their success at Messrs Coward's, the same gang, according to description, attempted Mr Plumley's on Ludgate hill, but were disappointed of their booty. Whilst they were perforating the window shutters, they were observed by a butcher's boy, but who seemed ignorant of their intention. Finding that to be the case, they hoaxed the youth, by telling him they had been in pursuit of a mad bullock, which had just turned the corner towards Fleet-market. This had the desired effect; the lad set off full speed to join the chace; in due time he returned, and finding the villains hovering about, he suspected their views, and from his close remarks finally obliged them to quit their prey. CORONER'S INQUEST.-An inquest was held yesterday evening, before Anthony Gell, Esq. at the Nag's Head, in Grange.court, Leicestersquare, on the body of Ann Paris, an unfortunate young creature, of interesting appearance, not more than 17 years of age, who, it appeared, had been reduced by some unknown melancholy circumstance to the most forlorn and destitute situation. It was stated in evidence, that she had taken her lodgings only seven weeks since, and that during that time she had evinced the most wretched state of mind, and on Thursday morning, urged on by the poignancy of her feelings, or the derangement of her intellect, she swallowed a considerable quantity of laudanum. On the viofence of her death-pangs coming on, medical aid was sent for, but too late to be of any assistance, and in a short time she expired.-The coroner's jury returned a verdict of Lunacy.

The history of this poor young creature is at once romantic and in teresting. She is the daughter of a Monsieur Paris, who was well known

in the commencement of the revolution, and in which he suffered. Madame Paris, with her infant daughter, took refuge in this country, and in the ruin of her fortune, became a governess in a noble family in Scotland. After this she had a house in the New.road; and, about two years ago, died of the rupture of a blood vessel. Her daughter had been placed at an eminent boarding-school near one of the new squares; and on the death of her mother was placed under the guardianship of a member of parliament, who, with the most liberal and benevolent attention to her destitute situation, resolved to complete her education; and she had every master of eminence in all the elegant arts. She spoke French and Italian; touched the piano with great execution; sung with taste; and had read beyond her years.

About six or eight months ago, she was met in the square, when walking with the other young ladies, by a young man in the dress of a midshipman, who followed her to the door, and who wrote to her under the name of Jones. A correspondence took place. Her imagination was fired; and she eloped with him under a promise of marriage. His address was found in her box, and they were traced by her guardian, and separated. Jones declared that she was virtuous, that his intentions were honourable, and as a proof of it he was ready to marry her with her guardian's consent. In effect they were married, and she was completely undone. In about a fortnight or three weeks, Jones threw off his disguise, and fairly told her his real character-that he was no sailor, but lived by his shifts; that he had married her only for the sum her protector had paid him, and that she must provide for herself.

She was abandoned; and the shock had such an effect on her imagination, that she has ever since shewn signs of a disordered intellect. With a heart that shrunk from vice, she was flung on the world without a friend or a home; and in this deplorable state she became the victim of necessity. About three weeks ago, she saw an officer, who is distinguished for his gallantries, and who, by his address and attentions, so won upon her affections, that she could neither speak nor think of any other object. This fatal attachment absorded her whole soul. They entered into engagements to live and die only for one another; and in the frenzy of this passion, or under the idea that she could not be his, and his alone, she took the desperate resolution of dying for him. She had prepared three phials of opium, two of which she swallowed, and she died with a spirit of heroism; for no persuasion nor force could make her, when seized with the nausea of the poison, take any antidote to the draught. She would not suffer the medical men to approach her; and though, after stupefaction came on, they administered every known medicine, they all failed of effect.

12th.-OLD BAILEY.-Susannah Geraine, an old woman, aged 78, was capitally indicted for feloniously uttering as true, knowing them to have been forged, several notes for 11. purporting to be notes of the Bank of England. The prisoner, who is the wife of a watchman, in the parish of St James, Clerkenwell, resided at the house No. 2. New-court, Cow.cross. On the 2d of December last, she purchased some articles at the shop of Mrs Mary Clarke, in St John-street, and gave a 11. bank note in payment. The shopman had some scruples at

first about taking it; but the prisoner gave her own address, and said she would bring him another, or the money for it if he did not like it. On the Thursday following, she came to take up the note again, and put down 18s., promising to call the next day with the 2s.; but the shopman kept the money, promising to give her the note when she brought the remainder. As she did not come according to promise, he was induced to inquire at the Bank whether the note was genuine; but it was there pronounced to be a forgery. He was advised by the Bank officers to act cautiously, and to inquire of the woman from whom she obtained it, in order to discover whether it led to any train of accompliceship. He went accordingly, and asked her; and she answered, that it was given her by a man, whose name or residence she did not then know, but promised to find out both, and inform him next day. She failed in the performance of this promise also. Information respecting the circumstance being given at Marlborough street office, some of the police officers were sent to her lodgings in the morning of the 16th December, where they found the old woman and her husband in bed. They interrogated her how she came by the note; and she said then that she had found this note and several others. The husband then came forward, and told the officers his wife was an old fool, and telling them lies, for it was he who found the notes in a tin case, when going the rounds upon his beat in St James's Churchyard. The officers now took them both in custody, and searched the apartment, where they found eleven one pound, and four two pound notes wrapt up in an oil cloth, and concealed up the chimney; all of them

and having gained admittance, they attacked the fellow who inhabits it, who resisted most desperately; he was armed with a loaded pistol, but the officers took care to deprive him of any means of using it. They searched him, and found a number of picklock keys; and on examining the house, they found some iron crows, and other implements of housebreaking, and a quantity of cloth, supposed to be part of that stolen from Mr Gustard's shop. The fellow was secured, and taken before the magistrates at Hatton-garden of fice, when, after a hearing, he was committed for further examination.

A curious indictment was prefer red at the Norfolk sessions last week, in which a clergyman was the prosecutor, under the following circumstances:-It was alleged, that on a certain Sunday, while he was preaching, the daughter of one of his parishioners came with her sister into the church, attended by a man, who carried a bag. The ladies, "with clanging stride," clattered in their pattens up the aisle opened the door of their pew-packed their moveables therein into the bag, and after pasting a label containing the words "a pew to let," opened the door, and retreated in the same order. To punish this conduct, the indictment was preferred, but the bill was not found.

Saturday night, whilst a man was exhibiting a telescope for lunar observations at the end of Fleet-market, a gentleman passing along was induced to have a peep, and in the mean time was soon divested of his watch, and purse, containing 101. in bank notes, with which the offenders escaped.

18th.--OLD BAILEY-THEFT, DELUSION, AND CREDULITY.-Mar

garet Conners and Richard Conners were charged with a capital felony, in stealing in the dwelling-house of Joseph Iredall, in King-street, Sohosquare, three gowns, two pair of sheets, and a variety of articles, to the value of more than 40s., the property of Mary Anderson.

The prosecutrix, a simple-looking young woman, stated, that she kept a mangle; in the month of May last, the female prisoner, who was then unmarried, came to lodge with her, and continued with her for some time. She afterwards assisted her to remove to a different house in the same street, where the prisoner again came to live with the prosecutrix. Shortly after she came to live with her the second time, the prisoner told her she wished to try some experiments. She accordingly began by laying the poker and shovel under the bed during the night; then cut out rings of cloth, which she placed in sand with sothernwood, and figures cut out in paper, which she placed on the chimney-piece. After this she made a cake, prepared in a particular manner, and broth, into which she put certain powders, and gave it to the witness to eat.

One night knife was thrown at the witness from the opposite side of the room, where the prisoner and she were sitting, which the prisoner informed her had been done by the spirit of the man to whom the prisoner was now married. This was on the evening of the 8th or 9th of August. The prisoner went to the window, and talked as if she had been conversing with some one, but the witness saw nobody. She cut some bread and cheese, put it on a plate, and held it out, as if some third party had been present to partake of it. She then desired the witness to look

on the wall, which she did, when she saw on it the figure of a man about the size of a large cat. When in bed, the prisoner again desired the witness to look towards the wall, when she saw the figure of a man faintly upon it. The witness asked the prisoner what he wanted; when she informed her, that if she would lay some of her things out of her trunk, he would let her know. The witness rose out of bed, and being alarmed, laid a number of things out of her box, all of which were gone in the morning. The prisoner made a noise for a considerable time, while this was going on, as if some person were strangling her. The witness did not see any of these things again till some time afterwards, when she saw the prisoner wearing them. The articles which she saw the prisoner wearing, were not disguised or altered in any manner. When the witness noticed this circumstance, the prisoner said the apparition had told her that she must wear them, and that the witness must consent to it, for if she said any thing against it, she was to be turned into some different shape. The prisoner so completely deluded the witness, that she believed she had it in her power to do every thing she said. The man prisoner lived in the house, and had been in the witness's room that very night; but she could not distinguish if he was the apparition. It appeared liker to the shadow of a man, than to the substance. He told the witness on one occasion that he had carried off some of her property on the 2d of October. The articles which she had lost were carried off at many various times. She did not see him in the room, however, at the time alluded to, in the month of August, nor did she know of any thing that he did

that night. On her cross examination by Mr Knap, the witness said, the man prisoner had once paid his addresses to her, and had since married the woman prisoner; but she was not angry on that account, nor would have been sorry at their marriage, if they had let her property alone. The woman prisoner continued to live with her 11 weeks after the 9th of August.

James Bligh, an officer, stated, that when the prosecutrix told him her story, he went to the house of the prisoners along with another officer, and carried them, and all they could find which the prosecutrix claimed as hers, before a magistrate. The woman prisoner pressed sadly to have it hushed, and that she would make every thing right; but the witness told her it was a felony, which he could not compound.

James Noble, another officer, confirmed this statement.

Mr Justice Chambre, did not put the man on his defence, though he confessed the suspicion was strong against him, but men were not to be found guilty of felony on, suspicion. The story was a very strange one, but credulity would lead some people a great way, and it was impossible to say what effect it might have on a weak and uneducated woman like Mary Anderson. If, by any fradulent contrivance, a person was induced to open a box in which his property lay, and to spread it out, and the property was taken away, that was, in point of law, a felony. The prosecutrix had been credulous in the extreme; but still, however, she was to be protected by the laws of the country. As to the capital part the charge, that must be discharged from the consideration of the jury, it not appearing that on the evening

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