The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-10-26 00:00:00

SUICIDE.

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On Friday evening, a little before n're o'clock. a
young man of the name of Pearce, was seen walk-
ing along Upper Lambeth Marsh, in a distressed
and agitated rate, sighing and mourning bitetrly.
Some minutes afterwards, the report of a pistol ww..•
head, in a place called Cot-throat-lane,
leafs to the water side, along the walled the Aewite
biihop's garden ; several persons instantly ran toils
spot Irons which the report proceeded, and brand
this untortunate person lying quite dead, with bill
brains all scattered upon the wound. A pistol wee
also found tied by a handkerchief to hie writ &
however, so tight as to prevent hies from dirnz
the trigger. The only conjeetare that earl be t
respelling this extraordinary precautioa is aawf•
prehension on the part of the deceased last Sao •
other person might be suspraed to have killed high
The deceased was by trade a witeeleir4l44
has lett a young wife and two children to Isom his
nn sappy fate. We understand, aft imiskitalbisia
for s nee tires past, be led a lite of WINN molet.
travagance, which at last caused bile to so** it
the Guards. 'ibis condua produced great ash*
piness between him and his wife, and peabehly lAA •
to the fatal aft that terminated his eel'/'s... •
The Sessions for the city of London
this day at Guildhall, and on Wedeeeder
ILtilry.
Un Thursday last, the Loan Nava&
escapel drowning. He bad been to
to h.•ld a Court of Conservancy, and so his ret is
a squall laid the boat on her beam esti, with,
sail in the water. By the ,Bivity of the itle
board, sue was most estraordiaarily prevented
aping. i
' Toe sporting men left town yestadayfor,News.
market, to be present at the famous race to be nil(
this day between Cerberem and award. tot 1000
deguineas. It is imagined thc:-e is as much !isomer
pending the issue, as on the menr:rabie race be-
tween Rombietonion and Diamond. lb. odds are in

favour of Ci
On Tuesday, a shocking accident happened at
Boston, Linculnshite. Mr. Mors.av, a small farm. r
iii that parish. was riding upon a horse and driving
his team. when, in endeavouring to pass over some
bricks which lay near Bargate-bridge, his horse
fell. and threw him under a wheel of the cut, which
went over his head, and fra&urcd his skull so dread-
fully, that he expired on Wednesday morning.
Yesterday se'nnight, as Mr. LAME. a rcspedablis
broker, of llacre-street, Westminster, was returning
home from St. .Margaret's Church, in eompaity
with a ti lend, as he was passing lbw. sh St. Mar-
garet's Church-yard, he was seized rids a sudden
spitting of blood, and expressed to a ft.. nd that beJi
not think he should live ltmg ; he walked on a short
distance, and tell on his knees, exclaiming the
Loid have mercy upon my poor woad old
soul s" and expiredinitsney.

An aßive speculation has already commenced.
respeßing the no les. speedy than evident prensium
which Supplementary Tickets will bear in the
present Lottery Scheme. It will require. however,
no small address to induce the Hulders of ouch
Tickets to part with them ; since it must be clear
to the mod superieial calculatur, that none o !efr
will be attainable during the ultimate stages o: sae
Drawing, which is nnw in pro4ress.
On Saturday, Hill Simmer, Ahr4 Deo, and sic
other daring pickpockets, we.e hustling and robbs g
persons in the Strand, in a most oatrageous man:.
during the whole morning. 'The same gang of s
tains were likawose committing depredations in I!
Strand, on l'riday, and continued their robbsii 4s
during the evening of the same day; tney coatricel
to assemble a crowd of idle persons round a poor
min, who tsa4 begging near the Crown end An-
chor Tavern, doting which time these daring sob-
hers contrived to plunder every person who wa.
pa.sing.
Two of the celebrated Wheelers, and another dais
ing fellow, well known as a pickpuctet, were rub-
bing in the Strand, en Friday. the daily plunder
of these villeins has got to a very alarming head
again in Loudon, and calls lundly for the Niag:s-
trees to put the Police AR or Vagrant Alt in tr” ce ;
the former tit *Well was passed for the szpre4s pur-
pose of enabling the Istagutrates to imprwm. in rle
House of Cu rerSion, all well known thieves' woe s
Lund in *any public place. stmt. or the litotes
highway, under susticieus citeamstarxes.
pisutipsi pan 'if the inhabitants of the Strand know
these villains when they pass their windows. an i
drat they are wa.*:ing to and fen. only for the pct:•
vac of robbing the ottenspe4ins rass:ngers.

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