The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-09-22 00:00:00

THEATRE. DIRIRT.LANE. On Saturday night, Dr. GoLnesarries comedy of Sbe Stempi is Confiner WAS performed. Mr. Conatev, in the absence of Mr. DOWTO N. played Mr. Hasdeestle, and Miu Boyce was the substitute for Miss Mast.on, in the part of MiSl NeenUe. The cast of parts, in other respeas, has not undergone say change since last season. Miss DUNCAN's . ltfiu lierdeastie must always please ; it is a lively natural pertormance ; and Mr. Bans err tee, in Tony !,Nmenlin, met with his usual' approbation. Mrs. flaatowe made her debut, after an absence of two rears, in the pat of lientrire. in the ince of The .hatommt. She was greeted, on her entrance, with repeated plaudits, and appeared to have gained. by her provincial excursion, an increased stock of spirits. With the assistance of Mr. BANK ;sr ea and Mr. Wewarzes, she kept the housu in continued peA.i.flaughter. The audience was elegant and numerous. PO_ r Y. ON !LADING THAT A GENTLEMAN WAS DEEMED MAO. Y. , No ADII4tESSLT) THE M►RCHANTS ON THE ROYAL I:CHANCE, ON NATION tr. ATT.EIRE, ON TUESDAY LAST. Madness, in varied fetes, the world will NVitnes, this der, the us/Musts of the 'Change, Miele Cou•sfs reign, we saw th• ardent youth, With Ariti.h freedust pleading if , ir , sh truth had'd that fiente, which, in wen an age, Could chuee so mad a them.—. , . cud a st3ge. ON A LATE MARRIAGE. Stoney, idle taoy bad d••:ed every care, Save that of a kriban.'s dim chains; Has late. by kind Death 0 , been of bliss made to share, And in .4—arrikont's bosom now rsigns. W. R. • D. fisher, her husband, died a. iess , month. ago, sisee rhish e the wedd,ng &bow alhrkd to has takea place. W. said Mrs. Surftinsu left town last Saturday r their seat near Richmond Hill. The Porrtmussr Ass BASS...DoIt wilt kat! . town MCITOW, on a visit to to the Duke of SOIIIIRSILT, • Maiden Bradley. L'rd POOSOSIT was much better yesterday : his rdship was visited by Vi-count and Viscountess owlet, who cameos town at eleven o'clock in th e log, from Wiesbiedae, aad returned al five in eveninx to dinner. Lord Bsowass.ove's bean, in Hill-street, Berkeley liar, . Icleni _ ... lucre, is otriergoing se►eral repairs, and will be reedy the reception of the family im- u' at lv. • •Mrs. Fox, accompanied by Lady Hotta en, is gone to Sr. Ann's Hill, and will not resorts to town fll after the funeral of Mr. Fox, •whieh is not ex. pesclesi to 'Ake place until the beginning of next ituonth. It is understood His Royal Highness the 'Prince efAVst.as intends to be present. nanny SCOTT. Esq. felt town.. yesterday, for 'Fiarnpstiire. from *hence he will proceed to iltigliton, with his (nosily, where he has taken an elegant hnuie. Mr. Mei.vitt, a comic a/tor of much celebrity, from the York Theatre, will make his I. Lad at Co irent Garden 'l'heatre, in the ensuing week, in the parts of Ge.laiver, in the comedy of Leigh when Jon Cam, and Michael, in The Adopted Chia The Lord Bishop of ST. ASAPH 21111 Family have left the Palace at St. Aseish for Brighton, le'lere his Lordship means to resia till the meeting Stithi.ch theatre not being thought safe, the Pro prietor has determined to take it down, and to errB a new thca•;e in the parish of Barnwell. In con sequence of this arrangement, there will be no the atrical cntertainmcnts at e.irbitch this se.uon. Tim Prince of Cot:pc : and a large party of Fo reigners of ditintlicn, being on a visit to the Earl of Cm aR. • .2 t Starimer-park. on Wednesday, about noon. by direaion from His Royal Highness the Prince of Wars=, the elegant .uite of rooms in the Pavilion at 'Brighten. were ahewn to theta, as also the superb stables which are building, and every t!.ing seoirhy of no:ice about the Pavilion ; slier which, the Prince and his party, with the Earl aria Coustess of Cnrcii IST r.M. :red two other ladies, tack a walk round the Steyne, before they returned to Stannier. The Countess Of BUCKIIIOIIASISHIRE will patro site the Stuff Ball. at Lincoln. on the 3d of next month. The Stewards are CONING/11Y SteTllOllP, and Sumosav Duncons, l'he Prince of ‘Vatits, in his recent tour. was at te-ded by rather a large retinue. At every klace he 'tapped, twenty horses were bespoke by the Loyd Lieutenants of the counties be passed through. Some of the inoleepns it an additional pair of Losses to His Royal Highness's carriage, and ac molly refused to receive the postage they were en 4aird to. ::!‘t NeLSON, and the Earl of Avt.zsroiv, are the tu n -r of North Wales. They were last seek ..t EicslSelly. in Merionethshire. The repast. that Mr. Coors had relinquished the London stage, has proved. like many other reports iesp e eti ng t:: is great odor. to be unfounded. He arrived on Monday afternoon, in a post chaise and tout, expertir.g to play the part of Per-grilse. in John B SA but bit. Potts bad already been announced lot the part. He is asivaitised to perform his fa vourite part of Iti,kard, this night week. he Publii: may be *assure, that it is intended the terrains of Mr. Fix should be interred in Westminster Abbey, and that the Funeral shall pro ceed boos his house, in the Stable-yard. at. James's. Such of Mr. Fox's Fiiends as may wish to at itia his Funeral, are requested to signify their ietimlons to Messrs. Alarms and TATHAM, lip• toldert; Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. oa cr bto:? Estinday. the 4th of ()Bober nest, who via ivt ovary information as to the mode to be F,Lnicsi. • as. /1111 alloirsur PARK. S. 17. Nothing can exceed the exertions of the Nettle Host and Hostess, to mark their Royal Guests with respea and attention. A most splendid apartment has been fitted up for His Royal Highness, where every comfort with magnificence seem accomplish ed. The Duke of Gloucester paid his duty to the Prince yesterday, and gave a return of this diatria, which his Highness commands. The dinner com pany consisted of forty persons, the hospitable Earl ha►ing invited the principal Gentlemen of the neigh bourhood to have the honour of dieing with their Prince. The table wa, served in the true old English style, where the great politeness of the Pt ince shone with its usual lustre. This day, the Mayor and Cor poration had the honour to present their Address to His Royal Highness, accompanied by the Free dom of the Borough, in a magnificent gold box.— The Recorder, opened the Address with a most int preuive speech, descriptive of the feelings he cape viewed at that, the proudest moment of his life, ausl .with great delicacy adverting to the iocalculable loss this country has just sustained. This was a subject* which could not fail to rouse feelings in His Royal Highness's bosom, indicative of the most poignant sorrow. His Royal Highness did not en tirely give way to the suffering anguish of his heart, but delivered his Answer with that dignity of ex pression, which never fails to excite veneration. and love. It is fixed that to-morrow their Royal High neues visit the town, where every possible prepara tion is making, to give effect to the sensations his presence is sure to produce. CO4,7UROIt. . Last month died, in the parish of Rhuabon, in Wales, at an advanced age, John Roberts, better known by the appellation of Mtwattam-3f- Herd, or Pi;; of the Brook. Moebyn was conjuror and fortune-teller to a great part of the Principality, and his fame ex tended far into Cheshire and Shroush:re. He pro. fused to have attained his sciduce in Egypt, though he was scarcely aver beyOad his parish bounds. lie was continually resorted to for the recto/cry of stray ed linen, poultry, hatchets, and asses; eved his name served to mako rngues oisserve the Titles of honesty. When he could not m.A out the offender, he still was able to .ifftiCt him with any infirmity or . l isease the injore.l party should I , lre a g ue s , rheumatism, and St. Vi- us's dance, were en tirely at his co:nano/IL and dealed out by hiM in the most liberal manner. In fo tune-telling he so less excelled : no swain or maiden ever smelled in vain ; he could not only :teat love in the human hreas . , but also chill it with are, sion disdain. For these purposes he gave, or rather sold, charms, couched in dark ar.l hieroglyphic charatlers, which were also in much request, to insure success in any enterprizo —a hat-race or a cock fight. Such was the Pig of she Brook. Rogues will rejoice in his death, whilst the credulous and superstitious will lament, until his place is supplied by some one equally pied and ins . posing. JOHN LOCKIAR. We lately gave an interesting account of the ex tromdinary accident which happened to —sr. The following pal tit-ulna are copied from 7 :, a.. th Herald of this day : . . That a human bring should exist nty days (from the 19th s,f Auguat tsi the Bth c.t ', - iep:toalverj without any subsistence, but the little rain-water !- wes able to catch in his shaving -up, and by chew ing the surrounding gnu, %till appear inc7..dible, but it is a tazt, and will be clPady subitintiate.l. His senses appear to have recovered horn the effeas of the lightning much sooner than his powers o' speech, or the use of hit limps. He was c.inseiou% of his situation long bef..r.• h had the shady to s r el,k. or the inclination to endeavanr to more. • The *Professional; Gentlemen, who now attend him, from the seas .tions of tingling pain whica he experitne..s, have the greatest hopes that he will soon obtain a partial use of his legs and feet, wi,h the loss of his toes, as we have before sated. The following are the triewranda •the m:nnted on the stale 1 f a black letter cave; and which book is bent and cackled up, evidently appearing to have been snaked through by tl•e wet " I era just si,:e to stencl! this—l b,li rc v.e fatal thunder. Mann (to me) via, on the 1801.0 Augost--I should not have known how the lime V": 119 on only by ',miring the guns go off for partridge rhooting tire first of So;.teinber, and it is due the fourth I em pencilling this—•from the abase till now l have not had any thi..g to put in my mouth" On another teal he had written on the day he was discovered : " As I was going across this wood to carleigh. I was struck drop by a violent clap of thunder, where I lay scriseess for God knows how lung. When I came to narocif, my ha .1s and feet were 'welled very nisch, so that I could mat stand, nor have I eat or drank any titing for three weeks past.—Qad only knows as anterior." • It was on the 19th. The Kttio has been pleased to confer the ho nour of Knlghthood on ST r rs Sit AIR?, Esq. His MAJLITV's Consul-General in Russia.—( Gazette.) A very fine Mouse Deer, for Lord FITZWI EL I AM, was Lorded on Friday morning at Portsmou::), hom the Leander. from Halifts. At Oswestry itaces, this week, muds sport and fashionable company ate experled. Friday se'nnight, a peney..eleven hands and a half high, the property of a horse-dealer, of Cb*rd. Somerset, started from floniton. for a considers ole bet, to go oae hundred miles in sixteen succestive hours; the-ground chosen for the purpose was hint( Honitor. to Exeter, a distance of sixteen miles, which he was f.) go over six time:, with an additional four miles of terwarda. He art off from Minium at a quar ter past feint in the morning, arrived at the hotel. in that city, quarter before six, returned to Hnniton, and arrived secondly at the same place at ten o'clock, and again for the' third time at three o'clock in ia the efternoun, wert ofi" perfeSly fresh, and com pleted the distance with the greatest ease in thirteen boors and fifty miantes. being two hours asd ten minutes less than the given time. The poney was rode the whole way by one lad, whose weight was little short of ten stone. A m in, calling himself Dr. FISH, has lately ;win. died several p,sor persona in the county cf Norton:. under pretence of curing various diseases. Phis mo dern tur4rpres is a sawyer by trade, and his wife a chair bottumer. OLD B.IILET sr:zwPws, S L P T . 20. CHILD MURUER. Ifetwi, alias Mane CJatoky, alias Canner, was capitally is-eh/led for the murder of her infant lensale bastard child. by suffocating and stifling her. The indiainent also charged her with the murder, by throWing it into a tuis of water. Mr. GUIN cr 'toted the case on the pal of the prosecution ; and it appeared that the unhappy Pri soner lodged at tie sign of the Three Jolly Weavers, Brick-lane, in the parish of Bt. Luke ; about the 13th of July last she appeared much indisposed, and meeting Mrs. Holden, a fellow lodger, 'on the stairs, she sent her for something to chink. They had a quantity of gin together, and Mrs. Holden went away, and returned in about an hour and 'half, when. trains some -yorarariced, and her own previohs suspicions, she thought the Prisoner had delivered herself of a child, and accordingly taxed her with' it, and inquired what she had done with the infant The Prisonei, at that time, positively denied the We but when Mrs. Holden had procured the assistance of two other female neig,h'sours, and had persuaded the Prisoner to get up and have her bed made, they discovered a female child, 'Velem, wrapped up in a coarse cloth, and concealed under the pillows. She then confessed the child to he her's, but said she wished to conceal it. as the father was a married man. A tub of water lay in one corner of the room, which appe.ired discoloured, but there was no wet or damp ttpr.o the tooth in which the child was vrratipi ; up. The Prisoner acknowledged that she had been a widow foe four years. Mr. Evans, a surgeon, stated, that he bad ex amined the dead body, but could not find any marks of-violence whatvvor open it..nor could lie take upon himself to my that the infant bad beers born al Cr; the longs were infl sted, arid appeared to have been in play, but that lie considered 'as no criterion to form a jsidgrdent op ts. as it often happened to be the ease when children were bo, n dead. Rar m Sorrow, in suirmin3 up the evidence to 'lie Jury, observed, that as there was no evidence that the . hild WAS born alive, (from having read the very ingenious and learned treatise by Dr. Hunter upon thie softie., be was enald -el to say, that the in/La tin t of the lungs was a fallacious symptom to ju Ige hr,) and even if there was evidence to that dim, yet there was no proof whatever of the Prisoner's being the hand that committed the fa& ; the Jury were therefore hound to acquit her of the murder. The next question they then had to consider was, whether she had concealed the birth of a bastard child P as in ease they found her guilty of this latter crime, by a recent and very wholesome A. of Par liament, she Would be liable to a heavy punishment, (two years isaprisonment.) The Jury, after some consultation, acquitted her of the murder, oat found her pally of eencesliss the iota 01d1 &ward eh Id. The PeiZIFT WAS much agitated during the whole of the trill, .ird was'oalised to have a chair all the time. appeared to be not less than basemen 40 an! 80 years Giese. Foa ‘ 9Elt`f. _ _ _ El.vnar She was Lid Arid • Capitally, for making a- d puhli-ling. as tree: a ceitaid atitteor instrument, purpoiting to be the will of. William Cooper,formerly a seaman on board the merchant ship the Belisliiirs, with intent to defraud John Cooper, h is orrafof kis. It appeared that the dcceuedwas drownintat Him burgh; but for several rarspreviois tohis _Oath had colsabire4constantly with the witis; and was frequently known to express his intention of Leay. ing her every thin,' he was possessed of. The inskto. /wont in questian devised the whole of his property to the Pfisnaer. T; attesting witnesses appeared to he Nlr, coombe, of &meson's Gaidess, and Ro b* titer, his Clerk. l'lre signatures were denied by those per-ms, which would have constituted the forgery t but John Cooper, who claimed to be nyft n! kin to the 'deceased, and who was a' native of Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, not being able to chew that his relation and the deceased were one and the same person, the allegation in the indl&ment was thereby tvx sufficiently supported, ant the Prisoner was coasequaitly aersiiied; eLERKEIVWkLL SESSIONS, Sam CO. Fresaa Mr. AIAtsw•IIMO, ea several &Golfo !IA TM Richard Terser, a boy of shoot 14 years of age, son to the letter carrier nt Clapham, teas indieed, ascording cn Aa of Parliammt. far a fraud, in oh taniing nioney sisd•goods under fal4 pretences. Mr. Ft►t.otaa, on the part of the Post Of f icC, whiCh instituted the prose :ution, stated the case with . 'great precision. Several witnesses Fere then etamiaed, from whose testimony we hate colleded Ow following teas Burlord, a young lady of genteel connec tions, after being for some time on a visit at the house of Mr. Stratford, a gentleman of respefta- Isihty in Hatton Garden, with whose daughter she was on terms of the greatr.t friendship, entered into ea engagensert as •teacher sat a Boarding schoal near Clapham Common. After being in her new situation for a few days. she very naturally wrote letters to her frietull, and, amongst the rest, one to Miss Stratford. Those letters, as was the custom oldie school,she delivered to the houseiceep-r; and in the morning, when the Postman brought let ters to the house. be t. , ok awa7 those which were to be dispatched from thence. These letters, so taken, it was his general practice to leave on a taLle its his room, and sue Prisoner baying access to them, stole several that were written by Miss Burford to her friends. Having opened these, he copied them oat, and adding a paragraph to request the loan of a few pounds. signed Miss Burford's name to each, end dispatched the forged letters according to the diredtinns of the real ones. In Miss Burftird's let ter to Miss Stratford, the former requested her friend so seed her a own. and some other articles of wearing apparel. The Prisoner copied this let ter. add also requested a loarent 21. 10s. for the pur pose of paying some unexpedted expences. He then carried it himself to Miss Stratford, and received from her an answer that the clothes and the money should be seat the neat morning by the errand cart. This letter the Prisoner also opened, and forged an answer to it, stating, that the Gardener's cart was its town, and pressing her to deliver the clothes and money to his son, wise was the bearer of the letter. ' The Prisoner himself haring delivered this letter, received from Miss Stratford a bundle, containing a gown, some other articles, a two pound note, and hallo guinea. The gown he gave to, a woman of the town, named White, with whom he was inti mate. Ile also obtained 91. in the same way, fr on% a Miss Cooper, of Shrewsbury, who dire Ami irer, answer to Miss Bur ford% litter. under cover to-. MisaWhite, being so requested in the letter shot re 7 'cited. At length, in consequence of i - airnilar letter. sent re 'Hiss Burford's Mother; the fraud was discovered; and the Prisoner, when taken IWO r custody. made full confession to Anthosiolte (Arita* The Jury instantly forme him Gritty, and the Ci= sentenced him to be transported En 14 year 41, It ig reported that Sir Sanest. Home is expeeted at Portsmouth, to go out in the Niarissau lxigate, ts, common.' at Buenos Ayres ; and that 5i 5 .140.41; POPKAM is coming home. . f• • The s w o,bee, of 74 guns. taken from the Fterials in the glorious battle .of Trafalgar, and which had previously been captured by them, is order ei to be prepared tor service at Chathani, and to be :ailed the Irrestif iAls. • Friday mcrning, about ten o'clock, a tremen.4 dons explosion took place in a house in taglie-c,..--rt., Eagle-street, Red Lion-squate. occasioned: 14 a trate still bursting in the kitchen. The israrri,reet were mach damaged.' The kitckea was neer pie.; ny' a person of the name of Wit et A NS, *hi) ran ewayea The Excise Officets were sent for, who seized on 41 the materials. besides a quantity of Wail , . A singular circumstance occurred at Gorleetea, ticrfolk. last week :—A young oreple.were married! there on the Thurtlay ; on the following nsorninti 4 the bridegroom was seen to walk no ,thc Pier, Itit,, t has not since been beard of; so that, in 411 Ornba talky. the bride was a maid, a sae, and a undue, ear the space of twenty-four hours 1 •• • , A few days since, as a gentleman was willing early in the morning, some distance from tine town of Citencester, he met a man who Lad a sack on his hack, and tele, endeavoorieg to slitilk 4)1; excited; suspicion. The gentleman followed him, until scow other person came or; when he in-itted upon exa: &mining his sack. • fney opened it, when they dis. covered a huMan body; but whilst examining it, the fella* made his escape, and has nut since beer; heard of; no mask beiht on the sack, there i. oo means of tracing .him. It is suppr4ed. the body was taken from a neighbourir.g Church-yard. A woman, lately walking' in the fields near Wont.; tan Basset, Wilts, tripped against something which nearly threw her; upan examining what it was. she pulled out the lid of a vessel, resembling a col fee-pot ; upon locking about. she discovered SOlibi small coins, which she had dragged up, hut sails. fled herself with what she bad colleted. Upon the circumstance being mentioned to snore gentle= men in the neighbourhood, they repaired to the epees pointed out by the woman, and with aime diffi culty discovered it; when upon digging %tit 2 earth. a sprint and handle were found, but no appearance of any vessel, which is supposed to have been wooden or earthen ; the space was filled with coins, some few silver, but most copper; some are nearly plain, but one silver has a head sarrnuade4 apperenay with a silken cord and tassel, the lei. tens CONS T. and the date 585. 'Me Jots be : fore the Ist figure has excited the atteation of the virtuosi in this neighbourhood, whether it is meant for 895 or 1506, and the figure l nearly worn out. The circumstance has Evaded the at entkis of the neighbourhood, and further researches are makis : it is most probable the cons are Ro:nan, as these ii • place within three miles of this place, whine the Romani bad entrenched themselves. It is prollialla many other discoveries will be made, as tie neon and antiquarians are very busy us their pormiC • A marl in the neighboetbood of Mayhole, 3cc t. land, on the 28th oh. cutting clover, killed three hares in ter spice of two n.inntes, without havtng seen them till they struck cm the scythe.—Queoy. To whom do the hales belong? . . Application is intended to be made to Parliament in the next session, for an At to enable the Propricr tors of the havigirion from the Trent to ti-e Metier. to vary the line of their c +nal through llarecastle Hill, in the County of Stafford ; and also at or near to Lawton, in Casuntyot Chester, sad which witl pass through the townships or libetties of Tunisia, Itanscliffe, Talk•oth'-Hill, Lawton, and Odd Rhode s in the parishes'of Wolstamoss, Audley, Lawton, and Astbnry, in the said Counties of Stafford and Chi,- ter ; and also to make a*feeder for concluding water into the reservoir at Rudyerd Vak, in the said Coun ty of Stafford ; and to alter and amend several Ads passed in the sixth. tenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, twen ty-third, thirty-seventh, and forty-second years of, His prelent Majesty, particularly in respect to the mode of rating tolls of canals to the maintenance of • the poor. Thursday se'ennight was held the Annual Mesi s t s ill of the Clergy and the Sons of the Clergy, of and olighbourhood, who met their Stewkeds, the very ley. E. Sparke, D.D. Dean of Btistot, and Lewbridge Bright, F.sq. at the Cathedral. to attidd Divine Service after which a most excellent and appreiriate sermon was delivered by the ker. Jan &ocklebank. from Galatians, Chap. 6. Verse 10. As we hail thetalare opportunity, let us A.. goad unto at men, espeelaily unto them who are of the househnld or faith." From the Cathedral, the Society proceeded to dine at the White Lion, where the sum of 4021. 1914 6d. was colleded for the purposes of this benevolent invitation, including 371. 19s. OJ. ccntributvd by t! , e ladies at the Chtrch door. The Meeting sena honoured with the company of— The Hun. and Right *v. tl.e ord fraihiro of Srietol, Eight Worshipful the Mayor,„ I..ifel De Chiffird, Stqce4.le,ieral C:iampagne, and Staff, Admiral Sotheay, Rae S.r A. Elam Wirt. Sit John Lisa. art. T. W Lethbruice, E.Q. WJliam Dieirigyme, Esq. 14 P. Mr. Sheriff luursn, Alder. wean Daniel, Alderman &noires, Alderman Sire, Alder. man Sr Je•lii Durbin, Km. Lieut.:Car, %41arneford, Capcnin Aoki, A. P Colloze, Eq. Samuel Effirarde, Esq. Sten nen Cave. Esq, Jac. es Tobin, Esq. W. Piesons, , gaq C. J. Has. ford, L.. Samuel birch, Est. S k.ea. It H. Dais, Esq. Jail Granisuer, Man. Esq. Joie ftaytburae, W 4. L.A. Clayhal I, E.q. John Hurl+, Esq. Itir.latil symes, Esq. and many other res t reSable country g entlemen ar.d Monis. The only opportunity this Year Trot coffers of gaining the onderroentioned Capital tithes. vix: three of ex,crson. three of 10.0trl. three 5.0001. atc. The chance of getting a ..rear rrixe is much snore in favour of Adventurers, than in soy form.; tottery, because there are only 90,000 Tickets, vhe smallest number ever f-town Begins Drawing 13th Next Month, and the hat-drawn Ticket entitled su 10,0001.