The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Antoni Antonio, the Italian Doctor of Civil and
Ecclesiastical Law, who was a few days ago brought
before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having armed
himself with tt brace of pistol:, with ‘vhich he con-
templated mischief to spmehddy; was confronted
with his *ife befdte his Lordship, acid
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was given iiy the lady, which excited universal nstd-
nishment. The following is a brief statement of the

case :
Mrs. Antonio said that she was a Limerick wo-
man, and had her Irish husband; who wds a waiter
at the great inn there, anti *ith Whoin She lived
very happily. The doctor one day walked into the
inn, and calling her Irish husband aside, told him
that he (the doctor) had just arrived from London,
and that he happened to be out of cash, but ex-
pected a remittance every moment of money due to
him in England. This story was believed, arid the
waiter became responsible to a certain extent for the
doctor's diet and lodging, but finding that his cus-
tomer's friends in England were not very punctual,
he took him home, where he might live more fru-
gally. As the doctor was a good scholar, tuitions
were at once provided for him, but still no money
arrived, and he was very fond of good living, so
that the family began to feel the incumbrance to be
serious. The doctor at last induced them to take a
house, upon his assurance that he would pay the
rent. The first quarter approached with great ra-
pidity, but no money appeared, and then the doctor
said that he would go off to London, to his friend
Prince Esterhazy, to whom he had lent the cash.—
(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—And did you believe all
this ? Mrs. Antonio (with the greatest simplicity).
—God knows best, your Lordship, we believed
every word of it. But money was wanting. Well,
we were afraid to let the doctor go by himself, and
my husband was not able to leave his business, so
my mother and I thought it would be best for us to
go, and off we set for Dublin along with him. The
doctor said, that he was much in want of a wife (a
laugh), so we gave a little party in Dublin, and
asked some ladies to tea, to give him his choice, but
he was very desirous to make us drink, and he pre-
vailed upon my mother to take some mixture, which
soon put her to sleep, but 1 would not take any.—
Well, off he ran to a ship that was going to Scot-
land, and off I ran after him.
The LORD MAYOR—What I and left your mother
asleep ? Mrs. Antonio—Fast asleep. So the ship
sailed, and didn't stop till we came to Scotland.—
(Loud laughter.) Well, I was afraid to leave him,
because I knew that if Prince Esterhazy paid him,
he wouldn't pay us except I was along with him ;
but he suddenly took it into his head to marry me.
The LORD MAYOR—To marry you! and you
having a husband living in Limerick ? Mrs. Anto-
nio—Yes; he told me that if I refused he would
expose me to my husband, so I agreed to be his wife,
and the: ceremony was performed by a Scotch
clergyman.
The LORD MAYOR—Come, come, you ran away
from your Irish husband with him, and now you are
tired of him ? Mrs. Antonio—l'll take my oath,
your Lordship, that I never ran away from my Irish
husband; I have written to him, and expect him
every day.
The LORD MAYOR—Did not you sleep along with
this Ecclesiastical Doctor before you married him ?
Mrs. Antonio (with great vehemence)—Never ! I'd
lose my life first. What ! sleep with a man with-
out marrying him ? The Lord knows I wouldn't do
any such wicked thing.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, how did he treat you ?
Mrs. Antonio—Oh, then, God knows, I wish I
never saw his face: he's a shocking man.
The LORD MAYOR—Has he beaten you ? Mrs.
Antonio—No, he never struck me, but I am sure
he will destroy me. He is in possession, he says, of
an imperceptible poison, and he has threatened to
use it upon me, if I leave him ; but I will leave him,
for I find it's all a lie about the money, and there is
not the least use in marrying him.—(Loud laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—How did he get those
pistols ? Mrs. Antonio—l gave him the last sove-
reign I had in the world, and he went and pur-
chased them with it.
The LORD MAYOR—And who paid the passage-
money, and all the incidental expences ? Mrs. An-
tonio—Why, my Lord, you see my Irish husband
was a little too liberal with his money when he car-
ried it about him, so he used to give it to me; and
we had put by 40 sovereigns of his savings. Well,
I took the sovereigns.
The LORD MAYOR—What all ? Mrs. Antonio—
Every one, your Lordship, because you see we
wanted to get the money from Prince Esterhazy, to
pay the rent, which was fast coming round. So I
paid all the expellees.
Mr. Hobler—And who discharged the matrimo-
nial expenses. Mrs. Antonio—l did. I paid the
Scotch Minister; but I found the Doctor did not
want a wife at all at all.—(Loud laughter.)
Dr. Antonio—l paid for the marriage. I did pay
a great deal of money; I did spend my money in
Limerick, along with my wife's other husband ; but
she shan't be his wife no more—never no more,
me.—( Laughter.)
Mrs. Antonio—l won't have any thing to do with
you, 1 tell you.
The LORD MAYOR—Upon my word, Doctor,
you have acted very unlike a professional gentleman.
Not content with running in the poor man's debt,
you ran away with his wife and seduced her.
Mrs. Antonio would not allow that she had been
seduced; she could, she declared with an appealing
look to the whole room, produce the certificates of
both her marriages.—(Loud laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR believed the woman's state-
ment, and believed that she considered in marrying
the Doctor she had committed no offence. His
Lordship declared that in the course of his life he
had never heard of so singular a proof of credulity
and simplicity.
During the whole of this conversation this female
spoke without the slightest hesitation, and with an
air of sincerity which it was impossible to question.
The LORD MAYOR thought that the case was one
in which Government ought to interfere, by send.
ing the Doctor, by virtue of the Alien Bill, to
practice at home.
Mr. Hobler observed that Government would
not, in all probability, act upon the Alien Bill, ex-
cept in cases of political offence.
The doctor was then sent to the officers of White-
chapel parish, with directions that a very sharp eye
should be kept upon so dangerous a person ; and
Mrs. Antonio, who seemed shocked upon hearing
that she had done wrong, was discharged.
Mr. Henry Rees, Finsbury-square, attended by
summons to answer a complaint made against him,
before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY (who sat for the
Lord Mayor), as surgeon to the City Institution for
Diseases of Children, in Devonshire-street, by Mr.
Wood, a wine-merchant, whose house is immediately
opposite the institution.
Mr. Todd, Mr. Wood's solicitor, stated that the
number of children with their mothers, who went
there for relief, was so great as to obstruct the free
passage of the street, and was an absolute nuisance
to his client, whose business was greatly impeded
by it; he was willing to admit the great utility of
the charity, as well as the abilities and attention of
Mr. H. Rees, by which it had acquired so much
reputation.
Mr. Charles Phillips, the barrister, who at-
tended at the request of the Committee, stated,
that the City Institution was at first a City station
of the Royal 'Universal Infirmary for the Diseases
of Children in Waterloo-bridge road, to which Mr.
Rees was appointed the surgeon. From the great
number that applied for relief, and the consequently
increasing expense, the parent infirmary was obliged
reluctantly to abandon this station, which has from
that time been supported by the voluntary contribu-
tions of a few individuals, who resolved on establish-
ing it as a distinct charity under its present title ;
but, notwithstanding their exertions, the surgeon,
who was devoting half his time to it, had been
I obliged to supply the deficiencies, amounting annu-

ally to nearly 1501. Mr. Phillips considered it a
peculiarly hard case for a man to be forced to ap-
pear to answer a dtafge for a nuisance when 10,000
children had been relieved *Wan the last three
years almost at his own expense. He thistEdi h6W-;
ever, it would be the means of obtaining the sup.;
port of the corporation and of a benevolent public,
so as to be enabled to remove the dispensary to a
more eligible situation, particularly as the whole an-
cost for relieving 5,000 patients would not ex-
ceed 300 i., and he liop€d that the treasurers (Messrs.
Vere and Ward, bankers) Would eXperience the
effect of this application.
Upon the understanding that the committee would
use every exertion to obtain funds for the removal
of the... institution, Mr. Wood's solicitor withdrew
his complaint.