The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-30 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday a man nutted Jacobs was brought before the Loan
Maxon, charged on suspicion of having boa accessary, after the
fact to the robbery of the bank notes end other securities to the
amount of between 13,0001. and 14,0001., the property of Messrs.
Eilmeads and Co. of the hlaidetonellank.
Mr. Brown, the Marshal, stated, that he had caused a great
number of hills to be distributed, offering a reward of 2501. for the
apprehension of the persons who stole the parcel out of die coach.
office at !Maidstone, and describing the property. He ordered the
officers to keep a look-out in their several districts, and see that the
bills were all posted. They had reported to him that the bills had
been properly posted, but that some person had gone round, and
with the most suspicious industry cut them all down. Under such
circumstances, he caused the bill-destroyer to be apprehended and
brought before his Lordship.
The bill-sticker who was employed by the Marshal to paste the
bills, stated, that he was followed by the prisoner, who took down
the bills as fast as he put them up: Witness saw him at this work
in Tbames-street, in lioster-lape, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, and in
Tooke-stmt.
The LoaD Marcia told the prisoner the charge against hint
assumed a very serious shape plating him in a degree of responsi-
bility for the late extensive robbery.
The prisoner said, he had nothing to do with any rubbery. He
was a bill-sticker u well uthe man who testified against him, and
his only object in pulling down the bills was to make room for his
own bills, which were of more importance to the publis.
The prisoner produced a number of the bills in usestion, together
with those under them, to prove that the witness had carefully
covered the bills of his sticking. A respectable printer in the City
pie forward, and gave the prisoner an excellent character, de-
scribing him as the only honest bill-sticker he had ever met with in
the course of his long experience. Those fellows, he declared,
doubled the expenses of this very necessary mode of advertising.
lie mentioned several recent instances where he had sent five hum
Bred or • thousand bills to be posted round the City, upon a press-
ing occasion, and he found, upon causing die men to be followed,
that not one-half of them had been stuck up. They formed a so-
ciety, which was regulated for the good of their trade, as they de-
scrib it, a proof if which was, that one of their first rules was,
that no bill should be suffered to live (remain upon the walls)
longer than three days. It might be stated, as a general rule, that
little more than half the placards given to those fellows were posted,
and that die rest were appropriated as waste paper, and the ens.
player defrauded.
The LORD Marna congratulated the prisoner on the expla.
nation that had taken place, but told him, that those who defaced
or removed bills of this nature, rendered themselves liable to be
placed in an extrenielv awkward situation. His Lordship said, he
knew that much depredation was committed in the manner alluded
to by the printer, who had spoken of the prisoner aim exception to
the number of offenders. Ile stated, for the information of those
men, that the persons who made away with bills or placards in the
manner described were guilty of felony.
The prisoner was then discharged.
TEE SPANISH RErvo Ers.—Two Spanish officers. Francisco
GORR% Vin as, Captain of Cavalry, and Jose Mattes Prat, Lieu-
tenant of Infantry, applied to the Loan Maxon under the 161.
lowing cimunistancest—They stated that they had long served in
the Spanish armies, and fought under the Duke of Wellington.
Captain Vinegas had, he said, been at the battle of Talavera, and
obtained honours for his services on other great occasions during
the campaign. (Here he produced an official testii.tunial of that
fact—a patent allowing hint to wear the Cross of one of the
Orders, for his services on that occasion.) They had afterwards
fought under General filMs and the Constitutional Government,
recognized by the English Government, against die oppressors of
their country ; but now they were unsupported and destitute; they
were proscribed for doing that which had previously been considered
s test of patriotic devotedness ; they were not only plundered of
their property, but driven from their homes to another land in •
state of nakedness. At Gibraltar they had obtain it a slight and
temporary shelter, and they madily laboured for a morsel of bread;
but compelled to quit this refuge, they were now ~holly destitute,
and actually had no prospect before them but that of perishing in
the streets.
The person of the gallant Captain bore witness to the correctness
of this melancholy account. His face was ashy pale, and his
voice had the weakness of milmorry disease rather than of exhans.
tion in it; his lips were colourless, and looked as if they had not
touched foodal"'is' and.. there was a hollowness in his figure m
c
s inseparable. Hi