The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-05 00:00:00

" To the Baron Lionel Rothschild.

" We sent a letter last month asking for a loan of
£5OO. If there does not appear a notice to the fol-
lowing effect in the Daily Telegraph in a fortnight,
the first lime either of us three get an opportunity,
we know you well by sight, and you shall be a dead
man and one of us will die by the hands of the law,
If we cannot meet you, we will assassinate the
first we get an opportunity, either Sir Anthony or
Baron Meyer. You ought to let them have nctice.
We have about £4OO between us. We shall be
able to Fay you back with interest in six years, we
having an opportunity of going into business. If
you consider one of your lives of more value than
the loan, grant it, for as certain as this letter was
written, so sure, if this loan is not granted, one of
you will be assassinated. If you comply we will
write and let you know how we will receive the
money. " A. and B.

"Insert the following in the Daily Telegraph:—
The letter signed A. and B. was duly received,
and the favour requested will be complied with.'"
Upon receipt of the second letter, Messrs. Roths-
child placed the matter in the hands of the police,
and in July u third letter was received by the
firm:—

" London, July, 1862.
" To Sir Anthony Rothschild, Bart.
"Your brother, the Baron Lionel, has had two
letters sent to Kingston House, Knightsbridge,
asking fora lcan of £3OO, and telling him, if he
did not lend it, either you or the Baron Meyer
should be fiSSR:f..- inated the first opportunity we got.
One of us will be on the look out for you every day
in the week. If you consider one of your lives of
more consequence then £3OO send it. We do not
wish to cheat you ; we °lily require it for six years.
We write this letter thinking that by some acci-
dent you may net have heard of the other two
letters; that, when it is too late, you may not have
any excuse for saying wo wish we had known of
the impending catastrophe. If there is not inserted
in the Daily eleyraph newspaper by the 25th inst.
what is written will come to pass.

"A and B."

" The letter signed A and B.' was received, and
the favour shall be complied with. We will let
you know how we will receive it if you comply
with it.

"'To Sir A. Rothschild, Bart.
"If it appears in the Daily Telegraph by the
28th it will be in time."

A notice was inserted in the _Daily Telegraph ac-
cording to the request, adding that they would not
go to the full extent, but would advance £l5O,
when the following letter was received by the
firm :--

" London, July 23.
"To Sir An;,liony Rothschild, Bart., and your
respected brothers, for there is not a house in the
city of London so much respected as the house of
Rothschild, and we are glad to learn that your
brother, the Baron Lionel, has recovered from his
severe indispo.3ition. If at any time it should be in
our power to save one of your lives at the cost of
one of ours, we should most cheerfully do it ; but
when men are driven to desperation they will do
what
atany
doing. 'lnc writer of this letter and a friend of
other tine they would shrink from
his, about ten years since, had about £2,500 be-
tween us, being then about 25 years of age, both
being nearly Inc same a.,,,e, when we were induced
to join a person who had' taken out a patent for rice
and starch, we used to find the money
as an equiva-
lent for his experience ; when we bad expended
about half of it we saw, if we went on, we should
lose alt our money, so to release ourselves from him,
we told he might have dm benefit of all the money
we bad expended, and MI did so, and he sold it for
about £5OO, and he congratulated himself in think
ing he had been acquainted with us ; but if we had
known so much now we should not have had any-
thing to do -,--.-ith him. We lost about £1,400 by it.
I and my friend have beim together ever since,
sharing our fortunes and misfortunes, and, if reeds
be, we will die tog-then. The notice of our letter
depression. We could do very well with a loan
in the Telegrap
of £2OO, a smaller sum will not save us.
h teas relieved us from a weight of
We are in business. If we do not have £2OO we
shall be ruined. If you lend it, we shall have
a profitable business
(when we first took it we did
not understand much a .bout it.) Now we have
learned it. If you lend it us, in three years we shall
be able to repay y
ou. W hen we say we shall repay
you we mean it. We have been brought up wed,
and have received a good education, but adversity
has overtaken us. What I have written is the truth.
We are not trying
to impose upon you. When my
father died llis lett me .E 2,000. If you send us the
£2OO I have no doubt we shall be worth that once I
more. We write to you knowing you to be chari-
table men, wl,o can feel. for others. We must offer
our apology for having- written in the manner we
did, but ours is a desperate case.
Hoping you will
lend us the £2OO, you ,sill not have any cause to
regret it, either in this world or in that which is to
Come. " A. & B.

66 If you should he so kind as to lend it, please
~ To Sir A. Rothschild, Bart., and Broile;:
insert the following in the Daily Telegraph news-
paper :
" ' A. & B.
and the favour will be complied with.'
--Your letter of the 23d was received,
"P.S.—it you should lend it, we will let you
know how we will receive it."
Other advertisera,ents were inserted :n the Daily
answer :
Telegraph, and -i-.4 following letters were sent In

tc Loudon, July 26.
"To Sir Anthony Rothschild and your respected
Brothers.

—....._
" We thank
You for your kind notice of our letter
in the Daily
Telegraph i
of the 26th. We went in-
-1 nprincipal creditor, to wliern we owe
aboutedia t
xe t o our
who told us if we did not reduce the.s
account
,to -C2OO IL
o,
he should proceed against S. J:li
reason for doing so, he said, was that he did not in-
tend ..
to have so mach capital employed in his busl-