The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-11-16 00:00:00

lose ton $o retry night
''tbi MAW* that the;
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rto have be"
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.reneetieence. of which
ispaed to the Queen's
Upon their arrival
precaution bad been.
?ri in .eraltios, to pre-
an escaping by the di—
_l Palace, after the alarm
as air an of Ors theve, till the arrival of
the officers. Upon Ilia arciial of
.the officers at the.
Palace, ther save Nifreciions for every avenue lead-
ing °et of it to be priperly
_secured and diligently
watched to prevent the possibility of any person
making an escape; they proceeded to search every
part
of the Palace, the eut.boildings, the Queen's
gardens and every place where it was possible for a
person 'to conceal themselves, bat no robber was to
be found, or any trace of one. The circumstances
. that have transpired respecting the breaking open
,of•the Palace are, that about htlf.pest nine- o'clock
on Saturday night, as one of the housemaids of the
.tsamt.of Buckland entered a roost ea the second floor
at the north-end of the back front of the Palace; d-
joining the Queen's wardrobe-room, for the purpose
oaf closing' the window-shutters, &c. she, by the
light of the candle which she hod in her bead, to
,her sreat surprise, observed the window open, the
if's-maitre in the room in a state of great confusion,
the drawers in two chests which are in the room
forced open, three of the drawers on the floer, end
nedoubt that there were either thieves in the room then,
one on the bed, Icc:;from these appearances shekel
et that they had been in it, she in consequence closed
the door again, retreated baCk, calling thief's., and-
making an alarm. This brought Mr. Tilcke, one of
the Royal establishment, who sleeps. in that room'
when her Majesty is not in the Palace, accompanied
,by his son, and Mr. Wake, the Gentleman Porter
in Waiting, to her assistance. The contents of all
the drawers had been turned out, bat the property
stolen and carried off could nbt be ascertained. It
was discovered that the robbers had entered the room
by the window, which has two private string fasten-
ings; but whether they had been attended to or not,l
could not be ascertained. The entry had been made
by a ladder, which was found placed against,tir sill
of the window. The ladder belongs to setae work.
men who are now employed in repairing the exterior
of the Palace, and was lately used in fastening a
leaden pipe close to the window of the room which
was broke open, but that work had been finished
some days since, and the scaffolding entirely re-
moved from near the window. The robbers, there.'
fore, to make it answer their purpose of entering the
window which was broke open, it net being long•
enough, had made a temporary scaffolding, upon a
working stool to place it upon, and by. which they
made their retreat. There is some suspicion that tke.
robbers were actually in the room at the time Mgs.-
Bucklend entered, and that they made a precipileto

retreat ; this however is socorfrion Tnarstersd-glid
sayers, althoegb so long and well experienced in
such trarreacrions, were not abler tadiscoser throwoy
the robbers entered the Palace, nor the way
they made their escape. They persevered in endow
rouriog to ascertaiu it till between one road two
o'clock yesterday morning. The officers yesterday
morning made their report to Sir Nathaniel Conant,
who in cotiequetice attended at the Palace yester-
day about two o'clock, and proceeded to examine,
the apartments that had been broken into, and all
the parties who had any knowledge of thi triune.
tioti, but nothing transpired to lead to the discovery
of the robbers, and the whole remains a mystery.—
The investigation. occupied shout two hours. The
room broken into adjoins the room which was robbed!
a few years since of the whole of the Qoeen's vales
able wardrobe, in which two locksmiths were dis.
covered to be concerned.

A few nights since Si. James's Palace was broke
opeu; the apartments occupied by Miss Wrottealey,
the Maid of Honour to the Queen, entered, and a
box broke open, its contents and other property
were found io a state ready for packing up, but it is
supposed the robbers were disturbed, and made a
precipitate retreat without carrying off any batty.—
They bad entered the Palace in St. James's Path.

.MYSICRIOU.S' DEATIL

Friday night, an Inquest was held at the Fox, on
llighgate-hill, before THOMAS STIRLING, Esq. Co-
roner, on the body of Mrs. Martha &num, aged 37,
who was found drowned in the Seven Ponds, MO.
gate, with her legs bound with a bricklayer's N.!.
The CIS, excited a considerable degree of interest
among the inhabitants of the town, as it.rwas thotiga
the deceased had been thrown in sod siltrderad. •
It appeared from the evidence of ergentil witnesses,
Ibst the deceased' was s married women, and had
family of seven children ; her husband was a brick-
layer, 84 was in the constant habit of lll.4g*3iog
her, so e 4 to alarm his ledgers, who often get oet 'of
their beds ti restore peace. This image, In the Opinion
of. some of* witnesses, caused lowness and dejection
in the mind of the deceased, who frequently ,wat
heard by her children to say that she would drown
herself. It is singular, that the night previont to that
of the deceased being missing, the whole of the family
dreamed that she was found drowned is the Seven
Ponds, but the circumstance was not mentioned to
the deceased. The morning after, un the detemed
getting out of bed, she felt eery uneasy ahnot $ bill
which she owed to a baker it Ilighgate, aadJa the
course of the day she went and paid hits for
tread she had got p,ll credit, ea lie refused totting
her have any wore brad till she •paid an odd 4Ott, to
clear the bill ; she returned borne in tears, not koew.
lag which way to get bread for her cbildse c!*. NAto
a6f phretizy left the place, and
fill found drowned in the SevinllogiatiVAlo4,-
` bind,' on hirbeivig piessid At*,
and ins er
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