The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1818-08-20 00:00:00

MRS. OPIR'S NEW TALES. Few writers of the present day hove been more eminently successful than Mrs. Opir, iii this diffi cult species of composition. It may be justly termed difficult, because it demands greater talents and higher attainments thin eves. the regular novel, and its difficulties increase in rroportion as the limits to which the author confines himself are the more circumscribed. It requires also that consummate degree of art, which, tristliog to the concealment of all art, gives to the most ingenious combinations an air of perfect simorcii v. It is related of the Janet G ay. that whe n h e et,,s reproached for degrad big his genius to the puerile walks of fables, he replied, that he know of no department in literature more arduous; and swift, who almost ridiculed the remark, was compelled, after two or three at tempts, to own that it was strictly just. The greater number of the tales in this collec tion relate to fashionable life, of which, its its va rious and changeful aspects they exhibit a spirited arid faithful picture. They are interspersed with others of a more romantic character, in which the truth of delineation is preserved amidst a strong and s 44444 minors sombre colouring. Thus contrast ed, they tend to relieve each other, sold prereist to the novel-reader a well assorted and piquant repsst. One of tiie most singular of these tales is that entitled, 6' The Confessions of as Odd lempered Man P` the object of whirls is, to represent the miseries inflicted on ourselves and those around us, by a selfish and exclusive irkird to our own feelings. The following extract characterizes the narrator's conduct to the .unable lady, whore affec tione he had sots, and wham rumour had already pronou n ced to be assigned to him in marriage : "This very natural report, after the attentions 1 had paid her, awakned my jraluusy of indepeudence,and the suspicion incident to my character. " 1 fancied the people ofC- believed 1 had advanced Soo far to retreat ; and also that Caroline'. filends hail perhaps spr►ad the rein..., in ur,ler to hasten my propos .la. • A ',serous loan would not have imagined this : lint 1 was not a g. °serums man ; and I not oily thought it, but I acted urns it, and became suddenly cold in my manner towsrda the gentle b. ing whose affectiona I believed were awakened in my favour, merely becanst I could mil bear any interference with my act 1111 l a, and wit. resolved n o t In b. talked or compelled even into marriage with the woman whom I sd.•rrJ. " Accuriliegly, at the next hall, Morad of soliciting Ike band of Cardiac, 1 kept at *distance (ruin her after my 'first aalstatiou, and had resoliit ,to Wllll5llllO the won dering het nut reproachful glance of her soft and speaking eye ; and 1 saw with mean satistacti 111 l how listlessly and sisly the nasally active and guy C.rohne went down every donee that evening. . 1 I was as cold mid as diurnal at two succeeding parties, when a rival, auJ a formidable one WU, Slow entered on the " It was well known that Caroline hail refused several off•is ; hut thru they were nut eligilile mies : but the Gen tleman who came forward as a pretender to her hand, was in every respect worthy even of her. I must do him c, and I hive wondend that she did slut bay. I felt that slue ought to have lured him ; and that nothing hut a blind infwiiiittion fur an undeserving olij et—namely, 111 11011f—cualil have have led her to reject a being so perfcct. Indeinl I rallied my self judgment On far, that I thought it a fawn in Caroline to love me and refuse bum. He was handsome, berated, highly gifted in point of talents ; and he vs. good. fine tempered, berievutei:l, avid pious In ruck he vier her superior—fur he was the younger son of a nobleman; in Meow, bring a beneficed clergyissais, he was her 'Yeah yet seal he was rejected, Wenner of was preferred ! Mai is mat passion called love, that thins sets llw judgment at di Cum.-, and rejects a true to worship a false divinity ? " I was sot our, however, that my formithble rival 'mild not succeed; mid I 'organ to relax in My assumed ruldnem when I saw his marked attentions and their aim; especially when the • te eye of a shrewd married friend of Caro line's, who disliked me and educed him, was fixed ow me with a look which seemed to say—' You hare lust her sow for ever' " I requested Caroline's hand for the two 111 dances at the u. at 13311—.44C was engaged to my rival, bat she accepted me for the two next ; anal I found a per ceptible difference in her exisr.mion when glancing wills me mid when dancii.g with him. While she was Isis partner ler rye wand. red almost, or carelessly tinned usi him as he WI her down the dame. Weigle slw was mine, her consensus ;who were Sited upon she ground, 41111 her clank was fillbll4 - 41 with a dexter of pleactirable emotion, which her apprehen sive and rasher wosistelesl pride made her ashamed to feel. " Some women would le gve wooled 011 we my gown cold ams, and, with wane paupr ely perhaps, amained indiffer ence, anises they fell at nut : hut the Iseart of Caroline was • stranger to disguise.; she was above the common as tifices of r rex: and Omagh I have gnmetimes, in • splenetic humoulrg accuse., her sit' being isigessuidis almost to indeli cacy, I in•w do her justice, and am convinced that, were all women like her, the fate of lovers and of husbands would he much hipper than it a. But Own I must also own that men must be refined, in order to deserve such women u the wan" STATE OF THE HARVEST. . The harvest commenced in many places at the latter end of July, since which period the weather has been the most favunrable possible, and the greater part of the Wheat has tern Secured in excellent condition. This crop iv spoken of as being generally good in quality, Noll not deficient in quantoy, except upon dry, scorching soils, which have, as might be expected, felt the effects of the long 'might we have experienced. Of those few instances which hare reached us of any sales having been effected, the hulk Ma been l o used fully is. equal the imperial of the buyer, both in %it 'est and dryness. The season has been particu larly favourable to those mils, ishith, either by natural or artificial means, are rich and high in cultivation. On such loads, in 'twos like those of 1318 and 1817, there would helm immense both of straw probably, but the crop would he laid, and cuosequently Inferior in (totally, if out in quantity. In the present year the dry weather has counter acted these effects; and If it has diminish...l the quantity ..f straw, it has eft us a good sianuliug crop, by which, locally, we amaus as such straw as can grow without falling. Thus is the best of all crisps, as boils straw ant cora remain warn_ Jared ; to it is well known that beyond a fellatio pitch, high msomeng and richness of soil become an tell rather than hmcfit, to a What Crop at least. Os, all sit h sour, there. fore, the %%him" (where sum mildewed or otherwise bluebi rd; will be found this rear 'Kellen, both in quality end 'flaunty, the raillem is having been checked by the drought. --We have Pot inneh of thou land in Norfolk. However, use many of our stronger soak the Wheats are very good. lye the light, scalding lands, they fa.' off greatly, though by no memos so much as Harley and other spring crops. It it 14 mtulable to see the effect of the 'bought on thousands of acres of this description. Even the better sort of light lands are miserably short its produce, especially of Harley. fa many wet:lima there carman be aoy thing like half a crop, and in sunny 111111 e at all. A great deal is Itegiuning to he cut, asset should the weather prose fine for the next fort night, will he secured. The quality will be tl l t 11 l but the colour beautiful; like the Rarleca of 1800, bright and sil very. Rein s a r e not mare than, if so much as, half a creep; but the sample is very fine. So eau ly a Ilvan harvest u, v. r was known. Many herr been rot and earluti before the Mr by' were begun. We air terribly bare of feed (or one cat tle, and we are likely to ' , main rue fur we shall have neither Turnips sane Layers against Number year. The Clover soul other small seeds are totally perished by drought, anul the Tamps, where they du at all, (*Norwich P aper ) are doing wretchedly.— 1 NQU 1.371. SUSPICION OF MURDER. • 04 Tuesday night an Invent waa held at design if the Black H wee. High sired, Poplin., before Joan WRIGIIT 11NW11.1, E.q Coroner, on the bully of flume Jammu aged 25, n Lintels sailor, whit it was suspected was thrown overboard into the River Thames. It appears rt from She evids nee of John Goorlsere, a light erraar. Thomas Harper, Castone•house ofilicer, and Wil. ham Halite, that on Saturday evening last Gatherer, who was norloyeet to take a load of sugar to a vessel lying ,or M, ill, Poplar, on going down the River, he saw a ves-el which hail a foreign mime painted on it, and not snug -dile to read the name, he rowed the barge to the isineroina vessel of the tier in whirl, the vessel was plated; he, thinking this was the vessel that hi. was directed to, called several times, but r.yeivin t s„ nn simmer, he mode his barge fast to the I and went on hard. The ran. mat he got on deck, the deceased came up in a violent rage and commenced an attack upon him, and korteked hint down over the windless of the vessel. Ginedacre then gat up, and was going to get into his barge, but the deceased rail over and laid ',Ad of the painter, which fastened the barge to the vessel, and endeavoured to loosen it; witness entreated him DO let it remain till he got into his barge. but lie refused end beat hits away ; here they caught hold of each other, and had a acid& to see who could get hold of the painter, and they fell down on the deck, the deceased kneeling on Gootheere's body; the rope, were Blacked, and the deceased laid hold of the painter, and so prevented him from getting into hie barge; he then laid hold of witness, and used him so shamefully, that a mob of persons collected together on shore, which was about 30 yards from the yes. eel, cried " Shame!" and to "throw the blackguard over board." Esch of them was now kneeling OS the painter, the deceased endeavouring In loose the painter to start the barge adrift, and the other to keep it fast. AS length the ceased got up, and seised Goodacre round the thigh'', and attempted to throw hint overboard, but Goodacre caught him with his arms round Isis shoulders, and in swinging road they both fell overboard (first on the anchor) into the water, and went under the vessel clasped in earls other's arms, awl remained under the water for a length of time, whirl, was ceased by the deceased keeping tight hold of witness !Good acre) as tf determined to make him die along with him, hut when exhausted he let him go, and sank he rise no more. Goodnere rose twice after this, and as be was sinking a thirst time he was fortunately got out i •Iro a boat, apprently life less, mid conveyed on shore, where by she applicat of prop r remedies he was soon restored to animation ; the de ceased was frond on Nlosidav morning last, and taken ashore. "'WOODS/ Ha per and William Rain', the other witnesses" decidedly prove., that no culpability whatever could be at tached to Gondaerr, as he behaved with the greatest civility till he was necessitated to lay hold of the deceased, and thee he doll nut strike him, but the deceased's conduct was most blameable; she Captain and mate were on shore, and the deceased, who was the c o ok l was left on hoard. An investigstiun of • similar iisteee W3l entered into at the Thames Police office. •hieli cleared Goodaere from any charge elasiever. The inquest sat from eight o'clock till near one yesterday mnrninc . alien the Jory returned a ver dict of—Casually Drummed. Yesterday an lnqur4 was held at the knot. of Mr. T. Moore the sign of the Three Ton!, corner of Comm greet, and Kirby -street, tbdion.rerden; before TURMAS STIR LING, E.q. Coroner for Ibe Conniy of Middlesex, on the batty of Susannah Morgan, who eagle to her death by hanifing herself Mr. Henry Wake Arid, Suwon, deposed that about half. past eight O'clock on Tuesday morning, he was sent for to d the deceased, whom he found lying dead on her back, on the front kitchen fluor of the house, Nu. 20, in Cross. street; she was not quite cold, but there was no apiwaronee of life, she appeared to have been dead about two hours, there was nu attempt made to restore nnimannn as there was no hope of recovery; she had nothing on but her shift and nighi-eap; there was no ligature about the muck, hut there was the mark of amid, and he was informed hi ) those present, that she hail hung herself in another SOWN; the house appeared to him to be nisinhabited as there was MI furniture in it. He is of opinion she came by her death from strangulation. It appeared on the evidence of several other witnesses, I that the &reword lived shout six weeks in the service of Mr. Thomas Abbot, a builder, whence she was discharged on F. iday last, in consequence of suspicion falling on her of I stealing a 101. and five W. Rank notes, and the sixteenth of d • lottery ticket, out of Mr. Abbot's bureau, and idiom her discharge she had come to lodge with Mrs. Edwards, • woman,' who was Ostrom rare of that house WWntll it was let, her fears of bring taken up and b ght to Hallon•gardleto Office, and dreaded lest her friends should I hear of it. On Monday night she •ppraied low-spirited, and as if deranged, walking about the room and clapping I her hands, exclaiming, " My God! what will become of me !" She took two glasses of gin going to bed, but did not sleep all night ; gut up six times during the night, to walk about and look out at the window, and at half-past six in s h e mornisig she got up for the last time, sod WSW down smite in her uadress, and about eight she was found hang ing in the hark kitchen. . here iV; half et A. tine it a state of dery nue m- eat. The Lon, CHANCELLOR did not sit in his pri vate room, Lincoln's-Inn, yesterday (its he pro united), to give judgments. Twenty-one brace of grouse, or moor gnme, found in the possession of a carrier, were seised, by warrant of a Magistrate, on Wednesday morning last, at Biuncepetti, Durham. On Wednesday last two Gentlemen, angling no that beautiful river at Bucket;ham, Norfolk, belonging to Sir THOMAS BEAUCHAMP PRocrEa. caught g 101b1. of fish, the greater part of which were bream, weighing from 2 to 4lbs. each. There was a very good supply of wheat sit Nor wich unit ket toss Saturday, the new samples obtained shout Is. per entomb more than on the previous Sa turday ; new wheats have been delivered to the millers in this neighbourhood, weighing 18 stone per womb lieut.—There was a tolerable exhibition of Scots and Ho•nrbrrda on the Hill, with a lot of Lincolnshire cows fur the butcher, for which about 410. a head was asked. Two droves of Welsh ponies sold for four and five guineas each. The sheep pens were nut well tilled. REMARK ABLE OCCURRENEE.—NO. 357 is the °tilt her yet drawn in the ',resent Lottery which is entitled to any Prise above 300/.; that Ticket it a Prise of 1,000 Sovereigns, and further entitled to Four Pipes of Port or Madeira, or Four Hogsheads of Claret ; it was sold by 111511, mid what is rather remarkable, it has fallen to the lot of • Gentleman io Hampshire, who, a few Lotteries sitter. obtainsil a 5•,0001. Prise also of 111511 ; and as the lucky Adventurer has one undrawn Ticket, he stands a good chance for One of the Two 30.0001. Prizes, or the 15 other Capitals now in the Wheel, all of which must he drawn Num TUESDAY, 25th Ili taut, when the Lottery finishes; at all events, it is probible 111511 will sell one or both of them, as be always sells more Capitals than auy other 001ce keeper. A hum4ti skeleton, of almost herculean dimen sions. was lately found in a garden belonging to It. Hattalsou, F.‘al. of Hill House, near Grin ford. It is supposed the body has lain there a great number of Ceara, and bite, in all probability. been inlet red naked. as no vestige of a coffin, &c. was re ill wining. to a legendary tale, Hill House sea. about a century and a half ago a rendezvous of the celebrated Sir W. Blows and his followers, higlimiyinett of that tivae.—(Darliam Advertiser.) COURT Or R EQUESTS, GUILDHALL, •lUOVIIT 19. THE NORWICH UNION. TAYLOR 17. The Plaintiff, is widow, residing in Great Jewin-street, aaningww ,l th e Defendant, Mr. Thones4 13sten•ilit, she Seery tail, of the Norwich Union Insurance Company, for the moon of 11. ss. which she paid to a Mr. Wainsey, an of the Company, to effect no insurance of her stuck and goods to the mould of 500/. Mrs Taylor stated to she Commissioners, that nn the Mb May last, %Insley, the agent. who resided in Paul street, Finsbury-sqnare, called upon her ■nd requested her to insure her properly in tlw office to which he helonged she consented to insure to the asnoont 145110/. mid she paid bins I/. 6s for the policy, which he proinWil to send to her house in the course of the week. The mosey she paid him i.e en tered in a hook, and he left her one of the plates (which she produced), to affix on the front of her house. Not receiving the policy at the appointed lime, she applied at the office in Bridge-street, and was there infarmed by the Clerks dust Winney had not effected as isssurauce, that he was nut an ■grist 111,61[11 he received h►r Money, hut had been discharged, and they refused to grant her the policy, or r,ldrn the money she had paid to %Timmy. She could tint stile further upon the sulajet t, hut she had two friends in Conti who insured in the same office, and they could prove that Wintry was in the yeiviee of the Company whets be received her money to effect an insurance. Mr. Cornish, a respectahle inhshitant of St. Ocorte's, Southwark, stated to the rommisaioness, that he took e friend with him to the Norwich Union-Office, in Bridge. street, to inquire into Mrs. Taylor's b.tsinem, at h. r most argent request ; he asked the clerks when Mane, wits dig. charged? they refused to give him soy salostactat y *toaster. One clerk said 16 mouths, and anotlter said he thought ‘1.4 , 11t Pit months lie skewed the clerks the plate Wisoney rave Mrs. Taylor, and salted them when they were ionic* from the Office to the Agents? One of the clerks said slo.tiet four mouths az°, and the nth. r said ist Februtity lest. The clerks informed I • hat Wintery had been stlvertisetl in the Newspspers,lat no linos r twine our of ti.. Company's sge,ts; he asked Or hat papery? and o l eo's refer, on: to those in wh - cli the clerks told hon the advertisement WI. , rted, he found it wan nut true, there was notion: of the kind m either uf the paper.. the v oneostiottett lle pumas...rated with one of the clerks %Irmo their tie...tiring h.m, a titl IMP Of thesw ordered him out of the Ohre, suit told thesis they were Mb itentlemeso, and asked lent mod lois trios I who hired them to t their. Mr. Houghton corroborated the shove statement. Commissioner—" This is a very dishonourable piece of business; what du yin sat, to it. Mr A Gentleman who stated that he attended on the part of the Company, said that Ir. ltigoold was out of town. All he kurw of the Istisisiess was, that v was discharged prior to Mrs Taylor paying him Ihr 11 Ss. Commis v—" How could %Votary obtain the plate* from the °Mee uhieb have born issued to the .44,111 only /bur months apt ?" (;e1.11.-mtri--* They lie home Omni the office, he might have taken them Commilui 0000 Ruth ate esplanation does not sntafy nw, you oaths in inner that W y had be. u prior to Ow. trancietion." Sir Cornish—•• I told the rlirks at the ..flee that if th. it agent had lawn defrassiliiiir h. Wait, it was a ditty the C prny laved to ilw public to prose , site hint Tile eloits replied, that the perinws who hail b .en defiauded might pro cote if thry chose Comntissiiiiirr—•• I reronnynd Mrs Taylor to to to Mr. Aldin man Thorp, and "tat. her rotor to the C•onniiiiie of whirls Ise is Ch.... 5,11.111. Mr 'Lipoid ought to have app. wed here no person." Gesitleinaii-i-" It Mr. Ricnoia's atienibmce is iudisp. 11111 S. ble. hr will 1w here on any day the Cow* may appoint." The decision win adj4urned to a Aston. slay. EXTRAIPRDIN 4RY C.4SR. About three o'cfork its Twesday afternoon, a respectable looking snail. about 45 years of ace. went :lit • the shop of Mr Janos Ripley, a bather residing in Poortland.road, ■ad waiting moil he found the barber al,na, he took his neck kerchief flow tits neck. Opeit4.ll ilk shirt collar, aud sat slows, ins the clime as if in be shaved; whilst the barber at I liver h ie , wi th hi s , r azor in his ban.' send', to begin the ope ration, the stranger sistei ru pled him, isiol pulling out a handful of Bank M a fia, hr thus addressed the bailer : " See these lisslef, there is as much here as will make you comfortable for life, to me they are useleas ; you have a family to provide for, I have no person living to look to, or that errs fur me; du not he alarmed at whit lam going to propose to you , you run no daliger, a n d will have not hing to ace 000000 t fur ; 1 am weary of life, and do not wish to es 000000 sit suicide, and if my body he howled in the rross roads, I du not rare; take your rigor, be nut afoaid, and whilst I am reading the paper eat nay throat. Do not start, give the alarm and say I did it. Here, first go moil conceal these mutts; do not t reintim, be resolute. To save you blame, go get me a sheet of paper, pee and ink, as if I wanted to write a letter, and I will write OR it that I came into your shop wills the determined pm.- pose of cutline toy own throat; this sill he found in my pocket, mid will cunseqssently clear pm. The lessor barber was panic struck and could soot speak ; he ran out to rail a constable and give the alarm, in the meats time his strange visitor departed, and be has nut since been heard of. BOXING. Camberwell Fair, like Lanaitown, brought about a fight of • must dr...milord nature, between Harry Potter, a gipsy, from Ike neighbourhood of Bristol, and Corder', a leaner, a very fine strapping young fellow. The parties had a dispute at a booth in the Fair un Torodav, and IN. were deposited fur the tanner to go and light hint on the nearest eligible spot ; •n (molest who ass areplainfr4l with the science and breed of the gipsy having made stakes for him. The men and their followers made 4.ff to the edge of Sydesiliani Common, but an enemy •ppeared, and they mowed old in the direction of Brumley, and the battle took place in a meadow shout six miles from 'Smite. Jots. and Mater! seconded the tanner, and 0 . and the gipsy. Hoard I. The moment the men shook hands and separat ed, the gipsy gave his antagonist a violent left Moiled bit spun the temple, which staggered him, and the gipsy fol lowing, floured bins by • left handed mussler, which pro ducerkelaret from a cut on the ear. 2 and 3. The wilier prevented the gips 'a science from mat operations, by keeping his hands before h.m, and milling away at close quarters. He succeeded so well at this game, by superior strength, that the gips, because groggy and unsteady. S. Both kept their distance to recruit their wind, sad at meetingtheywent down comfortably. . . . b. A - hull:dug sal-10, and the ant.o exchanged as many as eight hits a 'dere, without going down, althiiiigh they fre quently hit e.seli other sway ; but they met manfully again. and after a round of eight minutes, the tipsy tot a severe nornersel, and that, together with a hit in she 6111 rotund seal him to sleep until he could not come to time. The fight lasted 24 minutes, but the tanner was the word beat, although the victor. HIGHWAY Roaaatte.--On Sunday evening Mrs. HARVEY. of Clarendon-place, Clarendon-squa►e, Somerstown, war attacked on the New-road by three lads and tao women, knocked down, and robbed of her ridicule and three ostrich feathers. On the ISA ult. at Sutri, a small town nine leagues from Rome, after a terrifying noire, a Ire releinlous hail•storm came on, which board three quarters of 1111 hour t some of the hail-sinner weighed eighteen ooncrs. Severid persons were dangerously grounded, • number of animals were killed, and the vines, which promised • magnificent harvest, were totally destroyed. POLICE. aniv-rrrtr ET. Taterilry ratipard.farkan", who, althautb merely a lad, ia well kisawn al the Oilier a. a thief, wan brought sup for tom. ruination before Mr Eerier, rhaiged with rolibial, the .. h op of Mr. William., a linen draper in the Strand, ~f a oraltiobte shawl, yeateriloy 'miming, at the time he M 44 pitrehasinz • amall Tonality of ealien. The property bein: found upon him 1w wa. committed for Junes Bray, or Ilarefirld, Middlesex, was allied wills geniis: hay .hurt a weight. It appeared lltst William Mullett, a man in the employ of Mr. Benjamin Thomas, who keeps a wiese.vanlts in the Hay market, purchased half • load of hay sni she 3011, July last, rot which he paid 3/ 17s. which was delivered nt Mr Thomas's stables, in Querii.oirers, Golden-square, and it being suspects,' that the trnsses were under weight, 31r. James Towns, she Assisiatitelerk of the Market MAO em ployed to weigh them, when he f 1 three trusses over weight, and 17 sunder weight, for which he was convicted 2s. 6d a truss, amounting to 2/. 2a. 6d. and 14s costs. fIATTOM-GARDEN. • TILE DISTRESSED MOTHER. Yesterday Flizalodk Ileardmi, a poor wimple Irish woman, was brought up from the waichliouse, charged by it re. *prostate mrrrh•snt in the city, who has * house iii Pen tonyille (hut whose name, ft mutters of tenderairss to wards no innocent young lady, his daughter, we suppress). with breaking six panes of glass in (me of the windows of his cusenting-house iii the City, following him iu the streets, calling him tonnes, and collecting n mill) round him; also with coming to his house in l'emmimmarille, and collecting a numb round ii, to time ammoyamice neighbourhood, nod putting him ii frerimmf his life.—Tbe substauce of the case was as follows : The Prisoner some years ago lived servant in the Com plainant's family, and became pregnant by him, and VINr de. livered of a daughter, whim she swore to loins; hr Ilasi gave her twenty Intuads to Vs to Ireland to her friends, and nurse the child, allowinz her 25/. a year, ahich she was to receive there in weekly. thly,or : p t int rly payments, as she thought 6t, promising her, wisest the child was of a tit age to he tat,rii from sines', lo lake it ler his own care, and bring it sip, and still allow the Prisoner her annuity for life, alibi. remained in Ireland. When the child was sit years old, the Prisoner retitened with her to England, and delivered her up to the Complainant, he giving her 251/ to take her bark to Ireland, where she was to r' retire ber nutty, on condition of her rmliising there, never to see the child, only to be occasionally informed of lace welfare. Hard as these conditions were, she agreed to them ; the Complainant sent the child to a hoarding school, and her b gist up in cyst) , respect becoming the (laughter of an opulent merchant--she is now folorteen wears of sig.., an arcesasplislis.ll girl, silo(' an imly child, the C iilaiwint, who is IlslW about fifty years of age, having never mimed. This Eine gul being givrii to seiithrstand dust she is the Complainant's daughter, by a wife who died in Leland, whirs' she was nursed. Twelve months ago the Prisoner came agaiii to Londlon,and repaired to the Complainant's house, in Pentiniville, and in sisted on seeing her child, promising that after one interview with her alw would return satisfied to Ireland, and come near him no more. This wish the Complainant thought pronlent to ri fuse, as it was generally understood her mother was dead. The Prisoner finding her request would nut be cruised, kept following the Complainant wherever lie went, I:ing him to deli sir her up I, r (taught. r. and annoying him by collecting mobs tumid his house. He had her then taken up and brought to this office, when rather thou, lir committed to prison she consented to return to Ireland. —Tb. Complainant then gave her 101. to hear her expenses, and gave cow of the offir.rs nimiey to pay her fire by the stage to Liverpool, sod see her MT. From Liverpool *be vistaed to sown again, and repealed bs the Complainant, at his counting house in the City,ic here with tears she renewed her entreaty, but ill 110 ; tier cries and supplications collected a null, she wa. then taken Into, the Lord Mayor, where matters were again arranged ; she was to get 20/. mud return to her native eimaitry, where she was to receive her annuity, mid a threat held lint if ever she returned, her lin eally was to e..ase, and if she Tilde any further disturbance be rent to prison. (hi her agreeing to this, a City "Meer was sent with her to Lie. gum!, to sip her on hoard the packet, soil bring back with h im a receipt f rom the C.uplaio of the regard .if the Officer delivering her mare to him ; Ibis was arcuidingly done, and the expense lo the Complainant was near 4 1 Now sin hu. ref sio,c4ll again to annoy the Com. plaisiant as above wlel.tiuo.d, Oti being asked by the Ma gistrate w I.y .lie a imoyed him. the Cott1111:11114a0,wIto behaved so liberally towards her, and who arts bringing up her daughter to a Lady ; sir raid I , lll' knew all hid, suit, with liars iii b r ryes, said she only walled our sight of her child and she would retiwn and die Thia repots' the Contplaionot tboozht proJeut to refuse, dreadifigm) lintel view bet wero tier suit 1111. . -.......- The Prisoner, iii the must frantic magma', exclaimed, " Sir is my child ! xlw is not yours. I must, and will have my child; pm are nail her (tiller." Ma[ist►alr—" Hsvr out you sworn, and fathered the child on him?" Prisoner—`s She is not his daughter, she is noble." Here the ease rests lor the present, mid the Prisoner was of Co /reline., fur want of hail. Every person in the Office sympathised with the stitfuriu hate mother, having Arco, tl o gh lid:limps prudently, re. fused au iutei view wills lwr child. WORSHIP ci JUVENILE TIIIEVES. L'ictoler and John WillinTee, Iwo boys, were ehn~ged with rubbery, at the house of Mrs. Catheriaa Smith, at isling . The Poisoners were on Totemlily going about selling fire wood, sod called at M s. Smith's house, where, notwithstand ing they were told no wood was wanted, they Rungs' quan tity into the area. The street-door was shut •gioust them, Mrs. Smith went into 11w bitches, to tell the servant, Mary Thomas, to throw tint the wood again. She hearing • noise op stairs, both herself and the servant hastened sip sod found one of them in the parlour A large silver tahle.spoon anti a silver sail-spoon was missing from the sideboard. A Coostahle was railed , who took the Pi ignores into custody. Mere of their COT pan ions escaped, and the spoons were out found.—The Prisouers were frol;y runtinitted fur trial. Richard %iota, Hod IVUfiam Elli 4 were folly ronsniitied fur bielliolle upwards of nor houilred weight of beef, from the shop of a buseher in Spitslatlells. Jahn Bur yes was committed ,to tee House of Correction for seven days, for a breach sif contract, in not reaping a field of wheat belonging to • farmer at Hackney. The greatest punishment is one month. Anglia Mangler charged John Wellenburg as follows Complainant M 1811 hail been • mariner on board a vessel lying iri the Thames, and bound fur Russia; but rouse- q f existing circumstances at that lime, he dare siot lake any thing British to his own cusintry, and left 421. with Mr. W. who was then a haker in St. Catherine's, to place in hip name la the funds. In fire years eflerwarils Mr. W. be came a bankrupt, and neglecting to place the above sum la the funds, it became the property of the assignees. Cush ;delimit, on his arriVal in town In 1818, applied for the munry, when he was informed it bad not been at all dispos ed MA. I.e requested, and the inability of Mr. W. to pay him a •i u tle sixpence. The present proceeding wits conse quently taken under an Act of Parliament (rimed in order to guaisl against fraud or unix zalethent of money lift in the bands of agents. The Magistrate (Mr. Dickenson) recommended an ami cable arrangement, and fur that purpose the case wail postponed. ilustu-s4 CHARGE OF CHILD-StEALING. A female whon.• deportment indirntrd that she wnsbrunitht sip superior so peasosis in low life, was charged by Mrs. Marsha Somerville, of Nn. 6, Lake's.eourt, Peter-street, Wertininster„ with steeling her infant, and also ■ pair of sheem, three blankets, and a set of wiuduw•corlains, her p ro pert y. Mrs. ttomerville slated, that, shim, nine weeks ago, • he Prisoner came lo her Irouse 1111.1 funk ready-furnished lodgings fur herself and a gentleman, whir she stated to be her husband; they paid the tent rsitidisr at first, hot at length were in arrears 16s. Monday the Prisoner tutu her doe accidentally met ber uncle, who iecultnieluf a itegi men,. teal he prlttheti to au!►t her. Teesiar Ilse, Loth went tit the unetr's 'inure in Clifford sir. re, Kind street, when Peisotirr told lit r to leave lire chili, with her mita., shy impsircd whether h• was at home, and losirneted her to sr it w.iis hi. sire.•, the SI.IIIIIOI 13dy, who wattled is.m ; filet h ;inched at the doer, and was total by the kowtow' Inv nuts ter h.! no ilk 1 . 4'. Mill ws. an imposter; she ro turned it where .he hof left the Prisoner, hod c.m1.1 not End h. r our the child on whit Is she rose a hoe and cry, Sod rats in all direct toe* in poi-snit of tier; she c ere informs. 1111 l out 11 ad. letroncli-stern, *nil the child was nfl•rwards found a.ilh A ft tiit.w 1111 l is, lioalal.‘trert. Tuesday est. g Mr. Somer ville met the Pr". r and her maul :roar Wert 11111 l ,s and he sent them to the watch home'. Green, Ilse yes rr!lrd I . n. Pi ironer. and found M pair of slaver., She p.. - pert y of 31r. Some, vane, wraiip• .1 room! her body, inside Inc dr. ay. The lune Pri 11111 l •i% v iv i•ii, fn hire brio brought nu in the Duke f Y•ii school, and had ' been aimsenticeit to s lA.Iy whom she did not like ; itw , t • Primmer 111.1 her in the street, an .I took her setae. She in structed her to rail her custom, rod made her sell three tf Mr.. Somerville. blankets. The Prisoner being eslleel upon to give an se -count of herself, bottom into tear', and said her Mime Oa. Er n atoi, Elliott ; that she an horn of English parents, but he geed to be evenewel savitex in what conootry ; that she me t her uncle, who is a Gentleman of independent fortune, awl on , ll he runtime' iso relieve her, as sleeted by Ails. some t t olnei but she refused telling hie name; That she is only 18 t. at s of age, nisei unfortunately had formed a comoselion will) 3 young into who had not the IMAMS to support her, Shale WWI the frame of her misfortune. The I{l:oristrotte addressed her in the SpattiAlt ha tore. Age. but she Moll it. clotted dirtkinz shy 1131 I of the onyt.t th.ots account she cave of herself. All preseut carte touch alreeted by her narrative, Committed fur re-exanifirition. DEPLORABLE CASt. Elizabeth Miller, the wife of a tradesman at Westminste►, charged Mrs. Phillips, the Nliithrr Abbess of a lanthel id She Almonry, wills assaulting sal heatang her. Mrs. !Ilißar staid that her slaughter, who 14 abollt IS yea's of age, had len her last Saturday night, to go to a grnilr. Malea house in the Borough, that ou bloody it W2s erred ahr dill not go there, and she walk stilissijoimilly f o sse ll 'larboard at Mrs. l'hill , ps'm house. Oss going there to &WI her home, Mrs. Millar was alsockiagly brat I.y her oast daughiecnail Mr.. Phillip.. Mos. rho Hips said, indeed .1w kept a resprcialile lodgissr. horse. Mrs. Millsea daughter came there ass &Shirai, night, accompanied by a gentleman from Spring-f; who settled If pe.• week upon her, that she (Mss. agreed, out of humanity, to lake Itlss of liial if per ark; for her hoard and lodging; an•t she produced a bill for clothing furissolted, in ostler to make her fit for sett-Seine gentleinrn. 1 he Magistrate said it wait an infamous transaction, and ordered She. Phillips to find hail for the assault. ROBBING CHILDREN. SN-lsea Mary Marphr, and Sr/troll Joni; (+mat il with robbing • child belonging hi a yidelier in Ow Geunds of a bundle, captaining shirts, stocking.., ate. ie the sheet, on Saturday list, underwent an ex 111111 l stint,. Ili! child is Arno nine yilirs old, was carrying the bnmll, fr.ins Knightsbridge Barracks to Weaeminairr, shunt nn,e ii'cl..e in the day, %Owls the Kisxners met him near the liifirouryi and eau uff with the hurdle—Committed. BURGLAR 1 - . —Ns:— Monday night, or early on Tuesday morninz, some vit. laiva broke Into • Gentleman's hou.e , opposite Cliniarurd Church, in Essex, and without disturbing the finals , ald were all asleep, POCCeeded in robbing the parlour and bit c h, i s of some very valuable pictures in rich frames, mirrors, look ing -glasses, window-curtains, carpet., rug., a ipsatitti,s valuable cut-glass, thermometer, barometer, soil vai.uus other articles, and effected their escape ondiacuvercil. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Yesterday evening, at Strl'll o'clock, a most slim-Ring NC. citlessi happened iu Furtilwaro.lint. court, Holhorit. A e.e.tt number small children were playing in the contr. u heti wall, whirl, the workmen were Itit ing down in the oh Iseult!. ings, preparatory to the new improvements its th Inn . •n denly gave way ; happily those who obseilrctl it eutaprd ; some were severely bruised ; but the poor dill 'not, whore e caught sad buried in the mass of briekit is I sulibist, sem some of them taken out at right o'clock so MI hut tt suite they are not expected to survive : one child was quite dr ad The number buried in the ruins was nut knouts, but the workmen continued digging tit s Isle boor last 'tight. A NOTHSR ACCOUNT. About seven o'clock yesterday evening, after the men left off wink in the new building, Furnivar.-Ina, 14,1b0t there were, as usual of an evening, several hows al p'a3f about the ruins, when the old wing of the bunking, wt iru remained not polled drown on the side nest Brook PI ti to the ground with n dreadful crmh, and horsed @met I ii,e poor unfortunate children in the ruins. The labourers w. se scut for, and columnar-Ird cleating away she rubbodi, awl about right o'clock the bodies of two tine lad+ wile dog our quite dead, ind dreadfully Mangled. &maid Mouthed Irrr. sons collected round the place, and it was distremittg to oii -1111.11 the cries of fathers and mothers for the loss of do u• children ; flambeaux *ere procured, and the men continuo dlgting when our report came away. It is assertril, Sot with what truth we know nut, that some of the Inhooreis sod their fAmilies resided in the part that fell , and that it to supposed there are sear thirty lives lost. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. On Monday evening, as some of the cockney sportsmen were amusing themselves by firing at sparrow. foam n t r in the target-pound belonging to the Royal Artillery Com: patsy, near Ragnigge.wella, • fine buy, named Walter Map perky, belonging to Site Clerkenwell Charity School, alto atm at play with tome usher buys in an adjoining field, as. no_ fortunately shut in the bead; he fell to the pound, and the alarm being given, Mr. Chappell,• geutleman residmy near the place, and who happened to be in his garde., la:internal su the spot, and had the unfortunate boy immediately carried, bleeding profittely, to Rartholumeat's littapital, where leis wounds were examined; he received two shut in the throat, one over the right eye, and nine in the fare. He lies ill a dangerous state, and suffers great pain. Mr. Chappell, Ovule great presence of mind, on seeing the accident, hastened to the ground whence the shot was bred, to ascertain who it was fired it, whets one of Iwo Gentlemen who were top Sher handed him their address on a piece of paper, iris Mr. Sparks, 331, Oxford -street, and Mr. Stevens, gulantaktr,43, Holborn. This is the third accident of a similAr kind that bas happened in the oaths place within the last three wicks. On Wednesday evening a boy had his cheek !Aid Open be a musket-ball ; and a few days before smother boy recelaeil several small shut in the legs —so that if there is not a stop put to the amusement of these heroes; the lives of pia- Seegers will be in imminent danger. Mr. Chappell has re., properly taken the matter in hands, and has applied to site Police Magistrates of Hatton-garden, who 113. e promised him their assistance, and we understand that the parish sill defray ths expense attending the prosecution, and dually put an end to this dangerous amusement. On Tuesday, ss Mr. John Cohen, broker, in *ratio inster road, was roaming from Camberwell Fair t.. WWI.. he %CO robbed of his watch, chain, seals, ire at :Wirth:. by pug of thieves, who surrounded him; Le• seised the thief ood bah! him until a constable came up, who secured hon. Ile had contrived to give the property to one of his cumin- Pitlllll, and upon searching him nothing was fnoe.d upon He was couveyed before a Mssiairste. He said Isiv mime was Wm. Howard. Mr. Cube,' swore positively thst was the man who drew his watch out of his pocket.—Cominit tea to Newiugtou gaol. es ill s 1 Ihrt. e r ! 111, A f e • ate .s 1 , p.. - I snafu %Ai, I had • ir in. 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