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London, England, 1824-07-16 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS, JULY 15.

CHRIST V. ST. AUGSTINE.
This was an appeal on theCUURCII
part of Christ Church, Newgate•,.
street, against an order obtained by the parish of St. Augustine,
for the removal of a pauper, named John S'arrid.ge, and affords
a curious specimen of the manner by which it is contrived to
swell the article " law expences", to the excessive amount that
it generally appears in the accounts of almost every parish.--
The expellees of this appeal, even before it came to the final
hearing, Mr. Law on the last adjourned day observed, would,
have purchased a sufficient annuity to have maintained the
pauper fbr the rest of his life.
From the history of the case as it came out in evidence, 1t
appeared, that the pauper, who is now nearly 37 years of age,
was the illigitimate child of Mary Ann Surridge, a servant
girl, by one John Meredith, who at that time was a waiter at
the New London Tavern, Cheapside. The settlement of the
mother being clearly in Christ Church, the overseers of that
parish, knowing her to be pregnant, took her before the Lord
Mayor for examination, on the 10th of July, 1787, and, upon
her oath, obtained a warrant to apprehend Meridith, the reputed
father, when Mr. Lewis, his master, settled the business with
the parish officers, by advancing for his waiter 101., which they
received as an indemnification. The woman was delivered in the
October following, and on the 3d of Jan., 1788, the child *let
baptised at Christ Church, the entry in the book noting hint
to be apauper and a bastard, with the letters C. C. annexed,
to signify that he belonged to Christ Church and not to Saint
Leonard's, Foster-lane, Christ Church and St. Leonard being
united parishes. It was in evidence, that Christ Church re-
lieved the mother, both before and at the time of her delivery ;
and on the 26th November following, that is, as soon as the
child could safely be removed from the mother, took him hit('
their workhouse; at the proper age, got him into the ward
school, and had continued to relieve hint almost constantly
during a period of nearly forty years down to the present tune ;
and so, it should seem, would have continued to relieve him,
but that some very inquisitive clever fellow happened to light
upon the following entry in the churchwardens' accounts 1—•
" 1787, Oct 26.—Mary Surridge brought to bed of a male child
in the Old 'Change." Unless fraudulent collusion be proved.
the place of birth of a bastard is his place of settlement. Old
Change is in the parish of St. Augustine. The mother of the
pauper died sonic titnesince,but an old woman nearly 70, named
Sarah Cook, was found, who recollected something about Sur.,
ridge coming to lie-in at Nicholls's, in the Old 'Change; and
upon these grounds, notwithstanding all their acts of ownership,.
as Mr. Law termed them, for nearly 40 years, refused to relieve
the pauper any longer. St. Augustine then relieved him, and
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of an examination taken at the Mansion-house on the 20th of
November, 1787, at the instance of the officers of St. Aug"'
tine, for the purpose of removing the mother and her son, then
about five weeks old, to Christ Church. From this it was
wished to be inferred that the child must have been born in bt.'
Augustine's parish.
The ItEconnEß said, there were cases in which the birth-
place plae! of a bastard might not in law be the place of settlement,
and in his judgment the evidence brought forward on the part
of St. Augustine's parish far outweighed that adduced in SUP; port of the appeal, and the Court confirmed the order of removal
to Christ Church, dismissing the appeal, and, which is 'very
unusual in cases of this sort, with costs.

A beautiful Roman coin of VESPASIAN, in fine
preservation, was picked up a few days ago near
the ruins of the ancient house ot` Struthers, for-
merly the residence of the Earls of CRAWFORD.
(Edinburgh Courant, July 12.)

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On the 10th inst., at Clifton, the lady of Andrew Doran,
Esq. of Madeira, of a son.

A RRIED.
On the 15th inst., Mr.M N. S. Marling, of Woodchester. t°
Lucina, daughter of Mr. Summers, of West End, Wickwur,
Gloucestershire.

DIED.
On the 9th inst., at Lymington, Hants, in hifi 27th Year,
William G. Archer, only son of Wm. Archer, Esq. of tinil
place.
On the 14th inst. at Cheltenham, Octaria, the wife of Mare
maduke Constable, 'Esq.

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