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London, England, 1810-10-13 00:00:00

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Further particulars relative to the escape of RO-
bertsr:--- •
UNION-H L.—Yeiterday A further investigation
of this subject took place before G. HICKS, Esq.
which may tend materially to elucidate this subject.
Three persons, named Brook:, cooper, and Broad-
bent, were apprehended by Goff and Wortley, on sus-
picion of being parties concerned in making the, keys,
by the application of which Roberts emancipated him-
self from " durance vile;" the examination of the par.
ties was private, but the following were the principal
facts which came out. Brooks is a whi.lsmith, of
respectability, and resides in the Borough, and stated
that before Roberts's escape was made public, a per-
son, a stranger to lem, came to his house, and asked
him to make a couple of keys, One of them from an
impression in soap, and the other from a padlock ;
he told Brooks he had been recommended to him by
an Ironmonger in the Borough, ai a person who
would do it for him with dispatch, and as he was
going out of town the following morniiig, he must
have them that night. Brooks undertook to make
them by the time mentioned, and as soon as the per-
son was gone, he went to an Ironmonger's to get an
unfinished key, from which to make it. After apply-
ing at several, however, he found it impossible to suc-
ceed, as the share of the key was diff,:rent from keys
in general. The bit or wards of the key was not
large, but the length from the bow of the key to the
wards was out of all proportion. Finding it impos-
sible, therefore to get one, he went to Broadbent, a
blacksmith, and directed him to make one, winch was
done, and the person calling at the time appointed,
Brooks delivered up to him the padlock, the impres-
sion, and the key.
Broadbent, the blacksmith, said, that on being first
applied to by Brooks, to make the key, be hesitated,
as he thought it appeared like a key belonging to a
prison ; he, however, did make it, and all the time
he was at work upon it, Brooks continued at a public
house in the neighbourhood, frequently visited him,
and urged hint to be expeditions, supplying him with
liquor, tkc. he said it must be finished by a certain
hour, as it was going 150 miles out of town. He got
it done by the time named, and delivered it to Brooks,
who paid him Bs. for his trouble.
The padlock key, it appeared, was made by Brooks's
man, Cooper.
After the examination was gone through, the Ma-
gistrate again pressed Brooks to say who gave him
the order to make ete key; after some hesitation, he
said he believed it was Wm. Folkard. _ _ _

MaNstox-House.—Yesterday the above IV. FAAAard,
who stands charged with being concerned with Roberts,
who has committed foegeries u pon the Bank of England,
underwent another examination. A great many wit-
nesses attended. This man, who is charged with mak-
ing the key to enable Rohnts to escape, was likewise
examined privately before the Lord Mayor, with three
others of the names of Heirr9 Mence, George Nolan,
and George Hales. Several et the Clerks of the Bank
attended to give evidence, with the Magistrates and
Chief Clerk of Union-street, with minutes of former
examinations taken before them. The prisoners were
all remanded for further examination.
Elizabeth Robinson was charged with robbing a
sailor in Whitechapel. The prosecutor told his Lord-
ship that being in liquor, he slept. on a butcher's I
stall, in Aldgate ; that when he awoke, he'found he
was robbed of his tobacco-box, containing 7s. his silk
handkerchief, and shoes. The prisoner, whom he'
never saw before, sat near him ; that he demanded
his shoes, which she gave him, and ran away, but was
stopped by a Constable, who found the handkerchief
and tobacco-box concealed about her, but no money.
She was fully committed.
HATTON-GARDES.—Yesterday John 4Tmi.'hw:is fully
committed, charged by Mr, Fisher, `corm:handler,
in Edgeware Road, with whom he lived servant,
with stealing from his premises a large quantity of seeds.

A fire broke out on Wednesday night at the house
(if the Rev. Mr. Guide, at Frumpton, about seven
miles from Dorchester, which was occasioned by the
negligence of a servant in setting fire to the drawing-
room curtains. The house was reduced to a heap of
rubbish, and not it particle of furniture was saved.—
A son of Mr. Guide lost his life in the flames, and a
maid-servant was so shockingly burnt in searching
after the child, that she is not expected to survive.
Yesterday morning a woman, residing in Grub-
street, locked toe children (twins) about three years
old in her room, while she stepped to a neighbouring
' butcher's, and, during her absence, they amused them-
selves with lighting matches, by which the garments
of one of them were- set on fire, and the poor inno-
cent was so notch injured as to cause its death within
an hour after its arrival at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
A Coroner's Inquest was held yesterday at the
White Horse, Knightsbridge, on the body of Maria
Westbury, a child of about seven years old, who died
in St. George's Hospital, in consequence of being
burned on Wednesday last. It appeared in evidence,
1 that this poor little girl, the offspring of an illicit con-
inection in the country, was sent from the month to
be nursed by a woman of the name of Ann Broom,
residing at No. IB,•Windmill-street, Haymarket.—
Broom, who was stated to be a woman of profligate
habits, was in the practice of going out for several
hours at a time, and leasing the child locked Up in
. her room. During one of those intervals the lamen-
I table accident occurred. Some neighbours, hearing
. r the shrieks of the child, forced open the door, and
found her all in a blaze. She died in eight hours after
she was taken to the Hospital. Verdicto—Died through
neglect of Ann Brown, the nurse.
On Tuesday a serious accident happened to Miss
Baker, the juvenile performer on the Piano Forte.—
Being anxious to let her mother in, who was waiting
at the door, her foot caught in the carpet at the top
of the stairs, by which she wss precipitated to the
bottom, with such violence as to break the large
bone in the arm, below the elbow, in two plates, and
the small bone in one. She is now doing as well as'
can be expected.
Yesterday some idle fellows selected a bullock from
a drove, in Crown-street, Finsbury, and drove it
through. Shoreditch to Bethnal-green, where it turned
on its persecutors, and gored several ot. them; -parti-
cularly one of the most active, who received a despe-
, rate wound iis the thigh, which it is hoped will operate
as a useful memento—this practice being pregnapt
with cruelty, not only to the animal, but to all par-
sons passing the streets.