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STEAM BOATS, Mr. I3RYAN DONKIN called in; and Examined. Wvve you desired to go down to . Norwich, to iitcove into the cause of the explosion of the biedoi Boat ?—I went down as a volunteer. -• Jiid yim see the steam boat ?—tio, we did not ; it bad been-- removed we saw the boiler and part of the engine. Of whom do you speak ?—Mr. Timothy Drama,' - and Mr. C,,!;.iige accompanied me. They were persons perfectly conversant with engines ?; Irt Yon saW the boiler and the engine ?--I did. In your opinion, what was the cause of that explosion ?- -The 'immediate cause bad been the use of steam of a very 1,40 expansive force; the proximate cause was the deficiency in the strength of the end of the boiler. what was that, boiler•matte, and what was its construc tion ?•--It was made chiefly of wrought iron, but partly of cast-hwin. - What put si•as wrought, and what part was cast ?—The boiler was cylindrical ; the cylindrical part and one end were tv..ought iron, and the other end was cast iron; it appeared to o.c to have been previously of wrought iron, but, for what plum) do. not know, the wrought iron end had been cut a.cast. iron end substituted in its place. • Is it your o: ti inio, that any boiler so constructed was un safe. ?—As a high pressure boiler, certainly. hat do you call a high pressure should call from 30 lbs. upwards high pressure ;-the technical phrase is applied to engines where the motive force is given' by the expansive force of the steam. Define what, is the technical distinction between high pres suye• and kw pressure engines I—When water is made to boil in the boiler, and confined so as the steam is not allowed to nial-e its escape, it continues to acquire expansive force as itaaevives increase of heat; in the high pressure engine, the _piston of , thd steam cylinder is forced down by the expansive fusee of the steam alone, :testiest the resistance of the atmos phere; when the piston has arrived at the bottom of the C) limier, a valve is opened, and the steam is allowed to escape ‘ into the ateressahere, and the operation is reversed ; the pis too of the cylinder is made to ascend by the same kind of trace. In the condensing engine, or the low pressure'engints, the steam staving been once permitted to fill the cylinder, a communication is then made between the cylinder in which the piston works awl the vessel in which the steam is con densed: that is the distinguishing feature of the two engines. I will describe a further difference, which contingently arises oat of the use of the two; that is, in the high pressure en gines the engineer has - it at his option to use what degree of expansive force he pleases, - to convert an engine adapted for tire power of five horses, or producing the power of five horses, to that of ten horses, or to any other extent which be may *hie!, his materials capable of sustaining.' In the low pees -sate or 'condensing engines, the steam can never be advan tageously employed above from two and a half to six lbs. upon a.squese inch. NV hateVer power there is in what you call a high pressure engine, the pressure in that engine may increase the power beyond what it is calculated for, and by means of that may sender it dangerous I—Certainly. Is it your opinion, that a boiler could be made of raper Materials, with safety-valves, and under proper guard and direction, to make that high pressure perfectly safe?--That v.-puld depend upon the quantity of pressure to be used ; a safety rake, aright be carried to three hundred, or to any as sigoatliS force. I think that a high pressure engine maybe made safe to a certain extent, but where they are left ad tune thc y kicser can be perfectly safe. Du yon mean to convey . the idea, that it is impqssible or' difficult to adapt to a high pressure engine one or two safety vele s si o nied with a mercurial gauge, acting at the same puintof pleasure, so as to make it equally safe with that upon any other construction 1-111 answer to the first part of the spastimi, relative to the safety valve, I think I have answer ed that already ; that we can apply a safety valve to any de gree of pressure without any difficulty, but that the safety of the engine does not totally depend upon the safety valve. State open what other circumstances the safety of the engine depends idea of the difficulty of obtaining a proper degree ,of strength at all times in the materials of which boilers may he made, arises from the' constant dete eiriration which those boilers must be suffering from the ac tion of the fire, and. from the various degrees of raven sion and coutractiurs operating an different parts of the boiler. Is it then your opinion, that in high pressure engines car vied to that extent you mention, that danger would always operate w ould not always operate, but it would be ex treitisly liable to accidents. lu fact, you yourself would not chose to use a Weds pressure engine, from the difficulty which es.iels, either mare es kW • —That is my opinion. I.lare you rsade any calculation what wosithl be the foice required to he used to propel a boat in navigable rivers, or canals I—This does not admit of a definitive answer. It de- pcmls entirely upon opinipn, how far one force would be darq;erous and another not; but if steam engines are ern= ployed for the .purpose of, propelling boats, that may he ejlected with perfect safety by the low pressure or con tlensing engines, where the pressure need not exceed six lbs. In the inch. 01 course that must depend upon the resistance to be made, and the velocity required fur the boat ?—Theo I must make choice of a mole or less powerful engine; I think it just to state to the Committee, that there is an advantage to be derived from the use of Isi ah pressure engines on hoard boats, which are necessarily loaded differently at different times; this different I:nii:ig requires a different power in the steam ettgine-, and the high pressure engine is capable of b l aring this ;additional power given to it without any difficulty, wherea s in the low pressure. engines they are confined to the force first assigned to them. What is the maximum of the low pressure engines se3reelyrer saw them beyond six lbs. In liigb pressure engines there is a great saving of frn ? Th ere i> i n one, a peculiar hind of t how called high pressure engines; there is a considerable saving of fuel in. Woolf's en gines; hut in the common, ones., I. believe there is but little If fikliefore the engines. were to be used where the saving of fuel wonio be of considcrabte consequence, high pressure engines of it certain. construction would be bettrr adapted for t hat poepuse thaa, hue !pressure engines ?—Where the saving was of machconsequence. Af engines, were to, be used at sea, it would be of Consider able consequence, the engiqe and the fuel being contained s-la Her compass ?-IVuolls engine is nut in a much smar , r er,llll , asA. • _ _ _ When you talk .of the deterioration of the boiler, how long would a boiler, properly constructed and constantly used, be used is its safety ?— = that is extresuiAy uticertain I hare known one holler worn out in six Months, and another used far sect a or festeteesi years ; the - strength-at cast iron boilers t - M m . is extresnely• um:ein ; cast iron cnnts'atts farhiliodegAles, in different places, .and therefore is liable to Yost think that all east iron boders ate dungenoas ?—Cer taissly, when used for steam of high expansive force. In your former answer, where you spoke of the extreme difficulty of so regulating high pressure engines as to insure their safety, did you nas,ut. to streak of those which had cast iron boilers, or of both (mg and wrought metal ones Chiefly as t., the cast igran ; it is more practicable to make a b o iler of the malleable metals to resist a high pressure, as fin as the tenacity of the metals is concerned ; but another difli enLy ~ C ellr6, which prevenU the application,of the malleable nititais to boilers for high pressure engines, which is that of rendering the joining of the plates secure. 1):, you mean then to say, that wrought iron boilers are'not iii rie.inent use to high pressure engines, ins point of fact ?—1 believe they ace in 'sieh less frequent use than the cast iron boiSers ; and in Woolf's engine, they are scarcely used at all. Is not the cast rear boiler much cheaper than the wrought I s'a r scarcer tell that; I should think the cast iron would. be e;o-asser, it made o, equal strength. • .1.; case of the explosion of a east or a wrought iron boiler, vs's. •is is ;Mended with the greatest danger I—Cast iron, un spo:ssiosis.tbly. • W liy ?—From the frangible nature of the metal. i t do you apprehend. to be the common effect, in case of of a case iron, boiler ?—The metal is broken I's! , ir.senienti„ and driven oil with great violence in various di t rctions. Winit is the effect when a. wrought iron- boiler gives way ? “eiaerai;y a cent; hut I have seen one instance of a wrought wacre the whoie of the upper part was rent from t;o• homwa, drAcui thruttgh the house in which it was placed, ptvi cnn ied to a considerable distance; I believe several yards. - ott apprehend, that speahing generally, and unless by some eXtraord i nal y cirettmance, such as the wilful sbultin g mr :he straw valve, there would b e arty reason to apprehend m id ; art effect as you have just now mentioned,. to arise from time renting of a wrotnilit iron boiler !—No, I scared) , think it possible. _ imv.posing *.he boiler to , ite made of wrought iron, or copper ri^fmted, anti safety valves, property adjusted, with a tue,,cu r., abio aitaited in. its diameter with due regard to the boiler, do, you conceive that any reasonable ep i'• i..vuld arise respecting the safety of a high pressure engine?--I think there might; bat with less , apprehension as to the extent of the destructive effect to he produced. You speak of less apprehension as to the deStructive effect; have the goodliess to explain that ?-0n account that in the malleable metals a simple rending generally takes place, it would seldom happen that the upper part of the boiler would be torn off ; but in the cast iron the fragments would be scattered about, and be more destructive. Do you not know, that wrought iron boilers have been used to all sorts of, steam engines for a considerable time _Oast ?—Yes. • Did you veer bear of any other than the single instance that you have mentioned, in which a wrdught iron boiler burst in suck A manger ?—No. Do you know what was the occasion of the top being blown off in the instance you mentioned ?—Wesanaut tell what was the imMediate• reason, butl I suspected it to arise from the shape of the boiler. What was that shape ?—The bottom was of the usual wag gon shape boiler, convex inwards ; the concave. part of the boiler was over the fire, and those who examined it with my self imagined that the engine keeper had suffered the water to be expended, or the whole of it nearly evaporated, leaving a small portion of it in the lag of the boiler. • The boilers invented by Mr. Simms and Mr. Woolf were all of them cast iron: --I believe they were : tnever knew there make any other. Mr. 'Woolf's boiler has been in use nearly ten.years?—l believe it has. Did you ever .bear • of Anis accident happening to their boiler ?—Yes, I have ; I beard it stated the other day by a brother-in-law of mine, Mr.• Hall, of Dartford, that be had known two or three .accidents, but without any fatal or injurious effectk. How many engines of the high pressure character have been blown up - ?—I have heard of several. Are there more than four ? —A great many more, if there are taken into the account those which have exploded in America as well as here. Do you consider low pressure boilers as safe from explosion in all instances?—Used with no further pressure tb4n six punnets. • What renders them safe ?—Because they never einplOy steam of high expansive force in them. NVltat are the means by which they are re •vcnted. from using steam of high expansive force in them ?—Because it would be against the interest of -the persons 'using thew to employ-it. Is there any other guard against the condensing engine re ceiving such a charge of - expansive steam as will burst it, than the care of the engineer or the interest of the owner?—Cer tainly none; because I have known instances where- they have Used in the engine both steam of a high expansive force, and condensed it at the same tine. You have never heard of low pressure boilers blowing up ? No ; I have never known of any explosion wilb injurious consequences ; they give way repeatedly, but do no injury. Is there any thing in low pressure boilers which may be de pended upon absolutely, for preventing the steam acquiring an expansive force beyond what is intruded ?—Well regulat ed safety valves; mercurial guages or water giuges will at all times - secure it. • Do these means of limiting the expansive force in low pres sure boilers continue perfectly efficaciolis under all circum stances of misconstruction and mismanagement ?—That en-• I tirely depends upon the construction ; I have knOwu safety valves fail in their action from bad construction. Can such or similar means be applied to high pressine boilers ?—Yes, certainly. Is not the feeding of - low pressure boilers nsually done by a-column of water ; -and is not this column the great reason of their safety ?—That is one reason, but they ought to have a safety valve besides. . Is it not the principal reason of their safety I—lt is the most secure one. If the feeding column of water be taken away, is not the security left to depend upon the safety valve ?—Unques tionably. Are low pressure boilers employed its boats always or com monly fed by a column of water ?—I never saw an instauce of it. If the mechanical means'whicb are used to render the low pressure boilers secure succeed, will not similar meaus.remler - high pressure boilers secure ?—As far as the expansive force is not permitted to arrive beyond certain limits, solar it will afford security. At what expansive force are low' pressure boilers safe ac cording to their usual coustruction - ?-1 have'Seen very few boilers constructed for the purpose of a low pressure engine, or a condensing engine, that would sustain a preSsure of ten pounds, without occasioning considerable leakage, or withuat forcing the joints. Are they not very often used with a force to render therit unsafe ?—I never knew an instance of it. Is not the explosion of them likely to do mischief ?—Not under the pressure they are capable of sustaining. Not even if they are made of cast iron ?—Certainly. AFC they uniformly made of wrought iron 1 , --No; several of them are made of cast iron. Are not the greater number of them made of cast iron ? No; I apprehend not. You cannot then state to the Committee howinarry i , ostances of explosion you knOw of high pressure boilers ?—No, I owl not. Are they more than in low pressure boilers ?—I never heard of an explosion in- the. low pressure boiler of any conse quence whatever, merely a giving way of the plates or the wearing out of the boilers; not such a bursting as can ba t called an explosion. _ _ _ May not everfinstance of explosion of the high pressure boilers with which you are acquainted, be traced to bad con struction, or palpable mismana;ement ?—1 have never exa mined many of them, and therefore what they may be imme diately traced to I do not know; but all the explosiens I have heard of have been occasioned by the use of steam of high expansive force; the one I visited at Norwich certainly arose from the defective construction of the boiler : it was extreme ly iil coustructed.• _ _ Was it not as well from the palpable mismanagement of the engineer'--That Ido not linbw; • we were toll that it was.; I have-no doubt there had been very great temerity and rashness. Was not that high pressure boiler which blew up in lon , . don the ether day at • : sugar-house, entirely owing to the most palpable misconstruction ?—Lsaw the boiler after it had' burst ; and I certainly should not have made a boiler in that shape, to have withstood the pressure which it was in tended to bear. Wits not that boiler made of a different thickness ; one side of-it three-quartvrs of an inch: thick, and the other two inches thick.?--Those are eery nearly the dimensions ; but iii addition to that, there was a defect in the casting, what we call a cold shut in the iron. , . Is not the use of nigh presstire steam completely in its in fancy?—Certainly, its introduction to general use is of mucii later date than the low pressure steam engines. It is in. fact to be consider e d as a n i nven ti on ' o f recent date ?—lt is. Have not material improvements taken place in the con struction and use of high pressure boilers, in consequence of the accidents which have happriitd?--I conceive Woolf il mode of constructing boilers to be arousitterableimprol ment; a very material one I have likewise been told,: t.bongis I har e nee, / s ee n one, that Trerethick has inveWel; a Inc thod of making boilers by increacing their Itligth and de creasing tkeir diameter, sty - ae- to render then) Capable of sustaittims. pressure to z", much greater degree thwt hkret of tore. Have more accidents occurred since the invention of the high pressure boilers, than might have been expected from the iinvention of any new system whatever in the rkiechanicat construction of engines ?—Perhaps not.. What expansive force 'of steam is generally employed in those high pressure engines ?-1 fancy that is very vari - 441e, from 30 pounds to 120 upou the square inch, or even perba.pi higher than that. Instances have been known in which a boiler has been worked at 160 and 180; hare -there not ?—I have heard of suck things, but I never knew of thesis. What is the proof to which high pressure boilers are g nerally exposed previous to their being used ?—The most eligible proof they ought to be exposed to, is by \valet% TO what pressure ?—I should think double the pressute to which they are intended afterwards to be sunjectett. What is the estimated force in your opinion, which would burst a high pressure boiler of the best construction is very ditkrent, because it depends upon the strength and construction of the materials; I never entered into the calcu lation. Have not the greatest advantages been derived to the mines and manufactures front the use of the high pt essure boilers? —I believe inestimable advantages. - Have you tiny doubt that Cornwall has. derived an adtan• tage which may be considered as incalculable (pout them ? None in the world. Do you think, from the few accidents which hare oceurrxd lathe use of them, t here is any better argument to be brought against the permitting them to he employed, than could be derived from the accidents which have arisen in the explosion of gunpowder in. the clearing passages in. the mines not as, applied to the mines, certainly. . • - You have mentioned that security i s atfOrd e d, t o . th eengine by fording the boiler L a. coltinin. of•water ;. from what does that security arise he pressure, from the steam in the boiler could never rise to w force grezn,s than that wiiich. would be equal to the pressure of the column of i•ater ; when ever it did arrive at that pressure, or beyond that pressure, the water would be blown out and the steam would follow.. You have stated, thitt in the steam vessels used upon rivers, this precaution is not resorted to ?—I never saw one, and it would be. extremely inconvenient. For what reason ?--Qn account of the undulations the water would be subject. to : it would be thrown out of the pipe froM. the motion of the vessel, and other inconveniences would arise, such as bringing the pipe through the deck of the vessel. Do you apprehend, that a mercurial gauge would be ex posed to the same inconvenieitces ?—Certainly, I do ;' the alti tude would be lessened by every new assumed position of the ve ; that is, if a tube placed vertically at first, should by the action' of the vessel assume a diagonal or an oblique po sition, the altitude of the column would be lessened, and its consequent pressure upon the steam lessened. Are you of opinion that there would be much difficulty in goat ding against such an inconvenience as that ?—Yes, I think there would; generally speaking; but a well-construct ed safety valve would answer all the purposes. Are nut the safety valves applied to the low pressure en gines, even when the column of water is mused to, supply the boiler ?—Most frequently they are; I . hare seen souse without. Did you never hear of the pressure in a condensing engulf being raised by mismanagement as high as 19 or 20 pounds, per ineh ?—No ; I do not recollect that I ever met with such a circumstance; have no doubt that it has taken ph ce.. If such a circumstance may take place with a ton ,pressure .engine, do hot you think, that according to the general cal= culation of the strength of their boilers to resist the usual pressure 'to which they are subjected, more danger would arise than in almost any case which could happen to a high pressure engine with a boiler properly adapted ?--No, de cidedly not; according to the general construction of low pressure boilers, they are so riretted together to with.tand the•low pressure they are intended to.hear, and they always give indications of au increase of pressure long before I should apprehend any danger from it; .1 mean by the joints giving way, and the steam forcing a passage through them. Do you mean to apply that to the cast iron boileri ?—NO, certainly not; to the wrought iron or copper boilers. The question before put was meant to apply to a low pres sure engine, fitted up with a cast iron boiler ?—As applied to the cast iron boiler, I should say, that being constructed to bear a less degree of expansive force, an explosion would sooner take place, and therefore would be less dangerous Less dangerous in comparison with what ?—With a 'hig i lt pressure boiler. , Do you mean to say, that an explosion of the cast iron boiler of a low pressure engine which should be burst by art improper degree of pressure, would be less dangerous than the rending of a wrought iron boiler, occasioned by a ankh higher (levee of pressure ? gave my answer as connected with the former questifm, with regard to the liability to danger from low pressure boilers; I take for granted, that if a boiler is Constructed tube applied to a tow pressure engine, that commensurate strength will he applied to the materials of the boiler; and that in the case of applying a boiler to a high preSsure engine, an adequate strength must be used there to the pressure intended; therefore, if the low pressure boiler by any accident should be exploded, generally speaking, boilers made of the malleable metals must be much safer on an explosion taking place, at least they are not calculated to tiq so much mischief as the cast iron boilers. Have you made any experiments, or are you acquainted ac curately wish the effect of such as have been made upon the different quantities of fuel' consumed in the high and low pres sure engines, in proportion to the quantity of power pro duced ?-1 hare witnessed several experiments on Woolf's' engines, where the object was to ascertain the comparative expenditure of coals or fuel in grinding corn between his en gines and the low pressure or condensing engines, and the results were decidedly in favour of Mr. Woolf 's engines. You cannot. speak as to the high preSsure cuginei commonly in use ?—l'apprehend there is no saving of fuel, or very there may be a little. What was the saving of fuel by Woolf's engine„as cont.; pared with the others ?—The average effect in one case was the grinding eighteen bushels of wheat with one bushel of coals; the other average effect of I3olton•and Watt's engine, or the low pressure engineS, is the grinding of from ten to twelve bushels of wheat with a bushel of coals. Do von know whether the power of the engines in lifting water may fairly be reckoned at the same proportionable dif ference ?—Yes ; I believe they may. Ido not speak from ex periments; but I have no doubt as to the effect; by the re pirrts from Cornwall, I am led to suppose- is may. be much. greater. • Hate you seen any account of the explosion of the steam engine on board a boat in America, within a few weeks past? 1 —No ; I have 17.4)t. I understand there has been one. . - From any information you teceired at Norwich, did you hear of any comitiet of the manager of that boat, wich ocea•. sioned the explosion of the boiler ?—No ; the information I did receive upon that subjcer vrXs since we returned to. LOn.dOn LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY Q. The business of the Court was of no public im portance, his Lordship having been occupied the whole of the day iu hearing a bankrupt petition of no general interest. MASTER IN CHANCERY. 'Mr. - CouareNEY, M. P. has been, it is said, ap pointed one of the Masters of Chancery, in the rootn Of ROBERT STEELE, Esq. deceased. SHERIFFS' COURT-COUNTY OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN. GEORGE EVANS BRUCE, Esq. and MARY his Wye,_ Plaintifs-- , TnomAs GRADY, Esq. Defendroit. This - was an action ,brought by the plaintiffs, against the defendant, as author and pablisher of a libel upon the plaintiff Mary, contained in the celebrated Poem c all e d th e " Nosa-g ay ," publish ed by the defendant. It appears that this action was instituted by the plaintiffs against the de fendant, in the vacation preceding the last Easter Term, at the time when the defendant was setting, out upon al- tour to the Continent—that no ap varance was entered by the defendant, and judg ment being had by default, a writ of inquiry was ,sped before the Sheriffs of the .city of Dublin., without the knowledge of the defendant, or any person Oft his behalf; and that 30001. damages , were obtained thereupon, in consequenee•oft such' default. That defendant, upon his having obtained. information thereof, laid the facts of the case, and the eircuinstances attending it, before the Court of Common Pleas, when their Lordships were unanimously pleased to set aside the said verdict, with liberty to issue a new inquiry, to be sped before the said. Sheriffs,, and a- most respectable Jury, specially summoned for the purpose. Mr. GOOLD, on behalf of the plaintiffs, stated their case, in a speech of considerable 'length, which, for eloquence, learning, and style, has not been excelled on any-occasion. ; and, after proof of the publication and authorship of the poem, and its circulation through Great Britain and Ireland,, the plaintiffs, closed their case—when, Mr. Botrrott on behalf of the defendant, ad dressed the Court and the Jury, in an animated and pointed speech, wherein - he-adverted to a for mer action, - brought by the _plaintiff; George, against the defendant, upon almost the entire of the poem alludedto, and the defence made thereto by ,the defendant, before a Special Jury of the county of Limerick, where the parties reside, and the nature :and amount of the damages _assessed by them ; when, after a most able charge given to the Jury by the Sheriff's Assessor, Counsellor Unhand, the Jury, after a few minntesdelibera tloll, found a verdict for the plaintiff of Gcl. ttt. Biases,. with ad. costs, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. .1 MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ANOTHER CASE OF CHILD STEALING.. At a late hour on Thursday night, a young woman, calling herself Rhoda Parrott, was brought down front. Mary-le-bone watch-house, in the custody of Sil vesteri and examined before JOHN BURROWS, the Sitting Magistrate, charged, under the ing Act, with forcibly and feloniously, carrying away a male child, aged between five and six months, the son of• -- Hampden, a private 'hi the Ist Rtwiment of Life Guards, under the fol• loWing most extraordinary circumstances Matilda Hampden, wife of the prosecutor, he... tug swum, deposed, that on the 16th of April, 1816, she was standing, with the ,child - in her arms, in front of the Horse Guard's, koking at the 901. diers. The prisoner cane up, said it was a fine morning, and introduced a variety of subjects. Witness answered her, and joined in the conver sation. The prisoner took particular notice of the child, and asked her if she was a widow, or what the child's father was. She (witness) said he was a soldier belonging to the Life-Guards, and was still living. The prisoner remarked her own hus band had been a hussar, and was killed at the bat tle of Waterloo, and that she had received .28/. from Government on his behalf. After some fur ther conversation, she asked witness where she lived, and she would call next day and see her, as she felt interested with her. Witness gave her her direction where she then lived, in Join-street, • New Road, and they the n p ar t e d. • . ,On the morning of the lit h she-called accord ing to her .promise, and they breakfasted together. Witness kept her to dinner, and afterwards to tea. The prisoner told her she was going- out of town next day, but when she came to town again she would call and see her. Next morning -however, she. came again, and said she had to call at the Spotted Dog,,in the Strand, in the afternoon, for a bundle. , She then said, " l e t me ta k e out t h e child for an airing." Witness said she ,would soon be going out herself, and the prisoner asked for the shawl and bonnet ; she asked why she could not take it without them, and she took the child out as she said to walk. After severe) bouts litut elapsed, witness began to get uneasy about the child-, and went to find the prisoner, in which she failed. She told her husband of the circumstance when he came home, and he was almost framic. Inquiry was made .at the Spotted Dog, and it was there ascertained ;she had' taken away her buiidle, 'The child was advertised, ankplacards issued in all directions,. but without effect. - Alt .hopes . ot. ever recovering 'the child had subsided, when about a week ago, the prosecutor was drinking with a private belonging to the Hussars, to whom he related- the story.-1 his man very fortunately recollected one of the men in. hiS own regiment having a child • brought to him by, the prisoner-, and as the names agreed, he expressed his suspicions she might be the same. Accordingly, persons were dispatched to Holing. low, where she was stated to be, with a qi.w of apprehending her, bitt when they got there they . received information that she was at Hampton. They immediately went there and took tier into' custody, with a 'child about four months old in her arms, and brought her up to town. They look her to a public-house in Adam-street, West minster, and sent for the parents, who identified ber, anti they then took her to the watch-house. The prisoner being asked what became of the child, said it had died some time ago. Charles Silvester, - the Constable, said, he was sent for to take the prisoner into - custody, and she, acknowledged having stolen the chad. From what could be colkcted from the prisos• trees defence it appeared, that au improper inter- . course had taken place between her and a soldier its the 10th Regiment; that by some means or other they had been separated a sufficient time for the priaoner to have been delivered of a child of the age of the one she ha,d stolen. in her own! words, she said she was . young amd foolish:, amt wanted a husband,- therefore she- knew no b eget way of'getting one, than by persuading the sol dier site had a child:._Sbe - was committed forlor thee examinatiort a ' when more witnesses will tenth - • BOW-STREET.. PRIVATE STrr.t.—Yesterd3y Werstbx was brought , before RICHARD BIRSIR, Eiti. the Sitting Magistrate, cbarged with keeping a private still in Little Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields.— Samuel MeadoWs, an Excise officer, stated, that ins consequence of ioformation which he had received t h at a p r i vate st ill was worked at No.. 22, Little 'Wild-street, he went there yesterday morning,. and in the first kitchen he found the prisoner working a private still; fie drew off raw spirit from it amounting to about 30 , gallons of washi which was in a state of fermentation.—The soner pleaded his poverty as an extenuation of hi s cwohnitcl which c iti.ot---llbeein"g-a a s L o e n t v o ic i t l e a t y l penalty o f 301. c.infilitted to the House of Correction for six months, Several butchers and green -glovers of Clare.. market were charged by the Parish Offi c ers o f S t . Clement's Danes, under the Lord' s D a y A ct ,. w i t l s following their calling on Sundays, which being satisfactorily proved,. they wer,e convicted in the penalties and . costs. . Two Jews, wher.reside in Holywell-street, were convictedunder the same Act of Parliament lov exposing clothes tor sakon S un d a y. Th e y p l ea 6 e 4 in their defenee„•thut they observed the Christian Sabbath after ten o'clock every Sunday morning,. by taking in their clothes and shutting up their shops at that thought they were allowe tokee i)open shop and d. till that hat hour. BIRTH. On the 24th inst. the. Lady of Lieutenant G. 13. Sliardon, A. N. of a daughter. MARRIED. This morning; Mr. Hutchinson, of.Clement's-lape, to Ann, daughter of the late John Clark, Esq. of Caryberwell. On Thursday, the 24th instant, at Pinner, Middlesex, Mr. Nathaniel Graham, of St. Paul's Church-yard, to Jane Maria, second daughter of William Nurse, Esq.. of Pinner, Middlesex. DIED. 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