The Northern Star, And Farmers' And Mechanics' Advocate

Breach of Promise.-In the Court of King's Bench, a silk manufacturer of the name of Anwyl, has been cast in damages to the amount of 500l. for breach of promise of marriage to a miss Coxe, of Leicester,the plaintiff was a young lady of great accomplishments, and unexceptionable in every point of view--her age was two and twenty. 'The defendant was an uneducated man, somewhere about forty. He had, by a long course of assiduities, endeavored to secure the young lady's affections; and at his earnest request the marriage day was fixed. It appeared that miss Coxe required to be bled several times for some inflammatory affection, during the correspondence which she maintained with the plaintiff; and she was obliged to employ her sister to write some of her letters. The defendant declared that the use of her sister's services was a deceit practiced upon him, and refused to make good his engagement. On being remonstrated with by the young lady's father, he admitted that he was "a villain," and again fixed the wedding day. Again he broke his word; and miss Coxe's health had in consequence been destroyed. A mong his letters produced in court, was one which ended in this fashion:

" When, night'and morn, on bended knee,
Then, dearest Susan, think of me."