Caroline Ante and Mary Martin, two girls, were placed before the Royal Court of Jersey, on Friday, by the deputy Viscount, charged with having returned to the island from England, to where they had been transported for three years, before the expiration of their term of banishment.
It appears, that the authorities of the island had sent the girls to Weymouth, but the authorities of that fashionable watering-place, not liking the idea that their elegant town should be made a penal settlement for the Channel Islands, and finding the damsels starving in the streets, sent them back again.
The Court sent for the father of Ante, who was ordered to take her under his charge, thus annulling the former sentence, and ordered the other girl to be transported to Chatham, in Kent.
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