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the useless labour and expense of an attempt to eat- • • themselvee acquainted with . all the .Intricacies and
plore a North-west passage, in the Arctic Sea, we fastenings of the house with a view to a burglary
are prepared to abandon our censure, on that point, and robbery hereafter, and the manner in which these
provided the Ministry disclosed any connected news false characters (for such they always are) are sup-
in the undertaking. We have again carefully read plied to these robbees, has never, perhaps, before
over the details of the expeditions; and reviewed come to light, and when stated, will seem almost in-
the question as it might bear on any circumstances credible. There are, then, it appears, a set of men,
connected with the prosperity of our Navy, or of robbers themselves of course, living about the hotels
our other Colonies. The best sailors are made in the at the west end of the town, under the title of Co-
North, but the best paying Colonies are those which load this, or Captain that, having all the exterior of
lie in the South; and here two purposes are at issue. gentlemen, living and associating as such, keeping_
To avail ourselves of the best chance of exploring the their gigs and horses, and supposed to be persons of
imaginary sea in que ;lion, would be to fitout a vessel in respectability and character, and these villains, it
Australia,#as much the nearest point within our power, appears, derive their means of subsistence entirely
to Behring's Straits ; and to follow the coast froro from giring false characters to these " servants out
Icy Cape, by the mouths of. Mackenzie's and the of place," alias burglars and the atrocious system
Copper Mine Rivers; and for this purpose the crew is carried on thus : A "servant out of place"
destined to occupy the vessel should be transhipped goes to one of these 6' gentlemen" at the hotel (for
to America from England ; and conveyed overland it seems they are all known to each other), and
to the West River. They would start compare- says he wants a character; the " gentleman" in-
tively fresher than from the tedious voyage of quires the nature of the situation the applicant
doubling Cape Horn. Nothing but the remoteness wishes to be recommended to, and the rank of the
of these Straits from the European Ports, one have family into which he expects to get introduced, and
prevented the question at issue from being decided in proportion to these he makes his charge : for in-
long ago; for there is little doubt, that though we stance, if a character is to be given to a butler, and
new know nothing of the Western Coast of America, the family to which he is going is that of a noble-
ten degrees beyond the Arctic Circle, yet that im- man or person of large fortune, the "gentleman then
mouse continent was peoeled by a transit of the demands his fee accordingly ; if a coachman, so
Strait connecting Asia and America, four Mousa:;.! much ; a footman, so much 1 and so on from the
yea r. 3 ago; nor can we find a spot of land, \v '•:t,- butler down to the tnritspit, the fee varying in pro-
ever we go, on which acme inhabitants of those portion to the situation from .ss. up to five guineas:
sterile regions may not be found; or otherwise traces half of this fee must be paid to the" gentleman" on
of the receet visitation of some of the wandering his supplying the written document, and the other
tribes. Men that build their houses with blocks half as soon as possible after the situation is obtained
of snow, cut and squared to resemble white by means of it. This document will of course give
marble ; and construct windows with the natural a 12 months', a five years', or any other character
glass of ice; shifting their residence of latitude required ; and, on inquiry at the hotel whence it is
and longitude, from time to time, when it is expe- dated, it is found that the person signing it is really
dient to recruit the resources of their fisheries and deer stopping there, and is supposed to be a gentleman of
parks, mock all our Moms of boasted knowledge in independent property, and thus all suspicion is set at
these inhospitable regions-The Esquimaux have been rest. Having by these means. procured admission
invariably found a generous and hospitable people as into families, these fellows remain in the house and
far as their resources go ; nor can you trace in them conduct themselves very well, until they become
either the perfidy or the cruelty of savages more perfectly acquainted with the situation at night of
favoured by the sun.—ln occasionally coming all the valuable property, plate, &c.. in the place, and
in contact with- the. Copper Indians, they have the most easy mode of finding access to it by a bur-
been taught some few of the arts of war, in glary ; and having thus accomplished the sole object
their own defence; but it is deserving of remark, for which they were met there, they purposely make
while the North American Indians described to our themselves drunk, and commit tiome excess in order
Land Expedition the dangers to be apprehended to get turned away, and within a short period from
from some tribes of Esquimaux to the North East this time the house is sure to be robbed. Too much
of the Copper Mine River, we had to draw a die- caution cannot, therefore, be exercised as to what
tinction uniformly to the disadvantage of the Indians; servants families receive .into :heir establishments.
who are insidious and deceitful where they are not MARYLEBONE.
cruet. We have (given as it may be said) an open ROLIBERt AT TILE FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S.—
sea at Icy Cape, latitude 71, north, longitude 160, When Langford, the porter's cousin, was examined
west; the coast running due east; again we have an on Thursday night, December 11, together with the
open sea, latitude 69, longitude 132; and again %Ye Prince's servants, he said he lodged a ith his sister,
have an open sea front " Cape Hearne," to " Point at No. 9, Sydney-street, Commercial-road ,'White-
Turn-again," (see Captain Franklin), about one de- chapel, and that he slept in .her apartments. on the
gree more south, and 12 degrees more east. We eight of the robbery; and when Buckeridge and
have sea and land in 72 degrees, north latitude, and Walters, the officers, called there to ascertain the
in longitude 120, west ; rind these bring us, though truth or falsehood of his statement, his sister, and
at separate stages, within about one degree of lati- Mr. and Mrs. Simmons, the master and mistress of
tude, and one degree in longitude of " Banks' " the house, declared it was true. Their yeracity
Land (probably an island), as laid down by Parry, afterwards became more than doubtful, and on Sa-
from Melville Island. The presence of the Arctic turday it was put by Mr. Hoskins to the test.
Sea being thus demonstrated in so many points, La„gford, Watson, Amory, and Hornsby, the
over more than a hundred degrees of longitude west other persons detained on suspicion, having been
of Greenland, it were most extraordinary placed at the bar, the oath was adn-eietered to \Vil-
it should be excluded from all the numeroeta!• ham Simmons, paper-hanger, No. 9, Sydney-street,
adjacent points necessary to the North-west I.'as- and he was asked by
sage in question, But why persist in' ex- Mr. Hosrettes—Did the prisoner Langford sleep
plot ieg such passage West, through mountains in your house on the night of the 9th of December ?
•of ice, instead of East, from the approximation of No, he did not.
the two continents, where the sea is open ? The Mr. HoSKINS—Did he ever sleep there at
absence ty`' ice at sea, in this region, commonly de- all? No,
notes the distance of land. In all our exertions, Cross-examined by Buokeridge—Did not you
ably and meritoriously as they have been performed, tell me and the other officer, when we called at
we have been "kicking against the pricks." YOu your house to inquire, that he did sleep there that
may find en open sea in the direction of Spitsbergen, night ? I did.
as far sie the 83d degree of north latitude—because Mr. HostuNs—What could induce yoe to speak
there is so small a portion of land ; while you are so falsely ? Langford told me if 'any person made
hampered with ice in all the inlets west of Beffin's inquiry after him, to say that he slept there, because
and Hudson's Bays. If an expedition were to pro- if any one came, it would be .to give him a si-
ceed eastwards, as we have described, embarking tuation,
from the western coast of America, it would be al- Mr. HOSKINS—Did you at the time know, or
most impossible that it should not ultimately blue- have any reason to suspect, that the Ambassador's
der on some known point, from Melville Island io house had been robbed ? When we found the fe•
the vicinity of Repulse Bay ; otherwise the Ameri- lony was committed, my wife and Mrs. Shaw (the
can Continent must stretch nearly, if not quite out, prisoner's sister) came up to you to contradict what
to the Pole; and of which Greennd itself may be we had said to the officers, and acknowledge that
only a Peninsula. As a geographical question, it is Mr. Langford did not sleep there.
an extremely interesting cne; for in this view of the Mr. Hostmes—They. came to contradict it after
case, the shores of the New World would be brought
ithin a degree of the meridian of London ; and it was found to be false.
w
Buckeridge—Did not you deny that Mrs. Shaw
have been known about as long as England. itself I
received a letter from Langford, after-he was corn-
It would likewise go to enforce the probability of -a
mirted to the New Prison ? I did.
Southern Continent, yet unknown, of much larger
Buckeridge—A letter was sent to her, and did
dimensions than any land known in the north, from riot you read it for her, and burn it afterwards
the extraordinary extent of the ice. I did.

$ The point fixed upon by Government for this new
Settlement is the Swan River, on the Western Coast.
Directions are given for taking a formal possession. Cap-
tain Sterling examined the whole Western Coast, from
Cape Lenin, or Lion's Land, last year. For general
particulars see Peron's and Freyrinet's voyages. The river
is noted fOr its Black Swans. The soil is reputed to he
extremely enperior.

POLICE INTELLIGE/Crg.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

On Saturday David Evans and John ser-
vants out of place, James Clamberlain, a porter at a
cheesemonger's shop, and Thomas Hall, a porter in
the service of Messrs. Riley and Lapworth, carpet-
mani.....cturcrs in Old Bond-street, were brought te
this ()nice, charged with a series of robberies at the
house of the employers of the last-named prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner Hal!, who was
much in the confidence of Messrs. Riley and Lap-
worth, was frequently left, during the occasional
absence of the partners, in charge of the premises,
and that he took those opportunities of admitting
the other three prisoners, one of whom was a rela-
tion, and the others acquaintances, to visit hint at
the house, not with any "'en, as appeared in the
first instanoe, to rob the carpet warehouse, but ti
no !ess culpable robbery of his master's wine c.:lar,
The prisoners Evans and Collins, however, were not
to be satisfied with a plentiful supply of wine when-
ever they came to visit Hall, but determined to carry
their depredations further, and, to accomplish this
without interruption even from Hall, if they antici-
pated any, they took occasion always; to introduce
a, portion of laudanum with the wine w hich Hall
drank, and, this coon setting him to sleep, they
availed themselves of that opportunity of carrying
off from the warehouse many pieces of valuable
carpeting, some of which they sold, and some of
which they pledged. After carrying on this system
of plunder for some time, they, in the end, corrupted
Hall himself, until he fell into the same mode of
robbery, and he too occasionally removed pieces of
carpeting, and employed Chamberlain, the fourth
prisoner, always, either to sell or pawn it for him,
until at last he was detected in doing so, and the
whole system was exploded and confessed by HAll,
himself. The prisoners Evans, Chamberlain, and
Hall, were fully committed for trial, the charge hav-
ing been clearly brought home to them by the pro-
duction from several pawnbrokers' shops of various
part, of the stolen property which the prisoners
were identified as having pledged, and which Messrs.
Riley and Lapworth swore to as belonging to them.
Collins was remanded to a future day, owing to the
absence of a material witness in his case.
Upon searching Evans, several well-wi Uen letters
and other documents, giving the. highest characters
to himsdf and othe;', therein named, as servants,
were found upon hint, and a bottle of laudanum,'
which he, no doubt, used in any house to which as a
viaiter he found access, as he had at Messrs. Riley
arid La:_isorth's.__

Mr. RAwussort asked whether letters were per-
mitted to go out of the New Prison sealed ? and
Buckeridge replied, " This did, your Worship, and
we do not know how."
Mr. HOSKINS desired Mr. Simmons, if he could
speak the truth, to say what the letter contained.
He said it was only to request her to send him
clean linen, and other necessaries.
Mr. Simmons was then called in, and she made a
similar recantation.
" Why, madam," said Walters, the officer, to her,
" this is strange, after the shift you told me you was
obliged to make to accommodate Langford with a
bed that night; you remember it, but it would not
be altogether delicate to mention what you said
here."

Mrs. Simmons appeared very much abashed by
the officer's remark. She remembered it, but she
did it at the prisoner's request.
George Tarrant, footman to Prince Polignac, was
examined—Langford came into the hall in a very
hurried manner, about fifteen minutes or ten minutes
before four on Tuesday afternoon, the 9th of De-
cember (the very moment, as fur as is ascertained,
after the plate was carried off), and left the house
directly : he noticed the extraordinary behaviour of
him at that time to a fellow-servant.
Peter Watson, the Prince's porter, was then put
into the witness-box, and as soon as he entered it,
Langford turned aside, and by placing his elbow
upon the bar, and resting his head upon his hand,
in great measure concealed his face; (ho is I :harged
also with robbing the porter to a considerable ex-
tent) but Peter, being in the hall at the time, could
give no evidence respecting the robbery, and other
persons were examined to as little purpose.
The prisoners employed Mr. Butler and Mr.
Wooler as attoiniea for them, and they contended
that Watson, Amory, and Hornsby, should be set at
liberty, because nothing yet appeared to fix, in any
measure, this robbery upon them ; but
Mr. HostiaNs and Mr. RAWLINSON said they
should detain them, unless they gave bail, themselves
each in IUOI., and two sureties each in 504, and they
were re-committed.
Donald M'Pherson and Henry Lander were
charged with molesting Joseph Norman, and en-
deavouring, by throats and intimidations, to prevent
him from accepting work and employment from
Messrs. James and Thomas Riddle, cabinet-makers,
in Wells-street, Oxford-street.
Joseph Norman, of No. 1, Joiner's-place, Curtain-
road, said that about a month ago he engaged to
come to v k for Messrs. Riddle ; after that three
men came ta his house, M'Pherson was one of them,
and told him if he worked for Messrs. Riddle, he
would not get paid full price for his work, and he haul
better use his endeavours to take away his son, who
was then at work for them. He told them it re-
quired conaideration, for Mr. Riddle had promised to
pay him the full book price. They then said if he
did not take his son away he would have cause to
repent of it, for he would be opposed by a body of
800 men ; and as he was going to work for Messrs.
Riddle on the Ist of this month, he was met by
M'Pherson and Lander, and another person whom
he did not know, and they told him he was worse
than a highway robber, and put him in bodily fear.
William Norman, son of the above witness, stated
that when he went first to work for Messrs. Riddle.
MPlierson sent for him to a public-house, and en-
deavoured
to prevent him by intimidation, and told

The prisoner Hall, whose brother-in-law, it ap-
pears, Evans is, disclosed a fact which cannot be
too generally known, or too vigilantly guarded
against, with reference to the written documents
found upon Evans. The latter and Collins, he
stated, are two of a vast many servants out of place
about town, who, by means of such documents as
those found upon Evans, find their way into the
services of families for the sole purpose of making