The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-02-28 00:00:00

GRAND DINNLR.

Earl FORT ESCUE Save a grand dinner, last Thurs-
day, at his hone, in Giusvelint-itps ire, to se-
veral of the Ihreitors rt the Ancient Music. The
company chned in the front parlour, which is a
room finished in the antique style; there is a white
Egyptian chimney piece, beautifully carved, over'
which is a valuable scripture painting ; on each
side of the fire-place is suspended a painting;
one representing a view of his Lordship's house
and pleasure grounds, and the other of the park,
at Caste-Hill, Devonshire; under these paint-
ings are two large marble slabs, on ebony
stands, richly carved. The table was set out m a
peculiar style of elegance, and was lighted by wax.
lights, in massy silver branches The dinner con-
sisted of two courses, fourteen each, and comprised
every delicacy of the season. Amangst the com-
pany were:—.

• Ifs Royal Ifighner4 the Doke of CirabriAge, who sst on
the rlltt of the Noble 1.1,1; to- F.art ..1 Ux..rrolge, Count
beaU4dillif, Viscount Euro, gttn:, and the lion. Arthur Pdgct.

Their MaJtsrtss did not stir nut of Windsor
Castle yesterday, or the day before, owing to the
coldness of the weather.

Yesterday, the YMINGLsses, seennspan;ed by the
Duke of Cumstasarso. with their usual Attend-
ants, rode out for about two hours.

Sir HYDE PARKER, We arc happy to state, is
nearly recovered from his late illness.
The Earl of DA RTMOU LH, the Lord 'Chamber-
lain, has been confined, upwards of i fortstsglit,
with a violent attack of the gout.
Colonel and Mrs. BEAUMONT will give a grand
dinner, at their house in Portman-square, on the
4th of March.

Sir JOl4/I Ptays might have looked a Rolle, but
Lady CLONCI/IItY was certainly not a Cure.
The fourth Concert of Ancient Music was per-
formed on Thursday evening, and was honoured
with an elegant and crnsvdtd company. The Duke
of Causawca was t) e individual person of the
ROYAL FAMILY present. _

•three grand Subscription Assemblies ate tn take
place in Dublin, on the 3J, 19th, and 31st of March,
at the Public Rooms, Rutland4quaire. The Countess
of MeaTu, the Countess of CHAPLIMOIKT, the Vis.
countess Mosie, Lady AIOILL, Mr.. Dawson, and
Mrs. H. Baktitollo, are the Lady Patronesses.
Mr. Cotss has written an Epilogue for his
;end Mosr,.p:'s new Comedy. of which report
speaks highly. '1 his Epilogue, it seems, is of the
interlocutory kind, and partakes strongly of the au-
thor's humour.

Mr. TA V We, it seems, grounds his claim to the
resunipoi of the management of the Opera, upon
the contra& between him and the late Mr. Goat°,
as well as upon the superiority of shares in which he
has an interest. According to the terms of that
contract, it is said, that in case of Mr. Gooto's
death, this privilege was reserved for the totraer
Manager.
•It appears from a picture ethibitel at a late
reins. cos. trial, that the Baronet was afraid to ven-
ture his acct in the business.

Lan night the Harmonic Society at Bath wet-et°
give their second entertainment to their fair friends.
—The Warming Noblemen and Gentlemen were the
Stewards on the occasion :
Right Hon. the tart of Cork. Admiral Thomas.
Sir Nigel Greeley, Bart. General Lloyd.
Rev. Sir F. Broughton, But. Colonel Phelps.
Rev Of. Marriott. I Colonel ciiiiien.
Baron Pe:dzor. Colonel Ilford.
Colonel illih. C. W. Pochln, Esq.
Major Taubman. lA. Wright, Em.
5.0 De Burgh, Fag. J. flowlton, laq.
James Reddish, Lsq. J. Mason, l'aq.
A pitched battle was /Aught, on Tuesday lan,
for 10 guineas a side, on Blackheath, by two se-
cond rate pugilists, viz. Jew Jeremy fr.m Team,
h•tter known by the name of (Ed Tektr, uni gm. i
Howleil. The fight eons;sted of 30 rounds, and
lasted 43 minutes, when Old Tykes, who appeared
game at the first set-tn, :hewed the rhiet fialher,
and Howl( it, though
W
aired vifaor. We-riser in science, Is as de-

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I • CORONER'3 INQUBS s ,
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%he •Coroner's Irgtona upon the bodies of a,
several prrsor.s wh s lost their lives et, ri.ableitit,
at t: e execution of the Murderctiasty front o the
Old Bailey, trimmed its inquiry last evening at six
o'clock, in St. 11..rthrlornew s Hospi•;tl, and can-
tinned to hear witnesses *roil half past tea. The
Witnesses examined: wife William Gadfryy and
Thomas Worcester, two patients in the Hospital,
who had been hurt in the crowd on that day, the
lamer of whotn was a pupil in the Itospit.il, a
Constatl., and two or three other pr:s•ms. They
were particularly examined to the cans! of the es-
tcaorainary pressure, ants they all agreed in attri-
bating, it to the line of carts and other carliages.
which, by h) eking up the way, ohstrtacled the re-
treat of the crosvd towards Sm;t!ifi ld. At twelve
o'clock, aftet an houf and a halt's consultation, the
i. Jury returned a rerdid to the following tile& :
•• That last Monday morning the several petsc.ns
deceased went to the Old Bailey, at the North-
west end and side thereof, near to Great and Little
Green Arbour courts, to see the execution of the
criminals; that a great many carts, and other car-
nialtas, mere placed across the said avenue, by
whi:h the passage and way thereof were greatly
narrowed, so much so, that the mass of people
(odd not pass to see the ereentian, many of
who/wrested with great violence by ;h., West end ;
that other carts and carriages were extended to-
wards the houses to the North-west end of the Old
13.iley, which occasioned the crowd that attempted
to cross these, to be greatly compressed. by means
thereof; that many persons, so compressed, died
of suffocation ; and that e•thers, falling from faint-
ness, were trampled in the crowd to death.

At. 4

G. Hoocrotr. Esq. Coroner for Middlesex, took
an inquisition, on Thursday evening, at the White
Hart, Leather-lane, on the body of the wife of
Stephen Boyce, who was reported to have been
murdered by her husband nn Wednesday mornirg.
The Jury met at A o'clock,, and the investigation
lasted until midnight, during which a great number
of witnesses were examiaed, in order to throw all
pissible light on the suhjeft.
Rog, rs, a watchmen, whose box stood near
to No. 53, Leathce-lane, was the first man who
entered the house, with the husband, and se,ho was
a material witness, in descrihinp, the situation of the
body. ke. Boyce called him out of his box, be-
tween twelve and one o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing, and informed him something had happened to
his wife, for she attempted to talk, and he could
wit understand her; requesting that he, the witness,
would accompany him home to his house, in a court
at the back of the premises of No. 53. On the
watchman entering the house, he discovered the
deceased !yin.; on her belly, with her sight hand
under her head, near to the door, and a quantity of
blood was in another part of the room. Boyce
lifted up the head of the deceased. and exclaimrd.
She has cut her throat." The deceased was not
quite dead, but she attempted in vain to articulate.
The husband appeared greatly distressed in mint.
and ran round the court, in a frantic manner,
calling oat that his wife had Iclled herself. Othei
watchmen came to the house, and a surgeon was
tetchechtbe sax knife, wish which the au had been
perpetrated, was lying near to the body. There
was no light in the room, nor did there appear to
have been any.
Ann Hendon, who lived in the came eonrt as the
deceared, proved that the deceased and her husband
lived unhappily together, and that the deceased,
who was mod, addißed to dtinking, had informed
Aer on the Tuesday that she had not scan her hus-
band since Friday last. ‘Vitness saw the deceased
go into her apartment at four o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon, and she spoke to her, but the deceased
did not take any notice of her, which was different
to 'Ph it she used to do. This Witness proved th
the husband had recently been imprisoned at the
suit of his wife.

Mai y Tucker, a servant to Mr. Stutsbs, iron-
monger, whose back premises are in the cnurt,
stated, that, where she used to sit, she could hear
the deceased and her husband converse together, as
they were sitting by their fire-side. She had not
heard the least noise in their house, on Tuesday
night, nor eatly on Wednesday n: ruing, until
payee called out that his wife had cut her
throat. She was sitting up for her master, and she
mist have heard a noise, there had bee:. any.
About five minutes before Wye* called out, she
heard some one go up the court, but she could n.:t
say who it was, as other persons resided in the
court. Witness knew the deceased to have been a
drunken woman.

Trott, the officer, proved that the paities lived in
a very uncomfortable rnarner ; and that the
husband had been imprisoned, at the suit of the
wife. He bad heard Boyce threaten the deceased,
when they were quarrelling.
Mr. Bleveit, who had frequently emphlyed
Royce, had known him and the deceased, six years.
lilayce was a hard-working, industrious, inotiensive
ram, and he was possessed of a little property,
which he had o►nsioed by the lottery. 'Dia Wit-
ness described Inc deceased as having been insane
since May last, when the husband got his money,
from repeated habits of drunkenness.
Several other Witnesses were examined, without
throwing any additional light on the subject. A
circumstance of some importance was, thirt the de.
ceased was described as left-handed, and it was the
opinion, that the wound of the deceased kad been
inileited with the left hand. After an appropriate
charge to the Jury, from Mr. Hootison, they de-
livered a verdiet

The Catharine, Owes, from London, for Sligo.
is on slmre, near Railyshannon. Part of the carp
expefled to be saved.

I.ettets from Hal:fax, dated January 13, state,
that the weather had set in extremely severe. A
party of the 9ith regiment, consisting of a see.
pant, corporal, and private, had gone a few days
before in search of a deserter; the private had re-
turnwl, and was then in the hospital, and it was
feared the poor fellow would lose both his feet
from the severity of the frost. The serjeartt and
corporal were both found frozen to dcath, at sine
miles distant from Halifax. Three men, who had
gone in search of them, had not returned, and it
was dreaded that they had tamed the &SITU laic.

LAW INTIELI,f6RNCE.

COURT Or EING'S t' NCH, t;vvi nr .17 !pi '7.
S tiVZS at .11W 1",b4), 6037. re Eyre! oficr jo,de
EL LES BUROI4IN.

Tam m airy. r. elusion.
This was au a.,irra brought to venom the ant 4
101. for work and labour, Bare and atteiPliftft, fie
curing tie artendant's son of 14 hart in hi. k; ye.
It Cost the inn of the Defendant, yha
was a wneelwrigl.t, and about es yearn of rim
hail received severe wound itt his Intee,, and „tr.
gical assistanag being necessary, it was, span
sultation, arra by the faculty', that intordyr la
prevent immedive mortifi:ration in ow ram iha
patient should suffer amputation. This was sum!.
ously resisted by the mother of the young man; ais4
upon the repse.entatimit of an old female neigh.
bout, who expatiated up. n Vie wonderful Skill, ate!
the cures periorned by the Plaintiff, who was a:
Breaches-rnak-r in Shoteditch, the DerrwNnt,
charged by the Plaintiff• applied to him for his a.
siatance, and urtdertcok to remunerate Ifni for F • •
trouble. 7'he Piaintiii accordingly undettork the
mire : in a weak Om young man was able to walk
about bed-cffunber ;in a tort. ight lie could g,s
up and down staWs ; and in less than three moors!.
the cure was completed, and be was restor.jt •
the viten use or his I:rr.b... In the c,ormi of tt,.
time, the Plaintiff had regularly attended him du
siz weeks, withstit intermission, and now 1)10110,
his anion to recover cusipeasation fur his time.
trouble, &c.

rt oppenning, however, upon the evidence of th•
iiVi.:rdant's daughter, who was the only
called, that sa far fr :m t►e Deler:dant's ondettalo• g ,
to pay any ium of money to the Plaietiff, he uerLr
had interfered—The flannteft was nonsuited.

Mi. PARK E. for the Defendant, then stated. ast
in truth the s uuni man had paid the 'Plaintiff a
wh;ch was al; the money he had in the wadi, set
kis wife was oblif,e.l to go to. varizo in order i 4
nutke up even that sum.