The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-10 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

The Times of Friday last gave, under the head of
this office, the first examination of a fetnale named
Sarah Bell alias Cockrell, who was taken into cus-
tody the day before, ehaiged on suspicion of having
been concerned in, or having connived at, a series of
extensive robberies in the house of Lieutenant-
General Lord Hartland, .No. 40, Gresvenor-place,
during the absence of his Lordship and family in
Ireland, since July last up to a few days ago, and
during which time the prisoner was left in the sole
care of the house, she having been introduced into
Lord Hartland's family under the highest possible
character for a servant from Pr. Davis, ose of the
Canons of I•Vinslsor, in whose service she had lived
for twenty-one years. On her examination the
prisoner denied all knowledge of or participation in
the robberies, but she admitted that she had °CCU-
sionally allowed her husband, and another man whoa'
she named, to sleep in the house during the absence
of the family; yet she could, she said, give no clue
to tracing out where her husband or this other man
were to be at present found, any further than that
her husband was occasionally employed at some
livery-stables about town. With this hint only, the
officers employed upon the case, Clements and God-
dard, went to work, and after active exertion, they
discovered that there was a man named John Bell
employed at the livery-stables of Mr. Cross, of
Whitcombe-street, postmaster to the King ; and
thither they went to look after this person, hot
learned that -he had gone as postillion down to
Brighton, and was expected to return in a few
hours. In the meantime, they inquired a description
of the person they (the officers) were in search of,
and found that it exactly answered to that which
the female prisoner had given of her husband's per-
son, but the name differed in a degree, as she said
that her husband's name was Andrew Bell, where-
as the man in Mr. Cross's Service went by the
name of John Bell. The officers still continued to

watch very closely the premises of Mr. Cross far
this man's return, but they watched in vain, and by
their account Mr. Cross showed every indisposition
to facilitate their object, although he was qnite
aware of the charge against the person for whom
they sought, and told them they might look
after the man and catch him how or where they
could, without any assistance from him. On Sa-
turday, however, a man dressed as •a groom came
into the office, inst before its close, and announced
himself to Flank, the chief officer, as the husband of
Sarah Bell, the female in custody, upon a charge of
some robbery at Lord Hartland's house, of which he
said he was sure she was quite innocent, indeed, as
much so as himself; and as he understood that some
persons belonging to this office had been inquiring
after him at Mr. Cross's, in hie ,absence from town,
he thought it the best way to come forward at once,
and meet any thing that could be said against him,
as he knew his own innocence. Plank said that he
was quite right in coming forward, and at the same
time handed him over into the custody of Clements
and Goddard, who instantly took him to the con-
stables' room, and there searched him, but found
nothing upon him of a suspicious nature, except
some pawnbrokers' duplicates, which, however,
turned out to be for some paltry articles that could
never have belonged to Lord Hartland; bathe unhesi-
tatingly admitted that he had, with the concurence
of his wife, slept several times at Lord Hartland's
house, during the absence of the family, as did also,
he said, the other man, named by his wife, but not
yet in custody. Information of the prisoner having
made his voluntary appearance at the office was im-
mediately sent to Lord Hartland, and in a few minutes
he attended before Mr. Conant, the magistrate, when
the prisoner was ordered to be broughtin. Lord Hart-
land, it should be mentioned, never had seen this man,
nor was his Lordship at all aware that the female
prisoner was married, as she came into the service of
the family in the name of Sarah Cockrell, a single
woman, the same name and character which she
bore in the establishment of Dr. Davis ; nor, indeed,
would she "have been received into his service on
any account, his Lordship said) had it been knosrn
that she was a married woman ; and whet' she was
left in charge of the house she was strictly enjoined
net to suffer any visiter whatever to enter it daring
the absence of the family, except her sister, the only
person for whom she asked permission, and which
was conceded to her. Thus ignorant as it was,
known that Lord Hartland must have been of the
man's person, it was observed with some degree of
surprise, that on the prisoner being introduced, his
Lordship suddenly startled, and involuntarily ejacu-
lated " That is the man." His. Lordship then
handed to the Magistrate a letter, which his Lord-
ship had: received that morning, and whiCh stated
that the writer having observed, by the report from
the office in The Times newspaper of Friday, that
his Lordship had been robbed of several sets of va-
luable books there described, the writer begged to
inform his Lordship that he had got possession of
many volumes of books of precisely a similar descrip-
tion, tinder circumstances which led the writer to
believe that they were stolen property, end that if
his Lordship would .favour the writer with a call,
the books should be submitted to his Lordship's
inspection. This lettel• having been privately pe-
rused by the Magistrate, he ordered the prisoner
to be again taken out of the room, and Lord
tiattland then stated, that in consequence of this
letter he called that very morning upon the writer,
tvho showed him several volumes of hooks, which
his Lordship immediately recognized as some of those
stolen from his library during his late absence, and
of the possession of whioh the writer, his Lordship
said, gave the following account :—About the 3d
or 4th of- September last, the writer of the letter
told his Lordship, a man came to his shop and of-
fered these books for sale; but, not considering from
the general appearance and conversation of the man,
that lie was a person likely to possess books of this.
description belonging to himself, he questioned him
rather closely about them, so much so, that the man

quitted the shop very abruptly, saying,that he would
in a few minutes bring a person in the neighbour-
hood to speak to his respectability, and leaving the
books behind him ; but from that day to the preso-s
the man never reterned. He (the writer of the let-
ter) told his Lordship, in a few days after this, see-
ing that the man did not return to claim the books,
and then feeling quite convinced that they must have
been stolen, he advertised the betas and the cit.
Curnstances under which be became possessed
of them, twice successively in the 'Times neves-
paper, but there was never any notice taken
of the advertisement, nor did he (fh'e advertiser)
ever after hear any thing on the subject, entid he saw
the very books in his possession described in the.
report from this office, ill the Times of Friday. The
writer of the letter then, Lord Hartland said, gave
his Lordship a most minute and accurate description
of the person of the mad who had brought the books
to the shop for sale,--a description so exact, that the
instant his Lordship saw the prisoner introduced into
the room, he was at once struck with conviction,
although he had,never in, his life seen the mart before,
that he was the person who had offered the books
for sale, and he could not suppress an exclamation
to that effect on the instant.
Mr. CONANT said, that this was certainly
rather an extraordinary and striking cirenm-
stance, but still descriptions as to persons and im-
pressions arising therefrom were often very errone-
ous, and not at all to be relied on. It would therefore
be advisable, before proeeeding further, to send for
the writer of the letter, and as the hottr of the day
was now very late, approaching five o'clock, Cle-
ments the officer was instantly despatched, with
directions to take a cabriolet and convey the writer
of the letter to the office. During this interval, the
prisoner, who was all the time in total ignorance of
the damning proof against him that was about to
burst forth, was again called in, and some questions
put to him solely relating to the other men, who,
both himself and his wife acknowledged, had fre-
quently slept also at Lord Hartland's house. He,
however, studiously avoided giving any available
information respecting this person further than that
the latter had, to his knowledge, sold a great num-
ber of empty bottles, which he said were given to
him by Sir James Graham, in whose service he had
lived.

Lord Hartland's butler, who was also in attend-
ance during the -examination, here obserred that
amongst the property of which hie Lordship's house
had been robbed, there was no less than 70 dozen of
empty bottles carried off.
The prisoner, on being asked where he bad been
out of town these few days pet, said he was down
in Essex.

Goddard, the officer, said that Mr. Cross told
hira it vas to Brighton the prisoner went.
- The prisoner said that it was not to Brighton,
but into Essex with a gentleman, a solicitor, and
with whom he only returned that morning, and it
was this solicitor that advised him to come to the

office and give himself up, on hearing that the offi-
cers were in search of him, but told hint that he
need not give any account of the other man, or say
any thing respecting him, if questioned.
Mr. CoNANT—Oh, then, this is the reason that
you are so reluetant to tell us anything about the
other man; and pray who is this solicitor that gave
you this professional caution, to give yourself up to
justice, but to say nothing that might implicate
another ?---The prisoner hesitated for a considerable
time, but at last, on being urged by the Magistrate
to tell who this gentleman of the law was, said that
it was a Mr. Burt, residing at No. 19, Carmarthen-
street, Fitzroy-square.
Upon my word, said the Magistrate, I think Mr.
Burt's advice has been rather of an extraordinary
kind, and not very creditable to him.
Clements had now returned, and entered the

office, accompanied by Mr..Coxhead, a respectable
bookseller; residing at No. 249, High Holborn, the
writer of the letter to Lord Hartland.,

On entering the office, Mr. Coxhead produced
stout a dozen volumes of Metastasis, bound in vel-
lum, Horue.'a works, and other books, which had
been left with Kim in September last, as above stated.
The prisoner, who at this time stood not at the
har, but amongst a group of persons in the office as
purposely designed, not to give any direct intimation
of his identity to Mr. Coxhead, was observed to
turn pale on the production of the books.
Mr. Coxhead was now directed by the Magistrate
to look round the office amongst the persons pre-
sent, and see if he could recognize the person who
had brought these books to his shop for sale, and
Mr. Coxhead, on looking for an instant, immediately
pointed out the prisoner as the man.
The prisoner positively denied that he was the
person ; but Mr. Coxhead said, that he had not the
slightest doubt of his identity, and that Mrs. Cox-
head had seen the person who left 'the, books as
es he had, and conld.no doubt also speak distinctly
upon the point.
Lord Hartland said, that all the hooks now pro-
duced had been stolen from his library, and were
his property. Metastasio he had purchased at
Strasburg in 1797 ; and one of these volumes pro-
duced by Mr. Coxhead has on one of the pages of it
at present some of Lady Hartland's writing.
Tho prisoner was then remanded to a future day,
and the magistrate spoke in warm and deserved
terms of the very proper conduct of Mr. Coxhead,
whose vigilance and praiseworthy caution, if fol-
lowed by tradesmen in general, would tend more to
counteract the depredations of servants and others,
than all the severity of the law.
The two youths, George Traherne and John'
Halls, in custody upon a charge of stealing five
volumes of valuable books of travels from the shop
of Mr. Hodgson, a bookseller in Marylebone.street,
and offering them for pledge at the shop of Mr.
Aldous, a pawnbroker in Berwick-street, Soho, who
Very properly detained, both them and the books,
and sent word to Mr. Hodgson, whole name was on
the covers, of the circumstance, were brought up,
and fully committed to Nevvgate for trial.
These youths owe their ruin to the existence of
those infamous houses, called " flash houses," that
are in a degree tolerated and countenanced by the
present police system. It was their: frequenting a
house of this description, kept bq 'a man named
Penninger, called the Maidenhead, in Berwick.-
street, and there associating with thieves and pros-
titutes, that has brought theM to disgrace and
punishment, and their friends to sorrow and shame.

WORSHIP- STREET.
On Saturday Reehord Cottle .and George Smith,
bakers, were re-examined before Mr. BROUGHTON,
charged with an outrage npon Mary Ann -Power, a
young person of seventeen, is the service of an
elderly lady named Smith, in Margaret-street, Hack-
ney4oad.
From the evidence given, it appeared that .be-
twefn five and six o'clock on Saturday week the
young woman was sent by her mistress to receive 6/.
in the neighbourhood of Hexton, and shortly after
her departure she .was overtaken on the road by the
two prisoners. The prisoner Cottle serves her mis-.
tress with bread, and is a' married man, with a
family; and the young woman observing that she
was going to a lonely place, asked him to accompany
her ; and he promised her his protection, on condi-
tion of her first going with him into St. Luke's
parish. The two prisoners and the complainant
then went to a public-house and had some gin, after
which she went and reoeived the 5/. in sovereigns,
which she deposited in
.her bosom. They after-
wards went to other'publio-honses, where the young
woman was prevailed upon to take more gin, and at
length became dreadfully intoxicated, in which state,
between nine and ten at night, some of the Hackney
watchmen, whom her oriel brought to her assist-
anrueenk,:oant:edmhpetn
her upon
to accomplish his brutal purpose.pon the ground in a lonely spot in
the fields, and the prisoner Smith, who was also
d
The prisoner Cottle was: met, near the place, and
when celled on to stop, took to his 'heels and fied,
bat was pursued and apprehended. The young wo-
rsen had discovered that he had carried off her five
sove- reigns.
After a minute inquiry, Mr. BROUGHTON de-

cided on committing both' the prisoners for s tealing•
the money, observing that he had no doubt tl bat the
liquor was given tt) the ferNale for the pur rose (Ye.
stupifyinlo-.
. her, mid uPo-
erards robbing her an id cora-
m;tting the (Aim outrage on hler person.
The prisoner= ‘vere remanded' merely to g.:l
...._..cve timee
for taking the depobitions of the nvogneroas "I
The pioseentioo has been on stiertaken ky the
patish-oflicers, for whom Mr. Pu.ley, the veer
chi k attended.

UNION•ITALL.
On Saturday Jenne:: Ellis, the toll-c, allectotattfr
Met-toe-gate, Surrey, was summoned at the instance
of W. White, Esq., of Morden-hall, for 01-15tructing
him at the above gate.
The .4lagistrate fined him 40s. and co: its.
The defendant was excessively inio, lent to
complainant while in the ollice, declaring t hat beill°
perjured himself.
Mr. Wfiae, and some other persons prettel.l' '
stated that)g.4Fo was one of the most saner and
rodent fellows o ier •
1 the class to which he belt paged.
The stewards Of
Reynolds, with a family'
" United Brethren,”. were summoned for loin(
a benefit society, aied the
excluded one of its rae:nbers a poor malt. narece-
having received the 6131.1) ot. of • seven children, fer
tis. Gd. from one of 111
brother's tenants, which act was deemed work ne°
labour by the society.
Reynolds had belonged to th above society ,Ivvt
the last fifteen years, and during ti:le period regaled/
kept up his payments. Of late h had fidlenriet°
ill health, and was under the necesta'ter of declaritt
on the box, being unable to work. A. few &flier
his. brother requested him to call on apt loon at CAW
berwell for 3s. Gd., and having done so, the circttni.:
stance came to the knowledge of the steNvaidst of tt.
society, who immediately " scratched" hint, on, 01°
ground that he had violated one of the articles.
Tke stewards referred to the article in .questiota,
find quoted it for the purpose of showing that Off
had acted according to the rules, but with all their:
ingenuity they failed in torturing the words; d
then
article as applicable to the present ease.
The .111agistrates observed that dm Majority l,
these Societies were calculated to do ',injury rather
than beneoit to the members. With respect to thi6
case, it was at: attempt to exclude a poor man
had paid up all 'motifs for 16 years, and awavrovbely ,
ha was overtaken with illness, and a fit object
receiving the benefits oecruing from the Society, the
Committee trumped up an insignificant charge
he had broken the ho, 1 ,nerely for the purpose the
m
getting rid of him and apply,:tig the mosey alresta/
advanced to their own use, I:he magistratestbeei
directed that the complainarit sht.mild be reinstated
on the Hsi, and that all arrears due hies should'? e
. paid up.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS

Per Qitarter.
Cat
Ctrrenarthen----
rampeth---
Petirith
Witichoiter

Per Bushel.
Coventry
Now•cestle (Staff:)
Nort hillorton
Rtatford
Witronck

Per
Ramardraitle.--
1/arlington
Durham—
WalAngham

DURING LAST WEEK.

Wheat. Miley.

S. to S. S. to S.
75 7-5 I—B
L 6
59 70 127 39
64 76 87 44
61 I
70 81 36 IA
70 85 138 37
s. d. s. d. 6. s. d.
73 t 3 CI 32 42
116 120.66 70
80 90 40 8
00 120 50 8G
89 9 8 4 0 46
94 10 41 4 6 56

Oztg.

E. to
kfr

j 1 0 0 20 0 :
'l6 0 PI 01
16 6 21 0,
,130 17 61

90 96
96 00
60. 90
66 90

T 9 26

*6 36
1,4 27
,c.d. s. d.
3' 40
4 b 0
23 $8
40 4g
20 32
33 bD

•
0. to
37;
SW 4,4
be r,
0' s 9
76. 6.
b b
0
0 0
06 t
86
0 0 114
ty
116
0 6 C' 6

4 74
6o 70
60 86.
6 0 7 6

WAKEFIELD, Nov. 7.
The supply of Wheat fresh up here this morning IOW':
extremely short, tint there are several samples offering frofP
vessels that will be here in a day er two. New Whe°:
has sold slowly at last Friday's prices ; there has been Yr4l; •
little demand for old, but the stock here is now mueb Cr ,
(laced. Oats sell at much the same prices as were 03-- ,
taints) last week. but Shelling is rather dearer. gas
Barley is in fair demand, and folly as dear, but thin ligh/ '
srarnpltis are as dull a.l possible, and chiefly remain ansOkl'
Good Beans are very heavy sale, and there is ecafuelyloi
,demand for the inferior setts. Malt is very dull. Rape-
' seed is in demand, and rather dearer. ... - •
Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk hls, to atii... am 05.
Lincolaskire ........ -........ 73a. to Mi. fille MI&
Yorkkhire, &e. 74e. to 70e. One 61C1r.
-- White 7ss. to Me. tale gob-
-- Foreign, Old 7os. toles. Ana 806- • .
Barley, Norfolk and fraffblk ....... ....., 37e. to Os. ins 410! •
•
- Lincidnehire tar. to es. fern
-- Yorkshire IVold 4ll. to 446. orki.4Bo,_.
Beans, Tick 4b. oa 445. this,4..
&vett '37s. to 465. itne in. .
Oars, Poland and Potato alts. to 90s. One 34'6' ,-
- Friesland and Small Ste. to Ws. floe S' ..
Mealing ' 1454 d. to 16%0. per Stone., , ,
Shelling iris. to —s. —e. to 40s. pc.T Lim. 1-
Malt. . 47s. 30s. One Sta. per Loath_ I
Rapeseed 274 Os. Va/. Os. 31/. lOs. pct. XAft, !

CORNWALL. MARKETS. ,
• et. o-- V oat 27 lie
na,To.7cnbeah t (a.ver:gl_29saa.9,l.—y.l3larlty, las.-;tlDt&is,:fhlm:
tld
Ararrem..—Wileat, 20s; to Mi.—Barley, 13s. to
Od. to 13a.
Boomt2--,Whoat (average) 3/s. W.—Barley, 1.1.4.0d.—0at5, 1+,16'
Ls tmcesro2--Wbeat (averal,Pe)2os.o(l.—Barley,
12s. Od.—Bert; Ed.—Mutton, bd.
I,I3K.BARD—Wbeat,264. t.) —Barley,l3s. Od.—Oats, 116'
to Os, pd.
Cotuke--Wheat, 30s. to 34a.—Barley, las; to 14...r-Bee‘.
and Mutton, bel to &ed.—Veal and Lomb, Od to bd.
l'anzaNcr —Wheat, 31s. to 403.-13arloy, 14s. to His.--0„ ,•
lbs. to IN. Od.—Bee and Mutton, bd. to Od.—fork, 31d. to
flutter, lid. per 11).

MINING I NTELLIGENCS. Tons. CI
Quantity ot Copper Ore sold at Rodrut I 4 12st Thursday 3,172 0
Averafe Produce 7% 1
Quantity of fine Copper
Amount of Sale, IEOBSI. 11e. 6d.—Avorage Statidard,ll4l. 166.

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BIRTHS.
On the 7th inst. MI?. J. K. Hooper. of Queeohitb"`

a eon.
On the Bth inst. the lady of W. B. Elwyn, Eeq. Yo*
terrace, Regent's Park, of a eon. -
At Morgee, on the Lake of Geneva, on the 28th ult. 0'
lady of H. B. Ward, Eeq. of a eon.
On the 4th inst. at Edinburgh, the lady of Alocande
Graham, of Capilly, Esq. of a daughter.
At .Ai th u ['stone, Pet thshire, the lady of J. M. Maentib"
Esq. of the Hotionrable Company's- Civil Service, Nor'
of a daughter.

MARRIED.-
On the Bth inst. at the church of St. George, Heno46!
square, the Right Hon. Henry John Lord Viscount Inge
trig, eldest bon of the Earl Talbot, to the Right Hon. tm.
Lady Sarah. Elizabeth Bereeford, only daughter of she- Is;
Marquis and Marebionees, and sister of the present 16,1" d.
quie of Waterford. The ceremony was perforined-by
Moat Rev. the Lord Primate of all Ireland,' her Ladyships
uncle, in the presence of many distinguished personages
high rank and station, the near relatives and connexion"
the noble partire.
On the Bth inst. at Edmonton, by the Rev. D. Warreo?,
William Henry Elliot, Trey. late of Finsbury-pleat, Lende7
surgeon, to Helen, youngest daughter of Capt. Rope, .;
the farmer place.
On the Bth lint. at St. George's 'Church, Hattorert;
square,. Henry Mitford Boodle, Eeq. second eon of the 001
Edward Boodle, Esq. of Brook-street, Groevenor-equares
Fanny, third daughter or Charles Dumergue, Eeq. of AlO7,
mode-street.
On the 6th inst. at Elmswell, near Bevy St Edinuad4
Snffolk, by the Rev. Joseph Thomas Lawton, jun. Char`,
Harsont, Ph4q. of Wickham Market, in the saute roa'!_);
to Eliza, second daughter of the Rev: Joseph.,Thoo-
Lawton. rector of Elmswell.
On the Bth inst. at St. Botolpb, Aldgate,• by the Reif
Richard Harvey, M.A. Mr. Thomas Carlyh Haywards
the Minor ies, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Pare'
Bethnal Green. •

E./UM,
On the 7th inst. Isabella Charlton Hill, the affeotiova,-,-
Wife of
.Thomas Hill, Esq. of Belmont-place, Vats%hi"
aged 70.
On the 6th inst. at Hammersmith, Lockyer Sharp,
aged A. . • J
00
Suddenly, on the 7th inst. Mr. George Somme*, "°*.
Ilolborn hill, in the 26th year of his age, deeply regrettan.:

by his family and friends.
Suddenly, of apoplexy, on the 9thinst. Mary Ana,
of Mr. Henry Dunkin, of Dartmouth-row, Illeckheltrlu
aged 41.
On the Bth inst..after a short. illness;Mr'. John B! "j
Buckley, of Cornwall road, Lintheth,, and :forreerlk. °
Lawrence-lane in the City, aged b 2.
On the 9th. inst. at. the house of her father, 1114""
Berkeley-street, Portman-equare, Hanna Frederica
Bells
my, apd 17 years. + •

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and Pcatievere by MURDO YOUNG, at 'i°°,' •
6tm4 Orrien,• 112, Elmarip, Lemont.

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