The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-16 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

On Saturday Mr. James Brennan, an artist, of
North-terrace, Lambeth, was brought from the
House of Correction for re-examination, charged
by Messrs. Venables, linen-drapers, of No. 75,
Lamb's Conduit-street, Brunswick•square, with ha-
ving uttered a forged bill of exchange for 201.
Mr. Richard Venables stated that on the evening
of the 3d of April, while he was in the shop, the
prisoner entered it in a hurried manner, and asked
him for change of a bill (now produced) for 20/.
Witness told him he was not accustomed to do
such a thing, unless the party was known to him,
arid was about to refuse, when the prisoner said he
was well known in the neighbourhood. His name
was " Bott," and he resided at No. 41, Guildford-
street, Brunswick-square. Witness having no doubt
of the prisoner's respectability, and after looking at
the bill, handed it to the boy at the desk, and or-
dered him to give the money, which he did, and the
prisoner quitted the shop. The bill was drawn
upon West, Field, Carls, and Co., of 5, Pope's
Head-alley, Cornhill, and accepted by Mr. James
Alderion ; and on application to the firm of West
and Co., it was discovered to be a forgery. On
Saturday evening, the 7th inst., witness was going
through Guildford-street, Brunswick-square, when
he saw the prisoner, whom he determined on watch-
ing, and he followed him as far as Lansdowne-place,
when he accosted him, arid asked him where he
lived : but he refused to name his residence, saying
that he lived over the water. On referring to the
bill transaction, he professed ignorance, and in a
scuffle he struck witness. He eventually gave him
into custody, and he was brought to this office.
Mr. Wooler—There is no such person as James
Alderson to be found, then ? Witness—There is
not.

Mr. Wooler—There is no such party known as
those represented on the bill as being the endorser
and drawer ? Mr. Venables had been to West,
Field, and Co., who knew nothing of the case or
parties, and it was altogether a forgery.
Mr. Wyburne asked the witness at what hour
the transaction happened ? Mr. Venables—Be-
tween five and eight o'clock in the evening.
Mr. Wyburne—Are you positive,—can you
mention more particularly the time? Mr. Venables
—I cannot, but I am sure it was between the hours
which I have named.

Mr. Wyburne—Pray, how near were you to the
person who offered the bill ? Mr. Vetiables—As
near as lam to you. (About two yards distant.)
Mr. Wyburne—Are you in the habit of discount-
ing ? Mr. Veriables—We sometimes accommodate
parties.
Mr. Wyburne—Do you accommodate any person
who might ask such a favour, or to customers only ?
Mr. Venables—We do not, unless acquainted with
the person's respectability.
Mr. Wyburne—Did you think you were ac-
quainted with him ? Mr. Venables—No; but from
the prisoner's manner, I concluded that he was a
respectable neighbour.
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Mr. LAING asked Mr. Venables whether he could
swear to the prisoner as being the person who
offered the bill ?—Mr. Venables could ; for when
he met the prisoner on the Saturday, his manner
and tone corresponded so much with what took
place on the Tuesday. He said, " I suppose you
think yourself a very sharp fellow." I replied,
" Not so very sharp, or I should not have been
duped by you."
Mr. LAING—I suppose if a respectable party
offers you a draught, you don't refuse to exchange
it ? Mr. Venables—Certainly not, your Worship.
Olney, a lad in the service of Mr. Venables,
on Tuesday evening, the 3d instant, paid 20/. to a
person in the shop for a bill, by order of his master.
Mr. LAING—Was it to the prisoner ? Witness—
Ido not know whether it was to the prisoner. I
asked him whether he would have the change in
sovereigns or notes.

The prisoner denied being the person, and said
that Mr. Venables was inaccurate in his description
of the rencontre at the time of his apprehension.
lie was about to address the Magistrate, when
Mr. LAtNG ordered summonses to be issued im-
mediately for the attendance of some material wit-
nesses, and the prisoner was remanded till Monday.
He was then taken back to the House of Correction.

MARYL EB ONE.
On Friday the Baron and Baroness De Lana
were re-examined.
Mrs. Parker, who keeps a lodging-house in Cir-
encester-place, Fitzroy-square, appeared as a new
witness, and deposed that the Baron occupied apart-
ments in her house. After running up a score for
tea, sugar, &c., witness pre-ented him with the bill,
when the 13..r0n observed that he had just pur-
chased a horse and a chaise, and NHS very poor, but
that in about ten days he should be able to pay
her. Last Monday week witness saw a set of
bronze ornaments in the Baron's bed-room, which
he afterwards packed up and sent off.—(These orna-
ments were taken from Mr. Elder's house.) The
same day he borrowed half
.a sovereign and a
sovereign of witness, on the score of temporary dif-

ficulty. About ten the same evening she missed
his portmanteau, which excited suspicion; but when
she had spoken to him of it be said that he had
nerely packed up some things in it, and had sent
,iii servant out with them. On the Wednesday he
rail away, and witness has not seen him since, till to-
day. After his departure witness missed a tea-
caddy and a pair of sugar tongs.
Mr. Elder re-capitulated the evidence which he
. gave on Wednesday.
'Several pawnbrokers were called, and produced
the sugar-tongs and tea-caddy belonging to last
ness; as also part of the property which was car-
ried off from Mr. Elder's house in Bath-place,-and
identified the Baron as the person who pacined
some of them.
Signor Angelo Benedetto Ventura, professor of
the Spanish guitar, preferred a fresh charge against
the Baron, for obtaining three valuable musical .ip-
saruments of him and pawning them. The Signor
entered into a long history of the manner in which
the Baron practised his deceptiOn-ifii 'him, which
elicited bursts of laughter from the crowd in the
office, in consequence of the humorous manner in
which he told his story in broken English.
Mr. RAWLINSON asked the prisoner what he had
to say.
He appealed to a document he had caused to be
submitted to the Magistrate. The memorial stated
that the prisoner was horn at Strasburg, on the
Rhine, and had held a commission in a French regi-
ment of light horse; but that an affaire politique
had compelled him to leave France. He positively
assured the Magistrate that the woman was.his wife,
and implored that she might be liberated, and the
punishment devolve on himself. He denied ever
pledging anything, and laid all the criminality on
his servants. Madame, he added, was originally an
actress, and he became so enamoured of her per•
formance that he married her, in contempt of paternal
authority. They afterwards felt obliged to do the
best they possibly could. Circumstances—not in-
clination—were their misfortune. •
Mr. RAWLINSON discharged the Baroness, as
neither charge touched her; but he committed the
Baron on two charges.
He will be again examined to-morrow, on .Signor
Ventura's charge.
On Saturday evening, a notorious imposter,
Thomas Morlay, was brought before Mr. HOSKINS,
the Sitting Magistrate, charged by the policeman D
68, with soliciting alms, under the pretence of being
" deaf and dumb," at noblemen and gentlemen's
houses. It appeared that the accused had alternately
gone under the aliases of Page, Webster, and Smith.
Sometimes he pretended to have been an attorney's
clerk, but his true occupation fur seven years seemed
to have consisted in extorting alms under the sem-
blance of the affliction just mentioned. from the be-
nevolent and the humane. Several cases were made
out against him, and he was committed.
WORSHIP- STREET.
Catherine Hon, an Irishwoman, and a pauper in
the parish of Shoreditch, was, on Saturday, charged
before the Magistrates, Messrs. BENETT and ,
BROUGIITON, with having the night before as-
saulted a butcher, and also a police constable.. • •-••
The butcher stated, that the night before, about
eight o'clock, the prisoner collected an immense
crowd of persons round his house, in High-street,
Shoreditch, by accusing a girl in the street of hav-
ing robbed her of a shilling. Witness civilly re-
quested her to walk away; but instead of so doing,
,she kicked up " such a row" that it brought to the
spot from 400 to .500 persons, whose presence ap-
peared to infuse into her greater courage, and she
celled him a 'name that is too indecent to mention,
and said, " You fat abominable butcher, give
you a little fun. There now, take that (giving him
a tremendous black eye), and so do your best."
Witness told her lie would forgive even this if she
would only go away; but she would not, and he
was obliged to send for a police constable. He
would not then have done so, seeing the prisoner
had an infant at her breast, and was surrounded by
three little boys, had she only gone away.
The police constable, on being sent for, also
civilly requested her to go home, instead of doing
which she seized him (although she had an infant at
the time in her arms) by the wrist, and, being a
powerful woman, in the next moment she had the
thumb of his right hand between her teeth! For a
few moments he thought he had lost his thumb alto-
et'ler, so excruciating was the agony he suffered at
the time. Here he showed his wounded thumb to -;
the Magistrate.
Mr. BRouGuToti—lndeed, a very serious thing.
It might have brought on a locked jaw, and ulti-
mately caused death. (To the prisoner)-:-What
have you to say for having bitten the policeman's
thumb? Prisoner—Why, I did that to get sway
from him.—(lmmense laughter.)
Mr. BROUGIITON—Art odd mode that of getting
away. What family have you? Prisoner—Four
children besides myself.
The Magistrates, after a long consultation, or-
dered
her to pay to the King a fine of 10s., or, in
default of payment, ten days' imprisonment; and,
not being able to pay, she was committed to prison
forthwith, and the children, by order of the Magis-
trate, were taken to the workhouse.

On Sunday last, at St. Saviour's Church,
Southwark, an excellent sermon for the benefit of the Royal
Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear, was preached by the Rev.
J. F. Denham, M.A. Since the establishment of this excellent
Institution upwards of 8,100 patients, afflicted with deafness

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and other diseases of the ear, have been cured and relieved.
After the sermon several deaf and dumb children who had ob.

tained their hearing and speech at the institution were present
in the vestry, where they were subjects of much interest to
those who conversed with them.

GARDENING AT SEA.—We were onboard
of a vessel the other day, just about to sail for America, and
were most hospitably received in a fine airy roomy cabin. The
captain's wife was present, and on the supposition that she was
a permanent inmate, we remarked that though she could boast
of not only a floating cottage, but a cottage ornee, she never.
theless lacked thecomfort of a kail-yard for the cultivation of
savoys and other pot-herbs. " And there you arc wrong," said
his excellency the Captain ; "and if you will go with me I'll
soon show you as goodly a crop of greens as you could wish to ,
look upon." Our curiosity being excited, we followed him to
,{
the hold, and there beheld on a large scale a novelty, or rathei ,
phenomenon, in horticulture. The plan was this :—a suffi- :
tient number of savoy plants are pulled up by the roots, and
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replanted among the sand used for ballast. After a few days
the outer blades fall oil; but on the other hand new ones spring
from the heart ; and Captain Carson assured us that his stock •
of vegetables would continue quite fresh for months, and, bar-
ring accidents, thicken the broth of a dozen persons, lessen the
chances of scurvy, and otherwise mitigate the effects of salted
provisions, till the man at the mast-head descried their define-
tion—Chaleur Bay, on the shores of America.—Dumfries
Courier.

BIRTH.
On the 14th inst. at Hertford-street, lklay-fair, the lady of
Major the lion. George Keppel, of a son and daughter.
MARRIED.
On the 14th inst. at St. Mary's, Newington, Wolley Foster,
Eiq., solicitor, Chancery-!ane, to Sarah, eldest daughter of
William Harding, Esq., of Newington-place, Kennington.
On the 14th inst. at Aston, Herts, J. W. Smith, of Gray's-inn,
to Margaret Ann, eldest daughter of William Hudson, Esq , of
Erogmore-lodge, Herts.
Es,
ence Wof Stockwell-place, to Eliza
On the 14th inst. at St. Mark
Magaret, eldest daughter of
awrill iams, Esq., of Vimiera, Wandsworth-road.
Kennington, W. M. Berkley,
q.
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On the 11th inst. at FerranlED,
in-law, near Truro, Jane Carter,A aged 64. worthall, the house of tier son-
On the 14th .inst. at Earl's-terrace, Kensington, in her 25th
year, the Lady Henrietta Atm, wife of Charles Knight Murray,
r
Esq., and si-ter.of the Earl of Rothes.
On the 14th inst. Mr. John Field, of Union-street, Southwark,
in his 54th year.
On the 13th inst. Edmund William, infant son of Edmund
A ntrobus, Esq., of the Strand.
On the 13th inst. in London-street, Fenchurch-street, Sarah
Edwards, younger daughter of the Rey. Dr. Pye Smith, Of
llomerton, aged 21,
Lar
On the
lanl4th inst. Sarah, the wife of T. G. Glover, ail., —'4l
k-hall.e, and youngest daughter of the late Henry Mauda-
lay, Esq., of Lambeth, in the 26th year of her age.
On the 14th inst. Mr. Richard Davis, of Davis's wharf, ,/ ,
11 orselydown, aged 73.
On the 14th inst. in his 82d year, John Freeman, Esq., late of r
the Stock Exchange.
On the 1 lth inst. at Brompton, Mr. James Robinson, late of
Sutton-place, Homerton, aged 52.
On the 6th inst. at Shipton-under.Wychwood, Elizabeth Philli- •
hlore, second daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Phillimore, of
Orton-on-the-hill, in the county of Leicester.
On the 30th ult. Frances, youngest daughter of Williamsparling, Esq., of Petton-han, Shropshire.
On the 12th inst. at Brighton, Mrs. Janet Whyt, in the 9011,
year of her age.
On the 13th inst. Mary, daughter of William Wynne, Esc] of
t ;rove-hill, Camberwell, in the 12th year of her age.
On the Ist inst. Mr. William Ray, at the house of his brother,
King's-road, Chelsea,

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