The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-24 00:00:00

BO W-STREET.

Robert Nicholls, a young man in the undress uniform of
the Royal Marines, was yesterday placed at the bar before
Sir F. Roe, charged with having committed several robber-
ies at the General Post-Office, as long ago as 1830, at
which time he was a letter-carrier in that establishment.
Mr. Peacock attended for the Post Office, and Mr.
Flower, of the firm of Alderman Harmer and Co., ap-

peared for the prisoner. The following evidence was ad-
duced •

Mr. Charles Tapps, of 45, Wigmore-street, Cavendish-
square, on the 27th of July, 1830, enclosed a check upon
Sir Claude Scott and Co., his bankers, for the sum of 141.
16s. Bd., in a letter addressed to Henry Grace, Esq., 122,
Old-street, St. Luke's. The check was made payable to
the Phoenix Fire Office Company, of which Mr. Grace was
the principal agent. Witness afterwards put the letter into
the Twopenny Post Office himself, but it never reached its
destination.

Mr. George Dunn Mee, a clerk in the banking-house of
Sir Claude Scott, and Co., on the 27th of July, 1830,
cashed a check drawn by Mr. Tapps upon their house in
favour of the Phoenix Fire Office, and gave a 10/. note,
No. 18,862, and dated the Ist of March, 1830, together
with 41. 16s. Bd. in cash. The 10/. note now produced
was the some.

`William George Lay, a letter-carrier at the General
Poit office, deposed that the prisoner was his assistant on
the 27th of July, 1830, and that he was sent out with the
eight o'clock delivery on the following day, and never re-
turned. He had to deliver letters on the 27th in the Old-
street division, and a letter addressed to Mr. Grace would
have come into his possession as a matter of course.
'The writing on the bank-note, No. 18,862, " John Wood,
John-street, Paddington," was the hand-writing of the
prisoner.
Mr. Tyrrell and Mr. Reynolds, from the POst-office also
proved that the prisoner had absconded after being ques-
tioned about the letter addressed to Mr. Grace.

Mr. nowEß—Was not the prisoner deficient in his
accounts at the Post Office at the time he absconded, and
was it not thought at the time that he went away in conse-
quence of that ?
Witness replied to both questions in the affirmative.
Pritchard. an inspector of horse patrol on the Essex-
road, knew the prisoner, and after he absconded from the
General Post Office he enlisted in the Royal Marines and
went to sea. A few days since he received information
that he had returned into Essex, his native county, and
knowing that he was accused of several robberies he ap-
prehended him in a public-house at Layton. He said when
witness accosted him that he knew what it was about.

There were other charges, but it was thought unneces-
sary to go into them, and he was fully committed to New-
gate for trial upon those mentioned. He offered no defence.

RATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday, Richard Bird, John Foley, and Thomas Hea-
ton, athletic men belenging to the Trades' Union, were
brought before Messrs. ROGERS and SELLON, charged with
having been concerned in an outrage at the North London
Hospital, Gower-street, St. Pancras.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON having heard the case, ordered
them to find good bail to answer the complaint at tl:e
Sessions.

The prisoners now evinced a disposition to resentment,
and were about to be violent, but they were soon over-
powered by the officers, and locked up prior to being taken
to the House of Correction.