The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-01 00:00:00

IN THE MATTER OF LADY GRIMILY.

Mr. STICNCT stated that in this matter Sir Roger Gressley was
anxious to show that no vindictive feeling induced him to attempt
to urge any thing against his mother. He was now willing
that no proceeding should be taken under the Commission
for three months, as the gentlemen who appeared for her
Ladyship had stated, that she was of sound mind, and compe-
tent to manage her affairs. He only claimed the opportunity of
satisfying himself upon this, in the interim, through the interven-
tion of Mr. Ponsonby and some other friend ; if he should be
satisfied of it, he would make any application be might he advised
at the end of the three months, but, if he should have any persua-
sion to the contrary, beyond his 'present conviction, and see a ne-
cessity of applying earlier, he hoped the Court would give him
that leave.

Mr. PARKER WAS on the other side. The lady's property was
perfectly secure, and as for herself, she was as capable of manag-
ing herself and her affairs as any lady in existence. He hoped
Mr. Spence would consent to produce fm• inspection some letters
written to Dr. Munro, which had been read before his Lordship,
and which her Ladyship's Counsel had not yet had the opportu-
nity of seeing.

Mr. Sratcr said he was taken by surprise by this request.
The letters were not in his client's possession, but at any rate no
proceeding should he taken immediately.
His Loa.nsuir said he had seen a letter written by Sir Roger
to Mr. Ponsonhy, and the answer to that letter, which, in his
opinion, was as proper a letter as could he written. He thought
it would be well to let the thing stand upon the present proposed
regulation.
Mr. PARKsit had no objection, and so it stands.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE—(THts DAY.}

Mr. Barnard Hodson, a printer, residing in Lillypet-lane,
his Lordship, to answer a charge of contumacy,
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The defendant came to the bar disputing in a high tone, withts
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which hour I atteuded ; but the doors were not opened until
twelve. Now, your Lordship ought to know, as a man of busi..
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BOW-STREET—Mtn DAT.)
Ann Finerty, a little :girl about ten years of age, vras
brought up on a charge of attempting to pass a counterfeit
shilling.
William Jackson, a stationer in the Strand, stated,
that the prisoner came into his chop about eight
o'clock last night, and asked for a sheet of pa-

per, for which site tendered st shilling, which wit«
ness said was not good, and asked if she had more
money. Prisoner replied in the negative, He then asked
her what she had in the basket which site was carrying ?
She said nothing but trifling articles; whereupon witness
sent for a constable, and, on searching the basket, found
therein 13 sixpences, and three shillings of halfpence, with
other little articles: Witness stated that fdur bad shillings,
of the same stamp as that offered by the prisonet, had been
taken in his shop Within this week.
The prisoner said that she had nothing td say in her
defence, but cried. She was committed for trial.
It was stated by one of the officers, that she had been
convicted at the Old Bailey for a similar offence.

Charles Lashby, and Charles Hall, were btought op on
a charge of robbery.
Joseph Shaw, of Crown-court, Soho, stated, that as he
was crossing St. Martin's-lane, about 8 o'clock last night,
he stood to read the inscription on the entrance into St.
Martin's-court, when Lashby snapped the ribbon of his
watch which broke by the pull, but he succeeded in car-
rying off with him-a gold seal and two rings. 'Witness
cried out, " thief, thief!" and kept his eye on the priso-
ner until he got into a crowd where he was apprehended
by a constable ; he could not swear that Lashby was the
man, as he did not see his face.

Wm. Groom, a constable, ;;W the two prisoners station
themselves at the entrance into the Court a few minutes
before this robbery. When last witness came up, he
heard Hall say to Lashby,...-“ now," as if reminding him
of the opportunity ; saw Lashby then snap the
watch-chain, and run off; witness pursued, and
did not lose sight of him, until he overtook him ;
prisoner on being apprehended, said,—" search me, I have
nothing."
dissuade the prosecutor from taking
man, as the robber wore a. blue coat, and endeavoured to
Hall came up, and said that Lashby was not the
him into custody ;
whereupon they were both lodged in the watch-house.
The prisoners not being able to make a satisfactory de-
fence, were committed for trial.

MARYLEBONE.—(Thrs DAY.)
John Fuller was brought up on a charge of theft and assault.
John Hayes, of the Paddington Patrol, stated, that about half-past
seven o'clock this morning he observed him standing neat a Cart
full of nuts, and when the proprietor of the cart was employed
in measuring them out and giving them to the purchaser', the
prisoner took a handful and cracked them. Witness saw him do
this five or six times, and then tapped him on the shoulder with
his stick, and desired him to make off with himself. The pri-
soner, however, refused, and made use of very improper iangUage,
and struck witness repeatedly. Witness then brought him to the
watch-house with the assistance of the keeper, who had coins up
during their dispute.
The prisoner admitted having taken some nuts, but stated that
he was violently struck by the complainant with his cane, and
that he struck him in return in self-defence.—Ccommitted.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—(Tuts DAY.)
Mr. Wickham, of 08, Piccadilly, was charged by a Mr.
Angier with driving furiously against his gig last night, in the
Hampstead-road, by which violence Mrs. Angier was seriously
injured, and the gig of the complainant broken to pieces. The
accident happened about half past ten o'clock, and Mr. Wickham
stated that he was riding with his friend who was driving at a
brisk pace, be believed on the proper side of the road, when the
two gigs came in contact ; he was very much hurt himself, and
his friend could not leave his bed to-day from the injuries he had
received.

Mr. Angier here stated, that the gentlemen were both drunk,
and were, besides, on the wrong side of the road.
This Mr. W. denied, as far as regarded himself, but could not
speak to the state of his friend.
A professional Gentleman who attended for Mr. A. here stated
that his client did not wish to press the charge if the gentlemen
would pay for the repair, to the gig.
Mr. Wickham said he was willing to send it to his own coach-
maker and pay for those repairs, hut the complainant would not
agree to that arrangement ; he estimated the expence at 151.
Sir G. FARRANT observed, that the best plan would be to
settle it, and the parties retired.
IVelsh, a milk and china dealer, iu Carnaby-streeet, was
charged by a gentleman named Fay, with having robbed him of
1,1. 10s. The complainant had been taken to a watch-house on
soma trifling charge, and waaiiberated, on hie promise to attend
in the morning. He left' the watchhouse with the money in his
pocket, at six o'dock in the morning, and on going into a public.,
house was joined by the Prisoner, who was seen, by *. boy at the
bar, to take three sovereigns from the pocket of complainant, who
was asleep at the time. On being roused, he missed his money,
and suspected the prisoner. He insisted on searching him, and
foOnd three sovereigns in his waistcoat pocket, and the hag which
had contained the other part of his money in the prisoner's hat.
When the prisoner was first brought into the office he boasted
prodigiously of his respectability, and said that he found the hag
in his bat, without any knowledge as to how it came there. He
was remanded.

Mary Macdonald, a poor half-starved Irish woman with two
young children, was brought up from a watchhouse where she last
night presented herself for shelter, having no lodging Or means of
procuring any. She now told the Magistrate that she was the
wife of a currier, who last worked at Guildford, and who had left
her there while he sought employment in London. She had stopped
till she had no means of satisfying her children's hunger, in hopes
of hearing from her husband. lie had not written to her, and
she yesterday, without a farthing, came to town in search of him.
She had enquired, and heard from some of his trade that he was
at work in the Borough, and should have proceeded thither, but
was overcome with hunger and fatigue, and presented herself with
her wretched children at the door of the watch-house, where she
was sheltered and kindly treated.
Mr. CONANT dismissed her, on her promise to go in search of
her husband. Her artless and affecting tale, was not told in vain.
One gentleman gave her a shilling, others contributed their mite,
and she left the office with tears of gratitude, again to enter on her
weary search.

QUEEN-SQUARE. ..(TH is DAT).
William Edwards underwent a final examination, charged with
stealing five sovereigns from a man named Hudson, residing in
Sovereign Mews, Edgewitre-road.
After hearing the evidence of several witnesses, from which it
appeared the prisoner could not honestly have obtained the money
seen in his possession, he wu fully committed.
EARLY DEPRAVITY.—A young girl, named Johnson, was
brought in custody of Woodbury, an officer, charged with robbing
her parents.
The girl, it appeared, resided with her father and mother, in the
New-road, Chelsea. She was their only child, in consequence of
which they brought her up in the tenderst way possible. The mo-
ther being a great deal from home, the daughter, during her ab-
sence, for some months past, had been continually robbing them.
Among the things stolen were silver spoons, blankets, sheets, and
the fiat irons, the latter of which were all taken away and pledged
at different pawnbrokers. After having committed these thefts,
she absconded, and it was during her absence that her mother
missed the ,nous articles. The father made every diligent search
after his daughter, without success; but, a few days since, the pri.
saner sent a little girl to her parents' house, with a number
of duplicates, and stated who:* she was to be found. The fa-
ther accordingly went in pursuit, and discovered his daughter in
the brick fields at Chelsea, in a most wretched condition. He
brought her home, and, after due consideration, determined to
bring her before his Worship, in order to prevent, if passible, her
coming to a disgraceful end. They were afraid she had a bad
connexion.

Two pawnbrokers now produced various articles pledged at
their houses for months past, in the name of Johnson, but they
could not swear that the prisoner pawned them.
On the property being produced, the mother who appeared la-
grief and severe illness, identi-
bouriug under the most poignant
fled the different articles. _

The prisoner being called on for her defence, burst into tears,
but said nothing.
Mr. WHITE addressing her said, vrere it not for the compassion
I feel for your parents, whose hearts you are breaking, I would
send you to trial.—(Here the mother fainted away, and was taken
out of Court. )._..The Worthy Magistrate, after a very appropriate
lecture, ordered her to be committed to Tothil-fields prison, theirs
to be kept in close confinement, and fed oil bread and water.

EST RUCTI V E FI E.— Abopt eleven o'clock last
night a fire was discovered M the printirtg_9ftioe
of Mr. Tailor,
Lamb's-CAmduit-passage, Red Lion-square, which threatened the
most serious consequences. The moment the fire was discovered,
Mr.'Jackson, the florist, and a number of other neighbours, exerted
themselves to extinguish the flames, in which they succeeded be"'
fore the arrival of the engines, but not More the whole of the
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printing-office, and all the valuable materials were destroyed; the
dwelling-house was preserved by the activity of the neighbours.
We regret to state that Mr. Jackson received some serious hurts
from his great exertion.