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ISittinv in Banro.l
PIRIEE V. MARSH AND OTHER..

had given certificates of having received the first instalment, and
e..e• understanding that the Government of Peru wan to de-
liver a special bond, on the payment of the different instalments,
ter the whole sum, at 6 pee cent. interest; and all the revenues of
trr matt of Peru were pledged and mortgaged for the payment of
the loan. Kinder had bronght an acti'm against Mcvsrs. Everetts
necoverback the first instalment, which the defendants had Fe-
asted on the grounds that the persons from whom Mr. Kinder re-
ceived his authority to draw it under the Government of Peru, had
ce.,sed to be envoys from that State, and were consequently with-
out pn ver ; and that it was unasetrtained to ic hom the money
actually belonged. The plaintiff had obtained a verdict for
; -OW this. 7d., which the Attorney-General sow moved to set
aside.

The hogs ('tiler JUSTICE, in grantinz the rale for a now
trial, observed, that some reflections had been cast on the conduct
st the defendants at the trial, which did not at all appear to be
ewigenateiL Ills Lordship thought they were fully Jisstificd in
withholding payment of the sum until they knew to whom it be-
longed.
The moray was, in the mean time (with the ronsent of Mr.
Brougham, the plaintiff's Counsel) directed to be lottgod in the
Bank of Encland, in the names of Mears. Everett and Co.,
detentlante.

TIIOMrSON macttowg.
In that ease a verdict had been obtained by the plaintiff for the
amount of clothing and equipments purchased from hint by the
defendant, who was at that time in theoervice of the South Ame-
rican Constitutionalists. Defendant had not taken the goods,
which were, however, made to hi, order.
Mr. St: AAAAA T moved toe a role to chew muse why a new trill
should nut be granted on the pentads—First, that the plaintiff had
obtained a verdict aoinst evidences and, secondly, that the cataract
NM void uoder the statute of frauds.
Mr. Justice BAT 1.E7 doubted if the delivery was not sufficiently
good to take the am out of the statute of frauds.
• The Loan Cuter JtillTict: thought it clear that the plaintiff
had made the articles en the **demanding tha: he was to receive
in return a bill, aucepted by a pima of the name of Smith.
Buie refused.
casePlattl.t. t. ALDEN.
In this we a verdict bad been Oven for the plaintiff, for the
value of a quantity of tallow, which the defendant had ordered, I
and subsequently refused to receive.
Mr. b moved foe a new trial, on the ground that the
plaintiff bed not r ri•ained damages, and that he NW rot any tallow
his pamintsion at the time the bargain took place.
Pule to show cause granted.
VALI Ell r. DI'NCAM•

The Cow 'lox Scati EANT moved Mr a rule fa ',how ean.e why
a 7 ew trial should not be granted in this rase. The plaintifrhad
ptivhseed a hueet from the defendant, and with it two pews it the
pe-td7 church. Tlw rbifendaat, however, had not paid the Church-
%talent the demand fur the pews, although he repeatvilly pm.
mi- 11 the plaintiff to do it. The plaintiiTat lenw h paid the money
bialself, and brought an acrinn amtinst the defendant for the
amount t and the pry gave their verdict for the dtfandant.
Rule refused.

In this me a verdict ha fee the defendant- of
whom the plaintiff' had sought to recover the amount of a bill of
exchange.
Mr. St' A111.F.T7 moved Inc a new trial, on the ground that it
witneas bad been examined for the defendant who ought not to
have been examined.
Rule ►ranted.

TILL KING V. snenwoon AND ANOTIMR.
Mr. SCA/MI:TT pred, and Sir. CHITTY consented, that
tbe rule against the defendants should be discharged on payment of
the (V 474.
The ease has already been before the public : it related to the
puhlicaticei of the recent transactions in fiertfirdshire.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. WESTNINATLIt,
MONDAY, JAN. 211.

Mr. Sergeant Pgtt. Tns;Ted for a rule to shew cause why the
verdict in this muse should uot be set made, and a new trial gram-
ed. The action was tried in the Sittings after last Term, before
Mr. Justice lionvuO, in London. The Learned Sergeant stated,
Vast the action had bee brought by the plaintiff, who is a surgeon,
Nosiest the debedants, Meaux. Marsh and Co., bankers, in Iler-
ute's-etreet, fee the recovery of the sum of 601. Two or three
%knees were caned on the pert of the plaintiff, but the prin-
cipal shuns was a led of 14 or 16 years of age, named John
limy Daggs, who deposed that in August 1612, he was living as
a servant with the plaintiff; the he went with his master into
Beenemetreet, and at no great distance from the bankimphouse of
Mode sad Co. he pulled a pared out of his side-pocket, and put
it into a parket-book, which he eatried se far as an 1100.1017'S in
llemers-sueet., at whose door his master gave to the witness the
book. which bulged out in consequence of the parcel that was in it,
and ordered him to take the hook to the beaker's, and when he got
into the shop to walk straight forward, until he saw clerks receiving
messy, and he was then to go up to one of them and give him the
Look. He saw rather a short men when he got into the banking-
shop, who was Mr. Watson, to whom he gave the book. He
took out the notes, untwisted them and weighed the sovereigns.
lie wrote on the notes, and weighed the sovereigns all together. The
clerk asked the witness if he knew the sum he had brought?
Ilagcs replied that he did not. Watson entered in the plainer'
book 81L les., and the plaintiff's ease was that he had paid
that emu. On the pan oldie defendant it was mated that a specific
tine.. for 3i L 10s. had been received from Mr. Price, which by
mistake. the person who took it entered in the paw-book 811. 10e.
bay Beggs gave the book to his master, who showed it to a
lilt. Weary. his s sittnett and Mr. Gregory was called, who
*Jeered the cony to be Orr OIL lie. On the cross-examination of
toe hey, klle.tergeset Pell said that he had elicited this singular
and ineettant hot hem him—that the plaintiff waited at the bank-
ing-hese till the bey case out. The Learned Sergeant observed
that ewe conduct could scarcely be contemplated
than tinter a e a charge of money about him to pay into
his beak es, and illOtella of paying that money. himself, giving it
to a led of sixteen, who wore his livery, he waiting at the door of
the keehing-hotee till the bey came out. This was the ease on
the pet rif eke plaintiff, with anether among feet, that the Learned
Sagami hit made at the time a smug immeasion on the Jury.
TM seditalto was disagreed on the same day that the draft was
paid* bet thee wee Mcommunication made to the plaintiff at
the time. The het wee, Watson was not the regular receiving
clerk t fist peeve was gone to dime, and in his absence Watson
crooned the draft in vendee, bet a memorandum was made fr..
Namur of the mistake that had occurred reapeEtiag the entry to
the planers credit. Mr. Sergeant Petri admitted that a notice
should have been given to the plaintiff of the mistake, but that the
notice he not been given arose from the stupidity of the defend-
unt'sat 1621er, who was sent to Mr. Price the next day, and •ho m-
ime sayirg that he could not make out Mr. Price's address.
'lle Learned Sergeant believed that at that period the plaintiff
we living with his mother. After this time the pees-book of 111 r.
Price was left at the defendant's, but the mistake was not men.
teed to bias; but that arose from the pass-books of bankers'
castanets only being made up at particular rests, and the book in
qtlfittlell was laid aide until the next rest arrived for the making
Lp tins hub. The Learned Sergeant remarked that he perceived
the impresses this fact made en the Jury. He heard it said seve-
ral-tees that Mr. Price had nelson informed of the mistake. He
den state that there were bills in the hands of the defendants,
in °which Prix had an intermit, and upon which Price's adder's
WAS inserted; but circumstances of this kind escaped the °burri-
tos sometimes of persons hurried with business, as their Lord.
s..ips were aster was often the case with bankers' clerks; and the
mittehe was not rectified until the pass-book was made up at the
beginning of the year WM, and the balance struck, when an erasure
wee made of ;he funnel. sad the figure 3 substituted for it; so
that the sum afterwards steed 311. 10s., instead of 811. lb., leasing
a Inlance of 601. at ewe between the parties.
The ('tarsi Jule ace Wed what time elapsed between the re.
cep et the money et tliellenking-house and the correction of the
mistake? . . . .

Mr. Seqrsant PILL answered that the money was paid in
in Alienist, and the soinsidterectitied in January following.
COIL!' JUIIITICSoPAVIIeun the erasure was made, was the error
pointed out to the plaintiff?
3Sr. Selena Pitatteplied, as soon as he came to the banking-
L nese afterwards it was noticed to him. The Learned Counsel
prenreaed to inform the Court that it was not the sum st issue be-
t weeu the parties that induced his clients to ask for a new trial. but
to protect two deserving clerks, one of whom had been in the
telose thirty-aeven yeah, and the other twenty-fiveot thirty yaws,
from the impetation of fraud. The first witness on the part of
'tit defendant was John Watson, who had been more than thirty
assess clerk in the house. Ile deposed that the witness Daggs paid
in a specific draught for 311. 104., in August 18,1 g. There were
isoithor notes bar gold • that he put the draft in a drawer fen
Brim, the receiving clerk, to see when he returned (nun diver,
wit ~ or. looking at it, asked him about it, when Watson said,
" Laud God! I have entered this as 011. 104." IVotson swore
rat: nicely that he received the draft value 311. 101., and ro other
wane), of z iy kind at that time. It' the Court would beer in
mind the evidence of Beggs, they would perceive that he had said
dist the clerk ;tad written on all the notes. Now that their lard-
skirt:, who were in the habit of going to hankers, koew um never
thw.e. lioligiuly, mother clerk, was examined, and their Lord-
ships would neurally ask what account he gave ? Mr. Price, in
one of his seestunts, had said that he paid the mosey to Mr.
Wateon himself. Another amount he gave was, that he paid it to
Mr. thllightly, and that the MIMIC) was paid by a draught fur
311. 104. and lona. but there wan no gold. Now, Golightly was
net in thl shop at the time. Mr. Sergeant Pell, under all the cir-
curastanccs, trusted that he had given proper advice to his clients,
who had a sacred duty to perform to two faithful servants, alien
whoa: imputation rested. On making rep the money at night, the
cash was right therefore, if 811. 10s. had been paid in, Mr. Wat-
son must hsve put the money in his Focht, and afterwards have
gone into C.ititt to sapport bla fraud by the moat barefaced per-
'my. He was aware that thrnew trial mild only be granted en the
payment of cons, and an that being done, he hoped the Court
would grant his motion. It was a ease offaets for the Jury to do-
eidc—tatiter the boy or the clerks Inuit be perjured ; but it was
a very strong fact that the plaintiff should stand at the door of the
banking-lipase-until the boy game out. If a fact altogther so es:
tranu boa pat could have b explained sway, the buy's evidence
have boas rendered much more valuable titan ii was. The
was to afforlsafety and protection
...... Wee always most exemplary.
observed, that he recollected the cause
and that he had inn it to the Jury as
men the servant of the plaintiff and
There was something in favour of
d that he carried the money to the'
man weigh the sinereigns by the

lump, which it Impaired was the usual course of the defendants.'
Another fact was, that the money was paid in August, and the
mistake, according to the defer Tanta' witnesses, immediately cm-
reeet, but the plaintiff was not apprised of it till January, al-
thouFh the book had gone backwards and forwards repeatedly in
the interim. Whether it was or was not a mistake. was a mere
question of fact fin the Jury to decide betwr:a the witnesses of the
plaintiff and defendant'.
The LouD Cut EY JI'STICZ said, that after the best attention
'he had been able to give to the 'notion of his brother Pell, he
could see nn reason for disturbing the verdict. It might, but he
did not set how it could, involve the characters of the clerks of the
defendants ; but even if that were the case, it was no reason for
granting a new trial. A mistake in an entry was no imputation on
a clerk's integrity ; it frequently happened ; and in the hurry of
business in a banking house, it must occur. His brother Pell had
remarked pretty strongly on the plaintiff having stood at the
tanking-house door, whilst the boy was in the shop, and waiting
there uil he came out. But he did nut show any previous con-
trivance between the plaintiff and the boy. It was an important
feature in this CAW. that whaterer might have been the intention
no communication had been made to Price from the defendants'
from August to January; no reason assigned why the mistake
was not rectified ; and the defendants went on from August to
January, at which time they stated the balance of the account be.
tween the plaintiff and theinselves. On interregatine Price re.
gutting the transaction, it appeared that he tad given different ac.
counts of it. But it should be recollected that he was not asked for
fire months afterwards ; and hr might at that tune have fancied
that he had paid the sum himself. A mistake was no imputation
an any bankers, and the boy had not sworn to a specific sum hay.
ing been paid of 811. 10s. ; but that he had paid a sum on that day
at the defendant's. It was a singular fact, and one that went
I strongly to rantirm other parts of Baggs's testimony that he stated that
the bankers weighed the sovereigns altogether.which appeared to be !
their practice. Ilia Lordship hoped that nothing had been said by I
the Court, either on the trial or on the motion of his Learned '
Brother, that imputed any thing to the bankers in this transaction.
It was merely a mistake. and no imputation could rest with them.
He would repeat that he could see no reason for disturbing the
verdict.
Mr. Jt.uice PAWN remarked, that where there was conflicting tee.
timony,the decision of the question was purely the province of the
'jure. The paw-book had been repeatedly at the defendant's hank-
mg shop between August and January, and yet no communication
had been made to the plaintiff Rule refused.
At balf-past twelve the Court rose, and the Lord Chief Justice
went to London to sit at Nisi Pe

nava at N4I Prime, GatMall, before the LAID CHIT!

JUSTICE.
At one o'clock his Lordship took his seat.
SEWELL AND BRET V. !ETUDES AND DANCOCE.
The plaintiff's NM ictsigneet of a bankrupt named White. and
the defendants were debtors to his estate to the amount of 12:11. ;
which sum the present action was brought to recover. The defence
set up was, that Stubbs and Hancock luitl paid the debt in question
to the bankrupt, in consequence of a draught he had presented to
them, purporting to be the order of his assignees, but which, in
fact. was a forgery. On the forgery being ascertained, one of the
plsintifilt took White's security for the re-payment of the money,
he having then obtained his certificate. This circumstance, it was
conic:Wed, on the part of the defendants, exoncested them from the
debt. .

His I,oeinititp ruled, that the contract entered into between
White and hi. assignee WWI illegal, and therefore could not be
buuling; and consequently could not release the defendants from
payment of the sum originally due to the bankrupts mate.
'Verdict for the plaintiffs--Damages

ARCHES COURT, 111 o) DAY. JAN. ft

JOHN r. JOHN.

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Dr. SW ADZY said this was a suit for the admission of libel for
divorce, instituted by Samuel John, Esq. of Cornwall? against his
wife, by reason of adultery.
Dr. le sirrEn, on behalf of Mrs. John, stated the nature of the
libel, as pleaded by Mr. John, and took various objections to the
several articles contained therein. On the 22d of January, 1810,
the parties were married, and on the filth of March following,
Mr. John left his wife, for the purpose of attending his duties
as Under Sheriff; in a distant port of the county. While he was
aheent, he learnt that Mrs. John had been delivered of a female 1
child, at the house of her father, a gentleman of property and
respectability, on the first of April; and she admitted that her
husband was not the father of the child. The parties contracted
the marvelgt fee better for worm, and it must have been quite tom.
potent for Mr. John to have ascertained her pregnancy previous to
marriage, so that no deception was practieed upon him, and there-
fore the present libel could not be sustained s the Court in similar
cases have already put that question to rest particulady4n die ease
of Perrin v.. Perrin, (Dr. Adams's Rep. Vol. 1.) where Mta. P. pre.
vious to the marriage had been delivered of two children, and she
was ectually receiving for their maintenance from her
the sum of 4001 and 20L ; but the Court held that the ens in-
admissible, became the fact of the monisga teas a sear of tbe
husband's claim, and any act committed previsadly *odd metjue.
tify him in suing fora divorce. In 1811 'Melee of 'ee were
agreed to between Mt. MU (on behalf of Mem • ) and Mr.
John, by which the lady's fortune was seemed iii her, bed fur IM.
thor win to maintain her. The deed of stymerdea weelnlemied by
Mr. John's Counsel to be produced in evidence pima her= bat
he (Dr. Jenner) conceived that it ought not to bormdestiLligreatei
Mrs. John had not signed it, or been present at its nem The
father's will bequeaths 15411. per annum to Mrs. Jam aid at. to
the daughter, born in April, 1813. Mr. Gill aeloseessadi mitt his
daughter to reside with the Rey. Mr. Palmer,where it is pleaded
that she became acquainted with George Robert Fags, sad rem
alfectscalm quently spoke of him in ten= of great ' SOWSSAIOSIII Mr.
ing herself n 1 for the purpose of seeing his. seed to mat
at the house of one John Smith, whose wife was : rs. John's ar-
rant, and letters used to be left there flu each Mier. Oa one oc.
aim, when Mr. Palmer refused to send far Mr. Faster, she Sew
into a violent passion ar.d broke the glossae on the table; this wen
, stated ea conjecture from their refuted to seed for Mr. Foster, hut
Dr. Jesner contended that was not solllcleat to establish sets of
adultery. The libel lastly pleaded that Mrs. John got aistpiernted
with Mr. Wayland, a Curate, who was discovered with the lady
in hew bed-room in such a situation as left no doubt of the adul-
terous intercourse t now this important circumstance, if ft were
one, ought to have been specified by a certain date, but in what
year it is not even stated, and was therefore too meet 010 sustain
the present libel.
Dr. ADAX followed on the tame aide. _ _

Dr. SW ABET, for Mr. John, contended that the articles dun-
leg the adulterous Intercer•ne were as specific as was neccasstry to
support the libel. It was urged as an objection that this sort of '
conduct in the lady was stated to have continued fee some yews t
why was not the present suit instituted before 1821 T His answer
was that Mr. John only receirill an intimation of the facts In that
Tear: af:cr having satisfied himself as to the grounds for the
charge, he prosecuted it with as much despatch as possible.
Dr. LUIRINOTON followed on the same side at considerable
length.
Sir Joss Nicol. ordered the libel to be re-fanned.

POLICE.
11pW4TREET.

Amongst a great nu;nl;er ofpersons of rations descriptions
brought up yesterday from different watch-houees, was a young
mimeo, apparently a foreiy,mer by birth, whose outward garments,
consisting of a silk pelisse, a bonnet of the same mater al, and a
bee sell, were torn almost to tatters, and covered with mud. She
seemed also in a very ill state of health, and bee manners and ad..
deem were so decidedly superior to the majority of women who are
seen in a similar situation, as to excite a good deal of attention
when she WIII pissed st the bar.
The charge against her was made by a watchman, who swore
that he found her In a disorderly state In the street, and upon his
desiring her to move on," she refused to stir, and behaved In a
very disorderly manner.
The 31agistratc oltserved that such conduct was not to be tole-
rated • and in order to protect watchmen in the execution of their
duty, was afraid he must consider the defendant a fit subject
for the house of Correction.

Defasdant--aut I hope, Sir, you will hear me in defence, be.
foresq pleased ea bass with me.
istrate.--Certeinly, I am bound to hear both sides, and I
shout be very unworthy my situation if I decided without
hearing your defence. I mean not to hurt your feeling, but I
presume you are what is termed an unfortunate woman.
The del:whine said that she was certainly moat unfor-
tunate, but not in the sense intended to be conveyed by
the Maeistrate. She was the daughter of an English gen-
tleman, named Musgrave, who was Consul at Seville, in
Spain, and who maenad a native of that country. lie' father
ass rather • rich man, and upon her marriage with Mr. Colville,
her husband, she received front her father 10,0091. She and her
husband came to England, and he and a persen named Fisher
established a house in the linen-diapery trade. in Great Russell.
street, Blooniebury, under the firm of Fisher and Colville. They
were unfatrunme, however, in baldness*, and her husband, after
being reduced by degrees to almost the lowest possible state of
poverty, was arrested foe remelt sum of money, and placed in the
filarshalscs prison. She on Saturday was turned out of her mi-
serable lodging in consequence of her inability to pay her rent, and
she went to the Marshalses in the hope that she would be allowed
to remain with her husband; but unfortmuttely be had a rhrina (a
fellow-lodger in the same room) and she was not suffered to sleep
there. When the hour arrived that she was compelled to quit the
prison she left it, and wandered about unit completely exhausted,
when she sought refuge at St. Giles's watch house; but after being
there a'short time, she was turned out with violence, and it was
while site was remonstrating oAsinst this treatment that she was
taken into custody. This, she declared, was " the head and front
of her offending," and surely the Magistrate would not, under such
circumstances, deal with her as with common prostitutes, and
sentence her to a degrading punishment.
The M ASSIST BATY said, if her story was strictly true, she was
very far indeed from b-ing a fit object for punishment. It was,
however, his duty to make inquiry as to the truth of her tale, and
he assured her that if he found it correct he would do all in his
porter to make some .provision fur her comfort ; meanwhile he
would send her to St. Martin's workhouse, and desire that she
might be comfoetably taken care of for at least a few days.
The *lege preferred against the defendant by the wet. hum was
dismissed, and she was sent to St. Martin's workhouse, there to re-
main until something better can be done fur her.
The defendant expressed her grateful thanks for the humanity
of the Magistrate, and left the office for the workhouse with ap-
parent satisfaction..
ROBBERS' AT vne House OF Ma. 31•CUREFIr• M.P.—
It-will be recollected that among the property stolen from this 4ps.
deman's house was a disk studded with Scotch st:nes called eats.-

goeums. This dirk was yesterday morning taken td the house of
Mr. iilaNueen by a-Mr. Inderwick, an importer of foreign sniiif-
boxes is Princes-street, Leicester-square, who stated that be had
bought it from • Mr. Falacke, a Jew merchant, from German,.
I Mr. Falacke, when he sold the dirk (for five guineas), was accom-
Ipanied by a Mr. Aaron, a Jew dealer at Norwich, whom Mr. In.
derwiek had known for many years. Mr. Inderwick took the dirk
to Mr. 3lacqueen in consequence of what he had seen in the news-
papers tespecting it. Mr. Inderwick attended and gave evidence
I as to the possession of the dirk, and will be present at the next ex-
amination.
_ MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICE.

THREATEN ED MURDER AND HIGHWAY RODNEVY.—EIiza.
beth Scott, a woman about 40 years of age, miserably dressed, ap.
before the Sitting Magistrate at this office, on Friday and
gierueiday last, in consequence of being robbed, as she stated, ire the
following manner:—
On Thursday night, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock,
as she was proceeding towards town along the Uxbridge-road, near
Acton, she wee accosted by two men ; one had the appearance of a
coachman, wearing a drab coat, sad the other was dressed in a
smock-frock like a farmer, but wore blue trowscrs. They said—
" Are you going to town ?as we are going to S ' hficid. ' They
then followed her a considerable distance, repeatedly passed her.,
and then returned back again. On her arrival at Shepherd's
, IBush, opposite a lane which runs out of the Uxbridge-mad into
Hammersmith, the ruffians suddenly darted upon her, and knocked
her down. They then forcibly earned her out of the main road a
considerable distance up the lane, one by the shoulders, the other',
by the feet, cramming, at tLe same time, their gloves into her
mouth, to meant any alarm ; and, with horrid imprecations and
I threats, said, if she made the slightest noise, they would instantly
cut her throat. The robbers placed her by the side of a ditch,
when one of them cut the laces of her boots, and took them away ;
they also stole her bonnet; and, after ransacking her pocket of
3s. lid. in silver, threw her into the ditch, again repeating their
horrid expressions, that if she moved they would destroy her. The
villains then proceeded towrinls Acton, but soon returned back again,
I and took a shawl from her neck. Being dreadfully frighwned in this
' situation, she remained in the ditch until about 4 o dock in the morn-
ing, when hearing some market taro pass by. she got out and made
the best of her way to 'fyburn.turtrnike, the keeper of which ob.
serving her deplorable condition, gave her two-pence; she then
proceeded towards the New-road, where a gentleman also gave her
something; two respectable females passing by at the moment,
and seeing the wretched state she was in, her clothes being literally
covered with mud and drenched in water, and without bonnet,
shawl, or *how, entreated her to come to this office and acquaint i
the Megistrate of the circumstance. She stated herself to be a as.
tive of Aylesbury, and knew many respectable inhabitant,' there;
her motive in awning to town was to go to her parish in the City.
The robbers also took from her a bundle, containing several articles
of wearing apparel.
The Magistrate ordered a supply of dry clothes from the work.
house, and desired Michael Morris, an officer of the establishment,
1 to go with the woman, and point out the ditch where she had been
; thrown In, and make other diligent inquiries to trace the robbers.
Mr. Thorpe, belonging to the workhouse, said he had question-
ed the woman respecting Aylesbury (being a native of that place
; himself,) and lie has no doubt her statement is perfectly correct
1 concerning Aylesbury.
Morris, the officer, stated, from instructions merited he accost.
panied the woman to the ditch which she pointed out to bin, and
on examining it, there was an appearance of some person having
been sitting there.
Thomas Snelsivell, a conductor of the dismounted patrol, sta-
tioned oo the Uxbridge-road, said that he nod Irwin were on duty
between nine and ten o'clock on Thursday night, about the time
the robbery is stated to have been committed ; and if any thing of
the kind had happened, he must have heard it, by the slightest
alarm. On their return to town, they passed both Turnharn-green-
lane and Starch-green ; they then proceeded towards Black Lion-
lane, Bayswater, when one of the mist watchmen asked him if he
had seen a woman along the road without a bonnet ? He replied
" No." The watchman said, " A woman has m I mated me, and
passed her to the next watchman George Wild, who informed me
be took her to Davis's shed, at Bignigge-well* tesgardens." Wit-
ness coneequently proceeded there, and found a woman lying under
the manger. (Witness believes it to be the person now present.)
He asked her what she did there ? She said, " I have no home,
nor have I any money." Witness then asked her Is parish she
belonged , and thinks she said Kenaington, haring user.
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te tore. He requested her not to lie in the wet, t get into
the chaise-can, which was dry and contained a quantity of straw.
She, however, refused, when he took the straw out and laid it over
bee. Witness put wsveral quads= to her, and asked where she
mune from, wino she said &s sailed from England with Admiral
Freemalede, for Gibraltar; recollected Sir .fo Elphiostotie Fle.
Mktg 011 that station; the Bulwark was his flag.ship; she was also
M die edge of Algiersont board the Implacable.
Gangs Wild, a wateinom of the Uxbridge Trost, stated that 1
Ise saw a woven; about ten o'clock on Thursday night, sitting at I
the door of Mr. Hopwood, Bayswater. Witness said," This is a I
dreadful situation for you to sit 111 here, end I cannot allow you to 1
rennin." 4 gentleman passing at the moment gave her twopence,
pod advised her to go to Davis's thed. 1
Magistrate--Did she soy any thing of being robbed I' 1
Whitens—Not a word, Sir.
Magistrate--Did she say she had any money ?
, Witness—No, Ski.
lobo Pbepe, the header at Mr. Davis's, said, that on Friday'
morning at 5 eels*, he perceived a woman under the maw of
,bismaetw's shed, completely soaked ip wet; he begged her at IMI
opt she odd she hid been robtictimf her bonnet, shawl, nod,
boots i die staid in the house midi his master came dews shook
WWI o'clock, who, seeing the deplorable situation of the maim% '
pee bee half a pint of purl and thres.penoe, desiring her to limbs
dee blot of her way to town. Witness believes the woman INIONN
ill be the same.
Mere the woman solemnly denied being in Mr. Davis's house, or
partaking of any thing but a little milk in the Edgeware-road,
when she was requested to come to this office. She said that Mr.
who had bees so kind to her, would, for the satisfaction of
the Magistrate, write down to Mr. Sheriff, of Aylesbury poi, who
would perfectly satisfy him she was no impostor.
The Magistrate asked be if she would know the persons again t
Answer—l think I should.
Morris, the officer, was then called, and ordered to take her to
ba parish, St. Alpha's, Doletuanatreet, where the unfortunate
worsen vas instantly tocogaised, and taken In with the greatest
kindness.

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to too clerks, wheals conduct had I
Mr. Justice humour/in Assn
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a mere queotion of t between
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