The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-09-20 00:00:00

I to tw ' . • . . WEST Itf 1 NSTE R E LECTIOS: Mr. William Cohltett has Caused an Advertise- Iment to be inserted in several of the Papers, stating, that in consequence of his having, some time ago, publicly declared an intention to offer himself a Candidate for lestminster, in the case of a vacancy, a very general ex aea stain has been entertained, that he siroall offer himself upon the present occasion ; hut that he must relinquish the honour n:tended him. It is really astonishing, that any respeaable Paper should, for the sake of 'a few shillings, lend its..-1 to the unworthy purpose of giving currency to so gross a falsehood —There neither was nor could he a general expt.lstion among the Eletlors of Westruinver, to see William Cubbeit a Can didate for the representation of their City.— He would hive jast as good a chance ..f being eleaed Governor of the Bank cf England, or Commander-in.Cpief. No apology whatever was nec essary to this Eieanrs of Westminster ; nor was that made, 'wended for their use. The advertise ment was written for the purpose of public im posture ; it was wrltten for the purpose of falsely representing to foreign nations William Cobbett as a man ins keel to soceeed to the situation of the lamented Charles James Fox. We know that ti gaiter , Of Newspapers d o not feel themselves responsible for the truth of the fi!thy quack Adver tisements which bat too fre‘niently fill their pages. But that excuse will not avail dna.. in the present instance. 'l'he paragraph, whetlitr ti ae 'or false, worth.' not deserve notice, it it did not convey an iinsult to the mtmory of Mr. Fox , and to the re ipeaabilitn of the El' tors of Westminster.—But Ire may b.: told, that .: , is is not more extravag sit than mary things of which we have read in Don Crimea, and that Coliaett is a shallow fell,' r, who has been the dupe of some wags, or of .13 own tacessive vanity. Were this the CAS!, it would be of iv matter for ridicule ; but he has furnished evience to the contrary, under his own hand. He says, " for the present I relinqaish the honour •-• inte,.ied me, and for this sae re.ii.o 1, that at this time I find it would he next to impossible for me to des ote myself whally and extlusively to the srtschafe of the great dar'es, which, by your suf. Stages, would be impete I." Now, Mr. Cobbett; as the gditor of a Week) , Pamphlet, and some °dna similar Work . by which he earns his bread. and maintains his family, must have known, from the beginning, that he could not devote himself wholly and exclus'vely to the discharge of the duty of a Member of Parliament ; and consequently the reason which he now assigns lbr relinquishing that honour, ought to have pre vented him from ever aspiring to it. We *all be anxious to leatn how he means to extricate himself from this dilemma ; for if our argammt be valid, it necessarily follows, that his eondua in this particu larinstaace is. as we have stated, a miserable piece of quackery, devised for the put pose of obtruding himself upon public tirtiee. --ia.--....". et FFACTING SHIPWRECK. —......-.-- Interesting Particulars of the Lass of the Ring Cearge Packet, on Sali,Sury Bulk, near PA :k-Gate. The Kin: George packet, Captain Walker, bound - linni Parkgate to Dublin, sailed from I:arks:ft ezaaly at twelve o'clock on Sunday last, with a flag at her topmast head, full tide, weather hazy, and driztling rain, with the wind nearly direft South. At half past one o'clock she snuck 'on the Salittniry Sand Bank, and remained nearly four hours dry, with pan of her crew on the Sands, waiting for the next tide. No apprehensions were then entertained of her having received any injury. On the return of the tide, the wind veered round to the West, and she received the wind and tide right os her side, resting against her anchor. As the tile came in, she filled rapidly with water ; the night was dark, with rain. Her passengers, mostly 1 Irish harvest-men, a'anve one hundred in number, who were going home with the pittances of their labours to their families, were under hatches. The pumps were soon choaked, and the water came so fast on the Irishmen in the hold, that they drew their large harvest pocket knives, and. uith a des peration that a dread of death alone inspires, slew one another to make their way upon deck. The wind and waves beating hard upon her side, her 1 cable broke, and she was drifted round with her . _ head towards the tide, and lay upon her side. They were three miles from any vessel, and could nor, or at least did not, give any signal that as heard. The boat was launched, and ten of the crew, among which was the Captain and an Irish Gentleman, got into it. it was nearly lull of water, and death on all sides stared them in the face. Her Captain. seeing some of his best sailors still with the vessel, and falsely hoping she might remain the tide, lwhic*c had an hour and half to flow, went again on hoard ; the Irish Geatlonsan, and'three others. followed him. Oae of the sailors in the boat, seciug a poor Iti.h sailor boy clinging to the side of the vessel, pulled him by the hair of the head into the boat, cut the rope that fastened it to the vessel, and the tide drove them away. At this ti me great numbers ran screaming np the mast r , woman, with her child fastened to her back, was it ; the top-mast head ; the masts b:ooke, the vessel being n n h er s id e , an d t h ey were a ll p rec ipi ta t e d tir o the waves I Only five men, and the poor Irish Isailor boy have escaped ; the remainder, 125 in, n d r.nber, among whom woe seven cabin passengers, Pel:sh•J ! The boat and her little crew were rivco up by this tide to within a quarter of a mile of l'arkgate. They heard the cries of the stiffvers distinctly for Imlf an hour. The ebb tide washed the vessel down into the deep waters, and she was seen no more till the neat tide drove her up. She is now fastened by an anchor to a sand bank, add ties on her side, with her keel to wards Parkgate, and htr head to tlse . Welch coast i tsr lower mast and rigging out of water. The Kive forge packet belongs to Mr. Blown, of Liverpool; ' , C was formerly a privateer, and ern tied sixteen eras; was afterwards employed as a Harwich acs rt. This was her second voyage to Dublin. I' which set vice she has beck larety patched up. Ise wit considered as too sharp-built for the sands. :re fists are experffed it:ll.A from Liverpool to ecp h er . WO fishermen from , Chester were Inst on the Os the same night, owing to their boats being red by the tick, while they were in 'catch ct prey, SHOCKING ACCIDENT. At four o'clock yesterday morning, the neigh bouihood of Billingsgate was alarmed by a most tremendous crash, equal to the blowing up of a ship, occasioned by two houses in Harp-lane, Lower Thames -street, falling to the ground ; one was un occupied for some time past, being in a dangerous state ; it fell in first, and brought down with it sill the back part, and ball the front of the adjoining house, a public house, the sign of the Kentish Hoy, kept by Mr. Wetheralt, and much frequented by seafaring men. The greatest adivity was imme diately used by the neighbours to extricate the un fortunate sufferers in the house when it fell, consist ing of twenty-seven men, women, and children The landlord and his wife were asleep at the time in the front room, upon the first floor. A large beam fell on the landlord's head, and killed him, his head being crushed in a shocking manner. Ilis wife was covered with ruins, by his side, and taken out, not dangerously hurt. George Wetheralt, the eldest son (a clever young man, about twenty years of age, and in the employ of Mr. Phips, wine mer chant, in Water-lane), slept in the adjoining room to his father and mother, and was awakened by being precipitated in his bed to the bottom of the kitchen stairs. To exp ress i the feelings of this un fortunate young man n that situation, is beyond the power of language. Finding himself over whelmed with ruins, having no power of moving • any part of his body, only his right hand, and drat' with the greatest difficulty—being in utter darkness, and almost suffocated—hearing every word that Was spoken—crying out for help—and when every effort was used to get at him, intreating them to keep off, as the nearer they came to him the greater was the pressure on his body. In this dreadful state he remained till six o'clock, being two hours from the time the houses fell in, before he could be ex tricated. He was much exhausted, but not ma . tetially injured. His sister, Miss Wetheralt, was in a similar dreadful state, having been precipitated from the back attic floor, where she slept in the same room with a Mrs. Darlington and her two children, one of them an inlant girl, twelve months old. They were also taken out near the kitchen stairs ; the infant was killed. Miss IVe theralt, Mrs. Darlington, and the eldest child. were taken oat alive. In the attempt to save the young woman, near forty person. were employed in removing the ruins cautiously, and at the very instant of taking her out, a stack of chimaies tell, and covered her again. It did not, however, kill any of those who were ren dering assistance, but several of them were very much bruised ; a young man, a baker, hail his thumb broken in two places, and was other- dangerously hart. Several atl-aris suffire. • trifling injuries. The lan person taken out was !Va.. Lacy, a woman of forty years .• ; ..t ane o'clock yesterday she was quite dea i s lather, who is near 80, slept in the front r Lain, and was taken cut unhurt. A Mrs. Pocoi k, and a young woman her apprentice, a Mr. Hatton, his wife and child, a Mr. Rider, and the other lodgers, escaped out of the front garret of the part of the house Thai was still standing, and got upon the roof, from which they made iheir way to the adjoining house. Mr. Rider, (me of the lodgers in the front ssfrafir bone, attempted imam down stairs, the stairs being still standing, but was stopped by the accumulation of rubbish, which blocked them up, and he was abiiged to return and make his escape by the roof. The night being quite dark, rendered the scene more dreadful. The survivors, all industrious working people, being naked, were taken to St. Danstan's Workhouse, where every care was taken cf them, an-I clothes were provided for them. Fifteen of them were under the necessity of remaining there from the effeft of fright and bruises. The dead bodies, con sisting of Mr. Wetheralt, Mrs. Lacy, and Mrs. Darlington's infant child, were also taken there in shells. The above premises, of the lease of which fifteen years were unexpired, were put up for • sale, by the ground landlord, on the 11th of last month, and bought in again by him, the remainder of the interest being the property of Messrs. Good win, brewers. A fortnight since, some of the bricks of the chimney give way, and the family were very much alarmed, and applied to Mr. Goodwin, who immediately sent a Surveyor to examine the premises, when he warranted them to stand the remainder of the lease, with some trifling repairs. In consequence of his report, the family thought themselves perfeetly safe. The greatest praise is due to the neighbouring gentlemen, who were the whole of yesterday making Inquiries, and taking measures for the safety of the property that was taken out. A considerable sum of money was in Mrs. Wetheralt's pockets; which were found under her pillow, and most of the plate was secured and conveyed to a place of safety, till the several owners can come and claim what belongs to them. A guard was placed all night to proud what has not yet been taken out. The Whim, Fouts, is arrived off Dover, from Mogadore. She sailed from Gibraltar on the 24th ult. with a fleet, and parted from them on the 12th inst. in a gale of wind. Extra& of a letter from a gentleman in Trinidad, to his friend in Glasgow, dated July 30, 1806 " General Mt a•:4 o• sailed from this on the 24th instant, and part of his squadron was in sight on the morning of the 25th, as far to the westward as they could be discerned. The first place of their desti nation is still unknown, by most it is supposed to be the Island of Marguiretta, to get supplies of fowls, goats, &c. which are there in great plenty, and of which they were in great want, having little on board excepting salt provisions arid new turn. He . was accompanied by the Lily sloop of war, brigs txpreu and ,Ittenti,m, two schooners and two gun boats. He had about 200 officers and two compa nies of black troops; in all, including sailors and every soul on board, 1 suppose, 1000 men. Such disproportiouate means, employed for so great an titled, will certainly be remarked in history, and Mr a mina, and those who have gene with him, will either be branded as fools, or praised a! heroes, ac cording to the result ; he, however, seems confisl-nt of success. He is about 60 years of age, rather thin, about S fast 6or 7 inches high. News arrived from Augustura,say, that a single sloop of war would be able to take all the county round, as the pe.-Jite ate almost ia a state of revvlt alarady." SPORTING IVTELLIGE.NCI. sußtwsßul:ll RACES. itsilmr!.‘"t'r, Safi •t. A H anding S.reogAtAko. of 5- r . and Ss. eaei. - _ , Mr. J. Eynt's b. c. Cocks:inner, 6 yrs oid, 54. • 5 1 1 T. 1.. ErtiAce. E-q 'vb h Royal 0.. k, 4 yrs ~ Id. 841. 516.4 3 :: J Ege:son. Esq.'s b c. rermagalit.3 yrs old. Erst nib. 2 4 3 %tr. T. 13.11.'s br. c. Artichoke, 4 yrs old, 74. 11 b broke down. 3 0 0 . . . . Mr. Ilicia's e. f. Lavinia, 4 yrs old, 751. 71b. broke down 6 2 C . . . . . Mr. Watts's :r. c. Evasida, 5 yrs :AC U. 81b. 1 6 d.: This (Ise we hid very Lard running. EvaNder was the fa vow:re be:re atarti:JG. and even during. the first 11... t j ~.. :Ada in betting were eanviderably in lsio f . Many we, divappo:nted. POLICE. • ■OW-STll &CT. Yesterday, Messrs. BOND, GIAHA:4. and Rea n, the three Magistrates belonging to the above Of fice, held au adj.4urned Petty Sessions, tor the pur pose of granting Licenses to the Viauallers of the parishes of Covent Garden, and St. Martin's in the Fields. Those who had been ref used on the fir►t day, on account of their Louses bring wholly devoted to the sal: of spirituous liquors, were re-considered by the Magistrates; when some of them fi3ding rc speiftable security to aim. !heir conduS, their licenses were renewed; and those of others were refused. • • Ilvir elsliteipeeitte as a severe Lass to the landlords. one of whom lately gave ICOOI. to go int - . a house: but however hard it may be upon the individuals, it is necessary that what are generally termed gin shops should be suppressed, being so extremely in- jurious to the lower class of society. MURDILR OF ANN WEST, ALIAS WINTERFLOOD. Our leaders will recoil d the barbarous murder of this young woman, a short time since, in li:g:er's lane, near the King's Bench prison. Yesterday, a young man, who was brought from the Borough, by desire of Mr. Oa ana ar, under went a long examination before that Magistrate, cn suspicion of being the murderer. We understand the grounds of suspicion are s•;rne expressions which he made use of, in the presence of two witnesses, relative to Isis Icr.owledre of the murder. The Prisoner, in his deteuce, s,,°:J, if he did use the expreisions he is charged with, be was inti!xi• E il cared, did not know what he said. He ordered to remain in close confinement, the wo Dear public-house, opposite the Office. ~,,A HOUSEBREAKERS. At elate hour on Sunday night, the house of Mr. Cairns. in Tottenham-court-road, was broke ' r,i. 20 , ani robbe I ot 220 pieces of Irish linen, mus iis, tinni , ies, and other property, to the amount ot aiwards of 0001. Information being given of the robbery at the Otte, and the watchman near the house descrih. ing two men whom he saw near the spot, on the night of the robbery, the officers had no ducbt of their btinz the men, as the/ answered the descrip tion of Bill ke,..:y and Pied Edward:, two notorious hoiscbreak , :rs, and they have been in pursuit of them all the week. Yesterday, Young Crocker, R. Limberick, and Blackman, were attending at the Old Bailey, to give- evidence ores sonar trials, and oa choir going into the Bail bock, they found these two fellows conversing with their wives, who had just been con ?idled cf uttering forged Bank Notes. The o.lE,:ers took them into custody, and in the evening they were examined before Mr. Ga•n• sr. The watch man attended, and idertified the person of Kelly. t:riwardr, on being called upon to give an ac count of himself, told a tale about his being a hawker and pedlar ; but ►Zivett, in answer, said, he was one of the most notorious housebreakers in England. They were committed for further ex amination. It was intended that the remains of Mr. Fox should be privately interred in the family vault, in Wiltshire, but a request was made to Lord Hoc- L AND, by a number of the mo,t distinguished per sons in the kingdom, that the remaii., of their ale ceased friend should be deposited in Westminster Abbey, that they might have an opportunity of at tending the procession—Lord Hot t AND acquiesced. The body was therefore removed to the Stable-yard, yesterday evening, where it arrived about eleven o'clock, and from thence will be carried in pro cession to Westminster Abbey ; but the ceremony will be conduaed with a simplicity suited to the un ostentatious charader of Mr. Fox. • The Court of Common Council met on Thursday, fur the purpose of determining, by ballot, which of the models should be adopted for a monument to be crened in Guildhall, to the memory of the late Right Hon. W. PITT: The five models recommended by the Committee were in.peEfed by the Court, and on the these of hands, instead of by ballot, the model, No. 12 (by Mr. J. G. Buss, of the Strand), was adopted, and it was referred to the Committee to give direaions for carrying the same into ex icution. The one chosen by the Corporation is plain but ele gant, it is principally composed of four full-sized figures, the one on the top is of Mr. P/ Tr, in his Chancellor's robes, holding out his right hand in a speaking attitude, with kfrisdorn and Prudence on each side, and &stannic' on a sea-horse, at the bot tom, with several appropriate emblems. Th.: price given in with the estimate was 3,6751. it is to b.: placed at the east end of the ball, opposite the late Earl of CHATHAM. Tuesday, a fire was discovered in a large stall, be longipg to a farmer , in Cirencester; it was observed to break out in several places at once, and as no fire or candle had been used near the premises, it was evident it must have been set on fire by some villain or villains. Another person had his work shop and warehouses set on fire about a fortnight since, but then providentially, as on "1 ueiday night, what little wind there was, set from the town; the roof being thatched, was all in a blaze before *fly assistance could be procured, and being very dry, probably broke out sooner than the vil lains intended ; water could not be got for some tune, and whim got, many of the men about would not lead their assistance, which 'thews clearly, the evil extended farther. At one, however, by perseverance, it was got under, without doing farther mischief, although several thatched build ings were near, and tseaind them several stacks of hay and coin, which, no dvabt, the villains intend ed have destroyed. • OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Styr; 19. .• -lOW:MMES. • Janes Westwood was iildiaird for making, pnbl?sh :og. and uttering a forged draft anon Messrs. Bond end Co. Bankers, 'Change-alley, f0r.1501. drawn in the name of Samuel Fearn. - It appeared in evitimce, that the Prisoner having gone to the Sago Coffee-house in Hoßeim, told the e: owner that be :peeled a latter to be left for him in the name of Williams ; he then sent fur a Gray's Inn porter, of the name of Me t calf, whom he sent to the Banking-houge of Messrs. Bond and Co. for payment of the draft in T.-slime—Upon his pie settling it, it was immediately discovered to be a . feegery, and the porter was asked how,he had corn. by it ?--He told the fad ; and Mr. Pearson, one of the partners of the house, accompanied him to the Coffee-house The porter seized the Prisoner, but the latter resisted; and being the stronger of the two, succeeded in snaking his escepo into the street, when he was pursued and overtaken. The Prisoner's defence was, that he had formerly been a dyer by trade, b ut falling into emberrassed circumstances, he applied to a friend to lead him the draft in question, which he sent to the Sauk for payment. The fear of .. .being aTlCgeta psade him run away. He called seem Witnesses to speak to his circumstances hilife, and frenereloaraSer. • •;' The Learned Judge, in summing up. observed. that although there wits atie evidence of his being the hand which seasially made the tale instrument, yet his delivering it to the Porter, joined with the other circumstances, was sufficient evidence of bis having tittered it. The Jury, almost without hesitation, found him I• GuirlJ—Death. Ch.,rhs Loris I.'iirsuis was also Witted for a similar offence, in making and urerine, a foreerd Bill of Ex c h ange for 221. purr Via:4: t ) t); - 111111win by Ann Winter, on Mr. Savage, of Gtey.'s fon-line. , The Prisoner, who was a foreigner. had bird as ; clerk to Mr. Atkinson. of Fakon's-eparre, and ° about the I Oth of April last, tequestrd of his em ployer to discount the bill in question ; and knowieg • something if isdr. Savage, Mr. Atkinson olalige4 " him. Soon after. some dispute arose between the Prisoner and hi; Master, when the honer war charged. The bill 6-scorning due, was preseariet for payment, but Mr. Savage wholly deirerd tee hand-writing to he his. Upon examining the body of the bill afterwards. Mr. Atkinson recognised tine' whole ef it to be the bend-writing of thaserii.oner, disguised. 'fire Prisoner made no defence, and ere Jury found him Gri:/ll—Deailt. Aierattike I%l•Ke. , eie, a young man, only twenty two years of age, sv,s also it:et:led for uttering a forged draft, of et.sl. IS.. drawn in the name of Samuel Frazer, upon Messrs. Down and Co. bankers. It Appeared, ttrat on Seteeday, the Sd of May last, the Prisoner beerg ieu:ute f to ore James ' Henderson, a tether, residing in V.".arerlck-square, in the sum of 181. he offered Atm the draft ia question in payment, desiring the balance. Hisnderson has- . ing some suspicion. desired he wound :rave it till • the next day. But on Sunday morning, the W 1 .% soner prevailed on him to give him twenty saillings of it. The Priioner told him the draft was OW. ""•^' Frazer's, of King's-arms-yard, Coleman-street, or.e of the I)irefto:e of the East lodic Company. Upon inquiry, however, on the Monday, Henderson vered the draft to be a forgery. Verdise—Guaes— Death. yaw Jones was also indi.led for making. forg ing, ant uttering, a false draft, ripen Messrs. Bar , clay and Co. Bankers, in Lomberd•street, in doe name of Messrs. Partridge, Besidume, and Petrie, for 901. On the part of the prnsecntion it appealed, that the Prisoner, a young man under thirty, was clef k to Mr. Whelan, a boot-maker, with whom Messrs. Partridge and Co. had frequent dealings; and the latter having their account with Messrs. Barclay and Co. the Prisoner had frequent opportunities of knowing their method of drawing on their bankers' and further, a few d.iys before the timerafine question occurred, he had received 91. upon a desk between these parties. On Friday, the ‘29t.h of August, a little be fore two in the afternoon., the Prisoner met a boy, of the name cf George Davis, in Nicho las-lane in the City, and instruded ben to go tot . the Benkees, and get four 201. notes and one 101 e • note for the draft, and gave him one shilling for his trotthle. The boy had not known the Pri soner before, but swore positively to his being the person, having frequently met him in the streets ?. - —He told the tyansaiftion when he went homeg, and inquiry being made, and some suspicion tall ing upon the Prisoner, Mr. Petrie went wi ' the bay to the house of Whelan, but Prisoner telng from home, he could not identif . any one in the house as the person. However, signal being fixed upon when the person should u pear, the instant the Prisoner returned home, tt" boy recognised him, and he was taken into custody ! , but not told upon what particular cherge. Mr Whelan soon after returning, asked what lied hap. petted when the Prisoner immediately aaswered es that he had been taken up for forgery. The Prisoner's dfetree went to prove an al.6i. Upon the evidence .of his brother, his brother' wife, Mary Melee, and a Mr. John Nicholls, it a peered, that the Prisoner having been to Mr. G r , at Stoke Newington, upon business of his Matter's , . called at his bro:her's h.)ne,, near the Tower et :• London, on his way beck. The day was ettreniely wet, and he came there about ten minutes before two o'clock in the afternoon, and remained wish them until after six, when be went itWAr s an returned to supper about eight. These wirelesses underwent a very minute examination by Messrs. Coresr and Kn+arp, fur the prosecution; but were not found to coniralia themselves or each °elm, in any material point. Several other most respeaable per sons were called, who had known the Prisoner many years, and gave him a most excellent &oar. ease. The Learned Judge (Baton SUTTON) in summing up the evidence, observed, that the circumstarces were very s:rong against the Pt isoaer. particula ty his expression at the time his Master returLial before he was apprised of the charge upon wh:cts he had been apprenended. On the other hand, how ever, the witness-es, if believed, and they cee stood unimpeaclied, teem to prove a complete etas ; 'he he ent the ler, P . .sq: ad .d at orpi- Ica part idea F the eme lit of ride) , ty of to oc- we are dm' 60151. which he new n this 1;. EL )cncEt, It un !!cgant fancy ✓ing a L d the , Ncw -legant