The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-29 00:00:00

SWINDLING.

MR. WEMYSS, THE SWINDLER.
In our Journal of last Monday we gave an
account of the impositions this man has practised
upon several tradesmen in Canterbury, Margate,
&c. ; and we also gave a report of the application
of several respectable persons residing at the
West End of the town, to the Magistrates of
Marlborough-street, on Saturday night, who
have been swindled out of property by the same
person:
It appears that in the month of June last,
when he resided at Richmond, he hired a charit*
and pair of horses of Mr. Denham for a month.
He stated that he was a member of the Wemyss
Ttemdedro iavtee toly
faniilYi and
was about purchasing the cottage of
Lord Cassillis, with whom he was upon the most
intimate
after
Bushbylie
Park,ltad iuiob-
tained(
1
handing in a card on which was engraved
" Wemyss, Esq., Woodlands,". said he
tlte termse arriage I
was cm
of the Earl ®f
Wemyss 's tawny, and
was therefore, allowed to enter his name in the
Duke of Clarence 's visiting book, and to drive
through Bushy and Richmond Parks. At the
close of the month, Lord Cassilis happened to
call upon - Mr. Denham, and the imposi-
tion was discovered. His Lordship disclaimed
all knowledge of Mr. Wemyss, further than that
he had made application to his agent to take his
cottage. About the same time. Wemyss returned
the carriage to Mr. Denham, stating that he was
obliged to go out of town, and recittesting Mr.
Verthatn to pay the coachman his hire, and also
various ewes lie had paid for turnpikes, &c.,
and promised to repay it on his return to town.
Mr. Denham traced him to a house in Chelse,
where he resided with some other persons. One
night, suddenly, the whole party left the neigh-
bourhood, having contracted many debts with
variousltadesmen at that place.
Mr. Jupp, a hatter, supplied him with three
hats. He also ordered a superfine hat and fea-
thers for a lady, but Mr. Jupp hearing his cha-
racter escaped' that loss.
Mr. Thompson, tailor, of 18, Princes-street,
Wanover-square, supplia him with clothes to
the amount of seven guineas. Wemyss assured
Mr. Thompson dial he was a relation of the Earl
of Wemyss, and the clothes were sent agreeably
to his order to Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square.
He resided for a considerable time with a lady
in Slone-street, Chelsea, and contracten a large
debt for board and lodging, not one farthing of
which he ever paid.
At the Greyhound, at Richmond, he ran up
a bill of about 61. and being unable to pay the
demand, he left a spaniel dog as an equivalent
for the debt, but the animal was afterwards
claimed by a gentleman from whom it had been
stolen.

During his residence at Windsor and Knights-
bridge, he contracted various debts, but took
care that his order did not exceed 20/. by which
means his creditors had no power to arrest him.
In the latter end of May he resided at the
Piazza coffix-house, and at that time obtained
clothes from Mr. Scaife, a tailor, of 115, Nev:
Bond-street, to the amount of' 181. 14s. He
then stated that he was a relation of Mr.
Wemyss, of 'Woodlands, Perthshire ; but upon
inquiry it was discovered that the Mr. Wemyss
he mentioned died four years ago.
During Ascot Races, he resided at the Castle
Inn at Windsor, where he invited some gentle-
men to partake of a most magnificent dinner, and
never paid for it. He also stated that he was
upon intimate terms with the late Lord Mount-
sandford, and lamented in pathetic terms Lis
Lordship's melancholy death.
Of Mr. Verey, the hosier, of 216, Regent-
street, he obtained shirts and- gloves to the
amount of 5/.
At Toubridge Wells, he laid tradesmen under
contribution during a very short residence in
that town.
At Thomas's hotel he contracted but a very
small debt ; his object was to get into respect-
able quarters, and by that means he found very
little difficulty in procuring credit with trades-
men. Before, however, he consented to to take
up his residence at Thomas's, lie drove up to the
house in the carriage which he obtained from
Mr. Denham, and inspected the apartments, to
ascertain if they were fit for his reception. He
resided also at Ibbotson's, in Vere-street, Ox-
ford-street, for a short time, where he left a bill
unpaid. At both those hotels he represented
himself as being related to the Earl of Wemyss,
and also General Wemyss.
Mr. Adams, of the Haymarket, was favoured
by 'Wemyss with an order. On that occasion in:
represented himself as tel:Nri,eirs(:onAillydoafan the Earl of
Wemyss, and said he wished a handsome
BC roe,
teiltilke an
Continental
tboeu built,r. Hss hest a
twe• abouttwas making
believed
ing built, a Stanhope was lent him.
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by Mr. Adams, and whiled
the
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swindler. was t-
iu
whe
it war
whets in
,Inatndjumping. into
ortunately a possession,
dof the itrfiiclrseiuceoliflivdostetas.ravieoell
Stanhope,
ps
e Wemyss the
stree
it, compelled Wemyss to give up possession.
The goods which lie obtained from Mr. Gra-
field, of Mount-street, consisted of a writing-
case and a travelling folding dressing-case, fitted
up in the most expensive and elegant style, and
worth about 300 guineas. He also ordered a
very superb writing-desk, with gold fittings and
faalgl so late as
last Easter, was confined in prison for debt. He
old key, bsuit)ostlsieisssajornti.cle
Wemyss,
did nor.
was in gaol a long time, and, we believe, ob-
tained his liberation through the Insolvent Deb-
tors' Act. Every exertion is making. to have
be taken into .
very short time he
him apprehended, aNd. it is believed that in a

ti"lea"l'ken place in the co
The woman,
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the
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Orlicre:Yi an . This
Orsuhnogutntloiet country, that the body of that on-
fortunate murder
hesr
,td,
executed ecerdn it,felaa.
county of Elgin dur-
ing
suicide, was recorded in our Paper of last week, was on
Wednesday se'rinight buried in the
same grave as '
GILLAN.
It had been generally reported,
believe,
ItaIIt:It ilihisolihtni-unaictrei century.
however, and as generally
fortunate man had
been buried at the foot of the gal-
lows on which liwas e hanged ;
but that it had been cut
down from the l
ga lows and disposed in a manner of
which no 414' •
irulual seemed to have any indifinke
idea• On
place on dinging,Whiithe „ratllhoereferews f, a hole close by _ the
for the purpose of burying the bodGi
orit
tahrse- wort:men, eer
referred
to, the spectators were greatly ysurprised tow alight on the
skeleton of GlLLan's body. hesubstance ofcourse, had
entirely disappeared.; but every bone retained its usual po-
sition—the irons which were around his body when burled
were precisely in the same state as when deposited there ;
and, what is still more singular is, that his shoes were
perfectly entire, with this exception, that the seams, in,
some instances, were broken. One of the mittens, or
worsted gloves, which he had on his hands at the time sf
his interment, was also found in his grave. The skeleton
of his body was taken out—the woman who had destroyed
herself was placed at the bottorn of the grave, anti Gu-
t. AN 's remains were afterwards laid in .—
Elvin courier. eatth fb,hy.,e

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

(I'll.OlL THE TIMES.)

We tremble at every wind that blows from Ire-
land, and our fears are outstripped by every day's
communication, so much more terrible is the reality
when it reaches us than our wildest fancies had anti •
cipated. The island is on the brink of open war.
The array of mounted and regimented peasantry,
their endless numbers, and complete organization,
have manifestly impressed as much :Alarm on the
minds of the civilized and enlightened Irish Catho-
licsas they ought to do on that of the Government
and people of Great Britain. We do not allude to
the doubtful issue of the conflict which seems to ap-
proach so awfully, for we :do not conceive that in the
first instance there would be found an insurgent
force at all capable of contending with the military
power of the Empire. But what must be the heart
that can face the civil consequences of such a
convulsion unappatled ? Is the substitution of
a state of war, for one of society, in the bosom
of the same family, to be estimated only with
reference to the side to which the scale of battle
way incline ? The slaughter of our own country-
men—the desolation of their hearths—the extinc-
tion of half a million of the old, the helpless, the
mothers and their babes—the ruin of alr industry—
the stoppage of all national comfort and prosperity—
the darkening of intellect—the spread of barbarism—
the degeneracy for another age of whatever consti-
' tutes the soul and essence of Nation ; these are the
perils and miseries which frighten us; these are the
inseparable and foul attendants on that struggle 'to
which the Orange Clubs invite the Catholic multi-
tude, and which the latter, as might be expected
from an ignorant.and impetuous race, the bulk of
whom have no property to be destroyed, art too
little unwilling to decline. It is evident, however,
from the last Irish intelligence, public as well as pri-
vate, that the Catholic Association are at this mos
meat labouring to restrain the passions of their ex-
cited followers, and to prevent, if it be. yet possible,
a breaking up of the public peace. The resolutions
proposed by Mr. Spiel at the last meeting of the As,.
socistion were for the most earnestappeals to be made
by the priests to their flocks to abstain from. every
act of violence, and from every exhibition of
force or nuMbers, which might serve as a pro-
vocation
to it... lie also proposed that deputies
should be sent to tranquillize the people, and that
Mr. O'Connell—who is himself, we believe, in nO
small degree apprehensive of the results of the exist-
ing crisis—should address the country on the evils
which threaten it from the spirit now prevalent among
the Catholics of the smith, and from the Protestants
in every part of Ireland. For ourselves, we have se-
dulously and conscientiously endeavoured to dis-
charge an important and oftentimes a most irksome
duty. For many years we have besought the Go-
vernment to grant the people their rights. We have
prayed the English: nation to regard Ireland with
unceasing attention; and the Irish Catholics them-
selves we have conjured to press forward to the
Constitution by a constitutional path, that they
might prove their just appreciation of the blessings
to which they were aspiring. If the crisis has
arisen, it has not taken this Journal, at least unpre-
pared. Ministers, we have been informed, have
placed at the disposition of Lord Anglesea's Go-
vernment the regiments which were moved some

months ago to the western coast of England, and
which haVe been in observation (as it Js called) at
• Bath, Manchester, and Chester. GOd forbid that
there should arise any positive occasion far their
services! But the reported issue of the last Cabinet
has caused much distrust to anxious observers of
the dine."

(FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.)

, The Catholic Association, on the motion of Mr.
"sheil, adopted resolutions ,on rhUrstlay last, urging
the Catholic Priests and lathers. possessed of influ-
ence to exert themselves to put a stop to the nume-
rous assemblages. of the peasants in Tipperary.
There cannot, we think, be two opinions as to the
prudence of this course. These men may asserble
without any determinate object; but when men are
once assembled, an object may be given to them
very different trotn what their friends might wish
them to have. It is the interest of the Catholic As-
sociation to - preserve tranquillity ; but the slightest
accident may excite a multitude to the commission
of excesses. They ought not to place themselves
at the mercy of those who may speculate in disturb-
ances.