Star.
London, England, 1802-09-21 00:00:00

CLEAKE NIVE LL SESSIONS.

Htces's HALL—On Saturday Br main
was indided for that he, intending to free and dif-
charge himfelf from the maintenance of a certain
male child, unlawfully begotten by him on the
body of Mary Wane, and with intent to charge
the parith of St. Sepulchre with the maintenance
•of it, dropped it in College court, Cow Crofs-
llreet, and did there leave and defert it.
The painter in this cafe was a very decent look- I
ing man, and was Rated to have been clerk to a
brewer, and in fimilar employs. The mother of
the child defcribed her felt as being his houfekeeper, '
and gave the following account of the tranraaion
She tiiid the had lived, at Mae-end many years,
and lately in the fervice of the prifoner : the was
delivered of a male child, of which the prifoner
was the father, on the tath of May, at the pri-
loner's houfe. On the 29th of July, the went out,
and when the returned home about ten in the '
evening the could not get in doors. She went
away, and returned the next mottling, when the
found the child was gone. She afked the prifoner
what had become of it ? He told her it was gone
where it would be much better provided for.
She never afterwards law the child until the
of- Amp& It was then dead, and the Paw it in
its coffin. Being crofs examined, the admitted
the had fawn the child to one Charley Barnes,
who was a freilor. But (he did it, The Paid, by
the perfualion of the prifoner, who at that time
was a candidate for the office of fezton to the parifh;
and he told her if it were known that be was the
father of her child, it would deftroy all his hopes
of fuccefs.
Martha Judd depored, that the had been for
Tome time in the print workhonfe ; -but that-the
went out to nurfe the tsR witnefs in her lying-in.
On the day Rated in the indiament, the prifoner
gibed her if Ae would drop the_ child ? She Paid,
the could not do inch a thing. However, they
both went out that night, and took the child-with
them. They troffer, Moorfields and went come-
where about Smithfield ; the could not tell ex-
aaly where. The prifoner then took the child
from her and went a. little way, and thortly re-
turned without it. She did not afic what he had
done with it. This witnefs affeaed to be very deaf,
and would not heir any quettion the difliked to
answer.
.A woman who lived in College•lane Rated, that
the heard the cry of a child uuder.her windows,
about twelve or one o'clock, which made her go
out, where the found the infant. It was wrapped
up in a Panty bit of flannel,and laid with its belly
bare upon the ground. The place it was laid in
Was a corner where men from a neighbouring
pnblic-houfe were ufed to make water, and the
little creature lay with its face in a puddle of dirt
and urine. When the firß took it up it was fo co-
vered with dirt and filth that ,the could not difco.
ver of what fez it was. The overfeers of St. Se-
pulchre's proved that the child was chargeable to
their parith until it died.
Mr. At.Lav, for the defendant, at firß took an
objeaion in point of' law. He contended, that the
allegation of the indiament, averring it to be the
child of the defendant, was not proved ;• a ballard, '
be laid, by the laws of England, was.fiftsq Min ;
• and that it could not be raid to be the fon,of the
defendant, until it wasfafisted by an order of Ma-
giarates, which was the only legal evidence of the:
Eak. This being over-ruled, he,arldrefed the Jury,
and infitled they ought not to convia the. defen-
dant on the teßimony of two fuch abandoned
wretches as the two &ft witneffes proved them-
(elves to be; the firß by owning the had perjured
herrelf, and the latter admitting her participation
in the aa of expofing the child.
The j?ry, however, found a verdia of—Guilty.
Mr. Maumee two lamented, that the Court
could notdo the jußice it witted, by putting the
- Fanner in the pillory ; he feared, if they were to
do this, an incenfed populace would carry the pu-
nithment farther than was intended. They, there-
fore, only fentenced him to two years imprifon-
merit.
Yeflerday 7.hn Gaper, one of thole Italians who
go abOut the town vending telefcepes, barometers,
Ste. was indiaed for a mirdemeanor, in puhlithing
two obfcene and indecent prints at Tottenham, in
the County of Middlefex, on Saturday the 3 ith
inllant.
Mr. KNAPP and Mr. Ka ow Les were both employ-
ed on the part of the profecution, which was com-
menced at the ittitance of that very excellent and
laudable Society, inilituted in Hatton.garden, for
the fuppremon of Vice. The learned Counfel, in
opening the cafe to the Jury, commented with
. much feeling on the enormity of the crime, of en-
deavouring by means of ebfcene prints, Ste. to de-
bauch the minds of the younger branches of foci.
ety Such publications as thefe•exißed to an
"4-• c Wept ; near Soo perfons were employed in
the dreadful occupation of dittributing prints of,.
the defcription of atofe for which the Defendant
V•a-S indiaed. The danger refniting from the es-
tenfive fele of fuel thingsma to the minds of die
Jury, as hulbands and tethers, be too obvious..
. A perfon tamed Grey Rated, that he was em•
ployedg by the Gentlemen of a Satiety in Hatton-
garden, frc,ni whom be received a certain
to endeavour to detea awl bring to julliceperims
Who were guilty of o* filch as that which TA,
beftndant was char *kb. Oa theeith inft.he
had fume cotiverfationagitkhira fekaive tO pu
chafing Joint indecent riots 40(bin, ;that the De,
icndAus /heft told. Impt= parfons,l44 boa
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ment on Saturday the t tth, at epublic houfe in
Shoreditch. The Detention& then raid, the demand
for thefe prints was fo great, that be could not at
that time let him have any quantity : he *as then
zoing to Tottenham, about the neighbourhood of
which place he ferved a great number of refra
Ms Lat.lit...6, who were very ,food ariorner,r to him, as
were alt.() icveral boardingjgbook. The winters ful
lowed him,-. ariz! faw him lisp at feveral ref/xi-qt.-
houfet, after nhich he again aceotted him, and
there purchafed of him for one pound; the two
prints, which were the ground of the indiament,
and which were !hewn to the Jury. On the 15th,
he took Ray, one of the Police Officers, with him
again to meet the Defendant, who, however, at
that time, had no fuch things with him. This
witnefs was clerkly examined by Mr. Alley on the
part of the Defendant. Ray, the Officer, appre-
hended the Defendant in confequence of a war-
rant a but, on fearching him, did not find any in-
decent prints &c.
Mr. Humphries, who is Solicitor for the Society,
and who of courfe profecuted on this (q. cation,.
produced a note, which was given by the firß
witnefs Grey to the Defendant, appointing a
place of meeting, &c. He further Rated, that the
Defendant, in his account of himfelf, and the
tranfaaion at Tottenham, when before the Ma-
gittrate, charged Grey with having offered him
the prints for Pale, inflead oT the Defendant's of-
fering them to Grey.
Mr. ALLEY, in a fpeech of confiderable length,
endeavoured to imprefs the minds of the Jnry with
an idea, that the evidence-of Grey was not entitled
1 to the fame credit 'with that of other witnetfes,
from his having confined himfelf a fort of infor-
, mer,with which fet of people,from the frequent oc-
cafion they hid to take an oath, it had lott.half
i:.s confequence. After dwelling on this, and on
the deficiency of the evidence, marmuch as the
Profecutors had not called the matter, miftrei or
fervants of. the public-houfe where the meetings
were faid to have taken place, or the fervants of
the different honfes in the neighbourhood of Tot-
tenham, where the Defendant was Rated to have
flopped, he faid he was in poffeffion of evidence
to prove a complete alibi ; and then called the
woman of the houfe in which the Defendant
lodged, in Turnmill-Rreet, who (wore that on
Saturday the nth intl. the Defendant was at
home the whole of the day until fix or (even in
the evening.
Three other iritneres were examined, all of
them Italians and*Foreigners, who alfo potitively-
fwore to the fait Of the Defendant's being at home
on the i Ith.
They were feverally crofs-examined by Mr.
KNAt r and Mr. Knowtes, and their having been
ordered out of Court while each was examining,
"produced Tome little variation in their evidence,
but they all fwoie to the Defendant's having been
at home-from morning until evening on the day
named in the indictment.
Mr. Knowtes, in reply to mi. Alleyiremarked,
that the Gentlemen who compored the Society
which had with fo much honor to themfelves taken
up there fort of profecutions, did not intend to ex-
pole to public cenfare thok fainibes whiYmight bc-
unfortunate- enough to have a mire, daughter, dr
fitter, inclined to purchafe fuch indecent and dia-
bolical prints. It was enough for than to bring
the venders of fuch things to jullite, and not in an
inquifitorial manner to private
things which might
deßroy the harmony of private life.
Mr. Juttice Cowan"-, who was in the Chair in
• the abfence of Mr. Mainwaring, remarked to the
Jury, that in finding the Defendant guilty, they
mutt believe the four witneffes who had been ex-
amined on the part of the Defendant to have been
guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, as the tranf-
aaion was fo recent it was not porfible for the
day which they fo pofitively (wore to, to be for-
got ca. The Ju: y,however, after Tome deliberation,
pronounced him Guilty, and the Court fentenced
him to fix months imprifonment.

On WeAlnefday, night, the Warehoufe of Mr.
Puas', in Cloak lane, Watling-ftreet, was broke
open, and robbed of property to the amount of
near aooold confifting of wearing apparel, watches,
and jewellery, fent there for fale by different Pawn- i
brokers.
. Early on Sunday morning Tome villains broke
into A warehoulain Coleman-greet Buildings, and
lobbed it of goods to a contiderable amount, which
it is conjeitureel were taken away in a hackney
coach, as one was feen waiting near the fpot. The
fame morning the area to N 0.4, in the fame Build-
ings, was entered, and the whole of the provifions
laid in for Sunday carried off, in all probability
by the before-mefitioned villains.
'Sunday night, about fevers o'clock, as a poft
i cliaite was driving up the Old Bailey, a daring
' villain got upon the perch pole, as tile chaife paired
the felons door of Newgate, and cut the cords that
fattened a portmanteau, &c. in front, but the driver
obfcrving a man under the chaife, (who he at the
1 momentconceivedhe had run over) who direly ran
i off, he osamined the fattening:, difcovered their
intention, and prevented any further attempt.
A Tailor of the name of James Burke, was com-
mitted from Shadwell_Office for trial ,)n Thurfday

laft, on fitfpicion of healing out of the bed-room
of Mrs. M.Ginnis 341. in Bank.notes, which in
part he diffipated, in order to &milli a room for
an intended wife, who was a fervant, who was ta-
ken up as a parzy.in the robbery, but admitted an
evidence againfl him. The fituation he was /placed:
in had fuck influence on hii naves, that he died
on Saturday morning in eonvulfions in the Old,
Bailey before the hour•of his, trial. On his exa-
mination at Shadwell he fhewed fymptoms of a,
moR nervous diforder.
lOn Saturday a failor,t barged a young woman
who had ace/tiled him nearshe Tower, with put-
tting her band into his waißcoat pocket, and Real.,
.iug a.nase pound ante, as the .was liming by him in
pa palgic 'loaf& , The Lord Mayor inquired what
amouut lustatlthad in his pocket before the fup.
poled. thsfe instuiostunitted, awl ftrdered.him W.
res she r ' n He, pulled our feverali
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prized at the circ;Mftattee, and ttntvillThg to make
the unfortunate girl (who appeared not more than
15) any reparation; but his Lortifltip, with his
accultorned humanity, infilled upon having the
Cum given, which the had been falfely charged
with, and difmiiled her.; having had a promile
that the would immediately leave a comic of life
which mud have inevitably loon brought her to
inifery and an early grave.
• Matt Saturday about fix o'clock in the evening,
as Mrs. Oliver, of Layton,. was walking in her
Garden, a man in a failor's drefs came over the
Garden Wall, and robbed her of what money the
bad about her, and then fettled the-wall,and made
his elcape.
On Tuefday a man of the name of Dovey, a
dealer in draw, Ice. was committed to Worcefter
Caine Gaol, for throwing his wife out of the firft
ftorey window, about 15 or i,6 feet high from the
ground, early that morning, on the county fide
of Leech-greet, in Woreelter, where the now lies
dangeroufly ill.-
Thomas Baker, the 'opulent farmer in Soinerfet-
ibirei who was convided at Taunton of receiving
(beep, knowing them to be fiolen, died, a few days
ago,_ on board the Captivity convict fhip.
On the 29th ult. as Mr. Foßer Parfons, printer,
of Ennis, and his wife, were taking'an airing in a
gig on the Clare road, the „horfe took fright at
fotne boys who were hurling, and Mr. Parfons,
endeavouring to refcue his wife from her perilous
fituation, broke his leg in fo dreadful a manner,
that he fuffered immediate amputation.
The gangs of robbers, who plundered at Peck-
ham and Bartholomew fairs, having liolen the
hats of perfons they ill treated, one of them was
difcovered, and committed from the Manlion.honfe
on Thurfday, in con fequence of having one,of thefe
hats on.
There are now on board the Glatton, lying at
Spithead, 170 fenrale convicts, deftined for New
South Wales, 27 of whom are not ao years of age!
The following melancholy circum fiance happen-
ed on Tuefday night laft Mr. Tyrol., who
kept a broker's (hop near the White Hart,•Chel-
fea, another Gentleman, and Mrs. Tutor, had
fpent the day at Fulham. They hired a' boat to
return by water, and left Fulham about half pall
to o'clock. By fome accident the boat was over-
Set, and they were all three drowned. Next day
the body of Mr. Tyror was found afhore on the
'mud near Batterfea bridge. There was no Oat
on the body ; and from this circerntlance, if is con.
jedured that Mr. TuTorhad been employed rowing
the boat. Mrs. Tyrol. was taken up by the men
employed to drag for the bodies. The other body
'has not been found, though the River was drag-
ged for it during three fuceeffive days. On Friday
the Coroner's Jury fat on the bodies which were
found and returned a verdid of Accidental Death.
Mr. luroi' was much refpeded in his neighbour-
hood, and his death is greatly 'lamented by his
friends.
- FlRSS.—Sunday* fire broke out in the premifes.
of Mr. Cooper, fituattsl near the Patent Shot
Manufadory, near Coper's-gardens, Lambeth,
which confumed the whole of the buildings, be-
%des damaging the cooperage, and the lead-met-
ter's adjoining. We are lorry to add, that nine
hprfes out of eleven, kept •by Mr. Cooper, were
burnt to death, and that one man,-endeavouring
to draw them from the liable,• was fo dreadfully
bruifed by the roof failing in upon him, that he
is not exireded to live ; five others were alto maim-
ed at thefame time, and two children nearly crufh-
ed to death by the engines coming unexpededly
upon them. The fire broke out about one o'clock
at noon, and being low water, though fo contigu-
ous to the llamas, the engines were unable to
play for ,a great lens of tame. By four, how-
ever,
the fire way prevented from fpreading, and
the alarm had ccafed among the Many poor fami-
lies who Surrounded this diftreffing fcene. The
horfe-keeper, who lived in the hay-loft, had fallen
;Weep in the (tables, and having engaged to dint
at a neighbouring public-houfe, was roofed at one
o'clock by the pot-boy, who found !brae difficulty
in railing hint from his dumber& In five minutes'
after the Rabies were in Barnes, and but for thisl
providential interference he muff have fallen a
vidim to their ravages. •
The premifes where the fire happened belonged
to Mr. rom *horn Mr. COWLS. Tent-
ed the liable. Mr. HITCHCOCK,iiITCHCOCX had to the amount
of tool. worth of planks of wood and other timber
belonging to him eonfumed. The premifes, we
underliand, were infured, but the property was
not. Mr. Cooree is a very induftrious man, and
fupports a-large family of young children by letting
teams ; hi; dock .was not infured, and it is flip-
', pored the misfortune will be his utter ruin, unlcfs
his more opulent neighbours affift-him. His wile
and family were teen running about in a Rate of
diftradion, while he, with philofophic patience,
was driving to coMfort them : the fight was fo
moving that it drew tears of compaffion from the
eyes of the beholders.
On Saturday night about eleven &chick, a fire
broke out at a bottle in Round Curt, St. Mar-
tin's-le-Grand, Newgate-fireet, which confumed
the back part of two houfes, together with part of
the furniture ; the flames were, by the timely al-
(Mance of the firemen and engines, got under
without doing any further damage.
The lots occafioned by the late dreadful fire at'
Liverpool is of the largeft magnitude of any within
our recolleaion, We thought the calculation fird
made of it, of a million Reding, was exaggerated,
but every letter from thence makes the eltimate as
confiderable. Happily no lives have been loft.
On Thiirfday evening, about nine o'clock, a fire
balloon defcended upon a lower fkylight, at the
luck part of the Temple of the Mules, Finlbury-
fquare : it was fortunately feen by the fervants ot
Mars. Lsratmoion and Co. who were then
leaving work, or the confetpreneet might have
been -dreadful. Indeed, fuch was the Rrength of
ot:mileemdtiednistaewts: lot(ra:cdd ciatfifnatriend by i
tthh:nmaightteriithales.
wholebeing
probably have been conforned.—
Due notice has •heest given to the ces,
-.reibefinefs it is aseliii as it is die :oIF the
WPlPtilibilso.freatvant of