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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. [June. 



they would be puncLual at the 

 time appointed, with cash or un- 

 exceptionable bills. Two days over 

 and above the time fixed for the 

 return of the foreigners having 

 elapsed, it was thought necessary 

 to break the seals, in order to re- 

 store the articles to their former 

 places, when, to the utter asto- 

 nishment of the jewellers, they 

 found the box to contain a few 

 English pence. It was now sup- 

 posed that the fraud must have 

 been conunitted by a quick change 

 of the boxes, after the valuables 

 had been deposited in one of 

 them. On encjuiry it was found 

 that the foreign sharper had lodg- 

 ed a few nights at the Huntley 

 Coffea-house, ' Leicester Square ; 

 and, according to the notice at 

 the Alien-OfFicc, he was to be 

 found at N'o. G, Duke's -Place, 

 Houndsditch. In contemplation of 

 the robbery, the villain had pre- 

 viously prepared himself with a 

 passport for France. 



Further Account. — It has be«n 

 stated that part of the jewels filun- 

 dez'ed from the above house have 

 been traced and recovered, near 

 Bride-Lane, Fleet-Street. We are 

 assured from undoubted aulhorily, 

 that they have neither been traced 

 nor recovered. Many persons ha\ e 

 asked how the thief couhl carry 

 about his person a box large e- 

 nough to contain 20,000/. worth 

 of jewels and pearls, without its 

 being discovered ; but their asto- 

 nishment will in one respect cease 

 wlien they aie informed, that it 

 was only ."j inches long, 3 wide, 

 and about 2 inches thick. The 

 propel ty the tliief looked out was 

 to the value of 24,000/. but he 

 only had put into the box to tlie 



value of between 20 and 21,000/. 

 the rest, which consisted entirely 

 of pearls of a smaller size, were 

 put into a paper parcel, and 

 which he did not attempt to re- 

 move. One diamond necklace 

 which w;is carried olF was alone 

 valued at 10,280/. and a pearl 

 necklace, of only 37 pearls, was 

 wortli 3,000 guineas. The nego- 

 tiation between the thieves and 

 this respectable firm was con- 

 ducted on behalf of the latter by 

 Mr. RundcU, jun. who set out 

 for Paris on Thujday last. The 

 wife of the interpreter is in cus- 

 tody in this country. 



19. The Rev. David Evans, of 

 Llanvigan, Breconshire, with his 

 eldest daughter, Miss Caroline 

 Evans, a fine young lady about 20 

 vears of ag-c, were crossing the 

 river Usk, at Skethrog-ford, on 

 their way to dine with Sir Edward 

 Hamilton, when the horse on which 

 they rode, getting his feet entang- 

 led in the concealed root of a tree, 

 by which the animal was thrown 

 down, precipitated them into a 

 deep pnrt of the river, and Miss 

 Evans sunk to rise no more. Her 

 father sa\ cd himself with great dif- 

 ficulty by cUnging to the horse's 

 tail, the animal dragging him 

 ashore. The young lady, by the 

 exertions of a shepherd in the em- 

 ploy of Mr. Ball, was got out 

 siiortly afterwards, but not till the 

 vital spark was extinct. Imme- 

 diately after the body was brought 

 on shore, the father being on the 

 opposite side of the river, ex- 

 pressed the utmost anxiety to 

 cioss, and the poor shepherd kind- 

 ly stripped, and endeavoured to 

 cross the stream again, for the 

 purpose of bringing him over, 



when 



