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GUILDHALL.

A respectable-looking person, who gave his name Thomas Cray,
WAS brought before Sir Charles Flower, Bart.. on Saturday, upon a
charge ot fraud.
The complainant, Mr. R. Westrup, a Suffolk miller, first met
with the prisoner about the beginning of July, 1824, at the cele-
brated Coster'', counting-house in Staining-lane. Accompanying a
master baker thither, who went about the discounting of a bill, he
observed some samples of flour lying in Mr. Coster's office, and
asked him if he was a buyer of that article. Mr. Coster replied that
he was not, but he had a friend, a very rich and respectable man,
who would buy a hundred sacks a week and pay the money
down, and tkat if lie called upon him on the following day,
his friend would be there. The miller thanked his stars for having
met with such a customer, and went to Coster's punctually the neat
morning, and was introduced to Mr. Gray, who represented that he I
had a contract to supply Government with flour, approved of the,
samples produced by the miller, and very speedily agreed to take
his whole lot, of the value of about MR then lying in a vessel in
the Thames, off the Custom-house. The complainant wrote an
order for the delivery of the flour, and then Gray took the miller
away with him in quest of money. The fist place they called at
was the East India Chambers, Leadenhall-street, where Gray
showed him the door of a counting-house, and begged him to
present a bill of exchange just due, for sixty to seventy pounds,
observing that it would look much better than if he (Gray) pre-
sented it himself. The miller went in, and a person who answered
to the name Gray had desired to him ask for, but which name
he has forgotten, said, " This is quite right, Sir, how will you
have the cash ?" at the same time pulling out a drawer, containing
• heap of sovereigns which he rattled about with bis hand. The
miller said he would take sovereigns, and was immediately paid
the amount of the bill, which, on quitting the office, he handed to
Gray. They then called at some other house, on quitting which
Gray said he had not been successful, and he doubted if he should
beable to give any thing more that day than the amount received
at the East India Chambers, which he paid to him on the spot
however, said Gray, Mr. Coster owes me 3001. and we will go back
and ask him to let me have 100/. The, accordingly returned to
Staining-lanc. The question was put to Coster, who said he would
have done it in a moment if he hail not had a heavy day himself,
and the miller was then told lie must wait until 12 o'clock next
day, when lie might rely upon having the balance. In the mean-
time the delivery order was duly presented, and the flour transhipped.
On the following day the complainant went to Staining-lane at the
appointed hour, and in a short time Gray came running in, and
exclaimed, lie had never seen the like ; he could get no money, but
he had a bill for 1001. drawn upon a house as good as the Bank of
England, which the miller might take if lie pleased. The com-
plainant objected, on the ground that theirs was to be a ready
money transaction, and besides he knew nothing of the parties.
Gray and Coster, however, so commended the goodness of the bill,
that he was at length persuaded to receive it, This bill had nearly
two months to run, and when it became due, the acceptors. Messrs.
Wm. Bond and Co. East and West India agents, at the East and
West India Chambers, the return was" no orders left—no such
firm known." Neither was the drawer, Gray, to be found.
About a week after this transaction the witness again called at
Coster's, and saw Gray, whom he pressed to give him cash for the
bill. Gray asked hint if he had any more flour in the river, and
being told that he expected some in a day or two, said if he
would let him have eighty or a hundred sacks more, he would pro-
duce the cash for them immediately, and also give him WV. in
money for the bill. NYhen the flour arrived the miller repaired to
Coster's, and asked Gray if he could do what he had proposed !
" 0 ! yes," replied Gray, " eighty or • hundred sacks will just
fulfil my contract, and then I shall receive all the money for the
quarter's delivery, and should he able to pay you 1.000/. if I owed it
to you." Mr. Cotter confirmed this assertion. The bargain was
struck, and the next morning was appointed for its fulfilment; and
when the miller reached Staining-lane, he found • pony and chaise
standing before the door, and Mr. Coster and Mr. Gray were busy
within, fitting themselves with new hats out of a number that
were there. The miller fitted one, upon which Coster observed
that he seemed in want of a new hat. lie told them his old one
must de a little longer. ". Mr. Gray." said Coster, " you ought
Ito give the gentleman one." "Oh !" said Gray, very politely,
" he is quite welcome to any one of them if he will accept it as a
present," and the miller expressed his thankfulness, and selected
' one. " You are going to ride out in Mr. Gray's gig with him."
whispered Custer in his ear, and then Gray said, "Come, Mr. W.
you and I will ride out sod get your money," and away they
went, nearly to Vauxhall-bridge, Mr. Gray calling nt several
house, in the way, as he supposed, to receive money. They
dined at an inn, on their return home, where Gray waited a con-
siderable time, as he said, in expectation that a gentleman would
call with some money. No gentleman, however, came, they re-
turned to Staining-lane, and the miller was desired to call again to.
morrow, as Mr. Gray had not suc,:eeded in collecting the money.
The witness called again three or four times on the following
day, but no Mr. Gray appeared: and on the next day Crater
said still that he had not seen Mr. Gray, but advised him to go and
wait at some inn in Holborn, which Mr. G. frequented, and there
waif no doubt he would meet with him in the course of the day.
Tne miller accordingly passed two days at the said inn, but
wi;h no better success, and then inquiring again in Staining_
late, he was told by Coster that he had not seen Gray once since
he (the witness) had. The miller then called at Gray's lodging,
in Lisle-street, Leicester.square, but lie was never to be found
there. The next visit he paid to Staining-lane, he refused to leave
the house till lie should meet with Gray, and after waiting two
hours, in came the gentleman, and he (Gray) and Coster, and the
witness repaired to a tavern, where it was settled that the parties
should meet again in Staining-lane, on the following morning, and
the miller should receive all that was due to him. The next day,
the miller went to Coster's, but no Gray came, and after repeating
his calls in Staining-lane, a great many times, C otter at length
told him that he supposed witness would never get a farthing. Ile
never met wkh Gray again, until, from private information, he
caused him to be apprehended at Islington, on Friday last.
Sir CHAS. FLOWER thought the fist inquiry should he, whether
such a firm as Wm. Band and Co. had ever held a counting-house
in the chambers, because, if it had not, the charge against the pH.
soner would become one of serious magnitude.
Mr. Miller said, they did not charge the prisoner with uttering a
fictitious acceptance. Their charge was—
Sir CHARLES—I will hear nothing more till lam satisfied that
there was such a firm at the Chambers. Let the prisoner stand re-
manded till Tuesday.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DARING ATTEMPT AT RC:01111SAT ANDMURDER.—On Sa-
turday, in consequence of the information given at this Office, by
Mr. Brookes, the anatomist, and a pupil of filename of Thompson,
a young man of the name of Aloe Coombe', residing at No. 22, Gar-
lisle-place, Lambeth, was brought before IL M. DYER, Esq., on
suspicion of being the person who was found concealed an Mr.
Brookes's house, with intent to commit burglary.
Mr. Brookes deposed, that in consequence of having but one
servant in his house in Blenheim.etreet, and she being rather el.
derly and infirm, he always made it a constant practice to examine
his house himself previous to his retiring to rest. On Thursday
night, just before his going to bed, he looked behind the curtains'
in his drawing-room, under the tables, and at length, On looking
below the sofa, he discovered a person lying there. On looking a
second time, he saw the prisoner's face, and then recollected that he
had formerly lived with him. The prisoner, on observing him
look the second time, jumped out; a struggle ensued, during
which the prisoner attempted to place his hand upon Mr. Brookes's
mouth, who repeatedly called out "Murder ! " Finally the pri.
Ironer ran down stairs, and, having unfastened the door, made his
escape. Mr. Brookes afterwards found that the prisoner had left'
behind him an old hat and a pair of shoes.
Valentine, the officer. deposed that lie apprehended the prisoner
on Friday night at ttis lodgings, when he denied all knowledge of
the transaction; he had, however, tried the hat and shoes on the
prisoner, and they fitted him.
The old maid servant deposed, that on hearing her master crying
out " Murder ! " she ran into the hall, where site saw the prisoner
and her master rolling over each other.
Mr. Styles deposed that he heard the cry of " Murder ! " and
saw a person run out of Dr. Brookes's house, without a hat, and he
bad no doubt whatever that the prisoner was the person.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was at home on Thurs-
day night, but he could not bring any positive proof, as he had a
key to let himself in by, and had therefore no occasion to disturb
any one. He said that about nine o'clock he was looking into the
windows of various shops, for a bill for spotter.
Mr. DYER observed that it was a most serious charge, and he
should remand film till Wednesday, to give him an opportunity, it
possible, of proving his innocence.
A Dm itessrsto Cast.—A young matried woman, who ap.
peered almost famished, was brotsght up, charged by her landlord,
Mr. Bailey, with having robbed a bed of a quantity of feathers.
Bailey stated that the prisoner and her husband, some weeks
since, had taken a furnished room of him, at 4s. lid. a week. For
two or three weeks he received his rent, but after that period he
could get none. On Monday evening lie sent his wife up to them
to ask for the money; on coming down she observed that the bed
was nearly emptied of the feathers. On being taxed with the theft
the prisoner promised to redeem them, but this she had failed to do,
and he now, therefore, charged her with robbing her lodgings.
A female,who had purchased the feathers, owed that the prison.
er had brought them to her, and representing herself to be in great
distress, she was induced to purchase them.
Mr.DY n—W hat have you to say to the charge, young woman?
The prisoner faintly articulated, Nothing, Sir.
Mr. DYER—Thor I must commit you till next Wednesday.
The gaoler was proceeding to take her from the bar, when the
constable stated that on her being taken into custody she burst into
tears, and declared that hunger had induced her to commit the of-
fence. as she had not tasted food for five days previously.
" Good God !" exclaimed the worthy Magistrate, " Is it pos-
slide that the poor woman's delicacy has prevented her informing
me of such a circumstance?"
The husband now stepped forward: he exhibited tin equally

wretched appearance to that of his wire, and stated that he had
given the prosecutor twenty.eight duplicates as security for the rest,and what they had pledged, ; and he could assure his Worship the;
often, for two or three days at a time, neither of them bad toted
bit of food.
Mr. DYER begged the prosecutor to retire and endeavour to ar.
range the business, as he should be very loth, under the c:tci.ru.
stances, to commit the poor woman.
The parties then withdrew, and after some time they retorts',
and the prosecutor stated that he would forego the charge. g, :be
husband had promised to pay as soon as he could get into work,
The female who had bought the feathers at the same tuna ogiged
to restore them.

MARYLEBONE.
itivErrstvt ROBBERY BY ♦ REIVANT.--OR Saturday two
women, of the names of Anne Conroy and Elizabeth Hickey, wee
brought up for examination before Air. RAWLlssoir, the former
evening the teo
charged with robbing Airs. Hunter, of Charles street, Al:
Hospital, of a great quantity of property, and the latter with beteg
an accessory after the fact.
From the evidence it appeared that Conroy, a few days since, fr.
cdconuertpaanYy with tome othe:
tered the service of Mrs. Hunter. being recommended with a good
character by a woman living in Castie.etrect-meas. On Tutelar
lass she gave warning, and on that evening disappeared aith few.
teen silver spoons, some jewellery, and nearly the entire wsniroke
of Al rs.H miter, and that of a young lady at present living:oh Mrs.
H., sonic silk left for approval by Mr. Allison, of Regent.street,
panridsolelevrearawleariedaenppdrieilheeinlkdeddresses..
They
WOern:iin'
women, in a house in Little Qucbec.street, in a state of intoxication_
drinking tea with a hackney coachman, who had been (kiting thee,
about town all day. Conroy was dressed in an entire suit of Ter,
elegant silk. She denied knowing any thing of Mrs. Hunter, and
attempted to fling some duplicates into the fire, which, however, the
officer secured. They were found to correspond with other paw of
Mrs. Hunter's things, and in a trunk in the room was the greeter
part of the stolen property. The officer ascertaining that Hickey
had been in her company all the day, searched hey, and found a
duplicate of some articles of ladies' dress, which she said was he•
own property. Upon the pawnbroker's producing it at the office.
it turn.d out to belong to Airs. liunter.
Both prisoners declined for the present saying any thing, aka
were remanded.

WORSHIP-STREET.
The Magistrates of this office have for several weelu past been
engaged in the investigarion of a case agent importance to passes
connected with the silk trade. The following is a summary of fir lams, as they appeared in the course of no less than eleven exam,.
nations, which have taken place before Mr. Benett and 31r.
Osborne:—
In the month of July a journeyman weaver, named Jura
Lowgoet, applied for work to Mr. Daniel Walters, a silk ma.
=rectum, of Wilsonitreet, Finsbury, who, after the usual M.
quiries as to character, delivered to him materials for making up,
wards of 100 yards of grog de Naples. The work not harms been
returned, Mr. Walters, about the middle of September, began loin.
quire about it of the person by whom Longuet bad been recommeedeet
to him, but in the mean time the latter had changed his residence.
On the Ist of November, however, the person of whom Mr. Weis
tern had been inquiring met Longuet, who told him that hit place
had been broken open and the whole of his work stolen. 11,
other desired him to tell his story to his employer, Mr. Walters, t.
whose house he then led him. Mr. Walters, and Mr. Smart, an
other manufacturer from whom Longuet had obtained a quantit
of shag, then gave information of the circumstance to Gooding
a conductor of the Bow-street patrol, who aftetwards discovered II remnant of the silk in a loom in the possession of a person named
Sigonce, in Booth-street, Spitaltields, who said he had been
employed on it by another journeyman, named Padbury ; and the
latter, on being questioned, said he had received it from a man
named Robson. Sigonce, Padbury, and a brother of Robson,
were then brought before the Magistrate foe examination.
The harness and reed used in the manufacture, the rtmnait
of silk, and a roller, the whole of which had been found
in Sigonce's possession, were produced, and Mr. Walters iden.
tided the harness and real as those which he had delirered
to Longuet, whose daughter also identified the roller
having been stolen (as she said) from her father's premises or.
the night of the robbery. Longuet, however, declared that none o.
those articles had ever been in his possession. The circumstance
appeared so unfavourable to Longuet that he was ordered into=
Cody, and remanded with the other prisoners, and subsequendy 31r
Walters produced the maker of the harness and the reed, whi
positively swore that he bad made the articles for Longu
hadet bth.
orders of Mr. Walters. Robson, to whom the articlesbet.
traced, contrived to elude the vigilance of the officers, an I after sever
examinations, his brot her, S igonce andPadbury,were discharged, bu
Longuct was still detained on suspicion of the felony. His story of th •
robbery was, that on Monday the 31st of October he and his family
went out to spend the evening, and returning about ten o'clock, h
found that his door, which he had left properly fastened, had been
opened, and the property stolen ; that he apprised the watchman o.
the robbery, and the following day informed Mr. Walters of i
Gleed, an offieer,was sent is examine the premises, and he reporte
that he found no marks of violence on the door. Longue' •
then remanded, and at other examinations his daughter gave a si
milar account of the robbery; and a watchman was subaamenti
produced, who said that Longuet did apply to him on the nigh
stated, saying that his place had been robbed. Longuet was th
discharged of the felony, but detained for embezzling the silk und
the Act 17 Geo. 111. e. 56, but of that charge also be was afterward
relieved and discharged out of custody.
On Wednesday last Gooding brought before Mr. Twyford an.
Mr. Betiett, Thomas Robaow, who, on being asked to account h
his poseession of the articles produced, said he had bought them
a person named Longue. Ile was then remanded, and placed
the bar on Saturday, with James Longuet, who had been nal
apprehended. Robson then said that he b..ught the property (
one Edward Longuet, not the prisoner (of whom he disclaim(
any knowledge) about ten months since.
Mr. Walters proved, that up to the 2.lth of June he had been •
partnership with his brother Samuel, and that the harness in quc
tion was delivered by the maker on the 12th of August, mark,•
with his name only.
Robson said he could produce a bill of parcels for the sena
also witnesses who had seen it iu his possession previously to I:
time stated.
He was therefore remanded, but Longuet was again discharge'.
LAMBETH-STREET.
female
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had been lodged on the preceding evering, charged with bevy
attempted to commit suicide. Adams, a constable of that part:
stated that she had been taken into custody by the watches,
stationed near Limehouse church, who fortunately perceived h
on the parapets of the Britannia-bridge, on the Reunt'acanal,
whence she was about to precipitate herself, when be hurried tr•
and by taking her into custody prevented the accomplishment .
her desperate purpose. On her coming in she appeared in t
most distressing. state of mind, which, with some difficulty,
succeeded in calming. After he had done so, he interrogated h
as to the causes which could have led to her rase attempt, when
following was the poor woman's story :---She had, she said, et.
a long endurance of the most barbarous treatment on the part
her husband, a Waterman, plying at Blackwell, been deserted t
him, and was in consequence obliged to apply to the parish
Poplar for relief for herself and her two children, one of why
was a cripple. That relief was granted, but in such a manner tl
irs denial would have been a comparative mercy. She and h.
children were needlessly separated, for while the latter was receiv.
into the workhouse at Poplar, she was transmittal to the far
house at Islington, and never, notwithstanding her repeated telt
tat ions, allowed to see her children, or ascertain how they wt
She also complained bitterly of the treatment she received at t:
farm.hoase, in common with its other unfortunate inmates.
The wretched woman, during the relation of her =lanais:
story, was suffused in tears.
andS wickedness irD. LVnteLses.
herww outaattfetenriptp,ocionmtinLnted s
of the parochial officers in separating parent and child, and direr
that an order should be Issued for her immediate admission into:
workhouse at Poplar. tofrolniegrlyth on e itosherconoprdlii.
t

A coachman to Mr. Westley Bigot, of licrne Vi
near Elstree, was killed in a boxing-snatch with a man of 14
name of IVilloughby, a sawyer, on IVednesday. in a ter.so
field, near Brockley-hill. They quarrelled the preceding night
Colnt!, and they fought three quarters of an hour. Thal icesit
was killed by a fall.

MARRIED.
On the lath inst. at Wouston, near Winchester, the Hon.
ltev. Arthur Philip Perceval, youngest son of Lend Arden,
Charlotte Anne, eldest daughter of the, Hon. and Rel. Augool
Deorge Legge, Chancellor of Winchester.
On the 15th inst. at Chippenharn, Cambridgeshire, Jr
Sidney Tharp, Esq. eldest son of John Tharp, Esq. of
penham Park, to Anna Maria, daughter of the latelsjor.ht
neral Gent, and sister of George W. Clew, Esq. of Moyns
Essex.

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On the 15th inst. in St. Mary's Church, Bothwick, Tye a
Farrar, Esq. of Gloucester-place, New-road, to Mary, doughty'
the late Samuel Hartley, Esq. of Widcombe-crescent. Bath.
On the 17th inst. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, John Jolt
fourth son of Dr. Coinder, to Louisa, youngest daughter of I
Rev. Philip Basset, both of Genera. in Switzerland.
On the Bth inst. at East Orinstead, In the county of Susses,
Rev. Joshua Stratton, M. A. of New College, Minor Caw i
Canterbury Cathedral, aed Vicar of Holston, Kent, to SuotsrA
youngest daughter of the late Mr. W. Head, of the above place

DIED.
Lately, at Maidford, Northamptonshire, the Rev. Rein.
White, M.A. Rector of that Parish, Vicar of Uphaven,
and late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
On the I.sth instant, is Upper Wimpole-street, Mrs. Edwa
Calvert.

On the 9th inst. Joseph Neville Fry, Esq. of Loughborough,
the 81st year of his age.
On the 11th instsnt, at Mile-end, in her 82d year. Ham
Catherine, widow of the late Samuel Lloyd, Esq. of Ilsttersi
rise, Surrey.
On the 14th inst. at his house, Tooting-common, Jonathan
son, Esq. one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House.

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