The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-26 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUAME.

Cillllol/3 ROBBERY. 1-011 Saturday Mr. Grit-
fiths,.nl Chissel, wear Royston,' gave information
of a robbery committed on him the preceding even-
ing, and charged Rosetta Mansons, a girl .of an
interesting appearance, with being concerned
in it.

Mr. Griffiths stated, that he was an Half-pay
Military Officer ; and that mi Friday he came to
town to receive money from his agent, •Mr. Ro-
binson, Pall-mall. Having received the money,
he went tort chop• house, Charing-cross, -to dine.
,While dining, a person of decom appearance, like
A countryman, entered, and sat in the same box.
Conversr:tion ensued; the stranger became won,
derfully frank and agreeable, expressing his sense
of his good-fortune in meeting with a solitary
countryman like. himself. After dinner, the Lin-
colnshire farmer, tor so he styled himself, in-
sisted on Mr. G. taking wine at the Salopian ;
after which they agreed to go to the play, Mr.
Griffiths liking his new friend so much as to
abandon the idea of returning home that night.
They accordingly set out ; but on coming to St.
Martin's-lane, the farmer discovered they were too
soon, and to fill up time, propOsed some brandy
and water at the first public-house, which was
the Mitre. lit the parlour:, they found Rosetta
Mansons waiting for the stranger. whom she call-
ed her husband. Presently afterwards the stranger
left the loom, saying ke would return in a minute
or two. On returning, he brought another man
with him ; and these two had not been long in the
room before they pretended to quarrel aml tight. Mr.
G. interfered to protect his friend, and drove the
intruder out of the room. During the scuffle, he
felt something Against his side pqcket where he
kept his pocket-hook, but thought nothing about.
it. The farmer then left the !parlour in haste.
This excited suspicion, and Mr. Cr-feeling for his
pocket-book, discovered' he bad been robbed of
it, containing 361. in notes, some bills, &c. The
female was about to go, but he secured her.

Rosetta Alantorts,said, that till within the last
six weeks she had lived with her friends at Bros-
ton, Norfolk, who were known to the Magistrate
on their being mentioned, but that having quar-
relled with them, she calm! to town to her sister,
who was married to a 'respectable man named
Cooper. The- " Lincolnshire Fin finer" got ac-
quainted with her, and stranger as he was, visi-
ted her at Mrs. Cooper's, and she was about to
be married to him. lie said his name was Brown,
and lived in Smithfield; and that was all she knew
of him. On Friday she went to the Mitre by ap-
pointment to meet him.

Mr. Griffiths added, that the sister, after the
girl was in custody, Caine to him, and promised to
make up the money which he had lost in the
course of a few days, provided he would not pro-
ceed any further. He declined this proposal with-
out the approbation of the Magistrate ; but from
what he had since learned, he believed that nei-
ther the sister nor the girl could raise any such
sum by fair means. From the description of the
two men an Officer said he knew the parties and
their haunts, and he was sent in search of them.
lie added, that they bad long been practising si-
milar modes of robbing the unwary.