The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-16 00:00:00

NIARLBOROMIT-STREET.

Case of Great Distress.—Yesterday a man named
Pilgrim, who appeared to have seen bett et days,,
and who had been formerly a mate in the East
India Company's service, was charged with tub-
bing his lodgings at 11r. Egerton's; Chandler-
street, Oxford-market, of a variety of articles.
It appeared that this unfortunate man had been
reduced to the utmost misery. So great was his
distress) that a child of his, who died some time
hack, remained unburied for many days in con-
sequence of his disability to pay the expellees of
the funeral, and he was obliged on Thursday last
to apply to the parish to contribute a little money
towards the interment of. the child. Ile had pre-
viously stripped his apartment of every portabl.:
article it contained, and having broken open a box,
took from it soine sheets, ‘A hid: he pawned, and af-
terwards sold the dim-Heal es. Mr. Jones, a constable,
went to t he place of the prisoner's residenceon Wed-
nesday, for the purpose of tali ing him into cost oily.
Pilgrim, having seen the Otncer make his appear-
ance, and suspecting the object for which lie came,
immediately went to a closet, and taking out a.
razor, made a desperate effort to put an end to
his miseries and his lite by drawing the instrument
lac:os- -is -throat. Fortunately, the razor not
being in good order, the. wound inflicted was not
dangerous. Jones immediately stized the prisoner
by tbe.elllll, and having wrested Coe weapon from
his hand, conveyed the prisrmer to St George.*
watch-house. A surgeon was sent for, wit.
dressed the wound, and said the unhappy man hal
been very near putting a tresioff to his-e,:istetice..
The persons at whose hotve the prisone-r Itnlg7
ed.humanely agreed to let the business stand over
for some time, that it maybe ascertained whether
the man's circumstances were, in reality, so dis-
tressing as he represented them to be.

ImPnoYamEN-rs.—The pie'e of waste gronoi
lyint between Russell-striate and Tottenham,
conrt•road, which has been for a length of lint!:
tt great nuisance, Irons the number of idle per-
sons generally collected there, playing at pitch
and (MS, &C. is all 101111 d, and the
ground marked for the erection of a new Churct.6
for the Parish of St. Pancras, which, we under-
stand, will be commenced building about the Ist
of April. •
COURAGEOUS SERYANT.-,4)11 Wednesday night,
the 7th instant, the residence of ltohert.Wright,
Esq. was broken open ; and at half-past ten
o'clock the robber was discovered by the man-
servant, on going to bed, in his room. A strug-
gle ensued, but, the servant's candle going_ out,
the thief escaped through the window by which he
entered the house. .

Roancates.—For some time past the neighbour-
hood of Lisson-green, Paddington, has been in-
fested by a gang of young thieves, from the ages of
12 to 20, who nightly phindered the houses of the in-
habitants in the most daring manner:flit: knockeri,
scraper 3, and bell knobs have been stolen from
the doors, night after night, and sold at the old
iron shops in the neighbourhood. Tuesday night
the. landlord Of the YOrk-strire Stings observed a
little boy busily emplqed in wrenching away the
brass ornaments front the,door of hismeighbour.
J. CiarkeEs(l. ; he watched burn for some time,
end saw hint dexterously draw out the bell
wire, which he cat off and put in his pocket.
lie then ,took him into custody, and :disco-
vered in his person the son •of a very
respectable perion in that part. The same
night the houses of two other persons in the
place were strippea in like manner for the third
time this last fortnight. Werluesdavnight rite cot-
tage of Airs. ,Saunders., near the Ertlgeware-road,
was broken into and robbed of r wo trundle•s of We:
linen, the property ot.Ciptain Crifit, of Portlaod_
st reet, which ware there to be washed, and the
thieVes escaped undiscovered. •

A. Correspondent who keeps a register of Ca-
pital Prizes and by whota sold, assures us, that
in the last twelve -years their have been only
twelve Prizes of 30,0001. and thrit Bisti, the pre-
sent Contractor, sold no less than EIGHt of
them : this is another proof that " Fortune fa-
vours those who. favour hiui ;" indeed. the hit
Lottery which coittonted Three'Priis of 30.000/.
(ahour two years'ago), litsH sold them all t-! In
Ike very last Lottery he sold in Shnies three
Pt izes- of 20.0001. each, an& as the. Or( sent Lot-
tery contains three • Prizes of 30,0001. besides 97
other-Capitals, where can we go with so great A
chance of obtaining them as` to !its t, the Con-
tractor ? who -semis the favotii•ed Agent of For-
tune to disperse her Riches to the Public at Corn-
hill and Charing Cross, London, and ley his
Agents in tho Country.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 15.

orERA-HOUSE:—TAYLon V. WATgRS.

Sit S. ROMILLY stated, that he had to move in
this case, that a sum of 1,300/. And upwards, be-
ing the amount of interest on the sum of 28;973/.
xvhich Mr. Waters had been ordered- to pay into
Court on the Ist of Dec. 1816, should be directed to
be paid personally to Mr. Taylor. The Learned
Counsel , after taking a retrospective view of the cir-
conistanees connected with the situation of the
Opera-horse property up to the period of its final
sale to the defendant for the sum of 71,000/ , and
his appointment to the office of manager, pending
the investigation of the accounts, upon an under-
taking to cover all the expenses of the season
with the sum of 29 0001., explained the grounds
upon which the present motion was submitted to
the Court. The whole of I motion, indeed, com-
prehended ioterest ou the sum of 35,5131., which,
in the view of Mr. Taylor, was the amount of his
present interest in the money produced by the sale
of the Opera House. But after considerable liti-
gation with regard to the payment of the purchase-
Money, his Lordship had directed that it should
be paid into Court on the Ist of December, 1816.
Mr. Waters, however, afterwards caused t nego-
tiation to be opened with Mr. Taylor for his con-.
sent to a very advantageous proposal of disposing
of the establishment to certain persons of fashion,
promising, tifat• if the latter would accommodate
hint by agreeing to an enlargement of the period
for pying his share, amounting to 28,9731., into
Court, he, Mr. Waters, would consent to pay him
interest upon it, and divide him also the yro-
fits atiiog from the new sale. The period was
Eccordingly enlarged on the 23d April, but the
expectation of .disposing of the Theatre was dis-
appointed ; nor was the purchase-money due by
Mr. Waters ultimately paid in till enforced by
another order of the Court, in August last.—
Under these circumstances, he was at a loss to

conceive what oppositiou could be offered to the
means taken to compel a performance of what was
so evidently au obligation of good faith.
Mr. ltouitm ve,is heard on the same side.
Mr. HART and Mr. BARBER contended, that the

undertaking on the part of Mr. Waters to pay the
interest must be regarded 3S conditional, and con-
tingent on the event of the negociation fur selling
the Opera property taking effect. It teas clear
that the order now asked of his Lordship would
have the effect f letting in Mr. Taylor's claim to
portion of the profits and emolutaents derived
from the public entertainments of the Theatre
during the last season. They submitted, that if
the interest was to be paid, it ought to go to the
general hind, awaiting the final determination of
the accounts, and not to Mr. Taylor, as against
whom Mr. Waters had recently proved demands,
which had been allowed by the Master, more than
equal to the amount of the interest claimed by this
application.
The LoRD CHANCELLOR inquired whether the
last season had turned out a profitable one ?
Mr. HART replied, that he understood there had
never beets a better. However stormy they had
been outside the house, within all was flourishing
and prosperous.
In reply, it was urged by Sir S. itomiLLY, that
although Mr. Iltaters had put in new demands in
the nature of a set-off against the interest due ac-
coruing to his own voluntary engagement, it was
clear that this was no answer at all; ihose demands,
if equitable or legal, must be added to those other
liens which Mr. Waters might have,• either as
mortgagee or the personal representative of Ms.
Gould upon the 9-16ths of the purchase-money,
which appeared at present to be the property of
Mr. Taylor. Ile had reasiso to believe that, com-
paratively favourable as the last season might have
been, no profits had heels realized. .
The LORD CHANCELLOR held Mr. Waters to•be
fully hound hy his otter of interest, in considera-
tion for enlarging the period for payinctit of the
purchase-money. This, he appreleended, was the
true consideration of the after, and not the suc-
CeSS of atty.negociatiotts with gentlemen of fa-.
shim'. The interest ought, therefore in his opi-
nion, to he paid to Mr. Taylor personally.