The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-12 00:00:00

but I was a sokliee And weed seventeen years and a kalf in
the Horse Artillery. I went with Sir John Moors from
Ireland in 1802, and folight both under him
.end the. Duke
of Welliigton in the Peninsula. I was'wounded-but that's
ineither here nor there, I've a pension for it, thank God
Sir It. Mama—Well, go on with your story.
David then went oil to date that when the gin was finish.
"ad they all came out of the shop together, and the prisoner
gave him " a bit of a beg," and she and Mucky went away
together. Soon after they were gone he missed his watch
float his fob, and that was all he knew of the subject.
From other testimony it turned out that tile prisoner, a
very short time after else quitted poor David, pawned the
teals which were attached to his watch, and on attempting
to pawn the watch at another place, she was detained on
suspicion of baying stolen it. The theft having been clearly
established, the prisoner was committed for trial. David
• entreated that he might be permitted to forego a prosecu.
lion ; but Sir Richard Rime said he should be compro-
mising his duty were be to suffer such an offender to
escape.
Utstow-nam..---LawneTn Cuoismi mummy only.—Yes-
terday information was received %t this office that Lam-
beds Church, which almost touches the Archbishop's
palace, bad been broken open by thieves. Glannon, the
officer, immediately went to the church, by the direction of
the Magistrates, to examine the building and ascertain whe-
ther there was any ground for supposing that the thieves
who broke open the palace were not those who broke open
the church. Glanoon learned that the discovery of the
burglary in the chards did not take place until Sunday
morning, when the 'won went round to prep*, for tit.
vine service, before 7 o'clock. The sexton was surprised
to see the heavy marks of footsteps near the west door of
the church in the burial ground, and soon found that the
door bad been wrenched open. The instrument used to
perform this service for the thieves must have beett larger
than those which were applied to the doors of the palace,
as the marks on the edges of the doors of the church were
of considerable size. and in fact the church doors &reef such
unwieldly magnitude as to require great strength, both of
arm and instrument, to Weak them Opel. The luck of the
west door had been broken off, and the panel was dragged
off with it. T lie thieves, if they were the same that robbed
the palace, were certainly not so well acquainted with the
'Mines of the interior of the church as with those to the
most private rooms of the fdrmer building; for upon' break-
ing open the first door, they applied their strength to the
petit gate lading to the aisle. They were here defeated
knee numerous violent efforts, for there were other marks
oti,the door. It is supposed that they opined the locks wills
a skeleton key, and that they relinquished the idea of forc-
ing their way upon finding that the door bad been fasten-
ed by a couple of immense iron bolts, which ate capable of
resisting the attempts of 20 men. Based in their object
of entering at this door, they next attacked a wooden par-
tition, which they were mistaken in supposing led to the
interior of the chinch, fur it merely communicated with the
ehginc house. They broke sufficiently through this parti-
tion to convince themselves that except they chose to steal
the fire-engine, they had no chance of profit by pushing
their labours further in that direction. There were no fur-
ther symptoms of attempt to enter the church, and no in-
iv: outsets were found neat the spot. The footsteps were
traced along the wall, which Is near the palace, and (Ban-
non was particular its his notice of them.
The conjecture amongst those who are well qualified to
judge as to the attempt to get into the church is, that the
villains who broke into the palace, upon finding that they
bad no chance of getting hold of the expected chests of
plate,detertnined to try thechurch and strip the communion
table, but in their hopes in this respect, also, they were quite
mistaken. There is no plate kept in•the church. That
which belongs to it, and is occasionally used, is regularly
taken to a place of security remote frosts the church, when
there is no necessity for producing it ; so that if they had
effected an entrance, the conmovences would have been
naimpoetane as far as regarded the mischief sustained by the
robbery of the building. The thieves might have got as
many cushions as they could carry, and prayer books io
abundance; but they could net have touched any thing
else; aid their rejection of the property in the palace which
they might base taken away, proved that. they are men
who are determined to be well recompensed for the danger
which they undergo, or to receive nothing at all. Some are
of opinion that the gang divided, and commenced their
attack upon the palace and the church simultaneously. It
is supposed that they were well armed, and resolved to com-
mit any violence they might think necessary for their own
safety, in case of the resistance of any of the domestics
whom they should come in contact wins in the course of
their attempt. It is well known by all in the neighbourhood
of the palace, that a quantity of fire arum, ready for action,
are kept in one of the lower rooms. Several blunderbusses
loaded are always under a press bed in a store room, in which
a trusty servant (the cellarman) sleeps, and therefore the
gang must have been well disciplined and desperately
resolved before they commenced their operations. It is
supposed that the thieves entered the palace without shoes,
as not an atom of clay was to be seen upon the window
stool at which they first entered, nor was there any mark of
any other kind on the boards, which are in a high state of
polish, and would be likely to show footsteps which were
not most cautiously made.
. The Archbishop arrived yesterday morning, and confirm.
ed the statement made by Mrs. Sutton, that nothing of value
was missiog. The presents which were made to him, and
which are estimated at 15,01101. were removed immediately
before his Grace went upon his visitation. The thieves, it
is supposed by some, had a cart in Waiting near the palace
to transport the expected plunder. The watchman who was
stationed along the wall of the palace close to the river is
convinced that no boat made its appearance in the neigh-
bourhood under suspicious circumstances. Friday night,
however, being a Vauxhall night, this mode of removing
plunder might have been resorted to without much chance
of interruption.
One of the constables of Bermondsey applied to R. J.
CHA SIBERS, Esq. for a warrant against a man named John
Bull, fur stealing from hint the head of an Indian King.
which was most magnificently tattooed, and was calculated
to.produce considerable profit front exhibitiao to the public.
The head, upon the lowest estimate. was valued at from 1&.
to 201., although the constable thought it might have been
purchased in the very best pickle at 10/. The circuin-
stances, the detail of which excited much merriment in the
office, were as follow:
The constable, wbo was formerly a custom•house officer,
as he walked along Bermondsey on Saturday last.observid
a suspicious looking fellow carrying a bag, which looked
as if it contained some stolen property. Upon examining
' the hag, which was given up very reluctantly, the officer'
put his hand upon a set of human features, and pulled up
the head of a black warrior who was slain in battle, and
had fallen in'o the hands of a civilized enemy, by whom,
as is the custom in the great Eastern dominions, the head
was pickled and preserved. The tattooing, which was of
the very first order, each plot:Aare being most distinctly
marked, spread all over the fact-Jim which it was palpable
that she former proprietor of the head must have been of
the very first rank. The teeth were perfect, and the eyes
were as brilliant as if they belonged to a living skull, so
that in fact the head was a great curiosity; besides, the
pickling was of such a nature as to render it unnecessary
so treat the head with aay great delicacy. and it might be
handled or thrown about by a amassed people without
sesta:nine injury ; the hair Was peculiarly beautiful. The
head-hawker, upon being examined by the constable as to
the manner in which he because possessed of so extraordi-
nary a novelty, said, that he was empowered by another
person, either to dispose of it altogeher, or if the salecould
not be accomplished, to exhibit it from door to door, at a
penny a sight. Th . constable then desired to see the li-
cense for hatekieg heads, but no suds license being pro-
duces', Le told the head-hawker that lie must answer fo

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the offence before a magistrate. On the nay to the office
the head-hawker contrived to slip away, leaving the con-
stable inpossessiou of the hag and its contents, whereupon
the latter took it into the house of his landlady, who kept a
barber's shop, not to he shaved, lint to be looked at gratis
by his friends. Mr. Bull happened to be present at the
time, and requesting to examine the head minutely, got
hold of it, swore he had as good a right to it as the con-
stable, and that be would stand all consequences. The con-
stable obtained& summons on a former day for Mr. 8011.
calling upon hint to appear and answer for kis conduct,
but no obedience was paid to the commend ; therefore a
warrant was now applied for to bring up th body of Ur.
Bull, and the head of his Maje.ty.
Mr. CHAMBERS asked the constable hew he knew AM&
license was necessary for disposing of such a commodity as
a human head ?

Time constable said that he knew that pickled heads were
an excisable article ; that the duty had not been paid upon
the head he had lost ; that it was a stnugglrd head, and
that it should have paid st/l. prr cent. ad valorem duty.
Mr. CIIAMDERB.—WeII but how did he get away nith
the head ?

Constable.—lle ran off with it, ate neitlyr he nue the
Ittad ever came back since.
Mr. CHAMBIRS.—Then I ticm'ttnink that a man with
such a head se you caw tor better employed than in running
after the head. But take care thatsolueborly does sot raw
away with your own in the pursuit.
Constable,—l'll take care of that, your Worship.
Mr. CHANDERS.—Whatever they do with your head,
th•v'll not touch your brains at any rate.
'the constable said, that without the warrant there would
be noose in hiagoing after the head.
Dlr. CHAMBERS refu'ed to grant one, but said, if *he
Custom-house thought it worth their while to run after a
pickled head for the duty, he would grant a warrant to one
of their officers.

Yesterday eight woolen, and one min, of that extraordi-
nary drscription of beings " ycleped tlispsies,' were
brought before the Magistrates, charged, under the New
Police Act, as rogues and vagabonds. They were all of a
" burnt•brown" complexion, and gave in their names as
follows :

Elisha Cooper, Ann Cooper, his wife, Eve Cooper„Anna
' Cooper, Anna Maria Cooper, Sebrian Cooper, Mary Ann
Lee, Sophia Lee, and Jane Cooper the youoger.
It appears that, for some time pair, Norwood and the
neighbouring villages have been, pillaged to an enormous
I extent by a horde of Gipsies, who have taken up their abode
on Norwood Common, in tents ; the men sleep wrier them
in the day time, whilst the women delude the unwary, by
telling their fortunes, and their little ones they send out
begging, whilst their fathers sally forth in the dead of
night to seek for plunder. Verione Inert been the com-
Omits against these maranders, whose havoc has been eeri•
ously felt, especially amongst the poultry ; in consequence
of which Mr. Acuity, the Magistrate, gave instructions to
Hall, the chief constable, to repair with the rest of his
men to Norw .od, on Sunday last, and to apprehend such
of the Gipsy tribe as, in Lis opinions came within the mean-
ing of the Act. ilail, thereupon, provided two suits of
splendid livery, in which he dressed two of the offieers,Gill
and Rice, and two others, Edwin and Harris, disguised
themselves as gentlemen. Hall and the other officers took
heir stations at the Gipsy house, ready to assist, should! it
be found necessary. The supposed gentlemen alighted.
from a coach an I were followed by tbefootmen. The pri
sowers soon came round them, and solicited to explore, by
the lines on their fair lands, their pending fate. The gen-
tlemen consented, and, after palming their hands, they re-
tired to a tent of considerable size, where the eller Mrs.
Cooper, after a few moments' gaze, told Edwin, one of the
" gentlemen," that three la Ilea acre in love with him, one
a tradesman's daughter, the other a merchant's, and the
third a publicto's. After their " fate had been decreed,"
the visiters assumed their real characters, that of the sates-
sites of justice. and captured the whole of the tram, after a
severe struggle, and, placing them in coaches, conveyed
them to town, to the gaol in Horsemonger-lane.
The whole of the Coopers were one family, and one of
the girls was particularly handsome. They said nothing in
their defence, and they were ail committed for different pe-
riods to Brixton Tread-mill.
MARLIOOROVGII-STRZIT.----Yesterday, an Irishwoman,
named Mary Burns was bronelit from St. James's watch-
house, in custody, charged with the murder of a woman
named Rowley.
From the evidence It appeared that the deceased and the
accused resided in one house in Angel-court, Sr. James's,
both being married women, and on Saturday night week
they had a violent quarrel, which came to blows. The
prisoner kicked the nnfortnnate woman furiously, so much
so, as nearly to make her insensible. She was put to bed,
and found to have been dreadfully injured. She was at•
tended by surgeons, but the bruises internally were such as
to cause a mortification, of which she died on Sunday even-
ing. The prisoner, who it seems was continually quarrel-
ling with the deceased, and who was stated to have made a
declaration of confirmed Malice against her, was then given
into custody ; she made no effort to escape, but remained i n
the neighbourhood during the illness of the deceased. She
made no defence, and the Magistrate remanded her until
Thursday to abide the result of the Coroner's inquest,which
sits to-night at seven o'clock.

A poor industrious woman of the name of Scully, living
in Green Court, Toolev Street, in the Borough, on Thurs-
day last, lost a fine little girl of four rears of age, who had
either strayed or been taken away. *Up to Saturday morn-
iug last, the anxious search of the agitated parent was
unavailing in the recovery of her lost child, of whom she
could gain no tidings whatever; when being persuaded to
issue hand-bills, she scraped together sufficient money for
the purpose, and west out to get them printed; on her
return the ill-starred woman learned that her sole remaining
child, an infant of two years old, whom she had left in
the care of an acquaintance had, daring her absence, fallen
into a tub of boiling water left upon the floor, and been
taken to Guy's Hospital dreadfully scalded, and where it
died yesterday morning at eight o'clock.—Tbe other child
has nut yet been found.
BRIGHTON. 'Atm 10.—A fire broke out in Regency,
Square, on Saturday afternoon, occasioned by the plumbers,
who had been emplo-yed in repairing the lead of the gutter
ou the top of the house, No. 11, the property of Mr. King,
of Drury Lane, leaving their irons heated, during their
dinner boar, which eventually set fire to the rafters of the
building. Tbe confusion occasioned by it, as the rafters
began to blaze, was considerable—the town engines were
I sent for, and were presently in play, giving that timely
cheek to the flames which prevented any very considerable
extension of the conflagration. The roof of the house,
however, was destroyed, and that was all—scarcely any in-
jury was done even to the attic floor beneath it, nor did any
great proportion of its ceiling fall. The whole was extin.
plated in about two hours.
Jonathan Atkinson, a promising young man of 18, ar-
ticled to a stationer, was drowned on Sunday evening,
within 200 yards of Westminster-bridge. He had been up
the river with a party of young men, three of whom went
on shore at Vauxhall-bridge, and when the accident hap-
pened the unfortunate youth was waving a flag standing up
in the stern of the boat, when he fell overboard, and in-
stantly sunk. It seems they Itscl all been abstemious in
their excursion. The body has not been found.
The black man who was so disabled last Angnat, by the"
explosion of gunpowder at the Trinity Pier, whilst bring
a salute on his Majesty's departure from Scotland, has now
received a pension of Dd. a-day from Government. He
had become a complete mendicant since the accident, not
being able to make any use of his hands; and he was al.
most in a state of starvation when he heard of this pro-
rision.—(Ediaburgit Star.)