. 



After a reply by Mr. Park, 



Lord EUenborough addressed 

 the jury in a charge of great elo- 

 quence and impressiveness. He 

 peculiarly animadverted upon the 

 language of some of the letters, 

 which he termed a disgusting mix- 

 ture of lasciviousness and fanati- 

 cism, tending to degrade Christi- 

 anity, by mingling its high and 

 sacred names with the meanness 

 and abomination of the lowest 

 earthly impuritj\ After giving 

 an able view of the innocence of 

 the plaintiffs objects, and the ma- 

 nifest injury which had been done 

 to her, he left the reparation to 

 the jury. 



The jury after a few moments 

 consultation, found a verdict for 

 the plaintiff — Damages five hun- 

 dred pounds. 



March 1. — Court of Kings- 

 bench. — Tlie Earl of Uxbridge^ 

 Messrs. Hughes, Willia^ns, and 

 Grenfeli, v. TeeJ. — This was an 

 action brought by the plaintiffs, 

 proprietors of very extensive cop- 

 per concerns, against the defend- 

 ant, an inspector of the duties on 

 income and property in the cit}' 

 of London, for a wilful and vexa- 

 tious surcharge made by him, in 

 respect of the plantiffs' returns 

 and profits for theyear, ending the 

 5th of April last. It was stated 

 that the defendant, withoutany in- 

 formation or ground of surcharge, 

 except the circumstance of plain- 

 tiffs' iiaving the year before made 

 a much largerreturn of profits, sur- 

 charged them the sum of 28,^57/. 

 several months after their return of 



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