Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

[Fredonian.]
New-Brunswick, N. J. June 22.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

At the sitting of the circuit court in this city last week, Mr. Hartwell, a gentleman of the bar in the adjoining county of Somerset, was arraigned on a charge of breach of promise of marriage to Miss Edgar, of Short Hills, in this county. After a patient and interesting investigation of two days, the cause was submitted to the jury, who, after an absence of two hours, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff of twelve hundred and fifty dollars damages. A verdict equally honorable to their feelings as fathers, and to their integrity as citizens. Mr. Hartwell is a man of small property, we understand.

The great novelty and delicacy of this case attracted an unusual assemblage; and the court house was crowded almost to suffocation. The counsel on both sides managed with much skill and address; but the counsel for the plaintiff, having the popular and right side of the question, gratified the audience with a display of honorable feeling, sarcastic reproach, and vibrating eloquence, seldom equalled. Such a lash of censure, to a man of the least sensibility, must have been like the sting of scorpions.