The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-03 00:00:00

PR JCR S tyltN PE N CR,

persons present who had lost any parcel or property through
these steam-packet people.
Several voices replied in the affirmatiVe. One gentleman a
Mr. Watson. said that on the fith of January last, he bookelt
a parcel at the Steampacet office", directed; to liotilugne-sue..
Meer, containing some lady's Wearing apparel, and 121, mu.
hutit never wine to hand.

"Oh," said 51r. Laneasteroen. " 1 can account for that;
in all probability your parcel; Mr.: Watson, is lying as a dead
kter at the French'Custorn=house..
No such thing,", iittiti Mr. Watson, " for it 'NO happens
that I haveliad, a correspondenCe with the heithi-of the French
ctwom-htinse on•this subject, and moreover,
.1, sent over two
special niesSengers to make inquiry, and it appears clearly that
my parcel was never forwarded there."

.gr. Lancaster then turned to his otlice,book, or rather his
son's ofiice-hoolt, which was produced, and there Mr.Witsun'S •
parcel aptieared booked, and the insurance paid, and the entry
appeared m the handwriting of Abbott.
" Yes,” said Abbott, " I made .that entry, and took in the •
parcel, which was to have been sent to the Golden-ctoss. ft.*
thence to be fori'arded, but I know not whether it was or
not, but I Suppose it went-the tame way as Mr. Addiwinva
,parcels,"
Mr., Watson said that he hail Inquired at the Gulden CPU S,
and Horne, the pthivietot there, quite sati.fied him thin
the parcel .never went there if and if it had„ and had miseariited,
Mr. Horne *aid he would pay the value, if it were SOW.
Watson further said, that he had great lifficulty in finding qt:llr.
Lsneaster, Senior, who was always' until this day rcpre-
iented to be the proprietor ; anti it was only at last that he
tr:wed hits by paying ones shilling at the King's Bench, to beta
rider in that prlson.
Mr. Addison said he lout been also at the Oolden4rdirkoffice,
as Well afrt.that at the:Fetter-I:me and the Angel Inn offices, at •
all of which plaCes the proprietors told him, that if he did not
apprehend aid ''proCeed agninSt the whole of the gang cen-
nected with the stenniparket.Ofilee, he would be neglecting his
duty to the public;
,for it was a IIOtOOPUS thing, that scarcely
ever did a parcel of any value frnd its way through that office
its destination:- •

The Megistr;te mked young Lancaster why, at till events,
when, as he said hetbunit. Mr. Addison's parcel' broken open,
he did not tell that gentleman quit, and restore the contents to
him

Ihe privoner said he did 1.15't kno* whtre to had Mr. Ad-

"That cannot be true," said Mr. Addison," because you
knew 'eery well that I at that time lived just Uppos!te your.
office, at G, PiccAdilly, and besides I was in the habit of
calling daily at your offfee to inquire after the other parcel,
and constantly saw both 'yoUrself afid your father; and further
than this, my name and address arc at this moment in the very
parcel.produced." fir. Addison also suited, that he had that
morning received a letter, IT which he learned that a third
parcel booked by him at the same office on the.fith of March,
had not reached its destination at Cheltenhafir until ,he SOti!,
and no doubt, he said, was not forwarded until it becarneknowzi
that Abbott was in custody.
The prisoner was finally remanded until Wednesday next,
when the owners of all strayed parcels hooked at the steam-
packet office are expected by the Magistrates to attend.

, LAM BET 11-STI‘E 1.; T.
flonß DrPßAvrr v.—An instance of ,t gross flora.:
vita as, perhaps,- ever called for . the severest judicial pouf! -
ment, was on Saturday last submitted to the notice of the Ma-
gistrates of this office: A female, named regin-y, Was brought
up in custody of .the parish officer of Mile end, Ntwtown,
charged with Laving committed rubbetiea in the work-house,.
and hav!ng inveigled two little girls and two boys from within
its walls, and leading the termer into habits of prostitution,
and the latter into those of theft. From the evidence it appear.
ed that the prisoner was in the workhouse, and had been ap-
pointed nurse to the children. On
.Monday last, hav;ng prl-
vionsly made the children steal every thing' they could lay their
hands on, amt packed up the things in a bundle, she helpM
them over the wall of the workhouse, anti in the evening escap-
ed herself. They met at an appointed place, and she took them
to that sink of iniquity, where she hired a lodging.
_Leaving the boys and one of the girls there, She took the other,
;limed Sally ,ToLtmon, who, by. her eppearance, could .not be
more than 12 years of age, to a public-house -opposite the
loyalry Theatre where, having uttidu her Inta'xicated,. she hand-
ed her over to the loose desires ofd soldier. The children were
minutely examined by the Magistrates, and Revert detail of
infamy so excessive as scarcely to be credible. The prisoner
was remanded for further examination, in card ?r to give time to
bring home the charge of theft against her, that,she might not,-
go altogether unpunished, as the other charge, though a crime
of a deeper dye, cannot, it is feared, be conclusively established.

*CiRSII EET..
AWFUL CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Saturday,. a poor man, in
an infirm state of health, was brought to this (Mk by the pariitt
officers of lalington, in order to be passed to the parish of St.
Andrew, Holborn. The Magistrates had
.signed the order,
and the poor man set out on his road to the latwr parish. bre
had not proceeded above one hundred yards • from the office,
however,, when be tell down in a fit, and expired almost in-.
stantly.

SUDDEN DEATH OF 13. BALL, ES4.

IN DUURY-LANE TRICATItte

An nwful instance of sudden dt'nth
wojAcemutxr_redon
BALL,
Friday night at Drury-lane Theatre. Mr. ur
banker, of Dublin, and principal partnet in the firm of Ball
and Co. or that place, whilst sitting, surrounded by his friends,
in a private box, suddenly dropped down and expired. The
anxiety of his friends to have the inquisition immediately
taken, was so great, that the beadle our actually dispatched
'at the early hour of one o'clock in the morning, to the re.
sideitee of the Coroner, THOMAS BIGGS, EN. Whom he
knocked up ; and having announced his business, obtained
ii warrant, under which a Jury assembled at nine o'clock
on Saturday morning, ut the Crown anti Cushion public-
house, in Little Russell-street. Mr. John Cole, surgeon, t:
Great Russell-street, stated, that he was sent for about 12 tVeleelc
on Friday night, and found the deceased in a private room in •
Drury-lane Theatrb, supported by assistants, who were atule.t.
venting to restore hen. On examination, witness fiiiinu tie was
he
itquitee.itirtati
ithcl
blood
out 6 .
that tvitellic"syntsi
issued.
renthcictacel:yebwil
r. 'II ..ut 1%,
ttierede
gin ill.rteolerif iteoittnito)ll4l:::eli;e!i
at
curtain,
etaetivre
but
wax
gt-
tended : the deceased Wirl, when ha arrived, in passage oppo-
give the dour of Box No. 1. Some of his friends were with ham,
and also the bux-keepe.r. The deceased wits quite senseless.
Ile MA taken into it private room. One of his friends told
witness that the deceased was suddenly, taken ill, while
sitting in the before-mentioned box: Witness under.
stood that the gentleman who gave. him this inrorneu-
tion, had leA town directly after the melancholy event for
the purpose of communicating it to s'inue of the deceased's
friends residing in Sussex. There being. no other evldenie,
the Coroner summtd up to the Jury, telling them that al-
though it would hare been More satistietory, if the gentle. •
man . who was with the deceased had attended to give his
evidence, still, if they were satisfied glint the deceased died
a natural death, it would be unneressary to adjeurn .to obtain
his attendance. lf, on the contrary, tlity were not satisfied, he
would adjeura the inquest 10 tiny hour which triip,h,.. be conve.. '
(bent to thou. The inquest had been held thus tarty for the
express purpciie of ace:annual:ding the unfortunate gentleman's
frietuls, end it was therefore the more surprising they shluld:be „ •
absent. The Foreman of the Jury, after COntmitinir toS brethren •
stated, that they were unanimous in their opinion, 14 that du:
deceased had ditd it natural tli;mh by the vtsitation of God,'r
Just atter the verdict had been r, verded, and ,tlie.Cthfrt 31"
•
about breaking up, the gentletie:ii le:fore alinde4 t ti turd me
room. The ‘:oroner.infurrned in of the result
ings, and that the Court i,t ing di•ys•ilved, in? a Entlti.t.
deposition. t st uenleat of the tc,t es of
aver, be suistlietoiy to the „fury. I'llo gref.„. .". :4,,,,v,`41. ritetr fact ,
\t ping
i'.t ge°;t ..1
:
seventl' "'ld 14%1)11: t, „t he had laboui.
ng
firm in Wit i,•:;ct Co. ut trabil!i• iar.l
metre
ed libiltr -014.1'1060r Wfs:'
"k; fur tiq piirm. • mAtem
pont; a floe moritex
tan u me
diem
advice. The deceaseit
The in a state of rebust health.