The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-26 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE CLYDE, OF BRISTOL.

Extract from the mate's affidavit, Dec. 19, 1833 :
That he sailed from the port of Greenock on Monday, the
11 th inst. The weather was favourable until they
reached the South Rock o❑ the coast of Ireland, when
they continued to beat down the Channel until Monday
morning, the 16th. It then blew so fresh that they were
obliged to bear up for Belfast Loch. Towards the afternoon
the wind came round to the northward, and blew so very
strong, that they could not carry canvass. Towards
morning, they put the vessel bard round, to clear the
Mull of Galloway, and about nine o'clock they took in
what sail they had set, and kept away for Burrough Head.
When off Burrough Head they endeavoured to beat in for
the Land for Hit-her, having lost part of their sails ; and
about half.past four o'clock in the afternoon, Captain
Benjamin Parfitt was at the wheel, and in the act of
moving the preventer of the main boom, got entangled
with the wheel, and carried it, with the captain,overboard,
thus rendering the vessel unmanageable. That the spire
filler was forthwith rigged, but, before it had any effect,
tke vessel got amongst the rocks on the southmost of
the Siles of Fleet. That be, with the remainder of
the bands, had great difficulty in saving their lives on the
said island, which they found quite uninhabited, and was
taken off by a boat from Gatehouse of Fleet, on the
evening of Wednesday. That this deponent has lost all
his clothes and papers belonging to the vessel. That the
said vessel is now a total wreck.
Extract from a letter dated Knockbeg Gatehouse, Dec.
19, to the owner :.—But for the unfortunate accident of
the preventer of the main boom fouling both the wheel
and the Captain, and carrying them both overboard, all
would have been well, as th'e vessel was within a mile
of a haven. To the attempt made to pick up the Captain
and the time lost in shipping the new filler, must be attri-
buted the loss of the vessel. The mate cannot taste food,
and will not be able to move for some time ; and the three
men, from their great privation of food, cold, and wet,
are in a sad condition. The Clyde was wrecked in the
Bay of Fleet, on the smallest of the Isles of Fleet, some-
mimes called Murray's Island, one of the two nethermost
islands of the four.

IRELAND.

(From the Times Correspondent.)
DUBLIN, DEC. 23.

REBELLION AGAINST " THE RINT."

It appears by the Carlow Sentinel that D.. Doyle
(J. K. L.) has refused to pay tribute to O'Connell, and
when the collectors called on him, he informed th;rn he 't
had no mon-y for such purposes. " For this want of
patriotism," continues the Sentinel, " the Doctor will be
denounced by D is on the first opportunity that pr-tents
itself." This is passive resistance; but a more serious and
active opposition has been organized by Mr. Lumber',
M.P. for Wexford. Yesterday week, whin the collectors
were pursuing their occupation in the chapel of Mr. Lam-
bert% parish of Cushinstown, the following placards were
post.d through the district, to attract the eye of the con-
gregation on the move to chapel:—
" No Humbug !—No Hypocrisy !
"Men of Cushinstown !—Who refused you aid from
the Catholic Association fund, at the period of your strug
gle with the rector of this parish in his merciless proceed.
jogs against you for tithes ?-o'Connell !
" Who fled the banners of his country, hy deserting the
House of Commons on the night of Mr. J. Grattan's
resolution on tithes, though pledged to support said reso-
lution I—O'Connell !
" Who deserted the Carrickshaugh men on trial for life
or death; after pocketing 200 guineas of their money ?
—O'C ,nnell !
" Who paved the way by his evidence before the Lords
and Commons for the total destruction of the brave 40s.
freeholders of Ireland ?-o'Connell !
6' Who, by his evidence before the Committee of both
Houses of Parliament, attempted to lower the character
of the Irish priesthood in the estimation of the English
nation by declaring that they were the sons of poor pea-
sants, and that a golden link (detestable libel !) was ne.
cessary to bind them to the state, while he held up to the
admiration of the world the characters of the Irish parsons
as the sons of gentlemen of first-rate education and refined
manners, whose habits of life and station in society fully
qualified theta to fill the void to make good the link in
the chain, so necessary in Ireland, between its nobility
and people?—O'Connell !
" Who deluded the people of Ireland on the repeal of
the Union? Who, while he was publicly deoaring in
Dublin and elsewhere that nothing short of she success of
that question could regenerate the ccantry anti establish
the peace, prosperity, and happiness of the nation, still
was not a Repealer, as appears by his letter to Mr. Fagan,
of Cork, written the 26th day of October list, where be
says that previous to the passing of the Coercion Bill he
only intended Repeal as a means and not as an end to be
sought?—O'Connell! Away with such base prevarication!
Who, at a late Sheriffs' dinner in Dublin, drank that
hateful, that obnoxious, and factious toast,' The glorious,
pious, and immortal memory ?'—O'Connell !
" Men of Cushinstown, make your own comments on
this mass of double-dealing and duplicity.
" AN HONEST PATRIOT."
To counteract the effects of this placard on the " Rint,"
a deputation from New Ross attended at Cushinstown
chapel last Sunday, where they were met by Mr. Lambert,
who told them, " I once supported Mr. O'Connell because
I thought he was an honest man, but experience has
taught me otherwise. Oh ! if you knew that man in the
House of Commons ! He is there, I solemnly declare,
as different a man from what he is out of it as the heavens
are at midnight to what they are at noonday. There be
studies nothing but how to obtain power and profit for
himself, and to shrink away on all occasions front the
tithes. That man has attacked me by the grossest and
falsest lies that man could invent throu4h villanous, pusil-
lanimous, and lying papers, which he pays with your
money," &c.

The Spectator states that the Duke of Wel-
lington, when last in office, after having insisted on the
management of a paper being intrusted to a gentleman of
his own nomination, transferred his patronage from that
paper to another, because the editor whom he had named
refused to insert an article, written by the Duke himself,
against all reCorm iu the House of Commons.
Scarlet fever in its malignant state has beets
raging in Mancuenter to a great extent; n
in Noverulser last
580 children were buried in the new burial•ground,
Rusholme•sroad, victims to this epidemic....Slocirport
Advertiser.

MR. SADLER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
SIR,—I naturally expected that the Leeds Intel-
ligencer would not relax in its abuse of me for my
show-up of Mr. Sadler. Vulgar abuse and ate.!a-
cious falsehoods are its staple articles of trade; and
strange indeed would it be should I not receive Fey
full share of both.
I will, Sir, with your permission, go temperately
through the article itself. I will acknowledge what
is true, and repel what is false; and if either Mr.
Sadler or his own dear pet organ gain anything
thereby, I shall indeed be very much astonished.
One thing, however, I must inform you of, to
_rive you a correct idea of my assailant, the Leeds
Intelligencer. In the very week of my difficulties,
and wi,hout even giving me a chance to re-establish
nyself, the Intelligencer changed its day of publica-
tion from Thursday to S outdo), (my day). Some-
how or other the *Editor of the Intellig,encer got
himself appointed to take the stock in my office ; the
list of subscribers to the Patriot also found its way
into the Editor of the Intelligencer's pocket ; anti
Intelligencers were forthwith sent to several persons
without bring ordered. Since that period, the In-
telligencer has constantly been abusing me, and
sometimes in private editions. This is, however,
all foreign to the argument in question ; and I only
insert it to show the character of Mr. Sadler's advo-
cate. Now, then, to business.
It will be perceived, on reading the first four
paragraphs of the Intelligencer's attack, in which
the names of Jahn Fosier, Harriet Wilson, 11i.
Sadler, Rev. R. Wa son, Wm. Hey, Esq., the Duke
of Wellington, Mr. Oastler, Mr. 11. Hall, and the
Morning Chronicle, are all blended together ; that
these paragraphs really amount to nothing beyond
miserable abuse. As to Mr. ()ostler giving me
1401. out of his own pocket, that I have proved
over and over again to be false; and the public will
hear in mind, that Mr. ()ostler has not yet rendered
any account of the Factory funds.
The inteffigencer then goes on to say—" That at
the time he (Mr Foster) makes Mr. Sadler speak
of the Duke of Wellington in so absurd a style,
that gentleman was in London and Mr. Foster was
in Leeds." Indeed, Mr. Intelligencer, I was not
aware that it was so " very absurd" that his Grace
should have the confidence in Mr. Sadler which the
latter told me he had. But no more circumlocution.
I never mentioned " any time" in my letter. Many
were the " times" this subject was alluded to, and
the letter from his Grace was said by Mr. Sadler to
have found him at Redcar. Now, then, Sir, this
being passed over, which is not very material, its
truth or falsehood must simply rest on my assertion
or Mr. Sadler's denial, and whether Mr. Sadler's
word or mine is entitled to most credit, will presently
be shown.
The letter dated 29th July is perfectly correct.
Mr. Sadler did let my son have 101., and it is
equally true I was anxious to repay the obligation,
which my letter bears witness of; and beyond this
101. advanced to my son, I never received or heard
' of my family receiving one farthing; and Mr. Sadler
never replied to this letter at all, but which is now
basely published with the view of its being sup-
posed he lent me the sum I asked for.
But now then I will show where the " taint of
treachery I:es." I will show whose hand " the
damned spot is upon." I will exposesuch falsehood
and such deceit as the world never saw before.
The Intclligencer says—" More than this, his
liberation from Rothwell prison was effected through
the kindness of Mr. Sadler and another of the gen-
tlemen denounced as his enemies and deceivers."
Now, Sir, I entreat—nay, I beg of you to dwell on
" how I got to Rothwell prison—how many hours I
was there—how I got out"—and whether through
Mr. Sadlet's kindness or not shall be shown from
his own letter which I received when there. Now,
pray, Sir, attend, and restrain your feelings of boiling
indignation if you can.
I had made the assignment before alluded to on
the 26th of January. I also in my former letter
spoke of certain judgments I had confessed for 241.,
122/., and 571.—a1l of which, mind, with the Stamp-
office account, I should have had no difficulty iu
discharging, had good faith been kept with me. I
gave these cognovita because I felt quire sure of re-
ceiving the money, as I have before specified, and
I did so to save expenses.
On the 31st January, however, as I was going to
my office, about seven o'clock in the evening, I was
pounced upon by four men, and hurried into a coach
a distance of five miles, to Rothwell prison, for the
241. In vain I solicited to write a note to my
family. In vain I offered in ten minutes to raise
the money. In this extremity I did contrive to get
a note conveyed to Mr. Sadler to send me 151,
having pounds in ray pocket, but instead of his
setiditigi tent,l pray you read his own letter in reply to
my note, and which I did not " commit to the
flames," although so earnestly requested to do so.
Nay, Sir, by heaven, and as if by miracle, this letter
proves every thing I have written of Mr. Sadler.
If proves his high opinion of me—it proves his elltl•
proves his promises—nay, as I have said,
it proves everything. Dearly, therefore, shall Mr.
Sadler repent for " betraying the confidence of pri-
vate letters.
(The letter is without date, but was received by
me at Rothwell on the morning of the Ist of Feb-
ruary, in reply to my note of the preceding night.)
" Aly Dear Sir,—Two of as painful letters as I almost
ever received, reached me this evening within a few mi-
nutes of each other.—Passing over applications of a simi-
lar nature which have, within these few months past;
been very numerous, and often from quarters most distress•
ing to refuse, one from a very near and dear relative, I
have been obliged to answer, as I must you; and I can
aver with hardly more distress of mind. I will not enter
upon the reasons which render this course necessary, as I
am sure you would feel otherwise than gratified were I to
state them. After receiving your note, however, which
came last, I went out to otrcain the sum you mention, nut
having it by ; and this gave me the opportunity of
spraking on the subject to a mutual friend, who, I am sure,
is most strongly interested in your favour ; but be assured
me, that circumstanced as you are at present, you are re-
lieved from every sort of pecuniary demand, including ,
wages, &e., and may require an allowance, oo that you
will nut have to depend upon your personal friends and
relat.ves in such a manner a 4 you might have dune under
an aaoignment.* Recording myself, were it in my pow. r,
Icon safely protest that no gratification could equ that of
serving my kind friends, re4ardiess of any circumstances
whatever ; but I am compelled to adopt the line of conouct
in this instance, painful as it is, which I have of late in so
many others, and even (as I have before hinted) in a very
near quarter, and in doing this I can sately as err, that
there are few men in existence less moved by mercenary
considerations than myself.
" Of one thing I trust you will allow me to assure you
that when the time arrives, which the course of things
seems to bring near, when an opening may be made fur
your permanent advantage, I trust I shall not be found
wanting among those who duly estimate your character
and talents. You will perceive that this letter is strictly
confidential, and I hope you will commit it to the flues
when you have perused it. With sincerest sympathy and
respect for yourself and family, I remain, my dear Sir,
ever truly yours,

" M. T. SADLER.

" To John Foster, Esq. "
And here let me pause to thank Mr. Jewison,
the keeper of Roth well prison. He said, " Mr.
Foster, there is some mystery in the proceedings
against you t do not understand. I never heard
of such treatment before. It appears for some
reason you are to be insulted and degraded; but it
shall not be said of you that you ever slept a night
in Rothwell prison, provided you give me your
word that matters will be arranged to-morrow. 1
did give my word—Mr. Jewison kindly permitted
me to remlin all night in the lodge, which is some
distance from the prison, and soon after daylight
next morning a friend arrived, and presently the
cmi*seThwihsiwchas
iniera.rloyasthteierfirst intimation that a fiat of bank-
ruptcy was opened against me.
pay.Alr. Mr: It
R. Hall,u aail wandos nthoeres hadof
so
solemnly contracted tothe
Commissioners, and on his oath found me bankrupt for this
very debt ; after having told me a day or two before, " that
the Factory Committee were bound in honour, as gentlemen,
to rid me of this.', (See my former letter to Mr, Oattler.)

money was paid, but not by Mr. Sadler, as the
wretched Leeds Intelligencer asserts, nor by any of
Mr. Sadler's friends. Witness Mr. Sadler's own
'otter—it is the best reply to the Intelli encer;
he fact is, this scene was intended, doubtless by ill
.yhole gang, to sink me so low, in broken heart 0.
broken spirit, that the " damned spot" should
.ever be exposed.
The Intelligencer then says—" Then, as to hi
threats, Mr. ()ostler has already pAlished an ex.
react from one of his letters, in which the sum it
Mi. is made the condition of silence." To whiz)
I reply, I never wrote such a letter and I never sly
Mr. °ostler's publication, or should instantly hay,
exposed the falsehood.
The next point is the letter dated 9th December.
It is perfectly true I did write that letter. I hay
received marry applications to lay hare the tread),
rats treatment I have received. Ido expose M.
Sadler with regret ; I once did unfeignedly love aro
everence Mr. Sadler. Witness my exertions frit
him, and witness the pains his own friends it
London have taken to prevent this exposure. Mr
Sadler will understand this perfectly. The Intel
ligencer then goes on to say; that the gentleman to
whom my letter is addressed seconds a resolution,
in which I am declared to be a person unworthy of
reply. To which I beg to answer, Ido not believe
d. If this were true, how comes it that lam non
answering the reply that was unnecessary ?
The veracious Intelligencer then says—" That
the commentary in the Chronicle was written, in all
probability, by Mr. Foster himself, for he is under-
stood to be an assistant in Mr. Clement's establ,sh-
inenr." As to the admirable leading article in th.
Morning Chronicle 0C last Tuesday, I need not. in
form you, Sir, Tat I never saw it until I read it it
he Morning Chronicle. You will also be kir
enough to say whet her I am in the employ of Mr.
Clement, a gentleman I never saw.
In my former letter I was aware that some of my
assertions would 1).; denied. This could not In
avoided, from the nature of my extraordinary case;
but when I have proved beyond the possibility o•
doubt, as I have done in the Rothwell affair, the
utter worthlessness of Mr. Sadler's assertions, from
his own hand-writing, I demand, as a matter of
right, full credit for my statements, until proved to
he contrary by better authority than the vulgar
ribaldry of the Leeds Intelligencer.
I have now, Sir, only to add, that " the Letter,"
proving beyond all douty, the " damned spot." shalt
either be intrusted to your care, or sent to William
Beckett, Esq., or John Cawood, Esq., of Leeds, as
you shall direct, otherwise the Intelligencer will say
it is a forgery; and regarding Mr. Blackburne,

have not spoken to that gentleman since the York
Assizes of 1832.
I have now, then, Sir, disposed of every falsehood
the Intelli,gencer has so audaciously uttered. Iu
another place I observed, that, from the nature of
the case, much must depend on the credit for ve-
racity of the relators. What lam now, however:
going to write can, I doubt not, be sifted to the
bottom, if Mr. Sadler wishes it ; and it also may
explain the reason why one of Mr. Sadler's support-
ers has recently been preaching away for him at
Preston.

One night I asked Mr. Sadler why Mr. Hunt's
name was omitted in the Committee on the Factory
Bill, and particularly as Mr. Hunt seconded Mr.
Sadler's motion in the House of Commons ? "My
dear friend," said Mr. Sadler, "it is a profound se-
cret ; but Lord Ali horp positively refused me a
committee at all if Hunt's name was included."
Presently I found this " profound secret" had been
communicated to several persons, and, amonot the
rest, to Mr. Hunt himself, by Mr. Sadler, who had
felt so indignant at it, that he (Mr. Hunt) had ap-
plied to Lord Althorp for an explanation, when hi=
Lordship instantly replied, " there was not one
word of truth in the statement." There, Mr. In-
telligencer ! There, Mr. Sadler Mr. Hunt is nut
in town, or I would have called and asked for a copy
of Lord Althorp's letter.
Now, Sir, after receiving this famous letter of
Mr. Sadler's, had I not a right to apply to him
when my wants pressed upon me? Surely the
proper time" alluded to, to do me service, was
when tny house and home were broken up, m,
family dispersed, and myself in bad heal, h. Sur, ly
any man would have said this was exactly " the
time" for a friend to show himself—for any man 10
show himself, except a roaring ultra professor of hu-
manity. Of what avail was it to me to possess
even Mr. Sadler's high testimony of my " faithful-
ness" and " ability," as testified in his many letters,
and yet continue to suffer in silence? Too long to
suffer for the patience of many of my friends; woo
have declared me infatuated, knowing all that con-
cerns me, that I could bear long as I have done,
without showing some symptom that " even the
worm when trodden upon will turn again"—and
now that I have done so, with perhaps a vengeance
that will destroy Mr. Sadler for ever as a public
man—then, forsooth, I am to be told " that I have
kept every scrip of Mr. Sadler's communications,
which has evidently been from a design to use
them to my own advantage." I kept these
communications to protect myself, and well I
did ,o—witness the statement in the Leeds In•
telligencer regarding the Bothwell affair—witness
the complete annihilation of it in Mr. Sadler's own
letter I It seems my offence now is, the keeping
written documents which it was fondly hoped were
destroyed, and then any falsehood could be uttered
under the respectable character of certain parties
supported by sham meetings. I will, however, tell
Mr. Sadler a secret for his future government. lam
not in the habit of preserving letters; but on two
or three occasions I noticed so great a difference in
his conversation when alone with me, and when he
was accotnpatued by Mr. Robert Hall, that I could
not understand it ; and thought consequently there
could be no harm in my acting cautiously, provided
anything should go wrong. Not that 1 doubted
Mr. Sadler one moment, but I had certain mis-
givings I could not account for, and perhaps the so
frrquently pondering over many ambiguous letters
caused me to preserve them; and fortunate it is for
me that I did so, otherwise I should now be sworn
out of my very existence.
Although what I am now replying to is the lead-
ing article of the Intelligencer, I shall treat it the
same as if Mr. Sadler's name were taxed to
he-
cause it bears internal evidence that it was written
by himself. May I not, therefore, ask, was it not
scandalous, that with all the promises I received,
arid all the aid I rendered, I should be compelled to
give a cognovit for W.? Was not the treatment
I received infamous? Was not the refusing to let
me have the small sum of 151. to liberate me by Mr.
Sadler himself disgraceful to him ? But now, to
claim credit for paying that debt, doubtless calculat-
ing that his letter refusing even to assist me in so
doing had been " committed to the flames"—ought
not burning tears of shame and repentance to flow
down his pallid face ? Oh, Mr. Sadler !—Mr
Sadler I-1 could not have believed this lust touch
of duplicity even in you. But my feelings must be
once more outraged by the recital ^f the indignity I
had to endure for fighting your battle—one more
thrust at the man who laboured so ardently for you
to get him down for ever, little expecting the ter-
rible apparition of your own letter, to unsay all you
had so solemnly asserted, and to fix upon you the
brand for ever.
As Mr. Sadler has shown himself so forward in
publishing private letters, I beg he will publish two
more—the one dated the 23d, the other the 28th of
last February, and which were delivered to him by
a Member of Parliament.
1 must now, Sir, draw this second long letter to a
conclusion; but there is still one point more to
notice. The Intelligencer says--" The last year,
the Bev. R. Watson was procured to attack Mr.
Sadler—this year, the purchase is Mr. John Foster."
Since the last year, Mr. Watson has closed his
earthly labours. Had he been still alive, he per-
chairce might have wielded a pen which could make
Mr. Sadler feel, Amongst the great body of the
Methodists, Mr. Watson's memory is revered ; and
Mr. Sadler will gain nothing by this foolish attack ;

e7tler shall I lose any•hing by the ‘vrithing• agony
fixes on iny pal as the ,uceessor !o
on's. The oh:irgr, Sir, that I have sold mv,..elf '0
•'. Government or AI:. Macktpirlie, is ht.-
neath reply.
I am, Si', yonr ob:.dient servant, ' •
London, I),x. 2:3. JO TN FOSTER.

EXTRAORDINARY DISAPetARANCE nr
Sllll of PUBLIC MONEY, at the NAVY PAY
OFFICE.

(Frnrn a Correipon.lent iif the Times.)
A ve,y imperfect ac connr. of the ci•-curn,tancr•a
his affair having appealed i❑ the Times, ccipiA from a
paper, we insert the foloowin2: part;culars 0'
my,terious occurrence, which we have reaqnn t

Joie may t‘e relied on : —A. supply of =oil, bp.'n
qui:ed for th r carrying on the public servit.,, as r spec c
pavrirmt of his Nl•jesty's ships, and the artitie,s of
he dockyard at Devonport, a suns consisting of tioNa,
cash, and silver, was prepared, in order to be cony ye 1
rom the .Navy Pay Office in bind ,n to its detair,tioo,
the usual manner. The practice pursued in this resp, et
is, and has been for many years, as follows :—The sums of
honey intended to be forwarded to the out porta, for the
purposes above mentioned, are obtained from the Bink
tf Englatrl by an officer of the Navy Pay Office, cane
C,nductor," by whom they are placed in tb c`uists
ire which they are to be forwarded to Portspoon h or
Plymouth, accompanied by a list, stating the amourir,

. ,
nd specifying the proportions in which the total is in In
'p of notes, gold, and silver. These chests Eve secured
iy two locks, diff,ring in construction, Cie origin t 1 k •vs
.1 which remain in the possessi:m of- the Coodue•or in

iwn, ti,e rinplica•es being in the euitod:, of the two
cineipal p:ty clerks of the out ports. To P.o.tsnr, ti

. .
od Plymouth these chests are e,nci.al in the cost° !y o!
me,senger and gu 'l,l belonging to the Navy P
hr e inside places being taken in the mail for that pur-
rc.e, their directions brim, n war to lose sizlit of ,he chest

Turing the joureec, by both being ahiet t from the coach
(t one and the same time. Upon the arrival of the chosts
t their destination they are delivert-(1 into the !.unds of
..e two s.nior resident hay clerks, to whom thy ate eon-
dei..d, who send a receipt for the amount by poq, eb y
wing j•tintly and individually liable for the amount of
ruhiie money intrusted to their charge, and tewioc sei•uriv
f. .r its due administration. The prm,iee as regard.. Ciiat-

nam and Sheerness differs only in this that the mon yis
ranamitted by post-chaise to Cha, ham, under the sunerin-
tendence of the conductor in London, from whe,c, due
Sheerness yard is supplied by means of stuns sew down
•nder the charge of the c tuductor at C,41111,11 in the
Commissioner's yacht, or some other v«itsel belonging to
he dock-yard. On the occasion in question a sum .4'
.noney was received from the Bank, and placed in a c•.est
in the usual manner, consisting partly of noses and
silver, and the remainder made up of 5,0001., as wis
supposed, in sovereigns; the invariable pr ,ctice with
regard to sovereigns being, that they are packed (as
they are received from the Bank) in hags contain-
ing 1,000/. each, the interior of each 1,000/. hag being
composed of ten smaller bags containing 100/. each, two
smaller bugs being tied together by a piece of string at the
neck. The money having been placed in the chest, and
,übmitted generally, though not particularly, yet in the
usual manner, to the inspection of the messenger in whose
charge it was to proceed, was placed in an uffitte on the
ground floor of the Navy Pay-office, there to reina'n until

the arrival of the mai', the windows and doors being'
secured as usual. F: om there it was t by those whose
routine of duty it was to escort it, and arrived in tine course
at the Navy Pay office in Devonport dockyard. The p
clerks, who were to receive it, were in attendance, opened
he chest, took out the money, looked over the notes,

but, without opening the bags of sovereign., tank
them as containing 1,0001. each ; and in order to swe a
post, it being always desirable that the Treasurer of the
Navy should have an acknowledgment as early as pos-
sible, sent off their joint receipt for the amount they
supposed they had received. On the bags coining
to be examined, it was found that each large bag
was deficient two small ones, so that instead of their
having received 5,000/. in sovereigns, the bags con.
rained but 4,0001. Upon the discovery of this deficiency,
the clerks who had given the receipt upon the faith of the
bags having contained the prop r sum sent off an express
o the Treasurer of the Navy, informing him of tie cir-
cametance. Mr. Poulett bomson's answer was, lie had
their receipt for the full amount, and he despatched one
if the clerks of the office in London down th Devonport,
calling upon the cleiks in question to make good the
irefieiericy by the Ist of December, or to deliver up their
keys lull consider themselves as dismissed from their
sarietions. Upan t sis they p rid over 5001. each, in order
to co.er the deficiency, but at the seine time Stweri hit
,hey ti I so under protest, ae, although they had trivet) a
receipt for the full amount, yet they were satisfied the
sum in question had been aestracted fr..ni the bags before
hey carne into their custody. Ia this position the
titer stands at present, and although experienced officers
from Bow-street have investiga erl the matter, nothing has
transpired to give a clue to show bow or by when► the
robbery was committed ; the strone presumption, hoe ever,
is, that the chest was opened while it remained in the e.iom
in the Navy Pay.office, waiting the arrival of the m ril,
which supposition is strengthened by the circumstance that
one of the doors leading into that room, which had been
tried, and suppo-ed to be fastened, was found, before the ar-
rival of the mail, to be open, but without at th time ex-
citing any suspicion, inasmuch as the chest ether' upon a
stand constructed for removing these heavy weiehts from
one place to another, against the door in q•estion, cr so
near it as to admit of its being hut very partially opened
and would appear, therefore, instead of being tree means of
recess, to have been left open fer the purpose of having
it supposed an entrance was effected that way. It is quite
c:ear, that by whomsoever the robbery Was commi ted, he
or they were well acquainted with the whole of the ar-
rangements of the office, and, independent of obtaining
access to the room, must have been enabled to open the
chest with false keys ; how obtained it is difficult to con-
jecture, for it is stated that the originals are only permitted
to pass out of toe hands of the conductor to open the
:helm on their return to the office, where they are Sent by
waggon ; those in the possession of the clerks at the out-
ports invariably remaining in their own possession.
All the persons through whose bands this money passed
have been long in the office, have had charge of million•,
and upon whom not the slightest suspicion rests ; and so
high stands the character of the Plymouth cleiks, who,
though only detached from the office in town, have yet
been resident at Devonport fur many years, that as soon as
the circumstance was known there, they were waited
upon, it. is stated, by several of the resident gentle►nen of the
tow., offering their services, in the evr nt of this umx-
pected call upon their resources putting them to material
inconvenience.
It may be matter of surprise that this method of trans-
mitting such large sums of money by the mail coach has
not led to some loss to the public, seeii.g what temptations
to robbery were held out when 30.000!. or 40 000!., in
the time of war, was being sent by these mean• every
three or four weeks to each of the outports. I. must,
however, be recollected that those sums were chiefly com-
posed of bank notes, generally new, and therefore nu n-
bered consecutively, and the means of getting rid of them,
if stolen, difficult : but now that so much more gold is
used, the method of its transm:seion certainly ought to he
secure from risk if silver is required to be sent to any
extent, it is forwarded under military escort, but is it
never equals in amount the sums sent by the means to
which reference has been mane, the difference of security
oy the one means and the other would appear to he much
greater. No doubt the event we have derailed will lead to
this matter being fully investigated, and a more improved
system adapted, if it shall be found practicable.

CHANCERY REFORM.—It is rumoured that
Lord Plunket contemplltes the introduction of two Bills
—one for sweeping away the Six Clerks, and numerous
other officers of the Court, by which a saving of upwards
of 4,0001. would be effected for suitors ; the other for
eatabbshing a series of new rules and orders, which would
change our equity system entirely, and make the Court of
Cuancery accessible and cheap.—Dublin Morn. Register.

A BIDDING.—A proof chat the old national
ud them
make at r
m own
their uh"
custom of Welsh Bidding is not extinct has come under
our view, in the marriage of J•bri Richards and Ann
Morris, of Llandovery, who have issued their " bidding"
d'yettioteray, a dvisit on
Ttohtuclesidr4 fr,,in'
vre.ents.--Merlhyr Guardian.
REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—"There
oa the bill about five miles above Bridgcnd, in this
county, on a small farm, 113 old man of a diminutive size,
c:t'vennt
and his wife, who have a goo of immense stature, and who,
hid helivtd before the flood, would have hada good claim t,)
be ranked among the giants, " the migoty men, which
were of old men of renown ; and they have more ,ve. three
daughters, who were torn at a birth forty five years ago.
Two at the daughters are married, and Li the scverai
,iron, the third resides with the father and Lt.() her.
Toough instances of such fruitfulness are nut unit quent,
It seldom happens, we believe, that all the children live to
itich an age.— As Cambrian.