The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-24 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR,

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the Returns made in the week ending April 20,
is 235. Od. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of customs
paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into
Great Britain.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A case which proved to be very carious in its
details came on before the LORD MAYOR.

A middle-aged female, who occasionally culls her-
self Mrs. Brown, was charged by captain Cook, of
the Cambria, with having endeavoured to defraud
the relatives of William M'Kersey, late a mate of
that vessel, under the following circumstances :
Captain Cook stated that one of the mates of his
ship having died, be went to take out letters of
administration for the sister of the deceased, some
months ago, but was informed that letters of admi-
nistration had already been issued, and presented at
the receiving office for Greenwich Hospital, on
Tower-hill, by the prisoner, who represented herself
as the sister of the deceased, and gave an address
which nobody could find out. He had taken a good
deal of trouble to get her apprehended, but she con-
trived to shift her quarters, and escaped until she
was regularly entrapped. Whenever the witness
left London she repeated her application, and she
would have received the money due to the mate, if
there had not been some mistake in the spelling of
the name. On the last arrival of the witness, :le
learned what had occurred at: the receiving-office,
and a letter was sent to her to one of her numerous
addresses, desiring that she would call at Tower-
hill to receive her brother's wages. She obeyed
the summons, and was to her great horror taken
into custody. The Captain produced all the neces-
sary documents in proof of the guilt of the prisoner.
The LORD MAYOR said the case was a very gross
one, and asked whether it was intended to prosecute.
Captain Cook was obliged to sail for a foreign
country immediately, or he would not hesitate to
prosecute, whatever might be the expence or trouble ;
but such a plunderer ought not t,.) be allowed to
escape, and he trusted that the Commissioners of
Greenwich Hospital would, as he considered them
bound to do, indict her for the offence.
A gentleman who appeared to be an officer of
Greenwich Hospital, stated that the case was an
every day one. Unfortunately there were great
facilities in procuring the intelligence, relating to de-
ceased seamen, and the villainous tricks and perjuries
of this descriptio❑ often succeeded. The Commis-
sioners were most anxious to put a stop to such a
system of plunder, but could mitt, and he believed
that they would not prosecute.
The LORD MAYOR asked why, in such a ease,
they could object to perform what appeared to be
their public duty ? The officer said they had some
time ago prosecuted a person fog• getting felonious
possession of a seaman's money, but after having
expended 701. or 801., they were wholly disappointed,
the Grand .Jury having ignored she bill,
The LORD MAYOR—But there may have been
circumstances in that case which rendered it doubt-
ful. Now, in this case every thing is as clear as pos-
sible. This woman has taken the false oath, and
other acts establishing her guilt have been com-
mitted by her.

The Officer said that the case he alluded to was
one of forgery.
The LORD MAYOR—Ay, that might have operated
upon the Grand Jury. The dread of the infliction
of capital punishment cannot, however, operate in
this case. As t he offence is. so prevalent, there
ought to be a prosecution.
Captain Cook—This woman, I have ascertained,
belongs to a knot of depredators who are always at
work of this descrip!ion. The poor sister of the
deceased cannot take out levers of atirninkration
until those which the prisoner has presented are
cancelled.
The officer said, that she and her gang set every
one at defiance. Her proctor had received wages a
dozen times under similar circumstances, and cared
not a straw for any power. In fact, the persons con-
cerned in frauds and robberies of the kind, set them-
selves above the law. As for the prisoner, she was
put forward by the gang ; she was merely the osten-
sible person.
The LORD MAYOR again urged the propriety of

A most daring and extensive robbery wa; com-
mitted on the evening of Widnesday last,'at the
house of the Marquis of Bath, in Grosvenor-square.
Sixty-oue solid silver plates were stolen from the
pantry during the temporary absence of the servants,
and it is supposed that some fellow availed himself
of this opportunity to slip down the area steps and
steal the property, or that it was conveyed by the
same means to parties in waiting by some per,on in
his Lordship's household. Suspicion attaches to
one of the male servants (the ender butler), who
yesterday underwent an examination in privste be-
fore Sir R. BIRNIE. We are not at present at
liberty to disclose the evidence taken against the
prisoner, who was ordered to be committed for ftu-
O'er examination. Gardiner, an active officer 'of this
establishment, is employed in the business, but it is
eared that the recovery of the plate is hopeleis, us it
is well known that certain " family men" hate cru-
cibles continually on the fire for the purpose of
melting stolen plate, by which means the identity
is at once destroyed.

A printed bill, announcing the partiattlars of the
robbery of the parcel of Bank notes, directed to
Messrs. Rogers, Towgood„ and Co. of Clemenee
lane, as stated in Me Sins of yeetirtian has been.
issued, and has excited a geod deal a comment,
owing to the manner in whieir the offer of the rc-
werdat the toot of the bill is worded. " A 'hand-
some reward" is offered for the-reeovery of the par-
cel, but this offer is unaccompanied by the usual in-
timation (whiab the law expres.ly enjoics), that the
offered remuneration will depend upon the'appre-
hension and conviction of the thief or thieves.
From the mariner in which the bill in quelition is
worded, there is little doubt, it is said, but that au
amicable negotiation will take place, the result of
which will be the restoration of the parcel on t, rots
of mutual accommodation. A strong opinion upon
the impropriety of thus holding out an invitation to
thieves to disgorge their booty, was yesterday ex-
pressed by Sir R. Bucsni and Mr. HALLS, in com-
menting upon the bill to which we have alluded,
and which, it is right to state, has beau issued from
the city.