The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-12 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

The Neptune, Cumberledge, from Bengat, has arrived in the
Downs. She sailed from Saugar 26th Feb., from Vizigapatam in
March, from Madras the 28th of April, from the Cape 2d of
August. and St. Helena the 19th ditto.
The Franklin, Treadwell. front Padang, has arrived at Cowes.
She tailed from Padang the 13th of April, 1826.
The Neptune, Cumberledge, from Madras, was detained 31
days off the Cape by severe NAV. gales, and experienced two very
severe hurricanes on the 25th of September, a northerly gale ;
and on the 28th a S.E. gale, shifting afterwards to the N.W.;
which induced the Neptune to lay to, to prevent the violent con-
cutsinn of the sea.
Passengers per the Neptune, from Bengal end Madras—Mrs.
Hawker, wife of Major-General Hawker; Mesdames Lord, Gowan,
Lushington, and Bannerman ; Sirs. Ansell, widow of --- Ansel!,
Esq.; Mrs. Grindley. widow of Captain Grindley • Mrs. Cup.
.page,es twytdsowi'3otifl —1
aigilt-ii.uPil3raficetivEn.l. titiloren-a(niteTortiioinHelawkerw,lheris
Madras Native Infantry; Major Crokat. his Majesty's 20th Foot
Lieutenant Brown, his Majesty's 34th Foot; George Gowan, Esq.
Madras Civil Service • David Bannerman, Erq. ditto; Captain
Slade, Madras N. 1., died sth of May; Lieut. Fullerton, Madras
N. 1.: Lieut. Peppercorne. ditto; Lieut. Fairbrass, ditto (died 9th
July); Lieut. Buchanan, ditto ; Mr. J. R. Watts, from the Cape ;
Slits Atkinson, Slits Lord, Miss Gowan, Miss Puke, Miss
Lushington, Miss Bannerman, Master Lord, Master Gowan, two
Masters Lushington, Miss Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Bight, and
child ; two European and four Native servants; T. Forster,
from the Madras Hospital, and twi nt;-otie invalids from various
Regiments.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when Captain Charles &shy Grihble was
sworn into the command of the ship Repulse, consigned to
Bengal and China.
CONVULSION or NATURE.—A . few days since, by a
slight convulsion of nature (attributed to the dryness of
the weather), the principal wall which protects the Island
of Foulness, Essex, from the incursions of the sea, sunk in
a manner to cause some alarm with the cultivators of the ex-
cellent soil with which the island abounds ; but from the
circumstsnce•of the titles being upon the decrease, and the
active measures immediately resorted to by the Commis-
sioners, all apprehensiors have been retrieved. The wailers
have worked night and day to complete the embankment.
Hazard and Co. respectfully re►nind the Public diet
Next Wednesday i 3 positively fixed as the Day when all
Lotteries must for ever cease n► this Kingdom. Six Prizes
of Thirty Thousand Pounds will then be drawn, and it
will be recollected Hazard and Co. in one Lottery sold All
the 30,000/. Prizes, and very recently Three 20,000/.
Prises, drawn in One Day.—Royal Exchange Gate; 21;,
Cornhill; and 324, Oxford-stieet; and by Agents in all
he principal Country Towns.

(From the Alaneter(cr Merehry of Tdesday.l
Vr e have this week to record another fatal rare of hydrophobia
in Salford, arising, like the one we detailed about five weeks ago,
from the Lite of a cat, and in other respects greatly resembling that
case in its origin. Indeed, from the vicinity of the places where the
bit,. were inflicted, and from the dates, so far as they can be ascer-
tained, it appears extremely probable that the fatal effects were
produced by the same animal in both cues.
The sufferer In this case was Ann flialdwio, a widow, aged about
fifty-three years, who resided in Briercliffes-builtlings, Gravel-
lane, Stalked, and was generslly employed as a washerwoman. It
aupears that, about duce months ago, she was washing at Mr.
%Yuman's, in Broughton-street (not one hundred yards from the
place where Mr. Vaughan was bitten), when a strange cat entered
the wash-house, and was attacked by two of Mr. ld'orrairs dogs.
Mrs. Baldwin endeavoured to extricate the cat front its assailants;
when it axed its teeth upon the forefinger of her left hand, and in.
flitted a very severe wound. The animal appears to have been at
the time greatly enraged, as it mss not without considerable diffi-
culty that her hand was libcratetl. lesm its jaws. Though tire'
wound was painful, she continued at :ler employment during the
remaindei of the day ; but U increased in soreness, inflammation
succeeded, and continued about a week, extending up tha fore.arm.
It was bested by fomentation and leeches, bet rat by the advice
of aoy medical gentleman ; and the wound gradually and coin-
pletely healed. At intervals, however, she complained of pain in
the hand and ;Tin, especially after herd labour ; and frequently re-
ferred to the bite she hag recei7ed, in • way which showed that site
entertelecd considerable appreliensioos of the result. , On Thursday
and rriday she complained of having more than usaal pain. Till
Friday, however, she continued to fallow her usual occupation; but on
that day the pain extended to her tack and shoulders, and was ac-
companied by frequent shiveringa and extreme irritability. She
passed • very restless night, and the symptoms of !lee dreadful dis-
order under which she was labeuring became but too apparent, and
increased .n violence evsry limit. Early on Saturday morn:lig...3lr.
rernele visited her, nod fo,,ud her labou.ing under an evident
t apaitwiot~ie affection of the yawl.* of the threat. This w...... COMA-
derably aggravated by either a proposal or an offer Oltudy";:k 0-40
swallow, which, she remarked, would certainly choke her. In the
afternoon the paroxysms wcreof the most distressing kind ; but she
seemed perfectly sensible. of her situation, and referred frequently
to the at having bitten her. but Sometimes called it a dog. During
this time, the tongue and fauces were dry, and of a brown colour.
It was with considerable difficulty that she could show her tongue,
and, when she had done so, she invariably seemed to feel asnamed,
and hid her face. in this state she continued until a late hour on
Sunday night ; when death put an end to her stre; Jogs.
She was attended during the latter stages of the disease by a
number of medical gentlemen, who tried nearly all the remedies
which have been 'confidently recommended; but apparently with-
out the slightest effect, even in alleviating the symptoms tinder
which she laboured. Amongst other things an injection of the
acetate of morphine into the circulation was several times tried, but
no benefit was experienced from it.
An inspection of the body of the unfortunate woman took place
last night, but at too-late an hour for us to be able to state whether
any thing was observed at all calculated to throw a light in this
dreadful and mysterious disease.

CORONER'S INQUEST AND CHARGE OF MURDER.

An inquest was held on Monday morning, at the Lamb public-
ham, in Tead-lane, Manchester, on the body of Alice Attlebury,
otherwise Oreenhalgh, •a woman of •the town, who died early op
Sunday morning, in consequence of having been moat brutally ill-
treated by sis men in the street. Froth the circumstances that tran-
spired, the occurrence excited very strong interest in the neighbour-
hoo.l, and the door of the house was surrounded by a dense crowd
during the proceedings.
The first witness examined was Mary Whittaker, the wife of the
man who kcepe the tap-room attached to the Ordnance Arms public-
, house, in flanging-ditch. She stated that the deceased was in this
' tap•room on Saturday night, in company with six boatmen, who
appeared to be using nee roughly. They all seemed to be a little
in liquor, but were not chunk. They staid until about half-pait
eleven o'clock, when the tap-room was closed, and they all went
out. The men went into tile Ordnance Arms, and had a quart of
beer there, but the woman went into the street, and witness did nut
see her again until after she was dead. Witness thought she could
identify some of the men if she were to see them again.

Mr.lekc ENDER said there were six boatmen in castody, and
she would have an Opportunity of seeing then:. In a short time
they were brought into en adjoining room, ant! the witness imme.
dia'ely identified them as the men who were in company with the
deceased on Saturday night.
alertha Harrison, a woman of the town, stated that she WAS in
the Ordnance Arms tap-room, on Saturday evening, anti hart been
there the greater part of the afc2rroon. About eight o'clock the
deceased a-A some boatmen came into the room ; the men sat do' a
in a box, and had some Neer. The deceased went to the cod of the
table, and took up a glass, as if she intended to drink ; on which
one of the men took the glass from her, and threw the beer it con-
tained into her titre. One of the men (whom witness identified,
and who stated his name to be Thomas Burn) accused the deceased
of having formerly done something to his prejudice, and threatened
that he would serve her out fur it. She denied the charge, and
some provoking language passed between them. Abort half-past
eleven o'clock, the landlord and a watchrdan ordered every body to
leave the tap.room„ and the boatmen, the deceased, and witness,
all went out. The boatmen went into the Ordnatm Arms, an
the witness and the deceased waited in the street. After waiting
about ten minutes, one of the men came out of the house, and
witness left him with :Le deceased at the door. Witness went to
the Durham Ox public-house, in Toad-lane, having told the men
where she was going, and they said they would follow her thither.
After she had been there about ten minutes, they all came in,
and remained drinking together until twelve o'clock, when the
landlord refused to till any more liquor, and they rill Went out.
Witness left the boatmen at the door, and did not see them again.
She did not see the deceased, after leaving her at the door of the
Ordnance Arras, until she saw her dead in the Lamb public-
house. Winne; I distinctly identified all the prisoners as the men
who were drinking with her at the Ordnance Arms and the Dur-
ham Ox.

Ann Clarke, the landlady of the Durham Ox, stat:d that during
the time that the last witness and the boatman were drinking in
her house, the deceased came to the door, which hnd been accident-
alliy left open, and forced her way into the lobby. As she was
ev dently in a state of intoxication, witness's daughter ordcretl !ier
to go out, but she refused to go, and was proceeding into one of
the rooms, when witness went into the passage, look her by the
shoulder*, put her out of the door, and shut it upon her. There
are three or four ctcps leading up to the door, down which a per-
son in liquor might easily fall: but witness had nu reason to be-
lieve that the deceased did fill when /the was put out, as witness
heard her swearing at the door after it was shut. As near ns
witness could judge, it was a miarter before twelve when she was
put out, and the boatmen went out in about a quarter of an hour
afterwards. _

Elizabetii Clarke, daughter of the last witness, ecrrobarated her
evidence, as to the fact of putting the deceased out of the house;
and added, that, about half an hour after the boatmen went away,
she went to the door, opened it, and looked out. She heard a
woman scream faintly, nattier a hovel, opposite the Lamb, which is
shout 30 yards from the Durham Ox. Immediately afterwards,
Six men came out of the hovel, two of them dragging a woman
by the feet. They dragged list down the street for some dis-
tance, and then witness saw them, as she thought, striking and
kicking her, as she lay upon the ground ; four of them appeared
to strike her whli their fists, and two to kick her. After that, they
left her lying in the street, and move past witness, who was stand-
` ,ng at the r 00T. She asked them what they had been doing to
that woman : one of them made her a very improper answer, and
they all ran away. Witness, at first, dared not leave the door, but
n a minute or two, a soldier, and Mr. Williams, the landlord of
the Lamb, went to the place where the woman was lying. Wit-
ness went to them, and saw theM lift her up: it was the deceased.
She appearied quite insensible; and they carried her away. Wit-
ness had seen the men who were in riiondy hot rn.lid nnt identify,
them as the persons who dragged the deceased down the street ; and
she thought some of those persons had long coats. [All the prisoners
wore jackets.l
Henry 31apleson, a private of the Grenadier Guards, stated that
he was going to bed at the Lamb, where he was quartered, a few
minutes past cue o'clock on Sunday morning, when he heard a
noise in the street, which attracted his notice. He went to the win-
dow, and saw four or five men dragging a woman down the street
by the legs. lie called out to them from the window, but they did
not make him any reply. He saw them leave her in the Street, and
run away. lie immediately dressed himself', and went doWn stairs
to the landlord, who was cleaning the tap-room. Witness told him
what he had seen, and begged him to go with him. The landlord
at first refused, saying it was only some drunken frolic; but wit-
ness told him he was satisfied it was something worse. The land.
lord then consented to go, and they went to the spot. They found
the deceased lying with her clothes over her heed, where he had
seen the men leave her; she did not speak, and there was a rattling
noise iii her throat, as if she was choking. They raised her up,
and cattle(' her into the shed opposite the house, thinking she was
dead drunk. A surgeon was sent for, but site was kept in the shed
some time before lie came. She was then carried into the house,
and died in a few minutes afterwards. Witness could net identify
the men whom he saw dragging the deceased; they woce dmk
clothes like the prisoners ; one of them appeared to have white
trcaysers like the prisoner Burn's; but wituees thought he had a
long coat on, and not a jacket.
Mr. Williams, the landlord of the Lamb, corroborated the evi.
deuce of the last witness, so far as he had an opportunity of ob-
serving.
Mr. Lavender observed that in his opinion Mr. Williams had
shown very little humanity in leaving the deceased for two hours
a cold shed, instead of taking her into his house. lie could not
help telling Mr. Williams what was his opinion of his conduct.
Ayr. winisma said he should have taken the woman into his
house immediately if he had known the condition she was in, but
he thought she was only drunk. He did all in hie power to get the
asstatanee of a surgeon.
Mr. Henry Oilier stated that he examined the body of bode_
ceased. He found a Inutasdleound ok the right temple; and anoUtei