The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-15 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Yesterday Mr. Burt, a solicitor, residing at No.
19, Carmarthen-street, Fitzroy-square, came to this
office,. and, addressing Mr. CONANT, the sittina.
Magistrate, said that he called in consequence of
some severe observations respecting him, as made
by Mr. Conant, the Magistrate, which had appeared
in the Times newspaper, arising out of the exami-
nation of a man named Bell, who was in custody on
suspicion of having been concerned in some robbe-
ries at the house of Lord Hartland. It appeared,
Mr. Burt said, that this man Bell had stated that
he, Mr. Burt, had advised him not to give any in-
formation to the Magistrate, or not to answer any
questions respecting a man named Burn, who was
sought after as strongly suspected to have been also
implicated in these robberies. " Now," said Mr.
Burt, very properly, "had I been capable of giving
such advice as this attributed to me in a case of fe-
lony, I should have richly deserved the severe cen-
sure of the Magistrate ; but I assure you, Sir, I did
no such thing, and such an assertion on the part of
Bell is utterly false. Indeed, so far would I be
from giving such advice, that I would be most
anxious to forward the ends of justice on such an
occasion, by advising the man to tell all he knew
about the matter; but, in truth, I gave him no ad-
vice upon the subject farther than this :—Bell was
employed by me for two or three days during the
illness of my own servant, and he mentioned t ante-
thing about his having been inquired after on the sub-
ject of a robbery at Lord Hartland's house, of which
he declared his total ignorance and entire innocence,
and I at once advised him to go forward then and
meet the charge at once like an hottest man, and not
to give himself an appearance of guilt by keeping Out
of the way ; and in consequence of this advice, he
(Mr. Burt) believed the man came and gave himself
up at this olhee. This, (said Mr. Burt), is all I know
or ever did know abbut Bell, and is certainly the
only advice, legal or otherwise, I ever gave him, and
I trust, Sir, you will give me credit for the truth of
my assertion.

.Mr. CONANT said, that in consequence of the very
extraordinary advice which Bell had represented Mr.
Burt to have given, he (Mr. Conant) most certainly
did make the observations as they appeared in the
newspaper, but he was now quite ready to believe
that Bell had asserted that which was untrue ; and
from the very fair and candid manner in which Mr.
Burt had expressed,: and the gentlemanly way in
which he deported himself, he (Mr. Conant) felt
satisfied that the observations he had made were not
justly applicable to Mr. Burt.
Mr. Bert said, that he hoped the reporter for the
Times Journal would do him the justice to express.
the Magistrate's altered opinion upon the subject.
Mr. CONANT said, there was little doubt but that
Would be done.

Mr. Burt then thanked the Magistrate, and with-
drew.

An elderly female, named Elizabeth Murphy, of
respectable appearance, was brought to the office in
custody of Valentine, the officer, charged with a
series of robberies an:l frauds upon Mr. Verrey, the
Swiss confectioner, in Regent-street, whose recent
calamity has excited such general sympathy. It ap-
pears that, during the lifetime of the young female
to whose death we have alluded, the prisoner was
very confidentially employed in the house, and occa-
sionally gave her assistance, too, in the shop before
Miss Verrey became sufficiently acquainted with the
English language to converse with the English cus-
tomers. For some time before the unfortunate
death of Miss Verrey, she had from time to time
missed various articles of her wearing apparel, such
as silk-stockings, gowns, under-garments, &c.; but
the innocent and kind-hearted young creature always
preferred submitting in silence to these deductions
from her wardrobe, rather than, by making them
known to her father, hazard an injury to any body
else, although it was clear that she was almost every
other day plundered of some little article or other
of dress by some one in the house ; and in com-
municating her losses to a young female compa-
nion, with an injunction to say nothing about them,
her observation always was, " Oh, never mind, the
loss is not much ; I can do without them. God
will give me more, if I deserve them." During
Miss Verrey's life-time, therefore, no discovery of
perpetrator of these thefts was either made or
atte
mpted ; but after her death, another young fe-
male acquainted with the confectionary business was
taken into the house, and, very quickly this young
fenw.le, too, began to miss articles of her dress, and
in the end *Mr. Verrey, having strong suspicions of
the prisoner's dishonesty, discharged her from the
house altogether, and so would have let the matter
rest had be not subsequently discovered that the
prisoner had gone since her discharge to several
tradespeople in the neighbourhood, who knew that
she was in Mr. Verrey's service, and obtained
goods of different kinds in his name without paying
for them.
ValentiDe, the officer, on apprehending the pri-
soner, searched' her, and found on her person uo
less ;hen 74 pawnbro-kers? triplicates for a variety
of property, including many artieleiof female dress,
such as silk stockings, &c., which she acktioWledged
she had stolen from
The poor Miss Verrey.
, prisoner had nothing to urge in her defence,
Owl was remanded until the pawnbrokers can pro-
duce the stolen property pledged with them.
Mr. CoNANT, in a very kind manner, questioned
Mr. Verrey as to his health, and hoped that his
business was prosperous, which be (Mr. Conant)
was sure was the wish of every humane and respect-
able person who had heard of his calamity.
Mr. Verrey thanked the Magistrate, and with the
tear starting in the poor man's eye, said that his

busines; was going on very well ; he had experienced
a great deai of kindness and encouragement since
the loss of his child, and his heulth was as good,
thank God, as under such a bereavement he could
expect it to be.