The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-18 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Yesterday a young man of respectable appearance
who gives his name Mathew Riely, was brought
from the watch-house of St. James's parish, before
Sir GEORGE FARRANT, the sitting Magistrate, under
the following very extraordinary and mysterious cir-
cumstances :
Mr. M`Gowran, the landlord of the Bell, formerly
the Goat and Star ,public-house, in Pall-mall, stated,
that on Thursday evening, about eight o'clock, the
prisoner, whom he had never known before, came
into the house, and entering the parlour, where there
were two or three other persons at the time, called
for something to drink, at the same time taking out
of his pockets a brace of pistols, which he very de-
liberately placed before him on the table. Soon after
the liquor for which lie had called was brought to
him, he asked him (Mr. M‘Gowran) to give him
change for a 50/. note of the Bank of England, at the
same time producing one from a large purse which
he held in his hand, but the landlord observing a
great strangeness of manner, he said, about the
prisoner, who flourished about the room, and kept
constantly handling and examining the pistols in an
alarming way, felt no disposition at all to change the
note, if it had been even convenient to him at the
moment to do so, and told the prisoner that he could
net change it. The prisoner, however, persisted in
his desire to have the note changed, and at last Mr.
M'Gowran told him that as all banking-hours were
then long since over, and there were no means of
ascertaining the genuineness of the note, he (Mr.
M'Gowran) should certainly not change it if he
had even the means at hand, for how did he
know, he said, but that the note was a forgery ?
Mr. M'Gowran had no sooner alluded to this possi-
bility of the note being forged, than the prisoner
seized one of his pistols from the table, and present-
ing it at Mr. M'Gowran's head, was in the act of cock-
ing it, when Mr. M'Gowran closed upon him, and
grasping the pistol by the barrel, turned it on one
side, and with the assistance of the other persons
in the room, wrenched it from his hold. The pri-
soner was then secured, as were also the brace of
pistols; and one of the Bow-street patrol, who hap-
pened to be passing by at the time, was called in,
and the prisoner was given into his custody, and
lodged in the watch-house, on the charge of attempt-
ing the life of Mr. M'Gowran. On examining the
pistols, each of them was found to be strongly
charged with powder and ball, and primed ready for
use; and on searching the prisoner's person at the
watch-house, there were found in his possession,
besides the 50/. note, 66 sovereigns, two half sove-
reigns, and ss. in silver. He made considerable re-
sistance to being searched, and, on parting_ with the
50/. note, he used all his endeavours to destroy it,
and actually tore it into more than a dosen small
pieces ; which, however, were subsequently pasted
on a sheet of paper, and the form and contents of
the note restored, so as to be perfectly legible. Its
number is 13,121, and it is dated the 13th of Sept.
1828 ; and it had been ascertained that there is no
doubt of its being a genuine note of the Bank of
England.
A witness, who was in the parlour of the Bell at
the time the prisoner entered it, and who saw the
whole proceeding, confirmed Mr. M'Gowran's state-
ment in every particular ; and the Bow-street patrOl
said, that as he was conveying the prisoner to the
watch-house the night before, he asked him what he
meant by so outrageous an act as presenting a load-
ed pistol at Mr..M‘Gowrares head, when the pri-
soner replied that he meant to blow his brains ont,
as he would•the brains of any man who would sup.
pose him capable of passing forged notes.
The prisoner, who seemed to treat the whole mat-
ter with the utmost slight and indifference, did not
at all contradict any part of Mr. M'Gowran's state-
ment, but said that he considered himself personally
insulted by the suspicion of his attempting to pass a
forged note. On being questioned by the magis-
trate as to his occupation, &c., he said that he had
been for some years as clerk in the office of Messrs.
Lane and Croft, respectable solicitors in Lincoln's-
inn-fields, and that he only left there of his own ae-
cord three days ago. The 50/. note, lie said, and
the sovereigns found upon hint, he received the day
before at the Bank of England, but he declined, or
rather did not volunteer, to give any other account
of the source from whence the money came. The
pistols, he said he purchased, and carried about hint
for his own personal protection, particularly as he
was on the point of setting off for Ireland that very
morning.
The Magistrate said, that the circumstances alto-
gether under which the pristiner appeared before
him, would not warrant him (the Magistrate) in
setting the prisoner at liberty without further it
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quiry —about him ; his attempi to destroy the .50/.
note was in itself a sufficieut cause for suspicion that
the note had not honestly come into his possession :
he was liable to be detained until he should procure
Bail for the assault and threat against Mr. MgGow-
ran ; but he (the Magistrate) would in preference
detain him on suspicion of having stolen the 501.
note.

Tlie prisoner was then remanded for a week, and
soon after he had been locked up until his removal
to prison, he called for pen, ink, and paper, and
wrote the following letter :
" Marlborough-street, Police-office, Friday morning.
" Sit—l beg you will have the goodness to send
the things which I purchased at your shop yesterday
to me immediately at Marlborough-street Police-
office. Do not inquire for me in the name of Max-
well, as my real name is Riely."
This letter was addressed to Mr. John Collier,
clothier, &c., Nos. 40 and 41, in the Poultry, but
had no name signed to it. After having undergone
the necessary inspection by the Magistrate, the let-
ter was immediately forwarded to its destination,
and in the course of the day Mr. Collier, in conse-
quence of the receipt of it, came to the office, and
made to the Magistrate the following extraordinary
statement respecting the prisoner, which seems to
involve the affair in a still greater degree of obscu-
rity. About eight o'clock on Thursday morning
Mr. Collier said the prisoner came into his shop, and
said to him " How d'ye do, Collier ?" in a very
familiar manner; and he (Collier), not at all having
any recollection of the prisoner at the time, told
him that he had the advantage of him, for that lie
did not recollect him. The prisoner then said," Oh,
I recollect you very well, when you used to come to
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Mr. Lane's in Lincoln's-Itin•fields." He,(Mr. Collier),
on the mention of Mr. Lane's name, did then remem-
ber the prisoner's person as a clerk in Mr. Lane's
office ; but as he (Mr. Collier) had not been at Mr.
Lane's for more than two years; the prisoner had
escaped his memory, The prisoner then said that
an old uncle of his had just died, and he wanted to
WIT some clothes made, which it was absolutely ne-
cessary should be finished for him by eight o'clock
the same evening, as he was to sail the next day for
America. The prisoner then gave an order, very
much to the surprise of Mr. Collier, after saying that
his uncle was just dead, for a blue `'rock coat, a buff
waistcoat, and a pair of drab•coloured trousers, and
he purchased besides,
as ready-made articles, a tra-
velling eloak,several shirts,silk handkerchiefs, stock-
ings, &c., all of which he desired should be put into
a carpet bag, which he also bought, and sent to his
residence, No. 4, Hyde-street, Bloomsbury. Mr.
Collier having taken down the order, observed, that
as the prisoner was a comparative stranger to him,
be should wish, before setting several extra hands at
work, to complete the order, as he must do in a few

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hours, to have some deposit as a security against the
clothes being left on his bands at a loss. " De-
posit !" said the prisoner, " you shall have the
whole amount, for although they say that he who
pays beforehand is bad pay, we'll run the hazard of
that imputation by paying you down at once for the
things I have ordered." Mr. Collier then made out
his account, which amounted to 15/. 135., and the
prisoner paid that sum instantly in sovereigns, from
a large purse which he took from his pocket, :and
which seemed to contain a great number more of
the same coin. The prisoner, after again enjoining
punctuality as to the completion of the order by
eight o'clock that evening, was about to quit the
shop, when he suddenly turned back and said, "By
the way, Collier, upon second thoughts, I think you
had better not send those things to Hyde-street,
for it may happen that I should not be at home
when they arrive, and for fear of any accident to
them, I should not wish them to be left there in my
absence. You had better therefore keep them until
I send a confidential person for them, which I shall
do in the evening, or early in the morning." The
prisoner was then again about to withdraw, when he
a second time returned, and taking• but of another
pocket than that in which the bag of sovereigns
were, a .50/. note and two 40/. notes of the Bank
of England, he asked Mr. Collier if he could give
him change for them in sovereigns ? Mr. Collier
replied, that lie really could not, for that, as he kept
an account at a neighbouring banker's, lie very
rarely kept any amount of cash in the house, but
he offered, if the prisoner particularly wanted the
chaoge, to send his young man with the notes to his
banker's, and get them changed there. The prisoner
said that would do, and he then gave the three notes
to Mr. Collier, who, before parting with them, re-
quested the prisoner to write his name and: address
on each. The prisoner stiid, that his address was as
he had before given it, 4, Hyde-street, Bloomsbury,
and that his name (which it seems Mr. Collier
never knew at Mr. Lane's) was William Maxwell,
and he requested Mr. Colliet' to write his rime and
address for him on the notes. Mr. Collier did ac-
cordingly write them on each of the three notes in
the prisoner's presence, but after he had done so,
the prisoner took back the 50/. note, saying that the
two 40/. notes would be sufficient to get changed.
Mr. Collier then called his'young man on one side,
and having some larking suspicions that all was not
right with the prisoner, he desired the young man to
take the two 40/. notes to the Bunk of England, to
get changed, rather than to his own 'banker's, and
to inquire very particularly if there was any stoppage
or other impediment to the payment of the notes.
The young man was abs2nt for a considerable
time, and during the period Mr. Collier said that
he particularly watched the prisoner's manner, and
observed that he appeared very much agitated and
uneasy while waiting in the shop, although he
never attempted to leave it, under any pretence.—
The young man, however, returned from the
Bank, bringing with him eighty sovereigns in
change of the notes, upon which, after a strict
investigation at the Bank, it was found that
no suspicion rested. The eighty sovereigns, Mr.
Collier said, were then handed ova to the prisoner,
and he took his departure, since when, until the
receipt of the above letter, Mr. Collier saw or heard
nothing more of him except this, that some time
having elapsed after the hour so strictly appointed
by the prisoner to have the clothes finished for him,
Mr. Collier, whose suspicions that there was some-
thing wrong had not yet gone to rest, sent one of his
shopmen to No. 4, Hyde-street, Bloomsbury, to in-
quire for the prisoner, when it was learnt there that
no person answering either to the name or descrip-
tion of the prisoner was at all known at the' house.
Mr. Collier said that the various things purchased
of him by the prisoner were still at his house, as he
did not think it right to bring them with him to the
office in obedience to the prisoner's letter.
The MAGISTRATE told Mr. Collier that he was
perfectly right in keeping the things until a further
investigation should take place respecting the pri-
soner, for at present his whole conduct and situation
appeared to be involved in very extraordinary mys-
tery and suspicion.
Mr. Collier asked if he could see the prisciner
with propriety.—The Magistrate said he might, if
he pleased.
Mr, Collier then withdrew, and had an interview
with the prisoner in his cell; but what passed
during the interview did not transpire.
An officer was sent to ascertain the truth or false•
hood of the prisoner's statement, that he had, up
to three days ago, lived with such respectable soli-
citors as Messrs. Lane and Croft, when it was
learned that his assertion was suite true; that he
had been in the office of those gentlemen for upwards
of five years without the least blemish upon his in-
tegrity, and that lie only quitted there on Monday
last of his own accord. So far, however, the of-
ficer learned, from the prisoner being in a situation
since ever lie has been known to Messrs. Lane and
Croft, to have any command of any sum of money
beyond his bare salary, (which, from his situation of
writing-clerk, was necessarily limited), he actually
left the office with a small advance made ;o him,
although not due.
Plank, the chief officer, in the presence of the
Magistrate, unloaded the pistols found upon the
prisoner, and which were charged almost to the
muzzle,

Mr. Tiver, the proprietor of a respectable board
and lodging house, No. 36, Gerard-streer, Soho,
applied to the Magistrate for advice in the following
case. OU that afternoon, he said, about two o'clock,
a leaden bullet was fired into his house, and from
the circumstance of no report of a gun or other lire.
arms being heard, there could be little doubt but
that it was discharged from an air-gun. Mr. Tiver
produced the bullet, which was partially flattened,
and about the size of a duelling pistol-ball; it en-
tered, he said, through one of the windows of the
drawing-room, in an oblique direction, passed close
by a Major in the army, who occupies that apart-
ment and was then sitting there, and, striking the
opposite side of the room, rebounded nearly to the
window again. The Major -was of course consider.
ably alarmed, as were indeed the whole family, and
he (Mr. Tiver) was quite at a loss to guess at any
person who could be guilty of such an act. He had
had no altercation, he said, or misunderstanding
with any of his neighbours or any one else. There
were, he said, two females of rather a suspicious
character living opposite to his house, but he knew
nothing of thew, and he could scarcely attach-suspi-
cion to them. •

The Magistrate despatched Goddard the officer
'o inspect the premises and investigate the matter.

LAMBETH-STREET.

Nearly as the business of the afternoon bad yes-
terday terminated at this office, a ladylike-looking
female, of about 35 years of age, and dressed in a
style of fashionable elegance, entered the Justice.
room in a state of high excitement, and was approach-
ing the bench, and about stating the nature of her
the sitting Magistrates
‘vvihsietntoshMe
wasW YitoirloTN,weEdsil.,
y
Colonel L., late of the
South American service, as we understood—who
interrupted her address, by exclaiming—" Oh I
Mary---dear Mary--reeollect your husband, your
mother, and children; don't expose yourself."
Mr. WYATT—What do these persons want ? Pray
what has occasioned this very singular introduction?
Colonel L.—This lady, Sir, wishes to have an
officer to accompany her to her lodgings in the Com-
mercial-road.

M. WYATT—For what purpose? We cannot grant
such application unless sufficient grounds are shown

The Lady (pointing to Colonel L.)—To protect
me, Sir, against this person's violence, which has
been—

Colonel L. (in the most earnest manner)—" Do,
Mary, for God's sake, desist;" and, perceiving a re-
porter taking notes, he added, " Dear Mary, do, or
all this will be iri the newspapers to-morrow. Only
think 'of Mir husband and children !"
The Lady—That I don't care for, it will be heard
of elsewhere, and I shall certainly speak only the truth.
Colonel L. (to Mr. Wyatt.)—Might I request it as

private—it is altogether a family affair? This n,
a*favour from your Worship to.hear this imisillesi;t
.p
friends and relatives are,'l assure you, most
able; and, as I see there is a reporter in atterlP4l
I entreat, for their sakes, you will prevent its 1°;
before the public.
Mr. WvATT—If your object is concealmegtros
mode, in which you have sought to obtaitrit 19.,* h.,.
most injudicious you could have chosen i:ll4* TV
earnestness and solicitude, you have given tile,,,4# 1.,
an air of interest and mystery which in.rewciitll,l:l.4
may not possess, but which probably will' '1.34,
more marked attention. No difference of'!''' 44PPiI
thelli
et*
parties is recognized here, and as to' m4l 1,, be
their reporters, we can judicially .know 1101.7;,. 4tlan(
them. Let the lady be sworn ; she comes IT-4,1
demand the protection of the law, and we are'T,
to obey her call.
The lady, who seemed not at all reluctsnt.ilstl‘ .
ply the history of • her grievances; on being he mn'
and given her name as Madame Marianne. de' oh h'
stated, that wishing•to break off all connexiar!r
the defendant, Colonel L., between whom ao!,. tot 14;itid
self a warm intercourse, she admittedillonot
some time past subsisted, she was that ill°r,"Ot TA
proceeding to her solicitor's, a Mr. Baker, fdlod
purpose. While on her road thither, he folli)or
her, and insisted on her accompanying him to 6ive
taro street. This she refused, and in an ecceLd, l° MA
passion he struck her a violent blow on the So; 4ag
'which broke her bonnet, and became so outesrAof
in his conduct as to attract a considerable crow" fi
passengers to the spot.
ortett!
Mr. WYATT—This statement, if it be ,
certainly exhibits most unmanly conduct. le 1
Madam, may I ask, are you a married or s"
• It woman ?
1) C.
Madame, de Felix—Married, Sir : my husbr.7,':' elat
4n
at present in the East Indies..
h,
Colonel L., who with difficulty suppress
jot ht,
utterance during the above statement,. and whil 1411
evidently struggling with his feelings; •in 'de7-fg. ,
said—The fact is, Sir, this lady- has been -1;04
some time under my protection. With ele„jor
should still have remained, and gladly reeeiVeo*
protection, were it not that her conduct was
tremely gross and incorrigibly depraved, Shat it , tp
beyond endurance. She did•not even endeavosrot
conceal it, but tauntingly confessed to me t4t,,to
had been a frequent visiter to the 44 white liouseA,
Soho-square, and " the Key," in ChanduksPiy,
with Colonel B----y, of Gloucestershire, .0041/
F. D—s, a civic Baronet. This and Other aerie
impropriety I could not submit to, anti justly.
ritated, I have determined to part with her; bllpl.o
the same time I am most anxious to place her r
her friends.
Madame de Felix—The only cause of their
pleasure is my connexion with you.
Colonel L.—Why, you • know if it was..not f
that connexion and my kindness you •Would
starving. .
'Madame de Felix—Starving, you wretch •
Ty aboutpsulatl anera
been your servant—your slave. Ay, yes, ''•44ll.oiit
brutalitythan
M ra. Barbary
van.:
obi,:r
e.end to this angry reeriliiii;
and I bear the marks Of Y
a
Lion, and the parties then took their leave under!-
safe surveillance of an officer of the establialue°t'
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William ,Sandford,. a respectable looking 1241 C
14 years, was
,put to the bar, charged with bar,
on the 11th of October, stolen an ivory bt:
counters, with the alphabet on them, value 18s' to,
property of James Kingsraan, an ivory-turner, 01
ing at Lambeth.—" Acquitted."
The prisoner Sandford was again put to the hgr,,?t
charged with having, on the same day; stolen;
Leatherhead, four tortoiseshell boxes, an ivory talial
a pen box, a smelling bottle, and a 'purse, the W
valued at 355., the property of John Frazer,. a Wet
maker residing at Peckham.
The Jury found the prisoner " Guilty," and 4
Court sentenced him to• six months'. hard labour
-the House of Correction, and to be twice private',
whipped.

Thomas Vincent, alias William Edwards,
put to the bar, charged with having on the 9th
October, stolen from the d-celling-house of J°op
Blackman, a labourer at Croydon, a writing des
value 125., his property.
Mr. THESSIGER (who conducted the prosecuti_Vl)
x,
—Mrs. Blackman, is that desk your husblim'd
property ? Mrs. Blackman (a fascinating femalta
forty, with one eye)--Why, Sir, I bought t"-
desk for the use of him and me.

Mr. ThEsslGEß—Well, you know, that rnakes'll
his property. You seem unwilling to admit 0,1"
your husband is the master. '

Mrs. Blackman—Why, I don't like un' to be
quite master, neither.—(A laugh.)
Why, Madam, the law very uncourteously se)
so, and unfortunately, I am afraid, you must sul
by it.

Another witness proved having seen the priqoPe
running away with a sack ou his bark.
The record of a former conviction for larceny
put in and read. Verdict--" Guilty." The priso"
was sentenced to be transported for life.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.
ter
TirURSDAY, O. 6.—Wind N. N. W. —High 01,
15 minutes past three.— Arrived the Aurora, Tharv'
from Drammen ; John and William, Qum, from Id 6
man; James, AlKileave, Tobermory; Conductor,: Ai`v.. •
suer, from ditto ; Earl of Fife, Alallum, from 0
Betsy, Humphreys, from Charlestown; Alexander,
from Smyrna.
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CLEARED OUTWARDS.--New York, Bennett, fit
New York; Arcturus, Dennis, for Lisbon; Gem,
land, for Teneriffe ; Mantura, Dobson, for Bremen ; Inr;
tunus, Jettes, for Antwerp; Mediterranean Packet,
Leghorn.

BIRTHS.
At Auchinleck Maese, Ayrshire, on the 11th inst.., l‘frfs.
Boyd, of a daughter.
On the 16th inst., at Mitcham, Surrey, Mrs. E.
man, of a son.
the At Gosberton Cheal, in the last week of August,
wife of Thomas Boxter was safely delivered of twins,
both are living. It is worthy of remark that in 1617 t
wife was the fruitful mother of twins ; in 1821 she fills.?
single birth ; in 1824 was prolific again, and added anon
pair to the difficulty of providing for her former offs 4'l:
The father, aged 68 years, is now labouring-under Peel-.
niary privations, from a failure in the parish of Kirtoti•
On, the 14th inst., at Clifton, near Bristol, the 124.-
Captain Gardiner, R N., of a son.
At Plymouth, the lady of Edward Jago,- Esq.; of ii,fl:4,:f
At Foxbar, North Britain, Mrs. Mathew Rubel:2oi'
a son.

MARRIED.
On the 16th inst., at Christ Church, Alarylebone, Vir•
W. Cockle, Esq., to Sarah, youngest daughter of the 164°
Isaac Brooke, Esq., of Horningsheatb,
On the 16th inst., at Datchet Church Alr. George
Willis, of the Haymarket, to Sophia, eldest daughter °i
John Goodwin, Esq., of Datchet, Bucks.
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On the IGth inst., at St. Matthew's, Brixton, the
Rev. Edwin Rogers, 8.D., Dalton 31artinslale, E941.r u.
Hamilton-place, North Brixton, to Eliza, third daughter
of the late William Dermer, Esq., Whitehead's-0°1e"
Chelsea.

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