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tad persons "fficiating under the Act; bet if they had
off. uded in the way slated, why not bring them to;
justice ? They were yrremable to the laws.—(A cry
of No, No.)—Mr. Haltia. interrupted Millis speech
by the negative put out his declaration, observed. that
the bad not entered the room with the intention of
staking a set speech, otherwise he might have been
prrci..red with stroeger argurnents—(a laugh)—how-,
ewer, be contended generally, that there were no par•
rial assessments, aad that the tax could not be called
4lecnnstittitionA, because it had been trained and
passed by the Legislature.
Mr. ItOIFFIY, a baker, said, he was pleased to hear
the fast speaker say he was unpopnlar, and he ex-
pressed a hope that the worthy gentleman might re.
Main se on this subject. He had some recollection
4111 a clause in the BU of Rights, by which a man is
oitto be taxed without his consent. The meaning
c' that clause was, thatthesniject is to be represent-
ed in Parliament. But how was the parish of Lam-
beth, containing 45,000 inhabitants, represented ?
Why the fact was, they were not represented more
than thenetives of Otaheite. If they had been blessed
with proper representatives in Parliament, this tax
would never have been carried by the Legislature. He
was not at the meeting, however, to pass a philippic'
upon those who had passed the Act. They
,required
no indemnii y for the past, but seem ity for the luture.l
•--He would even give the Commissioners as much I
credit as any man, but he could not, at the same
time, neglect informing that meeting of what he
himself had undergone. 41 I have found the assessor
seated with Acts of Parliament set round him like
di porcupine's quills," and when I have stated what
I felt to be injustice, they have told are to retire.—
Where toe? into a cell, with a cold stone floor and
DO fire. They have suffered their clerk .to be their
mouth-piece, and to insult the pariah, and if the in-
babitaros bad felt in many instanter the spirit of men,
they would have turned him out of the room. Be-
cause I did 'not please one of them be said to mw,
lig You saucy scoundrel, I'll kick you out of the
zoom." I said, so You saucy scoundrel, it I had you
out of the room I would kick you into the dirt."
Then they bundled rue into the street, and next morn-
ing, early, came the collector and broker, to distrain.
said them to distrain, as I never would pay the
asseserneot, because it was more than ;my ',worm. I
safaerwareis went to a Commissioner once more to et-
plain, and, hav4igrepreseotod my case, he said, that
is all very true, Mr. Ridley, but your tongue is !so in t.
So, becaUse my tongue haprened to be too long for
them, any property was cot short. He concluded by
auppnrtiug the resolutions. 1
Air. THOM Ae Luber, one of the Commissioners, dis-
claiming all inflamed statements, admitted that the'
tax *as highly oppressive, yet the Mreeiug ought not
-tar into the whole of the objections because it was
.a 'measure justified by circumstances.
-The Chairrnin then put the Resolotioos, which were
eznartimoudy agreed to, and a petition ordered to be
presented to Parliament by one of the MeMbers for
-dos comity. After thanks to the Chafrmin, and those
who had promoted the Meeting, the bu Antis ended.

eOURT OF CHANCERY, lANVAILY 17.
VARJ. CHOLSIONDSLY V. LORD CLINTEO.
'The object of the motion was to ontain an order ofl
injoric,ion to restrain the Plaintiff from employing as
his Solicitor, in this cause. which relates to a certain:
voluntary settlement made by the late Lord Orford,
of certain estates of immense value now in dispute
)etween the parties, Mr. Montrion, the. late Solicitor,
in copartnershipwith Mr. Seymour, the present Soli.
titer of the Defendasit, on tLe grounds, that being
conversant with the secrets and confideetial commn-
nications of the Defendant, he might reveal the same.
and dm great injury to the Defendant thereto,' ;in the
progress of this cause, and-that suitors were pri4ileged
'in all Courts of Law as well as Equity, against est.;
deem arising from soak dlselesurr. Mr. Montrieu
"Was rat ck'rk, and afterwards a te.partner with Mr.
geynsour pending the.preserit lint, but ontbe disseluticin
of the co-partnership ribeettheyear fBl4,thetbrintirs
•agint or land-steviard, a Mr./kept. proposed to Mo.
,Mattieo become the solicitor for the Plaintiff.whigh.
otter legal acheiceof Mr.iteupellowerassented to.
After touch legal iecustita firr two days, and 'a
feeling -reply from Sit 3. ltorttus, the Loan CHAw-*
team raid, as this was a law as Well as equity flues.
-lion, new and important, he should eons* the coca.
anon Law Judg.es as to the practiee thelet.ourts on
It roes's,' interesting questions, before his-Sail decision.
Judgment was deferred. '
JANUARY 141.—fettafirs u. macaw.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, it:sported by Mr. Ilgtx,'
moved for an order to set Aside an award made by!.
'Mr. Sutler, to whom. as an trim*, the referee*
earned by the parties-had connuktrd the arrange:
raven slid settlement of ill-matters of dispute between
e err, pursuant to an order of reference consented to,.
'sot made a Role of COnet.
-•' Mr. •f and Mt.,SMADOWIILL argued en the other
teiere Ida after a reply frown Sir Stesruat. iterauLt-i;
the anktioetAnktimetponetliodenent.
OI.D AA ILET, fiNNUA.AIt
Sarah Stow was Indicted for stealiqg are
thrld.—Cathetitte,thel• wile cif 'NI. Gramm de
that she had four cbddren, beside twins 042 ulefe
born in. September, 1814 ; the eldeiz'was footle/sr*
old. She sat with her twins it itt.' Paul's,
yard to receive Charity, and her failed child by
One day the prisoner came to her there.`4Then her
twins were about seven weeks altli and said to her,
had fine babies in her arms, andzave her a penny;
she thee: said-44 you do not slierr 'get Muchmeneyi
here but if you will go with me as 'Pei as White
chapel, I will introduce you to a doe Lady, whe'velli
give you half-a-guirrea." Witnerifoint with here
carrying her children, until, is Chrapude,-htr clquk
.fell off ; and when she asked her Writ the cidal4
over the twiny that they might not catch cold, the.
• prisoner offered to carry one of diem ; witness
gave her the biggest. They walked on till ,
'came to the ecieumerci4l4o4d, at the corner 'al
`.prblic house, when the prisoner gave her &I. to get rt
pint of beer. Witness said, she did not want beer
,he wanted to see the Lady'; she answered--a My
4eat, I am only guirsg to shew the Lady this fh
*Ka." As they **scup a couet, her eldest ehil4
Asat had ran 'beside them Mown, fell do*
741,04 g sow heseliii and while rl'initolted alter th.
'chi j, thtftloPlleelsoi• 44 I

could tuft Mote her with het clsilasen, but Ale
screamed out so loud, the the people at the pnbile•
house threatened to have her, taken into custody,•on
account of the clamor she ilad raised. The sari*
evening she gave information of the loss at the White-
chapel Office; put forth Advertisements, and had
9000 hand-billi printed; describing the child and de;
woman. Six weeks after the child was lost she'*as
taken to the prisoner on hoard ship, whom she knew
to be the woman who had taken the 'child, and imme-
diately said so : she then asked the prisoner for a
kiss of the baby, and a sailor standing by her said....
64 No ; not it the Queen of England wereto come,
the should not ;" and took the child out of the priso,
ner's arms. The child seemed very thin, but when
it WAS taken from her, she had plenty of milk for
,both leibies. An officer' took the woman into custody,
and the child was undressed in witness's presence,
and she found a piece of flannel on it which she
knew to have been part of tle blanket in which it was
wrapped when it was taken away horn her, and she
claimed it instantly.. The prisoner said it was very
silty of witness to think of the child, as it was her own.
Ceors-rxeseiraed. '-lager husband ilia labouring man,
and has been twelve weeks out 'of emploiment. She'
had only sat two days in St. Paul's Chiirch.yar&—
From the time she gave the prisoner the child till she
missed her in the Commercial-road, she never lost 1
sight of her. She described the prisoner in the hand-
bill as being about forty years of ige, asshe aopnred
to be then ; but now she did cot think she r sol
old. The sailor said he believed himself to be the
father of the child, and acted as if he were so.
Elizabeth Murray has been a neighbour of the pro-
secntrio for nearly 15 years. In September last Mrs.
Creemer was delivered of twins; end witness saw hir
in October conning home, crying, about seven o'clock
iin the evening, having lost her child. Witness saw
the child that was found on hoard ship, and she had
1 little doubt of its being the prosecutrix's.
E. Dalton, an officer, of Lambeth-street, found the
prisoner on beard the Sir H. Inglis, East Indianan,
lying off Nor thfleet. tie 'knew her by the description
in the hand-bill- He informed the prosecutrix of it.
Witeess had been informed by the prisoper's nait;l3-
hours that she had gone on board snip, with a sailor
named Swain. When he saw the prisoner she had
the child with her, and he told her he had come i
about it, as it had been stolen. She seemed cOlitfused,
and said it was hec child, and when she got to Loa-
don she, would thei them the poen in which she was
delivered. She said she had been taken ill in the
Minories on 'Friday six weeks (the day the child was
lost), and a young woman tk her into her room in
Whitehorse-cones, itosemary-lane, whore she Leis de-
livered. The young woman's name ivis either Mar y
or Sarah Brown, and she would be able to stew the
Doctor who delivered her ; she was delivered at three
in the afternoon, and at five o'clock she was token
home in a coach to Bligles-buildings, where her
mot!icr lived. She said Edward Swain was the father
of the child.' B_fore the mother and witness got
quite up the ship's side they heard a child cry, and
she 'called out—" before I see it, that's my ohild."—
When the prosecutrix got on deck, she was meth ag:-'
tated, and would have torn the prisoner in pieces.—
She said, she moment she saw the prisoner.., that's
my; child, and that's the woman that Stale it." fi
never varied in her story. Witness went to White.
horse-court. Rosemary-lane, but could find noapth
pers6n as Mary or Sarah Brown ; and when be told'
the prisoner of that, she said she might have made a
mistake in the name of the court ; out lithe were to
go herself, she could point it out. He went with' how
but she took him to Jolansoa's-chain, Itoliernary:lane.
where she pointed at a house, and said —" she wits
Eyre that. was ii;" but it turned out to be inhabitefi.
-by one Elisabeth risher, who denied all knowle;dge.
rif the prisoner: The prisoner seemed confused, hue
persisted that that WAS the house. Witness saw the
twins eogether,and be had never seen two more alike.
Elia. Fisher, who occupies the room in which the
'prisoner said she bad been delivered, denied the cir-
cumstance in tutu.
Isabella Gray lives at No. 3. Bligh's Beildingi.;*
The prisoner and Swain lived in her father's hose;
as man and wife. On the day the prisoner trough
home a chili, witness aaw her go out About ant
o'clock, and at eight o'clock the saute bight the ,pri-,
sonei's mother told her that her daughter had been
delivered. 'Witness saw the child, land
_inside several
remarks that that could not be the child, as it ap-
peared to be a month old. Swan was sitting Wish asi
Vass in one bend, and a bottle of ,gin in the other e
nvitnessisked him if that was his coild? and be ans.!
wered--44 I don't know;' they tell me so; (or I inf.
just come in." She never SAW the prisoner suckle'
the child. She never saw any Medical man attend!
the prisoner. The day the ptisoiPer brought bond
.the child, she Appeared to be petnant p but lief np-
pearance afterwards was very agerent. 1.
_ Greee,,Brown lived in Bligla's awaiting'. opposite:
the prisoutacwho had been big for lest a:oaths --(A'
iteneral laugh.) Witte's; saw. hor damn bons on die'
.eves ing of the 14th al Crociohst. with apeurshing in
.her iv. as walked as well and Ai aPright As ever
*lie l'" - She —.. • _ ....

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