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No. 16,132. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING SIT
P JIM 29, 1844.

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71
- Barber's diary was, doubtless, of Very densisiseab",e-
-ervice to the prosecutoraain tbe extraordinary wise
alinations which took lid Vereitte Lord Mese r,
upon Barber's appr enseßams-ear*, ,e• . asion -Ber-
ber called Fletcher sOileavi-ithk, , , the ewe
cross-examination Nistllmiis:hkgrginelm, , for f e
Government, both i,e 'neuirlinei-er:4o4feeeee mended
for further investig t..? ..anier dereilste!* • pt ap ze
from each other. .1.. T-1 :o.'o.e•C.atirii-"cii er woeal
or could tell who th .ee leStkeslPaiste> es had ad-
ministered to the wtiMittitbegraiketi ethat she wa,, a
lady of the most unexceptionable respectability.
The next step to be taken by the investigatone
therefore, was to find out who Emma Slack was,
and that great point was a long time involved lei
a mystery apparently impenetrable. All that could
be ascertained for a considerable period was, that
she had resided in a house for a few weeks, but from
what place she had come, or to what place she lied,
gone, no one could surmise. In the meantime, Ber-
ber and Fletcher were, un various occasions, brougle
before the Lord Mayor, and their siounsel and atior-
neys exercised all their skill to excite the public svrn-
pathy in favour of the prisoners, and to obtain as quid;
a trial as possible for them, no doubt in apprehensicei
ef the sequel.
The Bank, judging wisely that the Slack M-e was
not the only one in which Mr. Berber had been es-
gaged of a similar description, caused a rigid seaseis
to be made relative to other transactions with svhiet
the name of Barber was mixed up as the attoynee.
This active spirit of inquiry brought to light filet
the case of Ilvint, then the case of Burebard, wet,
tftimately, the case of Stewart. All of these we. e
subjected to a course of examination, and, if we re
member rightly, on each of the :our first occasions
on which Barber and Fletcher were brought npfer
examination a new and additional charge was alleged
against them. In the meantime, it was not a: all
known who were the other parties who had been
confederated with Barber and Fletcher to carry into
effect these daring frauds. •
With the view, as we imagine, of searching into the
cases, a reward of UV. was offered to any party who
should discover who Emma Slack was, but the offer
tempted no candidate for the prize. Ultimately,
however, the attention of the prosecutors was directed
to a Miss Richards, who, it was stated, came from
Bath, and was intimately acquainted with Fleteher
and his first wife, and whose description exactly COr -
responded with that of a person who had visited
Emma Slack during her stay at her lodgings near
Tottenham Court-read.
Miss Richards was accordingly traced from place to
place, until it was ascertained that she had married
a shopkeeper named Dorey, and that she resided k.
Oxford-street. Here she was identified as a visitor
of Emma Slack, and apprehended ; and some of her
writing was obtained; and in her trunk the seal was
found which bore the same device as that attached to
the will of Eliza Burchard. This was a very ins-
portant step for the prosecutors, for the seal showed
that she was cognisant of the will of Eliza Burchard,
and her handwriting resembled that in which the
will of Mary Hunt was written. Still the precise
part taken by her remained to be proved, and,; the
presence of Emma Slack appeared to be incliepeueabla
to a clear development of the plot.
As the discovery of so important a character Its to
drama as Mrs. Dorey had taken place, those by whore
the investigations were conducted would naturally
be induced to trace out, and sharply look after 1,16
immediate connections. The description of the pees
son, manners, and habits of Emma Slack was closely
inquired into, and upon comparison with the account
given of the pereons, manners, and habits of Mrs,
Dorey's relations, was found precisely to correspond
with what was said of Lydia Saunders, her sister, the
wife of William Sounders, fishmonger, of Bristol..
Visits were from time to time, as it now appears, paidi
to Bristol by John and Daniel Forrester, but neithee-
she nor her husband could be found, and their al.,
sence naturally tended to strengthen the suspicion
which existed against them. As the investigations.,
were carried on it was found that nut only did the
description of Mrs. Saunders agree with that given
of Emma Slack, but that the description of William
Saunders also corresponded with that of Thomas
Hunt, the alleged executor of Mary Hunt. We do
not collect that the prosecutors obtained information.
from any one that these were actually the parties en.
gaged in the transactions ; but so accurate were the
descriptions obtained, toad so confirmed were they by
dates and other circumstances, that the prosecutors,
as will be remembered, offered a reward of 1001. for
the discovery of Lydia Saunders, and a further sum
of 1001. for the discovery of her husband.
The offer of these rewards was for some time of ro
avail, but ultimately, through some channel ache-,n
has not been made known, Saunders and his wit/.
were found living in an obscure part of Edinburgh,
under an assumed name, and were there apprehended.
The determination of the prosecutors to apprehend
Mr. and Mrs. Saunders was fully justified by the
result, for these participators in the delinquencies of
1 Barber and Fletcher were, it will be remembered,
immediately identified as the individuals who had
personated the two fictitious parties alluded to. Mee.
Dorey was also identified as Eliza Burchardk the
fictitious niece and executrix of the testatrix, Eliza
Burchard.
It still, however, remained to be discovered who
Elizabeth Stewart, the assumed sister and achninis-
tratrix of John Stewart, was. This question was
involved in more than ordinary obscurity and con
fusion, as no person_ living could I,e round wb
answered the description of the performer of Oat
part. The servant who attended on the aged *male,
Elizabeth Stewart, was, however; as it appears,
traced out ; and the most accurate information wee
obtained respecting the infirm mistress ; and, after a
lengthened investigation, Elizabeth Stewart • was sa-
tisfactorily proved to be no other than Mrs. Dorey's
and Mrs. Saunders's mother, who shortly afterwards
died, and whom Mrs. Dorey visited in the pretended
relationship of niece. This servant, who is very ob-
serving and intelligent, gave such an account of the
fictitious Elizabeth Stewart that the portrait was consi-
dered perfect, and those who knew the mother of
Mrs. Dorey declared it to be quite impossible that
the lady who played the character could have been
any other. Indeed, with such truth was She deecrip
tion given that Mrs. Dorey upon hearing it burst
into tears, and became an object of much commisera-
tion. The gown, or rather the remnant of the govt ti,
of Mrs. Richards was, notwithstanding the 4ittese of
three yearse since her death, searched for anti *and
in the hands of a charwoman, to wlipni IL bed
been given by Mrs. Dorey upon the decease of her
mother, and that gown was immediately idea tied
by the attendant upon the old woman.
The whole of the circumstances of ale conspiracr
have been thus most satisfactorily 'developed; and
those who have been prosecuted have met with con-
dign punishment with the complete approbation of
the public, who are not to be convinced in the teeth
of such evidences of guilt, that any one of the ac•
cused is innocent.
The mother of Mrs. Dorey and Mre. Saunders was
the daughter of an aged soldier, of the name of (Irene,
a pensioner of the Government at Falmouth, and their
father, William Richards, was the steward of el, Lis-
bon Government packet. On the proclatna.tiea Qf
peace Mr. Richards went to Lisbon to establish-him.;
self there, but he soon afterwards died in emboss reseed
circumstances in that city. The daughters hail been
brought up as milliners, but on their father's
death the mother and daughters opened a
china shop at Falmouth, where they remained
a few years, when they removed, we believe,
to Biddesham, in Somersetshire, and at last to aely
Bond-street, Bath, where they carried on the bu e-
ness of straw bonnet-makers. In this street S'eurider,s_
kept a fish shop, and thus, from the circumstance_ i f
neighbourhood, became acquainted withitLeelues
balleairb.*;,do
played the part of Emma Slack, and
thet
the
details aid o
of wh
r sister,.ieh
intole d theall
the unfortunate
mischief
and m a man,
miserywthe to
the public have been so long accustomed. cßuisothomarect: rlere, also,
Mrs. Dorey, then Georg became
ac-
quainted
with that miserable ruffian Carlisle, on one
of his visits to that city, and to this source and the
blasphemous doctrines of Carlisle the whole of the
family ascribe their total min.—Sunday Times..

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
TILE PIRATE OF THE MEDITERRANFAAN.
A letter received at Lloyd's, from their wienta at
Malta, of the 15th inst., of which a copy is subjoined.
shows that this rover of the sea continues his lawleAe
pursuit without hindrance or dread of detec.aion. The
many cases of recent piratage in the Mediterranean,
attributed to a Greek barque, who has escaped the vigi-
lance of the men-of-war up to the date of the following
letter, calls for very active measures for its suppression.
The great injury which the shipping interest, both at
home and abroad, has sustained by the repeated depre-
dations of this pirate, would insure much eclat to him
who may be fortunate enough to capture her. Certain,
it is that the infamous but bold depredations, if 'pot
horrible butchery, of this vessel calls for ver,y prompt
measures for her seizure.

" Malta, \pril 15.
"We have already mentioned that a suspirlious-lookirg
vessel had been fallen in with in the mon& , of March cat
Cape Passaro, by the Capper, arrived at smyrati. We
now learn that two small craft, which r ailed froth
Tian ports on the same day, for this •port, with speci7,
have not reached their destination. 'One vessel has iw
been heard of, whilst the other has been picked ER at
sea abandoned, with the water-casks , emptied, JUI:j. with
other signs of having been plundem 4."
SeITEL.

The auction at the Countesi of Mansfie:hl39, rtt
Richmond-hill, commences this dos and conl.inues eight
days without interruption, excepts ag only &Inky..
MASTERS AND SERVANTS.-1 Ir. 11. G . Kaiglat is
one of the tender nur:q3s of the Masters !ind
Bill now in Parliament; and if 41 e infant
%hat a " monster "it will prove Meeting-st throughout
the country are holding, for the Niurpose (1 petitioning
Parliament against this infamotu
fact that, since the Tories regal) Bill. It is e. lamentabrt
led power, ;we have had
nothing but fresh oppressions 41 ul tyranny. er-ltrottiApii.9m