The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-28 00:00:00

ed los; to use the witness's own language, it " was
the sweetest babe she had 'ever laid her ryes on,

and .she, loved it as if it had been her own."

The

witness burst into tears, indeed she appeared affected

throughout, and-her feelings wouldThave done ho-
nour to the real parent ; every person in Court sym-
pathized with her. In continaation.of her evidence,
she said, on Sunday evening, the .20th of. August,
Mrs. Pugh, accompanied by a Lady and Gentleman,
came to herliouse ; the child was not dressed, but
her clean clothes' were on a chair airing. Mrs.

Pugh said to the witness, " Have I caught you at
List ?" 'who replied, " she had not caught much,•as
the child's clothes were' ready, and it would not
take a minute to dress her." Mrs. Pugh desired her

to make haste and do it, as she was come to take

the child away. On the Witness remonstrating,
and.expressit4her regret, she looked at the strange
Lady, to implore her interference. Mrs. Pugh im-
mediately said, that was not the mother; but, put-

ting hei h:lnd .11 -the- Gentleman, said„, this is one
who. has more -interest in the welfare of the child

than-14 I..a.vd; and he tll have her away;' this made
the, winless.suppose he was the father, .and she
begged et, hint to tle kind to the child. • He told her.
there was no. danger of that, and kissed it several
tines i they took it away with them, and left the

witness in tears.

The• Beadle of the Parish proved the child's being
found at ten o'clock, on Thursday, the 241 b of

August.

Mary Taylor, the sister of the first.witness,. stat-
ed, -that .she was servant to a Lady in Holborn, and
having heard there was a .child found, and • that it
was ,taken to the Workhouse,. and. the .description
given answering that of. her silt hr's child, .for they
always called her so, she went-to the.'Workhouse,,
and found her surmise to.be right ; she into! ined.het
sister, who made known. to the otticets ot parish
the circumstances' She had that day .stated.. •
The Prisoners were examined separately-; Mrs. •
Pugh was the first. Shestatedi the motner or the•
child was a young lady of respectal,iiiiy ;• the Other
she knew nothing ot, never having seen him ; but
the Lady and Gentleman who were with her on the:-
night the child was taken away were not the pa
rews—the Lady's name was Daily, and the Gentle-
man's Rutiedgel he was Clerk to a Corntactor,
and they both lived in Lawrence-lane. She then
admitted what had been stated by Ann Taylor, an
added, .that_she had received letters from the uttitd's
mother, desiring that it might be taken from the
nurse and put into the Workhouse ; she produced
several letteri, which she stated to be from the mo-
ther, to-that effect. -

Toe Worthy Alderman (ScuoLEY) objected to
the letters being read ; he said, he was applied-to
for a private examination in this case, but that was
what he never would submit to ; still there was
some delicacy due to the family and copnections of
this young Lady, who, he was_ informed,. from a
source he could not doubt, were truly_respectable ;
and another Consideration was, that her father and

the child's grandfather was on his death-bed, and
could not survive many hours, and it was but hu-
manity to save. him this heart-rending pang in his•
last moments ; particularly so, as the disclosure of
the name, at present, could not benefit the case.
Mrs. Pugh then continued, and stated, that the
other. Prisoner was her father-in-law her husband
was dead; on the Sunday night she took the child
from Ann Taylor, she left it with another nurse un-
til the Thursday evening following, when she •agaio •
removed it, for the purpose of having it put into a
workhouse, the other Prisoner having undertaken to
get it into one, for which she paid hint fol. ; they
took a coacla to Holborn, where she.delivered the
child to ,her father-in-law, and went home;- he at •
ter wards told her he had left the child in St. An—
drew's watch-house.
• Thomas Pugh, an old, infirm man, was next exa-
mined : he acknowledged Mrs. Pugh was his daugh--
ter-in-law, but denied his having received any mo-
ney from her ; and stated, he-was with her when
she laid down the child its the court, and they ran
away; but she got out first, being the must. active;
he did not know who were the parents of the
, child.

The worthy Magistrate fully committed them
both for trial.
Mr. Griffiths, .the Common CounCilman, stated,
he was well acquainted' with the family of the mo-
ther of the child, and they were most respectable
people; the young Lady herself had been considered
most amiable until this disclosure.. Her pregnancy
was never suspected.

It was stated a short time since, that persons were-1
taken into custody who were the real fabricators of
some hundreds of forged ii.,Bank of England notes.
Twolof them, John Sly, and a woman of the mime
of Flamson, have been twice examined at Marlho;.
rough-street Police-Otlice, and on Tuesday they
were fully committed for trial. The male Priso►►er
is the same who, two years ago, was sentenced to
six monthg imprisonment, for forging theatrical be-
nefit tickets on Mr. DeCamp and others. The wo -
man prisoner cohabited with Sly, and they were
taken _into custody in Shoreditch; and plates for
the fabricating of notes, were found in their apartl
ments.

Zhomus Humphries' and George Builket;
Bishop, notorious Ihouse'.4reakers, were yesterday
fully committed for trial for breaking into the 'tains?.
Stockdale, the •bOoksellef, in:Ficca.iilly, with
intent to steal. The Prisoners, by their particular
Manner Of linkickit'igithditrieet door of the•l3rosecu7
tor's'liouse, attraerthrthLibute of at endeilian N-YLO

pa3sing, and he alarmed Mr. Stockdale. They
%Ft J surrounded withopt, and some persons entered,
when the.thieves, on being alarmed, escaped quf:of
the first boor win:lows, but they were inigiediately
tal, en and conveyei to St. Jarlieswatch douse. The
Prisoners had taken up the carpets.

••
tiv,N-HALL.7— Elizobeik'Pollard, the young
Woman who has been twice before examined, was
yesterday brought op a:third time by Goff. It ap-
pears site has been practising depredations on the
public for upwards of four months, to an extent un-
equalled by anyot her predecessors in this species of
imposition. More than twenty new charges were
yesterday brought forward. against her; and it ap-
peared from the different statements of the persons
appearing, that the mode by which she obtained ad-
mission into their houses was similar to those al-
reAdy laid before the public, namely, by going to
the house when Ale knew. the family were out; and
representing herself to the servants as a relation of
the master. or mistress. Owing to the -number of
charges which have already
...been brought against
her, the Magistrates thought proper to remand her
for a future examination: Many persons have re-
covered their property, and several articles not yet
claimed, which were found at 'different Pawn-
brokers, where they had been pledged by the Pri-
soner, are in possession of Goff, the' Officer. .

Mra. CLARKE attended 'with 'her bail at Hicks'S
Hall yesterday, and pleaded. Not Guilty to the In-
diament of .Mr; WAR/MR.—As soon as it was
known that Mrs. CLARICE was in Court, a great
crowd of people assembled on the outside, and ou
her going away, after ghe got into the coach, loudly
huzza'd, and cried olit-,-e? Success to Mrs. Clarke
" IVO Otirdier-:--".Nd POthicatimpostor
Had Mrs. CLARKE delayed to put in her bail till
afte'r the Sessions, she rriight have avoided -taking,
her trial until the Sessions after the next-; but' by
thus ptoinptly coming forward, she pledges herself
to- meet the charge at. the Inext .Sessions, we
understand glories in the opportunity. it will afford
her of exposing, -. still - further, the unprinCipled
conduti of her already disgraced .accuser. The!
WRIGHTS have also-put in-ball.„ and pleaded for Ow
same reason. •

A more wanton as Of barbarity we bever'remem: 1
ber to have heard-of, than that which''vas committed
011 SatutdaY last Mr. of Brighton,' in Northainp-
tonshire, having consigned ,the management 01 • Ins
larin to his nephew, a-young man'of an irritable dit7
po,rtion, lie quarrelled with one of the plougii4ifiy,
whom he tied to the tail• of a cart, acrd flogged un=,
mercifully. The-lad remonstrating against the treat=
t6ent he had received, brought upon hiM farther and"
mole severe punishment. His in(iu »an masternext
I-Awned' him to. the tad of •one of the cart- horses, •

then giving the :animal a Cut with his Whip; he
spreng to, ward, and finding an incumbrance behind,
kicked to get rid. of it, and hitting the poor boy-in '
the stomach; he, immediately expired. • The body
was taken to a public-hotise in the neighbourhood,
for a Coroner's InqUest to be taken upon it. The-
larnier,was intmediately arrested, -and conveyed to
Norihampton gaol.
. ,
SPANISHIIMPOSTS.—It was mentioned in our Pa-
per of Tuesday that certain.dUties, called Alcabalas,
Censos at'id_Millones were suppressed by. a decree of
theJUnta; &ited the Ist instant. We believe that
the nature of theSe imposts is .not generally under-
stood. The Alcabala. is a tribute or royal duty
which is paid upon every article sold, in the form of
a per centage, accordint:oo the value of the commo-
dity. This per centage is varied, but all the laws
and ordinances respeCting it, to remove ambiguity
and to prevent exactions, are collected in a book call-
ed the Alcabalutorio. There is a Spanish proverb
which stifficieinly chews the unpopularity of this
form of taxation—Quien descubre la Alcabala ese
pap. " Whoever informs of the Alcabala should
pay Recopilacion de los hues the supe-
rior Clergy and Judges are exempted from it.
. The Ceuso, which has been improperly called
Ciensos and Ciensas, in the 'newspapers, is a rate
colleted on the rents of houses and estates.
The Millones is an aid that_the kingdom granted
to the Sovereign on the consumption of six articles
of domestic use, wine, vinegar, oil, butcher's meat,
soap,'and tallow candles. Among the accuaiodations
at Court, in the Council of Finances, there N an
apartment called the Sala de Millones. In this room
or hall the affairs relaiing,to this due to the King
are transatied, as Well 'as some others regarding the
x on, tobacco, cocoa, .aud 2 few other- commodities.
The persons appointed to supetititeod this business
consist of some Members of the Council of Finances,
and several deputies nominated by, such of .the cities
of Spain as have authority onfsote for represeanatives
(Procuradores) in the CorteS. . •
By a late-decision in. the Court of King's Bench,.
which confirms a. former one given by Sir W. Sco',FT,.
it is now,colifiroted that a bastard.is within die pro-
visions of the Marriage Act, and can only be legally
married by banns for want of a father, who, in the
contemplation of the law, is capable of giving con-
sent to such a person being married by license. Tois
has been settled by a decision of me Court of King's
Bench, in which threeJ Ages agreed to this doctrine,
and one only, Mr. Justice CsitosE, dissented,
• On Monday afternoon, about seven O'clock, as two
Northampton waggons were passing the Chapel at
Highgate, try •some accident one of the drivers fell;
and the wheel of
.his own waggon going over his
head, killed him on the spot. The Coroner's In-
questwas to sit upon .the body yesterday, at twelve
o'clock. It is understood, that both waggons lett
London at the same hour, and that a cothpetitidn,
as to speed, took plate,, as both were seen at Hol-
loway, with the horses in a swing trot.
On the 9th instant, two boys, amusing themselves
by sailing near the,point of the new quay,' Dundee,
were suddenly immersed in the water by the oter-
Riming of their boat. The current, which at that
place•is very rapid:, was quickly fitietting them away,
when HEINRICH- PAYEKEN, a native of Bremen, on
board the P/twnix, a foreign vessel lyingin the har-
bour, instantly stripped oft his clothes, and plung-
ing into the river, brought them safe ashore. Hav-
ing thus saved'theirlives, he
.deliberately: swam into
the river for their hatS, and restored them to their
delighted owners. A subscription has since been
opened in the Exchange Cotlec-ioom, and' a sum of
-TiUlaineirao purchase a hand wale wateh,
. . .•
with antion, appropriate:mscription, to'revi.ard the young •
than for his kallant and humanecvndat: