The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-31 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday Mr. Chambers, a schoolmaster ad-
vanced in years, was brought up by the parish officer.
of Lambeth, to have an Grder of affiliai ion made
upon him for the maintenance of an illegitimate child.
The mother of the child, a tall well-looking young
woman, stated that she had lived in the defendant's
service as cook, and that it was during that time she
became pregnant of the child she then held in her
arms. The defendant, she added, %%as the father of
her child.

Mr. NIURRAV asked the defendant if he had any
thing to say why he should not be adjudged the
father accordingly ? Defendant—l deny the charge
in igto.

Mr. MURRAY said if that was the case it was re-
quisite to enter more minutely into the particulars of
their acquaintance with one another.
Defendant—l am a married tsar, and the father of
a family; it is not likely, therefore, that I should
intrigue with my cook.

The Magistrate said that there was no accounting
for these things; at all events the defendant would
have an opportunity of putting whatever questions
he thought proper to the young woman, or calling
any witness to invalidate her testimony., The Ma-
gistrate then asked the cook when the intimacy be-
tween her and the defendant commenced.
Cook—l have reason to remember all about it,l
your Worship; it was about the ►atter end of last
February when my master began to take liberties
with me.

The defendant here interrupted her, saying ex-
plain where and how it took place.
Cook—You know well enough when it took place;
why, when I went up stairs with the warming-pan
to warm your bed.

Defertiant—l deny it in toto.
Mr. MURRAY asked him if he meant to deny that
he ever had any intercourse with the girl, who had
sworn that lie was the father of her child

Defendant—l deny it in toto.
The cook, who gave her master a fiery look of in-
dignation, exclaimed, " You know, Mr. Chambers,
that you, and nobody else, is the father."
Defendant—l deny it in toto.
Mr. :MURRAY then proceeded to interrogate the
girl very closely as to the truth of her statement
relative to the defendant being the father of her
child, and she still persisted in the accuracy of her
account. She added, that from the month of Fe-
bruary till the July following, the intimacy between
them was carried on.

Defendant—l was not living at my residence half
that time.

Cook—l know you were not, for yo❑ were con-
fined in the King's Bench, and 1 was compelled to
go there to you.
Mr. MURRAY inquired what compulsion there was
for her to visit her master while he was within the
walls of a gaol.

The cook, in reply, said that her mistress used
to send her there with clean linen for her master
once a week, and that upon these occasions he al-
ways made a point of taking liberties with her.
Mr. iMuKkAY inquired whether she had ever in-
formed her mistress of the liberties taken with her,
or whether she had expressed a wish not to be sent
to her master:

The cook, who held down her head, and looked
abashed, said that she kept the thing a secret until
she had warning that she was about to become a
mother.

Mr. Mutft.tY asked the defendant if he was de-
sirous of putting any questions himself to the girl.
She gave a minute detail of their acquaintance, and
unless they (the Magistrate) had good grounds for
disbelieving her statement, the order must be made
upon the defendant.
The defendant said, that at the time the cook was
in the habit of calling at the King's Bench with his
things, she told another of the servants that she had
a nice young man to see her borne each time. The
defendant added, " and I think this nice young man
is the father of her child, and not me. I deny it
in lobo."

Mr. MURRAY remarked, that in general it was the
housemaid's business to use the warming pan, and
not the cook's ; he was, therefore, anxious to know
how it was that the cook officiated on the occasion
that she complained liberties had been taken with her
in the first instance by the defendant.
The cook at once explained this by saying, that
the housemaid was out at the time.
This assertion was not denied by the defendant,
who merely repeated the expressicn, " I deny in
Colo being the father."
One of the parish officers said, that be had heard
Mr. Chambers ~ay something about a Life Guards-
man being the father of the child, and not him.

'I he defendant said that a man six feet and a half
high,-belonging to the 2d Regiment of Life Guards,
was in the habit of meeting the cook, and v. hen it
was discovered, she said that he was her brother.
Since this affair happened, he (defendant) had made
inquiries into the subject, and ascertained that she
bad no relative in the regiment.
Mr. MURRAY said that the cook had sworn posi-
tively to the defendant being the father of the child,
and in the absence of evidence to contravert such
statement, thiy 1,41:1 bound to believe her oath.
In this decialon`sll. Wedgwood also joined, and
the order for tristhits4ing the child was therefore
made on the deftOncy, who again repeated, "I deny
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