Star.
London, England, 1825-05-20 00:00:00

MA R L A-BONNE.

BIfIANVI.- A Gentleman named Sed:ey, who resided at Claren-
don-square, Sonters Town, was again brought before the Magis-
trate, on a charge of bigamy, and tully committed for trial.
L A NI 11F.111-STRE ET.

About ten days since, a communication was made to the Magis-
trates at this office, that an individual who had committed an ex•
teitsive felony at the house of a Gentleman named 11111, at North
Shields, where he had been an inmate in the family for some time,
and with the stolen property was on his passage to London, on
board tho Charlotte, Captain Custard, belonging to the port of
Shields, and requesting their Worships would cause him to be ar-
re-ted, before he reached the shore.

In consequence. of this communication, Mr. Miller, the Chief
Constable of this establishment, Was dispatched to Gravesend,
where he remained two days before the vessel came up the river,
and upon going upon deck the Captain piped all hands, and both
the clew and the passengers were mastered, and amongst the latter
he discovered an individual whose gentlemanly appearance and
serious manner indicated nothing of guilt. Miller, however, pro-
ceeded to ovetkaul the luggage of the persons on board, and in the
trunks belonging to the unsuspected man he found a quantity of
plate, the marks engraved thereon corresponding with those stolen,
besides other property. The owner of the trunk was thereupon
arrested, and brought to London before the Magistrates, to account
for the possession of the property.
On being placed at the bar, he stated his name to be William
Toynor, and that he was a surgeon by profession ; the Magistrates,
however, were very confident he was not the person he described
himself to be, on account of a quantity of manuscripts on theolo•
gical subjects found in his trunks. However, he persisted in his
statement, and the account, he gave of the possession of the spoons
was so unsatisfactory, and not even knowing the initials engraved
on the spoons, though he declared he had had them in his custody
IS months, that the Magistrates remanded hint to prison ler sf week,
and in the meantime information of his arrest was dispatehed to the
Magistrates of Shields, advising them of the apprehension of the
accused. And tni Wednesday evening, a constable, named William
Adamson, arrived in town with a warrant,signed by Messrs. Wright
and Lkierton, the Magistrates at the Port of Shields, in which the
prisoner, who was therein described as the liev..kbraham
n r. charged with felony, and authorising his immediate
removal to that ;dace.
Yesterday ttie prisoner was brought up for !Further examination,
before Joan 11A RDWICE, Esq. On being placed at the bar, he seemed
fully sensibL.t of the dreadful situation in which he was placed, and
during the investigation he was at times n3.l%fh agitated, and wept
bitterly. He admitted that he was the wretched being described in
' the warrant, and that he was a Minister of the Established Church.

The constable stated, that the prisoner, about three weeks ago,
came to North Shields, where he went by the name of George
Miller, and represented himself as the Chief Clerk to the Secre-
tary of his Majesty's Commissioners of Onion's in London, and
that he was sent there for the purpose of watching a vessel
supposed to have contraband goods ois board. In this charac-
ter he eugag.d lodgings at the house cf a Mrs. Hill, and such
was her confisknce in him, that she frequently went from home,
and left him in charge of her boast, and on one of those oc-
casions, while she went to visit her !unhand, who resided then at
Newcastle, for the benefit of his health, the prisoner sent fur a
locksmith, who resided at a distant parr of the town, who picked
the locks of a chest of drawers, stating, that his wife had gone from
borne, and that he wanted a document of an important nature.
Having succeeded in opening the drawers, he stripped them tif
their contents, and with the whole of the family's wardrobe, to-
gether with the plate, all of which property he removed without
detection, and went as passenger on board the Charlotte; but for-
tunately he had overload an old tea-daddy, in which was depo-
sited about 801. The constable further stated, that there were
several other charges of felony to be prelerred against him by pub-
licans ill Sunderland.

The prisoner listened with the most profound attention to the
constables statement.

The prisoner seemed very much dejected on being removed frogs
the liar, when orders were given to remove him forthwith to
Shirklse t• await his trial.