The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-10-11 00:00:00

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James Fos! er yesterday ouderwont • pi vote examination
before the Lord Mayor, on • charge of haring forged • check
for toot upon the Bankinchoose of Messrs. Sykes awl Co.
IWanaion.houpe-street. We forbear to gin the particulars,
as there is realms to suppose there are others implicated in
the offence. The Prisoner was committed to the Peu!try
for fartber nomination.

GUI , OCT. 10.
JAn Bolton and Theses ltfairneg, two boys abort twelve
years of age, were charge.' by Samuel Winter, ivory turner,
Shoe-lane, with feloniously stealing a japanned ink-stand. It
appeared that the Prisoiwrs came into the Proseentor's shop,
and offered for sale a toy which is denominated by the trade
an leery Peril. They only asked eighteen-penes for it,
and the vales of the art.cle was to. winch caused the Prose-
color to refire retraining it, he ampecting it bad been sto-
les. Alm sisaire after the Prinosenkft bin shop, he missed
the lallmhead, Ned *Bowed them, and found a in the posses-
sion of Shen. whosail the other Prisoner bed taken it, and
bad gives It to him. The Pronestur gave them into the
misted, efim Officer.
The Officer stated, that the Primmer Ideating was well
known ma a thief, and that his whole family followed the
same profession. Bolton's parents were Lane., and indoi-
trims people. After they had been delivered into his cwitutly,
he parched them. On Bohm) lie found a pair of spectacles,
• new sew red Murree. mosey-purer, a silver salt-spoon
and twenti pence in ILapeues sod farthings, sod also the
i.e..," devil.
Bolton, in ►is defence, denied haring taken the ink-stand;
the spectacles and money, he said, belong to his mother;
the p..eket-book he had purchased, sell thespoes and ivory
tor he had (mind as be crossed Smithfield.
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The other Primmer, 31.tuniug, did nut make any defence,
hat begged the merry of the S ' g Alderman, as he had a
disordered bead.

Time father and mother of folio m mmenreil in his behalf,
soil with much fraiikity*, stated, th it I h.. son had eon*
stonily worked with his fattier : but tlilt, halm ly, the other
Prisoner, Manning, Mod eight boys of the NM: no, were
continually inducing their min t, go out, and 'levy were
sure for no good purpose.; and emu secoont of their chas-
tising the boy Rw being in their eumpasiv, whenever they
appeared in the street, this gang of boys limited aflyr them.
They said they came to speak the truth, mid it was tbs
teat time they had ever known that their boy had been
guilty of a theft. Thus not wish to interfere, hut to
leave his putushnicut to the discretoin of the worthy Ma*
giatratt.

, 1'
be presiding Aldermse 'Ht %TY direcleol, tbal %fan-
ri•nir @borsht be constnott. I to ftrioltorell fur ,or Wilk, and
whipped ; and that Bubo* should rectisr a BIWA:wr. whip-
ping, and be then rest.ieeil to In. parrots,
Mrs. Bolton claimed the mune!, and spest.rtra, es her
property. btu cleated sit knowledge of tier 5A1t..p...1• the
terry devil, or the Morocco parse. The articles .be clam-
ad were delivered to her

At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
fee the Eastern Division of Some. held at Lewes
on Friday last, George Cooper, tenth() guilty of a
inirdenseanonr. iu haviug obtained certain articles.
under false pretences, of Ilirsintr Tomo, was
sentenced to a tine of one shillasig, assd six swathe
imprisonment.
Williams Bede, committed for assaulting EOROB
DORII AN. by stabbing him in the left side with
a penknife. in Middle-street, Brighton, on the 91 ti
of Jane lest, of which he still lingers, was tried and
arritied.
Thomas Edwards, convic•ed of an saasith spun
one .0 Ue PK NICHOLS. was ordered to he
3 inonths, and until he enters into a recognizsoce
of fifty pounds to keep the paacr for two yearpi.
An insane 10411 (mime iniknowm) communed by
the SPEAR KR, limier the provie•ous of an at•t of the
94th and itoth of his present Majesty, sea ►uischiev-
one parson, was remanded.
The above was the shortest Sessions we have wit-
nessed for a lung time omit.