The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-18 00:00:00

POETRY.

To Miss EMMA EENDUICK,

On her Illiniahhre Copy of Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS'S PiChire

_ _
OF
The Nymph and Piping Boy.

Fair EMMa, well known for thy genius and taste,
This Copy from REYNOLDS must add to thy fame,
With the Painter's original charms it is grac'd,
Though diffirent in size, yet in beauty the same.
Nay it e'en might be thought that great REYNOLDS'S shade,
The work to complete, had thy hand hoVer'd o'er,
But that talents like thine have no need of his aid,
Since Nature had made thee congenial before. /I`.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES BY SBRVANTS.
GUILDHALL—Another instance, if such were, wanted, to
*hew that if there were no receivers there would be no thieves,
and that, to the facility with which stolen property may be
disposed of, is to be attributed the lamentable frequency of
robbery by servants, occurred at this office yesterday.—John
Thomas Godfrey, a lad about 15, Mary Earle, an old woman
who keeps a sort of chandler's shop in Creed-lane, Illackfriars,
and John Eark, a grown man, her son, were charged before
the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman WAIT ti fa a N--alie first
for stealing a considerable quantity of brass articles, and the
latter two for receiving the same, knowing them to be stolen.
The history of the case was somewhat curious. Earle, the
son, had offered for sale, about 0 or 9 days ago, at the shop of
Mr. Roper, Snowhill, a manufacturer in metals, a quantity of
I)rass of various descriptions. Mr. Roper is not in the habit of
buying old metal, but judgingg, from the nature of the articles that
they had been stolen, he said nothing to excite suspicion, but
readily bought them, for the express purpose of tracing out the
robbery. Ile made inquiry among the trade, but could obtain
no trace of anybody having lost such articles. In a day or two
Earle called again with another parcel of similar articles, and as
Mr. Roper had learnt who he was, and as the parcel was not
very considerable, he bought this also, in the same cautious man-
ner, and continued his exertions to discover whence, as he sup.
posed, they had been stolen, keeping the metal distinct from
every thing else that he might identify it when be should discover
the thief. On Tuesday, however, Earle came a third time, and
judging all safe from the facility with which Mr. Roper had pur-
chased of him before, now brought a weight of upwards of 901bs.
Mr. Roper now felt that the robbery was of too extensive a
nature to be permitted to go on any longer, and accordingly had
him taken into custody. The articles on inspection were found
to be parts of the machinery used in the manufacture of tele-
scopes and other optical instruments, as well as tools used in
that business. This discovery naturally led to an inquiry at
Messrs. Dollond, extensive makers in that line in St. Paul's
Church-yard, who were able to identify the articles as their pro.
perty, and as having been stolen from their premises. The lad
Godfrey, who is the son of a workman in their employ, that has
been with them upwards of twenty years, and has lately been
taken into their service himself to turn the wheel of a lathe,
was charged with the theft. lie at first denied it stoutly, but
the officer being sent for, he confessed having stolen the pro-'
perty, and disposed of it to the old woman, the prisoner Earle's
mother.

As there was no other evidence of the stealing besides the
lad's own confession, which, however voluntary, could be evi-
dence only as mainst himself, and no proof against the re-
ceivers without his testimony, it was judged of most importance
to puni►h the receivers, and Godfrey was accordingly admitted
as a witness, and, being sworn, said that he knew Airs. Earle by
being sent on errands to the shop by his f►ther and mother;
that she learned from him where he Was in employ, and told
him if he could bring her any thing she would give him 3d. ur
4d. a pound for it ; and that he accordingly took the articles at
various times and sold them to herat her own shop. lle had
taken her articles six or seven times, and he selected from those
produced such as he remembered to have stolen and sold to her.

Mr. Alderman IVAITNMAN questioned the lad very closely
as to the origin of this connection with the old woman, and he
distinctly swore that she first spoke to him upon the subject;
that his taking the articles was wholly in consequence of what
she said to him, and that he should not have thought of doing
such a thing but front her suggestion. lie had no acquaint.
ance with her son, the other prisoner, but he was present in the
shop two or three times when he (Godfrey) took articles there
to sell. That he saw his mother buy them, and took some of
the articles up and examined them at the time.
Mr. George Dollond, who identified the articles, said, that
metal alone, such as was old, would produce 7d. a pound, and
the new from ltid. to 2s. a pound, according to their quality ;
but as manufactured articles they were worth to him several
times the amount. _

John Earle, in his defence, denied knowing any thing more
of the transaction than that he was sent by his mother to dis-
pose of the metal.—The mother said she knew nothing of the
boy, and had bought the articles as old metal, and had given a
fair price for them.
There being among the articles produced some that did not
belong to Mr. Dollond, and of which Godfrey had no know-
ledge, it was obvious that something like the same system of
depredation was being practised, and probably by some other
servant at the old woman's suggestions ; and Elie two parcels
bought by Mr. Roper not being m Court, the prisoners were re-
manded for a further examination on Friday next.
Bow-STREET.--Information was received at this Office yes.
terday morning by letter from the Bench of Magistrates at
Wortley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to the following
effect :—On the morning of the 9th inst. three gamekeepers, in
the employment of F. V. Wentworth, Esq. of Wentworth
Castle, near Stainaugh, going their rounds to watch the game,
heard three guns fired. Following the sound, they came up
with three men armed with guns, who, upon seeing the game.
keepers, immediately levelled their pieces and fired at them.
Two of the keepers were severely wounded, but the third fol-
lowed the poachers, who feed after firing, and came up with one,
who turned upon 'him and broke his piece in two by a blow
at the keeper's head. A long scuffle ensued, and finally the
poacher was secured, and conveyed before the Magistrates, who
committed him. His name is Thomas Tooker. It has been
since ascertained that there were six m the gang of poachers out
that morning ; five persons suspected absconded from their
homes the same night.
lIATTON•GARDEN...-A lIEGOINO•LETTEK IMPOSTOR. i
—John Haynes, a respectable-looking old man, in it very
genteel suit of black clothes, and his arm in a sling, in conse-
quence of a severe accident, as lie stated, was brought up in ,the
custody of the officers of the Alentlicity Society, charged with'
being a professed begging letter-writer, and consequently sub-
ject to be punished under the new Vagrant Act. The prisoner,
apparently well experienced in pleading, very ingeniously con-
, tended that his case did not come within the operation of the
Act, as he was perfectly well known and acquainted with all
the parties to whom he at any time addressed letters. The
Magistrate, however, not conceiving that the intimacy and
friendship was exactly to the extent he stated, sent Min to assist
with humbler classes of society for one month at the tread-mill
in the House of Correction.

QUEEN-SQUARE.—ROBBERY OF TIE POWDER MAGA-
ZINR, CUELHEA.—Yesterday Mead, Reynolds, and Enteryl
the three men in custody, charged with stealing a quantity of
lead from the Powder Magazine, Chelsea College, were brought
up for final examination. Mr. BICKNELL, the Solicitor for
Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals, attended to conduct the
prosecution, and after hearing further evidence of the robbery,
the prisoner Mead was fully committed for trial, the others were
discharged of the offence, but detained until they entered into
sureties.

Bow-STREET (This Day.)—James Dennis, a
youth about 14 years of age, was charged with
picking the packet of Captain Wolley, R. N. of a
Valuable silk handkerchief. The Captain stated,
that this morning he was passing through Drury.
lane, when lie was informed by a gentleman that
his pocket had been picked, and the prisoner
with another boy were pointed out as the thieves,
and on pursuing them the prisoner threw away
the property and ran off : his companion escaped.
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE remarked, that the town
was infested by such pests as the prisoner, whose
nefarious practices ought to be checked by send-
ing a few of them out of the country.--The pri-
soner was remanded.
On Saturday night last an extensive robbery
was committed iu the dwelling-house of Mr.
AuaAMs, of Sheerness, and a large assortment of
jewellery and watches taken away, to the amount
of nearly 5001.; but fortunately the thieves were
taken the next day by Mr. PATTERSON, CCM.,
stable of Chatham, who discovered them at a
public-house on the Brook, with all the property
in their possession. The men were lodged in the
cage, where they now remain for further exa-
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