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stopped all night. A first fieoe lodger In witrogs's
Mouse; of the name of Mrs. Price, first cot4plained of
the conduct of Mrs. Jervii, and said she would not
• put'up-with such goings on." It was Mr.Tarkins
who came to request witness to go to the-workhouse,
and she.went accordingly.
One of. the Overseers of St. Martin's Parish was
thin called. The girt had applied to him to be-ad-
mitted into the workhowse, and had *bullied a good
deal about her ,clairrt tdadmittaace. . He thought she
was not to be believed upon her oath.
Cioss-exatnined.,He knew nothing of the girl, ex-
cepting that she had applied to the parish. He had
never heardber examined upon oath.
Sarah Thompson was then called, and Mr. Ex.
Sheriff quitted his seat to bring her into Court. This
course he pursued with some other witnesses. •
Mr. Aotmentfa complained,that thiswas not exactly.
the way to have justice done to all parties. Mr. Par.
kins was sent out for every witness, and thus thel
object of sending the evidence out of Court was in a
measure defeated.
Mr. HILL, the attorney employed on behalf of the
appellant, said he did not know the witnesses. It
was Mr. Parkins own testimony.
Mt. ADOLPHUS.—Then it is still more objeztionable.
Sarah Thompson at length appeared in the box.
She knew Hannah White when she lived at Captain
Fozzard's. When the girl left the service, and went
to live in Crown-street, -Westminster, witness saw ber,
and she then said she was married to Mr. Jatvis.
Witness had previously received a letter, which was
signed " Jarvis," and she went to her in consequence.
Witness's husband lived in the service of Captain
Fozzald at the time the gill was there. Witness
after wards met Mrs. Jarvis in the Park with her bus-
band—alenry White, brother to the girl, was then
called into Court, and shewn to witness.]—Ttiat was
not the man Mrs. Jarvis called her husband. He
was an elderly man, about the same age as witness's
husband.
Thomas Thompson said, he lived in the service of
Captain Fozzard at the time the girl was there.
About two months after she quitted the service, he
received a letter firm her signed " Jarvis," and dated
from No. 4, Crown-street, Westminster. He went to
her, and she said her name was Jarvis.
A beadle of the parish of St. Martin was called,
but proved nothing. Another witness who had been
subpsenaed, was obliged to attend on another trial in
a different Court.
Mr. ADOLPHUS replied. He was commenting upon
the deficiency of proof with respect to the scene in
the Park, at which the groom must have been• pre-
sent, when Mr. Parkins interrupted the Learned Coun-
L sel, and said Mr. Alley had omitted to call the groom.
Mr. ALLEY declared upon his honour, that lie had
forgotten to call him, 'or should have put him into
the box before.
Mr. ADOLPHUS was surprised at such a proceeding.,
Jost as he had commenced his observations, and at that
period of the case, then a new witness was to be called.
John Thorn was then examined. He stated that he
was groom to Mr. Parkins, and remembered riding
out with his master to Buckingham-gate. He had
done so several times. He never saw the girl in ques-
tion, to his remembrance, before ; and never saw her
accost his master in the Park. His master frequently
walked in the Park.
Mr. ADOLPHUS observed, that, with the public
character of Mr. Parkins they had nothing to do;
but it certainly was improbable that a girl should fix
a charge upon a public character, if she had not
good cause. If such characters wet e considered pro-
per objects for such imputations, there were others
who might have been selected in preference, who were
not quite so fond of the public gaze, and would pay
4s. a week rather than be dragged before such a tribu-
nal. It had been considered matter of impossibility
that Mr. Parkins would have gone to keep an appoint.
ment with a girl with a servant behind him ; that he
could not think of exposing himself to his' servant I
Why, be bad.heard of a very exalted personage in
Duhlin, who, while he was at Peg Plunket's, used to
have a guard parading up and down near the door,
and seen by all who passed by in the morning. But
de grestious nil disputandum, and Mr. Parkins had as
little objection to the public obsetvation as any man.
Thorn, by the bye, would prove a thorn in his side, t
for he was to prove his case, and he had proved
mating, not even that he had ever seen the girl.—
,Certainly the system of begging adopted by Hannah
was the most admirable ever heard of. It was better
than half a dozen half-starved children. The worthy
•Es-Sheriff had therefore proved himself either the
most charitable of Christians, for he had given 4s. to
a poor girl with a hole in her shoe, or.the most frugal
of 'lovers. His • might truly be called the Economy
of Love, and would have given some new hints to
Dr. Armstrong. The Irish kliSer was a*trifle to him.
The Learned Counsel then commented upon the evi.,
dence of Mrs. Simmonds. Was it likely, he asked, that
a girl on her lying-in bed should int& a declaration
, as to the father of the child to a Wtirtian with whom
she must have been on terms of hOstility, and who
turned her out of doors? The fact was, the poor girl
had been prevailed upon by the gallant Ex-Sheriff to
do what she.ought not to have done, and now abuse
the most unmerited had been heaped upon her.
Mr. ALLEY begged that the Magistrates who were
not present during the whole trial would not vote.
One of the Magistrates considered the • request -a
slur upon the Bench.
Mr. CoasT, tl/e- Chairman, said, that everything
that could.be said in the case had been said. He did
not see anything to contradict the main fact -sworn
to by the girl.
Mr. DYER, the Magistrate of Mary-la-bonne Office,
said he should not vote, because he was a Magistrate
of the parish which was the respondent in this case.
He, however, thought it necessary to contradict some
Statement with respect to hint in this situation.
Mr. Parkins insisted upon the truth of the statement.
A Magistrate observed -to Mr. Parkins that he was
acting disrespectfully towards the Court.
Mr: Parkins.—" What's your name, that I may
tell the world what a wise man-you are ?"
The -Magistrate made no reply: •
Mss Parkins," I shall certainly indict the girl'
:for perjury,"—The order was then confirmed. •
The Court was crowded to- excess all day. •
Soon after the order was confirmed, Mr. Parkins
left the Court. He was surroonded by a crowd, prink,
cipally composed of the fair sex.;• " The ladies,' in
pretty intelligible language, expressed their-feelings of,
displeasure for What they called -a want ofgeneruiity.

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POLICE.

Bow-.STRise.—Testerday. COUP,Thee Dobson and Saran
ifontagwe, were charged with assaulting the Meets on duty ,
Drary-Lane Theatre, on Thinssisy wren/Mg. The prisoner. laid
been in the acebnd tier of boxes, and excited such a disturbance.
that Mr. Spring, the threzOffice keeper, called in the Ad of the
Police, to whose effetts to remove them the pestles owned*
mot desperate r^ -/stance, especially Dobson.
Band, a constable, cunmbined of retd latter
ring from the laer a
violent meth lsachir;rds against a lamp, mrkich was •brokeea
Sayers, the officer, was knocked down by' him on the steps snider
the Colonnade; and Jones, andther constable, appeared With'hit
arm in a sling, having received lesions injury-
it was with muck difficulty Dobson was grit to the Watch:
house, where he behaved in the same outragemis manner.. gig
refused to go into the place appropriated to tea:viers, and whoa
the officers attempted to force him in, helick•Al one of theta,
an old and infirm manmensed Lewis, with such force in thrgrob%
that the poor fellow fainted on the spit. Bond at length seized
him by the throat, and thrust him into the lock-up room.
Dobson, when called on for his defence, said he was-an (W ••r
bike. Aimy, and had been drinking On Thursday night, and 1,1,
•aopposed had lost his senses lie did r.ot recollect mush :thou:
,the matter, but be believed he had reststed -the offlcers, becar.-,t
be did not know them in abut capacity. The defentlent said this
I in a very careless manner, and seemed to regard the thing as veer
unimportant.--The other defendant made neat ly the exeneexerte-..
The-Magistrates ordered Dobson to find hail, himself in klCo,
and two sureties in X:0 each, and to give notice thereof. Mon-
tape was ordered to give security, himself in £OO, and two
others in £4O each.
A Gentleman, who-appeared to b tae friend of the defendants,
said, he hoped the Magistrates would allow them to accommodate
this affair with the officers.
Sir RICHARD BIR.NII{ replied with some warmth in tit- Pees-
, tier, Observing, that the officers were not to be interrupted is
the proper execution of tit, it duty, and grievously assaulted and
disabled, and then to he satisfied for their injuries•by a few
jaltry shillings. The law should take its course.
The defendants were locked op until they should find bad,
Which was not until late in the evening, when it was intimated
to them that the Grand Jury had returned fire true bills against
them, and that they would be speedily tran.rol to take their trials.

BIRTHS.
Toesflay, at East Acton, Middlesex, the Lady of Sir F. G.
Fowke, Bart., of a daughter.
Monday, at Salisbury, Mrs. Urownrigg, widow of the late
Lieutenant-Colonel Browurigg, of a daughter.

VIAItIRIED..
At Aberdeen, the 17th inst. Arthur Dingwall Fordyce, Esi.
Advocate, in Aberdeen, to .lessy Stewart, eldest cLinghter.of tie
tate Captain Arthur llnigwall Fordyce, of she Bengal Engineers.

DIED.
At Wineanton, nn her return from Illtacombe to London, on
the 22d instant, the Lady of Commissioner Bowen, of the Navy
Board.
Saturday, in Great Comm street, on his way front Scotlar4
to Geneva, Dr. Alex. Marc. t, aged 52.
Monday, at Walthanistow, I :ssex, aged 63, Gecr;c
tyne, Esq. an Elder Brothi.r of the Trituty House.
March 24, at Gooty, India, Alexander Ord, Ensign in tlte
Hon. East India Company's Set vice, in the IRth year of his age,
youngest son of John Ord, Esq. late of Tarrada;e.
The 18th inst. at Hythe, near Southampton, where he went for
the change of air, in his 25.1 year, Mr. E. I. Church, youngest
son of the Henry Church, Esq. Surgeon R. \.
The 18th test. in Lower Mount-street, Dullo, of a decline,
aged 19, Letitia Emma, eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel
De Montmorency, 11. I'. Royal Hussars..
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