The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-01-11 00:00:00

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sod to be locked in ever/
lolCw Piieseariniiii kilted if he had aey thing tit
Offer is hi. defence, hod. 1' Only that yea will
'bow me moray. my Lord, sod spare my life."
lie ailed no witheasee to his character, tied ,the
Jury found him GOO. but strongly recoorneeded
him to asetey is account of his youth. The Pro.
sector Joined in the recommendatioht and was
shoot to eddrros the Court sa • set speech, bet was
wet elloired to prdieml.
John Cita& was indicted far cultihe sod stabbing
Mary Anne Nelson. with intent to aiiirder her, or
to do her some grievous bodily hind:
The Prosecetrie being swam. wid the kaeti the
Prieoner,aed lived with him. She woe married to him',
but hi had another wife linos: She wrist to hij
lodgings on the 3tl December far • child which she
hod by hiss. who had played the thane she found
the Nam*, at dinner with his daughter, and the
child with them ; she asked whet business be had
to bathed, her child fries his school, sad he told
her rot to thou there to kick up • riot ; she raid
she would sot trouble him if be would let her have
her children ; he told her two or three times to go
out of his roots. and she said she would not until
she had ao o%cer to take him up, and get justice
of him. He called her • prostitute, sad she said
she was net until he made her one. He then turned
round to his cobbler's stool and came towards her I
he pushed her out, and when they were on the
stairs together she felt herself stabbed. He had pre-
viously taken something from the stool. but she did
not know whet it was. She fell on the stairs, and
the Prisoner fell upon her. but she did not recol-
kat whether he pushed her dean. She was stabbed
in the bowels, in two places. The Prisoner's
daughter and witness's children screamed out, sod
she was veined by Thomas Lee, the landlord's eon.
Before this there was a loud quarrel between them,
and she .told hint she would have him tried fur
bigamy. She stamped and raved about the room a
good deal, and refused to leave the room. She was
very pussouste, sad she thought she aggravated
him and.proveked him as much in she could. She
told his he •is bed to bring her cbildrea up as
thieves. They were both as passionate as they well
could be; but she sever struck him one threw any
thieg at Km. use tbreatewed to do so.
Thomas Lee found the Preisecutris and the Pri-
soner lying at the bottom of the stairs. be thought
they were like fight's(' sod he tried to pert them.
in ding which he saw that the Prisoner had • knife
is his hoed. Miaow laid bold of him and took
the knife out of his band.
W. Read, jun. an officer of Hatton-garden,
found the knife all bloody on the Prisoner's stool.
The apron and stays of the Prosecutrix were pre.
dowel, and found to be cut through is sumol
places and stained with blood.
The Prisoner put in a long written defence. is
which he threw the blame entirely upon the violent
oud ,passionate conduct of the Prearcutrix ; and
'mud, that the wounds must have been ialicted
while his wife (the Preeecutrix) and himself were
falling down stairs, as be had the knife in his head
with which he had been eating his dinner.
Two women gave the Prisoner the character of s
kind sod humane man.
The CRISP' BARON summed up the evidence,
and explained the law of the case to the Jury, who
consulted fur a shun time, end then found the
Prisoner Not Guilty.
Chief Baron Ricuaans—" Prisoner, before I pert
with you. let me repeat the advice given you by
,Lee, namely, that you in future govern your

fwd,, the officer, mid there was soother indict.
weak against him for bigamy, and he was ordered
•Ile be detained secoidingly.

A STOLIIN CHILD.

Of all the awe of ekildiutealing that has of kis reached
our kaisarledge, the &Howie( is the wet inhuman sod dis-
tressiag. by which the (easily mod relatiirmere enveloped is
grief mad misery s—A girl, of about 16 years awe, of rather
intmeetiog massers, whose parrots being dead, wea seder
the protection of her grandmother at Walliogtes, in Surrey,
sear lAMB resided Mn.s Sarah &Mesas, who bad a brava-
fel little daughter, about two years old (her only child), sad
was the admiration of all who beheld her. On Saturday the
girl above alluded to paid a visit to Mrs. Edwards, at she
occasionally did. and took the inlhat is her arms aad mused
it, nod are it for sow time, espremieg her admiration of
its Iseauty. The girl ober emulsion show se herr, request-
ed Mrs. Edwards's permission to take the child eat for as
"Wog, tellies her she would take particular care of it, and
would return shortly. The mother being rather buoys
eursented, and the infant was dressed, sad the fa•
male left the cottage wit% the little biamest is ►er
arms, who cried bitterly at leaving its !mother. Sow
time eloped, avid the girl sot retureing with the ie.
feet, the nether begs. to be uneasy, hut had out the least
spprelseesitor for its safety, thinking the girl had paid • visit
to some Itietids, and had bee, delayed. Os the sprouts of
algid, had she not arriving, her alarm began to ionesee, sod
variolis apprehensions awe is ►er stied of !basally es' her
offspring, which, together with the abuser of her basbauds
w►o is on the Contineet, so preyed on her feelings, that the
because quite frastie, and ahe as shout the village like a
11111111111 C. On iequirim at the grandmother's house, it was
aticemained the girl had not been beard of Mace her depar-
ture. This Meited s fear that something @mimes had
eceurred to both the girl and the infaut, sod Abe feel-
lags of the poor mother may be more easily conceiv-
ed has described when she morniag came, sad rut
the least tidings foald be beard of her only offspring.
Every imuiry was set on foot, messengers were dispatched
in all directions is wealth of the., but remarried without ene-
mas to the dismay of the distressed aid brukeo-bearied mo-
ther: Large baud-bills were printed, desetibing the girl
and the child, sod widely eireelated, offering a reward fur
their restorstioa, no suspicion being formed that she (from
her youth) hid stolen the child. Iliformatioo has hems re-
eeired by the leather, that ■ poser female, in the garb of a
wadies's, with en infest is her arms, both morello's&
ing with the deseriptioa ghee in the haadibills, hod bees
sees is Kingston, Gibbets, and Thames Dimon, os the
Tuesday following. In consequeue of ship, penises were
dispatched le pursuit of the fugitive and the child, but no
tidier has ►een beard of them. Thus the distressiag affair
mots at pewit, which is isvolved is mystery.

The violence or the late worms threw down above
thirty fine tress in Mouut Eilscumbe Park.