On Thursday night last, as Mr. Sharp, chymist, stopped in his carriage at his door in Bishopsgate-street, five villains observed a box in the coach, and whilst Mr. Sharp was getting out, they took the opportunity on the opposite side to take it away, with which they got clear off. The contents of the box were mercurial pills, lozenges, sugar plumbs, &c. of which the thieves had fed so plentifully, besides several others they had given them to, that, finding themselves strangely affected by the pills, and apprehending they were all poisoned, they yesterday sent a boy to Mr. Williams, chymist, in Smock-alley, Petticoat-lane, with the box, pills, &c.
Mr. Williams, being acquainted with the affair from Mr. Sharp, very properly detained the boy, who impeached his companions; and a sufficient number of constables being obtained, they went into Petticoat-lane, and secured as desperate a covey of thieves as perhaps ever herded together, who were, from the large doses they had swallowed, in as wretched a condition as ever were a nest of poisoned rats. Seven of them were yesterday committed to prison.
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