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CHILD STEALING.

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Juba Flnltlatork, •
a• loose-looking fellow, aged 19, was
ought to the Reline, charged with stealing the male child
ve Mr Connolly, of lanig-iialk, (Sapp-street, Crippli gate,
Wetlotsday looming.
prey Connolly, the snobs, of the child, gare her evidence
in ita,••. She said, she was the wife rad. C ..... lf, who was
IA the einploymeut of Mr. Brine, of Blatt:friars. The PI i-
-51)11(1, ahn was an idle fellow is the neighbourhood of her
sentience, lent stated to some of the inhabitants on Tuesday
vetting, that be nal about to leave town the following
.....t mac, on particulat business. At au early hour her child,
nhoot eight years old, euutiiiiiing absent for n considerable
time, she made a most diligent search after hint. He
was lie while to be found, tint at length, in the COWSe of
the day, she main taiued that lie was seen with the Prisoner
in the usortiinc, and that Holdslock had absented himself
from the neichbourbouil ist the morning. 'lnformation was
immediately cilia of the fact, soil a vigorous pursuit set uu
foot in vat directions.: The remainder of Wednesday,
and the *hole of ‘lednesday night, in fact, were spent i■
inquiry fur the lost child, but without effect. yesterday,
how. ver, about twelve o'clock, the Prisoner again made his
appearance in the %nighttime hood (without the child), where
indignmut suspicion being strongly raised against him, he
was 'need and given in charge. lie at hat deuird all know-
ledge of the boy, hot on his way to the Justice-mom was
free to coatis to the contrary, allegiug that be hail lakeu it
"merely tor a walk," and that the child was tare.
The Prisoner, in reply to questions put to him by the
Magistrate, said that he had been some time tit sea, mid
bad lately returned frous the West Indies. Slure that time
he rifTlOilleli idle, but was summit. ill by'• a few kind neigh-
bours," where the nold lie was said to have stolen lived.
He saw the little boy mi Wednesday morning, and they
took a walk together as far as Barking. lie dot out ask the
►uy to go wit► bite, nor did the Pattie express a wish to
accompany him, but somehow or other he found him at his
side, and they reached Essex together in the evening. At
night he (the Primmer), went un hoard a smack to sleep, and
at ten o'clock kr% the boy at rest, in the minis of another,
the .Ifereery, Captain Thomas Carter, at Balking. The
smacks were to be at Blackwell the following (yesterday)
morning; sad as the walk to town would be considerably
sborieueil, lie thought to have hens preceded iu his arrival
by the: boy himself. He was sure that the smack had come
up to Mackerel!, sod lie was equally eonhilent that the
tiny was k-ft asleep on board it, on Wednesday night. He
timid nut tell why be went himself on hoard anuther barge
lomat If to ►lurp, nor why be came to lowu wtthout Yoking
aft., the chili'. .

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The worthy Alderman (Stiumtv) said, there was snitch
aitsisiruni to the rase, and he would tot" it his slut) to re-
sulted the Prisoner Ishii" the matter was fully isirestigais
Ile urols red the officers, therefore, and the friends of the
es.td, to repair to Blackwell, or Wolin, if accessary, to

mike the proms inquiries, soil also to snake known the re-
sult without delay.
'I he Piisooer was remanded.

LOST CHILD.
The circumstance of the lost child of Mr. Hanley, of
Canunbury-lane, Islington, vontiones to excite the public
attention in a very extraordinary degree, and the discove-
ries that have been made since our I est acentint have tended
to increase the interval, the ease still continuing a complete
mystery. The report continues that upon the child's life
depends 20,0001. This is not avowed by Mr. Horsley, nei-
ther is it contradicted by him or his friends. Probably no
occurrence was ever taken np so generally as till/ has been
dune by the whole neighbourhood of Islington, and the nis_
onerous friends of Mr. Horsley, as a mereleant of the City of
London. Great numbers hate bees. exciting themselves
all directions, night and day, to endeavour to discover the
lust child.
We stated yesterday that Mr. Hicks and Mr. Birnie hail
directed Godfrey, the constable, to go to the house of ill.
fame in ',Head's-row, near the Asylum, in search of the lost
child, and Elizabeth Holbrook, the enema girl, mod to
bring the keeper of the house before them. We also stated
that Mr. Horsley and his friend, whose name, we under-
stand, is Smith, and whin has exerted himself in a most ex-
traordinary manner, and displayed roneiderable primeval'
and abilities in his exertions, retell Orli ill the office, and an-
nounced that they had been infornied that the servant Was
discovered and taken in Holborn, and wag in custody at
this Ofliee. This, however, proving to be a mistake, sO
far as related to her being in custody at the Office, they
left the °like, accompauleil by Godfrey, the constable.—
They gave up tlir first arrangement of g gin the house of
ill-tone in Menefee-row, hot proceeded first to asees lain if
the report was correct as to the servant girl being taken
They proceeded 'broach Holborn, making inanities. and
went to Hattme.garden Puhce.uture,supposiuy she might le
iu custody there, but here again they were disappointed.
They then proceeded in Mr. Horsley 's house, iu Casemibury.
lane, where they found a crowd of people round the house,
and a member of \t r. and Mrs. llorsley's friends ill the
Image condoling wish Mra. Horsley, and they all had heard
of the servant baring been discovered and taken, but it could
' nut he awe rtained %lore she was for some tithe, when it was
at knells discovered that she had been taken Is the office of
the Vt.:ly Clerk of Islington, a here the guard stated that the
girl hail g •by the roads he was guard to, from the Sorre-
l-reit Head Ines, on Snow-ball, ell Saiislay evening, to Bir-
mingham, under peculiar and extraordinary circumstances.
She presented herself to go by the coach as ass outside pas-
senger just before they were ready to start, asul she said her
place was taken ; he looked at the way bill, and found
there was nu place taken for a female that use not filled,
and the passenzers were all come. He no istioneal that there
was ft place taken by a Mr. Atkins, who teas not yet come,
when she replied that her name was Atkins, alicream it is
Elizabeth Holbrook. Ku Mr.A thins a rpm ing, mid the coach
being ready to start, he asked leer alai re her clothes or lug.
goage were? She replied she kid laUlle, and ter clothes
which she had on were not calculated to travel in being
very light, ease snonoted the coach and %east to Ilirminebam,
when on her arrival at the Saracen's Head Ines at Bir-
mingham, it was ascertaiiied that she did nut know any
person there. She is sixteen yeses of age, small in its.
lure, sod has a very y appearaote—she excited the at.
sentient of the people al the lac, to ascertain her motive fur
leaving London to go Vismingliam, • here they could nut
learn that she hail any object, and there appeared a consi-
derable degree of mystery about her, beet they at length learnt
(rum her that she was ensile to Binuingh,m to be marriell,but
her intruded bush:end teas nut she had
left him in Loudon, sisal be *as to follow her to Binning.
ham to marry her. 'fhis statement was sullirit sit to eon_
vince any re fleeting peeson, that she bail Lees the elope of
some designing vilLlin, Willi I hal' used their exertions in en-
deavouring to persuade her to the same be-heron., her suppos-
ed lover slot ierrivil"ee at Birmingham by Tuesday afternoon,
she war convinced that she had been deceived, and agreed to
return to London by the enrich that afternoon; some money
was collected by a few humane persons fur lire, as well as by
some ladies who came as, Ills same cuaeli, anal it a.. happeue.l
that the same guard a ent with dant coach font. Birming-
ham that attended the roach she arid by (mum London '
In Birmineliam, anal under the peculiar circumstances
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under whirl' she went, he undertook the rare or her,
and the circumstance• of "'r. Horalet's children brio:

Mr.
carried off by a servant girl baying list a subject of
great notoriety, and excited a emisigleralde sit gree of public
inlet est and feeling, he I'l.mi:tined that she was the person,
sold therefore &hemmed on out kiting her go out of his sight.
on his arrival in London till he had delivered her into safe
custody ; however, etrasige to tell, tustenul of taLatig her to
some one of the Police Offices, or to Mr. Horsley's house, he
delivered her to the Parish Officers of Islington, where she
was also kept in an extraordinary way. From this place
she was taken to Lambeth, in consequence of a report that
a mail had been seen there with the missing child. This ci r.
farina:Melt having become known at Mr. Mr. Horsley's, Coil-
free, the constable, went ofT wills all speed to follow her Isom
Ishugtu• to Lambeth. (In his arrival there he met Good-
win, the officer, alas hail also been employed mu this dis-
tressing businesc; From him Godfrey learnt that the per.
sons who had bronglit the girl trout Islington hail taken her
to Billitigsgate to endeavour to lend out a Mall who had Maas
Seta there With a child anewering the th.cript of Mr.
Horssey's ; he 'soloed oust a public-hung iu Lambeth.
mamls, whirr several own employed in the Useiurg Theatre
were brought he fore her to aSCertaill if any of them %%as the
man a Ito hail seduced lit r to leave Mr. llorsky's children
in the chaise, but she. kuew nothing of aay of them.
Godfrey prueselled to the politic-house iu dniasheth 314144
as thectilatl, where he found Elitibt.th Holbrook in the
custody of Mr. Brows', the Beadle of Lambeth parish; lie
claimed her as his Ps letslsta, hut the beadle refused to give
r tip, till Godfrey pros:need a marmot which he hail
against her In a abort tame after, Godfrey took her
to the Hercules public-house, opposite so the Asylum,
the landlady of which very I nely took the infant gill out
of the chaise which had been left udder thee garden wall of
the Asylum, on Sunday tee ' g, and probutbly saved its life.
Here Mr. Carter, also is employed at Astley'e Theatre,
was sent Mr, as he saw tha Tall take the child one of the
Chaise,snd fullawed him to the public-house, but was in-
ducts.' to hair lion wish the child from the rebuff he
no:cived from him. (In Lit arrival at the Hercules pub-
lic- bosom he described to the servant fully the mats whom
he haul seen take the child ant of the chaise, hut alit
declared that she did nut know such a man, or nay thing of
the child being taken out of the chaise. She was interro-
gated by mescal versants there as to her knowledge of the
children being left io the chaise suit the Asylum iu so cruel
a matinee late on Stitelay evening, but sin satisfactory infur-
onntion could he obtained trout her. A g the persons
present was • female elegantly slimiest, a hit IllkiTattd herself
very much restricting the servant. It did not appear who
this mysterious elegant ti guile was, or a hat her subject eta
its iuterfering wills the servant, and slit declared that she slid
nut know any thing of she lady. They left the Wreaks
public...house, ■nd proceeded from the nee to llow-strei I,
where they arrived shout a punter twfure nine o'clock.
It was stated In evidence that a man with a child, ma-
sweriug the descriptions already nutlet d, hail Let u stew in a
public house near Billingsgate MI Sunday night, waiting
for the sole, to proceed to Gravesend; sod at ten u'elsiek
that night the man went on boars! a Gravesend taut,
takiog the c►ild with him, the dem ripti tttt of which so nreo-
eatt•ly answers that of 11r. Ilursely'a child, that their is no
doubt entertained hot that It as. his.

The *comet Elm+ln tit Holbrook gave of herself and her
infamous and crud conduct towards .lr. and Mrs Horsley
and their elaildrea, is that she lived as a atom girl to How
for two years mot aryl rid ills. Three were three )iniag
thildreti, and when 11w wrath., was fine, she was in list rhitly
partite of laktog them out in a child's chaise, la:, at a
time. About tato Muoth's sii.ce, whew ►he KU 011 t with
the children in their chaise, she ;net with a young matt,
ith minim ■t length she 11,e:utile intimately acquittals
ise fact, she acknowledged Hirt improper f.tioilial sties brit
taken place hi wren Clem. Ile very frryitrutly met list
when flit WWI out wills the chi:Oren; he made love to her,
called kir his mycelia art, soul promised it/ marry her, lists
she admits !edged that she 'Kitties kat* also he as., or a hilt
he was; all that slue profess si to know of him was, that his
waute was (.t urge Faulkner, and she coosidicell him to he a
yuuNg i‘ uth titan by los dress, &e. He tuld Ire that 11,9 cc.

latiOns and friends lierd at Dirmingham, and they would be
married there; he desired her to leave her place on Sunday fur
that purpose, and be would make arrangements for Lee jour-
ney. He enjoined her to strict secresy, that she was nut to tell
• single imam what she was going to do, and that she was to
meet Mut in Smithfield on S lay afternoon, and he made
her promise to being the children with her. According to
arrangements with him, she left her master's louse about
Iwo o'clock, taking the children in the (liaise, as her mis.
tress supposed, to give the dill 'ten an airing. !ate pniceril-
eit with all possible • petal to Smithfield, and drew the chaise
shout theme foe nearly an hour and a half waiting fur Mr.
Fanlkener, and on his coming to h. r, he gave her a two
pound Dank of England note, told Ivo 10. had taken het a
place, %hewed her the inn where the coat h went from, and
said lie woad follow her to Birmingham lit the next coach;
the inn she went from was the Saracen's Head, on Snow•
hill. Mr. Fatilkener then took possess" of the child's
chaise, and promised to take prat care to deliver the chil-
dren safe to their parents, and he would inform then, that
she was gone to be married, rod would tartish, every thing
to them She gave him the key of her master's street door,
whirls she hail brought out ill her pocket, and which he also
promised to deliver safely. The adventures of her journey
to Birmingham, and her return to Loudou, are described in
the guard's account, as above stated.
Bhr was not sworn le her statement, the Magistrate ile-
a • 'g to do .0 lest it might turn out hereafter that she war
concerned in a conspiracy to carry off the children.
She was iuterrogated very closely by the Magistrate and
by several Ceetlernea as to her more partirsilor knowledge
of the supposed Mr. Faulkner, and the *mitosis() carried off
the buy frum the chaise, and went by the timaresenal Insist
with it, hut nn iuformation could be ithiami:sl f her re-
specting them, %lir dien.)Oug that she knew any inure shim
what she had told.
Godfrey acid, lh, fore he brought her to the Office, she
told him she knew scheme Mr. Faulkner sited, and that it
was nut far from ber.master's house. She explained this by
saying, That about a fortnight SIM, v. hen she was out wills
the children in the chaise, she met Mr. Faulkner, Bud the
weather having site appearance of ram, be said he tvanlil
ran and get an umbrella, amid wns mint gone above lice mi-
nutes. He appeared to go into n house it Set erit's.haild.
lugs, but she email nut may which it was. • ,
A number of gentlemen Interrogated her, but nothing
more of importance; could lie obtained from hoe.. Time Ma.
gistrate considered her to hive been an. ignorant dupe of
some deriguing villain or villains, to answer 11011Ie pal !scalar
porpoise. Iler father was present, who nppeared extremely
affected and grieved at time infamous and cruel conduct of
his daughter.

The iieutlemen present, the frieuds of Mr. and Mrs
Hortif y, spoke iii the highest terms of thri. conduct, and
the manner they appeared shorted ou Irking lot armed of his
detightei's infamous conduct.
The Magistrate, in consequence, arranged 111. t her father
should take her home with bun, mid keep her in close mon-
finemeui, not all (Ming her to M. ont or have infetentorse
with any person, and that he should he auswerahle fur her
forthcoming when the villain who stole the chitd was up-
prchesideil.
Soon aft, r this arrangement had beret made, Mr. Horsley
and his friend, who has so streiiiimisly exerted himself in the
entered the office, ale ti Ike investization was re-
slimed, by ilidulgetice, fur the satisfaction of Mr. Horsley,
who, as well as his friend, very closely interrogated the girl;
and upon her eross-examinatiosi by them, she acknowbahzeil
that Abe lead talked with 31r. Faulkner as to what a line child
the boy ass, end what a great fortune he would lists. She
also urktorwledged that Mr. Faulkner, alien lie Sri aimed
with her to go to Ilirmiughant 011 Sunday, 101.1 her to bring
the children with her, as the buy was it/ 11110111111111 y
and her mistress having scut her out a little before one
o'clock ait li the two mu-k, she, to constrpic::ce of Mr. Faith:-
direrrions, wanner.! home at tiro, left one of the girls,
and brought out the boy and pot him into the chaise.
Mr. Horsley's particular friend addressed the Magistrate,
and professed himself to have a attonxr deblie to temper
justice with merry, lest the conduct of Ibe gill hail heels so
extremely bail, that he suhanitted that she ought to be sent
into confinement, tool Mr. Horsley aisu urged this, saying,
that although she had been the eau,e of so mod] grief and
trouble to him mid his family, mod endangering the life of
his wife, yet lie could not but consider her the dupe of Some
desig g villain.
'Elie Magistrate agreed to this, saying he would scud her
to the House of Ctiriectiou with is deelaratimi that her father
should hare free access to her, bust an other per,..11.

Mr. KO•PIIP, the Clerk, accordingly prepaied the usual
infurmation iu the occurrence Book, charging her merely
upasi his belief that she was concerned iu feloniously car-
rying sway his child, which to the surprise of those present,
he refused to sign. lie said lie could wily charge her indi•
teddy but nut directly.
The Magistrate informed him that he could not send the
girl to prison, as there was no way of making out a commit-
ment but on a charge upon oath.
Mr. Iliirsley's friend offered In make tie eleirge upon
oath, as he had no doubt hut she ur ie. cancel lied in carrying
off the child; however, a charge from him was out divined
sufficient.

31r. Horsley proposed that she slionld he kept in confine-
ment at the Brown Bear publie.huuse. 'lbis was lik4o re.
lust d, and the Siagodvite ordered that the girl should he
taken under the care of her father; as he had originally ar.
ranged. II f regretted the uofeeliug roil callous manner the
girl appealed during the whole of the ilivestigation. She
appearcil totally insensible of her conduct; and when giving
ut accotout of herself spoke us tine.n,:ertied as if slit had
lit in doing some good dell] ; and it hen on the ere of being
sent to prison she was not the bast affected.
The elegantly dressed female oho endeavoured to get the
girl privaitly to herself from Giolfiey, the constable; at the
Hercule► publir.lintise, followed her to the office, and re-
mained at the buck of the crowd during the whole of the
iuve►tigaliwy but did out attempt to interfere.

QC lIN4QVAAE.
CHARGE OF FELONY.

Catherine Se:Milford, better known by the appellation of
Tkier ;mg Kitt, was fully and finally examined on a charge
of picking the pucktt of Mr. E. Knight, of High-street,
Kensinton, of five IL pound Mink of Engfind notes.
he KUM cwor, who is a young man, stated, Ilia shout
twelve ticlork on Saturday night, Ire was returning home
from town, and was accorded near the Pultenty Huta by
the Prisoner, who begged him lu give her some gin ; she
walked with him some distance, and to get rid of hie he
gave her Al.; after they parted be searched his pocket, and
Wised Sf. 111 111)ii`P, he applied to the watchinua uu the beat,
who by the ileseription, Miti be thought she must " Thiev-
ing Kitt;" he remained all hour and a half with the watch-
rutin in search of her, soil on Monday last lie was infurtned
she was 111 custody.
Pace the Ali er said, that in consequence of information
he received, he went, accompanied by Alfred Pople, to a
room occupied toy the Prisoner's ninths'. in Pye-strei I, and
lhcre kink the Primmer iotu custody on Moiiilfy morning.
'they searched the place, hut could RA um notes. lie at 1..4
unscrewed tin disir lock, and found four If. stoles inside it,
concealed in a rag. Emil the Prisoner uad her mother were
then brought to the Write, and the mother confessed having
cluinged the other note at stir ill's shop.
Mr. Knight identified the mites produced, and die Prisoner
was fully committed fur trial.

wonsmr FTRVVT.
EXTRAORDINARV CHARGE. OF sHOOTOso.

Mr. William Cooper appeared before J. E. I•UNNANTi
(harslet' with violently essaultiog Geurce Dab-, 11 oriossengte
nailer a commis of banki awry.
It appeared, that our Henry Gomperts, Ilse of Token-
holm-yard, woubdes kr, had livcaine a ban Ir. ir lit on the sth
of October last. He had a private residence at No. 11, Net-
auicterrace, Kingsbuid-road, %%kith be hail, previous to his
becoming a bankrupt, made over to Mr. Gin racy, the ape.
Mal plrimse, and Mr. Cooper purchased the said know of Mr.
Gurney. It having been ascertained by the assigner.' that
..4.111WC WAS in possession of the houseo they also put I 1111111 fn
posses on liVediusday the 411 i instant. Oil the next
day, the fdle, he, with the assistance of a man lie rim
piled; forcibly turned oils the messenger. On Friday,
the GM, one of the assignees went with the Complain:lot
(Dahl, with proper mithiiiit and entered the lio ate by
the bark.iloor, which was then ripen. • Upon bearing
that possession was aims obtained, he immediately came
dvw • staii 1., attb • bract of Ii•Ivls 4t Li. haw', Ind

a.kedlc to stew Lis osill.nrity, which lie iminithately
did; all remonstrance on the part of the assiznec was inef-
fectual ; after 15 minutes' conversali.n on the stairs lie dis.
charged our of the pistols at Dale, *Well Ina uniately miesrd
him; finding that had no effect he directly fired the outs r,
ahjrh struck Dale 1111 ilie wrist; lie then dew up stairs to
Isis room, and seized a sword, with which he made a blow
at Dale, hut with the assistance of the assignee they suc-
ceeded ju talsinz the sword from lIIM,IIIIIi sent fir Rotherfist‘l,
the hcsulhsrongh. who took him into his custody, which put
is.. end to the affray.
It hail been sepresented to the assignees that Cooper had
been lately discharged from prism', awl that I. had offered
Isis services to a Solicitor as Clerk, fur a guinea per week,
therefore they thoutzlit his representations pur-
chased the h(,(( 4t Wily improbable, which in sonic 111
oecasiourit their interference iii such a ma 00000000

A Mr. Wild appeared as the solicitor tif the ito—i•zole,,,
Nod (7otoper ably supported los own cause in au adolot,b to
the 3lngistrate.
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Cooper was ordered to find hail, whirls he did. mitt was
liberated. He applied for mu Officer to proirct him in the
possession of but. !must and property, but this the Magic-
refused him.

NEWGATE.