The National Register.
London, England, 1822-09-09 00:00:00

POLICE.

• MANSION-1101.75t
A watchman, named Phillips, was brought before the
Lod Mayor, charged with having beaten his wile most
winsercifully, sometimes withie csidael, and some 1111 l es
with his fins. The witnesses who came forward to
swear to the facts, mentioned that the dreadful treatment
the unfoltunate woman received from her husband had
Mode her subject in occasional his of insanity. Her
case eves peculiarly hard, bur it appeared frosts one eel
wh els she had committed.—that of manying the defen-
d-sm.—that her intellects had been in a titre of disorder
kin, e she had Etymon, to complain of his unkimlnns.
p emu entering the Just:cc-room, she had one of her
pliddren in her arms..moiner was carried by one of the
kind women who reside in her Arighbourlsood, and it
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Premed to he touch in need of i • assistance which the
;limiter% situation prevented her fj in git ing. She looked
s' subbed.
ildly about, and Fro her areniiiit it tiliptar-
ill that the deft-whoa, to whom she has been some years
worried, was in the constant lialut of sinking and kick-
jug lics i that he had the night leafore IN:illell her wish a
large stick , that she Met often term 1444 ed by hius into
is %hue of lissemibilisy, out of which ihs.was recovered
toy the attention of those who pitied her. She believed
WI inmnion was ii)4lo WI Orr lifer (pt he been hi;

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cruelty witliont the least provocation, and left marks
upon all parts of her body, which would not e*sily dis-
appear.
The pc•,r woman then 'tanned her head, and tithibited
some desperate weak on her shntiltiers,
The t!efentlani said she was his p:ague, and not bit
wife, lie had twen (It ceired, Site was the wile
another man when she married h.in, and of cntirU: had
no claim upon Itui t lie athistited iilat lie hid struck her,
butt he e zeitAed himatlf upon the oruntid that she forced
her way onto his presence and made demands which he
had sin right to listen to.--drotanda for the Surp44l ut
her (Ink:reit. . _ _

One of the officers bete stated to the Lord ',Mayor,
that the ►ut.riable tvogn.lll WWI Ihe Wile of it persoit Coll•
meted with the pol!ce when she married the reteittiaiii.
but that the dowdy tie Wel not the coost•rlurore 01 slay
vicious propensity upon the part of the woinati, whose
imellects were always 111111jeCl Ift laps. s, and who was tint
,caste of the offence she was committiog when she coot
booed to bt•cothe 4 bigamist.
1 he complainant said, that whatever objection the
defendant ►►asht h ivy to her, lie might, :it .c 44 11l
sup-
Itort, children. She was it Mitts to work like a slat t.,
but he deprived her of me power to woik by Ins tlread•
tut attacks smolt tier.
'l•he Lord !Mayor said the case was a very lamentable
one. As 111( the defendant. he was a brute who did not
des-ne to has: the society of a ; and with fess
peel to the poor 141/111411, 111) individual who had came
belore him during his usaymally was more deserving al
compassion or proteciim. She had subjected herself to
punishment at the criminal bar by ais act, of the lii-
[penance of which she tier not stem to be conscious, and
had thrown upon bet first hosband the terrible obligati.m
of giving a livelihood to her eitiWren by a her mast.
'rite defendant deciare•d that l►e would not supply a
halfpenny towards the support of the ctoldrem
Toe Lord Mayor ordered that the fellow should be
detain' d its custody to sire stvorities fur bet ping the
let ilee toward, the complainant,
Toe complainant's distress seas intleseribsble. She did
not know to whom to look for s sitillitbs, Her first host
band is extremely poor. lien second refuses to petit aaaaa
what he is morally bound to do. Site cannot look to
the parish fur support, the officers being suitable to render
astistance., except they first deterlItillelQ11111111:011 a ►ll5ll
far taut contributing to the support ol• children who have
Ito natutal claim 151)011
The poor creature received some temporary assistance
from the Lord Mayor, who desired her at all events to
apply to her panto. Etta] a conviction fur bigamy
would be preferable to the condition in which she was
note placed, beats destittite of comfort or hope,