The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-09 00:00:00

BOW-STREET—('fars DAY.)

SUSPECTED ROBREET.--MaithetolieN,
sturdy labourer, was this day brought up by
Reed and Miles, the Officers, at the instance of
Mrs. COUTTS'S (of Bolton-street), servant, on
suspicion of having been concerned in an exten-
sive robbery, and with having in his possession a
quantity of silver tea and table-spoons, two gold
rings, and a quantity of sovereigns. The circum-
stances of this case were rather novel. The pd
sorer was at work near the spot, and seeing a
Jew pass by, he went up to him and offered the
spoons for sale. The Jew, however, sus.
pected that he had not come honestly by them,
and went into the house of Mrs. Coutts,
and asked the servant if they had lost any plate,
as there was a very suspicious fellow close by,
who had offered him some silver spoons for sale.
The servant immediately went in pursuit of him,
and coming into Piccadilly, he met the Officers,
and gave the prisoner into custody. On search-
ing him, the property in question was found in-
geniously concealed about his person, and as he
refused to give any satisfactory account of how
he became possessed of it, he was remanded, and.
publicity directed to be given to the circum.
stance. The marks on the spoons have been
rubbed out.

MIDDLEsEx SEgstoNs.--These Sessions will
commence at ilicks's Hall, before F. CosrsT,
Esq., for the trial of traverses, larcenies, misde-
meanors, &c. on Monday next. We regret to
state that there are, on the present occasion, ant
increased number of larcenies for trial.

The Old Bailey Sessions will commence on
Wednesday next, at the Justice Hall, in the Oltt
Bailey. The calendaris very heavy, and we re-
gret to add, that there are some very heavy
charges for disposal. The number of street rob-
beries is very considerable ; but this may be ac-
counted for by the holding of Bartholomew Fair.

SHOCKTNO OUTBAG E.—Yesterday en Inquest
was held before Mr. ST max°, the Coroner, in the Board.
room 'of the illiddiesex Hospital, on the body of a young man
named Robert Scott, who died from -excessive loss of blood;
caused by several wounds received from a Cork-eutter'aknife.
It appeared that the deceased and a man named Brown were
employed in the brewery of Messrs. Reynolds, at Somers Town.
On the Nth August, Brown asked the deceased for some brew—
ing clothes; the deceased said he had not any but his apron ;
Brown then took hold of the apron of the deceased, and cut it
in two, and endeavoured to cut it across, but deceased pulled it
away. Brown then cut at his hands, in a very great passion.
and severed the thumb and fore-finger from off the left hand.
:nett cried out, " Good God ! what have I done to deserve
this? If you have any ill-will towards me, why not meet me
like a man, and not use that murdering knife ?" Brown, after
this, cut him again, and seemed furious with passion.—Richard
Jones, the principal brewer, and other witnesses proved these
facts, and said that the deceased's fingers and hand were
nearly cut off by Brown, who was a man of bad temper. Mr.
H. Hammond, honse-surgeon of' the 111 iddlesex Hospiml, stated,
that the deceased was brought into the Hospital with a despe.
rate cut across the wrist, which had severed all the arteries,
and nearly the hand, from the arm. The deceased was bleed.
ing profusely; every attention was paid him, and he seemed
getting better for five days, but a fresh hemorrhage com.
meaced, and upon the opinion of-a consultation of surgeons,
it was found necessary to amputate the hand, which was done
on the 4th instant, and he died tali days after.—The Jury,
after consulting together an hour and a half, returned a verdict
of Manslaughter against Win. Brown, who has absconded.

BOSTON, SEPT. 7. --(Tit IfitrucANEl—
afternoon, about one o'clock, soon after two clouds
of peculiar shape, fraught with a tempest and heavily
charged, had been observed to meet together in the south-
west, there came on here, and lasted for some minutes, a hurri.
cane, said to be the most tremendous ever witnessed by the
oldest inhabitant of ,'Vt.r.kowa. In Shirbeck-quarter, it seized
the top of P. haystack, which it whirled about spirally to a
great height, anti scattered far from the spot where it stood.
• In Fligh-street, whereitsvioience increased, a large poplar.tree
aid a hot-house were blown down, and the tilts forced from
several buildings. A whole frame, belonging to a peachery
4
in a garden, near Southend, was blown tit the distance of
30 or (1 yards,
and every pane of glass broken ; elm-tree,
in an adjoining garden, said to be 5 orti
yards in eircumfer-
ence, was also blown down, and two others which stood in ad-
joining pastures. An ancient thorn bush sharetilthe same fate,
near which some cattle had just before. been grazing, but were
then, fortunately, out of the way. In Main It idge and itsim-
methate neighbourhood, where the hurricane raged with such
dread-inspiring fury as caused the utmost consternation and
dismay, much injury was sustained in various directions, for
there some buildings were partly unroofed, several windows'bro-
ken, a garden wall sonic yards in extent, overwhelmed, and the
sails of a mill, used in a brick-yard, tattered into shreds in a
moment of time. This hurricane was rendered still more.
alarming by being accompanied and followed by a violent
thunder _storm ; during which the lightning, which watt vivid
and dillbsive, scarcely ever ceased for a minute, anti peal suc-
ceeded peal with little intermission. There-echoed crack of
several peals was by sonic persons compared to the report oc-
casioned by resounding artillery besieging a town, and ma-
mensely extended in battle array.

AWFUL EFFECTS OF TUE TUUNDER
(Providential Escape.)—During the storm with,
which the metropolis was yesterday visited, the
vicinity of Vauxhall, and particularly Glass.
house-street, were thrown into an indescribable
state of alarm and agitation by the falling of a
meteor on the tops of two houses, Nos. 29 and
30, which carried away a, stack of chimneys, a
portion of both roofs, and descended through the
house, carrying every thing moveable with it in
its course, until it reached the bed-room of Mr.
and Mrs. Cooke, who were asleep. A body of
flame here presented itself to their astonishment,
which burst with a loud report, destroying every
thing in the apartments. Providentially, though
both houses were inhabited by a great 1"3"Y
lodgers, no one sustained any bodily injury.

DARING AND EXTIANSIVZ RODUCHTe----A MOSt
daring street robbery was ye•stert)ny committed
near Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, on the person of
Mr. JOUN JAMES, a senior clerk in the banking
firm ot Messrs. SNOW and Co. of the Strand.—

It appeared the clerk was returning along Fleet.
street, with notes to the amount of upwards of
2,800/. in his pocket-book, which ht had incau.
tiously placed in his coat pocket. When near
Shoe-lane, a person ran as if accidentally against
hi
ntion,
his pocket, from whence, to his
dismtml;al iysf handa;ireinfgo sofiW bad t:
ea
he
instantly
clerk
being lame, was unfortunately prevented from
pursuing the person who ran against
him, and
who there is little doubt was the thief
• Ini
Me.
diate information of the robbery was
given at
Bow-street, and bills were promptly
issued, de-
scribing the numbers and value of the notes, and
offering a reward of 5001. for the apprehension
of the thief. Among the stolen notes were one
for 5001., six for 3001.,and
a number of others
of smaller amount.

A Hamburgh Paper of the 276 ult. mentio»s
-
the very extraordinary fact of a Spanish woman
in Valencia, of the name of JOSEPHA NATAttno,
being brought to bed of SEVEN children '

THE LONDON" JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Prlpers) Sept. 9.

[MORNING POST 4
Letters and Papers from Mexico to the 4th of
July arrived yesterday. The entrance of General
Bravo into Guadalaxara is no longer doubtful ;
his Proclamations after that event will be found
amongst our extracts. It is also confirmed that
Olaneta hi Peru had joined the Patriots, and
strong corroboratory accounts are given of the re-
capture of Lima and Callao by Bolivar. It is at
least certain that La Serna had resigned the
Viceroyalty of Peru. Several documents have been
received which prove the fact beyond a doubt.—
The first of these documents is a Circular address-
ed to the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military Au-
thorities, requesting them to examine the Spanish
Royal Order of July 29,1821,and the Royal De-
cree of October 1,1823,and give him their imme-
diate opinion whether that Order and Decree
(by which all this Acts are null and void of that
Government called Constitutional of whatever
class or rank they may be, which have governed
the Spanish people from the 7th March, iseo, to
the Ist Oct. 1823),should not by him, the Vice-
roy, be published and put in force ; and whether
he ought not to resign, on the ground that his
appointment was among the acts so annulled.—
The second is a Decree of the Viceroy, by
which he confirms the first mentioned Royal
Order and Decree, in respect to the country
under his Vice-Royalty—annuli all acts and
laws therein annulled—directs Rejoicinga, Mass,
Ta &c. on the occasion, and orders
that the troops there take the oath of fideli-
ty to Ferdinand. He then directs that for the
present the system of Government shall be ruled
by the Royal Order of the esti, of Decem-
ber, and that no innovations shall be made,
until the Royal Order is further known. He
also commands that all Constitutional Stamps
shall be effaced from paper now current, and that
the titular constitutional stone, and all constitu-
tional monuments, shall be demolished, and all
allusion thereto suppressed. The third and last
document is addressed to Don Jose Cantarac, in
which he declares his resignation of the Vice-
royalty, and recommends to General Cantarac,
as senior officer, to take the command.

[NEV TIMES.]
Consols yesterday, after being at 944, for the
Account, closed at 944 ; but, us is usual at ,this
period of the year, the business was but limited.
Doubts still continue to he. entertained whether
the ,intelligence received through the United
States Papers will prove correct to the full ex-
tent asserted ; though it certainly
,has more
claims to attention than can be attached to pri-
vate communications, coming probably from inte-
rested parties. Under this feeling, which ap-
peared yesterday to be general, the prices of
Mexican Securities did not., vary to any consider-
able extent and they closed lower than on the
preceding day, being .19t1. Colombian Scrip
discount. grazillan Solt) 11 discount, and that
of Greece 15 to 16 per cent. discount.

[TU E irtares.]
The oppressive construction put upon the Alien
Bill 3i not, yet been properly amended. It will
he recollected, that by the last edition of the
Allen act, an Alien residing seven years or up•
wards in the kingdom, was to be exempt from
the law—that is, from deportation at will. The
clerks, however, of the Home or Alien Office
were wiser in their geperation than the law itself.

They interpreted ihe measure in such a way,
that a foreign merchant, who had lived for 20
years in England, and could not swear that he
b►►d never been for e 4 hours absent from it In
all that period, should not enjoy the benefits of
the exemption. This was not, and could not
be, the meaning of the Act of Parliament
—bad enough in all consci►once : the men
in office painted it (like the Devil sometimes)
blacker than it is. The Home Secretary
being himself in town, moreover, when that an-
swer to the alien applicants was transmitted,
without reference to him, some proof was there-
by furnished that the harsh construction of the
act bad been ready cut and dry for the clerks
by their superiors. On the day on which our
notice of the grievance► appeared, a hint was
.thrown out by an evening paper that the mat-
ter migist be remedied by a second applica-
tion to the same office, on a proper statement
from the parties. A. few days only elapsed be-
fore the hint was taken by a foreign gen-
tleman, an►d in the interval Air. Peel left
town. The answer to interrogatories now is,
that nothing can be done until.the Home Secre-
tary's return ; whence it seems clear that the 24
hours' absence is no longer to constitute a bar to
the security of the Alien ; and if so, we must
protest against the conduct of the Home Depart-
merit us monstrously inconsiderate and unfeeling
—as nfost disrespectful, moreover, to the coun-
try, by leaving the protection of the foreigner
end the execution of the law contingent upon the
amusements of a Minister.

[stortNtser cuttolvici.E.]
Among the manifold obstructions of justice in
Ireland we have before toliced the violent party
feelings of the subordinate agents, in the adminis-
tration of the Law. The lute Irish Papers pre-
sent us with a striking exemplification of this, in
the attack at the Fermagh Assizes of a party of
Policemen on a witness, a Catholic, immediately
on his retirement from the Court, where he bad
given evidonce against an Orangeman. Such is
the spirit and temper engendered by the system,
of which this is a specimen, that the Catholics
scarce look for a Show of fair dealing. We cannot
fail to notice, as belonging to the same class of
effects, the sentiments, which the decent and dis-
creet conduct of late Judges on the Northern
Circuits seems to have
produced. Their
fairness, impartiality, and courtesy, have. been
jauded with such vehemence, and with such OP
appearance ,of surprise ttt, the display of those
as almost to confer the character.
good qualities,
of an Insult upon what was intended for eulogy.

Indeed, we confess ourselves quite disgusted with
the nauseous and fulsome adulation passed upon
one of the late Judges, Mr. Justice Torrens, by
some of the provincial pints—an extravagance
of adulation, which leads to the most unfavoura-
tile conclusions, as to the tone and temper of the
public mind in the counties throughout which
they circulate.

[MORNING' HERALD.]
Some of the papers announce that Mr. Can-
ning, during the autumn, intends paying a visit to
Ireland. We heartily wish it may be true. We
wish too, that it would enter into the heads of all
his Majesty's Ministers to pass some pert of their
vacation there. We wish the Earl of Liverpool
would skew his Countess the Lakes of Killarney;
that the Lord Chancellor would take bis shooting
in the neighbourhood of Ballyshannon ; that Mr.
Peel and Lord Sidmouth, who have been there
already, would visit it ,once again; and that his
Grace the Duke of Wellington, who travels more,
and faster than any man, would once more take
a view of the country which furnished so many
of the heroes who accompanied him in all his
campaigns. In short, nothing would be more
desirable than that Ministers should see and
know with their own eyes and understanding
the real state of Ireland—of the capabilities she
possesses beyond almost any other spot upon
earth. The first objects of Government should
be to civilize the people, and draw back a resi-
dent gentry. But how is this to be accomplished ?
fn a free country, locomotion is the most obvious
principle ; and to say, therefore, that a man shall
live where the Government pleases, and not where
he chooses to live himself, would be at once
arbitrary and absurd. Moderated Poor Laws
would do much for the immediate amelioration

of the people. Mr. Canning's intended visit to
Ireland we hail as a circumstance highly favour-
able to the sister kingdom. Mr. Canning is con-
fessedly and justly, both here and in Ireland, the
most popular Member of the Administration ;
and the experience which he must gain by ocular
demonstration on such a visit cannot he applied
otherwise than advantageously for Ireland and
the kingdom in general.