The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-09 00:00:00

BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.

A few nights since the great cotton warehouse,
No. 22, Bucklersbury, near Walbrook, was
broken open by some persons unknown, and
robbed of property to the value of from 3,0001.
to 4,0001. The circumstances attendant on this
affair, under its present complexion, are not a
little remarkable, and have excited very general
attention. About a month previous to the rob-
bery, a man who had been employed in the con-
cern as occasional porter or warehouseman, had
been discharged for inebriety, neglect of hilli-
ness, and other improprieties of conduct; subse-
quent to the dismissal of this man, an anony-
mous letter was addressed to the proprietors,.
obscurely hinting at some plan by which injury.
was meditated, either against themselves per-
sonally, or against the establishment. From
the unintelligible style of this letter, it was
utterly impossible to draw any direct iufe-
rence as to its immediate import, or to form
an idea what might be the plan which the
writer hinted at in so loose a manner. A threat.'
ened injury of some sort was plainly held out ;
yet it would seem, from the manner in which the
intelligence was worded, that it was given rather
in the way of a friendly monition of impending-
danger, than as an idle or mischievous freak
but still the anonymous correspondent did not
think proper to point at the precise attack in-
tended ; he did not state either time, place, or
manner, nor yet did he venture to afford the
threatened victims of this intended mischief any
mode of escape, or any further information which.
might enable them to meet and frustrate the
plot formed against them. The communication
was, therefore, thrown aside as unworthy of no-
tice, and forgotten. Some days previous to the
robbery, there had been a large arrival of British'
and foreign manufactured goods, which were de-
livered in at the warehouse at Bucklersbury,
which completed the stock to its usually extensive
complement. On the Saturday night subsequent
to Christmas, all the doors and other entrances
were secured in the customary manner, wad the
entire place and the property therein were left in
a state of apparently perfect safety; but on the
Monday following three of the doors ~v6te
found open, and an immense quantity of goods-,
which formed a part of the recent arrival,
was missing. The magnitude of the rob-
bery induces us to notice the items particularly, as
it will afford a more correct idea of the bulk•of
the plunder :-1,340 bandeaus and turnovers;
280 silk and cotton shawls and scarfs ; 43 pieces
printed calico; 102 pieces book and mull mus.
lin ; 30 pieces jaconet muslin ; 50 pieces imita,
tion India muslin (these were packed in a large
tin case, similar to an Indian cotton bale); 24
flounced robes, various patterns. How it could
be practicable to carry off such an immense quan-
tity of goods, of rather a bulky description, dur-
ing the night, and in a populous neighbourhood,
without the cogniaanceand concurrence of the sur-
rounding watchmen, we are utterly at a loss to
gine. The only light that has been thrown on this.
strange affair, as yet, is by the information of a
watchman, who states that on the Sunday morning,
when the robbery is supposed to have taken place.
between the hours of 1`.2 and 1 o'clock, he saw a
hackney-coach standing at the corner of Buck.-
lersbury, nearest to Walbrook ; the coachman
and the Walbrook watchman were then in con-
versation, and ultimately went off to drink at an
adjoining public-house, in the company of a
woman who treated them. The property was
missed on the following morning; and. it is
therefore assumed, that the watchman was lured
from his beat by this stratagem While the goods
were being removed to the coach. After a lapse
of nine days, the proprietors come forward with
a public announcement of the robbery, and
offer a reward (501.) for the appreheiiiion and
conviction of the parties concerned. It would
seem from the wording of their bill, that they
had studiously avoided a disclosure of their own
names, no mention being made either of the per
sons robbed, or of the per'sian by whain this' ra-
ward will be paid ; but a reference is made
merely "at the premises." Those gentlemen
have, we doubt not, a very sufficient reason for
this air of secrecy, though we cannot pretend to
divine it. fn regard to the anonymous letter,
our information is merely oral ; we do not there-
fore pledge ourselves for its accuracy. The rest
it in the authority of the printed bills placarded
in the public offices. The whole affair is as yet
involved in much mystery.

A native of Morocco, who accompanied Mr
LANCASTER to Ireland, found the Irish language
perfectly intelligible, and was himself ithderstood
by the people. The same person could converse
with the Welsh, but.not so readily.

Last night, as one of the Blackwall stage
coaches was returning to town, at the Corn-
mercial-road, near the turnpike-gate, it received
a sudden jerk, by which one of the► outside pas,
stingers (apparently a sailor, who seemed .to be a
little intoxicated) was throw❑ frOM his seat into
the street, and the wheel passing over his foot,
so shattered it, that after being conveyed to the
London Hospital, immediate amputation became
necessary.