The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-15 00:00:00

nes* was in bed, she having put the child
to bed at her house: in the morning she sent the
child house, when from a window in her wash-house
she heard Miss Powell question the child as to what
witness and her husband had asked her over night—
the child replied nothing ; Miss Powell then said she
would beat her if she did rot tell, and the child int-
me4liatel told her, and told the truth ; that she then
saw Miss Powell slao her violently with her hand on
both sides of her face.—Sometime previous to this
she saw the child with a black eye, and asked her how
it came; when she replied her governess unshed her
out of bed in the middle of the nigist.—Witness went
in ; I asked Miss P. how it happened, and she said by
the child knocking her face against the school-room
door ; she once saw Miss Powell strike the child with
part of a parasol ; never saw her beat any other child ;
but always seemed very spiteful to this child ; she
heard bliss Powell's servant say that her mistress
would kill the child ; she had infortn..ti Mr.
Phillips twice of the ili-treatment to his child
—once about a month before it was taken away.
Mr. Caner, snrgeon, stated, that when the child was
taken to him it had several bruises on its arms, legs,
and thighs, and one large one on its loins—they had
left black and blue places, but he did not think them
very severe, at the same time be did not think they
could possibly have happened by a Cal.

TOR TUE PEFENA E.

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Mary Burton was called—she lived servant with
Miss Powell for six weeks from last New Michaelmas;
the child u oold stand and try and shriek for nothing
ar ! she slept with 11ti•s Powell, took her meals
with her, anti was treated very kindly; she seat very
dirt!, and her mistress used to beat her for it, hat not
more than was necessary ? she never saw her mistress
strike her but nit!, her sand—she was sore tl.e back
of her neck was never jobbed whist she lived there;
site denied, in the strongest way, ever having said to
Mrs. Harrison that her mistress would kill the child ;
she could not have said so for she had no cause. One
day the shild fell downstairs against a r hair, hurt her-
self very notch, and got a bia: k e•;e. Witness slept in
the next room to Miss IN:well ; si:e never sate her hurt
the child, and it wits impossi.:le that she conid have
beaten her with liolence without uitoes3's having
heard it, and she never saw her use a stick.
The Jury immediately re:ur.•'ii a verdict of Guilty,
when the Recorder, after c ,:ttiadint on th!. extreme
enormity of the offence, and u)s:•rvtng that the Court
was williux to indict on her a leoient punishment in
lien of a fine, which must necessarily have been to
such an amount as she in all prolishility could never
hive paid, sentenced her to 1•e imprisoned in the
connu►n gaol of this dry for three calendar umutlis.
She immediately fainted. and was carried out of Court
to the gaol, attended by the sheriffs and most of the
officers, the assistance of a limn was necessary to pro-
tect her from the enraged feelings of the populace,
strongly manif-sted against her.
At these Sessio:os the Grand Jury found a true bill
wiast Mr. Richard Watson, for a libel un the cha-
racter of the late Mr. Joseph Clover, contained in the
correspondence between 3.t. Watson end Mr. Money-
meut, is the Norwich papers.

THE STATESMAN.

The CHIEF I am sorry far it, gentle-
men, butbutt have no power to relieve you."
The Juryman--" My Lord, I have known a Jury
relieved under similar difficulties, by time parties con-
senting to withdraw a juror."
The CHIEF Juseics.--" If the parties are present,l
and will consent, that way now be done, but not other-
wise."
Mr. SFIL'ItR, solicitor for the plaintiffs, said leis
clients were none of them present, but he would go and
consult them, and return in a few minutes with their
instructions.
'1 he CHier JI*STICE then directed the Jurymen to
return to their fellows, and await the result of this
application.
Is the course of a quarter of an hour, ho►rever,
the Jury again came into Court, and sated that
they had agreed to find a verdict for the defendants.

OLD DAILEY.—SATvaDAy.