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tree% were rot to Lc ttifkd with; they felt themselves sufficientlfr I
loathed, upon the oath ely Taylor, to IsolgAlstrwt to "441, ulna
the stritlest investigation should take place.
The prison er+ were then remanded, and warrants warn ordered
to taIIICV tie attendance or the other peaks.

T.11.131ES V
Joliet Chhkrom appeared at this office before .1. W. Berideripp,
Esq. the urcioding Alagistrate, to account for the possession of a
quantity of I ail ing.:iiioosly secreted about his person.
11.. was eiljoilg,nl to pay a penalty of 3/. and in default, to go to
prison fur sit< weeks soil It kept to hard labour.

7'llE KIDA'AIIPF.' I) (3111. D.
From the Lewis Afrr,ury.ll
We have the satisfaction to state, that a clue, though at present
rather a broken Wt.', lint bent (0111111 1111/iCh will probably lead to
the discovery of the child stolen from litimilet, on the dof Jure
last, in the fate of which the public have felt so lively a sympathy.
The following narrative and correspondence will explain the kn.-
tory of the little wanderer since its sehdov-Ilma, as they would say in
Ireland, but we in Litgi tnd have, happily, no noun substantive to
express the Winn. crone, probably front its rarity. It appears that
Charlotte Shaw, immediately on leaving Leeds. repaired to Liver-
pool where she took the Steam Packet and 'idled teethe Clyde. OW
her arrival at Inverary•he was apprehended by the pollee of that
place from some suspicious circumstances in her conduct, and on
being interrogated as to the child, she said it belonged to a broth'
of bet's lately returned from America, *he was now deceased, ILIA
Who died at the Innen of John Smith, gardener to Bemire ore's. or,
Carshalum, near Croydon, in Surrey. • having confided his thild,,
while he was upon his death lied, to her in the itreence of Ittnitht
and his wife. On the second instant, Duncan Paterson, Esq.'s
Magismite of lnverary, wrote its Sir Beery Bridges, one Of die
Surrey Marinates. stating these facts and requesting that ht
wonld, in his magisterial capacity, institute the proper Inquiry
regarding what was said pf South and his wife being present whet
the child was placed in the care of Charlotte Shaw by its father
We are not informed what 'newel was returned by Sir Dewy
Bridges to Mr. Paterson, but the Baronet having read in a Morn.
lag Paper the paragraph copied into that paper Mwn the Leeds
Mercury of the 10th, wrese a letter to Mr. Pim Nevins of this
place, the master and the benefactor of Iltalaers, tin
child's father, dated the 13th Inst., in which he al that the wouiat
and child appeared to correspond with the deerrption given in th
paragraph mthe Newspapers, and he at unsettle time inclosed to
1111 r. Nevins. Mr. Paterettn's letter.
On the receipt of this letter, Mr. Nevins wrote without delay tt.
Mr. Paterson. Ill:scribing the woman and child, and requesting the
he world inform hint whether they were still in enstody,as %Mien
Rodgers weuld, if that was the case. printed forthwith into Sendai"
to take the necessary steps to identify and recover his chfld.
On Thureday last, the instant, Mr. Nevins received ar
answer to his letter, dated the 13th instant, irant Inverary, rat
which Mr. Paterson ways---". 1 cannot have a shadow of a daub
that the child in possession of the woman who:his been detained
here, belongs to William Rodgeni. It Is a male child ; has anal,
nn one of its theulders, as you scribe. and his hein heard to Rip
its surname to be /hedgers, for which Charlotte Shaw areoented by
saying that its mortnes maiden name was Roden and It took "WI
name. After detaining the woman end the child bete eight days.
they were set at liberty '
and 4.17 ftiday. the Stirinstant, they srprt
in a ateatmentsel to dasgew, where diligent search his been 1141.0
foe them, but hitherto without enema- .1 have, however, a hitter
from Mr. fledge Salniontl, Procurator Fiscal, at ()learn, •
which he says, that he has evert ret.s.sn to bcre a that hid von an
and child are vet in filingew, and that he has people upon the aunt
'searching for them." Mr. Paterson (Ads, that be has sent " warty
to tilasgow„ to seize the woman wherever she maybe fount', a ..
that he shall be happy if he can be made brillnallerlill In ren ovilo;
the aflbilinn of the distressed patent& In this sure the nth set
steads at present t and hie night Wißiam Ruthters, assisted Pi di
liberality of the public, left Cunslet for tan/cow, whence, we tros•
mow ferventlyi„ he will bring hark with Min his Chad, and th
wretch who has eerasio-ted this distress, the format to be re.
stored to the embraces of its almost distracted mother, and the hittr
to receive at the Lands of pultlic justice that punishment to which
she is so well entilid. The came of this wretched wt.wan's un-
natural offertee is yet unexplained, excelit that it hat clearly ariser
front a Orions heart anti a yagalmwal dippnahints, under the resting
influence of which she has probably fur years been rendering about
the country.