The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-15 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY TALE.

BRIGHTON POLICE.—A little girl, who stated her name
to be Charlotte Savage,- and that she was 13 years of age,
was brought up by Mr. Solomon, who stated that her story
was so extraordinary that he thought it his duty to let her
state it to the Bench.

The child, then, in reply to the questions of the Magis-
trate, stated that her father's name was Robert Savage, that
he was formerly a soldier, but on marrying her mother,
turned custom-houso officer, and was now living at Bristol.
Just before haymaking time last year, she and her brother
went to the theatre at Bath, and as they were returning
home at night, her brother being a little on before, she
was taken up by some gipseys, who gagged her and put
her into a cart. She had ever since been travelling
about with them, and knew the names of three, who were
called John, Richard, and William Lee. They got a
living by selling combs, and by stealing geese, turkeys,
sheep, and rabbits, which they killed and skinned, and
the skins of the sheep and rabbits they sold. When-
ever they travelled through any towns, they put her at
the top of a cart, and when they encamped, she was al-
ways employed in washing linen or nursing the children ;
and she could not escape, there being always a great
boy and girl with her. About three weeks ago they went
through Brighton to Lewes. There, part of the gipseys
took lOdgings ; and these she was with having to go into
the town left her meanwhile in a lodging-house kept by a
Mrs. Tickner. There, to amuse herself, she began reed-
it).- the Testament with a little boy, which, Mrs. Tickner
observing,' said she • could not have been brought up to the
gipsey life, or she would not have been able to read. She
replied she had not, and than told Mrs. Tickner her story.
Mrs. Tickner said she had once had a little boy of her own
stolen, and she knew what diAraction the loss
.of children
caused parents to feel ; and therefore the gipseys should
give her up, or she would make them, and she would keep
her till she heard from her parents. She then got a letter
written to them and received an answer, stating that her
mother was on her deathbed, and had been ill ever since
her disappearance, together with .ss. in a parcel. Mrs.
Tickner then hearing there was a steam packet that sailed
from the chain pier to Bristol let her come over to Brighton.
She accordingly arrived there yesterday, and went to the
pier to inquire about the packet, and was told that there
was no steam packet that went from Brighton to Bristol,
but that there was a coach that did. She then went to
all the coach offices, and there learned that the Bristol
coach had ceased running for the last fortnight, and upon
asking for lodgings was recommended to the Seven Stars.
There she found a person who knew the place near to the
Bell where she was taken up, and another who knew her
mother and uncles. To them she showed the letter, which
she has since lost ; and upon her making her story known
she was brought to -the Town Hall, and put into the pri-
son. At the idea of being put into prison the child cried
very much.
Sir D. SCOTT asked what had become of the gipseys? The
girl replied she did not know, as they were travelling about
the country.

Mr. Solomon said he had taken the girl to Mr. Thorn-
crOft, the assistant overseer, who took down the particulars
in writing, but said he did not believe her story.
The girl said if they would take her to Mr. Burton, of
the theatre, he would know her again.

Sir D. SCOTT—How do you know he is here ? Girl—
I read his name in the play-bill, and he used to write letters
to my mother when his wife lodged with us. He was pro-
perty man at our theatre.
Sir D. SCOTT—Property man ! Why, how came you
to know there was such a person in a theatre ? How came
you to know so much about a theatre ? The girl replied
her father and mother at one time lived in front of the
Bath Theatre. They used to go to the theatre sometimes
by permission of Mrs. Macready ; and she herself had
been brought up to it, when a little girl three years old.
They lived in the drawing-room, and had the whole of the
house.

Sir D. SCOTT—If we let you go now, you will never get
home with 55., and then, if we did, you are likely to be taken
by some gipseys again.
Girl—l should like to be sent to Mr. Burton first, to see
if he would send me home ; he knows all my relations, and
I know him very well.
Mr. Burton having been sent for said he thought he
could remember her face, but it was two years since he had
seen her. He added that he had no doubt of the truth of
her story.

' The girl then asked him if he would let her have money
to take her home, or if he would keep her until her friends
should send for her ? This Mr. Burton said he could not
afford to do.

Mr. Solomons said the girl had told him the gipseys had a
young man with them chained down to one of their carts.
Sir D. SCOTT—Chained down !

The girl assured him that was the fact ; and from what
she had heard from Mrs. Tickner, and the description
given of him, she had no doubt it was a son of the Rev.
Mr. Jones.

Sir D. SCOTT then ordered Wise to take the girl over to
Lewes and confront her with Mrs. Tickner ; and, if what
the girl stated turned out to be true, directed a letter to be
sent to the parents ; the girl meanwhile being kept in the
workhouse.

A singular case of mania has occurred in Aber-
deen. Jane Graham, a sober, honest old woman, literally
died from want rather than accept of alms. Jane had seen
better days—those who knew her family say that, fifty
years ago, they were " weel upon 't," and the family pride
of Jane had outlived family means, and hence the melan-
choly result, " She never told her want ;" for when we are
informed, as is usual in some cases, a little of the
left wine at the sacrament would have been offered
her, she replied, " Eh, na, na, keep it, and gie't to yere
poor things—fat wit ye dee.gien't to the like d' me ?" And
to applications to speak for her to the Ladies' Clothing
Society she would have said, " They hae aneuch adee wi'
their poor to look to me !" Jane's necessitous circum-
stances were thus unknown to her nearest friends ; and
when at last a woman who lived with her became aware of
the circumstance, and communicated it to the neighbours,
she was so completely exhausted, not having tasted a mor-
sel of food for several days, that wine and other restora-
tives bad no effect, and she died a short time after.—Cale-
donian Mercury.
SMALL-PDX.—The cruel enemy to personal beauty,
and to life itself, has lately been making great ravages
amongst the infantine population in the east of London,
'great numbers of whom have fallen victims to the virulence
of the disease. Several adult persons have also been at-
tacked by it, and some even of these have died. In one
family, of the name of Collins, in the parish of Mile-end
Old Town, seven persons took the disease, and from
them it has spread to the houses of several of their friends
and acquaintances. Two of their children were buried
on Sunday week, and a young woman, who followed
as mourner, and the undertaker who conveyed the corpse
to the grave, have been attacked by the disorder in its most
virulent form, and now lie in a most dangerous state. From
the Bills of Mortality it appears that 836 children died of
the small-pox within the last year in London alone. It is
to be regretted that the practice of vaccination is not uni-
versally adopted, and that where it is, many parents neglect
to see that the vaccine virus has taken effect. It ought to
be generally known that unless the presence of the cow-
pock is distinctly marked by the rising of pustules no safety
can be expected from the attacks of the small-pox.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, WEDNESDAY.--
We have experienced a very great demand for cotton to-day,
chiefly for consumers, and considerable business has been
done—say to the extent of 6,000 bales, at full market prices
for all kinds. We hear of 700 Cearas and Pernams, from
10id. to 120. ; 700 Maranhams, from 11d. to 12d. ; 400
Bahias, from 91d. to 10d. ; 200 Laguayras, from 91d. to
Sid. ; 50 Egyptians, 12id. ; 300 Surats, 61d. to 7d. ; re-
mainder American, from lid. to 101 d., and Will. for

Orleans.
CAPTAIN GLASCOCK'S " NAVAL SERVICE."--
The naval circles, from the fresh caught middy to the
weather-beaten and stern old admiral, will peruse with plea-
sure this valuable work, by Captain Glascook. There is
no subject connected with the service on which it does not
fully and most lucidly comment. It must become a vade
mecum with all grades of officers. The gallant author is
well qualified for the task he has undertaken, as the pen is
as familiar to his hand as the tiller, the sextant, and the

sword.