Star.
London, England, 1826-10-02 00:00:00

TOWN-lIALL.

A more daring attempt at foul injustice was never witnessed,
than occurred in this Office on Saturday. A fellow named Williams
Strand, hying in Great Maze-pond, charged a respectable young
man, in appearance, named Haydir, with being concerned in a bur-
glary in April last, when be, the prosecutor, was robbed of fourteen
sovereigns, a quantity of silver, and two silver watches.
It was proved to demonstration, that the complainant had hatched
up this serious charge in revenge of the defendant having summoned
his wife for an assault, and for which she was held to hail; and so
satisfied was the Maaistrate (,11r. Alderman J. J. Smith) of the fact,
that, after the most minute investigation of the case, and the sub-
stantiation of the defendant's innocence,that be asked the complainant
what earthly motive could have actuated him to such a diabolical
attempt on the life of an innocent man ?—When the callous ruffian,
without even a depression of the eyelids, audaciously said--" He
has tried to pluck out one of my eyes, and try if I can't pluck
out both of his."

Mr. Alderman SMITH—You are a consummate villain. Officers,
turn the scoundrel out of the room, and discharge the defendant
without fees.

WORSHIP-STREET.

Saturday, a female, apparently about 30 years of age, was fully
committed for trial, on a charge of robbing her employer, Mrs.
Newman, who keeps a jewellery and hardware shop in Norton
Faigate, and the prisoner had been for some time in her employ.
Tuesday morning, in consequence of some suspicion she enter-
' tallied, the prusecutrix went into the kitchen during the temporary
absence of the prisoner, and found a strange female there, who said
she had come to assist the prisoner in washing a few things. The
prosecutor tent that person away, and in the kitchen discovered a
new tea-tray, two waiters, a dozen of table knives and forks, and a
dozen of dessert ditto, all of which had evidently been taken out of
the shop. She then proceeded to search the prisoner's room,and found
la new umbrella and various other articles, her property. She then
examined the prisoner's pockets, and found one of her pocket hand-
kerchiefs, and tied up in a corner of it a valuable gold ring. A coral
necklace produced could not be positively sworn to, and the officer
was ordered to produce it at the trial.

MARY. LA-BONNE.

Saturday, Thongs Walter. and Helena mediae, his wife, were
brought up front the St. Mary-la.bonne watch-house, charged with
cruelty te their female infant child.
When placed at the bar, the female prisoner uttered repeated
convulsive sobs, but Walter, with a fur cap and gold band in we
hand, and a roll of magic in the other, appeared to stand with the
utmost indifference.

Dui log the examination, the woman. whits b Mph advised state
of pregnancy, was accommodated with a eksir,and the man, keel,
unrolled Ms music, took occasional notes of the evidence, upon the
back of it; he conducted himself with much levity, mid Mr.
Bisououvon told him, he was the only person in Court that a .uk;
laugh. After this reprimand, be said that be was esha.isted, and
asked for a glass of water. In his defence, be pleaded dt.tren and
poverty ; he said his occupation prevented his bring much at home;
he knew nothing of the lacerations upon the limbs of the child, for he
never looked further than its face. he could not tell how the bruises
came there: he said it was a curious child, of very stubborn temper; it
liked to be by itself, and did not cry when left alone; his wife was
obliged to leave it as she had door, bemuse she stands in Tottenham
court•road, to sell glasses, and as to putting it in the cupboard, vrbeik
he was at home, there was not room for all the children in bed. His
wife left the child naked, by way of punishment, for having dirtied
its clothes, and, as Thursday was a warm day, it could do it no
harm. Mrs. Walter said, the child had dirtied it, clothes, and she
bad no others to put on, and no wood or coals to dry them with;
she. therefore, put the child between the blankets of the bed, and
told it to lie still. She was absent until half-past five, and when she
came home she found her door burst open, and this dreadful charge
made against her. The scratches upon its limbs were g Yen by a
pin in the night gown with which she wiped the child ; she did not
know it was there until she saw the blood. The bruises in its face
si►e did not attempt to account for.

Mr. BuonowroN slid—To talk of the child's stubborn temper is
all nonsrnw. No poverty, nur any other circumstance, can be a•
excuse for the abominable acts of cruelty which have bees fully
proved against you ; all the feelings of nature seem to be stifled
within you. I shall hold you to hJil, and the parish will prosecute.

UNIONMA LI.

Saturday Mary Burrows was charged with cruelty to her ilkgitl
mate child. The infant, the subject of the inquiry, was brought
into Court by the midwife, who attended the accused during her
accouchement. The infant was a deplorable spectacle, beiug re.
duced to a mere skeleton, from the effects of want of food ; the
bones in Ita meagre and decayed form were almost starting through
the skin; and the thumb and fore finger of its lett hand were muck
excoriated, in consequence of the child having, from want of
nourishment, sucked its own flesh.

Snow, the 'beadle, who apprehended the prisoner, said. that Mary
Unfield, the midwife, came and informed him that the child Was
dying for want of food, and that the mother was quite careless of
its fate. Ile immediately proceeded to the defendant's residence,
where he saw the child, which at that time, was fast approaching
dissolution. He conveyed it to the Workhouse, where by proper
attention, it was so far recovered as to hold out a prospect of its
return to health. The accused, he understood. asserted that the
child was not her own, and declared that It bad been changed by
the midwife who attended her..

Mary Linfirld was then sworn, and stated that she attended
Mrs. Burrows, who has been a widow for some years, during her
accoucbement in April last. The child in question was the one she
was then delivered of. At the request of the mother, who was do.
sirous of keeping her delivery secret, she took the child home, and
kept it for two or three weeks, until she procured souther nut be for
it, but as that woman did not tseat it well, she took it back again.
The child at this time was thriving fast, and was taken home to its
mother's house, when she was sufficiently recovered to take care at
it. Mrs. Burrows, however, evinced a total want of maternal
affection ; she was quite carekst as to its fate, and t►e child, in a
short time, was reduced to a most deplorable state, in consequence
of the want of food and proper attention.
Mr. Hardy, the surgeon, said, when be was called in to see the
child when it was taken from its mothe►, he found it in a frightful
state of emaciation, occasioned by starvation. The bones almost
protruded throogh the skin, and its back and loin* were covered
with wounds, appateroly caused by frictions, or lying long in one
posture. Ile attributed the excoriation in the thumb and finger to
the child sucking them fur want of nourishment.
The defendant, Moen called upon for her defence, said, that since
her lying-in she had beep confined to her bed by a nervous fever;
when her child was horn, it was taken away by Mary Linfield, to
whom she had intrusted it to nurse, in order that her !amity should
not be acquainted with the circum,tance. Mary L. hos r, chant-
ed the child for one of her own, hut she, notwithstanding, paid the
One that was alleged to be hers, all the attention she could, but
it wasted away, although she did every thing she could toe it.—
Instead of keeping the secret of her lying in, as she bad promi.ed,
Mary Litifield blazed it forth to the world, and made it known to
her children and her husband's executors. The accused, in con-
clusion, declared that the child was reduced by disease, and not the
want of proper nourishment, os she fed it with thick milk con-randy
while she had it. The defendant then added, that she was sum, the
child was not her own, that it was either Mary ['infield's, or some
child by another female, which was changed foe hers.
Mary Linfield here solemnly declared that the child in question
was the identical ooe of which Mrs. Burrows had been delivered.

Defendant—l know it is net my child ; there is not a single lea.
titre in its whole countenance that approaches to a resemblance of
myself or the father of my child.
The Magistrates expressed considerable surprise, and asked if
any other evidence could be brought forward to prove the identity
of the child, exclusive of Mary !.infield's ?
Defendant —Another strong reason, Gentlemen, that I have for
supposing the child not to be mine, is, the very great anxiety *hewn
by .%lary I.itilield all through this business, and her over-love fur the
child. I have heard her siy, when she brought it back, that she
should never are it want, and she caressed it in such a manner that
clearly convinced me that she was more nearly allied to it than I am.
The defendant was next asked whether she knew Mary fainbeld
was pregnant about the same time that she was herself? She replied
that Mary Linfield bad several illegitimate children, and that she
was certain this was one of them.

l'he Magistrates all agreeing that the child in question was vat
satisfactorily identified as the offspring of Mary Burrows, postponed
the farther hearing of the case for a few days; and in the interim
gave directions that the child was to be taken care of in the parish
workhouse.

The stone bridge erecting across the Serpentine-tiler
in Hyde I'm k, is proceeding rapidly. It consists of five
al ches, of about thirty feet span. It will be level on the
top, without any rise t‘,wartis the middle, as the arches
are all of an equal height.
Friday night Holton and the neighbouthood were
put iato the greatest alarm, by the sudden appearance
of Armes is-uing from the house of Mr. Smith, painter
and glazier, of Bridport:place, New North.road, Hol-
ton. The family w ith some difficulty escaped at the
top of the !mute without any injury ; aad the speedy
arrival of itveral engines, with the activity of the fire-
men, confinud the devouring element to Mr. Smith's,
home, which is completely gutted.

MARRIED.
Wednesday, by special licence, at Swanbourne, Bucks, Sir James
Fitzgerald, Barr. to Augusta Henrietta, second daughter of the late
Vice Admhal Sir T. F. Frermantle, G.C.B. &c.
Rev. William Corbett Wilson, Vicar of Bozeat.cum-Stricston, to
Elizabeth, daughter of the late Wm. Whitworth, Esq. of Bedford.
Rev. John G. Bowen, of Compton Blimp, to Maria, Toonstst
daughter of the late J. Giks, Kt+
Rey. Tmeers Jones, of Athlone, to Frances Sarah, eldest
daughter of the late J. A. Newton, Esq. of Cheadle Heath,Chesldre.

DIED.
Rev. James Bond, fifty-two years Vicar of Ashford, Kent.
At Leversdon, Howe, Thurlaston, near Taunton, in the 37th
year of his age, the liev. R. Sayer.
The 27th ult,et the Vicarage of Milton, the Rev. John Tates.
At Orange Grove Barracks, Trinidad, en the 15th July, Lieut.
Clarkson, of the 9th Regiment.
At Leith, Mr. George Patterson. lie had bees fifty years in his
Majesty's Naval service, and was muter of the Venerable, the flag
ship of the late Lord I)uncaa, in the naentorable action off Cana-
pe; down.
The 7th of July, in Colombia, Mr. John Uwe. He was a mar.
chant iu that city, and a Gentleman of essadderable talent, left this
country for Bogota, about eight months since, on a visit to M.
Raveuga, the Colombian Minister.

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