The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-10-21 00:00:00

DARING ROBBERIES.

Oa Tuesday right as a gentlemen. who bad jest arrived by
Or coach et 'be Gulden Crum, Charter-cross, was passing
along Parliament-street, with his box rest on his shoulder,
be was hustled by three fellow', one of whom snatched lbe
coal from his shoulder and ran r.ff, followed by his comps-
Mons. The robbers t fretted ',stir escape.
On Wednedilay night, xs M. Edward Kokirson of Goa-
weikaireet wad, was standiug reading the planed* at Car.
Isle's whop, at the comer of Newgsse street, before which a
Cast crowd hell assembled, his arms were actually pinioared,
sod a silk handkerchief sod his pocket hook were taken
from his pocket; luckily the book curtained nothing of any
valor.

O■ Thursday night, between the hours of eight and nine
o'clock, some donor villains contrived very di xtertuntly to
takeout $ square of glau from the shop trout of Mr. Wright,
• jeweller ■•• d goldsmith., to Tuthill sweet, %Vesintinster,
front eheuc• they stele three naissive gull seals and soma
trinkets.

About Ms o'clock on Wednesday evening, some villains
contrived Neat a pane of glass oat of the situp-window of Mv.
Puller, 13, Ktug-street, Snouhill, iit•cl stole a piece of tine
plaid gamut, and live Weller silk-handkerchiefs, and
escaped undiscovered.
A few eyepiece •uu, some of those prowling ruffians who
are on the look out for opportunities to commit plum!, r ;
daring the temporary abstract- of • vivant, oho went out on
as 'mad, leaviegilve Went door open, vnieted a Ciesthriesait's
horse in eisstuu.plart, New WWI, mid stole a beautifol
chased toa.pui with silver beadles. • roitud silver chased
sugar basis, with two silver handles, acres silver table, ma
dessert, and one les sperm,twelve silver forks and two waiters,
and erected his escape;
A ROOMER Snoe.—The dwelling Mouse of Cooper.
Esq. of West Ham, hail been burgleriosisly mitered and
rubbed several bases within she last few months, of pro.
perry of various kinds to a large amount. A suspicion being
entertained of some of the screams being privy to the rub-
bery, Brown, the city-officer, attended at the house to in-
vestigate the matter; but all effotts li, discover the thief
were oi:wailing until a few nights ago : while the boiler
was on the emelt in the pantry, the robber entered the
homer ; but boding himself discovered, he made a lusty
retreat, followed by the butler, who dischsrged his piece st
him, and bidgird the contents (swath shut) from the hack of
his head to his loins. The robber the. turned out to be nu
old firma', who had lived maw) Yeats in the family. He
iv Sow iu the Loudon Hospital.

Oo Saturday sn'nnight, between the hours of nine
sod eleven. Sheffield was visited by a tremendous
►torm of sail and light !! i!! g. The rain fell in tor-
rents. and the lightning and thunder were awfully
vivid and loud; the broad flashes that rapidly suc-
ceeded each othe► seemed to envelope the town in n
kind or blue tour. and SOME of the .coneequeut
bursts were fearfully stunning.

REPEAUE OP IRELAND.

YHIRD REPORT

or Tan COMIMSIONV.R9 or iroulalr INTO tiis
IitIVIENUE MINIM; up tamipo.

EXTINCT" FRO)" THE APPENDIX TO THE REPORT.

(Corsigual frog our Popov of Fritter, hitt.)
AppenAux, Nn. 6.
Examtolirtme of Mr. Patrick goyim', roper-staiarr ; tiara
too .sib befogs lb* Paritmumelitary Commission...so of la-
quirr,, al their office is Lukas, oa the 101 k November,
lett.

Yon err a great paper sininer am • middling paper.
stainer ; I believe I do a• much Wainer, as soy person to
itelonol; hat it arosild nut bcconsideirot us peat on the other
sidivol the water.

What uttsetbrr of men do you employ?—in the general I
ham bad upwards of two 1111/1111ifd persons employed ; at shot
time there nosy he fr.m one hundred sod forty moos torodred
and arty; it has lessened within the last /insight allolll
thirty, hst iv the average of my bamboo% 1 believe 1 employ
twice as many as any other person in Ireland. My hu.i nese
is that of paper-21161pr, fkor-eloth sissunfect•rer, and house-
pamter.
What proportion of these permit are employed in the
paper staining &polio...tit '—l'aperM•imers aud
psprr-
hangers hetwren thirt:, tend forty.
It appears from the amounts thus nearly owe-third of the
whole ditty paid in Ireland is paid by yoursell ?—!to I ani
told.

May the Commissioners take from that an estimate of the
proportion of your hisairievs to the whole hotlines. so paper
staining done in Irdsod?—fly no means.
State what proportion you carry or!—My paper haagiogs
are from ante• to eight thousand pieces iu the year ; Vflmt
duly I pay will tell the •umber of pieces I mike, bat I am
perfectly impreased with a conviction 11141 I do not evil moire
than from one twelfth to one twentieth of the whole mien.
factored; that I am satisfied • very large proportion most
certainly be seseetlrd.
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You conceive Slut the revenue is denauded to a very great
silent in that artiele?—Crrtalsily-
In wtent manner dors it appear to you Mot thus fraud
takes place ?—I thlok it has been done heretofore, in some
degree, by the collusion of the otKerr. i 1 do nut know that
it is Do now.

Wa'hut what time en ion think measure* have bees take■
to en vent that?—Not twelve sesoutlil.

Tiara the effect of thew, cannot yet be weal '—Not quite.
I speak farm the fact, fur an officer offered to we, af I would
pay barn, that he would paw my paper.
Dad you sake say r•prereatation of tbat to any deport-
ment of the Governareut did rot ; I thought at might be
iajurisit the man.
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Is the man mill in the service of Ilse revenne ?—1 believe
be is on the superannuation ; 1 know lie nut in the
Dublin service; wheilirr be did It to try my principle, or
himself I am mil exactly satisfied, but lie made me the
arr

Dues it appear to you, that from the %Rookie and regu-
'atoms of the service, an curiae officer is exposed to great
temptation ?—lt sloes ; I always thought shot the emir*
pikers were not remunerated f.r their services, were not
raised above the temptation; I have mentioaed that to
some gentlemen who visited my massirfaelory Dome time age.
What du you mean by being rained above the temptation'
—Thai their salarie* are nut sefiirierit to r►munerate them;
In my own hile'hf.lll I would rather pay a moan mu as to citable
him so live comfortably, au that he may not be tempted to lake
any portion of my property.
Caa the Irish stained paper be veld as cheap as the Eng.
lish!—Cheaper.

From what eireurnstanct?—The unanatiseterert of paper
hangings in England I believe invariably pay the Eaenie duty
on their stained paper; I have repeatedly made the estimate,
to ■orwer the questirrati of my fvfriPOWN, who base bees. told
by gentlemen in the employment of the Government depart.
meats, that they have been waited span with paper much
cheaper; I have answered, by showing them the Sul coat of
s piere of paper, adding lu it the Excise; the 'tapir. /onus
one-third proportion of the Ant east fur the cheapest paper
hanging, therefore 1 think It hair been... misaZiog empistwn
to the humbler class of persons la our bustress to evade
that; that is tine reason. Secondly, raw paper is cheaper in
Irelaad than la England.

You mean pa prf that is just formed ?—Paper earning is 111
alit rear Ingot the mill; stud labour is cheaper hi 'reload
than in England. I e.trnilleate t►at the better sort of &rhyme
ran live cheaper here, at the same expense, than he ems is
&gland.

To ohm do ioto atiribele raw paper being ebeaprr is this
coon,. y think thtre are more paper twills IN irelsad
than there are in E.iglatid; and linen being the staple com-
modity is ibis corstry, the refuse of limn, dax, sad rap, are
easier bad.

It does not arise from any difference of duty ?—I •hluk
oat; I believe there is a great evasion of the duty o■ raw
paper in Ireland.
There is a difference is the mode of rhegiog the dusty on
stetted paper; yIIII have a table deity hem ?—Tes. t►at was
me ea while Mr. Futter was Chiltern°, of t►e Exchequer
in Ireland. I waited un Mr. Foster, and stated the aeces.
sity of impel* that, from this ptineiple, the there would
be very little duty pail, If aumethitig of that kind etas Cot
resorted to.

Hu It answrred?—The persons engaged in the paper
staining trade have lately called a tn.wihrg, and at Gm 'bey
required that I should act as Chairman, which I did; they
drew rep resolution. to lay refore the Commissioners, to the
greet that there was great inconvenience sustained by the
table duty. _ _

Du you concur in that opinion'-1 acted precisely as
Chairman, and signed that, mine from a desire to phew
them, if any thing coald he done, I world ant stand is the
sway of it, heecuce I was aware, that whatever euuld be dome
would be dorm by Gove►uweut, but massy of them paid that
was a munnpolist• and a pennon who wished to prevent any
thing being done for the humbler class of piranus in ohs
trade its which I was; I ihirefore cow curred wit► them in
the resolution, but I am still of opiaiva that something of
the kind in necessary, pat in whatever shape it may be, IMat
it is Incumbent on the Goveroascat to protect ihesoisslves by
sowbetbidg of the kiad.

Has it answered as • proteetift, in the wait yen expect.
ed ?—The generality of the triode argue not, but I know if 1
was disposed to sentsggle, it weitiNl he • preventive to me.
Dots mot the mode of taking the duty affect the article
itself, by making it lees perfect ?—I do not drink it luta be-
lieved thecoftempliou of paper hangings, lint the trade corn-
Oslo that it is me isroeiverieeter; meek, as •n rialsell. I
would state, that I think I should employ more permits at
particular periods of the year, if there was Out that table duty
at a slack period of the year when or orre makift stock.
that I would have a treater needier of hoods employed than
have; it obliges me to pay, skids a limited time, foe the
stuck I manufacture, shrine, if I could leave that stock it
ney warehouse, without the duty charged upon it, the want of
which stamp calls epos see to pay the excise, it would Il► In
an unaniehed state on the part of the Government, sod there-
fore I should nut be called spur to pat• the duly till it re-
ceived the stamp.
Can you state the sautes! average of the duty you pay ?
Bettors° four sal Aft hatoilred • year ; ■bout four liondred
pounds a year probably.
The lola smote*, of the duty for the last year was Iweler
hundred putto.la. Ito you suppose too and Mr. Russell do
two•lhirds of the whole ?—1 supppore I do not 11,1 above our-
twelfth I I should think Mr. Boswell mud I do about I.IIIC.
sixth. Mr. Boswell is • wholesale mannfacturrr, and hr
maker ■ character of !nods that would CIRO a greater in o-
porti..o of duly thou I du. My goods ale of a superior
order.

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