The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-03-15 00:00:00

POLICE.

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MANSION-HOUSE.
COMMITTAL. UNDER LOYD ELLENBOROUGH'S
Henry Baker. a butcher, from Yorkshire, wait brought before the
LORD MAYOR, charged with having stabbed Wm. Norris, a back-
ney.coachman, with a knife, with intent to kill or do him some
grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutor, who was brought to the Justice-roam from the
hospital, stated, that a few dap ago, as he was standing neat his
coach, which stood in the 31inones, the prisoner, who had been act-
ing very ollinsively in a public-house in the neighbourhood, sud-
denly made a violent blow at him, and be found that he had re-
ceived a wound in the hand witlia knife, which the prisoner had
been brandishing about. 'f he prisoner, at the time he struck the
blow, cried out that he would have his revenge.
A man, named Langley, deposed, that while he was standing at
the pump the prisoner made a blow at him with the knife. The
instrument penetrated a prodigiously thick coat which he had on.
but his waistcoat, which was made even of more strong materials,
resisted the point. The prisoner afterwards, in a furious man-
ner, attacked the prosecutor, and wounded him, as had been
Lescribed. _ .

The btecher said in his defence, that he had just cnme up from
the country, and that having got into the public-house, he was in-
duced to play at cards as well as to drink ; that as soon as the pro-
secutor and some others saw that he was in liquor, they took advan-
tage of him, won his money, and then fell upon and beat him most
unmercifully ; that, exampended at this treatment, he thought that,
to defend himself, he must have drawn his knife, and that had he
not been intoxicated, he would not have attempted to use it.
The Lout) MAYOR asked the prisoner how he could have
thought of tisibg so murderous an instrument as that with which he
attacked the two men who had given testimony against him ?—fle
replied, that he WAS quite unconscious of what he was doing at
the time.

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It was denied that the prisoner had been gambling with any.
body in the public house, or that he had been deprived of a half.
penny there ; and it was sworn that he had brandished his knife to
the great annoyance of the customers. Ile was fully committed un-
der Lord Ellenhorough's Act.
Mr. Deputy Warden Saunders, of Billingsgate Market, applied
to the Loa D *AY OR fecair 'teflon against a Mr. J. Vaughton,
who threatened to chastise hib in the event of his refusal to .give
him (Mr. Vaughton) the satisfaction which one gentleman, or any
person calling or considering himself a gentleman, should demand
from another upon receiving ao insult.
Mr. Vaughton, it appeared, had been employed as a peace-
maker upon some occasion in which Mr. Saunders had been con-
cerned. A disagreement took place between them, and Mr.
Vaughton sent a letter to Mr. Saunders, containing expressions of
resentment which were not equivocal, and which induced Mr.
Saunders to request the Lord Mayor to bind him over to keep
the peace.
Mr. Vaughton expressed his regret that he had been compelled
by 111 r. Saunders to adopt the alternative complained of; but his
feelings as a gentleman made it imperative upon him to write the
letter. _ _ .

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The Loan MAYOR expressed a hope that Mr. Saunders would
be satisfied with the promise of Mr. Vaughton not to molest
him again.
Mr. Deputy Saunders said, he preferred a more substantial pro-
tection in the shape of bail.
The Loan MAYOR sutigestcd, that under the circumstances it
would be sufficient to take Mr. Vaughton's personal recognizance'.
Mr. Saunders then swore that he was in bodily fear of Mr.
Vaughton, who was thereupon bound over to keep the peace.

11 ATTON-GAR DEN. _ _
DARING STREET ROBBERY.—Yalterday Edward Adams, an
ill-looking young fellow, was brought up for re.examination on
the following charge :
Miss Eninia Ward stated that between seven and eight o'clock
on the evening of Friday last, she was going along Great John.
street, having a reticule in her hand, containing live sovereigns
and sixteen shillings in silver, when, at the corner of Taylor's-
row, the prisoner snatched the reticule and ran off. Witness,
however, pursued him, crying "Stop thief !" and after a lung
Chace, he was apprehended, having thrown away the reticule in his
eight.
These circumstances were sustained by the evidence of two other
witnesses.

The prisoner denied having committed the robbery.
Mr. ROGERS, the sitting Magistrate, observed that the reticule
was a very ridiculous and most unsafe depository for money.
If ladies would carry cash about with them at night they should
return to the old.fashioned custom of pockets ; the reticule af.
forded a ',wog temptation to thieves.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
ENTERTAINMENT OF TRATELLEIIS.—GeorgeSyner, the
landlord of the Vl'heatsheaf public-house. Pratt's-place, Camden.
town, appeared to answer to an information laid against him, under
the Act which compels publicans to provide entertainment for
travellers.

Emmanuel Benjamin, a carter belonging to the London Carrier
Company, stated that he was driving towards town on the evening
of the dth of March, neat Cemden.town, when the horse took
fright, and he was thrown out of the seat. Being very seriously
bruised he was taken to the defendant's house, where he was re.
fused admittance.
The defendant urged in excuse that the complainant had
passed the other houses before he came to the AVlteatsheaf, and
that he waa perfectly ignorant of any obligation to receive him.
The Magistrate said that the law was imperative in that re.
spect ; but, in consideration of the defendant's ignorance of It, he
would not enforce the penslty.—lnformation dismissed.

The passage from Dover to Calais is likely to be unusu-
ally brisk this summer, owing to the annual encampment
of the French army (consisting of about 30,000) falling in
rotation this year to the Deptirtment of the Pas de Calais.
The head quarters, we understand, will be in the vicinity
of St. °niers, and the army will be twice reviewed during
its encampment by the King of France.—Cinque Ports
Herald.

There is a confident expectation of a revival of trade in
Leek. From the following circumstance we conclude that
the prevalent distress is on the decline in that town. Some
time since a plan was adopted for the relief of the poor, by
giving them a comfortable dinner at the workhouse; about
one hundred persons partook daily of this bounty, but now
the applicants are reduced to half the number.-7-Maccks-
field Herald. •
The foundation stone of a• new Chapel, in connection
with the Scots Secession Church, to be erected at the top
of Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, was laid on Monday last.
—Caledonian lifer-carry.
A great change has taken place in the weather within
these two days. The little wind there was blew from the
south, and the sky was clear, with sunshine. The ther-
mometer on Thursday stood, in the shade, at 6t degrees,
and yesterday as high as 66,1—a degree of heat which
rarely occurs at this season of the year, and not very fre-
quently even in summer.—Caledonian Merevry.
Extract from the Greenock Advertiser of Friday :—" A
new coach hart started to run three times aweek on the
Highland road from Inverness to Edinburgh, till the
beginning of summer, when it is to run daily. The
Caledonian will then also run daily on the same road. A
new coach is announced to run daily from Elgin to Aber-
deen. We will then have two coaches daily on the High-
land road, and three on the coast road, while it is scarcely
seven years since the mail dilligenec, drawn by two horses,
was the only conveyance on the coast road; and but an
equal number of years preceding since there was no public
conveyance to the north of Aberdeen, The multiplied
means of conveyance and cornfor are striking por offoe soh
growing prosperity of the eountry.—lnvernessroas t
The following is literally copied from a tombstone re-
oently erected in Mookwearroouth church-yard. We un-
derstand the sculptor has, lately gone to London ; but
whether his object is to improve himself, or to illuminate
his brother chips in the capital, we have yet to learn :
" In Memory oF Smith WiLLeock WiFe oF John
WiLLoock—Wo Died Aufluesl 13, 182 S, Aged 48 Yeors.
She was But Re sons For me To Si what But think
what a womren should Be and She woo that.".—Der‘son
Chronick.

FROM LAST NIGLIT'S GAZETTE.
Bushey Honse,March 10. 1826.
Nis Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence has appointed the Reverend
Henry Joseph Bosse Nicholson, A.M. to be one of his Royal Highness's
Domestic Chaplain*.

Crown-Office, March n, 1824.
lIIITVIINKI/ Tn
County of Northumberland—Matthew Bell, of Wool.!neon, In the said
county, Esq. In the room of Charles John Brandllng, Esq. deceased.

DECLARATIONS OP INSOLVENCY.

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heft at the Bankrupt OMee. under Act 6, Geo. 4th, cap. P. sec. R.
A•11411A M lla Mar, Ilaydon.rquare, M tootle., merchant. 'Filed March
14.)
Marron w Jgoon Turouta, Clonmel, Ireland, merchant. (Filed
March 14.) _ .