The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-18 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

The Viscountess Kirkwall yesterday came to this
office to solicit Mr. CONANT for a summons against
Mr. Fay, surgeon, 35, Bruton-street, Berkeley-
square, who had, as she alleged, written a letter to
her son, Lord Orkney, containing unfounded charges
against her. Her Ladyship, who is reported to be
labouring under a peculiar eccentricity of mind, had
been advised by the Lord Mayor, to %%horn she had
recently applied, to adopt this course, as the only
mode by which she could clear herself from the
aspersions she had sustained. Her Ladyship then
produced a large packet of newspapers and letters,
which she said contained those garbled statements
of her case which had gone forth to the public, and
having selected a copy of Mr. Fay's letter, she
placed it in Mr. Conant's hands, with a pressing
request that he would read it publicly. Mr. Conant
was about to comply, but having ascertained the
contents were of a private character, he pointed out
to her Ladyship the impropriety of making it public
in such a manner, and observed, that although the
letter did appear to consider some circumstances in
her conduct had rendered coercion necessary, yet, as
there were no threats used, he did not see how he
could possibly interfere.
Lady Kirkwall—There is a conspiracy existing
against me between Mr. Fay and Lord Orkney, and
I have a right to demand that Mr. Fay should come
before you, and prove those charges contained in
that letter.

Mr. CONANT—There does not appear to have
been any violence used towards you.
Lady Kirkwall—There has been violence offered
to me. Mr. Fay and other Doctors are continually
intruding upon me, and it is the mercy of Provi-
dence that I am not now in confinement. My
money is totally restrained, and I have no proper
residence, being compelled to reside in lodgings.
Mr. CONANT—Your Ladyship need be under no
fear as to your being confined for presumed lunacy,
as it now requires the certificate of two physicians,
who must have visited you before any such steps
can be taken.

Lady Kirkwall—But the physicians have in-
truded themselves upon rue, for there is a regluar
conspiracy by the College of Physicians against me.
As the daughter of Lord de Blaquiere, who was your
father's most intimate friend, I demand a summons
against Mr. Fay, in order that I may refute the
approbrium cast upon me. Once before I had to
solicit your father's protection in his magisterial
capacity—a circumstance, said her Ladyship, with
an air of dignity, which you cannot easily forget,
for you then had the honour of handing me to my
carriage, and of saying some particularly civil
things to me.
Mr. CONANT, after again expressing his regret
that he could not assist her Ladyship, remarked, that
her complaint was the subject of a civil action only.
Her Ladyship then folded up her papers and
withdrew.

SAVAGE ASSAULT.—MichaeI Kennedy, an Irish
labourer, with both his eyes turned into a mass of
bruised flesh, his nose crushed, his left ear nearly
torn off, and two of his ribs broken, was placed at
the bar, charged with having violently assaulted two
females, one of whom was his wife. The man, it
appeared, had left a wife and family in Ireland, and
had married two other women in London, which
circumstance becoming known, caused him to be
tried for bigamy. lie had turned off his first wife
without allowing her a farthing ; and he had since
taken every opportunity to treat her with great
brutality. He met her accidently on Tuesday even-
ning, and then insisted on following her, as he said
he was convinced she was after no good. The
woman went into a house in Peter•street, and ran up
stairs into a room for protection, where a man and
his wife, who knew her, lodged. The fellow went
up after her, and having burst the door open, he
knocked his wife down by a tremendous blow in her
face, which completely closed ler right eye, and
then proceeded to beat and kick both females. The
husband, however, of the other female, who was, it
would seem, as great a ruffian as the defendant,
seized a navigator's boot, thick set with heavy nails,
and aimed a blow at the assailant, which took effect
on the nose, and laid him powerless on the floor; he
then jumped on the defendant's face and body till
the dreadful cries for assistance which he uttered
brought the police, who found the defendant lying
in the landing.place deluged in blood.
As the attacks on the complainants were un-
provoked, and his wife expressed the most undis-
guised terror for her safety if the man was released,
Mr. CONANT directed that he should find bad.

HATT ON- GARDEN.
A MEMBER OF THE ECCENTRICS.—Yesterday an
elderly man, of superior appearance, standing up-
wards of six feet, and dressed in shabby black, who
gave his name Michael Augustus Shecley, was
charged under the following circumstances :—He
lately made his appearance in St. Giles's, and con-
ducted himself in a most extraordinary way. He
took lodgings at a low filthy house in Maynard-
street, chiefly resorted to by vagrants, who treated
him as a reduced gentleman. When without vie-
tuals he became mad, or assumed the character, and
he rushed into the houses of the neighbours with a

drawn knife, a poker, or other dangerous weapon.
with which he threatened them, till they admin-
istered to his craving appetite. On Thursday he
rushed into a house with a formidable kitchen
shovel, but the inmates succeeded in ejecting him,
upon which he struck down the first man who
passed, and rendered him senseless by repeated
blows. The officers of the E division were sent to
apprehend him, and yesterday morning discovered
him at the lodging-house. Oakley went up to the
top of the house, where the fellow was sitting at
the fire-place, making the most hideous noises. H,•
had a pitchfork which he plunged at Oakley, who
fortunately stooped and evaded the compliment.
Poor Oakley was, however, bundled out of the
room, and he and a large body of police were for a
considerable time kept at bay by the prisoner and
his pitchfork. He now refused to say what he was.
An officer suggested that he had been a beggar, but
the prisoner looked contemptously at him, and then
said, " It's false, I am above a beggar ; I am a
Nobleman, although in this wretched state." He
was fined 51., and in default of payment committed
to prison.
THE DEAF AND DUMB ANGEL—Yesterday a
gentleman of respectability, residing in Wellington-
street, Clerkenwell, attended at this office, and re-
quested to be allowed to intercede for the liberation
of the unfortunate lady who was found under such
extraordinary circumstances in the house of Mr.
Clarke, of Northampton-street, Clerkenwell, ou
Sunday night last.
Mr. LAING—She says she is an angel. What is
her name, and who is she—she refuses to tell me ?
Applicant—She is a respectable woman ; her name
is Mary Shepperd; she resides in Wellington-street.
Is she a fortune-teller ; she has been telling the
prisoners their fortunes ?—Oh dear no, Sir! I be-
lieve she is a little deranged, and in the habit of
wandering.
Can you account for her having been found in a
house, or what brought her there ?—Unless she was
wandering, and went by mistake; certainly, with
no bad intent.

Mr. B.OOERs —She pretended not to hear or
speak, until she found it convenient to be abusive
to the whole of us.—lndeed, Sir, I am sorry for it;
she is frequently seized with extraordinary whims
and fancies.

Mr. LAING —Will you become her bail 2—Why,
Sir, if it is for property, certainly not; I will under-
take to protect her, if she is liberated. She has
lived thirty years in Wellington-street. Her sister
is present.
Her sister, a respectable-looking woman, who was
much affected, said that, some time ago, her sister
lost her husband, of whom she was extremely fond,
and, shortly after his death, her only child, in whom
her affections were so wrapped up that it turned het
brain, and she was troubled with sudden transitions
from joy to melancholy, and, under the impression
that they were in Heaven, she imagined that she
was an angel, and always along with them. Under
this delusion she wandered miles from home, and
was frequently missing; and it was not the first time
that she had entered strange houses, but, certainly,
with no dishonest intention, as she was not in need.
She had been missing several days, and her family
were quite alarmed at her absence.
Mr. LAING—If she is deranged, you must take
care of her.

Sister-1 shall certainly send her to her friends
in the country, where bhe will be protected.
Air. LAING observed, that a person being found
under such strange circumstances in a gentleman's
house was very suspicious, and her refusal to an-
swer reasonable questions, and affecting to be deaf
and dumb, confirmed the suspicions against her.
Under the circumstances, however, he would order
her to be liberated, but under the injunction that she
would be properly taken care of in future.
Waddington, the officer, was instructed to bring
her from the prison, and deliver her to her friends.