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188 knew before hand; so she stated, that he had been at Mrs. Salmon's wax work exhibition, and ordered some little pricked pictures which lie there for sale, upon which he had left two shillings; the remainder of the purchase, eight shillings and sixpence, was to be paid to the bearer, she said, and became very importunate for the money. However, his maid servant was sufficiently awake to thwart her imposition concerning the pictures, as well as an attempt she made to leave the child and run off! but the butcher's man came into the kitchen with a tray of meat while she sat there, and she left the house soon after: going to the butcher's shop, she chose a piece of beef, which she took home, the man answering for its "being all right," as he had just seen her at the house. The child not having been employed upon the latter part of the transaction, induces a belief that she had a companion.

Jonathan Harris, formerly respectable as a ribbon dresser, in Foster lane, was examined at Guildhall, in August, 1817, on charges of having delivered baskets and other packages, purporting to have come by coaches, for which he demanded the carriage and porterage charges, at various