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height, that she would agree to any thing, so thatshe
couldbut knowwhen it was to take place. Sheaccord-
inglyconsatted tohaveher nativity cast, and gave the
Prisoner, at various times, cash to the amount of
it 14s. ; being all the money she was possessed of ;
when the Prisoner told her that was not sufficient,
:qrs. Church had rot been able to cast her nativity
vet, and must be paid more money, as it took her
such a ler.gth of time. This induced the Proiecu-
flit to give het, at various times, the following arti-
cles of wearing apparel ; three gowns, two aprons,
two petticoats, one shift, one cloak, and one pair of
stockings ; this plunder of the unthinking girl did
not satisfy the Prisoner, although she told her she
could not spare any more ; ugh
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Prisoner had the
ednefs to ask the girl to give her some of her
ns:ress's table cloths. This request alarmed the
girl, and she began then to suspea she had been
doing wrong, she refused to comply with her infa-
mous request, and told her sister what she had been
do;ng. The Prisoner, by the advice of the sister,
was taken into custody, and, on searching her, a
grrat number of Pawnbrokers' duplicates were
found, and among them were some for the articles
which she had obtained from the Prosecutrix. There
were liken ise found upon her duplicates of property.
to a considerable amount. Some table-spoons were
produced by a Pawn-broker, which the Prisoner had
pledged, and, from the arms upon them, there was
very little doubt but they belonged to some family
of :listiation.
There being no such person as Mrs. Church, in
Somers-town, as the prisoner described, she was
ommitted for further examination on a charge of

felony, till te-morrow.
IMPS.
Information having been given to the Magistrates
of the above Office, that a common hop and disor-
derly meeting was held in St. Giles's on a Sunday
vening, a search warrant was issued, signed by
Messrs. GR AII A seand Kirus•tao ; and on Sunday
evening, between seven and eight o'clock, a large
arty of the p.itrole went with dark lanthorns to a
.ouse in Johnson's•court, Buckeridge-street, St.
iles's. As soon as the officers entered the court,
hey heard instruments playing and numbers danc-
An alarm of the officers approach was given,
dthe parties endeavoured to make their escape ;
in on the first man coming out, the officers forced
inn back, and they entered the room on the ground
oor, when they found about one hundred men,
omen, and children, all Irish, the females princi-
• ally milk girls, and the males labourers. The
en, tv.erdy-one in number, the officers took into
ustody, among them were two who were the oat-
'ciAns, one played a violin and the other played the
rish pipes, who was the master of the house. They
were all conveyed hand-cuffed to the watchhouse.
Yesterday morning they underwent an examination
at the above office, when it appeared that the con-
ditions of this Sunday evening's revel were, that the
parties were admitted gratisl; that the master of the
house played the Irish pipes, and procered a man to
play the violin. There was no money taken for
admittance, but a colleaion was made of the parties
assembled, and as low as one penny each was taken.
All the men before the Magistrates, except four,
being able to give a satisfactory account to the Ma-
gistrates, that they got their living by their honest
labour and industry, and only sought a little inno-
cent recreation upon the only day in the week which
they could enjoy it, were discharged. The four
being deemed proper to serve His Majesty, were
sent on board the tender.