Star. — London, England, 1827-06-04 00:00:00

the time the plaintif f would have brought her action but what were the facts in this case? The defendant's wife dies, and in two months afterwards he pays 'eve ral visits to the plaintiff. He makes no promise what ever of marriage, but on going to Germany, he writes several friendly letters to her. After his return, the parties agree to break off all further intercourse. The separation ti ok place by mutual consent, which he should prove by the p oda.ction of a letter, dated January, 1824, which the plaintiff had smitten to the defendant. and that would put an end to the present action. The following is a copy of the 'letter, which was read:— " Sta--In returning to yob the Inclosed I offer no apology ; the possession may probably ?Pre you pleasure, but can afford none to me, when the original no longer merits m y esteem. I hope you will follow ' my example, and return mine, because you can have no mo tive in retaining them. I should at the sante time return your let ters, but as I understand you have asserted that yeu only vkited me as a friend, I shall keep them , t o &hew that I gme my society tu one who professed a serious and honourable attachment. " If your torn heart acquits you of Injustice towards an insulted warms, I Mall not condescend to reproach gnu, but shall have it to time and your own conscience to repair the injuries lOU have so H." wantonly inflicted on Mr. Sergeant WILDE resumed—Wfy should the par ties return their letters and miniatures if they had not separated by mutual agreement? • As a further proof that it was a mutual separation, the plaintiff lay by from 1823 to 1826, without even calling upon the defendant to contract matrimony ; and then, when the defendant gets married, she brings her action, and for no other motive than that of extorting money from him. When, he would ask, would it be safe for a man, after paying a slight attentiois to a female, to marry another, if not in the present case ? She told him in her letter, that he tad lost her esteem; he sends her letters and miniature back ,and he never hears of her or from her for two or three years; nor is he asked to perform any contract till he is in a situation that precludes the possibility of his doing so. It was due to the respectable ch racier of the young Lady, and he was instructed to admit, that her moral charac ter and conduct were irreproachable ; but at the same time he must defend the character of his own client from the infamy which had been attempted to be fixed upon it, by imputing to him the authorship of that abominable letter. He pronounced it to be a wicked forgery, fabricated by some one to prejudice the de fendant in the minds of the Jury, and thereby to en hance the damages in the cause. The conduct of the defendant bad been, throughout his acquaintance with the young Lady, open and honourable—he had not first gained her affections and then basely seduced her—he found that they should not be happy if united, and by mutual consent they separated. He should call wit nesses, who would prove beyond all doubt that the defendant was not the writer of the letter ; and having dune that, if his Lordship should be of opinion that there had not been a mutual agreement to separate, and that the defendant was legally liable to the present action, after she had written the letter to him, demand ing her letters, &c. then he should go to the Jury with confidence that they would acquit his client of being the author of the letter imputed to him, and that they would gi cc such moderate damages as the case called for. Wm.-Pitchers—He is clerk to the employ of Stults and Co. and bas been so for three months ; be was formerly employed by Mrs Stakes solicitor, and had been for eight years well acquainted with the defendant's hand-writing ; he Is quite positive neither the dire*. tion nor the body of the letter produced is the defendant's hand- writing, or at ail like It. Wni. Dale, J. Howley, and George Souks swore to the same fact most positively. Otecromexaminatien, they prevaricated in their statements, and two of them admitted there was a similarity in the writing to that of the def‘ndant'a. Mr. Sergebat t Aortas replied.—His Learised Friend (Sergeant Wilde) wished to put this case upon the issue, whether the defendant had written the disgusting letter or not; but the Jury were aware, that whether he was the author of the letter or not? he had broken his faith . with the plaintiff, and must answer for it by their ver dict that day. His Learned Friend had admitted ti at it aas impossible to cast the slightest taint upon the plaintiff's reputation, yet he wished the Jury to credit so absurd, improbable, and monstrous an insinuation, that the young Lady, or her friends, or her attorney, bad entered into a foul conspiracy to enhance the da mages in this suit by forging an atrocious letter, and affixing the authorship on the defendant. The Learned Gentleman recapitulated the whole evidence in the case, and called upon the Jul y to look at the letter addressed by the defendant to the plaintiff, in reply to the one which she wrote calling upon him to fulfil his promise. They would find that he did not directly refuse, nor did he consent, but, He paltered with her in a double sense. If she recovered her beauty, he might be inclined to do her the justice she asked at his hand., or he might deny it just as it suited his inclination. The Learned Counsel concluded by calling upon the Jury to give such an ample amount of damages as would mark their opinion of the most disgraceful and infamous conduct of the defendant, and compensate his client for the disappointment and pain she had experienced. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up. He said the plaintiff was not barred from her action because she had written a letter, asking the return of her letters and portrait, at a period when she was suf fering from wounded feelings occasioned by the neglect and insult of the defendant. It the Jury be• hewed the defendant a as the author of the letter which had been handed to them, the grossness of which no language could characterize, it ought to enhance the amount of the damages they would give to the plain tiff. if they were, however, of opinion he was taut the author, and was not privy to its being sent to the plain tiff, they would give such moderate damages as the ge umal circumstances of the case demanded. • The Jury examined the letter, and, after a few mi.' notes' consultation, they returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one thousand pounds. The LORD Cuin, Alarms: With the permission of my brother Wilde, as an act of justice to the defendant, I ask the Jury if their verdict was given from a convic tion that the defendant was the author of the letter so often alluded to? FOREMAN—We are of opinion that he wrote it, or was privy to its being sent. GRIM. CON.—WALTER V. SAUNDERS. Mr. Witt - rousts opened the pleadings.--This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover compensa tion in' damages from the defendant, for a criminal c•mversation with the plaintiff's wife. Mr. Sc , geant Wit.na stated the plaintiff's case; his Learned Friend had already stated to the Jury the nature of the action. The plaintiff was a person In very humble circumstances, by trade a journeyman hatter. He was brought up in the country, where he became acquainted with the subject of the present action, to whom he was married in 1819, at Stowmarleet, in Suffolk. The marriage took pl.ce with the consent of the fa milies on both sides, and in the presence of Mr. Kent, Airs. Walter's lather, and the putits commenced life with every pro erect of domestic happiness. Soon atter his marriage the plain tiff commenced business as a hatter in the (*entry, but he afterwards came up to town,- and entered into the service of a Mr. Itlidelletun. Upon calming to town he took lo4tOngs N O li ! 1 1 4 h 1. a t I i t i t 1 ~., 1 (4 i I . , • t tt:11. , ). 4 .' .; ' :A, ,‘• • • ,• ••••„ k s • .4%. • .. in Saint John Street Read, and t respectable Lady named Rawlins, introduced the defeadant..rho was a surgeon, and he was soon after employed by *I plaintiff in his profe sional character. Mr. Saunders was • married man, and the father of a family, and it -could not be matter of surprise that the plaintiff should not have harboured the remotest suspkion that be was that deep, designing, intriguing character, which he afterwards proved himself to hr. About Michaelmas, 1825, the plaintiff re moved to Panton-street, Haymarket, where the defendant still con tinued to attend as surgeon, and in June, in the same year, taking advantage at the temporary absence of her husband on business, Mts. Waiter eloped with the defendant. Fur same time, her hus band could learn no traces of her, but at length, she was discovered lodging at Brampton, and passing as the wife of the defendant. who had assumed the name of Harwood. Witnesses world be produced, who would prove that the plaintiff and his wife enjoyed great do mestic happiness until their acquaintance with the defendant. It was true the plaintiff was in humble circumstances, but no man suffered so much from the loss of domestic happiness as it poor man, for what had he that was so valuable as the tender assiduities of an affectionate wife ? In conclusion, be called upon the Jury to give full compensation to the plaintiff, for an injury which had been pro. perly characterisell as the greatest one that one man could inflict on another. John Kent examined, and said the plaintiff's wife is my daugh ter. I was present at their marriage ;It was celebrated at a village near Stowmarket, - on the nth of July, 1819. The plaintiff carried on business as a hatter at Ely, anrsubsequently removed to Lon. don, where he conducted business for Mr. Middleton. I was fre quently in the habit of seeing the parties after their marriage. They appeared to be living very happily. My daughter always spoke of her husband with the greatest respect and affection. The plaintiff came on a visit to my house about last Whitsuntide. His wife soon after followed. I then observed a difference in their behaviour towards each other. They did not appear to enjoy as much domestic hap piness as they had previously done, aid I told my daughter that I feared she bad bad advisers. My daughter's name is Susan. Mrs. Rawlins said—l lived in St. John-street-road in 1845. The plaintiff and his wife lodged with me and my son. They appeared to live on terms of great affection. I believe it was at my house the plaintiff first met the defendant, Mr. Saunders. The defendant is a suipoo, and a married man, with a family. The plaintiff has no family. Mr. Middleton—l am i hatter. The plaintiff came into my ser vice in 1892. He managed my business. I frequently bad an op portunity df seeing him and his wife, and they appeared to live very happily together. John Deacon—l live in Panton-street, Haymarket. The plain tiff and his wife came to lodge in my house. Mrs. Walter left my house in the absence of her husband. She returned frequently afterwards to take away some things which were left. I subse quently saw her at the house of Mr. Arnold,' in Brampton. She was living under the protection of Mr. Saunders. They passed under the name of Mr. and Mrs. Harwood. Whilst the plaintiff and his wife were lodging at my house, Mr. Saunders attended Mrs. Walter in his professional capacity. Mr. John Arnold—l live at Michael.place, Brampton. Mrs. Walter took my lodgings, she said for herself and husband. Mrs. Walter took the lodgings under the name of Harwood: Mr. Saunders passed for Mrs. Walter's husband, and they occupied the same room. William Magness-.-I live at Pimlico, I know Mr. Saunders. He lived at the corner of Duke.street, St. James's, and kept a surgeon's -shop. He took lodgings at my house, as Mr. Harwood, Mrs. Wel ter lived with him. They lived as man and wife. Aaron Blackman was produced to prove the hand-writing of the defendant Saunders; and a copy of verses, written by him, was put in, which proved to be Moore's weilknown com mencing—•• Fly from the world, oh Belay, to me," the t ' having substituted Susan, which is Mrs. Walter's nu" imeend of the name chosen by thebrish Anacreon. The case having cloned, Chief Jattice But addreintl Nay The evidence left no naiad dosibt that there had biothatmlesi connection between the plaintiff's wife and the &beam. The Jury were to consider, however, that they did not sit there to punish Ike defendant, but to make amends to the plaintiff, for the apiary be sustained. The defendant being a surgeon, was certainly an aggravation; for medical men were received into families upon different terms from other male visitors, and if a medical man availed himself of those facilities to debauch a female, be was guilty of *most scandalous breach of, trust, verdict for the plaindff.— Camel* .1150. SECONDARIES OFFICE, Joss 2. LINNIF-POISFORD N. CHAPMAN. The defendant, in the above case, the proprietor of " The Kent and Essex Mercury," having suffered judg- ' ment go by default, a writ of inquiry to assess damages was directed to the Sheriffs, and the case came on on Saturday for hearing. Mr. WooLla attended from Mr. Harmer's office, on behalf of the plaialiff; and Mr. TALIOURD appeared as Counsel for the defendant. . The Jury being sworn, Mr. WOOLIR stated the case to be one of libel of so very aggravated a nature in it self as not to require any address in aggravation. It con sisted of a charge against the plaintiff of having disposed of the dead body of her husband to the surgeons for dis section ; and not content with this accusation, revolting as it was to every feeling of humanity,the same paragraph accused the plaintiff of prostitution and drunkenness. It was not possible to conceive any charges of a more weighty description; and if they could have been in the slightest degree justified. no one would have had the hardihood to take the .case into a Court of Justice. But, strange as it might seem. there was not the slightest foundation for other. of these accusations; and the de fendant, bye suffering judgment to go by default, had confessed that he had not even the preference of a justi fication in the most remote degree; he admitted that the plaintiff had been grossly slandered in his columns; and it remained to be-seen, since there was no defence, what excuse could be offered in mitigation of the very moderate damages laid in the declaration—namely,tool. Mr. TALIOUED, in reply, offered the usual apologies for !taste and inadvertence; but candidly allowed there was nothing else to offer Ia extenuation of the libel; except that his client had nothing else whatever to do with the matter, beyond the accidental admission of the paragraph into the paper. He called upon the Jury to remember the benefits derived from the Press, and trusted they would not visit an accidental aberration with any thing like excessive damages. The Secondary, in his summing up, remarked, that the libel was certainly of a very decided nature. He left it to the Jury to say what damages were, in their opinion, cow mensur ate with the justice of the case. The Jury retired for about a quarter of an hour, and returned with a verdict or 2001. being the whole amount of the damages laid in the declaration. • OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Jt1 . 14;2. • Susan, Tim m unDiarc —Th e witnesses in this Otte were teverally called into Court, and were called upon to enter into recognizance; to appear at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, there to give evidence before file Grand Jury, touching the death of a child that had b..en murdered. The indictment is po-onned till the neat Sessions. Sheen continues in custody. Some misunderstanding respecting the ground of the acquittal of this culprit on Friday, appears to have gone abroad, and by 4 great many it has been presumed that the prisoner could not be again indicted for what may be thought to be the same offence. With regard to the first pint, Mr. CLAnKsom's obj-ction was, that the child, being a natural offspring of the mother before her marriage with the prisoner, had no name in law naleibi it had acquired one by reputation. The evidence failed to prove that the child in question had acquired by re potation either the name of Charles William Beadle (the name in the indictment), or that of William Sheen (the name of the child in the Coroaer's inquisition), and therefore both bad. There was no evidence to thew that it had aclitired any other name by reputation than William, and of that fact there was ye y slight evidence. The cases reterred to by the Learned Judge,tipon which the decision was founded, were Rex v. Clark, and Buss and Ryan, C.C.R. With respect to the other point, it is presumed that an indictment may be so framed as to meet the crime charged against the prisoner, and to place it out of his power to plead " afore-quit." John ;nibs. aged ss, was capitally indicted for stealing, in the dwelling-house of Ann Elizabeth Montague Douglas Scott, com monly called lady Ann Scott, a pair of silver candlesticks,. value 131. on the tads of June, 1826. Guilty—Death. Samuel Smith was indicted for stealing a pier-glass, the property of George Daniels, in his dwelling-house, and Thomas Bailey for receiving the same, knowing it to be stole n.—Guilty. Henry Refines, aged thirteen, John Blemajeld. sixteen, and Wil liam Bracer, seventeen. were indicted for stealing from Joseph Croons a handkerchief. The prosecutor stated that, on going along Ludgate-hill, he felt a pull at his pocket, and, turning round, found the three prisoners near him, and kis handkerchief in the hand of Robinson. The RUCOILDIR charged the Jury that, if they could make a dis tinction between the prisoners, they would do so • if not they would find them all guilty.—The Jury found all the prgoners The prisoners were immediately called up fur judgment, and Bracer and Bloomfield were sentenced to be transported for life, avid Robinson for seven years. Jaitaflesukre was indicted for stealing from Backingloot Palace seven pounds of lead, the property of his Majesty. In analog aunt the property was stated to belong to Sir C, Arbuthnot ma= I , the Commissioners of Woods and Forma—Mr. BILLIND A the case for the pitaecutiou. John Allesiby, the overseer of works to Mr. Nash, the architoolo stated, that be saw the prisoner returning from work through lu s t I Gardens, when, from appearances, it struck witness thalweg.' more bulky than usual; be followed him to a marine store diem lothe Seven Dials, where be offered it for sale, but the person woad nee purchase it. Witness then went in and ked the viewer (wheal, be knew) from whence be had brought the lead? Tbe poignance this fell es hies knees, and declared that this was Me firdellimile; hateifi he found the lead among the rubbish at the times Pidins whole, he was a labourer. Mr. Ross stated, that at present there were 700 artificers sail labourers employed at the Palace. Mr. ROLLAND said, that it was only last Sessions that there wee a charge of a similar nature prosecuted at the last Session hie 11 rubbery at Carlton Heuse.—Verdict, Guilty. • Mr. Sergeant /seam said, that the property thus Mien to the public, and how grea: would be the aggregate el= if 700 men were to purloin seven pounds of lead daily; the primed might rely upon being transported. Jain Bartell, aged 80, a sweep, was indicted for stealing arid watch, gold key, and seals, value Litt, the property of John Thompson. The case was clearly made out, and the Jury, with • hesitation, found the prisoner GuiltyDnath. William .florlatati Wdoams, the individual who levied cemeibu dons so extensively upon the shopkeepers of the metropolis, and who escaped from Clerbenwell Prison, but was retaken, was in dicted on four charges of shoplifting, and found guilty upon them all. He was elegantly dressed, and behaved with great indifference. cuasea Or MOSSIDO. /*gods Name, aged 64, was indicted for the wilful murder of Jeremiah lisephy, by administering 'arsenic in a pint of peeter a l which the deceased drank. Samuel Mils,, surgeon, Spitalfields, examined the body of the deceased as the 18th of April—k presented an unnatural livid ap- ' romance, the face, mouth, and lips were very much swollen; the eyes were in the ordinary state. The body generally war in a high state of putrefaction. He had seen similar appearances follow death by poison OD several occasions. He first opened the lungs; there was the appearance of extmvasated blood, which might have been produced by a blow, but from the state of the body he could not come to that conclusion. He found the vessels of the brain in a very turgid state, and effused blood on the brain. Various causes might have pr oduced these appearances; apoplexy or poison might, he could not conclusively say which. He opened the stismaCh, and found it mach inflamed—general inflammation. The state of the stomach and the intestines was not such as to lead to a satisfactory conclusion as to the cause of his.deatb, they only led hint to a suspicion; the appearances might have proceeded team other causes. He took home the contents of the stomacb-.- had there been any mineral poison, there was a sufficieat quantity for him to have detected it. He detected no mineral poison—he used a variety of tests. He did not think that any medical man could say with certainty what was the cause of the death of the deceased. Mr. Baron Hustace here stopped the case. In his' Spinion i there was not evidence to support the indictment; it was not necessary to prove that the poison was of a particular description, but there must be poison • and it was clear from the evidence that no poison had been dis covered. A skilful person could discover the least quantity of mineral poison, but here there was not the least particle found; and the witness not being able to say, with certainty, what was the cause of the death of the deceased, the ptiseno must be acquitted. Verdict—Not Guilty. Saturday an Inquest was held at the Ring's Bench Prison, on the young man, Henry Hewes, who threw himself out of one of the windows in the inside of the prison. The evidence which was given corroborated the statement given in Saturday's STAR, and the . Jury returned a verdict of Insanity. The Jury said, that a medical Gentleman ought to be engaged to reside within the walls, and resdlved to petition the Secretary of State upon the subject. STRUM Rusamtv.—Friday last, Mary Hawkins, a respectably dressed female, entered the Mary-la-bonne Court-house, in a state of great agitation, and address- 1 ing Mr. Litton, one of the officers, exclaimed, " Oh, Sir, I have lost all the money I possessed in the world ! the produce of my industry and labour for several years past." Mw Litton asked her to explain the particu lar nature of her loss? The young woman said, " Sir, I received a letter from a relation of mine, a few days ago, who resides at Rippon, in Yorkshire, recommending me to d-aw my money from the Bank of England, and to hasten home as soon as possible, my mother being in so dangerous a state, that she was not expected to live an hour. I accordingly went to the Bank, and received 441. (one2ol. and tour 51. notes and 4 sorer eigns), all of which I kept close in my hand until I arrived at the corner of Berners-street, Oxford-street. I then put the money into my pocket, and did not discover my loss, until looking at some caps in a milliner's shop. window, higher up in Osford•street, and having put my hand in my pocket with an intention of making a purchase, I, to my sorrow, discovered that my money was gone, my pocket cut across at the bottom, and every thing in it made away with." The officer recom. mended her to proceed as expeditiously as possible to the Bank, to stop the payment of the notes, it it could be done. The poor girl thanked him for his advice, and refired Irons the Court-house in deep distress. • MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, BASINOHALL.STREET. TO-110MM. XL. • , T. N'Leod, Chichester, Sum:, draper . . t't 11 R. Greatky, Myrtle-street, Holton, dour-factor . 3 10 J. Hawkins, Middlesex.streer, Somers•rown, bulkier 3 9 T. Hedges, Birmingham, grocer . . 3 11 .R. Young, Marshall street, Golden.aquare, tailor . gll J. Lawton, John's-mews, Bedford-row, iron-manufacturer 2 10 W. Waters, WWI, Bed fordshire, baker 1 10 . . W. L. Grosvenor, sen. and Co. Cornhill, stationers . 11 J. Barber, klenrietta.street, Covent-garden, linendrape/ . to W. Brydon, Cornhill, druggist . . 12 . . B. L. Ogle. clement's-lane. briekmaker . . 11 HEBDOMADARY. - - THIS DAT-Whit Mooday—HoUday at the Bank—Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter 40 min. put 2 in the afternoon. To-aronaow—Whit Tuesday—Hollday at the Bank—Duke of Cumberland, horn 1771. Wsonssuar—Ember Week--Sent rises 49 min. past 3; sets 11 lain. pant a—The Queen arrived in London, TUIRSDA —Saura sets 41 min. past 9 in the evening; Jupiter at 24 min. past 1 in the morning ; and Alar. at 9 In the evening. faiDa T— Mum south 20 plia s ). pact 11 night, and shines till near 3 in the morning—A coniederAtion signed at Vienna, called the Holy Alliance, ISIS. Sammaaa—Noon In perigee—Mercury in perihello—.Superior Conjunction of the Sun and Mercury at a 4 beture S in the morning. Full Moon 19 Sun. before 4 in tar afternoon. • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • . BOW-STRRET. • Sattodaya Jokes Knight, a ticket porter. chervil ikaltst G am . ham, a cook, with an assault. It turned scot, however, that lift complainant was the aggressor, aod the Seducer of the al etas wife, whom this amorous mortal carried of three times. The has. band called at a house in hound-coort, In the Swami, where she and her paramour hati taken op their abode ou Weebleak', lay, when a quarrel ensued, out of which the present charge sprung._ The object of the husband's visit seemed however, to be rather as obtain some of the " neaps( " than is had out the olive brands. The faithless Delilah appeared at the Dike with her deary, le t s primed with gin, and expressed the Meet devoted attachment to her enamorata. The result, however resoles* the Magi.rrate ordered the gay seducer to find bail, and directed the false fair one toile Mated up until she got sober, whkh, hornet was eft phshed without ;rime difficulty. After she had been removed front the Office, the foolish bubband told the Magistrate that he woad willingly take her again if she would go, and entreated him Woe s i s t to try to persuade her, which tadt,honowert the Magir eit , thou it in vain to attempt. H A'FTO WC , A R D Saturday, Boot Merges, and Leta Rees, two strapping c am . brians, were brought before Mr. LUNG, the Sitting lag a b y charged by a watchman with creating a disturbance At the Wbiie Lion, Islington, about half-past four o'clock that morni ng . The watchman stated, that, as passing the door, his attentim was attracted by the gabbling of a number of females inside. Ott en:ew ing, he discovered these two men closely grappled on the puma, waked in milk, and the women endeavouring to part them. Tie dispute being in Welsh, he was unable to ascertain its otitis. sag, tbeeefere, rammed the parties to the retaliator. Mr. Lama—What have you to say to the charge? Rvan Morgan- 0 This man, yew Warship (pointing to Beet always plagues me, because I sells milk cheaper nor him. This morning, be touts the people at the Liao, that 1 only goes to lington to milk the ham pump In Rhodes's-yard." I said to MIN "If I milks the pump, pea ratite New River Company; I fetch clean, but you steal dirty water; Rees then comes up to me, and pushes me dowel owes the ties, falls on me, and all the milker' out, your Worship." L ew i s Rees. -I wassail , joking, till be did tall me r thief ; I pays for all my water every quarter, and don't steal it. lisipposa m p w . Werahip was ems Untie two, how should you like to be cdi e d a rogue? I pay for all my water, and won't be called a thief. Both defendants were ordered to find bail; and Mr. Gaff, ti lt landlord of the White Linn, (who had been sent for during the exatnination),was feed 40s. fat having his house *pen at an an seasonable hour. Mr.Gapp—At what hour in the morning ant Ito open album? Mr. Lanus—The next time you are brought here on a datihr charge, Sir, you shall have an answer which you will proheh re . collect. Go about your business, Sir. The publican retired, evidently much dissatisfied. MARY-LA-BONNE. Saturday a man named Jammer Bream, was brought to the OSce charged with the following robbery :—lt appeared that the prisms that day went to the house of Miss hrDonnell, in Wimpolsonott, and presenting a letter to the servant, requested she would deliver it to. Mies lit Donnell, saying he knew the family in Ireland, acl his name would at -once be recollected. The servant perceiwg eemigeraltak plausibility about the man, desired hint to wait Ia the paw wadi it carried the letter up stairs. lie thanked her, tue as the was WWI% mod the angle of the staircase, she perceived take down n great coat from a hook in the passage. She re. ,tersed instantly, and secured him as he was walking off with tae vit. Maker being sent ter he was given into custody, and oa Wig searched. in his pockets another letter signed "James Day," and directed to a Lady in the neighbourhood was found. The in. ten were rind, they contained a rigmarole story about the disireN of the presume, couched in very curious orthography.—The En. loner had nothing to and was committed to Newgat e. say, QUEEN-SQU A RE. Saturday, the proprietor of a china-warehouse in Gravure:c row, Pimlico, was brought before G. W. Mattasorr, Esq. charged with the reorder of his wife. . When the prisoner was placed in the dock, he looked round Sin with an air of wildness, and was Alertly so overpowered by his feelings, that Mr. Monastery with great humanity, told the after ' to accommodate him immediately with a chair ; in whidt, apps. 1 rently in a state of aberration, he sat deiectedly down. Samuel Volley, a constable, deposed, that he was en duty at du watchhoese at twelve o'clock on Faiday night, when he was is formed, by a Gentleman whose name was unknown to hitn o tsit whose person he could recognise, that an act of fearful violence had recently been committed on the person of a female in Gra.- eenor.row. The Gentleman said, that he feared sonic intader pas ' done, and, therefore, it would be proper for an racer of justice is ascertain the teeth. Witnesi, in eonseqience, went 'saucily te the home. . Mr. Monalsow--What became of the Gentleman? Constable—The Gentleman left me, as he said he should not Lie his name to be mentioned. Witness proceeded to state, that, upon his knocking at the dour, MO women came down stairs, and .opened it ; when Witne4 tog them his errand, that be had heard that something mos; dreadful had occurred in the house, and came there in consequence; wire one woman mid witness, it was a ditching circumstance. He seed who was up wain? widths answer was, that there were tea Medical Gentlemen id the room. Witness then observed, that be wished to see them ratan after which, one of the Doctors cam down, and informed him that the female up stairs was really dead; and added,that the prisoner, by his own con iesdoo, had given his wile a sodden, but violent blow, which had caused her death. Witness was sow asked up stairs, and went into the front runm. where be beheld the prisoner. Witness said, he was sorry fur the dreadful event ; when the prisoner replied, that he certainly struck his wife with his elbow, while together in bed. Prisoner then admitted that be perpetrated an act of violence, in hitting his deceased war, though be was not aware of the consequence. The decessrd had said something which displeased the prisoner, and that caused his hitting her. The room, the prisoner added. was in darkness at the I time; it was about half-past ten o'clock, as well as prisoner wail recollect ; be struck a light, and immediately went for a Doctor. At hearing this, the prisoner became so overpowered by his feel logs, that he wept aloud, and leaned his head on the bar. Witness now proreeded with his evidence. When the Doctor missy the female was quite *ad. Prisoner had told witness, that he bad no intention of injuring the deceased; and was Vitt ,Saleted at what had happened:' The prisoner soon after sent ter W brother, whom be conjured most affectionately to take care of Ids filldren, and then accompanied the witness arm-in-arm so tie Llemilloose. illsv limmiorr—Can you tell me anything about the state of the pdelmille mind, from what you observed at the time ? 011111.11111--He seemed in great trouble, kissed his children sill ingsamisef end said, he was sorry for what had taken place. • Mere • consultadon took place between hir. Mammon and gr. I .lu&saits, another Magistrate ' as to what was proper to be don e ; which, the prisoner was ordered to be brought up again ne Tuesday.—After the prisoner had keen locked up, it was s•ries:e! In the constable, from the &sancta' appearance of the ac cases Eat it would be unsafe to leave him alone in the ceL ; and us car ielseace the constable applied to Mr. Maamorr on ton ,u'-)to. when the worthy hisg4trate was pleased to direct that c v r.t the officers should remain in compapyietth the prisoner, *is was at --”witted to 'fothill-fielatrison. BIRTH. This morning, Mrs. Fraser, of Manias' Inn, of a son. MARRIED. At Stonehouse Chapel, William Guard, a miner, aged 4'. to 1 r 4. Frances, a widow, aged eisktyAmse I their united age s trak: " B The bride Was so infirm that she was unable to walk to :!,c without the assistance of a friend on each 'hie to support Ng.. DIED. The 23d ult. at the Palace of the Bardo. her Bighorn Lila Fatima, sole consort of the Basluw Bey of Tunis, basin thrie previously been delivered of a Prince, her fourteenth child. At her funeral 1,600 slaves received their freedom. At his house, at Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, on the Vdd in t. 'Major Alex. 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