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11111 TON R tUTII.N.
EX I RAM! He NARY CHARGE OF ROHNER Y 31.1 DE

BY A SON MAINS!' HIS FA"! HEX.
Ti Outlay a boy, aged 13 years, of die name of ll'iniena
3fiJee, as brought up trout the House of Corresetiort, where
he had been c tttttt lotted by Mr. Cokt.tes, trims Hampateail,
tau the following charge:—
The Primmer it appeared had been eot.bny in a public-
house is Humps,. aid, from which situation he was discharged
on last 3ltioday a veniug ; slimily after which he applied to
a man of the moue ut Voskeit, who logos an errand cart, fur
leave to sleep that wets in it, which is kepi at Mr. Brown's,
the sign of the Hake of Hautiliou's llcad,saying, dint he was
afraid to go home, as his fattier swore he would minder lieu,
fur laying out three shillings wages he had received, in pur-
chasing a pair of shoes Foskett knowing the buy, and that
his father and mother were eery honest people, consented to
let the boy sleep isa his cart, and let him into the coach-huuse
about twelve on Monday 'tight, and lucked the door; next
'maritime, at seven o'clock, Fuskett went and unlocked the
door to let the buy out, bait he discovered that be was already
pine. At ten Me coachman entered, fur the purpose of
washing two gentlemen's carriages kept there. and discovered
that three of the coach glasses had bets stolen, and the
fourth broken, is attempting to take it out. Suspicion
falling on the boy be was taken into custody, and brought
before Mr. Collins for examination, whets he made the fol-
lowing charge against his father.—He slats d, that being
fearful to go home he got permission to sleep to Furkett's
cart, is Mr. Brown's coach-house; that he entered the cart
about twelve o'clock, and wrest to sleep, shortly after which
lie was awoke by a rattling at the cosch.huuse hack door, as
if some person wanted to come in ; he got up end unbarred
the dom., and his fathereame in ; Ice knew him to be kis father ;
when be came I. he exclaimed, u Oli !" and shut the door,
and then went to the carriages; be went back to the cart,
and sat there whilst his father remained doing something
about the carriages, which was about an hour, when or hear-
ing a noise in Mr. Brown's horse he opened the door, and on
his going away he said, "My name is Halsey, of Edgware."
but he knew him to be his father, fur lie went to the door, and
looked after him ; he had sin a blue coat, and bad something
under the skirt ; he thought first his father came to lake him
liomt.On this charge the uffiters went in search of the father,
but he was from home, and did nut return until Wednesday
night, at which time his wife informed bins that the Police
Officers were in search of him, charged on the infurmat•
of his own son, with stealing three coach.glassee out of
Mr. Brown's coach-horse. The father, on hearing the charge
that was made against him, sent fur a constable and sur-
rendered himself, and yesterday was brought to this Office,
to answer the charge, where Mr. Collins attended with the
examination and confession of the buy. The boy was fi.it
brought into the Office, and at, icily examined, the father
nut being present, when be strongly persisted its his former
stlienseut, that the rubbery was committed by his father.
After the boy was removed (rum the bar, the father,
Jahles Miles, a bricklayer, • man of respectable appear.
sure, and who bore, oat the testimony of the Officers and
others who knew him, a most exemplary good character,
was brought in, accompanied by Mr. David-Wood, limiter
bricklayer of Hampstead, when he gave the following ac.
count isf himself, which was confirmed by his master :—lle
stated, that be worked with his master at Mr. Birger's co-
lour nnumfactory at Honsertun ; he was at his work at five
o'clock on Monday useruiug, worked till seven every even.
lug, and did not come home until nice o'clock on Wednes-
day night, when he was informed by Lis wife of the charge
that was against him, on which be sent fur • constable and
surrendered himself; that be did out know his sun was dis.
charged from his situation, and consequeutly he could not
threaten him, as he was not at home all the time, Homertuu
being three miles distant from his residence; that on Mon-
day evening (the night of the rubbery) after he left utr
work at seven o'clock, he accompanied ha toaster on busi-
ness as far as Shoreditch, and returned to H ertoo at la Isle
he and his master had two pints of porter there at the
Plough, and at ten o'clock he went to Lie lodgings to the
house of Mrs. Sutton near the Plough, where he went to
bed and slept with another matt who lodges sister, and is a
gardener; he got up next morn ing to go to work 20 minutes
before live o'clock, and was let out by another lodger of
Mre. Sutton's. lie slept there also uu Tuesday slight, acid
or Wednesday night he came home.
The Magistrates being of opinion that the charge of the
901111 was unfounded, and originated its his being couceriii d
with some other persons in the rubbery, the father, oat bias
uwo faith and his 'nester's, was suffered to fetus n to his
work, on his prumisiug to attend at the ucat exasuivation,
until *Lich time the boy was remanded.

CONSISTORY coma; DOCTORS• COMMONS,

June 11.

SULLIVAN, Guardian. against MARIA SCLIIVAN,
otherwise OLDACRE, falsely calling herself aut.-

LIVAM.

This question of nullity of Marriage, on the
ground of minority, fraud, misnomer, and non-con-
sent on the part of the Right liotionralde John
Sullivan, father and natural guardian of John Au-
gustus Sullivan. the minor, who was married by
Banns, at St. Olave's Southwark. on the 15th of
July, 1816, to Maria Holmes Oldacre, siaiiir.,l
daughter of Thomas Oldacre, huntsman to the
Berkeley hounds, came on this day fur broth-arr.
Sir Wu. SCOTT, in a judgment which occupied
an hour and a quarter, considered particularly the
two objections of conspiracy and tuisnumer. With
regard to the former, he held that uo conspiracy on
the part of the friends and relations of the Lady had
been made out. l'ouciiing the latter, he thought the
Act had been satiptled. Being an illegitimate
she was strictly entitled to no surname, but the law
allowed her such as she might require and use. The
pregnancy having taken place four months before
the marriage, she was, to prevent scandal, called after
the father; but it bring suggested when the banns
were to be published, that spurious offspring were
commonly tined after the mother, she added the
name of flohnes, and, as the' I.ea►ned Judge ob-
served, " not for the purpose of fraud, fur it could
deceive no one, but to make security doubly sore."
She was married as Maria Holmes Oldacre. That
Court, he remarked, would not coursteuarice any
idle levity or fraud in these matters, neither
would it construe them with pedantic strictness
when no deceit was intended or could operate.
The Learned Judge, thrreforr, I,rv,unnnced for the
validity of the inerriatre of John A ii;oistio. Sullivan
with Maria Holmes ()Warne, ;aid that he do take
her home, onti treat her with conjugal affection,
certifying the same to that Court neat Term.