The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-07 00:00:00

ROBBERY iN THE GREEN PA-;ZK.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yestertlav a youth,
named Morgan, was examined before .1011 N LDv.

CONANT, Esq. Ou a charge of attacking Air. Wm.
Davis, of laird street, Manchester-square, in the
Green Park, and robbing him of a pocket-
book, containing a one-pound Bank note. The
prosecutor deposed, that on Saturday last, about
eleven o'clock, he was coming through the Green
Park, on his way to Spring Gardens, to the house
of his Solicitor ; it was very foggy, and as be
entered the Green Park, on the path to St.
bmes's Palace, he observed two ill-looking fel-
lows following him, and suspecting that they in-
tended to attack him, he took the precaution .of
twisting the chain of his watch, which was worth
sixty guineas, throng') the buttonhole of his
Waistcoat, When he was about half way down
the path-they attacked him ; one took out his
pocket-book, and another, as he anticipated, made..
a snatch at his watch, but. failed in his endeavour
to get it, and they then ran away. lie followed
then) some distance, but they escaped in the fog,
and he-found the pocket-book lying open on the
grass, emptied of its contents. On his return

home in the evening he gave inforniation to
Coates, one ofthe Mary-le-bone constablee,of the
robbery, with a description of the persan of one
of them, and that evening Coates took him info

custody in .Limes-street, where be was gambling
with other bar! characters. The prosecutor stated,
that on Monday a man met hint in Oxford-street,
and offered him a pound 'note it be would not
prosecute, but be- gave loin no answer ; and the
following day he received a note couched in the
following terms from some anonymous person :=
" Sir—You wilt weigh Well the propriety of prosecuting
the, prisoner. You are your own judge; but if you appear
against trim, something .1. Cri OUS will be the consequence.
" Yours, A;c.
" The prisoner's true and sworn friend:'
The Prisoner denied the robbery, and called a
man named Trigg to prove an alibi; but the mo-

meat he appeared, M. Davis recognise►l him al
the man who offered him the pound note to forego

proceedings. He was in consequence put to the
bar, but no proof of his being concerned in the
robbery could be brought against him, and he was
discharged. Morgan was fully committed:

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THE DROPPED CHILD.

Yesterday an 111(pliSli 101 l was held in the 13°31.di•
room of the wOrkb ,use of the united parishes (
St. Andrew, Holborn, and S:. George the Marty(,)
in Gray's Inn-lane, to investigate the dealt °II
ni de child, three weeks old, called Andrew horror;
or Tissue, whose mother is stated to be a 151(.1
lady of 'fortune, residing on a terrace in the Ocr;
road, and whose iAant was exposed in- a bds4en
at the door of Mr. James, 94, Tash street, ° oC
the night of Tuesday, the 15th of December I'll,
as stated in our Paper, and its death solV9e,:,
to be caused by Lavimg a great quantity ofrrp
administered to it, as well as to its exposure,'
The Jury consisted of 24 of the most •respect,,":ie
.
wen in the parish, as the case *se( toed to 00.11;
general interest, and the extraordinary controjetl
ot the witnesses was noticed by every one• NL„P.
thing new was adduced. The chi,f
were Samuel Long„a journeytnau botcher, ti
Lamb's Conduit, street ; rgaret a James, °
Tash-street ; Sareh zwalter, nurse, in St• I");
drew's workhouse, Holborn ; Dr. Denois"%o,-
Gnildford-street reet ; the PA I) Surgeon of •St •
drew's
and Elizahteb Wittier, who deP9seGf
;
that, about .two months ago, she applied fora
muse-child to Mrs. Symons, a midwife, re'
siding in Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, her "rwl:
having died. She desired her to callin a[et'
days, as she knew a lady tar advanc" in
pregnancy, and as soon as brought to bed, f';
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child would be put out to nurse, bTt that it 'i
be only for a hew days. Witness then refused '-
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take it for so short a period, and told Mrs
mons that she wanted one fora length at 11/°.
Mrs. Symons then said that her Sister, ,alt,
who lodged in the sane house, veueild !ikc
child, and tv it ness should hat e• ai 1,. h. r f" I`JI.
nurse. Did not see Mrs. St mots again e nu' 3 4/.
the deceased was brought by Mrs. kl'hite, -tSier;
in-law to Mrs. Symons, uo the house Wherir
lodged, t- be given to Ws. L ii.vaos„‘lrs..syino"''i
sister. It was brought on stif today, the 120'
December last, bet ween twelve and one Wel.),
and as Mrs. Evans was not at home, ss t“
the care of it till lee Tuesday uollowing. 03
Saturday mottling Mts. pc,s„„ ern°
brought the child, cline am! s.tid she must ueke
it back to Mrs. Symoes, as it •was intended to be
sent to wet nurse on its father's estare in tot cella..
try. The child was perfectly hcal7lty
time, and lived on and atrow-root. .."5
lint above three hours old whet) it was brought.
She dressed the child oil Tuesday, and carried it to
Mrs. Symons, in Kit by-sit cei, end delivered it (4'
her at tour o'clock in the afternoon, who paid toe
7s. for nursing it, and said that it was going t°
its
.lathet's country seat, about 25 milts trote
London, to be put to purse. Whilst she had the
child, Mrs. Symons advised ner to get 501'1
poppies, and give them to the child, as it 1%70111"
keep it constautly quiet, anti was an excellent thing
to give a cross - On Tuesday evening, Dec'
15, she heard of a child being dropped in "Dash'
street, went to see it, trent) an impression that it W 45
the same site haul taken to Mr. SymonS the saws
afternoon. Site knew it from two red piniple.9 01:1
one shoulder, and the mark of which the
mo!hesr received whi;et pregnant of .' being Le
tween both its eyes. The dress the child
when I delivered it into Mrs. Symons.'s haucts
was a new and beautiful dress,
.and that Pow pro.
duce(' is mean and dirty, not the same dress,
cept the shirt. It had very black :,air • j ate
sure it is same child : I saw it again on 'be
t„Howing morning, and, was•sore that soinethii4
had been giveo to it improperly : it was so 010(.3
altered in its appearance that I shonld not have
known it, but from the- marks 1 have already de-'
scribed ; it was drowsy and stupitied ; and the
had te l°
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eel sSite itit:afied;i:
it
would have beets alive at this time. 1 an Ole
nurse :o shetv 'the child to a doctor; I visited fry
61X tilneS in the workhouse, and it got worse • verf
time ; It was a very piercing ant. colt rig!) whea
the deceased Was 'dropped : 1 never leornee trout,
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Here the evidence closed, when some of -rho
Jury proposed to examine Syttiou,,, woo
present, w hen some of the o,erserrs staied that
tvas highly improper to ex ;
amine her, who
tended to be prosecuted as a patty, and who woo
now under hail to answer for the offence, a'' I+l4
they could not call on her to criminate herselL
They did not meet to inquire who the father or
the mother was, that, might appear on a future
time; they met to inquire how and by what
means the child-came by its death. Here ific
room was cleared of all eNcept the Jury, and after
a sitting of seven horns, and a consultation of two
hours, from thelopinnin of the• Doctors, they re-
turned a verdict—" Died by the Visitation of
God."

On the sth irs't., the Lady of .iohn Levicn, Esq. of a son.

ED.
On the Cl h instant, at St. George's Ilano...er-square,
sepli De!afield, jun.' Ffq. of Chasles.stieet,.
to Charlotte, fourth:daughter of the late H. C. eun"'''
of Cobham Park, Surrey.

DIED.
On Saturday, the 2d instant, at Pentonyiile, Mr. Sanizei
Sampson, solicitor, of St. Swithin's-lane.
On the 18th of July last, ia the 37th year of his aao, at
the camp, near Nehore, in the Province of Malwa,
Colonel Joltu s-,
tice, second sLoYnuiclif er
Sus,,ex : serving under the command of General Sir Milts
Nightiogale he was seized. while in pertecehealth, with the
cholera _morbus, about noon, and on the evening• of the
same day expired.

PROVINCIAL NIARRIACILS,
BIRTHS.

On the 25t1; nit. at the Dock-yard, Chatham, Mrs. Payne,
wife of W. Payne, Esq. Master attendant, of female twins.
Lately, at Newittglon Rectory, 'next Sittin,gbourne, „Kent.,
the Lady of Henry Day, ESC'. ofd, daughter.

:4;11161ED. •
On Thu rsmlay last, at Presthury, Mr. Picton, to Mss Frost,
of Macclesfield.
Lately, at Cresford, Cheshire, Mr. Edward Griffith, of Bar-
ton, to Miss E. Evans, of the Russet.

Di ED.
Yesterday se'nnight, Mr. Wiliiaru Cuthush, Keeper of his
Majesty's Gaol for the County of Kent.—iNlrs. Cutbush ex-
pired also on Monday last..

On Saturday, at St. Leonard's, West Mailing, Francis
Hubble Donee, Esq. one of the :11agistrates of the County of
Kent.

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Ormond-street, Qat e:i-S.;nare; anft putAished by W. A.
S(ItIPPS, of No. 7, Sob Mollim-street, at THE SuN
Office, No. 113, StralLl ; where Adreitisements, Orders,
Lettere, &e, 'bust paid) hoallressed.

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