Star.
London, England, 1829-07-29 00:00:00

Thorne, with a grey wig, and naval uniform, looked like a ship's
cook, dressed in his Captain's uniform • and Baker—that terrible
Baker—we here lose courage to proceed.

ROBBERY OF PRINCE METTERNICH.
By the following Intelligence we should apprehend that the great
AUSTRIAN Levee of the world is at length, alas ! creeping fast to
his dotage. Where was his all spying police, that a man was found
daring enough to entertain even a secret thought of plundering this
terrible senatorial lynx? We always thought he slept with his eyes
open. Lord Aberdeen, to defend his patron from the charge of
being caught napping, protests, it is said. that the whole was a mere
ruse j and affects to be extremely uneasy at the disappearance of
certain interesting correspondence touching Greece and Portugal,
reported to have been stolen with the precious booty. A medal,
street in honour of Don Mtoosx,—with a gibbet on one side, and
the face of this precious pupil, crowned with a wreath of serpents, on
the other, is the object most deplored in the loss. Lord Aberdeen, it
' is whispered, means handsomely to send hint another to replace it.
" Prince Metternich bad formed, in his castle of Konigswart, in
Bohemia, a cabinet of the most rare medals There were some of
gold, and some of silver, of very large dimensions, sod valued at
12,000 florins at least. The rooms where this collection is kept
are vaulted ; the windows have iron bare and strong shutters be-
fore them ; the doors are provided with strong iron bands in the
inside, and a strong iron gate prevented access to the interior. In
spite of all these precautions, a complete robbery has been effected.
and all the pursuits of the magistrates have been ineffectutl. Mar-
ius the Feast of. the Jubilee of St. Nepnmaicene, at Prague. on
Monday afternoon, the day of the Fete Dieu, a stage-coach arrived
in town front the country, and stopped, by the desire of one of the
persons in it, at an inn in the suburbs, where this traveller alighted ;
among those persons who remained in the carriage was a captain, who
►ad remarked the uneasiness betrayed by their late companion,
and the particular care which he took of a packet he had with him.
The Captain, carried away by this sort of sentiment, thought it his
duty, on arriving in the town, to inform the police of the circum-
stance. Some of its agents were immediately sent to the inn where
the suspected individual had got down, but be bad already gone
away. As soon as the stage coach had left. he ►ad got a hackney
coach to carry him, as he said, to the Theatre. An inspector of
these coaches was sent for, and there was no difficulty its finding
out the coach which had carrried the stranger, not to the Theatre,
as be said, in the suburbs, but to the Black Horse, the best ion at
Prague. There. notwithstanding the multitude of strangers, the
police was not long in discovering him ; and one of its agents was
set to watch him. Nothing happened that evening. On the fol-
lowing day he was again closely watched; and be, not suspectiog
anything, went to the market of the Jews, where, with an sir alto.
gather undisturbed. and without making any mystery of his pro-
ceeding, be offered to sell some medals to a Jew, which be took
from his pocket and showed him. At the moment the bargain was
to be concluded, the officer made his appearance, and fixing his eyes
t firmly oa the seller, asked did be not know him ? The seller was dis-
concerted, and lost all his presence of mind, when the officer added,
that he was the person to whom the medal-seller bad already of-
fered to sell meffah stole at Konigswart. The trick was well con-
ceived ; the thief or the accomplice was arrested ; his chamber was
searched, and a groat quantity of medals found. It is not known
w►ether the whole cabinet of medals has been recovered, or if a
part of them bad already found their way into the melting pot.—
Gesetss de Berlin."