The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-09-22 00:00:00

PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.

TUE SEVCNTH REPORT PROM THE COMMITTEE ON
THE PUBLIC EAreserruas, ISGC. OF TUM
UNITED KINGDOM.

(Couched:el Coat our Paper or pater/Ay.)

(953) The Prison oiiLi;rtinoor was erected ad-
der the authority of the Commissioners of as Ma-
jeaty's Admiralty; and the rea.Mos which gave rise
to it are .containert in the 9th .Report of the Corn-
mi4sinhers of Morel Revision, pages '.!l and 24.
Mr. Daniel Alexander planned and conducted the
whole, under the directmit of the Transport Of-
fice; pupa advertioereenta were isatteil for persons
willing to undertake the several parts, rind the
lowest tenders were accepted.
The total amount pad fot thiS 4ork wits in
March last, 1910, 116,9971. (N 0.978.) and some
further expen-..es incurred, but not then paid,
amounted to 9,0411. besides other small articles.
The mod of this origslial statement wok I 1t,9231.
and articles to the amount of 14,9071. included in
the sum already *paid, were not comprised in the
estimate.
(N 0.9531 In a printed paperrecei wed from mull
signed by Mr. Aleminder, he maker the amount of
satiaaatad works

Works paid for osier ditto .•
Wuriyi mot atitiated, is drikhritti, lerheing. ac.. • I 91°
Architteu sobitimion Stems S

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It is to he remarted, that a reqnisidon ha. Ikea
Made from the CoMmander-in-Chief, for erecting
a tdl•ioual BaTratks oo Dartmoor, capable of con-
taining 500 more men ; which was out decided upon
when the eel urn was made to your Cominittee.
The building at present holds 5.562 prisoners, and
a militery gourd of ;shout 800 men.
The Terme of the improvement* of Srestmioster, is he
llikehbourhated or the twu Howse, of Palismrst, inelschog
the purchase of old bidding* mid vowed, Sea been oig,lidel.
And gltauted in this beanies, is 10, • . 5,5441.
concerning whom'
hart!!!; been reti.tervd to the Moue by the Coin.
allssiossers aKuitit• el to execute the several Acts
44 Geo. 111. tan. 61. 45th, c. 137. and 46th, c. 89.
your Committee think it unnecessary to go is to
arty detail.. Mir does it appear that any further
expense will he incurred apou this account, unlt sa
further Purchaiei Shwa he made by the Corn.
Missioners; on the contrary, the ground is dive.
hie of being let irleantageolisly en building leases.
Which may repay, hereafter, a part of What has
been expended in purchasing said clearing the
ground.
The Parliatnentkry Grants for i obi wing at
the British Museum (No. 1115), have been, be.
meta the years 1804 and 1808, 281701. ■od the
net amount pa d to the Trustees, after &dieting
the fees, 27,11671. _ _

_ .
(No. 1t09.) file Grants'to the College of Sur-
geons, towel* waking i convenient place for the
reception of Mr. J. Hunter's Museum. Were be-
brims lb* wad lb* L.ldmeo
Aid there his bets a Parities Great clerks( the pre-__

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Hat Saliva ur

The Itattamte fur the Royal Ward .Alylatlate*
entreat yaw (tlio) is, accordiog to a raper,
ordered to be printed 17th May, NM Ligpssi
Fur carrel co the erection *of it building at Black.
water for the Royal Military College, there has
been ioctoded to the Army &Masseur the tor-
rid( yea' (p. at.) LOMA
CIVIL MUILDIAGS.—yggLAND.
(999.) The additional buildings at the Noose
lately purchased, for 15,0001. of Viscount Powers-
Coot. sod converted into the Office of Stibnite, itt
MaY 1808, had edit 15.3701.; the *hole estimate
of this additional work b-iug 19,3413 L
Your Committee remark, that or this expenie a
part it Inoue.' to building stables for the accent.
modetion of the Cruniaistioners whilst doing duty;
it seems also intended to provide apertmenti within
the building for the first Chairmen (Mos. 1037.)
:Ind the Secretary, is well as for the servants of the
boom..
An annual Vote is passed of 450001. fAr what
are called Civil Bnildingi, the expendittire of
which grant is under the Board of Works; but it
appears, that in the year ending Bth January 1810,
46,3741. was expended in that class of buildings and
repairs to whit* this Vote is applicable, besides sa-
laries, wages, lodging allicireaces, rents 1111411 twee.
demo, amounting to between 3 and 40001. leaving
a debt or defleient7 hi tither more thou the on-
gir.al Grant itself, of t.,5.0141.
Mere follows as second of the application of Os.oool.
voted is the last Session, for defraying the expeorte of Civil
Buildings, front nth January Imo, to Mb January tato ;
together wills the names of all pawns receiving salaries or
allmraitees out of the same NW a Statenweat how mach the
wrid sais was driest to defray the whole expense incurred ;
sperifyieg also by chow the bills relating to abet sow hare
hews or are to be examined and audited.)

Ma/yams, the Black pugilist, has produced
(mother man of colour. to fight soy ten-stwie mail.
Cribb is not in condition, as yet, to fight litulytterx.
Thursday night, *bunt quarter past tiro o'clock,
R Mr. jARIRII KERIMET. or Dowlas Common, put
an end to his existence. by discharging s pistol
loaded with a brace of balls into Isis lu ad, behind
his left ear. Astonishing to relate. the unhappy
than lived an hour alter, in the greatest agony be-
fore he expire(' !

On Friday last Mr. Alderman Poo* was elected
Mayor of Canterbury. for the erratuum; year. after
a sharp content. on which °cession 677 freemen
palled. Three hundred and seventy votes were ta-
ken for Mr. Alderman POUT—a greater number
than was ever before polled by soy Cradidate for
the uffitx of Chief Magtstrate.

jtFFERY.
To THE EDITOR.
Plymouth, Repeatlam 17.
SIR-41eving beta requested by several I •enile-
'men to write to Mrs. Cowl, the mother of the no-
fortunate Jeffery, fui the parnu-a of tov.•rts. •
if he had written to her, the following is the letter
which I sent to her, the answer, acrd iticlopure.
4 C9NSTANT READER.
" Manioc, -Ptyaiwotta•Dock, Sept.
Several Gentlemen of this town, who feel themsellei in-
terested in the fate of your rots, R. Jeffery, late of the Re
suit, hive regnestcd me to white to you for the perpMe
as if possible, whether Ire be tivieg or dead. Tlit
Papers is general have mildiabed, statement!, parportiong
that he was taken fvum the Islanatopf Sombrero by • vessel
belonging to Marblehead, and that' lie now HOW is-alve
Province of Marnichnatette, Now.as ~it appears
dint be wns a particularly dutiful *liinbaffrelionstle iou, and
one who let slip uo oppertanities of writing to r... 4 ..He un
Loots the Recruit. it ie 'probable that ~f( livint;he Ibis writ-
ten toyutl,„.• and this, or course, withl'pli& ale fact of law
existence beyond a doibt. •
" Have the euudnese to encase the trouble Wamiii give
yen on this subject, Rad rest smiared, Ihit noltanki wit a
patileipaliwn in that lively illteirst in the fate of your sun,
which pervade* all parts of the Ilritneh soupier, could bare
tuttscol me to bare Minuted on soar am
" Mrs. Coals, Polperro, Curueall." " • •
ANSWER—EXTRACT.
" watreirto, *Fir% It, lett).

" ereedoes post brought me the tiaantie of
your's of the I ith jMataut, fur which be pleased tc accept my
heollile thanks. la reply Jo your oliligiog inquiries re.
*meting guy nufortnnate son, I have to ittiorat you, that I
hate bed no other &eternal than those pahlisbed in the
Piper.., until this eveuing $o long tiuse had elapsed since
the seismal published, that my duebli had nicreural
hope. Q..hi. exialeuce, and I took Ike liberty of trimoltutt
Mr. Whitbread, WOW juice...sled biota& its his behalf.
yct think, if my woo were Wittig, and had
given hts deposition, as stated ofneially, Dud N
taisly woold Kee stripe.' to me ; anal I eke this* that
if be really was the Krim', they woold have panted hide to
write to MO to convince me and the Public of his esistence.
I ►ive also regeested to hive a (titer sent to bun, Init have
yet had so answer or oppartitalo of s. doing. I Iliad .ob.
Join su'extract from a letter to Mr..fffhilbreatl, from the gs-
cretery of the Adasiralti,,,in answer to his letter, which be has
inclosed to me, sad seat here. I Hiatt feel it my duty to
rite you soy insformatioo is rely potter at any future
■ud am much obliged Par the trouble you aad your thimule
knee taken, mud am, Sir. your obedient Servant,
" HONOR CO A D (late Jeffery)."
I NCLOSURE. " Admiralty, Sept• ii.

a Jeffery% diedhet, u she wean in say
that as/kb% hut a kit* from ha vial math her. 11 hub; ho
such letter to send you ; and have ash to wallas flosyrdliftt
we have rec. iced official itsforasstioit Of brain iv" Itec,,
well a few months aro, in Asareseedtaimi I 19ve afro
some reaaoa to elpset that he will, alO typivaexatmitv of
limb, eight to Ettehtul. I ad'; Opt. %if r. 3. Whitbread, Esq "

. • (PROM • GIAK*III./APEIi .
There lately in the sieiglihmthpsil of
Frankfort-stpon-the-Oder, an event which is cot
tiered lei an infliction of the Divine vengeance..
A suntan. conceiving that her husband, who was a
suldier in the Prussian iserrite. bad been killed in '
the battle of Jena, In married another man.
It turned out hat her husband had been only
teniinded and Men prisoner by the French. A
cure was soon effected, and the 'soldier, on recover-
ing, joined fine of the Prussian regiments which at
that period entereil into the par M France. After
serving Upwards of three years in Spain, lit was dis-
charged, and returned sudden ly to his native
country. 09 reaching Ilia old habitation, he
atp-
penretl so Le greatly rej iced to find Ins wife alive.
She received accohling to the statement of se-
veral young persons who were at the door when the
soldier arrived, with Seery mark of affection which
so long an absence might hitittall) he supposed
to produce. It is'prolailde that she did hot avow
the new matrimonial connection she had formed.
After partaking cif.sothe. tefreshinint. and giving a
short account of his adventures and escapes, he
complained of being quite overcome with fatigne.
His wife liaise.' him to Mite to teat. which he did.
She immediately conceived the horrid iierposl of
instigating her nest bsillthuld to dispatelt the un-
welcome visitor in his sleeP. After n short interral
passed in devisangthe mean* and prov Wing against
detection, they accanipllitted their obitct. by straite '
ling the poor man, imrpot his body Inlet a sack.
About Midnight, In ctiitiefialy it to the Oder, hie'
weight of the corpse built theist*, and one of she
legs oat protruded. Thowbonen tietebtmt *Wing
up the rant, and in her hurry and ebtsfotims, sewed
, in, at the settle time, the skirts of her teitnisplice'a
cost. Having reached the riven, assAinakiiS *fir"
effort to precipitate his load as Seisitoths stream
as possible. he was dragged (Poo the eletated ground
be had chosen, into the river with the corpse. Ile
contrived, partly by swimming, and partly by
treading the bottom, to keep his head elver
water for several minutes.—the woman, ant
eonsidering. how important it was to keep silent
at this critscid moment. filled the air with cries,
and brought to the spot several peasants.
_elle,
at the bastard of their own lives. extricated the
drowning man from his perilous situation. Their
surprise at finding so large a substance attached to
him was great. but much greater when they found
that it was a dead bode. On inspection there ap-
peared such marks of violence shout the throat, as
net to leave any doubt that the man had been mur-
dered. The man and woman, on being charged
with the crime, made a folk confession, and were
immediately consigned to the officers of justice,
and committed to prison.

The Duke of Cummins-inn rode en horseback
on Thursday in Hyde Park. We are happy to state
his Royal Highness looks remarkably well.
A Penny Poet-Office has been established in
Bath and the neighbouring willow... Similar esta-
blishments will probably be formed in coniaderable
other provincial towns.

Wednesday a case came oa tat* tried before the
Commissioners at the Court or Itecitie:its, Guild-
hall. brought before rhern by Mr. M'atora. •
gentleman residing in Bloomsbury, against he Go-
teruor and Company' of the Bank 'nf Englvnil,. ,
refusing to pay •for a *apposed Bank
England note. whiat he had received teoni a coreshi,
spoudent in Liverpool; when it appeorod by 4tatlyt- •
tiinony uf a I,7leilt belonging to the lonoectoi
Office iirthe tank, that the note in qiinstion was a
forged nue: in ennsecidence of oviiiolt, the only mit
mealy left for the complainant -.Ms to procure the
payment of it from the persnu f-ein winnit 6e bad
received it.