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the place from whence the noise came , where , to his utter astonishment , he found a little infant , lying struggling and crying . He ran to call his master , who came immediately to the place and took up the child , which appeared to bS nearly exhausted . Mr . Hands recollecting there was a woman near the place who had a young child of her own , sent for her , and by her assistance the poor foundling was preserved alive . After watching near the wood till midnight , to see if any one should come for the infant , he went home and made every enquiry in his power to learn who had
so cruelly exposed it to destruction ; and suspicion , from many circumstances , fell upon one Hannah Russel . Early next morning Mr . Hands set out in pursuit of her , and found her in bed , at her father ' s house at Honily . Being roundly taxed with the fact , after some hesitation she confessed , that about three weeks ago , she was delivered in the work-house at Coventry , of a female bastard child ; that , on Tuesday , she obtained leave to go to her friends . That evening she spent in Coventry , and the next day set out for Honily ; but thinking her friends would r » ot be pleased at having the child to keepshe determined to leave it in the wood
, as she was passing by . There are some circumstances which too strongly indicate , that this unnatural mother had conceived the horrid design of destroying her infant before she left the workhouse . She was committed to take her trial at the ensuing assizes . Napton , Warwickshire , June 10 . A few days ago , an accident of an extraordinary nature occurred here . —William Smith , aged 19 , in the act of replenishing
the furnace , belonging to the fire-engine , upon the Oxford canal , in the abovementioned parish , was , by his foot slipping , suddenly precipitated into ihe boiling water beneath . Alone , and at midnight , no immediate assistance could be given him , and it was not till many ineffectual struggles , that he extricated himself i ' rom his agonizing situation . After calling up the inhabitants of the adjoining house , and having his body wrapt in toiv , he walked a full mile to his mother ' s house , at Napton , where he languished 24 hours , and then expired . ChesterfieldJune 11 . A violent affray happened in a public house at
Chester-, field , on Saturday night last , which terminated in a very melancholy manner . A private soldier of the 6 th regiment , Irish Carabineers , having quarrelled with a young man of the town ; in the heat of his rage he attempted to shoot with a pistol an officer of the West Lowland Fencibles , who had been called in to rescue the young man from his fury , but fortunately the pistol missed fire . The Carabineer behaved in so outrageous a manner , that it was found necessary to send for a file of men from the guard house of the fencibles to take him into custody , in doing whichas they were entering into the gateway of the inn with bayonets
, charged , and the Carabineer endeavouring to rush past them , an unfortunate youth standing in the way was thrown with such violence against-one of the bay ^ onets , that it penetrated into his body nearly six inches . The poor wounded youth did not survive more than an hour . —The Coroners inquest "was Accident tal Death . The Carabineer is committed to prison for attempting to shoot the officer .
Dublin , June 16 . A young woman lately married clandestinely to the son of a citizen in Dame-street , was excommunicated according to Ecclesiastical law , on Sunday last , in St . Mary ' s church , the marriage having been adjudged illegal . Saturday evening , an intoxicated termagant , the wife of an honest , industrious carpenter , of the name of Casey , who lives in Toivnshend-street , on the poor man attempting to remonstrate with her on the impropriety of her drunken conduct , the virago watched an opportunity , when the poor man was stooping , and villi her full force gave him a blow of an hatchet across the neckand wounded
, him so dangerously , thai it is thought he cannot recover . A child of about six years of age , the son of a person who lately kept a school in this city , was . missed about six months ago , and could not be heard of , notwithstanding the most minute enquiry . His mother died of grief . The father broke up his school and quitted Dublin . A few days ago a person recognized the . 'oor boy disguised as a sweep , in company with some others of that calling . The
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the place from whence the noise came , where , to his utter astonishment , he found a little infant , lying struggling and crying . He ran to call his master , who came immediately to the place and took up the child , which appeared to bS nearly exhausted . Mr . Hands recollecting there was a woman near the place who had a young child of her own , sent for her , and by her assistance the poor foundling was preserved alive . After watching near the wood till midnight , to see if any one should come for the infant , he went home and made every enquiry in his power to learn who had
so cruelly exposed it to destruction ; and suspicion , from many circumstances , fell upon one Hannah Russel . Early next morning Mr . Hands set out in pursuit of her , and found her in bed , at her father ' s house at Honily . Being roundly taxed with the fact , after some hesitation she confessed , that about three weeks ago , she was delivered in the work-house at Coventry , of a female bastard child ; that , on Tuesday , she obtained leave to go to her friends . That evening she spent in Coventry , and the next day set out for Honily ; but thinking her friends would r » ot be pleased at having the child to keepshe determined to leave it in the wood
, as she was passing by . There are some circumstances which too strongly indicate , that this unnatural mother had conceived the horrid design of destroying her infant before she left the workhouse . She was committed to take her trial at the ensuing assizes . Napton , Warwickshire , June 10 . A few days ago , an accident of an extraordinary nature occurred here . —William Smith , aged 19 , in the act of replenishing
the furnace , belonging to the fire-engine , upon the Oxford canal , in the abovementioned parish , was , by his foot slipping , suddenly precipitated into ihe boiling water beneath . Alone , and at midnight , no immediate assistance could be given him , and it was not till many ineffectual struggles , that he extricated himself i ' rom his agonizing situation . After calling up the inhabitants of the adjoining house , and having his body wrapt in toiv , he walked a full mile to his mother ' s house , at Napton , where he languished 24 hours , and then expired . ChesterfieldJune 11 . A violent affray happened in a public house at
Chester-, field , on Saturday night last , which terminated in a very melancholy manner . A private soldier of the 6 th regiment , Irish Carabineers , having quarrelled with a young man of the town ; in the heat of his rage he attempted to shoot with a pistol an officer of the West Lowland Fencibles , who had been called in to rescue the young man from his fury , but fortunately the pistol missed fire . The Carabineer behaved in so outrageous a manner , that it was found necessary to send for a file of men from the guard house of the fencibles to take him into custody , in doing whichas they were entering into the gateway of the inn with bayonets
, charged , and the Carabineer endeavouring to rush past them , an unfortunate youth standing in the way was thrown with such violence against-one of the bay ^ onets , that it penetrated into his body nearly six inches . The poor wounded youth did not survive more than an hour . —The Coroners inquest "was Accident tal Death . The Carabineer is committed to prison for attempting to shoot the officer .
Dublin , June 16 . A young woman lately married clandestinely to the son of a citizen in Dame-street , was excommunicated according to Ecclesiastical law , on Sunday last , in St . Mary ' s church , the marriage having been adjudged illegal . Saturday evening , an intoxicated termagant , the wife of an honest , industrious carpenter , of the name of Casey , who lives in Toivnshend-street , on the poor man attempting to remonstrate with her on the impropriety of her drunken conduct , the virago watched an opportunity , when the poor man was stooping , and villi her full force gave him a blow of an hatchet across the neckand wounded
, him so dangerously , thai it is thought he cannot recover . A child of about six years of age , the son of a person who lately kept a school in this city , was . missed about six months ago , and could not be heard of , notwithstanding the most minute enquiry . His mother died of grief . The father broke up his school and quitted Dublin . A few days ago a person recognized the . 'oor boy disguised as a sweep , in company with some others of that calling . The