The National Register.
London, England, 1812-10-04 00:00:00

A CC/DENTS AND OFFENCES'.

TsTREss; NG CASE.—A respectable family not many miles front
Londou, has lately experienced he. greatest utt fortune We
thrbear nunitioning their names, as the publiem ten titereot would onii
augment their afflictions. H \\*ever, t r the sake of giviti; a w.irni..k
?o Others, and 111 °Fier to give an cxaniple of now to hainan gent ivii I
can go, we insert t'ie 'win); rcts connnuaicated to us. The fa-
tha, who is an independent man, and who, on atcottin of the excel-
lency of his heart outht to eejoy all the blessings in this w‘;rl I, ha-,
neverthe:e-s, of late, neen redin. e.l to one of the most mho; innate
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hip, and this by h own offsnrieg, a gir; of about sev• nrecn
ave. This girl has had the very best editeatloo : she cao speak do:
French and Italian latiginiees fluently ; plays tla! p.dllo
guitar excelkntly. But, however, front the (taw she was tea veais
old, has been addicted to the vice of stealing. tier mother, w fin is
the most all;:ctionate and kind woman, has, as well as th.• tuher,
done every thin,;in their power both by teod and severe means,
prevail on the girl to leave practices, but to no purfinse.
No day passed but the servants of the house host money or trit;ker-
Whenever the girl went into a shop, nt even passed a truitinongsr's
stall, she always stole something. The other day site went into an
haberdasher's shop, with her brother, and havh:g bought some rib•
bons, they went out together ; but they had hardly w.ilke.l twenty
yards before they were taken up and brought hick to tne shop ; ;net
on searching them, several yards et lace were found on the gill, and
she was accordingly brought bet Ore a Magistrate. Every means were
tried by the unhappy parents to prevent her being coininitkd ; bat
the Justice, acconlmg to Ins ,Itity, committed ker for felony, aid
bound the other party over to prosecute. The poor parents are in the
greatest anxiety.: the mother lies ill, and no hopes of her ree ively are
entertained ; and the lather, who can no longer bear the s.glit of the
neighbours after this ch:grace, has ttn.oivad to leave England, And
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tire to Ireland with his temaiving c4;lit children.
UN lON-:1 ALL.—A young man, diessed in the first style et fashion,
and representing himself to tie the son of a glass-snanu fn :alter, in the
City, was brought before Mr. Evance, chaigcd by Nii.ry Ann Watson,
an interesting young woman, with detrantriog her of 1. wider the toi-
lownig circumstances : the prizoner had contrived to ini educe him-
self to the notice of thz proseeutrix in the street, and had
her to meet thin at. ditiment times; and; on one occasion, tney went
into a house to take some refieshmeht ; on•teeiiii,; in his- peeket tor
the money to pt.y the hill, he expressed great :imp! ;se at a LlELUin-
stmt.:: with which he was betore fully acquainte", namely, at nut
finding any inotiey there; he accounted for it, by sin itv, he
lett his purse at home ; the female, upon this, produced a pound-note
fur his accommodatioa, out of which he pai.! the bill, and very den-
berately put the chain into into Ins before empty pocket. The next
day th..y met at the same home, and, Nt conversation, he discoverd
that she had g some more 'totes in her pocket, upon which he
to!.! tier, if she could give him four poun Is he tunnel pay her the
one pound he had borruwel the day before ; this she and re-
ceived what she thought was a 51. note, which she put into her
pocket ; he quitted her soon after under pretence of going to.tlp.
to get Ins watch whkh he had left there ; she waited !elite Ono! in
expectation of his reiurn, hut waited in vain ; :tad on going
quire tar far him, she understood he had been gone for some time with-
out taking leave; she immediately examined her note, wheii si.e
found that instead of a Balk of Eh land 51. note, she had got d Ftr-1,
five-pm-my note. This was in June last, and she did nt.,t see lion
again till Wednesday evening, • when he by chance cam:. I to Ine:
sante ti.ix in .'lst ey's Theatre, in which slit was sitting with a par:
of friends; he was immediately pointed out. to Harratt the
Iby Whom ne was taken into custody.
.1)i Lis defence, he .aid, that he had giral the prosecuttilt4c

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