Star.
London, England, 1817-07-26 00:00:00

•` Police Office, Great Marlborough-street, July ,25, I (117."

Er In compliance with Captain Br RICLLtT% request, wr have
Inserted the foregoing; hut we moo :AI, that 3 C-etutonart who
ie,lt en imlignant utmarlf at the imputation to him di' any itn.
prop,r contiuc,, ought to ht C•i•eiul not to calumniate othera.—r
Cart..in Balt bIL Lcv will not prov,cute the we.

HarrenGARDEN.•••- George Wright and 11.114i0n hosts I
were yesterday committed for trial on a charge •(.1
stealing two cocks, three hens, and two chickens, the
prOperty of Lieutenant-General Moore Disney, of
Rosslyis House, Hampstead. The prisoners were
taken with the fowls in their possession, which were
identified by the servant of Gener.,l Disney.
MAituououott-sriIEET..-..ANOTHER CAsE OF COMO-
szEAL:xa.—At a late hour on Thursday night, a
yhung woman, calling herself Mau Pao roil, was
bsionet down from Mary-la-bonne watch-house, and
emimioed before Jowl Bonaows, Esq. charged under
die Child-Stealing Act. with forcibly and felonkusly
carrying.away a male child, aged between five and
six months, the son of Hampden, a private in I,
the lu Regiment of Life Guards, under the following
most extraordinary circumstancrst—Matilda Hamp-
den, wife of the prosecutor, being sworn, deposed,
that or the 16th of April, 1816; she was standing
with the child in her arms, in ftont of the Horse
Guards, looking at the soldiers tbi prisoner came
up, said it was a fine morning, and introduced a va-
riety of subjects ; witness answered her, and j•.ined in
the conversation ; the ptisor.er wok particular notice
of the child, and asked her it she was a widow, or
what thesllild's father was ? She (iitness) said he
was a snldier belonging to the Life Guards, and was
still living. The prisoner remarked her own husband
had been a Hussar, and was killed at the Battle of
Waterloo, and that she bad received sea from Go.
veranient on his behalf. Atter some further conver-
sation she asked witness where she lived, and she
would call next day and see her. as she felt interested
with her. Witness gave bee the directfoa where she
then lived, in John-street, New-road, and they then
dep:itted. On lb! morning of the 17th, she called
accordirm to her ptnmise, and they breakfasted tor-
. tber. Witness kept her for dinner, and afterwards
for tea. The prisoner told her she was going out of
town next day, but when she came to town again,
she would call'and see her. Next morning, however,
she again came, and said she had to call at the Spot.
ted Dog, in the Strand, in the afternoon, for a bundle.
She then said. " Let me take out the child for an

airing." Witness teplied, she would soon be going
out herself, and the prisoner asked for the shawl and
bonnet. She then asked why she could not take it
without that? and at last the witness consented to let'
t her have them, and she took the child out, as she
said, to walk., After several hours had elapsed, wit-
ness began to get uneasy about the child; and went
, to look for the ptisoner, in which she failed. She in-
formed her husband of the circumstance, when he
came home, and he 'nag almost frantic. Inquiry was
made at the Spotted Dog, and it was there ascertain-
ed she had taken away her bundle. The child was
advertised, and placards issued in all directions, but
without effect ; not the least trace could be discover-
ed of the-prisoner's routes all hopes of ever recover-
ing the child had subsided. When, about a week
ago, the peosecutor. was drinking with a private be-
longing to the Ioth Hussars, to whom he related the
story, ibis man very fortunately recollected one of
the men in his own regiment having a child brought
to ltim by the prisoner ; and as the names agreed, be
expressed las suspicion she might be the same.—
Accordingly persons ware dispatched to Hounslow
(where she was stated to be), with a view of apps
heading her, but when they got there they received
ieicitsbation that she was at Hampton. They imme-
iliately went there and took her into custody, with a',
cisild , about four months old, in her arms, and
Brought her up to town. They took her to a public-
house in Adam-street West, and sent for the parents,l
who ideatified her, ,and they,then took her to the,
watch-house. The prisoner being asked what became
of the child ? said, it had died some • time ago.—
Charles .iylvester, the constable, said he was sent for
to take the piisoner into custody, and she acknow-
ledged having stolen the child. From what could
Ibe collected from the ptiloner's defence, it appeared
that an improper intercourse bad taken place between
her and a soldier in the 10th regiment ; that by some
means or other they had been separated a sufficient
time for the prisoner to have been delivered of a child
of the age of the one she bad stolen. In her own
words, she said, " She was young and foolish and
wanted a husband, therefore she knew no better way
of getting one than by persuading the soldier she had
a child. —She was committed for further examina-
tion, when morrwitnesses will attend.