The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-21 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAT.

MANSION HOUSE.
JOSEPH ADY Aoittx.—The Lord Mayor, upon taking the
chair, said he regretted to be oblig.l to state that " Joseph
Ady" had recommenced his system of victimising, and that
the perpetracer, although far advaeced in years, had lost none
of his former vigour or audacity. It appeared, from the
communications which were drily pouring into the Mansion-
hone*, that Ady had particularly fixed upon the clergy of the
Church of England. There was a law which interdicted the
clergy from engaging in any commercial seeculation or enter-
prise under heavy penalties, and the ever active sagacity of
Ady had drawn from that prohibition a source of proll',
which, if other evidence were wanting, would aitqua•ely
characterise the nature of his labours. In order to show the
course at preunt pursued by My, it would be necessary to
read one of the circulars which thrt person transmitted, sad
directed in handwriting very different from his own, to vari-
ous reverend gentlemen. The following is a copy which was
received by an English cleric) man, at Amsterdam, and was
transmitted to the Mansion-house from that city accompanied
by the note appended
Value 1001. and upwards yearly and for ever.
No. 1,848, page 56.
Rev. sir,—The !undersigned is able to inform you of something to
your advantage (long overlooked) on receipt of Ms. for his costs and
trouble, by order on post-office In Whiteehapel, London. The Right
lion. Sir Herbert Jenner Yust, the judge of the Prerogative Court,
London, and therefore the first judge on the earth, encoded to my
notice, and received 10,8001., which neither himself nor his heirs !
otherwise ever would, partly as the heir of Mr. Past, whose name he
took as directed by the will. Your case in similar, only not so much
money. As lam &event expense to obtain information, particularly
the new list of rmeWnsed dividend. of 1541, and other sources,
amounting to 158 millions of pounds, I requ're to be franked
from all expenses, Be pleased to quote the above reference, other-
wise I cannot refer, and should you find cause to oomplsio,
my voluntary referee, the Bight lion. Sir Peter Laurie,
knight, perpectual deputy lord mayor, will see justice done you,
without any charge whatever (except postage) which you must pay
both ways. should a stranger bring the foe he will only have a receipt,
as, to prevent fraud, I ineht upon sending the information by the
post, as does the Bank in similar casts Ilse following persons or
lawful representative% may each receive I.eool. on payment of the :20s.
fee. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the two late Arch.
bishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops; of London, Durham
and Winchester, the Deans of Canterbury', Manchester and Chithester,
Archdeacons lists, Harrison, Wigan and J. nes, the Rev. J. G. Brett,
A. W. Campbell, W. Dakins, D. D G. Elliott, M.A., and J. I).
Glennie, John Jennings, M.A., ft. 11. Will, D.D., and the Right Hon.
J. G. B. Ponaonby. Respectftilly, Jinxed Any, Account .nt,
105, lenehurch-stroe, a freeman of London. and personally
known to the Aldermen, who will testify the tame.
Amsterdam, August 14, 1849.
MyLord,—lf I am not mistaken you and your pn 1. censors have been
greatly loptrumental in checking speculating propensities and reetrain-
ing the impudence of the individual who now for the second time has
made me pay foreign postage as the price of his universal benevolence.
I fear as he can continually change the handwriting on the address,
that there Is no escape for the foreign chaplains or others whom he
may thee honour ; however, as the e.,closed is the mart recent of his
production*, and the liberties taken with various names Is London ore
as bold as ever, I rend it to your lordship that you may act therewith
08 you may deem right.
I have the honour to be your lordship's faithful servant,

In others of Ady's circulars the names of dukes, mar-
quises, and earls, judges, &c., dm, are used in precisely a
similar manner.
In answer to a question from the Lord Mayor, Mr. Good-
man, the chief clerk, said that Atiy hed paid the whole
amount of the demands made upon him by the authorities of
the Post-office for returned letters.
The following letter from a vicar in Yorkshire, was re-
ceived by Sir Peter Laurie, and by him transmitted to the
Lard Mayor :
Await 15, 1849.
take the liberty of applying to you relative to Jueeph Ady.
A few damage he wrote to me te say that he could inform me of lON.
per annum due is me (referring me to yourself, sir, so his referee),
provided I would rend him • 'sovereign, upon which I wrote to
reply to may that I would either olepcsit the money with
you or allow him 51. per annum for life If he would give the informa-
tion previously. In the former case requesting you to pay it over
when he had given the information. Again, in answer, he wrote
that he would Inform me of two several sum. due, but If I would
sent him the 20s. he would inform of the tout. per annum, leaving
the other to my generosity. Overcame by such deliberate sasertloec,
thinking he would never dare to lie repeatedly after this rate, I sent
the money, and received by return • few entreats from the Tithe Act,
which had ea much relation to any acquisition as to the mayoralty of
London, adding at the bottom, that he knew of money left me
by • relative tar which he required another fee. I
immediately wrote to demand back my sovereign, threaten.
log him with an ezposere to you and in the public papers,
but have not had one ward In reply. I take the liberty, air, of sok.
ing your advice relative to this bird of prey. His first letter was
lithographed, his second was In his owe handwriting. I should
gratefully receive any suggestion from you as to the beet mode of
proceeding with this hoary sinner, who in his 73di ,as he writes,
can thus by enormous lying aim to maintain his mise able existence.
—And I have the honoar to remain, die.,
His lordship considered that the publication of the above-
mentioned letters and statement would do more towards
cramping the successful exertions of Ady than any other
mode whicb could be adopted under existing circumstances,
and expressed s hope that foreign newspapers would net be
silent upon the subject.