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she gate tech other and contradictory aecnunts „„
the ci,ilfs tfeath, as led to a suspicion that ,„roet;:.
fair pi oceedings bad taken place: and she was le.
manded till further inquiry could be made, neon.
fort mate young woman, whore appearance
s very,
interesting, and only twenty-two years of age, wa%
au ;it ten months ago, seduced by a man of stistim.
guished family: he supported her till within the in
few months, and then abandoned her. Bein
vanced in pregnancy, she with difficulty mewed at
lodging. A-friend procured her a ticket for the LT.
ing-in Hospital, where she was delivered of a female
child ; and on her leaving the Hospital, she letionedi
to her former lodgings, but having no mosey re pay
the expenses she bad incurred, she was refirsci ,e.
mission. She wan3ered about for some dais, and
is feared that she made away with her child. NV
the wiriched woman was 'under examination at
Marlborough-street Office, an Inquest was ',el/
the Barley Mow, Mount-street, Grosvenor-,qe,:sr;
on the body of her supposed child, which Lad be ~.1
found in the Basin, in Hyde Park, having been tin.
naturally murdered. The body of the infant had
been examined by two surgeons: it it believed lin
the child was nearly a month old when it died The
Jury assembled on Tuesday evening, before T. H.
Gael., Esq. Coroner, and after the body had been
viewed, the following evidence was adduced: —Mr.
Matthew Ellis, Master of the Engine-house, Hyde
Park, deposed, that on Sunday last, ahont eleven
in the forenoon, he went, as he usually did, to the
Reservoir of the Chelsea Water-works, and thre saw
something floating on the water. He procured
drags, and drew out the object that had attracted
attention, which proved to be a female child, app.
rently about a month old. He had no doubt that the
child had lived. There were no external marks of
violence on the body, nor was it likes there won;d
be, if the child, as he believed, e a thrown int the
water and drowned. He, as the father f nine chi!_
d en, had no doubt but that the child had been suck:el
for some time; it was dressed in the usual manner ef
attiring infants ; there was a bandage pinned in the
customary manner rotted its body, and there was no
apparent disease that could have caused its death.—
lip firmly believed that the child had been throned
into the water alive. If the child was a corpse, it
struck him that it would not have been throw,, into
the water with any of its clothes on. The surgeons,
however, could best speak to that I,oint. The Coro-
ner inquired if the surgeons were in attendance ? and
was answered in the negative. Clements, an etlicer
of Marlborough-street, stepped forward and gave the
following evidence :—An interesting young woman,
namedJane.Johnson, was brought this afternoon be.
fore Mr. J. E. Conant, on suspicion of ielo y, v.l en
Mrs. Hurley, of 24,, Circus-street, New-road, came :o
the prisoner, and, in a• feeling manner, asked hcr—
" What have you done with your dear baby r
Magistrate asked Mrs. Hurley ber reasou for .tslong
the question ? and she stated, that the prisoner had
been her lodger when pregnant, was got in.() the
Lying-in Hospital by her, and supported by her ;
but her husband finding there was no probability of
recompense, ordered her to quit the house on lint
Tuesday morning. On the following day, the ii-
soner came with the child's clothes, and asked hcr to
get them washed ; and she then said, upon her akin
a Where is the child ?" that it was dead, and at Loa
C—'s. She asked her where Lord C•—'s was?
and the prisoner said she would not anseer. hot
turned off to some other subject ; and she was fearful
the child had been disposed of in an in, pi•oper manner.
The officer hewing of a child being found drowned,
thought proper to attend the Inquest, and give the
information he was in possession of. The Cor,ner
applauded him for his conduct. The surgeon. not
being in attendance, the Coroner said that he, having
no idea this case was likely to prove a murder, hal
not brought the parchment or blank presentment with
him ; and as it was likely to turn out a very im-
portant, and probably a very long inquiry, he %%fluid
adjourn to a future day, and requested that all tile
evidence might be ht readiness. The Inquest resume./
yesterday, and no proof appearing as to the cause of the
child's death, the Jury returned a verdict of—" Found
dead in the Basin in Hyde Park."

Tuesday se'nnight, a Coroner's Inquest was holden
en the body of Jane Ainsley, a girl 16 yea b o age,
who was late a servant to Mr. David Elliott, o Sand-
gate, flour-dealer, &c. It appeared that Mr. El.iott's
son, a lad of 15 years, had struck her severely about
ten days before, in consequence of which she lingered
until Monday se'nnight, when she died. Verdict—
', Manslaughter:' he Coroner immediately issued
his warrant, and the lad was apprehended on Tues-
day evening, and committed for trial at the ensuing
Newcastle Assizes.

Miss C—, of Fratton, in the parish of Portsea,
who was frightened by three young men suddenly
darting from behind a tomb-stone, in Kingston church-
yard, as she was proceeding home from that Church,
having been there to. rehearse some music intended
to be sung on Christmas-day, died in con•equence of
the fright; delirium having ensued, and .11:6 ova-
tinued with little intermission until Thursday las:,
when death put an end to her sufferings.

BIRTH.
Monday, the Lady of the Rey. Dr. Mudge, of a daughter.

MARRIED.

Or. Tuesday, the.lsth instaut,ajioot's Cray, by the Rey. E.
Wariner, J. R. Coryton, Esq. sou of the Rey. O. ('oryton. of
Penzance, to Elizabeth, the only daughter of William Nese
Haworth, Esq. Principal Clerk in the Office of the :tuuit.•r or
the Receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer.