The Sun.
London, England, 1813-06-22 00:00:00

JUVENILE DEPREDATOR,

Bow-steem—Yesterday a juvenile depreciator,
only thirteen years of age, of an interesting ap-
pearance, was. brought to this Office. He was
• dressed in a blue jacket, waistcoat, and trowsers,
with yellow buttons, and had every 'appearance
of a naval officer. He gave his name-as Charles
,John. Clifford, but it appeared that he had
.assum-
ed the name of Snrythes, and others. Ile was
charged with feloniously stealing a gold watch
• and a silver table-spoon, from-the house of Mrs
M`Niel,, at' Knightsbridge.---lt appeared, that a
short time since the prosecutrix met the prisoner
in' Fleet-street, when he introduced himself to
her, and made inquiries after her, health, with all
the graceful manners of an accomplished young
gentleman. The prosecutrix, replied, he had the
advantage of her. He answered, he had the ho-
nour of meeting her a few months back at Lady
Seymour's. The prosecutrix assured him he was
mistaken, and that she had not been at Lady Sey-
mour's. However, his genteel appearance and
manner induced her to inquire of hint to what ship
be belonged ?---He replied, he was a misishipman,
belonging to the Namur, lying at the Nore, that
his 'mine was Charles homas Leigh, and that his
father was First Lieutenant of the ship. They
walked together till they came to the residence of
the prosecutrix, when she asked him to walk in.
He was talkati#e, and particularly amusing ; he
played with the prosecutrix's children, &é. and
sung several songs in a very fine style. He said his
sister had played at the Circus, but was now en-
gaged at Drury-lane Theatre. His friends wished
him to go on the stage, but be preferred the sea.
He had called a second time on the prosecutrix,
when he was eq.!ally easy and unembarrassed in
his behaviour. At that time he brought a boy.
With him, dressed as a sailor, and said he was his
servant, and he waited upon him as such at that
visit. He called 'for the third time last Wedues-
i day, when the prosecutrix met him at the door
just as she was going out ; she asked him to
walk with her and her daughter. He , excused
himselfby saying he had been walking a long way,
which had made his shoes very dirty, and be was
in other respects not fit to walk with a Lady.; she
'desired him to walk in, and her servant ,wpalrl4.
hrrishilis shoeS, and then to her Where sfie
was going. While .he was there he went into
the drawing. room, and after he was gone
gold watch and -a silver .spoon were missed front
the sibeboard. He was suspected of stealing them,
and he was traced to'the neighbourhood of the
Surrey Theatre, and taken into custody ; and on
searching hits), a pistol, powder-born, with pow-
der in it, and some small shot, were found on him,
but it was not supposed_ these were for any evil '
purpose, but merely boyish mischief. He had tl:e
day previous shot a pigeon in sport, by tying a
string to its' leg, setting. it a flying, and then
shooting at it.
A pawnbroker's duplicate was found on him,
wiliest led to the recovery of the property. A
pawnbroker attended, and produced the property,
but said the articles had not been pledged by the
prisoner, but by a lusty man.
The account the. prisoner gave of himself ap-
pears to be a mere fabrication. He states him-
self as an illegitimate child, who was abandoned
by 'his cruel father and mother when an infant,
and bad been brought up by a widow woman of
the name of Smythes, whose name the prisoner
assumes, who very humanely has fostered him;
having received bins to nurse, and refused to send
him to -the parish or the Marine Society, as the
parents wished her. The poor 'woman attended,
and seemed to have as much affection for him as
if he had beep her own. He has been at sea about
three monthi, but has got his discharge. He has
lived as an errand4toy fOrmerly, at an oil-shop in
the Strand, and is well-known at several pawn-
brokers shops. He is a great frequenter of the
Theatres, and sometimes mixes with theloungers
in' the box lobbies. He was committed fur fur-
ther examination. •

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111unneu .—On Sunday mortiing last, as two
young men (clerks toMr.Whittcr, of Worthing),
were walking in a field near that town, their cu-
riosity led them to a hollow tree, into which one
of them descended, when he discovered a human
skeleton, partly covered with stones and dirt.—
The young men took it to a Surgeon, who pro-
nounced it to be that of a child of about five years
of age. Every inquiry has been made to discover
the perpetrators of the Murder, bufwithout etket.
We
were yesterday misinformed as to the mur-
derer of the woman in Drury-lane having been se-.
Cured. It appears from the more detailed Re-'
count of the matter that. he effected his escape
for the moment, but with small chance of evading
justice for any length_of time.

On Saturday Mr. —oiiar, and Mr. Conant the'
Magistrate, attended at the House of Correction,
in Cold-bath Fields, and made arrangements with ,
Mr. Adkins, the Governor, for the reception of
Nicholson, the murderer, who was removed thither
yesterday. lie is to he confine.l in one Of. the State-
rooms, with a man to sit up with him night and
day, Lavender and Taunton, the How-street of-
ficers, attendvd him closely at Chislehurst.
Yesterday two insane women attended at the
door of the QUEEN'S palace. One of them wished
to see the KING, saying, she was a relation uf
his, and ought to be Queen,