The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-16 00:00:00

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

It appears from the discussion of Friday night, that
the commercial navy of the United States, in point of
tganage, is approaching rapidly to an equality with our
ovAi,,,,`lt was stated by Mr. Baring at between sixteen
said seventeen hundred thousand. Our own amounts
to somewhat above two millions five hundred thou-
sand. But then America, in 1789, possessed only
a tonnage of 279,588, scarcely one sixth of the pre-
sent amount, while, at the same period, we possessed
two thirds of our present tonnage. Thus, then,
it appears that the Lime is fast approaching when
was Shill-beaSe to be the first maritime power in
the world. It is useless repining ,at the progress
of our Trans-Atlantic brethren ; we must reconcile
ourselves to what is inevitable, But it is not necessary
that we should shorten the period of our naval supre-
macy by injudicious policy, Now if any one thing
was to be collected from tbej.)ebate of Friday night,
it was that the stinie short-sighted poliey, which is
now driving, our manufacturers to countries where
higher profits can be obtained, is encouraging foreign
shipping at the expence of our own. Our sapient
LatidOwners,, by raising, artificially, the price of food
heic,"ind depressing it on the Continent, have enabled
theipeople of the latter to build and to freight ships
at vans far below those of this eountq; so that the
IVlerchant has the stron,,,e'est of motives for
ef94o4):g foreign, instead of British vessels. Last
tea./ 419. mem,.demand for shipping enabled the
BritiA to find employment ; but it is obvious that in
anremiipetition for employment between foreigners
and" diA ellieS; the .former must obtain the preference•
ar, i
myer way we turn ourse yea we find the
Lail (mem in our way. .

We'.t+lluih yesterday to the disagreements which
arc ivelt known to ekist in the Committee 'on Scotch
Ba 4, s
~ :. WI i?tlAer the origiel'determination of Mini-
:''
sterf,to_sippresslthe„One_ and Notes_of these esta-
blishments was judicious, it is not at present necessary
to inquire; but we have no difficulty, from - what we
have heard from veripUs.quarters, iii saYing that no
evidence' hAsk As yet, beOlikaid' "before' thp Committee,
to pitg:l,4:oow the aetentlitial,loll Qt.,: Mniisters" Was
rig t ;or wrong. With . one. solitary exception,
not .an individual has been examined by the .Com.
mittea, --except either "Directors or Proprietors of
Seotp '13145, or clerks in
(11,1e.s9.,PstAblislunents !
Noi;,-.- .4":,,wit it ,to .our, readers,ito say,,, whether
,t
it 'Mill d <not ,be. absolutely :monstrous . to come
to a,`EinlehiSioti on 'an important qµcstion,. affecting
thelisst inareas bf all the'inhapitanta 9t.a greg divi-

sion of the Empire, from such ex-parte evidence ?
Suppose a Committee were appointed to inquire into
the expediency of abolishing the monopoly of the
Bank of England, what would be thought of the fair-
ness of itaproceedings,` if no witnesses were to be ex-
amined, except the Directors of the 'Bank of England,
or their clerks? Or suppose that the' Irish Committee
hid, instead of collecting a vast mass of the most
valuable evidence from all sources and quarters, exa-
mined none but Orangemen or Catholics, would any
man of sense, either in the Honourable House or out
of it, have attached the least weight to conclusions
drawn from the declarations of such witnesses ? It
was proper that two or three of the managers of the
Scotch Banks should be examined, that they might
explain the mode in which they conducted their busi-
ness ; but it is no reflection upon them to say, that
farther than this their opinions are not to be depended
upon. We are not advocating the abolition of the
one pound note., but we do ask for a fair, full, and
thorough inquiry into the subject. Let intelligent
men,, qualified to give an opinion on such subjects, or
who have no interest either one way or other, be exa-
mined, and do not het the Committee. stultify them-
selves, and endeavour to die* and delude the coun-
try, by representing the evidence of interested indivi-
duals, as containing the only jut and fair view that
can be given of the subject.

r MORNING PosT.]
Lord Charles Somerset has arrived from the Cape
of Good Hope for the express purpose of meeting and
confounding the slanderers of his character; and from
the esteem evinced towards him by those who have
witnessed his conduct during his long. administration
at the Cape, we have no doubt he will effectually do
it with credit to himself, and shame to his accusers.—
Nothing certainly could exceed the general and une-
quivocal testimony of respect and attachment *shown
by the inhabitants of the Cape towards his Lordship,
and we believe it has rarely been equalled towards any
public man in any country.

OLD BAILEY, MAY 15.

TEA AGENCY COMPANY.

"William Goundry, aged 46, merchant, remanded from the
last Session, stood indicted for obtaining, by ildse pretences, from
John Bell and Nicholas Bell, a bank-note for the payment of 201.,
with intent to defraud them, the said John Bell and Nicholas
Bell.

There were other counts, charging the prisoner with obtaining
the money with intent to defraud John Bell separately, and Ni-
cholas Bell separately.
The witnesses were all ordered out of court.
Mr. ANDREWS stated the case.

John Bell,-4 live at Huddersfield, in Yorkshire. I have a
brother named Nicholas. We carry on the trade of tea-dealers,
but we trade separately. I ErAW a bill in the autumn of last year
respecting a tea agency company. In consequence thereof I wrote
a letter on the Ist September. My letter stated that I had seen a
sale-list for the June tale of teas. That their company existed at

19, Fenchurch-street. It was a joint stock company, and there
was a quantity of shares reserved for country-dealers up to the Ist
of September. I put my letter into the Post-office myself, and
directed it to William Goundry, 19, Fenchurch-street. We de-
sired to know if we could be accommodated with 10 or 15 shares.
for answer he received the paper put into his hand.
, Mr. Samuel Sampson.—This paper is Mr. GoUndry's hand-
writing.
The following letter was then read, which we give literally,
and to which was subjoined a prospectus of the company, wherein
it was stated that the Equitable Tea Agency Company's capital
was 600,0001. in 10,000 shares of 601. each ; deposit--11. per
share. The directors ivere 'Wm. Dell, Faq., Nathan J. Goundry,
Esq., J. Greatmex Marshall, Etipi John Pillin, Esq., and Wm.
Fay. Managing Director, William Goundry; and went
to state the attnazing advantages of the company :
London, D of 9 month, 1825.
Respected Friend, John have received thy letter of the
Ist instant, requesting to have ten to fifteen shares in the Equita-
ble Tea Agency Company.
I am directed by the directors to informe thee, that thou can
be accommodated with that number, on paying the deposit of 1/.
per share, either by post or through a banker.
I am also directed to informe thee, that the tea sale commences
to-morrow, and any tea thou may want for the next quarter, the
order should be given emediatly, so, as to secure it at cost price.
I remain, thine respectfully,

. .
WILLIAM GOUNDRY.
To John 13eU, tea-dealer, 19, Fenehureh-street.
Huddersfield, Yorkshire.

Wm. Gundry respects to Wm. Bell, and advieies him to take as
many share. as he can get, as they will fetch a high premium.
I will take rare thou shall have them. The lists is now full, but
I will take some from those who are nut tea-dealers i perhaps
thou has forgot me, we had a Om of grog togeather at Budder*:
fieeld, when I received an order from thee for John Nicholson and
Co. Thou will save all the commissions by taking shares; thou
may supply all thy countrymen all arround with tea direct from the
India Company's Warehouses. W. G.
John Bell.—The compauy was called " The Equitable Tea
Agency Cumpany." Managing director, Wm. Goundry.

johit Bell's domination continued.--I wrote another letter on
the 12th of September, enclosing a 201. note. I had known the
prisoner before, from his having represented the house of Nichol-
son and Co. ; but I did not know that it was the same William
Goundry, until I received the prisoner's answer to my latter of the
Ist of,September. My letter to the prisoner stated that the 201.
note was for 10 shares for myself and 10 shares for my brother.
My brother Nicholas had authorized vie to get them for bins.
The following letter was then read, which also contained an
invoice of two chests of tea, and two scrip receipts as follows
No. 8,031- to B,o4o—The Equitable Tea Agency Company.
—This is to certify that Nicholas 13e11, of Huddersfield, has paid
101. deposit, and is entitled to ten shares in the above company.
Entered fol. 28.. WM. GOUNDRY.
Sept. 1, 1823.
The other was in the same form to John Bell No. 8,031 to
8040. Entered tbl. 27

London, 20 of 9 month, 1825.
Respected Friend, N. Bell,—Annexed I hand thee an invoice
of two chests of tea. I think it will suite your trade : there is one
more in the Lott; I would advise you to have it, and then I can
send the warrant with it. As you seldom see the India Com-
pany's warrants, it will be a curosity in the country. I should
have forwarded the tea befor if we could have got the warrant.
The Company sale ended yeasterday : the price-current will be
out in a day or two.

Enclosed are two screp receipts for twenty shares ; they are
properly entered in the books. Any further orders will be
promptly executed, Please to say hou you will have the futuer
tea forwarded. I remain, thine, respectfully,

VILLiAIVI GOUNDRY.
19, Feuchurch-stmt.

To Nicholas Bell, tea-dealer,
Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
John Bell.-1 wrote again to desire some further- information
The following letter in answer was then read :
London, 19 of II month, 1825.

Respected Friends, John and N. Tle have a few minuets
to spate, and will give you all the information in my power, re-
specting our company.
In the first place, Is. per share was appropriated for the ex-
peaces in the formation of this company ; the following are the
expences hitherto in cured. a. d.
Soy ten thousand shares, at Is. each, is• - 600 0 0
To printing, stationary, postage*, reutsof counting-
houses, salarys, coals, candles, and sundry

- S 6 3 4

£413 16 71
Which leave a ballance in hand of four hundred and thirteen
pounds, sixteen shillings and seven pence halfpeny towards any
expenses that may menu- hereafter. All the money is in hand
except the one shilling per shares, and appropiatd to the pnrchaie
of teas at the sale ; and on no account will any part of the capital
he disposed off except
for the purposes of the company,
This company have the foll Owing adventg ovar all &Ler cum.
purls.

Ist. The directors are all practical wen, and have no sinecures.
2d. This company have no- titled- ottoman, or standing conn-
ect!, or soliaiters to eat up.the profits.
.
3d. The managing director is paid accord'ing to the profits the
subscriber receives,. say 401. for every 21 per
the dividens. • cent. declard on
The dividends for next two quarters will be 2i per cent. each

quarter, after that time they will be larger. I fully expect to see
them 5 per cent. each quarter, within 2 years from this time.
This company have all way made it a principal n 4 to allow
any of the shares to be taken on the Stock Exchange to gamble
with, as the directors forsaw what distruction would come to the
gambling companys• There has not been one single advartmnt
in any newspaper-inserted by this company._l remain, yours re-
spectfully, • WILLIAM G OUN DRY.
P.S.—The'directors request the hallances of the quarter's ac-
count may be paid up.
Witness again wrote, and the following answer was sent to his
brother Nicholas, .enclosing what the prisoner called the shares,
one of which we copy :

London, 2 of 1 month, 1826.

Respected friend, N. Bell,—Enclosed are 20 shares, 10 for thy
brother and 10 for thyself, six of each are left blank, so that you
may hold them yourselves or any of your friends by adding the
name and address, and forward them to me will be entered in
the books to the person holding. Each share is worth in London
71. 10s. _ .

I hope to-morrow to forward thy tees as money is scarce thing,
better to. day. I shall not loose one hour that can be seaved in
time, I am now examine all the transaction that have taken place
during the panic and if any mistakes has occurred they (pill be
emediatly rectified.
I remain thine respects

G OUNDR Y.

Nicholas Bell, tea-dealer, Huddersfield, York.
No. 9,001.—Equitable Tea Agency Company, No. 19, Fen-
church-street, London. •

This is to certify, that Nicholas Bell, of Huddersfield, has paid
51., the amount of deposit, and is entitled to one share in the above
company, the dividend to commence from the Ist of August, 1925.
The proprietor of this share is also entitled to 25 per cent. on the
commission on all orders given or procured for this company, from
any person.or persons, not being shareholders—this privilege to
go with the share when sold or transferred. No further call to be
made by the directors without the consent of the shareholders, at
a meeting to be called for that purpose.
Vi'M. GOUNDRY, Managing Director.
Entered, folio 28.—W. G. No. 9,001.
The dividends are due on the lst of February, the Ist of May,
the Ist of August, and the lit of November, and will be paid
within 21 days afterwards.
John Bell.—l have never received any profit .or advantage for
those shares whatsoever.

Cross-examined by Mr. 13nonnicx—I have had credit in the
prisoner's books ;we have had other transactions together. lam
not a Yorkshireman. lam a Scotchman. Ido not know Win.
Bell, ES.q. I was caught by the calculation of profit. I thought
I bad found a good thing, and meant to profit by it. I did not
work the calculation, the 25 per cent. commission was the chief
object. Part of the 201. was his brother's.
Re-examined—The inducement was the 25 per cent. ; be be-
lieviNl the paper, and that all the shares were sold.
Nicholas Bell gave evidence to the same effect. It was in
consequence.of the letter and the bill that he was induced to part
with his money. He went on the 28th off Mitch to the pri-
soner's residence, at No. 19, Fenchurch-street. There was a
porter there, Goundry's name was on the door, and there was a
small plate engraved, " Equitable Tea Agency Company."
William Halifax Morgan—l know the prisoner, and became
acquainted with him first In October last. I was hired, to re-
ceir•e messages and such like, at No. 19, Fenchurch-street, on
the first floor. The prisoner was a lodger ; that was . the office.
I was there about a fortnight, and my pay was Bs. per day. Se-
veral persons called. I was there from about nine o'clock until
five. Mr. Goundry generally came every day, and was in and
out there between those hours. Several persons came in to or-
der tea, but when any body came on private business 1 went into
the other office. I never saw any body come there as a governor
or director, or committee-man, except a Mr. Marshall. I was
there a fortnight the first time, and was put on again on the Gth
of December, and stayed with the prisoner until he was taken
into custody on this charge. There was no tea ever came into
the office. It was some time, in March that the prisoner was
taken up.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bannarcr.:—There was a counting-
house for the transaction of business. He had seen Mr. Marshall
there several times.

Mr. BRODRICK felt it necessary to make a few observations on
the facts of the case as proved. The jury would recollect, that
about the period alluded to, there had been a sort of mania for
Joint Stock Companies ; prospectuses had been sent forth to the
world, with names attached to them from the first noblemen in
the land to the very Mr. Marshall whom they had just had before
them; there were prospectuses with great men's names, officers
of all degrees, standing counsel, solicitors, secretaries, porters,
door-keepers, &c. ; but the jury would not be influenced by any
thing that they had heard or seen, but from their judgment
upon the evidence brought before them. What was that evi-
dence? Hail any representations been made to the Messrs. Bell?
It was not pretended that there had been ; on the contrary,
Bell bad applied to the prisoner, and had acted for himself.
But if there had been any representations, thole representations
must have been at York, and not in London. The Learned
Counsel argued at great length on the facts of the case, and then
took an objection—that the indictment alleged that the pretence
was made to John Bell (if any was made), and that the note was
alleged to be the property of John Bell, and in another count as
the property of Nicholas BeU; whereas it was in evidence that the
pretence was made to John Bell only, and no count set out that
the pretence was so made to him; and that the 201. was the pro-
perty of John Bell and Nicholas Bell.
After a very lengthened argument between Mr. Baonatex
and Mr. ANDREWS,
Mr. CommoN Sznoaawr held that the objection was fatal, and
directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner.
Verdict—Not Guilty.
This case terminated the Session.

The Itscoonon then: proceeded to. pass sentence on the various
prisoners that had been found guilty; and 'pronounced the awful
sentence of death on the following priioners :—Francis Haman
(for burglary); Michael Donovan,. Hannah Green, Elizabeth
Thompson, Joseph Taylor (for horse stealing); John Oldham,
George Tepper, Wm. Parsons (for sheep-stealing) ; Lang-
ley, John Yates, John Lee, John Price, John Goodwin, James
Collins, James Francis, Thomas Cannock, John Grant, Robert
Savage, James Binfield (for burglary) ; Thomas Grabbett, James.
Johnson, and Thomas Woolridge.
Wheu the prisoner Savage, who was convicted on Saturday with
James Ifinfidd of a burglary in the house of Mr. Bigg, tower-
road, Islington, was called upon to state what he had to say why
sentence of death should not be passed upon him according to law,
he said, in the most indifferent manner, " Why, gentlemen, its an
awkward circumstance, but I leave you to settle it amongst your-
selves as you like."
After sentence had been passed, and the Learned Recorder had
observed that in all probability the greater part of them would
suffer the extreme penalty of the law, the. prisoner, Savage, again
advanced to the front of the dock, although checked by his com-
paniots in crime, and said, "'D—n your eyes, old one, I hope
you'll let me have another strand in the rope, and if the Sheriff
lets me hang one minute snore than the hour, I'm d--d if I don't
bring an action against him."
Forty-five prisoners were sentenced to transportation for seven
years, seven for fourteen years, and the others convicted to be im-
prisoned for various other periods, and two were ordered to be
whipped. The Session was then adjourned.
Late last night an order from the Secretary of State was re-
ceived at Newgate, respiting for one week, the execution of Wns.
Jones, who was 'to have suffered death this morning fur a bur-
glary in the house of the Hon. Mr. Stanhope.

that among the plans, almost numberless,
PRODIGALITY OF Vl' 0 ItDS.—IS it not astonishing,
of retrenchment and
economy, which nave bi:en carried into so many departments,—
commerce, revenue, manufactures, and even private life, in this
niggardly age, no project has yet been devised for correcting one
of the most pernicious of all kinds of profusion, the prodigality of
words? The baneful effects along debates is beginning to be
felt and acknowledged. The constitutions of our public men are
sinking under the exhausting influence of these protracted con-
tests. The two greatest Statesmen of the last age, both fell vic-
tims to them. More lately, we have seen another public man,
certainly of no ordinary powers, se: worried by his Parliamentary
duties, as that, in the opinion of his friends, the faculties of
his mind were extinguished by the excessive exertions which
those duties imposed. And yet, although life and reason
arm, thus endangered, notwithstanding the repeated imprison-
meti of our Senators for six, eight, and even twelve hours,
at Oldie businees within the walls of Parliament, time is yet
wanted for transacting all the affairs of the nation. It is now an
annual complaint, made at the close of every session, that mean
sures of great public moment are postponed for want of time.
Great expellee of leisure, mind, and money, is incurred ; a bill
goes through its preliminary stages, delayed from week to week
to give place to other measures of still more pressing interest ;
there is no neglect in those who prepare and conduct it ; there is
no indolence or apathy in the House of Parliament ; every mo-
ment of disposable time is occupied, and the bill having reached
nearly its last period, is withdrawn or lost, because there is no
time left to give it a full and final examination ; or it is sent to the
other House, w • here it rejected for the same reason....-Btack-
wood's Magazine.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

• SERGEANT'S INN, MAT 15. • '
IMPORTANT LEGAL QUESTION.-WAKELEY V. MILLARD.

Li this case a proceeding. was had before Mr. Justice PARK,
in which the plaintiff was required to show cause ]why the de-
fendant shOuld not be allowed to defend in forma] pauperis. It
was an action brought ,by Wakeley, the Editor of The Lancet,
against Ann Millard, a widow, to recover damages for a libel pub-
lished by her respecting him. Several actions have been brought
for this libel against a number of booksellers, and the circum-
stances from which it arose, it appears, were as follow :
The late husband of the defendant was formerly superintendent
of the Theatre of Anatomy of St. Thomas's Hospital, in the
Borough. One Of the duties of the situation was to receive the
subjects brought by the " resurrection men," and, in behalf of the
students, and of the medical professors of the hospital, then Mr.
Green, and Sir Astley Cooper, to negociate with them for the
purchase. In 1820 a rival school of anatomy raised its head in
the Borough for summer lectures by a Mr. Grainger, which was
so very successful, that it excited much jealousy and apprehen-
sion in some of the other schools with respect to the abate-
ment of the number of pupils. Millard was discharged in
1822 from his situation at St. Thomas's Hospital, without hav-
ing heard of any complaint against him. He soon afterwards
engaged with Mr. Grainger, as superintendent of the school of
Anatomy, at the head of which that gentleman was. It was al-
leged in the libel, that the services of Millard were received with
jealousy; and that upon a sham appointment to superintend the
removal of a subject from the London Hospital he was entrapped
as a resurrectiori-man, taken before a magistrate, prosecuted with
rigour, and committed to Coldbath-fields prison under the Va-
grant Act. The consequence of this imprisonment upon his
mind was, that it increased his previous ill health, and at length
brought him to his grave. He left a wife and six children
unprovided for ; his widow, whether justly or unjustly, de-
clared the imprisonment of her husband to be the result of a
combination, and pursued all whom she chose to conceive
were parties to it. She carried some of her documents to Mr.
Wakeley, the Editor of the Lancet, and he promised in one
of the numbers of that work to publish them. He, how-
ever, did not perform that promise, and she published a nar-
rative, in which was contained the libel in question. In it
a number of the most respectable . practitioners were accused
of having persecuted her husband " unto death." Others
were assailed with charges of peculating and misapplying public
funds, and statements were made respecting the mode of procuring
subjects for anatomical theatres, which if true, it would have been
better to have withheld. Amongst others, the plaintiff is charged
as having joined her husband's persecutors; and she republished
the report of a trial,. in which he brought an action against the
Hope Insurance Company, to recover the value of some property
destroyed by the burning of his house in Argyll-street, in August,
1820. This republication, with some reMarks, containing serious
accusations, formed the chief ground of the action.
An affidavit was now put in from the defendant, iu which she
deposed that she was not worth Si. after the payment of her debts,
and prayed to be allowed to defend the suit in forma pauperis.
Mr. Lorry appeared in behalf of the plaintiff, and opposed the
prayer of the petition. He cited the opinion of Mr. Baron Bul-
lock, who, in his work on the Law of Costs, page 229, edition
1810, says, that a defendant in a civil action is never allowed to
defend it as a pauper.
Mr. BLACTIFORD, in behalf of the defendant, said he should be
able to prove that she was entitled to be defended in fornui pau-
peris. It would be most singular in principle if a subject were
allowed to do a voluntary act, or to sue in formil pauperis,
whilst he might be dragged before the Court, and not allowed
any defence, if he had not the means of defraying the fees of
Court. But in the case of " Rex v. Wright," 2d Stra. 1041, it
was said, " It is a singular favour to admit a defendant a pauper,
but if such a defendant will plead a dilatory plea, the Court will
dispauper bum" In Viner's Abridgment it was said, " A de-
fendant cannot be admitted in formes pauperis without first mov-
ing the Court, by a late rule." The Qd of Geo. 11. cap. 28, en-
acts, " That persons arrested on a copies, or information, re-
lating to the Customs, may be admitted to defend in fornsd pan-
peris." The principle was then recognised by statute, though
that of the 11th of Henry VII. cap. 12, enabled persons to sue as
paupers, but did not name defendants.
Mr. Justice PARK..--I cannot take Viner's Abridgment. I
must be governed by the latest authority—that of Mr. Baron
Hullock, who is alive and well now, and will, I hope, long con-
tinue so. I see here, he says, a defendant in a civil action cannot
be admitted to defend in funnel pauperis, because no person can
he admitted to see or defend as a pauper but under some act of
Parliament, and the statutes of the Ilth and 23d of Henry VIII.
contain no provision on behalf of the defendant, but merely ena-
bles the plaintiff to sue in that form ; and if the Courts had a dis-
cretionary power, without the authority of a statute, to admit
e in
by a
someconstitu-
tional gen-
tlemen
who took an interest in the case, and handed to M.
persons iu civil suits to proceed in forma pauperis, they would,
i nd
ratrytr uc pin effect, possesi a power of dispensing, in many instances, with
pointu bje
of
ft
view, being
a considered
petitionllan
one
l of
teen the operations of statutes relative to costs. This is quite clear.
Times
Hume, with a request that he would present it to the House of
Commons.

Mr. Hume, considering it a question of law, has put the peti-
ion into the hands of the Attorney-Gen., with whom it new lies.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Yesterday a young man of
fashionalle appearance, who gave his name Thomas Berry, was
was brought to this office, and placed at the bar before Mr. Roe,
the sitting Magistrate, charged upon suspicion of having appro-
priated to his own use, or in some unlawful way disposed of, a
valuable horse and gig, the property of a lady named Lachin,
siding in Piccadilly.
It appeared that the prisoner, whO had formerly been in the
army serving in India, by some means or other got very deeply
into the debt of Mrs. Lachin, some time ago, to the amount
of some hundreds of pounds, for which, however, the accepted
bills of exchange, payable at different periods; those bills
Mrs. Lachin passed away into other hands, and as regularly as
they became due so regularly were they dishonoured. The
holders of the bills, however, to secure as much as they could
from the prisoner, seized upon, ,by execution, all they could
lay hands on belonging to him, .'and amongst other things, the
horse and gig in question. The • whole were sold by public
auction, but they produced nothing near the amount of the
prisoner's acceptances. Mrs. Lachin attended the sale, and
purchased some of the articles set up, and amongst them she pur-
chased the said horse and gig for 801., which, however, was sup-
posed to be worth about 1201. Thus affairs remained, Mrs.
Lachin in rightful possession of the horse and gig, until about
three weeks since, the prisoner took it into his head to pay Mrs.
Lachin a friendly visit at her house in Piccadilly, and still having
a strong hankering after his old horse and gig, he told Mrs. Letitia
a very plausible rigmarole story about bow he wanted to go down
to Blackheath that day, in something of a stylish and comfortable
manner, upon business of considerable importance, &c., until he so
bothered Mrs. Lachin that she consented to lend him the horse
and gig for the day, to take him to Blackheath, on the condition
on his word of honour to return them safe and sound, at farthest the
next morning, but if possible, the same night. Night and morning
came, and many successive nights and mornings since, hut Mrs.
Lachin saw or heard nothing of the prisoner, or of the horse and
gig, until about a week ago she learned by accident, that the pri-
soner was sojourning at the house of a Mrs. Wheatley, No. 16,
Queen-street, Brompton, but that he was unaccompanied there by
any thing in the shape of a ,horse and gig. Mrs. Lachin, how-
ever, sent a person to Brompton to make some civil inquiries of
the pritioner after her property, or how he might have been pleas-
ed to dispose of it ; but the Moment he was informed that a per-
som from Mrs. Lachin wished to speak a word with him, he took
a flying leap.out of a two-pair back window, and escaped across
the country with the fleetness of a hind. Mrs. Lachin now began
to think move seriously about her horse and gig, and came to this
office, and obtained a warrant to apprehend the prisoner upon a
charge of converting the property to his own use. The warrant was
placed in the hands of Schofield, the officer, who proceeded yes-
terday morning to the same house at Brompton, and was just in
time for breakfast with the prisoner, whom he found luxuriating
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officer quitted the house, n made
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his business known to the prisoner,
on
him to accompany him to this office.
Mrs. Wheatley, the
landlady, told him that she really did not know very well which
gs
to be, most pleased or displeased at losing her lodger, inasmuch as
he already was in her debt about 701.
Mrs. Lachin's son attended yesterday to sanction the detention
' of the prisoner.
Mr. Boa, the Magistrate, asked the. prisoner if he wished to
Bay any thing, or to give any account of Mrs. Lachin's horse and
gig, but he replied, that he would prefer, maintaining a perfect
taciturnity upon the subject for the present, and positively re-
fused to say one word about the horse or gig. He was then re-
mended for further examination on a future day ; but Mr. Roe
informed him that he would admit him to hail if he could pro-
cure two responsible Penton); to, bail him in 1001. each. The
priaoner said he did not doubt but Mrs. Wheatley would bail
him for one, and he actually sent a note to her in the course of
the day for that purpose,
in the mean time he was locked up.