At the Mansionhouse, on Wednesday, Mr. Oliver, a shopkeeper in
Fenchurch Street, was charged by Mr. Bligh, a shipowner of Lime- house, with molesting him and demanding money to which he had no claim whatever. The circumstances of this case were rather singular. It appeared that, on Saturday last, Mr. Oliver met Mr. Bligh in Fen- church Street, and desired payment of 71. for a quarter's rent of a house in Mile-end, where, he said, Bligh kept a mistress. This Bligh utterly denied. Oliver became abusive, and referred to another person, who declared positively that Mr. Bligh was the person who had taken the house for a woman. To have the matter settled, Mr. Bligh summoned Oliver before the Lord Mayor ; and swore positively that he was not the man who had taken Oliver's house. Mr. Copeland said be knew that Mr. Bligh was incapable of stating what was false. Mr. Oliver said— About fifteen months ago, the complainant represented himself to him to be a Mr. Dawson, and took the house for the lady alluded to. If he was not the itlen• tical person, it was a most extraordinary thing. Mr. Dawson appeared in great style in a curricle, and attended by servants in livery ; and defendant thought '-that he had a first-rate tenant, and rejoiced accordingly. Afterwards, however, he showed what he was, by withholding payment, and took a house in the Regent's Park. Mr. Dawson, or Mr. Bligh, or Mr. Smith (for he went by several names), had ordered in three loads of furniture, and appeared to be a substantial man.
The Lord Mayor said that Oliver was certainly mistaken, and that Mr. Thigh, like the man in the Comedy of Errors, had suffered the in- convenience of being a Dromio. The end of the matter was that Mr. Oliver, though still but half convinced of his mistake, made an apology to Mr. Bligh.
At the Marlborough Street Office, on Saturday, a daughter of Mrs. Dugnell, the Irishwoman who protected Agnes Graham, requested the attention of Mr. Chambers to some further particulars respecting Agnes. She said that the person from Norwich, to whose guardianship she had again been consigned, had called at her mother's house before he appeared at the office, and said that Agnes was entitled to a large property, and he wished to take her with him ; but be was not allowed, and went away. The next day, a person who pretended to be a cab.
driver, but who evidently was not one, offered W. to be permitted to carry her off; but he also was refused. Afterwards the wife of the Norwich person called, but had no better success then the previous applicant. The pretended foster. lather called again, anti neciered that the gill was not the one he had received, but that she was an impostor, as well as Mrs. Dugnell and her daughter. The young woman added, that she had discovered that the foster-father and his wife had lived for many years in London, and were too poor to bring up other people's children as their own.
Mr. Chambers said, he would not allow the character of 80 Nape. table a man as the foster. father to be impeached. The young W0M811 replied, that all she wished was to have his character inquired into., as well as the truth of his story.
On Wednesday, Agnes Graham, attended by a solicitor, again, op- peered before Mr. Chambers, offering to make oath that the statement in the Times injurious to her character was quite false. Mr. Cham- bers could not allow the girl to be sworn, but advised that a contradic- tion should be sent to the Times. He then gave a number of letters to the solicitor which had been received from Mr. Ward, a Magistrate° of Eghatn, partly confirming Mrs. Murray's statement of the bud con- duct of Agnes Graham. A gentleman soon Jeer appeared and gave Mr. Chambers the following letter from Mrs. Murray.
Itulkley House. 27th Septemlwr
" Sir—The affair of the girl Agnes Graham appears now to call on me imperatively to state that she is the (laughter or a deceased servant of mine. Agnes Graham, mach valued by me ; and for her sake I tenderly cherished this gill. She affirmed 10 me that the father was a clerk in the city. amid that he had commilted rot arty and bd. and bad ultimately suffered : and the kuowlede of this circumstance, although it was the reason of secrecy generally. was never concealed from either the girl ur her twin brother. named, after his father. Arthur GI alta m I trust your inters ice with my friend and adviser. Mr. Adolphus. has set vii to convince you. that if you had attended to my communication referring pm to two or the Sorry Magistrates who weroale- guninted with the gill's general bad conduct for the last three yenta. awl also w it h; all the circumstances Miter becoming an inmate of the %Vo-klionse, it would have pre- vented misstatenseuts front appearing in the papers. I shall not again recur to the ease, but have only to observe, t hat the pt•eilliar manner at the girl's ex.:twin:a ion Das caused futile attempts to utsten calumny 11110111 the 110 Pie, of Ilistinguished nate/nen with whom 1 am .tterly unacquqintert. excited an ill-directed sy initially. awl opened me to anonymous letters, oue threatebing assassitrit ion. awl oilers °ambling ermally.r4d1- CUIOUg MellaCeS. " 1 have the humour to be your obedit nt servant.
" EMMA M URVPIT."
The reporter of the Morning Post says—" It is but fair to state, that Mr. Chambers has in his possession documents which appear to eon- tradict flatly the above letter. It) particular the habeas obtained by Mrs. Murray on affidavit, by which the repined possession of the child, affords grounds for concluding that the mother of the child was another person, not the favourite servant of Mrs. Murray.
[It is said that Agnes Graham is the child of the late Lord Castle- reagh. Lord Palmerstort's name is also mixed up in the affair. It has been stated again, apparently on Mrs. Murray's instigution, that Agnes Graham is a depraved young creature.]
At the Lambeth Street Office, on Wednesday, Mr. Barlow Hamil- ton was accused of assaulting a Mr. Elphic. Mr. Hamilton la a wholesale tobacconist in Leman Street, Goothrian's Fields; and though he keeps a shop, does not sell by retail. He is excessively pasesionste, and very much annoyed when any person enters his shop and asks fora cigar or a pennyworth of snuff. Several young men are in the habit of amusing themselves by going one after another to Hamilton's shep, asking for cigars. On Tuesday, the complainant, Mr. Elphic, not at all connected with Hamilton's tormentors, went into the shop and asked for a cigar; when Hamilton exclaimed—" Get out of my shop, you damned rascal, or I'll kick you out." Elphic was rather abusive in return ; whereupon Hamilton, his son-in-law, and daughter, rushed upon him, and gave him a severe drubbing. A neighbour of Hamilton said that he bad nearly suffered a similar assault on a former occasion. The excuse of the defendant was that he thought Elphic was one of his band of tormentors. Ile was fined 20s., and ordered to find bail to keep the peace for three months. He must close his shop, or be plagued beyond mortal powers of endurance, between this and Christmas.
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