Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The following is a correct account of the second high handed robbery in New-York, mentioned in yesterday's Gazette.

A daring robbery and burglary were committed on Tuesday morning, between 12 and one o'clock; at the house of Grenville Temple, Esq. on the Greenwich Road, of which the following are the particulars, as nearly as we have been able to collect:

About the time above-mentioned one of the women servants imagining he heard a noise at the shutters of the window, expressed her fear to Mrs. Temple that some persons were breaking into the house. Mrs. Temple ridiculed her alarm as groundless; and would not have taken further notice of the matter had not a few minutes convinced her that the servant's suspicions were but too well founded. She accordingly dressed herself and prepared for the consequences.

After the villains had remained in the rooms below for the space of an hour and an half, during which time they had plundered them of every thing valuable, they ascended the stairs and proceeded to the chamber adjoining Mrs. Temple's, where another of the women servants lay asleep. They awoke her, and, holding a pistol to her head, threatened her with immediate death if she occasioned the least alarm. Her trunk was in the room, which they opened, and took out 30 dollars. They then enquired of the servant if she was the lady of the house and were answered in the negative. At this instant Mrs. Temple (with an amiable courage peculiar to herself, and almost amounting to romantic heroism) opened the door, and presenting herself to the man who appeared to be the captain of the gang, enquired his business with her, informed him she was the lady of the house, and requested to be treated with delicacy. This the man promised, and religiously adhered to: he put coals into her foot stove, insisted on her taking a cordial which he prepared for her to prevent her spirits from being too much depressed, assured her she was safe under his protection, and behaved with all the sang froid imaginable.

The robbers then proceeded to the object of their visit; and, after taking from Mrs. Temple a purse containing five dollars, another containing a quantity of old Gold coins, some Spanish money with holes drilled thro' Bank notes to the value of 800 dollars, all the Silver plate, some jewels, a watch of Mr. Temple's, a blunderbuss, 2 pistols (one of which they fired in the room,) and a variety of other articles, in value amounting to more than 2000 dollars, they left the house about 5 in the morning.

Mrs. Temple throughout the whole of these transactions, conducted herself with a manly fortitude: and a composure which astonished even the villains themselves.

Mr. Temple had embarked for Europe some weeks ago to join his regiment, and no man servant was in the house at the time when the robbery was committed.

The men had their faces blacked, wore black wigs and waggoner's frocks, and were ten in number. From their conduct they appeared to have a perfect knowledge of the house, and of the domestic concerns of the family. Their chief professed to have known Mrs. Temple in Boston, at a time when adverse circumstances had not reduced him to the necessity of following an occupation at once so disagreeable and so dangerous.