The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-10-26 00:00:00

POLICE.

•OWMTI!PT.

On Saturday, Joseph Salons was brought before
AA .ON GRAIIAIII, Esq. by Bacon and Dunn, two
of the petiole, charged on suspicion of having
a den several horses in the neighbourhood of /Ilion
and firtinslow The officers hearing that a num-
ber M horses had been stolen lathe above aeigh-
bottrhoo.l, and that the Prisoner'was stupefied to
he the robber, they went in pursuit, found him near
Hoonslow, and auprehended him.
Daiael Sims, of the Little Red Lion Inn, Houns-
low, stated, that on Monday night last. he lost a
py...bild mare, from the rowder-niill's Meadows,
near Hounslow, and in consequence of some pri-
vate information he received, be suspected the pri-
soner to have stolen the mare, and gave information
to the patrole according!y. He likewise made
every possible exertion to find the mare, and re
craved such ir.forma:ion, as to CAUfft him to cusped
the mare had been sold to Mr. Barrow, a stin ler,
or i.laughterer of horses, at a place in Tothilfieldt,
Westminster, where he found, a tail, yliich he pro-
duced, and which he was po,itive was his mare's
tail, it being a errs remarkable one, the Lair being
of two colour', brown aid grey.
Mr. Barrows the with' of horses, saiJ, he par-
ch reed the mare of Mr. George. Staplti, of Afton
Bottom. _ _ _ _ _

Mr. Staples said, he purchased the mare of the
Prisoner ; and he not being able to give An account
how he became possessed of her. he was commit/id
for further examination.

HATTOM-OAROEN.

Thew, Donavan and Jamas&leasaa w•ete charged
on Saturday, before the Presiding MAGISTRATII,the
former with stesl;ng a sow and two pigs, the pro.
petty of Patrick Kelly, And the later with receiving
the same, Icnwtting theni to bt stolen. Remanded
for further examinaion.

ire, a hack:ley-coachman, was summoned for
rrfu•ing to profiled with some ladies in his coach,
af,i.r being hired.
It appear...l. that Price's coach was taken at
Cietkenwell Green, and ordered to proceed to
N-irthampton Terrace, City Head, on Thursday
last; when Le had got as tar as the end of Brick.
lane, he behaved with great insolence, and said he
wculd net drive any farther, assigning at a cause,
chat the road was bad, and might endanger his
coach. The ladies were, in consequence, cbliged
to get out of the coach, and walk +me in the rain.

ANSION-HOL'..Z.

Saturday, four fishermen, who had bet n tined
for using unlawful nets. were brought up by war-
rant for not haring paid the same, and committed
to prison.
114.7i4ne Comfit. carman to Messrs. Downs and
Ka)s. ti ur•faelors, was CllA•ged before the I.oeia
M•voa with having wilfully and carelessly driven
his cart against the earti.ter of Mr. Baker, in
Bislior.sgiste-street, and hooken the pole of the
same. Mr. B.'s coachman and footman proved,
that the Defendart wilfully and designedly ob.
sten..ted the carriage in suet a way as to CADS* the
; and that he was very insolent at the time.
The Loid Mayor fined him 2J.. and {eft it to Mr.
Baker to ism loin for the damage
a servant laJ. wet brought up for
I•aeoig •dieled aht rse tor sale in Southfield. which
wa. i:lcged to have been stolen iffirn a Mr. Darnley.
rut ,f his fi Id. in July. ISO(.. The master of the
Prmintor &civet! henad had this Jape in his posses-
sion tn•reard, rt twn yeast, and produced the ma* of
whom he it.td boor ht ir, who &poor(' that he had
bed knt se above a twelveami th before he sold
it Ni the boy's mater; and he thom!ht there most
be a mirake a. to the identity of the horse. The
boy sell discharged, and the master ordered to have
the b•sse back again.

A young Gen. lein.n in Dundee has jest invented
and finisneil a model of a door. edict!, when once
locked, it is impossible for a stranger to open ; and
in CAS, of a thief making the attempt, it is equal'',
for him to avoid bring caught in the aft,
anJ &tuned on the spot, until a person acquainted
with the invention comes to his relict. It will be
found iiigliiy beneficial for the security of banking
and couating-houses, repositories of plate, lac.—
S:voil.l the attempt he made on the letter. iu any
Gentleman's town or country residence. in the ab-
sence of the family, the delinquent will inevitably
be starved to death for his temerity. unless relieved
by a person entirely acquainted with the proper
method of opening.
Friday morning, about five o'clock, Join Pesell,
a prisoner in T.4..111-fields litideevell, hung himself
in his c'll. He wis confined on a charge of pot-
steeling, for wh:c:i two indiSments wet. found
agaiiist him. He put an end to his existence in the
folioAing manner—having tied a thin cord round
his neck, he la-tened the extreme end to the bar of
the winjow, extended himself on the ground. and
placing a handkerchief mouth, perpetrated his
design by screughug and suffocation. Oise of the
prisoners. Julio Sesmomrfirld. a boy. who slept 'with
him, and other, spoke to him about three o'clock,
and at sus Mr. one of the turnkeys, was
lAI IntA AA called up. A surgeon was sent for,
but the spark nt life WAS extinguished.
A Military /1.;-culapius made a very anions 's-
pell:7=i in his own garden. at Cheltenham, last
seek, upon tome carp th 4 were brought to his
home low s ile. There were ten of them, which had
beer. brought in a basket, by a woman en font, the
distance of twelve miles, and were All apparently
He bad two or three large tubs tilled with
water, from a btook which runs thrnugn the gar-
den, and having put a certain quantity of medicine
in a powder, into the mouth of ca:h fish, he put
thesis oat by one into the tubs, and as soon as the
medicine began to operate, the fish severally began
to swim round the tubs, at first in a languid way.
but increasing in strength. they soon darted round
with their usual velocity ; and in about half an hour
seven of them, instead et being consigned to the
stew-pan, were let lon., into the pond in his gar-
den, where they frisked about as lively as if they
had not been our of their element at all. and whet*
they ate now alive and userty. Another would
have been saved ; but a Lady of Quality, who was
ote of the spiatators, would iaaisr., that patting is
into the water, without any medicine, worsl.l beidg•
it to As well as the rest, ausl it fell a 'Aims tiller
Laslysiai,e's scepti,ls4l. •
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NATAL INTELLIGENCE.

VOSTSNOUTN, IIPC?
Cot Toys ore appointed for the Cape of Good Hope,
the Writ Wick the Mediterranean, and for LisLon.

The Crorodile gees to the Care; the Maragre and
itturd to the Nest Indies ; the Sdra,ra to the Me-
diterranean; and the Redbreast for Li .46n.

'rho four million of dollars brought here in the
Mawr, were landed yesterday and this day ; and
one ton of them sent of this morning. in Claik's
waggon. fur London.
All the transports here are ordered to he ready
for immediate service. it was intended that they
should take detachments of regiments to Guernsey
and C.nk, but that intention is postponed in con-
sequence.

OCT 24.
Artived His MajAsty's ship &feline, lioni a
cruise. SaileJ His besty's ship 44irorc, with
convoy for Guernsey.—Wind S. W.
.3 HEAL, ocr. 26.

Remain in the Downs His Majesty's ships
the outward bound, kc. as pa lest.—Klud
Southerly.

YARMOUTH, OCT. II
Last night, in a heavy gale at S.E. the Hopecorll,
of and from Sunderland, with coals, came on shore
near Corton ; the ship is a 'wreck—crew saved ;
also the °Tin. of Whitstable, from Shields, with
coals, for Rochester—crew saved. The Avery. of
Sca►borough, --, laden with coals.
A hoy, bound to the Continent, foundered in
Lowestoff Roads. It is leased m•.re damage has
been done on the coast, as several vessels left this
post yesterday.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 22.
Sailed the Ceeketrice schooner ; and die Garland
slonp, 22, Capt. ‘Vhittrr, (or the Channel fl ut.
Ot tiers are come down for the r;ception of part
of the Danish navy. sod the stores to be received
here.

PROM SATURDAY NIGHTS GAZITTE.

1.411.1 T R Y PROSIETTIONS.

CAmosisswei eigura ay the L, r 4 Lieuteaear fife Camay 4
Bent.
teareskon dual Lot reGulteery.
George ti be Captain, rice Tyler, raigned.
f)a•COI ioler.r 14, 19';7•
Einem Charles Wilkrr, to be Drotenrat, vice &airdrome,
re.,gioNl. Dot da. above.
Wolit,r, Gent tette brags, is Walker, promieted.
a 4 Ihnwe.
Juno, Mik.otan: Gent. to be ditto, vise Withers, resigned
Dated as above.