Star.
London, England, 1807-09-19 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER tB.

This day Ilrefey Strositl. an antient looking woman,
was indifted for 11.,!aln,:: a pair of filk breeches, the
property of Thomas Bartlett.
'll,e profecutor, who is the fame man ahove
mentioned as having yefierday applied to the Court
for affillance to profecute this Old Lady, Dated,
that foe and her hofband, a rekeetable man,
lodged in :he fame public houfe ; that being about
to rem ye. the ailed him ; and he was told by ano-
ther perfon that the fccreted the breeches under her
intik( ats ; that he taxed her with it, but the denied
rt—when teeing the things peeping out of her pocket
hole, ;nailed up,.n fearching, and " I found them,"
laid he, " quite under her patient:is, my Lord ; fo," Paid
" pulling them out,—" here take your na(ly
breeches."
The prifoner, in her defence, alledged, that the
&rind the breeches on the hairs, and that the put
em under her petticoat,, in ajoke. '
The Jcry acgoit.ed her—and the Court recorn-
snen.4ed het not to joke any more with other people's
brerebt.s.
MR. ANDREWS —The Earl of Befb rough, and a
great number of witneffts were in waiting to give
esidence nainfl Richard Andrews, on the feveral
charges wbith await trial ; but the Counfel for the
profecution informed his Lordlhip, and the refl of the
witntfles, that on account oaf the number of detainers
lodgetiArainfl him, the trial would not come on till
to-0 crow (this day), at ten o'clock.
A roan named Smhh was tried for flealinz, a pocket
book, the property of Mr. Sunderland.lhe profe-
ctityr, however, could not (wear that his rocket was
icked of it. The ptifowr was found reading fume
Parrs in it, by one of the Baw-"reef officers ;—and
having laid that a Re, fon gave it him, the Jury, in
the able-nee of diffident proof of his Dealing it, Ac-
qui' ed him.
The Court recommended him not to have any
hirg to do with pocket books again. The pifoner
leplied with much fang lead, " indeed I'll be more
atiikUl for the future."
A variety of petty larcenies, of no intereft, were

tied.
CHILD STFALING.--Ilizaletb Bennett, about 24
ye..rs of age, was tried for a mildemean,ur, in having
Itolen a male child about fix weeks old, the fon of '
Richard ane Mary Burdekin.
The mother appeared to he extremely affeEleel with
I e relation of her Rory. She Rated that her huthand
i• a poor I ahonring mar, and the keeps a little oyfler-
thop in Baldwin's Gardens, Gray's Inn.lane. In the
worth of May tall the lay in at St. Andrew's Work-
! omfe. About three weeks after the birth of the
chill, the returned home. About the beginning of
July 141, as (he was walking along Holborn with
tl.e chid in her aims, the felt down in a fit ; and
when fire recovered her child was not to, be found.
—She applied to the Parith Officers, who ifried
hand bills, offering a reward for the recovery of the
child. By the exertions cf one Catehpole, a Para
Offir.er, and in confequence of force information
which the received frr•in a female friend, the went
towards Loudon Wall, in company with a Mrs.
Nottingham, to a place where (he was informed there
was a wormn 'who had a young child, under fufpi•
diens circumllances. When the got to London Wall,
(be law the prifoner at the Bar with the babe then in
Court, in her arms. With Dome tirnggling the Pro-
fecturix and her friend got the child from the pd.
loner. The mother was Co overcome with joy at
fir.eing her child again, that her feelings were unable
to Main th.• chock, and the again fell into a fit ; but
her friend took care of the child, and had the pri-
frier taken into cutlody. She (wore politively to the
chit tr. m fome marks about its perfon, and fhe
could fwear to its clothes which were found by the '
officer in the !odging of the woman to whom the
prift ner had given it to nurfe.
Ann Field, t f Red Lion court, London Wall,
depofed, that in March tall the prifoner engaged her
t') nu fs a child, when the fhould lie in. About the
aft or.A4fiilily (he eatue to the witnefs at one o'clock

in the morning, and:l4w her the child. She laid
ti, na.' lain in .h ut,a fortnight bef,ae that, at Mary•
as bool wor4h ule.,• Upon being aficed.hy the wit-
w' was the father of , the fhe,faid ;hal.
!William Bur miagham was. Th.r wavers faid,-
ho;ed not, as he was a married man. She oblervt.i
, •that the child had but poor' clothes on it, and the
'prifoner defined her to burn them, but the witnel-
: refufed to do fu.
Mary Nottingham, of St. John's.court, Cow-lane,
(wore, that a few days before .the was apprehended,
-the
.prifoner, who had formerly lived in the fame,
houfe a itn the v:itnets, came to vifit her. She laid;
that the had lain in at -Mary.la-bonne Workhoufe,
ab:.ut a week and three days before that time; but
upan looking at it. the nitnefs faid that could not
he. for the was lure that child was fix weeks old.—
The prifoner faid the was going to fwear it to fome
one, but to whom. or whether the mentioned any
name, the wittier* could.not tell. She was the perfon
that was in company with the mother when the child
WAS recovered.
Jane Horton, the nurfe at the lying-in ward, in
Mary-la bonne Workhoufe, (wore, that the prifoner
did not lie in at that houfe.
M. Turner; the midwife, at St. Andrew's Work:
!Inure., proved the fael of her having delivered Mrs.
Burdekin of a male child, on the aoth of May. She
believed the babe which was then in Mrs. B.'s arms
was the fame that was then born.
Elizabeth Robinfon fwnre, that the lived about
three years and a half in the houfe with the prifoner.
—During that time the faid that the was with child
three times. The n itnefs was a married woman, and
the was cei tain that the prifoner was not with child
when the laid the was. . '..•.
Mary Collins deposed, that the ptifoner pretended.
every I.ear that the was with child.
The Prikner delivered in a I ng written defence,
in which the liated, that fume time aack, as. the was
crotling Ellomfbary Iquare, a woman with a child in
her arms, came up to her, faid the was very tired,
and begged her to carry it a little way for her. That
woman afterwards went into a houfe lomewhere near
the Square, as are faid; to fee a friend. The prifoner
waited a confiderable length of time outfi2e, but the
woman did not come out, and the gave it to a frield
to take care 41 it until the could find the parents
She alledged, in effect, tha. the whole was a confpi-
racy againit her.
The CHAIRMAN was of 4-pinion that the cafe was
clearly proved. The Jury evinced their fatisfatlinn
by immediately prom nacMg the Prifoner
She was then ordered to he fent to Cold Bath Fi:ILL
until a future day, whin hue will be brought inth
Court to receive her (entente.