The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-03 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

FNIIED9 OE TEE REGENT (*incur ROOKING.OFFIEE.
Ott SOltliday. Mr. Joseph Lonrisser. jam. proprietor of the
Steam Perhe, General Booking-office, No. 36, Regent Circus, was
el:argsd with having committed various fraudulent embezzlements,
the following eirearostaness
Henry Nddison, Esq. deposed that. upon the 3d of March 1826,
he a parcel to the Regent or eiteam..Packet office. contain.
I.:e two llth Rank notes, a gold watch and a gold chain, direct.
irl to Mrs. Macpherson, York. He delivered it to Abbott, the
ana paid him 4s. 61. for insurance. Receiving no
arm sat a the parcel from the lady, lie wrote to her, when she
set.e.l that .t had not arrived, even up to the 24th ult. Upon this
h- • it the office, and having seen Abbot, and the prisoner,
tete-. errrriti ineffectual attempts to put him off, was inforined that
ft, p..reet nod been forwarded by the York coach from the White
florse. Fetter-line; he made inquiries at the White Horse, and
1 sea, Om eta es. :It parcel had been received at that office.
C.arles Abbot ~ateil that he gave the parcel to Cambridge, the
driver of the mail-cart, on the night it was received, and he put
a; r. the cart. They then want to have some gin together. leaving
the prisouer m eldirge of the can. It was nut marked off till the
peat day, which was no uncommon occurrence. Several other
pvtneLl owitaining mosey had been mimed. He had repeatedly
pledved tt•lngs far Mr. Lancaster, juts.
Mr. Addison further stated, that subsequently, on proceeding to
Rersot.etrast with two °Seers aced a search warrant, and looking
i .to the prisoner's desk, be found a small white prper parcel, coo.

taming two pamphlets and a letter, which he had sent to the office
by his foonnan on the tiOth et January.
Est Natal and Awl,, the efbecrs, &Totted to flatting the parcel in
the desk. and nn searching the prisoner. a vast number of duilt-
ales for various articles, from 10a. to 41. 10.6

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Several other justsmis said they haul chart Y to make against the
Act and the prisoner war remanded for Itirti:et examina.ion until
IVednestiay.

WORSHIP./TRELT.

On Saturday Jrhn :Carton was finally examined on a charge of
assaulting and robbing Thomas Hughes, a hackney coach masttr,
residing in Penton-grove, Pentonville-
It appeared from the deposition of the prosecutor, an elderly.
2ftable-looking person, that about ten o'clock at night. on the
.eicif Febriarv. tetile he was at the stand in Smithfield, the
prikoner *creme.) him, and proposed to acconvetat y hint on the road
towards Pentonville. His ofrer being acerv.txl, he mounted Wit
box, and expressed a wish to drive. This also the prosecutor
agreed to and the reins were given to him, 'ant instead ofdris.
ing alor.g the Cite-road towards Pentonville; he turned down Old.
street, and into Shoreditch, where he asked the prcsecutor to dtink.
They then entered the Gun I,ollr-house, and had a cptartern of
gin. On leaving the house prisoner asked prosecutes if he Could
spar? Not to night. said he. The prisoner immediately struck
him In the breast, and knocked him down. The prosecutor ftelirg
• tugging at his watch, struggled to deferd it. but the prisoner
knocked his head against the stones, and stuntml him, and when
he recovered he found that the prisoner had decamped with his
watch and gold chain. He had net seen the prisoner since until he
saw him in custody.—Committed for trial.

LAM BErif.STREET.
1101tRI8LE Denney yr r.—An instance of es gross depravity
as, perhaps, ever called for the severest judicial punishment, was
en Saturday last submitted to the notice of the MaOstrates of this
office. A female, named Gregory, was brought up iu custody of
the perish officer of Mile-end. Newtown, charged with having
committed robberies in the work-house, and having inveigled two
little girls and two boys from within its walls, and leading the
former into bab:ta of prostitution d the lanes into those of theft.
From the evidence it apppre prisoner was in the work.
house, and had been appointed took en. (in Monday
last. having previously made tbecht red steal every thing they
could lay their hands on. and packed up the things in a bundle, she
helped them over the wall of the workhouse, and in the evening
escaped herself. They met at an appointed place. and she took
them to that sink of iniquity, Rose-lane, where she hired a lodg-
ing. Leaving the boys and one of the girls there, she took the
other, named Sally Johnston, whu, by her appearance, could not be
more than twelve years of age, to a publie.hluse opposite the
Royalty Theatre, whew, having made her intoxicated, she hended
her over to the loose desires of a soldier. _ .

The children were minutely examined by the Megistrates, and
gave a detail of infamy so excessive as scarcely to be credible.
The prisoner was remanded for further examination, in order to
give time to bring home the charge of theft against her, that she
might not go a•.tngeiher unpunished. as the other charge, though t
crime of a deeper dye, cannot, it is feared, be conclusively estab-
lished.