The Sun.
London, England, 1811-11-28 00:00:00

not to be. &Jaime& • told hei. the ttatute of his
netts, and asked her if she hid any objeaton to see
and speak to the girl .ftorn the pastry-cook's shbp
She answered, she had no objeaion to ste any per.:
son upon the subject.. The girl !vas then called up
Stairs, and on. seeing and hearing the 'defendant
speak, said the was the very person. the witness
cautioned her at the time to be very circumspect,
but she ,was positive as to the defendant's identity..
The witness ;again, requested the lady not to be
alarmed, but told -her it would be necessary for her
:to accompany., hint with the officer
_to the hatter's
shop beforementicined. She came without hesita-
tion ; but at the hatter's, the fernala who had sold
the hat and feather could not speak positively to her
person, but merely to her size ; and she :..,herself
'positively denied having ever beets -eitber.ar the
hatter's or the pastry-cook's: She was, however,
held in custody, and her. apartments were after-•
wPrds, searched, but no .such cloak or hat as Ilto%e
described to have bean worn by her on the former
day, nor as that said to be purchas,d for the child,
were discovered, .nor any thing that could give any
intimation respedling her. Some papers and letters
addressed to her, which shewed het to have used
the. name of. Ruston, vete found.
The, little girl, Rebecca Dellow, was now inter-
!ogated by the Lord Mayor, and she said, in her
answers, that• it was the lady_ at the bar.who had
given her and her brother cakes and apples, and had
taken away her brother.
• The Lltly positively denied any knowledge of the.
transaction, add added, that she was confined within
bar lodgings by illness the who!e tat the day, and the,
two days preceding this transaction, except going
out on the Monday afternoon ahem four o'clock ;
and,this, she said, could.be proved by two,witnesses,
the owner: of the house where she lodged, and
another female, who is also an inmate.
The Loan MAYOR said he had no objection to re-
mand her for another eiamination, in order to give
her the tppot utility of bringing those witnesses for-
ward ; but at the same time, he explained to her the
nature of the charge against her, and the necessary
severities of punishment that must follow a Cott'vic-
tii'm ; andetrennously advised her, if she knew any
thing of the ,lost child, to communicate it to. his
parents, as the only ctrulition that could induce
them to Owego farther prosecution.
The defendant their fell on her knees, attested
Heaven to witness her innocence, and fervently
prayed that she• might never rise with life from
the:.pootire,in which she was, if she had any know-
ledge whatever of, the child, or of theaCt imputed
to her.,
The defendant is about thirty, of genteel appear-
anC,e,and is understood to be respectably tunnel-
ed ; her husband being a Surgeon to the navy, and
two of her brothers Officers in the army...
minded till Friday:

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Bo w.;STREtrr.--The '.footpal wlio stopped and
robbed Kr. and Mrs. Smith, as thq were returning
home on Sunday evening (in a single horse,Chatse)
to Kingston, Is supposed to be in. custody at the
abode Oriice, On Tuesday, a man off.:red a watch.
to pledge at a powitbroket's, in Chandos-street, but:
from some suspicions circumstances it. was thought
'proper to. detain Vrm. The prisoner answers.the
description of•the person wbo'conitnittedthe above
robbery. He was ternandA 'for another 'examina-
tion, when it is expLfEted Mr. Si will attend.

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MARLI3OOUOII.TREE'T..-- Jahn Carthy was
charged wi•h a burglary in the house of Mr. Wing-
field, opposite the Musenm, in Great Russell-street,
Bloomsbury, and stealing plate, linen; &c. 'to
considerable amount.. '
It appeared, by the testimony of Lane, a watch,
inan, that he observed the. 'prisoner -.lurking about
the streets on' the morning of the robbery, In corn-
pani'ii.ith two others; and after they were gone, a
newriiirteut coat was found. in •the street, and tile
tiibbery cif Mr. Wingfield's house was discovered.
'''The watchman identified the prisoner, Whoni he
had known} before, and he was remanded 'tor
tano-
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11N10N‘..HALL..•...• Several Pawnbrokers, residing.
inAhe Borough, were fined, in the mitigated4witally
of 401, and costs, on informations. charging them
with taking greater inte,restslian that allowed by Ac
of Parliament. . . .
Ma. Burns'and Ira. Adams were conviaed, un-
der, the Bum-boat MI, in the penalty of 405. each
and costs,. for having in their possession a quantity
of hemp and rape seed, of which they could not give
.a good Account.

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letters have been .received from Oporto to the.
2d instant, which state that the Jasper filotip of •
War. had arrived there, and ()DIY wailed for' fine
wea.ber.to proceed to England with the convoy.
One 'of inst letters received (tom Li.bon
maintains that 1144KMONT'S artny was avin greatly
straitened for want of .provisions.. General pastas.
voan was about to join the army.
. The decrees publi,hed at Harnbtugh relatiae to
the. Consolidated Duties on Tobacco, is in substance
asiollows , a a
Dec.•
The Imperial Decree of the 29th v 1810,
which refers to the Consolidated DUtieti exclusively,
the purchase of Tobacco in the leaf, and the Mann-
fathre and sale of prepared Tobacco; also the
'Decree of the °same day relative to Tobacco, whet-
titer. in the hands of the.growers, ma:aufatturerse
shopkeepers, shall bit published and put in force in
the Hanseatic Departments i .and for this purpose
shall be printed` both in' French and German.'
The French Government, which have been ac-
tively occupied in promoting the cultivatioe of.'beet.
root, to prevent the necessity or importing sugar
frorn the West [tidies, has ordered that a very large
track of land, on the banks of.the,Elbe, should be
plaeted with this article.
...Some-dextrous shooting took One on Saturday nn
a jua?cli (pr 20 guineas aside,. between Mr. Street,
of,. Maribbreugit.sireer,- and, -Mr. Heygate„, his
friend, against Mr. King, the keeper, anik,Mr. Tal.
but, uf.soutbt,vall. The parties were: to range 200
, separate acres, and thoe, who kjitud the most par.
tridges to win. Mr. Street and his friend killed 1 t
snccessise'.birds in 11.- shots, and their adversatieS
killed to in 12 shots. The, iv itch took place in the
neighbourhoods of Reygate and E'tst Grhistead.
Devehpor.l Sedley, who .kceivekl sentence on
Mtanday.:- in` the Court of King's *net), is ordered
to stand in thirpiNty at Nt-wg,ale,,ollStoUrdey .text.

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NVrfeit to
e 4be our duty to lay before our .
Ittaders the* followirg deposition% lately made in
Scotland) uponelstrtee6t which hat given rise to ao• • ;
much disCussion, vtz, the existence of Mermaids r--»i
At Cartapbeltown, the teMity-nitith day of . •
00ober, eighteen hundred and eleven p'ars.
In presence of Dancer) CaMpbell, Esq. Sheriff. •
substitute of *Kintyre, appeared JolitiM`liaiC, son to
Lachlan. IVl`lsaie,.tenant in Corphine, aged t*enty-
three years, who,. being solemnly sworn and es:a.
mined, deponee; that he resides in tlao said latent of
Corphine, which-is situated an the east coast of Kin.
tyre, about roar miles south from CampbehOwn
that abort three or four o'clock of the af.ernootual .
Sunday, the. 13th current, hating taken a walk to.
wards the seaside, he came to the edge of kpret ia.
pice above-4 he shore, from which he saw thteep-
pearancy. of soleething white upon a black teck, at
some distance horn hint. Deposes, thatt haVingate,
proached.nearer to this rock, he observed this white
object zeroing, which excited his curiosity so much
that. he ,tesol%ed to get'as near tr:it, it as possible,,ett-
perceived.: that,„ in order to accomplish this purpesee
he crept, upon ell fotirs through a field of core, till Ue
got among the rocks near to the white objed above;
metioned, and 'theafroni rockp rock. until 'rectum
within 12 or 15 paces of. the rock on
,which it lay ;
that; upon looking at this °hied with attentions, lie
was impressed with great surprise end astonishment
at its encomMon -appearanca ; that it ley'Llt upon
the rocki.seeiningly,twon.its belly, with .it bead toy
wards the s-•a ; that the upper halt of it was white;_
and of the shape of a huh= body.; the ether half,
towards the tail, of a tat indled or retichah grey colour,
appeently covered with scales, but the extremity ot"
the tail itself wasof a gr;ertialt red shining colour.
panes, that the 'mid of this animal was eovered with
long hair; and, as the wind blew off the land, 4
soinetimes raised •the hair over this creature's head,
and every time the gust of wind would do t his, the
anintahvould leak, towards one side, and, taking
the oppo;ite. hand, would stroke the hair bacrwards,,
,and then, leaning upon tire other side, would adjust
the hair on th opposite side of its head in the same
manner ;*thitt at the same time the animal woold
put back the hair en both sides of its head in this
manner—it Would also spread or extend its tail like ,
a fan, to a considerable breadth, and while so ex..
tended the tail continued in tremutoua caution, and
when drawn together agaie, it remained thotionlerot,
and appeared to the deponent to be about twelve or
fourteen inches broad, lying flat' upon therock.:-.
depones, that the hair, 'which was long and light
brown in the colour, attraded his particular notice;
thiat the aniniel, upon the whole, was between
four and .five feet long, as near as be could judge
that ii hod •e,heed; hair, ‘arms, and body, down (..4
the middle, like a litiman being, only that the arms
were short in proportion to the body, which .apeeier- •
ed to be about the thickness IX that of a young lad, '
and tapering gradually to the voint of the tell; that
at the thee it was stroaking its head, as above.-tnen.
tioned, the fingers Were ls-pt eloSe together, so that
heeannot ;ay whether they, were webbed or not; that
he Continued concealed looking at'the eniniel for near
two hours, the fort of the rock hpon'Which it lay
being. al all, that time; that after ,t he, lea had
reined, as to leave the rock dry to the height of five
feet above the surface of the water, 'the animal Watl-
ing first,upon one hand' or, arts, and then upon the
other, drew its body forward to the edge of the rock,
and then, tumbled clumsily into the seal that the de-
ponent immediately got upon Ids feet from the place
of his tooncealment, and, in about a minute after.,
he observed. the animal appearit.g above wilier, very"
'near to,thesaid rock, and then, for the first tittle, he
saw itk,laea,,,every feature qt which he could di,,
tin4tly,epark,,and which to him had all the appear.'
mice of the face of a human being, with very hollow
eyes ; and, teak earticulatle intetrogated; depories,
that the cheeks were of the 'same col Our With the
rent of the face; that the neck seemed to he short,
and the apimal,,waS constantly, with both hands,
stroaking and washing its breast, which was halt ima ,
Merted in the water, and of which, of couree,' he, had
but ateimPerte4 view ; that, for this reason; he can
not say Whether, its boom was fdrmed Itke a wo.
-Man's or not. , apones, that he saw no other tins
or feet .upon -the said animal but as above deseribed.
Depones, that this animal continued above.witter, tta
aforesaid, for a few minute:, anethendisappeured,
and .was seen no metre by the deponent ; t hat One of
his reasonsfiar lying Se long concealed, as above de-
scribed, Wat from the expd eation that the ebb-tide
Would leave the rock and that part of the %hole dry,
biefore the animal Would Mote from it, and that ti
.would then be able to secure it. Depanes, that he
has been informed that some boys, in the neighbour:
ing farm of Ballinatune saw a creature of the above
:appearance in the sea, close to • the shore, on the
afieqlrlarl of the same Sonday.., All which he do.
pones to be truth, 'as he shalt ansWer to Goa ; and
depones he cannot write. • -
CAMPI3/347,. tleriff-Sab.

Csrernatrown, Ocr. szq. $, the reverend
Doaor George R. bet tson, and Mr, Norman IVl'L.t.rd,.
hliuisters of Campbehown, and James Maxwell,
Esq. Chamberlain of Mtill, do hereby certify, that
we were present when the . above-named John
M'lsatto delivered his testimony, as. betore-pmen-
tioned ; that we know
,of no reason why his
veracity should be called in question ; and that-,
from tire manner in which he delivered his evidence,
we tire satisfied that he was impressed with a per.
fed 'belief that the.appearacce of the animal he has
described was Such as he has represented it to be;
GEORGII 110.13KRTSON.
Non. NPLEOLL
JAMES hIAxWnL, J. P.
(To be continued.) u

Mr, KaNivi, the Author of Raising the Mad.
other popular pieces, his a new tuuslcal face
torthcoaling at the Lyeeum, •
It it intended to raise brury-Lane Theatre quite
in the rough, as it' is called, but in,such a manner
as to• render it st4eptible of every suitable orna-
meint, external and internal, according to the pecu-
niary means that may remain after the edifice is
otherwiso complete. .This ,is a wise, pin, and
.at,lords, at least, an assurance that the Committed
in whom the business is invested are positively de-
t.orforved to fultil their engagements, and to afford
the public another source at rational asuatetrant.