The Sun.
London, England, 1805-04-19 00:00:00

CHILD STEALING.

A woman was brought tp Bo.w.street last night,'
charged w►th stealing a. Child of; Four years old,
from Ex.eter.street. Strand, where its parents re•
side. she had stripped it, and pledged its clothes
at a Pawnbroker's, in Drury.lane. .The duplicate
was found in her possession. It appears she is a
wCll.known char:lller about the town as a beggar;
is a tall, thin, old 'woman, a Swiss, and livcd in
credit in the City, in her late husband's time, who,
we uhderstand, wat- an .Apothecary,-or*Chernist.

On•Wedneeday evening Mr. JOHN BIbWEI:Li
coming from his uncle's lodge,'neit ;the Magazine,
in Hyde-park, was attacked and robbed by two,
soldiers, dressed in _their great coats andjoraging.
saps, about ten o'clock, near the head 'of the Ser.'
pentine„ River. He made great resistance, and
believes.he mrked one of them in the face. Mr.
Bit.Wet.t. remains dangerously lU, having received
some severe blows on the head with 'a bludgeon.
They took from him a silver hunting-watch, usakerlai
name C. Dunning, London, two gold seals, and
some money.
'Yesterday afternoon a middle-aged woman, of
shabby appearance,' was seen to -take a child from
the door of a hatter's shop in' the Strand. Her'sin.
gulag condua was noticed by some persons- who had
witnessed the,transadion, and they followed her to
the water.side, Where she was taken in the at of
!nipping the infant, and lodged in safe custody.
Last Wedriesday night, or early yesterday morn.
ing, a bar Of gold, value 30,0001. was stolen out•
of 'One uf-tife Spanish Prizes lying in Mr. PERRY'S
Duck, at, Black wail. , • ,
A Hackney CiaChmati was fined at Marlborough-
stree(Ofrice yesterday, for abusive language towards
Lord De Bt,Agir t E u e, by whom he bad been hired
to carry him to Dulwich,' '
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A Gentleman of a. debating society "'who fre.
quently introduced, a few evenings since, Me term,
moral certaint.h into his arguments, was thus re.
plied td—" Out Member talks much of moral ter.
mintier ; hut I kflow of none mute certain than
that a considerable number of .1 dvenjurets in the
present great Lottery must inevitably participate
of its. Citpital blessings. All the powers of fate
cannot, prevent these gifts of Fortune ; and- it is
nut tdo much perhaps' to add, that such as negled
te, possess a chance of obtaining these blessings,
are, to a moral certainly, blind to their own In.
tercet."

BIRTH,
On Monday, at his Lordship's house in Hanover-square,
the Right Non. Lady Le Despencer, of a Daughter.

MAX K/JU).

Yesterday morning, at Mary.le.bone Church, Alexander
Oswald, Esq. of Dean-street, Soho, to Miss Gray, of Up.
per Haney-street.
The same day, at St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, John
Henry Derall, Esq. of Gower-street, to Miss Mackenzie,
or Russell-square eldest daughter of the late John Macken.
zio, Esq." of Baydeld, North Britain.
On 't uesday last, at Standish, Gloucestershire, the Res,.
Edward Bather, Het:tor of Isleole Brace, in Silropshires to
Miss Emma Hallifax, second daughter of the Rev, gobgrt
Hallifaz, Vicar a Standish.
On the 57th inst. Mr. G. Hanaley, of Fish.street.hill, to
Miss Seward, daughter of the late William Seward, Esq. of
Romsey.