The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-08-28 00:00:00

DRUNKENNEm.

Jobs) Ferlew, ■ jourirriman rhuernaktr, was fined'.. for
battle' bees roved Amok is Holborn, on Monday sight.
QUIRPN-11QUAIIE.
STATE OF ST. JAMES'S PARK.

A few evenings ago a lady was knocked dow■ in the Mall,
St. James's Park, and rubbed of her veil, her reticule, and
even her glover, with ehieh the rubber escaped into Pintlieo;
and scarcely an evening rowel lately but that some robbery
bad been committed in the presence of many prisons whom
chance brought that way. The police at last received in.
strurtiona to put an end to them and many other disgsaceftil
scenes, so frequently practised, and Monday night a party of
patrol were ordered to scour the Park, and apprehend all bed
charseters they could And. Between twelve and two o'clock
they look in custody John Watkins, Fred. rick Dickey, John
Sherlock, Samuel Walla, Christopher Severard, Richard be.
land, John Wright, Robert Wet.troft, John Ackhans, John
Lancaster, James Biggins, John Gray, Sarah Mansell, Ann
Robinson, Augustus Smith, Ann Strickland, and Elizabeth
Jones, and yesterday they were all brought before the Magis-
trate, and underwent an exmlitintion.

Amongst the men were bookbinders, butchers, carpenters,
cabinet-makers, porters, and labourers. They all said they
had been for some lime past out of employment, and bad oo
money to procure lodgings; they were from all parse of the
town, and went to sleep is the Park. not considering it any
offence, and being more retired from the public.
The Magistrate told them that much lisim accrued from
such practices, nod eves sleeping in the open air in any
place rendered t►em liable to punishment under the Vagrant
Art, sod to be committed to the House of Correction.

The females were next placed at the bar. They said, on
t►eir examination, they were mostly servants oat of place,
and had no mosey to motive either lodging or food.
The Magistrate ordered all the Prisuseis to send for their
friends, if they had any ; and if ii did appear ilist they could
get employment, and procure the means of subsistence, they
Would be discharged; but such as could not give a more
satisfactory 'cooing of themselves, mist be committed
to the House of Correction fur a limiu d lime, in order to be
paned to their respective parish settlements.

The Duke of BEDFORD arrived at Wobbnrn
Abbey on Monday last, from Tavistock. His
Grace is rapidly recovering from his illness. Upon
the Duke's pewit% through Leighton Buzzard the
bells rang. and a number of gentlemen of the town
waited upon him at the Swan lots, with an address
of congratulation upon his recovery and return home.
It was signed by sixty resident freeholder., and up-
wards of sixty other principal honu•holders of the
place. The Duke returned an appropriate simmer
to the spontaneous masks of respect thus shown
him.

Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at
Smyrna. (Weil July 17 :
._.

" Tbe situation of ibis place continues tranquil and antis.
factory. We bane received a letter from Mr. Thomas Vara,
dated at Zanle, which mentions his being usable to proceed
to Patron to land his cargo there from Reloitiea, in coast-
quenee of the Greeks blockading Patna. We are inform•
ed here that British ships of war do not interfere against the
Greek* preventing British as well as other neutral
entering with supplies for Tin kish forts besieged and block-
aded by the Greeks. Further that. this, we have not ►oard
of any European vessels receiving molestation from tbe■ fur
swine lime."