The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-02 00:00:00

THEIR SANDWICH MAJESTIES.

Bet weert....the bouts. of twelve and one o'clock
yesterday morning, an alarm was raised in the
neighbourhood of St. Martin's-lane, in conite•
quettce of the following circumstance :—As one •
of the watchmen was , crying half-past twelve
o'clock, he was accosted by. a respectably-dressed
man, who inquired if there was any passage from
the grave-yard to: the vaults betteath the church,
in which the King and Queen of the Sandwich
Islaods were understood to have been placed un
.01 they were taken,back to their native country?
The watchman said Allot he was not aware of
any
~such passage being in the grave-yard,
and asked the seeming gentleman what in.'
duced him to put so singular a question ?
" Because," rejoined the other, 44 I .have
been for the last half hour here observing
the motions of. three men, one of Whom
clambered over the railings of the grave-yard as
I came by Church-passage„ and, not thinking
that I perceived: the circumstance, he took no
notice :of me, but stood quite still until he was
joined by the others, to one of whom he gave
.some long instrument that appeared, at the dis-
tance I was from them, to be a crow-bar. The
three fellows then passed into the Strand, turned
up St. Martin's-lane, and stopped nearly opposite,
the King's Mews for some minutes, when they'
crossed •to the church-yard, apparently wit!, the
intention of reconnoitring at that end : how-
ever, a man and his wife turned into the craurch-
yard immediately after, and knocked loudly at
one of the hall-doors, when the fellows walked
rapidly away towards the Strand, and all'
further trace of them was then lust." Search
was made in every nook likely to afford cots-
cealment•to the supposed resurrectionists, or any
paraphernalia they might have had ; but nothitig
%vas ..found 'calculated to excite additional suspi-
cions of any attempt of the kind described.—

Every avenue to the grave-yard and the church
was perfectly secure ; and us the watchman goes
completely round every half-hour, there could be
little likelihood of any person being enabled to
procure entrance to the church without detection.
Whether the story was intended merely as a hoax
on the watchman, or whether any deeper design
was concealed beneath this plausible pretext, we
are by no means capable of deciding. One thing,
however, is certain, that the entombment of those
ill-fated personages was, prior to that event, a
matter of very anxious inquiry n ith several mem-
bers of a certain profession that practise on the
dead for the benefit of the quick. One ,gent
man in particular is said to have offered no
less than 6004 for either of the bodies ; this, how.
ever, is questionable, thought we remember a

very recent case, where JOU was paid for a di.
minutive subject,.. the ,poor little dwarf that was •••
exhibited in. the Strand. In regard to any sacri.
legions design cootemplated against the posthd.
mous repose of Sandwich royalty, whilst in the
vaults.of,St. Mortio's
(Morel), we are enabled to
say, on good authority, that nothing could be
more futile: or Tidiculous, as every avenue is most
strongly defended, and we make no doubt it was
in consequence of that very circumstance this ce.
metery was selected in preference to all others as
the temporary depository of the iil.faLed Tame.
hainalu and his Royal Consort.