Star.
London, England, 1826-11-18 00:00:00

ITATTOV-G A nbEN.

Yesterday a Gentlemanly -looking man named Parryitratlaronght
before 111 r. lion Ens, the sitting Magistrate,unde r the following charge:
Mr. Gunnell, of No. 6, Claremont-place, stated, that on Thurs-
day evening last he bad a patty of friends at his house, and amongst
others were Mr. Parry's wife and sister. About 12 o'clock Mr.
Parry knocked at the door. and inquireclif Mrs. Parry was there ?
On being informed that she was, he walked up stairs, dashed into
the drawing.room more like an insane than a ratlodal man, and
conducted himself in so violent and ungentlemanly a manner, that
Mr. Gunnell bad to insist upon his quitting the house t this Mr.
Parry absolutely refused to do, and struck-Mr. Gunnell several
times, and this was the assault complainedof.
Mr. Rotates asked if Mr. Parry had Wen invited to tbe party?
Mr. Gunnell said he believed not, ai the invitations were given
by Mrs. Gunnell.

Mr. Parry was now asked what could Induce hit to act after
such a manner?

He replied, evidently much affected, that be hoped the Magistrate
would allow him to explain the cause :—The fact was, he said, that
an individual with whom be had formerly been on terms of inti-
macy, but whom he had latterly been obliged to forbid his house,
in consequence of hit pointed attention to Mrs. Parry, now resided
in the house of Mr. GunneU, and be bad made It a recp.est of Mrs.
Parry not to vidt there. On Thursday afternoon he bad huskiess from
home, which he expected would detain him late, and previous to his
going out Mn.s Parry signified her intention to take tea at her sister's,
to which he had no objection. However, ea his return home,
between 11 and 12 o'clock, he learned that Mrs. Parry had not
gone to her sister's, but had been spending the evening at Mr.
Gunnell's, where the individual he alluded to was an inmate. He
regretted to say, that In a moment of great irritation, he went to
the house, and, nsisted on Mrs. Parry keying it, and accompanying
him home, which she positively refused to do, and in which refusal
she was sanctioned by most of the individuals composing the party.
Mr. Gunnell then insisted upon his leaving the house, which he
admitted be refused to do without being accompanied by his wife,
and upon which Mr. Gunnell attempted to force him out. In the
scuffle which ensued, the assault complained of, if any occurred,
took place. _
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Mr. Boozes said, that under the pecu,ilar circumstances of the
case be should dismiss it, but that he would advise Mr. Parry not
to go to the house again. He would also advise Mr. Gunnell to
adopt a different line of conduct, and not sancticn in any way the
visits of Mrs. Parry, when he could not but sae the consequences
to which it might lead.—The parties then kit the office.
Mary ltarklee was committed, Charged by Edward Richardson,
landlord of the Duchess of Oldenburg, Goswell-street-road, with
stealing a pewter quart pot from the step of a door in Sydney-street.

M AR LBO ROU G H-STR HET.
Yesterday this office was the scene of an investigation of a very
unusual and novel character.—lt appears that about eight o'clock
on the evening of Monday last, a young female came to this office,
and introduced herself to Plank, the chief officer, as the wife of
William Reed, an of of this establishment, to whom, she said,
she had been for several years married, and had a little girl by him
of the age of seven years • that for some time past her husband had
entirely deserted her, and: within a few days she had ascertained
beyond a doubt that he had been again married to the daughter of
Mr. Hare, a licensed victualler, and landlord of the Nags Head
public house, in Oxford-street. She had been, she said, to call on
Mr. Hare, who acknowledged that Reed had married his daughter,
but would not believe that the applicant was any wife of his, and
treated her with great incivility, until she sheered him her marriage
certificate, and then he behaved rather -more kindly to her, as he
saw that she really was the wife of Reed.
Yesterday Reed was brought before Mr. Court the sitting
Magistrate, for final examination ; and being placed' at the bar,
where be himself had before placed many a prisoner,the following
evidence was given :
George Sergeant, an assistant in the livery stables of Mr. Gibbs,
Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, being sworn, deposed that be had
known the prisoner for several years; and in the month of December
1818, be was present in the church of St. James's parish when the
marriage ceremony was performed between the prisoner and a
young woman named Mary Hitchcock. Witness gave the bride
away on the occasion, and has frequently seen her since u the wife
of the prisoner; he had Lien her and conversed with her that very
morning at the office and he knows her to be now living.
Mr. Hare, the landlord of the Nag's Head, was next sworn, and
stated that he knew the prisoner, who bad been for nearly two years
in the habit of frequenting his house, and visiting his family, with a
view of paying his addresses to his (Mr. Hare's) daughter, and
always represented himself as a single man, and a few days ago they
were married at the parish church of St. Martin-in-the-fields. Wit-
ness was present at the marriage, and gave his daughter away. Mr.
Hare here produced a certificate of the marriage of his daughter,
Catherine Hare, with the prisoner, amigo. a certificate of the mar-
riage of the prisoner with Mary Hitchcock, in the year 1818, both
of which certificates be bad compared with the entries in the pariah
books, and found them to be correct.
A olicitor who attended for the prisoner cross-examined Mr.
Hare, and asked him if he had not beard, daring the progress of the
prisoner's courtship with his daughter, it mentioned, that the
prisoner was already a married man, and his wife living ?
Mr: Hare said he had heard it, but he never believed it.
The Solicitor asked Jibe ever took any pains to ascertain or made
any inquiry as to the troth of what he had heard? Mr. Hare re.
plied, that he did not make any inquiry. " And that," said the
Solicitor, " you consider a proper line of conduct?"
The prisoner, by the advise of his Solicitor, declined for the
present saying anything in his defence, and was fully committed
for triaE
The prisoner's first wife, a very decent looking, neatly dressed
young woman, was present in the Office during the examination,
and seemed much affected. She was accompanied by her daughter,
a floe little girl ; and the child, on seeing its father, went up and
kissed him in the most affectionate manner. The second wife, Mr.
Hare's daughter, did not appear, but she was stated to be by no
means so attractive, in point of person, as his real wife.
Reed had only been about 18 months attached to this establish-
ment, and was appointed by the Secretary of State for the Home
Department. on the strong recommendation of the Bow-street Ma-
gistrates who considered him a very correct and active officer in
the patrol of that establishment.