The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-05 00:00:00

MR. TAUNTLERO

An error has crept into some of the reports of what was
said by Mr. Baron Garrow, on the late motion in arrest
of judgment, from which it would appear, that the fur-
ther proceedings in the case of Mr. Fauntleroy depended
on the " Law Officers." These gentlemen (the Attorney
and Solicitor Generals) have not any thing to do with the
cape. It will be remembered that Mr. Attorney General
conducted the prosecution.
The persons to whom the Judge referred as those who,
if the case had any doubt iu it, would at the latest moment
direct it to be considered by all the Judges were thos,
distinguished individuals who are called to his Majesty's
I Councils, on the solemn occasions resulting from these mn-
writings, referring to the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief
Justice of the King's Bench, and other eminent persons,
' who never fail to attend his Majesty in Council Ln the
Recorder's Re port.
The Brighton Gazette, speaking of the trial of Mr.
Fauntleroy, observes—" gorne of the disclosures made are
lof • very extraonlinary character, and certainly require
explanation from his partners. There are papers which
have not hesitated to insinuate charges against the gentle-
men for which, believing them to be most honourable men,
we do not ourselves imagine there exists any foundation.
Such conduct, therefore, on the part of any journalist is
unjustifiable, but we still hope that the members of the
Berner's-strcet batik will satisfy the public that their sus-
picions are utterly groundless. Our readers will not fail
to notice how minutely the statement of Mr. Fauntleroy,
relative to the unfounded reports of his extravagancies,
agrees with the particulars which we were lately enabled
exclusively to insert. It is not a little curious, indeed, to
&metre the closeness of the coincidence; for certainly Mr.
Fauntleroy was as much a stranger to their insertion in our
paper as any uninterested person could be, nor could he
have the slightest suspicion as to the source from whence
we derived our information.

" While guarding carefully against any disposition to
overlent or palliate crime, it must be admitted that ,Mr.
Fanntleroy has succeeded in removing some portion of the
odium which before attached to him. But although he
committed for. ries to uphold the credit of the banking-
house, and not for the gratification of his private extrava-
gancies, his moral guilt remains the same.
" Our readers will recollect on this subject the positive
statements of the Times, which we then affirmed and which
are proved to have been positive and unqualified untruths,
and we rejoice that we succeeded in removing from a fallen
man, although a criminal, the odium of unjust charges.
On the trial, Mr. Fauntkvor complained loudly of the
cruel and illiberal conduct of die public prints, and the
Learned Judge (Mr. Justice Park), coutiemned it also in
terms of merited indignation. Mr. Fauntkroy attributes
these fabrications to some " enemy," and most unques-
tionably the article in the 7'intes contained statements so
completely at variance with the truth, that it appears diffi-
cult to account fur it on 11ny other supposition. Had we
not come forward as we did, the weight of these charges
must have pressed uncontradicttd on the wretched prisoner,
and have tenilxl perhaps unconsciously to prejudice those
who were to sit in judzinent against him."

We regret to hear, that on Saturday afternoon a duel
was fought in Fife, between Captain and Mr.
which proved fatal to the former, who was shot
through the heart. The dud, it is said, originated in a
quarrel at the Doncaster raus.—Cakdoniurt 2lfcreurm—
[We understand the parties aliudod to are, a Mr. Wistall
and a CaptaM Gout lay.]
IGENTI.i:sirN or THE BA it.—A correspondent says,
the other day, while the case of one of the persons who
were tried for perjury in the Uhl Bailey was going for-
ward, Mr. Prendergast, the Counsel, said, in a conversa-
tional tone, to some other Counsel at the table, "
this is a moat scandalous prosecution." Mr. Adolphus, who
was emraged in the case, immediately turned round to h's
Learned llrother, and said there words, or words to this
"No gentleman would make such an observation,
but yu may make it,—Voll have no claim to the character."
Mr. Prendergast, addressing himself to Mr. Adolphus,
then said distinctly, and in a tune which comprehended a
large elide of Counsel, Attorneys, V inters. and Aldermen,
" You ar.. a blackguard !—you are a blackguard ! !—you
are a blackguard !! !" Mr. Adulphus]sat (low" without
making any observation upon this eery unespoi ted reply
to his compl:mentary censure. The Common-Sergeant was
busily engaged at tl:e time in arranging his notes, and it is
matter of uncertainty whetlicr he heard this very elegant
dialogue between his Learned Brothers. At all events, lie
took no notice of it, but %holier from dignity or deafness,
as we before intimated, w know it.

The proprietors of the north of Scotland are ahont to
apply to Governimot for aid to assiit them in diffusing
the Me of the E:iglish langnage in the Highlands.

On Wednesday a shocking accident happened near Pen-
nieuick. A trace horse, employed in leading in corn, was
returning from pulling a cart up esteep acclivity, with a
boy about 12 or 14 years old, who had him in charge, on
his back, when in consequence of something startling the
animal he ran nil•, and the boy was thrown ; but his legs
getting entangled in the trace-chain, he was dragged about
among the horses' feet, and his body mangled in the most
shocking manner. Ile had been killed sonic time before
the horse was stopped.—E.f:ahurgh Paper.
On Friday hat, at the Liverpool Sessions, 777omas
Stewart, otherwise //War Stewart, surd Robert Armstrong,
a baker, were tiled for attempting to steal bodies' from the
church-yard of St. John's, Liverpool. The Jury, after
a short deliberation, returned a verdict of GOO. They
were each sentenced to he i.npyisoned for lb months in the
House of Correction at Kirkilklc, and to pay a floe of SUL
to the King.
While Mr. D. Davies, of Luchaltfach,Carmartheishire,
was taking the fetters off his bulls lull, the animal sud-
denly struck him on the hold, and killed him on the spot.
He Las left a wife and eleven children.

SHOCKING ACCIbRNT OA' THE RIVER AT
LONDON BRIDGE.

Some time since a waterman, named James Bancroft, west l,
before the Lord Mayor, at the instance of one of the Italertreeaa, of—ca,
River Thames, on a charge of having violated one of the roi„,-;
their bye-laws, which enacts, " That no waternan or other
shall conduct mare than one boat or craft, at one thr.e, sad
not, on any pretence whatsoever. tow a second boat, such i.„4,
ing no person in it to navigate." The Ruler, at the time, peak
that the importance of strictly enforcing the law was fatally ece,'
plitied in the case then before his Lordship • it was arc
only fur the safety of property, but of the lives of his Alca;
subjects, that every boat, barge, or lighter, should have a pa*:
it to navigate.
On the 12th of September. Bancroft and another water:tic";
navigating two lighters throokvh London Bridge; both °ie.,:
tcmnen being in the first lighter, there was, of course. no panai''''
the second to navigate it. They went through the bridge aca y 4.11
fall; the second broke loose, " ran wild," and was twirled
in the eddy. A waterman, who had p_erhap• seen the
through. shot through one of the small arches, and struck ag
the lighter which had broke Inose ; the wherry of the uafonea„
man ran under the lighter, and he was drowned.
The Lord Mayor asked what the Coroner's Jury said to the.
The Ruler stated, that tl:e body had not been found at theca
The Lord 3layor strongly applauded the conduct of the Reat,
endeatcuring to put. a stop to inch dangerous
_practice, ;
charged the man, with an understanding that he was to be fix,
coming in case the Coroner's Jury should inculpate him.
The bode of the unfortunate suflater above alluded to, te•Ct
name was John Maynard, was picked up on Thursday trwte
the 211th Octobet, nearly oppoosite Greenwich point, am
to the Black Hone public-house in Poplar ; and on Friday trc
ing, J. W. t;nwin, Esq. Coroner fur Middlesex, and a respeciaL.
Jury, assembled, and after viewing the body, the follow/it/iv
deuce was given : .

John Ca7rington, a lightennan. reviling in Iligh-etreet, Inn
beds, defined, that on the tnoming oldie 12th of I ictohsy,
t era o'chic* , lie was coming through lyendon-bridge in his skit de. •
cease.l w s pushing out from the Old Swan-titan..., in &Custer.
house wherry ; witness way about a minute before him, sic ss
just going to shoat through the bridge, when he saw a iger
at the lower side of the bridge ; it was plunging shout
the eddy of the piers at the dine. Seeing a fair passage for gni
througti the bridge, witness drove to the barge, took a stem •
the same track, with which he came through. Ns smtx
was he got through, than he expected an accident. %Vitus
put his boat about to pick up the Snit boat that came through, g,
saw the deceased pushing up with his wherry at the time the
cleared up the luck. The wherry ran right under the barges y.
tom. The deceased was alone in the wherry ; he was Orions:,
%Vanes% saw him rise; aid, had there beat any person it Ili
barge, he might have been saved, because, on rising, he clucrt
some time to the barge's side. Witness attempted to gr. ti ht.
but was prevented by the violence of the eddy. 1.1-cessed
Custom-house waterman, and was 60 years of age. IVitneu. exc.
dered it purely accidenuil. The lighter by which it was (Immo;
belonged to 111 r. 1/algleish, a coal-merchant in Scotlarthitr.
Witness took down the name and number at the time.

.....
Allen Arnold, s fisherman, deposed to having picked upt-.4
body of the decmsed on the day before (Thursday, Gaubert,
opposite to Greenwich Point.
Ihe Coroner and Jury were of opinion that it was purely lc_
dental, and returned a verdict accordingly.
Since holding the above inquest the following letter was se.
dressed to Mr. Unwia, by the Solicitor of ()teems

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"Custom-house, Nov. I. let
" Sir,— f am directed by the Commissioners of Curates to ac
quaint you that John Maynard, • preferable waternin in the in.
vice of the Commissioner, was drowned on the 12th of last no-A.
near London Bridge, in consequence of the boat in which he su
baying been run down by a coal-barge near the said bridge.
" It bu been further represented, that the accident happened hi
the mismanagement of the coal barge, and that the circamttaaM
can be proved by John Coventry, foreman to Mr. Howard.* too:.
merchant in Lambeth, and John Shilton, a lighterman to a cod.
merchant, who Ilas near the barge and sow the whole transanior,
and the body having been found near Blackwell, on the 213th (ktc.
her, the Commissioners bars directed those circumstances to le
communicated to you, for such steps as you may think fit to data
therein.

(Signed) " WCM. EA It NSIIAW."
Had this inter come to hand previous to 6e lioldir,4 of In, r.
quest. the Coroner would of course have caused the aitevitat:t ••
the above person., but the verdict having been once rveonk..e
had no power to interfere. It is, however. hoped, that for the
of public justice, and for the 'atilt. of the lives and riolenm,'.
his Majesty's subjects, this case will meet due attentio:. it, th: rn•
per quarter.