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and she heard Mr. Price call out from below, " What ! nobody
in the shop ?" Mr. Deer, upon hearing this, %trilled int I the
"lirT, walked heavily on the floor, and called out, " 0 yes, am
here."
The charge rigalnq Mr. John Derr vra., that of forcibly violating
the person of the pratureutrix, and violently beating her about the
lire when she resisted.
The provecutrix added, that *be was very ill on the Sunday
, afternoon, !Met. the outrage by Mr. Price, and that ahe had been

in bad health ever since. -
There could be no doubt from her appearance that she was, from
some cause or other, in an ill state of licAth.
Iler mother, a decent.looking woman, who said she was the
mother of 13 children, stated that she called at Mr. Deer's Mrs. on
Wedneedny last. to see her daughter, upon which occasion
Deer spoke very i 3 of her daughter, and complained of her want
of cleanliness. %Fitness went up to her daughter to complain of
her conduct, and the latter then told her she had been ill-treated
by Mr Dees and his brother, describing their treatment nearly 114
she had now done. She said she was ill, and witness found upon
examination that she was in a dreadful state of health. She
told Mrs. Deer of what her daughter had stated, and she said
she had heard of Mr. John Deer's conduct, and was Ashamed of it.
In defence it was alleged, that the charge was made for the pur-
pose of extorting money, and Mr. Price called witnesses to prove
that on the Friday upon which she charged the rape to have been
committed by him, he was at the house of his father-in-law, Mr.
buncombe, during the while day.
!Tlip praaecuirix an being minutely examined by Mr. Ilar.t.s,
varied occasionally in some portions of her statement, and so, it is
proper to state. did the witnesses in support of the Obi. MT.
Duncombe's female servant admitted that the prosecutrix told her
something that Mr. Price had done to her on one Sunday when she

came to dinner.
Mrs. Deer, the mistress of the prosecute's, • em
rarkably fine
woman, far advanced in pregnancy, was examined, and denied that
the girl had told her of the alleged conduct of Me. Price, on the
day after it was said to have taken place. Speaking in reference
to the charge against her husband, the witness, turning towards the
prorcutrix, and with a look of ineffable scorn end contempt, ex-
claimed, " a pretty object of attraction for my husband, truly
!"
Mr. IlALt.a, after a most patient investigation of the whole cir-
cumstances, wit eh occupied hint until tire o'clock in the afternoon,
said, he felt himself authorized to exercise the discretion which a
Lite Act of Parliament had vested in him, •ri take bail for the fu-
ture appearance of the amused parties, and lie should therefore
order them to give sureties in the amount of or. each, to appear at
the next Sessions, leaving the accusers to adopt what course they
should, in their own Judgment, deem most proper.
Means. Deer and Price Immediately found bail.

DEGO A RS.
NI art hnokot: /1.57 n E T.—Fire beggars (two old Blacks, two
old women, and a boy). were yesterday brought to the office by
Tdrner and Skinner, the beadles. for disorderly conduct in the
streets dining service-time on Sunday.
The first Black, a sturdy fellow, whit one leg, and his tight ann
slung in a handkerchief, whose name is John logic, was begging
on flay-hill, Berkeley-square. Ile was described as a desperate
character. who had been in custody before. He said of himself that
he was an outpatient of 3liddleseit Hospital.
The second Black, a tall muscular man, named King, was
drunk, and, from wantonness or wickedness, went into several
public.houses, and frightened the females by his gestures and gri-
maces. On Sunday week he went into the chapel in South' Aud-
ley-street, and annoyed the congregation. On the beadle attempt-
ing to take him, he ran ma of the chapel and after a coach, a' the
window of which, while the estrisge was moving, he continued
to beg. Ile bad been committed for one month some time ago.
Last Sunday the beadles caught him in North Audley-street, and
took him to the watch-house.
The third. Atom .firnrt. a little old woman, who hand days'
confinement, for her solicitations of the eh:tett:ll3lc and humane, was
begging in Argyll-street. The beadle saw her beg of several per-
sons before he canoe up to her ; and she, not recollecting the fort-
' night's service he had rendered her, or disregarding the respectful
def..tence always paid by beggars to besdle._, actually hobbled up to
him with—" God bless your charity, Sir l'm a or old wman, If
you would bestow your charity." The appeal was irresistioble; he
changed his rattan from the right to the left hand, and bestowed on
her—a place in the watch-house till Monday.
3lr. Rog was kind enough to add another week to her former
term, by ordering her bed and board in the House of Correction for
the three ensuing weeks.
The fourth was. :Miry Ma'*, in incorrigible old women, who
would not give up her opinion of the liberty of the subjxt to any
man. Skinner and 'Turner found her -begging in •-51tepherWs-
market, while the bells were going for church-service. When
31. try Jones was taken before, Mack was apprehended with her,
but on bee promising never to be found begging 'gain, she was for.
given, since which they had often cautioned her. When they
took bee op Sunday, aim abused them ad *dr in such words as
to create a mob. She is to have a month's. Ira in the Clerken-
well establishment.
The last was Joh% a hol of (wave' t‘s miny dares
cautioned ;he hid been protid for thole% one week, and was
now ordered is be guarded from accidents, ocmsioned by Melded
driving and the contandnation of etreeraequalntance, by being
sent tip the academy of morals in Clerkenwell-close, for fourteen
s
Amen Maraden,the g.aoler, was removing then herd the bar,
rir.afrot:royhtao, thh:iornearitoiertour • hoefort w
d hihcrtiern when camp Johne
nu Ingle
asked
Mr. RoE—You must go to your parish; you must not beg in the
streets.
*lngle—You are the parish that took me. I shall come to you.
Mr. Ron—indeed you won't.
Old John mid something more, which was drOrrned in the
scuffling with Marsden in•pushing him our by the shoulders.
Arthur Macrendy, a tall Scotehman, with one arm, was charged
by one 3liehael Daly, a wily, athletic, military-looking watchman,
Who stated that he was on duty, and saw the prisoner, who was then
fireshish, .4 lolling on a lamppost, and reconnoitering sheltie," and
on coming up he ordered hio, to walk on, when the prisoner took
up his list and hit hint in the eye.
Arthur stated, in defence, that he lodged in the house he was
leaking at, and could not get in ; he, however, could not, at least
he did not, deny being drunk, and was fined five shillings, and
discharged.
Sarah Benwat, a well-dressed, ample-loolthig, "fitt.-fairtlind
forty" sort of personage, was charged byaMutohntaa with being
drunk, and whacking her wedded Iced and master, Mr. Bennet,
last night, in the streets.
Shewaddled into the dock with an oleo( perfect eseaphreeney,
anti earned on better teems with ketaelf Marl Mee "better half,,'
who was brought' in and plated beside her, and said that he was
very sorry for her conduct. Mrs..l3ermett,bowVier, did not totem
sorry at sill, and when she was told ihat she was Sited Ss. and bee
husband Is. she drew out the family puce, paid for herself, and
lett her relenting spouse in the dock (who Ant famed se get
Change), with an air that convinced all present that " the grey mare
was the better horse."