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THE SUN, _LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12 1841.

PLYMOUTH BREAKWATER.

The following paper, containing a succinct, yet inte-
resting account of the rise, progress, and present state of
this national undertaking, which was read at the recent
meeting of the British Association at Plymouth, will,
we are sure, prove interesting to our readers. We ex-
tract it from the Plymouth Herold :

it ever has been, that the Government acted wisely in
determining upon a stone in preference to a wooden
Breakwater for Plymouth Sound.
I will now allude to another and certainly an impor-
tant question, which has been recently mooted in refe-
rence to the results said to have been produced by the
Stone Breakwater on the harbour of Plymouth, I refer
to the accumulation of mud and silt, and consequent loss
of five feet in the depth of water. I exceedingly regret
that I had not an opportunity of being ,present at the
Geological Section, when a paper was read by Mr. Wil-
liam Walker, on " Submarine Geological changes pro-
duced by Pholas at Plymouth," as it was not announced
in the printed journal of Sectional Proceedings for the
day. It has been asserted that the accumulation has
taken place in the Sound, and that a decrease in the
depth of the water has taken place to the extent
which I have just named, and this is attri-
buted to the erection of the Breakwater. Referring to
the original report of Messrs. Rennie and Whidbey, I
find the following statement, respecting the settlement of
mud and silt, in the Sound :—" From conversing with
pilots, and various other intelligent men whom we met
at Plymouth, we have reason to believe the depth of
water in the Sound is on the decrease, by the settlement
of mud and silt brought down by the rivers from the in-
terior country, and also by the embankment of the mud
lands within, thus diminishing the ancient receptacles
of the waters of the tide, whic both in its flux and re-
flux occasions a powerful scour in its passage through
the Sound."

The fact is, that a recent enclosure of 275 acres of
the backwater of the Catwater above Laira bridge had
just taken place, and it seems evident, I think, from
this observation, that mud and silt was then in the
Sound. On a consideration, however, of the whole
question, whether the plan of a Breakwater, as proposed
by them, would have any material effect upon the Sound,
Messrs. Rennie and Whidbey were of opinion that there
was no possible danger of its becoming more shallow,
and that no further deposition of silt or mud would take
place, except, indeed, immediately without and within
the Breakwater itself, out of which they conceived no in-
jury would accrue. The question now arises, what effect
has the Breakwater had upon Plymouth Sound ? Has
it decreased the depth of water there ? and, if so, to
the depth of five feet, as alleged ? The question is in-
deed a most important one, and if there be any truth in
the allegation, it may be fairly asked, " How is it that
the authorities have not investigated the subject ?"
We have already seen that the Breakwater originated
with the Government, and having been constructed
under the immediate direction of the Admiralty,, it may
seem strange that their Lordships have not entered
upon the consideration of ' a subject so vitally affecting
this naval and maritime port. But let me inform you
that their Lordships have not overlooked the sub-
ject, they have had it investigated, and I cannot
but think that, when statements are put forth as to the
filling up of the Plymouth Sound, some reference, at
least, should be made to such investigation. In conse-
quence of a communication, made in July, 1838, to the
naval authorities of this port, to the effect that a deposit
was then going on in the Sound, the Admiralty directed
Mr. James Walker, Civil Engineer, to report fully upon
the subject, and the best means of providing against the
apprehended injury to the anchorage. Mr. Walker,
after a very long and laborious investigation of the sub-
ject, and after having had a minute survey made of
Plymouth Sound, in the progress of which upwards of
2,000 soundings were taken, reported to the Admiralty
in 1840, that, taking the mean of all the soundings that
could be supposed to be affected by the Breakwater,
the result was, that there was but very little increase or
decrease, and that, if there was any decrease of depth
in the Sound (except close to the Breakwater, and which
could produce no practical evil), this was certain,
that if it had taken place it was but small, certainly not
enough to cause alarm, or to justify expensive measures
for removing the cause. So much then for the allega-
tion of a decrease of five feet in the depth of the water
in the Plymouth Sound. But now to the question of the
submarine agency. I have been connected with the
Breakwater since its commencement, and have conse-
quently had the most ample means of watching the
pholas, which, according to the opinion of some parties,
are destined ultimately to destroy the work. The follow-
ing is the result of my observations :—The perforation
of the limestone by the pholas only takes place at that
part of the work which is between the low water of
spring tides, and the low water of neap tides ; this per-
foration only occurs upon the outer surface of the stone,
and to a depth net exceeding three inches. I have
never discovered any such perforation in the interior
of the work, although I have recently had occasion,
in the execution of the Breakwater, to remove stones
by the aid of a diving bell to the depth of five feet
below low water, which had been deposited there
upwards of twenty-five years. I am aware that loose
stones have been taken up from beaches and from the
bottom of the Sound, perforated by the pholas, but they
must have been perforated before they got to such places,
for the pholas have never on such occasions been found
alive. The Breakwater has, indeed, realised the expecta-
tions of its warmest friends, and if the opinion of one
who has been connected with the undertaking throughout
is to be relied on, the Members of the British Associa-
tion, the inhabitants of Plymouth, and the public gene-
rally, need be under no apprehension that the anchorage
in the Sound will be destroyed by the accummulation of
mud, or that the Breakwater itself will ever be lost to
this country by the submarine agency in question.
The thanks of the Section were then given to Mr.
Stuart.

In the course of the reading of the paper, Mr. Stuart
produced a Chart of Plymouth Sound, on a large scale,
with the recent soundings ; a Plan and Section of the
Breakwater, as originaily designed, showing the several
alterations, and its present state ; also a model of the cir-
cular head and inverted arch of a plan of the lighthouse,
as now constructing.

A TRAGEDY 114 HIGH larg.,—A horrible
tragedy has just taken place at Florence. Two sons of
Lord A. (who has a villa near Florence) went into the town
a few days since to look at some horses at a livery stable,
when a quarrel ensued, and words ran high between them ;
nevertheless, they returned home apparently recon-
ciled to `each other, and dined and slept as usual under
their father's roof. The next day they again went out,
ostensibly to shoot ; but the younger brother, a lad of
18, still nourished a deadly resentment to his elder brother,
a young man of 23, on account of the dispute of the pre-
ceding day, and upon a bird getting up, he deliberately
levelled his pun and aimed at his brother ; but only suc-
ceeding iu slightly wounding him in the side; he drew a
pistol, and took a surer aim by shooting him in the
back of the neck, and raising up part of the skin
of the head. As soon as his brother had fallen this mo-
dern Cain fled into a neighbouring vineyard, where several
contadini seized him, and, remonstrating with him upon
this horrible conduct, told him that he would come to the
galleys at last. To which he replied, with great defiance.
"No, no, thank you; I shall never come to the galleys !"
drew another pistol from his pocket, and, opening his
mouth, shot himself dead on the spot. 'The corpse of this
unfortunate suicide and fratricide was left to blacken
for many hours, unheeded, beneath the scorching rays of
an Italian sun, while the wounded body of the elder brother
was conveyed home to his father, who is said to have
exclaimed on seeing it—not knowing the fate of his other
son—" If that most unnatural wretch escape the gallows, it
will not he my
.fa ult." His Lordship was heard the next
day giving, with self-collectedness, a detailed account of
this horrible affair at Fenzi's, the banker's, previously to
his departure for Leghorn. Meanwhile a council of some
hours' duration was held at Lord Holland's, as to whether
the suicide should be buried in consecrated ground or
not ; it was at length decided that he should ; so accord-
ingly, by torch-light, with no other attendants but-the
clergyman and sexton, the body was consigned to the
grave, and thus closed this fearful domestic tragedy,
worthy of the Borgias and their times. The life of the
wounded brother is still precarious.—Court Journal.

BREAD USED IN ENGLAND FOUR HUNDRED
TEARS Auo.—lt would appear that bread of dif-
ferent degrees of fineness was used ; thus there is " bread
purchased for the Countess" and " bread for the kitchen.".
:Loaves or cakes made of bolted flour, and called
" are twice mentioned, as well as " gas-
telli," cakes or wastels, perhaps biscuits; on one
occasion, half a quarter of flower is set down for
pastry. It is reasonable to infer, that the bread gene-
rally used in the family was made of the grain called
mystelon, a term yet in use at the beginning of the six-
teenth•century, and applied to a mixture of wheat and rye.
As the dogs were fed on corn, it may be concluded that,
the servants fared so worse, at any rate there is no distinct
notice of bread made of barley, oats, or the mete inferior
grain which Were commonly used in France and other
countries. It is not clear that their bread was leavened
with yeast, as that article occurs but once, and then in
connection with malt. The price of the quarter of wheat
or rye varied from ss. to ss. Bd. ; of oats, from 2s. to 2s.
4d. ; twentyfive, however, were bought at Sandwich, at
ls. 10d. When grain was brought from .the Countess's
manors, some of the prices were below the average. The
bailiff of Chalton was allowed ss. the quarter for wheat,
4s. for barley, and 2s. 4d. for oats; the bailiff of Braborne
had 4s. 4d. for wheat, and ls.3d. for oats. The item which
follows bread is wine, of which only two sorts are named
in the early part of the roll, red and white. The wines
drank in England during the thirteenth century came
chiefly from Guienne •, others from the vineyards of
Anjou, Aucerne, and Poitou. Gascon wine is not espe-
cially mentioned until towards the end of the document,
in August, when that and the wine called Bastard be-
came the general drink of the family. The term Bas-
tard was given to all "Mixed and sweetened wines ; nn
English writer, boWever, who lived in the fifteenth cen-
tury, reckons' Bastard among those wines which were
naturally sweet, and, therefore, unwholesome. It is
called sweet wine in the roll. Little information is given
as to the price of wine : we find that the sum of 9s. 2d.
was paid for twenty-two galllons, and that two tuns cost
3/. Bs. 6d.—Manners and Household Expenies of Eng-
land in the Thirteenth Century.
DEPRESSION OF TRADE.—We would fain be
spared the pain of. week after week, having to report con-
tinued embarrassments, losses,
and unprofitable business
in the commercial world; but duty and truth compel us to
do so. A more harrassing week in. business than the past
we do not recollect to have known. There has been a
great want of confidence manifested, and where parties
have been compelled to force sales, the most ruinous
sacrifices have been made. Orders, whether for yarn or
goods, have been exceedingly restricted, considering the
season of the year, and invariably executed at declining
rates. To tell the number of spinning. and manufactur-
ing concerns which are at a total stand, or only partially
worked, and of the multitude of honest operatives
thrown out of employment, and reduced to beggary and
starvation, would be next to impossible, and appal the
stoutest heart. Let any man take a survey within a
circle of 12 miles mend Manchester, and see the dilapi-
dated and deserted dwellings, the miserable and meagre
wretches seeking about the country for work, 4r Ara vng
morself of bread ; let him mark the signs of bank,
ruptey, and a ruinous depi eciation of property, which
everywhere meet him ; and then ask himself if such a
commercial hurricane ever devastated the country be-
fore ?—Manchester Courier

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF REVIEW, Aug. 11.
EXPARTE PICKSTOCK, IN RE-PICKSTOCK, AN ALLEGED

BANKRUPT.

This was a petition from Pickstock, of Clement's-lane,
City, who had been an extensive private banker, and
agent for Guernsey, Jersey, and the Channel Islands,
praying that the 'fiat issued against him might be su-
perseded, on the ground that he had committed no act
of bankruptcy.
Mr. James Russell and Mr. George Russell f-)r the
petitioner, and Mr. Swanston and Mr. .Anderdon for the
petitioning creditor, who opposed the prayer of this
petition.
Mr. JAMES RUSSELL said that in the course of his ex-
tensive business as a private banker and agent, as wel as
a merchant trading to fiireign countries, the petitioner,
Mr. Pickstock, had necessarily large dealings in paper,
and the failure, in July last, of an eminent Guernsey
house in Lombard-street, with whom he had discounted,
had involved Mr. Pickstock in its consequences, and com-
pelled him to suspend his payments. The fiat in this case
had been issued on the petition of a Mr. M‘Donald,who had
been a correspondent of Mr. Pickstock at Ili-M(111ms, and for
whom the latter bad acted as private banker and agent. Mr.
M'Donald, it appeared, arrived at Liverlwl from Hon-
duras, in May last, in an unsound state of mind. On
the 9th of July a docket was struck against Mr. Pick-
stock, on the petition of this; insane gentleman, the fiat
issued on the 22d, and the adjudication took place on the
29th. It was not until the day previou4 to this hearing
that Mr. Pickstock or his legal advisers were made ac-
quainted with the nature of the act of bankruptcy alleged
to have been committed by him. On Monday last, how-
ever, an affidavit had been filed by a Mr. Duncan
clair, who, it appeared, was the son-in-law of Mr.
M`Donald, in which he stated, that on or about the 9th
of July (but he could not state exactly the day) he, Sin-
clair, accompanied by Mr. M‘Donald, went to the office
of Mr. Pickstock, in Clement's-lane, saw Mr. Pickstock,
and on being informed that Mr. M'Donald was below,
Mr. Pickstock said to deponent "go down to him and
tell him I am not in, and I cannot give him any money."
Now, the Learned Counsel observed, -it was upon this
expression, " tell him I am not in," that the allegation of
an act of bankruptcy solely rested. But Mr. Sinclair's
statement on this point was most solemnly denied upon
oath by Mr. Pickstock and three of his clerks. The
.Learned Counsel haviug read and commented on these
affidavits, submitted that the balance of testimony was in
favour of Mr. Pickstock, and that under the circum-
stances of the case the petitioner was ex debito justitite
to have the fiat annulled.
Mr. G. RUSSELL followed on the same side.

Mr. SWANSTON and Mr. ANDERDON, on the part of
Mr. M‘Donald, urged that Mr. Pickstock was evidently
in a desperate state of insolvency, that whilst his liabili-
ties exceeded 50,000/., his assets were 8,0001. only. The
best thing, therefore, for hitu. was unquestionably to have
his affairs administered through the medium of the Court
of Bankruptcy.
Sir J. CROSS (without calling on the other side to
reply) said, this was a case of admitted insolvency, and
so far was a proper case of bankruptcy if the fiat could
be sustained. But it appeared that the petitioning cre-
ditor was in an imbecile state of mind, or at least of
memory, and therefore incapable of making an affidavit ;
so that whether he could ever sustain the fiat, even if a
valid act of bankruptcy had been committed, was very
doubtful. Looking, therefore, at the circumstances, he
was clearly of opinion that the truth was on the side of
Mr. Pickstock. In saying this, however, he did not
mean to ik.pute wilful and corrupt perjury to Mr. Sin-
clair ; but he did think that it was reasonable to assume
that he was mistaken. The order of the Court was, that
the fiat be annulled—the costs to be paid by the peti-
tioning creditor, or those who had made use of him in
this matter.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT.—Croydon, August 11.
CROWN COURT.

Henry Terry, 22, and William Shoesmith, 24, were in-
dicted for the manslaughter of William Thompson.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Tyndale appeared for the pro-
secution.

The prisoners and the deceased were labourers on the
South-eastern Railway, at Limpsfield, and on the 28th
of May the deceased, who went by the name of Blackey,
had a quarrel and fight with one of the prisoners, but it
was made up, and deceased went away. On the same
afternoon while the deceased was quietly sitting on a
heap of bricks, the prisoners went up to him, and one of
them wiped some blood off his face with a wisp of straw,
and they then both seized him, and attempted to drag
him to a pond of water, and on his resisting they knocked
him down and kicked him, and left him lying insensible
in the road. The poor man was not discovered for some
hours, when he was found to be in a most dreadful state,
and removed to the Union Workhouse, and after two or
three days suffering, expired, from the brutal injuries.
The prisoners absconded, but were apprehended.

The Jury found the prisoners Guilt-y, and
Sergeant TADDY sentenced them to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for two years. •
CiviL SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.)

The causes disposed of yesterday were totally devoid
of public interest.

OXFORD ClRCUlT—Gloucester, August 10.

CONVICTION FOR MURDER.

William Weyman was charged with the wilful murder
of William Fisher, on the 17th of April last, at Yock-
ington, in this county.

The deceased it appeared was a small farmer, residinr,
upon his own land, at Auckley, and the prisoner lived
near him. He had served 28 years in the Horse Guards,
and was in the receipt of a pension for his services of
ls. 4d. a day. On the Tuursday before the fatal occur-
rence took place which formed the subject of the present
trial, Weyman went in company with two other persons to
Bristol, to receive his arrears of pension, with which he re-
turned to his lodging the same night. His landlady observed
him soon after with a pistol, upon which her son (a little
boy) asked him what he was going to do with it, to
which he replied, " I am going to Auckley to shoot a
horse for Mr. Millard, for it has got the staggers." At
the time his appeared to be in liquor, but not so much so
as he had been on several previous occasions. On his
return, in about an hour, young Jefferies said, " Have
you shot the horse ?" He said, "I have not ; he's bet •
ter." On Saturday morning he got up about seven, He
was quite sober then. Mrs. Jefferies's little girl noticed
when he came down stairs that he had the pistol with him ;
she thereupon said, " Are you going to shoot the horse
again to-day?" He replied, "I am; he is a good deal
worse to-day." About nine o'clock he left his lodgings,
and was seen by several witnesses in the neighbourhood
of the deceased's dwelling. One woman, at whose house
he called on his way thither, stated that he told .her that
he had been drinking gin all that morning, and that he had
been looking for Wm. Fisher, either to butcher him or to
shoot him. At this time he did not seem much in liquor.
This witness had known the prisoner before he went
into the army. She had also known his father and
mother ; and, in reply to a question from :the prisoner's
Counsel, stated that she had never seen anything at all
incoherent in his manner, and had never heard that he
had a wound in his head. She was surprised to hear his
expression respecting William Fisher, as he was .. in ge-
neral extremely civil to every one.
• This witness's brother, who was a butcher, said that.
the prisoner was in the habit of shooting beasts for him.
The last he shot for him was on the Monday before
Fisher's death, on which, and on every similar occasion,
he was accustomed to use a pistol elonging to the butcher.
It seemed that about eleven -o'clock on the Saturday
already alluded to the prisoner, the deceased, and three
other men, of the names of Elmes, Cullimore, and Knapp,
were sitting together in a public-house kept by a person
of the name of Thomas.
Mr. Cullimore stated that Fisher and he were sitting
upon a settle, on the opposite side;of it. The prisoner
and the deceased had some conversation together on un-
important subjects, till a person of the name of Thomas
Janett passed along the road in the front of the house,
when the prisoner observed that he had, a few days be-
fore, delivered to Janett a letter containing a 501. note,
on which the deceased said,. " That's a lie. The pri-
soner replied, " Had you said that out of doors you
would never have kicked again." Deceased said again.
"You're a liar," and repeated this observation several
times, concluding with "You are the damnedest liar in
England." -Upon this the prisoner, exclaimed, " That's
enough," and immediately passed out through the back
kitchen, having in his pocket a horse pistol at the time.
In about o minutes he returned, and putting the pistol
close to the.deceased's head fired, when he instantly fell,
Witness then went out, not thinking that the deceased
was killed, and on his retnrn found William Fisher on
the ground with his jaw shattered, and in a dying state.
After seine further evidence,

Mr. .IiLATING addressed the Jury in a very able man-
ner on behalf of the prisoner,, and endeavoured to pal-
liate his guilt upon the grounds of insanity.
After which Mr. Justice COLTMAN summed up mi-
nutely the whole of the evidence, and
The Jury almost immediately returned a verdict of
Guilty.
His LORDSHIP then put on the black cap, and passe d
sentence of death upon the unhappy man, leaving him
no hope of mercy in this world.
The prisoner, who is a. fine athletic-looking man, re-
mained wholly unmoved during the trial.

THE RAILWAY TO SCOTLAND.--The par-
ties favourable to the formation of a railway to Edin-
burgh on the west coast line have'held a meeting within
the last few days at Liverpool, and passed a series of re-
solutions in support of the project. The principal pro-
moters of the measure are the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway and the Grand Junction Railway
Companies.. If, therefore, the eastern coast line, in
which Newcastle is so deeply interested, is to have any
chance of success, the friends of the undertaking should
exert themselves without citl.l Y.

THE LATE LADY MARY BRUDZNELL
BRUCE.—The mortal remains of' the above lady, who
died on the 26th ult. at Paris, were interred last week in
the English burial-ground in that capital, the deceased
lady's brothers, Earl Bruce and Lord Ernest Bruce, at-
tending as chief mourners. Thii deceased was second
daughter of the Marquis of Ailesbury, by his first mar-
riage with -the sister of Lord Berwick, and was sister of
Earl Bruce, Lady Augusta Wentworth, Countess I. an-
neskiold Samsoe, and Lord Ernest Bruce. In conse-,
quence of her Ladyship's demiie the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury intend passing some weeks at
Tottenham-park, the melancholy event precluding the
Marquis and. Marchioness from receiving visitors,
The health of Lord Granville has improved con-
siderably, and hopes are now entertained that he will
speedily recover ; but even if the Tories should not come
into office, it is probable that he will relinquish his post,
in order that he may be able to have the advantage of
change of climate. Mr. Bulwer is exceedittpley tice.t.iye;
4P4 is deservedlygeTlerfll ffIYWILP the gglitgll4tic
circles, as well aS at Court, although he is said to bave
more than once expressed himself with a degree of inde-
pendence which, in another person, might have given
offence.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.
(Mr. Sergeant ADDAms in the Chair.)
Nine of the gentlemen summoned on the Grand Jury
were fined 10/..each for non-attendance.

qeorye Miles Weston, a fashionably-dressed gentle-
man, appeared on an indictment charging him with as-
saulting \Vm. Metcalfe, a policeman of the C division.
Mr.Doane appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Payne
for the defence.

Metcalfe, being called, stated that he was at the ,Royal
Standard public house, ill Piccadilly, on the morning of
the 16th of June, about six o'clock. lie was talking to
some persons about the army, in which he had been 23
years, when the defendant interposed, and, asking him if
he knew some one in the regiment named, upon
his answering in the negative, the defendant violently
abused him, and swore he never belong-0 to the army.
Metcalfe was then going away when Weston felled him.
lie then left for the purpose of gaining assistance, when
Weston followed him, knocked him into the kennel, and
severely kicked him. Metcalfe further swore that he had
not retaliated with even provoking language.
Frederick Tothill, surgeon, deposed to the seriousness
of the injuries inflicted.
Philip Crick, clerk to 'a salesman in Covent-garden,
Sarah Gale, barmaid at the lloyal Standard, William.
Shayr, hosier, John White, chemist, William Hogg, mid
James Henson, water-carriers, were all present, and con-
firmed the statement of the policeman.
Mr. DOANE, for the defence, called William I)nke, an
independent gentlenian and associate of Mr. Weston,
Whose evidence was thr rever=e of what the other wit-
nesses adduced.

James Mitchell, a job-nias,er residing i't tipper Mon-
tag,ne-street, confirmeil the evidence of the last witne:--s.

Mr. DoANE replied.
The Learned Chairman briefly summed up, and the
Jury found the prisoner Guilty of a common assault._

Sergeant 'ADDAMS th-en said—" George Miles
Weston, you have been convicted, and very properly so,
of a very gross assault ; youirhave been called a gentle-
man, and are said to keep horses, but, without being a
severe moralist, I conider your conduct on this occa-
sion to have been most ungentlemanly and inhuman.
The sentence of this Court is that you be imprisoned in
the House of Correction for the term of one calendar
month, and that you pay a fine of 251. to the Queen.'.'
The other eases were very trivial, and the Sessions
will finish to-day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday a young woman, who had been cook in a
family in the City, was brought before Alderman WIL-
SON, charged with having applied to Mr. James White,
of Crutched-friars, for money, without having any
claim upon him, and with having persevered in making
the demand. She had a female child in her arms.

The complainant having simply stated the matter as
above,

Alderman WILSON asked him why she should apply
to him for money rather than to anybody else ? Was
it on account of the child she had in her arms ?

The complainant—l met her in Bartholomew Fair
about three years ago. It was at the late hour of twelve
o'clock at night when I happened to go to Smithfield to
see the change that had taken place, and she says now
that the child is like me.

Alderman WILSON—You mean that she charges you
with being the father and refusing to support the child ?
The complainant—That is the case ; but the question
has been already decided in my favour at the Quarter
Sessions, where the parish officers, believing that they
had a good case against me, tried it, but were defeated.

,
The mother of 'the child—l solemnly swear that he is
the father of my child, but he hired a counsel against
me, and I would not be heard. I have applied to him
since the unjust decision, because I cannot afford to sup-
port the infant. I had just left my place, and gone with
a female friend to see one of the shows in Bartholomew
Fair, when he came up to us, and he saw me home, and
invited me to his house next day, and I unfortunately
kept my appointment.
Alderman WILSON—Did he ever support yen, or the
child? The mother—He used to give me money to sup-
port the child. He has given me as much as seven or
eight sovereigns for that purpose.
The complainant—No such thing. certoinly gave
her money because I pitied her when she called on me in
distress. I then relieved her, but new. (tom the idea
that I was the father of the child.

The mother—You dare not swear that it is not your
child.

The complainant—l know nothing of the child.
Alderman WILSON—As the question has been decided
by the Bench at the Sessions, it is impossible that I can
allow the complainant to be annoyed by the defendant.
The mother—You may send me to prison, Sir. I can
do nothing.
The commitment was then ordered to be made out.