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ADJOURNED LO.VDON SESSIONS.

OURDRALL, JAR. 40.
Before the LORD MAYOR, itt.coaDLit, .nd R Hasa
of Magistrates.
CHILD DROPPING.

Elisabeth Pitgh, a genteel looking woman,
about 40 year,* of age, dreosed in deep mous. 1111 l g,
and Thomas Pugh, her father-in-law, 85 years ut
age, acre inflicted for conopiring, with other per-
ilous unknown, to defraud the 'overoeers of the
poor of the parish of St. And, ear, Holborn, by ex-
posing there a child of tender years, and which
most of necessity hate become a burden on the
Nods of that parish.
Mr. KNAPP stated the case.

Anne Taylor depo.wil, that she lived at Iligh-
gate. On the 9th of October, 1807, she took the
child to nurse; it was only one day old; she went
for it to Moortields, •by the desire of Mrs. Pugh,
whom else had know. about 9 years ; she received
thirty shillings a mouth for it, for the first year ; at
which time Mrs. Pugh said she could nut pay more
titan 245. per mouth, and in a short time afterwards
she re:breed it to 18 shillitigs'; yet the witueoi was
satisfied, and would have been content to have kept
it without an!reniuneration, for it was the sweetest
babe she ever saw ; she bad not any children, and
she and her husband loved her as it she were their
own ; the Art word she articulated was Dad !
dad !"—The child was in Court, and his Lordship
and the Jury could judge if she exaggerated.
The child was produced, and we don't reeoileCt
ever seeiwg a finer little girl—.tie is two years old.
Her eye caught the figure of her nurmin the witnesses
box, and the stretched Out her little arms, as if im-
ploring her to take her. The honest affectionate
heart of Mrs. Taylor could not withstand this, she
burst into tears, the *!sole auditory seemed affeeted,
and the most profound silence continued for some
minutes. The witness then proceeded—Mrs.
Pegh attempted• sevrral times to take the child,
but the witliti44 A*4 neierinined she should not,
without •nine better authority. as she had received
wine itiforination that made her believe the dear
child would not be safe in her custody. On Sun-
day, the t7lh of August fast. about five o'clock in
the eveniog, Mrs. Pugh came, accompanied by a
lady and u gerltleintlil, to the witnease's house; the
child's clothes were at the fire, it was striped—she
had just done wash.ng her. Mrs. Pugh when she
Canty in mid, well. nurse. I have caught you at last;
she replied. great things yaw have caught; 90 which
Mrs. Pugh sail, it makes no consequence, for I
■m come to take the child away. The witness said
it was a very extraordinary proceeding, to take her
away on so short a notice. Mrs. nigh replied, yon
must not blame use, for there is its fathee. (point-
ing to the geidlein in who was with her) it IP his
ding, Ws? Mlllf. The witness then begged of the
Gentleman, if he was the father of the child, to tnk•.
care of it, for it was a sweet babe, and it would
break her heart if any lid W.li to happen it. They
took the child away. She did not close her eyes all
night, and told every one how cruelly Mrs. Pugh
had used her by taking the child away ; her hue-
band was as grieved after it as she star. She did
not know who the parents of the child were, but
knew that Mrs. Pugh was uut its mother. She
saw the shout IS month after in St. Andrew's
work-house. She knew it was there by • letter
that hod twee 'Trite'.-to her ; Ate was sore it was
the same child. _ _ _

Mr. Gens iv, Counsel for Mrs. Pugh, observed,
Ow the itirittity of the child was not disputed.
W. Scultlidrp, letter-earner, 13, East Harding-
atreet, deposed--that, nu the 31st of Au g ust, about
9 o'clock at night, al he was goiug up the west
aide of Holborn, he heard • scream from a child,
as if it born hurt by some ; he went
into Castle-street, and found a child sitting on the
flag way, near the kirb-stoue ; lie took it up, and
sat down on the step of a door with it, having placed
the child on his knee; it had • suck of barley-
sugar in its hand ; he found it could not lia) any
thing but dad, dad. After hediat for a quarter of
an hour, in anxious expectation that the parents
would i:sme to seek fur it, Mr. Mulrsly opened his
door ; he ilifornind him of the cireu.ustance, and
he most hunancly took the child ander his pr.).
(action.

Mr. Molesly corroborated the hist witness.* evi-
dence as to the manner of finding I and the
child ; and stated, that after he haul taken it into
les protection, he nalvertised the circpinstances, and
uo person fronting forward in the cohrse of a fort-
inght to acknnwitdge the child, he scut it to Saint
Andrew's work-house.

Mrs. Anne l)aliy deposed, that she had known
Mrs. Pugh for several years ; that she accompanied
her on Sunday, the 27:1r of August, to inirseTay-
lor's, at Highgate. When the child WII4 taken
away a Mr. Rutledge was with them. (litre the
witness begged leave of the Court to inform them
how she came to accompany Mrs. Pugh.) Leave
being granted, she proseeded, she was going to
church, when she met Mr. Rutledge and Mrs.
Pugh; the latter asked her to take a walk to bung.
ton, and to give up her intended devotion. which
she agreed to. On their arrival at Islington, Mrs.
Pugh milted a coach, arkii told the witness that she
wanted to go to Highgate to take the child from its
nurse. as she used it ill. The witness knew who
was the mother of the child, and that a Gentle-
UMW of the BM* of FeAry, who was a partner with
her late husband, intended to take it to its
grandfather 111 the country, who was ignorant of
Ins daughter having a child. and that he was on his
death-fed. She corroborated the nurse's testimony
as to what passed at her house. She whispered to
Mrs. Pugh that the child could nut have beets en-
treated. for the nurse appeared too fond of it, when
they got to Islington ; on their return, Mrs. Pugh
wished to discharge the coach. saying that she in-
tended to leave the child for a few days with a horse-
keeper's wife, in that place; but on questioning,
found that she did not know such • person. The
witness oared to take the child some for three or
four days, but this she objected to, saying that the
witness's daughters would knew whose child ie was
by the stroag resemblance it bore to its mother.—
fibs then said she had obtained the end she so long
wished for, and she had done it by keitag thrnngh
Ureic and thin ; and that the money sue lied in her
hands for the child wouid be her own. This las-
gusigi midst the *korai; insist on the child's being
s.nt toe nurse; mud said, that if she had an objec-
tion to its gaiug home with We she could eel bare

any to its being left at Mrs. Inks's, who wM taw
thee to the wititess's servant-maid. This she elso•
seined to, and the child was left with Mrs. logics;
before the witness left her. She requested that
she would not deliver the child again to Mrs.
Pugh, without giving the witness notice. On the
31st of Angust she received * message that the
•thild sasshout to be taken away. In the evening
she went to Mrs. Pugh's house, No. 39, Red Cross-
smpiare, and asked her if she had takeu the child
from Mrs. Ingle' ? She answered yes. As a
Lady and Gentleman, friends of its mother,
bad come to town and taken it to Ham-
mersmith. The witness told Mai, Pugh she
was fearful there was something wrong. She de-
clared, as there was *God its Heaven, she had done
as she had said. The witness the nett morning
wrote to the child's mother ; shortly after, Mrs.
Pugh earue arid said she thought the wanes* had
parted with her the night Wore is anger, which
made her come there, to satisfy her that she had
given the child up to the frieads Of its mother, and
tor which porpoise she gave her a letter, directed to
the (Antra@ mother, for the Witness to put in the
Post-uffice, and told her the answer was to be di.
ected to her house, to satisfy her.
Mrs. Inglis, of No. St, White's-alley, Coleman-
street, corroborated the testimony of the last Wit-
ness, and said, that on Thursday the 31st of Au-
gust. Mrs. Pugh cellist on her, and told her that
she would take the child away in time evening ; she
came accordingly ; she gave her a bed-gown to put
on the rink', and pot its frock in her pocket; she
asked the Witness to carry the child as far as
Moor's-gate, winch she complied with. Oo their
arriving there she celled a coach and got into it,
taking the child with her, and directed the coach-
man to drive to Holborn-hill.
reoinas Nitride, hackney coachmin, deposed,
that he drove Mrs. Pugh to Holborn-hill, he drew
up on the right-hand side, by Shoe-lane ; she raid
him his fare, two shilling... and asked him to run
over to the other side of the street, as she was
to meet the child's nurse there, which he
complied with. The Prisoner, Thomas Pugh,
came no, and got into the coach, and ordered the
witoes. to drive to Fetter-lane : he stopped at this
side of the White Horse, when the old man got.
omit of the condi, saying, he would look after her.
He did not return for an hour, when he ',poke to
Mrs. Pggb ; after which he walked on and told
the witness to inflow him; which he did. Thomas
Pugh stopped the roach at Castle-street, when Mrs.
Pugh got out with the child in her arms; she paid
him four shillings. The Prisoners walked away
together ; be did not mind which way they went.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, the Clerk to the Juetice's-roona,
et Guildhall, proved the declarations of both the
witnesses before the Sitting Magistrate, Alderman
Scnut.ity, which did not deny the fact, but only
went to throw the blame of dropping the child front
musto the other, which wes.fully reported in THIS
BliTltn Pesos, some time since.
Mrs. Elizsbeth Ferry, of Pentooville. .deposed,
that it will be two years neat May since she heard
Mrs. Pugh, in company; for the first trine, speak of
the child ; she saul it was at Dane, at Taylor's, at
Highgate, and that site Mrs. Pugh had the care of
it, and if it died she would he entitled to 3001. The
Whet' was as officer in the army, and hid left that
sum to bring the child up, and the tutumey was is
- beak. hilswiteord her ass often wisterfor the ttlotkot
the child, that it alarmed the wituess, and she gave
some ilireetinus to nurse Taylor.
Mrs. Tuieberry deposed she was present at the
ezatninatiott of the Prisoners before the Magistrate,
end that Thomas Pugh acknowledged that the let-
ter there produced was his, which was to the frd-
lowing effect :—" That he had procured a work-
house that the child would be received in, soil that
Mrs. Pugh would bring the child that %seeing, the
31st of August. to Hulnorn-Itill."
This closed the prosecution.
Thorne, Pugh, not Rasing any Counsel, spoke in
his owe defence. He acknowledged having received
101. from Elizabeth Pugh, to put the child into a
work-house ; but lie fouud it itnpracticable ; he
never had an idea of dropping the child, until it
was proposed by Elizabeth Pugh, and then he did
net consent to et ; she laid the infant down and ran
away ; he walked, not being able to run; as to the
letter. which had beast produced, it was dictated
by Elizabeth Pugh, after the child wesdrupped.
Mr. Geasiedr. for Elizabeth Pugh, contended,
that the whole eireuineteoces of the case proved
that his client hail no inteetion to put the child out
of the way. She had paid 101. to the other Defen-
dant, Thomas Pugh, who hail undertaken to get
it provided for where there would be no probabi-
lity of its mother being inquired alter, and to this
he hail deceived her.
The RSCORDSR made a suitable charge to the
Jury, who immediately found both the Prisoners
guilty.
The Recoups's then pronounced the sentence
of the Court to he, that each of the Defendants be
imprisoned in Giltepur-street Compter for siz ca-
lender months.

A chain of fortifications is siumediutily to be
erected on both rides of the river `•iaaiioo, from
Tether' to Loop and Kerry !lead-.
Mrs. Salmons, who was dreadfully burned last
Saturday, by her apron catching tire, died yester.
day afternoon in SL George's hospital. The body,
by the request of her husband, wes brought home
last night. An inquest will he held this day.
oii Thoriwtav night, Mrs. llartata, off' Writ
COdell, wife of K. ( it present a prisoner in
France) hung herself to her neilstead, after having
drank tee with her two children and sister, whom
the soddenly left to effect her dreadful purpose.
She had been in a desponding state of mind fur
some time.

At the late Stamford Quarter-Sessions, PIETER
OLDHAM. *lid ELIZABILTH, his wile, with three
other persons, were convicted of a very aggravated
assault on Mr. Macourrou, a draper, and sen-
tenced to three months ituprisonumnt. The pri-
s inert, it appears were in the habit night after night,
forpoine wet Its, of breaking the windows of the pro-
secutor's house, throwing great stories against Iris
doors. *hoisting, and vociferating threats : this be-
haviour obliged the prosecutor fur twenty-1m nights
successively to sit up and witch his prann-es
length, having sallied out one isi4lit to d:spes -e
them. they seized him, arid after beating Fain iv-
verrly, dragged him to the watch-ll:uric, where thry
gave charge of him.

THE zarE ma. BortEx

This Gentleman's name was Origlibi/ly And
Rob mos Stoney, hitt be asaummd the name of
Bowes, on his ultarrMge with the late Countess of
Strathmore. He was a very Moguls, ch_uracteri
and of au Irish family of reapectability. The halt
twenty-two grans of his fife were spelt in the.
King's Bench or within the isles of that prison.
He commenced' life with a fashionable extrava-
gance, that laid the foundation for all the &sap.
pointrnent he afterwards met with. He was Bret
known iu public by his duel. or rather prethodad
duel. with the Rev. Mr. Baste. now Bate De& • •
ley, in consequeuee of this gentleman 'peeking ,
too lightly in his newspaper of the character of din
late Countess of Strathmore. to whom Mr. B. NB
then Mr. Stoney) was afterwards married, and from
w kuu he separated in the course of a very few yeses:
Mr. Bowes represented Newcastle in PiLd11111.1e10; and
the trick he played hisadverany, by getting his ea.
ter' on board a ship, and bribing tie Captain to rail.
into Ostend (as if by adverse wind). will never lee fee-
gotten. Mr. Bones was of au impracticable and ire.;
scibleteinper. hut pet fectly well bred, and abounded
in elegant anecdote. In the early part of hi.
turpri-
sannaeut, he formed an intimacy with an agreeable
young lady, of only 15 years of age, whose father was
incarcerated in the same walls. and by 'leer he
has left five interestiag children. Of big behavi. ,
our to this amiable companion in his adversitiet
the ancient questa', " de nserteis rill nisi, bassine.
Cermet the pen. Mr. 14., however, with mach
persuasion, by the few friends left him, has set-
tled one hundred a-year upon her for life;_ and he .
has made a small provision for the children oat
of his estates, which, although eannaberea with
asortgegre. are of very oinsidtrable valise. His
only legitimate son, by Lady Strathmore, via. WO.
has) Johnstone Bowes. who was • Lieateneat "
the Navy, is supposed to have perished with Sir
Thomas Trowbridge, on board the igen/gift a
the East ladies.

•

Captain DASHWOOD is sp,"—."nted to the &Ash
dere; and Captain Stscoroto. &claw. to tb
TOWlleet.
The Proms frigate, and the Primrose bsig
war. will be launched, this morning, at Porto..
mouth dock-yard.
Sir Ritn*ao STILICII4II, we understand,. is olpa-
pointed to the command in the Baltic.
We regret to state, that the Right Hon. TOMAS
Cloaartitta is obliged to resign his seat, in the
House of Commons, on ;iiceoulit of ill health.

We understand that the fabricators of the pail.
tended letter from Falmouth, annouleciag so ismer.
rection at Cadiz hay.; been discovered, and the came
being palpably traced tea conspiracy, fur the Sat.
pose of raising the price of wool, a preeteutioa roe
that offence, at the suit of the Crown, has been die
!ached.

_
It is said, that DOM &PARTS, in hts Istt Olfedlerell
to this country, proposed that either Causbray or
Brussels should Ore appointed as the place where
the Ministers of the two asautries shoold enter
into aegociati;os for peace. To the answer of oar
Ministers of their willmgness to treat iocosajunctims
;Wit allies the King of SrArs sad Wave et
OAL. 111 AAAAA 011 a "laird to b4ve replied*
that he never would relinquish his claims iss. this'
crown of Spain, but that he would so far metro.
wise his rights. to the obtainment of a general
peace, as to forego all pretensions to Portugal.—
Prince STAliialellEta, in communicating to
fers the determination of the French Goveninstists
announced, at V.e same time, the ord,rs of has
Court imin-diately to return home, unlewe Wasps-
dilation W 24 accepted to etf.ct a peace between the
two coccus rice.

The &noising anecdote is in circulation en the
Continent siromtom, it is stated, was writing
abut a fortnight ago m his Cahifiet at night, with -
one of his Secretanes, when his hair caught tire
without his perceiving it. The Secretary. however,
saw it, anfl spram4 towards him in order tee put it
Out. NAPOLEON, Dot being aware of his motive,
seized a pistol, and shot him dead on the spot.
It continues to be the opinion of a number of
persons in Holland, that a uegociation for peace is
actually on foot ; and some K.) so far as to assert,
that Spaiu is to be admitted as a party. Welleios
formed penmen, however, appear to be without any
positive intelligence ou this pond.
According to the latest accounts respecting the
affairs of liolland, it still continued to be the pee.
coiling opinion, that the only &tope that may take
laser will be in the southern frontier, and that, is
the internal government only such inteliff-atiouis
will be introduced. as may he necessary forcarryias
into effect a more rigorous system of provisoes
against 'wiggling.
Private letters state, that BottaPaglre has be.
come in the greatest degree peevish and inicible.
A short nine since, M Mtge, lii• Secretary of State.
on some trifling occasion gave him offence, whets
he struck and repeatedly kicked him, overturned
the table by which he stood, and scattered his pa.
pees shout the room. It is said at Paris, that the
destined bride of NAPOLEIIII was no ether than the
widowed Ex-queen of EestualA, a Bourlson, and
start to Fritotaa D the % 11th.
A vessel is arrived at Liverpool from goston.
Tha master states, that ialletlagence had been re•
ceived there the day before air sailed. of a Bill for
imposing an Endstrgo omen disservice* vessels hav-
ing been proposed iu the House of Representative...
awl rejected, alter a warm. avid, indeed, tuns it lir ry
debate. la the coun.c of these doseusrons, souse
very personal and offensice-expres.inns havirig been
reciprocated lieween General Silartg, brother to
the Secretary of the Government, and another
member, a challenge and duel ensued, in which
General SMITH is said to hose brew shut dead .1
the first tire.
00 Christmas evening, as the Serjcinit-Aimourer
of the Bth eteren Battahou, and his wife,
were returning to Fort Cumberland, Purtsuscnatht
after having spent the dry w sib ante friends, tbey b
mg very cold, he bind to his wife, after passing the barn
tier guard, he would walk on and get her eistrethiog
hot agccst she came to the fort. When she arrive ,
her hiniliand was not to be found. end search lose

made atter hem, without (greet. The
next leri-.4:54 he wx. dim:mewed. simakeits‘ °engin.
with his hmt on. tux pond of water.

staste ; it is supposes-I he must
ths ratting on the wad side.

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