The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-12-04 00:00:00

.. .... Mr. rairiendter bad Prom was one of Mi. Sheri. day's Oomaaittee. - Bet he (Mr. Park), could prove that Psis client was not one of that CORI rnittee. but :merely one of those bustling aetive fellows whom they had read of in the Newspapeis, who bad voluntarily employed themselves iu Mr. She ridan's interest. He could produce two eceounts of expenses delivered in by the Plaintif, the one to • the Committee, and the other to the Dthstsstaltre and in them it was important to obierwa'th4 differ ence of the sums charged for particular items. In the former he had charged 10s. 6d. per day, for his personal exertions, besides a sum for the use of his dab-room; while in the latter, the charges for these articles weep made not so exorbitant, it having been stated by hi witnesses that he was to receive 7s. 6d. per day ; and :re had had the consummate wickedness to charge for eight day's refreshments, at the rate of SI. per day, notwithstanding his having stated in the first bill only twelve guineas alone for that article. The letter which he had put into the young woman's hand, to identify Thompson's hand-writing, was one written by him to Bond, dated 9th June, which entirely negatived the idea of his ever having conceived this alleged debt of 441. to have ever been due to him. In that letter be expressed his surprise thee Mr. Bond did not come to him about the Westminster Elenion ; being so much engaged, and having s large ray ment to make on the following Tuesday. he would be mu .h obliged to him if he would take the trou ble to get his bill discharged. It having appeared in evidence, that Mr. Bond was ant one of the Committee, that he had received no orders from then:, and had made himself per sonally respousscle only to the amount of his own consumption, including the sum of 41. expended by hisorders. in enteitaiiiing people out of doors with porter, the Jury found lur the Plaintiff—Damages 101. OLD BAILAY. Dacamsaa 3. Pas Iffeerineau, a most interesting and genteel Smiting young woman, being called to the Bar, the Clerk proceeded to arraign her in the usual form, spun an indictment, charging her, capitally, with robbing her employer, Mrs. Lacoo, of Berkeley sepiare, as stated in this Paper on Tuesday. He hal no., however, read many lines, before the Pri- Maier became Tit. overcome, and swooned away. She was, therefore, remanded until she should be sufficiently recovered to be put on her trial. Margiiret mart., was capitally iodides' for steal ing a quantity of plate and wearing apparel, the property of John Scott, in James'emniset, Co/511t- Garden. Mrs. Scott, wife of John Scott, deposed; that the Prisoner had been her servant ; witness and hus band were strangers in town, applied to an office for a servant, and the Prisoner was recommended to them. On the ntght of the 20th of Odober, Vs fit ness went down into the kitchen, leaving Prisoner in the dining-room ; when in the kitchen she called her several times, hot remised sin answer she then went up stairs in s: arch of her, but could not find her ; missing the key of her bed-tdiwn, which used to hang in the dining-room, she went to the bed chamber, found the dour open, and a box, which contained some of her wearing apparel, gone. On eternising a portmante..3, she found that a silver mil kpot,six silver table spoons, six salt cellars and salt sperms, two pair silver sugar tongs, and one punch ladle, had been taken out ; Witness informed her basked of her loss, and of the absence of th, Pri -lon•rr e immediately applied to Basse-streci Office. Mr. Adkins, an Meer of Police; deposed, that Sce.t applied to him allow eleven o'clock at night, on the aOth of Oftotser, and gave him a description of the Prisoner ; he went in pur suit of her, and found her in a garret in St. Gam's, examining sonic plate, which she had in a pillew-case. The box, as described by Mr. Scott, uds in the room. Witness cluttered her with the robbery, which she confessed, but said a young man bad forced her to do it. Mrs. Scott proved the piopertyi to the value of five pounds. • The Prisoner, in defence, said, that after her mistress had left the room, a young Mall came into it, end told her, if she did not come and assist him to take away the things, lie would put her to .n. slant death, and drew a knife on her ; she was so frightened, that sfie did not know what she was &hoot, and he forced her along with him. She did hot know who he was ; he had just gone out of the arret, when the Officer took her auto custody.— l'hree witnesses were produced to her charader. The Jury found her guilty. The Prisoner was a pretty looking girl, only sixteen years of age. William Parker was Willed for stealing, on the Ith of November, a watch, the prcperty of Mr. Palmer, tailor, in Hertford-street. The Jury gave their Verdi& belly of stealing to the value of thirty-tine shil , ings. Geerge Field was instilled for rnf.hing the house of the C.iuntess Dowager of Macclesfield. in Gusset: lees-square s us the month of October last. Me. Joilut Clarke, master , painter & deposed & be tlfas *Mployed by the Cruntess of Macclesfield to paint her house in town. and employed the Pi is.ner as a journeyman; was sent word the h-ase had been robbed; went to examine it t and found that several drawers and trunks bad been broken open with a knife made 1.-e cf by painters ; his susptci :rt fell on the Prisoner, as he had hot been at work for two days. He have inhumation at Bow-street Office, and brought Mr. Jacks, an Officer, with Lim, to examine the house. On t h eir way, they met Horton, ant•thrr OfLer, who, on mentioning the citcumst.,nces, informeJ them, a maa cf that aess:ription was Liken up on suspicion of being a deserter. Witness then wen: to the Savoy, saw the Prisoner, and identified him. Mr. Gurnan, pawnbroker, deposed, that the Pri soner pledged a goe.-a with him, on the lath of Oc tober, for 35., which he produced. Mr. Cluistie, pawn-broker, deposed. that Pri scncr pledged a red cloth pelisse with him, on the 140 of October, and is o gowns on the 1 It ; he gave him Bs. on the pelisse; multi not say what t•,e value of it WAS ; supposed on( hi Mete guineas ; but . Prisoner said he wanted no miirettesnkels. as the joef.se hauled to his sister, who woeld redeem fa in a few days. Being particularly .oterrogated by the Court, ,he could not tell the valise ; was no iodee ; some people might- give more, He even 1,114 T e 'Y 'S '• had every reason to believe he was the person, but could not swear positively. Eleanor Higginbottont deposed, she was a ser vant to the Countess ; the gowns belonged to Mary Sheldon. a fellow-servant, and were in the house of the Countess of Macclesfield, at the time of the rob bery. She also proved that the pelisse belonged to the Countess ; it was much worn, but she thought it worth two guineas. John Sheldon deposed, that the pelisse belonged to the Countess, and he would at that moment give two guineas for it ; the gowns were his wife's, and worth 13 shillings ; that the Countess had been wrote to from Bow-street Officeaacquainting her of the robbery She sent him to town to inquire about it, and he went with Mr. Jackson, an officer, to Christie, the pawnbroker, who at first refused to look for the goods, but after some threats and persuasion, he reluctantly produced them. The Court made some ♦ery just remarks on the condua of the pawnbroker Christie. The Jury returned a ye:Aid—Gado of stealing to the value of 39 shillings. .7nne Marineau was again put to the bar, upon a cap.tal indi9nient, charging her with stealing three yards and a half of foreign lace, and thirteen yards of silk, the property of John Lam'. There never was a more interesting figure than this unfortunate young woman. She luoked the picture of despair. She was so weak, that the Court granted her a chair to sit on. This was the young woman brought up in the morning, who fainted upon her arraignment. She was dressed in a plain. but elegant morning dress, with a large lace cap that came over her face. She seemed fieling) , alive to her situation. Mr. Al.t.se appeared as her Counsel. Mrs. Anne Lacon deposed she was wife of John Lacon, and lives at No. 19. Berkeley.square ; was a milliner and dress-maker ; the Prisoner lived with her one year and five months, as a shop woman and manager of her business. She carried on business also at Brighton, and during the season Prisoner had managed it for her. In July last she missed a piece of white and a piece of black lace; she wrote to Prisoner at Brighton, mention ing the loss, and received an answer from her, stating. that the white lace had been sent home to the Lady that it belonged to, and that the black lace must be mislaid in some part of the house. Some time afterwatds sbe missed a coral necklace. The Couar interrupted her, and told her that charge was not laid in the indiament, and they could not hear any thing on that subjee ; she answered, it was not, but it tr as in another indiOment. Pri soner had had her fell confidence; she made inquiry about the white lace, at the Pawnbroker's, and found it had been pledged by the Prisoner. Cross-rsantined by Mr. ALLEY. Said Prisoner had the total maaagement of her business at Brighton. Joseph Emery, pawn-broker. produced three yards and a half of black lace, about a third of a yard in depth, and deposed that it was pawned by the Prisoner. on the iSd of May, for two guineas. Thomas Burks', pawn-broker, produced thirteen yards of black silk ; he had never seen the Prisoner befiire, and it was not from her be get it. Mrs. Lacoa, on her re-examination. deposed, she could not say the black silk was her's, it was plain, and had no particular mark attached to it ; she had not examined her books or her goods ; it might bt her's, but would not undertake to swear it was. The lace was her's; she knew it from the figure, and the pertioulat manner it was hemmed at the ends. Witness valued the lace at 81. ; said it cost her more, and any one that was a judge of the ar ticle, would say it was worth near twice is much. William Adkins, Officer, of Bow-street, de posed. that he went to Mr. Lacon's house, on Sun day last. when he saw the Prisoner. He teld her he was an Officer, from Bow-street, and came to take her into custody, on suspicion of her having stolen black and white lace, and other things, from Mrs. Lacon. She told him, the lace was pawned at the pawnbroker's. Witness asked fur the duplicates. She gave them to him; there were eleven of them. On has asking her were they all duplicates of Mrs. Lacon's goods ? She answered in the affirmative.— There was one duplicate for the lace, produced by Emery, the pawnbroker, and another for a coral necklace. the COURT interfered, and said, as that necklace was not mentioned in the present indictment, it was improper it should be spoken of.—Cross examined by Mr. ALLEY.—Prisoner had told him she had been much (alb d lately, but had then come to town to redeem the articles, and retern them. The Cook's' asked the Prisoner had she any thing to say in her defence? the Prisoner was so much affected she could not articulate a word, but the Officer Informed the Court she wished to be heard by her Counsel. The Cuuar then told her she could not, as her Counsel could only cross-examine the Witnesses. If she had any thing to say, or any questions to ask, that was her only time. The Officer informed the Court, she wished to ask Mrs. Lamm, if she had not given the lace to her, or into her charge? and she had a person to give evidence as to ber eharader. Mrs. Lacon said she never had done one or the other ; tor, in the first place, her circumstances would not allow her to make s•s large a present ; ano, in the second, the lace was pat into charge of the mistress of the work-room, as it was in:ended for the bottom of a pelisse. Sarah Orches deposed, she knew the Prisoner for twelve years, and all her family ; they were of the best charader ; never heard any thing to the disadvantage of the Prirtner, until the present unfortunate business. The Jury deliberated a few moments, and re turned a verdit of Godly, but recommended the Prisoner to mercy. The RECORDER asked on what grounds ? ss His Majesty bad desired that he slicaild state the grounds, when the Jury bad recommended a Pri caaer to mercy. The Jury replied, on her youth, oa her not being accustomed to vice, and her expressing her inten tion of returning the property. After the verdict. the Prisoner appeared ii.sensi big and Was carded out of Cutts She stated her MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. CLERKENWELL, Dec. S. AM-ALS. Mr. Lewis, a herse-hair manufacturer, appealed against a conviction which took place before two of the Magistrates at Worship-street Police-office. The circumstances under which the conviction rook place were these : A person of the name of Nelson, who worked as a weaver in the employ of Mr Lewis, up to Oflober, 1804, brought him be fore the Magistrates at Worship•street, in Oftober, 1807, having charged Mr. Lewis with keeping a portion of the wages he had earned from him. Mr. Lewis refused to submit the matter to arbi tration, for which he was fined, under the Sfith and 40th of His present Majesty, chap ii the at having been passed to prevent onlassful ccrobina tions of journeymen, and which specifically ex pressed, that all disputes should be referred to arbi tration, within a reasonable time, and in default of either party, a salutary remedy was provided. Mr. GNONLY and Mr. CONST were employed for the Re.pondents, who called Nelson to prove the debts, and also a Mr. Mawley, an Attorney, to prove the application frt. payment; who produced a letter written by him to Mr. Lewis, and also the answer' cf Mr. Lewis's Attorney to the application. Mr. AN DISZWS, Counsel for the Appellant, ad mitted the statement of Nelson, but took several objeflioos to the conviction in Oaober, 1807. Nel• son, who had been in the employ of Mr. Lewis, from January, 1833, to Oft. 1104, lift his employ ment, and received his wages without ever betray. ing any symptoms of dissatisfaction. He never told Mr. Lewis he had not paid him all his wages ; no, he did not do that; but, in the month of 0610- tier, 1807, Mi. Lewis first heard, through Ore me dium of Mr.. Mawley, that Nelson was dissatisfied. During the length of time between 041obei. 1804, and 1607, Nelson took no means to apprise Mr. Lewis of the debt he owed him, until he came acie ss Mr. Mawley. The Learned Gentleman here read the 18th clause of the 39th and 40th of His present Majesty, in which it is specified, that all disputes are to be left to arbitration within I era. satiable tints. Was it, he would ask, a reasonable time within which the present conviction took place? If the Court were of opinion the conviction was jost o would not tradesmen be liable to be troubled by their journeymen bringing complaints of this sort twenty years perhaps after they had left their ser vice ? He put it to the good sense of the Court to consider whether the complaint was brought within • reasonable time or not ? If they were of opinion it was brought within a reasonable time, then judg ment must go against him. He was proceeding to call witnesses to prove that the wages paid by Mr. Lewis to Nelson, were such as were paid by the trade, when he was stopped by Mr. COW?, who observed, the proceeding was irregular. Ike CNA 1/114•N o in giving judgment, said, the conviction was unjust. Mr. Aar) a eves moved, upon another clause, in the same Aft, which empowered a Bench of Magistrates to award costs to the Appellants in such cases, that as the Chairman had declared the conviction unjust, he would award the Appellant his costs. The CHAIa as AN replied, though he watched such proceedings with a jealous eye, yet, in the present instance, he thought it would be better not to grant them ; but inquired if there was any clause in the Aft which could make the Attorney pay them? To which Mr. Ameatws answered, he :vas sorry he could not perceive any, as it would be a most desirable thing to be able to punish them. Mr. Raine, a retail coal-dealer, appealed against a convietion which took place before %Vra. Kinnaird, Esq. at the Thames police Office ; an information was laid against Appellant, under the New Coal Aft, passed in the 47th of His Majesty's Reign, for selling 18 sacks of coals, containing one bushel, to different customers, contrary to Aft of Par liament. Mr. I'oo ley and Mr. Alley were engaged in the Prosecution, being employed by the Wholesale Coal-Merchants, to endeavour to put a stop to the praßiee of selling coals in sacks, less than those de scribed by the Alt of Parliament. Mr. Petite v stated, that from the evidence taken before the Magistrate, h appeared. that Ap pellant sent eighteen sacks, which held one bushel of coals each, to eighteen different customers. The Alt of Parliament, under which the conviltion took place, specified, that no coals should be sold in any sack measuring less than four feet two inches in length, and two feet one inch in width, and such as were not marked with white paint at the Each,- gam Office, Westminster, or at Guildhall, Lon don. The sacks or bags, as the coal-heavers termed them, held only one bushel, and consequently were contrary to the Alt of Parliament. It was contended by Messrs. Gnawer and Dot /. AND, for the Appellant, that, according to the 93d, 105th, and 124th Clauses of the same AR, the conviltion was not good, as the bags were fair and just, purporting to contain not more nor less than one bushel. After a great deal of argument on both sides, in which the different measures were stated, the CHAIRMAN was of opinion, that, under all the cir cumstances of the case, the couviiltiun was just ; he, therefore, coofit med it. Mr. Atter declared, it was not the wish of the gentlemen who prosecuted to exalt any penalty ; they had mitigated it to XL, when, if they had been ;situated by avaricious motives, they could have claimed 401. ; and that if Mr. Rain. would give up selling coals in the manner described, he, would drop a number of informations occa,ioned by the same circumstance ; on which it was agreed, that the bags should he given up to be burnt, and no more coals should be sold i■ any sack less than those described by the Ad. ►RICL OF STOCKS YLSTERDAY. 3 per Cent. Reduced ♦ per Cent. Lon/ Ann. Imperial 3 per Ca4.t Ditto Agr.tuaties. Omnitim / / prem. I.Mia Ind par. It dia. E.chequer Bills . Consuls tar T. DISH, iri•iwksr e .- 4 resinhlll. similki Warriselhes._ IRISH STOCI Government Debenture Government Delmotteft. ExehanKe-.-Dublin ou KS, • Nov 16. SI psi mut ...... 711 %Spey Cent. Loudon, Na,.,115 9j COURSE OF EX , Amin/Main s3 7 SU. Dnw at bight .. 34 11 Rotterdam c.L. 11 4 1 U. Harnbure. 34 4 24U. Altana earn Ditto 2 Us. l4 4 /outdoors Cadiz 391 cffcct. Ditto. Madrid 4O effect. Ditto . 39 Leghorn. 49: Nap's. 42 (CHANGE, DEc. 1. Dolma. 441. m. Pie. Yeasse a. C.... 58 Do. kit. Lisbuis so NAVAL ins% LLIGEI4CE. Opens ... 60 Babb% 10 Cork 11 1116111081. 4. 0.. I. Perms', Geld in Cole and Ears per es. 4 Now Doubloons-.. . New Doha•s y 4 Silver In liars .... New Louis each Agio . n the Bank o: Flonsed s ga per Cent . BIRTH. On the 90th ult. at Gedahnin, the Lady of Captain S. Ballard, of the Royal Navy. of a sort. MARRIAGES. The 21st ult. at Morton, near Stockton, Thomas Marin, Eel. lat. Captain in the military seems of the Hon. East•lndia Company at Rental, so Mies Wardell, daughter of the late Mr George Wardell, of Sedgefield, Durham. Oa the 26th of February last, at Calcutta, Bengal, Patrick Maitland, Eui. to Mrs. Ann Bateman, daughter of Culthant Bateman, Esq. county of Early, Ireland. DEATHS. Friday last, at his house in Se'moot, in Shrewsbury, afters very leng,aod, at times, most palette' Shame, which be hose with exemplary patience and res4natioo, Henry Bevan, Esq. agedil. The 17th wit. Thomas Fdrtuandson. son of Mr. John Ed. muitshion, of Chester-lastreet, Joiner, aged two years; on the 18th, Ann his daughter, aged lour years; on the 110th they were both interred in one coffin : and on the 21st, William, son of the said Mr. Edmondson, aged seven years; all of the sea:let fever, which bee been seri , fatal to Cbsdive and tit. neighbourhood for several weeks past Saturday sennigbt, at Mr. Caililwrt Fisher's, Golden Fleece, Quarry Gate, Letween Carlisle and Penrith, Mi. Thw mas Smith, topsman to Messrs. Smith:, drovers, near Deno fries The deceased was on his r o a d t o Penoth with a drove of cattle, hut being seised with a violent fit of the ehetie, was *bilged to stop at Quarry Gate, where he breathed his last, in grout agony, after two days illness, The 24th oil at Whitby, aged 41, much regretted, Mr. Benjamin Skidektilt, late Master of the ship Film, of that port. Finding, when at Portsmouth a s ew weeks ago, that sit indisposition, which he had been for some time pest m illi:l,d with, hogan to exhibit symptoms of a mortal t‘itilener, he resolve , ' to tiodertakv the arduous task (whii)s ne love pity accomplished; of travelling to Whitby. in order to have the coluention of resigning his bripith in the bosom of his oast, inc. 2. Came down from the River, the Larrei,—, (or _ - Grenada, and remains in the Downs with the ship , as per last.—Wind S.W. PORTSMOUTH, DIC. ?.. HIGH W . 12 A . Tr. on R in .. a T esef il lIN...D.:I,Lesz L o tt!! 9X- a tzt f t . txt l .. mi.s lits...e.. ...e-..r.• — • g Arrived His Majesty's ship C'ego.tre,from a anise, and sever AI outward. bound ver,els from the Downs. ' town, N ~.. wee* Covent-garden, and pnbluh s edz%tb; Among ti..em ate the Princess of Walt.. Narliliv, Office, N., - .b, ii.ek of St Cle fte m , ent's Ci,hui.ch, no t . d b LONDON —.Printed by G DAVIDSON, Nu. 17, Dm... L,,, Acrr...' fterfdi Hero, Aid, and the norolk, Gray, bound to v "T UCL, of No. 7, New ' 1 %, -1 woes, (per Pjd) Order% to tar the Paper s sent OP i the 11est Indies. wtil L., duly attended to. • , . . SIEETDRIS OF CREntTORS AT CtIILDNALL, TO.Wellialbal. 111 I. ' William Mies, kite of inghthelaistnere, Smartt, awl - merchant - - 10 John Marten, now or late of Villiers-street, Strand, •ic tualler - - 911 Gilbert Sprague . , late of Topshatm, Devi,lathire, rope. maker - • . 3 1 William Death. Chippenharn, Wiltshire. clothier 3 10 Joseph Waybian aid James Gerrard, Swan-strest, Mi lIMICS, London, co, mfactins - 3I! James Poured, late of Wappingdareet. :Middlesex, cO4En and toosheihalrer . - - llt James Cru.aky, Halifax, Yorkshire ; and King street, London, merchant - - 210 Thomas Dun eil, jun Redni yr-tourt, Chspel.street, 11 ,, lynell.mount, Middleton, Wakes and pedlar 2 12 George A:lea, Fetieliurch-atreet, London, iirhelsterer 2 11 Archibald Ram, late it Surinam, in tea Wert laeies ; but now of Castle-omq, airchin-lane, I.ondon, rum chant - - - 111 John Gresham,. Gales.wharf, Lambeth, Surrey, tim ber-merchant - - . 1!9 Louis Frelsout, jun. Fort-street, Lendocr, silk-maim (adorer • 114 DIVIDEND,. Archibald Maclean, late of Winchestm•street, Lon. dun, merchant - - . 1/ Robert Mann, Huggin-lane, Wood-street, London. warehouseman - ll William WilliaMl4 Lad-lane. I,,mdan, victualler IS James Stiakeshalt the younger, Widogiste-street, Rishopseate-striet. Louden, dealer in china and earthenware • . - 12 John Garrod, Orford, Suffolk, mariner - - I J•ilin Debreit, tecadilly, Westminster, bookseller - It Franklin Ganiner, Lon-lane, Deptford, Kent, ma riner - - - 11 John Henry Emilimt, James Browne, and Francis Itrowile, Old Jewry, London, wine-merchants - I! Elizabeth Clarkson, widow, sod Riclisrd Dove, both of South Aunley-street, aiklea;ers - - II Richard Tonlilson. Leek, Siaffurdshire, li nen -d raper It G a i n . me her, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, sealer and chapenon • 1! John Shaw, Neweste.street, London, linen-draper it Francp Strauy, V 1 ind•ur, Ilerkslire, erveer - 1 Thomas La ich, late of Grace's-alley, Well-c'oso. square, Mimllonex. haberdasher - - - It • Joseph King and William Edward King, St. Paul, 1 Covent-pith-i, Middlesex, elk-mercers . - 111 Gavin Hamilton, n..w or late of Calcutta, la the Katt- Indies, inert:hoot - - - - It Alexander Aberdoin, late of Calcutta, in the Fait. Indies • but sow of Li.leatieet, Leicamer•fields, Mirlitlinex„ merchant - ' - - - 19 John Johnson, Hrilbisru-hill, London, linan -draper - lo Thomas hluilett, St. Pancras, Middlesex, vintner -1! Richard Elwin', Church-row, Newington, Surrey, car penter - - 10 ~. CERTIVICATIEs. Janie , ' Roxburgh, late of Winchester-street, in the cit. at London, inmrsiice.binker, merchant, dealer arid clianinau. Robert Roe and Christopher Moore, late of the city or Bristol, merchants. Joachim Ciiriatian Stocquelm, of A.lichurch-lane, L•inor.„ insurance broker ■od merchant. Joaquirn Andrade, 11l Abchwch-lane, London, insurance limter and merchant John Bruckner, of Snuthmolton•street, in the perish of St. George, Ifairoverliquare, in the liberty of Westminster, in the comity of Middles's, ladies .hoe-maker. Thomas Farmer Careless, of Counter-surd, in the borough of Southwark, and county of Surrey, cure-chandler, dealer chapels's. Mathew Maclein, late of Southampton, silversmith and work ing eareiler, dealer and chion.att. i t nard Wadley, of the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in tie c,,uory of the same , town, fatten quaker, dea.er and cha?man. 'homes Douglas, of Gainsford-street, Horsle.down, in the county of Surrey, corn-dealer, dealer and chapmaa.