The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-13 00:00:00

MR. SHEIL'S STORY.

It appears from the report of the last "aggregate meeting," that
Mr. Shell commenced his speech with an anecdote, related, as he
affirmed, by the lute esteemed and lamez.ted Henry 111•DougaII,
of this c.ty. The drift of the story is to show the alleged fatal dl..
tinctiun which the Government of this country had been in the
habit of making, between Protestants and Homan Catholics. " The
late Mr. M• Dougall, of Waterford," said he, " on one occasion,
when Mr. Peel was Secretary for Ireland, made an application
at the Castle, on behalf of a poor fishcruan with a large family,
who had signalised himself in saving several unfortunate human
beings from being shipwrecked ; but what, think you, was the
answer to the application why the cold interrogatory, is the man
a l'nlertarit?" Mr. Shell duce not conclude the story, but the
conclusion from such premises is not to be mistaken, •• because
the poor fisherman was not a Pt•ofrifiat, his services were disre-
garded, and the application was retused." It would be well for
Mr. Shell that Mr. 111•Dougall were alive to confirm the truth of
this fact. for there is not a semblance of probability on the face
of it. 11'e shall, however, not indulge in continents, but proceed
to lay before our readers some information, which we have collected
from the most unquestionable sources, concerning this identical
fisherman, and the present Right lion. Secretary for the Home
Department.
At the melancholy shipwreck of the Seahorse transport, which
occurred in the Bay oll'ramore, in 1816, the exertions of a man
named Thomas Kerevan. in assisting the unfortunate people on
board, attracted the particular attention of all who witnessed that
distressing event. Some gentlemen of this city afterwards interested
themselves warmly in his behalf, and amongst them the late Mr.
M'Dougall. A statement was drawn up, setting forth the ser-
vices of Kereean, and this statement 3lr. 31'llout,eall undertook to
lay before the Government, in full confidence that it would meet
with due attention. We cannot say what precise steps Mr. 3l'Dou.
gall took to bring the matter under the notice of Mr. Peel, but we
can affirm, that shortly after Mr. 31`1Mugtell had returned to Dub-
lin, a letter was received from him by a gentleman in this city, stat.
ing that he had attended to lierevan's affair, that it had been most
favourably entertained, that he had no doubt of his success, but that
he would recommend the statement to he drawn up anew, and in
such a form as would citable fiercest' to swear to it. Mr.
31•Ifougall's recommendation was instantly billowed; but before
the second statement could have been made use of. Kerevan (aided
with funds by a gentleman in this city) proceeded to Dublin hits.
self, and there, accompanied by. Mr. M•Dougall, T. Kenyan paid
his respects at the Castle, obtained a most gracious reception, and
a promise that his claims should be inquired into. Nor was this
promise forgotten, fur very shortly afterwards the late Lieut.-Gen.
Doyle, who then commanded in this district, received an order
from Government to proceed toms Ulonmel, where he resided, to
Tramorc, and investigate the claims of persons who had memo-
rialised for compensation ; and on that occasion not only was the
claim of K • inquired into, but allowed. As a reward fur his
services, lie was otlered his election either of a sum of money im-
mediately, or to hare his name entered for the first suitable situa-
tion that might become vacant. Kerevan preferred the former,
and was accordingly paid a sum oh money amounting to thirty
pounds ; a sum which, however trifling, we are rejoiced to say male
Kesevan a happy man, and produced a most beneficial operation un
his worldly prospects. Iteconunended bs this albeit., and the notice
taken of him by Government, he was soon after appointed a barony
constable. He has since been employed in various respectable si-
tuations, and at present resides at Carrick.on-Suir, in the neigh_
bourhood of which town, we understand, he now rents a very large
farm. Ile was a publican and not a fisherman. by the way, at the
time of the occurrence in question, nor had he then a large family
according to the embellishment in the story. SO touch for a new
but correct version, and so much fur the •• fatal and disastrous
question" of Mr. Peel.
We have only to add, that none of the late Mr. 3l`Dougall's
most intimate friends in this city, or of those who had the best
right to be itifbrnied on the subject, ever heard hint tell, hint at, or
allude to, such an occurrence as that which is represented to have
taken place at the Castle in connection with the case of Thomas
Kerevan.—Wateefurd

Jones and Weaver, convicted at Hertford Assizes, on
the 7th inst. for being concerned in the late daring robbery
of Mr. Haines, the Steward of Earl Cowper, are ordered
to be executed on IVednesilay next, at Hertford.
His Majesty's most gracious panlon for Harris, who was
capitally convicted, but subsequently re spited generally, has
been forwarded to Hertford gaol from the Home Depart-
ment. The case of Davis, who was also capitally con-
victed, but respited till January, is nut determined.
A singular Instance of imprimument (says the Glasgow
Chroniek) was brought to light by the Society for Reliev-
ing Small Debtors. A well behaved woman had been im-
prisoned for some trifling sum. lrlien the creditor was
spoken with on the subject, he expressed his astonishment
at her being in prison, as he bad given his consent to her
liberation on the day after she was taken into custody. On
farther inquiry, it appeared that the daughter of the poor
woman had intercepted the order for her getting out, and
had for eight months paid the gaol aliment. This unna-
tural conduct proceeded from the 'cirri desire to be freed
from the restraint which her mothers proienee would have
laid on her vices.

About ten o'clock on Friday night, a man, whose name
we could not leant, wee taken to St. Hartholonew's
Hospital, having, about half an hour previous, taken
a considerable quantity of oxalic acid. He expired about
live minutes after his arrival, and before any assistance
could be rendered him. lie stated, that distress drove him
to the commission of the rash act,

CORONERS" InUiSTS.
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An inquest was held yesterday, an the body aslant% 1
poor fellow who died at the lock-up in bhude-hill en W,d""
night. It appeared that the deceased got his hying
cockles and muscles; that on the IVeduesday he had he‘h'etLi
dleton, where lie had got intoxicated, and ea his rums raj
down on the road, near !Inept: they ton-bar. when he we,
the patrol about midnied, in a state of inseasihilityt bite tee't
gusipic.on that his inability to 4e care of hintself artei vltett
other cause than intoxiesuom He was therefore btecgb;.tg rl
cheater, and placed in the lock-up, where he died in about Ili.
When locked up, his clothes were drenched with wet, 204 10 act
knew how long be had been exposed to the inclement's( the e'',
o% rh vct lie was put into a room withoui !ire, and witisete gr uel
bedding of any description. Indeed the latter we believe it
allowed in suet' places, and the stove by which the lock.og
be warmed had been previously pulled down by •paraggide
men who were confined there, and lad never been replace&
there were no means of making a tire. Whether the death ti"
man was owing to his being ciimined in such a platedl4:
winos exposure—to intoxication—or to all three combined,
1,4
not say, as the coroner did not think the maw, or suSeiegeeze
pence to induce him to have the body examined by a audieg
The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the man died*
intozienuon and exposure to the weather. If some captious gee_
should be found to assert that the coroner does not tbeettgie,"7.
ditties of his office welt, none, we presume, will be hardy etegi
to say that he does not get through them expedit;o4
we the jury were summoned fur ten o'clock. They were
saa
viewed the body, heard the evitleuee, returned their verdict v..;
was recorded--ar.ti the coroner left the room by fle'4ly nth
betbre ekuen r almnat as soon as a grand jury could hate feat'
true
bill.—Nanc'serter

Syroextsra Cass or S tow.--On Monday lea,
Inquest was held before llr. Brook. the Coroner, on tbebolj,
Peter Fieldhouae, a poor man who lately occupied a tniaeraldee
tare on East Moor, near Wakefield, but who belonged to the tee.
ship of Oulton. There appearing to have been peat mom;
the part of the overseer in the township to which he beireged.
inquest was adjourned to the following day, to give an op e
for a more complete investigation of the busmess. It ttex
reared that the poor man, who was a widower. with three 1:4
children, had been ill and unable to do any work for Ere wet
weeks. During this period the overseer, as he hiantif dome,
had [...lied upon him about a month bebre his death, rap-
him five shillings. and the next day sent the town spotiner;
him, who also left him fire shillings more. From this thee beyej
no further relief fmm him till the Friday before his death, sta be
again sent him titre shillings. On the previous Tuesday, at tk4
instigation of of a gentleman by whom the poor man 'cal bre
relieved, Mr. Dunn, the apothecary to the Wakefield Dimuley:
visited him.
This gentleman stated to the Coroner and his Jury,*
found the deceased very ill, in a most miserable an Eti
condition, laid on something which could not with any req.:"
be called a bed, and without any covering but a dirty wt, to
saw him too on the IVednesday and Friday following, led id.
ministered to him such medicines a* lie thought his case opera,
giving him alai rr.oney which he received fur his relief. lieroe
man, in the course of his conversation with him, said he had bit;
so ill-treated by the overseer, that he would starve before be veil
apply to him again. This gentleman expressed his belief, eat
proper attention had been paid to the poor mans by the ante
and proper relief utlorded hint, he would have been slite thoor
the time of the inquest). The wretchedness of the poor cunt a.
tuition. and the neglect he had experienced, woe cocama,
the testimony of some of his neighbours.
The Jury: aft./ a short deliberation, gave the following roil
—" That the deceased came to his dent's in his cottage, st Ea
Moor, from the wilful neolect of the Overseers tithe Peer of OW.
ton ; and the sail Jurors further find and declares &vain:dm s.
to be paid by Mr. Wm. Farrar, the Overseer of Dame. to til
Lord of the 3lanor of Wakefield. but recommended by the
he given up to the Wakefield Dispensary."—The poor our. sit
64 years of age, and his dead hotly exhibited a singular meant
of misery, being almost literally nothing but skin and beet-
Wakefield Paper%

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTh.

Earl of Derby's stag-hounds will Inert toar.onrow at Patten Lye
End—at ten.

H. JolUrea, &it. fox ham& this day at Do: Hill, Wean*
at Ninetsea Mt'wean, Oxydaa-roatl, and Saturday at Ed-
Green at 11.

The harriers this day at Sanderstead, Wednesday attune, ad
Saturday at ditto—at ten.
The Oakley hounds to-morrow at Pit Hill, Thursday at Wa.
ton Wood, and Saturday at Kninston If all—at ten.
The Gransden hounds on Friday at rhilderley Gate
:he Puckerldge hounds on Wednesday at Stsastead, Ewes, mg
Saturday at Aston Duty.
The Ileaumaris hounds hunt et-morrow at tl • Hutting Holm
and Friday at lilies Francis--at I I.
The Anglesey hounds on Wednesday at Unbolt-gab, tad
Friday at Gwretlog half-past
The Earl of II arewood's fox-hounds on Wednesday ar.Cror.
ley Gates, and on Friday at Paper Mill liar—at ten.
The Badsworth lux-hounds on Tuesday next at Halaydall4
on Thursday at :Siouan Village, and on Saturday at Sanaa
bridge—at ten.
The 11. 11. to.morrow at Hinton House, on Thursday at Wal
mill Hill, and on Saturday at Northington Down—at ten.
The lianibledon hounds will throw off on ,Munday at Ditelan.
on Wednesday at the Kennel, and on Friday at Busseklan
mill—at ten.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS
AT TUE AAAAA UPTS COL ET, BASINGUALL-STIIIT,

TO-mOiaow.

THIRD MEETINGS.
Allison, J. Cburch-street, Camberwell, coach-master.
Boswell, F. S. Strand, shopkeeper
flyers. E. Prince's-street, Soho, whalebone-merchant . I:
Haddon, T. South Bruton Mews, Beasley-agitate, stable.
ke9er - . - -
Wood. T. Biteltin-lane, merchant . -
NVroots, It. and Adkins, J. threat Titchtield.sweet, lines-
drapers . .

SECOND MEETINGS.
Burstein, T. Alichurch.lane, wine-merchant
Jackson, C. Barbican' hatter -
,l . -
Johnson, W. Bcdfnrhury, draper
Kite, J. and Best, B..Maccitsfielil Wharf, New North4o3d,
Shorcditch, coal-merchants •
Pocock, W. Layton, Essex, cabinet-maker

FIRST WEETIWGS.
Fuller, J. fledforil•plate, Commercial-road, slater • 11
Lingford, T. Sloane-street, Chelsea, draper • • II
Radford, S. Chisivelt-street, victualler , 12
Welch, J. Princes-street, I.atubeth, japanned leather mn---
facturer - - - - • • 1.

DIVIDENDS.
Nantes, H. Warnford-tourt. Thmgmorton•atreet. macho' 16
Sandison, W. Utak-street, lturlington-gardens, taiio: •

The workmen at the lace manufactory at SouthampwD.
struck on Saturday week, for advance of wages. which
caused the town to be in much bustle during theforinrir
part of the week, since which their pay has been augnentei
and they are now pursuing their usual avocatior.

BIRTHS.
On the 10th inst. in Grosvenor-place, the Lady of S.? Hobe
Graham, Ran. of a daughter.
On the Bth inst. at ikaford House, the Lady of G. 11. ChM,,
Esq. ➢I,P. of a daughter.

On the 7th Inst. at Winchelsea, in Sussex, Francis lialbol
Spilsbury. Esq. of Hall 11 eve, near Leek. in the county of`
to Eleanor, daughter of .1. 'E. Wright, DI. of the former 11
At St. Agnes, last week, James Martin, agtsl 711. w Am°
Ilan* aged 78. The happy couple were brought to the ch!..-rh et
a car, and the bride is by aecrepid that it was with dirficugy
ttr
could stand without her staff, during the patermaare tn.
ceremony.
On the 7th instant, at St. 3lichiters Church, Bath, JohsPl?a,c,
Rayenshaw. Esq. of the Honourable East India Compwl._,t
Service, eldest son of J. E. Itaysnshaw. Esq. w
daughter of John Thullier, Esq. of rad iz oand

1/11:1).
At Kaira, in the East Indic, in July last. irethe 3.11 yen 01"-8
age, Captain George Ulric Barlow. of his Majesty's ita 110:1'
went of l.ight Dragoons, eldest son of b:it George Ililsro 8010.
Bart. O.C.R.
On the 10th instant, in Vernon-place. Bloonisbury.aquare,
11 years, Agnes, fifth daughter of W. liothery, Est
On Thursday last, at Carriekem-Suir. Mary Barka,
107th year of her age.--She enjoyed her faculties to the last. a
was seen to market for herself a few days prior to her act
She was the mother of many children, one of whom. a aBh,_„,,
made her a promise at his father's decease, not to mart, an 7,
her life-time, which promise he faithfully discharged. De a a.'
75th year, and asuws his intention to many.
On the 2d October, at Honduras, T. Fortier, Es.i.latcalrazB
House, Norwood, Surrey, and of the Stock Exchange.
ne.lo
At thAtenhatn, Uaptain Peter Hunt, R.N. lie 1138
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Hail, K. M. hOn the 2fith May, rear Anantabad. of only nine hour, gal An
cholera morbus, aged 21 years, Remy Lock, Esq.
Bengal Native Infantry, son of Reat.Athnind Luck, 0/1181'.
Isle of IVight.

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