The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-09-21 00:00:00

■ARLBOROUON STRIMT.
ROBBERY OF THE HOUSE OF SOLOMON AND

SON, PALL-MALL.
It will be recollected that the boast of Mr. Solomon, an
xtesalve jeweller and dealer in watches, Pall-mall, had ken
hos glariously entered by thieves some time ago, sad robbed
of considerable property. 'lke police hair Min since en the
shit to di-mover list thieves, and on Wednesday Plank, the
ntlicer, apprehended a fellow named ✓awes Field, in Kent-
street, in the Borough, where, amongst other property sup-
posed to have been slumn, Ile found a large travelling trunk,
covered with black leather, which evidently had been cut
from behind a Gentleman's carriage.
Yesterday morning the officer also apprehended Fdtratd
Lawless, at his father's Wave in Angel-court,
St. James's, and found in his butt 15 sovereigns, of which lie
mild ■ot give a proper aceonat, his parents being in ex-
treme indigenee. Ilia head wee cat above the ear, and his
hand bound up in a handkerchief, shieb injury lie said lie
sustained in a pitched Malik on last Sunday intiruing.
Both Poisoners were yesterday brought before Mr. Dyer,
the Magistrate, mid underwent an examination, in which it
was elicited that Lawless hail livid puller io the service
of Samuel Levy, fruiterer, Piccadilly, some time ago; that
Levy's house had been broken lute, and a great quantity
of plate athirst ; ■nd that • crow-bar left behind by the
thieves corresponded wills a erutv-bar (ward idler the thieves
lift Mr. Sohonines house. Lawless had been out of
employ for some time past, and had no means of having
Rooney ; his patents maintained themselves by selling fruit
In the siren.
Field accounted for the trunk by saying be purchased

it of • man named Hawkins, a ignetletipso's servant ;
other suspicious property was taken upon him, but be was
recognized as baying bees is tremble before.
The officers searched two boom! miens
of which they found upwards of 5001. in cash. y Usti.
mated that they knew bow Mr. Solomon's pruperty bad been
disposed of.
The Prisoners both declared their insocesee, and after
some cuwultntios between the Magistrates sad Mr. Solomon,
Field was discharged upou his promising to attend gaits
when required. Lawless was remanded.
RIOT IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.
Charlotte York and Catherine Carpenter, two abandoned
women, were charged with creating a riot in St. James's
Park, and assaulting the seutioelims deity at the Glelt• Park
gale on Wednesday night.
It appeared that the Prisoners attacked the soldier with
the grossest linguage, calling out " Lobsters!"—" Piccadilly
butchers !"--" Murderers !"—" King's mewl"—
aud oilier scurrilous language, till a mob of four hundred
persons collected, and were prozeediug to acts of violence us
the soldier ; he was seized by the belt, slid his fireluck at-
tempted to be wrested from hint, brit fortunately three cor-
porals of the Ist regiment of guards came up, and mein the
precarious situation of the sentinel, they repaired, to the
guardhouse, and procured assistance to lake the Prisoners
into custody and disperse the mob.—Cummitted to priron.
SEDITION.
A horn-boy, named Cooplon was brought up by E. Pepper,
a constable of St. latent's, :barged with easing seditious
Imogene, sad inciting the populace agensat the King and
Government.
The constable produced a bundle of papers be had taken
from the Prisoner, who was crying them shoot in Jerniyn.
street with world lamentations us Wedwesday sight. They
purported to be the sorrowful and last laineutationa of lion e
men sod one woman ordered for execution at the Old Bailey,
uir Tuesday next. Al intervals, when giving out it was
their last farewell to the world, he occasionally harangued
the mob which collected about him by d—g the King,
whose agents in his absence brought the unfortuasie cres-
tures to an ignominious death ; and ibe King himself, when
he arrived from Ireland, his first act was to order them for
execution. His language towards the Royal Family and
the Ministers, the.ollicer said, was too sewn-limn and barnd
to repeat.
The Prisoner expressed great contrition, sod wept bitterly.
The Msgisitate told him there could be no excuse for his
conduct in endeairuaring to defame the Kik mad his Mi.
nisiers by diesemiurtitie such scandalous reports, which
tended to bring them under the iudigration of the lower
classes, who themselves in time, by such doctrines, would
become the victims of their iguurance and folly. The fact
leexi, that the Kiwg reprieved every one of the usfuelneate
persons wider sentence of death un his arrival in towel.
The Prisoner was ordered to Sod bail.
ASSAULTING A WATCHMAN.
A Jew, named Liao, -as brought up en a night charge
from St. James's watch-house. A waichntau, in St. James'a-
Menet, said he found the Prisoner, about one o'clock in the
morning, kicking violently at the doorof the Blue Posts in
the Haymarket. He endearrowred tip dissuade him from such
conduct, but the Prisoner abused him grossly, and took hint
by the colter in a violent emitter, which conduct induced
him (the watchman) to take him to the watch-house. The
Pi biotier styled himself • Geseilemau, but be was represent.
to be the keeper of a brothel iii Oxeaduu-street, and a
prostitute was called to prove the fart.
There was another charge against him for assaulting one
of the watchmen in the watch.bouse, by throwing • slog of
cold water over hins—The Magistrate ordered the Prisoner
to Sud

RIART-14-1110MC OFFICE.
BRUTAL ASSAULT.
Yesterday Me. Levies**, a mailer carver am/ gilder, re-
siding at Iso. 2, Carburtou.street, Mat-pie-bone, was brought
up from the waidebouse, and charged before the sitting Ma-
gistratis, John Raw/boson and Edmund Griffiths, &qrs.
with violently aselulting and beating his wife, who now ap-
peared in the Justice Room, and exhibited a frightful spec-
tacle, having the features of her face quite distorted, by a
pair of black eyes, is broken nose, cut mouth, aad lacerated
yaws. •
It appeared from the evidence adilnced, that as Smith the
watchman was going his rounds, crying ten o'clock, on
Wednesday night, to passing the Defendant's house he was
alarmed at hearing the cries of " Murder!" vociferated by
a female apparently in want of assistance inside; he cane.
seemly knor ked at the done, but was refused admittance;
he listened fur a time, and hearing a bustling noise, and the
Hies becoming louder and more alarming, and ass immense
mob collecting in front of the hussar, he hastened and gave
inform:slime to Parried and Wiliam, two aunt Aka, of llsa
circumstance, and they hastened with all possible speed
back with hun. It being evident that admissitos could ant
be gained into the house without breaking open the door,
nor even then without the almost danger to those at-
tempting to enter, as the occupier is considered to be
a man of most unguteraable passion, it was resolved that
some policy should be used, and Purford, with his accus-
tomed caution, knocked genteelly at the door, when, after a
lapse of a little time, it was opened by the Defendant,
who appeared without coat or waistcoat. He. or espying
the constablta, endeavoured to shut to the dour. but they
being more powerful, entered, mad ern arriving in a small
parlour inside the shop, these found the Complainant lying
speechless and apparently dead on the bed, and her face
covered with blood. A basin of water lay un a chair close
by, with which rt appeared some person bad been striving to
revive her, and bathe her wounds. She recovered after a lit.
the time, bat seemed much exhausted. The constable then
secured the Priestlier, but nut before they experienced consi-
derable resistance from him and one of his apprenftces, who,
together with the former, were conveyed to the watchhouire.
The Prisoner, after having a suitable lecture read to bias
by the Magistrate on the enormity of his offence, was ordered
to be locked up until he produced good trail. The appren.
lice was also ordered to Sod bail.

The Blood-money Conspirators.—G. Vaughan,
together wish Brock, Pelham, and Power, who
our readers may recollect were tried and convicted
at the Old Bailey Sessions in September, 1816,
and sentenced to live years imprisonment, charged
with swearing away the lives of innocent persons
for the sake of the blood-money, have served out
the term of their imprisonment, and were yesterday
discharged ow eutesiug into secoguizalice, them-
selves tit eighty, and two vcreties in forty pounds
each, for their good behaviour for three years.

Yesterday sennight * most daring burglary
was committed near Hereford, at Belmont, the seat
of JOHN MATTHEW'S, Esq. by rouse villains, who
having broken a window on the ;,;round Hour, un.
fastened a shutter, oral entering by the broken pane
forced open a large writing table and rifled it of
notes and cash to the amount of about twenty-four
pounds, sod of several articles of small value. The
noise made by the thieves was heard by more than
one person in the house, who conceiving it to pro-
ceed from a part of the family, gave no alarm. The
circumstances of the burglary being speedily made
known, on Monday Daniel and Thomas Davits
(calling themselves hasten-workers), were appre-
hended at A isergaVenny, 11041 were committed under
the strongest circumstances of suspicion to Hereford
county gaol.
A letter to a gentleman in this city, the writer of
which is fully qualified to give a correct opinion,
says, if all ihe hops are picked that are sound and
good, the duty will be the largest ever paid. From
five to 600 new pockets have arrived in the Bo-
rough from Kent, and the fine samples sell well--
fer the inferior scarcely any demand. Kent pockets
are worth 565. to 65.. Inferior 30s. to 455. Sussex,
50s. to 565. The duty is now laid at 200,0001.
(Hereford Journal.)

SIR ROBERT WILSON. •
•
[FROM ♦ MORNING r♦rßt.l

Great mystery is affected by the Ministerial press
respecting the real causes of the dismission of this
gallant officer from the British service. We cannot
say on our direct knowledge how far the annexed
solution of it is entitled to credit, but we receive the
narrative from a respectable correspondent, who
announces it as the accredited explanation in the
military and ininiaterial circles:—
" On the day of the Queen's funeral, at the time
the procession was approaching Cumberland-gate,
and after the firing by the military at the people
had commenced, S.r Robert Wilson rode up to
Captain Oakes, then on duty near Cumberland.
gate, and remonstrated with him on the conduct of
the soldiers under his command, which he said
was disgraceful to the regiment, and injurious to
the character of the service.' Captain Oakes re-
plied, Sir Robert Wilson, I know you perfectly
well, but I shall enter into no discussion with you
on this point at present. I shall do my duty, and
my men will du theirs.' Nothing further passed
on that occasion. On the following day Captain
Oakes submitted the occurrence to the other officers
of the regiment, in order to obtain their opinion on
the course which it become him, as a man of honour,
to pursue on the subject, lle was willing to regard
the affair as one of a personal nature, solely •tect-
ing himself, and only required their sanction to
take mornediately the proper measures to obtain re-
parstMn. The other officers of the regiment, how-
ever, refused to allow a transaction which they con-
sidered to imply • general reflection on the regi-
ment to be adjusted on the terms of a private
difference, and would not consent that Captain
Oakes should take the affair upon himself in the
manner proposed. A statement of what occurred at
Cumberland-gate between Sir R. Wilson and Capt.
Oakes was iu consequence drawn np,and transmitted
to the Duke of York ; his Royal Highness, on re-
ceiving it, caused a privateinquiry into the cerrect-
ne,s of the facts to be instituted, and having found
them established to his satisfaction, he referred the
whole affair to the King, who in consequence
caused his royal pleasure to be declared, that Sir
Robert Wilson should be dismissed the service."