The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-13 00:00:00

wqr; WILTSHIRE ASSIZES—Mascn 11. Wni, Ansel, aged 54, was charged with having', on or Aunt the 11th day of Jan. IS2O, feloniously forged the . aa.me of " W. Green" to a bill of exchange to the amount o` 871. 14s. CA. . 31r. ADAM expressed his regret at seeing a man of the years and respectability of the prisoner stand at the bar. 'rho prisoner had for many vears extensively exercised dise business of a tanner, at Wantage, and as far back as lal7, be bad been in the habit of getting his bills dis 'United at the house of Messrs. King and Co., the prose staters in this cast, who were the proprietors of the Old Narlborough Bank. On the 11th of July.lB2o, amongst . other transactions, the prisoner got one bill paid of 871. •drawri by the prisoner upon Mr. Lee, and purporting to be accepted by Wm. Green, of Vantage, timber-iner •ebant. 'phis bill was returned dishonoured; and remained •in the hands of the prosecutors. The prisoner became blnkrupt, and several transactions took place, and the bill continued in theliands of the prosecutors for a canticle •rahle time, without their suspecting that it was a forgery. or any steps being taken respecting it. In Ib2l, however •Ir,e became exceedingly anxious re get this particular bill 'net of the hands of the prosecutors from amongst others. was so very an xi o us and unceasing in his application to obtain that bill, by giving other securities for it, that the prosecaters began trisuspect th aCsomething was wrong and set an inquiry on foot. The result of that inquiry went -to convince the prosecutors, that the acceptance was a for , • gory. It was learnt in short, that the acceptance was not that of Green, but that of the prisoner; thatOreen was not , a timber merchant , but poor carpenter, whose transac -1 lions with the prisoner,conststed in lending hint money and 'receiving bills of exchange in return. The defence' which would be set up on the other side would, perhaps, be that the consent of Green to accept the 1 1 111 in his name had been given to the prisoner ; or at least, that Green lead not declined a request to that effect. The fact, how ever, would really appeat to be this, that, when the pri soner asked Green to accept a bill for him, Green most -positively Rinsed, saying be would do no such thing as • accept a hill for the prisoner. The prisoner then asked ' Given fir leave to put his name to the hill, to which Green replied, " what you do I cannot help ; that will he net harm to me?" Supposing this could be considered as an implied consent on the part of Green, it could only be considered as consent that the prisoner should act by procuration as his agent ; but did the prisoner represent .111Mar.lf as actink by procuration of Green ? No, he re presented his own hand-writing', as the band-writing of Green. and it would be found, that he had represented that Green was a timber merchant, when in fact he was it mere ordinary carpenter. It would we found, that when the bill became due, a letter respecting it was for • *arded to Green, to whom the prisoner expecting this letter, requested he would not open it, but bring it to hint, and the postage should be paid. Green did this sc . corilingly.. It would be shown too, that the prisoner, ascertaining'on the time the prosecutors sent down their : ••ponfidential clerk to make inquiries, as soon as he leardt she fact, which was one day Arcep the clerk went down :there, by means ail* stm, lent Green to sign a paper; purporting that he had given his consent to the-prisoner accepting the bill in Me helmet. • Bat it would be shown that Green, in fact, did sine the paper, without being aware of its nature, or contents, anti that he had also been iodated to accept another hill, upon a representation made, that it would perhaps be the means of inducing the Marlborough Bank to set up. the prisoner again in "stnners, and that he would then pay shun (Green) the money which he (the prisoner) owed him. The Jury svpilla tee tli« hedaviour of Go en in the hoe, mid would * judge whether or oot.the was a man poor and i g norant,, , .and lik e ly to be,erocked upon by s man of, the prisoner's .superior mind and education. It would ie• for heJury to judge why there w.as ail this anxiety on the part of time „pilsoreer, if his conscience was clear , to get back t he pat • .tierrar bill, and why, it he were innocent, all the pre- Stations which he had availed himself of, were cited.— . All that the prosecutors wished in. this case was, that the prisoner shotiltirlear himself towards the public. Theliest ivitness called was S. Bredlef, clerk to Messrs. *icing end Co. the old bankers at Marlborough, and also at :flungerford.)—The prisoner, William Anrell, ever .sine.- 1817, had been in the habit of discounting bills at house. Witness produced a bill which he said he saw on tho.l2th af • Januaey, . .Witness pro feed an entry of the bill, which entry was wade by 1F el '' ; grit duce a. ~ . :.. - VICE-CiIANCELLOR'S COURT, Dimwit 12. caiman E. CURTIS. This watt an exception to the Master's Report. 11r; BELL, for the defendant, supported the exception. Re said the bill had been filed by Miss Curtis, daughtet of the late Sir Roger Curtis, against her brother, Sir Lucius Curtis, and the other executors of Sir Roger Curtis, calling on them to account for Sir Roger's per sonal estate ; and on their answer coming in, an order was made that the Master should report whether the plaintiff hint possessed herself of any part of the testa tor's personal estate. besides what watt specifically left her by the testator's will ; and the Master, after having ex amired the plaintiff, stated that she had not. To this report an exception was taken, on the ground that the blaster ought to have reported that the plaintiff had pos. sensed herself of personal property belonging to the tes tator to the amount of 7001., which exception was sup ported by the examination of the plaintiff, and by letters proved in the cause.—lt appeared in the cause that Sir Roger Curtis died in November, 1816, and Lady Curtis in the month of April followiug. '1 he plaintiff on her examination stated, that after the death of her mother, Lady Curtis. she took possession of a deal lax which her mother had in her possession before and after the death of the tes'ator, which Fos contained gold coin and Bank of England notes to the amount of 7001.; and that she (the plaintiff) bell7ved the said gold coin and bank notes were the propert;V Lady Curtis during the lifetime of ter hnitind, and that she always treated the same ash'', separat- property ' • and that sl 4: (plainti ff ) believed that Sir Roger Curtis knew • that Lady Curtis had said pro perty,.and considered it to belong to her; and that in the month of December, 1816, Lady Curtis made a will; by which she beventhed the pr-perty contained in the said box to the pl antilf. But, said Mr. BELL, there is a letter written by Lady Curtis to Sir Roger Curtis, which Sibews that the properly contained in the boa was legally his property. The letter was es follows: " December% 1815. " MOST DEAR HUSBAND—In the last drawer of my burisau yeu will find a deal box, in which i s a b a c. I containing gold, which you put smiler my care at the time you thought the French would inva ie es ; and en• other bag containing dank-notes which were given me by my mother on my marriage, except a part that I received for calves, which you always allowed tile to keep. 1 will be much obliged to you to divide the amount equally be. tween my two children, and also to give my dear daugh ter theta silver tea kettle and lamp. should it please (ion to take the before you; and 1 hope you will leave her a sum to begin housekeeping, as otherwise she might be distressed on your death.' From this letter 111 1 : Batt argued that the money cot tained in the deal boi did not belong to Lady Curtis, but was in fact given to . her to keep by her husband. Vice•Coaracsu.on.—The matter in dispute should have bet n arranged between the parties. Part of the property in the dent box, it is char, belonged to Lady Curtis, and you can oily ask for the whole on the rule that the per son who mixes his own money with that of another, and can't separate it, should bear the loss of it; but it would be extremely hard to apply that rule here. Let the par ties divide the contents of the deal box between them. P years old, for whom he appeared to have au extraordi nary affection, inasmuch he would never permit her to : go outside the doors.—(This information alluded to the un fortunate Mary Ann Bolton.) In consequence of learn ing these facts, she (the mother) went to the house and saw her daughter's seducer, who received her with the greatest kindness, deplored her distressing situation; and assured her he knew nothing of the girl. She told him site hail ascertained that he did harbour her, and deo mauded to see her. lie still persiste . d in latowing no thing shoat her, and she therefore sought the assistance of the Magistrate. The Magistrate told the poor woman he wonld rendei her every assistance he possibly could, and instantly dis patched Clarke, an active officer, with Mrs. Bolton to the Captain's residence, to demand the restoration of the de luded girl. In about an hour the officer;returned with her in hie tody. She is a charming fresh coloured looking gi r l; and was very gentoelly dressed. The otfi-er stated, that when he entered the Captain's house be found hint and the girl sitting at breakfast; lie made the nature of bit visit known, and the Captain declared he would not sur render her. however he succeeded in tarrying her offt and on the way to the office she told hint, that as she was walking in the London road she met with the Captain, who told her if she woald leave her parents, and Ike with him, he would supply her with pleiry of money and dresses. She according ran away. She sta•ed that she always slept with the Captain except on Sunday nights, when she slept with the Captain's son, a boy abutit O. years old; anti a lady remained %%kit the Cap ' tain. She had been treated with the greatest kindness by him, and she was determined never to leave his • society. The Magistrate explained the infamy of the life she was living, and the impropriety of leaving her fond and indulgent parents to satiety the lust of a debauched old man. All that he could do would be totteliver her up to her mutter, hoping she would alter her ways. The mother thAlc•ti the Magistrate for his kind inter ference, and left the Mike with her daught r. ALARMING Fitte.—Yesterday morning, at five o'clock, a fire was discovered by the patrol, in the lower part of the premises of Mr. Spurred, in Hackney Grove, blidd•e sex. So rapid was the progreas of the dames, tha► the in mates, Mr. Spurred, his sister, and a maid-servant, were compelled to retreat over a very narrow parapet, into the ' garret n iudow of au adjoining house. lis a few minutes the house was in a blaze, and not a vestige of property was preserved. The Hackney engine was the first on the spot, but the want of watrr preven.ed its being brought into effect. A great number of engines arrived from town, and the fire was confined to Mr. Spurrell's house, which was totally consumed. Yesterday, between nine and ten o'clock in the morn ing, a tire broke out in a bitch m belonging to a chand ler s shop and coal shed, in Lancaster-street. Vommercial road, which in a short time consumed that house, toge ther with all the furniture, &c. and did considerable da- nafe to the two adjoining Moises. LORONERS' I:NU/MTS.—Yesterday, an inquest Was held at the Camberwell el orkliouse. before Chat let J ern mett, Esq. on the body of a niale child, whose body nas discovered lying near the foot-pail in the Camberwell New-road on the Silt inst. John Pedlian, a journeyman brickmaker, deposed that on Saturday morning last between seven and eight o'clock, while jruceeding to his work along the Camber. well New-road, he was shocked on tfrliolding the body of a dead child lyiog at the side of the footraqt, com pletely exposed to view; on nearer approach the witness perceived • strip of coarse linen made fast round the in fant's neck, and the ends of it thrust into its mouth. A piece of flannel which covered a part of the deceased, was quite wet, and had some mud on it. The witness added that the body must have I ern placed in the position de scribed the previous night, as other' ise it would hare been discovered before. He informed the pariah-officers of the eircumstatces, who had the deceased conveyed to the workhouse. Mr. John Brown, surgeon, of Camberwell, deposed that on the day in question, he was sent for to t'e deceased, who was lying it the warlthouse. On esanti n hut the body he found it was in a patrid state, owing to the length of time it had been dead. The deceased ap peared to be about three weeks old. 'Fite piece of linen dt kribed by the first witness, which was drawn round the infant's neck, was sufficient to cause atrangalali n, had it been placed there before death. The body &adieus were huddled together, and tied up as if in order to make it up into a small parcel, and the whole enveloped in a piece of flannel. Another witness was examined, who corroborated the above evidence. Verdict—Wilful Murder against some person or per son's unknown. A Coroner's Inquest sv;.s held on Monday evening b-- fore J. W. UNWIN, Esq. itt. the Gun Tavern, Uun-durk, Wapping, on the bode o! a youth found drowned, un known, aged about 1. Judd, beadle of Wapping, stated, that the body was ob served floating in the Thames, near Wapping Hoek Stairs scine watermen took it out and conveyed it to the hone louse ; it appeared to have been its the water about a week; it was dressed in a blue coatee, blue waistcoat, brown trowsers, a Holland shirt and false collar. with an almost new pair of high shoes. Verdict —Found dronued. Unknown. Yesterday evening an Inquisition was taken in the Board-room of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, before Taos. SHELTON, Esq. Coroner, off the body of Bridget El win, aged two years.—lt appeared from the evidence, that the deceased leas sitting in her incolier's lap on Moo day morning whilst the family were at breakfast, when she suddenly seized bold of the tea-pot just as the boiling Water had been put in, and upsetting it poured the con tents ill over her bosom and along her body, by which the poor little sufferer was most dreadfully scalded. Sbe was attended at home by a surgeon until her case becom ing more alarming, wl en she was conveyed to the above Hospital and users hisser:l in the greatest tumors ima ginable until about ten o'clock the same night, when death put a period to her sufferings. Verdict—Accidental Death. Itt.llßEßT.—Tuesday morning the premises of Mr. Ro bert Marchant, silversmith, in Nlortiiner-street, Caveti dish-square, were robbed by some villains, who, atter boring several holes in the panne{ of the shutter by a cen tre-bit, succeeded in cat ryi ng away two gold chains, Va lue upwards of 121., from the windo w. MARRIED.—On the 49th of December, 1822, at St. George's church, Deuteron., W. Arrindell„ Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, barrister at law, to Mary Anne,eldest daughter of Mrs. Shearson, relict of the late J. Shearson, Esq. of Newton-in the-Willows, Lancashire. DIED.—On the 3tl inst. Mr. S. Chamberlain, late of Racquet-court. Fleet-street, aged 76. On the lOtti of November, at Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Wil liam Tahourdin White. in his 2341 year, second son of Mr. John White, formerly of Fleet-street, and of Sclborne, Hampshire. On Thursday, the Bth instant, at Brentford, Mary, the wife of W. F. Norbury, of that place, printer. At Brunsw:ck, United States, General James W. Ryan. at the advanced age of 107 )cam He was an active officer in the revolutionary war. Ills wife, who is now thing. is Ai years of age, and in perfect good health. What is %try remarkable, they lived together 72 years, and never had a child. General Ryan's health was remarkably good till iithin S hours of i1i5tig.,.....................1...-..--.- - ' _ —.--------% Leaden : bklited, Printed, and Published, at the (Argo( 0 The tarsi eSIIAN " Na. 297, Strand, by R. WARDELL, LL.B. to whom all communications, Orders, is. ars requested to be addresaestl ThE STATESMAN Woodbridge, a clerk, now deceased. Witness had ha 11 many codversations with the prisoner respecting the bill The first was about May, 1820, after he became bankrupt, when he asked the witness to get the bill produced ex changed for a promissory note of hiinself,•his sun Wit liam, and Mr. Green ; which promissory note, be said, should include the interest and expenses of the former bill, up to that time. Witness said hebelieved that Green was a very poor man, and he thought that they might quite as well keep the security they had, for Green's se curity was unworthy of their notice. Nevertheless, he (witness) would inform the firm. The prisoner called repeatedly to know the result of ibis application, and he was informed that they absolutely refused to comply. He came again and again, but the firm refused to comply. Once the witness produced the bill in the prisoner's pre sence. The prisoner in August went to Marlborough to ask for the bill. Witness told hint if he came to Hun gerford the determination of the firm should be made known to him. He did come, and some officers who were in waiting took him into custody.—The book con taining the entry of the bill made by the deceased clerk Woodbridge, was here produced and read. The entry was—" Tuesday, 11th January, Int); William An sell, Green, 14th March, 871. 14s. 6d." There were some other entries in the prisoner's name, but the witness was asked to explain the meaning of this entry. Mr. Justice BURROUGLI asked whether it was intended to adduce this entry as evidence of the prisoner's having uttered the forged hill? Mr. ADAM replied in the affirmative. Mr. Justice BURROUGH then said he considered it would be inadmissible as evidence against the prisoner. I Mr. ADAM contended, that it would be admissible, and argued that it would be seriously to injure the criminal justice of the country, to reject such evidence as this, when in mercantile eases, where every thing depended on the entries in the books, Oe persons who made them were removed either by death or otherwise beyond the reach of a subpoena, when no other evidence cou ld be adduced. He offere d this evidence as a link in the chain of other evidence which he should submit to the Jury. Mr. Justice BURROUGII said he would allow this entry to go to the Jury with the other evidence, but he should tell theta that as evidence of uttering of the bill, alleged to be forged, they must dismiss it from their minds, fur it was inadmissible. Mr. ADAM said then it would be useless for him to go On further with the case, for he had no testimony which could stren2then the proof of the entry which be pros posed to submit as the evidence of the fact of uttering the bill. The Jury then, under the direction of the Learned Judge, acquitted the prisoner. His Lordship, at the same time, expressed his opinion that the words of Green wcre sufficient to warrant the prisoner in a belief that lie had Green's assent to use his acceptance. It appears that juvenile depredation is increasing even in the country. Amongst a number of boyi on the ca lendar, charged with felonies, four (IV. Beaumont, aged 15 ; Moses Ball, aged 13 ; William Crabh, 15; and Jo seph Crabb, aged 13) were charged with having commit ted a highway robbery, in having forcibly taken the watch chain and seals, and a purse with some money, from a man named George Singler. It appeared from the evidence, that, on the night of the robbery, Singlet, wit() is an old man, but strong for his years, had been drinking at a public house, at Bradford, where the prisoners also had been drinking. They saw him pull out a purse, and immediately concerted a plan for robbing the old man as he returned home at night. *'he prisoner Balt; as was concerted, accompanied the prosecutor home. The other tliree prisoners went on be fore, and lay in ambush in a lonely lane, through which they were to pass. When Singlet- and Ball arrived at the spot, Ball gave a whistle, v. ben the three young rob bers rushed out upon the prosecutor, seized him by the legs, from behind, and threw him down, as if it were by one man. The prosecutor had an unfortunate fall upon a stone, which stunned him. They kicked him upon the head unmercifully, but he nevertheless felt them pull at his watch, which lie seized as it was escaping ; but the prisoners forced him to let it go by stamping upon his hand with their heavy hob-nailed shoes. They rifled his pocket of ail the money he had about him, and took his knife front him, and the whole ran away. The prosecu tor heard sufficiently of their voices, and saw enough of them to identify them. A woman with whom Ball lodg ed some time, afterwards found Singler's watch under Ball's bed in one of his stockings. When they were taken up, conceiving that they should save themselves by giving evidence, they ran a race as to who should confess first, and they all confessed ; but seeing that they could no(prolit by their confessions they now on their trial all stoutly denied any knowledge whatever of the miller or the robbery. The Jury found the prisoners all Guilty. Mr. Justice BURIM:011 said be bad never witnessed so toss a case of juvenile delinquency. R obberies of this kind, attended by personal violence, he should ever feel it his duty to punish with the utmost severity; and un doubtedly lie should have left Ball, the leader, and, per haps, the others for execution, but front their extreme youth. As it was, the law obliged him to pass the sen tence of death upon them, but that sentence would not be carried into execution. He should reprieve them be fore he left town, bntsbuuld, nevertheless, inflict a severe punishment upon them. The Frisoners, in appearance, were simple country lads from the plough tail. —ear_ CHELMSFORD, ESSEX, Mancu 12. CIVIL SIDE.—BROOKS O. PICKMORE. This was an action of assault and battery, to which he defendant pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. MARRYATT and Mr. PLATT conducted the plain tiff's case; and Mr. Beasley the defendadt's. The parties were both pest-Masters at Braintree, in this county.. In April last they met opposite the Horn Inn, at Braintree, when an old grudge was revived, in which the defendant appeared to be the aggressor. The plaintiff was pushed with some violence, and he was re tiring from a contest of greater violence, which appeared probable, when the defendant pursued him and knocked him down. He fell senseless on the pavement in the gateway of the inn, and in the fall his head was cut. As soon as he recovered, the defendant said he was certain he should have to pay for it, and as he was determined to have his " pennyworth," he renewed the attack, and beat the plaintiff most unmercifully. Some by-standers rescued bun from farther violence. It was urged in defence, that the violence complained of by the plaintiff arose from sudden irritation, and not trom any premeditated on the part of the defend ant. No nitnesses were called to answer the plaintiff's case, and The .Itiry found their verdict for the plaintiff.—Da- P's 20/. Cnowsz SIM—Ed/OW/4 ifoy, William Saunders, and Wm. Grefuhs, were indicted fur assaulting Mary Oates, 'on the. King's highway, at Woodford, on the `2rtfi of No vetnber, putting her iu fear, and forcibly taking from her an umbrella. Mr. Citadiesissi conducted the defence. It appeared in evidence that the prosecutrix, who was a servant girl ea., on the day mentioned in the indictment, going trona Routford to Woodford. In her way she was attacked by the prisoners, near Wanstead House. They threw her down and took away her umbrella. She had in her pos session a bundle, containing apparel, which they also seized and were carrying it off, when, in consequence of 'her screams bringing a•waggorer• to the spot, they ran off into the (Ores', leaving the bundle behind. The wag goner pursued the prisoners and overtook them. They threw the onsbrelie into a ditch. Two of them were se. I cured, and the other made his escape, but was shorty afterwards apprehended by a man on horseback. The prosecutrix swo - e to the identity of the prisoners, and her testimony was confirmed by the other witnesses• The Jun• fonud,the prisoners litnity—Death. POLICE. 001 Lnus LL.—Mr. ALLEY, the barrister, appeared yes terday before the Sitting Magistrate, Sir J. Shaw, assist ed by .111 r. Alderman Magnay,on the behalf of the Friend ly Society of Licensed Victuallers, to answer the coal -I;laite of Ann Jones, the executrix and legatee of a de ceased Member of that Society. In this Society is vested the property of the Daily Journal, named the Alorning Advertiser, and by one of the articles the interest or share of a deceased member is to be transferred or assigned over to his executor or legatee, or, in the option of the Society , the de ce a sed member's hare may be valued, and the amount of that valuation paid to the executor or legatee in lieu of trans ferring the share.—The subject of Mrs. Jones's com plaint was that* the Society had refused to transfer the deceased member's share to her as his executrix, or pay her the value of it. The reason for opposing this claim did not appear, Mr. ALLEY objecting in lintine to the jurisdiction. He observed, that in the Articles of this Society there was no arbitration clause to take away the jurisdiction . of the Magistrate. and thereby make the parties Judges in their own case, to which was to he attributed most of the con fusion and injustice which occurred in disputes in these Societies ; but all questions of differences among its Members were left open to the investigation and &colon of an impartial tribunal—the Magistrates. Upon refer ence to the Statutes upon the subject, it would appear that it was only in trestions of dispute between Members of Benefit Societies t h at the Magistrates had any juris diction to interfere. The compl.tunant in this rare was not a Member of the Licemed Victualler's Society ; and altliongh she claimed as the representative of a deceased Member, and however just or otherwise her claim might be, still this was a question butween a third person and the Licensed Victuallets Society, and not between a Member of the Society, and consequently not within the jurisdiction of the Magistrate to hear and determine. The claims of a third person against a Benefit So iety could only be prosecuted by ao action at law, ur a suit in a Court of Equity. Mr. Alleys dictum, upon an examiration of the va shuts Statutes on the subject was found to be correct law, and the Magistrates, in conseqnence, declined en wring into the case, upon the ground that they had no legal jurisdiction. BOW-STREET.—Ruthven, one of the principal officers of this establishment, arrivettin town on Monday last from Cast lebar. in Ireland, having in his custody a man named Richard Dolgellau, who stands c harged with the wilful murder of his wife, in the year lSlb, at Brotnp ton, in Kent. In the year mentioned, the 76th regiment was quar tered at Chatham, and the prisoner, who was a private soldier in that corps, occupied a small cottage at [tromp ton, with his wife and two children. his wife and he lived very unhappy together, in consequence of his as sociating with women of abandoned character, and he often b •at her severely, and was heard to threaten that he would be the death of her. (In the evening of the Path of September, ISIS. lie went home, and his wife and be were heard by the next door neighbour quarrelling ; a noise was also heard, as of a person teirg marl) , strangled. One of the children, too, was heard to cry out " Oh, what are you going to do with mammy ?"-- Occurrences of this kind, however, were so common.' that no notice was take* at the time. The next day the wife was missed from the house, and the prisoner, when asked where she was, said, she went out the night before full dressed, and he did not know where she was gone. The circumstance nettle some noise at the time, and he was questiottel by several persons, and gave various ac counts. To some lie stated as above-nieotioned ; to others, that she was gone to visit some friends in another part of the country : and a third story was, that she was gone to her relations in Ireland. I n the beginning of October, the company to which he belonged was dis banded, and on the 7th or Sib of that month he (pitted Brompton with his children. In less than a fortnight after his departure, the body of his wife was found quite naked in a o ell in the garden of the house which they had occupied; and, although it was in an aluio.t pu trid state, marks of violence were plainly distinguished upon her throat. A Coroner's Inquest was assembled, and a verdict of Wilful Murder returned against Rich. Donellan, the prisoner. It happened, that a girl of the town, who had been intimate with Donellan ' subsequently met with a corpo ral at Portsmouth, who had been his comrade, and lived with him for some time, during which she related whim the story about Donellau, and the supposed murder of his wife. The corporal went to Ireland, where, in the early part of the last year, he met accidentally with the prisoner in the streets at Castlehar, and caused him to be apprehended, and conveyed before Dennis Browne, Esq., a Magistrate, who committed him to prison on the lit of April last. There be remained until about three weeks ago, when Ruthven received a warrant, with orders to bring him to this country. He was taken on Tues'ilay last, before a Magistrate at Brompton, and the depositions taken before the Coroner having been read over, lie was fully committed to Maid stone tiaol fur trial. MARLHOROI;OII•STREET.—A young man of fashionable appearance, applied to the Magistrate fur w search war rant to search tor his wile, who he had reason to suspect was concealed in a certain house. Mr. Drew said, that as his wife did not come under the denomination of goods or chattels, he could render him no assistance, but recommended him to apply for. a Habeas Corpus. TuamEs-POLICE.—A female, apparently in a state of lunacy, was yesterday brought before J. Ballantine, Esq. the presiding Magistrate, by Wilson, an officer, baythe been observed to make several attempts upon her life, by plunging herself into the Thames; her wild and in coherent manner while in the office bespoke a loss of reason. She was covered with mud, and without shoe or sleeking. When asked her name, the answered Mary Nowland," and on being interrogated where she slept the preceding night, she said, in an entry." She could give no further account of herself. The worthy Magistrate ordered her to be conveyed to Wapping workhouse, and to be taken every care of. UNioN-as LL.—Vestertlay a respectable middle-aged woman made application to the presiding Magistrate, L. B. ALLEN, Esq. for assistance in the recovery of her daughter, Mary Ann Bolton, a girl about 15 years of• age, who had been seduced from the paths of virtue, and was detained by a Captain ---. The parent, who appeared to he absorbed in grief, stated that about live weeks ago her daughter bad ab sconded from her parental roof, where she was living in the moat comfortable wanner, awl her absence was the means of throwing the whole of her family in the deep est gloom. Handbills were printed, describing her per• son, and offering a reward for her recovery; but all efforts to trace tier proved fruitless till a day or tit° back, when it was discovered she was cohabiting with Captain —, a man upwards of GO years of age, and residing at Brendan-street, Waleorth. This discovery had induced her friends to institute an inquiry in the neighbourhood, as to .the character, of the Captain, be fore steps were taken to recover the fugitive, when the. were told that he had four or five young la ties, who re mained in turns with him the whole of the night, an d lately be had brought home a beautiful damsel, about L. . 1 ..,... ~~ ~,~..~