Star.
London, England, 1824-03-27 00:00:00

CHARITY'S CAUSE.

The following Comic Song was sung by Mr. C. TATCOR, at the
Anniversary Dinner of the Society for the Relief of Foreigners
ir. Distress:

There arc funds of all kinds in the kingdom we know,
And many arerich ones—hut others so, so;
But the Funds of all Funds t enliven the heart
Are those that relief to the needy impart ;
But barring all pother 'bout this fund or t'other,
We all join in Charity's cause!
Speculators examine the Funds every day.
And are fill'd with delight or struck with dismay ;
If law they buy in—if hip', they sell nut,
And some you'll see waddling like lame ducks abort'.
To the threes—some prefer the fours and Useful,
As men prefer steady to talkative wires;
Put of all the good Funds that were eve: produced
The one least inviting must be the reduced
In fant'd Capel.court you may meet every day
With men of -all nations at Fon:ling au fail ;
Although they may sometimes he called BuUs•mni Bear;
• They cherish the wretched and soften their cares !
The honour confered on our meeting to-night
Affords every boron; a fund of delight ;
May its Noble Promoters ne'er.meet with alloy, •
But a fund of contentment fur eve: enjoy !
The warriors of Albion have funds of renown,
But much of their glory they owe you must own
To our noyal Commander-in-Chief of this day,
Whose claims on our funds we can never repay :
• But my tlitty will not he received with ecfut,
If too much on the. fiends of your patience I draw;
One sentiment biore, which sure yOu will prize,
May !kis Fund never fall—but continue to rise!

LINT ASSIZES.

KINGSTON, SURREY, DIARCII 26.
Sarah !that-inky was indicted for stealing at Peters-
ham, on the '2lst of February, a quilt, value 201. a
scarf, value 51. and other articles, the property of Charles
Bayley, Esq. in Iris dwelling-house.
Mr. MESSMER opened the case for the prosecution.
—lt appeared in evidence, that Mr. Bayley, the pro-
secutor, yeas in India; that his wife, Mrs. Bayley, took
a house at Petersham, last year, for her health,. where
she died in the latter end of List ino.sth ; that the pri-
soner was her nurse, of whom the deceased always
spoke in terms of the highest prai.e. After the death
of Mts. Bayley, inquiry was made of the prisoner if she
knew anything of an Indian silk quilt that was missing,
as the relatives of the deceased meant to be liberal to
her servants, but wished, is the first instance, to be in
possession of all her apparel. The prisoner at first
'denied all knowledge of the quilt, and subsequently
said, that it had been sent by her mistress in a parcel
'by the carrier, as a present to a particukir friend. It
was further proved that the prisoner, in convet sation
with one of the Other servants, stated -that she believed
it was thought she had purloined the quilt. This con-
versation took place in the prisoner's bed-room, under-
neath whose bed a bundle, was discovered by that ser-
vant, who bring terrified at seeing something unusual
there, asked her what it was? To which she replied,
that it was her bundle, and that she bad placed it there.
It was further in evidence that the prisoner, about -four
or five days after the decease of Mrs. Bayley, had sent
the bundle in question to a lodging which she had hired
at Richmond, ,to be-lake') care of for her, where the
constable afterwards found it. The Rev. V. Bayley,
Sub-Dean of Lincoln, brother of the prosecutor, haring
caused the prisoner to be examined respecting thesetit-
cumstaixes, and she still pei,evering in licE denial of all
knowledge or them, had her apprehended ; and upon
her being informed that a bundle, in which the quilt
and scarf in question, with other articles, had been dis-
covered at her lodging'at Richmond, then stated 'that
they had been given to her by the deceased. The quilt
was a very curious and rare article of Indian workman-
ship, and the scarf was Cachemere.
The prisoner, in her defence„ again stated that the
property in question had been given td her by the de-
ceased, with injunctions to her not. to disclose that fact.
Mrs. Jones Burdett (and other witneses of the highest
respectability) spoke to the character of the prisoner, of
whom she had been in the constant habit of hearing
Mrs. Bayley speak in terms of the %s at (nest affection and
regard, and saying that she never could repay het for
the assiduity and attention with which she had watched
over het during an illness of sixteen months' duration
of the most distressing nature.
The Medical Gentleman Who attended Mrs. Bayley
during her illness-, corroborated these facts, and further
stated, as did Mrs. Jones Burdett, that the deceased was
a Lady of very generous habits.
Mr. Justice BEST summed up the evidence at zreat
length, and particularly dwelt upon the improbability
that articles of such a nature and rarity as those for the
stealing of which-the prisoner was indicted, should have
been given to her by the deceased; and also called the
attention of that: Jury to the crnitradicroty statements of
the prisoner upon her being applied to for an account
of the articles in question. The ch:::•acter which the
prisoner ha i received was in every respect creditable
to her, but in this instance coold nothing, un-
less the Jury entertained any doubt of her guilt, which
he could not sugge,,t.
The Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty;
whereupon the Sub-Dean' of Lincoln begged to recom-
mend her to mercy, to which the Learned Judge said
he should attend.
la the meantime sentence of death was recorded.
This case excited very general interest.
timtE:'Ottp, MARCH C 4.
John flail ;old William if illi:tins were indicted for
hurglariously breaking and entering the house of John
Penny, in the night of the 50th of December last, and
stealing therein a watch and other at ticks, his property.
Mr. PowELL opened the Case for the prosecution. In
the course of his addicts,' he stated that John Penny,
the poor man whose house was broken, was taken ill
while in pursuit of the robbers, and died after a day's
illness. Being thus deprived of his evidence, he should-
be obliged to call the widow, who was deaf and dumb,
but whose evidence would he interpreted in a very sat;
tisfitetorrmanner by one of her dang.lit et s.
Elizabeth Penny, a venerable old w Oman, and Silvia
Penny, her daughter, a girl of very prepossessing ap-
pearance, were then called into the box. They were
dressed in very decent mourning, and smolt} have been
taken as of much higher station than they were, the
deceased having been only a day-labourer. The girl
having been sworn to interpret between the Court and
her mother, was directed to put to her some pzelitninary
questions, in order to ascertain that she had a due sense
of the obligation df an oath. On the question whither
the soul went after death ? the girl interpreted her mo.
ther's answer—" To the place of eternity ; and on the
digestion, what reward awaited the good, she answered
—lt They go to happiness." The examination in chief.
in-
•thcas proceeded, and the scene became exceedingly