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TES r.E.VONS WTIV AN INTANCOUItiI snout., NE
ITLD BIsTWNIN 'the Laii.olts usota
THE CAME OP THI rqUIVOLINt. AWSPITAL, AND
M.P: 11 OF TII PARCNTS AS WISH jFOR
Tiff. !lAA Mr OF THEIR OFF-MING) To AVAIL

TIII MALI:FES OF 7111 T lICM %NE INOCI.Gt:t<CL.

I.—Bevil:sr an ;•.,:riptioh appears we the front
of the Ilosioital, iliforotia a the public, no
lluldrnr con he wl,nive lioo that institution,
otherwise Chao I-v • item) ...1 .... at that
moth. r- to t!.e C•lnniiittre o: the (;OVNIMI1018." which
nbtlii. ..l ion implies, what, iii.le.ll, is n truth, viz.
That the original plan oil whit; h that Hospital set
Out, that of riceiving infants that were txpoised
ahJ aieserted." has erased.

U.—Because this alteraton, rot being a recent
one, hut it bring Lima it that the childrto, now in
the Hospital, awl tinder its protection, were ad.
mittrj upon the improved plan ; that is, after the
pe,sonal application of the mothers to the Com-
mittee; consequently, they cannot, in the true
of the words, be cot -lifered as, " exposed and
c!eserted children," or " romidlings."--They all
base parents, and their condition with respect to
city partws is cipable of improvements, which
could not he contemplated duri...6 the first years of
the Hospital.

the powers granted to the Hospital
by Ch gni-v.. and Art of Parliament, leave the Go.
v.ruo.a for the time being at full liberty to wake
anti• laws or regulations, trading to increase the
tiw Mewls and good management of the institution.
4 —ll)trente and children have duties towards
each other, which are only terminated by death.
They may not cancel these duties theuiselve,, nor
ever think r.o errooroudy as to imagine that any
human authority is enuipeteot to the cancelling of
them.

S.—None of the f4llll-11 which usually, in the
fist instance, prompt the mothers to apply to the
Committee, appear to altird any rational ground
for the necessity which is rallied of, of excluding
them afterwards iteyetually horn the sight and
personal knowledge of their children. Is she urged
by the ileserton, advice, or bribery of her seducer,
to reek the admission of her infant ?—she might
still esteem and countenance her child ; her seducer
could not preset.' her trim &mg so, if the Gover-
nors were indulgent towards her. Is her own "lo•
wetly the chief motive?—where relieved of the sup-
port sad care of the infant, she is enabled to resume
an Indust miss course, asd in a few years may
he able to r..0,t-r solve. i.erhaps great &wild-
OMR to her child. Ii her immoral' llse prin-
cipal object ?—the admission of the intim' at
once reveres this; for if she chooses to conceal
from her friends and relitiver the circumstance
of her being a mother, she may rest assured that
the GovV•ftiOrl would nett r itIOCIOve it to their ;
this secrecy or confide lee might be inaii.tainetl as
well without the exclusion of the mother as with it.

has been argued generally, in regard to
the mother* of foundling., that they ire women of
vicious character, and that it would be dangerous
in the morel. of the ici.i:itren to al:ow them any
access or unit f. renoe with that bring-
ing on isdant to the Monad stillirient proof
that the mother has made dal. her Jto desert
it. This may be a true dinicripion of mine, hut
it is not of all; and, if the wilier's information is
correct, it is not of the majority of the mothers.
It is known Chit many of the mothers have been
persons who had fillet, victims to the treacherous
arts of their superiors. and against whose previous
life and conduct nothing could he alleged; and
it is said that some mothers did not so much as
know that a complete separation was to take
place till after their infants had been taken in.
But Itt that, which nobody believes, be considered
as wanted, vii. diet every moths r of• child admit-
ted Into the Founding Is a wit red and worthless
woman—is it right to a.suine, that they all conti-
nue in the same character to the end of life ? The
most licentious of both sexes are often reclaimed ;
and, fortunately fur society soul for themselves, the
lest year. of their lives are their best and brightest
years. Religion invariahly iiitukates a return to
neglected duties, and restitution to those we have
injured. It seems, therefore, desirable that some
provision be made, that 'ome door he left open, for
a mother's kind remembrance of her child to dim-
ple, itself. And surely no law, human or divine,
would he infringed, by permitting the anxious well-
disposed parent to see and embrace her own flesh
and blood. A woman of lied character and intro-
boils would not be likely to solicit such a favour—
in the event of her doing so, her suit would be
reject of:
. .

-7.—The duty prescribed to the Hospital by the
Charter and Avr of Parliament, of maintaining and
educating the children, and hintliax them appren-
tice, could certainly be fulfilled by the Hospital, as
it is by the different parishes, without any seclusion
of the children front the parents.

S.—Wheel the children, and especially the fe-
males, arrive at yews of maturity, they suf•r the
hardship of not having a single relative to guide or
amid them—all around them have family connec-
tions, but they seem not to belong to the human
race ; what can such objects do when out of em-
ploy—when attacked by diseases and sickness—
or when misfortune or misconduct bas brought
them into difficulties? Many eases are known,
which, or related, would excite canmiseratio•i. If
this hardship could he averted from but one in
tweuty of the children. by affording, in some regu-
lar way, facilities and encouragements to the couti-
nuance of parental affection, it would be • great
benefit conferred OD the children.

9.—When Foundlings of either sex are fortunate
in their apprenticeships, and when a good founda-
tion is mid for their success in life, having been re-
ligiously educated, it seems rrafrnieble to conclude
that some of them would lee generous to thur mo-
thers, if they knew where to find them; and in this
ease, they might do as enrich for the pare-lit.. as
in the ether the parents might for them. But it
does not appear, on the most tirilailt Intuit y, that
any measure has ever yet be-n adopted to the I 11,-
pita,. having for its object to secure aril preNcrve,
fur the heuedt of the children, a COM et record of
the twiny* awl situations of the mother..
10.—In the absence of all information respect-
ing their parents kindred. fout,,!lpit:s are liable
to contract Ulllll%lO 11111 I ;a. ha. a Wow' it a
v. 1..0t1 • evil, mid ought to be litintde.d raitwat by

evety pasSible means. A flab* iffy chin& to
marry his on (loopier, •.sos.ser "sr ..Ns, and •
brother his rister, Ike.•
To conelode : if the •ehildreei now, and in fu-
ture to he unde, the rare of the Foundllng, were
" reposed and deaerted" tl,•y were iii
the strict sense of the word " Forsrol.rno, hot one
of the precedtog reasons could hay, any weight:
bust al mothers must a..ply ne,sa,solly to the
Committee," prior to the admisynn of any infamy,
surely some plan may be devised tending in cheri.h
and keep alive the affections and duties of relation.
ship. At present, if • mother applies fur penis's.
lion to see her child, or if • foundling who has
served Isis apprenticeship, applies with a request to
Lave his mother's petition, or • copy of it delivered
up to him, there is but one 'more in bells ease%
which is—a reference to the rules of the Millpond,
There may be good reasons for tin. ; and if se, it
is hoped that they will be produced. The writer
of this solicits it as • lavour—he has sought after
re::sons, among persons who sp?emed far more
able to reason than himself; bust the rentals stated
by them are hardly worth naming : they are such
as these—" There must be evil in all hums. insti-
tiitione"—" Innovations are alospi dangerous"...
" The public have nothing to do aith the Found.
ling Hospital"—" It is unnecessary for faundliags
to know their parents," &c.

tiONANITAS.

• The banns of matrimony were oetnelly poblished, aim*
thirty years ago, at St. George the !Martyr, goers stem,
between two foomilimare; bet the meeriage was premiss/ Ily
the discovery that they wore brother sot b.ster !

POLICE..

Jorricei-aoom. OUII.OII Ll., AI. 0. Q 4.

Smith mud Norden, who were rPfsao.letl, nn
Nlooday last. ou a eliArge of having ts for
COlOlO.l to their possesston, were UuR looming
brought up and diackirged. Mr. Powell, As..
instant Solicitor to the Mint, stteini.-d.
__.....

ifizabetk Wilkins, a reopectable-looking woman,
was chaeged by the Proprietor of a Miti, al !metro-
went war?house, in Oxford-street, pith having
pawned a harp on Wrirliit%day last, whit it she had
hired on the preceding day, at the rate of 10s. tisla
per month.
The worthy hfaiti4rate (111dermem Mistatw)
inquired of the Priaoner. %rheal. r :he would be
able to redeem the harp by to-morrow, that it might
be returned to the owner, whose principal object
appeared to he the restoration of his property ?
The Prisoner *towered that she would do her ut-
most to procure it.—She war aceordiagly 'tiara&
ed till tmtnorrow.

The Complainant then cause limn', and
stated. that this Via% not htr tirst "Weave: ahr wait
time alum procured a piano-forte iu a similar way.
which she cad sold for ten guinea-. She appeared
to bare made ■ torte of borrowing mimic .1 itistrit•
ments, and .elfin* or 'mooing them.
Two impure*, of the names of Solomon end Dodd,
oars brought up by. coobt.A.le, elargta a ith
log a riot yeatertlay evening in St. Peel'. Church-
?arJ•
-

It appeared that Miss Mehl formerly resided in
the house of Mr*. Solomon. whose abode V/PII deft-
ected to the eltbereale Tne former.
however, conceiving it would be more profitable
to officiate as Prieme-s in a temple of her own, had
abandoned her ancient instructress ; who, uncv:l.
ling to be deprived of every thing which could re-
mind her of their former frietiels'op, had seiz-A on
a quantity of wearing ap aril, the property of Miss
Dodd, which she was d..ternsined to retain efet
semis. Ilene" wheivereer the parties mat. Versos
and all the Loser sad Graces disappeared. scared
by Bellows and her traits of furies. Oue of this*
casual rencontrcs took place yesterday evening in
St. Paul'. Church-yard. when the two Atorienne
had &complete twisty 10 the genuine Lancashire
style, scratching. biting, and kicking. being alloy-
ed on each side. lu the ocular Mrs. Solomon lost
her &Esti and wig, and flies Dodd's clothee were
torn a to very rags:" her neck was also ornament-
td by the delicate taloas of her oppment, and pug
Of her hands lacerated by her teeth. hi this situa-
tion the coastable conveyed both the victor and
vanquished to the t'ornuter.
Alderman Assrer directed Mr.. Soloman to 'de-
liver up any weJnug apparel Woofing to Miss
Dodd which she bad in her proses.ion ; and clirevt.
ed the parties to retire and compromise the matter j
which, *leer much alteicatiou, w.. effected.

lin W-RTISLT.

On nun& y eveorog Mary Ton itssonwas
brought In the office, charge! with c:oi,.erting a
qurut ty of cloth to her owu ape, with xvhich she
wr• int ousted.

Mr. Thomas Stokes, • tailor, of Short's-2ardent,
Drury-lane. •n aruty-clothier, stated, that on
Mnnday senni.,;lit the Priaoner called •t hi, house,
and asked for work, •.tying she was OMNI to army
work, end that her name Ism Brown, and her resi-
dence No. 10. King-street, Drury-lane. 1i gave
her cloth and usatertalf to make nine artillery Costa:
the Prisoner not bringing the work home at the ap•
pointed time; Mr. Stokes went to the heave to in•
quire for the Prisoner at the place where sbe said
she lodged, and found no such penes hired there ;
ea the Prisoner being traced out, a quantity of dealt
was found, which Mr. Stokes believed to be part of
his property.
Several people attended, who proved that the
Prisoner had sold them smell rioamitie. of cloth,
answering the descriptiou of the cloth given her by
Mr. Stokes.

She was convicted in the penally of twenty .+u
hags, and the foil value of tit- cloth.
AYTrod Tower wan brought to the office he God-
frey, one of the ['strafe, c!,.i.ged with ptrAteg
pockets at Camb rwe.l Fair. he pat, rles hint
in the act of picking the lood.et of Mr. frintinnon,
of Beaumont-place. Totteilliniti•r •iirt-r..0.1; and on
searching him, the. e more pot kei-stanilker4 biers,
supposed 1., have been gnu:, n, w ere (*.mud upou

The Poisoner was seo.t oil boor I the tender.
A postmaster in the uregith, osiltoud of Shoe•
lane attended, toy tonne or Al: onio.ona ones( the
Poet Act of the 25111 of 111. Se.. 37, for loos
po.siog account. ; too hats etior,,cr. hr pleaded
frui/ty, sod wos convicted n the mitigated penalty
of 51. soo.l 31. co's..

A fc.nnle ,CrVIIIII. in tit..
both Jvit-0..., of Norton-4:i, CI, al3 Ub • tot i

of

office by ITuniphries. en onspiciOn 6f mtesling a 501.
Blink I.ole, the properly of her Mistress.

. .
It mowared that t;ie so'. stole was, with others,
to tae autemut of 1701. in a locked box, which WAS
kept its a drawer, in soother locked box. The
Prisoner knew the notes were kept there, and she
was often intrusted with her mistress's key,: she
was suspected of having stolen the note ; but there
beluga; no proof against the Prisoner, the was dis-
charged.
Caroline Cook, a file Cepricts, was charged with
stealing two twenty-pound Batik notes and a one
.powel note. hie property of Jeremiah Brown, of
Guildford in Stirrey, a tiliionger.
• It appeared that, on the Nth iustant, the Prose-
entor came to town, and as lie was passing through
St. Paul's Church-yard no the night of the saint
day, he was met by the !prisoner, whets she embraced
iu her aruis, and he could not disengage him-
self from her: (this is now a common practice with
women of the prisoner's description to rub gentle-
men:) she entreated him to go home with her, but
evilest he inquired where she lived, she excused her-
self, and very suddenly made ott When he got
to the beetnist of Ludgate-bill. lie discovered the
pocket of Ms pantulatm• turtle,' inside out, and the
above mites stolen. Ile went to the office, and
gave information to Humphreys of the robbery,
who necotupanted the Prosecutor to St. Martin'.
le-Grand, where a number of the frichasterlioo I
reside, but the robber could not be fointd. The
Prosecutor being in possession of the nombers and
dates of the notes, lie gave tuforptation at the Bank ;
and in a few days after one, or the twenty-pound
notes was paid into the book, and it was traced by
Humphreys to ,Ir. Phillips, who keeps the Consti-
tutional public-house its Orury-lane. &Mips said
he received it of the prisoner fur two bottles of
port on the night of the robbery, about an hour al-
terwurds. and that he wrote her statue on it.

Humphreys searched her, and found eight ones
pound notes, which, however. do nut prune to he
coy part of the notes stolen from Mr. Brown' but
were given in change for a ten-pound note, by a
/Wen-denier in Russell-street. to the prisoner,
which is supposed to have been stolen a short time
since in a similar manner front Mr. Dwyer, a book-
seller in Holborn. The prisoner was committed
fur further examination.

UNION•BALL.

A respectable bookseller in the Borough was
sm informed by a brother of the trade, under the ful-
lowing the Mangold' stated, that
about eighteen months share he lost a large quarto
bit le, which was stolen from his stall; and passing
by th- Defendant's shop in January last, he saw it
in the window ; he immediately went hi and in-
quired where hr at it, telling hiin it was his pro-
perty. The Defendant said he bought it of a
stranger, with several other books. The Plaintiff
relpiested the Defendant would eudeavour to dis-
cover the person of whom he bought it, telling him
in what mistier he had lost it ; and at the rime
requested he (the Defendant) would not part with
it. lie had, however, attended to neither of these
requests ; hr had sold the book, but had not dis-
covered the person of whom he bought it.
Th- Dtfrudant repeated to the Magistrate what
be before stated to the Plaintiff; naniely, tlyst he
bonght it of • stranger ; and also, that when the.
Plaintiff first claimed it Si f is property, he oil: real
to give it up to him if he would swear to it; this,
however, he would not do, but r. quested he would
keep it for a fortnight or three weeks; this was in
January last, and the Plaintiff nut calling on him
according to his promise at the end of three weeks,
or, indeed, at Ilse end of as many mouths—he sold
the bible.

Th- Mag;vrate observed that the Defendant's
offer of giving np the book on condition the Plain-
tiff weeniel swear to it, was a very fair offer; as the
Minot did not mean to im,rute to him that he
bought it, knowing it to he stolen, nothing more
could be Jane in it ; if, indeed, he were now in-
clined to swear that the think was Li' lemperty, he
tn.ezht summon the Defendant to the Court-of Vall-
s.,:ience for the value of it.—This the jiliutiti. de-
cleared liiinaelfelet..rmineel to do, ces IsPAha lasi..
stale dismissed the P.arl ea.

HUMP: r.

ESSEX APAIZES.

CIILINSFORD,

BLICIR V. DAT

This was au action bratight against the Mfrs:-
114ot. the Rev. 11. Bate Uudlry, by Mr.
1.4 cutting slosu thirty-sive oak lice*, still about
thirty Of forty dins, cows/Iry to a lease, which statrd
that tUr ..ry tree so cut &awl, the Defendant
ghouls, pay intl.

.hip
Iliwint wa. etlleil, who proved the en.-
thit; down the trees, he haviiii; wii.t.ted In on ;
nini Mr. ileory Finch prayed thttt lie rterehned the
bark.

Verdict for the Ploiotiff--Dontaget 1,3001.
ccrsts 40 .

Cur' NEWTON.

This ti writ of right, to tl•tertttini. who was
the 1,441 oworr of the Cock god 8.11, at Horn-
c!.tirch, au•i w,14 tiled hefor, a Sp-aril Jnrr. •I'he
pt. s-lit truant in fee slietA •d a title or Al•tr-
Ytlt./
and ■ hilt', which ha -I n•tt precious to this
Itnt•• S. ern .1111.11 Ir,!.
I ).1 the pert of lite an old mtn of about
7tt • .1•14 w.te C:l!le.t, to wore It.. re-
c...'eriton of ofvfie tr ht the 11111 e
w It •n h.• WWIa It•ty only lithe .1n gr ; to it ho ,e
crt•leuee the Juify Ca..6h:11, eel the osithittothed pos.
ae,•ion ay a g.. titer proof of rigitt : a verdict was
therrfore gn•en for the. Defendant.