The Sun.
London, England, 1811-12-25 00:00:00

POLICE.

Bow;staßET.--Qn.Monday afternoon a winalan
respeetably dressed went into me,,South's shop, in
Leicester-square, 'and pun chased a child's coat ;
when She was'about to pay for it, she discovered
she had not money enough, but ..gave a` shilling as
a deposit, s lying she would call agriinfritit; As
soon as sbe, had left the shop a mantle was' niissed ;
she was in consequence pursued and stopped, when
she thof}ped
,two. mantles, Alto property 'of Mr.
South. She was' brought to the office and under.
went.rm 'examination in,the evening, and wits com-
mitted for trial..

jolt?' Murrell, who has been in custody tor some
tittle, 00 a charge of robbing Mr. it &ors, a dt overi
from NV:des, at the late Ingatestooo notes
and bill* to the amount of 8001., underwent another
exotninatien, when .William Smith, tilios S4wp.
berd'; a lad at,out eighteen years of pge, who w4ts
'concerned. wit it the prisoner in robbing, tfle.prose-o-
tor, stated, that he went with rlittprisoner And two
others for tho purpose of connuitting•
They went to the King's Arms hut, 'wli:tre thcro,
was a dance, when the prisOner, pointed; out the pro.
Sectitor to the room as the ;old man he had obsetl,q,d
in the fait4 who had' cons:derabig property' about
him. A' short time utter, he and lu. two others
went,out of the Inn on beining a coach stop, ;ma
a great noise. 800 n titter, the prisoner cattle out, he
totd.thern tic; had robbed the prosecutor. They them
madeOfr across some fieldsat the had( o 1 ingattstottei
'nay tvalkc.l all night, awl got 16:01bary Fort to
'breakfast ; just before they outerod the• town they
sat ,d(o.',n iwa lane., and the p,to litl dividcd tin 0h
among them, so that he cheated the others out of
200 L :they went from Tilintly F.,rt to i3ravr:srud to
dinner, and flmu theke they procie,:tleii to Londou
in a posi.cliaise,,

The prisoner afterw artl.4 stwld .Ole tlvte 191` 2401.
He was committed trio!.

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BED! OR DS HIRE AUXILIARY BIBLE SO-

(JET Y.

Parsuant tp 'advertisement, a meeting was held at
the County He Bedford, on Thursday'the 28th
ult. for the interpose of foment,: an Auxiliary Society
for tee town ate! critanty of Bedford,r' and its vicinity,
in aid anti sUpport of the British and Foreign Bible
Society. The meeting Was 'of the most respectable
kind, and numerously attended. Hie Grace. the
Duke of Bedford, who had previously accepted the
office of President, was, unanimously called to the
chair Mr. Whithreed and Mr. Py 03, two of the
'Vies-presidentS of the. society, were also present.
Afellegies were made by othersot the Vice-presi-
detes and selreral of the ptincieal gentlemen of the
conety, expressive of their regret at not being able
to attend, the meeting,' and of their fullest approba-
ttoe of its object and design.
, his Grace the Duke of Bedford ()reined the bu-
siness of the day, in a manner equally dignified and
impressive, and beg en 6.); sieeiete....that on receiving
en application to accept:the officeof patron to the
insCetition, he had thought it his duty, before li
engaged itt a step of so much importance, maturely
to investigate the mature, plan, and general
princi-
I►les of the institution which he was called upon to
support ; and. that, after the fullest deliberation '
witieli he was able to give to the subject, hie mind
s,ronely itepreased with the importance of the
()eject, end t lie obligation ou his part to give it his most
cordieleipplobation and sterpoet. His Grace stated
his opinion, that it Was to the dissemination of the
Scriptines \ve were to look in order to reclaim the
vicious, instruct the ignorant, anti adthinieter con-
. slation to the aiiiHed ; and declared hiS lion con-
vietion, that, sound poliey'and the suepuee of reli-
gion were invariably the same. That what his Ma-
jesty had ()tree expressed on this subject was deeply
eograven tet Ili i uiiod, That he hoped to see
the day when evert' poor man's child in his domi-
nions eliould be able to read his Bible," titer most
willingly del he coecur in Iles seetiment, and with
this view he had tbooght it iocumbent upeo him to
coutoenaoce the measures taken for extending the
blessing of religious education teem% the lower
classes of society. His Grace concluded an address
Whieleerapeatedly called for the most general testi-
moeies of aperobaeon arid aeplau4e, by declaring
his fixed ecterminetion to support wid conntenenee,
the 'institution itt question.
The rev. tilt. Beaceroft, the reelor of Blunliarn,'
then tellowed, and iii a speech alike characterized
by roodeily, (lit; y, and good Seose, entered hue
• an exelaotelee 01 the desien and uhject of theine
etitutiou, :sod stated; such was hie etinvivion of its
•• merits, that he thought a heavy respoesioility was
locurred•by those Who opposed its progress. That
it was simple in its design,, for o ptotessed only to
disseminate the Word of God, and though in this
attempt it nicer pri',l;e,tl hi:4OS varying perhaps widely
in the ititerpreentioe of that Word, yet was 'This ef-
fected without the compromise of 'principle on the
part oi ail, and a greet übjeet attained without the
interventiou of evil. Ttiere were 'others, however,*
he seid, amply possessed of the means of vindicat-
ing u s titerits, whose communications the• ereeliog
would have the gratification of Leering that day,
end front which he would no loireer withhold I
Ile wouldconclude; ith a string of resolutions ex-
pressoe of the determination of this Meettng'to pro-
ne/le, by ail the means in their power, the welfare
(4 the testittitioee, leaving the fuller, explanation of
it to the Secretaries: oldie British and Foreign Bible
Society, via.his much-respected friend Mr. OWen,
owl his coadjutors, the Rev. Mr. Hughes, and the
Ile v. SidinkOptl.
Mr. Owen then addressed the electing in a speech
etie which we confess our utter inability to de, its-
lice,' replete re itlt argument, with `illustration, and
• el, /pence. He eeptessed the peculiiir pleasere he
hed received in petering his Grace the_Duke of Bed-
fdrd explain the manner in which Ire had been
in-
'claced to undertake the patronage of the present
stitution. 11 e wished nothing more anxiously titan'
to See its merits peeved by this test. ' It was inquiry
that he challenged, being finely persuatted, that the
snore the subject was itoestigeted' and Maturely
weighed, the more would it establish its claim to
general support and approbation. ' He 'next dwelt,
in very poet:ft-fat and impressive language, on the
sublimity of the object, correctness Of the ploceeJ,
ingS, gild general principle of the society. It had
in it, he sand, itothipg partial—h did not come as
the rival .Of any" insti ution—how could it rival what
it tended to establish ? It was
,trot sectariene for it
comprehended, all sects/ It was not fanatic, for it
was the cure for fattaecism,—He alluded to the
'foamier in which the parent 'institution in London
had originated, and theurgunient deduced from it.
nut, said he, of what signitholian is'it whether Mi.
nerve sprung freen the brain of Jupiter' or form.
Juno ? she, 'le Minerva still." It matters, not who
threw the ac.'orn, into the ground,' examine the twee
tore of elle bark, grasp 44 stem, bOoki Iplbeenches,
examine its fruits, end let its put eneerivers under:
its shadow, teed if 'all these inquiries prove• /tee
estectory, let us bless God that while' Oistaut na-
tions ere reclining Under its shadow, tee root of it
lies in tois happy comitty.
Mr. Owee then introduced hie colleneue, the Rev.
Mr. SteinicOptf, who dwelt oti the et,.:er dearth of
..Bitles in, foreign countries, which lee! long labour-
ed under tine, want of theni, a want which the liege
rality of the British and Vereignr Bible Society tegaS
now daily supplying. Ile enumerated the different
societies of a similar nattire twined on the continent
'''of Europe, hitiOng- I.,,biclt enuounced one
undertaken by the Roman Catholics .in Germany,
and dirt a desire of reading thenoly Scriptures was
so prevalent, that four editions bad already been
disposed of, and a fifth called fete He then revert-
ed to the labours of the permit institution, which,
during fte short period of its establishment, had
printed the Word of God into the German, the
Dutch, the French, the Spanish, the Portuguese,.
end the areeeet and modern. Greek - languages; and
that 110 less 'than 47,000 Frefach -Testaments had
been circulated among the Fietich prisoners. He
dwelt upon the impressions produced by the.e at,:ts
of bencvoluoix, and drew a pathetic picture of the
eagerness and gratitude with which; the Word of
God had 'been received in foreign countries. He
frOni his own Icnow-
beteged to assure the' tneetii,lg,

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