The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-12-22 00:00:00

WARD ELECTIONS IN TRE CITY. yesterday being .St. Thomas's Day, the different Aldermen held Wardmotes in their several Wards, for the EleCtion of Common Councilmen, and other Ward Officers, for the yew ensuing. The Lord Mayor, besides holding a Wardmote fur the Ward of Candlewick, being his own Ward, also went in state, and held three others; the fitst of which was for the Ward of Walbrook, which was he:d at Salters' Hall, in the absence of Alderma.; Rowcroft, who was prevented from attending by indisposition. lie likewise held a Wardmote for the Ward of Cheap, Alderman Boyden, recently eleCted for that Ward, not having been sworn in; and another Wardmote for the Limo-street Ward, ALlerm in Prinsep, chosen ;ir that Ward, in the room of Sir Watkin Lewis, removed to the Ward of Bridge Without, in the room of the late Alderman Harley, not being sworn and. consequently, being incompetent to aft of ficially. TOWER WARD. Sir William Curtis, Alderman of Tower Ward, held his Wardmote in Bakers' Hall, Harp lane, where a warm and unexpeeted contest has taken place. Mr. Thomas Bridges was proposed as one of the Commot, Council, an•l a poll was demanded, Which continued open for two hours. At the close of it, the names and numb e rs stood as follows : I Mr. Samuel Wright . .47 Mr. David Laing . . .46 Thomas DAWII4III . . .47 Charles Stuart . . . .44 :Mathias I.uesis . . . .47 Thomas Bridge; . . .41 S3MIICI Dixon . . . . 47 Samuel Walker . . . . 41 Samuel Mitchinson . .46 John Hartshmue . . .31 Thni.:a. F.itbergall . . .46 Levris Cielsun . . . .16 Jana** Di.i.un . . . . 46 WARD OF BRIDGE WITHIN. Sir Mathew Blozham, Alderman of the Ward of Bridge Within, held his Wardmote in Fishmongers' Hall: Mr. Lacey and Mr. Dutton were proposed for Common Councilmen, and a Poll was demanded, which continued open for a short time. At the close of it, the names and numbers stood as follow : Mr. Rartgunt Aldus Cope Garrett Wrench Child /Why S Wi!de 4 aft Wit Boyd Alderman Shaw, of Portgoken Ward, held his Lacey . . Wardmote in the Church of Aldgate. Alderman Combs, of Aldgate Ward, held his Wardmote in Ironmongers' Hall, Fenchurch-street. Sir John Easser, Alderman of Longhorn Ward, hold his Wardmote in the Vestry-Room of St. Dime Back Church, Fenchurch-street. Sir Richard Carr Glyn. Alderman of Bishop's- Rats Ward. held his Wardmote in the Parish Alderman Perring, of Broad•street Ward, held bis Wardmote in Drapers' HAL .er Alderman Lee, of Colman-street Ward, held lrs Wardmote in the PiUull Church. Sir Williams Staines. Alderman of Cripplegate Ward, bald his Wardrnote in the Parish Church. Sir John W. Anderson, Alderman of Aldersgate Ward, held his Wardmote at their Ward-hall. &r Williams Leighton. Alderman of Billingsgate- Ward, held ►is Wardroom in Batches' Hari, Pud- AM e~af Newnhans, of %Thum Ward, held Ms Wardsnote in Cutlers' Hall, Cloak-Line. Alderman Le Meunier, of Dowgate Ward, held his Wardnaote in the Church of Allhallows, Thames. street. Alderman Ains!ey, of Bread-street Ward, held itis Wardmote in Cordwainers' Hall. Alderman J Smith held his Wardmote, for the Ward of Castlebayoard, in the Church of St. Gre gory, in Old Fish-street. Alderman Flower, for Ccwnhill Ward, held his Whrdmote in St. Michael's Church. Alderman Hunter, for the Ward of Bassishaw , • bald his Wardmote in the Parish Church, Basing: halktreet. In all the above Wards, we find no contest or change of their Common Council, except the eleaion of Mr. Comings, in the room of Mr. Squire, resigned, in Cheap IVard. Sir Charles Price, Alderman of the Ward of Farringdou Without, held his Wardmote in St. Sepulchre's Church, and contrary to their usual custom, we understand the Eleftion of Common Councilmen was settled without any contest. Alderman Thomas Smith, of Ferringdon Within, held his Wardmote ; and, we are told, four of the Common Council have resigned. Amongst the various objet, which at this time engage the attention of the Coss /4 •NDZIL in Came, we can assu: e the public, is the permanent establish ment and re z zulation of the Royal Military College. A Board tai General Officers is daily assembled at the Horse Guards, on this important subject, under ilk Royal Highness's immediate direction; and we have sub doubt, that this great national institution wit he eneduded on a tooting which will assure to the asseauy the moat essential advantages, by instill ing into the minds of the rising son, designed •for the military servi c e, principt e s a o er f a s t trid morality and professional science. The proposed regulations are, we understand, framed not less with a view to the health and comfort of the Students, than to the attainment of the cbjeas before recited. To the honour of Mrs. BiLt.iitorow, it should be mentioned, that she was not induced to take the laudanum, which was produaive of such dau serous effeas, merely on account of indisposition, but in consequence of a shock she received whi..h threw her into strong convulsions. The nurse who attended her was abruptly informed, in her that her child had just been banned to death. Pursuant to a late notice in The Gazette, a en derable rise in the fares of hackney coaches took place yesterday. The public are ever ready to pry for their accommodation, and they hove a. runt to espea that they should be compensated to:" this additional us upon them, by the cleanlir.ess and seeurity of the can iages whic.l they are to use. The l'onunissior.e:s ate bound to order a stria inspec tion to be made of all the hackney coacheb in the metropolis ; the greater part of are in so filthy acid dangerous a state, is scarcely po.sible to employ them with any chance of safety. We tear the pcor horses (msny of which are tit only for the dogl will not be twit mush b; the additioril allow ance. . - LAW. COMMON PLEAS. GUILDHALL. Sittings at Niti Pr us, 4f :ire Mr. Ju‘lice CIIAMBRE, and a St ecial jar,. _ _ 1111401: V. SIR \t►TT:ILW RLOSIIAM and co. This was an adion for money had and received, brought by the Plaintiff, a respectable merchant, against the Defendant, an eminent banker, to re cover the sum of 451. which had been lodged in the Defendant's Rank, and which he refused allowing in account, alleging, that he lead paid a draft to th it amount, though he had received notice not to pay it, as it had been lost. berrant SHEPHERD, on the part of the Plaintiff', said, he was at a loss to know on what grounds the Defendants intended to contest the payment of this money; that similar cases had been several times de cided against the Defendants in them in the Court of King's Bench; and, that if they were not always decided s.), every merchant in the kingdom vroult either be obliged to transaCt his business without having recourse to a banker, or else, if ever the ac cident of a draft being lost should occur to any man, he would, to prevent its being paid, Le obliged to draw his money entirely out of the hands of the banker, as that would be the only sure means of se cui ing to himself the amount of that draft, the bankers not being very ready to pay a draft, unless the drawer happens to have provision for it. He concluded by saying he would shortly prove the circum tances of the case, and ha•i no doubt of a verdift. Thomas Halifax deposed, that he received a draft for 451. from the Plaintiff, on the 22d of February last, and that he lost it and his pocket book on the same day : he immediately told Mr. Hinde and got a letter from him to the Defendant, stating that his draft on them for 451. specifying the number, had been lost. and desiring that if offered for payment it should be stopped; he carried this letter and gave it to one of the clerks, who said every thing that was in their power should be done, and imme diately had a notice posted up, to stop that number and description of draft, if ever it should be offered. He said, the Plaintiff, lest there should be any mistake, gave him two drafts, one for twenty, and the other for twenty-five pounds. Oa his cross-examination by Serjeant Herr, he said his pocket had been p'cked, as he was going down Petticoat-lane. The Learned Serjeant archly desired him never to go that road :gain, when he had any other person's money about him. The young man blushed, and promised faithfully he would not. It was admitted by the Defendants, that the draft had been paid on the ith of March. Serjeant Basr addressed the Court and Jury, at very great length, but called no witnesses, ■s Mr. Justice CHAI MMR did not think it wouti be of any serv'ce to his case, to prove that the bankers in ge neral did not engage to be answerable. The Jury immediately found a Verdi& for the Plaintiff— Damages 451. TAVLOS dad CO. HODSON. This was an anion brought by the Plaintiffs, to recswer the value of some goods. sold to the De fendant, by Hunter and Co. as foam for the Plain tiffs. The defence set up by Mr. Hodson was, that he had bought those goods as the agent for the firm of Smith. Lindsey, and Co. which bad since failed, and it was to them the Plaintiff should look for payment, and not to him. Serjeant Ravi cv stated the case of the Plaintiffs with his usual ability, And called Robert Grahams partner in the house of Hunter and Co. who de posed, that they acted as faiFturs to the Plaintiffs, and that Hodson was in the habit of buying goods at his housr, and that hr always bought them in his own name. On the 9th of April, 1 803, the De fendant purchased goods at his house, to the amoant of Sill. qs. these goods were the property of the Plaintiffs, and the Defendant desired him to make out the bills of parcels, in the name of Smith, Lind sey, and Co. The goods were by the Defendant's order, sent to a packer to be packed up for exporta tion. In the May following, he purchased 1411. ss. worth, the property of the Plaintiffs, and they were also sent to be packed for expottation. He at &Lief-- cot times bought other parcels, and they were al ways set down in the same manner as the first ; but he always spoke of the goods as hi: own ; the bills of parcels were always sent to Ho:Jinn's compting house, which was under the same roof with the compting house of Smith, Lindsey, and Cu. in one instance they were by Hodson's order sealed up, and diredel for him. On his cross-examination, he said, some of the bills of parcels were .direfted to Smith, Lindsey, and Co. and that the goods were sent to the packers, in their name. Some goods were rit back, in con sequence of the &dote of Smith, Lindsey, and Co. and that one parcel was afterwards sold to Hodson ; but that that was done, because they were sealed up for exportation; at the time they stopped the go.sJs, they imagined that Hodson would be injured by the failure of Smith, Lindsey; $.l Co. but when they re-sold him the parcel, they were c::nvinced he was in as good credit as ever, and that the goods had always been given on Hodson's credit. James Hunter, first partner in the house of Hun ter and Co. said, that Hodson had bought some goods from him, bed .nging to other persons, and that the invoice had been made out to him by his own name ; but he desired it should be cancelled, and another made out in the name cf Smith, Lin sey, and Co. as he said they did all his business: be conceive ! this as a general Litre .lion, and always made out the invoices to Smith, Lindsey, and Co. but never had an idea that he bought them for that house. John Imbre, warehouse-man to Hunter and Co. imoved, that the Defendant had often purchased goads from him, and that they were set down to Smith, Lindsey, and Co. but he always understood, from what Mr. Hodson said, that the goods were Rsiarchased on his own account and credit. William Costlo, carter to Hunter and CO. de poiN:, he delivered the goods so the packer, and th it he SAW Mr. Hodson there giving direewins how shsuid be packed up, and head him desire the ;L.:4er to have them seedy that evenhig, as they were to be shipped the nest day. Serjeant Sad zr.i tea, for the Defendant, address ed the. Jary at great length; aud was replied to by Serjeant BAILEY. the Jury, ;moot troublins s Lordsitip to re peat the evidence, found a verdi& for the Plaintiffs damages 1,0:181. 7s. allowing interest on the original debt. SIR ROBERT PERIL V. WINDSOR. This adion was of the very same nature as the last, and contained the same points. The same de fence was offered—but it was in a very short time settled, parties having agreed, that the Plaintiff slfould take a verdi& for 3,0(01. subject to a re ference to examine the charges in the account of the THE PRINCE OF WALES': NEW STABLES AT BRIGHTON. These Stables, which are in great forstardness, and just covered in, will far surpass, in beauty and magnificence, any similar buildings now in Europe. They are ereiftei upon the Grove Promenade, where two hundred artificers have been employed for se veral months, and are expefted to be finished early in the spring. This beautiful strufture is built in the form of an amphitheatre, with a circular ride in the centre, round which there are stabling or stalls for SO horses, so completely construaed, that His Royal Highness, in riding round the ride, may view every hone is the stable, each being an equal distance from the other, with a door leading to each, with two grand doors, or entrances, one opposize the Pavilion, and the other to the Promenade ; the r.,of of the building forms a dome. lighted all round by rows of crown glass. Suspended from the cap are a variety of Chioese figures, pigeon holes, bells, Scc. ; over which, we understand, is to be a pedes:al eighteen feet high, with an emblematic figure. lA/NARDI, whose arrival we lately mentioned, is preparing a balloon for an aerial voyage in spring. It will be the largest ever made in England, to consist of 260 yards of silk, and intended to carry up five persons. Upon his third voyage, be will descend with a parachute in a way never before attempted. A criminal information is certainly to be moved for in the Court of King's Bench, against an Isiah Judge, charged with being the author of tie letter signed Javerna, for the publication of which the publisher of a weekly paper was some time since found guilty. Mr. ERSKINE is already retained on the pair of the Learned Defendant. This trial, what ever its result may prove, will, in a most striking rcAnner, display to the world the glorious superio rity of the British Law, while it will exhibit the novel scene, of a J west sitting upon the trial of a JUDGE. and a JUDGE sitting in judgment upon brother Expounder of the 'Law. An Inquest was held on Thursday. at the White Horse public-house, Wheeler -street, Shoreditch, on the body of Sarah Mitchell, a child of nine years of age, who was murdered by her father, Sensed M,/es 4111(bell, on Tuesday last. The Jury, without hesi tation, p-onounced a Verdie2 Alsardrr agairvd Mt Faker. _ _ _ No other reason can be assigned for this diabo lical aa, than that wiiich the Prisoner was fie.u.l to utter, viz. that she should never live to be brought up by the mother. Ihe offender and his wife had parted the day before; and the child, it appears, had slept the preceding night with hat mother. He voluntarily confessed the fad to the Magistrates on Wednesday; and, with tears in his eye:, when de sir;cl to sign his confession, exclaimed, " / With Me same hand that did the i—g deed!" It is supposed he was seized with a sudden fit of insa nity, as he was remarkably fond of the child. The body of the uafonunate child was yestettly exposed to public •iew at the apartment where the murder was committed, at a penny and twopence a head. The money thus collected. it was said, was to de fray Vie expenses of the funeral. On Wednesday, as a lo tde..l collier was coming up the river, nearly opposite Cuckold's Point, el West Indiaman, outward bound, in a very severe gust of wind, missed stays, ran down the collier, and sunk her. The crew were saved. Thur-day night, Lieut. HURLEY, commanding the Gallant gun vessel, at Sheerness, in endeavour ing to get on board her at the Note, was drowned (by the cutter upsetting) with the whole of the crew, consisting of seven men, is consequence of the violence of the gale. On Thursday night, about eleven o'clock. as the family of the sign of the Arrawat Poplar, were go ing to rest, a man of a most deplorable appearance was found up two pair of stairs, concealed behind a chest of drawers, which excited great alarm, as be was not perceived by any of the family going up stairs. The account be gave of himself was very vague ; he was therefore put in charge of a son stable, who took him to Shasiwell Office for ex amination. Some days since, an apprentice to a shopkeeper opposite the Vi.ftualling OtEee at Chatham, in open ing a drawer to serve some ivory black, unfortu nately m'stook the contents of the drawer, which WAS tilled with gun-powder, and a spark falling from the candle, it blew up with a great explosion, by which the shop window was forced out, and the hoy most dreadfully burnt. On Sunday morning last, the second Battalion of the , y2d Regiment 4 , f V. ../t, or GORDON High landers, under the command of Major GotouN, embarked from Liverpool for Ireland. Two of the Divisions were inspeatd on Thursday Morning last, by His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief of this Distria, who declared himself to be highly pleased with their hardy and soldier.like appearance. The condua of this Regiment in Egypt was truly brave and meritorious. In the battle of the 13th of March, they formed the ad vanced guard of the British army; and, opposed to A tremendous fire of musketry and cannon, and suf fering severely from the French line, they never receded a foot but ; maintained the contest alone, until the marines and the rest of the line came to their support. The regiment, as a tegimasmy of their bravery in that campaign, bears on its stand ard the figure of a Sphinx, and has the word Eg . xpr inseri:sed. The standard itself bears honourable marks of hard service, being shot through and torn in many places. Itieir march hitherto from Col chester Barracks, in Essex, has been uncommonly rapid ; sometimes more than 90 miles a day ; and, during the whole march, not a Irma was absent, sick, or intoxicated. NATAL iirrEarGOtit.' romrssirourn. Dec. 20. It blew so exceedingly hard last night and this morning, that the Gres/wand frigate was obliged to return o. Spithead. Arrived the Mir sloop from the Downs, and the Ilariersin armed ship from Plymouth. The Mediterranean convoy are unmoored ; and. should the wind moderate, which now blows a se vere gale, they will sail to-morrow morning. Arrived the Eugenie sloop, with a convoy from the Downs. Came into Harbour. the Aurora frigate. Capt. Nlalbon ; the Arethrue frigate is gone out under jttry masts, to proceed for the River, to be repaired. PENZANCE. DEC 18. Arrived the Spanish ship Ado, --, fiom the. River de la Plata; Ind the schooner Li Lia, —, from Curacoa, both detained by thi Karol * , frigate, which. has detained thirteen other Spanit)x . vessels. Wind, E.N.E. Wows hard. nee. 20. _ _ Remain in the Downs a lair Aeet of ships .4 war.. names Of which c.ton..t learn, they haying .to ned.on with the shore, owing to the tempeitamis ness of the weather. The Dasher armed ship !iis' parted her cables, and gone to the Westward the American ship Ilar,,toty, Capt. Wickhant. 4 ladenl, with pepper, &c. from the East Indies, booed to flamburgh, ran on shore on Deal Beach, and It is feared will be lost. Wind E.N.L blows hard. ' _2 A 111 yap, In the River—The Flhodtalanb, from Writ ten Carrittxt.in,—. , he ti , mculation t from Unatile. At C.we.—The Gokkit 'Grove. Penet, hoof bounito Lorvlin, with great damage. Off fl‘ner—The At-ortoria, fmm DnSlir, Wale to Lot4lotT, with the In of anchors and cable'. • • At Dartmouth—The :141‘nervi, Bet!, from Newfoundland. At Penzance--; int Hind, Miley, truth Ssr;nnavi damage. • At Liverpool—The Hunter, WNW% horn Claalaiton. At Clyde—The itotanota, fonu Grettiall very, lio4g, from Cia , t,ec ; and the Hero,' 33uniefe, Nevsfoo.•dLi:.d. At Kmval•--The Swirt , Roberts..', from Haoannells: At '..atettan—The PkAtinw.ats, aod the tiaviostilma i , Evan*, from Loudon. 4 1 At Virate,hrd—Tn.... Neptune, Palk, ditto. t At Cork—The Harmony, Wat.ots, :y en Oporto_ . - . j At DuJiiii—Ma,tita, Band, fromVirsit,..a. 1 At MAlta—The Punt. rliengen, --.., keno G6lRattat jitil tit,..t, Ko ,kt; Let Ant, Mager; Stirling, 81.4111; • 4 sou, - —, from London. • 1 ,~ Our letters of yesterday, from various gaso the Northern and Eastern Counties. state, third had experienced a deep fall of snow : most' 06 rands in North Wales were, on Sunday last; passable for heavy carriages. At a late Review in Scotland. a small pat" the Highlanders were charged by a body of valry, and it WAS intended they should and take up another position, as not hi stand the charge; but when ordered they refused, and calling out. 4 g Sae/ • kept firing in the faces of the mew- . the horses with the butts of their yeomanry thought proper to retire. AN SCOOTS or YOUNG RPSCIIIIJS.—. Anted 'Se of the Yeang Rgstia, and questionable, proves that the , l ot is equal to the other rare qualities clawed him with :—After completing anent with the Liverpool Managers, is he performed 15 nigtts, and being told • of the pr.alts amounted toff:rem "mai ponds. hr luoLed stedfastly on his infant in hi. mother's arms, and exclaimed. " vicissitudes of life, who can tell, my , may be thy fate? It I can help it. , pro, ro o t therefore, I insist, that the be settled upon my sister, and pot for her benefit till she comes of age. day the necessary steps were takes, Law is and K ewes were nominated to see the wishes of our young hero f the smallest intimation bf Mr. or Mrs been previously mad* upon the soh jea spoataneous effusion of his own heart, suit of refleaions entirely his own, with a lad of his years. The hue justly revered and Alderman Boenesi.. must have. his decease, much satisfadion from every "ticket, in his valuable Lotto gerly sought after, and disposed of. holders, indeed, of its mots capital p seas a lasting monument of his gnat desert, and public spirit, in Promoting and fame of the Graphic Ar t . which bright a !awe and honour on his country. while we pay this ttibutc of dud respect to the story of a man so hig hly esteemed , and record -..!•„, Laudable zeal of the Public to attain works of nest a pre.emineat description, it would be injustice to to obstrre, that the present State Lottorris one the most important foe intrinsic richness of Saber and attraOive from its superior interest, that bore a first-rate distinfkion in the asenals rung's Wiest. ► The grand artificial Aquedae. the Vale of Ponte-Cassyka s perfei the Inniftion Canal, from river Dee, it is thought, will be summer next. It is one of the efforts of human art. It consists of conicalpillars, fifty-two feet r of which are one hundred and height ; each pair of pinks support liptical bridge of cast iron, the • horizontal base, on the summa sheen of cast iron are rivetted a Cher, so as to form an aquedua to pars each other, viz. about and six feet in height ; a moiety already perfofted ; it is proposed croft an iron platform and faille for the towing path for chokers be attended with a prodigious and would. in some measure, woe*, there is reason to hope, may be devised for ' sae gether unnecessary. It stri that the barges may be towed considering the extreme depth powers of gravitation at each *Wed along so smooth a surface simple mechanism with which • torontou meat-lack are every cts‘ , on Sunday last: ,lard land. a small past; iced by a body of ars d they amid review& • as not being Wile* am ordered to • • It. k goisirek yanmerny. and their muskeu testa retire. , scsus.—Tbe • I " and the fail' goo.inese of hie amities Names ompkting leis e masers. To *lids being told that Issuarril asaJ ni bid imam sister. claimed. " Animist ell, my deer Warr help it. it shall am that the 1.5nU1. end pot out to i • nes of age." 'five era takes, and hi weninated the T Log hero (abated.. Kr. or Mrs. BITTY • the sehjea ; it we* awn heart, and the' Isis own, so • • od celebrated • - hate fols. pyritous ion from ketressz • le Lottery, had irk mad of. ' e r capital penes. will f his great • • • promoting the • Art. win& raids 1. on his country. Dui dud respell to the we, in Pthe arenas of Awn re, in Denbighshue, ios Clwintr a se complet ed by e most estramdiner sists of nineteen et amulet. the ad twenty.sia fist pupport a kind of re who forming mit. en which and cememed I for the canal twenty feet in ty of this aquednet sad by the Engineer ing on the South ries ; buts all this a additional , weaken the sopa. that Waft such towing-pads is a common d with windlasses; for the manic ch end. they may face of water. by h the operations of day pert-mined.