The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTETI.

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and uttering reflections extierucly prejudicial to his e:.:ireeter, in
a tone of voice so lout they must have 'lathed the eats of the
Jury, and, as he conceived, h a 1 to prejudice them agaimt lIIID ;
on this ground he intended to apily to the Court. lle (Mr.
rjesat Copleyv on hearing this statement, declared his opi-
nion that the ground was intuifieient. If Mr. BighoLl had sup-
posed he suffered prejudice fruit who. Le had sta ed, he should
hove rep:minted it to his I,ordship of the time, who would have
protected hi+ interests with the Jury. This opinion thus deli-
vered had. he believed, displewc.l Mr. Bignold, who, as he on.
tierstood, intended to ihsti.:.t his Lcarntd Brother to make the
application. He had felt it ...ue to himself to state thus much to
the Court.

Mr. berjeant Vaughan assured his I.earned Brother he had re-
ceived no ithaructiowa.
The Chi,4 Justic.: observed, Mr. Scrjeant Copley had acted
moat propeily in the advice he had given. Tic Learned Judge
then adverted to the particulars of toe trial, and inthnstod an
opinion that thae %.;re no ground; whatever fur diaturbing the
vettlict.
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ROW-STREET.
LAMENTABLE CASH —Oil Friday Anne Pascoe and
Nl,,ey 11 nl, two intereqing looltitea giils, not more than
1.5 !frarb ofa.y, were brought before R. Millie, Esq. the
sit:meg Mazdstrate, charged with embezzling it. los. 6d.
I the omperly Ma James.
The turl,m•eru Pascoe, it appeared, was in the service
of the I,robrcatrix, and nerd occasionally worked for
I), r. Oil Thursday she sent Rescue with st.tiee work
and a bill, for the sum 111C111.101/td, 10 the house Of 2
lady Mar Park-street, and she took Alm Jaunes's chill,
about nine months old, vs ith her. Slit met Herd by
the tray, and Aber a Mint absence, the latter came to
Mrs. Jauees tvilh the child, and a message frm) Pascoe
that she Itsul brut, rubbed oi'tlie money while al
2 lithe is Piccadilly. The prosecntrix di sired Herd ice
go back and fetch Pascoe, and she went away, but
neither Or shell, rimmed. After a mist anxiiiiis search
for several hones, she !Mind the (mita' Iri girls at a bro-
thel in Cite Alwunr., p)e-street, Vt'cbtininster. All
the money war 1201. c.
P.ISCUe 1100' sail she runt a girl of the town whom she
had fornwily known, and W3O persuaded by her to go to
the house where her mistress f d her. %Viten she got
there she ,vas taken into a room and searched by other
girls, who took .roill her every farthing of her mistress's
umney.
The other prisoner said,Pit woe sent her into the horse
in Park-street to receive the money, aoti when she gas e
it to her she said blue did not mean to return to her mis-
tress, and persmaled her (Herd) to go with her to the
boos where they were found.
The father of Herd said Ins daughter had always con-
ducted herc.af kite pinpriely Ulllll silt 10:CJIIIC 4C-
tl ndialted sviiii the prisoner Pascoe.

ATTON-G Ail DEN.
IRISH PAVPSI:S AND THIS NEW POOll Acr.--An
apphemon was made to the inagi>.r.ne, W. L. Hauer's,
Ls.i. by 111. Bodkin, one 01 the o%vrs,fers of LOr pariso of
Clerktowt:ll, under Mr. Sturges lICW Act lur
atnetolios the Poor laws.

A wreichecl•looking Irish woman, and three young
childien, without shoes rw stockings, and almist naked,
were brought into the office by the beadle. Upon exa-
mination by the worthy magistrate, it appeared that the
husband of the pauper, having been unable his procure
uork, bad some note since deserted his faintly. and that
although tiny bail lied in this country upwards of 20
years, and that all the children were born in the par'sh,
Ili/legal settlement had beets obtained : by the new act,
therefore, they were liable to he immediately sent to
Ireland as vagrants.
Mr. bodkin proceeded to remark upon the cruelty of
the provisions of this act, winch for the first time in this
country regarded poverty as a crime.
Magnuate —Sir, woatever opinion may be enter-
tained upon this act, I have no discretion; if you de-
mand it, I am ready to grant the older.
Mr.l3udkitt I do not demand it, but I do feel
myself most empleasanily situated. Whilst other Lon-
don parishes arc avalling themselves of the powets of
this art, if ore's abstain from doing so, • the natural con-
seitisenee will be to attract tutus the whole oldie burden.
The duty of an oversee: now calls upon us to do that
%%web every man's feelings must surely most strongly
condemn. My only object in bringing these miserable
objects before you is to arouse the public to a sense of
the inhumanity and impulicy of the act. I cannot
indeed bring myself so believe it will be lung sutured to
remain in three, or that the numerous persons of rank
and influence iii the metro; ohs, connected with Ireland,
can refrain from an eittleat our to effect shine immediate
qualification of this clause.
The poor woman wept bitterly at the idea of being
sent u slate upon the coast 01 Ireland, whrre she seas
now aliod,rifhr unknown, and expressed the utmost
gratitude on tieing inforitivi it would not be the
riot.. It appeared to us Inc magistrates were strongly
impressed %snit tile severity of tilts enactment, and Air.
Lioilkin (who is iiittiustely conoccird with site ,Nieptli-
city Sreiet)) declared it as Ins decided colic iction, that
its consequence must be greatly to increase the number
ofoeggars, by sending all the Irish pour of the metropolis
into the !MM.