The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.--XIIARGr. UNDNR JONATHAN WILD'S
ACT.—On Saturday Woolfe Lee was brOught before the Lord
Mayor, charged under the following circumstances :.,-.
Mr. Prior, a silversmith, in Gracechurch-street, stated that his
house bad been broken open a Short time ago, and robbed of pro-
perly to the amount of bet Ween 4001. and 500/. ; all that could
be done by the firm had been done, to detect the thieves. On
Sunday afternoon, when the family were going to.pivine Service,
the prisoner Lee came into Mr. Capper's house, where witnagi
waP, and said he could recover the goods if he got 501. Witness
observed to him, that if the goods and the thieves were brought
up before the Lord Mayor, he should feel no hesitation at giving
the suns required.
The Prisoner,-1 wan never seen by the prosecutor, except in
vontpany- of COWtErrkt the 'Officer, !tad X navar had any ith,a of
the Stn. without hrhiging.up the offeuiler*.
Mr. Prior that Lee said the offender, email he
brought lOrward ; that he had ;-ern the good, which 11,1 !won
stolen, and that they had been all perfectly correct on Wednesday,
; at a bow.

l'he Loan AMann who the prisoner was, and what he
represented hine,elf to he :'

Witness—He told we he was do officer in the Secretary of
Stidess Office, and iaiperiOr to a, flow-slrect Aker.
'the Loam 111.,tvmt said,'lbere was an iinputatiiin against
towton, the officer, in,thiacaiic,.,
Cowion raid the prisoner hul emne to him upon the occasion,
but he bad hail no previous nequaintance with lino, and knew
nothing about his ob3tet.
Mr. Print 'said he bad not paid.a halfpenny, tulle waa deter.,
wined that it Whinild all cinnehtliire tlie Lord Mayor.
'lite Loan M,Svciit::-,:-The prisoner (lees nut appear to be ii,vare
tat be is amused of a erinte for which a person has been banged,
and others have been endvietiel and sentenced. .

Cowttm, the officer, stated, that on the 213th of June,, the pri-
soner came to him, while he was at dinner, and said he bad been-
vent to him by an Officer, of the City. The prisoner stator', that
he:knew who had committed thin rabbet v et Mr. Prior's, and could
get back the property. Witness thought the oppor Malty ought not
to be lost, but stated distinctly to the prisoner, tint nothing could
he done without having up the prisoner and. the goods before the
Lord Mayor. Witness asked Whether tharo would be a reward,
and Mr. Fossick, a tradesman, who lived opposite to •Mr. Prior's
house, and who had been robbed to a large amount a short time
previettsly, stated, that there shoidd be a reward if all the 'goods
were returned, or ,a reward in proportion to-the' value of the re-
covery.. Mr.-Prior. ".1 certainly acceded to the proposal." Cowt on
stated that be went with Mr. Lee to a public-house. Lee there said
he was going to see one of the men engaged in the hintiness at
a public bowie, and asked him (witness) for a little, money, as he
wanted to produce a small sample of the goods before:he should
get the *arrant. Witness then lent him a sovereign, awl the
prisoner appointed to meet him at seven o'clock. , Witness waited
tilt nine, but in vain. Lee called, however, next day, when the
witness was not within, and left worth that he should call again at,
one - o'clock. Lee never made his appearance, but was appre-
hended at three o'clock-in the morning. , , , .

. .
The Loan Ala.von said, an imputation had been: cast upon the
character of the officer, but that person had only acted imprudently,'
nut corruptly, .ll► declared that if persons like the prisoner were
enconreged, there would be two fur one of robberies in the City of
London. It was a trading concern altogether.
Cowton said he had been influenced merely by the inclination to
detect crime.

The Lon]) MA volt believed that to be the ease. Cowton stood
wholly evmerated. • •

Cowton said the prisoner had told him that ht had seen the gain's
in three different xibices. The pr6onersaid he 1)0 been a pariAl
officer and a collector of debts ; he did not exactly know what ho
was now, but he Was able to support his family.' He had been
employed by Mr. Westwood for the Bank of Iraq/land, :,nil had
established a conviation..:

Mr. liQbler,-111r.
busimls. Webtwood 11113 ~,ma ytar., nom

A voice.--f 0 Yes, lie is dead."
Prisoner.'—m It is sonic time since I was employed, I admit."
The Loan MAYOft....." Perhaps you were an accomplice?"
Prisoner.--,, Never,. • upoumy honour ; my. intention was, on
this as well as on all oilier occasions, to brim; the guilty persons
to justice.

"lindsfield, the officer, nail, that Lee had cheated a great Plumber
of peroone by pretending to be an officer.
The prisoner was then remanded.

pull," MALL—John Shales, oilierwi9e Shields,' wag
brought tip for final examination on Saturday befiire Sir. PElrat
.I.,Anute (the new Alderman for Aldersgate-ward, who proided
for the first time, in the stead of Alderman Smith, M.P.), charg-
ed with tieing at large in the city, without lawful cause, he having•
been order's! to lie transported for the term of his naturalfife.
The prisoner k-ft SydneY in November, in die liniee,j, cap.
tain I'ist4i; and after quitting the eotiet the Captain displaced the
steward, and Shales filled she office, until they ."1114;bed, Anita-
Ville°, where he went on shore, and ennui to England in another
Ail). Capt. Pettch ineurred the rii,k of a heavy forfi!itare, under
tin IaWS of the etkny, hy britif2;ing the convict :au;y clarule,itine-.
Iv, and thUrifsinissed steward meeting ?41)31" 'l4 Fleet-street fhw
/far, since, gave him into ciutody,- nut, it wfluid hileln, so mnelt
Crom ill-will to him or from the hope of. reward, Ai 60111 a de-,iie
to iisvnlvt'the e9tain, the being recoverable *in the
t:,,urts lif the parent corona-v.
Mr. Staffortl, onlow-street, who conducted the illse the the
erOWn, prodtiml variunii di:retailer& 111414 , :,eoretary of ,Stattea:
Office, allowing that one 341 M Stinks Wit.l convicted at the
Norwich Assizes in the summer of 181:3, of burglary, and sett-

tenced to ;lifer death, which sentence %as Anwar& commuted
to transportation for life.

Mr. Johnson, the Governor of Norwich Castle, proves that
the prisoner was the individual who was so convicted. He had
no doubt whatever- his identity, because he ws in his enstody
foot theAtith of March to the .27th of September, when be was
removed, under an order from the Secretary of State, to the
Captivity, lying at Portsmoittlu
Herbert, the city officer, and. Crowley, the steward, deposed
that theY found the prisoner at large in the city ;if tuk*n.
The prisoner's attorney offered no defence, but applied. to have
44 sovereigns and some doubloons which were found, in his pos-
session restored to him, on the ground, that as he was not charged
with stealing any thing, the Usual inference that motley found on
a prisoner vas the produce of the robbery could' not exist in this

111 r. Stafford said he ~hould iioL eititiet- to the gold being re-
stored, but he should fig the pilisent detain sbtria bills of exchange
tier 223/., which were also taken from the prisoner.

Shales witl then committed for triad.

CATHOLICISM.

THE KING or PRUSSIA'S LP:l+Flt TO THE ntroirss OF AIMS LT.

COETHEN, ON HER. CHANGE OF NA:LIMON.

Berlin, 1826.

•
I. cannot describe to you the very astounding :and pain-
ful impression that your letter, confirming the previously
circulated report (which I regarded as a fable) of you and
the Duke having. become converts to the Catholic religion
has made and indelibly fixed upon MC. For who in this
world could ever have anticipated such a thing ? Speaking
according to the sincere feeling and • conviction of my
heart, and in compliance with the duty which conscience
dictates, I must plainly tell you, that in my judgment a
more unfortunate and sinful resolution could not have been
adopted than that you have just carried into effect. Bad
yOu confided to me- when I was in Paris the: slightest hint
of your intention, I should, in the. most earnest and solemn
manner, have, conjured you, by every thing you hold most
sacred, to abandon a design, the execution of which tends
to place me personally in a very disagreeable situation.—
For even I (wherefore I know not) have been suspected
of an inclination to Catholicism, though, on the contrary,
I have always had, and must ever retain, an unfavourable
opinion of that church, on account of the multitude of her
anti-scriptural doctrines. It is now, however, highly pro-
bable that this notion respecting me will be revived, and
that it will be,helieved that I was aware of the whole affair,
and had an understanding with you in it.
But how could you preserve so complete a siletien on
this transaction, especially when, in your letter, you thus
express yourself respecting me r--" That person, for whom
I have ever been accustomed to experience in •my heart
the united feeling of filial and fraternal love." Now can
any one believe that a father or a -brother would, as a
matter of course, approve of his daughter or sister be-
coming a Cathelie,,that is to say, taking the most mo-
mentous step a human being can take., without any pre-
vious consultation with him ?—Certainly not ! Yet you
would appear to have acted en this supposition—and why ?
Because you had reason to expect' on my part a prohibi-
tion against the awful and dangerous proceeding on which
you were resolved. -You have, however, accomplished
your purpose--you have rashly bounded over the immense
chasm which separates the two religions-you have re-
nounced the faith of your relations, the faith in which you
were born; nursed, and educated.--May God be merciful
to you !

For my 'own part, I can only, from the bottom of my
'heart, lament and, deplore the gross error, the delusion
into which you have fallen. Assuredly, 0, most as-
suredly, you would have been safe from all risk of coin-
mitting this. dreadful act, had you, instead of giving your,
mind to
.Nevialttlidngastticiifi t
ieoi
IT
yourer Protestants rzoitbeisetiataintsd ori n
it,...arttliiio,illilia:sr,ttirb'eeea fili:t‘,e,,ivmthi;;ecali:
for at a period of controversy some years ago 1 endea-
voured to make myself intimately acquainted with the
Lament. This is what I have done;
peculiar grounds 011 which both . religions rest, and
for this purpose I applied myself assiduously to ' the
Bible, awl sought therein the doctrines taught by
Christ and his Apostles. This investigation led nie
to quite the, contrary conclusion .to that. at which • you
have arrived; for since then I have been more satisfied.
in my mind, and more than ever penetrated with , the
truth, that an old evangelic system, as established
by the Reformation and Luther, and by . contempora.
Peons; or at least recently ,posterior symbolic writings,
in particular the Augsburg Confession, which, next to-the
Holy' Scriptures, form the foundation of the Evangelic
Creed. This'most strictly corresponds with the religion
of JeSUS Christ, as delivered to us by the Apostles them-
selves, and by the fathers of the church in the first ages
of Christianity, before a Popedom existed. It was far
from the intention of Luther to found a new religion. his
only object was •to purify 'the old faith from the base alloy
Lthajaitt'lv:aerdg•ksiB
and dross which had been introduced into it by Popery,
and: which had accumulated to such an extent, that more I
value was placed on this impure mass than on the genuine
doctrine, which lay buried and. almost annihilated under
it. I did not hesitate to examine, Catholic Missals and
Catholic Catechisms, which I'not only peruSed, hut stu-
died. Against. these I placed the old Evangelical Litur-
gies and serviee-books of the first half of the sixteenth
century (that is, of- the time of the Reformation), coin-
, pared them with each oilier, and thus again recognised the
v.rfeet eecorih of the evangelic doctrines With the re-
ligion of Christ, and, on. the contrary,the decideddeparture
therefrom of the Catholic doctrines in many cardinal
points. Nevertheless, there is much valuable matter in the Catbelic misFals; bitt evely's thing :good in , them,
Itla,,hiiiotillui, erher,,d‘os,i_riei
however; the
itaiiiiti
eintllicilii::: :tic
acknowledged
orntwholfde!
deEngset- Evangelic gneenoltrilicerse who
to undervalue all this, and to treat ` ' ' ' '
question as inn-
.nificant. But the pure Evangelic! doetrine still remains
untouched, and may easily be found by those
who do not
begrudge the labour of seeking for it; as, in fine, has
lately been 'done, the investigation having given birth to,
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This langnage will perhaps appear rude and unkind to
you. It is probable, also, that it is not what you expect-
ed;' for, according to what You state- in your letter, you
were confident that I could. not in my heart blame your
conduct, as what von had done was the result of mature
consifleniiion. But, be this as it may, I can view the
latter no otherwise than I `have done. I speak as my
heart dietates--*ood or ill it must come out.: If I •be
")"1-cz may God pardon me! May God also, be with you
`ti'd foegil'e you, it your conviction , lead you 'into error.
For Wbat it; conviction if it do not correspond. With the
iyordraf God recorded in the_ Holy Scripture ? Nothing
btit deception and delusion !

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