ever. But by the kindness of Providence, this trial has been made up to me in the sweetness of my girl's; I have been recompensed too by getting a maid-servant from Oxford [rather a singular place of selection, said Mr Park ;] she is likely to be a good one; but, my dear, I am tired of leading a single life: keep me near your heart." [“ And here,” said the learned counsel," is one instance of what we have all heard so much about-the in trial was to come on; and she had delayed it until he could, as on this day, discharge a duty which he felt one of the most painful and the most important that was ever imposed upon him He felt that there could be no hope of throwing aspersions on her character; for if the attempt were made, it could only enhance the damages." A book-keeper of the defendant's was then sworn, to give evidence to genuity of love. Mr Flower would the hand-writing of the letters. not condescend to use the common mode of writing the word heart-he takes the the trouble of drawing an awkward emblem, a cheesecake-heart, upon his paper, and sends the effigy of his passion to his only beloved."] He proceeds "I don't mind what the world says; I am accountable only to Providence. I do not know how I shall go to Coventry, for I cannot return and leave you be hind; yet I would not wish to marry till March, as by that time my wife will have been a year dead." He came to Coventry, quarrelled with the plaintiff on some frivolous pretence, returned to London, and finally married another. This was in 1805. "I am not inclined," said Mr Park, "to approve of this delay; but much may be alleged for it; the uncertainty whether the defendant might not be prevailed on to do Miss Millis justice; the shame and pain which a respectable female felt in becoming so much an object for the public eye, as an appeal to public justice generally makes her; and last, though an inferior consideration, her wish to have him (Mr Park) as her counsel. She might have found much better; but such was her fancy, for he could call it nothing more. Some casual obstructions had hitherto prevented his being on the spot when the Examined by Mr MARRYAT. Q. Do you know that hand?-A. I Q. By Lord Ellenborough. Q. Would you, in answer, write a preamble, saying, that you did not know to whom you were writing?-A. I believe not. Q. Answer me promptly, sir; a witness who hesitates, as you have done, only implicates his own character?-A. My Lord, I hope my character is pretty well known in London; but Mr Flower used to write different hands; he was often unwell; he used to write short-hand; he was shy of letting me see him write. Q. What, sir! in his ordinary business did he use short-hand? You must see the improbability, the gross improbability of your testimony where you attempt a fact, and its prevarication where you hazard a conjecture: pray, sir, in what capacity were you connected with Mr Flower?-A. I was his book-keeper. Q. His book-keeper, and not have the faintest recollection of his hand? Go down from that box, sir, you have told us enough. Go along; you may read your history in the eyes of the gentlemen around you. A witness was then called, who proved the hand-writing, The letters were then read. The first was that which we have already given; the second was dated October, and was in substance as follows: "MY DEAR MARY,-This appears a long silence; but as I was going out of town, I was afraid your letters might fall into other hands than my own; I am truly weary of living alone. Oh! for the dear comforts of a woman's society. I long to see you at the head of my tableto see you my wife; that is the only hope that can make life desirable.” The next was November, 1804: "MY DEAR,-Oh, how I long to see you! You say you have been too open with me. Don't be afraid of being too open; I shall soon go to the country; then I expect to find you ready to obey. I must have you all passive obedience and non-resistance. We have preaching every day and night in town here, but I still find that I want a taste for divine things. Keep your hand in, my your first letter was very legible, but your last I could not make out. God bless you. Your's, B. F." love; Some of the succeeding letters were occupied with censures of the talkative spirit of the country people. The last was dated April, 1805: "DEAR MARY,—I regret to hear that you are unwell; but if ever I should see you in the flesh, I will make it up to you: I know you feel reluctance in 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 I 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, Are but short favours borrowed now, my answering you now. I am in great This was followed by a note from Stoney Stratford, mentioning that the journey disagreed with his daughter, and that he would be in Coventry next day to dinner. The Reverend Mr Brooksby, dissenting minister at Haberdasher'sHall, 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 examination by Mr Garrow, he stated, that the defendant was remarkably sickly, and had had a paralytic stroke. The Attorney General rose on the part of the defendant. His learned friend had come forward that day, to tell the jury that a serious injury had been done to his unhappy client, but that the injury had been borne with admirable patience; until when? until she could have the pleasure of ha ving that learned and eloquent counsel to panegyrise her. She had fixed, he would not say, her affections, but her heart on his friend, and determined that, God willing, she should have this history of patience on a monu ment blazoned forth to the world; yet she was so unfortunate as to let him slip through her fingers for every year from 1805 to 1810, when she had at last caught him. The trial might have been brought on at any time, and with all advantage. What was the secret of her thus delaying the cause? She was driving a Smithfield bargain; she was pushing him on to pay; she was worming out damages for breach of promise; she makes a compact to destroy her letters, and then preserves his; she numbers and arranges his letters as clerks would in a counting-house. All this was only a preparative for the action which was then brought. The attorney-general professed his full coincidence with the observations which had been made on the letters: his client might have been sincere in the use of the language which they exhibited; but such abuse of the sacred things of religion was not innocent; it was decidedly criminal; it served to bring religion itself into contempt, as far as human folly could degrade the glory of the revealed wis dom of God. The learned counsel gave a humorous detail of the mode in which the intimacy commenced; its progress; the incentives which successively urged Miss Millis to persecute his client; and as the last of these, the birth of a child to the defendant, which she, by comparing dates, probably thought should have been of her own production. A Mr Horsefall, a ribbon-manu. facturer in Coventry, was brought for ward to prove the state of the defendant's health, and the conduct of the plaintiff relative to the present action. After a reply by Mr Park, Lord Ellenborough addressed the Jury in a charge of great eloquence and impressiveness. He peculiarly animadverted upon the language of some of the letters, which he termed a disgusting mixture of lasciviousness and fanaticism, tending to degrade Christianity, by mingling its high and sacred names with the meanness and abomination of the lowest earthly im purity. After giving an able view of the innocence of the plaintiff's ob jects, and the manifest 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 5001, On Thursday, an inquest was summoned by J. Grigg, Esq. coroner for Hampshire, to investigate the circumstances attending the death of Mrs Ullock, wife of Mr Ullock, purser of his majesty's ship Apollo, who was found dead in her bed on Wednesday, at Spring Gardens, near Gosport, the contents of a pistol having passed through her head. Mr U. and his wife went to bed the preceding night, in apparent good temper with each other. At day-light, the servant heard a report; and soon after Mr U. called out to the maid to come down, as her mistress had shot herself. The servant soon came down, found her mistress dead, with a pistol lying on the bed clothes, which were covered with blood. The jury continued their investigation the whole of Thursday, when Mr Grigg adjourned their proceedings till Saturday. They met accordingly, and, in the evening, he again adjourned them till Sunday morning, when it was expected they would decide on this mysterious case. A sloop, laden with bones, was a few days ago, off Cromer, boarded by a French privateer. The enemy, on discovering, from the insupportable stench, the nature of the cargo, retreated with much precipitation, and in evident disgust, leaving the vessel to continue her voyage without molestation. BOW-STREET.-On Friday even. ing, a dress and pelisse-maker, in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane, was charged before Mr Nares with ill treatment to her apprentice, a girl about 16 years of age. It appeared, that the girl, in a fit of despair, threw herself into the bason in the Green Park, on an evening in the beginning of December last; by timely assist ance she was saved, and carried home. On the next morning, before day-light, she made a second attempt; when discovered she was apparently dead, but on applying the process recommended by the Humane Society, she was restored. The medical gentleman who attended her applied to the Humane Society for relief for her, which was immediately granted. He also reported, that it appeared that she had been induced to commit the rash act from the ill treatment of her mistress. The Reverend Mr Predden waited on the girl, and learned from her that her parents were respectable persons in the country. He wrote to them, which was answered by the father coming immediately to London. His letters to the girl had been intercepted, which made her believe he had abandoned her. The girl stated several acts of her mistress' ill-treatment of her. The worthy magistrate reprimanded the defendant, on which she consented to give up the indentures, and return ten guineas out of the 15 she had received with the girl, who was handed over to the protection of her father. 14th. During the late frost a number of the inhabitants of the parish of Currie, near Edinburgh, devoted a part of the day to the ancient and interesting game of curling; and, what reflects great credit on their humanity, they sanctioned their amusement by making it subservient to the noble purpose of charity, playing each day for so many cart loads of coals, which yielded a great and seasonable relief to a variety of indigent families. Last week an unknown gentleman called at the Middlesex hospital, and left with the secretary 13201., on the express condition that his name, if ever discovered, should not be made public. Last week an extraordinary occur. rence took place in the river Eden, near Drumbrugh. Christopher Robinson, an experienced fisherman, placed a flounder net in that part of the river which is subject to the flux and reflux of the tide, and on his returning to drag his net from the river, instead of finding fish, he found it loaded with wild ducks. During his absence a flight of wild ducks had alighted below the net, and on the flowing of the tide they were carried, from the contraction of the channel, with great impetuosity, by the water into the net, got entangled, and were drowned. In six tides he caught 170 golden-eyed wild ducks, supposed to be from the Orkneys, as none of that species is ever seen in that part of the country. Yesterday morning, an over-drove ox ran into Guildhall, followed by a great number of butchers, one of whom contrived to cut his hamstrings just as he was attempting to ascend the steps under the giants, leading to the Court of King's Bench then sitting. The blood of the poor animal was to be traced through the hall down King-street. It is only a few days since Mr Goldsmid was gored by a mad ox near the Bank. The small size of Smithfield market-place has long been insufficient to receive the increased and increasing quantity of cattle brought for supplying the metroplis; the long confinement and cruelties they suffer for want of room, often render the animals infuriate, and the public are looking forward to the removal of the market itself, whereby this reproach to humanity and police will be done away. We understand a petition of the corporation is before parliament, praying the alternative of removal or enlargement; and the New River Company having offered a space of fourteen acres of un encumbered ground, at the north end of St John's-street, for the purpose of removal, whereby the weekly passage of sheep and oxen through the most frequented streets of the city may be prevented, it is to be hoped the wisdom of the legislature will determine in favour of removal. It seems the company have asked only 25,0001. for this most desirable spot, and that the cost of every additional acre to the present market would amount to near 100,000l., independent of claims for compensation to those persons whose houses would be pulled down, and consequently their whole trade taken from them; whereas, in case of removal, a partial loss only would be sustained, seeing that the hay, straw, and horse-market would remain. We incline to think, that in case of removing only the beast and sheep markets, the rents of houses in Smithfield would be improved, by doing away a great nuisance. A tremendous hail-storm occurred on the 16th ultimo, in the department of the Lower Alps, which has done very considerable damage. Many of the hail-stones were as large as a goose's egg, and weighed upwards of a quarter of a pound. Six peasants were killed, many others wounded, and the loss in cattle, &c. is incalculable. CORONER'S INQUEST.-An inquisition was taken yesterday at the Brown Bear public-house, Horseferry, Westminster, on the body of the Hon. William Frederick Eden, (the son of Lord Auckland) a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Westminster volunteers, who was found drowned in the Thames on Sunday. The body of the unfortunate gentleman was yesterday in a putrid state, it having changed materially since taken out of the water. Richard Western, a bargeman, stated, that on Sunday, about half past twelve o'clock, he was going on shore in a skiff, from a barge moored off Lambeth Palace, with his apprentice, when he perceived something drifting in the water, about 20 yards from the shore, opposite Finch's wharf, which he took for a piece of tarpauling. It was ebb tide, and on approaching the object, and touching it with a boat-hook, witness discovered it to be a human body, and it immediately turned with the face upwards. The body was fastened astern, and conveyed to the shore, when a man of the name of Swan said it was Mr Eden, for whom a great reward was offered. Witness immediately went to Lord Auckland's, and a servantmaid and a foot-boy recognized the body. It was conveyed to the Brown Bear, and on searching the pockets a receipt was found in a pocket-book for 6001. paid to Drummond and Co., 131. in notes, some silver, and a gold watch seal, besides other articles. According to the appearance of the body, witness supposed it might have been a fortnight in the water, but it might have been six weeks at this season of the year, if buried in sand. A scratch visible in the forehead, might have been occasioned by the gravel. Mr Holt, surgeon, in Abingdonstreet, stated, that he saw the deceased on Friday evening, the 19th of January, the day he was missing. He was with Mr Stables, the adjutant of the Westminster corps, who lives in Mr Holt's house. He had called at witness's house to inquire for Mr Stables' apartment; and some time after, whilst writing in the parlour, he heard him in the passage trying to get out, and witness went with a light. The deceased had thrown down a long broom, which prevented him from opening the door, and wit |