The Statesman. — 1810-01-20 (London, England)

SETT-LENIENT. - • • At these Sessions au important case of settle. mcnt came on to be heard, in which the parish of Kentford, Suffolk, were. Appellants, and the parish of North Lopliain, Norfolk, Respondents. —The appeal was against an order of removal of a female pauper, named Lucy Wortedge, froni North Lopham to Kentford. at which latter place, it was contended, on the part of the R.espentients, that a settlement had been acquired, by hiring • and service for a year. To prove this, the pauper herself, a girl of iiiteen years of ago, was called, who stated, that a little before Michaelmas, three Or four years ago, being with her mother at Ken. stiorhall Petty Sessions, a person of the name of .William Rotten came up and gave her mother a sixpence, but did not tell her what it was for,. and wentaway. Shortly after, a Air. Cooke, of Nitrify Lopham; approached, and asked her mother if she knew what the sixpence was gircti fur? and her mother . answered in the negative. Cooke • then told her that the sixpence was letting money, and she (the pauper) was to go to Kentford, into the service of a Mr. Luke Bowell, the brother Of William Bowell, and he encouraged her to go. ' When the pauper and her mother returned home to North Lapliam, the latter acquainted a Mr. Worledge (grattilfather of the pauper) with what I had happened, who said, she (the pauper) should not go, assigning us a reason, that there might be the same bad folks at Kentford• as"there were at Lopham, in which expression be alluded cb the circumstance of the pauper's mother baring had a child by William Bowel!. lit cousequenco ssithis determination of the grandfather, the six.. lowa yes soot -back. for Wilhain Bowell, and the Igirl, to avoid going into the service in question, was secreted by the mother in the pool's house for nearly a to nth, when William Bawell's son came, and, forcibly taking her away, without hat or oboes, and literally in rags, shrew her into jacast, and 114 this state she was cotiveygd to the house of Luke Bowel!, at Konitird, where she was taken in by a Mrs. ‘Voodslock (Luke B.,weit's sister, and at that time his partner in the farming ;business) who remonstrated against the bringing of ,such a-!. young stark naked wretch into lice. - • -house, instead of a servant that ceald do her 1 some goil4l!o,' The pauper stated her arrival at . ' K.entfurd to hate been a month before Alienielrflail day; akd that about a fortnight before the Mi.. chaelmas following, William Rowell and his wife tame, and took her in a cart to March, in- the If le Of tEly, where she was hired into the service • ,4 Mr.; Grey, fur a year, but staid only half ' .. 94. .This wicked conspiracy was formed, for lipbrpose of relieving William Bowell front ' ktutanance of his bastard child, and of sat. R $ n the pauper on Kentford parish. The Court, • ' in.s e re. liaering judgment, entered into a fell eapiptletion of all the ciccumstances .attending 1 tbigumuat-eittraordinary case, and ottsamd, that 40etract between the parish -of -Upham and aims Rowell. was .as highly insutbral 113 it ' ' t . Ll,* illegal., After commenting on the-c‘ndlitt • 170 tbellowelle and Mr. Cooke, andotsthlreAtet • 1 •iiaa,niter in which this poor unfortunate girl, theft ' 'yttle Mitre than 19 years of age, was dragged- • ruin her mother, almost in a state of .isatednust,'• ' ,psol pent to a distance of upwards of NY miles, talines wards transferred to a more venivtiv pare , ft. . t d zeuentry, the Court quashed the order a st ' . with full, coats, remarking that fra4d i • via with transaction. . , Lord' Eftsatos intends to introduce his Dili again ia. the House of Peers with alterations, to t regent cruelty to animals, which was Passed in the Loialat,..midi thrown out iii the Commons the lase Soinllob., . There is not a day passetai that number.. less instances of unnecessary cruelty to horses do nut occur, which call for some legashscise &caw. to restrain the bratalityiif their driven. • e ` 0 ' r t ? were not more than four Arriiidt on the bflibkliere so.lLloyirtyesterday. ' rroth this it is in. (erred that the frost is su intense, that tlie vetitiele • . hi thd Noroorq. ports era prevented (rum sailing. ' in ieesorptence of the ice: `•.. Sutctos.-..The body or'. young iresnan was . oat* op. floating 14 the liver, above the West. • . minnter Orldliri on TUesdl inerinoon. and, tlits los °weed' by a gartleneo*.Vtiirspay. flex name is Priscilla Mess. She wanAiscry-mald in . a Gentleinan's baihily in Matiborougg.strect. She • was proved to ,hare bowl ina state of pregnancy; and the probable ,eause of suicide Was her desii-e to conceal her shame. She left her pliee.on Sun. dareetiting, Mid took it feeling forewell,of a fel, 11/41.10:senvant. . ,il94,llOirowers did cot suspect her iiiddlitiOla -ti plit I.o.4lvichiciThs into tisteall'en.. . . . .., . ~ • . . •