The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LAMBETH CHURCH BROKEN OPEN.
IJNioleelleeer..Yesterday information was received at this
Office that Lambeth Church, which almost touches the Arch.
bishop's Palace, had been broken open by
.thieves. Glannon
the of immediately went to the Church, by the direction
of the Magistrates, to examine the building, and ascertain
whether there was any ground for supposing that the thieves
who broke open the Palace were not those who broke open
the church. Glannon learned that the discovery of the bur.
glary in the church did not take place' until Sunday morning,
when the Sexton went round to prepare for Divine service,
before seven o'clock. The Sexton was surprised to see
the heavy marks of footsteps near the west door of the
church in the burial ground, and soon found that the door had
been wrenched open. The instrument used to perform this ser.
vice for the thieves must have been larger than those which were
applied to the doors of the Palace, as the marks on the edges
of the doors of the church were of considerable size, and in fact
the church doors are of such unwieldly magnitude as to require
great strength, both of arm and instrument, to break them
open. The lock of the west door had been broken off, and the
panel was dragged off with it. The thieves, if they were the
same that robbed the palace, were certainly not so well ac.
quainted with passages to the interior of the church as with
those to the most private rooms of the former building ; for
upon breaking open the first door, they applied their strength
to the great gate leading to the aisle. They were here defeated
after numerous violent efforts, for there were other marks
on the door. It is supposed that they opened the locks with
a skeleton key, and that they relinquished the idea of forcing
their way upon finding that the door had been fastened by
a couple of immense irom bolts which are capable of resist.
ing the attempts of twenty men. Baffled in their object
of entering at this door, they next attacked a wooden
partition, which they were mistaken in supposing led to the in-
terior of the church, fol it merely communicated with the
engine house. They broke sufficiently through this partition
to convince themselves that except they chose to steal the fire.
engine, they had no chance of profit by pushing their labour fur.
ther that direction. There were no further symptoms of attempt
to enter the church, and no instruments were found near the spot.
The footsteps were traced along the wall, which Is near the
palace, and Glannon was particular in his notice of them.
The conjecture amongst those who are well qualified to
judge as to the attempt to get into the church is, that the vil.
Hans who broke into the palace, upon finding that they had
no chance of getting hold of the expected chests of plate, de.
termined to try the church and strip the communion table, but
in their hopes in this respect, also, they were quite mistaken.—
There is no plate kept in the .Church. That which belongs
to it, and is occasionally used, is regularly taken to a place of
security remote from the church, when there is no necessity for
producing it ; so that if they had effected an entrance, the con.
sequences would have been unimportant as far as regarded the
mischief sustained by the robbery of the building. The thieves
might have got as many cushions as they could carry, and prayer-
boas in abundance; but they could not have touched any
thing else ; and their rejection of the property in the Palace
which they might have taken away, proved that they
are men
who are determined to be well recompensed for the danger
which they undergo, or to receive nothing at all. Some are
of opinion that the gang divided, and commenced their attack
upon the palace and the church simultaneously. It is supposed
that they were well armed, and resolved to commit any violence
they might think necessary for their own safety, in case of the re.
sistance of any of the domestics whom they should come in con.
tact with in the course of their attempt. It is well known by all
in the neighbourhood of the palace, that a quantity of fire.
arms, ready for action, are kept in one of the lower rooms.
Several blunderbusses loaded are always under a press-bed in.
a store-room, in which a trusty servant (the cellarman) sleeps,
and therefore the gang must have been well disciplined and
desperately resolved before they commenced their operations.
It is supposed that the thieves entered the palace without
shoes, as not an atom of clay was to be seen upon the window.
stool at which they first entered, nor was there any mark of
any other kind on the boards, which are in a high state of po-
lish, and would be likely to show footsteps which were not most
cautiously made.
The Archbishop arrived yesterday morning, and confirmed
the statement made by Mrs. Sutton, that nothing of value was
missing. The presents which were made to him, and which
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hall nigie, this mode of removing plunder might have been
resorted to without much chance of Interruption.
Bow-ST n e r.—On Saturday evening, a respectable. oo iI le
young man, named John if Rogers, alias Brown, wag
brought before Mr. Mils suttee on a warrant, charged with
attempting to defraud a Mr. Scott, a tailor in Pall-mall, of a
suit of clothes.
The prisoner •
went to Mr. Scott's shop a few days ago, and
made
ordered a suit of clothes to be first
the style of elegance
and fashion, and said he should pay ready money fur it. In a
day or two, however, when the clothes were nearly finished,
, he called again, and said It would not be convenient ter him to
pay ready money, but he would give references of the most un.
ceptionable kind. lie referred to the Bev. Valentine,
Chaplain to the London Hospital, who, lie said, knew hint and
his bluffly perfectly well. The following morning, Mr. Scott
was just leaving his house, for the purpose of waiting upon
Mr. Valentine, to ascertain if the story of the prisoner was
true, when the twopenny postman brought a letter which he
found purported to come from Mr. Valentine, and gave
a very good account of the prisoner, describing him as being
very respectably connected, and the son of a gentleman re-
siding at Harlington, Aliddlesex. Mr. Scott, however, more
cautious, perhaps, than tradesmen generally are, waited upon
Mr. Valentine, who on seeing the letter declared it to be a fa-
brication, and said lie 'knew nothing of the prisoner, except from
his having been a patient in the hospital, and his having heard
him say that he was very respectably connected. The Rev.
Gentleman added, that he was glad to hear the prisoner was
likely to be brought before a Magistrate (Mr. Swtt having
told him that he intended to take out a warrant against him.)
The prisoner, in his defence, said, he was very much sur.
prised that Mr. Scott had taken so hasty a step as to have him
taken into custody, without first making inquiry as to his cha.
meter and the respectability of his connexions. Mr. Scott need
not have been so easily alarmed, for he would have received
every farthing of his money. Theltlagistrate would recollect,
that he had not actually obtained the clothes, and therefore he
conceived he had committed no offence cognizable by the law.
The Magistrate ordered the prisoner to the watch.house, and
yesterday he was again brought up, and Mr. Valentine attend-
ed, and swore that the letter was not written by him.
It was requested by the prisoner that he might be remanded
till Wednesday, to give him time to make application to his
friends to come forward in his behalf..—Remanded till Wed.
nesday.

It is with regret that we announce the not un-
expected death of the Rev. EDWARD BASER
LLOYD, of the Wesleyan connexion, Halifax,
aged 33 years. This is the second victim of the
dreadful accident which occurred on Monday
week, in the overturn of the Royal Fleece coach,
at Shelley Bank. Mr. Lloyd lingered in
severe pain till Wednesday last, when he
expired. An inquest was held upon the
body on Thursday, when the same full evidence as
before was given of the improper conduct of
Edmund Smith, the coachman, and a similar ver-
dict of Manslaughter returned. The remains of
Mr. Lloyd were on the same day conveyed to
Halifax for interment. We learn from the com-
munication of the Coroner, that Mr. Stephen
Wilson still lies at Shelley dangerously ill.—
(Leeds Mercury.)

SuicinE.—Casi night an Inquisition was taken
at the Marquis of Granby, Milbank, on the body of William
'Lewis, a waterman. It appeared that the deceased had been
dejected for several weeks past, from the apprehension of a
summons from the Watermen's Company, for plying on Sun.
days, and that on Saturday evening last, he was observed to
enter his boat, and row under one of the arches of Vauxhall -
bridge, where he threw himself in. To render his design ef.
foetus!, he had tied bricks round his body by a cord. The
body was not found till the following day. Verdict—Drowned
himself in a state of temporary derangement.
A ccin ENT.—:-.on Saturday evening, about eight
o'clock, a gentleman got out of his gig to speak to friend at
Knightsbridge, when by some accident the horse took fright
and ran with great fury towards Hyde Park-corner, to the im.
minent danger of all before it. On its arrival at the turnpike,
one of the wheels came in contact with the post with treater.
dous violence, which not only had the effect of impeding the
progress of the affrighted animal, but the jirk caused it to rear,
and it was thrown es it were a complete someirset, and fell:mill
such violence on its head that it was killed upon the spot, and
the chaise was completely destroyed. Fortunately no further
accident occurred.