The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-09 00:00:00

ROBBERY AT LAMBETH PAC?*,

UNioN-ITALL.-----Yesterday the nergh outhood
of Lambeth was thrown into the greatest confusion by the ree
port from the Palace that a gang of roblient had' broken Into
and plundered:the principal rooms, under eirctimstances of the
.most extraordinary nature. Soon fter eight-o'clot-torib of the-
servants of the Palace called upon Glannon and .Bell;' the offi-
cers to obtain their assistance, and as soon as Mr: Atittle,
the Magistrate, arrived at the office, all the necessarrtliiiections
were given. . .
Glannon, in-publicly stating what he had seen and
.snipected
at the Palace, abstained from mentioning some very impoktant
facts which we think it necessary to withhold at present. This
burglary had, he said, been committed while the family °llia
Grace were out of town, and intelligence had been -sent' of to
every branch of it.
Mr. ALLEN asked whether the domestics could form , %kr
estimate of the loss.
Glannon said it was im oo • sible. The thieves had certainly'"
calculated upon a great oo o ty, but they were disappointed,-if
they expected much plate, as his Grace had, just before his de-
parture from town, sent eight chests of plate off to Messrs.
Rundell and Bridge's—a precaution which had been taken ever
since the great robbery at the palace 33 years ago.
31r, A I.LE sr then ordered that all the police offices should be im-
mediately informed of the robbery, and that Marmon and Gill
should, with the utmost exactness, inquire into the circumstances
and examine the premises. The officers were accompanied by Mr.
Staples, the clerk, who superintended the inquiry. Upon theirre-
turn to the office the Magistrate was pu t in possession of the follow-
ing facts :—M rs. Courtney, the housekeeper, who sleeps inn room
under the study of his Grace, thought that at about two o'clock
she heard a noise overhead. She ascribed it to a little dog.
which wanders about the house, and paid no attention to it.
No other of 'the servants, six or seven of whom sleep in the.
L'aace, was in the slightest degree disturbed. The doorsliact-
eci closed at 10 o'clock, and all the domestics had retired to
bed at 11. Before seven in the morning, the sweeps came to
Sweep the chimney of the servants' hall, from the window of
which, one of the servants was astonished to see the win-
dow Just above wide - open, and a ladder against the
Wall. The alarm was immediately given through the palace,
.
and attempts were - made to get to the room in which
the window was open, but the whole suite of rooms lead-
ing to it were locked, the robbers having determined to
secure themselves from all interruption in the course of their
enterprise. The cellarman and chapel clerk then entered at the
window by the ladder, and the first thing that presented- itself
was one of his Grace's wax candles which lay on the window-
stool, and had been used by the robbers to light them out of the
palace. From this circumstance it was conjectured that the rob-
bery must have been committed before 3 oclock in the morning.
This room contained nothing but furniture and cupboards, the
latter were broken open with a large crow-bar. The study was
the next room visited by the thieves. Here several desks, boxes,
cupboards, and boudoirs, were broken open. Amongst the boxes
which were wrenched open, were council-boxes, and other depo-
sitories, all of which were almost pulled to pieces, as the locks
were Ltriunales, Allen's, and R ussell'spatent locks, and could not
be picked. A vast number of letters from his Majesty, the Duke
Of York and others of the RoYal Family, to his Grace, were
strewed about the floor, All the secret drawers in the several
desks were dragged open. Several Morocco bags, which must
have contained papers of importance, and were secured with pa- ,
tent locks, were cut open at the bottoms. The letters and docu-
ments were all trodden upon, and cast about the room. The
thieves next visited the wardrobe, where tfie crow.bars were put
to work with equal activity. The Archbishop's bed-rooom was
then plundered; and Mrs. Sutton's dressing.room, which is
next
,to it, was used with as little ceremony. A number of old
trinkets were lying about, the thiev eshsving no doubt fixed upon
, the most valuable.. his worthy of notice, that several articles of
Value were kft behind, evidently because they bore the arms
1 of the family, or some other marks by which they could be
identified. The next room to which the thieves went was that
of his Grace's eldest daughter. Upon the bed lay several
trinkets which had been emptied out of a small mahogany box,
which was wrenched asunder. A couple of necklaces, of no
great value, and some empty reticules, were lying on the counter-
pane, as was a large easy chair which used to stand in a corner of
the room: Several of the room-doors through which the villains
passed were broken open with a crow-bar, which must have been
of a very large size from the marks on the doors. Mrs. Sutton's,
wardrobe, which contained all her valuable dresses, was not ,
touched.' .. In fact, no place
.was: touched that did not bear the
appearance of a place of security for money or trinkets. The.
thieves did not extend their depredations beyond one suite of
communicated
iroelec:
diately with the etaircase howling to the servents'ha , they
most
ed it end took the key with them, The long gallery,
1 i nediatelv
house, did not escape, iit
theseloor which
i
the chair in' which his present Majesty
op.pcisite to the celebrated
l table with a wax candle upon
was crownul, . there store a.
htfehtosl. A very elegant writing-
it, which the new visitors .
the k
Joe • torn away from the
iipmlpenrsl'idilvtr het:l:in:rereached
desk lay,epon the teble, , vit i . d
arid on another table was a tea.eatl y , which no doubt
sgreWS; ,arid on
was mistaken for the depository of somethin
The caddy was full of tee and sugar. No injury.•wasslone to
any part, of the furniture which was not supposed. to contain
g more, valuable—
property,. and which it was.not necessary to three open to reach.
that property.. • After the mischief had been accomplished, the
thieves returned through:the window, turned the candle out_ on
the irindow.stool in. endeavouring to turn it down in the candle-
, stick, arid left the ladder behind. them. They then passed on
throng grounds, to a considerable distance, where they had
they had found it
. •
passedanwhich:ritheralagdattleer,6fbywhih
otni they. got.,
receTeary to ;lel the lock,. , . •
It is. rather extraordinary that on Sunday night a flock of
woo which were in the pond were heard - to cackle vio-
Untie between eleven and twelve o'clock, and that a light
convterarntlicce. wall, after having
was seen in this very part of the building where the entrance
was efKcted. The circumstance, however, never occurred
to .the servants until the robbery took place.. No attempt .
was made upon the closets .in which the plate, during the,stay or,
oktitn)et.ohsfeirepdlaglytee,oinfortot4othwentieillsicuta.eesiPlyt;srtuot
tah'l4terthegerniathtiaotnwiabir owing
important regulation for keeping so.
oc iozedt two
not
bo .confidential
isoosied a tmenik; t who.e
thhilev have kitchenfire-annnse next
n faob uthned aPni act; ~ gt° securitythp
part tree.,
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' fdot of the ladder a small crow-bar was found on the. branch of
the robbery, agreed, with the officers :that the thieves
must have
i mil Manners also visited the palace early
an accurate knowledge of the house, as the only window througlo
which it was easy to enter, was that atwhichthey ered ant-
ent s' • - .
that lay in an obscure part of the Palace, but was viaible frame
the -servants' hall. tctiaearsrolyf
that if the destruction of the building had,
suspected hy,soine, that as the candle layout of the candlestick
it was the intention of the villains to burn the house; but this • ' '. suspicion' his Lordship, consid ed al
er together groundless, swans •
the candle applied oath e letters and beds would haveacoesbr.
that object. It is supposed that the only things:or e 2
be-
sides the trinkets, of the female part of the , famly, which tell
into the hands of the thieves, were the Present!..m2doe,.w, the
beenin the
con slay:.
isltuidzwa.s:
Grace by. foreign Princes, &c. It will be remembered: that ---
the family,. to
at
of Russia presented his Grace with a snuff-box .valued
own bed, In a distant part of the house, on the
t .500 guineas. It was the practice of two young' fernele"‘
(domestics) to sleep in the Archbishop's bed in the absence of
keep it airecl. By accident they slept in their
night of the,
robbery. Hadthey not done so, most probably s greater aim*
than robbery would have been perpetrated.
One of the persons who committed the great robbery of the
was
plate in this palace 34 years ago, hanged on Itennlngt-
c m omon. "

COAL-MARKET, AUG, 8.
Ship& at Market. Ship' sold
59 Newcastle - 56
`2 Sunderland. 25,.1
1 Cinders - 1

Price.
- 36$ 6d to 4410 d
- 36$ Od to 44$ tkl
• 23$ Od to —$ UtL

•On the 2d.of August, B
Mrs IRTHS.
B. Burton, of Parlt.cottage,
Egbarn, Surrey,. of a daughter.
At Rotterdam, on the 4th inst., the lady of .Tatn,A Henry
Turing, Esq. of .a son and heir.

MARRIED.
On=Thorsday, the 7th inst., at Battersea Church., Willial7l Rudd• Prescott, Esq., of Eueldersbury, to Jane, eldest daughter
of John It avenh Esq., of Claphant.commotr.
At lilickling, Norfolk, • by the Rev. Enward Arden, M. K-
Knlght, Esq., of Berners,street, London, to Marisnw, only
daughtea of James H. Holley, It:sq. of Blickling.

At Bath; very suddenly, onI)IED Tuesday, August thesth, Lade'
Palliser, widow of the late and mother of the present Sir Ho&h.
Palliser; Baronet.
At Bath, Mr. Meyier, Printer and Bookseller, and PrO«
prietor of lhe Rathlierethi.
On the 7th inst., at his residence, Bow, aged 39, .Francisr
..rowersi-Esq., many-years a Common &uncilotan of the Wind
of Crippligatc.
On Sunday last, at Tetsworth, In the 92d year of his age,
Mr. NV: Eaton, late of Albury, Oxfordshire.

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