The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-05-14 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAT It.

The Court was occupied all the mornir.g in mn-
tions for new trials : the only cote of ally nov,lty
ea. an application by Mr. Maitattarr fora ru e to
set aide the verdict. and titter a nonsnit in the case
of the Executor of Ei.t.ts errras the Inhabitants of
the Lathe, or Hundred of Dile, in the county of
Kent. This was an action brought under the re.
tate of the 19th Geo. IL to recover the pen..lll
of 1001. *gonna the D. fe..dants, the d.. ea>ed
being a Revenue Officer, un I killed wiih•ii t•,e
Hundred, in the execution of his du'',. Ihe
deceased was on Word a revenue boll, bet-ieeu
high and low water mark, in pursuit pf some smug-
glers who had run their ve,sel on shore on the coast
of Deal, with smuggled goods, who, as heap-
proached, fired oil him and shot him. 11 ,Was car.
tied unntediately on board a Revenue.:;itter,itltich
was at some distance et sea, out of the tenon-fiance
of the Hundred, where he died. The rtatii4 'raw
rpiiring that the Offiser should be killed wattle.
the boundaries, themain (pestle's ass, htilsr this
was a killing within the meaning of die act,'so as
to make the Hundred or Parish liable T
The Cover iirid, that the offence being 'corn.
milted by a pally within the bonudariee of such
Hundreo or Pariah, they were liable, and there)ae.
refsi.ed to gran, the Rule.
A most ridiculous rumour, that tfiettpeliker. Was-7
to attend in person in Court this day, to 1,1;aillIto.
t e action brought agaiii.4 hint by Sir P. lltbanerrs •
induced a great nu nt,er of persans to attend. "

roues.

sow.graggii.
Friday attain& Clorler 21101110.• Wbe ran aPtWibelb6.4•
*ri time since on Blisekbeittb, Os a &size of highway
rubbery, by one or the horse patrote, was brought to Ilia
other La fartheeetaininittimi.
Susan Elliot, of Surrey.strect, is the Strand, said, that,
on the night of Saturday se'unight, she saa tras-elling in i
postch•isi, in company with a Gentleman and a Lady, .ben
they were stopped by a single lisgbaayere.n, who rubbed
them of their cash, Imi 511 e fientirmass of his watch. She
verily bebcied the Prisoner to be the man
He was committed fur (maser esamivation.
Dania Canue;lmit was charged withloarglarootsty breakiog
out of the dwellisig-house of William Puwel, is Cl•arlton-
street, Somer's-Tuwas, and stealing a watch, anew cash, sod
a variety of articles of wearing apparel, Isis property
Joh* ti emote wee charged is id% feloniously at sling a
501 hack nu!e, the property of "teary Langtry, of
George-street, Sluelapse-square, Esq. who said she Pei-
Miner had been his servant; hut was late ly iliirlearged. •
few days after be had discharged him, he mosirel a sail.
bank nose from his drawing.rimui be was pro st ire Le bad It
ou the day be discharged the Prisoner.
Thomas Hattiaas, of Pileice's.street, Soho, pairehreber,
said, that the Prisoner tendered him a 5-. I imink note ia. pay-
meld fur a gold watch and theist, amounting to 171 Freon
his conduct and circurn•Loices, lee suspected be bad not
rouse honestly by it, be sletaised him, and gave infbrrnatient
at the Bank • mad shirtier having been gone there isf the •
note having geen stolen, the Pe Isom, was, in eiem-queue.,
brought to thee Office.—lle aaa committed fur farther raw
aiination.

ROBBERY TII F. Will rEHAVFN BANK.
It will he recollected that, in the mouth of Januar:, tee%
the Whalebone. Bonk was brokeu open, and robbed of
notes to t►e amount of .M01)1. sliJ, by the exertions of Ad-
kins, the Wheel!, three of t►e robbers were trace.l out is
Liverpool, and other parts of Lancashire They were tried
at the assizes for Carlisle, last summer, and two of t►em
have since been executed.

Within the last fortnight Adkins received private fermata-
tiok that • number of Ow stip Cu motes were us L0ud...., and
that they were about to be talent to Dahlia fur the propose of
being circulated there. Adkius traced the notes into the pos-
session of a Mrs. Lee, who resides in the with/mot hood of
St. John's-street, a respectable woneasi ; she said she received
them from a man of the name ofm ba Patten, who Iwo hens
a well.known character on the town fur aboat thin. aesrs.
Adkins, in commie...see, exerted tiiintielf, and employed
others to apprehend him, anal en Friday night Harry Adkins
and Huinphriesapprelaroded ham at a Saablionse mut the
Seven Thais.
At a late boor on Saturday nicht he underwent an exami-
umson before Mr. G . and Mr. Kiast•tats, when Ilse
regular informations of four witnesses were reed over, from
which it appealed, that, at the Ilan of the rebellion lo tre-
bled, Puttee was in Dublin, and became envisioned with a
assn of the made of Dimon, who sow resisks to Loudon,
who 'opposing Pollen to be a respectable man, frequently
conversed with him; and in conversation lately, be told Pol-
ka that hr bad a friend, wearing Mrs. Lee, who was going
to Delving. Pallets solicited Morison to request Mrs Lee to
call at Mrs. Moore's, in Dul4in, to gel u W table belong-
bag to ham, and bring it hack wish her, and also to ask to
lake with her some %Thitelsaren hassle MACS which be had
by him, to the amount of :het. which, os they were out paya-
ble ill London, were of no use to him. He pointed out the
was she could easily get them est-banged by a eon' merchant
is Dublin, who rouhl pay them to the Captsin of o
haven collier, who traded Is au.l for her trouble shi
sea to receive the difference of exchange he! On. Bogliool
MA Ireland, which would known to eight rise's Its Om
hundred Both these cousseentrions Mrs Lee mulertook, asJ,
by the correspondence that passed, Adkins received t pre-
wale information of what was going on Os. Pollen house
takts into ennui: hr denied all knowledge of M. a. i.. c, has
ever having had any of the Whitehaven hank notes in h.s
possession, and the whole of the traussetosu ; mad to swine*
a belief to shat hr said, he made use of (lir Knot hawnd and
blasphemous eanresno-.. II is, liowesev, most s.itisfastswily
its proof to the contrary, as a letter of his to Mrs. Lev, upon
the subject of his El) Wile, and the t) huts haven notes, "44
pro.loced. He was committed tvi farther 'amongst...ie.