The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-14 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF MR. WHITE

Nearly two years ago Mr. WIITTE, of the
Quadrant, by Regent-street, Smith to his Majesty, to the
astonishment and consternation of all his friends and creditors,
suddenly disappeared ; and all the inquiries that have since
been made respecting him, in every possible direction, have
been vain. His friends; creditora, and others, have never bees
able to obtain the remotest.s in a x
information,eeelln
oertt way of business,hinthemosttrifling
and
lilielva
well-circumstanced. The last trace or knowledge of
w respecting
as
Min was, that he left home for the purpose of going to the
Board of Works to receive,6oo/., and, that he did go and re-
ceive such 6001.; but
,what became of him afterwards, what
Course he took 4 never could be' ascertained. There were some
rumours that he had gone to Liverpool for the purpose of pro•
ceeding to America; and his creditors got Mr. Beard (a man
who had extensive dealings about bills, &c., with Probert and
Mr. White's brother-in-law) to go to Liverpool in search of
Mr. White. Mr. Beard immediately on his arrival announced such fact; but five days afterwards he wrote and stated that he
could learn nothing about Mr. White. The creditors next sent
Mr. White's foreman's son, Saunders, to Liverpool and its
neighbourhood on the like errand ; and he issued placards, and
circulated them throughout Lancashire, &c., for the discovery
of his master. The day afterwards a man went to Saunders,
and said that for 301. Mr. White should be produced: that he
was concealed in Liverpool. The offer was accepted—but the
man never more presented himself, nor could he afterwards be.
discovered. It may be needless to add that nothing could be
heard of Mr. White, though Saunders remained sometime longer
at Liverpool, &c. To enable the creditors to get possession of
the property, Mr. White was made a bankrupt, and eventally
alsooutl awe d
mysterious— te r
coac
seee tol ifn gths beeßheig similar
y.c .c. toc inotlbtoonse.sthnemreecentan
Magis-
trates (amongst others, those of Bow-street) have afforded all .
possible aid to discover Mr. White, or to procure some tidings
of him. Recent events have given rise to fresh and alarming
surmises. Mr. Beard, whose respectability is known,
ii
stated to be one of the individuals who was ensnared into trans-
actions with Probert. Mr. 8., by his relationship to Mr. W• 9
had facilities of knowing that individual's affairs and proceed'
ings ; and he niight have incautiously mentioned, in the pre-
sence of Probert, or of some of Probert's party, the nature d
Mr. 'White's visit to the Board of Works. That might ae"
count for the sudden and mysterious disappearance of Mr.
White; at least such is the surmise amongst his friends and
creditors, since the transactions that have come to light in con-
sequence dthe murder of Mr. Weare.—(Morning Paper.)

DARING BURGLARY.-At au early hour oil
Wednesday morning last, the house of Mr. J. Bitoonze4l
jeweller, of No. 16, Bridgewater-square, Barbican l was brokeninto by a most daring gang of burglars, who had first obtained
an entrance into the house adjoining, which is at present lin'
occupied, and from thence made their way into Mr. Brogden's
counting-house, by breaking an aperture in the brick-wall 00
the ground floor. A man of Mr. Brogden's slept in the back
parlour, but was not at all disturbed ; so that the fellow'
proceeded in their work until they had enlarged the breach
sufficiently wide for a man's body to pass through.
young' lad, apprentice to Mr. Brogden, slept in the root°
above, and just as the watchman was calling the hour of
two, he heard a noise in the counting-house; and having I
listened attentively for a few minutes longer, he entertained
no doubt that there were robbers breaking into the house,
and throwing up the window sash, he sprung a rattle usualli
retained for that purpose—by the way, a very useful preeao• e
tion—and a number of watchmen were quickly collected rout a 1.
the door; the burglars hearing the hustle outside, judged ea.'
a formidable force was being collected ; they retreated through •
the empty house, and ascended to the roof, and were seen bf
the persons in the street clambering at intervals over the ties,
until nearly six o'clock, when they escaped ; there were five
at one time seen on the roof of the house No. 15, four of whoo.l
are supposed to have got along the leads, and passed throtig
the corner into a yard communicating with Golden-lane; the
fifth descended byea trap-door, into a' house in Brackley-street'
and:presenting a pistol at the occupier, threatened to blow his •
brains out if he did not accompany him down stairs, and let
him out into the street; the determined air of the robber left
the poor terrified man no alternative but compliance, and
the villian consequently •escaped. In their confusion, .thei
abandoned some implements with which they had effected ell!
burglary. A centre-bit (iron trace) and brass nut, a mete'
trowel, a flat nine-inch file, a dark lantern, and a pair of Mra'
gate slippers, were found on the premises, all of which were
given up to the officer of. Guildhall police-office. A reward (f
,)
M. is offered for the apprehension of the offerders, and an stli?.
ditional 50/. for prosecuting to conviction any one or more f: -
them. Mr. Brogden was not in town at the time : had e•
fellows not been so speedily discovered, they would have se;
cured a handsome booty, as there was a great deal of valual,l,
property in the counting-house, There is no doubt that tho ..
fellows form apart of that desperate fraternity which have 5;
lolls. infested Whitechapel and the surrounding neighbourhood''
and appear to set. the Police at defiance.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. - YestOrdsy morning
Mr. WATERS, landlord of the Three Tuns public-hoOf:
brook-street, Holborn, attempted to put a period to his exist
ence. by cutting his throat across with a razor in bed. He bil 4
retired to rest the night before in apparent good spirits, and 116.
yet no cause has been assigned for this rash act. Soon after 0:,0
commission of the deed he was discovered by an attendant I,
the house, who immediately ga-ve the alarm ; and surgical
sistance being procured, the wound was sewed up, and he ll'es
soon after removed to Middlesex Hospital, but very little hoP
are entertained for his recovery.

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Scrip, ti preen.
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Portuguese 86k.
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•Chili 75/.
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Poyais f Sio.
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THE SUN.

SOLER QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 142.4.

In our front page we have given copious and
interesting extracts from the Paris and Lisbon
Journals. King FERDINAND has issued a Decree,
dated the 2d instant, ordering a solemn Te Deum
to be offered up throughout South America for
his deliverance, and decreeing the perpetual
abolition of the late Spanish Constitution in his
American dominions, in all which he orders
the re-establishment of their Governments, con-
formably to the laws and ordinances existing pre-
vious to the 7th of March, 1820 ! The other ar-
ticles of this extraordinary Decree relate to the
Municipalities,—the Civil and Military Offices,—
the Courts of Justice and Religious Communi-
ties,—the Viceroys, Captains General, Gover-
nors, Intendants, Archbishops, Bishops, Deans,
Chapters, and the Employes of every descrip-
tion, to all of whom his Catholic MAJESTY gives
his orders and directions with as much apparent
coolness as if he knew that he had only to speak
in order to insure obedience, and as if his autho-

rity wore as absolute over the vast countries
which he still claims as appendages of his Crown,
as it is within the palace of Madrid. Were it not
for the suspicions still entertained with respect to
the designs of France upon South America, this
pompous assertion of the sovereignty of FEttni-
NAsin over countries which have long freed them-
selves from his yoke, would be treated only with
that derision to which its authors have entitled it
by their ridiculous pretensions. But, appearing
as it does simultaneously with the actual sailing
an armament from Brest, and with the fur-
ther naval preparations which are carrying
"1 not only in that port and in Toulon, but
ju Cadiz and other Spanish ports, and even in
the Tagus,
it is impossible not to suspect that
this s- P
ern'ngly absurd and impotent manifesto
is but the Precursor of a formidable attempt
against the
independence of the South American
States. We shall deceive ourselves if we think
that such an enterprize, supported by French
gold, is sure to be unsuccessful. The French
Government knows that ABISBALS and MottlLLos
are to be found in the New World as well as in
Spain and Portugal. The very eagerness with which
the Ministerial Journals of Paris deny the reality
of any design against South America, appears to us
to proceed from the consciousness that such a
design exists and is seriously entertained. If
that design is to be effected chiefly by the agency
of gold, the interposition of this country and
of North America may come too late ; and
whilst we are waiting till the open employ-
liglent of a French force shall justify our
°l)Position to projects equally prejudicial to
e iur interests and to the rights of civiliza-
sloin'ti the States of South America may be
Y revolutionized by French agency.—
England
will bitterly repent her weakness if
she suffers herself to be duped in this most im-
portant affair.
We owe neither respect, nor gra-
titude, nor friendship, to the present Government
ofSpain. FEnntsAND himself, by his abrogation
i all the acts of the Constitutional Government,
1" set up -
tion completely free from every obliga-
by treaty which might exist to fetter our
Pol'cy• We ought, therefore, at once to give
full and unqualified recognition of the inde-
pendence of the new transatlantic states, and
t}, declare Unequivocally that we shall regard
the further
aggressions of Spain herself upon
ose States, as an attack upon the interests and

power of the British Empire. This would, in-
deed, be a bold and decisive measure ; but it is
one which would effectually guard us against the
consequences of insincerity and duplicity. We
do most conscientiously believe that the time for
decisive measures has arrived ; and that none but
such as shall prevent a Spanish armament from
sailing for the New World will be efficacious.