The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-03 00:00:00

AUGUST 29.

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LAUNCH OF TIII3 °IMF:LT. INDIitMAti.--Theiiir
flux, of company to this town, froth all parts of
the country, to lie present on this occasion,. was
perhaps greater than eVerb4Ore rernem6ered '; hat
at. twelve o'clock it seemed literally
.d.tiserted for
th,e shores of the Orwell. At one this.be4Ut 611.04
(1350 tons borthen) eateaitetc l her proper element in
very grand style, tt.roidst the liveliest shouts, cht:ers,
and firing of goo's, when she was named the Or-
well by Airs. Isaacs, the lady Of the principal
owner. The vessel went through the dock to the
main channvl, about 300 yardS, With Out a 'c4ek,
but grounded at the edge for some minutes ;
as she was launched before high water, she wore
round, and three small square sails being hoisted,
she glided maHtically down the Jiver for about a
mile and a half. It is computed that-a 'number
not far short 6120,000 persons were spectators.
The great variety of craft, some at anchOr, and
others sailing in the river, front the tall merchant
vessel to the small pleasure-boat, all in their best
trim, with colours flying, and crowded with com-
patty, was in happy unison with the animated and
brilliant scene 'which each bank of the river pre-
sented, •whilstilie whole formed one of the'mosf
gratifying Eights ever beheld. The bells of the
churches near the river rung in honour of the
launch. '1 here. Was a Ball in the evening at the
Assembly.-room, which was very genteelly at-
tended.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE from SHIPWRECK.

Extract of a Letter, dated Port GlAscove, Aug.
15, 1817, trona Cdptain Anderson, of the Phoebe,
of Kincardine, to his brother in Perth

" I have peculiar satisfaction in informing you,
that on the 30th of April last, I was the means,
under Providence, of rescuing from a lingering
death of. cold and hunger, fourteen of my fellow-
creat ttres, part of tht crew of the schooner Curlew,
from Waterford, bound to St, John's, Newfound-
land. On the 24:11 of the same mouth, this vessel
had got inclosed among the ice, and unfoi tonately
having'stritek a large-mass of it, stove in, her hoW
in 'such a manner, than halt an hour afterwards
• she went down. The passengers and crew sue--
ceeded in getting on the ice, and soon 'after, the
master, mate, and three of the crew, with five
passengers, got into the boat, with the intention
of making. for St. •Johirs, the remainder being
left on the ice to await their fate. Fortunately
at 7 A.M. on the d2y- mentioned, tat. 47, 20, N.
long. 46, 50, W. I o'iserved them in their.perilous
situation, and immediately made all sail towarlk
them. At 9A. M. I brought the ship as near
them as circumstances wouid permit,' and with
one of our boats happily sueCeeded in getting- them
.on board (nine in number), but learned with re-
gret, that- they only formed part of the crew and
passengers, five more having been separated from
them on a different piece of ice two days after the
accident. Those 1 rescued, however, informed
.are that they had seen their companions two days
before, and though they could give me no very
accurate idea of the direction., from want of :a
compass, I was led to understand that they .might
.probably be six or seven miles off. I accaidiogly
kept the ship all day close in with the ice, but
saw nothing of them. At night I stood to the
offing, and towards morning tacked and bore
down in the direction I- was :most likely to fall
in with the unfortunate men. At six, A. M.
we had the pleasure- of observing something
among the ice like a signal, . but "a thick haze
caming•on, we again lost sight of it. At half-
vast 'seven it cleared a little, and- 'we were now
near enough to discern the objects of our anxious
search.. lost no-time in" tinning the ship as. near
them as, we could with safety, and, I ant happy
to say, succeeded in getting them -all safely on
board. These unhappy men had often been tan-
talized with the sighs. of different vessels before
we fell in with them ; and while I-Mention this,
I cannot insist too strongly on the ()ivy of all mas-
ters of vessels examini2g very minutely the ice,
when- they happen to .get amongst ft, .as there is
always a possibility of some of their fellow-crea-
tures being in the same :freadful situation .as those.
I bad the good fortune to rescue.
.Their ship-
mates, who went off in the boat, reached St.
John's after a tedious passage of twenty days,
during which they encountered much suffering and
privation. Their only subsistence was seals, and
so precarious was this mode of keeping themselves.-
alive, that tor ten days they had only one."

PROVMENTINL ESCAPE.-01).Monday night.last
the Redcar coach, which runs between that place
and Bedale, meeting the Leeds and other coaches
at .Northallerton,•arrived on its return to Itedcar
without any driver : and when the circomstances
of the case are related, the escape of•the,coach-
passengers will be considered as almost miraculous.
At some distance from Guisborough, the pas-:
sengers [an elderly Duty and the Reverend Charles
Clapham] perceiving the coach went at an miti- •
sually slow rate, called out to the driver, but he
was not at his post. He had dropped oil; some-
what intoxicated, but was able to resume his seat,
anti continued to drive on for several miles. A
different spirit was, however, soon manifested by
the horses : the driver was again absent, but no-
thing hut time course adopted could perhaps have
saved their lives: The female was greatly alarm-
ed ; but Mr.' Clapham, with peat caution and
coolness, let down the windows, and exhorted his
fellow passenger to sit still. In this way, the
horses dragged the vehicle, at a furious rate, for
above two miles, over a bridge only wide enough
to allow a single carriage to pass, making several
dangerous turns, and actually arrived safe iu the
inn-vord, at Redcar, without the slightest injury
to fhe passengers, horses, or coach.

Sunday night the Lodge of Morden 'Hall, at
Morden, Surrey, was broke open, and robbed of the
beds, linen and wearing apparel ; two boxes were
also broke open, -add their contents c trriett off.
Information was sent to the London police, and
two officers. were sent down to endeavour to dis-'
cover the robbers. The gardener generally slept at
the Lodge, but on the night the robbery was' ef-
fected he slept in the Hall, as some of the famPy
.were from home ;- it would ileeni that the gardener
Was watched from the Lodge, anti the advantage
was taken of his absence tv effect the robbery.

V 0 ICE' INrnr,Lti;ENCE.

MANSION-1101. SE.

INFAMOUS ROBBERY • Seddepboqrg,- a
Gertwin, was yesterday charged with
;tubbing a
pour woman, named Jones, of a 101. note in the
following way
The proseentlix resides in. Plnntree-court,
Fleet-street, and a few nights since the prisoner
cattle to her house, and tequested permission to
sleep in one of her apartments, being, as he said,
she t out from his own lodgings. The 1)04)1. Wo-
nian laMented that it eras not in her power to
it iLird hi i the :Accommodation he required, all
her beds tieing 'engaged hut such west the
portunities of the prisoner,st hat she consented td
Iris reposing on some "cliaitS for theniglit. Upon
ri,ing in the morning site found her giirst had tied,
and .upon farther search discovered that he had'
robbed "her of 'a 101. note. The nuniber, how-
ever, being known, payment vvas stopped at the
Bank; and its possession eventually traced to the
prisoner.--,41e was fully .committed for trial.
GUILDHALL.:

A FtsuBRMA24 CAW°, LiT.-Richard IlasOngs was
yesterday charged with a robbery of the following
nature :—J. Kirby, an Officer, stated, that at an
early hour on Tuesday morning' he was going his
rounds, and upon entering Castle-court, Law-
rence-lane, he observed the prisoner with a rod,
hooking something front the kitchenwindow of
Messrs. Consterdine and Co.. . .Upon approaching
the prisoner closely, he found him furnished with
a f,hing•rod, ,and a complete angling apparatus.
lie had a small crook attached to the lend, of .the
rod, with which he contrived to -open the kitchen
window, and draw tip three silver spoons and
four saucers. 10 his defence,tbe'prisoner denied
the robbery, but admitted he had " lifted the ar-
ticles up."—He was fully committed for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

• FEMALE KIDNAPPER.—Frances Gilbert, an el-
derly woman, and Ann PWA*, an interesting
girl, were charged by John Dukesill, one of the
p,stroles of the parish of St. Giles's, who found
them wandering about the streets, at two o'clock
yesterday morning.
Thu worthy Magistrate (Mr. BAKER) question-
ed the girl; when she stated the following cir-
cumstances.—Her father is a tailor, and resides
at No. 3, Exeter Buildings, Chelsea, and she
lived as nurse-maid with her aunt, Mrs. Mackie,
at the Swan, in Wardour.street. On Friday
last, she took her aunt's children into the Park,
where she met the prisoner; who, on learning her
circumstances, advised her to leave her aunt, and
meet her in the Park at eleven o'clock on Monday
morning, and that she would get tier a much better
place. She kept. the, appointment, and tlie pri-
soner took her to Baltholotnew Fair, where site Met
several men, who treated them with sonic 1411101
she kept her at the. Fair till one o'clock, and the;:
told fter the place wa, gone, and took her (0 se-
veral houses in St. Giles's, where she refused- to
enter.

'i'l►e Magistrate orderell them to be separately
co-rifitierl:;iititil the gill's ttien'tls CI to'the

in'a.ljout- two hoots, Markle, the gill's
aunt.; came op, anti they weteagain pia to the
bar.

TAllgistrate.—"'This is your niece, firs. Mac-
kie ?"

Mrs. IVl..tek:e.--" It is, Sir, and she was always
a goOd girl."
Magistrate.-- Pray, what's her age ?"
Airs. She'S between 11 and 12 years
old, Sir."

•Mr. BAKF.R.", lam sorry she is not under IQ;
I should.then have-the power of sending this old
miscreant to'Nesvgate.: However., prisoner, you
shall not escape, for 1 shill' certainly commit you
as an idle and disorderly person until next Ses-
sions, and. I sorry 1 can do no more for yon."
The was given over to the -care of her aunt,
after receiving a suitable admonition.
BOW-STREET .

FORGERY-,--Yesttrdity John Vartie, lateelerlt to
Messrs. 11l enchlry and Co. of the Gravesend -bank,
was brought for re-examination. Mr.. Rich, one
of the partners, stated, that the prisoner, in the
course of his-,employment, had:written.a letter to
Niessrs. Mociett, and Co. bankers, in
Birehin-lane, their London agents, which- letter
one of the partners subscribed ; that in Conse-
quence of the prisoner absenting himself -an in-
quiry took place, and it was discovered that the
prisoner had, of his own authority, written a post-
script to the letter, requesting that Messrs. Wil-
liams and Co. would pay to Lieutenant It. Mace,
on. his applying to them, the sum of 4001. The
signature, •" -R.-Mace, Lieutenant," also appeared
on the face of the letter, and the postscript sig-
nified that it was in the Lieutenant's hand-writing,
and that he would sign his name in a similar man-
ner on applying for the money in town, to pre-
vent a wrong person receiving it.
. E. H. Smetham stated, that he was one of the
clerks at the banking-house of Messrs. Williams
and Co: Birehin,lant ; that on the ith or 8":11 of
August last, w.person, who, he had no doubt, was.
the prisoner,• applied at the backing-house,
asked hint it-he had an order to pay Lieut. Mace
4001.. 'Witness referred to the letter from Messrs.
-Brenehley and Co. which he • had received a few.
days:before, and said yes, t here was such an order,
and asked hint it his Millie WAS Mace. Ile said it
was, -and witness then glive him a check, whielehe
filled tip for 4001. and signed " It. Mace, Lieut."
Witness conipar,eil the signature with that in the
letter, and finding them tucorrespond,lie put his ini-
tials npon the cheek, and directed hint to the cashier.
Mr. Bishop, the cashier,-confirmed this testimony,
having paid. the money, A police (Meer stated,
that he traced the. prisoner,into France, and ep-
trehended him at Abbeville on the.23d Had
- •
havingdold hint what he-was charged with, he
searched him, and foam' dip9n him a :100/.,- Bank-
note, which he had received at Messrs. Williams's,
and 2101. in small notes. The prisoner delivered
to the officer a and seals,. Which he said he
purchased with part Of the money. lie WAS hilly
committed to Newgate for trial for the forgery.
Mr. ALLEY attended as Ills Counsel.

About .six o'clock :oii Sunday evening, a-(3en-
tletran was bustled by a gang of pick-pockets; op-
posite the end of Shoe-lane, Holborn, arid a va-
10able•silver wa-tch, with gold chain and append-
•ages, was forcibly take'rroUt of his pocket. • Al-.
though many persons were Parsing at the time,
the villains effected their escape.

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rrom the LONDON GAZE FE--; Sept. °, T.