The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-04-19 00:00:00

GREENWICH PARK.

This favourite scene of ision.ement for the hoii
(lay folk wog. yesterday, well 'attended with
tom The favourite sport of rotten% down the hill
was enjoyed in all its luxury be the hot. and 144sie-..
Kissing if, the ring, was also in high fashion, aul I he
maid-about, divlayed all tlieis usual attraetions.
1 he apprehension of s visit from a press-pug we,
the only Li-awhack upon the spirit of the .ce,se.
With the exception el* a few aukwar.l tuuthltli
among the tair de burro, res. we have not heard of any
untoward accident in tete conr.r of the day. • .

- Ct7RONER 'S PvtiVEST.

An invest was heid. yi-iterday afters ,n, by
Atittiowo GILA.; E 4 wt tr.. Rartry flow
public-
h•,ase, Mount-street. on the tin.i. of I?haa',eth
Staub, who was Mk. n out of the bayou, in I lyde-
Park, on Saturday night.
The first arttnemi was Mr; Perkins, who has the
cart. of the Water-Works, is Ilyile-Pork, he sta. e.! ,
that, on Saturday ni4ht. about teu o'clock, three
young men gave the alarm that a woman had
thrown herbeif into the Bison. Al'iti4eas procured
the thug, end after dragcing for bear ten mi-
nutes, he saw the body looting. By the di►ection
of Mr. Fl.her, a surgeon, it was taken to t,.e Red
Lion public. house, to Park-lane, aid the n.ual
meant were resorted to Car restoring drowned per-
son•. but without effect.

Mr. fisher, surzeon, of Perk-street, stated, that
he was presrnt wh'en the body was taker out of the
water, and that he used the means prescribed by
the Humane Society, for upwards of an hour, but
without 'diet. The drreased, who appeared ah
thirty years of age, otubt have laia iu the water for
year half an hour.

Susannah Smethurst, a sister of the deceased,
said. her sister was married sis years ao at Chef-
OM Church, to I%)lliaria Smith, a man of very low
character, who had deserted her for near five years
that het sister used to be in service at Chelsea, uu-
til a few weeks ago, when she seemed to wish to
and live with her husband, who at present is a
watchatsn in Mart-la-bonne nor ish ; that oa Thurs-
day night she met hito, and. proposed to him to
take a room for her, which Ire refused. upon the
ground that he was so poor he could not afford to
keep himself. This and her extreme poverty so at.-
fected her mind, that she committed the rash act.
The Jury returned a verdict of—Lwrocy.

A desperate battle took place yesterday in Tot-
bill-Fields, George Crib, brother to the
famous Crib, and a coachman, nicknamed Brows
Jemmy. They fought stewards of an hour, when
the populace broke the nng, and would not sutFer
them to tight it out. Georze Crib, however, had
the worst of it. Neer a dionsand spectators were
present. _ _

Several days before the Drawing of the PICOT.
BOYDELL'Ot and BOWYER'S Lotteries, the Tickets
rose from three to five Guineas; and, on the morn-
ing of Drawing, not one was to be hod at any price.
Hoassay and Co. having every prospect before
them, that the like circumstance will occur in the
City Lottery, (the demand for Tickets and Shares
being unusually great,) they beg leave to recom-
mend to all those who propose to have a chant...,
not to delay buying.—Tbe publie milks- of the
plan is such as cannot fail to recommend it to the
notice of the Citizens of Loudon, as weil as having
a chance worth the purchase.-26.
Charing-Cross, and St. Nlargaret's-hilt, Borough.
Ne.xt Tuesday will be drawn, in Guildhall, the
Grand City Lottery of Frei-hold Holmes. dis-
charged of Land-Tax—apwards of 10.1,0001. value
in Capital Prizes. Tickets and Shares irre bellia;•
by CARTER and Sumer., e. Chstring.crosi, and
4. Skianer-street. C. and S. rec.oininend an imme-
diate purehue—as, from the rapid .alc of Ticket.,
the price mart increase considerably before the
drawing.