The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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Bow-sTitttr.--7Yesterdav a celebrated Ch"
was brought to the office by liitotp and •Nicholls, charger,
with robbing the Royal, institution, in Albemarle-street, to
which he .had been lung a subscriber.—lt appeared front the
evidence adduced itt support of the chat'ge, that the Royal
Institution is possessed of a very superior library, partic,ularly
in scientific books, glut that she estimation of the hooks had
latterly been reduced by their being rendered imperfect or
incomplete ; tint by She stealing or destroying of the books.
hitt by the tearisig •.,•'!4t of leaves. This practice is sopposed
to have been carried on for some years, but r:t length it was
discovered that books were feiuntl to be innierft et, which were
ascertained to have bren-perfect but a very short Critte be-
fore. The discovery of the defectite books increased in touch,
that Mr. John Stert, the Assistma Librarian, made a formal
statement to the Managers of it, and at the same time, how-
ever noplensant, be Mentioned the accused as the Gentleman
he suspected, and stated, as the groom; of his suspicion, that
the books which be' discovered with leaves talons out welt
hooks that the accused was in the habit of reading, and that.
after the accused- hail left the Institution be had tumid leaves
taken out of them. Mr. Siert, therefore, was .directed to
watch the conduct of the, :teemed when he. came to the
Institution, which he tiecordinely. did. Ott Wedneoay even
fog the accused was at the Institution during Ins usual hours,
between five and seven, when Mr. Stilt watched him very
closely, and had nu doubt that he had turn some leaves
out of sonic books he had been.looking at. Atter t he.occus-
co had left the Institution, Mr. Steit proceeded to examine
the books which be loot particularly noticed lie hail been to
lOok into, when he found a periodical scientifk work,:called
Nickei.ton's Jrnerntii, defective of five leaves, which he was po-
sitive was entire and coniplete last week; add he strongly
suspected that' the accused had taken them. Bisho'p and
Nicholls, the olficerS,'accompatoied Nr. Stert to the accused's
house ; and on the officers c,tiumnoicating to him their busi-
ness (having a search-warrant, granted by Mr. Birn,ie, to
search his house fOr stolen property), he appeared a good
deal surprised.. Mr. Stert proceeded to examine his papers,
and identified a nit miter which had been torn out of hooks t:-
hinging to the Royal Institution. NVbile. Mr—St, rt was
pursuing this—condoct, the accused was walling np and
down. the room in great agitation. Bishop advised him
-to attend to what was doing, as stolen property being
identified, he trust be answerable for the consetrences.
The officers- seized the .leaves, &c. as identified by
Mr. Stert, and them and the, accused they
_brought- to the
office, when Mr...Siert identified south v leaves which. corres-
ponded with buoks belonging to the Royal Institution. All
the hooks which had been plundered, of leaves were those
Which the aLcused was in the. habit of reading, when be was
at the Royal Institution. Three leaves found iii
his huse
corresponded with,t he first. volonie of YVillick'S Dortt,stic o
En-
4cloperditt,wilidi Mr.Stertlonl tics doubt belonged to the vo-
lume belonging to the Royal Institution. Also thee leave;
containing from page 451 to 426, of Cullen's Materia Medico,
Which had been missed from that work belonging to the In-
stitution. The officers produesd a number in (Abyr leaves,
amounting in the.who!e to Z.ltivot SO, small ;mid large, which
Mr. Stert bad no doubt belonged to hooks in the library of the
lustitotion.
Previous to the commeoceruent of the examination, the
Chymist requested that it iniglst be a private one; he said he
should be,particularly Obliged thereby-
Mr. BiliNa that be did •not sit there to confer ob
ligations, but to fulfil a duty y in roarYy cases.a most painful
one; and lie did nut see any thing in this particular instatwe
which erught to induce hint to depart from the ordinary eirs'-
toMs of the office•
The Prisoner was then plactd at the Bar.. In his defence,
be said, the leaves seized by tilt officers in his house and pro-
duced before the Magistrate, belooged to books which lie had
at home; however, some books belonging to the institution
were produced, in which the leaveS thatOwd to the places
where leaves had been takeo out, as to the pays, type of
printing, &e.
The Magistrate, after hearing the whole of the case, espe-
c.ially as the Institution was tojined or despoiled by one of
its subscribers, thought that to constitute a felony, she pro-
perty stolen tuost bear sonic value, and hoWever valtial2le the
hooks 'might .frotn which Os; leaves found in.tlw accused's
house, and'identified by Mr. Siert had been torn, yet the
leaves separated 'from (hem were only waste paper, aid thins
value was doutitfot If they had Weighed a ponnd he- might
have committed him for the value of a pottod,of waste paper;
but as that was not the case lie discharged hint.

Mr. Bnoom, a grazier, after selling some cattle
at Smithfield market on 'Monday, was to return
home by the Oundle.coach the next Morning.—
At six o'clock Le was going to the Holloway
turnpike to pay the toll for the cattle he had
brought through, when he was stopped by three
men in smock frocks, who knocked him down,
and robbed him of %Oh in notes.

'Eli E. Elii.VE;.l,6 R. ' .!-..t.F.,a ,\.:c PEA;

ft!ENTARKABLF, DISPENSA riON 'OF PROViDENCE.
The following is an extv;..v.::t of a letter dated
Peiersburgh, Decembev 2; (14) 18.20—" The
EMperor left his capital,abont three months ago,
on a jotirney into:theinfekier of his empire, and
nothing remarkable occurred till he came to the
Goyernment of Twer, about 500 wersts (400
English miles) from Pet,ersb.nrg,h. Ile halted
for 4 night 'at a Own, the uaine of which
cannot at present recollect,- and took up his
abOde at a house prepared him, as is usual
in such cases, by the Commandant of the
plate. lie had ' scarcely descended from his
carriage, and seated hintself, when a respec;
fa hie inhabitant of the place hating gained admit;
taace, and, after apologizinf7, for his intrusion, soli
cited him. to remove to his house, where he

would have better accommc•dation. The Emperor

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thanked him for the•kindneks of his offer, but
dined accepting it., His affectionate subject
could not be induced to take a denial) and sue;
ceeded, after lunch solicitation. With reluct-:
ante the Emperor consented, and •followed the
Merchant to his house, though quite contrary
to his usual custom, of avoiding giving trouble
to private individua.ls. After an hour had elapsed,
there arrived in the same town a, I.4ady of
rank, accompanied by her two daughters, and•
attended.hy"Several servants. As there was aft-
pearance of rain they determined tostop the night
there,:, and on inquiring for lodgings, were con:-I
ducted to the apartments which the Emperoi-
had so recently quitted. They felt proud, to
put, up at a •place which, their beloved Mo-
narch bad just occupied. The rain, which haci
threatened, soon fell in torrents,and the storm was
accompanied with dreadful thunder; and. while,:
probably, they were all congratulating them-.
selves on their escape from the pitiless storm, the
ligh tiling.struck the house, and it fell immedie.te-*
ly; and, awful to relate ! the Lady, her daugh-
ters, and several domestics perished in the ruins! !
Stirely the' Lord was with the Emperor in this
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wonderful-escape ! Had he remained twO hou'rs
longer in the habi tttion inTwhich he appeared to be:
fixed for the night, his numerous and atfectiomyte,
subjects would have been mourning his loss, in.;
stead of as now rejoicing that be is niercifully stilt
preserved—the beloved. Sovereign of a loyal
people. The. feelings of the WorthY merchant
may
.be better conceived than described when he
thus saw himself the instrument whom God had •

,onoured to preserve , the invaluable life of
is Monarch. • The ituF'ans are •remarlia-.

Ile for their devoted attachment to their Sove;
reigns. Not the utmost stretch- of tyranny
by .the inflictions of arbitrary cruelty would di-
vest them of that attachment. HolieVer despotic,
they would never refuse to defend the person' of
their Monarch against his enemies external or in-l•
ternal, if an appeal were once made to the loyalty
of the Russian people ;—but, when to the =e:nera-
tion and love which the. mere name of his Majesty
-e,icites in the Russian population, an Alexander
adds those amiable Cle>tian qualities--;-tho4
virtues, public and private—the reverential re-•
gard to the Sacred Scriptures, and the frank.
avowal of the Saviour as the foundation d his
hopes-,-the veneration tad love of the ittissian,
subject rise to an unspeakable devotedness. We
hesitate not to add to thii very singular and in-'
teresting anecdote, that this providential preser.:
cation of the noble and good A leNander_ is a
blessing for which the civilized world should fe'...4
thankful to the Supreme Being."

M. NALDI.—The following are given in .11-,a
Paris Papers which arrived yesterday, as tli'
correct particulars of the lamentable accident
which occasioned the death of this Gentleman :
" M. NALDI, of the Royal Italian Theatre, be-
ing invited to dine with M. GACCCIA, came with.
his wife and daughter, and examined the cooking
apparatus in the chimney, the process of which
was accelerated by ,the marmite otociare. The
disengagement of the calOric went On well, and.
the operation was near its con-lusion, when M.
NALDI imprudently pressed the safety-sucker,
so closely with the fire tongs, that the
_cover of
the autoclam exploded, struck N. NAi.DI On the
forehead, carried away part of the skull, and laid
him dead at the feet of his daughter. M:G.tacrx
was slightly hurt."
An eminent house at Liverpool yesterday-
morning spoken of on 'Change as being in a state
of 'insolvency.
The Peterborough dispensary ball, on Monday
evening, was very numerously and fashionabiy at•
tended, and the funds of that excellent charity
‘% ere more benefitted upon this than any for,per oc
caSion. i The city may be congratulated upon that,
universal haranny and concord, and upon that ge-
neral determination to be agreeable and happy,
which, so evidently prvaded the whole assembly-
The Noble Earl Pitctwilliarn and the Countess,
Lord and. Lady Milton and their daugbtei,'lNTiss
Wentworth, who was Capon this ocsasion introduc-
edfor the first time to the inhabitants of Peterbo-
, rough, were present, and by their agreeable affa-
bility diffused a general sat.i.3faction.—Mrs. Marsh'
and the eldest stini were also present,
a.'ui scarcely a family of respectability in the
town and neighbourhood was wholly absent. One
hundred and twenty cheerful countenances gave
and received pleasure.

13.1'047.
On the 20th inst., at Ltrxer "L'optin; S•tirreY, Mrs. Rober
Hogzart, of a dnifeltter.
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Mrilt 14.1 ED.
• A few days a 5,...), Nit. 8. Fassoo, inn. of South Lambeth, to,
Phi ilk, diaugbter of the late John. (;net;, 11, Esq. of Chelsea.
Yeoerday ittfiriliiv, at At. (eo,ge's Church, Bloomsbury,
Mks Mary eldest ,titer .1 V; ol.Wi ogfield, Esti-
and Diecr to the Earl of Thgby, to Wm. Gunton, Esq, of
io the count). of lies cfui d..

• nirir).
On the Isth inet., nt 14;peonn, Elarhis Parish, of Emmanuel
t 011t1Cry Catlth,
On tnes(lnv )net, .tnhn Ckslit,„•Esq.,• of Bell-rue-house,
Itamsgale, late of Entie!d, Nliddit sex, aged 83.

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soltrrs, of No. 7, 13,onth Mniton-street, at -TriE SuN
Oitier, No. 112. Strom' : where Atireitisements, Orders,
Letters, &c. (cost-tiaFet) mint be addressed.