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not disappear fur a month after: Priamity two
serious womolc on my right arm with the said poker; be
gave the a blow un the left arm, and another on my l eft
rioter, so that I. could not move my hands nor feed myself
king time; at 11• t Prisoner 1.4 t me nearly dead ; he
then ran oat of the kitchen np the stairs, with the poker in
Mu hand, mot there left it, sod weut out by the back-door
My cries at this time alarmed the neighbourhood ; my mis-
tress was in the parlour, and also beard them. Wheat I
looked out I saw that Ike Prisoner had tiptoed the yard I
dour, and lel himself net; he then went round to the Intuit
door and made a violent knocking. The neightviors saw
him at the dour, when he told them that somebody had
been at No. 11, and murdered the servant ; be said if they
%e ail go for a StlfCColtl he would to for an officer, and he
then made his escape. Mr. Semple, the sorgeon, came and
dressed my wounds; my ikon was su fractured that he
fesrcil I could out live the night not; I was examined by
the M7lfilllfitle about a month after, and the poker with
which the Prisoner heat me was taken and left there.
Mr. Hubert Semple, surgeon, of No. 85, Upperetreet,
INlingtnii, deposed, to the wretched state be found the
Prnseentor in from the dreadful wounds she received.
Mr. Raltrubani, a neighbour, deposed to the alarm given
at the time, and also su the material facts given in evi-
(fence, and concluded his evidence in the fultowing words:—
" Jane Greenslade told me that she knew the man who did
it ; that he had been *meal times at her mistress's house to
see her mistress; that her mistress hid forbidden his coming
to the house, but erring him in a poor wretched state, she
let him in, and gave him a cop of tea and some bread and
bodice."
The Prisoner was committed to the New Prison to take
his trial at the present Sessions, and the witnesses bows.)
over to prosecute.

M !MLR° ROUG H -ST 111. T ET.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CIIII.D STRIPPING
AND STEALING.
,Ifory }f-Nally, an "'reins eight years old, hilt whose de-
pravity chordal all present, was charged with enticing a hey
named Fodder, three years and a half edit, from his play-
mates:and stripping him of part of his
A youth aerosol Smith, Mil of the King's Mersenger of
that name, st.ited, that between six and seven o'clock on
Thursday evening he saw the Prisoner in the act of stripping
the chilli, she having got off the frock and separated the
skirt Guilt the body. lie questioned her as to what she was
doing with the child, when she swore at him, and said it.
was her brother. Willllllll follewed her from the spot in
Palace-attest to the corner of Stafford-street, whets some
females interfered, and at their request Winst•tiley, a sol-
dier, followed her.
The sedeber stated, that the Prisoner persisted that the
child was her brother, and that sew was going in take him
home, The child at first made no answer, but anbecquently
slit, that she was not his sister ; and the Prisoners reply
was, that her brother 'over spoke without telling lies. The
Primmer led witness a dance by Constitution-hill, Palk-lane,
and Mend-street, and behaved with much ; said
site expected to meet her father, and if so the soldier would
got his head broken. She gave different mimes and addresses;
Bud to detect her Iffinstaseley pretended to leave her, when
she ionppea sad began ballad singing. By the advice of
some by.standers be lodged her in Mary-lc-Bone watch-
house.
Mrs. Fodder, the mother of the child, knew by another
child phyiag with bee little boy, that he hail been seduced
away to are some glancing dolls, and she went in search i•
va'n, and did not ascertain where he was until Winstanley
hi ought bins hunie,ll4 he was just able to tell the neighbour-
hoed in which he lived.
Mr. Coseaut, the Magistrate, closely interrogated the Pri-
soner. After ,such prevarication, she said that her smother
; was a ballad-singer, and lire sirplather was a drummer.
1 The M.girtrate emleavertired to find out if her welds were
1 privy to her guilty transactions, but she artfully evaded the
j peeper stool rs. It however dropped out, that she had been
at St Giks's on Wednesday, soil that a llroniSil wowed 31• Car.
is, who had arrnntpaa,ed her from the workhouse, hail gone
bonne a Oh her. 'Flee Magistrate next examined this woman,
hut leer evasiuus al re repeal to the Prisloser's. She gave the
name of SI WI/41:111 who went with her (eons St. (ales p, to
j take the Prison. r Lame,()lit no such ream. could be found.
I They ect4 both re mandrel until the father andmother could
I be found.
The father was brought in with a cotton and tare-box,
In whittle articles he dents, sod he was rimaudeel with the
others until the mother he fused.

TIIAMF9 orrtcs.

It PIRACY.
IVented:lv no !ma than ten persona, seamen, belonging to
the ship Ratcliffe (a South Sea %Vila IVO, were CharZt4l by
captain Isaac Ibightman, with having, on the 9th April.
1819. " piratically and fi.loni;oossly" made, and endeavour...l
ito make a revolt in the said ship ui the high seas, within
I the jurisdiction of dm. High Court of Admiralty, Y.C.
I The names of the Prisoners were as follow, :—ll'irt llapes,
John /loll", Jones Ruiith, John Blizord, .Richard Cents-
;
roam John Endie,Genefie Wilson, ("hark. Robertson, John
/)iris. nod John NintUr.
Captain Brightman, the first witness stated, that lie
commanded the Ratcliffe, homed to the Swill; Seas, and that
shoofly after she sailed the crew complained of a want of
provision. The clew was twenty,/lac in number. Ile in
emisrquence ordered an allowance of a quarter of a pound
rostra each per diem. They witted soon afterwards at what
died
is termed feeling ground, but here the discontents of the
crew still appeased manifest, and the 11113 absented them-
selves front their duty in consequence oof iiia refloat.' to give
cotton foe their lamps. They said the forecastle was dark
and dirty, and they *bald not wink until they wire afforded
a light. They continued in this state of motiny for five
Wtlks and obstinately refused to work. At length the ship
hose in sight of three ot hers, snot a signal WA. liutsteill tar the
masters of Skein to come on bored. They did so, and
after a consultation upon the transaction, the Captains ad.
wised the witness to pot into Rio Janeiro. It was so re-
/101•1•11; the Masters left lion. and lra continued his course
for the port mentioned, Ind which he shoold got have dime
hut fur the conduct of the erect. Trite chip's earning. were
of course of little ininuit, in einittequiticc, and it; his
arrival in Rio Janeiro. 0 ilium. amide his protest against the
Prisoners before a Proctor. They were accordingly put
midi r Menal. and sent Ih-tie by the British Cousul, to be
...nit with under the proper authorities.
Mr. .1. W. Price, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the
Poisoners, and contended that the . offence kaput. 51 to
them, did not come within the waning of the Statute of •
Henry, inasmuch 34 allowing the statement to be correct,
the charge was wit CO:iligable by a Magistrate. It slid notd.
amount to revolt, or an endeavour to create one. Rio vin:;
lance whatever had been used to obtain poosscssi )))) , mill the
exte•it of the charge, if i •ed,•would amount to no more
than a forfeiture of wages, under the articles by which they
were attached to the vessel.
Mr. lirmastnn and Captain Ilicnost.t., the Magistrate.,
coincided with Mr. Price, but ',oersted the propriety of re-
manding the Prisoners until the opinion of soma eminent
Civilian, as also that of a distinguished Criminal Lawyer
should be taken on the subject.
This was agreed to, and the case ultimately left to Dr.
Robinson (we believe) and to Mr. Gurney, fin th-cisiou.
The Prisoners were then remanded.

A Requisition for a W'ard Meeting. on the subject
of the tile transactions at Maroc:heeler, is wow woe
ing in Fartiogdon Without, mill will he presented
to the Alderman of that Ward in the course of this
week. The Meeting is expected to take place on
Toteeday or Wednesday next. Similar Meetings are
expected to he held in all the Wanly of.the City. .
A lobster, weighing ten pounds, was caught on
floe western coast of the county of Clore during the
last week ; it has been preowned for the purpose of
being forwarded it. the Dublon Museum.
Donnelly, Gregron, and Cooper are at present
exhibiting their pillaring at tile Curragh. The
battle between Donnelly and Carter will certainly
take place at the October Meeting. litttiog
rather equal at present.