The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-02 00:00:00

THE STOLE,N- tHILD,

The following account is extraaed from a Morn-
ng Paper :

It is 'roe that the infcit sou of Mrs. Dellow, of
St. Martin's-lane, Catitio:i-stre.ei, who was stolen
on the 18th of November, has at length been re.-
covered.

The extensive circulation of hand and postiog
bills, minutely describing the child, and offering ',o
reward of one hundred guineas for his, recovery,
caused great ineffectual vigilance in the country on-

iii the latter end of last week,- when a woman at
Gosport observed a neighbour of her'a' in possession
of a boy, bearing the marks described, and answer-
ing to the age of three years old. She, immediately
thought it ,was Mama, Dellow,. who. had been•so
long missing; the more so,,as• she had reason to
believe that the pretended another had never borne
a.child. She communicated her .suspicions to the
nearest.Magistrate,.WhO sent for Mrs. the
pretended- mother. The moment she was interro-
gated. on the.subje6t, she confessed the whole affair,
and motive for the robbery, ;
her husband, who was a gunner on
board one of his Majesty's ships, andbad• saved a
considerable sum of, money for a man in his station
of life, was extremely partial to childl-en, and had
often expressed his most anxious wish to haYe a little
darling, as he used to term it.' His wife, nor less
anxious to gratify him in this respect, wrote to him
while at sea, that she .was in the family-way. The
gunner, highly delightd that he
,had obtained. his
desired object, sent home the earnings of many a
.cruise, amounting to 3001. with a particular charge
that the intant should be well rigged, acid want for
nothing: if a boy, so much the better.
The next letter from
.his hopeful wife, announced

the happy tidings that his first-born was a son ; and
that she would name him Richard, attei his father.
The husband expressed bisjoy at the news, and
counted the tedious hours until he should be per-
mitted to come home to his wife and child.
At home he at length arrived, but at unfors-

innate time, when the dear Richard 'was out at nurse,
at a considerable distance; change of air being ne-
tessary'to the easy culling of his teeth. The husband's
time being short, he lest his home with a heaVy
heart, without being able to see his offspring ; but
he was assured that on his next (tip to GOsport he
should have the tehcity he had so often pined for,
of claiping his darling to his bosom. It was not
until November last that he was at liberty to revisit

,
home, when he had again the mortification to find
that his son, whom he expeeted to see a fine boy of
three years old, had not yet cut his teeth, 'or that he
was from home on some other pretence. The hus-
band, however,_ was not to be pacified thus: he
would go and see his son, or his son should come to
him. Mrs. M. finding hiro deterrnined, thought the
latter much the best way ; and accordingly set off
to fetch the boy. The Metropolis occurred to her
as the market best calculated to afford her"a c.,llu;ce
of children ; and passing down St. Martin's-lane,
she was struck with the rosy little Citizen,
Tommy De.llow, and at once determined to make
him her prize. vie was playing with his sis-
ter at the green-grocer's shop door, into which
Mrs. M— went,' with the double view of pur-
cha,ing some apples, and carrying 'off the boy.—
She made much of the sister, caressed the boy,

and gave him an apple. The children being
pleased with her attention, she asked the little
gill to show her to a pastry-cook's shop to buy some
cakes, whither she took both the girl and tl e buy.
She got clear off with the latter, and left the gill
behind? M---- supposing' all his wishes realised,
was made truly happy.,
It is no exaveralion to say, that poor M
felt a parental affedion fur the buy and that when
the imposition was discovered before-the Msigistrate,
he was grieved to the heart at being obliged to part
with him under all the circumstances of the trans.:
attion. • -

The Mlgistrate at Gosport immediately acquainted
Mr. and IVlrs. Dellow with the discovely ; and
stated to them that tkeir child Was salt!, and ready
to be delivered to its parents.

On Monday the fal her set off for Gosp,:43, and
tie next day receivLd liii lost child. It, he could
feel any diminution of his joy, it was on account of
M-, who patted Frith flute Dellow with a sor-
rowful heart, and excited the commisetation of all
who witnessed the .scene.' As tor Mts.
she was lodged in the 'House of Corretion, at Gas-
port, for a thy or two; and is expeacd by the coach
this morning, to undergo an examination at the
Mansion-house. Mr, Dellow and his boy arrived in
town yesterday morning.

The bOdycf an interesting young woman, re-
spectably dressed, was picked up yesterday Morning,
floating below Putney Reach 3 in her pockets were
some silver, and an address. to Silver-street,, St.
James's, which led to a knowledge of her. The
body was owned yestetday, and the deceased, who
was an upper servant in a gentleman's family at
Knightsbi idge, had not been heird of since ChriSt-
nias Day, when she had 'leave to go out. No ac-
count bow she got in the water has yet transpired.