The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-06-14 00:00:00

POLICE.

31 ANSI ON-HOUSE.
On Saturday it man named Dwifeld, who has been long known
to the Pollee as a finer for the most desperate thieves about town,
was brought before the Lord Mayor, by Mr. Brown, the Marshal,
charged upon suspicion of having received BULL in local Bank notes,
of which it is supposed. Mr. Names, the steward of Earl Cowper,
was robbed under the circumstances detailed in the newspapers.
Hesketh, the officer, stated, that having received particular di-
reeticros from the Marshals to watch the motions of any suspicious
person, in consequence of the late desperate robbery, he looked
sharply after all the bad ones that visited the Bank. As he walked
up Cornhill, he observed Dudfield, whom he had long known, go-
ing tower& the Bank ; followed him, and saw him stand opposite
the Exchange, reading (as it were) the play-bills. Witness soon
afterwards lost sight of him ; but suspecting that his aim was the
Bank, be went in, and saw Dudfield present some large notes, and
receive from the cashier a great number of sovereigns, which he
placed in a bag. Witness, with the assistance of the porter, ascer-
tained that Dudneld had written the name of " Prescot.
street, Goodman's-fields," upon the notes which be bad paid in,
and immediately went to the Mansion-House to inform Mr.llrown,
who thereupon apprehended the prisoner. In the bag were found
the ale sovereigns, and in the pi isoner's pocket were found 23 more.
Dudfield said he had received the notes which he had just e;-
changed from a Mr. Williams, of Prescott-street, whose name be,
therefore, thought proper to indorse on them.
Mr. Hu at PI( a es appeared for Dudfield. He said the prisoner
had particular mesons for not putting his own name on the notes,
and submitted to the Lord Mayor, that it was improper to detain
him, there being no law to oblige a man to write his name upon
Bank notes ; and there being no proof, nor attempt a; proof, that
the Bank notes for which he had got cash bad been stolen.
The Loan MAYOR said, he had reason to suppose, that although
the notes presented at the Bank were not stolen, certain notes which
bad been given in exchange for them were.
Mr. Brown said that he bad traced the notes paid into the Bank
by the prisoner to the banking-house of Currie and co. in Cornbill,
who had given them in exchange for a number of 51. Cambridge
notes, which had been brought to the house by a female that morn-
ing. Whom had previously suspected Dudheld of having a con-
nection with the persons who plundered Mr. Haines' house, and
upon seeing the Cambridge notes, which were current in the neigh-
bourhood where the robbery was committed, his suspicions were
increased.
Dudheld—" I think It, my Lord, a great hardship to be de-
tained here for nothing. I got the notes in an honourable way. I
em in the habit of receiving a vast number of local notes, and shall
probably have ten thousand pounds' worth in the course of the
next week. I hope you will not keep me in prison upon mere

suspicion."
The boron MAYOR said, there were such strong circumstances
of suspicion, that he would be culpable in not investigating them
more narrowly.
.It was extraordinary in the prisoner, if he got in-
nocent possession of the notes, nut to give a satisfactory account of
the manner.
Mr. Why, my Lord, the fact is, the prisoner
got the notes at play, and of course he was unwilliug to put his own
name upon them."
Dudtseld begged that the sovereigns might be detained, and that
he might be permitted to go at large.
The Loan 31A1r011 said, that justice had often been defeated by
that course, and that the conduct of Dudtield's wife, who had been
at the Alanshion-House upon a charge of having passed a stolen
note sonic time ago, was an additional ground of suspicion that the
Cambridge notes were stolen property. Mr. Haines's house had
been robbed by a most desperac gang, who had taken off with
them 2,000/. in local and other notes, and every effort should be
made to detect the thieves. The whole of the circumstances of this
case were such as to throw a great degree of suspicion upoa the coo-
duct of Padfield.
Dudfield—" Why 1 saw the officer at the Bank before I changed
the notes, and I knew I should be pulled up to the Mansion-House.
If I was guilty why did I get change in the presence of Ilesketh ?"
The LOAD biAT 011—'6 I believe you admit that those DMA of
England notes were exchanged for local notes?"
Dialtield—" I admit no such thing."
Hesketh hare said, that he had gone to Prescott-street, Good-
man's-fields, but found no such person as Mr. Williams there.
A clerk in Currie's banking-house produced the Cambridge 51.
notes, which had been received in the morning from a woman in
exchange for one 2001., three lOW., and one WI. Dank of England
notes. The Cambridge notes were all without any mark, except
the name of " Williams," which was on the back of each of them.
The prisoner was remanded for further examination.
The Loan MAYOR took occasion to commend, in the biggest
mums, the conduct of Hesketh the officer.

FISH MARKET, Sif N DAY, Juxr 13.
Billingsgate is open this day. for the sale of Mackarel only,
and consequently great quantities are generally brought into
market ; there were but tew by land carriage, and five or six
boats, containing in the whole from 10 to 80,000, must of which
wcre totally unsaleable, though sold, greatly to the discredit of
those whose province is to superintend the market, as not a tenth
port were even good, and very few indeed second day. They were,
however, purchased by the itinerant venders at a cheap price, if an
article unlit for use can be considered a bargain, they being sold
from Its. to Pis. per 100. London and its suburbs was there-
; fere annoyed throughout the major Dart of the day by the usual
harsh and sliaagmeable yell of " 3lr.ckarel," and other discordant
variations. It is undoubtedly an object to the higher circles to ob-
tain fresh fish on a Sunday, an encouragement to the dahennan to
be allowed to sell, and a luxury to the mechanic on his leisure day ;
but the sale of unwholesome fish like that we witnessed this morn.
lug can besefit no one, and the result must necessarily be I
disease, caused by eating the very worst kind of unwholesome food.
The public are perhaps in no article of consumption worse judges
than in that of Fish. It is by no means an uncommon circuit,.
stance to see the doors of respectable houses opened to the street
fish-women, who practise the most shameful deception, taking care
to place a ter fish, picked out, as a she«, which they mud to tin a
dirty state), and if approved of, are returned to be cleaned; •tha ser.;
vant's attention is easily taken off by some unmeaning tiouValia.
ration. In the mean time a change is made, and the best I'll is re.
tainod for future traffic. Mackerel are good and flesh the second
day after they are taken • and this is as early as they can be sup.
plied in town; but the third day works a change irrecontileable to
the palate or beneficial to the health of the consumes. Fish.
mongers, from cleanliness and cool places, are enabled to keep Fish
many hours longer than can be expected by those who carry them
during the " hot noontide sun." slackarcl, if third day, or stale
Fish, have dull eyes, with a film coveting them ; their eclair also
dull, the belly of a dingy white . if fresh, they are of a peculiar
golden tint, the eye bright and prominent, and the body miff and
firm.

FATAL. ACCIDENT WHILE B•THlNO..—Analler fatal
accident has occurred by bathing since our last ; on Tuesday a
young man of the name of Johnson, went into the river Aire, at •
place called Sandy Cree, Dear the factory of Messrs. Gott and Sons,
to bathe: the place into which he ventured, and to which he Wm I
an entire stranger, was very deep, and he was unfortunately
drowned. A number of persons were bathing near him, but did
not venture to render him any assistance. At length, a
.person was
procured from some distance, who ventured in to his assistance, but
n was too late, life was extinct.—Leeds Mercary.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER RACES.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9—(Coatinued).
A Maiden Plate of 601. for hones, &c. that never woo. Haw
twice round the course and a distance. second to receive 10/.
Lord Fitswilliam's b. c. Roger, by Whisker, 3 yrs old . 1 3 I
Mr. Charlton's b. f. Fair Rosamond, 4 yrs old . „2 2 fell
Mr. Houldsworth's br. f. Fah° do Puta, 3 yrs old . 3 dz.
Sir T. Stanley's ch. c. by Cestrian, 3 yes old - - 4 2
Mr. Todd's b. c. Brother to Champaigne, 3 yrs old .5 4 dr.
Mr. Ferguson's b. c. by Octavian, 3yn old - . dist
This race was the most sporting one we remember to have sees,
and, but for the shameful conduct of an individual, in crossing nit:
Course, by which Fair Rosamond was thrown down when Ninnning
the third head, it is very probable she would in the next have won
the race.