The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-23 00:00:00

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ever of such a woman, aud said she must be i

rent imposter. '
Mr. Cottrell, one of the Magistrates for the
county of Middlesex, also attauded, and stated
that the Prisoner was one of tie most coalum-
meta is alive ; that she had imposed upon
the credulity of his own Nally, whose protectiell
she enjoyed for several days, and he to“. 0
she had told Ow II thousand m
lies: for being
induced to make. NOM Inevairia respecting her,
he had written to amoral of the prow before ,
tneatioasdi • anti alms - to Lady Verawilastf.- to
whom-she Wails. claimed near relationship; bet
received letters frum all, totally denying any
' knowledge of her. Be said he had coevialicd
'her hisemilf, at de last Cierknetretalllailinlv of
being a rogue, vagrant, and impostor ; but that
1 the hlagistratea, in consideratiowef her being pre-
viously imprisoned amen th, had =tamed her
he to enotr mottles meolletement, ly termi-
nated about the time she stated hettelf to have
broken out of a madame at Gravesend. H
repeated also the circumstance of her comvistiow
at Exeter; and said, that so far from having bees
abroad many years, as she pretended, slieweeer
had been out of the country, but had for the last
Ere years been, as it were, going circuit through
every part of the kingdom, practising Sirilibef im-
positions, pseteuding to be the trial-trusted and
abandoned relative of highly respectable families,
and swallowing opium, or affecting attempt, to
drown herself, bet always taking care so to time
thaw tricks as not to incur any real Jaeger :
that she mice affected to swallow two •111•Cel of
laudaninn Wore the whole Glosses/lareisite NO-
meta., when drawn ep on parade at their country
quarters ; sod that she had played off similar stra.
imam at Clsphans, at Edmonton, in St. Paul's,
Covent-Garden, at Bath, at Cheltenham) at Bris-
tol, 'funbridge Wells, Salisbury, Southampton,
Brighton, Winchester and a number of other places r
M different parts of the kingdom; and this trade
she had been carryleg rt n BUCCeleivelj 'UMW PO4.
Two courietions,for vagravitcy bad not Yea biti-
cleat to warn her from continuing her impostures.
Mr. Coltereli, therefore, urged that tie Magi.
'strate should now commit her, as as incorrigible
vagabond and impostor, so that else might again he
tried at aloe nem &union ; and if convicted, either
be luiptssentul for tio years, or transported, as
the Magistrates in their discretion should deem
belt.
Alderman Staines, said, that he did not feel
himself warranted to take cognisance of any
cireueutaeoes of the prisoner's miacooduct pre-
ceding kyr last conviction, as all these appeared to
have been then considered ; sad he could not see
there was any evidence now before him of her
having obtained any money by false pretences, in
the case tinder coasideratiok, which could-warrant
him to commit her to prison.
Mr. Alderman Wools, however, wA of opinion,
that the contumacy with which the Prisoner still
persiited in being the daughter elf SW William
Maxwell 1 her denying the fact of her trial and
conviction at Exeter, and all knowledge of her
brother Cie Salisbury mail coachman ; her preten.
diu,4 to be a %sutra eradication, thangh she could
: ;tot write her name, but always pretended to be
I nervous, when required to write; and the 'alga.
rity of her language skewing her to be a person of
! low degree, were all proofs of imposture ; and her
prekuading to be what she was not, warranted her
commitment, at least fur further examination.
In this opinion, Alderman Sir Juan ANO inset,
who was present, concurred ; and the Prisoner
was remanded till neat Tuesday.

John Streater,a respecta§le butcher, of Croy-
don, appeared for re-examination, spots a charge
of having fraudulently obtained a bullock. trader
false pretences.
It appeared that on the 231 of January last.*
bullock hail been delivered (as sworn on the foe%
WWI examination, by a man of the oasis of Chatag
wood, a servant to Mr. Ely, salossnaster, in
Smithfield); that on the above day, the prisoner
demanded and received a bullock, the psopetty of"
a Mr. Boswell, as beingeold to a Mr. Hunter, a
butcher, likewise resident it Croydon. The wit-
ness swore positively to his passe, as having
known him before. it shout six weeks eferc, the
price's wsr deselected frus fiesterl_who denied'
any knowledge et the-transaction. Upon thein-
formation of Charwood, the prisoner HID; applied
to merely to pay the amount, bat which he refused%
declaring he knew nothing of the matter, *liver
having received the. beast. In this manner the
matter lay over, until, upon his persisting in Ala
refusal, he was threatened with the peseta
charge, which was at length made. Upon the
former examination, the business Near otdared
to stand over for the purpose of procuriug
the attendance of Mr. Boswell, the owner of
1 the bullock, who, however, did not this day
attend. The Prisoner still persisted in denying
having ever received the beast, declaring every
word sworn by Charwood to be rank perjury.
He was attended by a number of post respectable
persons (butchers and others) from Croydon, who
were ready to bear the most decided testimony to
his honesty and general geed character. One of
them (a butcher) odd he did not Mak Charwood
was to be believed en his oath, sake hetforinerly
lived servant with him, and he had dismissed him
for dishonesty. The Magistrate (Mr. Alderman
SCHOLZ') elpfeSPOd himself happy at each testi-
away in favour of the Prisoner, which, so doubt,
would have its due weight in the proper pace;
but where these was a positive charge upon oath,
his duty was imperative to put the matters in a
train of investigation, and therefore he melt coal. 1
mit the Prisoner for trial. In considerstionvbaer.
zzit
ever, of his eseelleut character, and the c.
lability of those who came forward is his
he had not the least objection to tale bail fat
appearance to shelves the charge. Bail wog ic.
cortlinely immediately entered into, his neighbouits
vying ii ito each other a hich of them should be bin.
sureties.
PARENTAL CRUELTY. . 1
Brew-Sias sr.— An information was yesterday
heard heroic the Sittig,. Magistrate against a
master-sweep, uanseti Mors Use, residing in 1
the
,parish ist•Mary-lia.itooe, ,for basins in his'

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*Orrice, uan apprentice, a child trader the age
of tight years, contrary to the Act of Parlia-
ment passed rot. regulating the egos of children to
be apprenticed to that business, which perticu.
lady specifies the children must be upwards of
that age, and not be bound for a longer time than
, eight years.
1, The circumstimes of this case were truly dis-
, trusiag, and Waited to instance of human de-
pravity rarely to be equalled. It appeared that
ill:other of the child went some distance from
on, and left her little son, a finis child., five
pan of age, in the care of its father, who is a
working plember, named Millet. She remained
out of town fur nearly a twelvemonth, and oa
her return, flew with anxious hopes to the lodg-
ing of her husband, where she, of course, ex-
pected to be gratified with the sight of her son ;
but what was her.vairmey and astonishment, whet'
she was informed by iser unnatural husband, that
during her abitenee he had the cruelty and iiihu-
Inanity to place his Infant offspring in the service
of a sweep, and thus early to expose iti tender
franc to all those melancholy vicissitudes so pre-
valent, and unhappily so ofteis.experienced by the
unfortunate children doomed to that wretched
employm,nt. Her sensations may be more easily
felt than described. She rushed from the pre-
sence of the monster, her husbaud, almost frail,
tic, nod, after some difficulty, found the den, for
it could nut be called a human habitation, where
her utsfurtenate infant, then inaugurated in the
mysteries et sweepin,4 a cloutiley, was doomed to
pass Its ttifisteneel. without the fostering cule of a
tender mother, so necessary to a child so young,
and subject to all the cruelties an inexorable
master might heap upon it. The measure of
her woes was yet, however, to be heaped still
higher, and shc had yet the horrid tale to hear
that the father of this hapless child absolutely
swirl tfor three guinea:, without the product ion
of 4Mla its equally uteetturat master refused to
restore it tii the longing embraces of its distracted
mother. The only resource now left her was to
apply to a Solicitor for advice, and Mr. Hum-
phries humanely took the rase in hand, and stew-
moned the master before the Magistiates, who,
withou' a moment's hesitation, ordered the child
to be restored to its mother, and imposed a fine of
fire pounds on the master.
QUKEI4934IQU A IIE. —Jelin Maxwell was brought
up, charged with having violently assaulte I a very
young woman the night before, in her father's
house, at Chelsea, with the intent of vit;t sting her
person. Many of the circumstances of the case
are too tress to meet the public eye; fortunately,
bovreete, for the young woman, by her cites, to-
gether with the efforts and struggles which she
made, site effectually resisted the attempt of the
Prisoner. The Magistrate ordered that he should
find bail, himself in 4001. and two sureties in
'lOOl. each, to take his trial at the next Quarter
Sessions for Middlesex.

Mary Mills, alias Mary hlfultinß, sliac Connor,
stood nett charged with uttering notes of a country
bank, !importing to be of the horse of Gardiner
and Co. of Luton, in Bedfordshire, and made p iy.
able at another house in London, whereas there
existed at the time of uttering no such banking.
houses. Asreat number of persons attended, who
1 bat been defrauded by taking On payment hills
of the ewe descriptiou, all of which turned out
to be fratidulent.
Mr. ['Attar attended 6n the prisoner's beholf,
and although *great number of individuals spoke
as to their belief of identity, only one young
wbilan would ventere positively to swear to her
persons which she did, and deposed that about four
months ago the Prisoner came to her tnaster'i shop,
in Little Newport-strcet, NewpOrt.markiet, and
bought about two shilling's worth of pastrpten.
daring a Lnton Bank-note, which a butcher of the
name of Webb, in tbe neighbourhood, gave sitter
for', and which sites?, as change, the gave to the

.4risoner, who went away with it ; but that the
butcher casein a few minutes after, saying it was
counterfeit, and demanded his silver back. 'Elie:.
prisoner, however, was gone, and from that•timo
'till she saw her in the deck at the Office, she had
never met with her. Upon this evidence she was
ordered for another examination on Wednesday
*e 30th instant. The Magittrate observed, that
the number ofpersoletattentling, iik6 staled them.
;helves to be plundered by Oen fraudulent notes,
-_. him to conjecture that there was a gang of these
'depredators, and he he hopes ther*euld be di:-
covered.

post, B y
aidecoubritsinirtecentl r ce
accomplished e dhis
i• a t on his return home; but on his arrival on the
we find that the French influence there is .it~►r
enboianded, and that it is exerted to the ut►i►ost
to prevent all intercourse whatever betweet►
Crreat Britain and Russia. A vvry strong proof
of the extent to which this prohibition is carrnd
occurred lately : A Russian Gentleman came to
England a few months ago, with a regular pats.
t Russian frontiers, ho was stopped, and though
1 he had regular passports, permitting him to re-
I (pip% they were not attended to, and he has ac-
frbointisinLit.ssniiest,

tualiy been compelled to return to England. The
only reason assigned for nut allowing him to enter
the Russian territoryvwas, that he had commercial
.inteecourse with thiinountry.
On Friday evening last, a most daring robbery
was committed by a single footpad, in the vicinity
of Bow. An opnlent Essex farmer, named Yates,
was returning home to his residence, after dupes.
fug of some live stock at Smithfield-market; and
shortly after he got on the other side Stratford.
bridge, a ruffian seized the bridle of his horse,
land demanded his money. Mr. Yates, who is
rather dimiuutive in stature, prudently abstained
from making any resistance, but avempted to
spur his horse son—in which, however, he was
prevented by the fulluw's immediately presenting a
pistol to his breast, tad roanss vengeance if he
did not instantly deliver. By these means, the
mean extorted fro. Mr. Yates about 801.. in
Bank notes, about 1101. in bills of exchange, with
which he *scared. At is a most remarkaMe
cammance, that there were not a few eye-wit-
nesses to this violent outrage, none of whom von.
tared to interfere!