The National Register.
London, England, 1813-09-05 00:00:00

SEPT. 5.

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Place, means would be tinind to procure Idni.somc mane
bait was irresistible. to poor Matthew, who agreed for the sum of
ten gilineas to an union with the accomplished Aim Place, which
was accordingly soiemnized with all convenient diApatch, within
about three weeks of its first suggestion. The money was paid to
Matthew by the Overseers; bat in order to have smile colourable
pretext for the payment of this money, a formal indoiture was
drawn np, by Which old Matthew covenanted Ph perform a certain
quantity or hedging, diiching, and droning, fur Wm. Shaker, the
atanding Overseer of thee township of Denton.
This contract, which was couched in as formal terms as if it had
been the conveyance of an estate, was read by Mr. Topping, and
excited great merriment in the Court. Mr. Topping said he should
be obliged to go into the enemy's qil,erters tor evidence, and should
first produce oil Nlatttiew, whose evidence lie should corroborate
by that of Alai his wife; and when he fiat proved that all the De-
fendants had interfered in bringing about this scandalous marriage,
they %maid feel it their duty to find the Defendants guilty.
It did not appear, how e‘er, iu evidenee, that the parish of
had been put to any extra expellee since the marriage, on
account of the woman, and the Jury acquitted the Detendants.
The Judge then said, the °fictive imputed to the Defendants was
a very heinous one, and one punishable by the law. It was ex-
tremely wrong in Overseers, or others, endeavouring to. bring
about an union between persons, who, neither by circumstahees
nor inclination were fitted for cad, other, for the impose of re
hiving their own townships trout expense, and more especially
when it was to be effected by burthening another township. .

at the door of her then residence in
.4Within a few days afterward (about the 28th of Sept.) the farce
of baptizing the said child, by the name of Edward Garratt Deasy,
av performed in the same howe, as proved by a certificate the
Latin language,' exhibited in Court, in the hand-writing of the
Apotstolie Vicar of the Catholic Church in this city, who was most
piously instructed to premise that this child, being the offspring of
Timothy and Anna Maria Deasy, was born upon a day, and at an
hour several days previous to the actual birth.
During this time the plaintiff was lett in total ignorance of the
fate of her chil.!, until November follawing; when, by unwearied
exertions, she found him in the possession of Mrs. Deasy, then living
at No. 16, King-square, 'who, after the plaintiff's repeated impor-
tanities, permitteti. • joy the object of her solicitude, as an
inmate with thefami y, ter anent two months, until the defendant
and his wife pretended an urgent visit to Herefordshire, when the
plaintiff returned to her former lodgings in Denmark-street.
After varions doubling* and turnings by this couple with their
heir of hownirable adoption, in Gloucestershire,. Herefordshire,
Bath, and places too unmerons to record—with the dodging slows-
sion of servants hired and discharged out of sight of each other,
even upon the King's highway,—they returned to Bristol, believing
perhaps that they had now totally baffled all endeavours to identity
the child as any other than their own, in the spring of 1810. The •
ill-fated plaintiff, in the following December, was delivered of a
second child. On the 6th of that month (December, 1810) the de...•
tending, and his ever-ready fi kind, called together upon her, then,
• at lodgings in Upper Madlin-lane, and urged her to the absolute
disposal of the child named Edward Garrett Deasy ; offering her •
an annuity of .501. per annum, upon condition that she„would aban-
don the sight or of that her first child, tiir ever.
This attrcement, after much hesitation by tbf plaintiff, was at
length agreed upon, and witnessed by the agent afinded to. Ac- .
cordingly an annuity to the beterenamed ailment was secured npon
the bond of the defendato to the plaintiff; thr the nno-payment of ►
the instalments stipulated wherein, due since. Midsummer, Jam
this. action was brought. On the following day, the plaintiff was
reqUired to execute an agreement, never to divulge or make litowit
any of the circumstances respecting her said child, nor to approach •
near the residence of the defendant or his family ; npon an alleged
violation of which, agreement, the defendant rested his-opposition
to the obligations of the bond.
One witness for the defendant proved, that ins conversation
about the middle of ti!l‘2, the plaintiff, after engitiring for the re-
sidence of the defendant and his wife, observed, " they have -broken
their obligation to me, or .1 would never have been hostile to them."
Mr. Baron Graham summed up the evidence, when the Jury,
without leaving their box, in about five minutes returned a verdict
tm• the plaintiff of the amount sued for, with all arrears to the pre-
sent time. •

PFRTIF, Am; us.T 26.—0 n Tnesday minim:, a number of pri-
soner- eSealleil from the depot through a mine which they had dug
to the bottom of the miter-wall, where it laces the'South Inch. It
is seppised that they hail begun to issne from the aperture of this
passage about. two in the 'Morning ; but as they preserved a profound
silence, and as the night was very dart:, they were not observed by
the sentries, till one of them attempting to 'leap the stream which
skirts tho north side of the depot, fill into the water with consider-
able noise. The nearest seutry then tired towards the point from
whirl, the sound proceeded, and the adjoining sentries havint( dis-
charged their muskets in the salve direction, an alarm was given,
and parties of the guard went in pursuit. of the fgitives. Ten of
them were soon upprehentled, but we understaml that 13 are still
missing. They seem to* have had no plan for proeceding. after
finding themselves at liberty.
SINGULAR BUM; LA R V.—Htiffey 'White, who Vt'it lately executed
at Northampton for robbing the 'weds mail, it appears, WRS en-
gaged, with several others, a shcrt time before, io breaking open
Cli* Kettering bank, and such was the masterly manner in which
the robbers effected their entrimee, and conducted the business
altogether, that the baniker's:. 'Aie:sti. Keep and Gotch, were en-
tirely ignorant of any circumstance of ti.lt kind having occurred
till within a few days azo, when ;bey were made despiainte.l with
it by the accomplice, who turned Rung's ev;deitee neon HutieVs
lila' at Northampton. The ha! 'kers
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such me affair eo
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