The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-01-19 00:00:00

POLICE.
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MAISSION-1101.1111.
W'Mitas Johnson was charged by Mr. Miller, of Lower
Thames-01nel, upon suspicion of having committed • rub.
bery on Thursday night, under circumstances of rather an ez-
troordinary kind.
Mr. Miller's evidence was to the following 'Keel t---Robin
a rut-glass and earthenware warehouse is Thaistamilreel,
but does not reside there. Vpon visiting his womb:owes lee-
terday morning, be found gloat thieves had been eve" he.
upon the the night before, and he suppuee4 liseelom
the previous evesieg some one of 'bens bad, before the hen
employed In the ronereis left their work, bidder himself be.
Mad the packages, sod remained till all was quiet, for the
hpurpose of giving admissiou to his amateistes, who mast
ays bees well prepared, from what took place, to commit
very extensive plunder. The thieve'', however, did out !get
much, but while they were io the horse they enjoyed them-
ielves. They lighted II lire, and paid • visit to the wine cel-
lar, from which the reek two bottles of wine sod three
bottles of perky, whets it seemed they drank warm, with
sugar, and Mr. Miller remised • very polite letter from olio
of them, acknowledging the obligation they were nadir
to bins for the excellent beverige Isis cellar afforded. Upon'
examining other parts of the premises, Mr. Miller found
that his iron chest had been furred apes. The instrument
(a large chisel) with which this feat was performed
nee lying on the premise., and a dark lantern, which
the thieves in their merry moments had fueguttea,
Was also picked up In the course of the search. The
petty, cash drawers of tbe iroo chest lay open, empty ;
but Mr. Miller believed there had been in them when be kit
the warehouse a sum perhaps not exeredtog a couple of
pounds. The bills and papers were not taken away, neither
had any thing been removed that was likely to be d.
Souse silver croft-tops weer takes, but the meets were left
behind. The chisel, which, though very strong, had beets
broken in the desperate effort to open the chest, was of the
largest size, sad the whole plan of operations seemed to
have been conducted by a person experienced end resolute.
All the rooms of the building except ileum ire frost had
bees visited by the depredators ; and there were various cir-
conudances coot-wring to fix • very strong suspicion oil the
Prisoner, besides the probability that he was the writer of

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lin letter of doltish to ikr. Miller for tie enterlainista
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The letter, which was written in • good hand, began with
the word " liettaanes;" aad stared that they (the writer and
his triton's) had called, regretted that theye was no tared to
ike lei (to•ory I. the chest), brit expessited the highest °pi-
ntos of the wwe, hocked
.pdrden for distirbing the %ropers,
pod repressed hew kappy those who drank the wine woald
be to visit lbw 'menthes •poa a rotate uceasioh.
There Om a postseript, staling that an loofa chest .toold be
of no utility *lmre the visitors might think proper to go.
Upeo examining this leiter, Mr. Miller was of opinion
that Waite*, who had lived as serkant to the concern, and
committed anon dishonest acts, for wb eta be had been lately
imprisoned, was the writer. %Vitro the Prisoner was appre.
headed and charged with the offence, he sodden!), owned
*Mod to the servant of Mr. M dier's brother, and Charged
.egoxwitta having been concerned iso iobbery.
The servant derhired in the most 'Menlo Manner, that he
knew nothing of the robbery, sod that to for bra of hi.
keowledge be had nerer seen the Prisoner &111C11 lie had are it
lam tried at the Old Batley, multi the rotortiog after the
- robbery.
The Prisoner was remanded fur some days.
Abraham //emu, a Jew, was charged with having robbed
&rib Collins of a sum of money limos the King's highway.
The emcee who apprended the Prisoner aftr row do brought
op another Jew. who was asepptised to be accessary to the
robbery.—Both were remanded.

GUILDHALL.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.
A ma■ who said his name was Marshall, but who is known
So the isolate by the name or Awderaos, was hroaght before
Aldermaa Christopher Smith, charged with having com-
mitted a burglary sod rubber) in She house Mr. Gardener,
grocer, of Lung-lane, Smithfield. The amount of the pro-
perty sinks oat of the house of Mr. Gardeuer is 'apposed to
he Mut

Fll/111 she evidence, it appeared, that Mr. Gardener had oo
Thursday night fastened his house at the usual him, and
retired to bed. Upon coming down stairs treat murmur, he
found that thieves had broken into Lie house, and robbed
bin of a great quantity of tea and other valuable property.
He also missed his watch which he had the night before in
his parlour. A patrol, i• going bis round, found in the
Mews • bundle containing a quantity of tea, and suspecting
that it had liven stolen, and that the thief was not at any
greet lietauce, obtained she assistance of another of the
police, and proceeded to search the neighbourhood of Smith-
field. He found the Prisoner ammo the pens in the
market, and took him into custody. In the Prisoner's fib
be found a watch, which, as he knew the fellow to he a bed
character, he concluded could not have been got possession
of in the regular way. This watch Mr. Gardener ininsedi-
mei, claimed as his property, which had hreu stolen by the
housebreakers who had lately paid him a visit.
The Prisoner was emended.
Solomon Holloway, a men of respemahle appearance, and
we understand very respectably connected, was charged by
the house of John Watson and Cu. of ilulborit.hill, with
baying committed frauds to a large amount upon that firm.
There were several casts stated against him, use of
which was, that he had procured some shawls and ember
articles spat a false representation. Those goods were sent
by the desire of the Prisoner to a public-house, in Fleet.
market, the owner of which bad never seem him befoe but
had cemented, from civility, to take care of theta, en I give
then, into the custody of a mats who should call to take Mena
to the country.—The Prisoner was remanded.
BOW- STROHM.
Yesterday Renee Smith underwent a second investigatimi
before Thomas Halls, Esq. the Sitting Magistrate, charged
on suspicion of having uttered a counterfeit half-crowo,
krowing it to be so, under peculiar circumstances. She was
genteelly dressed, and is the daughter of a wholesale and re.
tail dealer in potatoes, in Speldherst.si reel, Burton Crescent.
On her examination last Tuesday, her another stated she was
14 years of age, and yesterday her father said she was 12 years
and one womb. Os Monday evening she went to the shop of
Mr. Sesme, bookseller, City-road, and asked for a quire of
white brown paper and three sheets of writing paper. It
so happened that Mr. Bruce had not got any of the white
brown paper that she asked for, but served her with the
writing paper, in payment for which she gave half.a-crowe,
which Mr. 61 Vet discovered to be a counterfeit. Ile asked
her where she lived, and she gave her address No, 10, City.
road. Mr. Bruce was induced to send a young man to watch
her; she took a contrary way for No. 10, and pursued a
circuitous rtiiid till she arrived sear the A eget lasi, at Isling-
ton, When the young man was induced to stop her, and
charged her with having given a false account of herself.
She screanied.tud made resisistauce, which caused a crowd of
people to collect, who took her part and began to ill treat
the young Man, till Becket, oat of the patrol, came up, and
conveyed her to a wateldiume, where her father souse after
arrived, hitiolt been infunesed what had happened; he was
told by the constable of the night if be could procure a
housekeeper fur her appearance omit day she would he libe-
rated; be fetched a man, but who nut proving to bra toren.-
keeper, she was detained in custody. On Taerilry. the
'mitigation was postponed till yesterday, to fusible Mr.
Powell, the Solicitor to the Mist, to attend, which he ac-
cordiagly did, sad although the dressed of suspicion was
very woe', yet no account of her tauter age, be did not
press the prosecution.
The father was its attendance, and called into the office ;
when it appeared, that he had been very abusive, and
threatened the Prosecutor mad other persons; that he bad
justited the set of passing counterfeit mosey .a the
gemmed that as he took it, he had a right to pass it. Ile
said it was possible he had given hies daughter the ilowotelfelt
half-crown. lie admitted that he might have used the lan.'
linage with which be was charged, and attributed it to pas-
sion.—He was ordered to flied bail for threatening the patrol.
lIATTOY-GARDEtt.
Yesterday Edward Slept's', a Ishourerio the employ or
the Hampstead Water-works Company, was brought up in
the custody of a coosialde from Highgate, charged with
breaking drawls a woodden paling, the property of Mr.
Mathews, the comedian, at his cottage at Mill Farm Lane,
and stealing the materials. It appeared that the Prisoner
was slopped that morning, carrying a basket which foe.'
'aimed pliers of paling, cut up in short lengths, Joey is•
tended for Are.wood ; and from the great loss Mr. MatheWs
sustained in having his paling torn down sad carried away,
be caused the place to be watched, and the Primmer was
stopped with the above-mentioned wood.
The Prisoner stated, that they were piercer he found float-
ing on the pond, which be picked up, and put into the limi-
tless', adjoining Mr. Mathews 's premises, and where thy,
that be cut them up for are-wood, and WU carrying it house
when be was stopped.
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Mr. Mathews stated, that he did not width lita press threes.
ageism the Prisoner. He had on witness to prove that the
Prisoner damaged the main; iseitliir could he ideality that
fumed upon the Primmer, although it was like it. All be
wished fur was, that it might prove a caution to deter others.
The Prisoner received a caution to that effect, and was '
discharged.

Thursday the littoittiliq his
the fullowiteg convicts urn*, *Mittel let &Ink in
his Mujesty's maul of Newgete:— •
Nowell Wilkinson and Joseph Marsden, Iree ste•Mati •
quantity of aux mimics from a boar on the rivet Thames;
Henry Thompson, for • booed, on Juan, Lloyd, mad Co.;
Thomas Deakin, for • burglary at Edmonton; John Ches:
ter, fur • higliwsy robbery at Bethnal-green; William Moll,
fur a burglary at ditto ; W tllum Krems,' for honse.break-
ill' in Chandler-street, Grommuir-sapiaret Robert Watts, for
a burglary at ; Willis. Mtge, fit hoese-siesling at
Belim•hgrems ; William Cordell, fur ditto. at Wbiteeirapel ;
Charles Yates, fur a burglary, at ditto; Henry Teruo, fur
• trwrglary„ is Whitcomb-street; Thomas Bertrand, Am •
highway rubbery in Whiterhapel; RithisrdJagoitod Thomas
Beck, fu • burglary in the house of blr.Ord,
is Be.ksley-
square ; when Henry Thompson and Richard Jago were or-
dered for exemillon In Wednesday Drat, mid the rest were
respited dining his Majesty's pleasure.
The Byron, Aadilson, from Trinidad fur Cork, was to-
tally lost on Aasgsda Shoals 23d Nova sober—crew aud pas-
sengers asstd.