Star.
London, England, 1829-04-28 00:00:00

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AHiTi&ST
of ye foooribsoir `AP/0f0t414 about Seventy years
of was bog* tip Bea Imatelabenee,charged by
, be beadle, with riotous sad
stated, that es the regions nisi* mot tapped
el ly at the vrattaboose doer, end demanded a night's Wes*.
He told him that esseoo lodging
and,house mad advised him to do.
part pe it
aceably ; hut this be refused, centineed making suck a
riot and distoebense time, to secure the tranquillity of the neigh
bourbood, be wad empellad to grant his his request.
The defendant, }An was &died le • very singular kind of
costume, Me bed lolei ilammood with a net wormed kind .f tur-
ban, and who had all do Appearance and address of a broken dawn
Bowe of the old selmmatiaid that be was recommended to apply as
the watchbouse bt she pad a dicers et Aldgate for a temporaly
relief, and to be pawed Maw. He then proceeded to state thM be.
was a gentleman of 4001. wpm property. and censected with the
first families in Norfolk. i His name was Bullock, and though the
day was Ilim past by. " I have," said be, in an animated ins ones.
. kept as good horses as any at Newmarket—have bunted with
the Duke of Drakes and Berl Spencer, sod am well known to his 1
son, Lard Ahhorpe."
The Magistrate—Weil. for a person of your property. and the
society you have sized with, I do not think it Is eery geotlemonly
for you to require to be passed boos, as a pauper.
The defendant—Ab! Sir, " Demo mottalioni musibus, bode is.
pit." I forgot the video rule of self knowledge. and I do not
now occupy the limbo which I formerly have done. AU I respire
is to be seat to Looghton, where I have some friends who will
takevare of me:
The Magistrate-said that it was'not is his power to amply with
his request, as he bad no claim on the paisb from the watabhoese
of which he was brought. He would then discharge him, baying
that be would not again subject himself to a similar confineest.

The following extraordinary circumstance is said to
have actually occurred to Mr. Frederick Johnson, of
Somers Towns—On the 2Sd of March last he had oc-•
cation to visit Bath on particular tasiness, and took. a
place outside the coach. %Vearirig a large drab dread-
nought, with open deep cuffs, he put his snuff-boa inside
the left hand cuff. for the purpose of taking an occa-
sional pinch without the inconvenience of unbuttoning
his coat. On arriving at Melksham, within a few miles
of Bath. he missed the box, and supposed that on lifting
his left hand up to secure his hat from a gust of wind,
that it must have slipped from his cuff into the road-
way. He remained at Bath a month. and on his arrival
'in London last Friday he had the singular good luck of
ending the identical box he lost near Melksham, full of
snuff, and lying on the flags in the most thronged part
of Cbeapside. He could not be mistaken in the box, as
it was a peculiar tortoiseshell one. the outside lid rept*.
seating the rising sun, and the inner part•of the lid the
setting sun, both formed by the natural tints of the shell
when held up to the light.
Yesterday an Inquisition was taken before Mr. Barr
and a respectable Jury, at the house of Mr. Robert
Bucktrout, the Cardigan Arms, in the township of
Headingley cum Burley, on view of the body of a new
born male child, which was discovered on Wednesday
last, in an oat office of the Rev. Geo. Wray. of Burley,
under the circumstances•detailed in the following evi-
dence s

John Mason being sworn said, I am servant with the
Rev. George Wray, at his house, at Barley ; a person
of the name of Elisabeth Watson is,lady's maid to Mee.
Field; Mrs. Field has been on a visit at Mr. Wray's,
and Elisabeth Watson attended her there; the family
of Joshua Field, Esq. came there at the beginning of
the week, and have been there ever since. On Tues.
day morning, about eight o'clock. Mr. Wray's house-
keeper (Grace Swift). said something to me about a
child; in consequence of what she said I became suspi-
cious that Miss Watson was in the family way. Some
time in the fosenoon of Wednesday I saw Miss Watson
go twice into the yard, to the out-office; there was a
short interval between the first and second time, and in
about 20 minutes she went a third time; she had then
a white apron on ; she remained there that time about
half an hour, and when she came out she was without
her apron. About ten minutes afterwards I went to the
same placevand found a great effusion of blood in it;
I saw nothing else; I had been there about ball past
seven o'clock. and it was not then in that bloody state.
I went and told Mrs. Swift what I had seen, and 1 also
told the coachman, and he went to the place after din-
ner, and then came to me and said what he had seen ; I
then went and found a child amongst the soil. Mr.
Chorley, the surgeon, was sent for, and when be came
the coachman took the child out, and gave it to him.
Thomas Chorley, Esq. said—On Wednesday after-
soon last I was sent for by the Reverend GeorgeWray,
to his house at Burley; I saw the last witness and the
coachman; I was present when a male child was taken
out of the privy ; I have bad the body ever since • there
are no external marks of violence on the holy ; the
child was rather small, and I scarcely think it is a full-
grown child ; the navel suing was lacerated, not cut,
and there was no ligature round it. The chest was
opened, and the lungs were collapsed, and sunk in
water ; it is considered a pretty accurate test that a
child has been born alive, if the lungs Rost, but other
wise if they sink; the conclusion I have come to is, that
the child was still-born. I saw Elisabeth Watson, and
told her that a child bad been found, and that suspi-
cions rested on her; she did not positively deny tbat
she was the mother, but, on the contrary, did indirectly
:admit the fact. I examined her, and I have no doubt
but that she was lately delivered of a child.
Grace Saiit, the housekeeper at the Rev. Mr.Writy's,
confirmed the evidence of Mr. Mason, and said she bad
'known Elisabeth Watson for two years. daring which
time she bad been lady's maid to Mrs. Field; on con.
easing with Elizabeth Watson after her delivery, she
.told her she had been with child to Richard Hay ware.
the butler; that she had been taken in premature la
bour, and that she had prepared some baby linen; wit-
ness did not know that Watson had ever -denied that
she had been delivered of a child.

John Shacklock. one of Mr. Field's then servants,
confirmed the testimony of the former witness, and said
that Elizabeth Watson had been for five years in the
situation of Mts. Fields. lady's maid.
The Giacomo recapitulated the evidence, and put it
to the Jury to .say, whether the child was born alive
of the body of Elizabeth Watson, and if so, whether
its death had been produced by natural causes or by
'violence, and by whom that violence was inflicted ? If
ditit July should be of opinion that the child was still-
beim or had died a natural death, they then would have
to declare whether the mother had endeavoured to con-
ceal the birth, by secretly burying the dead body of the
ehild, which is now a substantive indictable offences
under a recent Act, which enacts-41 That if any
woman shall be delivered of' a child. and shall by
secret burying, or otherwise disposing of the dead
body of the said child, endeavour to conceal the
birth thereof, every such offender shall be considered
guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof,
shall be liable to be imprisoned with or without hard
labour, in the common gaol or House of Correction,
for any term not exceeding two years. And it shall not
be necessary to prove whether the child died before, at,
or after its birth."
The Jury retired for about a quarter of an boor. and
then tettitned a verdict—" That Elizabeth Watson had
been delivered of 0:atill born Male child, but that there
was no evidence to allow to the Jurors that she intended
secretly to conceal the birth thereof, by burying the
body or otherwise—Leeds Mawr,.

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