The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-21 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

ForterenT.—C. hart and Eli:. Gardner, alias Garner, alias
.Ifeck. underwent a second examination, charged with making and
uttering forged letters of attorney, to receive bank stock. It ap.
peered in the course of the examination, that the two prisoners have
been connected with one Rigaud in obtaining letters of administra.
lion of the effects of several persons deceased, and also of one per.
son actually living, but who is now in a madhouse.
Mr. FRESHFIELD, the Bank Solicitor, attended for the prose-
cution, and stated that he went to Worthing with Bishop, the offi-
cer, and found among the prisoner's papers a memcrandum-book,
containing a list of unclaimed bank stock, and those sums which
had been received were crossed off. It appeared that the names of
the parties were there which related to the forged letter of attorney
which he produced.
A vast deal of evidence was gone into tending to implicate the
prisoners, and Mr. HALLS ordered them to be brought up again on
Satunloy next.
The office was crowded to excess. The appearance of the female
was interesting.
Sir Walter Brim" and Mr.lenner, the proctor, were held to bail,
in consequence of what took place at the Court of Delegates on
Tuesday last.
Mary Anne Saunders, a lady over whose head have passed some
five-and-torty winters, but who still asserted her claims to juvenility
as an •• unfortunate girl," was on Saturday morning brought be-
fore the sitting Magistrate, Mr. HALLS, charged by Mr. Rich-
mond, clerk to this establishment, with annoying and grossly in.
, suiting him on Fridag.night at Drury.lane theatre.
Mr. Richmond stated, that, at the conclusion of the performance,
he was standing in the passage which runs at the back of the boxes,
while two ladies whom he had protected to the theatre were under-
going the customary process of cloaking and shawling, preparatory
to encountering the night air, when the defendant, with whose per.
1 son he was totally unacquainted, came up, and accosted him with
the easy nonchalance of her profession, addressing him by. his name
(her opportunities of becoming acquainted with which it is, from
his situation at this office, easy to divine), and seemed very much
Inclined to favour him with her company. This, however, was an
honour which he declined, and insisted on her leaving him, as he
neither knew nor wished to know any thing about her. The ladies
at this moment having got on their bonnets, he joined them, and
had proceeded partly down the stairs, when Mrs. Saunders renewed
her attack, Insisting on his " handing her over" some money, and
on his positively refusing, and desiring her to go about her busi-
ness, let loose at him such an extraordinary torrent of abuse,
clothed in language so abominable and disgusting, as to render his
situation, accmnpanied as he then was by two ladies of great re•
spectability, extremely unpleasant. At this moment he caught
sight of Bond, who was on duty at the theatre, and into his custody
he forthwith consigned his annoyer.
Bond now came forward, and having confirmed Mr. Rich.
mond's statetnent as far as he was concerned, added, that film.
S. was by no means unknown to him in the exercise of his
professional duties ; in fact, that only on the evening before lie
had bean compelled to escort her out of the theatre for a line of
conduct precisely similar, adopted by her towards more gentle-
men than one, all of whom denied being acquainted with
her. She was, he said, a regular frequenter of the lobbies, where
she was notorious for her disorderly conduct and abusive
language.
Mrs. Saunders, who had listened to Bond's panegyric with ma.
nifest symptoms of indignation, now denied, in terms which cer-
tainly conveyed &strong impression that he had not been unhappy
in his delineation of her moral portrait, that she was the boisterous
character described. She had called Mr. Richmond, she said
(we fear we must say swore) " nothing worse than a brute ;"
and she was now very sorry for it, although she still persisted in
claiming a degree of acquaintance with him which might, perhaps,
in her opinion, althoriae so trifling a liberty.
Mr. R. however, repeated his former declaration, that the
woman was. and ever had been, entirely a stranger to him. Under
other circumstances, as she had been in confinement all night, he
should not have pressed the charge : but as she still persisted in
her assertion of his knowing her. which he protested most solemnly
was as utter falsehood, he should lease the matter in hie 'Worship's
hands.

Mrs. Saunders was therefore, with a suitable admonition, de.
livered into the hands of Mr. Ford, who is good enough to
superintend the accotamodation of refractory ladies, with di-
rections to leave her at the House of Correction, and not to
call for her again till she had spent one calendar month in that
retreat.

Mr. HALLS told Bond he had acted perfectly right in clearing
the theatres of such riotous characters, and recommended him to
persevere in so doing.
Mrs. Saundera left the office in tears, which seemed to proceed
es much front indignation as /torts grief.
HATTON-GARDEN.
INFANTICIDE.—On Satorday.informat ion teethed this office, of
an infant !riving been murdered by its unnatural mother, at the
house of Mr. ‘Vestley, a grocer, residing in Lamb's Conduit.
street.

Thinelton, the officer, was (lei/Welled to make the necessary
Inquiries, and returned soon after with intelligence that he had
found a newly born male infant in the water-closet. There were
two cuts, one on the crown, the other on the bark of the head.
The mother, and supposed murderer, was taken into custody.
Her name is Julia Berry. She is a native of Ireland, not more
than lit or 19 years old.
From the evidence of the surgean,"it appeared that she was
delivered only fourteen hours before, and traces of blood were dis-
covered from the kitchen, where the prisoner was on the night be-
fore, to the water-closet. She wan brought to the office in a
coach, but she walked into Pee office with a very steady step. She
denied any knowledge of the circumstance, and was remanded for
further examination.

Sr NOM AR CoNvicrion.--A conviction of rather ano-
♦el character has taken place before a Bench of Magistrates
at Gosport, the law in which case does not appear to com-
port either with propriety or equity. Major-General Sir
James Lyon, K.C.B. our Lieutenant-Governor, and Com-
mander-in-Chief of the South-West District, was fined by
the Bench of Magistrates hauled, under the authority of the
90th clause in the Mutiny Act, which levies a penalty of
20s. on " the Commander" of soldiers, any of whom shall
be found guilty of an act of poaching: to which is added,
the liability of immediate dismissal from the army of the
said " Commander of the troops," should he refuse to pay
the fines levied in forty-eight hours after conviction. Sir
James Lyon. hard and absurd as the case is, Instantly paid
two lines of 205., two soldiers of the Gosport garrison
having been detected in this unlawful practice. If this be
the law, we may next week have to record similar con-
victions against Sir James by Magistrates of the county of
Dorset, or even of the city of Bristol, for these places are
comprehended in the command !—PortrionfA Paper.

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