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The witness had the child in her arms at the time. The
prisoner's mother also made an attack on the witness.
Crawley then helped the witness, and a woman of the
name of Anderson also came and assisted to separate
them. The witness then confirmed the statement of
the mother of the child, with respect to the prisorltr's
throwing the kettle of water over the children.
On her cross•examination she stated, that the prisoner
was in a great passion, almost like a mad woman.—
Crawley did not strike the prisoner; Crawley's child
was lying on its face and belly on the bed ; those parts
were not scalded.
By Mr. ADOLPHUS—The witness saw the prisoner
atter she threw the kettle of water, and she did not say
any thing to the witness; she, however, appeared very
calm and collected.
Anne Anderson confirmed the evidence of the last
witnesses.
• Mr. Wilde, one of the dressers at the Hospital. stated
that he received the child, and that it died the next
day ; he imputed its death to the scalding which it had
received.
On his cross-examination he stated, that he considered
the immersion of the child in cold water to hare been
rather productive of good than of evil to the child.
Mrs. Smith, the woman who took the child to be
christened, deposed that it was named Mary Moore.
A Roman Catholic Priest, one of the Ministers of the
Chapel where the child was christened, produced the
register of baptism.
The prisoner made no defence, but several witnesses
were called to character, who said that they all consi-
dered her a very humane kind woman.
The Jury returned a ver.iict of Manslaughter.
Joseph Silver stood indicted for the murder of his
wife, by setting fire to her clothes.
It appeared that the prisoner, who is a tailor.lodged
with a shoemake named Nathaniel Quelch, in Hanover-
street, Long•acre. On the 9th of June last, his wife
ran out of her room with her clothes in flames, and it
was imputed to the prisoner that he was guilty of the
wilful murder of the unfortunate woman, by inten-
tionally setting fire to her dress. The evidence nega-
tived that charge, but nothing could be more brutal
and unmanly than the conduct of the prisoner. Instead
of affording his wife assistance after she had been
burnt, he left the h. u.e under piettence of getting a
coach, but never returned. Having absconded, he was
found some time after at Btw•street. The poor woman
was conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital, where she
died July 2, which was three weeks after the accident.
She told the nurse jest before her death, that on the day
the accident happened she had quarrelled with her hus-
band. She was cooking beet steaks, and had a lot of
waste paper in a box, which she threw on the fire.
Whil,t she consumed the paper her husband attack her
a blow, aid turniug round to strike him again, her,
dress caught file.
After the facts had been proved, Baron VAUGHAN
addressed the Jury, and said they must acquit the pri-
soner. It, in consequence of the blow given by the
husband, she had fallen into the fire, it would have been
manslaughter, but she was turning to strikes blow, and
therefore it did not amount to that crime. —The Jury
acquitted the prisoner.
William Cooper, Hobert Adams,Jantes Dralrwell, and
James Morgan, were indicted for the manslaughter of
John Corker. _

This was one of the deaths which so often follow the
practice of boxing. Cooper and the deceased resided
in the parish of St. Pancras, where pugilistic contests
•ery frequently occur. On the 18th July Cooper, who
is a chimney-sweeper, get into a dispute with Corker;
vine provocation occurred on both sides, and they went
into the fields to fight. The defendants were present,
and active in promoting the fight; nothing unfair oc-
curred, unless it was unfair in the defendants to press
the.parties to continue the contest. They were fairly
matched. The deceased said he would rather die than
give in, and being weak, he received a severe fall, rup-
tured a blood-vessel, and died.
Mr. Merry and Mr. Harding, Surgeons, at Kentish
Ton n, opened the head of the deceased, and found a
quantity of blood suffused on the brain. There was no
appeal ance of external injury, and both wire of opinion
that the violent exertion of the deceased might have
occasioned the rupture which produced death.
Mr. Justice Lirmsuat.x, who tried the prisoners,
asked the Jury whether they were satisfied with the evi•
deuce given by the Surgeons?
The Jury intimated that they were quite satisfied, and
instantly acquitted the defendants.
Grte.--The Court was occupied several hours with
the trial of three low females for stealing a basket con-
taining various articles of small value, and some clothes,
from a woman named Gregg, who went to the house
of one of the prisoners in Chequer-court, Whitecrou-
street. It appeared that the attachment of the prose-
cutax to that fascinating beverage, yin, was so strong,
that she suffered the prisoners to strip off her shawl, her
shoes, and other parts of her dress, and carry all to the
pawnbroker's to raise money for the same sort of drink.
She was carried home intoxicated and half naked.

The defendants alleged that they did not rob the pro-
&nutria. but took the things with her consent.
The Jury acquitted them.
NEW COURT

FososaY.—Peter Feat., who styles himself the Rev.
Peter Fenn, was indicted for forging.the acceptance of
James Lucett to a bill of exchange for 1591 lOs. with
latent to defraud Sarah Cooke. Another count charged
the prisoner with uttering the bill, knowing the twerp-
wee to be forged.
John Cooke deposed, that he was shopman to Sarah
Cooke, who carried on business at Holborn-bars ; had
known the prisoner fourteen years, and was at a school
at Islington, where the prisoner was a tutor some years
since. The bill was produced, and the witness stated that
it had been discounted by him at 5 per cent. for the pri-
soner ; the prisoner remarked to witness at the time, that
he would be of service to him, and ordered 16/. worth of
goods at the shop, for which be tendered a bill of NI.
in peyment. Witness went to France afterwards with
Mr. Vincent in search of the prisoner, and found him at
Calais. Prisoner was about to quit Calais when witness
saw him; he was ready to tall upon the earth, and ex-
claimed—" Oh, Goo! I am a dead man; if I had a
hundred necks, I must lose them all.' The prisoner then
asked to be taken to.Newgate quietly, without putting
haus on him. The witness having expressed a hope to
the prisoner, after the uttering, that the acceptance was
a good one, the l.tter remarked. that he might rely on
it, it was as good as a Bonk note. The prisoner then
wrote an address upon the bill, •• No. 1. South Parade,
Queen's Elms, Brampton," which, he said, was that of
Mr..Lucttt.
The wuness upon cross.eximination by Mr. ALLeY
(the ptisones's Counsel), admitted that he had asked the
prisoner to get bills for him to discount.
George Vincent, an attorney. was employed by Mr.
Coke to go after Peter Fenn to Paris, accompan.esl by
the last witness. Nest finding hint there, they re-traced
their way to Calais, where they found Fenn in company
with a man named Haab's'''. When they accosted the