THREATENED DvEL.—Mr. Charles Pitt, of the '',Adelphi, and Mr. Milne,
of the Woods and Forest Department, were summoned to Bow Street yesterday, on a charge of their contemplating a hostile meeting. The subject of quarrel, it appeared, was a disputed account, touching which, Mr. Pitt had sent Mr. Milne a challenge. Mr. Milne laughed at the idea of a duel with Mr. Pitt; which he declared he never intended or thought of. He and his antagonist were permitted to retire, on pledging their words that they would not fight.
Tus ROBBERY AT THE MINT.—It will be recollected, that in the month Of February 1830, George Keith, a workman employed in the Moneyer's department of his Majesty's Mint, succeeded in stealing from that esta- blishment 2,806 blank sovereigns. At :the time of the robbery, and long subsequent, the most experienced police-officers in the metropolis were engaged in endeavouring to apprehend him, 'and the activity of the whole body was stimulated by the tempting offer of a reward of 1,000/. But all their ingenuity and exertions proved abortive ; and it was the general impression on the minds of many persons experi- enced in these matters, that Keith fell a victim to his own avarice and dishonesty, and had been burked by the persons who were leagued with him in the robbery, in order that they might possess themselves of the whole of the spoil. This belief obtained strength from the fact, that though Keith was a fond and attentive husband, and an affectionate father, neither his wife nor his four children ever heard a single syllable of him from the time of his leaving his own home on the morning when he committed the robbery. His unfortunate wife, after languishing in great misery with her children, died of a broken heart, and the children are at present inmates of Stepney Workhouse. Within the last few days, a communication has reached a friend of Keith's from himself, from which it appears that he had reached America in safety, and that he is at present residing not a great distance from New York.
To this account the Morning Chronicle adds the following particulars. "It further appears, that the robbery was the result of a deep-laid scheme, and not the impulse of a moment, as was at first imagined. It was planned and matured by Keith and a well-known Jew receiver, into whose hands the former placed the whole of the treasure. The price fixed on between the parties was 800/. for Keith's share, with permis- sion to stop at his house until arrangements could be made for his suc- cessful departure from this country. It was determined on that Keith should assume the character and costume of a Polish Jew. On the morning on which Keith was to have started, the wary Israelite came home in great apparent fright, and told him that if he valued his liberty he had not a moment to spare in securing it, for that he had that in- stant heard that the traps (officers) were about, and had got scent of his hiding-place. Keith instantly prepared for starting; and the Jew not having, up to that moment, paid him his promised share of the plunder, 43004, handed him a roll of bank-notes, saying it was all right. Keith, being under considerable excitement and fear at the time, did not wait to count the notes, but put them into his pocket. On getting, as he conceived, beyond the reach of the officers, he counted the notes, and found them minus 2001.; for instead of 800/. he had got but 600/. Re- monstrance, uuder such circumstances, was quite out of the question, and he was of course obliged to put up with what he got."
TIIE BRIGHTON Mertes:E.—Holloway has made a second confession, in which he is said to have implicated the girl Kennett in the guilt of the murder. He made a strong effort to prevail on Kennett to join in what he called telling the truth ; but she repulsed his appeal with the strongest marks of contempt and indignation. Use or THE PREVENTIVE &mum—Seven casks, containing abou fifty gallons of brandy and hollands, have been found at Exmouth, con. cealecl under ground, in the houses belonging to Government occupied by the men on the Preventive Service. Some of the casks, it is said, had the name of the Sprightly., and others of the Nimble, the names of the two Government cutters kept at this station on the Preventive Service. —Exeter Independent.
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