The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-03-23 00:00:00

MISTERIOCISOCCITRBENCE.

A very mysterious occurrence took place, last
Thursday, in the tinnily of Joseph Gosling. resi-
dent in Lee's-yard, Meadow-lane, in Leeds. la
the abmusce of his father and mother, who were
both out on business, a little boy, about tea veers
Owe. clone into the house, and found a ;mall
cake laid upon *table. ' Not having had may food
for souse time, he seized the cake with avidity, and
gyre a part of it to two other of the ehiitiren ;
shortly after his somber came in, and she partook
with thew. They all thought the bread had a very
singular taste • sweet, and yet very pungent.--
' Almost itnmekhately their stomachs became ex-
tremely disordered, and Mr. Atkinson, the air-
roe, was sent for; on esamiaing a part of the
cake whielt remained, he discovered that it was
straggly imprrapiated with poison. An emetic was
.is the mesa tune prepansi tot the mother and her
tree ebildren, and, we are happy to add, they are
all now in a frir way of recovery. The distressed
, situation cf these uofortunate people calls for the
1 benevolent ai.." of the charitable and hiimaiiv. The

family conbista of font children, birairtesthe father
and mother; and the Feltner ha% with a few *hart

intervals, been out of eutplaywent for nearly le
ntont!rs. _ _

Oince writing the above parsufraph, we have seen
Mr. Atkinson, and find, that after ruhrnittiir,g a
part of the coke to the mud test, he has over-
Mined, that x large proportion of arsenic hod been
sainted up with the wheaten flour of which it rasa
composed. How this fstal bread Larne into the
house, by whom it was plseed on •he table, acrd
for what purpose. still remain unexplained—
/Leeds Mercury./

A. some workmen were ►act week employed in
digipng a cellar in a house opposite the Tankard
iti-Tacket-atrisst, Ipswich, they found the skulls
and bones of 10 or I>t human bodies. In Kirey's
Sella& Traveller, we 6iid, that Sir ANTMONY
V. INGFIRI.th Knight (lithe Garter, who was Vice
Chamberlain and Privy Counsellor to Htnav
VIII. had a house here (now the Tankard public
house), opposite to which there was a chapel for
the use of ins &Indy ; and it is not unlikely that
the place where the slinils were found, was the
burial zround attached to it.
liYMts, a shipwright, in the Dock-yard at
Portsmon h, was married en Thuwilay looming, add
died •wdrieulc in the course of the wane uight.-1t
is suitl that he had by some means taken
A melancholy instmace of suicide happened at
Lincoln last week. ♦ young Gentleman of re-
spectable connexions, so Attorney of that cit), of
the assure of Swas, deprived himself of life by
nearly severing his head from hill body with a
razor. The cause of this rash act remains at pre-
! sent unknown.

At the late Ai Iles for Glom-ester. a true Bill for
wilful murder was found against Lieuta. Heoz/e and
Sill !retinal. the principal sail second in the tinter.
tusi.te duel at Stroad, in which the mach-lameuted
Lieut. Dottie:re was killed; hut neither of theta
have yet been apprehended. All the capi...l con-
verts are reprieved, except Markus% who is left foe
execntion. He we+ Ihund guilty of a burglary in
the hos-e of C. %V. Hoop, of Bri.tiol. _

The Ticket. No. lt,too. 41ruwti ..esterday, the
3d day of Drawing. a P.ize of .0300, was sold in
rixteca Sisteenthi. by Sir JANE* Saanstetts and
Co. at their Lvti Lottery °Sees. No. 11.
born ; No. 37, ; and No. 33. Haymarket
where No. 1 oij. drawn a Prise of t to.ooo. en Va.
first day C. f Driosiug, was slaved in 16 Sistoenthai
and No. 1 1..i13. draws a Prise of sal the
second day of Drawing. was likewise sib cad is one
Quassia, three Ei,;fith., and six Svitelmtkiri, by the
above Proptietors in the present Lottery; ani
*hese T,etos sad Snaresof T. chef.. ars uon veiling.
sissositcd eiucleawn sad Prises paid on demand.