The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-05 00:00:00

COrla OF EXCISE, SATunDav, JULY 3.

Mr. John Meadows. a linen-drapor in Mahican, appeared to an
infornrdino tio having in his possission a piece containing thirty-
flair Ilriti,h eottot, %.1111113cd um' a picee containing twenty-
six 11:ritkli stamped liana...Tellies, s idiom any stautp to denote
that the duty was paid th.-reon, ty which he ftufeited the goods,
and Incurred a penalty of one huadnd pounds.
Three ollirer■ of Excise ptotid having seized the goods in
y~urat';which they prislutirdt, in tie deftnilant's shop—the
shawls expmed for sale in the ship window, and the hand.
kerchiefs hehind the counter, without the haat attempt at conceal-
ment.

The defendant's slwpman proved that he ',bawls had been in the
window Iron lich.re the time he enirred into the defendant's em-
ployment, al three pm% ago, tool that the handkerchiefs had
been with other good% I M casts. Ilelps and r'n.
Chem-midi:, :mil had the thity.ll:64l slam)) on them When VC4 iced,
but which hail probably been cut Mt' inadvertently in the course
of tlw hale.

Achrk of Aliases. !trips ti,al('o. stated the defendant's having
made a Imrchaa• at their house, ef which he believed the pine
of h.mdlercl ief li.rnitd a part; when sidd to the defendant they
had tile duty-paid stump.
The . • n condemned the goods, and mitigated the
penalty to 20/.
Aliases. Pickfind and Tatham, rectifying distillers, in White-
cbalwl, appeared to an inform:l:l.m tor having an increase in their
stock of I:a minims e•t Itriteili spiriis. like increase in the stuck
hetacen the '2ll of DevonMe and the Ilith of March, in which
time the thictithAtittt had sent out, by permit, 9,1194 gallons of
British spirits, was prived by the two surveying Akers; but the'
elcfctitlatits shim ill satisfactorily Witt it had arisen front an inad-
vertency, without design or iidvsntaget and expressed a strong
hope that the spirits 'entail not he condemned, not w much
Mr its value as led it Might WI imputation on their
character.

The Cummissioners sniff there was net the slightest imputation
ion their that-arm ; mu character could at all times prevent persons
falling into an error; hut it was the duty of the Court to endea-
' your to prevent Much errors. and they must therefore condemn the
spirits, lot would not impose any penalty.
Samuel 11nrraton, a t.oor chandler, in Charles-court, in the
Strand, who selk table-heir, appeared to nn information fur having
strong beer on his pronisiv, without having entered any place for
' the purpose of keeping it, by which he incurred a penalty of ;'AI.
The defendant's it,. stated. that the defendant wan in a very
bad same of health--a statement whkii the defendant's appearance
continuer! —and that he had been advised by Dr. Laing to drink
home.brcwed ale; in tamsequenve ut which he had made three
heewinms of one, two, and bushels of malt, fur his own and his
wife's drink, nine of which he hail ever sold.

A lodger in the delentlant'a home confirmed the statement, and
the I.' •wionen mitigated the ',malty to Mk.

raENell PRET) xor London papers atrial week
contained a long rob st a Frenchman, who had made
his appearance at liVashington. in May last, pretending to
be the 6011 of Louis XVI., of Franc..., the Dauphin whose
birth was so Inilliantiv celebrated throughout the United
States at the close of the revolutionary war, and who was
murdered in [`aright the French revolution in 1;9 1. This
writer, or French Pretender. whose protest appears in the
Ifaah agton luleliheneer of May 19 last (and copied armlee
into the London papers), is, we are informed by his brother,
Capt. Period, who is now in this town, an unfortunate
maniac. Ilia name is Victor I'ersat—he served in the Im-
perial (Allard, in the Russian campaign ; a hall which
passed through his head, and other wounds, as well as his
sufferings front the weather, in the retreat front Moscow,
tams .d derangement of • I. Ile, however, more rcH
eently, set off to join Bolivar, in whose army his brother
was then serving; but, landing at Pula, the treatment lie
there experienced, quite turned his brain. ll is brother has
lately arrived at this place frotn ttauth Anierica.—Ports-1
muLtil Parr.