The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-01-30 00:00:00

SACHILE,GIi.

ROW ascrileginns villain or villains has found mesina of
stealing the Communion plate from the 11%111 ch►st in the
Vestry of St. Marettref's Church, Lotthhury, by what llMall/
ip DO known, Pg the Church was not broke into, mole+, the
villains enteied by means of pis k.lork keys, or bad brew
concealed its the Church after Dit use Ser4see. Frogs the
roomer the rtolthrty wet, Cot"ttilltrrl, heist
taken or eigtorlet-J, the flossy' and w.nd..r, b. lOC always
1048,01 o core. it is Ilia kiltivesi OH *IA; p 11"111.sr meht pine,
the 311 otomet the robbPs y been commis...l Th.a is the
PiXtrellth Parish Church shod has been rub!. 1 its and *tibia
sixteen wiles of Landon within a few month..

GLEIT7i)NY EXTRAORDIN. 1: y.

A fellow, named lust lirito, who works it) the Dock-
yard at Portsmouth, undertook, last week, to rat • curved
lege( pork, weight 117 ti, pounds, in twelve hours ,At the
lint ousel be cleated ott all the fat and devoured six pounds
and a half, although it was not half thine. to she earmuff.
he had S111)11bet tura, awl rat revels pontiff. more, mime of
which was fried, together with • gallon of po Wed .alihnee,
and • gallon of beer. He multi have finished the pork, but
at eleven o'clock she brute was boyish, fur 31 so some bets
were pending opou it. This gormandising look place at
the Star, Lake-lane, rear Pintai'.

The Duke of Anatr.r. is expected in totirn in a
few da)s, from his seat in Scotland.
Earl Bitows Low it arrived at his hniise in Caren.
&oh-square, from his are in Lincolnalore.

Lord WALSINGHOI is arrived at Lis house its
Hatlev•street, from his seat uric Sti
Lord 1101 GRAVE is arrived at his house in H•or-
lel-sireet, from his seat in Yorkshire.
Lord `AYl►'-AND-SELE is arrived at his house ;no
Berkeley•street, from a tour.
Lord and Lady A atitEttsr are arrived at floor
loons, in Lower Groosvenor•street, from their seat,
Montreal-house, Kent.
Lord CHARLES TOWNSDEND arr;ved yesterday
at the British Hotel, Jrrmyn•street, from his seat
ill Norfolk.
General Sir DAVID DIJNDAS, the Governor of
Chelsea Hospital, rove a sumptuous eitternoininent
at his noble apsrtments in the College, on %%Woes-
d.,y last, to his Royal Highness the Commander iot
Chief; and Ills Staff; the 31arquis of A NUI.F.SLY.Ste.

A grand match between two horses, to trot 100
miles fur eOO guineas aside, has excited moth M-
terest. The one is the mare which did 100 miles
in twelve hours easy, on the Huntingdon rua *ix
weeks ago, belonging to a Mr. Pitt mcv.; and the
other is a horse of Captain Drasituuutt. The start
was fixed fur o'clock lust night, on tits Chelms-
ford road, out and in.
The LORD CHAS.:F.I.ton line fixed the days for
hearing Appeals and Writs of Error to the House
of Lords, ti .r Mondays, Wednesday-, anal Fridays.
from ten o'clock till four each day. On those days
the VICE-CHANCELLOR will sit in the Court of
Chancery during Term.
M. J. P. G. JANSSENS, Lieut.-Cilonel, Knight
of the Legion of Honour, rojoying a itelisiou from
the King of the NETHEILIANDS, was one ..f the
persons arrested at Brussels during the late visit cf
the Emperor ALEXANDER, accused of a conspiracy
tending to arm the inhabitants against each other,
and to excite civil war and re in the king-
dom. Being found innocent, lie was released on
the 13th instant. He attributes the misfortune
which has befallen him to having met with a person
whom lie knew nothing of till the day before lie
was arrested, and who told him, as a piece of news,
that the Emperor ALEXANDER was going to place
the son of NAPOLEON on the throne, and to pro-
claim NIARIA Louisa Regent—a piece of ties,
which he listened to with contempt.

A report having been industriously disseminated,
that the Two Universities and the King's Printer
are endeavouring to suppress the Sale of ♦LL Bibles and
Boobs of Common Prayer with Notes or Ccostaamiarses ;
we are authorised to state, that neither of the Universities.
nor the King's Printer, ever entertained such an idea. It
always has been, and it still in. their intention to interfere
only in those eases, where the Notes are added for the pur-
pose of violating their privileges, sod evading the law.
Mention having been made of the amount of the
National Debt, by Sir It, WILSON in his speei I) in
the House of Commons on Monday night, and his
representation tor it being contradicted by a Noble
Lord who followed hint, we think it right to state,
that the unredeemed funded debt at the ;•resent
time amounts to 5i33,234,970f.: the unfunded deht
amounts to something between 60 and 70
An experiment has recently been tried in the
Barrack belonging to the Company of Firemen at
Paris, in the presence of their Commandant, the
Prefect of Police, the Manager of the Opera, awl
several scientific men. The of ject was to !love
the effect of a cer►ain preparation applied to mood
and to the scenery of a theatre. that should render
thew proof against tire, and the experiment suc-
ceeded.

KENT.—However the Kentish speculators may
have heett unfurl uitste in the article of flops, iliiroig•
the last sermon, (hive are some articles in which th y have
been most fortunate, namely—iu the selection of lucky num-
'ben in the Lottery. Of the Ticket, No. 5,5:15, recently dras
a Prize of 30,0001. sod sold by BISH, a Griatleisas resoliri4
at Dartford, got a Half; and, u if Fortune was resolved nut
to do things by hakes, this was in addition to another Mime
of 30,0001. sold to him by DISH, in a former Lowly. A
great somber of Capitals have hero also obtained by persons
residing at Maidstone. Canterbury, Margate. its. 6.c. This
hat proilneed a very lively spirit of adventure ihionebnut
Kew, and will no onabt give full eraploptitilt w 111 Sics
Agesits m this County.
Un Tuesday evening, soon after ►it o'clock.
JAMES HARRIS, the postman emploted to convey
the mail between Chertsey and Statue•. %Lie stop-
ped by a single fcotpsd. when he bail gut abort'
h4lf-way, nod robbed of Isis watch. &c. situ whit
afterwards beat him most rlt,clt the
first robber was joined by

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On Tuesday evening the
stopped near Epping, by
and obe on horseback ; they

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their cart with boxes. &c.

town with all the speed they
trait ed to Lea Bridge. The
waggon in the care of two b _
&liver parcel at a Gemfemme
road ante.

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inhumanly. in vilia:ll the
several others.
se Cambridge waggon war
p there men, two 111 a art
they cut the lilt.
c. sod returned maids
ley could drive : they were
l'he waggoner hail kit use
o boy., while be we'll to
utleumu's house Near the
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