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AFFILIATION IN HIGH LIFE.The following case (Thatcher v. D’Aguilar) waa heard in the Brighton borough court on Tuesday. ^ The complaint waa alleged against Colonel D’ Aguilar that he had not supported bis son bj the oomplam-ant. Mrs. Thatcher waa the widow of an officer. In 1853 she waa residing at Brighton with her children, when Colonel D’Aguilar, seeing her, was attracted by her and, after muoh perseverance, obtained an introduction to her. After ascertaining her position of life, family, c., be made her an offer of marriage, whieh waa accepted. Mrs. Thatcher waa net a lady of fortune, and the oolcnel told her that he did not wish the marriage to take place during his father's (Sir George D'AguSaFe) lifetime, as he had other views for him. Unfortunately the result of their intimacy was the birth of a child. Colonel D*Aguilar left Brightsn to join his regiment in London five months before the birth of the child. He came down at the time—engaged a medical man—removed Mrs. Thatcher, and screed to allow her 30/. a year, being, aa he expressed it, the same amount as, if the child had been born during her husband's lifetime, she would have received from the East India company. This money was regularly paid by cheques upon Messrs. Hall and Co. from the colonel, who now said he did not wish to be annoyed by Mrs. Thatcher. After some time she wrote to him, and he then refused to continue the allowance. Till that time he had never asserted that the child waa not his own, nor breathed a word against her reputation. The colonel, during their acquaintance, had done all that was consistent. He had given Mrs. Thatcher his portrait, a look ef his hair, an engaged ring; had written her many letters, and she had worked him a pair of slippers. After tbiB he WTote her a letter, saying if she would return all his letters he would act as an officer and a gentle-man, and fulfil his promise to marry her. This she did, when he turned round upon hewahused her, and insinuated that she was everything cnat was bad. The friends of both parties had tried to induce the J°lonoI to do something for her, and proposed to refer the whole matter to some military man or other respeetabla-person. His client was now anxious to set her reputation right. If she had done wrong with him she haddene no wrong with others. .Mrs. Thatcher had brought two actions againri, colonel. The one for breach of promise is Btill going GB; the other was in the county court.Corroborative evident* having been prcxlu^d,^ magistrate? nna»i»ou*ly agreed o i , ^upon Uolontl D'Aguilar tor 2s. 6d. a week towarda UM»maintenance of the child.
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Lloyds Weekly Newspaper
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, May 17, 1857
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