The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-09-08 00:00:00

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..I.4str"ll4r V.• .Soasenrille,lateltvenisd a.-'tint of
His Majesty's ship Ite•wsweie, out Inought "Ind..re Mt.
NAIIIIIII, the Sitting Magistrate, and heist I. u d 1 to keep the
peat:* fur twelve mouths, himself iu 400. aad two floseltritew
iti soul. such, for lissisytialleugesi Hugh Posanese, isle
rirst Lieutemivt of His .
n fti4 ship, the tatter glee-
(resi the interference o The, Magistrate to the tawitnfeio
of Lieutenant tiosessille. • • t'
Yesterday Jai., limy was caul:Aimed befoot Pire*test sr
prelittoded Ly Perth', t loseged with outshine his roeistell 11
Commander di Aveto, of mosey and jewels to the iiiiseunt
of %out .
The Cummnndkr di sleet° ileposed, that the rr:mnser was
Lis valet, • 1111, 141 the-night of the sends of Auguitt last, hie
house was rubbed ul amity, iliauniud brooches, Ste. to the
ateiniut of ups arils uf .401.
hest. at witnesses attended, who prutzd many eireuinstaores
of sualvicium on the mid Le was catumitted Cu New-
gate, to take his trial.

111•SSION-110LbE.
SWINDLING.
A Treachtnan, of the name of /...0 Motown., was yesterday
charged by Mt. Anthony Longrith, weaver, !iodate...kW,
with swindling bins cant of goods to the amount of ijcl.
Loagaitit stated, that the Prieuaer, accompanied by
a person of the moue adult's Cummins, aurae to his weru-
house, and informed Lim they wanted a quantity of goods
to scud to the West ladies. The Prisoner ri.preaented
Commis, as a merchant of great respectability., who had
possessions to a large claret M the West Indies ; told bite
that he knew hies for sissy years sad that kis paper wits as
(mod as that of ally house is Lutetium, whi..k induced hits to
let them have goods to the amuutit of idol. for which h•
received a toots of Cummins, payable in sit. months ; at this
time Commies had a house in latailenlialbstieet fora few
weeks ; he bad sisce absconded, after he end the Prisoner
Lail sold the tools to another tradesman, fur touch legs Masi •
they bud agreed to pay fur them : this he could prove by
the prraon oho bought them, sod that they divided the
money equally between them; Ls Lad been in search of •
the Prisoner, bat could rut get any account of bits, tilt by
accident he met him this day io the street, alien he tried to
avoid hits, but he canals loin by. the collar, sad held kits
until au officer wag go: to take him into custody.
The Prisoner made a must ingenious defence—he said he
lived in the Borough, that lie was a Beukrupt, and that the
Assignees, ruder the Commission, had entrusted I with
sound. worth of property to dispute of for them ; txrl having
his certificate, he was not able to commence businers again,
but he thought he was justified is doing business as a Bro.
kyr. Cummins was' recommended to Woo as a West kills
merchant, that wanted to buy goods, and it' he world choose
the goods fur him, be should he allowed brokerage. Ile did
not thick it tucomberst un hint to inquire particularly who
Commies am, as he was only to receive brokerage; he
lusew Cessaeing hail a boost, Is, Charleastiect,
road ;he knew nothing hint before the transaction with
Mr. Loogwith ; he made no false representation ; lie only
picked the ouch out, and wag paid his Commies''s'. Cuts-
alas gave Mr. Longo itli a reference to two respectable 174r-
chants, Mr. Lee' of Oxford-road, was our end auather
Gentleman, whose address he. did nut remember ]fee Lung.
with.seemed perfectly belittled with the account ballad got
from those Geutlemes, 'fwd accepted of Cuensishaitit sole,
payable di six mouthe, shish was trot yet due, and lieldelSed
Mr. Lungwith to say, to to ghee, that his muse wasigfer tit-
tered on his books as the purchaser orostensible person
Ile was convinced the Magistrate world see how littik cause
there was to suspect him of a fraud; for if brokers Were to
inquire into the circuinstantee of the perwss that employed
them, their custom would Ye snail indeed ; seder those con-
siderations, Its boa au doubt bet the Overtly Magistrate
would discharge him
Mr. Lnagwith said the Prisoner bad not stated the d;
for he was the person rho made the false re of
CWWWWOO, by which means he was induced to let
the goods ; be did sot know at the time the P p
bankrupt, but had lea:tied it duce from his Assignee,
wrote to him to beg that he would have bite secured, ash r had
defrauded the Commigaion of several boadreds of pounds ;
Ante was w seeempliee of the Masser and Cain-
aim, bed seeds a full coniessine or the dicta
The irereityA remanded the Prisoset fir hear
ouunimetisis, sod desired him, whim he was neat broorb
to the license that be, as • Freedom% MOS
to female iu this country. arc f
Mang. o•riptant4.
• nymph of the Psphian enter, mused Lewin; ,Neswell,
was yesterday charged by a Scotch Highlander, named Alex-
ander M'G repo, with stealing from his person a bore mull,
saiseated with silver, vales 16s.
The Prosecutor, who was habited is kis Wilma goatee%
• Ea sass culotte, stated his charge with • tree Gaelic idiom
god tone. He bad bectersoling the Prboser oft% Wilke" of
Scotch whiskey, at a house is St. Giles's, samisen& der the
excellence of that intoircating cordial. This
much harmony and good humour between the pdRfX sad
Mr. M'Gregoe' with greattpiditemes,laaaded his rapymetriesad
the room, and when it cant to the Prisoner's turn`o "Mk
pectic smechnie," she contrived to conceal the mitll on her
person, unknown to the Prosecutor, and woe afterwanie de-
camped with great precipitatios. Mr. M'Gregor did not
discover hie Iwo ninth u quarter of en hour afterwards, when
he was about to refresh his olfactory nerves with. pinch of
snuff, when he missed bit property. The alarm was imme-
diately gavot and the Primmer was apprehended mid charged
with the nathery. She denied, however, any knowledge
whatever of the mull, and protested her innocence. This,
however, had no effect in vindicating her houesty, arid she
was immediately couveyed to the Watch-house. Mr.
11POregor attached great value to his mull, from the cir-
resistance of its being a piece of family plate, having on-
'teeny heluaged to hie great-grandfather, and he declared he
would not lime parted with it for any money.
Witnesses were called to prove that the Prisoner was the
last prune who had possession of the well.
The Prisoner, in hsr defence, said, she took the until for a
bit affaus, and thatl she had no improper motive in carrying
it off; end that she was usable to return it to the Prosecutor
spin, from the circumstance of her pockets having hero
stolen from her.

The MA taliell ATLI. however, ordered her either I. re-
store the moll or its adcquatr subs*, with t►e latter of which
.be complied, and was disrh.ireecl

FIRE.

Yesterday morning, about one o'clock, a dread-
ful fire broke'out in the residence of-- Woodi-
son, Esq. Barrister at Law, No. 6.5, Chancery-lane,
Holborn, which having entirely condoned that
dwelling, and partially communicated to the ad-
joining Premises, produced incalculable damage.
Th. interior of Mr. Woodisoo's house. consisting
chiefly of household furniture, a saleable library,
which was the work of care and labc.ur during a
deat number of years, and interesting papers and
ocuments of the utmost importance, were shortly
reduced to a heap of ashes. The tire advanced so
rapidly. and the consternation was so great
amongst the neighbours, that aot a single
article of any value was saved from the conflagra-
tion. Some considerable time elapsed before the
fire-engines, which priased from all quarters, on the
alarm being given, cuald render effectual insist-
ence. The budding ,tdased on with the utildoit
fury, and presently thF.dames acre so violent iss,to
attach themselves to the adjacent houses, which
certainly would have shared the same bite, but for
a timely supply of waters winch being judiciously
applied by the &einem the fury of this dreadful
element was speedily stopped, amid about eight to
the morning no further danger whatever was appre-
hcmied. The house had been entrusted to the care
of two female servants. during Mr. Woodisisi's al•-
gence at Brighton. No satisfactory cause has yet
been asaigned fur this melancholy event.