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This day was published, handsomely printed in octavo, price 10s. 6d.Dramas of the ancient ivorld; viz.—T.ie Deluge—The Plague of Darkness—The LnSt Plaguy -Rizpah—Sardanapalus—The Destiny of Cain—.The Death of Cain—Tiie Nereid’s Love.By DAVID LYNDSAY.“ It may be necessary for me to say something respecting the singular coincidence of my having chosen the same subjects as Lord Byron for two of my Dramas. I entreat permission to assert, and credit when I do assert, that it is entirely accidental—that my Dramas were written long before Lord Byron’s were announced—before I could have had any idea that his brilliant pen was engaged upon the Drama at all.—The inferiority of the execution of mine may, perhaps, lead me to regret that I have selected the same subjects, otherwise I never can lament any cc/incidence with the admired Author of Manfred and Childe Harold.—Author's Advertisement.Printed for T. Cadell, Strand, London ; and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh. gThis Dav was published,Blackwoods Edinburgh. magazine,Nos. LVIII. and LIX. December, 18*21.Contents of No. LVIII.—I. Stanzas Dedicatory to Francis Jeffrey, Esq. c. t\ c.—II. Christinas Chit-Chat.—III. Vanderbrnmmer: or the Spinosist.—IV. Seashore Reflections at Sun-set.—V. The Primrose.—VI.Specimens of a Free and easy Translation of Horace.—VII.On the Probable Influence of Moral and Religious Instruction on the character and Situation of Seamen. No. 4.—VIII. Parini’s Giorno.—IX. On the Italian Schools of Painting. No. I. On the Storia Pittorica of the Abate Lanzi, and the Works of Andrea del Sarto, and his Followers.—X. Howison’s Canada.— XL Christophe, late Emperor of llayti.—XII. llora* Cantabrigiensis. No. VIII.—XIII. Ancient National Melodies, with the Music. No. I.Song I. Comparisons are Odious. A Chnunt. Song 2.Cobbett’s Complaint. A Dirge.—XIV. A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, in Blank Verse, by Blaize Fitstravesty,Esq.—XV'. Drou thiness.—XVI. The Leg of Mutton School of Prose. No. I. The Cook’s Oracle.—XVII. On EarlyRising. In a Letter to Mr. North.- XVIII. The LiteraryPocket-Book; orCompanion for the Lover of Nature and Art.—XIX. Singular Recovery from Death.—XX. Quip Modest to Mr. Barker; in a Letter to Christopher North,Esq.—XXL Works preparing for Publications.—XXII.Monthly List of New Publications.—XXIII. Monthly Register. Commercial Report. Appointments, Promotions, c. Births. Marriages, and Deaths, c. c. c.Contents of No. L!X.— I. Irish Melodies, with the Music. No. 1. Song I. Saint Patrick. Song 2. Lament of a Connaught Il.mgtr. Song 3. Rafferty’s Advice.Snnx 4. The Gathering of the Mahonvs. Song 5. A Real Irish “ Fly not yet.” Song 6. The Impassioned Wave.—II, The Hop Ground. In Four Sonnetts.—III.Moonlight Meditations.— IV. The Smuggler.—V. November. In Six Sonnets.—VI. November Breathings.—VII. Harold’s Grave.—VIII. The Mount of Olives.-IX. The Steam-Boat. No. 8. Talp, No. 13. The Wig and the Black Cat. Tale, No. 14. Travelling by Night.Tale, No. 15. The Odontist’s Monkey. Tale, No. 1lt;J.The Covenanter.—X. Whigs of the Covenant, in a Letter to Christopher North, Esq.—XI. Letter to the thor of “ Annals of the Parish,” c.—XII. Historical View of the Rise, Progress, Decline, and Fall of the Edinburgh Review.— XIII. A Letter concerning Hay--.voyages and i ravels of Columbus SeenoousC i,..„t,„ i.i ,_____ - 1 , - ’ .donvi-u.n . i r„ , .• —y osck xrom nensingion to roiev-piace, lie i**• '«* “ '•*». .b«nuis. An Elegy on the Death of John Iveats.—XVII.Meehunique Ce'pste ; or, the Prophetic Almanack, for 1822.—XVIII. The Retrospective Review.—XIX*. TheShetland Lvnsav’Pirate, by the Author of Waverley.—XX.Fisheries.—XXI. Letter from Paris.—XXII Dramas of the Ancient World.—XXIII. Captain Cochrane and the North-East Cape of Asia.—XXIV. On the late Rumour of a Change in Administration.—XXV. L’Envov to Volume Tenth.—Printed for T. Cadell, London; and for Win. Blackwood, Edinburgh.LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING’S BENCH, Jan. 3.CRIM CON.ALLARDYCE, ESQ. V. JOHNSON, ESQ.This was an action brought by James Allardyce,. Esq against Alexander W. Johnson, Esq. for criminal conversation with Dorothy, the wife of the plaintiff. The defendant pleaded—Not Guilty.The Solicitor-General, Mr. Gcrnev, and Mr. Campbell, conducted the plaintiffs case ; and Mf. Scarlett and Mr. Poller, the defendant’s.The case proved in the evidence was this;—The plaintiff is a surgeon of the 34th regiment, serving in the East Indies, and the defendant isaCaptain in the Native Cavalry of the East India Company on the Madras establishment. On the 8th of May, 1813, the plaintiff was married to a Miss Walker, his present wife, the daugh ter of a Mrs, Walker, of Whitbv, in Yorkshire. Soon after the birth of their first child, they went to the East Indies. At the time of the marriage, the lady was 24, and the gentleman about 30 years of age, and according to the testimony of a great many respectable witnesses who knew them intimately in India, they lived together on terms of the most perfect connubial felicity. In the beginning of last yeartbe plaintiff sent his wife to England, with three of her children, the oldest being six years of age, and the youngest an infant almost inarms* the latter being in a very precarious state of health, intending himself to follow her in a few months, his professional pursuits not permitting him to accompany her. He entrusted her to the. care of Captain Chapman, an intimate friend of the family, and the commander of the vessel. She was attended by a female servant to takere of the children. On hoard this vessel, which sailed from Madras, the defendant, who was previously unacquainted with the plaintiff and his ladv, happened to be a passenger, coming to England on what is called sick leave. During the voyage he appeared uncommonly attentive to Mrs. Allardyce, and was so particular in his conduct as to excite the observation of the other passengers ; but there was, however, no direct proof of any thing like criminality. The evidence, however, tended to shew that they were situated on board the vessel under such circumstances, as gave unusual opportunities for intercourse—such as the gentleman being in the lady’s cabin, after the rest of the passengers had retireff to repose. The only circumstance to excite any suspicion of a criminatory nature, was an expression proved to have been afterwards used by the defendant, complaining that Mr. Allardyee’s friends were premature in informing her husband of what took place on board the ship. When the vess el arrived in England, Mrs. Allardyce took up her abode at the house of a gentleman named Stevenson, for three or four days, and then she took lodgings for a week or ten days in (Joram-street, Brunswick-square, where the defendant visited Iter constantly. At the end of that time Mrs. Allardyce expressed her intention of going down to see her mother at Whitby, and accordingly the whole of a stage coach was taken to convey herself, children, and servant-maid to York. When the coach got about a mile out of town, it was (tailed by the defendant, who immediately got in, and accompanied Mrs. Allaniyce-to York, under ap-h-a ,tents.of which gave him great uneasiness, foras lie never anticipated any thing which would prevent his possessing her hand, he had destroyed tier letters ; that as to his own, which she had returned to him, they remained in the bundle as she had sent them, hut he would make -copies of them, and send them under cover.” The second detter was without date, but the post mark bore the date of the22d of October, in which lie wrote to this effect: — “ It there is any apprehension on the part of anv persons concerned, that 1 mean to desert you, or to act derogatory to the principles ot a man of honour and a gentleman, I can only say they are deceiving themseives. As our intimacy existed only during the supposed deatli of Mr. Allardyce, I am ready, in the event of a divorce, to offer you my hand and protection ; but I must state, that if the unfortunate affair is brought before the public in any shape tending-to hurt my character, I shall defend myself to the utmost, and declare circumstances as they occurred, from our first acquaintance, which 1 feel confident will clear me from any unfavourable opinion of the world.—26, Foley-place.” It was proved, that the pay of a Captain of Cavalry, while on service in India, amounts to about 800/. per annum. The defendant was not proved to have any other means of sup port. Thiswasthe plaintiff’s case.Mr. Scarlett then addressed the Jury in mitigation of damages. He admitted that the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict, hut he submitted that it was a case for as moderate damages as ever came before a Jury. He dwelt upon the circumstance of the plaintiff and de fendant being utter strangers to each other, before this unhappy affair, and urged that there was no breach of hospitality, of confidence, or of friendship, features which too frequently characterised cases of this description. Much was to be attributed to the indiscretion of the husband in sending his tvife to England on a long voyage from India, without his protection, when from the nature of things some degree of intimacy must b«-formed between persons, so long shut up in each other’s society. On the part of the defendant, who was a very young man, there appeared to have been no arts of seduction used ; and from all the evidence in the cause, such as it was, there was nothing to shew that any criminality had taken place, but in thp interval when the plaintiff was supposed to be dead. Taking all these circumstances into consideration, and also the probability, that if the defendant was shut up in a prison in consequence of the verdict of a Jury, he would be ruined in all his professional urospects, he trusted that the Jury ; would feej themselves warranted in giving very moderate damages.The Loud Chiep Justice summed up the case fur fbe f Jury, and observed that the conduct of the ph.intiff u as I perfectly blameless ; and adverting to the topic which had been urged on behalf of the defendant, that his lady had been left in an unprotected state, lie could not help considering that it was the duty of every man on board the ship to become her protector in such a situation. The plaintiff was clearly entitled to a verdict, and the Jury would say what damages he was entitled to receive tinder all the circumstances of the case.The Jury immediately found their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 500/.
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