The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-03-25 00:00:00

POLICE.

*St anntsit•ittran.
MANCHESTER DELCGATES.
Yoint WelJterly, Jobe Garldtart, and Mary Palmer, were
brought he the /iodic...room upon a charge of felony, as well
es open enspirinn of having come to this metropolis from
Meowitemer, with the view of exciting discontented work.
meal to stand out against reduced prices. The Lord Mayor
very closely inrevtigatevi the charges.
Webbed,' applied to Mary Butler. landlady of the George
Angehoilley, on Friday last, to he acc ~,,,, 1/11.
dated with a mow, furnished, foot himself sail his wife. mid-
iag a• the same time, that he bad arrived almost a week from
Maticlorater, where he had been ineffectually seeking work.
A room was given to him, and he, accompanied by the
female Primmer, took sip their abode there without tidily.
iVehberly appeared to be an inilestrions man, in floe shoe.
making line, and soon after he bad removed into the Com-
Ideionnee Ironer, procured the materials for a pair of phases
iain 'which lie worked without intermission nista they were
finished. Next day he procured materials fur half...-dusen
Fair. from a Mr. Graham. mud the Complainant was in.
.'oee•l to become melody for the homely of the Prisoner
otirhlwrly), its the tine yof the work. She signed an
matron-mad to this effect. Wehlwrly, in his gratitude fur the
rayon•. derlertol that he would du a signal service to Isis
hem (actress; that he was a Delegate from Manchester, and
was at the head of a Commi►tee which encouraged men in hia
line of irosinesa to stand out for good ware; and that all
'townies intorno! by him and those be shrink' introdnee to
nu! Iniose of entertainment, would be defrayed without hefti-
est too by the Secretary to the great body of the liberal
issorueynscn shoe-makors. Wchlwrly then wrote down sear.
451 us. situ's, alorb he 1/1111 swore the names of delegates who
would he friends to her I sr, by mn•ting there to transact
their very impotent bus-norm. Shortly after this minimum.
eat 111 l , a 'mother of jo.srneymra diowayokets canoe hi, the
!mow, and acre addressed by Wchlwrly in the woad strain
county paltliems. He stool amungat them, mid fobd
thrust he was a "Trump," a trite Briton, who w. old lead
them to jsodice, mu through a copper of ambling enlohlei's.
was. Ile produced to them a loiter from vino, brother
del••gatea, noldressing him and those also united with him
as brothers, fiends, mid shopmates." a•sotriuZ them on
the plans arranged for their advantage. The communica-
tion a. eflllell to inspire great joy an ttttt Est the josurtwymen,
100 tail le 20 mail 30 of ahem °erupt. ti the seats ..f the lap-
rii ..... . Drink as, called fur. and the landlady was assured
11.31 thr great Committer of this branch of tonic would
transfer their meetings from a house in dm I Old &dry,
wis, re they were out well treated and did not get gtm.d beer,
to 11, I' howl. The company "raid: to the auto ,".t of 2/. las.
null then &skid off, flue by ttttt until Webbed) anti
Goilliting were left 'reflood any company. The landlady,
also bud lent 11 91. tii IVebbeily before this ear. ~sal, imme.
aims ly d,r•eted as Of ieer to convey the two delegates to the
Conipter ; and out working Wrirlserly's room, which she
Inside so face as to break open. to ascertain whether the
leather ass in the right place. not only mimed that material
for m.+lir.g amen, boot fllle of her brat sheets. Ott going out,
she ms t the 6 male Prisoner with the sheet, which had torts
just taken oat of pawn.
Tln• female Prisoner begged most earnestly to he allowed
to Co I to her husband and three children, who knew
nothing of this busineas. She &clawed aloe was wholly inno.
refit of ally erase, haven: passel as WI blocily's wife merely
for the pa.posr of get ne hum a loilgiec it toeing di/Resift to
procure • for mu unmarried ones. ; all she dad fur him was
to make Ins bad. Mto 11w ►lssa't, two moat h 5,1 giev., her
the duplicate of it, with directions to lake it out of pledge,
and loan it to Mrs. Butler's, where she was actually going
si heir apprehended.
Webbed! caul Ire hail jilat some up from Manchester; that
he merely knew the persons who inn the •rare; and that the
landlady ought not to have given drink a ill t y.
Ike Lord Mayor said there was so metlitiog awkaard and
suspicious in looked as if the meeting was storm.
bled 6.r mischief of a serious nature.—U.ruaudtol.

BOW [T.

On Tuesday Sir Nathaniel Conant, Mr. iisnir, and Mr.
Hs. It-, the three Magistraies belonging in the Office, assem-
bled Its investigate the conduct of Thomas limed, a man
employed as a patrols., revecting Isis having employed a
cs i lain howl* r of mess to attend near the hustings at the
lase IVs•stsus sister Itlectism, when, after a full rionnitation
of
H.•uJ'+ ronsluo in tie tratisartion, the Magtslrales rause too
a its-tersisissat 1111 l to suspend Is in from his employment, mid
lie was accuislisigly suspeudi.d.

Vt4lllll-ILkiL.

ROBBERY OF DR. BRINE.
Tester (ley John Allen was rxamiurd before Robert Joseph
Chamh• Is. charged on suspicion of being oue of a gang who
alumbe.l o r. Brute, of Spring gardens, its ►euuitsgtou Oval,
awl gobbed him of 41. in Ralik notes.
Alsout six weeks ago the Prosecutor was point from
Sprior toilet's to his (wintry house at Brixton, whets pa.s.
tog by Ketiisiotglon Oval he saw a number of fellows pl.” lug
at clips nod halls, and offering to het lOW ,ts the issue of a
►ivale pore Suspecting that the twits they had were
forged. and wishing to detect them, lie pulled out 41 in If.
notes, and uffo red to bet that sum on the pine. He was in.
starlit) surrounded, pushed about, and finally robbed .4f the
ouiea, and all the gaol, six or seven its uumlke►, escaped.
1%4 Pi isoner was taken on the Deptford mail by Graves, use
of the Huss street patrulf,o,, suspicion of rubbing the Dart.
turd ..aggou of 2111 m. of tobacco.—lteniauiled.

MAILIBOROI/011 STUFIET.
ROBBERY OF TH F. EARL OF CLARE.
Yoateratly Wit/ions Tale, alit stated himself to be the
atm of a hackney coachman, of Tottenhamcourt-rnail, wav
litoo;:lit up from the watch-honer, charged by Wslliam Al-
&him towboat's' to the Earl of Clare, with having stolen a
•alualite crest s oat, the property of his Lordshup, under she
foltuaing circumstance, :
It :wand from Ike evidence of the coachman, Thomas
Soirthicl. footman to the Earl of Clarel,autl other witnesses,
Out on Today hight List, about ten o'clock, the coachman
drove the carnage isito Sackrille.street, Piccadilly, for the
purpose of taking np her Ladyship, who was at a Noble-
niati's house. in order lo take her to the Duke of Eutland'it.
ert.ing bee Ladyship down, the (Outman phial Isis Lord-
ship's mearcuat inside the carriage, and lie then rode with
die cuachisiail on the boa. Ois arriving oppurim Coutlutt-
street, ita Sroalluw.strert, on their way to Lunt Wickluw'r, in
iintrielta o.lrcel, the coachman observed the door open, and
sonic persam fumbling its the conch; he informid the foot-
man, who gut down, tau whirl, the thief jumped down and
ran off with his Lordslisp'a coat, winch, he purchased in
Paris foe tice.sint.twenty guineas, elegantly braided and
listed with fur. The badman pursued with the cry of" Step
thief!" and the Prisoner was stopped in Mill-street, Swab.
lute.atrect. The cum was found hanging un a railing some
distance off, by the watchman. The Prisoner was taken to
llr •atch-huitoe ; he said lie bad been formerly a *enfant its
the riesploy 44. Captain Brookes, of Fihsbnry-square, but
left bun tau his gums to France.—lie was remanded.

A kw nights ago the coach-houses of Mr. WOOD,
et Bennington, were broken into and robbed of
three sets of harness and two bridles, with which
the thieves escaped.
The dwelling-house of J. Ctsustrilori. Esq.
No. It, Clams-terrace, Lambeth, was privately en-
tered u few nights back bye ping of thieves, who
rummaged the whole house, broke open several
Ciir.to mild trunks, and carried uIE all the plate,
e►gl►t pair of linen sheets, fifteen table-cloths,
holies' dresses of various kinds, to the • number of
twenty. and other property, in the whole to the
valise of near 1501.
The Assizes for the County of Kent finished on
Saturday, when the unprecedented number of
il►irty-sis prisoners, who had been capitally con-
victed, reined sentence of death; all of whom,
except William Berra. alias Jenuer (19 years of
agt). for highway robbery, and James Morgan. for
►tealing 101 pimp, were reprieved by the Judges.
These inert, whose offences are of the
gitattst auocity, were left fur execution.