The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-17 00:00:00

The gentleman accordingly withdrew for that purpose.

MARLBOROUG H- STR EET. —On Sunday last Hum-
phrey St. John Mildmay, Esq. residing at Roehampton,
came to this office, and communicated to Plank, the chief
officer, that a robbery had been committed at his house at
Roehampton on the previous night, and applied for advice
as to the hest means of detecting the perpetrator.
Mr. Mildmay stated, that on Saturday night, previously
to his going to bed, he placed between 601. and 70/. in
sovereigns, and 101. and 51. notes of the Bank of England,
in a bureau in his library, and the next morning when he
got up, he found that the bureau had been forced open, and
all the money carried off, but nothing taken besides, al-
though all the other contents were strewed about : he was
quite at a loss to imagine how or by whom the robbery
was committed, as there was no appearance of any part of
the premises having been entered by violence, awl he bad
so high an opinion of the integrity of all the servants iu
his establishment, that he could not for a moment ham-
hour the idea that any of them had been concerned in
the robbery
Plank said, that however high might be the opinion
which Mr. 31ildmay cntixtained of his domestics, there
could be but little doubt, from the quiet way in which Mr.
Mildmay described the robbery to have taken place, that it
was perpetrated by, or with the assistance of, some person
well acquainted with, and who had easy access to the
house ; and asked Mr. Mildmay if there was no person
either now or at any other time in his service whose
honesty he had had any occasion to suspect.
Mr. Mildinsy said that there had been a man in his
Service as footman, whom he discharged several months
ago for robbing him of a large portion of his wearing ap-
parel and other property; but although he might easily
have brought a conviction home to him, he was reluctant
to prosecute the man, and he contented himself with dis-
missing the footman from his service. From that time,
however, he had seen nothing of this man, nor heard of
him, except that he understood he was a driver or in

some way :connected with the Oxford or Uxbridge stage-
coaches; but the man since his discharge had never had
any access to the house, nor was he ever seen near or about
the neighbourhood, so that suspicion could scarcely attach
to him.

Plank observed, that notwithstanding this, it would be
as well to get hold of this discharged footman, and in the
mean time, as he (Plank) himself could not leave his im-
mediate duties at the office, an experienced person should
be sent down to Roehampton to investigate the matter.
Clements, an active officer, was accordingly despatched to
Mr. Mildmay's house ; and after inquiry, felt satisfied that
none of the servants had been implicated in the robbery,
nor could he discover how a stranger from without might
have obtained access to the house. It now became the
more necessary to look after the discharged footman, al-
though there were no grounds for suspicion against him,
beyond his former dishonesty ; and Clements set about the
task of searching him out, without any due to guide him,
except that of the man's supposed connexion with the Ox-
ford coaches. At all the coach-offices and other places
connected with the stages on that road, inquiry was made,
but no person answering to the man's name or description
was at all known as belonging to the Oxford road
coaches. It was understood that the man sought after
had relations at Oxford, and Plank addressed a letter
to a person there with whom
.he is acquainted, to be
on the look out. The person at Oxford was on the
alert, and by inquiring of all the London coachmen
arriving in Oxford, he learned from one of thou that
he had conveyed a young man, answering the descrip-
tion. from London as far as Cowley, near Uxbridge,
on his coach on Monday last, and there set him
down, as the young man said, at the house of a re-
lation. No time was lost on this information, in
despatching a constable to Cowley ; but on his arrival
the bird had flown, although it was ascertained beyond a
doubt that the man wanted had been there, but had doubled
back again upon London. The whole of Tuesday night,
Wednesday, and Wednesday night, to a late hour, was spent
in a fruitless search after the absent man. On this latter
night, however, Clements, by indefatigable exertions, ac-
companied by Mr. Mildmay's coachman, who could iden-
tify the man, got upon the scent again, and soon after
pounced upon the game just as he had taken cover in a
public-house, and lodged him for the rest of the night in the
watch-house, and yesterday he was brought before Sir G.
FARRAH; the sitting Magistrate, hr a preliminary exa-
mination.

The prisoner's name is Israel Harrod; he is a young
man, and was dressed a good dral after the fashion of a fox •
hunter, wearing a green hunting frock-coat, and sporting
breeches, boots, &c., all of which, together with the very
shirt and cravat he had on, Mr. Mildmay, who attended
the examination, recognized as a part of his wardrobe
which the prisoner had robbed hiss of, en the occasion on
which ho was discharged.

No evidence was entered into except that of Mr. Mild
may, who declared on oath that he had reason now to sus-
pect the prisoner of being concerned in the robbery on Sa-
turday night, and on this the prisoner was remanded to a
future day.
Tire prisoner, since his apprehension, has confessed the
whole of the robbery on Saturday night, and that it was
solely and entirely perpetrated by himself; and has de-
scribed the mode and place by which he gained admission
t.r the house, and which Mr. Mildmay having since exa-
mined, although he knew nothing of such facility before, no
longer wonders that any one could enter the house without
either violence or noise.

The prisoner, it seems, entered the house about the dusk
of the evening, and concealed himself until the proper op-
portunity for commencing his operations; and having com-
pleted them, he made his exit by the same passage that he
entered, leaving no trace behind. He has also told all the
places at which he had changed any of the Bank-notes, and
the means by which he had disposed of their amount, and
of the sovereigns ; but he pretends to have thrown some of
the Bank-notes into the Thames to prevent their being
traced. Others of them, he says, he changed at the Glo-
cester Hotel in Oxford, at the Bull-and-Mouth in the city,
and at other coach-offices in town.

Mr. Fuller, of the Temple-of Fancy, Rathbone-place,
Oxford-street, applied to Sir GEORGE FARRAter yesterday,
for advice how to act under the following circumstances :
Mr. Fuller had been in the habit for years of publishing
the Portrait of the Winner of the Great St. Leger Stakes,
which is painted by Mr. Herring, of Doncaster. This
morning he had only received the parcel from the White
Horse, Fetter-lane, although Le ought to have had it at
least twelve days since, and he now wished to know what
redress he could have.

Sir G. I:ARRANT—What proof have you that they have
detained it? Mr. Fuller—Only by its being delivered
this morning ; but the party knowing it was the portrait
of " The Colonel'' they have kept it back for their own
interest.

Sir G. FA Rai N T—Have you any letter from Mr. Her-
ring stating his having sent it? Mr. Fuller—On my ask-
ing the porter& as to the cause of its non-delivery, they
stated that it had been sent to Wallingford, although my
address was as plain as possible.
Sir GEORGE FA KRA NT—I am afraid I cannot assist you.

Mr. Fuller--It has been most injurious to me, for fhad
to wait upon his Majesty twelve days since with the por-
trait of " Velocipede," which his Majesty was most anxious
to see ; and from this conduct of the office, I have not been
able to keep my appointment.
Sir GEORGE FARRANT—You had better get all your
evidence together, and try the case at Msrylebone Office, it
being in that district.
Mr. Fuller thanked the Magistrate for his advice, and
left the office.

HATTON-GARDEN.—Two girls of the town were
charged with indecently assaulting Mr. LAING, one of. the
Magistrates of this office.
The complainant had dined at the Middlesex Court-
house, with a number of his brother Magistrates, the pre-
ceding evening. Returning home to his chambers, in
King's Bench-walk, Temple, he passed through Catherine-
street, Strand, when the prisoners rushed out of one of the
courts in that street, and, making a most awkward seizure
of his person, delayed his progress. The Magistrate shrunk
from the contaminating touch of his fair assailants, and
called for the protection of the watchman, who, however,
passed on with the utmost indifference, and it was not until
s Bow-street patrol came up that Mr. Laing was released
from bis perilous situation.
The prisoners were taken before Sir Richard Birnie,
but he sent them to this Office, to be treated as the Magis
trates here thought proper.
Mr. ROGERS, upon hearing hearing the facts, committed
both the ladies to the House of Correction fur one month.

MAR YLEBONE.—A modest looking gentleman, named
Blanker, whose youthful days were gone, was charged
before Mr. GRIFFITH, with assaulting a female of respec-
table appearance, in the New-mad, on Wednesday night.
The watchman proved that the defendant was tipsy, and
he being unable to confute the charge, was ordered by Mr.
GRIFFITH in the first place to pay a fine to the King for being
drunk, and then to make the lady compensation.
Mr. Blanker immediately paid ss. to the King, gave satis-
faction to Mrs. Cracker, and went off about his business.
UNION-HALL.--A REVEREND GIN-BlREER.—Shortly
after Mr. HONE took his seat, the Rev. Mr. Coomber,
Master of the Kennington-house Academy, and his wife,
were charged with being drunk, disorderly, and beating
two of the Bow-street patrol.

James, one of the patrol, while on duty between nine
and ten on Wednesday night, in the New Cut, Lambeth,
observed the Rev. defendant endeavonring to provoke an
old man, upwards of 70, to fight, but who eivilly declined
the proffered milling. James interfered, and requested Mr.
Coomber to go on ; but he, at the time as drunk as a parson,
and his wife equally so, replied with a blow on the patrol's
eye, which completely closed it up ; after which he bela-
boured him with a heavy baton he uses to assist a lameness
he labours under. James called two officers to his assist-
ance, and it was with the utmost difficulty they carried
the two defendants to the watch-house, Mr. Coomber deal-
ing his blows most liberally around him, and Mrs. Coomber
assisting with the more legitimate weapons of her sex—her
nails.—When in the watch-house, the Rev. Gentleman's
pocket was forcibly dispossessed of a quart bottle of gin.
A Gentleman in the office observed, that the reverend
defendant was by no means qualified for a mitre, as "being
given to striking,"
Mr. HONE fined them both five shillings for being drunk,
and allowed them to settle the assault with the patrol. With
this they complied, and were discharged.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

WEDNEsDAY, Ocr. 15.—Wind N.N.W.—High water
25 minutes past two.—Arrived the Hero, Speedy, from
Archangel ; Najade, Leonard, from Memel ; Clemence,
Haan, from Amsterdam; Hunter, Cottingham, Isle of
Ma❑ ; Earl of Errol, Dunlop, from Sligo; Dasher, De-
niwoody, Isle of Man.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.--The Richard, Blackley, for
Trinidad ; Jenge Dockt Reinke, Altmans, from Antwerp;
Engelina, I3ok, for Rotterdam ; Sportsman, Porter; fur
Mobile; London, William., New Orleans ; Levant, Pugh,
Marseilles; Sophia, Copenhagen; Dolphin, Agem; New-
foundland.

COMMON COIINCIL.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held
at Guildhall, pursuant to notice.
Mr. RICHARDSON wished, before the business of

the day commenced, to call the attention of the Court

to what he conceived to be a. gross breach of privi-
lege. The corporation had rid 701. for the printing
of some sermons by Mr. Lancaster, in an appendix to
which a gross libel was contained against the London
University, an institution which he thought would
be the means of affording the greatest benefits to the
metropolis.

The LORD MAYOR informed the Hon. Gentleman
that he could not allow him to proceed. If any
thing wrong had been published by Mr. Lancaster,
that gentleman was ready to answer for it elsewhere.
Mr. PEACOCK gave notice that he should postpone,
for a few months, his motion with respect to the pro-
priety of prosecutions for political opinions.