Star.
London, England, 1806-10-15 00:00:00

ad him what had paired between him and the crowd?
and on his telling her what he had faid (it sets in the
parlour, and his mailer was prefent)s the beat him
feverely with a Pick.
Being interrogated relpelling his ufual food, he
Paid it was often fo bad that he could not eat it. At:•
one time, for inflame, they gave him for dinner (a
fpecies of foup maigre) water in which fifh, with
pieces of broken bread, refufe lettuce leaves, pot ;not
peels, and the green tops •61 raddithes had been boil
ed. That it was fo naufeous, he could not eat it the
fiat day; but that his mailer, declaring he fhould have
no other food, referved it till the next day, when
hunger forced him to eat it ; but Immediately after-
wards ficknefs forced him to difcharge it from his
flomach. He faid, that hi. mailer, in correcting him
for any faults with which he was charged, did not
chaflife him with a (witch, but beat him with his
clenched fills, knocked him down, and kicked him in
the limbs and body, to as to leave him unable to
walk for feveral days.
Mr. MAuLYAT was Counfel for the D4endant,
and raid that the boy woe at well fed at a paryb appren.
tire met to de.
The boy then underwent a long crocs.examinarion
from Mr.Ma a Rya r,but corroborated all he had before
(aid. He acknowledgett, that while with the nitric,
to whofe care he was contigned by his parifh, he bad
a fcald head, and wore a pitch cap for it ; that he
was quite cured when he came to be apprentice, but
that a pitch cap was put on by his fellow apprentice,
named Lane, at the inflance of his miflrets, not to
cure a fcald head, which he had not then, but to con-
ceal the wound given him by his matter with the
carving knife. He faid alto, that his matter, upon
his remondrating that he could not fleep in the bed
fn filled with fleas, obliged him to fit up the whole
of the night, and tell how the watchmen went their
rounds, and the hours they cried.
In fupport of the charges of cruelty to the boy,
appeared a Mrs. Macdougall, who lodged nine weeks
in the houfe the Defendant had removed to at New-
ington Terrace ; Mu. Tracey, who lived a few
, doors from him ; Mr. Cooper, a watch movements
maker, in Clarence-place, Borough Road, a dole
neighbour, who feverally proved, that, from the ema-
ciated appearance of the boy, they were repeatedly
induced to relieve him with food, which he rather de-
voured like a wild beat than eat like a human being,
and that his afpeet and appearance were (qualid and
ragged in the extteme.
A woman named Hotalander. who had been em-
ployed to wails and chair, at the houfe of the Defen-
dant for three days, proved, that the melt of food
given to the boy for his dinner was Inch as use would
not have ventured to give to a bog, being merely the
water in which dumplings had been boiled, with
tome inackarel hones and potatoes ; and a turner,
named Gukon, who had taken the premifes lately
quitted by the Defendant, in the Borough Roads who,
however, hill retained fume workfhops there, prov.
ed, that the mailer had feveral days gone away and
left the boy without his dinner.
Two witneffes, William Lane, apprentice to the
Defendant, and William Gunnery, an errand boy oc-
cafionally employed by him, directly contradicted
the evidence of the boy. Mr. Adams, a trot; maker,
of Wioe Office-court, and fofeph Morton, a whole.
fate cutler, in the vicinity of Fleet-Ricer, (latest, that
they had very frequently dined with the Defendant
within the lafl eighteen months, and always law his
wife cut off fo large a plate of meat and plumb pud-
ding for the boy, as they conceived it impotlible
even for a man to eat.
Anne Gunnery, a girl, the filler of a former wit-
nefs, taro contradicted the teflimony of the boy, but
grofsly prevaricated in her teflimony.
Mr. Webfler, one of the parifh officers of Great
St. Bartholomew, directly contradicted the pofitive
evidenceof Lane, the apprentice, on a material point.
Mr. Serjeant ONs Low (hardy recapitulated the
evidence, when the Jury, after retiring for ten mi
nutes,fnund the Defendant guilty of all the charges;
but theCouri pollponed paffing fentence till to morrow.

A boy of abort eleven years old, fervent of R. Wy-
mond, Efq. of St. near rowey, was thrown
from a honk on Saturday lafl, and dragged in the
fiirrup till his ilcull was fraftured and his hndy man-
gled in Co (hocking a manner, that he died almofl
immediately.
Monday an inquifition was taken at the Triumphant
Car, Piccadilly, on the body of William Moore, who
was killed by the Reading ftage-coach. The de.
ceafed, a youth ten years of age. bad alighted
from ballad a hackney coach at the moment the
above coach had arrived at Hyde Park Corner-
gate, when he was knocked down by tlic leaders' and
the fore-wheel (truck againft his head, which frac.
tuned his fkull, and he died infiantly. A pat ginger,'
who was on the box with the coachman (wore, that
he believed the coachman never taw the boy' till he
was ordered to flop his horfes, as he did not hrinfelf,
and they were not going at sore than (even miles
an hour. Verdi'--/kcastal Death.