The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-03-30 00:00:00

THE PATENT RAT TRIP.

A great House in Westrollaster, situate neat the
River, has, within these few days, evinced svrnpt ars
of being infested with RIMS. They have been
tracked in their movements from one side of it to
the other, principally in the direaion of what is
called the Treasury Bench. They are neither Nor-
way Rats nor Water Rats, bat a species of Land
Rats, very fond of rotten Boroughs. These vermin
are a;it to make their appearance about the time of
a change of Ministry, in consequence, we presume,
dins being the season of a plentiful distribArin of
loaves and fishes Some of them have been known
to enter St. Stephen's Chapel, as poor as church
mice, where they have soon become as plump as the
weazel in the fable, and never since found their way
out. They possess a most voracious appetite, and, by
an extraordinary instinct, attach themselves to every
new Minister. The cawile-e, ds and .Inere.pail,,g,
with which that Gentleman Is supplied, are con-
sidered the cause of attraCtion, and not Oil of
Rhodium, or other vulgar rat•catchii;g device. A
Gentleman, who had long and successful praslice its
the art and mystery of rat.ca ching, during the Ad.
miairtration of Mr. Prrr, but lett AI business when
that Gentleman went out of office, has within these
few days resumed his ()make.
Apply at the GLoCOE and Rosa, Palace-yard,
Westminster.

The KING has been pleased to appoint G nom: r
Earl of GALLOWAY, to be Lieutenant and Sheila.
Principal ot the Shire of Wigtown.
The Kama his a 1..) re •n ?lc .ed to appoint Tiro-
was of Sesician, t • be Liruiceitant and •;tirrifr
Principal of ,ne St:krar:ry Kirkc't
The '‘een pleased to apriint A cat•
&ALI) Colquxt.Ls. h.sq. Advrcatc, to be Hi. /de-
nary's A voc.te in Scotland.
Mrs. and the Misses KItWAN, the wid w and
daughters of the '-• 1) . Ri.wAN, who so often, I
so ably, and so et •qu in y. advocated the widow's
and the orpoan's cati•ir, Dublin, has got a pension
from Governmi at of 3001. a year.
It is much to he downed if any future Scheme
will ever equal in interest that of the present Sone
Lotteiy. A suffieiens proof is its very eimerior
number of great prizes, since the capita': are al-
most the sole n:j.fts of consideration with the vs.
runts degrees of adventuress. No wonder, then,
that tour capital nixes of £0,0091. ; f or of 10,0001. ;
four of 5,0001 ; to say nothing c: ten of 1.0001.
and twenty of 5001. should now prove so powerful
and universal a magnet. Toe near approach of
the drawirg of this rn.-me..:ous scheme considera-
bly adds to the force ot its attraftton.
On S Ittuday highs a fie broke nut in the King's
Bench Ptison, which was happily got tan ter by the
ezettions of the prisoners, without any material in-
jury to the building.
About eight o'cloek, Lott i-vrfiiiip, a silk ware-
house, in Maiden•lane, WorLf-Arect, Cheapsi te,
was broke open, and a great quantity of goods,
packed up by the intenaed depredators, ready fur
conveyance ; but by some means they became
alarmed, and departed without their booty.
About twenty convicts were sent off in a waggon
yes.erday, at two o'clock, from Newgate, to Ports-
me ut. , where limy are to embark for Botany Bsy.
A young gentleman, the son of an Esquire at the
west end of the metropolis, died on Friday in con
sequence of a wound he received in a duel near
Hounslow. on Thursday se'nnight. His advet sat);
was a Lieutenart belonging to a Volunteer Corps ;
and on au iuquiry into the cause of the death of the
young man. it appeared that he challenged the Lieu-
teaant twice previous to the meeting, and was
wounded it the thigh by the second fire of his op-
ponent. Verdia—Meeil.egherr.
On the IMb instant, a meeting took place at Tut.
femme, Ireland, between Lieutenant BlSid ARK and
Captain Quita /I Am, both of the 4th battalion of the
KING% German Legion. The parties drew lots
for the first fire; Capt. QUIMHAI4 won, and fired
at Lieutenant BISM•It It, when Lieutenant B. shot
Capt. Q. who immediately expired
At the Derby Assizes, Witham 'fatter was found
gaittn of murdering Mrs. DAM and NU,' Roe, of
Parwich, near Ashborne, in Derkyshire, by mixing
poison in the ale they draak. He was executed on
Friday sehmight, when lie confessed his crime, and
said he intended to poison Mr. Dakin.
Ratsri Sia!Tor./, aonviacel at the Northampton
Assizes of giving poison to his wife, was executed
on Monday. The girl be cohabited with, aged 17.
was Omitted an evidence against him.
At the Lancaster Assizes. Fraricoit Fiesdard, and
Ambrose Margin, were found piny of unnatural
crimes, and received sentence, of death. There
wets to be tried three persona for murder ; thirty
for various robberies; ten for dealing in forged
notes; .3 for slaying; and 7 for iniiatural crimes!
A foul attempt to murder a young women in a
field, situated near the road from Luton in Bedford,
last week, was timely prevented by the driver of the
Bedford stage waggon. The waggoner had oh-
s treed alight in the field at twofer o'clock at night.
i and curiosity led him to it. after basin loosened
a mastiff dog tram under the wiggon. He found
a in in in the field do,;goig a hole ; and On his ask •
mg what led him to wink at so late an hour ?
tfse
fellow advi.edthewaggoner to mind hisown busine s,
He drove on his team a few yards, when he met a
woman with a box and bundle under her arm, but
she also refused to satisfy him where she was going.
File driver, however, observed her cross a field kid-
in` towards the nun who was digging, and cari-
osity again led him to the spot with his mastiff dog.
The min and woman conversed together a short
time, when the former exclaimed, " raw mess die;'
and thew a pistol from his pocket. The wag-
go• er rushed on the fellow, and the mastiff seized
him, wiiiist his master pinioned him. The remelt,
wish d to depart, but the waggoner took them both
to Bedford, where the prisoner was examined and
commit's' for trial. The 4/0111411, it appeared, was
• bar.maid at Bedford, and was pregnant by tl.:
prisoner, and she had FM. abourber.