The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-06 00:00:00

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"ItIE CON:n'IRACIES.

ArtstoN,llousti.-4-YestLeday Pelham;
ttntrthe Pam's, were ordered up for examination,
When an evidence affording the last link in the
chitin of elucidation against them was expected,
but the witness not being in attendance at the
'time, the prisoners were vent down for an hour,
Mrs. l'itt kis, the witnets 'expi!etetl, came into.:
Court and deposed, that slre 'resided at 66iColden-
lane, and that the ptiStmers, ilrock and Pet.
ham (who were again plated at the bar), came to
1
lift I about two ,motttlrs since, and purchased
loinmer and 61cs'; Witness identified by pe-
rubor malls the articles produced ; these it ap-
pears were part of the implements with which they
used to carryon their system of depredation. The
prisoner, Brork,• here threw nut an audacious.
defiance against the testimony of the witness, with
regard to his being one of the persons I 11) pUr•
liased the files ; but Pelham admitted his
.being
Ot !he witness's kloor.

• During the inquiry, a circumstance oceueretL
which excited no inconiiderahle degree of. stir-
prise ; this was a letter from a Mr. Burgess,whom
we formerly noticed as having brett osefttlly ac,!.
tive in lat ;nen this nefarious blisiness to light,
stating that he was retained by Brock to defend '
him in this matter; but the Loan MAYOR gave no
credit to the statements contained in this Strange
communication, and told the prisoners that the
evidence against them being now complete he
should order them for a final examination at an
early day, when the whole of the proofs would be
read over before them.
The prisoners were remanded, when an im-
mense concourse followed them to the place of
confinement with thundets of execration.
BOW -STR EF.T.—One of the most material Wit
nesses to prove the case of a conspiracy against
'Vaughan anti his associates, in bringing aloes.
and effecting the burglary in Mrs. M`Donald's
Louse at Buxton, having been discovered,
AIMS, the Magistrate, attended' specially at the
Office yesterday, for the express purpose of going
'into tie examination, when Armitroog, the officer
'berottging to Worship street Office; attended
•with the boy, whoM.he had discovered, iv ho had
-been. the agent of Drake,' es ho had s •et hint to
'Vaughan at Sailler's %Veils Theatre. a here
'the latter was attending as- a rmistahle, with
a'message for him to send Drake more miney
fOr the tour young labouring men, who iie
scribed to he, in a very rough Neer,' state, with
mit the least appearance of thieves ; when this
boy received half a geinea from Vattglia.l to fake
to Drake, with a message to make them bah
(drink) well before they went to break open Mrs.
*AVDonald's house. The boy underwent a very
long exemination before the Magistrate, and his
evidence was taken in Wriiing.
The tour young fellows were such novices in
thieving HMI housebreaking, and were so_void of
enerage, that the shaking of a hedge close to Mrs.
M'DOnald's lindie and the noise of it so much
alarmed them, that they left the house withont
stealing any thing, end ran off. This, however,
it is undo st itod, had' the desired effect, ab it was
not intended that they should steal any thing,
They *ere afterwards taken by Vaughan unit his
companions, examined by Mr. NAZE*, and dis-
charged.

Ur, EXPEDITION TO MADAGASCAR.

EXTRACT OF A PRIV,NTF. I.LTTER.

'' Mr. r ILG,U if Ail, Who is the Governor of Manri.
tins, h4l v nig I alum int cnnsiderttiott the adv.onagc
NV hiC h Oita Willi(' might derive front a' Itriti*ll
Settlement at Madagascar, dispatched on the I Ith
-Dscetither tilt. the-Government schooner Mag.
net to 'fort Lotpiez, Ott the north coast of that
sland, where the climate is good, at well at the
utter and inner 'hathour, In this yeo.el a Mt'.
Bletiman, t Chief Clerk in the civil Service, eta!
'barked with the Governor's authority, to reside
AS Agent, until his Majesty's plettstire.was known.
.A Butler, who wag N Lioniltay Pilot, and ar-
Tived at iMattritittsfrom calculta, on the '2sth of
November in the situation of t,,ieetind paver of
the Mist India Company', ship 'witty)).
trered his services ;--farther, the GoN'',ertor's gift.
(letter, of the 11411)C of Rowe, and twelve carpen-
ters and joiners, completed the umnbcr of the
intended Settlement. The. Magnet returned to
Mauritius on the 2sd of January, bringing very
satisfactory intelligence-relative to the object Of
the Mission, and the good tottierfitanding which
apparently prevailed. The Governor's anxiety,
ltowevet, induced hint on the 9,Bth of December
to order a solidi boat to follow the Magnet, and
which returned to the Mauritius nu the 311 of
N,trcir with the melancholy intelligence that her
cumniantler (an old Mastt-r in his Majesty's naval
servicr, of the name of Birch), together with
I\l r. lite/moan and Mr.l3ntier, had been mottle' ed.
ilowe, the gardener, escaped on board the hoat,
I,iit died of fright. It isireported, that a li.w
words reI,..CPCI het Weell the English party and
solott of the Negro servants, and in the even»
in some of the.. flacks fired: into the house',
a'"l shin: liutlet% On the following morn-
-1,;;,1, Mr, filenmait and Mr. Birch having per-
son'hilv reretred the affair to the Chief,-. a shot
AVM lifer! through the latter's thigh, and ano-
ther tltrottgh the former's head. Mr. Birch
further received, when attempting- to run off,
st tiecoad hall., which killed hint. Thus ter
titillated this expedition a few days a
boat, togellter armed hi ii;, will proceed
to Madagascar.; Lient, LeSaye, of tite.2ll Re-
giment, Aid-de-Qamp to the Grovel nor, is to ens-
blirk ffir the' purpose, it is rionoured, of het o.tittritt aid' the Queen of a neighbouring Trihe,
-io Port Duplex, to induce her to obtaindhe della-
, tiueli!s, by treaty or force of taws. Presents
have certainly hecti purchased fat' her t Sooty
flightless.' "
A CONSTANT ILEADER.