The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-21 00:00:00

ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN.

A Vestry Meeting of the Inhabitants of this pa•
rich was held at ten o'clock Yesterday morning, for
the despatch 6f general business, Mr. Churchwarden
Dow in the Chair.

Mr. CORDER. reported that he had applied to Mr.
Roche, the late Vestry Clerk, for the title-deeds of
the estates called Much-Totham and Burle's Farm,
in Essex, belonging to the parish, and Mr. Roche
told him they ►•ere in the possession of the surviving
trustees, Messrs. Stone, Sant, and Curlewis, all of
whom were now residing ont of the parish. He
had applied to those gentlemen, but they declared
they had not the deeds, and that they believed they
were in Mr. Roche's office. He next applied to
Messrs. Wrights, the bankers, who informed him
that the deeds had never been committed to their
care.

A resolution was then passed, authorising lega
proceedings to be commenced against the parties, for
the recovery of the deeds.
Some other business having been disposed of,
Mr. CORDER begged to make a few observations
with reference to a transaction which had brought
his name before the public in a police report. Ho
did not address them as an assembled vestry, be-
cause he did not consider himself amenable to them
in that capacity for his private conduct, but as
neighbours and friends, amongst whom he knew the
value of private character too well not to defend it.
He complained of the report in the newspapers, of
his appearance at Union-hall, charged with disor;
derly conduct, and he had great reason to complain.
That report entirely suppressed the fact, that a
country gentleman of great respectability, Mr. Oak;
ley, of Hampshire, who was wholly unknown to
him, was passing at the time, and was so struck
with the improper conduct of the watchman, that
he insisted on accompanying him to the watch;
house; but when he arrived there he was refused
admission. Upon remonstrating, however, he was
admitted, but not allowed to say one word against
the watchman. He offered his card to him (Mr.
Corder), but the Dogberry of the night refused to
let him see it, and tore it in pieces. Mr. Oakley
was to have left town for Portsmouth at eight
o'clock on the following morning, but he remained
here on purpose to give his evidence at Union-hall.
There, however, it was refused; and the moment
Mr. Chambers, the Magistrate, heard that the per-
son charged was Mr. Corder, the vestry-clerk of St.
Paul's, Covent-garden, not one word would he al-
low him (Mr. Corder) to sz;y, but insisted on com-
mitting him for the assault, although no assault was
committed or complained of; and bound over rho
watchman and night constable to prosecute, and
even sent his own clerk to prefer the indictments
the Grand Jury being sitting at the time. Mr. Oaklef
was in attendance at the Surrey Sessions to give,
evidence if required; but the Grand Jury ignored
the bill in less than two minutes, after hearing the
evidence of the watchman and constable. Mr. Cor-
der proceeded to complain that the circumstance,
trivial as it was, had been used for party purpose/Sr
and that his opponents and their agents were eYen
now actively engaged •ix slandering his character.
He trusted, however, t7r,i• his observations would
obtain the same publicity as had been given to the
charge against him. It was a curious fact that the
report did not appear until Thursday, although the
occurrence took place on the Monday.
Several of the parishioners expressed themselves
perfectly satisfied with Mr. Corder's statement, and
some of them said the malignity of his enemies could
not at most make more of it than the " Christmas
frolic" of a young unmarried man.
The Meeting then separated.

SIIIPPINO INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.
MONDAY, J.AsuAttir 19.--Wind
water la minutes past eleven.---Arrived the &sob
and Caroline, Prince, from Charleston; Wm. Peen, --"'
Savannah ; Jonge Rente, Guesinan, from Antwerp ;
Georges, Robinson, from New Orleans; Mania, Salem,
from Nantes ; Salaeia, Miller, from Buenos Ayrile; The'
tie, from Dublin.

The Monongatehala, Dicey, from Philadelphia ; Cou'
&kir, , from Halifax ; and British Tar,
from Waterford, off.
Sailed—The Pyramus, Young, for Jamaica.

DARING BMIGLARY.—A burgiary of the
most daring desetiption was committed last week on the
premises of the Rev. John Lockwood, in the village Of
Coo Yon, Surtey, five mike beyond Croydon. About
four o'clock in the morning, a stable lad, in the employ'°'
Mr. Lockwood, who slept in a room detaebed from the
mouse, over the stables, was alarmed by the entrance of g
number of ruffians (according to some accounts not lees
than nine),' who immediately proceeded to bind him Lao's
and foot. They then questioned him respecting the otter
her of male persons in his master's house. The lad told
them that there were six :—Lie master, the man-wrvant,
'ad four gentlemen, visiters. Undaunted by the boy's itf"
formation, they asked him in what part of the house his
master kept his plate, &c. ; and, by their threats, dreg
from him the truth—namely, that it was always placed ill
his toaster's bed •roous. They then left him, bound closeli
to the bed-post, and proceeded in their desperate purpose'
Mr. Lockwood was first alarmed by strange voices in bi',/
room ; fur, before he was aroused, the men had effected
an entrance at the window by means of a ladder, which
they had taken from a gentleman's residence called Het'
ley, distant about three-quarters of a mile from the
scene of attack. Mr. Lockwood was this night unret
vided with any weapons of defence,--a thing very tit:maw'
for him, he seldom sleeping without his gun in his roolP'
He arose, however, and made an alarm, and was joined hi
his man-servant, and, together, they prepared to der
what resistance they could. It should be mentioned, that
notwithstanding the boy (who stated only wltt'he thought
to be true) bad said that there were four gentlemen in the
house besides Lis master and servant, that in reality this
was not the case. The gentlemen had left that night afteC
the boy had retired to rest. The statement, however, it
shuuld seem, had a good effect, for on hearing the stir 0
the house, and possibly fearing the number they migb:
meet with, they retreated from the dwelling-house wisho'l"
effecting the object of their search. They took with theta
from the house only a shooting-coat, and a few articles °
little value. After this they proceeded a second time tp
the stables, and led oat a pony and pony-chaise, 10,i
/
paid another visit to the imprisoned lad, to ask him
the pony had been trained to draw. They were answer('
in the negative : nevertheless, they harnessed, him to th!,
chaise, but finding that he was too restive.for their PIP:,
pose, they took only the pony. No suspicion as yet re6l"
on any particular party all that Las been heard since,
which seems at all connected with the robbers, le,
nine men, about live o'clock in the morning of the at-
tack, were seen to pass threugh the turnpike at Smithid•
Bottom, on the Brighton road, with the pony heloogieg
to Mr. Lockwood in their possession, which was afte:
wards found by the road side. The village of Coulsdou
a very retired spot, about two miles from the high roil
but, till the present season, it has been, less than nos
places, molested by depredations of this nature. The as°e
night on which the ale:we burglary took place the inrnat'
of Garston Hall, in Coublen, were aroused by the 10:
usually loud barking of the dogs, which doubtless was in
consequence of some part of the gang lurking about t 4,
premises. Nothing, however, was attempted there.

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At her father's, the Earl Cornwallis's Louse, Hill-street)
the Lady Jemima Wykeham Martin, of a son and heir.
On the 17th inst., in Brook-street, the lady of DP
Chambers, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 20th inst., ut St. James's Church, by the Be*
J. G. Ward, the rector, Mr. Francis Squibb, of Saville'
row, to Helen, youngest daughter of the late Joseph DV
vie, Esq., of Lower Tooting.
On the 18th inst. at Prestwich church, near Manaheeteri
by the Rev. 1). Rathbone, Mr. Peter Rathbone, of liftW
Chester, to Miss Pollitt, of Hesette-o'tle-Burn.
On the 20th inst., at the New Church, Maryleboll
by the Rev. A. D. Morrive, William Peters, Esq.,
Betehworth Castle, in the county of Surrey, to Mariano'
Jane, second daughter of Henry Bonham, Esq., M.P.

DIED.
On the 18th inst., Air. Ware, solicitor, Southwark, to
the 65th year of his age.
On the '7th inst , at his house, West-street, Ryde, Tait
of Wight, after a short illness, Captain William Peril'
aged 55.

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