The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-07 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, Nov. 6:

THE BREWERS' MEN.
Sameel Fab S, Charles Blake, and Thomas Payne, ,the
draymeit of Messrs. Wyatt, who were convicted and sentenced
to seven years' transportation on Wednesday night, were
again plit to the bar, together with Luke Pilaus (not in the
former indictment), and charged with stealing on the 4th of
September, two casks, value 21. and 72 gallons of ale, .value
0 the property of FL and H. E. Wyatt.
Mr. ALLEY, .touriel for the prosecution, declined calling
any evidence against the prisoners in this case, and they were
consequently acquit t ed.

CHILD STEALING.—,Inn Lee was indicted for stealing a
child of 2 years old, belonging to Mary Mosely.
The Proseentrix deposed, that She• lived at Chelsea, and
her husband was a chnnneysweeper. Last Saturday week,
about 11 o'clock in the. day, she missed tier child. It went
judo the court to play, as it generally did, and she missed it
soon after that time. She went in search of the child, but
could not find it, and thimght it was drowned. After having.
watch ed•for'about an hour, she found the prisoner
.and her
child in the Royal I foliital public-house. The ptisoner had
songs stud ballads with ber,,and the child had two of them.
WitoeSs asked her, " What do you do with my child ?" Site
_made -no reply, but the constable came and took her into
custody. The public-house was about a Mile from Duke-
'street, where the witness lived. The prisoner had taken no-
thing from the child. Witness had never seen her before.
Thomas Chip, a waterman, was plying at Chelsea, and
between It anil o'clock saw the child. with the father.
.About quarter of an hour afterwards it was missing:, and
witness 'endeavoured to console the mother.--, He got infer-
..
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ration after his dinoir Where the child was, and be went in
search of ij. 'He saw Ilk, prisoner with this child about a.
mile offs hv'the di'ad wall of Chelsea College, aid set a coach
man to watch vulrile lie went fiira!Coistatile.: Site was taken
in the Royal Hospital,public-bonse.:
Mary:„.l'earse-..got,ber- by washing, and about 12
o'clock on the sth -of, Odtoaef, went into the"publie4Mose
- mention' 4! to get some, porter. saw there the prisoner
mid the child, with ballads ii4heit'handsr--:the irrisonerbeg•-.
ged fur charity, and. the witness gave the child a halfpenny.
Lee called the child by,thesuriweof An t f•
pence out of the liancß. A few minute, Afterwavf,i
the mother cause in, and Said, li, the. prisoner, " You wreteli,
what do you do with my child.?" and fainted away in wit,,
res.'s auras. .

The'prisoner in her defence said, that il;e, ((mid •the child
astray, 4nd sent to,the public-hlntsc to find the mother.
Mary Hearse being again called statra, that there were per-
sons in the public-house who heard the prisoner say the child'
was lier own. Witness did not hear her say it herself.—The!
Jury found the prisoner Guitiy. •
At 2 o'clock the RECORDER addressed the Gentlemen of the
Jury

" Gentlemen;=-I hare just received 'ofiicial'informath,n of
the irreparable loss the country has sustained by the melan-
choly death of her Royal Highness the Princess CHARLUITE.
Under these circumstances, 1 think it fit to adjoui-o this Court •
until 9 o'clock to-morrow morning ; and I am in hopes that,
by .5 o'clock, the whole business of the Court will be can-
chided."
The Court was adjourned accordingly. '

SEIZURE OF' SPIRITS.-Yesterday morning, as•
Gideon Lewis, a Constable of.. Camberwell,. was
going along Goose-green, Peckham, he observed
two men with a hose "and cart. Ore of. them
had disnrogn►ed, and >vas marking the name of
John Hill " on the cart with' chalk. Lewis
went up to him, and inquired .tbe reason of iris
having no name or number on Abe cart ; the man,
without making any reply► retreated a few steps,
and took to kis heels. Lewis immediately got up
into the cart, and while• he was mounting on one
side, the other man, who had till then remained
sta!ionary, dismounted ott-the other, and escaped.
Lewis searched the cart, awl under a quantity of
straw discovered eight tubs of norectified spirits.
He reported the cironnstande to the Excise Office,
when the liquor was .61m:trilled, and a proseen-
thin ordered to be instituted for the purpose of
condemning the horse and cart : the horse is an
extremely valuable one. Tire liquor is supposed
to have been .brought front a prirate still, in the
neighbonrhood of Lordship-lane, Dulwich, which.
the vigilance of the Excise has not been able to
discover.

BIRTH.
On the (Ith inst. at Bath; the Laily.of Charles Elston, Esq.
of Hendred, Berks, of a son and