The Sun.
London, England, 1811-05-28 00:00:00

LETTER., gIIQAI HIS LL.►JESTY TO THE, BISHOPS.

St. t:louit, April 2i,
My Laid Bishnp of the mo.t itiue,trious •
and populous churches iii, [lie .Entpire ifre
one of the•cnntratiing parties of the Concordat has
rejected a.--The-coridua adopted in Germany. for
ten bears has almost destroyed Episcol,a,:y in hat
part of the Chris,iao wortd. Thcie are nuw but.
eight Bishops; a great nutnhrr ul dioceses are go.
veined by vicars Apostolic; the Chap•ers time ht.rt
,disttirbed in their right t•.) provi•le, diving the
"caneyq.ef the See, for tie aihninistraticu' of the dio.
cese. They hive plotted dirk ment.e..vres to excite ,
dlicord and sedition atitony,lour suujeas, .The• C, ap.
ters have rejected the brreti, contrary to their rights
and the holy Cations..

, ye' time is pes4ipg away—new Bishrptics'.3re
vacua every day. If tio speedy provision be mad,,,
Episcopacy will he ex.ti. Ct in France and
well as Geri/14:111y. \Mithing to pl'ev...mit a va.r.
atrair3 so cot:lraq to the good of ri?li ion, the prin..
eiples of the GdllliCall Giiurcit, and the intetestt;
tit.. &ate, we have re-olved to unite on the 10th'

bt next June, in ihr. ChinLh of N 4r6 Dane, at
all 4 lie Bishops of Fiance and Fitly in, * na-
tional Council."

Bow-srazar..-=Yesterday a man was brOught
before Mr, NAIIES, on a thaige-of ben the ;ei.n.on
whn has perpetrated the robberies that have lat,, y
been c immiited at the Opera, w4oui tl,e trest
picion against him; he being supposed to he a man
tf consequence, from hisConstant.attendatice st pub!.
lie places.
Town-end, who attends at the Opera, pledged.
himself that the robberies were. not corn Lined by .
any known thieres,or even those so9peOed of thieti.
ing ; still, however, Gentlemen complained of being'
rubbed in the Pit. At length it was agreed by the
Magistrates that six persons Wailing to the Office,'
who Were not likely to be known, should attend 'in
the Pit, dressed in a style so as to appear part of the.
company, which, they accordingly did lad Tuesday,.
but did not see any suit) clone .chPraafq, nor imOn=
per cendoet is any !won. They attended again on .
Thursday, and took their seats in different pins of •
the Pit.' A little before eleven o'dock, Nielielsob•
• served a man, who, altholgh he had every ap;iear-
once of a gentleman, beleg dresced in hld.ek, a t 4,ge
gold watch,.chain, and trait, a large Opera hat ender
his arm, using an Opera glass, pursue conduct that
he deemed suieicious ; he accordingly followed, and
watched bitn clesely, and when he wits on the left
s4le of the Pit, he saw him feel, and knock his hand
ti,4l3llPit some gentlemen's pockets, to ?seer-tale if
any thing wAs in them, 'and sespeeted • that he
.put
14 hand into their pocktt but if lie did, he wait
sure he did not take any thing out. Flom that !iort
he Went i the avenue in the 'centre of . ties Pit,
c-iviroorily called Fop's l'assoge, where NichGls.f6l.
lowed him, and 5:414. him pursue crii.driti:.
He. removed- .from thence to, the right of the Pit,
where he saw him leaping upon the rail, feeling
gentle Man's pocket who was Close to the rail;.put
his hand in, and take out something, and put it into
his left hand inside pocket, and then moved
Nichols was C9ullOllS of lai ing hold of him, fearing
he, might be mistaken, bin fol'OWed him, and beck-
oned to Humphreys, who was at a short ilidaere
frcirn him, and desired him to go' to the. gentleman,
and ask him if he had lost any thing; the gent
answered in the negative. Humphreys went and
informed Nichols, who desired hint to go again to
the gentleman, as he was confident the mm

following had taken something out of Ws pocket.
On Huinphreys applying a sectiod time to the gen_
tleMan, he ascertained that. lilt pocket find ben
picked of a large valt;able silSer snulf.bix. In
the meantime Nichols bad been following hi, 11):111
to sevetal parts, and in the water•closet he observed
him examining something ; immediately after Iltini-
phreys came up to NiChols, and told him the gen.
tleman had been robbed, and, at the same i.nstant
the man had got up the stairs, and Was getting into
the right side of the Pit ; Humphreys, ' hoWever,
followed him clottely, seizA him by the collar, aria
pull'ed him backwards, and secured his hands. He
then called out•to know if the offiders.'were going
to rob him ; the officers replied )es, of a snuff.bos,
whiCh he had robbed a Gei.tle:natt of. 'Nichols pia
his hand into his pocket, and took 'out. a snug. box,
e •

which, on being held up,. a Pentiernan owned, U,
was taken to the watch-house, where, in the touts

, .
of the ,night; he tore his
;opera.nat to rags, aci(t
threw' it out of the window.
'Mr. Harrison, the Manager of the, Opera, r.t
tended,- when. the To hunter
.claimed acqnaintanc4
with him, is serving him and his briaber witzi.co4l,4
and also as a frequenter of the Opera tbr co years
past.
•Mr. Harrison recolletied hint as a frequenter
of the, Opera so much, that he.used to bow to hi.n,
hot the,-Opera
anyknow ledge of serving him wift Goa t.
'Hittriphries, on searching him, found a hilvor butt-
ing.waich
.witliout inai(er's name, .bttt, with' fav
and'' slow' on it .
a double row gold chain, ith a
slider, two large oval gOld cornelian seals, one .pla*ti.,
.and the other with G. N. eitraved on it, and a goi.t
key; a silver Opera ticket, No. 4Y, G. with an-ad.
mission on it for 15 years from May, 1794.
Mr. Aldborough Riehiirdson, of Pkotimm-sq,,,rf,
identified the soutf-b as his property, TIN vri-
sondt was committed for trial.

The Gentlemen in the City need not be alarrreil
3t the ptesent scarcity of money ; it is always so a_
few days before, the drawing of a Littery,
the-Office Keepers being obliged to provide fur the
payment, on demand, of the Capital Pt lies. and Intl
'Lettery containing Sixty, (a tar greffter unttibet
'than usual) and all to be drawn on "the King's Dirth-
day,, every fortunste holder of a Twenty Ttiolvon .1
Pound trizo will, no doubt, iminediately pur, ha,a
in the Funds, whilst the Stocks aralow, and thus
relieve the muncs' market.