The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-11 00:00:00

OLD ALLEY, DEC. 10.

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ROBBERY IN BERKELEY-SQUARE.
Richard Jago, Thomas Beck, Mary Beck, and Henry
Lewis, were put to the Bar, on an indictment charging the two
first named prisoners with stealing, a large quantity of property
!mini the house of William Ord, sq. in Berkeley-s it quarto have
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the two latter with receiving the same, well knowing
been stolen.
Plank, the officer, proved taking the prisoners into custody,
and the confession made by them.
Jago's confession was then put in and read. He; scribed the
whole plan to have originated with Mary Beck, ho had in-
duced him to, consent, by threats and menaces, to the robbery.
Richard Beck's confess•
ion was also read. He charged Jago
with being the principal in the robbery, and that he had given
him the bundles.,•
Jago said nothing in his defence. Thomas Beck declared
by the Almighty &at lie did not know that the property was
Stolen. Mary Beck -declared that the -confession of Jar was
utterly false, and that so far from knowing any thing of the
robbery, she did not know where the house was situated.
Several persons gave Lewis and Jago good characters ;and
the Jury retired for half an hour, and on their return found
Mary Beck and Lewis Not Guilty, and Jago and Thomas
Beck Guilty of burglary.
The Court was crowded to excess during the whole of the
trial, which lasted upwards of four hours.

George

On Saturday night indictments agains
Clarke and Susannah IT (two deluded vic•
tiros of Rich. Carlile) were presented to the
London Grand Jury, who, without hesitation,
returned them as found true. The girl Wright
having given notice of bail, attended at Judge
BEST'S Chambers, to have the same Inquired
into, and the sureties swearing themselves suf-
ficiently qualified, . were accepted. One of
them, 'a radical
.schoolmaster, named Jones,
inveighed bitterly against those prosecutions,
which he characterised as derogatory to the
dignity of the State, and inconsistent with the
spirit of-.the British Constitution ; and how
long he would have continued in the same strain
is uncertain, had not the proper officer called his
attention to the payment of the usual fees. This
opened a new field , for the volubility of the
schoolmaster, who declared that the imposition
of fees at all was a complete fraud ; but, after a
little more abuse, the -fees were paid„and the
parties sent about their. business. The indefa-
tigable industry of Carlile's infamous agents has
procured another shopman, and a notification in
the window states.. that they have a fresh one
ready for every hour, if the vigour of their ene-
mies shall render it necessary .7—(llorning Paper.)
MRS. SARAH BOND.— The immense wealth
which this extraordinary woman.died possessed
of has, it appears, caused considerable alacrity
among all who think themselves in any degree
entitled to be her heirs. No less than eight
caveats have, it is asserted, already been entered
against letters of administration being granted ;
among which is one in behalf of his MAJESTY,
.by Procurator-General, Sir J. NicuoLL:
Other competitors for the valuable prize have,
however, started in the sister kingdom. Two
families living at Brown's Grove, near Castle-
town Roche, county of Cork, have put forward
.their claim to the property, as nephews and
nieces of the deceased lady. It appears that
Mrs. Bond had both a brother and, sister in the
county of Cork, each of whom have left families.
John Bond, the brother, resided at Balinalisk,
in that county, and five of his children, viz. Mar-
tha Ann Bond, Graham Bend, James Bond, Sa-
rah Law, and Susannah Knight, are now living ;
as are likewise four children of Sarah Bond's
sister, who married a • Mr. O'Connell .;..their
names are, Harmer O'Connell, Abraham O'Con:.
nell, Catherine Holmes, and • Ann Atkins.—
(Morning Paper.) . •
A parricide, named Jean Schmitt, was execut-
ed on the Ist of this month. He constantly.
re-
fused to appeal, and assigned his reason, that he
wished to spare his
.mother the affliction which
she would suffer in the interval preceding the
confirmation of his sentence.—(French-Paper.)

HORIZONTAL MOON.
Ma. Eorroa—T he preset Opproach of the

Planets JUPITER and SATURN affords a most con=

viucing illustration of the truth of a theor'which
I offered to the astronomical world sothe.montbi
ago in the piges of The New Monthly iltakai.
explanatory of the well known phenomenon Of
the " lioriiontal Mooni" as it is called—fiaMelY,
the fact which every body has witnessed, of .the

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moon appearing to the human eye much larger
the horizon than in the, zenith, or in her approach

to it ; whilst, at the same time, in every degree
of her altitude, her diameter is really the same,
if measured with a quadrant or sextant.
You and yopr intelligent readers well -know
that several explanations have been offered of
this seeming trrystery ; but none yet offere4.will
stand a mathematical test. That the density of
the vapours through which she is seen when ris-
ing above the horizon may make her appear rather
larger than she does in a very clear night, I will not
deny ; because I have seen the effects of refrac-
tion so very powerful as to raise her lower limb
so much that she has appeared of an oval shape
at the full ; but that deception of the sight cs not
corrected by an instrument, whilst-the apparent
increase of her size, in the clearest night or morn-
ing, is always corrected by a quadrant," which
fixes her diameter at 28 minutes of a aegree,‘
sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less,
in her perigee and apogee. The theory also
which refers to contrast with terrestrial objects
is equally unsatisfactory ; because the phenomenon.
is seen at sea as upon land—but to come at once
to the point—for a plain and homely illustration.
and experiment, let your, readers turn up A:tea-
cup, and consider its hemisphere- as the -hemis-
phere which we view. Now the moon's
ter being about half a degree, she of course &cu..
pies the 720th part of any circle in which she
may appear to be placed ; but-when in the hori-1
zon she occupies that portion-of a very large cir-
cle, one much larger than the parallel concentric
circle in which she appears to be placed aLan alti;
tulle of 45 degrees, or at any height betwee4,
nd zenith.

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the horizon a.
Imagine half a dozen concentric circles on the •
tea cup ; it is evident that the 720th part of any:
one of them must be less than of the lower circle
formed by the edge of the cup on the table ;
therefore as the hemispheric appearance of the
heavens, produced to our eyes. by the comgion
and well known laws of optics, leads us to refer
the moon's horizontal diameter (I don't wean
here her diameter in the horizon), at different alti-
tudes, to circles of different signs, consequently
we suppose her to be smaller as she ascends.;
though as she is still really at the same distance
from us, she subtends the same angle in a qua-

drant.
It is the same with regard to her vertical dia-
meter ; because to every smaller apparent circle
we imagine a smaller vertical semi-ciecle, whose
vertical radius is always equal to half the hori-
zontal diameter of that circle.
To prove and illustrate this, look at Jupiter
and Saturn, when they are at equal altitudes,
and not very far above the horizon. Now that
refraction will give them a greater altitude than
the truth, I do not deny, but that the•quadrant
will not. correct : but then they also appear far-
the: asunder than in their approach to culmina-
tion, and that error the quadrant will correct,
just the same as` n regard to thetheir an-
gular distance a all altitudes, refraction being
allowed for, being precisely the same, although
they appear to approach each other as; they
ascend. Indeed, even in the horizon, refraction
would have very little effect upon their angular
distance, in any position, unless they were both
to rise, or nearly so, upon the same.prime ver-
tical. The same will hold good with any two
remarkable fixed stars, if not above i or 3 de-
grees asunder--greater distances are not so easily
measured by the eye.—YoUr's,

iGNOTUS.

7---- ,
CONVERSION OF A Jaw.--an Sunday, night a
very numerous congregation assembled at the
Episcopal Jews Chapel, Cambridge lleitti,:tii wit-
ness the ceremony of an Israelite relinquishing his
own faith and becoming a Christian. The Gentle-
man baptised appeared about 45 or 50 years of
age, his head quite bald. The Rev. Mr. _II_AIVTRY
read the service in a most impressive Manner,
and when the questions usually put to godfathers
and godniPthers were put to the person baptised,
11 answered with a firm and audible voice. Oa
kneeling at the font, and the Minister sprinkling
him with the holy water, and marking him with.
The Cr6ss of Christ, he seemed sensibly affected,
particularly . when the Priest said 44. that here-
after he shaft' snot be ashamed to confess the faith
of -.Christ crucified, and manfully to tight under
his banners agaiilst sin, the world, and the devil ;
and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and ser-
vant until his life's end." After the ceremony
was finishek:the Rev.'l4r. ll,tw.raY delivered a
very excellent- sermon, inivistich he alluded to
the above conversion, and ocopgratulated his
heareks upon the work of reformatiottithat levelling.