The Sun.
London, England, 1802-03-11 00:00:00

BURGLARY.

lobn Now land, Thomas Barnes, and Ric hard
Dickes, were indiaed for burglariously breaking
open the dwelling-house of Sir Abraham Hurne,
Bart. at' VVorinley Bury, in the County of Hertford,
in the night of the 31st of July, and feloniously
stealing therein many articles of plate and jewellery.
The evidence in support of the prosecution rested
on circumstances somewhat minute ; but still such
as left, on the minds of the. Jury no doubt of their
guilt.

Sir Abr.•Hume. proved that one of the windows
.of his house had been entered during the. night, the
shutters having been opened by violence; that. there
.were several marks. of, feet in the room that had
been so entered ; that several small articles had 13een
,taken from that part of the house in which these
persons entered ; but that the robbers,had been pre-
vented from entering the body of the house, by the
strength of the doors and the goodness of the locks;
that there appeared many marks of force used to
break open an iron door, by Which the most valua-
ble property in the house . was secured ; but the
strength of the door rendered all their attempts
fruitless ; and that in the morning-after the robbery
he traced the footsteps of the robbers to the Lon-
don-road. •

Mrs. 'Wright, his house-keeper, swore that she
had seen the }ime secured, as usual,. the night 'of
the robbery, before she went to bed ; that to her
great surprize she discovered, at six o'clock in the
morning, that one of the windows had been entered,
and different articles stolen. Among the number.
of things taken, she mentioned that a roasted shoul-
der of mutton had been taken out of the larder, of
a remarkably small kind, no larger than Welsh Mut-
ton, which had been a little cat. She also swore
that a lamp, which her master was accustomed to
use to heat coffee, had been moved out of its usual
place, and that the spirits of wine with which they
used to light this lamp had been all consumed, and
several matches found about the room.

A keeper of a public-house, within a mile of Sir
Abraham's dwelling-house, proved that the Pri-
soners had staid in his house all the evening, and
supped there, and did not leave it until the hour of
midnight, when he was about to shut his house.
Another publican, that lives about six miles
distant, proved that the Prisoners came into his
house a little after five in the morning ; that they
were all wet, and obliged to change their stockings;
that they produced a cold. roast shoulder of mutton,
so small, that he took it for lamb ; and that two
women were with them, who had a basket and
bundles, and went to town in the stage.
Three other men, who were in the public house at
the time, swore" to the Prisoners, and the circum-
sance of the shoulder of mutton.
Rivet, a Bow,street Officer,. swore, that on the
description of those men as given by the publicans,
being ent to Bow-street, they were known, imme-
diately apprehended, and When sent to Hertford.
shire, were identified by the publiCans : he also
proved, that the Prisoners were not inhabitants of
Hertfordshire, but notorious charaders in London,
One of them, Nowland; being already under sentence
of transportation for another burglary.
Here the case ended for the prosecution, and the
Prisoners calling no witnesses,
Serjeant BEST, who presided as Judge, summed
up the evidence to the Jury, and dwelt on the strong
circumstances of the Prisoners, who were Londoners,
having spent the whole night in the neighbourhood,
and producing early in the morning a shoulder of
glutton, exay ansvauing the description of that.

had been stolen ; that the lo)oio hats be
entered by rioence, had been clearly proved ; that
it was entered in the. dark (which is iecessary tc
constitute burglary), the circumstance of the lamp
'being moved, the spirits of wine consumed, and the
marches scattered about the room, seemed cleArly to
prove : as for no part of the ptoperty being found
on the Prisoners, when arrested in London, that
was nothing extraordinary ; it usually viis the case
with old offenders ; however, if they had any
doubt, they should, lean to the side of mercy.
The jury, after a very short consultation, gave
their verdid—Guilty.

The Judge infOrrnd thcm, before passing .sen-
tence, that their chance of pardon was small,.and if
they obtained it. it must be on the terms of being
transported for life, from that Country whose jils,
rice condemned them.

Two more Prisoners were conviaed and sen.
tented for highway robbery, aggravated by cruelty,
and one fir sheep-stealing.

MANS: otc-HousE.—Tuesday three women who
had been taken up on suspicion of robbing Mr.
Loxland, of Leadenhall-street, of a quantity of
plate and money, were re-examined before the LoRD
MAYOR.

This was a case of unparalleled depravity; The
principal and only evidence against these women
was a girl named Alice Minster, between 14. and
is years of age, of genteel address, and apparent
innocence. She had been in. the habit of occasion-
ally visiting at Mr. Loxland's before and after the
loss, of the property, when by accident a ciFetun-
stance transpired that induced Mr. Loxland to think
she knew the parties who had .from time to time
been pilfering from him. She was taxed with such
knowledge, but at. first denied it; at length, how-
ever, she confessed that she was acquainted with those
who did know of the robbery, and who had.mad6
away with the property; mentioning the manes of
the women atihe bar ; . they were apprehended ac.
cordingly, and 'underwent several examinations, -at
all of which this girl positively swore to their guil-
ty knowledge of the robbery, and to .their having
pledged several articles of plate with different pawn-
brokers whom she named. To corrOboratee this
wickedness on the part of the women, and to make
her story believed, she told his Lordship that one
of them, Mrs.. Austin, had tied her down to a bed
while she was on a visit at her house, and that in
that state a man-was admitted to her for improper
purposes, :Mrs. Austin all the while standing by the
bed side with a drawn knife, threatening her. de..
•strudion • if she cried out.—After .some time she
was released, when Mrs. Austin -and the man went
to bed together before her face. A story so ex-
traordinary, 'and improbable-at once excited his
LordshiVs suspicion- and determination to sift it to
the bottoms: he accordingly persevered in his in-
terrogatories till he led this abandoned girl to. a full
confession that the story she had been telling was a
fabricetion, and • that she had done it to- make his
Lo'rdship believe they had aaually: robbed Mr.
Loxland, when in point of fad she had committed
the thefts herself.

A number of Pawnbrokers attended with various
articles of plate, all pledged by this girl, who stated
herself to live at No. 9, Little Moorfields, wren in
point of fat.% she lived with her mother in Woe&
street, Cheapside.
His Lordship observed, that a similar case of
wickedness, artifice, and depravity, in so young a
creature, with a countenance of such apparent sim-
plicity and ingenuousness, could not be paralleled ;
and bus for the most fortunate circumstances, join-
ed to extreme perseverance, the lives of three inno_
cent persons might have fallen a sacrifice.. They
had suffered much, both in body and mind, but they
shonld be rewarded. They were at liberty. As
for the girl, she shoul. be detained to answer for her
wickedllC6S.

The following arc said to he the wishes of his
Grace of •BEDFORll) contained in a letter to Lord
JOHN RL7S3ELI. :

60001. to Mr. F(ix

60001. to Lord Preston (son to the Earl of Ludlow.)
60001. to Robert Adair, Esq. his Cousin.
•
20001. per annum to Lady Maynard, •
30,0001. to Lord William Russell to exonerate him from any
embarrassithnits iie)may have incurred, which,
together with the estate at Streatham, will make
his income 400e1.. per annum.

The Nottingham Militia commenced their march

from Dunbar last week, in
.three Divisions, for
Doncaster, Retford, and Newark, where it is ex-
peaed, they will arrive the zzd. 23,1, and 24th
imr. there to be quartered till disembodied.

Conversation turning lately on the delay that has
attended the signing of the Definitive Treaty, an
Irish Gentleman present observed, " He hoped, by
j—s, it would be a warning to all future Ministers
of this Country, when they made Peace with the
French, always to oblige them to sign the Definitive
Treaty first, and the Preliminary Articles after-
wards !"

A Dispensation has passed the Great Seal, to en-
able the Rev. G. BE RESFORD, M. A. Rector of
Saxulbv, in the County of Leicester, to accept and
hold the Redory of Bedworth, in the County of
War.vick, to which he is rresented by the Right
Hon. the Earl of AYL E SEO RD.

The most intelligent of our Agriculturists being
at a loss to account for the rot of sheep, the fol_
lowing brief statement of its origin in this king-
dom, as recorded by Walsingharn, may prove ac.
ceptahle to many of our readers :
" In the reign of Henry the First, a deli man of
France brought into Northumberland, a Spanish
ewe, as large as a calf of two years, which ewe be.

- - -
ing rotten,-infe6ted so the country, that it spread
over all the roairn. This murrain .Continued 28
years 'ere it cnded, and was the first roc that ever
was in England,"
7 ,7
Tuesday a Twopenny Brewer attended at ta1 iq
Public-Office, Whitechapel, by virtue of an infc,r-
mation of a Publican near Wapping, for giving him
receipts on unstanirt papers for money received oft
account. The Magistrates bearing both sides, they
decreed that the brewer should pay the mitigated
penalty of 51, with oc;s:s,

An impartial review of the Chaffers of deceased
persons, particularly of those who have been in high
sittations, is a duty as well to the dead as the
living.—lt is fit that virtues should be-exhibited,.
not only fur the:sake of justice, but in ordsr.to ex
cite imitation ; and it is right also, that faults hold
not be concealed, that they who have like infirmities
may learn to coma their errors.
Such are the sole inducements for offering a ,few
remarks on the Chara&er of a whosle
death has left public opinion at more than common
liberty to form various, and even contradietory
statements.—But who will pretend to deny, that
both the Private and Magisterial Life of the Earl of
CriAttE, evinced his possession of some of the
noblest principlei and most genuine virtues. ? •
In the different relations of husband, father, and
friend, he was tender, kind, and affeetionate. As
the landlord of a respedable tenantry, his condua
was highly exemplary ; and as a Chancellor he was
truly the guardian of the orphan, the widow, and
the oppressed, whose wrongs he uniformly redress-
. ed, and whose rights lie zealously protested.
He was appointed to preside in the first Court of
Equity in this Country, at a period when his-mind
was matured by experience, without being enfeebled
by age or infirmities. From a variety, of circum-
stances, the Causes remaining unheard at the time
of his appointment, amounted, at least, to one hun-
dred. To dispose of these was his,first objea. He
laboured on them with unremitting assiduity, and
invincible patience ; in the short period of four
months, he was enabled to discharge the whole of
this judicial arrear. •
His unexampled attention to all the duties of his
,high office, not only excited the admiration of those
who professionally attended him, but also drew
forth the approbation and gratitude of the public at
large, who could not but he deeply sensible of the
benefit they shoUld derive from such unusual dis-
patch. But it was not only in the prompt decision
of Causes that his zeal for justice displayed itself.
Minors, and their fortunes, were the objeas of his
anxious and paternal care. Guardians were obliged
to account annually, and were effeaually prevented
from applyirvg the property entrusted to them to any
private purposes of their own.
• His- zealous assiduity put an end to an evil of the
most serious nature, which had continued much too
long, though evidently fraught with grievous op_
pression to the honest suitor. - I allude to the prac-
lice of r=aising and continuing Injunaioni,,by means
of which, even men who had the justest claims
might be restrained for years front proceeding at
law for the recovery of their property. It might
have been unlit said of these abuses of Equity, in
the words of Lord BACON, that " they were cal-
culated to deceive men with respea to their just and
reasonable rights, and that by means of them the
wife was defrauded of her thirds ; the creditor of
his debt ; the poor tenant of his lease." The fart
was, that a creditor with, the fairest demand, and
probably with the verdict of a Jury to support it,
might be prevented from receiving the amount of it,
for an incalculable length of time, by what was
called an Equitable lnjundion---S9 that, until Lord
"GEAR E presided in the Irish Chancery, a defendant
in equity had so much to apprehend from the Lages
delays, as often to be terrified into either an unrea-
sonable compromise, or a total abandonment of that
justice which he found it so difficult to obtain.
The uniform praCtice of Lord CLARE,•never to
adjourn the Court of Chancery while there was a
cause to be heard, completely and effedually p're-
.vented the occurrence of this mischief. But be far-
ther served the Cause of itistice, by steadily dis-
countenancing all those motions so well known to
the profession by the epithet experimental. It is
notorious, that these serve little other purpose than
to protraft a suit, without any advantage to the
diem ; that they are always attended with heavy
expences, and rarely tend to any other discovery
than that of subtilty and dexterity in the Advocate
or Pleader. These, therefore, he not only disap-
proved of,' but severely censured, except in those
few instances where such a step seemed justified by
inclispensible necessity.
In igt, it , was Lord CLARE'S leading principle
to do stria and full justice to every man with the
least possible expense or delay ; and whatever tend-
ed to thwart him in this pursuit, or which did not
point directly to 'the equity. arid justice of the case
under consideration, not only was sure to be resist-
ed by him, but drew forth his warm indignation ;
in expressing which it most be allowed that he too
frequently disdained those prudential restraints

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