The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-04-01 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT.

One of these romantic adventures has just occurred in the family
of a wealthy merchant in the city. The young lady, who has mu
yet attained ha sixteenth year., and is harass to a considerable for.
tune in her own right, was bting educated at a boarding school on
the Windsor road, where an acquaintance commenced, rather ac-
cidentally. with the partner of her present flight, who was resident
in the 'vicinity of the SIO4OOI, in the humble capacity of valet to a
gentleman of fashion. Vnlackity, as is too often the case, the
latter took singular pleasure in dressing Out his fellow (as the
phrase is) in the extreme of elegance, so that the men was generally
mistaken far the muter, and eke versa. Possessing a tolerable
address, with an immense stock of usurance, this gentleman's
gentleman contrived to ingratiate himself so far into the unhappy
girl's good graces, as to be !grouted with
.several appointed meet-
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~..The defendant was the owner of a horse calked Worthy, which pig and set them at liberty. She further d that on witnesain --g-'
of her father, she an
roiriglit Philip on that occasion, and a publican in the nag" h- such eatrardinary conduct on the part a
. On the hotsee coming in, some dispute arose which the servant hastily returned to [her room ;they, were frightened,
wan the wiener:
.upen which the defendant rode up to the plaintiff, and, although partly undressed, crept into bed, fearing that her hweriefahtihashere.s,id or Soundnycweengrigdu
When
the
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lady to whose charge she was committed despatched a message t!
in the supposition that, having taken umbrage at a
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and
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remonstrance made by her:overman a few days previously. on et- Exec DTION •T HORS H•se,....Motsday last george naW,
convicted on Friday last of the murder of Thomas Sawyer, under- tarekliinvg.liialtature of the accident .dy
be I formed, when someof
frutrif . .
of the law. At wave o'clock the shrew nine water under the building is said to have been nearly dyed
well
the
awful' srmenle
f Zinn to claim the body of the with
the blood of the unfortunate people.—Abfrdeen Chnetricic.
. Ijoi'lfrfi-----fli.‘,4l.(niT7l3:"l"bdßilles-cTerPilkt lorey!nort2Reut(l,
. heard him
_deliberately count of inattention to her undies, she had merely gone home to
mend hico by.the collar, accused him of riding foul, and gave him father might mme into the room. She then proceeded with the usual orn
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a nolent Mating. dose the kitchen door and go up stairs where he remained about •of the gaol, where, after prayers being reed by
criminal :he 0 wet. delivered ivered to the o tees, and conductet. to the
complain to her father--as young ladies of her r.-,e arc generally new drop in a•• , .BIRTHS.
This 1111BUit WCS proved by several- wineglass, ell of whom de- quarter of an hour, and then came down and gave the alarm of
disposed to consider soy infringement on their pleasures, an un- i t uttering• leprayer. y On 3londay last, in Upper Wimpole-street, the Right Hon.
cited that the race was a flax one, and • that .the plaintiff's hone fire. In addition she related the particulars of • convercation be-the Clergyman, he was launched into eternity. behaving apparent'
with the utmost obduracy, w a sing Lady Amelia Sophia Boyce, of a son.
warrantable exercise of authority. The distress of a parent, on
1 . won ; but, they admitted that there were cries of s' Shame !" and tween her two elder brothers, which she overheard a night or two the 24th inst. at Chathem, the lady of Majot Somerville, of
. • " oul!' raised against the plaintiff; and that though he did after the burning. One of them remarked to the other, reseipt of such a piece of intelligence, may be better conceived than SHOCKING AccineNT.—Wednesday afternoon, between On
" If described ; an inquiry was directly made, and It was ascertained the hours of four and five, as John Irunlop, Esq. aged 19, eldest the Fret India Company's Depot, of a daughter.
a come in first, the rein was given to the defendant. (speaking of the burning) it was a good plan to get M'Elroy put
. . Fee the defendant, the assault was admitted ; but three wit- out of the way"--on which he replied, " Yes, but I doubt my that the fugitives had set off for the metropolis, by one of the son of General Dunlop, Member for Kircudbright, was riding to. ,On Wednesday, the 30th ult. in Upper 31entagna-street, Mon..
ms, on the evening that the young lady left Maio!. wards town from Knightsbridge, the horse, being unused to town, uare, the lady of Captain ICJ. Maclean, of the 66th feet,
nexus proved that the plaintiff had noised and jostled the defend- father will go too far—de must perjure hicoaelf." She also said,rani 7
arc's rider just as the) were coming in, andrhat he won the race by that some days previous to the burning her father accused her ofMonday strict search was made, and it appeared that the took fright at something, and ran off at full speed. Inclt unfortunate gauedistllithter.
'barSaturday,
At 1 Intik, on the 96th aslant, the Countess ct
been had'
taken a temporary refuge at a house in Margaret- rider, in attempting to pull him in, broke the bridle;end on find-111
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: vety foul means.
T being intimate with M'Elroy, and told her that he would not suffer
-s -. he case went to the Jury under these circumstances : and they, any person of such condition to cane near his house, or have any street; Westminster,i but were actively preparing fora trip to the lag he possemed no power, in his fright threw himself off, when his Ratbdowne, of &daughter.
yeomen goal at the other side of the Tweed. In consequence legs becoming entangled in the stirrups, he fell on his heed, which,
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MARRIED.
1 .:..)after a sheet csaatilladoot found • Verdict for the PlaSetiff—Da- acquaintance with his daughter. Being cress-examined on this
.. 1° point, 20i. point, she declared that she had no particular regard for die of this intelligence, the enraged lather applied for advice to the from the force with which he precipitated himself, occasioned a 5a-
.4.,t St. Pancras_ New Church, on the 14th u:t. Lieut. Parlby,
R.N. to Miss Sophia Silvester Holland, late of Marlborough .1., Reduci
bad Magistrates of Queen-square Police office who of course told him vere contusion. Ile was immediately taken toALGeort
sixl 1820, a FUR
. zits craci v. rryggetr, Halm no, wise, sew. •ND prisoner; that there Lad been no intimacy between them, nor
by all means to exercise his parental authority, and with the aid sal, where he now lies In a dangerous state.
. • wires, lux. he ever taken improper liberties with her: that she always ad. i
~7 This was an indictment apinet the first two defendants, as the dressed him as a servant, and only looked on him as her father's o a eonstable, if necessary, time his daughter away.. With this was considered to be easier, but up to the time of our receiving the Cottage, Brampton, and daughter of the late Captain Holland, 44th of .4 Peet a
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1 11 --." proPreetnes of gas works at Woolwich, and against the other de_ servant. She admitted that she now lived under the protection of
it:nausea as their servants, fora unbent*, .in permitting and caus- die prisoner's relations, haring left. her rither's house about a fort- design he proceeded. to the house, but what was his mortification, account he remained in a state of insensibility. The unfortunate tefltolent-
have only been a
when he discovered, that the parson of whom he came in search gentleman had only arrived in tows on the preceding Friday from
had already gone, the valet having learned the steps the justly en. Cambridge University. to join his family, who On the 29th inst. at St. Anne's, Soho, Mr. Henry James Chan&
ler, of Leicester -square, to Augusta, third daughttr of thelate Mr. lie had at
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. . nn', mid procuring certain poisonous fluids to law into the Thames, night previously, at which time she and the maid-servant, whet Joseph Father, of the same place. CANT PL2
. raged parent intended ; and as they
.had taken their departure, short time in town. On the tuelaneholj event reaching Clifford- . wt mishit the fish therein acre killed, and the neighbourhood was accompanied her,' gave information- of the foregoing facts to a perk*. to that
.without a moment's notice to die lady in whose house they lodged, street, Captain Davies, a relation of the family, immediately set off • .
- i a:lnoyed. by unwholesome vapours and smells, which nuisance neighbouring Magistrate. • no possibility of tracing them could be had, and as a last resource, for St. George's Hospital to render his ass/Cana to his relative. DIED. air:Jame:a I
is wee Continued from the Ist blereh 1823, to the 24th March 1824. The servant-girl, who was next 'examined, corroborated, in every •
application was made to the fellow's master, to ascertain what de- On the horse finding himself at liberty, he ran towards the Park, On the 13th of December last, on the homeward-bOund passage . Ir. Jon x C
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' • , -9h the part cf the prosecution, a vast number of fishermen and particular, the statement given by 3liss IVoods. aaiption of character his faithless valet sustained pteriously, but when, coming in contact with the iron railing, he cut his head very horn China, Capt. A. H. Campbell, of the lion. Company's ship car Present,
•wetermen stared that the refuse of the gas constantly flowed into A tailor, whose name has escaped us, was examined to prove an ° TABLE I
the information received in Out quarter was by no means con- much and otherwise injured himself, although he made his way Duke of York.
• the riser (torn the defendants' premises; that the stench produced alibi for the prisoner. He swore that on the night on which the
&n, inny to the wounded feelings of a parent ;as the master inti- into the Park, where be was secured without doing any further On Tuesday last, in Park-street, Bristol, Joisepb ()rug', Eaq,
wine,merchant, of that GI
..... fretn it was very unwholesome and unpleasant ; and that the fish, burning was said to have taken place, the prisoner came to his mated a belief that eh; man WU already married to another. The mischief.
of
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plate.
William Denson. Esq., aged 70,
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. ~ :tate in the river and in their well-buts and trunks, were constantly house to get a pair of small.elothes mended ; that he(the tailor) sat father and friends of the unhappy girl entertain not the least doubt On the 18th inst, after a few hours' illness, Mrs. Elinabeth M'cod, by 40 .
A !Ho Nert I.—A young woman died last week in Nairn,
I. e .. destroyed in largo numbed' ; but the evidence to connect the de- up all night mending the small-clothae, and doing some other work that they have gone taff to Scotland, to complete their ill-assorted i so .
-..„..4ondsetts- with tbe premien, and with the commirsion of theabout which he was hurried ; that he (the prisoner) sat with hint, anion, which will, if the suspicions of the master prove correct, in' consequence, it is said, of die barbarous treatment she had cape-
in apparently good health, he dropped y 60 .
wienced trom her husband, Angus Kennedy, shoemaker, with i f•seziee, filled entirely 'Rh respect to Mr. Livesey, and was very and remained in his house and in his company from sunset to 1 70
husband.—gvening Pepe
be dissolved by a charge of bigamy being preferred against the, Merchant of that City. As he was walking through Marsh. t hum she hail only been about a twelvemonth married- It is said
snerne and iediseinct to the.other defendants. sunrise.
• - Fat the deftedant4 Mr. Livesey (who was at once acquitted), After the examination of these witnesses, counsel for the prose- r. that he had been in the habit of frequently besting her ; that be litreetxpi4d. down, aniltnstand . Is .
' e•-- ... MeAlemodisegm, thiestiparintiodent, and Mr. Grillit, the builder cution requested and obtained leave to produce further testmosny OW -.----- ------..--. had some months ago brutally thrown her clown stairs within three e . ' 43
U.l days of her confinement, and that on Sunda the 6th inst. he beet
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.. ef dig Wiflllt 110,pottively. swore that none of the refuse of the gas behalf of the Crown. He then called Ate OTHSR SPRING-GUN ACCIDENT.—As Richard ..'i -y ns .
. • hadesvesonpwg Info the river but twice, and then only by were George Woods, son to prosecutor, who said he land heard what ms. E.q. of Bildeston, Norfolk, was returning across he grounds, he. cruelly, and threw her, with the infant at her breast, into the HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT- LONDON BRTDOII. - 40
i ) " akoßsestrasedlblnNiftlit. was stated by his sister, relative to a conversation between him and on Sunday afternoon hot, from Challesworth Church, with a friend, bre.
this The unfortunate woman survived the injuries she received
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• was igairibi Jury epee this conflicting evidence, and his brother Thomas ; lie swore positively that no such conversation one of his guns went offend wounded him in the thigh and leg, but on ocaution about a fortnight. A precognition has been taken, _ —— -- --- -.-
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thegoalgressemodsh‘sibuosho, gosedthe other three defend. I nor any such words ever passed between them • µlnnis
.stated as =St of the shot have been extracted, no setins consequence's:* and Kennedy has been impreored in the )ad of Nairn,.-/ster. I Printed at THR BRITISH PRESS OfFoe, by J.W. Carmen'', DRAwa
mut 111.14 • • tbat an intimacy had subsisted between his sister and the pnaonsr, imprehended. nest Pager. 101, Strand, and published by R. CAN Nei, Saute place, tetirtal. t ,
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