Westminster Sessions, Thu...
John AcJcrlcwas ;h dict ei fr .ali.g.:690 pamphlets, the pro,F Tpety f M'ThmasRichardson. he prOYeGUtOr is a booksele.and the prisoner was In his em. aloy, buthbe ha clarged him dn the '6th oflbarch. On.the.Gth he wentto'one of r. Riehardapo's .workwomen,-aind 6btamed in- that gentlaman'hnarne dutrifi'that nht sad the following morning,- 600 copies of a w*rk;lMichshebiAd io sew andIfbid. . These7he imsi. mediately sold as waste paper, a' 4d. per powd, . to. a.Irs..Ells- worth, a. cheesemonge'r it Drurydlane, wbere thev. bad lain. but A short time,.whena persoriialIed Vii from fr. Natba4, a jbkseller5 also in Drury-lane, aV3d ng.the.pamphle6s, bai-eai fon em st 6d. ner pound. Mr. Nathap was taken .before The'insgistrat buil dicharged on account.of th-traneaction .betg, ip the pinion, of the magistrate, a fair one.. . TheCUA1RMANexpressedhisSurprise at the disusisal of MAr. Nathan. The prisoner. was found Gituiy, and seutenced to six months' hardalabour in the House of Correction. Elizabetll Brewster.was indicted for desertlg. an infant child. Nr. ALLEY stated the case for. the prosecution, which. was inati- tuted by 5t. James's parisbh The. prioner had ats egsts mate child, and when it - was about six 'months. old,. she .became degsrOms of gettig .rid of it, lor the sarpose of-get- ting into a eit.sation, ai FJIe stated her circumstances tobe very indifferent. She therefoxe dressed it in inferior elothinf, and depo. sited it on the night of the 14th of Decmber ist in.t barTrosugh- passage, a dark narrow plaee, where, in an hour and ,a half aftbr. wards, it was found by. a labourer, whb took it to iheb6adle, and by him it was conveyed.tothe workhouse, whereitaiedontbe25th.ofthe same month. Thc prisoner,pronspted by remorse, or anatural-decire to see her infant, went to make inquiries.if i child had been brougbt into the workhouse on a certain daLy; and on learning it.was dead, becameso agitated tbat she was suspected of being te -unnatural parent, and on being 4etained, confessed all tbe facts of the case. Sihe was found dty, "d sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment. * WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, TBsXDAvY, APRIL 1.