The Sun. — 1814-08-30 (London, England)

HALL.—Edward Mathews; a feeble old man, charged his son,. a lad about 18, with -hav• ing ill-trea►ed and assaulted him. The lad.denied the truth of the charge, and said be had never struck his father. The old man acknowledged he had not been struck, but said, his son took him by the collar, knocked his head against the wall, rubbed his fist up and down his face, and threatened to turn- him out of• his own house. To this statement the defendant made no reply._  The Magistrate expressed his indignation at the defendant's conduct in strong terms ; and obserVed, whatever lie might think of it, he had been guilty of a most wicked •and aggravated assault against his helpless parent, and for which hr should be committed till the Sessions, unless he could find very good bail. - The father, on hearing this, entreated lie might be liberated, on .his promise not 'to :treat him so again. To this the defendant replied, he had no prothise to make, as. he was not aware he had done'wrong. The :Magistrate, on hearing his declaration, declared lie should not be discharged, anti ordered him to be locked up ; and, unless most .satisfactory bail were tendered, that he should be kept in confinement till the Sessions.  Coaw:Ea's No.ussT.—Yesterday afternoon ate adjoiwned impest was held at the Star and Gar ter, near Kew -bridge; on the hotly of A new-born male infalt, found drowned in the river Thames;. near Strand-ort-the'-Green, on,Monday the 22d of this month. On the following .day an inquest was held on the body; at the Bull's head, in Strand-on-the-Green,' and from the evidence then pro-duced, :suspicion fell on a lady of the name of Rogers, an initiate in the family :of Di. Bowen, svho occupied a ready furnished houSe. Mrs. Rogers and Dr. BoWen's fatuity, iii which' she resided, having suddenly quitted the neighbotithOod, the Jury, from the•cause of suspicion against her, with the consent of the Coroner, adjourned the inquest until yesterday, to give time to make every necessary inquiry. .George Collins, a fisherman, deposed, that he lived in the Strand-on-the-Green ;' that about six o'clock in the morning of Monday, the 22d of this month, as he was fishing in the river Thames, off Strand-on-the-Green, lie drew up in his net a Cotton bag, containing something, which, on examining, he found to be the body of a new-born male child ; there was a rope tied round its body, to which there was a-stone attached, for the-purpose, as lie supposes, to sink the same. Ann Hayes, a laundress, deposed, that she was employed frequently in that capacity, in the house of Dr. Bowen, in Strand-on-the-Green ; the fa milli consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Bowen and five children—a cook—Mary Price, a nursery-maid— Fanny Hayes, niece to witness, who was a housemaid in the family—and a Mrs. Rogers, an inmate in the family—andsaria It. Suster, a mulatto, servant to Mrs. Rogers, which witness learnt she purchased as a slave at the age of six years, in St. Croix ; there was a child's bed-gown found near the ditch, which, when shewn to Mrs. Bowen; she acknowledged to be her property. On the night previous to the thing being; found in the ditch, Mrs. Rogers was confined to her apartment through indisposition Mrs. Bowen and the mulatto servant and Mary Price attended her, all of whom have since- left the place, and witness did not know where they were gone to. Fanny Hayes deposed, that she was housemaid in Dr. Bowen's family ; the other servants, she understood, accompanied them from America, and she heard them talk of going to Paris. On Tuesday night preceding the body of the child having been found, Mrs. Rogers was taken soddenly ill,' as she understood from her servant, through fright, saying she was alarmed at the noise of some persons -breaking -into the 'house ; she continued ill all night. The Jury, after several hours' investigation, returned a verdict of lVi fill Murder against some person or persons unknown. -