The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-07 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Joseph Spiers, Joseph Spiers, jun., and Charles Spiers,
Church•street, Sialtaliields,'silk manufacturers.
Hannah Walker and Thomas Atkinson, North Shields,
Northumberland, ship-oviners.
Edward Hampton Noy, George Robinson Pinw•ari.
Nichulas-lane, London], attornies.

Ellen Ayrton and Hannah Walters, school-rnitresee6,
Chester.

Thomas Smith and Thomas Powell, Blackman-street,
Southwark, auctionetrs.

William Lyddon and Jamey Brown, Carey-street, Lin-
coln's-inn, attorneys.
John Ashford, sen., and John Ashford, jun., Deptford,

George Rickerby and John Blacklock, Birmingham,
drapers.
Joseph Sanger and Thomas Webster, Leicester-stre,,t,
Leicester-square, tailors.
John Wheateroll and William Singleton, Sheffield, edge-
tool-makers.

Francis Willesforil and William C. Haley, Tavistock,
Devonshire, attorneys.
Janke* Trix and Jones 111.trsh, Barnstaple, Devonshire,
wine-merchants.

Thomas Hunter end John Hunter, Maddox-street,
Hanover-square, tallor.i.
Thomas Slade and John Slade, Dorset, maltsters.

.lohn Craggy and William Craggs, Pontefract. joiners.
Johnson Masters andd Henry Hitchruan, Dunstable,
stmt.-hat-manufacturers.
Joseph Oldham and Samtiel Oldham, Ashton-under-
Lyne, Lancashire, cotton-spinners.
Thomas Everard Upton, John Upton, and Thomas
Upton, jun, Leeds, solicitors.
John Eason and Henry E. Robson, Liverpool, brokers.
Isaac Balker and J. Rideing, Liverpool, seed-nierehants.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-It is !li-
lt-Inured in the fashionable circle•, that Lord AII7IICASTER
will Nliortly lead to the hymeneal alter, the youngest daughter
of SirJons RAMcDEN, Bart., of Byram, in this county.—
Leeds Intelligencer.

There is at present at Craigleith quarry, a
stone of such dimensions and weight as to be without
parallel in ancient or modern times. Its length is upwards
of one hundred and thirty-six feet, and it is computed to
weigh fifteen thousand tons.—Edinburgh Observer.

A fine little girl, about five years of age, the
daughter of Mr. Wyrite.tts, at Milton, near Wells, was
burnt to death on Friday, in consequence of its clothes
taking fire during the temporary absence of the mother.—
Bath Chronicle.

We cannot help calling attention to the stata
of the Strand and of Fleet-street. The audacity with
which loose women assail passengers at night in these
great thoroughfares, is most disgusting and frightful. No
capital in Europe exhibits such scenes of scandalous pLofli-
gacy as London. As to the persons who are carried otr
by the wretched females to the brothels on each side of the
streets above-mentioned, they do not know what awaits
them : too frequently robbery and blows, and sometimes
worLste oThen male associates of the unhappy 'restores who
Pace the Strand and Fleet-street arc universally house-
breakers, pickpockets, and thieves of other descriptions.--
Tunes.
Saturday week a most atrocious
attempt to
produce consequences that might hare preyed
fatal, occarred at Weatrnuir. Three rofifiens, 'barfly be-
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nfendeedratiensSaih.s2csonded, but have since paid the same damages
to the Trustees to avoid prosecution.-- Glaagote Chronicle.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

On Wednoiday Lieutenant-General Lord I.lsst•
lard came to this office, and communicated to Plank
(the chief officer) that a robbery of an elteusive
nature had been committed at his Lordship's hOubr,
No. 40, Grosvenor-place, during his Lordship's
absence in Ireland, and that stßpectini a housemaid,
who alone h r i ckargo of the house for some months
past, to be in 4ome way acc-ssory to the robbery, he
had dismissed her from his service. Plank told his
Lordship that it would be extremely desirous by all
means to have this woman in custody, and accord-
ingly directed Clements and Goddard to search ont
her retreat, of which his Lordship was rot able to
give an accurate clue; and so closely did these offi-
cers follow up the instructions, that yesterday the
female grestion was placed before the Magistrate.
Her real riame, she says, is Sarah Bell, although she
has lived in Lord llartland's family in the name of
Sarah Cockrell.

It appeared that in the month of July last, Lord
liartland went over to Ireland, leaving the prisoner,
of whom he had received the highest character when
he hired her, in the sole care of his house in Grosve-
nor-place, but having previously locked up every place
that contained property, to which it was not neceie
gory that the prisoner should have access during his
Lordship's absence. On his return to London a few
days ago, his Lordship found the house, to all ap-
pearance, precisely in the same secure state that he
had left it, with every place of which he had posses-
sion of the keys locked, and not the slightest appear-
ance of any forcible or other means having been used
to open them ; but when his Lordship examined the
interior of those places, he discovered a vast dif-
ference, for from almost all some valuable property
was missing. The wine-cellar was found to have
been diminished in its contents by about ten dozen
of beautiful wines of various kinds, besides nearly
twenty dozen of empty bottles ; the plate-room,
besides other articles, was robbed of a splendid silver
tureen, having on the top the crest, a tiger with a
shivered lance or spear; on the dexter side of the
body a lion rampant, and the sinister quartered, a
swan with spread wings, and on the handles a melon
ornamented with flowers; this article of plate alone
cost upwards of 100 guineas. From the glass
cupbeards were carried off several diamond cut claret
jugs, decanters, liqueur and claret glasses, wine
coolers, &c., to a considerable amount of valuo; and
the library was despoiled of a large collection of
valuable and elegantly bound books, including
" Corinne," in green morocco ; the whole of Shak-
speare's plays, richly hound; " Eugenie et Matilde,"
in green morocco ; Bacon's " Essays," Baskerville's
edition of " Le Bruyere," with interlineary notes ;
" Collins's Poems ;" ten volumes of " Metastasio,"
in vellum, lettered ; the works of Madame de Steel,
in lilac binding; " Parole c Nonvelle," in vellum,
with MS. sonnets inserted, and various other works
of equal interest.
The prisoner, in answer to questions from the
Magistrate, denied all knowledge of the robbery, or
by whom committed, but she admitted that since
the absence of Lord Hartland's family from London,
she had permitted her husband and one or two
other persons, to sleep occasionally in the house.
The MAGISTRATE said, that it was scarcely pos-
sible that so much property of various sorts could
have been conveyed away from the house, and taken
from places that were locked too, without the know-
ledge or connivance of the prisoner,and ordered her
to be remanded for a future . examination, and di-
rected a close inquiry to be made after the parties
whe were permitted by the prisoner to sleep some-
times in the house.

The prisoner ie a woman of respectable appear-
ance,
about forty years of age, and she -west into
the service of Lord Hartland with the highest poi-
Bible recommendation from Dr. Davis, one of the
Canons of Windsor,itt whose establishment she had
lived for 21 years.
A well-dressed respectable-looking man, 'named
William Robe, Is, was brought from the watch-house
of St. Ann's, Soho, upon the following charge of
riot and a,shult:—

Henry Balls being sworn, stated that he is brother
to Thomas Balls, a fishmonger, in West-street,
Soho, and has at present the management of his
brother's business, who was obliged to go into
Hertfordshire upon some urgent business ; tha,
on Wednesday - evening, about eight o'clock,
the defendant, accomparied by a Mr Newman,
an ironmonger, in Compton-street, Soho, came
to his ( the complainant's) brother's shop, and
dernar,i,.l to see Thomas Balls immediately about
some b,:: nr other of Nrhich they spoke, but they
were told that Thomas Balls was not in town,
and that they could not see him. This, however,
would not satisfy them, and tkey still insisted upon
seeing Thomas halls ; and on his not appearing to
their cell, they set about capering and prancieg
through the shop in the most frantic manner, at the
same time re !ring and bellowing like two mad bulls
for Thomas Balls to come Lath, until they collected
a mob of near a thousand per,ons in front of the
house; and the street was so completely blocked up,
that neither cart nor carriage could pass the way:
nor did they content themselves with these proceed-
ings, bat both of them jumped right into the middle
of a show of fish, and kicked and scattered it about
in all direction,. A cod war seen eying in one di-
rection, while a haddock darted in another ; and her-
rings, sprats, and smelts, flew about in all ways, until
not us much fish as would serve for a dinner was left
behind. One of these intruders too, with one kick,
sent a collar of brawn slap through a neighbour's.
window, and seemed to deal with it just as if it were
a foot-hall. Complainant, as soon as he could re-
cover his senses, which, from the suddenness of the
scene, were almost as much scattered as the fish, re-
monstrated with the-intruders, and endeavoured to
stay the devastation they were committing : upon
which he was violently assaulted by them, and it was
not until a posse of constables was called in, and the
shop shut up, that the riot could be subdued, and
peace restored to the neighbourhood, which was in a
complete uproar. The present defendant (Roberts)
was then lodged in the watch-house; but Newman
having, in the extravagance of his pranks, received a
severe personal injury, was obliged to he carried
home, put to bed, and a surgeon sent for to attend
him. There were also, it appeared, several other
persons, besides the present complainant, assaulted
very grossly by the am' including two females
(Mrs. Balls and a Mrs. Favel), the latter of whom
was stated to be so ill in consequence, that she was
unable to attend at the office. Mrs. Balls, however,
did attend ; and as well as another brother (W.
Balls), confirmed the ,testement of the complainant.
Roberts, in answer to all this, stated that the fact
was, that Thomas Balls, who, it is pretended, has
gone on business into Hertfordshire, but who, in
truth, is keeping out of the way of his creditors, is
largely indebted both to him (Roberts) and to Mr.
Newman, owing the latter very nearly 1,0001. ; and
that these sums, as well as other large amounts from
other creditors, Balls obtained upon bills of exchange
which he knew not to be worth a farthing; one in-
stance of which was, that he obtained from a neigh-
bour the money on the acceptance of a coal-mer-
chant who was in the Gazette as a bankrupt. In this
way, Roberts said, had Balls taken in a vast number
of persona, and now ha refused to come forward like
a man, and meet his creditors, but kept otit of the
way, and is never to be seen by any of them, leaving
this brother of his in possession and management of
the business carried on with their money. He,
Roberts, admitted that Mr. Newman and himself—
irritated and indignant at being treated in such a
manlier, and plundered of their money, for it was, he
said, the same as taking it out of their pockets, and
having, moreover, drank rather too much wine—did
conduct themselves in rather a noisy and violent
manner when they called at Balls' shop to inquire
after their debtor; but he denied that they commit-
ted any assault,
until they were struck by Balls
and knocked down and jumped upon in a most
shameful way, and it was only in their own defence
that they retaliated; he, Roberts, lost his hat in the
business, wad had the clothes-torn from his back.

Sir OBORGE FARRANT, the Magistrate, said, that

if Thomas tails owed money to flag pattiefi, there
were legal and proper means of recovering it, but
no creditor was J9stifed 'in going to a man's house
because he owesl money, and cresting a riot and to-
mult of this kind.
Mr. Gilbcr,, a solicitor, who attended for the
complainant, said that it was; their determination to
pro-ketitt this complaint to the ii; most, for that this;
was the fourth or fifth time that Li.,:berts had been
guilty of similar conduct at Mr. Balls's %.ou`t•
Sir 'G. 17'1.RANT said, that in that case it woulti
be necessary to cull upcn Mr. Roberts to put in _hail
to meet the case at the Sessions ; but, said the Ma-
gistrate to Mr. Gilbert, " as I suppose Mr. Roberts
is a respectable man, perhaps yon will consider his
own recognizance sufficient."
Mr. Gilbert—Certainly, sir, if he be a respecta-
ble man. What business are you in, Mr. Roberts
Roberts---I am a wine-merchant. .

Mr. Gilbert--Where do yon live 2 Roberts—l
reside in Soho-square.
Mr. Gilbert—What number in Soho-square ?
Roberts—No. 21.
Mr. Gilbert—Ne. 21, why that is the White-
house! Roberti was silent.

Mr. Gilbert—Do you keep the White-horse,
then ? Roberts—l don't see what right you have ,
to ask me that question.
Mr. Gilbert—Yee, I have, because I MU to judge
of your respectability before I can agree to take
your own recognisance for your appearance.
Roberts—Whether I keep the White-house or
not, I em a- respectable man, and as far as money
goes I can command enough of it.
Mr. Gilbert then submitted to the Magistrate that
Roberts was not a person whose sole recognizance
should be relied on for his appearance.
Sir O. FARRAST agreed in this opinion, and
ordered Roberts to procure two sureties in SO/. each,
and to enter into his own recognizance besides in
1001. for his appearance at the Sessions.
" Oh," 'said Roberts, " I have plenty of respect-
able housekeepers here to bail rue," turning round
to a host of tradespeople of his neighbourhood, who
had, it seems,accompanied him to the office; but he
reckoned without his host, for on applying indivi-
dually to them all round, not one of them would
bail him, but gave him a direct refusal.
Roberts—This is very strange, your worship ; I
thought I was surrounded by friends, hut they all,
it seems, disown me when it comes to the pinch ;
will it do if I deposit the amount of the bail in
money, which I can do immediately ?
Sir G. FARRANT said it would not, the bail must
be givers in the regular way.
Roberts was then locked up, but iu the course of
the day an old man named Curle, a wheelwright,
residing in Sntton-street, Soho, near the White-
house, came to the office, and entered into double
recognizeneee for the prisoner, who was then dis-
charged.
A7warrant was issued far the apprehension of
Newman, the other aggressor, but a certificate was
produced from a. surgeon, stating that Newman is
seriously ill from a fall, which it appeared he received
in an attempted exploit to clamber over some ele-
vated iron spikes, which gave way with him, and he
was precipitated to the foot-pavement.