The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-03-09 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

ILLIcIT Dradge, a young man
dressed as a labourer, was brought up, charged by Mr. John
Fitcherd, an Officer of Excise, under the 33d of George 111.
cap. 70, sec. 14, with being found on the premises where a private
still was discovered. . . _

The prisoner, when taken into custody, acknowledged that he
was in the service of a person named Lovegrove, Against whom
there bare been repeated convictions; that the present still was
only set up within the last fortnight, during which time it bad
been worked off six thres. _ _

The prisoner was convicted under the Statute in the penalty of
301., in default or payment of which he was sent to the House of
Correction for six months.
It was sassed. in painefse the extent of the present system of
illicit distillation, that since the eonmencement of this year, up to
the present period, twenty-two private stills have been seized in the
neighbourhood of London and brought into the Excise Office.

UNION-HALL.
Joh* Pattridge,• yolith scarcely 13 years of age, wu brought
before the sitting Iblagisteste, It. J. Chambers, Esq. charged with
having robbed his mother, the wife d a Captain in the West India
trade, who is now abroad.
The poor mother, a very respectable looking woman, with tears
streaming from her eyes, stated, that since the departure of her
husband for the West Indies, her unfortunate son had become
connected with a desperate gang of thieves in the neighbottrhood of
‘Valworth, at which place, and Camberwell, they were in the coo.
scant habit of committing depredations of every description. The
pcor mother stated that the last artier her son had stolen was thS
portrait of his father, in a gilt frame; and her only
.object -arse t•
have the boy slightly punished. in the hope of reforming him.
He was committed to Brixton for ose month, for Morally paws.
ing, and ordered to be once publicly whipped during his imprimis,.
ment. The latter part of this punishment, 111 r. Chambers said,
was genera/1y attended with the moat beneficial results in the re.
formation of youthful delinquents. The prisoner, on hearing that
part of his sentence pronounced which subjected hint to &tees&
broke out into exclamations that he would never be guilty of tub.,
He was, bower. sent off.

Lis patent again..

LUCKY Tirter.—About twenty yards above the Cora-
Linn, where the water of the Clyde ispreiptuted over perpendi-
cular rocks eighty feet In height, there is* chasm of not more than
seven or eight feet in width. through which the whole collected
stream :pours impetuously along. Aby had stolen some apples
Cam the garden at Con-house, and being detected by the gardener,
tie ran towards the river, and attempted to jeep over the terrific
currant. He missed his footing, and fell headlong into it. The
gardener stood horror-Itrack. and expected to see the mangled corpse
or the boy emerge only op be dashed down the fearful cataract be-
low. Imagine Iris sensation of joy when lie saw the lad thrown
safely on the ledge of the opposite rock, and heard hhn, as he seam-
perod off *kb tho fagot apples in his lard, exclaim, " Abe, lad !
ye hay.: na' catch% we yet I"

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