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a "map," she being in bed in the same room ; but no improper
familiarity had taken place between them, either then or at any
other time. Wright had been out all the preceding night, and
being somewhat intoxicated, he was not in a condition to go home
es his lodgings
and as he was only a young boy of 16 or 18, she
thought there could be no harm in allowing him to remain in the
mom, even though she was undressed and in bed., She had seen
him only twice afterwards. She had never told any person that
Wright was the father of the child, or that a connexion had taken
place between them on the occasion referred to.
Several witnesses were then called on behalf of the defendant,
one of whom distinctly swore that she (Tipper) had said Wright
was the father of the child, and that the latter, in the wit-
ness's hearing had asked her to swear it to Maxwell (the defendant),
who would, no doubt, pay a sum of money,rather than suffer ex-
pavane, and with that money they would 1* enabled to go over to
France, where Wright had a rich uncle, and that he would marry
bor. To this proposal she readily agreed, influenced as she was
by a two-fold motive, namely, her predilection ter W'right, and to
revenge herself on !Haswell. It was also proved that Wright had
visited her several times during her pregnancy at another lodging,
where she was in the habit of entertaining other male acquaintance,
amongst whom was a gentleman in black. said to belong to the le-
gal profession ; but to the ceople of the house she represented
Wright as her youngest brother, and all the rest were relations of
some sort.
Mr. Colquhoon contended that there was nothing in the evi-
dence of those persons to negative the main point of die woman's
allegations.
31r. Sergeant SELt.n:q and Mr. R 00E ns, however, maintained
a contrary opinion. The I.4:amid Sergeant justly observed, that
the oath of a woman who was base enough (taking her own admis.
1 'ion for granted) to accompany her sister's husband to a house of
11l tame, and there voluntarily submit to a criminal intercourse,
was entitled to very little credit indeed; and if the defendant's wit-
nesses were to be believed on their oaths, die whole of her conduct
was of a very blameable character.
The order was refused, and the child of course becomes charge-
able to the parish.
INSCRHSINO THE PARK SEATS.
MAE LBO lio /311-ST WE tT• Yesterday a respectably dressed
young man, about SO lean old, was brought before !dr. RoE,
charged with defacing one of the seats in Hyde-park. It appeared
to be one of those manifestations of attachment, which silly young
men often evince in a sequestered spot, of platonically coupling the
initials of their loves with those of their nen name, which often,
after half an hour's exertion, is accomplished at the expense of a
new penknife; a memento never to be seen by either, or any one ac-
quainted with them, from that day after.
Johnson, the Parldkeltier, said about twelve o'clock that day he
saw the young man carvik the letter E on the beck of one of the
seats in Hyde Park ; two drtiter initials were close to it, which ap-
peared to have been (seals cut but as witness only came up at the
finish of the third. h' could only swear to one letter.
When the prisoner we. called on .to give an explanation, his
uncle and mete stepped forward. The former begged to say that
he went with the young man that morning, accompanied by his
daughter, to have • walk in Kensington-gardens, to show hint the
place, as he had but very shortly come out of Gloucestershire. In
going through Hyde-park, they sat down on one of the seats,
where, teeing others had cut the letters of their names, his nephew
had followed the eirample. Neither of them reflected on Cie im-
propriety of the eel!, and his nephew, being a stranger to London,
was not aware toot it was a transgression.
11r. RoE told the.itocle it was a very foolish act, and he should
treat it as such. fie was the more surprised at it from the respect-
able appearance of the young man, who, he should have thought,
from education, would not have been guilty of a folly or it mischief,
the more likely to Ire committed by a half-witted ignorant person.
The Park It .d Ludy been greatly improved, and scats placed for
the accommodation of the public, whit hi were not there formerly ;
they were an accommodation to visitors, of much expense, and
were not to be defaced at the wanton caprice of the idle and igno-
rant. However, as it was hut an art of folly, he should let the
young man go with a fine of one shilling, with admonition not t
do the like again.
onele.paid the shilling, and tiler artics left the office.
NT.
r fot r. Norman, of the Hamp-
tbesaiing various sums of money
master, without accounting for
could have been brought
.conlidered sufficient for the ends of

,cw Abercom, in the lismpsterti-
fur a bill he delivered in hi); ma--
1 her master, which he receipted

me.
.street, Hampstead, paid the pr i•
which he receipted with a pen-

—.totted arid taken to Whitecross-stre.l
ono been detained eight weeks, fill he paid the
debt ;he had no intention of robbing his master; but in the hurry
and his anxiety et the time, had forgotten to tell his master what
he had received. His mister had written to hint In prison, threaten.
ing If he did not pay he would lodge a detainer against him. lie
WM se Met, acquainted with matter" of olio kind, that he did not
know what it meant till he asked some of the prisoners; then he
wrote to his master, but had nut received an answer.
Mr. Norman said the prisoner was arrested six months ago fbr
20/. which he settled toe him, and the prisoner was to repay it by
instalments; he was then deficient in his accounts, which witness
looted over on account of his embarrassment; but the embezzle-
metts, to the number of twenty or thirty, had been effected
since.

The prisoner was fully committed, for falstly obtaining money
in his plaster's name.

EXPOSURE NO PAYMENT.
Mary Bassett, the wife of a respectable tailor in Brewer street,
Golden-square, via brought to the office for abuse, and collecting
a mob round the dove of Mr. Nott, an attorney, in lttder.street, St.
James's.
The parties had lived in the same house; Mr. Bassett had made
clothes for the son of Mr. Nott, who hart since become of age, and
refused to pay 4!. the sum in dispute. The father considered Inn,-
self not liable, and also refused; therefore Mr. and Mrs. B. tried
what exposure would. produce.
Mr. Nott said he believed his son had employed Mr. Bassett to
work for him ; but he was now of age, and did not reside with his
parents. The female had been particularly annoying to him in
following him from his late house in Bennet-street to his present
one in Rider-street. Two days since the came to the door and de-
mantled .ti , which, as he did not owe, of course he resisted the pay-
ment of; she said she insiqed en haring the money, end would fol.
low him day by day till she had it. Ile said to her, " Why do'
you come here? I have nothing ta do with the debt." She replied,
" You have robbed anti cheated me, and I will stay here till I ant
paid," and collected a mob of forty or fifty people. That morning
the had been to his house, and nn account of her violent behaviour
he pushed her out by the shoulders.
Mrs. Basiett—liere is rt letter deriving me to call at Mr. Nott's
and I should be paid. I know nowhere else to find the son. I
have always found himetere when I have called.
Mr. Bassett said he knew the son to have been denied to !dm
when he bed been in the house ; and that it was no better than
swindling him but of his money.
Mr. ROE told Mr. Itamett the son might be a very bail man for
aught he knew ; but he must take legal means to obtain his money,
and not go there to make a riot. As the young man was of age
the father was not liable. lie should not hold tire Itusbatd to bail,
but lie must tied sureties for his wile keeping the peace, and she
must be detained for the present, the husband nut being a house-
keeper.
Before the close of the office two rersons dieted thentsclves as
bail, and were accepted.
A Mr. aid 111,1. Mown were charged by Mr. Cook, s poul-
terer, with creating a riot round his house; Mr. Edson) was also
charged with striking a watchntan. It appeared by the evidence,
that the prisoners went into the complainant's shop to purchase
some poultry, but withaut the usual precaution of taking money
wish them. A row consequently took place, and the prisoners, in.
stead of taking a anus supper r t home, were themselves taken to
the watch-house.
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Mrs. Edsom said that Mr. Cook had favoured her with several
unfavourable epithets, and that she was first insulted.
Mr. Edwin said that !le interfered with the watchman solely be-
cause he was treating. Mrs. E. In a must brutal manner, and he
certainly tried to ratan-be':Mr.
Mr. Rot ordered Mrs. PZiorn:to fled bail, and fined Mr. E. ss.
for assaulting the watchmen.
MARTIN AND DUTCH SAM.
Usiost-Ilat.e.—Yestertlay Samuel Elias, alias Dutch Sant
the pugilist, was brought before the sittteg Magistrates, M.
Swamer and SOLOMON Davis, Esqrs. for a 'tenon(' examine-
tion on a charge of having opened the desk of John Martin. and
stolen therefrom -WI. together wdh a coral necklace. The partial-
tars of the charge against Dutch Sam, it will be recollected, ap-
I peered in our Police Report of yesterday, and he was remanded
for the purpose of giving Mrs. Martin, the wife of the complain.
ant, an opportunity of attending to prove that it was with her
sanction the prisoner had pledged the necklace which he was now
charged with having stolen. l'he office., as on the day before, was
thremged with scientific men of the " listic line," the friends of me
parties. From Martin's appearance it world seem that he was in •
tepid consumption. He was assisted into the office on crutches, and
had that hectic flush hi his cheeks which denotes the last stage of a
pulmonary complaint. His wife, on the other hand, was the plc-
' tore of health. She tripped into the office and up to the Antis-
trates' table, gaily bedizened out in style, with a profusion of
nodding plumes of feathers in her bonnet. Her husband, who was
granted the indulgence of having a chair, on account of hie very
iil state art health, site looked on with the most perfect indifference,
while every now and then she was observed to throw the most fa-
vourable glances towards " Dutch Sam," w'do was confined within
the bar. since the fret examination Stith: Mira had been engaged
by the coroplainat.t and the prisoner, and they were now in attend-
ance to conduct the business of their clients.
Martin, having repeated the particulars of the alleged charge
against Dutch Sam, which he designated a felony, and which has
already appeared, the former truderwent a very rigitfeross.exa-
mination by Mr. LEE, the attorney, and he did not vary in the
slightest degree from his original statement, but firmly believed
Dutch Sam bad taken the 481. out of his desk, as well as the coral
necklace, which wits traced to a pawnbroker's in the London-road,
ftpd subsequently ascertained to have been pledged there by the
'prisoner.
George Loyd, • waiter in Martin's service, in reply to the Ma-
gistrates' questions, said that Dutch Sam was on the most intl.

mate footing at his master's house previous to the sudden and un-
expected departureof Mrs. 31artin from home, and the missing of
the money and necklace from the desk. Dutch Sam used to be ail
over the house; in feet, he had the complete run of the house
during his master's illness, and was very attentive—" very atten-
tive, indeed," said the waiter, " to my mistress."
It was here contended by Martin's Solicitor, that a prima facie
case of felony had been matte not against the prisoner, while on the
other side it was strongly urged that there was no pretence for
charging Dutch Sans with any offence, lie having merely pledged
the article which lie was charged with basing stolen, at the request
of Mrs. Martin, who was now called on to prove that fact.
The complainant's wife having been sworn, in reply to the Ma-
gistrate, said that she was at her husband's house in the Borough
on Friday lest, until the afternoon, at which time she admitted
having decamped without his knowledge, previously having ,given
Dutch Sam her coral necklace to pledge, in order to pay her coach
hire down to Reigate.
Mr. Davos asked Mrs. Martin whether she could give any ac-
count of the manner in which the 48/. had been taken out of her
husband's desk.
Mrs. Martin—l don't believe Mr. Martin had that sum in his
desk to be robbed of. I think he trumped up that story to get
Mr. Dutch Sam into a hobble.
Martin, eastiorg a look of contempt at his wife, declared that she
stated a falseliotwl, as she was well aware that he had that sum de-
' posited in his desk.
Mr. DAVIS here expressed his fisirprise that Mrs. Martin should
have employed Dutch Sam to pledge her necklace. Why, ob-
served the Magistrate, did you not ask your husband for money if
you wanted it?
Mrs. Martin—My husband has been in the habit of ill-treating
me, and he uniformly refused giving me money.
Martin was about entering into a statement of his wife's in-
trigues and infidelity to him since the commencement of his serious
illness, but was stopped short by the Magistrates, who observed
that they had nothing to do with his wife's amours ; the charge of
felony was the offence which they now had before them, and they
could not listen to any extraneous matter. Martin was then asked
whether he could trace the notes that had been stolen? He replied
I that he was fearful he could not, on account of not Laving the
I numbers of them.
After a great deal of recriminsting matter passing between Mar-
tin and his spouse, in the course of which the laity appeared per-
fectly insensible to the disgraceful situation in whish she then stood,
the Magistrates observed that tile charge must be dismissed, and
accordingly gave directions to discharge the prisoner.
The moment Dutch Sam was liberated from the bar, Mrs. Mar.
tin was about to join him, when Martin, by a desperate effort, rose
from the chair, and endeavoured to intercept her way into the pas.
sage. She tried to avoid him, and screamed aloud, uhile the un-
fortunate husband, exhausted by his exertions, and tortured in
mind from the scene that had just passed, fell insensible into the
chair. When he recovered he begged that his wife might he sent
to her friends, instead of allowing her to proceed with Dutch Sam.
His exhausted state, however, prevented him from looking after
her, and she disappeared from the office in a twinkling after the li-
beration of Dutch Som.

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ceeived in thp name of his I
t 1 ',, Though prititty or thirty .
. rison.„ t..„„were eorsiii
s, servants; Mr. Macibei
' , paid prisoner lt. Is. 0. for
Rees name, bread furnished to I
with a pencil, in qie inn of June
Nikon. Mrs. Eliza K of the Hitrh-atr
twiner Ins. on acco of Its master,
ell, and had since obliterweil
The prisoner said he was arrested i
prisonl where he had been detained