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London, England, 1821-10-31 00:00:00

were given over to their masters, and Hares seas ded;
tamed at the request of his mother, until she was
able to send him to sea. This was the only means
left to restrain him from his wicked courses.
Two more lads, of the name of Coghan and Harris,
the one aged 13, and the other 14, were indicted for
stealing a coral necklace• from a child, the property i
of Mr. Syder.—The daughters of the' prosecutor,
were walking out with their brother, who was nine
months old, when Harris came up behind the child,
and loosened the clasp of a coral necklace which was
round its neck. This was observed by a person who
was passing by, and he immediately took the boy
into custody. The prisoner Coghan was in his com-
pany at the time.—The Jary found Harris Guilty,
and Coghan was acquitted.
The COURT told Harris that he was an old offender,
and promised that he should not have another oppor- '
tunity of appearing at that bar.
John Jacobs was indicted capitally for assaulting,
Ellen Anderson en the King's highvoy, and violently
taking from her person a shilling, a bonnet, and a
silk handkerchief.
The prosecute' was passing along Rosemary-lane,
on the evening of the 18th of October, with a basin
and a shilling to get some soup: She met the pri-
soner, who attacked her violently, snatched the shil-
ling, tore her bonnet, and beat her severely, until
two watchmen came up and took him into custody.
The prisoner strongly protested his innocence. His
employer was called, and gave him an excellent cha-
racter for honesty.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recom-
mended him to mercy, on account of the good cha.

ratter he had received.
The COMMON SERJEANT said, he would certainly
forward the recommendation, but when the dreadful
state the streets were now in was considered, by the
nightly tbbberies of such men as the prisoner, it was
necessary to determine what steps were requisite to
be taken to put a stop to these continual depredations.
This was a most.brutal assault, and might have been
the cause of the death of the prosecutrix, had not the
watchn,en opportunely interposed. lie advised the
prisoner not to depend upon the kind recommenda-
tion of the Jury, but to prepare for his awful fate.
Sarah Castles was indicted for stealing a sheet, the
property of Rachael Benjamin, in her dwelling-house.
The pawnbroker, with whom the prisoner had
pledged the sheet, was not in attendance, and his
recognizances in consequence were estreated.
The prosecutrix said he had attended every day,
and had left the sheet with the person at the door.
The door-keeper accordingly brought forward a
sheet, which the prosecutrix said was not her's.—
There was not, however, any other sheet, and the
prisoner was acquitted. Shortly aitet, the door-
keeper again returned, and said the prosecutrix no.'•
said the sheet was her's, and it was accordingly given

up to her.
The COMMON SERJRANT desired, that if any applir
cation were made to take off the estreat of the pawn-
broker's recognizances, it might be made to him.
About four o'clock (duce other trials having taken
place) the young man came into Court, and said that
he had merely gone to inform his employer that the
trial was expected on.
The COMMON SERJEANT.—Yes, and you absented
yourself at the moment you were wanted. Your re-
cognizances are estreated, Sir.—The young man
' then left the Court.
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
Yesterday Jen:hag Mathews was convicted of a mis-
demeanour, in receiving a sheep's heart and liver,
knowing the same to have been stolen.
Mr. WALFORD stated that the indictment imputed
to the prisoner the crime of receiving a sheep's heart
rand lives, knowing the same to have bee: improperly
obtained. The crime aas attended by. an unexam-
pled depravity on the part of the prisoner, as, by her
instructions, children of tender years were instructed
in the art of pilfering, which ultimately might lead
them into the most ignominious situations. l'he pri-
soner's practice was to harbour young boys who had
absconded from their parents, and encourage them
to acts of dishonesty; by sending them out early in
the morning to steal vegetables, meat, bacon, or any
thing else they could get, for which they were re-
warded at night, when a valuation was set upon their
Gaily plunder. It was also a custom of the prisoner
to prognosticate the retult of the day, by telling the
children their fortune with cards, which she always
managed with that art as to inspire them with confi-
dence in their undertakings, and by such means in-
sured the greater probability of success.
Frederick Clarke, a boy about 16 years old, stated
she was taken into custody about three days after he
became acquainted with the pi isoner, and she had
been in prison about a fortnight. His father is a vat
maker. About the time before stated he met his
.brother early in the morning, who had been lost from
his father's house about two weeks. His brother told
him that he lived with the prisoner, with a good
many other boys, and that they went out in the morn-
ing to get what they could, and at night they sold it
to the prisoner. The witness consented to go and
live at the same house.
Examined by the Coom—He knew he was to go
out thieving before he went to the house. On the
morning of the 17th October last he went "on the
look out," and travelling along Whitechapel he saw
a sheep's heart and its appendages hanging at the shop
of a butcher, which he contrived to bear off. He
took it home to the prisoner, who purchased it for
sixpence, to be paid by his being provided with two
nights' lodging, at threepence per night.
John Tyrrel also had lived with the prisoner; he
first became acquainted with her by her son coming to
witness's father's house, and beckoning him out. His
father. was a watch-spring maker. He had lived with
the prisoner about the same time as the last wit-
ness, and remembered his bringing home the heart,
which the prisoner bought of him.
T. Hopkinson, a butcher, proved that a heart was
stolen from his shop-door on the day above-named. 1
A Police Officer went to the prisoner's house, in
Upper Kate-street, on Thursday, the 11th inst. The
room presented a little banditti of seven boys, sitting
promiscuously about the place, and the woman was
actively engaged in preparing a meal of fried cabbage,
and the other eatable gleanings of her scholars. On
different parts of the floor there were straw beds, on
which the boys threw themselves "like pigs." At the
back of the room there was a door that led into a
court, and a chair was placed there to facilitate ant
easy escape, in the event of an unpleasant obtrusion