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passages. When she almost got 

 to Blackfriars-bridge, Mr. Gibson 

 took her away from the woman. 

 When the prisoner spoke to her, 

 she.told her that she would buy 

 her some biscuits, and make her 

 some doll's things. This was all 

 that passed. The prisoner took 

 nothing from her, and never said 

 where she was going to take her. 

 She had never seen the prisoner 

 before. No rolls were bought at 

 the baker's. 



James Gibson, a cooper, living 

 in Redcross-street in the Borough, 

 stated, that on the 4th of Novem- 

 ber, as he was passing by Temple- 

 bar about 9 in the morning, he 

 saw the prisoner at the bar with 

 the child, having hold of it by 

 the wrist. While walking along 

 Fleet-street, the child resisted, 

 and appeared to be crying bitterly. 

 He followed her until she got to 

 the archway leading to the Tem- 

 ple. She went down the giteway, 

 and dragged the child to the 

 piazza. The child resisted very 

 much. She proceeded a little fur- 

 ther, stopped, and talked to the 

 child in a passage, and told it she 

 would give it some biscuits. The 

 prisoner then came out and went 

 towards the parade, down to the 

 river side ; the passage was stop- 

 ped up, and she was obliged to re- 

 turn. She then proceeded tlirough 

 the Temple, to the corner of Tu- 

 dor-street. The child here resisted 

 very much, and threw a napkin it 

 had in its hand upon the pave- 

 ment out of a basket, in the effort 

 of resisting. He then attempted 

 to take the child from the prisoner, 

 but the prisoner would not allow 

 it. He asked her what she was 

 going to do with tht child, and 



the prisoner replied, " D— n you. 

 Sir, what have you to do with it ? 

 She is my niece ; she has been 

 disorderly, and I shall do what I 

 please with her." With the assist- 

 ance of another person, he took 

 the child away from the woman j 

 and upon threatening to give her 

 over to the custody of an officer, 

 she persisted in saying that she 

 was the aunt of the child. Witness 

 went with the prisoner and the 

 child to Clare-market, and pro- 

 ceeding up a passage in the Tem- 

 ple, the prisoner endeavoured to 

 run away. 



Thomas Higgins stated, that be- 

 tween 9 and 10 o'clock, on the 

 4th November, in passing through 

 Tudor-street, being requested by 

 Mr. Gibson, he assisted in taking 

 the child from the prisoner. 



In her defence the prisoner 

 stated, that she was innocent of 

 the crime laid to her charge. 

 When apprehended slie was in- 

 toxicated with liquor. This last 

 fact was proved by the officer. 

 Two witnesses gave the prisoner 

 a good character for humanity. 

 She had children of her own, and 

 always behaved kindly to them. 



The jury found a verdict — 

 Guilty. 



The child was a very pretty lit- 

 tle girl, and delivered her evi- 

 dence with great clearness. The 

 prisoner was a young woman of 

 an interesting appearance, and 

 very genteelly dressed. 



9. Dublin. — Contagious Fever. 

 — It is with pain we find ourselves 

 obliged to return to this distress- 

 ing subject. In many parts of the 

 country, fever continues to rage ; 

 and in the county of Cavan, we 

 are informed, a contagion of a 



peculiar 



