The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-04 00:00:00

SINGULAR RECOVERY
,OF A STOLEN CHILD:

It may perhaps be fecollectcd,that about seven
months since printed hand-bills. were widely tirculated,
scribing the person of a little boy, about ten.yearsold, that had
been decoyed away from its parents, Whose. meat is Macher,
residing, at Knightsbridge, under' Very inysterlotis • dram-
'minces. It was then ascertained that the boy had, been enticed
away by a Man,
..whilst amusing. himeelf with his playmates,
and had never been suffered to return. Not Withstanding every
method was resorted to by the afflicted frietidii.of the child to
trace him out, nothing vets heard of him, and all hopes of reed.
tution were given up, till Monday hist, when, to the great joy
and •sorprise or the. parents, their iontz-lostixiy wa'i restorea •ta
then',, under the folloaing•singstlar crectimstimees; the derail of
which tetias to chew the depravity ot thiateAvho live by habitual
VptnCy „/ • .•
;11zirzli last Thorns '4 WOO 4, alias Burton, alias Cox, a
well-known vagrant, travelling Omit .14endon, seating him-
self in the most; public thoroughfare, and writing verses in
vita on the pavement, was.apprehended by.the officers of the
31endicity Society, es:ereising his profession in Chiswell-strect.
He was then examined by the. manegers of the charity, and
by them set to work fat breaking stunts, which task he did.
not relish, and aherti4tl; but a very short dine elapSed
before he was again' niet in with, pursuing' his flit airite Call-
' big on the pavenunty in front of the Duke •of :Devonshire%
mansion in Ticcadily,,Otir hero was new Ferried before the
.Magistrates at ..Marlborough-street Pace-office; and charged
with vagrancy. However; by his pleading hard for 'Lis libc.ira
ty, and entering into a promise to dispense with exhibiting
his penmaraillip in the streets foe
future,, he was diseharged.
On this occasion the officers of the` Police recognised hiin Co be
the man wile some time baelcgave himself' up to jnsticelfi'lhe
murderer of a young fern:dein the country; ,butittfter :repeated
examinations, the whole was found to be ii fabrication, , and
adopted by him for the P u rpo e of obtaining support, and he
was discharged. Notividistending his promise to relinquish his
mode of living, lie was in a few' days after again detected in
Bilrlington.street,, following his usual avocation, and again
carried before the Justice, who sent him for three months to
the Tread-mill..
After he had terminated his imprisonment, he.continued to
follow die profession, and in August last he was apprehended
in Keppel.strect, Rtissell.sqUate, and also elittleboy of. very
prepossessing appearance, ;who was craving the 'charity of :the
passengers -us they passed along. Both he anti the boy, who
gaVe his name John Smith, were carried before a Magistrate,
who, from the appearance of the latter,' felt Intermedin hi;
half, and -offered to get him„ into the Marine Society,: hut this
proposal he refused, and lie and his companion were committed
for one month each to the Honselir.eptreetio6...
Shortly after their term of imprisonment had. expired, infer=
inetion, was received at the Itlendicity Society?* office, that the
boy wee the son of Mr. Macher (who is Surgeon to one of the
reglinents of Life Guards), of Knightsbridge, rho had been sto-
len as abavestated. Persons were dispatchethin all directions
about the metropoli* in search of hirn,•but no alue.could be oh-
mined 'of their refuge till Saturday last, when Wood was appre-
hended by the Society's officers 'in the •liindon:road. tie was
questioned as to what had become of the boy; and he declared
he knew nothing about him. He was taken before the Magii.
strates at Union Hall, and was committed to Brixton Mill fur
three months.
On the Alcoa leaving the office, they; to their mitisfactiott,
discovered the boy waiting in the street, to know the fate of
Wood.. They instantly secured him, and asked him if, his
name was not Macher.. He ,strenuously denied it, and re-
fused to accompany them. However. tlieyetold him they ,wore
determined to keep him ; end he, finding there was no chance
of escaping, told them his name was Macher, that his father
sass a surgeon in the Guards, that he lived at Knightsbridge,
and that woe time back he had been enticed away, by Wood,
and had been with him, ever since, begging in the streets' for hie
living. The officers took thelugitive betbre the gentlemen 'of
theSocietyeard he wai, to the utmost joy of his disconsolate
parents,: deliveied over to them on Monday last.
Wdod is by trade a shoemaker; and 13 4 native of Leicester,
Where lie has a mother now living in great respectability, who
heeling since discarded hini,_owing habits...to hi* depraved,' habita..
Sonic tantback he entrapped a boy from Leicester, named
Alaroney, `in a siMilat manner to Mr. Macher% ion, and 'in.
*tilled into his mind every specie of vice. ForninatelY, bow.
ever, lie was rescued from the ruffian in': Lot-34014 andrestored
to his parents, with whom he Mill remains. Wood was prose-
cuted at the time•• but escaped punishinent. It is beyond a
doubt that several children have been' entrapped by him in a
similar way, toassisthim. in his nefarious pursuits.

ANOTHER MOUSerItEADMILL:,--A neat and
ingepious.little machine has bren,contrived by a
person of the nameof MiLy.t.t.or,, a weaver at
the Abbey, Stirling, for .twisting and reeling
thread. The curioity, however, in a great mea.
sure depends on the machine king put in motion
by a mouse. .110 e yttlo worker coufineti his
hours of labour chiefly to the night, and tlLts in
'2 1. hours about as much thieed as is sold for
The work seems well done;, but the quantity,
although, as much as :can be expectedfrom so
,
ieeble a woruman, shewl that, the . wnole more
to be regarded as a curiosity, than as possessing
any thing of practiCal' utility.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT WI CIIANCERY, DEC. 3.
8U 114N17.11: V. POWELL.
This:AV:li an appeal against a judgrnentof Sir W. Grant, late
Master.of the Rolls.

- The father of the plaintiff had been engaged. with the" de.
fendant and others in the banking business. Certain Trustees
gave the defendant powers to receive and carry to account the
dividends on .6,0001. in the'3 per cents. .The defendant ap,
plied the capital to the purposes of tl:e firm, 'and accounted for
the dividends without informing the others of the transaction,
which only came to light on the bank breaking. The late Mr.
Sumner had,-before the bankruptcy, withdrawnhimself and' his
capital, after taking an indemnity from the remaining firm, to
clear hith froth all future claims upon the concern. The Trus-
tees sought to recover the property thus fraudulently withdrawn
frima them against all the partners, the plaintiffs indemnity not-
withstanding. : - .
The late Master of the frolla was of opinion, that the con-
ditions,'ofthe bondwere not large enough to exclude the plain-
tiff, who had succeeded to his father's effects, from the partner-
ship.responsibility ; instead of a joint bond, it should have been
a joint.,and several bond, to perfect the indemnity.,
The LORD CHANCELLOR had wished 'that the parties
could have adjusted the matter out of Court. As it was he
could not see sufficient reasons to induce him to disturb the
judgment of Sir W. Grant. . .

COURT OF 'KING'S BENCH, Dr.c. 3.
Cox AN AN9THEIL v... 11114.15.
This was an action' for improperly riding a horse, lent to the
defendant on trial, in consequence of which lie died. The first
count of the tteclaratiOn'alleged, that the plaintiff's delivered the
horse on a promise that he should be returned in five minutes;
but other 'county alleged a more general promise, to ride the
horse in a careful, moderate, and proper manner, and return
him in safety.-
•It appeared in evidence, on the part of the plaintiffs, that Mr.
Millis, a hanker, in May, 11122, negociated with Messrs. Cox
and Co: for the purchase of the horse, which then stood at livery;
at the stables of Mr. Mann, in Stamford-street, Blackfriars-
yoad. The time was that oeEpsom races, and the weather ex-
tremely hot, when Mr. Willis took away the horse for dial,, and
rode him as far as Wiliden. After three or four hous` absence,
the horse was returned, cool, but covered with white foam, which
had apparently grown cold on him. Ile seen 'afterwards
fested symptom. of diseme, and died.itt the expiration of fodt
days. Mr. Weedon, the veterinary surgeon, who opened the
horse, stated, that the immediate cause of the death was an in-
flammation of the lungs, which might be caused :by over ex(-r-
-tion, or by conimon catarrh, or. change •of stables.: Mr. Col-
burn., having heard the whole case, thought-the disorder might
probably result.from the horse.; which was fat, being ridden toe
hard in hot weather ; and explained, that exercise, which in it.
self would appear gentle, might et such season, and if midden-
ly. adopted, have eh effect very ,different froin that which, Under
other circumstance', it would produce.
On-the:part of the defendant, 'Thermo iffack, his gioati,•was
called, who deposed that .the horse wes returned apparently in
good health and condition to the stablcs, though he admitted
that the animal was •in a .gweat, which might .arise from
the heat of the weather. Mr. 'White, of Wiladen, and Mr.
shepher. who saw the defendant on the horse in the Strand;
swore that.there was no appearance of excessive riding when
they saw him:. •
The Lotto CHIEF...I 1.1 sT ICE observed, that the count alleg.
ing a promise to return the horse in five minutes had net been
proved, nor could it be expected that it would be established ;
for no man desiking to try a horse would consent to limit
hitn-
self within that period. The law, however; implied a promise,
such as was laid in the other counts, to ride the-horse in a care-
ful, moderate, and proper manner ; and the simple question
for the Jury was, whether this implied promise had been broken.
—lf they thought the.defendant had only used the - horse as a
gentleman would use bum, he was entitled to their verdict;
but if, judging from all the circumstances, they :bought he had
ridden immoderately, or had not checked MS' speed when the
state of the horse evidently required -attention, they would re-
turn a veidiet for the plaintiff, with such aaning:s ns would
remunerate him for Ilia 160.
The Jury, in a few minutes,: found ,a verdict for the plaintiff
Damages ffs/..

SCINIER V. 131.TCX1E.
4.1 r. Gun stated, that this was nth ection against the
defendant fox penalties under the statute,. as Overseer of the II
parish of Sitfiron-bill, for supplying the g under his.charge
with coals, in which he is a dealer.' jr-The defendant had
contrived to send these coals into the -workhouse in the name
of one Gautier, his brother-in-law, who keeps a little' coal
died. . • '
Mritn'tsses buying been csatnined, the LonD CIII us-
Trot: atitymictd up' the en4e, and left it to this Airy to ,141t/y *be.
test the-defendant% go Ina to; a relation to itive hi,n the• profit
of tit:: supply, was for any direct profit .11e had it; himsr.lf.
the Jury thought lie merely did so to serve his rela.tion, by put-
ting the profit into the pocket of his brother-in-law, this was
not what his:Lordshipi would Approve of in a moral view as'a
parish overseer ; but this did nut, in his Lordship's opinien,
amount to,a violation of the terms of the statute in point of
law.--Verdict for defendant.