The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-10 00:00:00

OLD BA I LEY.—(Trns DAY.)

(Bqpre Mr. Sergeant AItARIN.) •
STEALING IDE TUE DWELLING IfOUSE.
Sarah Forward, aged 20, w /IS indicted for &fettl-
ing eight sovereigns and three half sovereigns,,
the property of Clara Eves, itrr mist-revs, ;914,ft..,
dwelling house.

The prosecutrix lives in Sloane-square, Chelsea; the pridoner
had lived in her service a fortnight before the day of the robbery,
which happened on the 25th of March ; when she left she gave
no notice that she was going to leave her service ; soon after
she was gone witness examined her bureau, and found eight
sovereigns and three half sovereigns, out of 201. of gold and
silver, which was safe there late the preceding evening; did hot
see her again for a fOrtnight. The prisoner acknowledged that
she took them for the purpose of being sent out of the country,
A watchman in Duke-street, St. James's, tasted, that the
prisoner came to him one night, and surrendered herself to him,
saying she was a thief, and
,had robbed her mistress, whose name
and address she gave correctly.
Mr. Sergeant Muftis- said, the case was very extraordinary,
but from its clearness there could be no doubt of the prisoner's
guilt, as her own confession bore out the testimony of the pro•
secutrix. Verdict—Guilty, Death.

Wm. Rowland was indicted for stealing a look.
ing glass, value tiOs., the property of Robert Donaldson. The
Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing to the value of 39s
The prisoner W 43 ordered to be transported for seven years.

( Before Mr. Justice PARR and Mr. Baron (I ARROw.)
DESPERATE HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

Win. Leach, aged 23, and Peter Naden, aged
2.0, were indicted fbr assaulting John Moulton on the King's
highway, putting him in tear, and taking from his person two
sovereigns and 151., his monies. The prosecutor lives at
Friern -Barnet; on the 11th of ;March be was at Colney Hatch,
and left a public house about half-past eleven ; had been there
about seven or eight hours, but not drinking ad the time ; was
perfectly sober when he left to proems( home ; on his way the
second prisoner overtook him, and Naden said he went
to Joff's to get some beer ; Joff is not a Welch-
man, but is the landlord of the Orange Tree ; he
said, I have been down to meet some sheep, but they
are not yet conic up ; this conversation took place in a
retired road between Colney Hatch and Muswell Hill; they
kept a little before hint for three or four furlongs; they then
turned round and began to beat him about the head with blud.
geons, like two men threshing wheat; they repeated their blows
until witness fell on his back; witness said, " for God's sake
spare my life, for the sake of my wife and 6 children. One of
them then pressed his thumb upon his throat, and put his other
hand in the left-hand pocket, in which was 165., and two so.
vercigns us the right they both rifled the pockets at one
time. They then felt round the band of his breeches,
and inquired for his watch ; they said if he would not give it
up they would shoot him; witness had no watch; they then
left him for dead and' walked deliberately away ; witness got
up and followed them, but he saw at the distance of one hun.
tired yards that they got over u gate and went into a field;
witness then went back to the village and informed Mr.
Heeley, and another friend, of what had happened, and.
described the prisoners ; the robbery was committed in a
Saturday night ; on :Sunday (next day) witness was going
along Mr. Bensley's private road on the other side of Colney,
r when he saw die prisoner, who he should have known a quarter
of a mile off; he was about 200 yards from them ; his head was
bandaged up. On prisoners seeing witness they turned aside
and went over a field in the direction of Whetstone; •wit.
mess kept them in his eye within two fields, and witnesa
went round and met them at a gate as they were corn.
big out, near the Swan. By this time they had been
joined by two men, whom witness knew carrying turnip.tops.
One of memo said, '' Are you going to the Doctor's ?" 1I it.
ness said, " Did need go, for 1 was stopped and tabbed last
night by these two men ;" (pointing to the prisoners) the two
men with turnip tops aided witness in securing them, and tak.
ing them to the Swan. _ -

By Air. AimLvit us, who appeared for the prisoner Naden.
—Witness has land, and takes in droves, and it is his business
to be at the road-houses to meet them ; did not toss for liquor,
but did for money for about three-quarters of an hour ; was
quite sure of the imrsons of the prisoners by their dress and sta-
ture. The prisoners said they did not commit the robbery,
but they would go any where ; they were searched in the pre,
Nellee of witness, and tis. was found in one, and 4s. 6d. on the
other.

Larkin Ely atatvl, that he was called out of bed by the pro..
secutor about half-past eleven on the night of the 11th of
March, who said he had been robbed of all he had got, and
been ill used : his trot:kw:is all over blood, and he was wounded
in several parts of his head. Witness gave a description of
the men, as he -was taking hits home, by their dress : .the pro..
secutor appeared to be saber.
Other witnesses were called to prtive the sobriety of the
. prosecutor
. _ _ _

A witness-was called, who stated that on the night in quell.
Lion, he was at the Orange Tree, end the prisoners came in
about 10 o'clock, and had some porter, had seen the primmer*
before, Mr. Moulton was perfectly sober.
Samuel Sims, one of the horse patrole, is stationed near
Whitstone ; in consequence of information he received, he went
with Curry Isis brother officer to the Swan public-house, where
be saw and apprehended the prisoners, who had trowsers on,
and Leach's were marked with blood, as was Neden's coat.
(The Jury examined the garments and the shoes of one of
the prisoners,'which were naildd in rather a fanciful meatier.)
The trowsers were marked. with the blood at the bottom;
the prisoner Naden lives in that neighbourhood.
James Curry confirmed the testimony of the other petrol,
and added that he observed blood on the shoes of tl►e prisoner
Nader).

Thomas Janes, the gaoler at Bow-street, stated, that he took
the trowsers, shoes, &c. from off the prisoners, which are the
sante as now produced.

The frock of the prosecutor was also produced, which was
much stained with blood.

'T.l4e prisoners made no defence.

The prisoners were about to call several. witnesses u to
facts to prove an alibi on the part of Naden, when
Mr. Justice PARK. wished that Mr. Adolphus would take
the trouble to cower with the prisoner, observing that the
Learned Counsel knew his reason.

Mr. ilDoLrflus went to the bar, and after conversing with
Nuden some time, returned to his place and said, that hesitould
only call witnesses to character.
Several witnesses were then examined, who stated that Na-
den bad borne a uniformly good character for honesty.
Several of the same witnesses were again called, and they
spuke favourably of the character of Le.ich.
Air. Justice PAPA summed up the evidence with giear Per-
spicuity.
The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty-,
Death.

EXTRAORDINAUT AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—.
Yesterday morning, between one and two o'clock, the inhabit.
ants of St. Mary Axe were alarmed by the cries of fire, which
had suddenly broken out, in the house, No. 21, occupied by
respectable widow lady, named Gonne. It was first discovered
by the watchman, anti appeared to have commenced on the
second floor ; the flames had burst forth through the windows,
and the casements projecting with light wood work, they
speedily caught fire, anti the - whole neighbourhood was bril-
liantly illuminated. The watch collected in great LumberS,
and knocked loudly at the door, but all the inmates seemed de-
termined on consigning themstlves to that most terrible of All
fates—death by fire. The door, however, was beat in with .a
siege hammer, and on entering the passage, the night constable
was surprised to meet conting down stairs, ready dressed, and a
parapliue under his arm, the tnan who occupied the floor where
the fire was then raging, a Jew tailor, named Wolfe, who ap.
peered to be perfectly careless of the ives of 4 young men who
slept in the attics, then exposed to imminent risk. Some of the
watchmen rushed up through clouds of smoke, in order to arouse
those poor devoted beings, but on gaining the second larding, it
was ascertained that the staircase leading to their apartments
had fallen in, and considerable apprehensions were entertained
for their safety. They were at length aroused by the shontincof
the people in the streets, and they were noon atter attempte?tO
effect their retreat tiownwards, but the attempt watt notaneut
for the stairs were now wholly consumed, and the flin es were
rapidly closing around them. In this dilemma they.lw
them of getting out on the roof, and after sonte,Atas
escapee to the
forced the attic window, which was fasteifeid,tZdetonthe hands
7thoulghle;
around them.
leads, but not without having been seriously burnt
and arras, the burning timbers lain;; ripen
and there being
—Several engines having InimultcY, 4,31 pie gat under much
a plentiful supply of water, thii. t
)erty has been pretty great ; that
Maly injured. The loss or p
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n;lppeth7rPfrPoAchtl?lfe intlitepu:ll.
t at some hundred poundo and the
of Ill". (Jenne being v"-
particularly the the
have lost every thing, efir:ur young men,
utvlllidocersaeat USeciaoll:clactit 'kn. a state of nudity ; the was wholly goi

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Fxtructsfrom the Morning Pvers,4lprilio,lB2os

[TI,VE TIMM j
Tribe untimely and melancholy death of Lieut,
4berf at the; on Wednesday last, en account
of which we have extracted from the Kentish
Raeette, is an event which cannot be looked ut
-without exciting very painful reflections. This
officer was employed on what is called the " pre-
-ventive service"—that is, the prevention of smug-
gling along the southern coast of England, and
WAS shot—accideretally, of course—by one of his
Own men engaged in the seine duty. But it was
only the mistake of the person at whom the man
fired that was accidental : the shot was a delibe-
rate shot, intended to take away the life of some-
body,ld that somebody was guilty of no offence
—nay, was charged with none—but that of having
omitted to answer the sailor who killed him,
when the latter said he hailed (though none of
the witnesses present had heard him hail) from a
distance of 50,yards! Now, we cannot refrain from
asking, whether it is really-in England during
peace that such things happen ?—whether it is in
a country where law exists, that orders have been
issued from any public authority, capable of
being construed by those whose duty it is to ex-
ecute them, into a privilege of shooting the King's
subjects for mistaking a signal', or not answering
any man who says he calls to them from a dis-
tance, and therefore shoots , them as he would
wild beasts ? We repeat, that the only excuse
made, or attempted, by the seaman who shut his
officer in the recent instance, was that he received
no answer when he hailed. It is vain to assert
that the specific instructions given to the preven-
tive-service-men did not bear them out in such
acts of violence. I f the service on which they are
employed he of a nature to hurry them into such
mistakes of their orders, it is intolerable in a
country like Great Britain. On board, the ex-
traordinary character of the service requires that'
it should he maintained by a rigorous and per-
emptory discipline—a word and a blow are
there things of course. in pursuing smug-
glers also upon the water, where the whole
community is confined to boats, and consists
of but two descriptions of people—the breakers
of the law, and its official ministers,—a rule may
he laid down for shortening the pursuit, securing
the property liable to confiscation, and so de-
terring from a repetition of the same offences,
which would be uttered insupportable if brought
into activity ashore. It would be seen that under
the regulations of this preventive service, rude
sailors with cutlasses and pistols in their hands
are invested with a magisterial authority, to stop
whom they please, question whom they please,,
and carry whom they please into captivity, if
caught within a certain distance of the coast.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
venerable Lord Eldon, might either or both of
them be boarded and overhauled at night by
these police-officers of the ocean, if Met with in a
meditative rumble a mile or so from any of the
stations called " Loot-on ts." We objected from
the first to this metamorphosis of our bold seamen
into so many ferrets, and the degradetion of their
own tiroe service into one for which none but the
regular bred sharks of the Custom-house can be
efficiently adapted.. It is impossible to make
seamed understand the respect for liberty and
person under which all the legal functionaries of
this country are forced to execute the duties im-
posed upon them; nor is it a whit more feasible
to teach a seaman how to discriminate in all
cases between those of the King's subjects who
seek only the protection of the laws, and those
who subsist by evading them. The sailors ought
to be restored to their proper element ; the
charge. of smagglers ought to be confided to the
Custom-house ; and the soil of England no
longer visited by martial law in its most arbi.
trary and undiscrimivating forms.

[MORNING HErtALD.I
Referring again to the proposed increase of
salary to Mr. Iluskisson,. we must say, that con.
sidering the length of time they have had, for ar-
ranging it, Government have managed the matter
at clumsily as they well could, and in a manner
calculated in some degree to shake their popu-
larity with their country. There is in the
speeches which appear to have been delivered
upon the subject nom. of that high tune which we
should wish to see distinguish public men ; but,
on the contrary, too much of that low peddling
spirit which centres every thing in self, and places
salary far above duty or patriotic feeling. Mr.
Buskisson's own interference in the debate was
in the worst possible taste ; anti the whole pro-
ceeding., we repeat, places all parties in a
situation by no means enviable. We have
been ever ready to bear testimony to Mr.
Huskisson's merits as a public man ; but
when he took the two offices he now holds,
be knew the terms upon which he was to
hold them, anti backed as his services, are, by
good contingent pensions to himself and some
part of his family, we do not believe that at the
time of taking office, he considered that he would
be ill paid, tin that when ParliamPut was engaged
in lopping oil every evoidable expence, any one
would dream of increasing the emoluments of these.
, But luckily for Mr. Huskisson (who Was not, we
believe, bred in very, high Tory principles), he
had: the good fortune to win the good graces of the
cc gentlemen opposite," one of whotn (Mr. Baring),
with an eagerness that he now repents, suggested
that the office of President of the Board of Trade
Omit& have a salary adequate to the merits of the
present occupant, totally regardless, however, of
that occupant being otherwise proVided for, and
of la 9 having taken office upon a faith, and under
cieturnstaeces. which could not be misunder-
stood. Prompted by this kind of hint,, and
armed with the recommendation of their oppo.
'tents, away fly alt the economical resolves of the
Government' and. they sere
upon the occasion to
prtiposnot. only a tolerable large salary to the
presweittot the
,Liootti of Trade, but to provide
llSAltsvfirreasurership of the Navy for some
thelr Many expectant adherents, whom
the, iste "obit of retrenchment has. tired into
Aintoat:ltikewarrnness and indifference ; and the

country is thus to '
be charged with an addi-1
tional expence of five thousand pounds a-year,
which was neither called for nor expelled,
while, with a miserable parsimony, we are
paring down the salaries of clerks, and post-
men to turns which in many cases hardly afford
subsistence or insure integrity. The, debate
On this occasion has thrown south light both upon
Men and circumstances which 'we should have
been glad had never been revealed. Among
the rest the irresponsible responsibility of the
Treasurer of the Navy is not a little amts.
sing. It is contended that it is an office,
if not of great labour, at least of great
trust, the holder being responsible for all the
moneys which pass through the office; yet,
when any of it is lost, not a farthing has this
most responsible officer to pay, unless, as can
rarely happen, the loss has occurred by some
personal fraud or negligence of his own. Whe-
ther those who use such arguments have higher
opinion of the wisdom or gullibility of their
auditors, is what we leave for their mature re•
flection and that of the country to'determine.

rNEW TIMES.]

A report was very prevalent at the West End
of the town on Saturday evening, that a meeting
-had been held at Mr. Canning's, at which the
Right Hon. Secretary bud informed his parlia-
mentacy friends that their public services would
close at Whitsuntide. Of course people began
to prepare for the arduous duty of canvassing ;
and we should not wonder if some worthy aspi-
rants after Senatorial fame, had broken into their
Sabbath meditations with preparatives for the ap-
•proachiug election. We are sorry to disturb
these preasant visions ; but truth compels us to
declare, that there is no truth at all in the report.
The meeting at Mr. Canning's was purely
official, and not one word was uttered on
the subject of Dissolution. So much for" con-
fident" rumours derived from the very best autho-
rity ;" for our part, we believe that we know just
as much as any individual breathing (that is to
say, nothing at all) about the time when Parlia-
ment is to be dissolved. All that can at present be
determined is, that nothing is determined on the
subject. Much Parliamentary business yet remains
to be done. Several important public and many
private Bills are in their course through the two
Houses, and there is one very interesting and ardu-
ous subject yet untouched, e allude to the Report
of the ChanceryCommission,which will serve as the
groundwork of four or five distinct Bills. These,
we understand, will very shortly be brought for-
ward by the Attorney-General, and will tote.
(her embrance as effectual a reform of the prac-
tice and course of the Court of Chancery, as can
he made practically useful. Still it may easily
be believed, that measures of such conseque'nce
cannot pass through the two Ilouses without
many and long diszus,,ions, which must necessa-
rily tend to protract the present Session.