The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-22 00:00:00

COURT-MARNAL.

On Monday last, a Court-Martial was held on
hoard His Majeay's ship Salvador dr/ .iiroado,
lion.oare, on Mr. Soak, ?Ammer's-mate of the P 41".•
elian, on ehar.r, exhibited agnin.t into by U.-me-
n:int .o.tetenton, of the Parthina, for the murder a
Cdpv.uu Balderston, on the nth had.

President, ltrar-Admiral SUTTON;
VKL*ENT,
Rear-Admiral Stopford, I Capisin Bruke,
Captain -- S r Wni. Bolton,
"Ladd, -
*),oogr. I ••••••••••• Smith.
The Court having heard the evidence in support
of the charge, V* well as the Prisoner had to
Oar it, his sieAirier; and having very maturely
and deliberately weighta and cnin.i,lered the *lint.
was of opinion thit thu charge had bee.i proved
against the Prisoner; and did, in cdnseciuciii•e there-
of, adjudge the and Mr. Junes Smith to b° 11311!vl
by the neck until he is dead, ut the ; ar.l-erns of
such one of His 31aiesty's siiips,•autd ut such tirue,
as the Lords Commissioners of the Adlish..iltj
direct.

The trial lofted upward.' of fOlir 'boors, during
the whole of which the Prisoner appeared totaby
indifferent to Si, fait.

POLICE.

ForruS 11-TELLII,;;a. --
Ssomwah Can was, yesterday, lieuught by Armst MUT, &a
°direr, ho'wre Jostwa Ilwsra, Ell charged wall Itat tug
reit:tort to tell the fort woe of uvcral young yes il:t. has
been brought its eastukly to this (Mica, several limas, on
stai;:ar charges.

Summit Stcb;field, a pretty girl, about sixteen yenrs of ttee
weta, about a woisils big..., to the lis&liogs of the Prisota,..r, IN
Wchhe.squan., Sh,nraitch, and requested to have her for:
tune told. Mrs. Car,• produced a park of tanis, which she
ahu:Red, 11/141 divided into stv,ral parcels, and said, the
111.ttica4 would have come teolible very soon, but it woithl end
to h•r slur would be married before 'be
ts a; teen, awl untold have lone children, all hope—that
her husband ninth! he • tall thin you's: Luau, of 4lnrkittls
clotsulehoin, _

..tlAry lktl, an..ither good-lookhig girl, who spwared to he
good the same a;e, said, that she rah with Saha., Schofield
when she bad her fortune told, ma was also aimOser girl.
Mrs. Carr told all their fortdasy, after going through a .teal
of fere ttttt with Coe cards. She told this girl, that she
would have a great assay children, all of whom be very
like their father. The girl paid ts. fur teliing three of dem
their foetal:we.

Efiro'.ot4 Word, another fortuse-teller, was eltantined be-
fire :ha Rune Magistrate, under Inure agzravutal eirenta-
SLauCes. 'EL: saute girt, Mary hell, was the pri....ipal wit-
lass to this case. Mae has known tic: P. wooer souse menthe. .
On last Tuesday eke Item, acconirinied by !Sarah ?riot,
(another gill not niute than 14) to the place where the Pri-
loner knitted, in risheeler-street,Spita' nelus, where they wt.,
met toy Mrs. Wood's husband, who emit/titled them up
%loud soon appeared ; and, after the tatial,
'arr.. of slits4hug sod um idillC the cards, promoted to relate
Ihr turluisatr weds which it volt! hap;.e.t to her ; she said
she was to mans the water, which she had alresrly done, and
that she h. ed very 'war a Corner 'mum ; she Sr.. not to
keep Company with say boys tall she oar to or Mrs.
Wood stud, drat the person she heed with was her greatest
en. and that she was not to pr. any attention to what
she said, but treat her with contempt ; the, she would have
a good husband and nrsov five Children ; if she seined her
ioatane told nie.e certain by the planet", it sotitd h« halfa-
eroa• she &mended and rete.v....l a sbdliug for what one
bind already said.

Sarah Sv tit, who was with Mary Het!, had her fortune
told, which sa. something :the that of the latter.
The comarqurnees of the frequent r:sita of these girls and
several others, to Mrs. Cave ..a4 Mrs. Wood, begat to •le
very serious, which was the cause of the prosent inquiry.
The aurt'.y Magistrate, with his tonal feeling and huma-
nity, aditiouished, in the moot salmaty manner, the coailact
of the girls, nod recommended them to th4..ent,us attention
of tlolr parent, ; he at the Mlle tine ceprohoted the con-
duct to. the P.Monetn, who are both married women, and
have children of their owe.
They were convicted u rogues and vagabond% and com-
mitted to the Home of Correction, till the Sestilo..s.
The fronds of the girl. were held in receinisuce foe
their appearance against theta.

Yesterday sentlight, the prisoners which were
confine') iu the County Gaol of St. Dunstan's,
Canterbury, were removed from thence to the New
Gaol and [louse of Correction. for the Eastern
Division of Kent, lately completed in the precinct
of St. Augustin's Monastery in Lotemort. They
were conveyed in a caravan, and during the re—
moval, our ill them, Joins Betts, alias Geurge Wise.
committed on ri* charge of felony. c,,titrivett to
snake his etyma., by drawing his hand throng), him
which, with a chain, he wan finked
with the otlier,:. A reward is offered fur lila fa.
apprehension.
On Saturday morning last, is tl:rre engineers.
belonging to Fusit colliery, about two toile s south-
from Dalkcitli, were repairing the etiOur, the
to which several tons of pump itte,..
tidied, gave way, and precipitated the scaffolding
on which the men stood to the bottom of Ole pit.
Two of th►m were killed, and the other was vary
►everely hurt. _ _ . .

The 'Ticket, No. 3,436, drawn .a Prise on Tues-
day of e 0.0001., was sold in Our Half, One Quartet.,•
One liith. and Two Sixteenths, and LRAMs.
drawn arise of 5,0001., wits bold in Sixteen Sig.
teentlis ; likewise 7,::31, drawn tl* !Lame dap a
Prize 'of 5001., was sold in Azteen Sixteenths, try
Sir J. BRA NSCOMD and Co.. at their Lncky Lottery
No. I l, Holborn ; 37, Cornhill ; 31t, Hat.
market, St. James's ; and 489, Strand ; where
7.091, entitled to the first Grand Prize of 300
Tickets, was sold in One Half, Oue Quarter, Ono
Eighth, and Two Sixteenths ; likewise the tbret
3001. Prize, drawn the First Day, wens all Sold.
Shared, and Registered, at the shove Offiers, where
Tickets and Shares tire new warranted un-
drawn, and the fortunate holders of the above
Shares tray receive the stimnisit of each respective
Prise on demand.—Pletisc to obaerve, there are brat
two clays to draw, sod Three uo,othil. Prizes in Au
W bent.