The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1815-03-03 00:00:00

40CIETY OF ANCIENT 13k1TON's.

The limits of our Paper of yesterday prevented
us from giving a full account of the Meeting of the
Most fitnourable and Loyal Society of Ancient
Britons, on St. David's Day, which prevfmed to
the public, on that day, one of those pleasing sights
tvhich fill the patriotic and virtuous mind with the
purest emotions of gratitude and exultation, and
pourtrays the generous character of Britons in true
and lively colours, and exhibits to an admiring
world the true source of all our greatness—patriot-
ism, and the exercise of benevolence.

The dinner was given at the Freemasons' Tavern.
Great Queen-street, to w•l>fich upwards of ti‘e
hundred persons aat down at live o'clock.
Among the compenv we noticed—
The Earl of Aylesford, Earl of Dartmouth, Lord Flu11"11^Yi
Lord Kirkwall, !Awl Dyncsor, the. Bishop of Oxford, Sir
W. W. Wynn, Charles Wpm, Esll. Sir Charles Morgan,
Captain Owen, and several other t‘ersons of distinction.
After the comptuly had sat down to dinsitr, Sir
W. W. IVynn, accompanied by his brother, Mr.
Charles W. Wynn, entered the room, when the
whole of the company rose to receive him, and
with reitemted plaudits and buzzes, expressed then•
high gratification iu seeing: then• beloved Chief on
his return from Spain; in which plaudits the ladies
in the gallery took no small share.
After dinner, " Non Nohis Domine," was sung
by Messrs. J. Smith, G. Smith, Biomilinrst, l.er,
and Parry. " God save the King.," was drank, in
solemn and respectful silence, and was 'Afterwards
played by the band that was stationed in the music
gallery, succeeded by the vocal performers.
The following toasts and songs were givt it in the
course of the evening :
" The Prince Retrent"—Three tithes three.—Tune, Of a
noble race was Shenhin.—Song, "The Prince and Old
tau. is ltd fur ever."
"'!'he (deceit, and the r..t of the Royal Family."—Three
times three—Music, " Ileiuus strike home."
"The Princess Charlotte of Wales."—Music, Mr Jones
played a Wclsh air 4111 the harp—he was seated on an decal-
ell platform on one silk• of the room,
" Prosperity to the Principality of wales."
After this toast, the Children swig the following
Ode, the words by Mr., C. Geary.

Ilail, hail, ye firm and ancient hand
Of Ciunbria's land;
Patriot chiefs with freedom glowing,
Geri runs hearts with mercy flowing,
flail, hail, your virtues praise demand.
Your aid subdues the orphan's fear
And dries the tear;
Cheers the n ithiw and di jetted,
Soothes the panne of a or urgh etc,l ;
Hail, hail, Ai r join in praise sincere.
Beneath your fosering hand Ave share
Parental care,
Ruin, but fur you, had tumid ns,
Purest blessings nuH surround us;
Hail, hail, you slit r faun Vice's snare.

Lung, Mug, may ileav n'S approvitni snide
Attend your toil;
nor) ',Us!: on earth reward you,
Iloveriuq A ait;cl, tend and guar.' you ;
Hail, hail, ye friends of Britain's We.

" The Charity, and VIA) it flourish anal increase
beneath the olive brunch of peaty." (After thi. toad the
collection was nook, tocether with the stains trans-
mitted, nmoiniteil to 1.402 E. odd shillinzi.)

"The Bishop of ONiuttl, and thunks for his kind assist-
anry " Harp.
" The Right Hon. the Earl of Plymouth, President of the
Society i" by Sir %V. W. Wyatt.
" Our gallnot and patriotic Chief, Sir W. W. Wynn, and
welcome I c;" by the Earl of Aylesfurd.
" Lord Ayiesford, the Vice-President, and Stewards of the
Society of Ancient Britons i" by Lord Bulkeley. Tune,
" One bottle more."

" Lord Ittlikeley, the Treaßurcrs, Gos•crnora, and'Tru►
tees of the Welsh Charity." Harp.
'['he Ladies beloogioz to the Charity." Harp.
" Dr. 11uilgsott and the Church-wardens of St. George's
C11111'111."

_
66 1 lie Rev. T. Alban, Chaplain to the Siociety."
6' 3lay our ivals n, beneyou, ace, the Irish and Scotch So-
cieties, with vcrt 1/i her liistitid• for disseinisiatiog know-
lefts and happiness, experience putrouaKti and
support." " 3loggy Lauder." Soug, " £rni Go
Bisset."
To enumerate the many other tOti`itS and senti-
ments that were given, or to particulari:w the vari-
ous sove4-4,-(ing, would ex( red our limits. The en-
tertainment w;tz: kept tip with spirit until an early
hour yesterday looming.

REDUCTION 01' RENT IN IRELAND.

Baker, Esq. of Lit.MUCH'', has matte an abate-
meta uf ks per acre to his 'imam, at tht
comity uf Limerick. ilia property in 'hut quartet• i, 77
acres.

James gently, hanker, of Tipperary, has made
an abatement of half a g ' is 'ter were to In; :At the
estate of Laffally anti 113 sulidenummutions, near Clot 11111111 l
where he has 100 ames.

Thomas Daunt, Esq of killemire, county of Limerick,
has made an aliateineut of If. to r acre.
Among many uthcrs who have :Aqua it fo ward fur the
relief of the poor by moiler itiim ile peke of
their lauds, it gives us pleasure to have lo record tlw names
of Lori! nod Liely tiusforil. Ilia Lordship lias recently kt
his loyal.: cousiilerabl) nailer what would have be: a a fair
price souse 111111. ago; whilst Ludy Goliforil law, with Melir.•
lilicrality, extended the arils of !redress—the widowed naii-
INT, the destitute orpham, sod the victims of disease ut age,
are the stweial objects of lwv
Major Fitzgerald (brother to Gen Film-raid, one of the
Members ill Parliament for the Cl/11111y Choi ,) who inherits
roosiderable property jai that coitus by the death of his
father, the late Colonel I'itzsci alit, of It:c liy lwgs, ham made a
rechietiosi of tow poimil tier acre to his ilitiercut tenant* io
the ft risk- district of Trailice.
I\ EN GlaiN

Sir J. E. Switiburate, Bart of l'aphcateo, lowered,the reefs
of all his farms. except a few hot recently let, from l 5 to
20 per et ht. tu dye utoutht: t4O, 00 aceoutot of the pressure
of the times.

A theailful lire broke out about four clock this
morning, in I\orthunila•rland-court, Simla!, which
entirely drstroyed the I'rintim.-011ire or Air.
CLowEs, aiiil did considerable Stitia,4c to the nil-
joining houses. We do not understand that any
lives were lost.

Yesterday Daniel SuMean, a watchman of the
parish of St. Anne, Soho. was charged at the Public-
°thee, Bow-street, with robbing, Mr. JAMES
ORMS VON, an officer belonging to the Pitt East
lioliamati, of his watch, gold t ltaiu, and.sculs, &c.
on Tueskiy night, near St. .lune's Church.—He
was committed for trial.

The Officeis belonging to the Adjutant-General's
Department were ordered, on Tuesday evening, to
return to the Office. Arrangements were mode to
assemble a large body of troops, at the s..orttst no-
tice, to the metropolis.

LAW INTALLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GuiLronALL, MARCH 2.

CRJM. CON.
RANDALL V. PFNVOLD.

• In t 1 action Plaintitisouglit to recover romp,:n-
ation iu tlianageb for criminal conversatAffl With Lis

The parties, it appeared, arc both curpentors,
and at the period when the ground of action was al-
leged to have taken place, were in partnership, and
teNtiled in St. John's-square, Clerkenwell.
The marriage of the parties was proved, and ether
witness were called, who stated that the Iflaiiitilf
and wife had lived together upon condor-Wide
terms.

• To prove the art of adultery, a journeyman car•
pewter was examined, Who &posed, that in the
mouth of Sept. 181-2. he was in the joint employ.
ment of the Plaintiff and Defendant ; he lied been
so for some months before. On the Pith of that
month, as he was in the workshop, which was dis-
tant from the dwelling-house, he thought he heard
a noise iu a loft over his head in which tails were
kept. I earful that some person was stealing the
tools he went up stairs, and there saw the Deferatant
and the Plaintiff's wife in such u situation as left
no doubt on his mind of the species of iiitinwev-
whieli subsisted between them, tie did lint at that
period inform the Plaintiff of what lie had witnessed,
but having note abroad with some wooden hospitals
to Portugal, on his return he slated the fact.
On this wittivss's cross-txuhinhatiois, he salt!, he
hie! since heard that the Plaintiff had turned Ins
wile out of doors for misconduct, and that she had
been in the work-house. 11'ittiess sometimes slept
with the Plaintiff, us did the Defendant. Did not
hear that the Plaintiff's wife had slept between
them to keep the peace.
On the part of the Defendant, three witnesses
were called, who proved that the Plaintiff had fre-
quently spoken of his wife as being a most aban-
doned ',mitigate, mid as having played the rape
constantly with two tailors, who lodged in his Image.
One of these witnesses, a butcher, raid he saw one
of the tailors in such a situation with the lady, that
he took it for grant& he was her husband. She
had ioruired a bill with this man to the amount of
355. in purchasing luxuries for the entertai:tment of
her paramours. Ilex character was universally
known w the parish of Cle.lenwell. The Plain-
tiff' had actually sold off all his property to get rid
of her.

Lord Et I.ENBOROUaII, in addressing the Jury,
said that the conduct of the female in question hail
liven of the most abandoned dr•criptioo, tet if it
did oot appear that the Plaintiff had I eeti instru-
mental. and had con,ented to the counection be-
tween her anti the Defendant, he was certainly en•
titled to a verdict—it would be for the Jury to say,
under ail the circumstances, what anionut of da•
mattes it would he proper to give.
The Jury found a verdict fin• the Plaintiff.—Da.
magus, Five guineas.—Costs, 40s.

POLICE.
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TIIAtTS-OFFitF.
MURDER.
Charles nose was chargvd with the wilful me der of a
passenger on board a Gravesend passage-boat„ the '
usual, I/II litT passage to London, about four o'clock yestie -
dap morning, in G,llcon's Reach, 111:31'
It appeared in evidence by the master (Mr. Sparrow), and -
saveral of the pie:wagers, that the deceased, a hose same is
not known, was a very small man, about thirty years of age,
not more than four feet four inches in height, dressed in a
brow', es at, Wise trnwaera, and light striped waistcoat, wile
a hump ISO his back, between his shoulders, mid des.,
himself to be a wire-worker. The Prisoner is a glover .0..1
leathav tweechesmtaker, of Rochester, a young 11131), abo.,t
21 years of age.
The Prisoner and the deceased, hail been singing to afause
the company, and at different times the Pi istmer We. till
the deceased very ill by Ainslie langlingi.., ridiculing his 'wf.-
suite and th:eatiming to pat him on the fire ; also told hint
that be %Mild put him overboard before he reaehrd
wick, alt uf wlitei lie bore with the greatest gout humours—
It appeared that the PriSoller was jenlifas of the superior
vocal poweis of the deceased, and ou this accoiiat took all
fippurtim ties so Roomy hint.
About four in the morning the prisoner and decease:l
were seen by the man at the helms on duck together. Ile sett
the Orik4IIICE !Mil hint over an oaf., and after a little time he
led hint ffrward on the starboard side, wirre stood a chest;
they remained there a very short limas whet. 1..- 5.1%4 the poi-
tuner take the deceased, and swing ;din roam! v nth treat
ee, and then let him sit, When hi• fell overboard about fodr
feet from the wagers side. Ile was seen 13 Mg on los bait
shout 11, teiuttlr, matiollif VI, when lie soak to r;ss too more.
The pristaii r dropped on his kill., s, said be y
would foil:ire hiss., for he wits sorry for a hat he had done.
Eddell, a pilot, who had several times trpisimalithd
the Prisoner during the passage, for indecent language and
hail e hurt to the ilecrasNl, ass arriving opposite the Police
°flits., hailed the host, and charged the Priste cf. ill elle-
ilm ly. He is remanded to Saturday week.