The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-20 00:00:00

CEILD DROPPING.

BeNjam—in lanes .was indicied on the prosecution
,of the Parish Officers of St. Sepulchre, for exposing
an infant child, of 14 ilia he was the father, with
intent to bur,ien the. Parish. • .

It appeaTed e‘idence that the Defendant had
a child:by his hotTkkeeper, and being a candidate
for the office of Sevon of the Parish of Stepney, he
feared the discovery would defeat, his election : ii
therefore took'the child out late night., and lei:
it in College-court, Cow:cross, where it was dis'-
covered shortly after by one of the inhabitants.—
It was carried'to the Work-honse and taken care of
by the Parish.
The IVLater of 'the child proved that the,De-'
.fendant was its f2rber, and. that one night while she
was .o'7t, child xvas taken away.

A 'worn:ln who nursed the last Witness, .prov-ed
that the Defendant went- out at rnitinight with
the child, and cattle back without it that he ,bad
asked her to drop the child, which site -refused.—
Theehild had since di4, hat it aid not appear to
be in consequence of this exposure.
-Mr. ALLY. addressed the
_fury at considerable
length in lavOur of the' Defendant, and endeavoured
to invalidate-the assertions of the Witnesses' for the
rl u>ccutton•----L- _

• The CHAIRMAN summed up the evidcnce, and
the Jury immedia;ely found the az'Umlaut Guilty.

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He was sen.tenced to two years confinernent in
the House of Curreciikn.

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MANSION-Hot.—On Satuiday 3chtz
whose case we. noticed in a former Paper, appeared
agiin pefort the LORD MAYOR.. He had on, a
former day' charged a Mr. C.
,Lyons,. an Agent
at Portsmouth, with having
,uttered a forged
Power of Attorney, purporting to lie executed
by Stein, for the purpose of receiving 381. ;IS
wages due to him in r 809., from the -Sierra Leone
'company. He, on Saturday, as' well as on a for.,
mer, day, swore he had never gixen any such Power.
Mr. Lyons produced several respectable persons
from Port mouth, who swore they_ saw Stein exe-
cute this pOwer; and others swore they saw him
receive the money from Mr. Lyons. The whole"
of this proceeding has taken place in consequence
of Stein having lately applisd at the' Sierra. Leone
House for the payment of this money, which they long
_since paid to Lyons, on his producing the Power'ot.'
Attorney. Stein further swore, that in November •
last, the date of this Power, he was on board
His Majesty's Ship Orion, on the Irish station.
But it- was 'positively, proved.. that the Orion
was at that time in 'the ' West Indies, and that
Stein was: on board' the Portland Receiving Ship
at Portsmouth. Stein; on. the other swore.
he had-never been on board. that Ship. , The
'LORD Mi',,YOR said, he had given thi; case a very.
long and patient' investigation,, and that lie was
now 'convinced, from the body Of evidence adduced
in behalf of Mr. 'Lyons,. to contradiction t;ie,
simple ipse dixit of Stein, .tfiai th'at nun ha,l coq:..
.mitted wilful and corrupt perjury, eichcr tciik, a
view m defraud' the Sierra 1,...e0ne Compariy, or td
take away the life, of, Mr. Lyou%, who •nTight. re:
turn-back to 'Porusinouth with his charafter unim-
-peached, he Baring yondutic.d himself in this ha-
siness with faitncs and honesty. His Lordship
then ordered' Stein to .be committed for perjury;
when the Solicitor of the Sierra Leone compaty
said, that ,the Company hid already. indicted, hitr.,
and that. a warrant was ready to he executed.—
Stein was then taken, into custody,, and lodged in •,'
the Poultry Compter. ,

Copy of a Letterifrom Mr. Minshuq, Printer of the
_Lincaster Gazet:teer, to the. wholesale Vender of
Dr. Taylor's celebrated Remedy for Deafness.

CC It gives, me pleasure to have to state to you,
that a Lady called u,pou me on Monday last, and-in-
formed me, that her father had been, very deaf for
several years, and steing your advettisement in the.
Lancaster Gazetteer, a bortle,ofyour truly invaluable
Remedy was procuted,ftornmy Office; in twenty.'
four hours after the first application, he-experienced
much knefir, and by using that,hottle.only, he
fouiid he could hear as vell,asever be could in, his
life.. „

,1 If tllis case will render you any service, you

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