The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-19 00:00:00

THAVIES POLICE.

SEIZURE or AN ILLICIT STILL.—CONVICTION or THE
PKISONERS.—Thurmtay Edward Dicken, John J nes, John
11 atson, and Thomas Welsh, were charged before Mr Hal-
lantine with being in an unentered place, where a private still
was at work, for the manufacture of spirits.
An account of the seizure of the still an apparatus, and the
capture of the prisoners, was inserted in The Sus of yesterday.
The evidence of the revenue of leers confirmed in every respect
the particulars already published.
The prisoners were called upon for their defence. They
muttered a few squill, import, except Jones, who hat not
given his real name, and who added &Leal, 1 have nothing
particular to say."
Mr. BALLA NTINE fined them 301. each, and, in default of
payment, sentenced them to three r„„„,hs, imprisonment and
hard labour in the House of Correction.
WA VOS VI;nIW.

CHA ROE or FILON,' AGAINST A POLICEMAN. a ThUred y
Joitir Cox, po'iee-constable 257 V divishii,, was charged with
stea jug a sower. inn, the pr Pert] of Samuel Palmer, police-
sergeant 6 ' division.
Sarah Anne Palmer vras the first witness. She said-_I am
the wife of Samuel Palmer, a police-sergeant, and rive in the
section-house at Priest-bridge, in the parish of Putney. The
prisoner is a single man lodger in the same house. On Wed-
nesday evening police-constable Morgan 111•Malion, 40 V,
brought me a sovereign and 2s. 6d., my husband's money, anti
laid it un the mantel shelf of the back room on the first fLior.
After he had left the room I went down stair' to se
to the
children, and saw the prisoner stan ling at the gate, who shortly
afterwards went into the house, and up the stairs, as if he was
going to hi` bedroom ; to do so he would have to pals the door
of my room, whirh I had lest open, therefore he could see the
moms!, as he pa.seti. He was gone about, ten minutes or a
quarter of an hour, and when he came back he said to me,
•' How much do lowe
you ?" and I answered os. Bd. He
then gave me 3a.. and 1 went ups airs to get change. When
I missed the sovereign
my return I said to him You have been playing me a
"suspected the prisoner had taken
it, beeause no other personi
had been upstairs, and on
got mysovereign ; i don't like larks With
lark ; you have

money, and I won't have it." He said he knew nothing abut '
it ; I might search his box, and he also exclaimed, " So help
me God, I've not got it." I afterwards informed my husband
of what had taken place.
Mr. PATNTIA asked the prisoner if he wished to put any
questions to the witness ?
The prisoner said he came home at half-past six, that he
paid Mrs. Palmer what he owed, and was afterwards st ending
waiting for his change, when she accused him of taking a
sovereign, which he denied having done or having even been
in the room.
Police-constable Morgan M'Mahon stated that about a
quarter after ten o'clock on Wednesday night he was on duty
on Putney-heath, when he met the prisoner, who asked him if
he had got any beer. Witness said he bad not ;he then said,
About that sovereign, it's a strange thing where it is guns,"
and witness said it was, and very unpleasant for all the men
who lived in the house, and he asked the prisoner if he knew
anything about it. The prisoner replied, "If you'll keep the
secr.t, I'll tell you where it is, and give you half." Witness
said he would, and the prisoner then told him that it was hid
under some bricks near the privy. Witness then left the
prisoner, and shortly afterwards meeting with his father, who
is acting-sergeant, told him what the prisoner bad said to him.
Acting-sergeant M'Mahon stated that on the very spot
mentioned by the prisoner he found the sovereign put under
some bricks. Witness then went back for the prisoner, and
told him, in the presence of the other constables, what he had
said about the sovereign, and that it was found. He then
plumply denied having said a word, but when he got to the
station-house at Wandsworth he stated he took it out of a lark.
In answer to a question from the Bench, Mrs. Palmer said
that, in the first instance, she thought the prisoner took the
sovereign out of a lark, but that by denying it he had after-
wards wade up his mind to keep it.
Mr. PATNTER said the case must go for trial. A jury must
decide whether the sovereign was taken in a lark or not.

SHIPWRECK OF A DUTCH INDIA-

MAN.

NINETEEN OF THE CREW STARVED TO DEATH,

AND FOUR DROWNED.
One of the most heartrending shipwrecks that has happened
for some time was yesterday made known at Lloyd's, by the
arrival of the ship Chance, Captain Roxby, frost Sydney, in
the London Docks, having on board a portion of the crew of a
Dutch Indiaman, named the John Hendrick, H. W. Edkelen-
bury. master, which was totally lost on the rocks forming St.
Paul's Island, on the morning of the 29th of May, while on
her voyage from Amsterdam to Batavia. The manner in
which the deplorable occurrence was discovered is remarkable.
It appears that on the night of the 2d of Juno, the crew of
the Chance were anxious to ascertain whether such rocks as
were laid down in the chart forming St. Paul's Island, 45
miles north of the equator, and 29 degrees west, were really to
be seen, as many doubts prevailed as to their existence.
Captain Roxby informed them that if the same course they
were then going was kept antil the following morning, they
would come in sight of the rocks. Accordingly at eight
o'clock they descried them, and at half-past nine the
Captain was much surprised by observing, through a glass.
Dutch ensign flying from a spar on the island. It being sur-
mised that a vessel bad been wrecked near the spot no time
was lost in bearing up to the rocks, and on nearing them.
several persons were noticed on them, evidently in an ex-
hausted state. The captain ordered the pinnace to proceed to
their assistance. About twenty por creatures were found
'sing about exhausted and apparently in a dying condition.
The boat not being able to take them all off, the captain, the
elite officer, steward, carpenter, two seamen, and three ap-
prentice boy., were first rescued, the remainder being assured
by the boat's party that they would return and preserve
them also. The ship was speedily gained. and on the cap-
tain learning that eleven persons were still on the island,
he promptly ordered the long boat to be lowered, and
with the pinnaee started for the rocks. Only twelve
minutes elapsed ere they had set out a second time for the
island, but in the meanwhile a sharp breeze had sprung
up, a tremendous sea ran, and a trong current set in to
the westward. Both boats kept beating about for five
hours, and it appearing evident that if they kept out much
later they would be swept away, they returned to the ship,
having been unable to rended the promised assistance. It
being probable that the gale might in some measure abate,
Captain Roxby kept his ship beating about the island, as
it was impossible to anchor, there being no soundings, for ten
cm ire days and having seen nothing of the poor creatures,
who by that time must have perished from the intense heat,
and the want of water and food, he sailed for England, his
own provisions by this time becoming very short. On ques-
tioning those whom he had saved, he learned that they belonged
to the Indianian in question ; that on the morning of the 29th
of May she was running under a press of sail, when at three
o'clock the watch on deck discovered the rocks ahead so close
as made it impossible to clear them. The helm was instantly
brought to, but also at the same moment she stru:l, amd the
succeeding wave pitched her on her beam ends. Every endea-
vour was instantly made to get her off; her rigging and masts
were cut away in order to lighten her, but as the sea kept dash-
ing her against the rocks with terrific force, she soon broke up.
The captain succeeded in reaching the rocks with a line, and se-
cured it round one of the loftiest cliffs, in effecting which he was
no less than seven times swept down the rock, frightfully lacerat-
ing his body. The line beingalso made fast to the wreck, most part
of the crew contrived to haul themselves on to the island by
it. Four brave fellows attempted to land in a boat with
the ship's papers and some provisions, but on nearing the
breakers, a heavy sea capsized her, and they all perished. A
poor boy, who has been saved, had his arm broken by being
dashed against the rocks. On assembling on the frightful
spot which they had been cast upon, which presented not the
remotest chance of escape, starvation stared them in the face.
Of wearing apparel they had saved none, save the few drenched
rags that coveted them ; and of food, the only thing they could
rescue from the wreck were a cask of butter, a cask of flour, a
small biscuit, and a small keg of gin. Immediately under the
line, a burning sun pouring upon them, and not having a drop
of water to quench their thirst, the heat was intense, and which
they could only allay by wading into the sea up to the chin, and
thus remain the whole day. At night time the spirit was die.
tributed amongst them. The single biscuit was broken up and
divided equally, and then they commenced scouring the rocks
in the hope of finding further food. They succeeded in get-
ting a few wild fowls and eggs; they were almost
driven to madness. At dusk a few drops of rain were felt de-
scending; they instantly laid oat a kind of sail to catch it, and
held their heads up to the heavens with their mouths open. It
soon, however, passed over. On the third day, to their great
inv, a vessel- bearing American colours hove in sight in the
offing. They hoisted the signal on the spar, and in order to
make doubly sure, the mate, seven seamen, and a passenger put
off in the only boat th-y had been enabled to save, with a small
piece of wood to dabble along, the oars being lost, to the Sr.
preaching ship, but she passed onwards and was not seen after-
wards. The poor creatures in the boat then strove to regain
the island ; the current was too strong for them, and they were
speedily lost sight of. That they have perished there can be no
doubt. They had not the slightest provision with them—no
compass, and no oars, the nearest place being Cape Roque,
more than tioo miles distant. The sufferings of those left on
the rocks, on p'reeiving the fate of those in the beat, were ten-
fold; and on the fourth day they gave thernselv. s up to death.
They were rapidly sinking from the effects of the heat, the
skin on their face, hands, &c., actually peeling off. On the
morning of the fifth day the Chance hove in sight. aid as
before noticed, saved seven. Eleven, arno gat whom was
the doctor, were left on the island. On the arrival of the
hoar fellows yesterday, they waited upon the Netherlands
Consul, who, having relieved their destitute condition, housed
them at the Yorkshire Grey Tavern. Lower Thatties-stree:,
and they will proceed to their native t•ounry trs-morrow morn-
ing by the Rotterdam mail steam. r. Ihe ill-fated Indiaman
belonged to Rotterdam, was 800 tons hurtles and had only
been heilt about two morrhs pre ions to her loss. To Captain
Roxby the highest commendation is due for the humane and
prompt steps he adopted to rescue the unfortunate persons on
the island. Those who are indebted to him for the preserva-
tion of their lives, declare that nothing could exceed his en-
deavours to re-make the island. Night and day he was on deck
at tempting it. Of the fate of the 11 poor creatures left on the
rocks, it is the opinion of Captain Roxby, as also the Dutch,
captain, that they must have perished in a day or two after-
wards ; for had they been rescued by any other vessel, she must
have been fallen in with by the Chance. The rocks being
situated some hundreds of miles nut of the track ofeessels trading
to the Cape, perhaps scarcely two out of 1,000 ever meet
with them.

FRID.AY NIGHT'S GAZ ETTE.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 18, 1845.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable Anne
Napier to be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to her
51ajesty, in the room of the Honourable Georgiana Liddell,
resigned.