The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-10-30 00:00:00


THE E .

DRURY-LAM,.
List night, a new Comedy was performed for the
first time, called A Prior (storm. It is the joint pro.
do Rion of Hem itv J mac FYI:. Esq. the Poet LW-
Teo, and his son-in-law, Mr. A RNO a.u. The clia-
raaers were thus represented :

Henry Mortimer ..... Mr. ELLIITOM,
Caonel Raymond Mr. HA II VM,.111.
Sir William Freeman Mr Iluwvw.
Mr. Lounger Mr. PALMER.
Young Freeman Mr DEC .1 sir.
Patrick O'Fhatt-.1....
Rn'ain Ploughshare.
At'en nl.Gre..or
Mnt!i Fr,ctuin Mk, Dowc4N•
1-171:1v M`Dwilltl ll NID UJtif.
Mk. I)arA me.
The Play commences with ringing of bells in a
country preparatory to the nuptials of
Henry Mart;nire and this Frermm, the daughter
of Sir William, which were to take place that
day. Tt appears that Miss Freeman, five years be-
fore, had been engaged to a Colonel ltermoond, who
went abroad, and is supposed to have been killed at
the storming of Seringapatam. As an excuse for
her second attachment, we are told, that she
was very young ; that the •Colonel was the choice
of her father, ansl of a grave disposition ; that, upon
her acquaintance with Beare, she fottad she had
never loved him ; and that the sentiments she
felt were those of friendship and admiration for hi;
many virtues. When the account of his death ar-
rived,it was a release, and the lovers looked forward
to their approaching happiness with all the warmth of
mutual affellion. The villagers are met, the favours
are distributed, when the gallant Ca'ond arrives, and
claims his mistress. Mortimer refuses to resign
?.er. until Sir who had been an officer, and
relired t' the country, where he had 'pined his rustic
I,eighbours to meet the foe, as a volunteer, jealous
rl iris honour, and his word, once pledged, claims
itom his daughter the execution of her engagement
Vit Colonel Rayatoad. An interview takes place, in
s,bich she determines cot to marry tire Calved, or
any other person. unless /re release.s her from her
obligation. The interest is much excited by a fatr-
well scene between the lovers ; which Colonel lieo-
mood is a witness to, when he forego*. his
claim, and joins their hands. There is ars
underplot, composed of reuag Freeman and a very
interes.ing young lady, Emily, the companion ?lf
big sister, whom he wishes to make his mistress ;
but, converted by her virtue and her charms, he
offers to make her his wife. R,lsly rejefts the arr.
An old Scotchman arrives, proclaims her an beireks,
and then come, her turn to noes, which she did warn
the most polished grace, and net in vain. Mr.
Lauver, a Bond-street beau of the most extravagant
order, accompanies young freema,n to the. Com,
try, and gives an opportunity 1-,,r some sea
satire against the eccentricities of modern fasbiori.
An Irish servant, his wife, Fanny, and a rustic, Ito(Oin,
are introduced as a relief to the serious. scenet
From these very simple materials, without any due
striking incident, is produced a Comedy, that re-
ceived throughout the most unboueded apprabid
for, with the exception of two or three party hisses,
svhish were soon lost in the general applause.
The language is elegant and classical ; the semi,
ments are beautiful and refined ; and the mural is
excelcat. Some parts of the latter Asns want torn-
pr.:ision. The Scotchman is tedious. Miss DU NC Apes
part was admirably suited to her talents. In the eafly
scenes she was lively, playful, and engaging; and,
in those of pathos, there was not a bosom in the
house that did not sympathise with her gentle
sorrows. She sang a most beautiful air, which
was honoured with repeated bravos, and rapturously
'neared. Mrs. H. Stoonms was extremely interest.
fan in gangly Miss DEC A ?AP had a song in Fenny
O'Siall,r, which she gave in her best manner, nnd
made the most of her trifling part. Mr. Et. a 'slam:,
Mr. Dow rot, and Mr.BAttlillltOlSE, exerted them-
selves to the limos:, to give force to the very little
assigned them. Mr. Dec ta e's part was the most
prominent in the male cast of the play. Mr.Pa e rasa
was admirably dressed. and gave an excellent ca-
ricature of a Bond-street lounger. Mr. JOH
sr oa t was quite at home in the Irishman; the part,
however, did not possess iray novelty. He sang
parody of the old song of The lifirou Tree with much
era. A eery puerile opposition was made to its
eurvre. Mr. Dana me spoke the Prologue, which
turned on the prevailing taste for novelty.
The comedy was announced for representation
this night, amidst cries of " Bravo 1" " Bravo !"
and thunders of applause. Miss MPG AN spoke
the Epilogue with great spirit and vivacity.—
,rile house was crowded, and displayed much fa-
sbion. His Royal Highness the Duke of Ca A R
and a party with him, were in the PaINCL'S boa.

COYRNT•GARDEN.

An apology was last night made for Mr. Coo tr,
at this Theatre, and the part of .►lacd«fj, which he
was to have pet formed, was sustained by Mr.
Ctiartaatt. Mrs. SIDDONS received great ap-
plause in Lady At.rbeth.

A whole flotilla of Sunday Paper is, we under-
stand, to be launched in the course of the winter :
There is to be The Rarifier,The Sharrr,The Trimmer,
The Aurora, lie Moruneg Star, The Comet, The
Creirent, The English Liox,The Brutal, and a French
Paper, Pie Dimanche.
Monday se'nnight, there was a numerous ntrend-
ance of Free and Accepted Masons, under the Grand
Lodge of England, at the Provincial Grand Lodge
and General Cornmaniention for the province of
York, held at the Provincial Grand Lodge Room,
in that city. Biota CD Pest sr excite MINES, Esq.
ion of of the late worthy representative for York iu
Parliament, was installed, with the usual solemnity,
Grand Master, and the Right Hon. Lord Pots.' mo-
ver, Junior Grand Warden. A most excellent
charge was delivered on the occasion, by the Rev.
Brother JUIIM PARKER, who aaed AS Grand Chap-
lain. The Hon. La atxcr. Dcranas, M.P. De-
puty Grand :gaffer, was present. Brother SMITH,
of. Hull, aced as Deputy for the Hon. G. It L.
Dunn As, senior Grand Warden. After the busi-
of the Meeting, the Brethren partook of a sumptu-
ous entertainment, in the Grand Lodge Room, and
the day was spent with that union, harmony, anti
hilarity, never-failing attendants on the meet-
of this moat benevolent and respeftable so-
ciety.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Oct. 29.
W. to Et,

&Are .If 11. M All/ WA RING, t.. Chairmass,
and a Bench of jattie.s jar this County.

IKCESTrOus P %Ft r.NT.
Lewis Landperte was indided for assaulting Eliza
Landprede, his infant daughter, seven years old,
with intent to violate her person.
When the females had retired from Court, accord-
ing to order,
Mr. Cesse, for the Prosecution, nhserved, that
the Defendant stood charged with a crime, at which
nature itself must shudder ; an assault, with intent
to violate his own child. The Jury collie only as.
certain the perpetration of the ad, (torn the infer-
ence to be drawn from the bids that would he steed
in evidence ; which, though Imeyon l all he ha I ever
seen, heard, or understood, and the most Mimi oba-
ble and inemossible to his mind, he vi as instructed
would he eeehlished beyond all conteelimeron. The
Defendant had been some years marlic,l to ihe lady
who stood by the unhappy ch:ld (her mother), hot
from some disagreement arising hei women them, they
had separated some time previous to thi, horrid
transaction, which occurred about the month of
August lest. They had three other younger chil-
dren, two boys and .1 girl ; what the condtrd of the
parents were •to each other, had nothing to do with
the question then bef ire the Court. By som, means,
the wile had been examined hefore the Grand Jury
who found the bill ; however, he admitted, she cad
not be called as a witness before the Coen. The
evidence of a wife against her husband, in cases of
personal violence to herself, was admissible, but not
when a third person was concerned. The prin.
cipel evidence would, therefore, he the child her-
self, tire maid to whom she communicated the xho-
minable story, and Dodor Stanton, a medical gen-
tleman of great respedehility, who we, cellel in,
aid who, he understood, was the chief means of
having the Bili of diathermia preferred. From
these witnesses the tads would appear, and it would
sue for the J try to cereider, whet might be the fair
inference to be drawn from them. In conclueens
he confessed, the greatest dmliculty he felt in the
case, was remake the Court and Jury think such a
thing passible in human nature.
The little girl, of a very interesting appeantnee,
we; then put upon the table, and having satisfied the
Couri of her knowledge of the tendency of an oath,
in svhlm o she said she was instructed by her mother,
she was sworn, and deposed, that her father was a
jeweller, and lived in Craven-buildines, Drury-lane,
and, 'inee their separation, her mother resided with
he; graq4mother. in Craven-yard, opposite. &he
was going on eight years old. Some rime previous
to hot. mother's parting from her father, she slept
with the latter, and her mother lay in her little bed.
She continued to lie with her father ever since, until
the discovery of the transaction in question. She
Oren seated a clear, circumstantial, and unequivocal
reletion of facts, which delicacy pieveres us from
repeating. In which she was corroborated by Mary
Egan, hef tether's servant maid (who first made the
discovery from the child hersell) and Dr. Stanton.
she WA* not cross•examined by the Cou isel for the
Defeadant, and was attended, during the whole
trial, try her mother, x genteel interesting-looking
young
.women, who appeared greatly agitated
during the whole time.
Mary Egan, in part of her evidence, said, that one
night her master said vim:thing of an n i-
tem to her, which enraged her so !nevi, that she• in a
way retaliated, by accusing hen, in A 3 indirect rna,i-
per. with this unnatural crime; and he replied, that
it was all a plot and conspiracy between her, his woe,
and the d'--n'd old b—ch of a grandmother.
Mr. GURNEY made a very able and impressive
arldresi to the Jury, on behalf of the Defendant ;
ob-
serving, that a case of this nature, in order to gain
credit with them, should be one where no suspi-
ciao whatever could attach upon the party prose-
curing. This was not the present case; differences
of a very serious nature had arisen between the hus-
band and wife, and a separation had taken place.
They were evidently at daggers with eace other ; he
living in one place, and she, with her mother, residing
exactly opposite, where the children had daily access
to her. lie dwelt with much stress upon the mother's
instruction to her child upoe the nature of an oath,
the improbability of th r story she had told, and the
possietrite of such a conspiracy existing.
lheDefendant did not call any witnesses.
The Jury had turned round to consult each other,
without waiting for a charge from the CHAIRMAN,
who was turning over his macs for that purpose,
when he addressed them : " Gentlemen, before you
consider of your verelid, and lest the speech of
Counsel should have made any impression upon
your mind, contrary to the real feels in evidence, it
is necessary that I should recapitulate that evidence,
and that yeu should reconsider it, and possess your
minds thoroughly with it."
Ile then read over the whole of the evidence, and
observed, with resped to the competence of the
child, her knowledge of the nature of an oath, and
the account she had given, being too tational for her
tender years. it might be all very true, but it did
not therefore follow that she had not spoken the
truth ; if she had told an honest talc, why doubt
her ? but if there were any grounds to suppose this to
be a wicked conspiracy to destroy the man, they
ought to have been proved in evidence. The mere
conjedute of Counsel was riot sufficient. ;Ilse Jury
must net decide upon conjedure ; but upon fads.
lie del etre to levee heard some evidence relative
to this conspiracy ; but there was nothing even as to
his general cheeneer.
Ihe Jury, eine a short crinsnitatinn, desired to
hear Witnesses to the Defendant's eh:trader.
Two ladies were then ex-ankh-J. who give him
the general charader of .t gitod father ; one of them,
however, never was an inmate of his house.
To rebut this evidence, time apprentice-boy of the
Defendant (John Melvin) was called ; he stated, as
to his master's moral charader, he was enough to
ruin the morals of any young 1;0 in the world. His
testimony, on the whole, however, did nut go to
attach any particular stain upon the Defendant.
The CHAIRMAN again addressed the Jury, and
told them, there was nothing whatever in this sub-
sequent evidence which could alter the case one
tittle. The evidence stood as before, uncontra-
dided in every point ; and, as to the conspiracy, it
was, he repeated, a mere conjecture. •
The Jury, in a moment after, returned a Verdi&
of Not tiara" ; which WAS followed by a general

.Y 9.1~"!• ? i

murmur through the Court, hisses, and other marks
of disapprobation.
Immediately after the Defendant retired, his ap-
prentice, John Melvin, was brought into Court. in
ructody of a constable, who relatad. that the De-
fen lint met him outside the door, and insist. 'd on
his taking the boy on a charge of perjury. The boy
w.ts discharged.
Lhoslort,s Red,,,vrtie was inclieled for keeping a
disorderly house of ill-fame, in Portland-street. Soho.
The evidence again‘t her were some of her more
orderly neighbours, from some of whose evidence
(after stating other irregularities in her condiist) it
appeared, that she, or some of he► damsels, exhibited
themselves almost naked at the drawing room
windows.

Mr. Arr.Ev, for the Defendant, observed, that if
indisments of this nature were to be supported npnn
such grounds 43 this, and nakedness was to he con-
sidered a proof of guilt, he very much feared, most
of the fashionable houses in town would be indict-
able.

The Prosecutors failing in proving th it the D--
fondant was the owner and occupier of the house,
she WAS ecru/red, with an admonition from the
COAIRMAN, not to contiud herself in such a man-
ner in future.

An application was made by Mr. Kis Are, to re-
spite a recogniz:ince till the nest Sessions. in a very
singular case. It %VAS an indiament airainst seve-
ral creJitor; of a bankrupt. charging them with a
conspiracy to prev.mt his obtainii,g hi, cerCticatc.—
The motion was grantej.

PO/. I CR.

BOW-ST It VET.
Last Friday, two Ladies, with their daughters,
one eleven, and the other thirteen years of age,
attmaded bef4e Mr. lIOND Hod Sir WILLIAM PA
so Ns, and exhibited a complaint against the Master
of a Boarding-school, not far from Enfield.
charging him with assaulting their person. and
taking very indecent liberties with them. Upon
their oaths, the Manisrnarcs granted a warrant to
apprehend Yesterday, he was brought to the
Office, in the custody of Donaldson, who appre-
hended him just as he was going out in his ch Ilse.
The ladies and their daughters attuned, and
substantiated their charges the circumstances of
which are so extremely indelicate, that we are com-
pelled to for bear stating them. The school is kept
by the D. fendant's :vile, and she is assisted by
Defendant, who, we are very sorry to say, is
a Clergyman, and appears to be near seventy
veers n age ; his hair is quite white with years.
The Defendant brought with him to the Office,
thiir.‘en of the young ladies, and the two teachers,
and called several of them as Witnesses to prove
that this was a m tlicioas pro.ecutirm„ ire conse-
quence of the young lairs, who male the charge,
haling lately been punished for not getting their
tai s µerre& ; and having said they would dolor the
school, or words to effeft, when they went
home. The 7." itarts, giving credit to the
charge, bound the parties over to prosecute, and
ordered the rrisoner to find bail. The Defendant
observing Mr. Waldron, the aoors in the Office,
asked him whether he would be one of his hail?
Mr. Waldron answered, he did 11,1 come to the Office
for any such purpose ; and applied to the MAGIS.
T sr rs to get his dau,;hter Irnnr the school. They
informed him, that rested with himself.

II TT.)9.0 ART)ree.

On Monday last, two brothers of the name of
Ileramersfen undetvrent an examination before the
MAOISI'RATCS at this Office, charged with the C -
pit.tl offence of horse-stealing. in the neighbourhood
of Hatharn. in Northumberland. The hones in
question were recovered some months ago ; the one
Was valued at 50, the other at 70 guineas. By the
vigilance of Trott. assisted by some• of his brother-
officers, they were apprehended about a week ago.
One of the same family was convieted and trans-
ported. for a like offence. not long since.
They were fully committed for trial.

- -
This day, the Sessions— of Oyer and Terminer,
and Gaol Delivery, will commence at the Sessions-
House in the Old Bailey, for the trials of persons
charged with felonies. There are upwards of se-
venty fur trial, several of whom are for capital of-
fences.
Yesterday, Mr..leviervis, the Bankrupt, under-
went another examination before the Commis-
sioners, at Guildhall. Mr. CULLEN attended, as
his Counsel, and, alter three hours had elapsed in
the investigation of the Bankrupt's affairs, the latter
delivered a written estimate, wherein he stated his
losses, during the first two yeti's he was in business, at
8,83.51.; and, during the succeeding eighteen months,
at 6,6231. He could not account for these lasses in
any other way, than that he had been selling his
goods considerably under value. The Commis-
sioners were of opinion, he ought to be remand-
ed to prison. He was accordingly conveyed to his
former place of confinement.
Last Thursday, the men employed in pulling
down the church of All saints, Lewes, discovered
a monument that had been long concealed between
A large Gothic arch, and one of the main columns
that supported the edifice. This antique relic was
formed of plaister, in the shape of a coffin, and ex-
hibited a rude painting of two infants, who had
doubtless been there intvrre.l in my centuries past.
The fignres represented were of two different co-
lours, and tolerably fresh.
Monday se'unight, about twelve o'clock, the re-
mains of the late air ROWLAND WINN, Bart, were
deposited in the family vault, at Wragby. The
shroud and lining of the coffin were of white sa:in,
and the outerside covering of black velvet, orna-
mented with an elegant silver plate and escutcheons.
A large concourse of people attended on this solemn
occasion. The whole was conduSted with uncom-
mon regularity, in a style of solemn magiuricence
seldom seen in this neighbourhood. An hearse, two
mourning coaches, and his own carriag•-, attended.
J,nt Wrxxiasssum, Esq. SHEPLEY W A rsors, Esq.
Miss WI ILIA SISON. WITS.W•TSON, and the Stewards,
appeared as chief mourners. All his tenantry were
invited to pay this last tribute 05 :vire& to his
memory. and every one who had in any way been
etwaged in rendering services to the family, received
a mournful weR1(1110 of the loss of a patron. His
nephew, Jour. WILLI* soots, ESC'. a youth in his
12th year, succeeds to the valuable estates of the de-
ceased.

'PA '9'141

-

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET THIRD oi:T' MEL OR HOUGIIiOPi...
....

MEETING
.-•
• Mon,AY, Oct. 28.
Mr. R. Royce's Sir David. lit b..st Lord Fo!ey'i Sir Harry j
oDi sd.ile,ltst. Last titre) M. of B C 2015 Ito X &gat
Sir David.
Duke of Graftnn.4 Lumbago, Bst. 'lb. M. Andrea s.
Fathom, 711. I lhs Too-year old C.lgurs.-2 t. I on Lunt.
Lapp.
Mr Mell;sh's Lady &aorta,. Sr. itlb be At Mr R. Royce's
Bobtail, 84. 7h. I) I 2re')4l.-11 to.") ar.t Lady liroogh
I.ord Saekville's Witclic.slt beat Lord !Wit W.t6 y, Sgt.
each I) I. 54)a5.-6 to 4on Witcliciaft.
Mr. Mellish's Marianne, est. 71b. against Mr B. Boyee's
P.rsintiturot, 7st. ;IL. Ab. M. POOgs kelead ..ost.)—l I tot
Marianne
Sir C. &wintry's Lydia, Sit. 5/6
,roc. 80v. from Mr. W.
son's N-wruarket,B,t. 3f b. R iii lungs. h. ft. •
Lewd Foley's Iliplecanaous, Ittlb rec ft. front H. R.
H. the P. of Wales's Orville, Sat. I lib R C. 3000. h. ft.
Mr. Watson's Sorrel, 4yrs. old, rec. ft from Sir J. Shelly's
Sir Launcelut, 3 yrs. oid, Oct e ieh D. M 2iagr.