Star.
London, England, 1824-09-21 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, SEPT. 20.

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The Arabian Nights' Eiifiai !iriaments ; consisting of One
Thousand ap.l -.One Stories. Embellished with nearly
, Pitriavings.. 3.0. pp. 556. London, 1324,
George.. Prince of Denmark, the husband of Queen
AtlnC,.. hart...a lavnutite phrase w!tich he used: whenever
aeyiliing occur.ed to sunrise him, he wnold then ex-
claim, "Ea it possiLler This ejaculation we for the fit st
tinie uttered seriously when we saw Limbird's Eiition
of the Arabian Aighta, enb-...iiished with nearly a
l!'"ldted and fifty engravings on wood, announced at
I'Pe take of .tax Millings and -sixpence. it possible
ue exclaimed involuntarily, as we glanced over the vo-
lume, so thickly studelc.l with engravings, from original
designs, and we ble-see! the age of cheap. printing. Of
the merits of a work like the Arabian Nights we should
deem it idle to siieak : it is among the very few works
that alike amuse the young and the adult: the tale,
are certain of pleasing the former, and a centenarian
need not. blush to confess that the last woik he read was
the Arabians Nights' EitterMinntents. Lest the extremely
low yuieeat which-the work is published should induce
persons to ,undervalue this edition, it. is necessary to
state, that it is correctly and neatly printed in double
columns, mud is altogether got tip in excellent style.
CinNESE LANGUAGE.
Ma. Erstroa--The Chinese language is most assuredly
one of the most extraordinary that ever existed. To I
me it seems, from its nature, en have been a sort of tran-
sitiotiTioin the practice of representing ideas by objects,
or by hieroglyphic*, to that of employing arbitrary
characters for the same purpose. Though it contains
not more than 330 word,, it has four accents, by means:
of which each of these wercil is multiplied into four,
but such is the nice distinction between these, that none
but a native, or well-practised ear, can possibly perceive:
the differences of tone which diversify the monosyllabic
wordswith'ithich this language abOunds, and thus, by
merely employing a different accent, the same charac-
ter is made to have not less than eight or ten different
significations. In short, otte word tvill sometimes cor-
respond to as many as three or four thodsand 'charac-
ters, whereas, in European languages, thousands of
differeot words may be expressed by the same letters.
This singularity most convey some idea of theextrenie
difficulties which Europeans have to overcome ece they
can make themselves completely masters Of the Chinese
tongue. The fol lewi ng account of these obstacles is gi v
in the Goviosities of Literature, from the Learn Edi.!
,fictuteset ertrieittcs.
The P. ilenrgeols, one of the Missionaries, attempted,
after residing a cousideraille length of time at Pekin, to
preach in the Chinese language; these are the words of-
the good fathei : •
ion knOls how .much this first Chinese sermon'
cost me! I can assure you ibis language resembles no
other. The same word his never but one termination;
and then adieu to all that which in our declensions
tinguishes the gender and the number of the things of
which we would speak; adieu, in the verbs, to all which'
*gilt explain the active person, hop and in what time.
It. acts, if it acts alone or with others ; in., a Word, with
the Chinese the same word is itibitainiii,verb,:
adjective, ve

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singular, flural, Masculine, fernitiine,-4e. Add to all
this, that the samesaate words of tills language are reduced.
to SOO and a five more; that they are *flounced in so
:many'different ways, that they signify' *OOO different`
things, -Which ire-expressed by is Many different ella:
ratters. This is not ill; the arrangethent Of all these Mo-
nosyllables appears to pe Under no general rule; so that
to know the language. after having learnt the words,
we must-have every particula:r phrase; the least 'Myer-,
sion would make you unintelligibleto three parts of tha
• Chinese.
"'.,will give you an example of -their words. They:
told me thou signifies a book; 'so that .1 thought that
whe3ever the Nord chou owas pronounced, a book was
the sltlaject. Not at all) Chou, the next time I heard
it, I found si:4nified a tree. Now 1 had to recollect that
c/iou was a hook or a bee. But this availed nrie nothing ;
thou, I found, expiessed also great brats; thou is to re-
late; thou is the Aurora ; thtitt inians to be accustomed;
thou expresses the lout sofa' *user, fcc. I Mould never
havelione, were I to attempt tb give all its signification's.
Notwithstanding theft +solar difficullies, could
one irk- find ale* in theolllolof thei•ri:oolks I should,
slut complain, tot this irtipciltible.- Their written lap-
sUage %rite different from that of 'simple cnnversa-
. tion. What will ever be an alniost insurrnountable dif-
ficulty to every'' titopean is the 'Oteintnciation. Every
lteord 'May be pronounced tit, rent tones; yet
iv et,/ qitle is not *0 4igiict,that.'llll7niitaiacnied ear can
'Ostingni%h 'These ytionciiyilables fly with
mniiingrapidity ; then tbe'y, ale continually disguised
43fnctisOes hardly leave anything out
if two Frans an aspirated tone, you.
'Auk tars itninediafk to an ever:tone; 110 M a 'tingling
like to 110 inward One ;iotettitte's your voice !dust pro-
ceed from the palate; sometime! t Must be guttural,
hinddalncOst .always nasal. I fieiterd my sermon at least
fifty times to my Servant behtire I spoke it in public;
and et I am tO/d, though lie continually corrected me,
that, nut of ten pit is of the sermon las the Chinese ex-
press themselves) they hardly Mideritood threes For-
tunately, the Chinese are Wonderinlly patient, and they
are astonished that any igndrant stranger ithould be
able to leain two words of their:language'
GINGER WINE.
Boil ten ounces of ginger for an hnnr in one gallon
of water : let it stand a day qr tiVnclively covered ; then
strain, and add to it eighteen pOtinds oillcial-sugar, the
juice of ien lemons, an... 4 ten'Sevklle orartges..nated
. thin, the iintis-iieeped two.sailcols %Ate: LI IWO.
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ibis, TI -stsained., and all }hut intptl4e c 4 together:
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rut a little tn9ret9tter t.. 03e*tilgfr.ltnciriods toget4er z.
lut it stand isiroAags,:ikett..o stia the ca4k-to hold sit
,gallon; and a bill; wine I;'asure : jti4e hairing been
put to the ttgar, aid the Mater to the rinds the sadi,
day ihe.ginger was hai;e.). 'rot to:the above hall .14
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yiut of bundy. .
0/0111FAt WAY. •
'Take foutteen ptiiindf*Stigai,•sit ftfiinis of water.i.
' fotii titinees &ginger brnise,l, and 910 rtniis oaourle4
Maas :'‘nit thefii'trTutliih' bill an ')roar, keeping the. 1
'o4l!setiltilOds: • Men' q)l4, plit it into the , wit
three. 081faii c ISes',.the cftthelorritini
skAiiNfi t 1411: Ntlcet ,
it ripen ,1:0; aloft' M 4 .a ffir6l' brandy
• Ana 'ftop t cljse. In ix' ‘;,1444,'i1e proliltidtbs,
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' -S'pcoE4aaa tviftirrWi.'viictialleeil "elected an Alder
iiiiniuttibtt.; In La. p*:‘,lll the kte ApiraiftWoes..

C'alherin.l Irving and Asiossclev ing, her daughter, were,
, placed at 'the bar Charge' of having cruelly,
• treated and starved Quip ehildien, who were placed
under their care as pupils. . .
Mr. Aoorenus opened the case to the Jury.--Tile
defendant, Catherineliving, was a ferson wirohad been
emlloyed by a Mrs. Bathurst, in the direction of a
small charitable institution, supported by that Lady,
where a number of young children Were boarded and
educated at a cheap rate. While she was in that.sita.4•
tion no blame could be attached to her sondtct, but it
was after Wards that the cause of the present proeecution,
arose. She had subsequently set hp Z school on the
same principle, and it was for t'he mode of treatment',
the then pursued that she and her daughter now ap-
peared before them.
John Scutts...-I am the father of the children men-
tioned in the indictment by the name of Elizabeth, So-
phia, and Matilda Scutts ; I agreed with the defendant,
Catherine Irving, to take my children at 9s. a week
she lived then opposite St. Gilcs's Church ; she was to
board, wash, and lodge 'them; I was to find them in
bed and bedding ; I asked her how she could afford to
take them for so small a mice? and she said a Lady of
title-made up the deficiency ; this was on the
.17th of
September; for the first three months they were quite
well; L used to see them every day ; at the end of that
time I discovered that one of the children had gut the
itch ; the children were pretty well in body ; that child
died ; the other children have lived ' • I never had the
bed and bedding back ; Catherine Irving was then
known by the name of Weeks.
Elizabeth Scutts, a pretty. interesting looking little
child of ten years of age, now appeared.—My father
sent me and my two sisters to Mrs. Irving's; they used
to beat us very much, sometimes with a stick, and some-
times with their fists; the stick was as thick as a man's
thumb; they used to beat my sister, who died, eery
much, and left marks upon her; we were beaten occa-
sionally three times a day; we only learned to teat
four times while I was there; my sister, who died, used
to walk double alter she was shoved over the scraper by
Miss.lrving ; we had plenty of victuals then ; four of us
slept in a cupboard; six children slept in the bed that
my father gave us.
Cross-examined by Mr. Pm:Am.—We never told my father,
because they threatened to beat us if we did.
lie-examined.-1 used to go to bed about twelve o'clock at night,
or one o'clock in the morning • I used to be sent out for all manner
of things ; some Gentlemen used to come of a night; the bed was
not long enough for us. •
Martha Williams.—Saw Sophia Scutts before she.
died, and was of opinion that the child died of a hurt.
on . the back, and 'the itch it had got ; the other twoi
children were covered over with ulcers.
Cross-examined.—l did not catch' the itch, though I handled the
children; the ulcers seemed to have been of long standing.
• Nrs. Rodwell.—Was a married woman, and knew die
prisoners at the bar ; I put a boy. and girl, my childiaa,l
to their school; five shillings-and sixpence a week was.
to be paid for them ; 1 went every other day, to see thetb
trail January, 1824 ; then went to oxford, leavTng the-
children under their care; when ;etn rued round both•
the children in a state of starvation, all eov.ered With
wounds, and one of than had lost the firsrjoint of one
of her toes; I did not take them away from the school,
,because My husband was living with one -of -the de-
fendants, Catherine Irvin ; he continued hying with
7lter until the morning she was taken Lmy children were
.sett borne then by the defendants ; I went to Oxford by
my husband's consent • When had got my...children, I
took thent .to the patisit dOotott. Mr. ilKigest ; he is still
attending them ; Frederick :Hunt, one of the .childeen,
was all over bruises wheh taken to-the Police-office. •
CrostposaMlised..-420nrIng the Ark 'fiSor weeks after my return
fi;sani
,fiWried, I west every day,ti achingg of the defendants ; th
too sae befera Magistrate because I wanted my husband ;
calkd at the house of the defendants, and broke one of the doors
of their room to pieces; I came and told my husband that old MG-
thee living was an old wretch, and-unless he turned her out of the
how I would break the windows ; I never told John - Dale, Mrs.
living was an old wretch, and kept a haute of ill tans,. or the
fortnight After I returned from Oxford, I dined every day with Mrs.
Irving, if you call it dining; during that time the children dined
with me at the table; part of the time I brought my dinner with me;
some days I did not. fiome days wheal I went to the house without'
anything, I was not allowed to see the children.
•lie-examined.—Since the return of -the children to me, I have
supported them by the allowance made by my busbond, by nrder of
the Magistrate.
Cp*rles Otto, a boy of eight years old, called.—l,
was put to school to Catherine Irving ; I never had vic-
tuals.enough ; she used to hiat we once or twice a-
week ; there used to be black and blue marks on my'
back ; she used to beat me with a stick and' her 4st;
there were four of us slept in thesame bed; thepasened
a pair of My boots; she asked one to let her; ,I did
to; I never had them since; I den% know when it was;
I weal there. ;
Cross.examined.—Sometimet we had bread and kaki, stand'
cheese, and pudding, but not altogether • Nee bad tiesiitsit at,etsht.
o'clock in the morning, dined al :obi n'Clock, of three o'clock, utd
drank tea at five o'clock and eight o'clock; We used to tike a guar-'
ter of an hour at breakfast and dinner, and ten minutes ittea ;Yee
went to bed sometimes at eight and sometiSiirtnine O'clock:
Joseph Burgess, the medical attendant Of. Sc. qiles's,
workhouse: 1 saw Otto, Hunt, Bray, and -Boxers, wbo
were children in the house of the defendants'; I went
there in consequence of a request of:the:palish olfice'isi
I found about ten children in the $4190440 ; spat
looked thin; those boys I have ;mentioned wese,them
they were dirty and squalid, and diseased with theitois
they were ill dressed. The defendants were in the "
state ; Frederick Hunt was covered with bruises,:a."
his head fell of vermin ; he appeared to-have- been
without food for some time
William Richard Big : I am assistant Overseer to St.
'Giles's parish ; I went to the house of the "defer.4.ll4l
and found the children 'in a deplorable state; sone*
Were eaten up with -the itch. Otto wallhardly cove**,
skth clothes; when Hunt was taken to 'the Polio
01fice he ate tot* zailk and bread with great eVerness.
there were . two , bedsteads without bed or bC11i44140-:
'One room there was an infant wrapped up in some -bad
clothes. The Children seemed steered.
r. Ptitt.i.res addressed the Jury for the defend'{
ants; and "the Cumnatati having recapitulated t
evidence, the Jury foind both the admits filitailows
Jotlgtnent-cleterted "till thelast day of diellessiobs.
as
the late :ststrnn in the Pegnirailliaiis4, n'
-poor woman, in the act of carrying turf near esansoliu,
was struck by lightning, her Clothes torn in shteds on.
leer back, and her body 'thrivejled qp aptazirigly.
*apposed that she died aid ast immediately: Tlae.Mnsind
on which she had been ovemaken. by the terrible. visite;
bon, was tooted up in "Em''ettraordinetry• manner tot
• seyei al yards. •
It is stated by a modern Ls/Wilts Iblitiale tags
in-the Isle ,of -Man are hOsoBl3. no cash • rubliuml;•pot
annum, 55.4241. on greyhounds. and Opters ; fsdatin
ail sittier'dks ; the -Whole driyhieh 'area.p • oPrt;ttklj I'q
I)te tkpair.4 the-psiblicehads.• .

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