Star. — 1820-03-13 (London, England)

CROWN SIDE.  Camp MunDEß—Rosalie Carched, an interesting fc:anle, of great personal beauty, a native of SwitLerland-, was indicted for the wilful murder of her *Ls .v.horn male illegitimate child, at Barking, on the tith of December last. The circumstances of -this unhappy case were peculiarly affecting, indeed pathetically r9mantic, and excited universal sympathy. The prisoner, a lovely and interesting creature, was, the daughter of a highly ro;opectable. family, at Lausatute, in Switzerland. A eoung Gentleman of that town had paid his adciresses to her, contrary to the wishes of her family, who had forbade him the house. His attentions, however, were clandestinely continued for a considerable length of time, until Mademoiselle Curchod's health becoming set iously affected, her friends guess•tlg the secret, determined to remove her far from ee cause of her indisposition, hoping that by change of scene and absence, her health would he re,tored, and that she would forget the object of her attachment. England was resolved upon as the place of her sojournment, and she was placed at the boardingschool of a Lady named Siff kin, at Barking, in.the capacity of a French teacher. On the 20th of December the pains of parturition came on, and she was delivered of a male infant, unknown to the family. In three days afterwards the consummation of her unhappiness was accomplished7—wha; had happened was discovered, the dead body of the infant was found in a pan in her bedchamber, and in the result, aftr= a Coroner's Inquest, she was .consigned, in the prime of youth, beauty, and finished accomplishments, to the horrors of a dungeon, to await the doom of that Divine Law which proclaiins the most penal denunciations against the crime of murder. The author of her sufferings, a young man, equally conscious, as it should seem, of unhappy situation in which she was placed, had been informed of the consequence of their illicit intercourse (but before they became exposed), and had set out for England with slender means, intending at all.hazards, to unite his hand to hers in marriage. He had arrived at Paris in pursuit of his journey, but his pecuniary funds being exhausted, he was detained so long, that he did not reach England until three days after the wretched victim of his attachment had been comntitted for the offence charged in the indictment. Friday being the day appointed for the trial, it is impossible to conceive the interest the case excited. Mr. Daniel Moore, a surgeon of Ilford, was the brit witness examined,.and he deposed as folloWs In the month of December I was called to attend the prisoner.. On the 23d of that month I was shewn a male child. I opened it two days after, and I found the lungs healthy ; they floated in water. From that alone I judge that the child was born alive; but this is a very fallacious text—nothing more so. The CHIEF BARON here interposed, and said, that the prisoner must be acquitted. There.was no proof, that the child was born alive. The Jury immediately found the prisoner—Not Guilty, and also acquitted her of concealing the birth. The verdict seemed to produce very general satisfaction, and immediately afterwards the prisoner was restored to the care of her friends. The Assizes finished on Friday evening. Twentyone prisoners received sentence of death. Two sheep. sr,alers were left for execution.  Blackwell-hall, adjoining Guildhall, which had for so many years remained in a ruinous state, is at length 3-weed to the ground; and on its scite is immediately to be erected a noble building, in which is to be the new Court of King's Bench for the City of London, apartments for the Commissioners of Bankrupts, and several other Civic Offices.