The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-17 00:00:00

RESURRECTIONISTS.-14HOL6SALB DEAURS.

William Parrott arid Jolsn.liorils were place!' at
the bar on ait indictment charging them with haying,
on the 16th of December last, opened a grave in
the church•vard of St. George's, Middlesex, and
mice!' therefrom the body of a female child, of
about nine years of age, with intent to dispose of
the ,same for4heir lucre and, gain. And the-indict-
ment charged them, in a second coons, with having
unlawfully entered the said church •yard with intent
to steal therefrom fourteen dead bodies.

Benjathin l ing, watchman of St... George's parish,
deposed,--On the 15th of December last two of my
companions and myself went into the Ten Bells pab-
lic-house,. at Spitathelds, to .get some refresh-
Ment. While we were there four men, two of
them were the prisoners, came into the room in
which we were sitting, ancL after a short time, they
commenced a conversation with us, in the course
of which they - learned that we' were' '-watchmen.
After we had sat together for about two hours
North asked trs.. if., we did not find ours a
very unprofitable business, and-attended with•much
trouble. I replied. that it certainly was rather e
troublesome sort of occupation. The prisoners then
said; if we.hadanywisb to better our•sittsation, they
could put us in a way of so doing; and even that
night,- if we thought proper, they:would enable us
to realize 70/. or 801. We inquired how ? and they
then proposed that we should admit them, after
midnight,-into the church-yard, and permit them to
carry away some of the bodies interred there.' We
consented, .for the purpose oVentrapping them:—
North said, "'l'm --- if we won't make agood
.thing of it to-night; for.l'm determined to have at
least 14, of them.". One of his comrades said,—
. " Don't be covetous, Jack; if we get eight or ten
of theM we may be very well satisfied." North
replied, " I shan't be satisfied with eight or ten,
-though ; I'm determined to have a good 'swag
'While I am about it. not have 'one less than 14;
and if the watchmen only stick to us, they shall have
five pounds for each subject, and there will be
seventy poundi smack for them in-one night." We
appeared, continued the witness, to acquiesce in
all they said; and it was:. ultimately agreed upon
that they were to come to the church-yard be-
tween one and two o'clock on the following morning'
In the meantime I disclosed all that had -occurred
to some of the officers of the parish, and a plan was.
arranged for the apprehenaiou of the gang., At the
hour appointed the party arrived. They opened
three or four graves with most extraordinary expedi-
tion, but complained that the subjects contained iu
them were too far gone for their purpose. They at
length 'caine to a newly., made grave, which having
opened, they disinterred from it, the body of a girl
of about nine years of age. They took the body out
of.the coffin, and laid it under a tree whilst they
went to search for others. They were in the act of
disinterring two other hedies when I gave a signal
(previously agreed upon). to the officers, 'who in-
stantly ran up and
-secured myself and the two pri-
soners at the bar; but two of the party made their
escape. I was taken into custody in order that the
resurrectionists might not suspect that I was the
persOn who had informed against them.
Three other watehMen and a parish officer corro-
borated the statement made by the last witness...

The prisoners were sentenced to nine months'
prisonment, and ordered to. kept to hard labour.

A swallow, of the marten species, was shot
in a meadow at Longparish, near Andover, in the forenoon
of the let inst. having been seen on that and the preceding
day flying about a farm-yard very lively, and as if then
feeding on tl.e wing. About tun days before three were
seen at the same place.

The national debt of the sixteen kingdoms
and the forty,four principalities of Europe amonnts to
seven hundred and forty-four millions sterling, while thlt
of England alone amounts to seven hundred and seventy-
seven.