The Sun.
London, England, 1808-01-07 00:00:00

ItarroN-CAILDtN.--Anmer Iralloq *as
charged before the Presiding Magistrate with steal-
ing several gowns, 'petticoats, a silk cloak, and ether
articles of wearing apparel, the property of Anne

The Prosecutrix is a poor woman, who taka,in,
washing, and goes out to work as charwoman She„
ertiployed the Prisoner for thelast • three weeks to!
assist her, ,and on Tuesday she went out to I.voik,
leaving her.room 'and its contents in charge of the
Prisoner. On her return she found her room robbid,
and the Prisoner gone ; she immediately went in
search of • but could not find her; she went
to a Pawnbroker, .of the name.of Tillier, in Field-
lane, and protluced a piece of calico of they same

pattern as one of, the gowns, and inquired if he
had taken in'a gown of 'the' sartie kind ? TH-
..

lier answered in the affirmative, and said he liad
direEted the person who pledged it to a ,lbdging-
house, -in.Chiek-;lane,-.as she said she had -jeSt'i.ome
from Portsmouth, awl was at a loss fora
In consequence of this information, Prosecutrix re-
paired to Chick4ane, where the Prisbner vas'fOund,
with.the.greater part of the things in befposiesSiciti.
—When taken into custody, she coolessed •She,had
stolen them in an unwary motnent.
She .was fully committed for trial.
Jeremiah Andrews„ a watchman, belonging to'St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, wag re-examined. upon a
'charge of being concerned with one Ann lintehin-
ion; and another person, in "carrying effa bed, seve-
ral pairs of sheets and blankets, several pairs of
crutches, and other articles, out of the said Ann
:Ilutehinson's room, she beings patient of the Hos-
pital. The 'goods are the property of the Governors
of the Hospital. Hutchinson and the man cannot
be found.
Jane Archer stated, that she was.a patient of St.
Bitrtholomew's Hospital, on the 17th Deeerriber,
1807, when the things were taken away 5. Witness
remembers seeing Prisoner and-another man,
t'six and`seven o'clock in the evening, enter
Aldred's,ward, of . which Hutchinson and Witness
were patients. They itutnedtately began, to pack tip
every thing they could take away, at theseAvas
the bed" on-which Hutchinson slept: Witness saw
it .taken away. It had been 'made by a patient
soma tinte,before,‘,and Wits, sewed with a kind of
yellow-coloured thread. The bed taken away by
the Prisoner Was shewn to her, which she. identified.
During the time Hutehinsen was a witient in the
Hospital, the POsonet was daily in her roornceifting
and drinking. His supper was sent him by Hutch-
insim, to the gate where was on duty, every
night. The articles were taken away in 'view of ail
the. patients in the wardi-and put into cart. •• -
Several of. the other.. patients corroborated this

testithOny.
The sheets were 'Staniped With Elie lloSpit-
i-
stamp, awl.'pvo asiistants to :the, M'atrort depos' d,
that.the mark was from an impression made by the
liespital-stamp ; but whether the sheets weremamp:
ed'hy them or not, they could not Say,. though they
stamped all ,the sheets Used lb the Hospital:
The goods were ,fetuiti its Gee-street, Goswell,.
street; by one of the Officers belonging to the Office,.
The Prisoner Was 'Committed fur trial. ,
QuacW.-SQUA'Re.---Yesterdity,..the .Porter of the SS
Golden-Cross, Charing-Cross, attended, aCcorri4
parried 'by the book-keeper, and e boy belonging
to the Inn the latter stated, that he had altered
the ticket, conceiVing that he was acting properly,
and net with a view -of defrauding the coirmlaititint,
Mr. Stracy. When asked his age,„ awl how long ,
Mace he It d. attended Divine Service, be said 1.4
was sixteen, and that he had'not been in chnich
for five yCars. past ; howeVer, the imposition of the
Porter appeared so evident, that the Magistrate
Was about to conviA bin, in the osual fine of 4Vs.
when the Complainant, Mr. Streoey,.obServed,, that'
as. he-came forward. in this.' ease' fin • behalf of- theL
public, he conceived it would answer the ends of .
justice much better, if the. Defendant would put an
Advertisement in two of. the Motning,Papers as a
caution to other porters. , This proposition was 4p-
proved of by the AtAgistOte, and the porter was al-
loweq seven days to accomplish it. •
'Ocunias Donovan. stood charged, with .GeOikil
Rudd, the 'Chelsea Butcher, With stealing.itwenty-,
.
five sheep, the property of Messrs. Swaine .and
- Bunnell) from a fieldnear nitgnigge. Wells; on the
evening of the 2dth of last intiiith. Mr. Bunnell
stated, that he and his partner bad purchased on
• that day 74 sheep in Smithfield-market, and had
l pert them in that field.. Next mottling they missed
sea of them ; and having received some informatient
respeOing.Rudd, he went to his shop in Cheisea;i:
accompanied by Bly, the Officer, when he found
eight of them killed, together with three more alive
in the back part of the pretnises.: Rudd yrhs. itu
tnediateli ,taken into custody, and, on further
'search 14 more were found in a stable belenging
'to him. The Prisoner Dniuritin in' his defence,
said, that on the day stated he was etnployed
person of the nettle of Jack Moore, to . drive these
sheep to George (meaning Budd), the bineherat
Waterworks,-;and he necorditigly deliveied
them to him about eight o'clock in the evening ;
and he knew nothing of their being stolen..: A pub-
near Chelsea, proved, that• Iludd,;dack Moore,
and the Prisoner, were together in his houSe *on that
evening, between eleven and' twelve o'clotk. '
Switine, and the'elticers Trott andtly, corroborated
the. evidence Of Mr:' Bunnell .; but on account of
the ahttence ,of a 'material witness, on the' part of
litidd, they :were retrianded till to-morrow..

I

During the recent' `ballots for the. Militia,
an atloting scene wok k.iiitee hetwee# two-bretheW;
the 114 happening to tall op the one which was Irks'h.,
rid, the other very geiierusly insisted,upon,servitigt
steadalledging, however unpleasant to him;
that he should not be Whje6ted to the least inconve,:
ttietfee. e,ratelul feelings of the bailotted tiro.
ther 'were in the highest degree excited, and a.,cpplr
ttos !low of tears expressed his thanks..'. ifititted
• ,
toltty woo witnessed the scene evinced ,40,alntoot
equal degree of sensibility !

" Ia Po ayotem of a century's standinglit;eickina-
,
, l a Gentleman lately IR it now. possible to
cinco anything newt" " That 1 deny," replied an
atNinaintanee) f‘ thee are abiwe one hundred Prin-
cipaf Prizes in the,presem State Lottery), which, a
Scheme of only. 84,000. Nutnbers, .And with • not
.thruo trio, is an abolute novelty."