The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-13 00:00:00

THE FEVER IN IRELAND.

KujiENNy, SurT. 6.—Yesterday 6 persons were discharged
from the Fever-house, in a state of convalescence. Trifling
as this statement may appear, the tact will afford consider-
able relief to the afflicted poor, as many applications were
unavoidably refused from the want of sufficient accommoda-
tion, until those cures were effected. It is proper to add,
that although many cases of fever exist in the crowded parts
of this city and suburbs, no extraordinary mortality prevails,
and we rather think the frightful disease is on the wane.—
Wednesday evening a man, about 30 years of age, was brought
to the house in the last stage of a putrid fever, who, nOtwith-
standingevery medical and kind attention,expired in the course
of the night. Ile had been found in a wood near Ennisnag,
where be is supposed to have lain at least two nights. As the
man was not able to articulate, his name is unknown.
It is presumed he was a tailor travelling for employment, as
the only articles found in his possession, hesides a penny-
piece, were a tailor's titimble and a slime of thread.

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On Thursday night a
young %% annals, residing at the Horns public-house,
High-street, \Vhitechapel, made an attempt to.
put an end to her existence by cutting her throat
with a razor, but fortunately was prevented from
completing the rash act by a person who was pre-
sent at the time, who, observing her on the point
Of cutting her throat, snatched the razor, hut not
before she made an incision. She was taken in a
state of mental derangement to Whitechapel watch-
house, to he taken care of; and being asked what
inducement she could have to commit the act, she
said that she had retired to rest, but by some
means a soldier, who was in the habit of drinking
in the house, gained admittance to her chamber,
and hail violated her person : being somewhat
composed, she was taken home to her friends.
Early on Thursday [limning last, as Harrison's
Birmingham waggon was travelling; near St. Al-
ban's, the waggoner, who was asleep in the wag-
gon, leaving the boy to drive, was suddenly
wakened by some person treading on him. He got
out of the waggon, and told the boy to get the
blumierbuss (although he had none), thiAing to
intimidate the thief, but he discovered three other
thieves, %who beat him unmercifully, stole two
hales of stockings, and got off. The waggoner
lies in a dangerous state.
On Thursday morning last, between five and six
o'clock, a poor woman was met near the Highgate
Archway by a man who asked alms of her. She
said she had nothing to give hint. He swore he
would not leave her till she gave him something,
and then robbed her of the bundle she had in her
hand, and stripped her to her under petticoat and
shift, and made his escape into a wood. The poor
woman was discovered in that state soon after by
a gentleman on horseback, who learning the track
the robber had taken, traced him by the dew, and
succeeded in apprehending him, and had him se-
cured in Highgate watch-houie.

UDINBURGII.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, MONDAY, SEPT, s.

CHILD STE.ALING.-N CAPITAL FELONY.

The Court proceeded to the trial of Janet Dou-
glas, indicted and accused of plugiam, or man-
stealing. The indictment set forth that the pawn,
did, upon Monday, the 12th day of May last,
wickedly steal and barbarously carry away Mar-
garet Reach, a child betwixt three and four years
of age, the daughter of James Reach, mason, at
King's Stables, in th►e parish of St. Cuthbert,
Edinburgh, front the house of Baer father, or from
some place in the neighbourhood thereof ; and
being pursued after the said inhuman theft was
perpetrated, she was apprehended at the colliery
of tialbeath, in the county of Fife, upon Wed-
nesday, the 14th day of the said month of May,
having- the said child in tier custody. To this in-
dictment thy panned plekded not guilty; and no
objections having been stated to the relevancy, a
Jury was and the trial proceeded.

James Reach, mason at Kim's Stables, has three children ;
his daughter Margaret is betwixt three and tour years of age.
On the 12th Of May, being a loinlay, on coming home to
dinner his wife told him his daughter Margaret was lost.
Witness went to inquire at the Police-office; sent the town
crier through, but could get no information concerning her:
Next Morning, about tour o'clock, ruse and went towards
White-house-toll, from thence to Leith, and inquired at the
Police-office there if they had seen a strayed child ; got nu in-
; returned hum,, was, told the child was certainly
s'solen ; went on the Queensberry-road, inquired at every
howte,-and some VVolliell at a I;.lrn ; thought they saw a woman
and a child of the description he gave the day before the toll-
man at Craighleith told him the same : came to a ,Hiss Mar-
shall's, who told him she had given a woman with a child, who
said she had cume from the Cape of Good Hope, a penny
to help her ever the ferry. Witness went to the ferry,
and found a wOnian and child had passed, hut the boat-
man said he thought the child was at the breast, and
that be had taken her over gratis. Witness returned to
Miss Marshall's, and stated lie did not think the child was
his ; told him to go to a porter's lodge, where be got farther in,-
formation, and crossed the ferry ; went to a man who had seen
the woman with a child, who said he was going to Dunferm-
line ; went to a Magistrate, who ordered the lodgings to he
searched. A man gave him some information, and he went
to Halbeath, and found the child in a house, but the woman
was not. She was out for smile necessaries, and upon her re-
turn he asked her where she had got the child ? she said she
had got it at Edinburgh from her aunt. The child hail all its
clothes but bonnet mid slip, which it said was in the woman's
bundle; the child said that a woman had taken her from Lo-
gan's entry; gave her some sweet meats, and said she would
take tier to her grandmother. The woman said she had given
her child. to her aunt to nurse, and had got this one in its
place ; and if she was in Edinburgh she would soon clear her-
self. The pannel at the bar is the woman; he got a warrant
and tools her into custody. When taken before a Magistrate,
she acknowledged she had stolen the child. When the child
saw the witness it expressed great joy, and took him round
the neck and kissed him.

Marion Brown, wife of the preceding witness, stated that
the child left the house about half-past 11 o'clock to go to a
neighbour's house; she did not go there, and every search
was made for her, and witness did not see her until two days
afterwards, when her father brought her home, saying he had
found her at Halheath-colliery; child was dressed in a light
frock, a green bonnet, and a checked pinafore.
Helen Brotherst one, wife of john Anderson, labourer at
Bell's-mills, recollects the panel coming into her house on a
Monday with a child. Woman said she was going to Dunferm-
line to her father, who kept the head inn there. She named
the child Jeanie. The paunel at the bar she is quite sure is the
woman.

William Halliday, at Craigleith Toll, remembers in May
last a wmnan and a child coming to the toll ; either next
morning, or next again, a torus came inquiring for her. The
woman asked for a drink, which the witness gave her : thinks
the panncl is the woman. She went towards Queensferry.
Grace M'Pherson, wife of Wm. Brown, at Braehead, pa-
rish of Crarnond, recollects a woman and child coinintz to her
house ON a Monday in May, about half-past three o'clock ;
wished to warm the child. Witness asked her if she had car-
ried the child from the town; to which she answered, she had-
carried it from the Cape of Good Hope. Witness gave the
child some broth, but the woman said it could riot eat broth
with turnips in it. She said the child was three years old,
and was born on a New-year's morning. The child was not
crying, but looked so pitiful that the witness asked her what
ailed her; the woman said she cried for mammy, because,
when in the Capc of Good Hope, a woman kept her while she
washed clothes. The pannel at the bar the witness is quite
sure is the woman. Witness saw the child again when taken
home on the father's back.

The declarations of the pannel were then read;
one emitted at Dunfermline before the Provost
there, in which she said she got the child from ti
woman on the road ; the second emitted before
the Sheriff of Edinburgh, in which she admitted
that she took away the child. That she had been
a coal-bearer at Gilinerton Colliery, and having
been out of work, went to Halbeath quest of
work, and the only inducement she had in taking
the child was the hopes that she would thereby
get employment, as she was starving, and intend-
ed to send it back.

The Loan JUSTICE CLERK having summed up
the evidence, the Jury, without leaving the box,
immediately found the panel Guilty.
The LORD JUSTICE CLERK (atter hearing the
opinionv of Lords Yit►nilly and Succoth) ad:ll.es:-
ed the prisoner in a most impressive manner, in
which he pointed out the enormity of the crime
she had committed, and sentenced her to suffer the
punishment of Death, in this city, on ►Wednesday,
the 15th day of .October next.
The prisoner is a young woman, apparently
about 20 years of age.