The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-01 00:00:00

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BOW-STREET.—AbO4CSI X
.weekc since the Stamp
Ot-t-i-e at Livetpool, kept by. Mr. Poole a number of
years, tor the -distriti of Lancashire, w.is discovered
to have. been set on fire, and no dOuht wasen:er
tamed that it _ was done by design. the discOvcry
vv-a• made by the chief clerk going to the office early
in the morning ; when he-perceived that the (fesk
belonging to a tlerk of the nanio Lui:k.-t a
bad bt'en on fire, and paper put in cliff rent- p.
the office; as if lute '.ded assist the fire in spread-
ing'allTover the office. Lockett reminded ellief
clerk that he was last in the office the preceding
evening; expre-std him Self in a particular Mau-
nor, but not sutlieienrto ground any suspicion on
him, and the circumstance passed over without any
discovery having been made. In a liort time after,
Lw.keit lett the office, and the town of Liverpool,
in such an extranidmary mintier, as to cause a sus-
picion that he had gled improperly;, and aCcordingly
an exan.ination of the stock of stamps took place,
which is extremely large, for a full sto is about
100,0001. worth." Several considerable stamps vs ere;
missed, and it could not be ascertained but he might
have made off with about twenty thousand pounds
worth.

Mr: Miller, the soperintendant\of the Police, was
employed to pursue him ; and he commenced an
.attire search. He traced,him from, Liverpool on the
road towards Ltaidon, ant found that lie had sold
great quantities of stamps at different places, to re-
spectable persons, for a trifling sum less than is
usuallt allowed 131 the Stamp ()dice to the retail
cbtributors ; imposing. upon them with the plausible
pretence that he was vending Gem for a general dis-
tributor orstamps, who was under embarrassments,
and wanted to rai,se a sum of money without delay.
Mr. Miller traced him to London, and from thence
to Chatham, where- some of his relations reside.
There he remained, and in London, upwards of a
fortnight; without being able to apprehend him ;*and
business requtring him at Liverpool, he was obliged
to return .there.
Adkins, the officer, received private information
from Chatham, that a large trunk was sent off from
there on Tuesday morning by some., of Luckett's.
conneetions, directed to Mr. Appleyard, PrinCe Wil-
liam Henry, Beimondsey-street, Southwark, by
Rutley'a waggon, with J. W. at the corner, which
was suspected to be tot Lockett. Adkins in conse-
quence went to the Three Ki:'gs Inn, in -the
rough, on W zinesday, where the waggon lut
at ; but it not arriving at the expeCtedlime, he was
not able to wait, owing to engagrementsonotherbo-
airless, but lett his. brother, Harry Adkin,,. w.ho
waited.till the waggon came in, and saw the trunk.
- as advi,eil; which be never lost sight of, till it was
taken to the Prince William Henry public-house, in
Bermond,ey-street, whero the landlord took it in,
arid immediately went up stairs. In a short time
alter a man•came down stairs, and held a conversa-
tion with the landlord, their .eyes being fixed on H.
Adkins, tht- landlord saying he was a stranger, and
the man observing he did not know hint : they it
length went into the bat together; and Adkins sus-
petted the man tolye,Luekeir, but WAS not confi 'en:
enough, from the -description he had received of
him, to apprehend him. He went out to fetch a
man who,'.kas 'waiting, in the neighbourhood, who
knew his peisOn ; and on his seeing him; he identi-
fied him ; upon which Harry Adkins took him into
custody. On searching Ws room up stairs, he found
the trunk u bid) had been brought from.Chatham,
direCted to the landlord, to be full of staMps, and •
two other trunks full of cloaths.
He underwent an examination before Mr. NAVES
on Thursday evening, when, all the witnesses against,
him. being at Liverpool, Harry Adkins was sent,off
with him for that town..

Timothy 7 oomey and IMlliam Borris were brought
to the Office, charged with robbing the shop of Mr.
Brooks, silverstnith, of Charing-cross.. Tk,e prose-
cutor stated, that on Thursday morning, between 8
gild 9 o'alck, being in the parlour behind the shop,
he heard a pane of glass in the shop crash, and on
his going forward, perceived a piece of glass in one
of the panes that had previously been cracked, pushed
out, amt almost immediately after saw the prisoner
Toomey come up to the window, and pdt his fingers
through the broken pane, and, as he believed, take
gold ring ; and saw both .tlie prisoners in• company
together. On searching )Toomey, when he was
brought back to the shop, a knife was,tound upon
him, the point of which had some putty on it,
which corresponded with that on the prosecutor's
windows. - They -were committed for trial.

GUILDHALL.--Yesterday, Wm. Plummer was
charged by Edward Keenan, a sailor, belonging to
the COutis East Indiarnan, with having robbed him
between one and two o'clock yesterday morning.
The prosecutor stated, shat he came from' Banjo., •
on Thursday, in a stage coach, but the coachman
made so many delays upon the road, that it was late
before he arrived in town ; being a sttanger to the
metropolis,' he informed the coachman, that as he
was the cause of his late arrival, he hoped he would
Procure him a lodging for the night ; this the coach-
man endeavoured to do; and in the course of their
peregrination in search of a lodging-house, they met
the prisoner at the Barley-mow , public-house, in
Long-lane, who immediately informed the prosecu-
tor that he could_ take him: to a house where he
would be comfortably lodged; for the night; in re-
turn for this kind offer, the prosecutor gave him .
Something to drink, and they went together. to
Chick-lane, where the priSpner thrust his hand sud-
denly into the seaman's VOcket, and forcibly drew'
out the contents, about Ws. Prosecutor immedi-
ately seized hold' of the prisoner's right sleeve,
which came off in his hand, and the prisoner got
away; _he was, however, pursued, and traced back
to the Bailey-mow, in Long-lane, where he was
apprehended, and 4s. of -the • money stolen
found upon him,,. part of which the prosecutor
identified.

AkitliDan FLOVtli (who presided) inquired of
the prosecutor, as he wai a seafaring fm.in, how
long he thonght, he would-remain in town ?

The prosecutor answtied,,he would st ly a month,
that he might bring s;ch .a treacherous
justice; ,A ho had not • lett hitry,a finking to procure
his.brtakfa,i.
•
The ptisot7r, who dt•clitied saying any thing in
his defence, 'and ,who is wr-11 known in the neigh-
bourhood_of Smithfield as a ter,- bad, character,. we;
then fully commioed;
The' w •rthy -Magistrate- direaed ss. to. be given
to tht prosecutor for his present .s.lbsistetice, and
intOrnred hint that his other expences should be
p. id ; with this assurance Jack departed, highly
pleased, as he deClared lie had • not a single shut in
the locker.

. MANS lON- FJOUSE.-A rtAan, named Jennings,
who stated himself to be 'a porter belonging lo the
West India Docks, 'was ye,terklay brought before
the Lord Mayor,..charged with a most violent and
gross asiault upon a Lady of respectability, io the
Poultry, on the preceding evening. From the de-
position-Of the Lady, it appeared that she was, pass--
ing through the Pou-Ittl;, in company with tier
niece; • about eleven o'clock, vt heu the- prisoner
came beside her, and without previous notice, seized
her in the most indelicate manner, although she
was far advanced in pregnancy. A Gentleman ac-
cidentally passing, observed 'the insult, and with
praise- worthy promptitude, knocked the villain
down: The watch was !hen called, and he was
Conveyed to the Compter. -
The fellow, in his defence, urged the usual plea
of being intoxicated; he also said, he had a wile-
and three piling childrentiving at Mile End, which
he hoped might operate in extenuation ot his punish-.
merit. The Lord Mayor, however, declared this to
be an 'aggravation of his'otience, and very properly,
its
the absence of bail, committed hiM to take his
trial for the outrage.,