The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-05-25 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOW-STREET.

On Ssturdly Wiriams Nitre*, was fully c...... fur
un a chsrge of breaking open the house of Mr. John
Moser, of Little Qaren-st met, Lincoln's sad
steatiog a I'M I. ty of property. An alai in wa% given, sold
let wile pursucel in Lincoln's lon-fields and oaken, anti al-
tern eras brio:: conveyed to a wadi.-house to be bed, a
oekloett or skeleton key was f J dose to Itten, will,
which there i. no doubt but he broke open 11w house. Ile
is • well known ehararter. - .

Ali toad, r 'tochrawe appeared lo answer an Infiirmalinn
;aid inisi bun, charging Lim will, selling beer, •pirituuus
liquors, mid ulln•r Exiscable articles, at ■ house in Main-
sheet, in the Adelplii, wiiltuut hi+a int: a license autliiiri.iug
I lin so in dn, in *Lich the IX (cadent pleaded Nut Guilis.

Ihe yeliii,;.• of beer and spirituous !Moor* was dewily
roved by rtspectable isthmuses, and that the Defendant wss
tem% sing money, soil acting tu every utber respect as the
landlord of Ihr house.
The Defendant Mated, that some weeks since he paid
a man of the name of l'ippard several hundred pounds to
I,:u into the house, and since be bad been iu omsession of
the house he bad regularly paid all the duties, which
lie moved by Excise documents; lie also paid every thing
that bad Mtn demaniltd of Min. Mr. Pippiril had a Ma-
git.trate's license, *hid. he banded to hint on hie tithing
the I luht, Lot he did nut inform him it was threes.
sary that it should be transferred to him by a Ma;latrate;
if therefore lie bad dour wrong be had dune it through
iruurauce, as be did nut know it was necessary, our did any
person tell b m it was. The cause of l'ipparil deceiving
Min ass in Wale degree explained by his !citing, the house
its a clandestine 'manner, to •tui4 nicetiag a prowentimi,
u Inch M.la Matituted altruist him fur breaking 4 inau's ribs
is mi atis.l on the night of Twelfth day.
The dtrisiou of the Magastratts upon the quesliva was
puss posed.

xase.nosotxu-traer.T.
CURIOUS CHARGE. _ _

Caturlav Ma%lattoe Ituapioi the wife of the well-known
at trlralarr Nosiona, of Pall mall, came to this ollire in ba r
cart Owe to arias rr the eurtylaiut of Elizabeth Johosots, Coe
I I,t-r +ea vstot

1 lie complainant stated, on Thursday List the Dr.
1 11.1.1111 ehu ed Inr with a pair of !xi sssss and 1M
1,1, 11111011 Z it, struck her a blow, which for some hour.'
strict% Aldo it... tented het hum &Mg any Warhorse. hbe bad
. L1,14/111 Itl lime hand, with shirk she threatened to strike the
1,4610 am if rile repeated the assault, but she dill not.
hlanlante Ita..piui denied the charge, and raid Ow Cons-
-1/1411111111 Mar a MINA impudeut old woman The truth was,
Cat she bail hit some property, which she thought proper
to esainMe her frervauts about, but the Complainant heated
her %lib the greatest disrespect. stud said her family were
all tharri s, and threstrind to last tier with the broom. hire
thee laid ha hand on her shoulder, arid ordered lice to lease
the roust.

• Whenever Lady V. 'fax PFST may marry, Ito one
Clll asp she slues IJ unsultisedly. to the first place,
she is t x 'misses! by the LORD CII A NCLI.I.OR,
in Isis prisate parlous ; then wise i• eel:erred to a
Plasttr is Chanetry, to snake Lis public report isl
Ler ; anti then " has **sow goesol.niti ur,ll G ivssclp,"
who examisse ail Iscr psuctetlitsgs and all her me-

LdlY ISTF LLIGENCE.

COURT OF RING'S BENcil, -ATURDAT, MAT 23.

CHALLENGE TO LORD RIDMOUTH.
THE Moto V. A. TilliTLEWOurt.
This Defendant, who, it will be recollet tea, was
tried and found guilty during the Sittings after 13.4
Term, upon an information charging him with
sending a challenge to Lord Sidmouth, tlii4 morn-
ing appeared in Court, attended by Dr. James
Watson, his former twnicinion in difficulty, for
the purpuo. of moving for a iiew
The ordinary motions of the bar having been
gone through, the Defendant presented himself to
the notice of the Court.

Mr. Justice BAY LET Have you got any
affirlivity
Thistlewooa—" I have. my Lord."—;Here the
Defendant put in three affidavits, *hick were read
by Mr. Healtry, the Clerk of the Crown Office.
The first was an affidavit of the Defendant's own.
In which he stated, that, from the lateness or the
perind at which hr received notice of trial, it was
impossible for him to bring forward those. witnesses
whose evidence would hive induced the Jury, in-
stead of pronouncing him guilty, to come to
conclusion of a contrary description. He did not
receive notice of trial till Saturday, the 9th of May,
at Ku hour too late to enable hint to apply at the
Crown Office for subireenas. Smutty, Ahniday.
Tuesday. and 11rednestlay, were holidays, and the
C at Office was closed. Ou Thursday. the 14th
of May, lie was brought from the King's Bench
Prison, at so early on hour as to preclude him
from making any effort for his defehce. He now
swore, that he could have called sixteen respectable
witnesses, who world have sworn that it was impos-
sible that Rolls Butters shookd have known Ilia
hand-writing, Hod that he was a Mitillebti witu•ought
not to be believed on his oath.

Lord ELLENDOROUGIi—" Does the I)efentlant
swear that the challenge in question was nut his
hand-writing?"
Mr. °SALTILY continued reading the affidavit,
which went on to state that Mr. Jostler Bayley hay-
int; given hint 'reason to hope that lie should have
a new trial upon the production of proper affidavits,
be trusted that hope would flow be realized. There
was no denial on the part of the Defendant that the
writing um his.
The next affidavit was from Dr..latnes Watson,
surgeon, io Surrey-street. in the Strand ; in which
be stated that he attended at the Crown Office, in
the Temple., on the part of Arthur Tbistlewood, a
prisoner in the. King's Bench, on Monday and
and Tuesday, the 11th a4l I%llls of May, for the purpose
of gelling subpremis to enalde him to call witnesses
fur his defence, lint there were no persons in attend-
mice ; and hence the said Arthur Thistlewood was
deprived of MI 111.•J11111 of defence whatever ni his
trial. There was an affidavit bum Susan Thistle-
wood to the like elf. et. She attended at the Crown
Office the 1 1 di. 12th, and 13111.
Lord F.l.lE%lloltOutal the Defendant had
stifficici.t notice of his trial antecedently, and should
have bestirred linwielf to get his witnesses. There
did not seem much likelihood, however, even if Isis
witnesses had crane, that they could have done him
any service; they could not sear that the band-
writing was lint the Defentlmit's, for he had not veils
lured to do so himself. l'here was ono pretence for
the motion for a new trial. 'llse Defendant then left
the Court.

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