The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-05-24 00:00:00

ROBBERY.

On Writeresilay morning the coach °free al the Talhot
Inn, iss Slit evtrhort., was robbed of nearly :Milt It opprais
that a man had concealed himself in the I se or yard 'told
one or tail o'clock 10 the e, when, having broken the
fastvoilizs of the windows, he entered the office and tilled
the desks : h slot attempted time door of the bar, but ail
slot break it opesi lo the coarse of the davit moan oho had
.1,,1 al ow Na.fa Hentt was about to depart front that
house, soul on paying hip bill the pert ant ishisi "Aril a quan-
tity of cash ill his porket•lnsisk, whirl, elicited suspicion ;
and the Indic, officer, Mr Ilse ward, shortly discovered that
he was the offs oiler. and look !hill into rostiolv Ile proved
to he it m.lll ‘,llll hos place at the nitre, on the
71h in.laul, fur Birmingham, isi the mime of I.ster ; and
tierl lie had since bees. lisuoging about the Talbot Inn, moak-
tug frivolous isiluirta,

T;IP LORD CHANCELLOR will hold the First Seal
on riiirbilav next, the 27th inst.

Term roils this day ; tremarrow and AVreinesday
the MASTER of the ROLLS will sit in his Count in
C lousier
The following Gent leinen were on Saturday call-
ed to toe degree of Ministers at Law by the lion.
Soeiety of Lincoln's-lint:—
C. Itroflerit k, J. Das.cl, I'. H. Minter, W. It CromPlcmi
E. J. r, stage, ti. Seswerhy, awl J. L. Iliosipier,

',linenlay the eleelimi fie a "Ilemlyer of Parliament for
11111 w (ttera,oititeil by Colonel TAYLOR baylitz accepte.l ti c
Chiltern II Ireibi) tame nil. When the poll rketed, the
',timbers were—Fur LoYD, EMI. 157, Sir JOHN C.
110NYWOOD. 90.

The elm:Sion for s Member fir Shrew...ll,y, in the room
of the Isle Col. LTSTIR, commenced on alost,l3y. At the
elide of the fourth day's poll on Thumlny, the numbers
were—For JOHN INTETOR, E 441. 170 ; PANTON CORBETT,
E. 4.1113 The .amber of buttresses polled at the last coo-
lest, in 1814, between K. LIMIER %8,.1 B. BENTON, Esqrs.
was 837.

On Satorday list Lieut. STrwAnT, R.N. was
drowned, near Dunbar, with two ladies, by the
upsetting or a pleasure-heat.
The Larne, 24, and 'Mole an,l Snapper gun-
Itrixs, itt Portsmouth, are ordered for commission :
it is supposed for the Coast of Africa. Lieutenant
HAGAR is appointed to the Thistle, for the African
station.
Saturday Mr. GROVES, of Hackney, while pass-
ing under the south piazza of the Exchange, had
his pocket picked of his pocket-book, contaming
SOL in Hank notes.
A terrier dog, apparently in the lost stage of ex.
battalion from hydrophobia,. ran into a house in
Fargate, Sheffield, on Friday last. He was soon
dispatched. without having done injury to any per-
mits. though several were in danger. Ile had a col-
lar on his neck, w itb his owner's name. at. " Brainy-
tnu„" upon it. He must therefor*: have conic far
f►om home. no place of that name being within ten
or twelve stiles from Sheffield; and what mischief
he may have done by the way cannot easily be as
Since then, another dog. supposed to
be mad, was shut is an oat-building. in Pond-
street.
I)st-on-reeler Actir TENT --Sat u rshi 7 an Inquest was
lield at the sign of the Black Boy, Luut acre, before Thos.
Stirliog, Esq. Coroner, ott the hotly of John Phipps, aged
s-ight years, sun to • pour distressed widow, n+•iding
in
V.stker s.lnne, who, it appeared its evidence, sent the
deceased out ow an errand, and on his way he mooned be.
Lind a hackney-coach, which, on turtling down Bow-street,
on its way to Coveut•gardeu Theatre, the deceased attempted
to get down from, but fell, and the carriage of Sir Andrew
ilaniond, which was taking him to the Theatre, passed
suer, him before he could rise, and the n heels going osea his
chest, killed him on the spit. The hotly was taken to it,.•
Black Boy. No blame could attach to any pursuit, and the
Jury retuned a verdict of—Accidental Death.
The will of the late Dr. WiLLIAM ADAMS has
been received in England, from the East Indies,
where lie died in October last. Ile has bequeathed
she whole (a trifling token or two of remembrance
excepted) iii the immense property, amounting to
nearly half a million sterling, to which he became
entitled tinder the will tif his late father, ALFA.
ADAMS, E.q. of Nesicaiitle-upoit-Tyne, but which
lie did not live to take possession of, unto his
Mr. THOS. NATERS (the sots of his mother's
si.terl, who i. now in the State of Vermont, North
America, homy; heels unfortunate iti trade iii Eng.
laud. It is rern•irkable that this va►t property, the
greater part of which is personal, should devolve
upon two natural children in successi 111 l and con-
sequently Government will receite the full legacy
dory of 10 per cent. twie•e ores (equal to a fifth of
she value) before the rich inheritance is finally taken
possession of by the fortunate legatee.

WWI WATER THIS DAY AT I.ONDON BRIDGE.
. Numlug 14 after 1. I Evenisg 37 after 2.

PROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

[TIM, Gazette notifies the baptism of the 11,111 Or the Doke
of Combeidge, at Hanover ; the reception or the Pelvis.,
Ambassador at the Prince Regent's Levee on Thursday;
the Investiture of the Earl of A)leabowy with the insignia
of the Order of the Themle ; anal tlw private audiences
given 10 several of the foreign Ainhassedeers. The Prene
sod A Igerisie Ambassadors delivered on this measiou their
ereeleetteals; the Dielels Ambassador tklirered se letter from
his Sower. ign ; the Aastrian prewateel the io.iCnia of the
Orden. of St. Swpbeia, the Iron Clown, and of Leopold ;
and the Neapolitan a letter from hi• So. ereigii, euvouse.
ing the man tome of the Princess Charlotte, leis die-gle.
ter, with the Infant of Spain, Dim FrAllfl4 she Pailla.
Gazette also notifies the appointment of (ballet Maxwell,
E.g. as Governor of St. Christopher's ; and of Sir S. lord
Whittiegliam, as Goveruor of