The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-29 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

'Yesterday Mr.- Serjeant RONNINGToN presided
in this Coact. The several cases produced no in-
formation of the least interest, with the exception
of one which afforded a laughable incident.• After
an Iraelite, named Benjawiri, had been remand-
ed for fraud, the opposing creditor, by his Coun-
sel, Mr: ANiotiftves, claimed protection from the.
Commisssioner, stating, that he was in danger
of personal v:olence. It was supposed he allud-
ed to. the prisoner, and that the latter meant to
attack him .on leaving the Court ; but Benjamin,
who Was a littthe man,• said he would nut hurt
him, or any other persoa. At that Instant a shrill
threatening female voice was heard at the door,
and Mr. ANDREWS informed the Court, that his
client was not in bread • .ot the prisoner, hot his
wife. As it did not appear that the shield of the
law could be extended-to protect the party against
a woman, the creditor, by stratagem, made a
quick' retreat,' ran or,-r to the sanctuary, antLen-
tering Wesfniinster Abbey, was protected by the
thrireh. The enraged teits6lt went in pfirinit upon
a wrung t;cent. The' occurrence occ,isioned some
mirth. 'lnc- Commissioner adjourned over to Sa-
turday: - •

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBErty
AND ADVENTURES.

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday James Lake was hrmught to the
Office, by A4ips, one of the principal Officers;
charged with :robbing his own brother', Samuel'
Lake, a builder, of Alfred-plaee, Tottenham-
Court, 0f..450/.
The circumstances and persons - attending this
transaction are of an ex.traorciitiary nattire
prisoner is a shoemaker by !radel and was in
distressed circumstances, which induced the prd-.
secutor to take him and his wife into his house as
;an act of chariy, where they had been liVing for
.some tune. Yesterday se'nnight the prisoner Inid
been out, and returned to. his brother's house,
where his wife was entrusted with the keys of the
.house, who he prevailed on to glee him the keys,
on a pretence that he._ wanted some, papers out
the counting-house. He returned the keys, in
short time after, to his wife, saying that he had
found ;the paper; which he Wanted.' He' then
gave her an affectionate kiss,' :and'hid
bye ; but after he was gotie, his conduct was
such, on reflection, -as- canSed her to suspect
something was wrong, and she scent In the count-
ingrlionse, and, instead of finding 'every thing
locked up and perfectly secure as she expected,
she found.every thing-in great confusion, and the
door open; and it, turned out, that the prisoner
bad taken and made off. with Bank Notes to the
amount of 4501. An alarm was given, and the
Prosecutor gave infOrmation at the above Mce,'
and every exertion was made to, pitrsue the pt i=
sorter, who, it was ascertained, had changed the
stolen Notes at the Batik of England for smaller
Notes, and there all trace of him ceased ; how-
ever, it was strongly suspected that he bad
made arrangements to set off for America.—
Printed bids were issued describing his Per-
son, and the notes he had absconded with.
Adkins, the Officer, was emplOyed to pursue
him, and the following extraordinary circum-
stances. have transpired by his exertions. The
prisoner, on getting his stolen notes exchanged at
the Bank of Englaud, went to the Temple Coffee-
4tonse, and front thence started on the outside of
the Umpire Liverpool coach, on the .afternoon of
the same day, with the intention of sailing for
America with his ill-gotten wealth. On his wav
on the coach to Liverpoolbe sat near a 'Mr. and
Mrs. Kelly, who were proceedingtO Ireland (the
brother of Mr. Kelly having procured hint an al)-
. pointment in the Custom House); the prisoner
paid such attention to Airs. Kelly as Alt. Kelly
did not approve of, she expressing her aversion
to go to Ireland. Mr. K. borrowed 31. of the

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pristiner, stetieg that' his money was loelted up in
his think. On their arliasi et Liverpool; Mr. and
Mra. K. proceeded to the packet to melte ar-.
tangemeots for going to (relent!, and while on
boar;!, INlrs. Kelly contrived to write a note hi
the Cahill, which. she dropped by accident, and_
Mr. Kelly, sespecting. it to he iutended tor the
prisoner, endeavoured to gaits possession of it,
but Mrs. Kelly resisted, put it into her month,
and swallowed it ; Me. Kelly exerted himself
to prevent her, and she charged him with endea-
youring to stratoele her. Tiiey afterwards went
to tie Sarecee's Head len„ in D de-sireet,
aehere the Umpire .Coach had drove, to, where
the prisoner was, Who asked them to drink:
wine with him, &c. ,vhich was on last Wednesday
evenine ; they remained thcrehut a short time,
and Kelly track his wife to the Hihereien Howl,
where lie engeged a room, hacked his wife up in
it, and gave the key to a man whom lie engaged
to prevent her eqeapiog, is hile he went to take
care of his luggage and make arratrgements
fur hint and his wife proceeding to Ireland. Dur-
ing the time he was gone, it became known in
the neighbourhood that a man had locked tip- his
wife, and left her there; and 'in the mean- time
the prisoner arrived, and stated to the populace,
that the female had been extremely ill treated by
her husband, and he was determined to protect
her, which attracted a-great concoursCof people,
and 'the prisoner, by giving the sum of thirty
pawl& to the mete who who was intrusted
-with
.the key of the room Which Mts. Kelly was.
locked in, and 101. to another man, suc,ceedeel in
gaining. her release. A etisPute arose in Conse-
quence bet weer; the prisoner end Mr. Kelly, which
was caviled to such a Bitch rhet it is • SOpi)OSed
several thousand persons were collected. Mr.
Millet; the, Seperiotendent of the
.Police, the
Mayor, and Magistrates, were called upon to in-
terfere,- the prisoner charging Mr. Kelly with hay-
'lug swindled him, as he called it, out of 31., which
he borrowed 'of him on the Umpire coach, and
which he had not repaid ; and the peighbherhood
of the town where it•happened was kept in a state
of disturbance in consequence. However; the
prisoner contrived to carry off Mrs. Kelly in a
chaise awl four from Liverpool, on Thursday .
atternooe, of which Adkins received information,
but it wes not expected that they would proceed-all
the way post, butwould finish their journey in the
Umpire 'coach; Adkins was in consequence on the
alert on the arrival of the coach fur the appre-
hension of the prisoner, but neither him nor his
female companion came by it ; howeVer, he
discovered that a parcel had come ,by the
coach, directed by the -name of Lewis, to be
left till called for, which lie strongly sus-
pected to belong to the prisoner, and, on the
Officer making inquiries, one of the outside male
passengers, suspecting -the cause of the Officer's in-
quiries, professed-his readiness to give him every
assistance, and he, proaed to be Me. Kelly, who
had returned from Liverpool ire pursuit of.his wife, ,
who bad eloped from there. The prisoner wits
then traced into Londen, accompanied by Mrs.
Kelly, in a chaise .and four, by way of 13ernet, in
some degree by his, novel proceeding, contrary 'to
the practice of those who are'in the habit of tra:
veiling post, by his giving to each post boy len
besides treating them with eating and
drinking. They atiived in London on Friday,
about two o'clock, ,acrd alighted from their chaise
near Hyde Path. Corner, and walked from thence
to the. Coup tan Arms, in Cadogan- place, where
they dined. They then proceeded in a chase and
four to Dartford, and travelled in the same style
to Rochester, and .s; ben within a few Miles be-
yond Gravesend they retain-leth back to Dartford,
where they slept.' At 10 o'clock On Settirdny morn-
ing they proceeded to the 13 ill Inn at Rochester,
where they: remained • some time, and Mt s. Kelly
wrote to n female friend, and had an intervi,!w
with her; Front there they proceeded hi'a chaise
mid pair to the Rose Inn, Sittinghourne, where
Kelly's father resides,
.and who*, is a very
respectable liquor-inerebent. Ou their arrivel et
the inn, Mrs. Kelly did not go to her fa-ther•s
_honee, hut wrote to him, informing him of her
having left her husband, and of her return to Sit-
tingboltene. Her father wrote an. answer, expres-
sive of his happiness at hear:mg from her, and
apologieing for his not instantly going to the inn
to fetch her to, his house. -However, in a short
etime after, he went and conducted her home, awl
the prisoner remained et the Rose Inn, expecting
to
-be paid Jais expellees, and remunereted by Mrs. K'S
father for bringing her back'. Soon after; Mts., K;
avrotte to the-prisoner e.ntost extraordinary letler,
calling hint "My dearest James," acrd--the whola
of: the letter was worded iii the most iifferiti:onete
• and-loving laeguage possible tob-e conceived, and'
signed Susan Sophia Pownall. H'e etko received
a second letter of ai similar de.seriptiOr. • -Ttey
',were traced from leoodon by Adkins, tb'e- osc.c.re
Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Ward, a friend of Atie--S.:aiiiire*
• Lake, to identify due prisonere;to
and on Smithy afternoon they, foend the tveo fu
gitives• seated at ..the hospitable table
Kelly's father, drinking wine and eating-freiteOn•
the officer announcing the nature of his 'visit, that
• change of scene, dismay,. end coufasion which toe'
sued, is more easily, conceived ..tlian .deseeribed
the females screaming,and running
- Kelly insistilig upon having his wife, and the fa—
ther of Mrs. Kelly threeteeing
lence ; but was prevented by the interferenee of
friends. Kelly was then prevailed -tniOn.fo leave-
the house for a. shot t time in hopes of the
gettingilis
composed; but ott his return to
t
wife, he was informed she was not there,
nor was it known
,where she was. During the
scene of confusion
-which took place, Kelly per-
suaded Mr- 721%!eery61'."1“,
to iclera
tifyY
et tee rtla prisoner,
Vc er 'tpo'rti. lets" lo 1) ari ndlo
nderw e n t an culmi-
nation, when it atppeared hiss brother was gone
after hint to Liverpool. The full investigation
was therefore postponed till he returns to Lon-
don. Adkins Mated, that he foiled noon the i-
soner, poles and.cash, to the amount of
2.231. 2s. Gd. ; part of which were sixteen 101.
Batik notes, coreesponding with the numbers and
dates of those obtained for the stOlin notes.

Cartei,..,Cirvgson, antl solne other pugilists,
i+eie exhibiting last week in Nottingham, in thei►
wav to Carlisle ttates, where Caner is io figl)t
Donally„ the Irish Ch,auTiop.

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FltrUk OF thtEAD W'EEits.

The I:ighest pride of the best Wacateti Br:111 thronihnalt
thc ;41etropolis is stated by tot llakers to be Is. file
tern tuuf, heir g a rtAnetinii cif One ILiffpciiiiy siVee
week.—Solne Bake: s sell the Qtoirtern
,Lwif front one penny'
to th reeleuce

15. et. . . . lb. oz.
Pea, imaf tar weigh .. I.; ti Glitartern Loaf to v-tiL.;?) 4 'zi
Halt dittos.. Sift,/ .... Is 11 atif quarto,/ ditto .. 2 .2/