The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-14 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The Depot of the 12:h (East Suff;dlr) Regimert of Foot ar-
rived nn the 7th inst. nn board the Borodino transport, at Cork
from Plymouth.
The 2d Battalion of the Rifle Bri,eade has received orders to
embark in three divisions, oil their cmval at. Cork,. from Ports-
mouth, on board the Cato, Vibelia, and Sovereign transports, fur
conveyance to Malta.
Detachments belonging to the sth, 13th, 16th 20:h, 23d, 20:h,
30th, 30th. 39th, 40:h, 46th, 47th, 48th. 64th, 71st, 8:1d, 87th,
93th, and 97th Regiments of Foot, and the Esst India Compary's
service, embarked on the 3d inst. under the command of Steil'.
Sergeant Ilallinan. at Cork, for Bristol.
A detachment belonging to the 15111 Regiment of Infantry em.
barked on the 3d inst. at Dublin, for England, on the Recruiting
Service.

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Detachments belonging to the l't Battalion of the 60th Rifle
Corps, the 95th. 97th, and 99th Regiments of Foot. embarked on
the 3d inst. under the command of Staff-Sergeant sl•Gregor, at
Dublin, for England.
Detachment,, belonging to the 13th Regiment of Light Dragoons,
the 2d, Bth, 12th, 13th, 18th, 28th, 31st. 39th. 41st, 44th, 46th,
47th, 48th, 54th, 60th (11 Battalion), 64th, 67th. 83d, 115th,
87th. and 89th Regiments of Foot, the Royal Staff Corps, and
the East India Company's Infantry, embarked on the sth instant,
under the command of Staff-Sergeant Crawley, at Dublin, tor
England.

CLAIM ON THE DUKE OF NO-11-TIIUMBERLAND.

Mrs. Webster. the unfortunate pauper, whose grandfather pre-
sented the late Duke of Northumberland with the sum of 60.000 L
which ought to have descended to Mr. Lomas's posterity, went
yesterday to the Mansion-House, to inquire whether any commu-
nication had been received from any one of the noble family of
Percy.
The Lord Mayor had retired from the chair. but Mr. Nobler
was still in the room. He told her that not a syllable had traospired
on the subject since she appeared before the late Lord Mayor.
Mrs. Webster said she had been misled by an assurance, after
the particulars of her ease had appeared in the papers, that something
would be done for her by the family to which her grandfather had
allied himself. She had waited in silence for the arrival of the
moment when she should no longer have occasion to trouble the
parish, by the officers of which she had been treated with great
kindness, which was heightened, no doubt, by their knowledge of
her misfortunes. But nothing had been done. She had again and
again waited upon Doctor M`Leod, but that gentleman had re-
fused to interfere, although he had deprived her of the document
which wu so essential, and which, she had no doubt, would have
aided her in her application to the family, as it contained the moat
unequivocal proof of the late Duke's sense of the obligation to
Mr. Lomas.

Mr. nobler said that the public were aware of the particulars
of the poor woman's use, but he supposed they took it for granted
that the Duke of Northumberland had set the matter at rest,
Mrs. Webster said it had been mentioned to her that she should
be provided for, and she could not help saying that she considered
Dr. 111`Leod responsible for the deplorable state to which she was
reduced. She was advanced in life, afflicted with s severe nervous
distemper, and obliged to support herself upon the sum of 2s. Cid.
a week. She had placed herself in the power of Doctor 11•Leod,
unfortunately, in the expectation that he would exert himself in her
favour. She had placed in his hands, for the purpose of showing
that she was not an impostor, the memorable letter of the late Duke.
it'hy had not the Doctor returned that letter, which he knew was the
only written memorial she possessed in support and justification of
her claim ? Why, if that letter was of no utility, had he not re-
turned it ? Why, if it was a forgery. had he not actql upon
it, and brought the ind,vidual who had attempted to extort
money by such Infamous means to public justice ? The 31endi-
city Society could not surely be put in possession of a case better
calculated to show the enormity to which deceptions were carried,
than the detection of an imposition of this nature. It was, she
said, mentioned that the 60,0001. given up by her grandfather had
fallen into the hands of Lord Beverly, and not into those of the
Duke of Northumberland. That might be the fact, for what she
knew, but she was willing to receive some testimony of charity or
of gratitude, call it what they might, from any of the family who
had derived advantage from the magnificent donation of her grand-
father. The sum of 501. s year, which was regularly paid to her
grandmother by the late Duke, was at all events saved to his pre-
sent Grace. But she believed that there was no hope tor her.
Mr. nobler, for the purpose of calming the poor woman's agita-
tion, told her it was too soon to despair.
She replied that she was known to be destitute of raiment, and
what comforts could 28.6 d. a-week provide her with?
The unfortunate pauper then stated that she should make ap-
plication to the present lord Mayor, who she knew had already,
short time as he was in office, administered In various ways to the
wants and misfortunes of his fellow-creatures.

The trotting match between Mr. Brand's Diadem and
the American mare Pliwbe, for 300 sovereigns, took place yester-
day, from Kensington.gates to Blackwater, 30 miles, each carrying
12 stone. The Phcebe mare took the lead, and was a quarter of a
mile ahead at Smallberry-green, from Diadem breaking three times
into a gallop. The horse made good his ground, and they were to-
gether in Bedfont-lane, the mare having performed 13 miles within
an hour. They kept together to Virginia Water, when the home
took the lead up the hill, and kept it till within a mile of Bagshot,
when the mare cut out the work, and won by 200 yards, in two
hours and 26 minutes.

Maim) Ro 13 Dfax.—On Monday, about half-past five
o'clock in the afternoon, as Mrs. Gooding, of No. 19, Ar-
thur-street, Chelsea, was returning from town in her cart,
with the linen of several families for whom she washed,
three fellows, in Piccadilly, near the Green l'ark, taking
advantage of the darkness occasioned by the dense
fog, snatched a large bundle of valuable linen from the
cart, and although seen in the very ace, and instantly pur-
sued, they succeeded in escaping with the property. The
linen consisted of valuable table-cloths, bed-linen, shirts,
waistcoats, stockings, caps, &c. &c., to a very considerable
amount ; and was almost all marked with ink, "J. J.
Sander," " G. B. Sander," and " J. S. Sander."

It would appear that the danger of disturbing the graces
of the dead in this neighbourhood does not deter the mid-
night thieves from attempting the robbery. Early yester-
day morning, the guard at the Calton burying-ground
were,irepeatedly alarmed by persons scaling the wall on the
south aide, opposite to the burying ground of the ill-
fated Mrs Campbell. They were pursued out of that quar-
ter by the guard, when they re-appeared on the north wall
several times, apparently for the purpose of distracting the
attention of the guard. The vigilance of the watchmen
completely defeated the unhallowed object in view. Be-
tween two and three o'clock, a person came to the gate and
asked if a substitute was wanted, and entered into some
frivolous conversation, which led the guard to suspect he
might be one of those concerned in disturbing them. He
was taken to the police-ogee.—Glasgow Chronicle.
The Reverebd Charles Mummery, convicted at the last
Northumberland Assizes of stealing in a dwelling-house at
North Shields, has been sent from the hulks to New South
Wales.—Durham Advertiser.

We cannot too strongly impress on the minds of our fair
readers the necessity of wearing thick shoes ; the amiable
Duchess of Rutland lost her life by exposing her feet to
damp, in her daily perambulations around the grounds in
superintending the workmen, &c.
A fatal accident occurred on Friday last, at Lee Mills,
in the parish of Ilfracombe. A large block of atone of
morethen four hundred weight struck the miller, who was
Mantling at the further part of the premises, a distance of
about 18 feet, and crushing him against the wall ; his skull
was fractured and his thigh broken, in which pitiable state
he languished till the Sunday morning, when death put a
period to his existence.