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THE STOLEN CHILD RECOVERED. MANSION HousE.—Mary Ridding, the wife of Captain Ridditw, of the Fair regiment, was yes terday brought bffale the LORD MAYOR, by Mar tin, who sta , ed that he had just arrived from Birmingham with the prisoner and the child of JOhn Shrier, the night constable of I\loe-end, Old Town. The female is one of re spectable appearance, was extremely well-dress ed, and did not appear much affected at her r,,,n -dition, until slur saw that there was a certainty rot prosecution. The Captain, her husband was present, and in great agitation during the whole examina-ions The evidence addnced was rite same in substance as given under the bead-Latu. •street. The LORD MAYOR asked the. prisoner whether she wished to say any thing in her detence ? In reply, she uttered the following words without hesitation ;—" - My motive for taking this child was one of humanity. Having no • child of toy own, I was determined to adopt that of some poor person, and of course I should have treatet! it with as much tenderness as if it was actually my own. I did not intend to meals ebiht, but 1 saw a number of children playing together, and this infant was placed in my aims, and I thought by the hand of Providence. I waited for some time ; but finding that nobody came for the child, I considered it as left to my protection, and.walk• ed away . withlt. 1 soon relented, but it'was too late, and 1 lett the Metropolis with the resolu tion to find out the parents at a future period. bought do.hes' fn . ,- it, and have treated it with parental affection. My motive was good, and 1 intended no ijory to any body." Captain Ridding here requested that the Lot d niyor'would allow the ease to stand Over, until a solicitor could be procured ; they had arrived in town but that morning, and were wholly un- prepared. Tne LOR6,MAYOR said, he felt the greatest dis position to oblige the Captain, whom he sitmete • ly pitied ; but the circumstance having occurred in the County of Middlesex, he felt himself bound to transfer the ease- to, Lambeth-street LAMB ETH STRE ET.—MrS. Mary Ridding, wife of Capcnin ot the 59th regiment of foot,' was brought up «s this Office yes , erday, in cus tody ot Joseph Martin, one ot the City Officers, charged by Joh n Sutler, of Benciotl -place, Alile end•-road, with stealing his son, a (.11)00 14 months old. Samuel Shrier, a child only eight years of age, after being questioned as to the nature of an oath, 10 which be gaeo.satistactory answers, de posed, that lie is son to the prosecutor. .0u Sa tuttl,y last, about two o'clock, atter his dinner, lie went Out to an adjoining field, taking •his little brothri (the stolen el:ild) along with him ; he had not been long t here, when the pi isoner carne amd s.t him, and began to fondle the child, taki , .g hint in her arms; she then gave witness a detired him to go buy sortie cakes, which he did, and at his return he toned that neithet the woman nor child were to be seen.— She as then sea.ched fur, hut could not be found ; he was positive as to the identity of the prisru,t.r. S4rali Alikate, of No. 4, (;olden•Isill, Shad- well, who !seeps a grocery aiof truer-s.hop, de posed, the.. _nn Saturday afternoon a genteelly dres,ed woman cAme to her shop, and asked tot 'some (mit, ah,,h site was served with ; she ap peAr,d to be very much fur ied, and had a child in her arms, and a shawl thrown over it : she asked witness if sire teas near the Tower ? Wit ni:ss told het she Wai. not. She then asked it she .Could get a coach ? that sire would not mind pay ing any money for it, as sire was fatigued. Wit ness-pointed to a coach-stand, where she observ ed tier go, and saw a Gentetnais hand her into - the poach. Wit ness saw no wore of her until she WAS put 'to the bar ; she 's as certain that tire prioncr at the•bar.and the child were tbe.per •Bons that came into ;,er shop. Joseph Marlin, a City Constable, deposed, that on receiving law mations of Mr. Slaier's child being stolen, be had been ever since on the alert,,having heard of a fetter coming to the prisoner, wh _lodged in the Miuories, and who was suspected •to have stolen tire child; ire wers't .theie, and was intnrwed that the postman had taken away the letter, as the person to whom it was directed had gone oway from that place. Witness applied to the postman, who told him that he had given up the letter to the post master. A letter was then obtained Irons the Lord Mayor to the Secretary of State, by which means the letter was procured, and by the direction it was found to have come from Birmingham ; witness immediately set Of for Birmit.gham, and on arririog there Ire was informed that the prisoner and her husband lodg ed at her brother-in-law's, -who:keeps a stationer's' shop in New-street. On .going there, he observed Child in the arms of a servant-maid : he in quir,d for Mrs. Ridding, who was soon intro oHeed to him; he Informed her of his business, and accused her of stealing the child. She said she had no: stolen the child, but, if it was stolen, it was given to her as' her own by the woman who had her's to nurse. Mr. Shrie;snon arrived, sel.to immediately identified the child to be his.--- The prisoner, at the request of her husband, Was for further examination. A report has been in circulation here .for some titne, that his Grace 'the Duke of WELLINGTO'N itiletitli with this part of the island, for the put pose tit inspecting the various torts, in what it called the lirie •of Forts, and sonic preparation has bee my+de in the dismsntled gatrisons, IVe see by the Newspapers, that 166 Gr ace is to visit Ire land on as similar errand, 4nrl thence i: is not.ini probable lie ma) come over to Scotland. IVe tinderstand tbat the arke is ttlifayoUrable ro• the ides ot convtitiug all, or any orthe garrisons in the Norli into auxiliary Prisons, Which has been suggested by those who well knew how greatly such accodunodatioo is wsto.ted in the Flighlaucts or :3corland, We . airnost regret this, for we I,cp e it may he a long day before pieces of de te-ce are needed; but the er.cessity tor sate.and t ortitortable accionmortati.,n for boa' civil and t I 11111,131 pi i.oitera beuumes daily more urgent. • (hi ye, stem Courier.) WILTIIOIIELA NT): ASIZES. APPLEBY: AUG. 41. ROBINSON V. WILLIAMSON (CLERK.) A TITHE CAUSE. (11,:/'ore Mr. Baron Woon and a Special Jury.) Mr. PARK stared this to be an issue directed by the Court of Ex-chequer, to try whether a worifts for hay and grass exii.f eft for the township of Win ton, in the parish 01 Killthy-Stephen. Mr. Sergeant liuLt.t , ct: opened the case'to the 3nry. The rectory 0: Kirk by-St ephe- formerly belonged to the barony ot Kendal, afterwards to the monastery of,S,t. Mary, : Yark. It wasin Henry VIIII ti's reign vested in the Crown. It was after wards appropti etc.!, The question here !elated to the vicarage tithes. The defend:tot hecame Vicar in 1807 : he did not live at Kirkby-htephen ; lie fived : at a distance, and came to Kirkby-Stephen wily to take as much care. ot 1.14 own interests as possible. The township of Winton, which Was .one of eleven townships in the parish, considered `that a modits Of 15s. had been established for time 41114(111064 in respect of all grass i. the t o w n snip. The defendant said, it was only a moth's ot the tithe of hay, and that he wag bother entilicd to the ti lie of agiStment. Ile should prove, for the plaint if, that the 15s. was in lieu ot all tithes for grass. It could not, on the other hand, be that-an agistment had ever been claim ed This was a material consideration, tin vim's were found to he as . muen on the alert in . assert ingibeir rights as any men, He.ime'ant no re fiterion, but merely to ahow the presumption ariti hog hence' tor :be plaifi The Clergy tveoe nester backward ; they eve re not a hste i nini t s ill al . setting their riots whet e they had any clions. , Thomas Mot - kind, (examined by. tit Contre rthy). 66 years of age, was mini at Losofram in Wintoo, and succeeded his father in that farm, which he occupied tor 43 years ; the fat ni paid SP. for hay and : _grass ; it was not - paid sena. rafcly to the Vicar; the whole township paid 15s. A discussion. hese arose as to the aonfis,fihi:ity of- reputation as evidence, and Isis Los ttship was of opinion, that.lt was cotfstanily rcceive,t as cot-robot ation of a rit.l independently proved, but that in this case IA 01 , W he proved that the 15s. were paid for the township bet-re the reputation of the quo intuitu could be received. .Crtiss exammed.—itskehy7garth anti Court garth were in the township of %Vinton. Charles liaiobridge collerted the his from the township, as a modus to cover hay and grass, and paid it, to Mt. Telny, the curate ; mod fie heard old people,, now dead, say, that i; covered gr,ss and nay, whether mown or eat. Lie was employed to collect it by Mr. Monkhouse, tl.e principal oc cupier orland in the township. Cross-examilied.—He never paid any part of this • his landlord paid it for Did you never swear that you always paid your proportion 'to the Vicar ?—I have no recollec dots ; hut 1 did pay my proportion, if I had none to lay. . • .Torn Franklaud was called into the box, and admitted at once that he had entered inio a bond to bear his proportion of the expellees of this Stilt, but (it appeared that Nil.. Edernrye, Attorney for the plaintiff, and Mr. Siss,n, Attorney for the defendant, had agreed to dispense with the pro duction of releases and surrenders where the pro due ion of these would quality wituessi:s other ; and .Mr. Blemrye having stated of his Own knowledge, that the 'bOnd contained a provision for releasing all v. ho ceasjd eo be occu piers, as.the witness had done for six years, the testimony was adinitted,) he ceased. to occupy lands -in the tolvnsi,ip six years ago. He had known the place for 40 years. The 15s. covered all grass- He knew that farms entirely pastured paid a.proportion of it.. His rather, who •Weil 26 years ago, at the age of SG, told him that the 153. were for hay unit grass of every kind. Cross-examined ---th•did not know what he hail done with a bill he hail of the proportions of each farm. William Hall, aged 85, give similar evidence. Three other witnesses were called, hut reject ed, because they still ht , ld lamb in the Township. Tliontas Morland was recalled, a'nd allowed now 'to give hi 3 test iinotty as to the reputation. All the wilnesses admitted on their cross-exa ruination that they never heard the word agi3t meet ti!l this snit commenced. Mr. 'ScutLarT (with whom were Messrs. Lit tledale mid Williams) addressed the Jury for the defendant. His Learned Friend had thought pro per to make some remarks on the attention of the :Clergy to their rights. He believed it was more consistent with experience that persons in the. defendants' situation more frequeotl ysoffered their. rights to be encroached upon. than Liy• Rectors,. because they, having only a life interest, ,did not think it worth their while to waste then substance . iu litigation, But the Jury would suffer no vulgar prejudice to influence their minds. He would . now prove to them, that this was a bail , modus, ,both for hay and for agistment. As to agisrment, although it had ticvvr been claimed or paid, it was not therefore prescribed. At common l a w it could always be claimed, unless lands were ex empted by law, or a mothis•listl 'been agreed upon. Theyhad a . good deal of loose evidence respecting reputation in this case. A most learned, , most il- InStrintlS, Mid most lamented Judge, the late Lord Ellet.borough,.had said, ." Reputation is in:gene ral weak evidence, .and when it is admitted, it is the _ditty of the. Judge to point out, its weakness, that the Jury may s not allow it too much. weight." The intelligence and learning of this Judge, lamented Universally by the profession of the law, •breatned and lived in the Judge who now presid ed, and who - would -caution them its like manner. The evidence which he would lay before them hat more than one farm in the town ship paid tithe for hay beyond the 155.; and that it was not consegnently a township modus even for hay. 2. That it was only a modus for bay. Upon proving these points he would' be entitled to their verdict. He was not instructed at pre sent to contend that there might not be a modus to cover particular nis for hay only.; but town ship modus it •was not, and it covered no agist mem. Thomas Cleashy, 'aged 47, rented the small tithes.tron► Mr. Williamson, tl►e defendttot. Mr. Sergeant fitmLocit contended that. this :witness could not be received ) unlesS_ ite rP.iease all the occupiers of the township. Mr. boAßLETT.submitted that he was a good witness upon releasing Mr. Williamson, since there was no written lease; and that.release been agreed to be dispensel with if the production of it were a ll that was necessary. Mr. Baron Wool) said, that although the 'agreement was parole only, the witness could file a bill in equity, to recover such small tithes as this action might give the defendant, and al though it would he necessary to make the defen dant a party, the telease to the defendant wool(' he no hat to a snit in (tinkly. Ile was therefore disqualified, as being interested. Hip Lordship. however, at Mr. Scarlett's de- Are, made a mite of it. • The foli wing . document 4 were then put in e , idence, ►here being admissions for receiving them, without the s c ve . rat officers %%lib should produce them 1; An'erclesiastieal survey of 26 Henry VIIJ., in which the hay, flax, and hemp were esiimared at 40 , (1 ids. was intended to prove that there could be no modus• even for hay, tar less an agistment, when flax and hemp were thus classed wit hii, and all tithed at 403 10d.) 2. A 101 and . auswer in Chaucer; in the year 1714. The Vinar had filed the bill against the ru.s !Ishii) of Hartley tor tithes generally ; hut Niet.olsoh in the answer stated, that he' paid a modus or pr,seription for hav in respect to 6 acres be oe,:opied i n the rowt.ship. of Winton, Rokeby garth, &c. Thomson and Fiweet, in their depo silioo, stated, that they paid the former2s.B.d. for Court-;;arch, and the la ter a monthly tithe tsr depashiri.ig she , p. (The object of these do crunch's was, that I*s. would nor be a township modus, and that rnonih:y payments were snide for d . epas . turind shorn ship, meanme a t .;istment being the tithe paid for 4pasturing untitheahle animals.) 3. 'rwo papers from Miss Chafer, daughter Di. Ch:ite'r: Farr of Kirkby-Stephen, which profes‘ed be '' Acc•mnts of the ituproventent hay-tit es, with the name of the places wide!) paid tht-to„ for the years 1768 a 1769." Court-; firth, Roheny-Seattf, tart kVintott-nail, wete . .here en -I,IA. in& the "MS, 2s. 4cl„ 84., and iod., sub ininuti 4s pitid for them respectively. An old black Ina ,is-ript was also ptn in, which had been amotzg Di Chater!s li , )Oks, and tL hich bail one side en " Prescription tithe,"' and the other, " .vetnent tithe." It ‘ras,toutid to have 1736 and 1763 as extreme daie,. .4. A tatrier'by the principal inhabitants - and the vicar, in , 1749, which expressly states the pre scription p.Aid t'o the vicar, for bay-tithe for Winton, to be 15s. Mr. Serjeant HULLOCK replied.—He had suffi ciently gial•fied his rem,Arks upon the clergy. The defendant, living at a distance, could not feel the most powerful dissuassi'ves from titigation with his parishioners ; and as to hie interest, the deteotiant happer;ed to be vested in tee in the ad vowson. It the modus were only for bay, he would repeat, hail no predecessor of Nir lii.imson's claimed agistment ? The 2s. Bd. and 10,1. and Bd, might, for ought that appeared, be parts of the 15s. As to Dr. Chalet's books and papers, even they bore testimony, that it was a township modus, for one of the papers was headed " Respective township tithes." Suitly Dr. Cltater knew the township as well as Mr. Scarleit. The only evidence was that in Dr. Chater's papers the modui was called prescription hay-tithes. ,This would not hate been evidence for Dr. Quitter ; but he was dead, and Mr. Wil liamson avails himself of his death to bring fat ward rids kind of evidence. Improvement bar .tithe was also stated from the same documents, but there was no evidence of any one payment of such a tithe. As to rite tarrier, it was at best hut - a very moderate species of evidence ; and if it represented this township modus (for.so it call ed itj as of ly for hsy, what had the Vicars been doing si,ce 1749 ? Mr. Baron Woon, in summing up, said, that be thought reputation considerable evidence when grounded on a tact, and knew very .vell bat it was Always received in the Court of Exchequer, in order to show the irmrumorial (that was ihe legal language since Richard I.) usage of an esta blished fact. Agistment was the tithe for depas- Wing unprofitable, or untithable cattle: it was trot corn only paid in the Nottit of England ; but it never could he paid for sheep. He doubted very' much whelier of lies could be claimed for im provements from waste lands when there was a mocha., They, would decide in this case, as in all ottiero, without regarding any other consideration but the evidence. Verdict for th e plaintiff, finding the niudus to cover tlie,pastute. onTOK V. WILLIAMSON (CLERK.) This was a precisely similar case respecting the township of Nei by, and had a similar verdict,with this difference, that one particular pat t of the town ship was excepted. Whatton-de-Mesne, in the township of N e t by, forms part of Wharton•park, the property of. Lord Lonsdale; the other part is in the township of Wharton. The two townships are divided by - the Eden. Abont 12 years ago,, an entire exemption trout small tithes was claimed for Whatton-de- Mesue. The tarrier put in evidence in the former cause excepted . Whart9n from vicarial tithes. The claim of exemption failed, and three years since an agreement was entered into to pay 911. in lieu of all tithes. Hay-tither and agistment were calchlated in the valuation. Hence %Vhar ton-de-Mesne was now excepted front the modus of 3s. 61d. found to be payable in lien of hay and pasture tithei for the townsnip of Netby. Last week, a man of the name of Tormy, a pensioner, was fount! suspended by a rope from the bough of a tree, in the vicinity of Roscom mon. He was quite dead, and was driven to the rash. act, by the irremediable perplexity of his having two, wives, to one of whom the other woman and her children were, insupportably odi ons—thelmfortunme man had therefore no pro spect of happiness on this side of the, grave.— (Ne wry Paper.) FAVOURITE TIGLO;N. q al e a UN,03. , .T- 1 - • ... ALL.—Yesterthis - a Innn Pt— residing in Kent-street, app"T; ris moos 10 answer the complaint of one (•) e vr `ith 601113, a costernicnger. The cornolei" B " l „%eti so ;a tone and emphasis which' m i g ht be OuPPI t he attach great imp o rt ance to the case, tria 4ci "f the he had purchased fourteen fancy id g eon 9 ° 5 , detemiant, for which he paid a considerableo 110 ;r being obliged to pay IS. gd. per week W I °tic board and lod g i ng . O n Monday lie atissC:hole, .(if them, the very hest taught of the which he' afterwards discovered in the l' ( " l , e :it of the defendant, who could give no a cc ‘' -l ino how he got it. These birds are Iter " " :11e: important . use. Men of the comploina:- se ll ecription breed and teach them, an d I : a g :eh l. them at a very handsome price to spor" - 4 - Itst rowers and black-legs, wh o take them to " e t i 9 races, sic. As soon as the issue of the C °nt i ihd neck ° At; k< own, a billet is tied round the pigeon, minting the winner of the race P'thet the bird immediately flies home, wh e r e ! a i rO a Greek must anxionsly•awaits his return': """, o tlit no sooner knows the fart, titan he burr gambling and spotting houses, offers th e odds, and frequently ret u rns with hi S 1.(11 11 1 : ~, defendant m 'ell stored fro the coffers of the gilPin'p o said he h a d p ' urchased the 1 041 L 0P is.. 6d. from a person named Conner, bu t ftC 'ite,te give no proof to that effect, an d the ADO al' ordered the bird t o b e giv en up to the c plainatit. .„g . _ _ G ..CCIDENT7.-- Yesterday -evenir47oo Suoczcx A Invistion wAs taken at the King's il"qc,..li o ; street. Bit( king ham-gate, upon the haily oi " tiro' beth Barrett, a child five years old Ilei ni 11 ' 6 from the evidence adduced, that the t t l i deceased is a poor man , reß;clina , at: 33 1 S t. ; f :i l o l/ i haute ; lA' ai , seonded tr.un so"'" I ago, leavin g , hint with the deceased, 4o t! cllO, only ten years of age. He C0011..g1 t th / maintain the children ; t h e look ea re- %o ls room whilst be was at wot k and tt,'' t , % he boil , d for his te a in the evettnig• nesday afternoon, about iikdr p as' after lieciined, he wr>nt oio t n . svo it; 05 leaving both the children in the roof"' is after his departure, th e o ld est t hou4ht P 1 ' 4 % 1 %4 1 % go Out to play, which she was no t in 0 "2;:rii" of doing, locked th e d oor , an d t o ok tilt t her. Site returned- in ab , int a gust" ( hour afterwards, wh en , ,--shork4ig to reli t "ithe found the deceased screaming ii t he tatfO e ill room, with all her clothes burned ott, wiiz4 , l3knd of her pettict,ar, anti her . "'"‘ l t " l i d hurntd in a most dret,d,ul manner, eV e r - .0 ,14 legs. She - bad the presence n' mind to titr°, l - log' water over her, and then down stll" ,00 g The deceased folb,,s,d her into n „ ° occupied by a person named Hodge t oler i t he where a woman named Cu aig, who lodge s same house, "Was attracted by h _ ri . scr - fse ing, and she wrapped bet up i a hlaoiiet-4 eh' dteseased to1;1 her site set fate to her di e " I , 'ot( She was cat ried immediately t, the Viiivs""i''„pri Infirmary, where, not w ith sta ,„ii,, 4 eve Y ance that surgical cohld devise tvg 4 re-t) . 111° I to, she expirtd thtee o'clock on Tinir,d4 'll try lug. Vt rase! ACcidentally ho r. d 1.11 a' t ocittes daily comcommitted its D0" r ). ', 51 O le have induced the City of London to a rdor f'~ tr measure for the preservation of the pobli`: l e, 3 ; A Petty Sess:on was beld some days which Sir J. LAMER and Alderman '4; were present, awl resolved, that as povev::o- was situated within the Biidge-house estA t ':lilh g a Crinstahles, at the expense of the City, ui appointed to watch, tri;lit and day, ' iti : 6 , ))l d i ; notices were issued from Guidk:ftll, e l 'l , honseholdets in D over - str e e t, and . its viciwi'o,t;t it close up their hack doors (s e veral (11 the b ra t th having, without auth o rity, o p en ed d 11,1i,01 heck of their houses, for the purpose of ing the escape o f t hi e v es ,) pa i n „t ' I ' 'I hose regulations have tiOw 'b een prollil)! 'ade lowed • for several days, anti have been LL' with very bene fi cial results. 1 _ COAL IsIAII.K.ET, Sta , r. 3. pi' 9°' Ships at Market. Ships sold. A t o o 'l /1 1 1.51 Newcao t 0.............. 151 . .31%. 0- ` tt , .4° . ' 5 Sundetland. ... ... is 34'. 3d ' ' : - 3. 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MARRIED. vv ,fdllo .o lv Yesterday, at Sandwich, by the Reverend gr. ,'„,.io g Mr. George Hope, jun., cortifactor, of i'Lan don, Os.V °llo ' eldest daugbket of Ed. BlaN.laud, Esq., la te --.. Kent. _ .. .. ;6 • DIED. „, ;01, r t . ir On the 2d inst., of a decline, at the house of Tho-fi o a' Esq., Highgate, in tioe 41st year of her age, Ja d ,ter of the late Rev. Joseph NVlntelev, of Leeds- it -otco ilj Yesterday, at his boost, in Great Queen-street, Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas LonglandS, .E 94 ' • f 6 1 '1 , c ,. 0, 0 - v.: LONDON: Printed byi. B. CARSTAIRS , "I r d' ht' 4t"' Ormond-street, Qu , :en-square; - and published 'tur f if SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Moltnn-street, 3 % O f 'Office, No. 112. Strand ; wfierrt Advernsement'L . Letters., Stc. t ilfi)s - Ilai. 1 ) must l.ta' addrasisds \ Art •r P e th e Ch 1.0 1 101 ~.,, .0 .4 4 tJ fel `,. Jae, SI r.~ 7',, ~:.