The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

NEW-YORK, October 20. LAW CASE. An action for breach of promise of marriage, wherein Rachel Fulton was plaintiff, and John L. Marti, a man of wealth, defendant, was lately tried at Winchester (Ky.) in which were disclosed circumstances that excited an uncommon interest in the public mind, in behalf of the plaintiff. The promise was proved, and that after reducing her to shame and desolation, he not only abandoned her, but, to complete the infamy of his conduct, attempted to blast her character. A Mr. Bledsoe was her counsel, and concluded the case by eloquently quoting the appropriate lines from the Vicar of Wakefield: "When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late that men betray: What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom--is to die." The jury left their box but a few minutes, before they returned, with a verdict for the plaintiff of three thousand dollars damages.