The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-11 00:00:00

(PRODeCED.)

" October 3, 1829.

" We Lerch), instruct Dr. Burroughs to place under
restraint, with the greatest delicacy and caution, our un-
fortunate brjther, who is incapsbl;: of managing his affiirs"
(Signed by the DeCendints.)

The wi.riess ordered the-men to act with all pos-
sible delicacy, and, if he resisted, by no means to
force him to leave the house. The prosecutor hav-
ing resisted, he went to Mr. Anderton at the bank-
ing-house, and told him what had taken place. He
urged the bro hers to go to a PoFee-office. Mr.
Anderton was advised by Mr. Freshfirld not to go.

Mr. Freeman Anderton said he was the
baother of the defendants. His father resided near
Poole. Hi: father was a man of properly. In 1829
he kept an account with Bosanquet and Co. On
Saturday, the 31st of October, 1829, he went to
that firm for the purpose of presenting a draft for
sixty-two pounds. They refused payment. He
then applied to the chief clerk to prove the balance
of his account. He was told it was 1,0401. He
drew a check for the amount, and they refused pay-
ment. He was shown a letter from Oliver Ander-
ton, the defendant, who, with James Anderton,
had a security in their hands belonging to the wit-
ness to the amount of 14,0001. The witness exa-
mined the letter, arid said it was in the hand-
writing of Oliver Anderton. (The letter was a re-
quest that Bosanquet and Co. would not part with
the money to the witness.) He some time
after saw his brother, and expostulated with him on
the tyranny of his proceeding. The disinclination
of Mes:rs. Bosanquet to pay his money
~was but
-light. They were influenced only by his brother
James. Oa Sunday morning he was in his house,
York-road, Lambeth. He went out to dine, al d
returned between five and seven o'clock. On his
return home he unlocked the outer door, when a
man called to him and said he had a message to de-
liver respecting the purchase of some pictures. He
opened the gate, and the moment be presented
himself two men seized him, and said the witness
must go with them. He refused to go, and re-
quested to know their authority. They produced
a paper, which he read under the gas-light. He
then knew it was from his two brothers, and that
their object was the security of his property as
well as his person. A watchman came up, and he
gave charge of them.
Cross-examined by Sir J. SCARLETT—He should
never acknoe ledge his brothers. Their conduct in
endeavouring to confine him in a madhouse for life
had induced him to disown them. He suffered his
beard to grow; kept his house himself; lie kept
no servant ; he bad a Bramah lock on the door;
he preferred living by himself ; went twice a day
to an eating-house; breakfasted at home on bi•cuit;
he dined at Hancock 's eating-house; he paid Is. 6d.
for a dinner; the tompany were very respectable.
He wore a straw hat to keep his head cool and
comfortable. He wrote to his father for money,
and if he received it be should not have gone on
with the prosecution. He had given his father
notice of his intention to indict him ; he heard of
him a day or two ago; their intercourse had ceased
many years. He had disposed of all his pictures
but one of great value, namely, The Passion qf
Christ, by Coriegio. It was in his opinion worth
2,0001. It was a picture little known in England.
For his pictures he took bills of exchange. The
bills were all over due. He had proceeded to out-
lawry against a Nobleman, Lord Stilling, for
*,2001., which he expected to get. He had accept-

nce s of the late Lord Foley to the amount of
6,000/. The money irdiew out of the house of
Bosanquet and Co. he had vested partly in Lord
Foley's bills. Messrs. Wright and Underhill were
his attorneys. Another attorney had a lien on his
Corregio. No one advised him to cut off his hair. He
did it for coolness. On one occasion he was exceed-
ingly distressed, and complained to Mr. John Hamp-
ton from what he considered the effect of burning
glasses. He was then satisfied that he was wrongly
impressed. He was quite certain that he was not
going to indict his father for this offence. He was
quite satisfied that the impression was erroneous.
He removed from the house and went to the Lie
of Wight, where he soon recovered. He did not
think persons could produce the same effects when
he was in the Isle of Wight.
Mr. Henry, an underwriter, acted as agent for
Mr. F. Anderton. Mr. F. Anderton enjoyed a
profitable business. The witness, on the 30th of
October, 1829, received a note from Mr. James
Anderton, and he waited on him. He was told
that himself, his brother, and father, had come to
the resolution to rescue Freeman Anderton from a
set of persons who would reduce him to beggary.
He said he was satisfied his brother was insane.
The witness said he should say Mr- Freeman An-
derton was not insane. He replied he had a mass
of evidence which would prove the fact. He thought
the advantage derived by Mr. F. Anderton as an
insurance-broker in thirteen years was worth 10,0001.
After the order of Dr. Burroughs the business was
given up. He had always considered Mr. Anderton
a shrewd man.

Richard Walker, a tradesman residing at Lam-
beth, had lived near the prosecutor since 1829.
He had frequent conversations with him. He con-
sidered him a shrewd man.

Mr. Davies, a hairdresser in Lambeth, had known
Mr. Andel ton seventeen years. His conversation
was always rational.
After the learned Judge had summed up, the
Jury gave their verdict, and said the defendants
were Not Guilty.

INSOLVENT DEB TORS' COURT, DEC. 10.

SINGULAR CASE.—Matthew Pennington, a mi-
seralde-looking old man, was opposed by Mr.
COOKS, on the part of the Rev. Mr. Ellis, under
circumstances of a singular nature. Mr. Ellis com-
plained of harassing conduct on the part of the in-
solvent and others who had been his parishioners,
and who refused to pay his tithes ; he had been
driven from his living by great oppression, and had
been put to no less than 1,5001. expenses for law
proceedings. The Learned Counsel said that the
insolvent was one of that idle class who at the pre-
sent time denied the right of tithes; but he was
sure that every properly-constituted mind consi-
dered that a clergyman was as much entitled to his
tithes as any gentleman to his estate. In 1814
Mr. Ellis was colla'ed to the vicarage of Burton
Leonard, near Knaresborough, in the county of
York, and received until 1822 a composition of 601.
per annum in lieu of tithes, when some of the pa.
rishioners objected to the amount of the composi-
tion, and proposed that a survey of the parish
should be made, and a fresh appraisement of the
tithes took place, the result of which was that the
composition was raised from 601. to 1201. a year.
The parishioners then resolved not to pay any-
thing, and disputed his right, and Mr. Ellis, to
try the question, commenced a suit in the Eccle-
siastical Court against one of them ; that pa-
rishioner was supported by the parish, but was at
length committed for contempt of Court. Still the
parishionerswould not pay,and proceeilingswere taken
against another parishioner, upon whose application
to the Court of Chancery a prohibition was granted,
and an order made for an issue to be tried at com-
mon law, to determine the question of the jurisdic-
tion of the Ecclesiastical Court. The issue was tried
before Mr. Justice James Parke, and a verdict was
given, by which the jurisdiction of the Eccles;as-
tical Court was recognised and confirmed. This
trial took place in 1830, but produced no beneficial
results to Mr. Ellis, for the insolvent anti other
parishioners had again raised the same question, had
Atained another prohibition, and an issue was again
tried at the York assizes in 1832, and the verdict
confirmed the disputed jurisdiction, and the insolvent
was in prison for contempt of the Court of Chan-
cery in not paying the cost, which amounted to
newly 3001. Mr. Ellis was his only creditor, and
had now, as was stated, left his living, having suf-
fered a ruinous loss. The insolvent had taken the
benefit of the Act on two former occasions.
Mr. COOKE was at a loss under what section of
the Act to bring his case for the grievous injury
si stained by Mr. Ellis. He could say that it was
a vexatious defenc., as no judgment had been ob-
tained. The insolvent richly deserved punishment.

Mr. C.cmrnissioner HARRIS observed that ter,
was no doubt other persons were at the bottom be-
sides the insolvent, who had ruined himself and his
Vicar. No case had been established, and he was
therefore bound to discharge the insolvent.

The insolvent was immediately discharged.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

11031 E CIRCUIT.—MiIDsrozE, DEC 9.

Mr. Justice GASELEE and Mr. Baron VAUGHAN
arrived in Maidstone this afternoon, and after open-
ing the Commission attended divine service at All
Saints' Church.
DEC. 10.—Mr. Justice GASELEE took his seat on
the Bench at ten o'clock this morning.
The Learned JUDGE, in addressing the Grand
Jury, could not avoid expressing his regret at the
sate of the Calendar. The number of prisoners
was greater than he had reason to expect, and he
lamented it the more as it showed the great increase
of crime in the country. His Lordship concluded
by noticing the alteration in the law, which would
come into operation at the .end of the month, when
the punishment of imprisonment or transportation
would be substituted for the punishment of death
in cases of houselireaking.
The cases tried to•day were uninteresting.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ALLEGED BURGLARY
AND ROBBERY.—A robbery was committed on Sun-
day in the banking-house of Messrs. Lawson, New-
ham, and Co., of Bucklerabury, the particulars of
which were yesterday stated to the LORD MAYOR
by one of the gentlemen of the firm.
On Monday morning some painters, employed in
painting the premises of Messrs. Lawson, Newham,
and Cu., went to the house, and fur some time
knocked at the door, but in vain. Nobody an-
swered. They suspected that some accident had
happened to the porter, who they knew slept in the
house for the protection of the property, and they
agreed to get upon the premises from the exterior
and look through the skylight. They did so, and
were astonished at seeing the porter lying on the
ground, with his hands tied behind his back, his
legs bound to a table, and a pocket-handkerchief
crammed into his mouth. They immediately de-
scended into the counting-house, and the first thing
their feet encountered was one of the tin cash-boxes,
which lay empty on the ground. When they pulled
the handkerchief out of the potter's mouth he told
them that the house had ueen attacked by two rob-
bers, who seized and tied him up, and threatened, if
said a word, to murder him. Forrester,the officer,
was, when the firm were made acquainted with the
transaction, sent for, and he examined the premises.
He found that the thieves, whoever they were, had
gone to work with good tools. They had broken into
the strong-room through the brickwork, which was
three feet thick, forced open the iron safe, and ab-
stracted from thence a tin box containing from 1301.
to 1504 in gold. It was extraordinary that although
they could have possessed themselves of bank notes
and securities to a very great amount, they did not
touch anything but sovereigns. The officer, whose
acuteness is well known, thought many little matters

connected with the robbery very streege, and ques-
tioned the porter, who told the story in exactly the
following style :
I, Timothy Carroll, went to bed at about eleven
o'clock on Monday night, and about half-past
twelve, when I was laying down, in came two men.
One of them, a big man, came up to me, and says
he, " If you move a peg I'll blow your brains out."
The big fellow had a pistol in his right hand, and
held it up, but the other man said, " Don't shoot,"
or " Don't kill him." I never said a word to them
at all, only asked them to spare my lift!. Upon that
one of them took a handkerchief from his pocket
and tied it tight round my eyes. They then took my
own handkerchief out of my pocket, and tied it across
my mouth to stop me from calling out, and they tied
my legs together and my hands across. The big man
had, before they gagged me, asked where the iron safe
was. I said we had had never a one since we left
the other house. The big man then said, " Where
is the money kept ?" 1 said, " I don't know any-
thing about the money. I don't know where it is
kept." There is a flap over the place where the
valuable property is kept, and the big man asked
me where the key of that flap or door was, and I
told him Mr. Lasson had it. They then began to
woik at the flap,and got it up in about ten minutes
As the carpenters had been at work in the premises,
and had left their instruments behind them, the
thieves used those insrruments in breaking open all
before them. They did not return to say anything
to me again, only to remove the handkerchief from
my eyes, which they did, and then they left me
tied up in this way.
Forrester said he supposed that the porter
would keow the two thieves again. He replied
that he should not. The big man was dressed
in a fustian jacket, and the small one was in his
shirt sleeves, but he should not be able to know
them again, as their faces were blacked. They had,
he added, taken his watch out of his pocket when
they bound him, and he remained tied up eight
hours on the floor.

It appeared that very little effort could have been
made by Carroll to release himself from the dis-
agreeable predicament in which he had been so long
placed, and it seemed to those who looked narrowly
at all the bearings of the case, and the manner in
which the porter had been tied, that a vigorous
exertion might have enabled him to extricate him-
self at least from the necessity of lying in the pain-
ful position in which he was found.
The porter yesterday came to the Justice-room
for the purpose of making his statement of the par-
ticulars of the burglary and robbery, and repeated
the description given above.
No comment was made by the LORD MAYOR, and
the porter departed after he had given his account
of the matter.

Mr. Hobler, jun., applied to the LORD MAYOR
for a warrant to detain John Minter Hart, who is
now in prison in default of bail. Mr. Hobler, jun.,
said that he appeared upon the part of the assignees
of an insolvent, who had been discharged under
the Act. The insolvent had, when in happier
circumstances, been engaged in some business which
led to an acquaintance with John Minter Hart, who
negotiated with him about the disposal of some
wine warrants. The insolvent produced the war-
rants, and Mr. Hart ag►eed to give 140/. for them.
-Mr. Hart, finding that his offer, upon payment of
ready money, would be accepted, said be would
just step out for change, and pay the insolvent
without delay. Out he went, with the wine war.
rants in his pocket, but he never returned. Mr.
Hart had been applied to on the subject, but he
wrote back an answer informing the assignee tha►,
but for apprehension of the legal consequences, a
horsewhip should be laid across his shoulders ; and,
in fact, nothing satisfactory could be obtained with
respect to the dealing.
The LORD MAYOR asked when this occurrence
took place ?
Mr. Hobler, jun., replied," In 1832."
The LORD MAYOR said he, of course, could not
interfere.