The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-11-22 00:00:00

OESPERATR (4NG OF ROBBERS At

WALIVORTH.

Early on Wednerrley night the following desperate rob-
beries were committed by a going of urillatis, situ have as yet
eluded the pursuit of she police, but among hopes are enter-
tatued of tivrir epee dy capture.
About belf-past meets o'clock in the evening, whilst Mrs
Kier, the wife of Mr. Kiss, the attorney, reaidrug in Glows.,
IValworth, was sitting in the front parlour
alone, she imagined she heard a ruriuns noise in the aide•
room. She listened, and aisles beard it. Hrs. Kiss, aho
possesses coasiderable courage, Ibiro crept softly alone thi
passage, and gestly opened the door of the room from whence
the noise proceeded, owl there saw a-tall ill.looking
with • dark lantern it, his hard, remacking the room of all
Ice cements. Mrs. KUHN ottfurtenately, too premaitoe'y fur
the ovule of jrastiee, rushed into the room, nod endeavour, rl
to secure the robber, het he fled out at the window into the
garden, and made his escape over • high wall, part of which
be pulled down in Dealing it. On inspection, the hat and
the dark lantern, belonging to the ',Maio, was left b. bind,
nod immediately under the window, in the 'toten, was fount
• bag, filled with plate, wearing apparel, &c. whirls the
villain had dropped in his hurry to recap,. He Force-fled
is. carrying off a few trivial articles of silver. but the bulk
was left behind. The hat and lanter• are in the hands of
Snow, the constable, sad, we sioderstaud, he has sums kuuw-
ledge of the individual to shorn the bat belongs.
About an hoer after the above robbery was perpetrated,
a knock was heard •t the done of an infirm seed wosuau,
who resides by herself, and keeps n bed and m ittress wale.
house, in Bolingbroke-row, Welwortb, near She turnpike.
On the old lady amain the door, two fellows waik.sl to,
and said they came to purchase a bed. Immediately afire
they metered, one of theta turned timid and holed the door;
the other drew a pistol from miter his Clint, which lie put to
the mouth of the aged woman, who was almost deprived of
her senses with fear, and swore, odes, she instantly gave up
her keys, and conducted them to the place wore she depo.
sited her money, lie would blow her brains out. The poor
old creature did nut immediately comply, and fell on her
kne.s and implored the villains' mercy. They il—d her for
an old b—h, and with considerable force lure her pockets
from her sitter, ethic* contaii.ed her keys. Having now fur-
Dished themselves with them, they earl. laid hold of her arms
tend dram d her up stairs into her hedrotim, where they again
threat. esed her with des', 'action if she did nut point out to
them where she kept her money. She then told them where
to Ind it, and one of them stood over Lir with the pistol,
whilst his associate ransacked • drawer of noosed' of thirty
sovereigns and some uld-fsehioned plate. The villains thee
seated her on a box is the hideously, end one of them pro-
posed making her fast with • rope, %%Olaf they went
loin the roi•ms shove, bat the other objected to his proposal,
and assured her, should she attempt to create the least
alarm, ur to move till their return, that moment would he
her last. The poor vesture promised to remain silent, hot
whilst the ?Maim were up stales she crept rally dose to
the hark if the house, which is in Ited Lion row, and called
out, l• Murder! thieves!" Ice, Dad soon the neighbourhood
was in arms. The villa es bearing the ahem at the hack of
the house, ran down stairs, and made • precipitate re tat
the ft oat door, sod fleeted their escape across the backfields
leading to Kenaingtois Cumman, Sat tug with them the thirty
sovereigns, and other property.
lufuernstiou of Hoe stove daring robberies was givoi at
Elston Hall Police OMee yesterday afternoon, situ the Ma-
gistrate. have given orders to Hall, the chief Olive, to keep
a strict luck-Dal for this daring gang.

ASTRONOMICAL ANTICIPATIONS.

[From the Boston Gazette.]

On Priday next, the t2cl inst. the planet Mercury will
attain its greatest elurscalion in the south 1.2141, where, since
Venu■ is withdrawing (ruin the splieie of observation, it will,
as it floats " upon the wings of silence," appear for a time as
She harbinger of morn, ceasing darkness to seem to wear a
ensile. A transit of Mercury is a phenomenon of grew im-
portance to the philosophical wntld ; but ..f that which
Wok plate on the bits inst. no advantage enitlil he taken
in Ibis country. riscre will be ten more transits is the
amine of the present century. Of these tie nest will
occur ou the sth of May, 1832, and will be visible is Great
Britain.

Venus will become the rd.r or the evening at an eprly
period in the approaching year, end will again gild the *null,.
welt with those gladdening beam, which so ultra •ppesr iq
their greatest splendour at those hour. of quiet slid of ealns,
when the heat, the hurry, and Ishout • of the day give plat •
to coolness, tianquilliiy, mid peace—beams which. air we
learn from the Roman poets, were wont to call forth 'rich
youthful village swain le innocent pleasures, and mirth, and
joy ; the pipe of the shepherd, the sung and the dance. For
thus, amongst other., Catalina *tog.—

n Vesper adest, Jerenes, Vesper Olympo
Espeeisia din, •ix tandem hi thing ;
burgers jam 'elopes."

Mars will be its conjunction siihbell in the even.
lag of Moeda', the tit of Dectruber, but au solvaatavons
vie+ will probably be prevented by their pruzioity to the
horizon.

To those wlto posses, powerful glasses the Satellites of
Jupiter and the lucid Zone of Saturn will continue during
the winter to present the most delightful telescopic stews.
Jupiter will come into opposition in the son in the morning
of Sunday, the 24th inst. With Saturn, which is now con-
spicuous every evening in the east, below the two bright
stars in the Ram, the moon will be in conjunction on Tues-
day. the SSA, about seven o'clock in the evening. Jovenile
°tweet ra will perceive that Jupiter and Saturn base treed. cl
ready • sign from each oilier, although they seemed not
more than une degree and a half asunder during their
grand conjunction in Aries, nu the first day in the prevetit
year. Yet more than eighteen yea."' frump this 14,1..111115i
pass haute they can meet together eta n. The twelve sign,
of the Zodiac are divided iuto rune tripoli or triplicities.
As these Iwo superior planets finish their elicit • in unequal
lime, they make tier paiticitial coejunetiuus in the cowrie of
their whole revoistirn. The first of these is calltd
the second Nabs, and the last Magna ; but neatly
seven Imamd end wisely four years must elapse before this
revolution can be romweirJ, soil Jupiter and 61111111 meet
together again in the first sign, A. tic

Mich of our sludinu, juvenile renders a■ ►ad nos ritoppor-
land)! or Wlturssirg Ihr la•t musi intrrestiogly loaned-oil
eclipse of the moon, will be gl.ld in learn that 11. r r. •11l be
fern of That I•mina.y twat year. During ihr firer, on the
26. h of January, ilia moon • ill rise eclipsed in she evening;
during the averred, MI the 'IV of hay, set eclipsed its the
moning. About middle of the gehlwe of the MOON, en
the morning of (lir 3.1 of A•neal, we ol.s►rsrd she glut-urea
part of il. disc aottossai al/ for • *hole IM colour of eonacrs
although is had just before IFTbseilard's eeekei of elitraY t• a
boat of gold.