The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-02-12 00:00:00

THOMAS SPRING RICE ANI) WALLER 0 GRADY,
ESQRS.

(mom THE DUBLIN I#4OIISING P.IST OF TUESDAY.)
Every exertion is uiod by
the Police to arrest the gen.
demon ablve named ; but to a late hour last night without
.access.
d

We regret exceedingly that the principals in this affiir
hid not been arre<ted w:th the seconds, to prevent nether
consNuenres ; there is no lr;ili member whosilifu'is more
valu•abie than that of .Ir. Sprint! Rice, No member, since
the short per;ml of his being returned to Pa-liatnent,
rendered more essential services. It is dreadful that
a man; for honestly and discharging, a piblic
duty, should he expos-d to this slit of hazard. There is
not any where to be met with a gentleman more amiable
and conciliating in his manners than hlr.sltice. Should
he fall a victim in a rensontre of this description, the
country would sustain a loss, perhaps at this time irrepara-
ble.

We understand that this affair was caused by some
offensive expressions applied to the Earl of Limerick by
Mr. Wady, in the bearing of Mr. Rice.

SUSPECTED INFANTICIDE.

Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, a Coroner's jury
was empannelled at the Swan-with-two•Netks, Lad-lane,
before Thomas Shelton, Esq. coroner, on the body.of an
intact child, supposed to here been murdered under cir-
cutnstances of great atrocity.
Elizabeth Morris, servant tit the Swan-with-two-Necks,
deposed,that on Sunday morning last she was ill in bed, in
a room where a sister of aro, her servant had slept that
night; the carpet which lay by the aide of her bed was im-
brued with blood, and the bed was also discoloured. She
came on Friday night, only as a rnest; hnt witness believes
her mistress was about to employ her in the capacity
.of
servant. The chambermaid came to bed about two on
Friday morning, and witness heard the stranger (Elisabeth
Alert) say, " Pray bring me a candle." The candle was
brought, and other words passed, when Elisabeth Alert
seemed anxious for her to go down stair., which she did.
On Sunday night she went to Bristol by the Regent, hi-
side; on the following morning (Monday) witness, Sarah.
Nurse, and another marl-servant, went to clan the bed on
which the woman Elizabeth Alert had slept; Sirah.
Nurse then said, " Feel, there is s tmething in the bed ;"
and witness took a pair of scissors and cut the ticking, put
her hand among the f-athers, and to her utter astonishment
took out tile child, after which she laid it in a cloth, anti
pot it where toe jurors now perceive it; witness teas too
much frightened to loolc if there were any utatks of trio-
lance on the child at tit zt time.

Strap Stiles, anotr•er servant nt th• Swan- tith-two-
Necks, deposed that she slept in the same bed with Eliza-
beth Alert on Satu•thv night, and went to hed about 12
o'clock. Alert was then sitting np in the bed, and said
she had the held-ache. Witness then went to bed; Alert
asked her to leave a lighted cindle, which witness did.
Alert wts restless in the night, and once awoke witness,
who risked if she could do any to for her,and was answered
in the negative. Witness knows Alert went out of bed
once in the night, hut nutbin: struck witness in particular.
Witness got up the nest morning, and left Alert in bed.
The following night witness slept in the bed alone, and
said to her fdlow.servaot, there WAS something
she could not bear to touch nor cool I st

The het licitness cot open the ticking, and tool

which so flurried witi;tss, thst she ran dawn

Mr. Francis :ienry Rannbotham, 37,
B-oildings, surgeon, deposed, he had dissect,
the deceased child, which is that of a female.

the face and the lips were livid, but oqt
/raid happen in child, at times;
evident merits as if the child heti respired ;
the tongue on the right side, there was
laceration from the gullet, corresponding wi
and mark before described, which extended
as the hrcist bone ; which might have [tern

the finger, or any substsuce briny thrust
the Qnllrt. Witness's dee; fed opinion was,
pearances, that the child had been stinoeat
strument which had bun thrust into its mow
chill was born alive, and suffocated.

Mr. James Luke, surgeon, corroborated last witness's
testimony, except that he beli. vas the coagulated blood
on the child's lips must have origin it( .1 from the wounds.
The female witnesses were all called back, and deposed,
that they never beard the cry f a child, and that Eliza-
beth Alert is above 30 years of t
Another medical gentleman cur ...',orated the aforesaid
testimony.
Tue Jury, after a very long discussion, returned a vet'•
diet that—" The child was still-born."

After this verdict the Conotactt said he did not feel him—
self instilled in 'lying before what he should noir relate—
that if this woman had been sent for trial, she wouLl have
been acquitted, he thought, of the capital offense, and
punished fur the minor crime; but now the law wee
evaded. There was an evident concealment of the birth,
which the law could not now ;mist), and therefore this
woman had totally escaped punishment.

BORERS —THE FIGHT TOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.—The fol-
lowing Iv a elpy r f the agreement entered into by ■ sporting
Gentleman In favour of Spring :

" Mr. 'greet to back Thomas Sprig against John
Langan. to fight In a twenty-four feet boarded stage, six feet ;et
height from the ground, for AWL • side. One hundred a side
o be made good on Monday the 10th of Febreary, at hlr.e
Thos. Belcher's."

Monday next, being the time appointed to make good th
one hundred a side, both the candidates for the championship
will pay their respects to their friends. Langan, immediately
atter the conclusion of his engagement at the Surrey Theatre,
on Saturday, will leave toil(' to go Into training.

A Float •T Movt.sirr iftrlvr.—A fight tonic place yester-
day at the above place between Maurice Delay and White-
headed Bob. It lasted only 49 minutes, during which time 97
rounds were fought. Delay then gave in, to the great joy of
Bob, who had himself also become se much exhausted as to be
incapable of much further 'action.

Pawssfraimaisw.—Mr. Thomas Lloyd, the eelebrated pedes-
trian, started on Thursday at one o'clock, torsos Foot fro4n
the George, Wolverhampton, to London, a distance of MS
miles in 30 successive hours. This is a greater match thaw was
ever before performed in England, and eclipses the most cele-
brated pedestrians of the day. He arrived at the Black Horse.
Aldersgate Street, tee minutes before seven, winning by ten
minutes. It was for 900 sovereigns.

Jaws' Fast Scuooc.—Yesterday a dinner took place at
the London Tavern, to celebrate the anniversary of the
foundation of the school for the education of poor children
of the Jewish persuasion, in Bell's Lane, Spi tat:kids. Hav-
ing stated the object of the Institution, it is necessary to
say that it is deserving of support ; but we may be snow-
ed to add, that it appears io be as well conducted as any
society of a similar nature in the metropolis. After (lim-
ner, several children of both sexes were introduced to the
company, each of them bore a specimen of bis or her pro-
ficiency in penman hip or needlework, and an interesting
little boy, shout 11 yer rs old, recited some Hebrew yawl!,
expressing the gratitude of himself and his companions to
their benevolent patrons. In the course of the eveniog,
Mr. Joseph, whu presided, Mi. Van Oven, Mr. Joseph
Cohen, and other geotlemenl4l, addressed the assembly to
behalf of the institution; and we are happy to say, that
upwards of 5901. were collected.-111r. Brabant was pre-
sent. and delight, the company by the exertion of his Cl?
itaordinary posers. -

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