The National Register.
London, England, 1819-01-31 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL /tEdISTEIt.

SURREY SESSIONS.
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CHILI) DeoPelee.— Wednesday a ease was tried here,
which excited the utmost interest. It occupied nearly five
hours. .dr. Turbo conducted the prosecution, Mr. Cowles
the defence.
Anne Atkinson and Ti101111%9 Stephens were indicted for
having coo:spired to defraud the parish of Bermondsey, by
exposiog their male bastard child opposite the workhouse of
that patch.
Jam. Joliana t Stapleton said, she lived at 56, Brunswick
Street, Markt', Oars Road. Tile female defendant came to
take a lodgiog at tier house ; said she was the wife of an ex.
ciseinan. lu toe eve ll ll g •he came again with the male de-
and paid earnest ; bath toots possession in *brut o
mask, and lived together as titan AA wife. The WOIII4II was
fat :.,1,1441red in pregnancy. Toe Mall said, that when the
child was burn' they should take it to his mother's, as they
were ;burg to America. -fhe child, a boy, was bore on la!'
Aim of Jolly. Witness was at the birth. his. Lewis was
Tne child relearned in the ionise thtee weeks, slier
is it was taken to Lowdeil's Court to unrse. The tithe,
uJ mother left the house tile same day, and returned io
~anal week, and sent for the elitist. They then took the
Vold Ist with tli•on; they returned at half past ten at night
wirnout it. Toe Mall was in a very agitated fainting stale.
11 ithess asked where the child was. -Itie woman said it was
very well, elm %cell taken care of, at his grandmothers.
Wituess era. not satisfied, but continued het issquit les tor
several days. The fein•le dereoilant illal site mod
the man to ,k time ciiilit, and bough a rush Ilaikut and a piece
Of tit iv flannel. wrapped the eitild rap to it, pot into ii.e
basket, and that the man tied it to the knocker of a door,
uppositi Bermondsey workhouse, while stir watched at the
top ut the sits et.
Saints L^a.is said &helmeted the female prisoner on the `.13,1
Jails sit Brunswick Street, in her conifitieinent. She noised
tha child a .seek. sties which she left it with them; afterwards
she saw the .•ii‘ol at Bei inosidsey workhouse.
Marra I_lo at., in August hod, (moot the door on opening it
retain L1C4%.!/ • She gat e a second ;otel, mid was then knocked
on her k .ee, ins somethiug faltitig against It. sue screamed,
and Mr. Russ opened the door, when there appeared a basket,
route-thing a child Ismaili live ur six weeks old. 'llitre were
child's clothe* in the basket. The eitild was taken to time
woo khoitse which was opposite, and delivered to Mr. S•epheiss,
the master, the defendant's, Stephen's father.
Mr. Cowley requested permission to ask a question
matt Lewis, torn former witness. The qui anon was a vei'y
iinpurtant one, lot the answer was as fdlows :
Sarah Lewis.—.drs. Staoleton said, &feline she and winless
w. tit to 011011 Hall, that witness must say as she did, us they
wool(' not get the trward---inat she en tot not ',silt. Witness
was exatsiteed at Bermondsey, and gave such teatime/it), as she
gave to dad.
The father of the male defendant said, he expected his
son was married, bit never heard at what cotarzlo, nor SAW
the c•itilkate. fits sell fail klal Ilit pout- years Aga. Th*:
(.mate prisoner wait not tile person to w Mini he .aid ue was
Mat I ied. Witness lead a young chil.. brought to him w Am,
gust, He was master of liermoodsey workhouse. He ties er
saw the person who brought the child, but that ehil4 was ac-
companied by 10 Or a others. Tae child Mot bete in the
loose ever since.
Verdict—Guilty Sentence, six 'flotillas' imprisonment.

I)islurhers of the Deal.—.ou Moi.da v, the Fiurongh genic(
Dom tee:ion-men wet o stopped neer Croydon by halter, con-
stable of W•dingtott; with a horse and mer,. ileker with an
assistant, apprehended one of the wretches named Martin, the
others effected their swept- The tray betlire, Mi.. Baker's sis-
ter, Nits. Root., WAS nutted in Wallington churchyard, led.
apoit the constable searching the cart he foisnd two dead Wadies
and one of them be recogothed as his ovsli sister: The other
was illeti:itied as the lovely of a Mr. W—, a tos et ii-keepe., a,
Withington, who was Owlet' the same des.. Jibe bodies were
again 'wetted, and the prisoner con seed intice the Slaps..
trate. and cuuututted fut. trial at the next litmutoa Assizes.
Hr us. brought to town, and lodged in li•rseniurige -,tie.
The Birmingham Chronicle say.--" In a tillage in Sutaiirds'iire .
nut a hundred miles from uu examining the parish accounts'
the three following curitnitim sweated r—ote of Me Oecseers nut
made sixty-three weeks in the yew; aratem tr. the other Overseers
account was, fur a sum of money paid in aid of the Coat p Ruts ;
tail: caused a good lauglivr, in whim nuac joined more heartily than
the Constable ; who immediately afterwards prod teed his accouats
in which wasa charge foe Minding a congirest over a man found dead.
CAUTION To SWE•NERS.—ibout a fortnight since two young
men. one named Jose oh Gowlett, a sailor, and other a coat-porter.
in company at a publie-house, engaged, for a pot of beer, to tri
which could swear the mo.t diabolical oaths; when Gowlett, after
using the most abominable expressions for a short time, became
exhausted, and mull not utter a syliab!s. and has remained spveeli-
lino ever since—a lie mg exith.pte to toose who take God's name in
vain—Norte:A
A waterspout w.nicii lately broke at Tschstchine, near Smyrna,
has dome antnense lani...ge. Houses were threwa down, tiers :cned
up. 'a men and au cuffs washed imo the sea, the garden; and
Eelds w:ie laid waste, and the promise of the vineyards wholly de-
nt eyed. 'lns damage is reckoned at Wong purees.
INTERNSTING TO GANDLNELL—A gentleman is Oxford-
shire has lately tried some espeti.neuts with the ammoniacal liquor,
pro.luced in the manufactory of gas from coal, for the destruction
of the gmb, and other worms, which so often destroy the rising
hopeso. the ge.rdners, particularly in his early crops. TM: result has
satufaeurrily proved that the use of this liquid entirely destroys
them; and se far is i, tram injuring we tenderest plant, it seems
rather to invigorate it than otherwise.
Dawai:e or MA-Av.—At a parish thure"i not many. miles from
Livespoul, 12 coups:, appeared one morning to be married; but. in
consequence of the widen intliTei: ion of the clergyman, the
weddings were obliged to be postponed till the next day. Accord-
ingly, the clergyman was in regular attendaace the following day,
at the same hour, when, out of th•sse twelve couples, only seven
made their appearance. The marriage of the remainder has been
put off sine the.
Four men fell into a Inn : kiln at Tregothad, on Wednesday
.wring. i wit of than extricated themselves, but the other two
were burn, to death. 'file following is the account which the sur-
vivors gave to t:ie liquest were hired to discharge the
cargo of •.e ••.A .a. of L•ulon. 03 We. Aside. they game
to Tm:c. ine.ai...ved, and On th.•i.. return hailed
the Cana.". as.d &wired so be thkett on board. This could not be
accom.,h.,a;vl, wile: Caput a had gone to 'fru.° in the otily.boat
that wa kept with the vessel. In this tit y repaii Al to
the linth kilo. Du the edge of this they :* to d.y Omni
when the gas overpowered them, and they fed au: n.. the i,..;0t ed
masa One of the survivors has the apramnor et -tang
oil over, soppozed to be hem the effects of the neat OAI his coat
the whet is badly tunnt ; but there is every expectation
-that their lives will be pteeertal. The Jury returned a caulks
of—Actilental Death.