The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-04 00:00:00

BLitt.

tbe 4th Of Nro'vember last,
' the Stroud in,ail-cnach was -robbed of.a pai'cel con-
taining ChenceStcl Bank-notet, to the amount of
2,8001. The robbery is supposed tO have been
.committed Alike!' the coach was bet Ween Slongh
and London. Some time after; -two of the' stolen
notes, for lat. each, were presented, for payment
at Messrs. Masterman and Co.'s, bankers? White
.Hart-court; Lombard-street, they being the
Agents in Landon of Messi. Cripps, the Ciren=
Jester ; hankers. They were refused parrient.
In a short time after, two notes fat ten pounds
each, part of the stolen notes, were presented for
payment at the Cirencesterliank, by Air,, Moun-
tain, a respectable attOrnev of Cirencester,, which
were refused payments Mr. Mountain, on being
asked how .he became possessed of them, very
readily said he was agemit for. Mr. Gilbert. Davis,
a fishmonger of GlouceSter, and had received then
of him. These notes, on comparing their dates
and numbers, proved to b;‘ the same that were re-
fused intymettt at Messrs. Masterman's, in Lon-
don.

An inquiry took place at Gloucester, respect-
ing 1111.. Gilbert. Davis having possession of.these
two notes, and also of two others 5 and on Mr•.
Davis' being taken' before the Mayor of Glouces-
ter,` he 'waS held to bail in his own recogniiance,
to answer for the offence of having the Stolen
notes in his possession, wi'thou't being able to give
a satisfactory -account of how' he became phscess-
.ed of them. Since that time Mr. Joseph Cripps,
onc.of the hankers of Cirencester, has followed
• up the inquiry, and discovered a 'connection be-
tween Mr: Davis', of Gloucester, and Benjamin
Benjamin and Lewis, Benjamin, of Duke's-place,
who deal in fish, aud• keep a public-house, and
who send fish to Davis, at Gloucester, •while he
sends fish to the Benjamins in London, accordingk
to the price of the markets. They also carried
on other transactions together ; and the suspicion
was so strong that the Benjamins were implicated
in the robberwi that a warrant was,issued against
them from this Office ; and on Thursday Laven-
der, Taunton, and Vickery, went to Duke's-place,
and took them into custody. They searched their•
premises, but nothing of a suspicious nature was
found, and there did not appear any symptoms
'of guilt ; the senior Benjamin appeared extreme-
ly surprised at the time, and thought the officers
were come to, take his son for a bastard
They underwent an examination at the Office, on
a representation that Mr. Gilbert Davis had re-:
,ceived the notes from the Benjamins, which they
den i•ed ,
Mr. Edward-Davis, brother• of Gilbert Davis,
attended aril stated, that his brother had returned
to the Benjamins a number of the Cirencester
notes. On the 22d of December• last he was at
Gloucester, and assisted his brother in packing up
the salmon ; and a paper parcel was put bet weeit
the fish, containing -3:5 Cirencester Bank Notes
,for
10/. and a number of five guineas notes of the' Ci-
rencester Bank, amounting. to 3861. 15s. : they
sent a letter, with the parcel, which was direeted
to Lewis Benjamin, Duke's-place ; it was sealed
and taken to the Booth-hall Inn, and booked to
be sent by the coach_

Benjamin Benjamin admitted receiving the par-
cel, but denied that it contained any thing hut the
salmon, lie opened ,the letter during his son's
absence fromboine, but it contained nothrng but
'what was relative to the

The business b=eing thus in a very complicated
state, the Benjamins were.cOmmitted for farther
exalUinetion yesterday, and the Mean time Gilbert
Davis was summoned from Gloucester to give evi-
dence. 1-e•accordingly attended yesterday, ancl
the Benjamins were. brought up to be examined
again. itslr.GukNE4 attended for the Benjamins,
and Mr. ANDREWS attended for Gilbert Davis. •

On Mr. Stafford, the Chief 'Clerk,
Davis with the Testanient to be sworn, he rt::fuscd
to take the usual oath. On being asked the rea-
son, he relined, that he bad been advised so to
do by his Counsel ; which Mr., Anarews avowed
to be correct.; stating as his reason, that as- Mr.
Gilbert Davis was under recognizance. to appear
to take fiis trial upon the same business, he could
.not safely give his evidence, and this waF recorded
as Davis's objection to being sworn
,and giving
evidcike.

Mr ANDREWS stated that there would be -no
objection to his client giving, evidence; provided
it was understood from the prosecutor, that": he
was to \beyelicved from his recognizance to appvar
at Gloucester, audio be received as an cvidencf far
tlte. Crown. The prosecutor not accepting the
proposition, Davis was Ordered" to the hay with
the Beniamins.

After heario'g-Counuel.as to adniitting the pri-
soners to bail, which was refuse'd, they were fully
committed tor trial.

We are happy to say that one of the villains
who 'wounded Vickery is in custody.
Thomas Budd; Elizabeth Pardie, and ll:!,nah
Drescole, the totaner only twelve-, and the two
latter only fourteen years of age, were brought_ to
the office, charged with stea!ing cloths from the
horses at the Theatres, on Saturday night, during
the fog: The former was delivered to his inuther,
and the two latter• were committed for trial. •

NANSION-HOUSE.-Robert Bye, a Deputy Elder
in the Last-india Company's warebous.e, .was
charged with having misappropriattd different
sums which he had received from tea-brokers, and
in particular a sum-of 15)1. which he had received
on the 24th of Dec. from Messrs. Benwell and
Wright, and for 121. only,of which he had ac-
counted. The prisoner was committed for trial.

HATTON-GARDEN.-William 'Paget, collecting
clerk to Mr. Hern'y Wyatt, ale brewer, of Port-
poor:lane, was charged with 'feloniously embez-
zling fnis employer's money.' Mr. Wyatt stated,
that the prisoner had been employa'bs" him as
colleCting clerk, since jannary 1813, until No-
vember last, duAng whiph time he bad embezzled
about 1001. of his property. In support of the
charge, two publicans were brought forward, Who
stated that they had paid the prisbner twO several
sums of money for ale, and for which it appeared
he had not accounted with his einiiloyer. The
,prisoner was committed for trial.

A very, general redlictioil has taten place
throughout the metropolis in the price of portewt
it is now sd. gold Sid. per quart.