The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-11-28 00:00:00

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COLONEL THoßNyoN's A!,.RIYAL AT SPY-PARK.

IN • LETTIM pto I PETER, AT 6ATII, TO WILLIAM,
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Taut Cos—Pray accept my here thanks for your
Not Stets ts bin:self e'er inditi d a bettor;
'l ite " must excellent youth,' aids such skill you positray,
The d.strem of his frieads, cud his tradesmen's dismay;
A sketch more correct, or a grief 'sore sincere,
War ar'cr felt e'en by Wer.vms, Or drawn by BRuptitt.
The turrents of tear* thus hivntriekled, I'm told,
With a flipsees untimely have delueed the weld.
Put " he's too," us you so, to mike sport seer, vmes,
Aud,'olie Str owe A I.L the farness, face as lie goes.
Py rsiraming and vault:a:az, tad lumue'ung and flying—
/Sow drink Out, Iy boin.iag,l mean to held lyin;—
His halo hsPe at length vended their destia'ul
Arid me nuts Men long-will be found on the load.
Your sgree4le narrative taught me All town ;
Ent as thence I to I.l.ith, • It!. a friend hurried dews,
`Tam ray fortune, en pwsmrt, at Chippenham to ere
'the great Yoikshire Pt OCaeles whole nunagerie.
Then ha; plums in such Muds, a complete Throats Wouid.•
P. r.rg, too, they nprer hyre ow., stare the hood ,
Aid his paintings must Ilierally reposed to the eye,
(Ilia friend Ilusvoa, p.rhap., caw the hem tell yea why, e..?
she.% and all Flying, " pray tome and buy.'
Rnt you're anxious to hear of hie sad b.mota and tame,
farets, his ducks, sod his steeds or high name;
Weeenuirmats so one, oilseed o'er e .p-epee,
feat of show, like their Lord, but more moderate than he—
foe wlu'e they duly seize what true lois they eau get,
to Ile Coto hit the; cootol to his wet.
lir. boars, tionb hut four, ;rued this sew Nosilir ark,
Yee th. gnat loan I,eouelf was safe housed at Spy Park ;
And last, his ichnetinuno, fur whom, I'm assur'il,
The Mmuzltsles some cruseodila's eggs have promo's!.
Thus court. sy suttees the humirs of oar,
Aral, while CA 111, in 0 and T• LLEY lass jangle sad jar,
In (Mb uulinpeaeh'd, and civility bland,
A rotkoN sad 'Tucks VON go quite head is hand. ,
hot .bat 1 approve the grand fox-hound donation,
Thonrh they gave their new Niawod "much gratification"
This I ttiatut ; foe theirSiame his ambition butt mocks—.
Let otlvia haat fuses, ht. game's Pae•reitt !
Nu: to eend him " Costioevor's isase"puoll'ut wrotbow
UPI cnn!, In Neavartle, you say is the North.
Vet also knows, as Le tries the mist covers of Lena,
rut his followers, (like Those who once follow'd Acton's),
Taa2ht by years &trod pruet.er to scent Inman game,
And tired of • ehnse here they only catch fame,
Hay avenge, at one mouthful, all Europe's disaster,
And, instead of • P•t.ri roe, est up their master !
• A winter-stream, well kiumo near Falemwr'• Hall, as 1
learnt frost oar of the Colonel's w',+-oats.

Yest,rday morning, Rot M.liesrv. Prinreues
Avail% ra, Sorttoa, and Amat.ta, accomp.mied by
Lord WFSTIIeaI.A/ID, Ludy C•11101,(NR WALDE-
CMAYE, General riTLROY. and Col. TATI.OR. rode
to St. Georip.',. Chapel, and heard 1 Sermon
preached by the Rev. Mr. CHAMPIGNY, horn
kifith, ch. 9. v. ti. ; afterwards returned to the

lltr itoyal Highness the Princess of WA Les gave
a grand dinner, yesterdry. at her house at Blacks
heath, to a numerous !arty of Nobility.
His Serene nighties- the Duke of OftLEATC3 ar-
rived at Portsmouth, 011 Saturday MOr111:14*, tn isieet
his sister, the Princes of ORLEAIid, wbo landed,
that day. from Gighaltar, under a Royal Salute
from the Tortoise.

Mr. HARJUt observes, that the King's Theatre
i. slightly tilled with 3 deer tickets, but the thea-
trical treasury derives no sierting advantages from
the overflow. On the coati-try, he thiukr that iu
less theatre he shall get inure matey.
The Duke of PORTLAIID entertained • select
party at dinner, yestersloy, at Rulstrode.
The Earl of CtIOLMONDELEY gave a granl din-
ner, yesterday, at his house in Piccadilly, to the
Earls of YARMOUTH and STAIII, Lord Bontso-
vox, General KF.PPCI., and Messrs. Morroux,
tuctiaa, and flit Lordship will, on
Wednesday, give another grand dinner to his Royal
Highness the Duke of CLaatiacg, and a large
party of Nobility.
The Duchess of NRWCUTLII, Lady CIPIARLorre
CLINTON, end General Ca. 1111,1.7111;, left KiVA-
-1141161 hotel, on Saturday, for Drakelow„ inrUerhy.
shire, where they iuteud Passing the Christmas fes-
tivities.

The bulletin, at the Countess of Essr.x's, yes-
tenliv, signed by Messrs. V•tmitass and BAILEY.
Motea, that " her Ladyship hid • had night, and
was worse than the preceding day."
Lord W•wrstoetano arrived on Friday evening
at Windsor, and on Saturday rode out with the
Ktau and PRI:WM.I3LS.
Mrs. (kovan, the comic actrtss, who has no
equal in the parts of Mrs. Oakley, Lady Rudulphis
Liustkerentirt, &c. is, we understand, a candidate for
en enga4ement at one of the Winter Theatres.
The last Bath arrivals arc
Lads Loitsit Lenox Lady Eticiiaby, Lady C. Bentiackf
lady Lady Harvey, Sir T. Standish, Sir Chas.
Williams, Admiral and Mrs. Ltitack, Gen. Itstasay, General
Macau, ColutiPl and Mrs. Flight, Col. Mahon, Cu!. tllunden,
and I-teat:Colonel Yinsiigauris
The winter ball at the Dolphins, Winchester, on
Tuesday last, served to cheer the present gloomy
season, and was well attended.
The Earl and Countess of ENNISKILLEN have
arrived ut their house in Dover-street, fro.n Ireland,
preparatory to he: Ladyship's accottehement.
Mr. Siterritsolosea fever is somewhat abated,
but he still, we understand, remains extremely
indisposed.
Cotatur has been much indisposed ; he is,
however, much better, and the public are likely
soon to know that hie dramatic powers are in full
tigoor._

Mr. lama, of Covent-Garden Theatre, did not
sii~y'nv Isis usual vivacity in the part of Coma Al-
oparien, in the after-piece of The Follies of a Day.
verii,tined a few evenings time, and it %iris feared
hy his friends that he was indisposed. We regret
to ray their fears have been confirmed ; .he was
i•asitiii.mi to his house during the remainder of the
%eel,. id coati:iiies still witch indisposed.

LAW 1-N7E4I(I:ME.

COVIRT or !ZING'S BENCH—Nov. 26.

CRIMINAL INFORMATIONS.
The ATICOUNVA'AiENERAL moved ttse Court for
leave to tile a C • 'nal Liformistion against Mr.
John Bell and Mr. John Decamp, the Proprietors,
Printers HIM Publishers, of a periodical Newspaper,
called The Autional Register, for publishing a gross,
scandalous and malicious bled, against the Gentle-
men composing the. Government of the Foundling
Hospital, charging them with malversation in the
funds of thud establishment, abusiiig the object of
the charity by• partial admission of subjects, through
interest and favour, and various other calumnies
against the said Charity. The Attorney-General,
to support of his motion, read the affidavit of Mr.
Cox, the present Governor, contradicting the ca-
lumnies contained in the publication above-meo-
tioned, and slating, that the funds of the Charity
were solely appropriated to the purposes of the
Charity, that no improper subjects were admitted
into the Hospital, nor did any gaiu admission until
they had undergOile a hill and intriartlai int '
tion.—Uposi these grounds the Court granted a
combining, rule.

Mr. GARROW obtained a like Rule fora Crimi-
nal loft ttttt abut' agaivat the Rer. Thomas Bell, for
persecuting a Mr. Paulin, a reanectable Nlagistrate
of the county of Sussex, aged 7o years, by writing
calumnious and improper letters, and threatening
continuation of the cotreapoinience.
Mr. PA RR obtained a similar rule against Abra-
ham Constable, Join' Raymond Snow. and Henry
Ilarrinkton, ea of the l'eace, for im-
properly „pantiog ..ceuse to a Wl:4lnm to wend
malt and spirits. From the :Admits in support
of the Rule, it was 104w:ch. that Mr. Constable,
who hail been a brewer, was interested in the house
of the publican, mud had a 'flung:Age upon it for
!OWL

JUDGMENTS.
Till! !MG C. MR. CUTTING.

The Defendant W 11.4 twonght up for judgment,
pursuant to the orrior of the Court on a former day,
tin a libel as certain Magistrates. He was
sentenced to three mouths' imprisoutoent iu the
King's &nth Primo, and to find security for his
good ii.litnisur for two years, himself iu 1001. and
two sureties iu 501. each.

THE KING V. MINTER.
This Defendant was alto brought up for edg.
meat, far settditit a challenge wtth intent to hr.lik
the peace. He was sentenced to sit: months' im-
prisonment in Chelmsford Gaol, to gild security
for his good conduct for two years, himself in 2001.
and two sureties in 1001. each.

BASTAtt DY.
Mr. BENT obtained a Rule for a W.rit of Wows
Corpus, to bring up the body of a you's.; woman,
who had been committed by the Alagistrrites
Ayleshory, to the House of Carreetioa of Av
bury, for the space of twelve months. site having
refused to diseover the name of the father of her
bastard female child. It appeared upon the affi-
davits. in support of the Rule, that the bastard was ,
never chargeable on the pariah, the parties having
the means of supporting it. The Parish Constable
repeatedly called upon her to discover the name of
the father, stud she was at lint bunt„ ht before the
Magistrates, but she still persisted in her refusal.
She was attended by two persons of opulence, who
were ready to indemnify the parish from being
charged with the bastard, and wla had actually
prepared the draft of a hail hone' for that purpose,
notwithstanding the Magistrates inside out her corn-
mitmtit as a v.v.:rant, for twelve months' imprison-
ment, nr until 11:ie should di.eover the names of the
father of the child. The Court conceiving that the
Magistrates had no power to make such a proviso,
granted the Rule.
O'KEI.LY a. aPARKES.

On Friday, Lord ELIANDOK0114:11 gave jilagnient
of toe Court upon this case, which woe a writ of
error from the Common Pleas, upon an action fiir
the arrears era:, annuity, brought by the Defetid-
ent, in error, Sparkes, against (Melly, the Plaintiff
in error. The annuity was originally grionted to
the amount of 2uol. per annum, by his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, to Samuel Cliisiney,
the celebrated jockey, of whom the Defendant m
error,l4parkes, was the assigsi-,,. The annuity was
covenanted to be paid by the Treasurer ..r hi., Royal
Highness's privy purse, fur the life of his Royal
Highness, and if it should be in arrear ten days,
then the Plaintiff in error, O'Kelly, bound himself
to pay as security.
An action was brought for the arrears, when the
Plaintiff in error Oradeal that the arrears became
due after the Sth of July, 1795, to wit, on the sth
oiJune, Isos, and that Sparkes did not give due
notice of his demand to the Coininis.inuers, under
the Act, appointed for the payment of hie Royal
Highness's debts.
Upon a demurrer to this plea, the Court of
Common Pleas determined against the Plaiittiff in
error, and upon a writ of error to thin Court, it
was now determined that that judgment was correct.
Lord ELI.r4IIIOROUGNI said. that it was immate-
rial, when the debt became due, fur the sorely, as
it was in this case, whether the payee of the an-
nuity was enabled by any subsequent act to recover
the principal ; and that Mr. O'Kelly, as surety for
his Royal Highness, was liable to the payment of
the money.
Judgtnent affirmed.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

WOOD O. WtST.

Mr. Serjesat Smitosii RD hail on a farmer day
obtained a Rule, calling on a person of the name
of Creenway, to chew cause why he should not I•ey
the costs t be taxed to the Defendant, upon the
non-suit at the trial of this cause. At the trial it-
self, Greenway had, on the part of the Plain-
tiff, to prove au admission by the Defendant,
of a balance in his bands, oil the foot of dealings
between them : it appearing, li.evever, that the
balance was the other way, tin I 1' as a nna-suit.—
The affidavit of the Lliefeurtanr, upon which the
present application was grounded. charged “reen-
way with having brought the actin,' in the Platn-
thrs mime, (who had before that time fled the
kingdom to avoid piosecution for some offence),
without having any power of attorney authorising
him so to do, and for the purpose of putting the
money in his own pocket, in the event of his ant-
eceding. It also charged him with knowing,

at .the time of bringing the ilictioh, that within
waa really due to the Caintilf ; and declaring that
he would go on with it, dotwithstumliu;.;, iu order,
'we he said, to avreet the Defendant, who, by the
flight of Wood, Wl4 disabled Irom ever recovering
his roes.

in reply to these charges, Greenway made an sat-
davit.and Mr. Srrj. Best contended from it, that his
client should not be made answerable for the costs.
The affidavit stated that lie had authorised by
Wood, at his departure, to conc.:, his debt., and
denied that in the present tustance lie knew there
was nothing due by the Defendant ; on the contrary,
it appeared, by the statement of the UCCUIInt, that
there was a balance in favour of the Plaintiff, which
was only done away ou the trial by a set-oil' on the
part of the Defendant; the affidavit also denied
that Giveaway had brought the action for his own
benefit ; inasmuch as Wood, ut the time of his
WRS not indebted to him in any sum of mo-
ney ; lastly, it was coatended that the Defendant
had lost his time far redress, if entitled to uoy, by
not having applied, us he might have done, to the
Court, for security for the costs, upon the absence
of the Plaintiff out of the kingdom.
Mr. Serjeaut SoLeuEtto argued. that the Court
were called on, boon the face of the affidavits, to
punish Greenway, by making hint pay the costs.—
It did not appear, upon his own affidavit, that he
was properly, that is, in the legal arose of the word,
authorised to brim; the action in the Plaintiff's'
name, but only to collect his debts. Ile did not ven-
ture to so ear he hail, nor did he oiler to produce any
Power wf Attorney for that purpose. Ile had also
sworn the Plainta, was not iu his debt, which might
he true, and he nut the less intend to put into his'
own 'locket any money gotten by the suit, as there
way uo danger of Wood's returning to clan's, it.—
As to his knowledAe that the Plaintiff had no real
dentinal against time Defendant, that was manifest,
from his drelsang he woad go on with the action
at all event:, us the Defendant could never recover
his costs, which had been positively sworn to, but
which Greenway had never ventured to deny.—
The Court were inclined to make the Rule abso-
lute, for making Greenway answerable to the De-
fendant fur his costa, but gave him 'till Motirhy
to produce his Power of Attorney, if aay such he
had, to warrant his instituting this action.