The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-04 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.,

FORTUNE-TELLING.—Yesterday Anne Williams,
a retailer of future events, of much celebrity, at
No. 4, Ford's Cottage, Edgeware-Road, was
brought up by Plank, charged with fortune-tell-
ing. The defendant was committed to the Ses-
sions as a rogue and vagabond. The defendant
complained of a man named Kelly, a tall man,
who skulks about this Office as a kind of informer,
having, with another man, who called himself a
Bow-street Officer, obtained 61. of her a few days
since. They went to the house under pretence of
taking her, and she gave the money not to do so.
The Magistrate said a warrant might be bad
"against Kelly.

On Thursday last the trunk of an American fir-
tree, drove in front the English Channel to the
mouth at the Exe, was towed into, port by some
sailors. It presented on the water a very curious
appearance, and attracted a number of spectators,
being on one part 'entirely covered with clusters
of Lepas's, in shells, alive, vulgarly called Bar-
nadles. The tree was about 20 feet long, and
very thick ; in sawing it up, it was found to be
perforated like a honey-comb by the tirado worm,
which is ot. alight pillow colour, four inches long,
having'a slrerrstrew of the consistency of ivory
or bone, with Which it penetrates the wood.

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NOVEL AND INGENIOUS ROBBERY.

We stated last week that a quantity of brandy
had been stolen from the bonded vaults in Seel.
street : the following particulars of The very novel.
and ingenious mode by which this robbery was •
effected, have since been published
" Government have vaults in Seel-street, a feyp
doors above the Catholic chapel. These vaults are
situate under the premises of a rectifier, and ad•
join a cellar in his occupation. A considerable
number of pieces of bonded brandy had been for
some time deposited in the vaults ; and applica-
tion was made on Saturday, the 16th ult, for per-
mission to bond a quantity of puucheons, con-
taining ruin. The officers of excise, we understand,
having suspicion that all was not right with regard
,to the spirits already in the vaults, determined
to examine their condition before granting the•
desired leave. Accordingly they were opened on
the following Monday ; when • the Offieers found
that the original contents of seven pieces of brandy
bad been drawn oil, and re-filled with water. Sur- •
prised at this unaccountable chetwastance, as DO
force appeared to have been used upon any of
the three locks with which the doors, as is cos.
tontaty in these cases, were secured. thky
examined every part of the vault. Atter
considetable search, they discov, red that one of
'he [nicks, of whip i the arch is formed, had been
distothed, and that a corresponding hole had
been made in the floor of the first story of
the warchouse above ; but, as the hole made
by this means was too small to admit the
body even of the most diliduntive person,
they were still at a loss to account for the man-
ner in which the brandy had been drawn off They
continued their se,art it, and d:s.covervd that en-
trance had been pitted through some kind of sub.
terrancati passage under the floor of the vault,
which is covered with bricks. Nov comes the -
ingenoity of the matter. A hole, several yards its
depth, had, it appeared, been excavated in. the:.
adjoining cellar ; then the brick-wall, which se-
parates it from the bonded-vaults, had been .
broken, and another hole, of like dimensions,
worked, in a lateral 'direction, under the flour
of the vault. Into this hole a very strong
wooden frame, of about the height of two yards,
and about two feet in breadth, had been intro.
ditced : the side towards the cellar had an aperture
sufficiently capacious to admit the body of a man
the one towards the vault was entirely open : the
top was covered with the same bricks which
had formed the part of the floor of The vault
above it : on each -side of the frame an iron
wheel was placed, with various other pieces
of mechanism : and the whole of this ingenious
machinery was raised above the level of the floor
by turning a wheel in the contiguous cellar. By
this means a person introduced himself into the
bonded-vault. The pieces of brandy were then,.
it is supposed, rolled direct!y under the befora.!
mentioned aperture in the arch of the vault, the
brandy drawn off by a species of pump, and, by',
the same channel, re-filled with water.
.Several
of the workmen belonging to the preldses have
been examined at the Town-hall, and di,charged;
there not being evidence of any of them having
been concerned in the busioes.s. Such a robbert
must have requited several agents Co accomplish
it ; but the ingenious author and dexterous direc-
tor of the fraud remains hithettcs undiscwitted.--•.
(Liverpool Advertiser )

SHoCKING 00CLTRRENCE —Yesterday, abon:
nine o'clock in the notrning, John, the infant son
of Mr. Howell, of Mary-le-bone-lane, was crawl-
ing on the floor 5 while its mother %vas pouriog
some boiling water into a pan which was on the
ground, during the time she went to fetch some
cold water to put to it, the child fell i to the pan
of hot water head foremost. Tl:e mother return-
ing, snd finding her child in this 10.11 ible situa'
tion, tan off with him to a surgeon, but who,
could render him no assistance. Tile child expired
in a few hours atter. •
FATAL ACCIDENT.-Yesterday morning Tho
Miles,
.a dust collector, ,iA• the employ of Mr:
Smith, of Battle Bridge, was accidentally kii;ed
in the following manner :—He had drove a horse
and cart up Guilford-street, St. Pancras, and did
harness becoming deranged, he stopped the horse
and got on, the shaft of the cart to put it in its
proper situation; while he was doing so, a water
plug, which was a few yards before the hoisc,
flew out, and the•water ascended in a stream; the
horse took fright, threw Miles off the shaft .under
his feet, and kicked hint violently on his breast ;
the wheels passed over him. He was taken in a,
dreadful situation for surgical assistance, but be-
fore he could receive any aid he exp;red. He has
left
abouta 80 years,
and several children.
Out
O Monday sennight, an old woman, aged
years, ‘vho has resided many years av
Liverpool, died atter a short. illness. Intelligence
of her death being brought suddenly to her bus...
band, who was about the.same age, he sunk doWn
anti expired in about five minutes. •

COAL MARKE'r, SErT. 3.
Ships at Marliet. Ships sold. Price.
57 Newcastle .. .... 56.. • 37s. 6d. to 455. Oa.
14 Sunderland l4 3l6s. W. to 425. 01'
2 Stone C0a1............ .0. —s. Od. to —s, Oa'
1 Culla
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BIRTH.
On Tuesday, the Lady of Robert Ross, Esq. of Canter
uty-place of a daughter.

MARRIED. -
On Saturday last, at the New Church, Mary-le-bole!
Christopher Wilkinson, Esq. wholesale tea-dealer,
_Basing
hall-street, to Ann, daughter of Thomas William Hodssom
Esq.
On Tuesday last, at Hendon, Mr. 'Robert Slade, of Hu nterj
street, Brunswick-square, to Elizabeth, second daughter ,
John Tyler, Esq. of Cross-lane, Thames-street, and Heudoi"
Middlesex.

DI ED.
At Tcneriffe, on the 27th of July, David Lockhart,,
aged 80.tU
On the 26th ult. Mr. John Partridge, many years of
Bank of England, and late of Stamford hill, aged 50. •
.VAC
At her teat, Twickenham, on Sunday night last, the VAC
countess Huwe, aged 75, widow of William Lord Viscourd
Howe, daughter of the Right Honourable William Conov,;
of Castle-town, in Ireland, by Lady Anne Wentworth, tide
daughter of Thomas Earl of Strafford.

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