The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-12 00:00:00

G UILDHALL.

John Ward, a person of gentlemanly demeanour,
was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE yesterday,
charged with having, in league with a person named
Farquharson, cheated Mr. Currie, a tradesman in
Regent-street, out of an acceptance for 500/. ; and,
in confederacy with a Mrs. Bayley, of another bill
for 1001. Mr. Lyster, the barrister, attended o►n
behalf of the complainant, and briefly stated the
charge.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked who the prisoner was.
Mr. Currie had known him some time. He was
introduced to him along with Mr. Gurney, the
steam-coach builder, and was sent by him to superin-
tend the starting of one of those vehicles in Scotland.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked if complainant was a
shareholder in some company.
Mr. Currie said " No ;" but he was in fact the
proprietor of the Lord of the Isles steam-coach now
in Scotland, and which ought to be plying between
Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Sr PETER apprehended it was more unfortunate
.hat he was so, than that he had been defrauded of
hese two bills.

Mr. Currie had a different opinion of his specula-
tion. It had miscarried only because it had been
mismanaged. Mr. Currie repeated that he sent the
prisoner to Scotland to start the coach, and after
spending a good deal of money there, he returned,
and introduced Farquharson to him as a large land-
holder in the north, who would lend him 1,000/. to
carry on the adventure. Farquharson (or Sir
Thomas Farquharson, of Breda, as he styled him-
self) showed him some letters to prove that he was
really a man of property, and complainant unsus-
pectingly gave him his acceptance for 500/. to be
discounted, He, however, never received the pro-
ceeds, and on inquiring after him, he found he had
given him a false address.
Sir PETER asked the prisoner how long he had
known Farquharson ? Prisoner replied a long whilt.
Sir PETER asked if he had ever passed by the
name of Davis ? Prisoner said not to his know-
ledge. Did not know what Farquharson had been.
Was not in company with him at Garraway's on
Monday.
Sir PETER asked the prisoner what he had been ?
Prisoner said, that twenty years ago he was a purser
in the Royal George East Indiman.
Sir PETER asked how he had lived since? Pri-
soner answered, " On steam."
Mr. Lyster explained the second charge—that
the prisoner had introduced a Mrs. Bayley to Mr.
Currie, as a person who could discount a 1001. bill,
and that the proceeds of this had not been forth-
coming. If the Magistrate did not commit the pri-
soner for assisting in these frauds, justice would not
be done to an honest tradesman.

Prisoner replied, his conduct throughout had been
perfectly honourable. He introduced Farquharson
as a person who had been in difficulties, but had
expectances of property in Scotland, leaving Mr.
Currie to look into his papers and letters to satisfy
himself whether he was able to assist him. The
project itself was a good one, as the running of the
steam-coach to Birmingham, about a month ago, had
proved. Prisoner had the patent right to run loco-
motive carriages on common roads through Scot-
land, for which he was to pay the patentees 15,0001.
as soon as he should realize so much by the pro-
ject. Not having money to set the thing agoing,
he agreed with Mr. Currie to give him a third of
the profits, upon making the necessary advances,
and prisoner was sent down to Scotland with a car-
riage to make the experiment. From the defective-
ness of the machine time was lost, and Mr. Currie
discontinued his remittances. From his vacillation
the attempt had failed. Mr. Currie had rendered
him an account for 1,6001., but he was only fairly
chargeable, as he was informed by the engineer at
Glasgow, with about 700/.
Sir PETER asked if he would give up the bills ?
—Prisoner said, " No." He conceived he had a
claim to them. The bills recited on the face of
them that he (Currie), the acceptor, had " received
value" from him (the prisoner), who was the
drawer. And besides, Mr. Currie was a holder of
his acceptances to the amount of 600/. Prisoner
had as much right to protect himself as Mr. Currie
had to protect himself. He had one of Mr. Cur-
rie's letters at home which would place their trans-
actions in a clear light.
Sir PETER LAURIE, to give him an opportunity of
producing that letter, remanded him till the next day.

MAR YLEB ONE.
Yesterday an Irishman, who gave his name
Thomas Costello, was charged by Currie, the Stamp-
office agent, with offering the Poor Man's Guar-
dian for sale at a public-house.
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Arms, at the corner of Bryanston-street and Que-
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certificate you have handed to me for swearing 20s.
into your pocket, till I hear further from the Stamp-
office. And now, Costello, what say you to the
present charge ? Cost ello had no other employment.
Mr. RAWLINSON—That does not excuse you at all.
—Committed for one month.
LAMBETH- STREET.

Among the persons who applied to the Magis•
trates, Messrs. WALKER and HARDWICK, for paro-
chial relief, was a tall elderly female.
It appeared, that some years since her husband,
who was a Turkey merchant, died, leaving her in
the possession of immense wealth, with carriages,
servants, &c., and a town and country residence.
After his demise, she unfortunately gave her hand
to a person who had been for many years previously
a clerk in her husband's counting-house, and he, of
course, took the whole management of her affairs.
Immediately after their union, her second husband
began to ;ridulge in extreme extravagance. He took
a hunting-box in Essex, purchased a pack of hounds,
and kept his stud of hunters, and launched forth
into such lavish expenditure, that in u very few
years he squandered away her ample fortune. This,
however, was not all. He at the same time seduced
her d.ughter,an amiable young woman, with whom
he has since lived, and has a family by her. Such
was the unlimited confidence which she placed in
hi r husband, that she scarcely preserved an atom of
propel!), from the wreck, arid what little she had
preserved was since expended, and, being reduced
to the utmost state of destitution, she was compelled
to apply to the officers of St. George's-in-the-East
for relief, which they at the time afforded her, but
latterly they withheld all allowance.
The overseer of St. George's admitted that the
case of the applicant was one deserving much com-
miseration. The officers of the parish, after reliev-
ing her for some time, had the husband, who has a
large family by her daughter, and who obtained a
living as a commission-agent on the Corn-Exchange,
taken before their Worships on a warrant, and lie
la as committed to prison for three months, for neg-
lecting to maintain his wife, which time he served
out in the House of Correction. Since that period
the parish officers discovered the legal settlement of
he appl cant to be in the parish of Bethnal-green,
as her husband had rented a house there subsequent
to his leaving that in Sr. George's. All they had
to do, therefore, was to pass her in the usual way,
and in the interim he would take care that her pre-
sent necessities should be attended to.

The unfortunate woman, who shed tears during
her application, then left the office.

HATT ON- GARDEN.

Yesterday Robert Owen, Esq., lecturer, and one
of the governors of the institution of the intelligent
and well-disposed of the industrious classes, Grays-
inn-road, King's-cross, was summoned to this office
by the commissioners of the Battle-bridge estate,
Si. Pancras, to show cause why he refused to pay
481. 19s. 2d., alleged to be due at Midsummer for
paving and lighting.
The collector had made application to Mr. Owen
fot the money for paving and lighting, and, being
refused, he made the circumstance known to the
commissioners, under whose directions the present
proceedings were insti'uted.
Mr. Seijeant SELLON asked the defendant what
he had to say why he should not pay the money ?
Mr. Owen—l have to say that the charge is
altogether unjust and unfair. The building which
was complained against was so situated that it was
surrounded by other houses. There were certainly
pavement and lamps connected with it; but the
commissioners had never laid down a single square
of stone, nor had they lighted a lamp in the internal
part of the building.
The collector said that they had made their de-
mand according to the law, and it made no matter
whether the commissioners paved or lighted the
interior or not ; part of the outside near the en-•
trances had been paved.
Mr. Owen.—lf you proceed further I shall claim
extmption upon another ground : the building is
employed entirely for charitable purposes.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON—Is it supported by sat-
scription?

Mr. Owen said it was to give employment to
those who had no work, for the easy and certain
exchange of all the useful and valuable products of
indu,try, that a fair remuneration for labour and
talent may be readily obtained without unnecessary
waste of time, and without moral degradation.
Mr. SAjeant SELLON—Can you point out any
clause in the Act of Parliament that renders you
exempt from the paving and lighting rate ? Mr.
Owen—Certainly not, as an inhabitant householder; •
but, according to agreement, the building alluded to
will not be tenanted until next January. I assure
your Worship that the paving and lighting at the
interior is not a public thoroughfare, and the Com'
missioners had nothing to do with it.
Mr. LAING thought the Commissioners were right
in their demand.
Mr. Owen—l don't think so ; they have never
spent a farthing upon the premises.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON —I must order you to pal
the money notwithstanding. If the Commissioners
did not light and pave the place according to laws
then you ought to have proceeded against them for
not performing their duty.
Mr. Owen (to the collector)—You know it is
unjust ? The collector said, that Mr. Owen could
attend the board, if he thought proper, on the 27th inst.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON ordered the money to be
paid in one month.
Mr. Owen requested to know of Mr. Serjeant
SELLON, what mode he was to pursue if the Commis"
sioners were found to be acting unjustly towards him'
Mr. Serjeant SELLON said, if the Commissioners
did not attend to their duty, they were blameable
and there was a remedy against them ; but he oLr
served, that there was plenty of time, within this
and a month, for Mr. Owen to consult with the
parish board upon the subject.
UNION-HALL.

DON PEDRO'S 6AIISI.AIiiONGTHE
EMBRYO JEAN D'ARC.—Yesterday, a stouts
comely young woman, named Mary Jones, W 0
brought up under the following circumstances :-•-•
On Monday, about one hundred recruits for Don
Pedro's army not being able to obtain quarters t,
the public-houses in Rotherhithe, were compelles:
to bivouac in an open piece of ground in the neigh
bourhood, and having an advance of pay, they coo'
soled themselves for their bad quarters with obtain'
ing a good supply of bread and cheese and ale. SA°
unusual a scene soon collected spectators, all"
amongst them was Mary Jones, who, after partalc'
ing of the rations, became exceedingly warm in 00:
cause of Don Pedro. She said she should like f 0
sail with " the attachment," and " have a rap at
Don Mijewel." Like Jean d'Arc, she would go fort:;
plentifully with ale, which wonderfully increasht
to the battle, and " lead the whole on the trooP,s.;i
wictoiy." The troops were delighted, and P'
her
kept roaring out, in the beig-1
with Mijewel." The noise she made caused gb,
whom she could not :byDe'taor sincetheMhaegihs
police to take her to the station.
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The MAGISTRATES said she might get --II
cheaper, and d'scharged her with au admonitioth ,
She left the office, saying, she should go and 6e'
whether the recruits were off.