Star.
London, England, 1830-01-14 00:00:00

EXTENSIVZ ROBBERY BY A iIERVANT.

Ann Thomas, spinster, aged 26, was put to the bar
on au indictment, charging her with feloniously stealing
in the dwelling-house of her master, John Phillips,
proprietor of the King's Arms, Orchard-street, West-'
minster, £5O, &c. his monies. The short fact of
this ease was, that the prisoner, in her capacity of a
servant, had availed herself of the opportunity afforded
her, and purloined the money. The cl,ie was clearly
brought hornet° the prisoner ; but the Jury, in consi-
deration of some circumstances which came out in the
course of the trial, found the prisoner guilty of stealing.
to the amount of 4/. 19a. thus taking off the capital port
of the charge.

t TEN SI V ROBP It AT M !Ai MUM; ILA

William Adams. a servant to the above lady, aged 21,
and William Mealing, were put to the bar on an indict-
ment charging them with feloniously stealing, in the
dwelling-house of Elizabeth Musgrave, on the night of
the 24th of December. plate and other articles to the
amount of 1001. and upwards, her property.
The circumstances of this case were as follow ;—On the
evening in question, the prosecutrix left home and did
nut return until twelve o'clock, when she found the whole
of her plate was gone. Adams had gone out in the even-
ing and returned with Mary Mealing, when the cook-
maid, Adams, and Agnes Smith, another servant, sat
down to cards. Adams shortly after went out to fetch
some in and cloves, and shortly after the door was
heard to shut loudly, and on going up stairs the robbery
was discovered. Bond and a brother officer hearing of
the robbery, searched the outside of the house, and
finding. no marks of violewe, took the whole of the
parties into custody, and subsequently Adams confessed
the robbery, and stated where the property had been
taken to. The officers, on going to this place, found it
as statal in a box, belonging to the prisoner Mealing.
The fact of the prisoner Mealing placing the plate in his
tool-chest the following day, was proved ; as were the'
confession: of Adams, made on the following day.
Mr. Justice Gast:LEL,. summed up the evidence to the
Jury : in the course of which he dwelt on the fact, that
the prisoner Mealing had not attempted to give any ac-
count of how he cumo possessed of the plate, and left it
to the Jury to say whether they could have any doubt on
the part of either of the prisoners ; if they had they would'
give him the benefit of it.
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The Jury were about to consider their verdict, when
Mealing begged to be allowed to speak ; the request,
being granted, he declared that he was wholly innocent
of any participation in the robbery, and added that n
person whom he did not know had placed it in his chest.
Mr. Justice GarELEs said, the Jury would take
this declaration into consideration, and put it to them
to declare their opinion. They considered for a short
time and found both the prisoners Guilty—Death.
The Jury recommended Adams to mercy, in which
they were joined by the prosecutrix.

The Earl of ABERDEEN entertained the Cabinet Mi-
nisters to dinner yesterday evening, at his residence in
Argyll-street. The whole of the Ministers in town were
present.

A meeting of the National Society took place yester-
day morning at St. Martin's vestry room. Present, the
Bishop of London, Bishop of Exeter, Mr. Justice
Park, Reverend H. H. Norris, Reverend R. Lendon,
Joshua Watson, Treasurer. The schools of ten places
were received into union, and sums of money in aid of
the erection of school-rooms were voted to six places,
the total amount of the grants being 3401.
A BILL PUBLISHED, BUT NOT PAID.—The Rev.
John Browne, lite Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge,
being told that a certain B.A. of that ilk had, in a work
of which he was the author, published his bill, tartly
replied, " I wish he had paid it first."
Sows or Pitosecarrx !!!—There are, taking the
highway only, from Neu-cross, Kent-road, to the Brick-
layers' Arms, a distance of less than three miles, omitting
unfinished buildings, no less than one hundred and
eighteen houses " to be let" and " to let;" from the latt 'r
place to St. George's, in the Borough, a few hundred
yards, forty-three; and from the Bricklayers' Arms to
the Elephant and Castle, forty !
They write from Corfu that the commander of Negre-
pont has received orders to evacuate that island, and
they state from Patras that Athens has been delivered
over to Ypsilanti.
The letters from Nyborg, of the 26th of December,
state that the ice, which covered the Belt, had put a com-
plete stop to travelling by sea. The two lust couriers had
been compelled to stop at Kundhoved.

The ship Triton arrived at Havanna!' on the 24th ult
from Tampico, with 350 Spanish troops, twenty-four of
whom died on the passage. Business was dull at Ha-
vannah, and several failures had tahen place.
The late Sir Thomas Lawrence, when shoat 18 years
of age, in the year 1788, came to Salisbury, and waited
upon the late Dr. Hancock, then an eminent physician
in that city, to w'aom he had a letter of recommenda-
tion. Dr. Hancock employed him to make portraits,
in coloured chalk, of himself and his daughter.—
These portraits are now in the possession of a gentle-
man holding an official situation in London, who married
a grand-daughter of the late Dr. Hancock. He informs
us that they ire executed in a style fully equal to any of
the lamented President's latest drawings. On the paper
pasted at the backs of the frames is the signature " Thos.
Lawrence," and on one of them the artist has written—
" Be pleased to keep this from the damp and from the
sun." Dr. Hancock recommended young Lawrence to
go to Bath, and gave him letters of introduction to seve-
ral of his friends there. It was then much frequented by
persons of fashion and distinction, who were all eager to
employ him. After remaining there some time, and be-
coming a general favourite, lie left that city for London.
A dangerous epidemical fever prevails in the prisons
of Toulon. Upwards of four hundred men are ill.--
The malady rages particularly on board the prison-ship
No. 2, where twenty-five convicts are ill of every 100,
whilst in other hulks there are but five or ten sick per
hundred.

Yesterday afternoon some thieves eKected an entrance
into the chambers of 'f. G. Morgan. aq. Middle Temple-
lane, during the temporary absence of the laundress, and
conveyed away two dozen Bengal silk handkerchiefs, se-
veral dozens of new shirts, many articles of gentleman's
wearing apparel, a considerable quantity of plate, and
other property.
Edward Bourchier Hartopp, Esq. of Leicestershire, the
nephew of Sir Bourchier Palk Wray, of Tawstock Court,
in Devonshire, and heir to the estates of the late Lord
Carberry, has given the Member for Clam a plot of
ground in the neighbourhood of Dormant, Abbey, as
a site fora new Chapel, and he has also given 2001. as
6 donation towards the building of the sacred edifice.