The National Register.
London, England, 1813-04-11 00:00:00

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children of brewers, or Deptford-dock labourers, or Corsican attorney+ I
cr so, and risen to be great people, that then you could fancy and
like them. IN ow, dear Sir, as lam one of those whom you may like,
rriv do obliie me ; the Princess has been always good' and kind to
st,e, though she is noble born ; and therefore out of love for me,
though you cannot help hating her, do, pray, never speak another
Nvord in her favour; for I lead the boy; clear over or through th t
e
hedges, but you bring every body into scrapes. You have brough
Ars. Lisle into a scrape, and she has been kind to me ; you have
brought a great many lords into a scrape, whom I don't know ; and
%on have brought yourself into a scrape, whom I don't care about.
*For they say, that all your friends shy yon now ; for they are never
bare, while you ate smiling in their face, but you may be whet t iug a
knife to cut -their throats ; or, what is worse, preparing a-charge to
stab their reputation.. Oh, Sir! you are a dangerous man—do, pray,
have nothing to do with our atElirs ; and, for Heaven's sake ! do not
take the side of the dear good Princess. If yott most be meddling,
do become iwr enemy, and then you may serve her, and oblige our
bumble servant, NV M. AUST

L 13 A 1 L ir
These Sessions commenced Wednesday. hefore Lord Ellenborough,
the Lord Chief Baron, anel the City Otiicers.
The whole of Frideiv was takea up in the trial of Sarah Evans,
charged with sellbcatine Geerge Evans, her son, tour years and a
half old, by tying a haedkerchiel round his neck, and throwing him
into the New River, on the 'list February.
The mass of evidence on this occasion would fill a newspaper; and
we cannot give it Kett than by briefly abstracting the evidence, on a
ease most' singular he its nature. The deceased was accounted a fine
lively chile, and the body was sound in the New River, near C ;erk -
en well, in a putrid state, on the 14th of March. The woman had'
formerly been a prisoner in Coldbatn-tields ; and A ris, the late Go-
vernor, was the reputed father of the child. The priscner, according
to the testimony of a number of witnesses,. had expressed loudly her
distress, and her anxiety and solicitude to get the child into the W ork-
IVAISC, she having had another of more tender years, awl the embar-
rassments of Aris had rendered him unable to suppert her of late.
The child, ween bound, had a chambre handkerchief twisted about
the neck, with a runnine, koat under the left ear ; and another hand-
kerchief-, containing half a brick, was tied round- the body. It had
on a silk cep, a bee-gown, and shoes and stockings.
The prisoner told dirlereet stories to ditlereot persons, that it was
at Pancras Nursery-house, and then at her aunt's at Brotnpton, in
all of which she was detected, and which at length she confessed, by
acknowlei,ing sites hild to have been her's, and also the clothes, in
separate confeesion, before the magistrates. These confessions were
of the prevaricating order, and alleged that Aris, the father ofthe
child, had caused a woman, whom he representa to be about to tike
the child to his sister, to meet her- in Gray's-ion-lane on the Cl st of
February, and to whom she delivered Wet. She ecounted for tellieg
different stories about the child to the into; ference of Aris.
Thomas Aris stated that he was formerly Governor of Coldbath-
fields ',risen. He had a eesidence for the l-ist three months over the
water. He knew the prisoner, and he recollected the child George,
the deceased, .1/110, he understood was swirls to him about eleven
menthe ago. Saw the prisoner about three weeks atter this, and asked
if she hail sworn the child to him, when she confesses she had so done
from necessity. Witness asked where the child wee, and shit in-
formed him by her sete, she having another child in her arms, which
Silt Silid sh' lu lto nurse at seven sled lines pct week. Witness never
eiw the prisoner after, until at ',Hatton-garden Office in March,
charged with murdering the child. lie hae gone there
noluntarilyt
,
iving heard the fact fen newspapers. He neve:- appoited to mee
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brie, as stared, on the 21st et le-bite:ll. e iseie at
%vent out home on that
(ley with a person of the name of jone:;, aHnd seldom en a
Sunday. The story of a passage in the prisoner's cenfession, that his
si:iter had been pointeil out to her at Clerkenwell, was also take, as
his sister lived* itt Bucks, and had not been in London these 45 years.
Witness attended every examination of the pi:st.hcr voluntarily, and
had not been held In any recognizance to apeesr at the trial.
On cross.-examination, witness stated the prisoner Ms his servant,
after her imprisonment ; be was ouce very tamiliar with her, but he
had seen her bet seldom, the last perhaps once in six months, awl for
nearly two yeamonly once in Northampton-street. He had snpplied her
with nieney formerly, but he has lately been dietressed himselfhe he. Hd
e
had eight children to keep, besides three of the prisoner's, but
no intercourse with her to justify the imputation of his being the father
of the last child. On looeiug at the handkerchief which was forma
round the neck of the deceased, witness swore positively againSt the
confession of tee prisoner, that he hover saw the handkerchief before,
and that he never borrowed one of the prisoner, as stated.
In defence, the prisoner, who till now has never shewn her face,
verbally echoed her confessions. She hail told falsities in the first in-
stance by Aris's threats. She delivered the child to a woman by his
, detite, influenced by his threats, and 'fever she told where the chili
was taken from her, he ( A is) would kill her.
Lord ELLENBORORG4 lett the race to tee Jc.rv, an! they retie d
tittree-tQuis, and re tweed. a vetshct NoL wie re.