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IJATTON.GARDE.

Custous Can OF Risamv...-Yesterday a very elegantly_
dressed tetrale, named Anne Duckett Lloyd, otherwise Truss. was
placed at the bar of this olfiee, charged with having intermarried,
her former husband being still living.
The sitting Magistrate. A.S. LAING, Esq. said, that as the case
was likely to occupy a good deal of time, he would not go into it
unless all the necessary evidence was ready on both sides.
31r. HARMER. who conducted the prosecution, siid that all the
witnesses were in attendance, and be had no doubt but that the

for the prisoner,
of which the fol.
the bar, whose
had a tine showy
parish church, Mary-
-in business; to a
, Yorkshire Gray
together, but Air.
trade, was com-
hlrs. Lloyd, who
this retrenchment,
She had also, it
from her husband,
ain Blythe, whose
husband the had
blythely for two
I set the lady at
after decided in

commanded a
arge _ .._ who kept her In
the first style, until his passion cooled down to a more prudent tens.
perament, wizen he set Net adrift on the ocean of life once more,
at Portsmouth. unkind treatment did not actually
break her heart. She I* still youth on her site, a cone-
dersble share of personal beauty, a happy vivacity of manner, and
a playful guiqf de ewar which wss sure to attract notice. She we,
well aware that London was a good mart fur such commodities,
and, packing up her baggage, she entered the metropolis with a
light heart apd a keen eye, as the widow of Captain Blythe. Not
W long after K was introduced to Mr. Truss, a gentlemen who had •
lucrative situation In the Audit Office at the East India House,
and who hail the misfcatiene of becoming her second husband.
There are many in the world who are fated to feel, when too late,
the misery of an inconsiderve marriage, and Mr. Truss was one of
the nOnber. Every succeeding day furnished fresh ground for just
cornpffaints, until he formed the resolution of returning to "single
blessedness." A formal priposal of separation, a messy Cl Mora,
.was made by a mutual feels& The lady's opinion was consent**
mous to it, and she retired frith a riolement of 1201. a year, to the
satisfaction of both. This determination did not proceed from Mr.
Truss's having beard any thing about her marriage to Mr. Lloyd,
which was a recent discovaly t but, from the general tenor of her
conduct lie was led 11, suspsgt himself imposed upon. As a per.
inducement she had ;cleat lilut to understand that she was nearly
allied to the Lowther faintly.; whereas it turned out that the only
consanguinity that existed:watt, that her lather had been a gate-
keeper on the domain of that Noble Lord, and that one of the Hon.
Milian Lowther had condesCended to stand' sponsor for Miss Ann
Duckett. Thhi. ibdeed, oilolithave been overlooked had there not
been some other deformities ,discovered in her character of a more
questionable description. The present prosecution was not presider.
by itlr. Truss, but was instituted by Mr. Lloyd, the former hus-
band, whom she had so deeply injured.
These were the Inept of ths case, in support of which several wit.
nesses were examined.
The certificates of both marriages were produced and attested.
Mr. H 31 PII 111 ES disputed the identity of Mr. Lloyd, who, be
NW, bad been several yeareaut cf the country, and wee supposed
assured the Ma.
transported after
had died in
Lloyd during
' taken place
doubt of hie,
s conditiOn
le thought
was fully
hours, she
' to expose
until@ the

two y9ung
charged vitt:
' victualler,

Grosvenor Arms.
lag, be hod

return home
the Red Lion,
refresi. _ prisoners were
present ; Lyall be had known for some years by sight ; she asked
him to treat her with something to drink; witness took a bag out
of his pocket, containing about twenty or twenty-one pounds, in
sovereigns and half tioveselgus t ha gave a little girl, dsughter to
Lyalt, half a sovereign, few half a pint at rum ; witness and the
ten prisoners drank it ;: the priNIIIICTR then invited him home.
which ha accepted, being much intoxicated ; they took him to
hues* in fulee's-court. lat the vicinity ; witness sent out for
another half pint of rum and half a gallon of beer, the game
child went tot it; witneha aeon after became overpowered, and
lay down on the floor to sleep ; the two prisoners went to bed;
IV it 111.411 awoke about Italf.past four o'clock in the morning, and
found ho Wag not at his own house; he gut up and had reached the
passage, with the Intention of leaving the house, when hestis-
covere.l that his bag. evataining his twenty sovereigns, had been
taken nut of his bteecties pocket; he returned to the room wlitre
the prisoners were, whom he charged with the robbery, but they
denied it, and abused him In the grossest manner ; witness stow
heard a watchman ie the street eapng the hour, and getting into
the street, informed Igoe of the rob ry.
Jilt. Haw unnow—Are you sum you had your bag with the one
and minty sovereigns in it when you went Into the house ?
Prosecutor —I am sure Iliad; I paid for the liquor and beer after
I entered the bowie.
Thorns, .Varndall, a Igstehman, stated that his beat was in
Gets-court ; on Sonde, morning be was calling the hour atTour

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o'clock, when the prnseeu'or came and told him of the loss he had
,austamerl, and .aid he was convinced the prisoner. had taken the
money oil, of his packet whil.t he was asleep on the floor ; witness
took both the prisoners to the watchhouse, and found on Chase a
half.sovereign, a snuff-box. and a watch key ; on the person of
Lysil was only a few copper*. The snuffbox and key Mr. Bar-
rington had identified as his property.
Catharine J.yall, daughter of one of the prisoners, said that she
saw the prisoner take the snuff-box and key out of the prosecutor's
pocket while he was asleep ; ■he also took out the hag, but re.
turned it, and then put out the candle in the room ; witness after.
wards went to sleep.
Both the prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial.

charge would be fully sustained.
Mr. LAI xu—Then ISM willing to hear it.
31r. liumpuitins, wls• appeared as solicitor foi
said he had no objection OfKr to its procedure.
Mr. HAILMEtt ellen stet the facts of the case, of
lowing is a brief outline
About the year f.fil2 t 13, the prisoner at t
maiden name wax 'Om-Duckett, and who had
appearance, was mitsile4:loo banns, at the parish
lebone. to Mr...r. Lind, who then carried on
great extent is a tilltelli. *early opposite the li
Tavern. For a time they.lived serf happily tog,
Lloyd havi;.g-experienced. *me heavy losses in t
pelted to reduce his expinditure accordingly, 31
D
was cxceisively fond tires, did not relish this
as it checked doe kith) o•Jef that propensity. .•
seemed, a taste for In gee;aptl finally eloped fnot
placing herself unsterile protection of a Captain
means we,, not le lirohed is those of the hut
deserted. With Xspiain Blythe she lived very b
or these years, but this deatn of that gentleman 1
liberty to make a new election, and she soon i
favour of another Captain, a Mr. Adkins, who
large merchant aliip in the. West India trade, and i
. . ...

to hare died abroad,.
The prisoner here interroperd her solicitor, and assured
gistrate, upon her hnounr, theyoor man had been transpo
she left him (as well ha Might, truly), and that he ha
banishment.
This was contradicted bi agentleman who knew Lloy
his proaperiry. He admitted shot a great change had tali
sinew *en to his epoilme.glAst there could be ad del
identity.
Mr. Hu m P URIC, submitted that the case was not in a
to gu to u jury. •
file. ',AIN°, hoverer, 401 a contrary opinion. He
It a very fair one tut their hens'eration, eration, and the prisoner
coiwmitied.
During the invevigati I Vltich lasted nearly three h
gave frequent interruptive. it the witness, and threatened
the family affairs of Mr. ruse, her second husband, t
prosecution was abandon
ALAV LEBONE orFic
Yesterday, Et-uncrr Groat and .Alurguret 4.211, to
women, decently attired, were placed at the char,
robbing Mr. Edward Ilaretr,gtoti„ a respectable licensed v
of twenty sovereigns, undet the following circumstances :-
Mr. Herring:nit stated, that he kept the Oroirreila
Cringe-street. Grosirenoritioara t that on saturdaw last
been out drinking with s e friends, aml wax on his reef
about ten o'clock at night, when he called in at the E
Duke.street, to take some refreshment, the two priso