The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-08 00:00:00

NEGOCIATION WITH THIEVES.

Some months ago a respectable stationer, who
resides near one of the inns of Court, was robbed of stamps to
a very large amount, and of the halves of Bank-notes fur the
sum of 1,1001. Ile has a shop detached from his dwelling, and
indeed not at all communicating with it. In an iron safe in his
shop he kept stamps, amounting in value to between 2,000/.
and 3,0001., and in other places of security in the shop he kept
the halves of eleven 100/. notes of the Bank of England. The
other halves he kept at his house for greater security. The
locks of the shop-door and the safe and drawers were all of the
best description; but they proved to be of no avail against the
ingenuity of the thieves. The stamps and the halves of the
notes disappeared one night—at least they were missed one
morning. 'rhe safe and drawers were found locked, but the
door of the shop was open. Skeleton keys had been used, for
there was no mark of violence whatever upon the locks, and the
smith who examined the premises declared that the thieves must
have made several visits to the shop before they could have suc-
ceeded in ransacking it so effectually. The usual measures
were resorted to to accomplish the recovery of the property
by information to the Police, and offer of reward. No one,
however, seemed to be tempted by the reward. At length
the stationer received information that it was possible for
him to get back his stamps if he would exercise a certain
degree of liberality towards those into whose hands they had
chanced to fall. He expressed his readiness to give 1001. for the
restoration of his property ; but this offer was laughed at. The
gentlemen who were in possession of the swag were not to be
satisfied without the other halves of the notes for 1,100!. as a
remuneration for their trouble in taking care of the stamps.
This monstrous proposition startled the stationer, who, how-
ever, gave no positive refusal, but appointed a negociator. The
negociation occupied a considerable length of time, and of course
without one of the solicitors regularly employed on occasions of
this kind nothingcould he done. The thieves were besought to
be merciful. They Would not abate a tittle of their demand, and
determined,if the halves of the notes were not fbrthcoming with-
in a certain time, the stamps should be disposed of for 1800/.
This threat had the desired effect. It was ascertained that the
stamps were along with an immense quantity of other stamps,
in a sort of " Hell," or receiver's den, near Houndsditch, but
this fact was not known until the halves were given up by the
stationer, who was desired to take no notice of soy thing that
might occur the next evening; but attend to his busbies,: as
usual. 'The stationer accordingly waited paitently in his shop
the whole of the day, but nobody appeared. On going over to
his desk, however, he stumbled over a large bundle of some-
thing on the ground, and on examination he found that he had
in his possession evary stamp he had lost. The thieves ex-
pressed themselves satisfied at the result of the negociation, as
although they were not paid the usual per centage for their
trouble, they got the 1,1001. without being obliged to degrade
themselves by employing police officers on the occasion.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Last evening came into this har-
bour, the Dart, of Sunderland, laden with coals. It appears
that this vessel, during the late wiles, was seen in the offing,
from Seises, with a flag of distress flying, and was, after much
personal labour and risk, boarded by a pilot, and several reso-
lute boatmen, who, to their astonishment, found the vessel en-
tirely deserted by the crew. There was a watch lying in
the cabin, with clothes, apparently of passengers, and every ap-
pearance of preparation for dinner ; but the brig appeared to
have shipped a heavy sea. As the cabin was full of water, and
the long boat was stove, there is too much reason to fear that
all the persons on board perished ; but whether they were
washed overboard, or left the ship in the small boat and were
overwhelmed in her, cannot be conjectured. Attempts were
made to secure the vessel by her anchors on the Sussex coast,
but they did not succeed, and she went on shore; since which
she has been got off; and as the salvers could not get her into
Chichester harbour, they made for this port, where they arrived
in safety. By the act of 3d Edward 1., cap. 4, and 4th of the
same King, cap. 2., it is enacted, that if a man, a dog, or a
cat, escape alive out of any ship, such ship shall not beffeetned
a wreck • and as a live cat was found on board this vessel, she
cannot be a droitpf Admiralty, but must remain in charge of
the Sheriff; &e., to be restored to the owner. 'rho Admiral
Berkeley, that was dismasted, and went on shore near Ilaslar,
on the 23d ultimo, is got off; come into this harbour, and
run on shore on Gosport beach, where she remains in a bad
state. The Madras, also outward-bound Indianian, which
went on shore on stokes Bay on the same day, is got off; and
come into this harbour, where great exertions are making with
the pumps to preventler sinking. An attempt has been made
to get Off the Shipley transport, on shore at the Sally-port, but
hitherto without success.

Loan BYRON'S CONVERSATIONS.—A Fourth
Edition of this interesting Work will be, published
To-morrow, in two volumes foolscap Bvo., unifOrm
with the Works. The clamour raised against it
by his Lordship's friends and relatives seems
only to have increased the public curiosity, which
may now be gratified at a reasonable expence.
People lift up their hands and eyes with
astonishment when they hear that T wenty Pounds,
invested in a REAL DEL MONTE MINE. SHARE,
has produced Seven or Eight Hundred Pounds ;
do they forget that less than one-fourth part of
that sum, risked on the 16th of This Month, must
obtain for somebody more than Twenty Thousand
Pounds ?—Ail other speculations are mere trifles,
compared with the chance of an adventure in
such a Lottery Scheme as the present, in which
the gain is so great, and the risk next to nothing.
At the theatre one evening, whilst MUNDEN
and FAWCETT were dressing, the latter observing
the former screwing up his face before a looking
glass, asked him " if he had bottled his eyes
66 Yes," returned MUNDEN, " and I am now
going to cork my eye brows."
The amiable Mrs. W. always insists that her
friends who take grog should mix equal quantities
of spirits and water, though she never observes
the rule for herself. A writer of Plays, having
once made a glass under her directions, was asked
by the lady—" Pray, Sir, is it—As You Like
It ' " No, Madam," replied the Dramatist,
" it is—Measure for Measure."

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
Lord Bexley, from his seat, Foot's Cray, Kent; Lady
Mika, at her house in Clarges-street, from a tour ; the Hon.
Richard Neville, in New Burlington-street, from his father's
( Lord Braybrook) seat, Audley End, Essex ' • Straitfield,
Esq. at Lord Dacre's seat, the 800 Farm, ‘Veleryn, Herts,
front Tunbridge Wells ; Sir John and Lady
Shelley, at their
seat, Mayersfield Park, Sussex, from a tour; Mr. Charles
Moore, in Piccadilly ; Mr. and Mrs. Dorrien, in Gloucester-
place; Captain and Mrs. Simeon, in Grosvenor-place; Earl
Shannon, at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from
Norfolk ' • Lord Boyle, at ditto, front Harrow ; Hon. M. Boyle,
at ditto, from Surrey; Hon. Dr. De Courcy L'Allitn, at Gor-
don's Hotel, from Ireland, on his way to Paris.
CaANoEs.—Sir John Honeywoocl, Baronet, from Rams-
gate, for Canterbury ' • Colonel Kellerman, front Ramsgate,
for Vienna; Mr. J. Greene, M.P.' for Whittingham-hall,
near Preston, Lancashire; Colonel Keeling, from Brighton,
for Bath ; Mr. R. Shaw, for Maltby, near Bawtry, in York-
shire ; Mrs. and Miss Manning, from Chichester, for Bath ;
Colonel and Mrs. Rose, from Glamorganshire, for Bath ; Sir
John Douglas, Baronet, for Springwood-park, near Kelso, in
Roxburslure ; Sir Felix and Lady Agar, for Ely-hall, front
Lavenham, in Suffolk ; Mr. and Mrs. Dempster, front Rams-
ate, for Paris • Hon. Frederick West, from Pembroke, for
Pentre-park, dswestry ; Capt. and Mrs. Pennington, from
Brighton, for Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Otway Cave, for Leicester ;
Sir Arthur Chichester, Bart., tram Gloucester, for Hereford
Col. Austin, for Kippington, near Seven Oaks; Hon. Henry
Westenra, from Half Moon-street, for his villa in Surrey;
Baroness de Willoughby, the Mon. 'Miss Burrell, and Miss
Elliott, for her Ladyship's seat, at Richmond; the Hon. Mr.
and Mrs. Agar Ellis for Brighton ; Colonel Campbell, for
Brighton; Lord and 'Lady G. 11. Cavendish, tier their seat,
Holker' Lancashire ; Captain and Mrs. Heath, from Bead's
Hotel, Lower Grosvenor-street, for Bath ; Wm. Rosser, Esq.
from ditto, for Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire ; J. H. Shep-
her, Esq. from ditto, for Brighton • Mrs. Gurney Barclay and
Family, fromithe Pulteney Hotel, 'Albemarle-street, for their
seat, near Dorking ; C. Disney, Esq. from dittor, for Paris.

ARRIVALS AT CHELTENHAM.—The Duchess of Marl-
borough, Sir James Hofer, Rev. A. G. Davies, Lieut.-Colonel
Cassell, Captain Levy, Dr. and Mrs. Chichester, Rev. C. N.
Morgan, Major F. Hay, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Boissier, Captain
and Mrs. Davidson, Captain and Mrs. Carr, Rev. J. Edwards,
Capt Parry and Capt Somerville, R.N., Major Witts, and
Major Hay ; Messrs. Smith and Family, Dodsworth, (faker,
Ouilan, ilks, Barton, Fombelle and Family, Lewin, French,
Janson, Whalley, Payne, Duncan, Longridge, Capper, Scott,
Roberts, Stewart, lie be, Hunter, Jackson, French, Compton,
East, and Turner; Mistresses Hill, Whalley, Janson, Payne,
Dumaresq, Blunder, Torre, Lynch, Turner, and Pemberton ;
Misses Gainsworth, White, Corjou, Smith, Turner, Pember-
ton, and Protheroe, Whalley, &c.

FREEMASONS'4IALL.-Mr. J. S. BOONE deli-
vered his Second Lecture yesterday : a press of
matter compels us to speak but briefly to-day of
these excellent Lectures; we shall, however,
return to the subject to-morrow. Mr. 13. com-
menced by developing the principles of his plan,
with regard to what be denominated the subject
and object of knowledge,—that is, the human
mind and the external universe. He contended
that knowledge was a complete whole, or variety
inunityv_variety
the most infinite—unity the
most entire. He then proposed two courses of:
science and literature, meeting in this unity
as a point or centre—the one deductive, or
a philosophical arrangement, from the top.
round of knowledge to the mass of indivi-
dual existences ;—the other inductive, or
calCulated fo
learners in lead the minds of children and
gilieral from the mass of particular
beings top round or unity of knowledge.—
Irr tLecture he gave a new dis•
.to t
course o f the
tribution and clatisifieetien of the Sciences, and
exhibited the scheme of one complete course of
universal knowlegdge, proceeding on a plate
stricsly synoptical,
as being preferable to the En-
cyclopmdia, the Register, or the Review, and
showed, in pursuance of this principle, in what
manner to dispose all the Sciences, and all Lite-
rature, past and present. Ile afterwards proceeded
to state how the human faculties ought to be
applied to the consideration of things, whether
such materials as he proposed should or should
not be formed, and gave ingenious applications of
his principles, which were few in number, but
comprehensive in character.

BELZONI'S WILL.--•The will of GIOVANNI
BELZONI was proved in the Prerogative Court, in Doctor'.
Commons, on the Ist inst. It is dated ut Fez, in the kingdom
of Morocco, May 20, 1823 ; and after setting apart 2001. for
his wife exclusively, directs the remainder of his property to
be divided into thirds ; one of which he bequeaths his mother,
residing at Padua, his native city; another to his wife; and
the remaining one to his brother Dominica also of Padua. As
part of it, he reckons the produce of the sales of the Egyptian
tomb at Paris, and the various articles of antiquity there; the
receipts of the exhibition there ; and his claituflepon the trustees
of the British Museum for the alabaster sareoPhugus discovered
by him at Thebes ; also two granite Sphinxes, lett at Bullock's
Museum ; a ring of twelve diamonds and a topaz presented
to him by the Emperor of Russia; a picture of a Silenut ; and
a marble Bacchante. The sums produced from these are di.
rested to be deposited in the hands of Messrs. Brigs Brothers
and Co., 15, America-square, who are mentioned by the tes-
tor in terms of confidence and respect ; as is also the Rev. A.
G. Browne, of Trinity. College, Cambridge. The former are
created executors by the tenour of the will, but renounced the
trust, which consequently devolved upon ;11rs. Belzoni. The
effects were sworn under 300/. The will was folded like a letter,
and superscribed for Messrs. Briggs Brothers and Co., with a
direction to be opened nt the end of 5 years after the 20th of
May, 1393, *if no intelligence should he received from him or
others that he is livinfi, " which 1 hope I *hall be."
ST. James (NEw lituNswicx), Nov.2.—His Excellency
the Lieutenant-Governor, accompanied by Lady Douglas and
family left town for the seat of Goverment on Friday last,
where they will reside during the winter. Previously to his Ex-
cellency's departure, he was pleased to hold a Levee at the
Masonic Hall, which, notwithstanding the unfavourable state
of the weather, was very numerously and respectably attended.
At the siege of Valenciennes it was impossible
to make the Duke of Yoax cautious. Ile had once come'
round to look at the works carrying on, sor far as to be within
reach of a gun of the enemy. Count Jarnac perceiving this,
went up to him and said, " your Royal Highness's coat has
pointed out a path by which he
attracted attention ; let me advise you not to continue your
walk Duke took the warning very good
mightwalk d is
retreat wayin."
humouredly, but said, " I came with an intention to go this
way round, and I cannot go back for fear of a cannon-ball."
He had passed the
iie
safety.
point of danger but a moment, when the
ball reached the sentinel within a few yards of him.
Two Gentlemen were walking together in
Paris--." I will engage," said the one, to the other, " to give
the man before us a good kicking, and yet he shall not be
angry." He did as he had Undertaken to do ; the man turned
round, and looked astonished. " I beg your pardon," said the
kicker, " I took you for the Duke de la Tremoulle," The
Duke was very handsome; the kicked man was very plain I be
was gratified by the mistake under which he believed he i'"
suffered, shook himself, smiled, bowed, and went on his waY•
A CALEB QuoT'ESI• na small vil-
lage, a few miles from Cheltenham, there resides a man who is
engaged in the-following various avocations ;—Scltoolinaster,
sexton, parish clerk, beadle of the
, Parish, crier, horse doctor,
dentist, barber, postmaster, and ostler (as occasion may re-
quire) at the villme ale-house. wife
is a manufacturer of
lollypops and bull s.eyes, seUs SI:MI.4nd red herrings, cures all
incurable disorders, takes in washing, and jets oat a donkey.
This industrious pair have a son, 25 years of age, who 13?ays
upon the violin and clarionet, speaks three larrages, has..
married thiee wives, been twice Shipwrecked, three times
turned over in a stage coach,

POETRY.

THE DREAM.
The day-star was set, and severe, on the sky
Hushed night in a mantle of cloud :
No moon with her silver beam played on the eye;
And the winds, as in anguish, shrieked loud.
Attun'd to the storm, and in gloom like the scene,
My thought travell'd life's dreary waste;
And found, to repose on, no spot of soft green,
Nor a spring to refresh the parch'd taste :
Till faint, as it sunk by its toil overthrown,
Sleep came to its aid from above ;
And Morpheus conveyed it, on pinions of dawn,
To the gardens of Fancy and Love;
On a bank, wrought with flowers methought I reclined,
Where roses empurpled the ground ;
And violets threw their sweet breath to the wind,
That whisper'd the fragrance around.
At my feet with light lapse a rivulet stmy'd ;
O'er beryl and jasper it rolled;
And the sun, that the landscape superbly arrayed,
On the stream danced in diamonds and gold.
111 y pains are forgotten : I gaze with pleas'd sight.

Sweet balm in the breeze I inhale:
When, lo ! the rich scene is enrich'd with new light;
And new perfumes are borne on the gale.
I turn'd, and, behold ! in smiles by my side
Stood a virgin all simply array'd :
O'er her person, though small, the Graces preside;
Anti like Fanny's the face of the maid.
" I come," she low whisper'd, " I come, heaven.sent,
" To relieve thy lorn heart of its woes."
And her cheek and her lip, as she breathed her intent,

Gave the hue and the scent of the rose.
I seiz'd her soft hand; but, by reason rcpress'd,
I suspected the bliss insincere.
" Ah f can I, past youth, of no beauty possesed,"

" Be to youth and to loveliness dear ?
" Yes ! doubt not," she cried, my love or my truth,"

" Though beauty and youth be not thine."
Thy worth and thy muse are thy beauty and youth ;.....

" And to them my fond heart I resign."
" Thcn take me"—My senses were lost in delight
As the accents fell sweet from her tongue :
My heart wildly beat, cOnfued was my sight,

And my rapt ears with angel-tones rung.
I crown'd her with wreaths, which the Muses supplied

From their laurel and amaranth bowers,
I fed on her looks; I avow'd her my pride;
And her bright smile illumin'd the hours.
How long my joys flourish'd I cannot divine,

For dreams have no measure of time:
But, raptured, I still held the Seraph as mine;
And my passion glow'd yet in its prime ;
When a voice chill'd my ear, " Vain mortal ! beware,"
" Nor hope the rich treasure to keep;"
" Less faithless are seas than the smiles of the fair;"
" Less illusive and transient is sleep."
" Yon brook that now warbles, and softly steals on"
" To kiss its sweet banks till they blush,"
" Swcll'd with torrents and fierce, in a hoarse flood, anon,"

" O'er the pride of the valley shall rush."
" Could thy verse, like Thessaly's magic of old,"
" Constrain the pale course of the moon :1'
" Huge Ocean's strong limbs in its chains could it hold ;"
" Or drive back the rapid monsoon :"
" To the lamb could it force the fell tiger to sue ;"
" Could it plant soft remorse in the grave ;"
" Yet in vain would it strive to keep woman true,"
" Or to make her HEART-FEATHER not wave."
Now gloom'd the chang'd skies; the lighening shot red;
t look'd, ah ! in vain for the fair ;
sbriek'd ;—tbe light visions of slumber all fled;
And I wak'd in the arms of despair.
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