24 NOVEMBER 1832, Page 10

A robbery was committed at CROCKFORD'S Bazaar, the week before

last, which has been cushioned, because of the respectability of the thieves; a whimsical reason, it must be owned. We are sorry, because we think the vindication of public justice is at issue in such a case. It will often be a question with a humane man, whether the prosecution of the poor and sore-tempted criminal may not be dispensed with, and the security of the community be none the smaller for the sacrifice of law to mercy ; but as there can be no excuse for the offence in the case of the wealthy, so there can be no excuse for backwardness to prosecute. As their transgression of' the law is without temptation, their punishment ought to be as rigorous as the law permits.