The Sun.
London, England, 1819-02-17 00:00:00

EXTREME CRUELTY TO A CHILD.

Charlotte HAI was yesterday flied upon an in-
Conieut, charging her with having dreadfully
abused her niece, Prunella, a child not five
years of age. The prosecution, which was con-
dticted by Air. ALLEY, who spoke at considerable
length and with great feeling, was instituted by
the parish of. St, Mat tiles-in-the-Melds,
The evideote detailed a series of shocking crud-
ties. One of die Jery was so flinch affected at the
repetition of it by the Chairman; as to be obliged
to leave the Court for some minutes. The child
died st,on after the scenes described took place,
and a'bill for murder was presented, but thrown
out by the Grand Jury.
Mrs. Blow, of No. 12, Ilemming's-row, St.
IViartin's-lane, in whose house the prisoner re-
sided, stated, that on the 24th of October the
prisoner caused the child to stand with her, feet
set on the, flap in the kitchen, while she robbed
her with a flannel drenched.in cold crater; after
which she made the child sit upon the stairs
naked. On the 3d of November, %%ituess saw the
prisoner and the child in the yard; the child was
naked, and the prisoner threw a pail of water
over her, upon which she seemed convulsed.—
Witness remonstrated with the prisoner, but
it caused nothing but a greater degree of
cruelty. The aunt threw another pail of wa-
ter over the child ; after which she drove her'
tip stairs. Witness then heard blows, Which must
have been given by the aunt; and repeated piercing
cries from the poor child. On the. 9th of No-
vember witness mentioned to the child's father,
who called to see it, that her aunt had acted in
an inhuman .manner, and was not fit to have the.
care of it. The father,
_accompanied i3tthe wit-
ne.,3, went upstairs. The child was sitting on a
box in a cold room, and was dead tip to the
knees. Site was naked; witness gave the father
a ,blauket, and advised him to put the child in
watt,. bath. .

Cross•exarnined.—Witntil was a married tiro.
man, mid had six children. The prisoner, she
'believed, was also married, but had no children.
She heard the Doctor say that the child had a
typhus, bit the ilb•treattnent she had met witit
v.as soffic;ent to cause it. The child died. Its
skin was filthy to a sho'eking degree. There were
marks of fingers near-the back-bout;, as if great
violence had been used.,

Anna Cole confit wed the strong, facts of the
tornkr evidence, and added, that the prisoner had
placed the child in a washing tub,,and turned the
cock- upon Ler for ten minutes ; that, she the')
took her out, put her into the coal-hole, and Cold
tier it' WAS mull of rats.

Liannah Wood confirmed the greater part of
the statement ot the former wittusses.
The CHAIiiMAN said, the tilatlis of the Public.
were due to the potisir that instituted, this pro-
secution, which t!:ll'brought to light a most
«lions anti a6ontiOble instance of cruelty, if the
evidence were ,to, be relied on. He intimated,
that it the surgeon could have contradicted any
lie should have been called by the pn-
80,,,r.—The.,,Iirry returned a verdict ot
The prisoner, who is a pretty young woman,
and ant-tared to be in the family way, held down
head on hearing the verdict. She .did not
seem at all affected during the trial.

WESTMINSTEa EUCTION.

THIRD DAY.

The Poll recommenced yesterday at the usual
hour. Mr. 11611140U58 having,. on the preceding
evening, announced this to be the day on which
the inhabitants of the large and populous parish
of St: James, with Sir V. BURDETT, would come
to the Poll, it was expected that unusual activity
would be displayed. Such, however. was not: the
case. About noon Sir VRANCIS made his appear-
ance with 48 Voters in his train. They were re-
ceived with applause, but not with that enthu-
siasm which, from the late popularity of the Hon
Baronet, •might have been expected. The usual
scene of-uproar was presented in the hours• which
intervened before the close of the Poll, but no
extraordinary violence occurred. Au old jacket.
was thrown about among the mob, to the great
anoisemeut of the spectators, with the exception
of those who found theii heads occasionally en-
veloped in its muddy lioing. A lamb's head,
black on one side anti white on the other, was
;displayed as a practical pion oil Mr. LAMB'S name.
'This exhibit ton caused 'flitch laughter. The jacket
was thrown over it, but the head was SQOII re-
lieved tram its ihcuinbrance, and troMpantly
'exhibited, till something of greater. interest at-
tracted the notice of the mob.
The Pull closed at tour' o'clock, when the num-
, bets were announced to stand as follows
Fur Mr. tiolihouse„.... 4i;9
Mr. Lamb . 350
Major Cartwyight 2d
Mr. How-loose came forward,•and, amidst fre-
quent interruptions, spoke at some length. He
congratulated the Electors that their cause had
again the majority orithe poll, and he doubted
not but, in spite' of all the artifices .ortheir oppo-
nents, it Would still continue to' triumph:- He
held in his hand what he considered a proof' that
artifices as extraordinary were resorted to on this
occasion as ever had been known at any blection
contest. .There bad issued from the Committee of
his opponent, A paper,. containing certain obser-
vations on his conduct on Saturday, arid the state-
owns he had made ou the subject of Parliament-
ary Reform.. If the Paper in question did not
come from that Committee, he would thank the
Hon. Gentleman to disavow it. In the paper to
which lie referred it was stated, " that in the City
of Westuaioster time right, of Suffrage was almost
universal." This was' false—positiVely false, as
th'e City contained 168,000 inhabitants, but not
more than 14,000 Electors, so that not so much
as one-tenth part of the people ot• Westminster
enjoyed the right of .voting for their Represen-
tatives in Parliament. The paper then went on
to describe his plan to make the qualification
for voting the same everywhere, to be directed
against the people•ot Westminster, whose rights,
it was suggested, he would abridge, while he ex-
tended those of- the inhabitants of other places.
He called upon the Hon. Gentleman his opponent
to say why this false—this infamous charge had
been preferred. It tva said that it he (Mr. Hob-
house) were returned to Parliament, he would
apply himself to disfranchise his electors. How
dared the *Hon. Gentleman or his Committee to
put forth such-a statement. It was imputed to
him that he wished to allow the rich tradesman
and the wealthy of evety description to have a
vote, while he would exclude the honest mecha-
nic, the itagenious artisan, and the humble la-
bourer, from the right •of suffrage. This- he as
• sated to be false,. and such► a course of proceed-
ing went beyond the artifices common at.popular
elections. It was shocking that the Whigs should
thus commence their operations. The seconder
of time Hon. Gentleman had stated a positive false-
hood, and the first hand-bill addressed to the elec-
tors was so false—so treacherous—so manifestly
unfair, that he wondered how those from whom
it proceeded could suppose the electors would be--
milled by such an artifice. After this, would the
Electors believe any thing that came from- Mr.

Lamb's Committee: These bills bad been banded

down last night from that HorL Gentleman's
Ciyntnittee-rbolu, and he understood Mt:: Mae,-
Ilonald to have been in the Chair at the time. He
now called upon Mr. Macdonald to say if it were
not so ?

Mr. MACDONALD was understood to decline giv
ing an answer for the present.
_ _

Mr. Iloatiouss resumed, and declared hitmelf
friendly to the largest possible extension 'of the
elective franchise. This he had stated s(v

tioctiv, that it was impossible for any one who
had attended to him to be deceived by the misre-
ptesentations of the Committee. He understood
that other bills had been circulated representing
him to be disposed to betray the cause of the
Electors. Against such statements be now can.
tinned the people of Wesiminster, as the whole
strength of his opponent's party lay in their
being able to propagate infamous falsehoods.—
In private life those' Gentlemen of Whim; he
spoke would not do any thing that could be
viewed as in any way dishonourable ; but from
party feelings, they now gave up every thing that
should recommend them to the Electors of %Vest-
minster as public men, or as fair dealing members
of soeiety. De again condemned the artifice re-
sorted to as unfair, and declared,
.that, tar from
wishing to take from the people of Westminster

any ortheir rights, he Woul4. endeavour to get
thenvrestored to all they had ever enjoyed. The
Whigs objected to his creed, because he had stared

Pltritament-aty Reftittn to be the paranionnt object.
Reform waft no longer the-paritmotint obje-ct with

them as.a party. They also objected to him be-

rause he had been nominated- by the people.
They talked witch about iris having been nomi-
nated -in a private' room, hut to that very room
the Whigs themselves had appealed.ilVlr. Wi4att
bad. proposed Lord John Russell, but finding not

more than five himdred hands held up for him, he
withdrew the name be had proposed, because he
would not
.disturb the harmony of. the Meeting.
He repeated the ileclaration that he.was no party
man, and that if he was returned, he would do

no luslisses§ lust that Of the people of Westininver
and of the country at large.
Sir F. BUR DETT ( hen advanced to address the
Meeting. 11r. Hunt came torwani at the sailie

time, and the Hon. Baronet give way to him.
Air. LitPivr. then spoke;- lie contended Sir
Francis had no right to be beau!, as he was not
a Candidate, by we Mr. Laaib. He advised the

nOilulace not to listen to the tOrtner, and called
-Upon the latter to speak first.
Mr. Lama came forward, but the tumult Was
so great that he could not Obtain a hearing.
Mr. HUNT again-spoke, and exhibited a paper.
The noise continued Very.lood, hat he was un-
derstood to say, that Sir Francis, when lie re-
treated privately front the ToWer in 1810, obtain-
ed the title of Marquis of Sligo, but be had now
earned that of Burdett the hypocrite. He (Sir
Francis) had accused Major Cartwright of being
guilty of falsehood, hitt the Major would prove
that he, the Hon. Baronet, was so.: He ridi-
culed Mr. Hobhouse's speech, which he compared
to the mountain that brought forth a mouse. He
declared himself hostile to such moderate re-
'formers as Sir Francis Burden and Mr. Hobhouse.
He caned upon them, before they listened to the
falsehoods of Sir Francis Burdett, to hear him, as
Ice had three short questions .to put to the Hon.
liarooet. He then proceeded to ask—on what
grounds Sir Francis Burdett had.supposed Alajor
Cartwright' did not wish for a seat. in Parliament ?
For what reason the Westminster Committee held
it to be impossible to cart y his election ? The
third question could not be-heard.
Mr. Lassa again came forward. The tumult
'continuing, he said he moldered the admirer's, of
Mr. Hishbouse's eloquence should' be alarmed-at
his putty attempts. to answer him. If they thoaght
to do Mr. Hobhouse a kindness by preventing his.
speecbes from being answered, he would tell them
,how (key might do him a. greaiter favour :Hby
presenting them from biing heard. After all his
boasts, what. had he done this day, on which he
was to, prove to the Electors how hopeless was
the case of bis 01)04)60611 He had gained a great
majority of 43. It might he said that he hail
gone-- back on the day on which lie was to (10
.so much, as his majority was smaller on that
day'S jioll than it had been on- that • of .Mon-
day. He, was not sorry that he • was ahead,
as the only danger he had to fear was, that his
friends, thinking there was no danger, might fail to
exert themselves. They ought not to take up this
idea, as it was to be retnembered they had a long
lee-way to fetch op, their opponents having had
the start of them by three months; but if his friends
did but exert themselves, Mr. Hobhouse would- be
soon overtaken. Mr. HohliOnie had yesterday
told them•that the Hon. Baronet was tlik day to
march with all his forces from'St. James's Parish.
He had accordingly brought up fifty ; and after
such an exertion, from personal regard for the
lion. Baronet, be sliould have been sorry to had
his popularity so rapidly on the decline, that his
protegee was behind on the day's polls The Hon.
Baronet, however, had appeared on the Host logs,
hut had not received the applause he had expected,
anal
ihad been accustomed- to receive. He hail
caused but seven hozzas—(Cries'of "only two");
sink he who was so lately their idolashad this day
been unable to obtain a hearing from the people
of ‘Vestrnioster. Mr. Hobiluni_e bed- used t,ume
hard words- with respect to a paper which halla
appeared, and which he had called 00 hint to
avow, It was an old adage, " that when, a titan
was . about to- lose his cause, he commonly lost.
his temper." He Cllr. Lamb) would not •retort:
on .111 r. Hobhouse, or he might effectuafly, -by
bringing forward the Report c,. his Combritiee.—
lostead of censuring. the paper of which tie cons
plaited, Mr. Hobhonae ought to give a thousand
pounds, as a reward, to its author, for miking
his statement on the subject of entaty lie
for, intrlligihle. Westlitiosier, he would now
contend, had almost as much election freedom as
was enjoyed in any. part of the kit;gdwn. Their
Members
.were returned. by scot and kit voters ;
and this he rid riot hesitate,to say was what lie
meant by Universal Soffrage. Ile, however, did
not. agree with. Mr. Hobhouse that the extension
of the Elective Suffrage .was only of second or
third-rate importance. .He held that question to
be of vital importance to the hest interests of the
country. Ile then .noticed the language held by
Mr. Hoblionie on the-sobject of the battle of
Waterloo, when lie declared the English were
never, more unfortunately engaged than they were
in that contest. Though it was true that Earl
Grey had spoken against the war, there never was
a more glorious or beneficial action fought than
that of IVaterloo, and he who could comment on
such an action with coldness had not the feelings
of a 136 ton. Mr. Hobhouse hail said the cause
-was tnifortonate, because this country had placed
a weak acid despised Sovereign on the throne.l4
France. He did not know what the merits of
that Monarch bad to do with this Election, un-
Jess Mr. Hobhouse stood to advocate the cause of
Napoleon Buonaparte as a Candidate.H(Ap-
plause.)—t-Undismayed by the present state of the
Poll, he (Mr. Lamb) should look to his friends.
for support with confidence, and whatever lan-
guage might be used' by his opponents, be would
not disgrace himself by saying any thing of pri-
vate characters, or by offensive personalities.
- Sir F. BoRDP:TT came forward only to correct
some gross misrepreseutations which had „one
abroad respecting him, and which, at this mo-

meat, it left unecntr_atlicted, might prove 'filo-
_

rious to that cause which he hail ever been auxi.

flits to support, and to the hest interests of the
City of Westminster. lie held it to be his duty
to appear before the' Electors to prove that be
had never betrayed their cause, or deserted any
public or private friend. He was sort y that the
person who had come there to-day as his accuser
had not hero heard. Though, perhaps, the Elec-
tors had as little reason to believe that person as
any man on the face of the earth, still he,

!bought it would have been but fair play to
give him a heating. lie congiatulated those
he addressed on the aspect of the present
'Election, from its being so different to what
they hn►l been accustomed to ; be considered
the reference-made by Mr. Lamb to .the Opinions
of it Santuelliomilly on the subject of Reform,

as useless, as be knew not where those upitlions
were to be lound on record ; and he asserted that

Mr. Ernbhouse anti himself only abbtained frotn
using tbe "vvot (IR Universal Suffrage because tl►ere
was an absurdity in them, as exceptions must

somewhere he made, as every ot►e had Admitted,

with the exception of Mr. Jeremy l;euth•~n~.
The work of that Gentleman, however, had satis-

lied him (Sir Francis Burdett) that even 'don,
which went to admit It►n to vote, would not

.....
be lie denied that Lis COSlLluct had

nf
"oroe4l
l)eee incottalslent, thaUgh he I"`i
all the plans for a Reform in l'arli;iineto w.id
had been brought forward since he had be` ho
the House of Commons. Mr. flobbotise ben_ce
thOtight was the person who on the present.
ft;
all,
sion was tnost likely to unite the salfrages °,l his
the Electors, end therefore he, hattespousearesti
cause ; and had Major Cartwright be:MlhAs "carve;'
and dearest friend, he would have done the‘sii,joe
He repeated that it Was his opini" that 'West"
Cartwright could not have been carried for f
this
minster. Was his plain and open avowal :4) de;
fact acting like a snake in the grass ? get
tied any one in the multitude he adilresse" —,ere(l
up and say, that he had ever caballed Cl "I' tiro
one word
,against Major Cartwright in. LOt
whole course of his life, He might complaffloji
him that be had not contradicted the ftsisch,°ol;
of Cobbett respecting himself (Sir F. 13",,"e
instead of seeming to. countenance them "7,04,
ceiving the praise bestowed upon him, an
were
ing nothing of the falsehoods by which thley,tais..
eccompanied. These he (Sir F. Burdett) ita,.
dallied to contradict hint-elf, but they ail ": be:
Night
"'hat a man woold•not do far himself 'gi)
dont! for (Sint by r friend. -He denied that
wished ‘Vesttniestee to become d rotten I"r° Cost
and defended the llrecminster Committee an, d.
the charges which had heel' tlt)ile to their I"
o'rt.
dice. Whatever might be thO'eglit of she ititP.o.ed
mice, he attached to being in Pathan:win, he Jett
them (Meaning no disrespect to the Erfect°,7lr,ect
he would not give' that (here the flon• PiA;isters'
suapped his fiuger) for seat for We'IIII.I-(lief
and he was' ready to resieh it weeoeve' oust!
thought their interests would be adeatusgeetio,
confided to another.- He then at t at keit the ‘,7,104f
and contended theit had 414-iheainbehilig 1();' vet!'
Country, Even at the-Revolution they
the• 'l
CAUSE 01 libertythe boasted A it'
Rights: was in truth, but the bill of "'")ngs:l/01
few: lineae:seenring a properelection of Mt"liiostv
of Parliament, would have been infinitely
valuable titan all its enactments. n sta.!'
Mr. MecDoNaeD then CkilllC fOrtrard prsoir
that a.question having been prat Y— fie
he trusted the,: would Itear,l)s aes"'r'e
was quite prepared to make all 'due el!lowdinc-
the Irritability and soreness exhibi'eti dr-
Hobhonse, the,eoneetittence, uo do' lot, of t; emelt
announce
ihrini
ciPe:vl) 'lout) pt "egs it terri:i.l.4l)ll:l:
lts
ith all the trick anti
ITRyttetsl.tilo
yblev
ti given la
Mr. l'lobhousc..bad sttgtii)01)(11::cro:t1:01):•iii:):r.al‘c.
wish the.. paper` in his hand,' which lle
gined thaethietl'ancpriesrtisheadvie
hundredth part of those aii•Ocious e3l(ifutlitiC
which were'to be found; r•-q)ovr. ?",„
:Committee who claim tie monopoly of ,(1
!presentation of Westminster, of wl'ich'„- '3ol'
et eer, he admitted that :Mr. HoMion'
he
oeuckkali .010:.;„0,
it an in'Strument, and accOrAhigly (i'erif.
prepared, even without seeig it, to
Gentleman a 6entlean all knowledge of any "cfl,-,!i:to:
per. But he. asked them to judge of 5.04
when it appeared that this same Flyer frog
to be nothing hut
,a plain argitruent, derive irehl
the
be cHarien:46'ocnttlit'n,i7a.m4 e(:)%tvanrypll'itiet;o,ilV: I llltl
11.
,not mistified his own under)..:-tanding,
emPt()Yed in jesiifying theirs on that vet)"
.°
ata argement, and an" are,aiment only, he rilo
have
ave perceived it to be; if a ),44,1 orate
fortunate that he had -14. b 0 et t no)terial.3 011
found a t!peech; if a good,ooe, etr'ct
to t
not to be got 'rid of by . an y (ies:lot) Mr'
house
conk) put; 4)1. the Commit tee, could °h."ci 'rg
He. remembered well the Paper in tittestio" ""be'r'g
brought to their Committee Roow, 011'1 "4'oo
had tint a little amused them ';lie we 3 tUe
happy that he (Mr. Hobhouse), had chits Ve,(11;:
a pohlicity it could not otherwise have '116,4
,nd lie earnestly 'recommended it to all ("Nip',
uel(lkhohuesaerdhaltilinbteellOirktirlit,elire:intertainmekoct'in,4.ill4o:
his protection his (Nlr. Macdot:'l:gl4l4's)"pililv`,-,je •
reeler, and that of the highly respectable toetroes
men and 'lradesmen of Westminster with wt) rd
he co-operated on Mr. Lamb's behalf; theY -vee'ts
notch obliged to him, but begged to tle'iii)e,o4
further services. It he . (Mr. Hohlwase), "Ite:eif
to insinuate that lie or they were capable, lepublic any more than in their private ettricr; o;
oif. propagating or countenancing falsehood
5 tape, he threw back the impetation his telejcit
and appealed from it even to that tribeilal
Mr. flobliouse deemed the most favuurd`vleg
bin
tself, viz. those whom Mr. Macdonald 110
dressed,
C a r t Mr.
ts, r iGg tj, on
na tsl talgteaninsstpsoke irlien
fifavoitir.(olo:l(.ll6illT.
Hobhouse, awl (be business of the' t, 31"
timed.

• MARIED. flf
At Calcutta, on the eltth of Jul.e, iBlB, W. Itob'erna
E4ll. dal*" sun of C. Robertson:Esq. of Itusell-)9u of
Ann Lydia, third (laughter of Licut,-Colontl Fraser, La
the 7th regiment Bengal Nltive Cavalry.

DIED.
On the tiniiht. OTA ight. Mr. Jll Woodin, of Park-street, Isling' ,
ton, aged 69, late :blaster Attendant at Gibrattar. G urge*
On the 1201 inst. Miss Shelley, at her house in -
street, flanover-square.

PROVINCIAL BIRTHS, MARRIA(i;:, AND D
I:11.TH.
On the Ilth inst. Mrs. Joho Cloning, Niary's-place,
burgh, of a daughter.

-
7.lAttitign. . ,inirotfa,
Lately, at Stoke upon-new, in Stafford.shire, Mr." ' agea
°other to Mis:i Ann .Isliley. he lirillvronni, who i 9 To
ationt 42, has been in his Majesty's navA: service for the L;
years, and has lost 'mu, b,s legs. when cooducteu
to,
Church, he was seated in theforeca.vae of 0 Donkey, "•°,rea
taniett by his faithful Mityinert. On his arrival at the de'
!tarry, he (tise:nbal-hcd, and being* safely stowed Xl3 the 7iets,
of the Chnreb, he bride on his 4 •
being: unable either to stand or wall:.

DIED. age'
.I.a+ely, at' Park Wall, nett- Wolsingbant, Darll2lll'..,Lri
Jacob Redshaw, greatly respected.
lie hunted the harriers belonging to Mr. Catty, fir.l,ll3to
Oak, and until that Oentleman declined keepin..; a Pack vice,
two Years ago. Although a hot se was always at hi' Set,
he pueferred pedestrian exercise. and constatitly joined.
eliace On foot, Front his locailinowledge of the distr.a.
Fur martYpfsool,
he
the number of stone walls \Ouch inter,ect the coutitcYfp.
was ft:ego-et:Al; able to outstrip the horsemen, a" ‘V3'
Del4l;y to be fonild first in at the ueatti of the hare-

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