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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3009, 7 October 1878, Page 2

If the thieveß (writes "Atticus " in the Leader)'could be found who stole the coins, engrossed parchments, and newspapers that were put in a bottle under the foundation'stone o.f the Emerald Hill Orphanage in the year 1855, it would be a nice point to determine who the prosecutor should be. The coins were sent per bottle to posterity. They were a free gift from the layers of the foundation stone to some succeeding generation ; and the question would at once arise, Who were aggrieved? Not the people who were foolish enough to put the coins in the bottle. They parted with them as they thought Cor e^er; they gave uv, as lawyers would say, all right, title, claim, and advantage of and in those coins; and made them over, fully and freely to the descendants. ,A.re we' to regard uurselves as the posterity of the jnen of twenty-three" years a)<o ? Or •flould the Queen prosecute far an offence ■committed against some far-off*successor ? .1 very much doubt if the contractor, Mr /ißie-ss, was able to point out the very CBtfi wiio did it, whether they wouldn't be able to c.tablish tluir legal right to whatever" thej; stole. i