

wt 





May fc ] 



.. ,... r . f the stable of the Earl of Dunravcn 



U**™*- , B , Adare, were maliciously burned on 

 fa tf,« <ifBie«n e ft ^ beHeve d that a satisfactory clue 



n ^'^b£u.'ed to the authors of the mischief. 



lubetu 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



A man 



-_-, . Government witness, or informer, is be- 

 __ Bes M ' " u {oT the purpose of charging others 

 ^ to ha« uo ^ as6 . gted fay twQ females . 



•* ** des were taken into custody. On search.ng 

 AH the p.^ s£)me flints were found, two lucifer 



. — y n tue sam c mgui, u»»" r «*— w. 



t • JUare church, and a train of powder was found, 

 ? from the communion table to Lord Dunraven's 

 •"""TThe stones which broke the windows were found 

 J**!." knrrh and the train was to have been secretly ig- 

 « a Saturday night. A blunderbuss was also found 

 °^ «£n of a man who was to have been denounced 

 b Complice in this plot. One of the female pri- 

 •JJJJ/ii is understood, has divulged great part of the in- 

 JJ2cnu of this conspiracy. 



We take 



jjitscdiatuous* 



Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly. - 

 the following article from the Agra Ukhbar, received 

 b the Overland Mail this week. The news of Colonel 

 Stoddart and Captain Conolly being alive is given with 

 neat positiveness :— " We have just, at a late hour, re- 

 ceived a piece of intelligence, which we lay before our 

 readers without note or comment. Our Lahore corre- 

 ipondent mentions to us, as a fact on which every reliance 

 can be placed, that Dost Mahomed had sent intelligence 

 to Colonel Richmond, that both Colonel Stoddart and 

 Captain Conolly are alive. There can therefore be no 

 doubt that the Rev. Mr. Wolff will be successful in at- 

 taining one object of his journey, viz., in finding them 

 alive • what may be result of his mission remains to be 

 l.March 11." 

 Royal Palaces, Gardens, <Jc. — A Parliamentary return 

 hat been published of the sums received by the Commis- 

 iioners of Woods, Forests, &c, on account of the Royal 

 paliees, gardens, parks, &c, from the years 1838 to 

 1842, both inclusive. The following are the results. In 

 1842-43, the sums received were as follows : — viz., from 

 Hyde, St. James's, and the Green-parks, 1089/. ; from 

 Kensington-gardens, 701. ; RegentVpark, 996/. ; Green- 

 wich-park, 6/.; Kew-gardens, 1118/. ; Old Deer-park at 

 Kew, 1 1 7 U /. ; Richmond-park, 7267.; Hampton-court 

 and Bushey-parks, nil. ; Windsor Great-park, 5330/. ; 

 New Royal Kitchen-gardens at Frogmore, 73/. ; the 

 Phoenix-park in Dublin, 1720/. ; and the sum of 2000/., 

 being a portion of the purchase-money received from 

 Prince Albert, for the stock of the Norfolk and Flemish 

 farms (purchased on behalf of the Crown in 1837, of the 

 executors of King William IV., being part of His late 

 Majesty's private property.) Thus, the totai amount re- 

 ceived was about 14,298/. The account in detail shows 

 this revenue to arise principally from the sale of decayed 

 timber, loppings of trees, &c, the sale of hay, bark, 

 stock, garden produce, and old materials ; the rent of 

 graas-lands, chairs, and free-board rents ; subscriptions 

 for keys of the pleasure-grounds, &c. The sum of 1 1 70/. 

 w paid by the King of Hanover for the rent of the Old 

 lJeer-park and Kew ; and the sum of 800/. is annually 

 allowed from the Lord Steward's department towards the 

 expenses of the Botanical-garden at Kew. 



Mozart-. A Vienna journal mentions that the celebrated 

 «nger, Madame Hasselt Barth, has recently erected, at her 

 own expense, a monument over the grave of Mozart. On 

 ■uoiet of gray marble are inscribed, in letters of gold, 



e iwords "Jung, gross, spat erkannt, nie erreicht." 

 y loung, great, late acknowledged, never equalled.) This 

 ^ascription briefly characterising the talent of Mozart, is 



ItiT I 7 a medallion head of the great composer. 



a^ &l ^. raeDt ! 0nea that the hitherto unauthenticated 



**• sunno T CUL lb now also removed. His grave 

 but it i a n l ° be in the Matzlemdorfer churchyard ; 

 tttrial-place! Certainthat bis ashes re P os e in the St. Marxer 



Hocsb o ^ aED * 



* > *J'««;i7c™/ DS T ApPKALS -LordBlnnhjre v. The Earl of 

 ofthe Co arr of £°' n K?>th.— This was an appeal from a decree 



rf Haddin«on a!? 11, on the sub Ject of the tithes of the parish 

 tained by lne Li^ t decree of augmentation of stipends was ob- 

 f nd Session as J" . of that l ,arish from the Lords or Council 

 klrt sandval\i a H« n "* SIoner * a PP"inted for the plantation of 

 J**- Acomnutati"' / 1 ^^' in each of the years 1797, 180 7 ,and 

 | azid * Process of i ? settlement of the tithes, called in Scot- 

 *■*»<* the resooni y ' WaS made » which did not include the 



** Dr £ * th « downers 



of the parish. The respondent* did 



** Produce anv Ph° W " ers of the u * ris h- The respondent.* did 

 *wch their lanri. er of exei «ption from a churchman, by 



'onner process on f- e re ' eased »™rn tithes, but relied on a 



•Element of the ill rt ty made in the y ear 18,0 « b >' which the 

 be Urido Wn ers thi beme dcclare(l according to the titles 



2 th « landowner- tl , ty bein & ut clared according to the titles 

 fj* *PPcllant iuSk»!S l ands they held appeared to be exempted. 

 i ,l -'J to stipend h l ln order to exempt a heritor from li- 



:^»chnrchm' , nmst Produce a charter or other exemption 

 !S thal **»• charJpr pri ° r to the Act of Annexation of 1587, 



!* u Wusi. but iul JJ US contain not only the words cum deci- 

 ZZl [«»Pondcnt, r!L Words rt "«»?"«'« antea separate. As 



b^ U ^t contended n/^V' rn(luce «"*? charter of this kind, the 

 •! r rcreiV ed as a final Li i' e ,nte "ni scheme of locality could not 

 J?° u erestme nri JU S? cat, °' 1 of ,ne natter. The case,' after 

 ?}™* 0'dinar?^K ed . l,, * M ' cnme before LordCunninirhame, 

 twVv lne record ,,f ti . Lor ' lslii P pronounced a decree, finding 

 C he J^gment L Iormer process affords clear evidence 

 2?* of the present rp« ncea iu said Process, exempting the 

 eariS? ^w'*. *nlVl?^ UX * fr °m the allocation, as held cum 

 kw ?' buto « a del.w f ther 1 .P r «nounced in absence, nor per hi- 

 w * *» then understood 6 d 1 lscu ^ i( >n and consideration of the 



He therefore treated the matter as 



res judicata, and found in favour of the respondents. This finding- 

 was affirmed in the Inner House. Mr. Kelly and Mr. G. Bell ap- 

 peared for the appellant, and the Lord Advocate and Mr. Ander- 

 son for the respondents. The Lord Chancellor, at the close of the 

 arguments, expressed his opinion that the process in 17 10 had 

 not decided the right now in question, and that the present suit 

 was therefore maintainable, as the matter was not res judical u, 

 s.'iice it had not necessarily been the subject of decision in the 

 former suit. Lords Brougham, Cottenham, and Campbell con- 

 curred; and the judgment of the Court below was therefore re- 

 versed, and the cause remitted. 



Central Criminal Court. — The Will Forgeries. — As a 

 sequel to the late trials, the following curious history of the dis- 

 covery of these frauds, and the gradual development of the facts 

 connected with them may interest our readers. The forgery of 

 the will of Miss Slack, it will be remembered, was that which 

 was first discovered. It appears that when a will or other evi- 

 dence of death is left at any of the offices of the Bank, the course 

 regularly pursued is, to send information of the fact to the other 

 offices of that establishment. Accordingly when the forged will 

 of Miss Slack was left at the Bank for the purpose of claiming 

 that portion of her stock which had been transferred to the com- 

 missioners for the reduction of the National Debt, notice of her 

 death was forwarded to the office of the Reduced Three-and-a- 

 Half per Cents., of which description of stock Miss Slack had, it 

 appears, also a sum standing in her name. Under this will the 

 stock transferred to the commissioners was, as is well known, 

 appropriated by the fictitious Emma Slack. Matters remained 

 in this condition for some months, until a broker was instructed 

 to purchase a sum of Tnree-and-a-Half per Cents, stock into the 



name of the rightful Miss Slack. The gentleman, when he pro- 

 ceeded to fulfil his instructions, was told by the officials of the 

 Bank that Miss Slack was dead, and that it was against the 

 rules of the Bank to allow any stock to be purchased into the 

 name of a deceased person. He was surprised upon receiving 

 such a communication j and, by way of solving the mystery, he 

 wrote to the young lady herself, informing her of her reported 

 death. If the broker was surprised, it can be easily imagined 

 that the lady felt and expressed as much astonishment ; and in 

 order to set a matter of such painful importance at rest, she as 

 soon as possible presented herself at the Bank, where the subject 

 was fully investigated; and all parties interested in the proper 

 disposal of the property concurred in the belief that a fraud had 

 been committed. The first thing which suggested itself to 

 those engaged in the investigation was to ascertain who 

 the solicitor employed on the occasion of the transfer was, 

 and in this stage of the inquiry the name of Mr. Barber was 

 brought to notice. Mr. Barber was seen ; but he failed to give 

 any satisfactory account of the transaction. Investigations 

 were persevered in, and at length Barber was taken into cus- 

 tody by Daniel Forrester. Upon Barber's apprehension, his 

 diary, it appears, was secured— a document which immediately 

 made the authorities at the bank acquainted with the name of 

 Joshua Fletcher. The possession of Barber's diary was doubtless 

 of considerable service to the prosecutors in the examination 

 which took place before the Lord Mayor upon Barber's appre- 

 hension, on which occasion Barber called Fletcher as his wit- 

 ness, after the cross-examination of whom by Mr. Clarkson, for 

 the Government, both witness and accused were remanded for 

 further investigation, and ordered to be kept apart from each 

 other. Neither one nor the other however would tell who the 

 Emma Slack was who had administered to the will further than 

 that she was a lady of most unexceptionable respectability. The 

 next step to be taken, therefore, was to find out who Emma 

 Slack was, and that point was long involved in a mystery appa- 

 rently impenetrable. All that could be ascertained for a con- 

 siderable period was that she had resided in a house in town for 

 a few weeks ; but from what place she had come, or to what 

 place she had gone, no one could surmise, ln the mean time 

 Barber and Fletcher were on various occasions brought before 

 the Lord Mayor, and their counsel and attorneys exercised all 

 their skill to excite the public sympathy in favour of the pri- 

 soners, and to obtain as quick a trial as possible for them. 1 he 

 Bank, judging that the Slack case was not the only case In 

 which Mr. Barber had been engaged of a similar description, 

 caused a rigid search to be made relative to other transactions 

 w ; th which Barber was mixed up as the attorney. This 

 inquiry brought to light, first, the case of Hunt, then 

 the case of Burchard, and ultimately the case of Stewart. 

 All of these were subjected to a course of examination, 

 and on each of the four first occasions in which Barber and 

 Fletcher were brought up for examination, a new and additional 

 charge was alleged against them. In the mean time it was not 

 at all known who were the other parties that had been confede- 

 rates with Barber and Fletcher to effect these frauds. With the 

 view of breaking into the cases, a reward of 100/. was offered to 

 any party who should discover who Emma Slack was; but the 

 offer was unsuccessful. Ultimately, however, the attention of 

 the prosecutors was directed to a Miss Richards, who, it was 

 stated, came from Bath, and was intimately acquainted with 

 Fletcher and his first wife, and whose description exactly corre- 

 sponded with that of a person who had visited Emma Slack 

 during her stay at her lodgings near Tottenham-court- road. 

 Miss Richards was accordingly traced from place to place, until 

 it was ascertained that she had married a shopkeeper, named 

 Dorey, and that she resided in Oxtord-street. Here she was 

 identified as a visitor of Emma Slack, and apprehended, and 

 some of her writing was obtained, and in her trunk the seal was 

 found which bore the same device as that attached to the will of 

 Eliza Burchard. This was a very important step for the prose- 

 cutors ; for the seal showed that she was cognisant of the will of 

 Eliza Burchard, and her handwriting resembled that in which 

 the will of Marv Hunt was written. Still the precise part taken 

 by her remained to be proved, and the presence of Emma Slack 

 appeared to be indispensable to a clear development of the plot. 

 The description of the person, manners, and habits of Emma 

 Slack was closely inquired into, and upon comparison with the 

 account given of the persons, manners, and habits of Mrs. 

 Dorey's relations, was found precisely to correspond with what 

 was said or Lydia Sanders, her sister, tlie wife of William 

 Sanders, fishmonger, of Bristol. Visits were, from time to time, 

 paid to Bristol by John and Dauiel Forrester; but neither she 

 nor her husband could be found, and their absence naturally 

 tended to strengthen the suspicion which existed against them. 

 As the investigations were carried on, it was lound that not 

 only did the description of Mrs. Sanders agree with that given 

 of Emma Slack, but that the description of William Sanders also 

 corresponded with that of Thomas Hunt, the alleged executor of 

 Marv Hunt. The prosecutors obtained information from no one 

 that these were actually the parties engaged in the transactions ,• 

 but so accurate were the descriptions obtained and so confirmed 

 were thev by dates and other circumstances, that the prose- 

 cutors offered a reward of 100/. for the discovery of Lydia 

 Sanders, and a further sum of 100/. for the discovery of her 

 husband. The offer of these rewards was for some time ot no 

 avail; but, ultimately, through some channel which has not been 



made known, Sanders and his wife were found living in an on- 

 scure part of Edinburgh, under an assumed name, and were 

 there apprehended. The determination of the prosecutors to 

 apprehend Mr. and Mrs. Sanders was fully justified by weregou; 

 for these participators in the delinquencies of Barber and* leicner 

 were immediately identified as tlie individuals who had P erht | n - 

 ated the two fictitious parties alluded to. Mrs. Dorey wa» aiso 

 identified as Eliza Burchard, the fictitious niece and executrix 01 

 the testatrix Eliza Burchard. It still, however, reraame :' l0 Bl ^ 

 discovered who Elizabeth Stewart, the assumed MKex boo 

 administratrix of John Stewart, was. This questio was in- 

 volved in more than ordinary obscurity and Joniu«on. as no 

 person living could be found who answered the d ^ cr, ^ n ot 

 [he per.ornfer of that part. The servant who attended^ on 

 the aged female Elizabeth Stewart, was, howe\er f as it 



! 



appears, traced out, and the most accurate information 

 was obtained respecting the infirm mistress, and, after 

 a lengthened investigation, Elizabeth Stewart was satis- 

 factorily proved to be no other than Mrs. Dorey's and 

 Mrs. Sanders's mother, who shortly afterwards died, and whom 

 Mrs. Dorey visited in the pretended relationship of niece. This 

 servant gave such an account of the fictitious Elizabeth Stewart, 

 that the portrait was considered perfect, and those who knew the 

 mother of Mrs. Dorey declared it to be quite impossible that the 

 lady who played the character could have been any other. 

 Indeed, such was the truth of the description, that Mrs. Dorey, 

 upon hearing it, burst into tears, and became an object of great 

 commiseration. The gown, or rather the remnant of the gown, 

 of Mrs. Richards was, notwithstanding the lapse of three years 

 since her death, searched for and found in the hands of a char- 

 woman, to whom it had been given by Mrs. Dorey upon the 

 decease of her mother, and that gown was immediately identified 

 by the attendant upon the old woman. The mother of Mrs. 

 Dorey and Mrs. Sanders was the daughter of an aged soldier of 

 the name of Crene, a pensioner of the Government at Falmouth, 

 and their father (Win. Richards) was the steward of a Lisbon 

 Government packet. On the proclamation of peace, Mr. Richards 

 went to Lisbon, to establish himself there, but he soon after- 

 wards died in embarrassed circumstances in that city. The 

 daughters had been brought up as milliners ; but, on their 

 father's death, the mother and daughters opened a china-shop at 

 Falmouth, where they remained a few years, when they re- 

 moved to Biddesham, in Somersetshire, and at last to New Bond- 

 street, Bath, where they carried on the business of straw-bonnet- 

 makers. In this street Sanders kept a fish-shop, and thus, from 

 the circumstauce of neighbourhood, became acquainted with 

 Lydia, who played the part of Emma Slack, and it is believed led 

 the unfortunate man, with the aid of her sister, into all the 

 mischief, and misery, to the details of which the public have been 

 so long accustomed. Here also Mrs. Dorey, then Georgiana 

 Richards, became acquainted with Carlile, on one of his visits to 

 that city; and to this cause, and to the blasphemous doctrines of 

 Carlile, the whole of the family asciibe their rum.— A report has 

 been current for some da> 1 that all the prisoners who were tried 

 with Barber had declared that he was innocent. On Wednesday, 

 however, the Governor of Newgate waited upon the Lord Mayor 

 to deny the rumour, and to state that Barber had asked the other 

 prisoners to sign a declaration of his innocence ; and that they 

 h ad all refused to do, with the exception ol Mrs. Sanders. 



SPORTING. 



NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. 

 FaioAY.— The races concluded this day, with The Newmarket 

 Slakes, of 50 sovs each, h ft; for three-yrs-old colts, 8 st 7 lbs; 

 and fillies, 8 st 2 lbs. D.M. 10 subs. Duke of Rutland's c by 

 Beiram, out of Tragedy, beat Lord Exeter's Crosby, by Liver- 

 pool; Duke of Bedford's c by Liverpool, out of Princess Victoria; 

 Lord Exeter's Economy; Mr. Payne's Vattcl; Lord Albemarle's 

 Candidate; Mr. Batson's Anniversary; and Mr. Coombes's 

 Keeiey. -Match; 200, h ft. T.Y.C. Duke of Bedford's Oakley, 

 8 st 7 lbs, beat Lord Exeter's Celia, 8st 7 lbs, by half a length 

 cleverly. This was their fourth match, each having won two ; 

 it is not at all improbable that they will again be pitted against 

 each other iu October.— Match; D.M. 200, h ft. Lord Chester- 

 field's Tiddly Winks, 8 st 2 lbs, received lrom Lord Glasgow's c 

 by Velocipede, 8 st 7 lbs. 



BIRTHS.— On the 5th of February last, at Bird wan, East 

 Indies, the lady of Major Wm. Rioi>KLL,of the Bengal Army, of 

 a son— 14th ult., at Brighton, the wile of F. O. Wklls, Esq., 

 Bengal Civil Service, of a daughter— 27th ult., at 12, Lower 

 Berkeley-street, Portman-iquare, the lady of J. Laurie, Esq., 

 M.D., of a son— 27th ult., at Banham, Norfolk, the lady of N. 

 Sukteks, Esq., of a son— 28th ult., at Regent-place, the lady ot 

 VV. M. Armstrong, Esq., of twin daughters— ^8th ult., at St. 

 Leonard's, Lady HA»DO,of a daughter— 29th ult., m Porches- 

 ter-place, the lady of V. B. Corrie, Esq., ot a son— 29th ult., at 

 Cross-deep, Twickenham, the lady of G. Barnard, Esq., of a 

 daughter— 29th ult., in Hanover-street, Hanover-square, the 

 lady of Dr. Rlttledgb, of a son— 30th ult., In Hart-street, 

 Bloomsbury-square, prematurely, Mis. R. B. Sanders, of a 

 daughter, still-born-aoth ult., at 20, York-terrace, Camberwell 

 New-road, Mrs. H. A. Beva.v, of a daughter— 1st inst., at High 

 Elms, Lady Lubbock, of a sou. 



MARRIED.— On the 23d ult., at Whirwell, Sir W. Eden, 

 Bart., to Elfrida S. Iremonger, youngest daughter of Col. 

 Iremonger, Wherwell-priory, Hants— Lately, at the British 

 Embassy, Paris, Lady Augusta Fitzclarencb, daughter of 

 the late Earl of Munster, to the Swedish Count Philip dk 

 Bonus— 25th ult., at Clevedon Church, T. O.Tvndall, Esq., of 

 the Fort, Bristol, to Caroline Lucy Elton, daughter of Sir C. 

 A. Ellon, Bart., of Clevedon Court, Somerset— 25th ult., at St. 

 Cuthbert's, Wells, the Rev. C. Ward, rector of Maulden, Bed- 

 fordshire, toEnz. Melliar, only child of the Rev. A. Foster, 

 vicar of Kingston, Somerset, and widow of the late A. F.Mel- 

 liar, Esq., of Wells-26th ult., at St. Mary's, Br> anston-square, 

 A. Boyo, Esq., eldest son of J. Boyd, Esq.. of Broadmeaaows, 

 Selkirkshire, to Euz. H. DuDDiNGSTf ne, eldest daughter of the 

 late Rear- Admiral Duddingstone.ol Earlsferry. house, Fileshire— 

 30th ult., at St. George's, Hanovei-square, M. Saurin, Esq., 

 youngest son of the late Lord Bishop of Dromore, to Maroa- 

 uetta S.J ones, eldest daughter .of the late Rev. J. Jones, of 

 Penlan, in the county of Cardigan, and niece and heiiess ot tlie 

 late M. Jones, Esq., of Kilweuueage, Pembrokeshire-JOth ult., 

 at St. George's, Hanover-square, a. Way, Esq., son ot the late 

 Rev. L. Way, of Siansted-park, Sussex, to the Hon. Emmeline 

 Stanley, daughter of Lord Stanley, ot Alderiey. 



DIED. -Recently, at his seat, in Sussex, Sir Timothy Shbl- 

 lfy Bart He was son of the first Baronet. His grandson, Mr. P. 

 Florence Shelley, inherits the family honours, being the son of 

 Mr Percy Byssne Shelley, the celebrated poet, and Mary Wol- 

 stoiiecrott, the authoress of -Frankenstein " who was daugh- 

 ter of William Godwin, the celebrated author ot Caleb Wil- 

 liams »_i6th ult., at Preston Deanery, Northamptonshire, Robt. 



nit., at his re- 



solicitor, late 



o7ReaLion square, after a protracted illness, aged 51 — IStb, 

 iust in Guernsey, N. T. E. Heathcote, Esq., second son of R. 

 E Heathcote, Esq., of Longton-hall, StarTorushire, and of Emma 

 Sophia, daughter ol the late Sir Nigel Bowyer Gresley, Bart., of 

 Diaken'low, Derbyshire— 19th ult., at Biaekueath, the Hon. Hy. 



Lkgge, aged 80— I9cn ult., at nis resiaeuce, in Sloane-street, 

 Benj.Oaklkv, Esq., formerly of Beckenham, Kent, uuiversally 

 esteemed and respected, agec 78— At Manuneun, on the Rhine, 

 Ei.iz. Graham, wife olthe Rev. H. Elliot Graham— 24th ult., at 

 Boyland-hall, Norfolk, Rear-Admirai the Hoy. F. P. Irby, aged 

 06 — 27th ult.,S. Brand, Esq., o! Red Cnsa-stieet, surgeon to 

 tlie City Police Force, aged 43— 27th ult., at her house in Green- 

 street, Lady G. Murray, aged 79— 27m ult., at his residence, 

 Brunswick-place, City-road, the Rev. H. Moork, the confiden- 

 tial friend and biographer oi the late Rev. John Wesley, aged 

 93— 29th ult., at Abbott's Leigh, near Bristol, from the effects 

 of severe injuries received by being thrown out ot a pony-car- 

 riage, Frances E. Wolley, relict of Vice- Admiral i. L. Wol- 

 ley, ol Clifton, aged 72— 29th ult., at the iesidence of her fanner. 

 Sir R. F. Russell, Bart., in Cavendish-square, the Right Hon. 

 Augusta Louisa Lady Wai.mxgham, wife 01 the K'S nc " ' 

 Thomas Lord Walsinghara-3uth ult., at Wilton-place < ^< ever £ 

 the Hon. Caroline G. De Montmorkncv. the dear a ud be to vea 

 child of the Viscountes* Frank.oit-On Thorsdaf mm J*J 

 Welbeck Abbey, found deadiu her bed, Her uiace 

 ol Portland. 



