The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-27 00:00:00

QUE EN-SQUARE.

EXTENSIVE SWINDLING.--Yesterday, Thorizas
Natt agitin put to the bar on divers charges of
'
swindling and felony •‘ as was Mary Clark alhis
Mrs. Nott, on the charge of having unlawfully
pawned plate belonging, to Mrs: Bishop, taken
from the house No. 4, Hans-place, let to Nott
at 2QO guineas per, annum. This Mary Clarke, it
appeared, had been the partner of Nott's fortunes
for some time past.. On this occasion the Office
was more crowded than on any former examina-
tions, with persons from various parts of the town,
oomplaining of having been the dupes of Nott's
artifices.

Gilltnote, the officer, stated, that since the last
examination, he had discovered that the prisoner
possessed,at.the time of lkis: apprehension, four
different lodgings ; and that one in St.. Gebrge'S-
fields appeared to have been made the grand depot.
He these found a variety_of property obtained
from different tradesmen; :an immense bunch, of.
keys, belonging possibly to the. lodgings which
he had occupied, and many,letters, writings, and
very. curious documents, amongst the rest, all the
fortune-telling apparatus, put in motion by Mt.
Nott, after he left off the calling of dehtist in the
Kent-road, .and turned fortune-teller in.Locles.
fields. There were his cards of address ; " ad-
'dresses to the ladies," in cybich he proved that
he was the most accurate and the greatest astro-
loger that had ever lived : .and the terms only
on which he would he. consulted respecting the
planets. There was also a ctirions list of the
names and places .of abode /of all those ladies
whose nativities had been cast and whose for
tunes had been told by Mr. Nott, added to which
were accounts of the subsequent successes of some
of those ladies, related for the purpose of demon-
Strafing the truth of his, Notes, predictions ! At
this lodging these was also found .a large paint-
ing. of Nott, elegantly framed, with an inscrip-
tion underneath—" Thomas Nott, Esquire, late
of Stamford, Lincolnshire, now of the City of
London ;" and a small engraving of Notes coat
of arms, with the motto of " Cineribus serrate
fidern," under which was an account of his lineal
descent,. " froni John Nott, of the Manor-house,
Great Shelsley,..Lincolnshire, the lord and patron
to whom those arms tvere granted August 10,
Arno Christi 1575'."

A man.named Cobham then came forward and
said, that he had taken one of Nott's bills.from a
person named Burgess, for .101- 2s. 6d. Nott,
then living , in style in the City-road, was r. pre-
sented to be a, man of great business and impor-
tance Doctors'' Commons ; but the bill was
never paid. Nott,,however, not.haviug passed the
bill, no criminal charge on account of it could be
preferred against him. .
Thomas Rcdaway, of the Strand, boot-maker,
charged him with obtaining boots, &d. under
false pretences, on --the 29th of November last.
I.le-.-went to the shop in the evening, and fitted'
himself with boots and Wellingtons, and desiring
,them to. be sent home to him that night, when
they should be paid for : his name was Phillips,
.and he lived at 36, -Southampton-street. The
boots were accordingly-sent, the boy being de-
sired not to leave them without the money ; but
on the•boy's arrival he met with Nott, who had
just knocked at the door ; he took the boots from
the boy, .saying, "There, _that's right, my lad,
now go and: fetch the Wellingtons, and then Pa.
pay for the. whole.'' The boy -did so, but on -re-
,tarning, no Mr. Nott was to be found. The'
;person at-No. 36, said that no Mr. Phillips lived
there, and that the man (Nott), who had knocked
had alsoasked if one Phillips did not live there.
On charges being made against Mary Clarke of
;defrauding people of rent, &c. passing under the
'name- of ,Louisa Smith; she denied that she had
ever used such name, or cheated any body out of
rent ; when, unfortunatelyfOr her, a Mrs. Miller,-
of Shouldam-street, Marylebone, -not only proved
the truth of those-allegations, but also unfolded
most flagitious proceeding on the part of Nott
and Clarke, to get money from-, and to ruin-this
poor old Lady, who was a widow. Nott and
Clarke -took, lodgings of Mrs. Miller, as man
and wife, of the name- of Smith, he being an
an Agent in the city. Mrs. Smith soon began to
helaayq most wantonly, beckoning men into the

hortse, and the like ; ai:ct Mrs. M. spoke dwell ita
proper proceedings. The lady instantly behaved
mostoutrageously,forcing open doors and windows,
and endeavouring to get into Mrs. M's apart-
ment-S.' Foiled in this, Clarke and Nott pro-
ceeded to Marlborough-street, and preferred a
charge of assault against
.Mrs. M. and after,vards
an indictment ; and she had 13.cri" put to great
expenses and trouble, as the indictment had been
postponed without cause:. She had received no-
tice of trial again for the next_Sessi :in. Mrs. M.
had no doubt, from what had taken place, that: it
was a conspiracy to get money from her. •
Mr. CoLaullOUN comforted the old lady, by as-
suring her that she should not experience any fur-
ther inconvenience from this scandalous attempt,
as he and the officers should protect her interests
at the Sessions.

The Magistrate then ordered Nott and Clarke
to be brought up for final examination on Thurs-
day next, at 12.

UNION-HALL.

Thomas Sheaf and John" Kelly were charged by
Thomas Satterley, with having shot-at and dan-
gerously wounded his -brnther, on Sunday last.
Satterley stated, that having'received information
on Sunday corning, that his brother was lying in
a wounded state, • at Guy's Hospital, he immedi-
ately went there, and found him in a very „dan-
gerous state. The wounded man stated, that as
:he was coming towards town, on a Deptford
'stage, about 1.2 o'clock on. Christmas-day, he ob-
.served the two prisoners firing their muskets in a
field adjoining the road ; just as the coach passed,
one of them fired towards the 'road ; the, ball
passed over the head of a Gentleman, who. was
passing in his gig at the time, and struck Satterley
on the hip ; he was ihunediately taken to Guy's
Hospital, where the ball was fortunately extract-.
ed, but he is considers'( as. in a dangeroui state.
Satterley declared, he believed the prisoners acted
maliciously, and that his being wounded was not
.the effect of accident. The prisoners, in their
defence, said, they were firing 'at a mark—the
,trunk of,a tree standing in the hedge, and the ac-,
cident was owing to their having fired too high.
They were both.committed for re-examination..