The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-10-25 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, OCTOBER 23.

The weather here is once more favourable; thut
is, comparakively so : the wind has subsided, the
rain ceased, and, to-day,•we have had lengthened
intervals of calm and sunshine. The Stockton, of
Sunderland, continues on her beam-ends, close un-
der Williams's Births, and hopes are now enter-
tained of stopping her leaks, and floating her into •
dock to be repaired. The fragments or the stone-
laden Portsmouth sloop, which went to pieces by
unfortunately running foul of the Stockton, col.
lected into one rude heap, and then divided into
lots for the conveaience of purchasers, have been
sold for fuel. The remains of the Expedition, of
Scarborough (not the Independent, as by mistake
mentioned), wrecked at Portobello, have been dig.
posed or in a similar way, and principally for a
similar purpose.
We mentioned, in a former letter, that the Dutch
galliot which had taken in pilots'from this place had
been wrecked on this side of Newhaven. It gives
us much satisfaction to correct this erroneous ru-
mour; the said vessel got safe into Newhaven liar.
boar, and where, at present, she as safely remains.
The name of the master of the Expedition, who
unfortunately perished, as before described, was
Robert Cawthorn.

RETURN of Ow ARCTIC LAND EXPEDITION.

The late accounts of this expedition, which
reached Great Britain through Montreal, prepared
us, in some degree, to expect its return by the
annual Hudson'. Bay fleet. On Friday last (Itrth
instant) Captain Franklin, Doctor Richardson, and
other officers of the land expedition, arrived in
Edinburgh, having posted from the north, where
they were lauded from the Hudson's Bay ships.
They waited on Lord Melville, the great pro.
motet of this and all the other remarkable Rri,ish
geographical expeditions at present on foot in dif-
ferent parts of the world ; and, before leaving Edin-
burgh, which was the evening of the day of their
arrival, visited, along with the Professor of Natural
History, our splendid Museum. Their discoveries,
we understand, will entirely alter our present views
of the geography of the northern regions of North
America. iVe a►e also iuformed, that the gentle.
men of the expedition, one of whom, Dr. Richard-
son, is a native of this city, are of opinion that Cap-
tain Pur►y will, in all probability, be able to double
Icy Cape, and reach the South Sea.—(Fdiabargii
(Mse►ver.) _

ACCIDENT.-On Wednesday evening, between
levels and eight o'clock, as the Uxbridge coach was
passing np Holborn, the axle-tree broke, and three
of the outside passengers were thrown with great
violence from the roof: not man was seriously hurts
and taken to the shop of Mr. Lumen?, High Hab
born: after bleeding, und the application of leeches,
he was sufficiently recovered to be removed home ju.,
a hickney coach.

At Gloucester there were sixty-five prisoners for
trial, two of whom, K. Clarke, for stealing n bee-
hive, and Admire( Price, for stealing two straw bon-
nets, were sentenced to be transported for seven
years. The latter prisoner is an old and hardened
offender, though only twenty-five years of age,
having been twice before tried and convicted at the
Sessions. in the present year, for which lie suffe►ed
various periods of imprisonment, ■nd wns once
whipped. On receiving sentence, he addressed the
Chairman in the most audacious manner, wishing
"he might remain there till he came back !"
A Coroner's Inquest was held on Wednesday
last, at East Monitore, on view of the body of JA mg,
wife of T.WHITTLE. pitmen. Verdict—" That the
deceased, by reason of the bad behaviour of her
husband. having become delirious and out of her
mind, did poison herself." This couv le, both very
young, had been married about a quarter of e year.
and separated a mouth. The wife had requested
her husband to take her into his house again. which
he refused. and even persisted in his refusal when
he knew that she had taken poison. and was lying
at his door in the agonies of death ! The wretch
did not charge his wife with having committed any
clitne,(lyne Me,cury.)

Litt ImrstuGENclt

COORT OF KING'S BENCH. Wernitlstra,
Tsblusat, °crony* U.

Before the LORD Chirr !VITO= and Spreial Juries.

DAMEDEN AND ANOTHER v. ASHIOI/1 AND
ANOTHER.

Mr. GVINE* said, the l'laintiffs in the present
case were farmer. of the pots-horse duty; the De-
fendants livery-stahle.keeptrs in Gray's lun-laue,
in an extensive line of busineosi and they were
more especially engaged in letting horses and car-
riages for funerals. The present action was brought
for the purpose of setting at rest a tierilithi which
had arisen respecting the mode of paying she post.
horse duty. By the Act of Q 5 Geo. 111. it was
provided, that postmasters letting horse 6 and car-
riages for hire. where the distance which the hirrse
was to go could be ascertained, should ply lid.
per mile; when they were let by time, and the lII*.
tance could not be ascertained, then the duty to
be paid was 19.91 per day. By the 57 h Geo. 111.
it was provided, that when the hire was a specific
sum, then the duty to be ohe quarter or that sum.
Mr. Gamey contended, that when the distance
could be ascertained, the duty was to be paid by
the mile and not by the day. If there were any
case in which it was possible to know where the
horse *us going with more certainty than in any
other. it was in the case of • funeral—and to take
a coach and horses for the day in such case,
Could wily be for the purpose of fraud ou the
farmer of the duty. He would shew that in the
instance of the fonerat of a late Nobleman, al-
though the distance was well known. several car-
riages were hired by the day. The Learned Cowl-
sel Said, there was another point arising out of 11,1 s
case for the opinion of his Lordship. He these
enumerated the different Acts of Parliament for
licensing and regulating hackney-coaches, and con-
tended that, out of the bills of mortality, eten a
tingle pair of horses were not exempt from the
duty; and within those limits, when a hearse or
mourning.coach used more than • pair, they were
liable to pay for them under the post-horse duty.
Mr. SCARLIIT—" Your Lordship knows it has
been decided that persons going to a funeral do
out travel post."
The CHIEF JUITICI—" It has been decided
that the deceased does not."
Mr. GuasEir then called his witnesses.

George Stogy!, nn undertaker, proved that he had
on various occasions hired horses of the Defendant,
but could not speak to any precise date, to attend
funerals. He recollected having done en in the last
year. about July or August, for the funeral of
Lady Henley. Believes there were two carriages
■nd four horses in each; went from Hertford-street.
May-fair, and went to a small village on a cross
country road to the left of Northampton ; did not
hear the name of the village; did not know previous
to setting out where he was to go, as they were to be
met by a person at Towcester, who was to conduct
them the rest of the way. It was • bad road, a
long way, and witness thought he should mare
reach his journey's end. All the applicsticn wl kit
witness made to the Defendant was, to inform him
that he wanted such and such carriages for so mail
days. Witness •lso recollected having carriages
and horses at the funeral of • Mr. Bray, of Greet
ttussell.street, but bad no distinct rcci•llectioit 4.f
particulars.

Mr. Bywater, an undertaker, in Grosvenor-street,
furnished the funeral of the late Lord Dysart. in
March, 1841. from Ham, near Richmond, to Ham.
lingham, in Suffolk. about eleven mil. s below
Ipstvich. Hired the horses, four sets of six horses
each; knew where he was going before hr left town;
sent to Ashton for horses for seven or eight days,
he could not tell which; generally reckon the
horses to travel thirty miles a day; does not com-
municate to the livery-man the distance; can safely
take an oath never hired by the day with a view to
to evade duty ; did not know any thing of the duty
paid by the Defendant. Witness charged so snitch
for a day's work—it did not make any dif-
ference whether he went twenty or thirty miles in
the day. Paid for returning empty, as well as
going out full ; could not always soy bow msoy
miles he was going when setting out on a journey,
as coaches were frequently ordered to go out of tlr.tr
road to take persons up ; had in some cases hired
coaches and hearses In town, and to go wither the
distance prescribed to hackney-coaches, which were
sometimes drawn by four, and sometimes six Wives.
Mourning coaches ■nd the horses employed were
mach more valuable than these employed iu hack-
ney-couches.

Mr. Smith, another undertaker. was collect,
whore evidence was merely a corroboration of the
former evidence, and
On the suggestion of the CitreF JUSTICE, •
verdict was taken fur the PI if for 400. ; the
point of law as to the construction of both Acts of
Parliament bring reserved for tbe future Oproluu
of the Court.

THE KING S. HOWARD AND OTHERS.
Mr. SCARLET? said this was an indictment pre_
"rived against the Defendants by a Gentleman
named Donnell, charging them with hewn coo.
spired to defraud the Prosecutor of 1,2001. which
he hod committed to their care to invest for him it,
good securities, by a pretended mimic, to the
Duke of Marlborough for an annuity, against the
wishes and desire of the Prosecutor. The Learned
Counsel having stated his case to the Jury, called
the following witnesses to support it :
Richard Minorll, the Prosecutor, stated, that
before the year ISIS he carried on business as a
stationer in St. Martin's-court ; he was in the' bribit
or employing as his "gents Howard and Gibbs to
lay out money for him. In the brgintaiag of 1018
they received from witness 1,10)1. 4s. 6J. foe the
redemption of an annuity which had been granted
him by the Marquis or Sligo. Several intervfews
took place between the witness and the Defeod-
ants relative to the disposal of this sum. Witness
generally saw Mr. Gibbs upon it. Witness wished
to have the money. but Gibbs arltisod him to lay
it otst with the Duke of Marlborough. To ties
Witness objected, observing no one would Irul the
Duke with a shilling. Gibbs mirk "lj have,got
the old Dake's will," to which witness aoswased,
What's the ale of the old Dalites r: and
they separated for that time; • filter th'ji wit.
ness had several
. interviews vrith 9014, otho,re-
peatedly promised him his money., Afterwards
witness ,a* Ilowstd and Gibbs together, anti ors