The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-18 00:00:00

MA RLBOROU GESTREET.

Yesterday a very fine-looking young man, a pri-
vate soldier in the Ist Regiment of Grenadier
Guards, was brought before Mr. CONANT, the sit-
ting Magistrate, in custody of one of the new police
constables, upon the following charge :
Mr. Greet, one of the overseers belonging to St.
George's parish, Hanover-square, stated that about
seven o'clock on the evening of last Saturday week,
this soldier came to the parish workhouse in
Mount-street, bringing with him in his arms a re-
markably fine male infant about five weeks old, and
which he said he had just then picked up in Hyde
Park, close to the statue of Achilles, where he found
it deserted. Not cloaking the truth of the roan's
story, the child was of course taken into the work-
house, and proper care taken of it ; and as it was so
very young, it wus deemed proper to christen it, as
it was not known whether or not it had already un-
dergone that ceremony, and it was accordingly
christened by the names of " Hyde Park," from
the place in which it was found. Since then, how-
ever, it was discovered thas there were some
grounds to suspect that the soldier knew something
more about the child than he had chosen to tell,
and an inquiry being set on foot, it led to the man's
being taken into custody and brought before the
Magistrate. 'When the soldier left the child at the
workhouse, Mr. Greet said he gave his own name
" John Powell," which now turns out not to be his
real name.

The soldier, on being now questioned by the Ma-
gistrate, said that it was true he was, to the best of
his belief, the father of the child, and he never had
picked it up at all in Hyde Park, as he had stated
at the workhouse; but he took it to the work-
house, as he was advised to do, not knowing how
else to dispose of it, he being a single man, and
having no means of taking care of it himself. The
fact, he said, was, that on the evening in question
the mother of the child, whom he had not seen for
many months before, called on him at the canteen at
the barracks, and said, that she had brought him
his child to look at, but did not give the slightest
intimation of any intention to desert it. Until that
evening, he said he did not know that she had had a
child at all, but when she told him that it was his,
he did not doubt it, because there was a possibility
of its being so. While at the canteen they had
something to drink together, and the mother sud-
denly placing the child on his knee, told him to
hold it while she retired for a moment, but she never
afterwards returned, and left the infant altogether
on his hands. Not knowing what on earth to do
with the child, he consulted some of his acquaint-
ances, and they advised him to take it to the work-
house; fearing, that if he told the truth, they would
not take the child in, he said that he had picked it
up in Hyde Park.
The Magistrate asked the prisoner if he knew
were the child was born ? The prisoner said, that
he really did not know. All that he knew about it
was what the mother told him, which was that the
child was born its the workhouse of Marylebone
parish, on the 10th of October, but whether that
was true or not he could not say.
The Magistrate inquired who the mother was, or
where the prisoner had ever lived with her? The
prisoner never did live with the mother any where,
and all he knew about her was, that she told him
her name was Ann Crawley.
The Magistrate asked where he had known or
beeome acquainted with her? The prisoner about
ten months ago was quartered with his regiment at
the Tower, and while there he accidently became
acquainted with the mother of the child, who lived

at the time as cook in the service of the Rev. Mr.
Mann,'who resides atißankside, but having left the
Tower soon after, lie saw nothing of her until she
brought the child to the canteen and left it on his
knee, as he had stated before.
The prisoner was then discharged, bis command
ing officer having undertaken that he shall be forth-
coming at any time he may be required.