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his 'beg and that ha, mid several triends had teen bid
„night and day- making enquiries fot the still undis•
covered child at the watch-houses, and at every place
where large assemblages of people were collected.-4-
On the previous night rrnesday) they had been tb
Wapping, and about two o'clock on Wednesday
morning they niet with several sailors, some of whom
recollected being at a public-house on Sunday even-
ing, in a lane in Lo*er Thames-street, near Billings-
gate, where the passengers by the Gravesend boats
assembled previous to the sailing of the boats, and
they recollected seeing .a man with a child, exactly
'answering the description of Mr. Horsley's, in person
as well as dress. The man also answered the de-
scription, except as to his dress ; and Mr. Carter sus-
pected him to be in a disguised dress, and it is sup-
posed he changed his dress again, to avoid being
traced or discovered. He laid his head on a table in
the room in the public-house where he was waiting,
and went, to sleep, keeping the child close to him,
and at ten o'clock that night he went on board the
Gravesend boat, taking the child with him.—The
account Elizabeth Holbrook gave of herself is, that
she had lived a nurse-girl to Mr. Horsley for two
years and several months. There were three young
children, and when the weather was fine she was in
the daily practice of taking them out in a child's-
chaise, two at a time. About two months since when
she was out with the children in their chaise, she
met with a young man, with whom she became inti-
mately acquainted ; in fact, she acknowledged that
improper familiarities had taken place betweenthem.
He very frequently met her when she was out with
I the children ; be made love to her, called her his
sweetheart, and promised to marry her.; but she ac-
knowledged that she neither knew who he was nor
what he was ; all that she profeised to know of him
was, that his name was George Faulkner, and shel
considered him to be a young gentleman, by his dress,
Ice. He told her that his relations and friends lived
at Birmingham, and they would be married there ;
and desired her to leave her place on Sunday for that
purpose, and that he would make arrangements for
her journey, and therefore she need not make any
arrangements herself. He enjoined her to strict se-
crecy ; that she was not to tell a single person what
she was going to do, and that she was to meet him
' in Smithfield on Sunday afternoon, and he made
her promise to bring the children with her.
According to arrangements with him, she left her
master's house about two o'clock taking the childten
in the chaise, as her mistress supposed to give them
an airing. She proceeded with all possible speed to
Smithfield, and drew the chaise about there between
an hour and an hour and a half; waiting for Mr.
Faulkner, and on his coming to her he gave her a
£2 bank note, told her he had taken her plate,
shewed her the inn where the coach went from, sad
told her he would follow her to-Birmingharn-bT
next coach. The inn she went from was the '
cen's Head, on Snow-hill. Mr. Faulkner took t,
' session of the child's chaise, promising to deliver D.
children safe to their parents, whom he would in+
form that

plain every t.
of her master'

out at her
safely. T
and

she was concerned
carry off the children. •
She was interrogated very closely by the Magis-
,trnte, and by several Gentlemen, as to'her more par-
ticular knowledge of the supposed Mr. Faulkner
and the min who carried off the boy from the chaise,
sin& went by the Gravesend boat with it ; but no in-
forination: could be obtained from her respecting
'them ; she denying that ske 'knew any more than
what she had toed. • Godfrey said, before he brought
her to the Office, slit told him she knew where Mr.
Faulkner lived, and that he did not live far from her
master's Mouse. She explained this by saying, that
about a fortnight since, when she was out with the
children in the chaise,: she. Met with Mr Faulkner,
and the weather having the appearance of rain, he
said he would Tun and fetch an umbrella, which he
accordingly did, and was not gone. above Jive mi-
nutes, and he appeared to her to go into a house in
a row of houses called Severn's-buildings, but she
did not Jinow which house he went into.
A number of Gentlemen interrogated her, but no-
thing more' of importance could be obtained from
her, and the Magistrate considered her to have been
an ignorant dupe of some designing villain or villains.,
Her father was present, who appeared extremely af-
fected and grieved at the conduct of his daughter.
The Gentlemen present, the friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Horsley, spoke in the highest terms of his and his
wife's conduct. The Magistrate, in-consequence,- ar-
ranged that her father should take her home with
him, and keep her in close confinement, not suffer-
ing her to go out, or to have intercourse with any
person ; and that he should be answerable for her
forthcoming when the villain who stole the child v•
. apprehended.

a conspiracy to

Soon after this arrangement had been made, Mr.
Horsley and his friend, who has so strenuously ex-
erted himself, entered the office from Islington, when
the investigation was resumed, for the satisfaction of
Mr. Horsley, who, as well as his friend, very closely
interrogated the girl : and upon her cross-examina-
tion by them, she acknowledged that she had talked
with Mr. Faulkner as to what a fine child the boy
was, and what a great fortune he would have. She
also acknowledged that Mr. Faulkner, when he ar-
ranged with her to go to Birmingham on Sunday,
and told her to bring the children with her, said the
bay was to be one of them, and her mistress having
sent her out a little before one o'clock with the two
girls, she, in consequence of Mr. Faulkner's direc-
tion, returned home at two o'clock, left one of the
girls, and brought out with her the boy, and put him
into the chaise.
Mr. Smith here addressed the Magistrate, and sub-
mitted that the girl ought not to be allowed to go to
her father's, but should be sent into confinement ;
and Mr. Horsley also urged this, but at the same
time allowed that he could not but consider her the
dupe of some designing villain.
The Magistrate accordingly agreed to send her to
the House of Correction, with a direction that her
father should hive free accals to her, but atodier

1 Arvid Una. the Clerk aCcOrdingly. piepared the
usual information, but Mr. Horsley refused to sign
it. He Mid that he could charge her indirectly, but
16t directly. - •
The Magistrate informed him, that he could not
..then send the girl to prison, as there wis no way of
-busking out a commitment to prison for her, but on
a charge upon oath.
Mr. Horsley's friend offered to make the charge
upon oath, as he had no doubt butthat she was coo-
-1 eerned in carrying off the child ; but a charge fiom
him was not deemed sufficient.
Mr. Horsley proposed that she should be kept in
confinement at the Brown Bear public-house ; but
this was also refused, and the Magistrate ordered
that the girl should be taken under the care of her fa-
ther, as -he had originally arranged. He feelingly
regretted the callous manner of the girl, who ap-
peared, during the whole of the late investigation,
to be totally insensible of her improper conduct ;
and when giving an account of herself and her con-
duct, spoke as unconcerned as if she had been about
sonic' ordinary business ; and when on the eve of
being sent to a prison did not appear at all affected.
The elegantly dressed female who endeavoured to
get the girl privately to herself, from Godfrey, the
Constable, at the Hercules public-house, followed her
to the Office, and remained at the back of the crowd
during the whole of the investigation, but did not at-
tempt to interfere.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The circumstance of an umbrella having been pro-
elated for the girl Holbrook, by her pretended siveet-
heait, from a house in one of the outskirts of Islington,
has led to the discovery of therson who is supposed
to have carried off the elder V the two children, aged
three years and a half. The girl on her return to
Islington, after being examined at the Public Office,
was taken.by Mr. King, one of Mr. Horsley's friends,
accompanied by an Officer, to the neighbourhood of
the place in see if the house could possibly be disco-
vered. The girl in the mean time recollected that
she had seen a bird-cage at the window. This fur-
nished the first enquiry—what houses in that quarter
kept birds? One was ascertained, and ou entrance
there was the identical umbrella with which the girl
had been accommodated, hanging in the passage.—
She had been very particular in describing the um-
brella allibeing a very fine one, of light blue silk (a
colour not very common for that article in this coun-
try, though very common in France) with a dark
handle and a silver stud for engraving a name upon.
The moment she saw it she declared that to be the
umbrella she had had. The owner of the house said
it belonged to lodgers—a man and his wife who had
been there about six weeks with a child. The wife
was called and owned the umbrella. Her husband,
bad been in France for some time, and returned
about two months ago—and had again left her last
Sunday (the day on which the child was stolen),
saying he Would never return to her. By the account
a the owner of the house, as well as her own, he al-
ways behaved towards her in a very brutal manner..
In the mean time Mr. Dignum, the grandfather of
his ival he
fe of a
above
. having
bad any
child

his per-
winking

his eyes _ spitting in conversation.
No doubt is now entertained respecting the indivi-
dual who stole the child ; and it is now certain that
his plot against the girl was only an underplot to
get hold of the child. To end the dispute about the
tnstate to which he had no right, it appears that Mr.
Dignum or Mr. Horsley had,- ago, some time asked
litim what sum he would take to relinquish every
claim real or pretended, that he named a sum (be-
tween two and three thousand pounds), and that the
money was accordingly paid to him and the dispute
ended: On receiving the money he declared he would
persecute the family as long as he lived, or words to that
effect; and it would appear that, with the most
diaholi-
cal malice he has kept his word—the present being not
the first or only proof af malice which they ascribe to
him. About a year ago Mrs. Horsley (when on the point
of accouchment) had a letter brought to her by a
porter, desiring her immediately to go to a house
named on Tower-hill, where Mr. Horsley was, either
dead or dying, having met with a dreadful accident.
The distress that followed may be easily imagined,
but the whole story was a cruel fabrication. The
porter who delivered the letter was found, and from
the description he gave of the person from whom he
got the letter, no doubt was entertained as to the in-
dividual ; and the recent transaction proves clearly,
that the suspicion was but too well founded.
It is feared that he has succeeded in getting out of
this country with the child, and carried it to France ;
but the known diligence of the French Police encou•
rages strong hopes that before many days shall have
elapsed, this monster of atrocity will be in the hands
of justice.
•

Monday morning the driver of the Edinburgh mail,
while at Huntingdon, having left the box, the horses
suddenly ran off; but had not proceeded far before
the leaders both fell, and were soon secured, and no
material injury sustained.—A similar occurrence took
' place the same morning at Greetham; but which, we
are sorry to say, was attended with more serious con-
sequences. The horses of the Glasgow mail took
fright, and the driver, running up to stop them, made
a sudden snatch at the reins, but was thrown down
in the attempt, and the wheels passing over his neck,
he died in a few hours.
An intemperate affray took place at Holmfirth, in
Yorkshire, on Monday se'nnight. At a sale of some
estates, which was holden in an upper room at the
house of Mr. Blyth, a dispute arose between Mr. John
Hirst, a currier near Holmfirth, and Mr. B. Firth, a
manufacturer, whom he opposed in the purchase of part
of the estate. Irritated by his conduct, Mr. Firth en-
deavoured to prevent his coming a second time into
the sale-room, from which he had absented himself a
short time, and a scuffle took place between them at
the top of the stairs, which ended in their being pre-
cipitated together to the bottom. Firth fell upper-
, most, and the head of his antagonist struck the floor
with such violence as to cause his death. The Jury
on the Coroner's Inquest returned a verdict of Man-
slaughter, and. Mr. Firth is committed to York Castle.

form
form that she was gone to be married, and would ez- In the mean time Mr. Dnum, the granaraurer or
the lost child, had been sent for. On his arrival he
plain every thing to them. She gave him the key
of her master's street-door, which she had brought knew the woman, who proved to be the wife of a
out in her pocket, which he also promised to deliver person with whom he had had a litigation of above
safely. The adventure of .her journey to Birming- a dozen of years, respecting an estate! but having
ham, and her return to London, is already described go France, neither he nor Mrs. Horsley had any
the :Wm s
ward of sbit-coach us .ici• • •• that be could have stolen the child
She was not sworn to,ltersortierlent the Drifgls- ti hie sesertiN though the descrip-
trate declining to do that, lest it might tarry out
tion given .Y die girl was very precise as to his per-
son and manners—having a marked way of winking
hereafter that she was concerned in a conspiracy to
his eyes and spitting in his conversation.