The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-18 00:00:00

SINGULAR RECOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY•

Some time in the month of October, 1823, the
lady of Colonel B—, of South Audley-street,
was robbed of a small bureau,
in which were
deposited jewellery of various descriptions, to a
considerable amount, besides a valuable gold
watch and appendages. A few days previous to
the robbery the Colonel and his Lady had arrived
in England from Florence, where Mrs. B. engag-
ed a young Italian girl as her fille-de-chantbre,
and brought her, en suite, to this country. The
young Florentine, during the short period of her
servitude, having displayed an unlucky penchant
for appropriating the property of others to
her own use, was, of consequence, the first per-
son to whom suspicion attached, and she was,
accordingly, interrogated by her Master and
Mistress, but nothing could be elicited from her.
except an unqualified negative to the alleged!
charge; she was then given into the custody of
an Officer, and underwent two examinations be•
fore a Police Magistrate, with the same luckless
termination, and was then discharged ; soon after'
which, she quitted this country for her native
place. Colonel B. caused rewards to be offered/
and a description of the articles was left with the
principal pawn-brokers and jewellers, in the,
hope of detection, should the property be offered
for pledge or sale, but all without effect, and the
search was finally abandoned as altogether holiel
less. A few days since, however, as the family
were seated at dinnero respectably-dressed mlatT
knocked at the door, and informed the servant
who attended that he wished to see the Colonel
on an affair of some importance. The stranger
was shewn into the parlour, where he was soon
after introduced to the gentleman of the house/
who felt not a little surprised and displeased by
a visit so ill-timed and unceremonious; however,
suppressing these feelings,
he politely inquired
to what fortunate circumstance he stood in'
debted for the honour of the visit ? to which
the stranger promptly replied by putting aro;
ther query—" Was not your house robbed 01
jewellery during the last year ?" Yes," said the
Colonel, " what of that ?" cc Because," rejoined
the stranger, " I am come to restore the property/
with the exception of one ring (a diamond), which
the Florentine girl pledged for 21. and of which
the duplicate has been either lost or destroyed ;
everything else you will find in this ease (producing'
a small rose-wood box). This information has
been imparted to me by the uncle of the girl, who
is a member of a religious order in Naples, who no
doubt became possessed of the secret, by means
of auricular confession, and has evidently lost no
time in rendering his knowledge of the fact sub-
servient to the ends of justice, in restoring the
property to its rightful owner." The surprise
of the Colonel may be more easily imagined than
described ; yet was he by no means deficient in
admiration of that prompt and pious integrity
which distinguished the transaction with a fea-
ture almost romantically disinterested. The Co'
lonel begged the name of the Ecclesiastic and
his address, that he might duly express his ac'
knowledgments ; but on this point the agent was
impenetrable, merely replying, that his reverend
friend did not seek praise for the performance of
a solemn duty. Thus this strange conference
ended ; the property was placed in the hands of
the astonished owner, and the strnnger (for he
would not give his name) retired in the same on'
ostentatious manner. There is every reason t°
suppose that he also is a Clergyman of the R°'
man Catholic Church.

A new road is about to be made from Bristol,
through Wraxall, to Cleveden Buck, whence the
Welsh mails are to be conveyed across to Cardiff•
A saving of 24 miles will thus be effected in the
distance between that city and Cardiff.

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BULLION
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New Doubloons
New Dollars
Silver in Hers, Standard

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IRTIS.
On the 14th inst., at Spßring.hi/ 11, near Gloucester, the /all
of Captain Jenkinson, 11. N., of a son. the'
On the 16th inst., at his house in Park-terrace,
Islington,
lady of Henry Cunliffe, Esq., of a daughter.

—Rev.
On the 17th inst., at St. GeorgeMARRIED tit°'s, Bloomsbury, 1 1 low
Richard Baker, Chaplain to the British residents 01 wt,
burgh, and eldest son of Sir Robert Baker, of Berners'7/ St.
to Frances,
daughter of the late John Prescott, Esq., —.
Petersburgli.
Mar l°
At Madras, on Saturday, the 14th of February, f
Goodall, Esq., to Elizabeth Anne, youngest daughter o
Spalding, Esti, of Middleton-terrace, Pentonville.
At St. Pancras new church, on %Wednesday
111
Godwin,
Esq., to Catherine Grace, youngest (tau
late Dr. Garnett, of the Royal Institution.
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DIED.
On the 113th ult., on his
passage to England on bon.—.A t h
of
ship Fortitude Increased, from St. Kitt's, Robert Ocilla"
Stepney-causeway, Esq., in the 64th year of his age. ripg-
ln thaelr6atahyl, the
neL,
oOn Saturday, 7atht his s I.ioujsese,s biel,ilteh-eenwdi,igOoio. ~ne
rg_e_Tardiv.
ton, Esq., aged 67. 0101-
ford flopkirk, Esq., writer .to his Majesty's Signet, °-
E
burgh.
19,01
(n the 13th inst., 11r. John Anderson, St. Aladin s-•
and on the 19th Istuly last, his daughter Elisabeth. 171 h
On the 16th at Lidlingtou, Bedfordshire, in "I' '
year, Edward Platt, Esq.

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