The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-15 00:00:00

EMBEZZLEMENT AND FORGERY

David M'Nin, who was charged by the house of Messrs.
Lizardi and Co., agents for the Mexican Government, with
having feloniously embezzled genuine Mexican bonds, and also
wi;11 having forged the name of M. de Quintana, one of the
partners in the house, to a number of new Mexican bonds, was
brought up for final examination. The Justice-room at the
Mansion-house was crowded with members of the Stock Ex-
change and other men of business.

117 De Quintana, one of the partners in the house of Li-
zardi and Co., upon being called upon to sign his deposition,
was questioned by Mr. Clarkson, who afterwards said, that as
regarded the charges of forgery he had objections to make, as
might be .supposed from the questions he had put to M. De
Quintana, on .a point of law; but he was quite aware that the
subject must be argued elsewhere. The case of felonious em-
bezzlement, in which the old Mexican bonds were sent by Mr.
Vyse to be converted into new stock, was then proceeded with.
In that case the prisoner had received the old bonds, and
marked on the paper of acknowledgment that the new bonds
would be ready on the 12th of November. He afterwards,
however, met the clerk and altered the date to the 21st of No-
vember, and in the interim decamped.

The prisoner was ordered to be brought up on a future day
;o be formally committed to Newgate for trial.

DEATH FROM WANT.---Yesterday afternoon an

inquest was held at the Guy Earl of Warwick public-
house, in Belton-street, Long-acre, before Mr. Baker, the
Coroner, on the body of Elizabeth Sheppard, aged forty-
six years, whose existence terminated under the following
melancholy and deplorable circumstances :—The Jury, hav-
ing been sworn, proceeded to view the body, which pre-
sented a heart-sickening spectacle. It appears that the de-
ceased for some time past had been allowed, from feeliegs
of charity, to sleep in the cellar of one of the common
lodging-houses in Buckeridge-street, St. Giles's. She had
previously been wandering the streets of the metropolis in
a state of utter destitution and starvation. The house in
question is, as many others are in the same street, the re-
ceptacle of juvenile thieves, prostitutes, beggars, and the
veriest scum of society. The house consists of six
rooms, and between forty and fifty persons nightly lo-
cated themselves there. The deceased had stated to a
fellow lodger in this abode of vice and infamy, that she
had been turned out of St. Marylebone workhouse, the
parish officers telling her she was able to get her living,
She was then destitute of procuring even the ensu-
ing night's lodging, and had since been unable to
obtain any means of subsistence. Latterly she had com-
plained of excruciating pains in her legs and face, and also
that she suffered much from want and exposure to the
weather and insufficiency of clothing ; but she stoutly re-
fused applying to the parish for either medical or other as-
sistance. During last week she became so bad that some
of the inmates of the house procured the attendance of the
medical officer of St. Giles's parish, who found her in such
a state that he immediately ordered her to be removed to
the parish infirmary. She loudly exclaimed against being
taken there, and on being placed in the sedan-chair, she
said, with much passion, " you may order me to be taken
to the poor-house, but depend upon it I shall die before I
reach there." On setting down the chair at the workhouse
door she was found to be a corpse. Mr. Burgess, of
Lascelles-place, Bloomsbury, surgeon, stated that the nose,
lips, and the legs of the deceased were in a mortified state,
brought on by the continual want of proper food. He had
also no doubt hut that she was suffering under some severe
internal disease, which greatly impeded the circulation. It
did not appear in what station of life the deceased had for-
inerly been, Verdict—" Natural Death."