The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-05 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

On Saturday . the person who gives his name
Robert Barton, in custody upon several charges of
uttering forged cheques upon various banking-houses
in the city, was brought before Mr. DYER, the
sitting magistrate, for final examination. The three
cases already gone into, and the evidence in which
was deemed complete, were the uttering of forged
cheques by the prisoner at the offices of the Literary
Fund, in 'Lincoln's Inn-fields, and the intended new
King's College, in Parliament-street, and a coach
booking-office, in Holborn, at each of which places
he received sums of money in change for these
cheques, deducting a small subscription which he
pretended to make to the two former establishments,
and an outside fare to Bath at the latter.

On the former examination the prisoner was ex-
ceedingly desirous, and urged his wish with much
earnestness, to be at once committed to Newgate
for trial on these charges, rather than be again re-
manded with a chance of other cases of a similar
character being preferred against him ; but the
magistrate considered it to be due. to the ends of
justice to afford an opportunity to all who had any
charges to bring forward for doing so ; and accord-
ingly reminded the prisoner to yesterday. The only
fresh cases now preferred were one at the instances of
the Society of Christian Knowledge, and 'another
from the • Black Bear coach-office in Piccadilly, but
in neither case did the prisoner receive any money,
although he tendered the forged cheques, and the
evidence not being held sufficient, these cases were
not fully gone into.
The MAGISTRATE now told the prisoner that he
should no longer be remanded, but should, according
to his former desire,-be fully committed to take his
trial on the first three charges.
A person who attended as a legal adviser for the
prisoner, to the surprise of the Magistrate and every
one else in the office, here requested that the prisoner
might be again remanded,,and the prisoner himself
joined in this request.
The MAGISTRATE said, that he really could not
at all see the object of this request, and it was so to-
tally in opposition to the strongly expressed desire
of the prisoner on the former day, that he (the Ma-
gistrate) was not a little surprised at it ; and he
begged to know what. benefit the legal gentleman
expected his client to derive from such a course.
The prisoner himself lier addressed the Magis-
trate, and said, that the reports of his case in the
newspapers had given a very serious complexion to
the charges against him, and it was quite impos-
sible that those reports must' not make a strong im-
pression
,t.o his disadvantage upon all who read
them; he was, therefore, very anxious for a little
time to prepare a statement which, if remanded, he
should be enabled to read on a future day, and
which, if it should find its way into the newspapers,
as he had no doubt it Would, Might have the effect
of neutralising prejudice. -
Mr. DYER said,-that it would be altogether out of
the line of his duty to remand a prisoner 'for any such
purpose. • _ _ _

the prisoner then urged the point no further, and
he was committed to Newgate.
The prisoner %Vas again, in the course of the day,
brought before the Magistrate, and sworn to the
truth-of a written statement, not at all connected
with his own case, but of the circumstances of some
assaults and riotous conduct- which he witnessed,
amongst the other prisoners in Clerkenwell-gaol,
while he was confined there.