The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-04-05 00:00:00

Gran's run.

r:I SHION.

J S.

METIWEN'i POUT.

Mrs. MFTHUEN gave, on Friday 1.1-1, a grand
Rout, to about 300 of the first rank and fashion, at
her Kouse in Lower Grosvenbr-square.—ln the
company were,
Margins of Winchester.
I:orb—Stanhope, Portsmouth, Ab:lyne, Ca!Mon, and
3,lhinntliorr,s.
/Arils—Rodney, Willoughby De Broke. Graves, Ducie, and
If P. try.
Sir..-P. Hal.-5, \V. Langliam, C. Talbot, R. 'Williams, R.
C. Glynn, G. Duck-tt, J. Riddle, and 11. Dashwood.
Cn one's—Atailley, Arm.triong, Glynn, Dyke, and How4rd.
Captabot.—.Morton, Rennet, Ell more, ami Holloway.
Moues.—Townilieod, ‘Vlotaker, Heath, Steward, Harley,
Warner, Paine, Sawbridge, Rodney, Nevide, Coleman, I leath-
cote, LAnghant, Cements, T. Walpole, R:a .kett,
Wdlets, G. B:a:ltmaii, A. Stanhope, G. Dorien, Peny, Black-
burin., Sloane, Ca-iainajor, Pierce, Trent, Robinion, Cooper,
Cox, Dirkenvni, Ford, Ifeatliente, Push-, Ilcath, Vincent,
Dougiga, North, S. Stanhope, Vansittart, 11. Coat, Nicholls
Ridwy, Botnrerie, Roo; Wulfl, Joddrel, /lope,
Milk, and Dr.:mm.lnd S:!itt .1.
Winchest,r.
Coituteors-4.,:vernool, Carhampton, Porterinutli, K
Pomfret, Abergavenny, Nlountiloiri., and Carilar.
von .

Visenunteis Diullty and Ward.
Lwliesa-.Cutiliffe, Buxton, Do Donstativille, C. Jenkincon,
Langh.m., ProFtur, W. Wynne, Brayhrook, Ando-
ver, Williams, Fustier, Bowman, Hunt it:Tried, R C. G ymi„
De Clifford, Duch., Sheffield, Dowager Wyatt, Douglas, R... -
M . rttunv. Eoston, L. Pucie, B..auttionr, F. Ihri!son,
Brownlow, Shelly, E. Tufton, Call, Sommers, Boaton, King,
twu Mar)liants, Hawke, C. lluward, Say and Sete, and Head-
ley.
Irst reret--I rale, Garai Grant, I:sath, Baker, fiendmrinn,
'Tuey, Richard), Sawbtidg:., Codringrun, Brown, Heatlicote,
Crof,, Blackest, Freemantle, T. Smith, G. Donn!, Conyei,
Pierce., Lawrie, Rohinson, Drummond, Sullivan, Dawkiti,,
(:oci fail, Vincent, Noith, Nlitner, S. Stanhope, Van-
smart, Clyde, Bouverie, Anguish, Dashwuod, Rose, Marcy,
Roch, Morton, and Drummond Smith.
Misee,--Ilales, Buxton, two Citlemans, Heath, Campbell,
two Townsliends, Ilarl.y, Richaols, Gages, Prodor, Paine,
Wynne, Blackwell, Langliarn, J.thitsmt, Eustace, Andrew',
Fitzroy, T. eurie, Cos, Cie:news, Lown.les, Gages, Dickenson,
iini ley, tli Grioddards, nought), North, Cust, Shelly, Dash-
wood, and 11.1 inure

Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, accompanied
by their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Scott'
and AMELIA, attended by Generals GWYNNE and
HARCOURT, took an airing on horseback in Windsor
Great l'ark, and viewed the different improvements
carrying on there.
Her Royal Highness Princess Et.tzmirrit, at•
tended by Mrs. DRAKE, accompanied his MA•
Jisr r in an open phaeton.
Her MAJESTY and Princess AUGUST A, attended
by Lady CAROLINE DA MER, took an airing to
Frogmore, and walked in the Gardens, the day
being remarkable fine.
Yesterday morning Sir WILLIAM and Lady PITT
left London ; they paid a visit to her MAJESTY at
Frogmore, t)n their way to Hackfield Heath.
eiter:'..iy, between one and two o'clock, the
Princess MARY wok an airing on the Edgware-
road.

Lord COLE left town on Sunday, on a visit to
Lord and Lidy C AST 1.1:Itil A GU, at their villa, East-
sheen, from whence he will visit the Earl of nt MANS'.
r [Kith at his seat at Cacn Wood, and afterwards
will pass the Easter holidays with Mr. and Mrs.
BvNG, at their seat at Northam Park, near Barnet.

Viscount and Viscountess CAS f L%REACH left
town on Suaday for their Villa at Fast Sheen,
where they will remain till after the holidays.
:,sir GIL:H.ILT and Lady licaTitcori: and family
left town, on Saturday, for \orm:wton Park, Stam-
ford, Lincolnshire, where they inland to pass the
holidays.
The Princess, of horn the Queen of PRUSSIA
WAS delivered on the '23d of February, was baptized
on the 21st ult. by the name of FKEDERIc.t WIL.
IIELMINA ALEXANDRINA NIA/ILA HELENA. The
sponsors were, by proxy, the Emperor of RUSSIA,
the Empress Dow an En, and the Hereditary Princess
of MF.CKLENBURG SCHWERIN.

Lady XELBY gives a sFlendid ball and supper
to a large party on Thursday, the 21st inst.
Lord XV A L LSCovr:E, one of the Governors of the
county of Galway, died last week in Dublin. He
is succeeded in his title by his nephew, JOSEPH
HENRY BLARE, a minor.
The Duke of Gottoorr has this last year exa:lly
doubled the rental of his Scotch estates, which were
ba'are but e-2,0001. a year. So great is the general
improvement of property in Scotland, that Lord
MAcnom Lo has also increased his income not less
than 60001. a year.
It was Lord CHARLES MURRAY, fourth son of
his Grace the Duke of ATHOL, and not Lord
J A mEs, who had been so dangerously ill of la
grippe. His Lordship was attended by Sir W.
Fa licit:ll Alt and Mr. CHI LYB R. Lord JAMES MUR-
R A v was never in better health and spirits, and has
been with his regiment, the 10th Light Dragoons,
at Brighton, for these last three weeks.
KE mor E is to open with Macbeth on Easter Mon-
day, at Datil. All negotiations between him and
Old Drury are totally Lt an end fur the present
seaori. _ _

Mr. SKEVTINGTON, who last year presented ",;-s.
MArrocKs, at her benefit, with a play (the Pord
of Honour), has, we understand, two pieces in
great forwaidness, one of which will make its ap-
pearance at each house this present season. For
one of them, it is said, he has taken the whimsical
name of Tops and Bottom'.
On St. Patrick's Day, a prize of two silver caps
was run for, over the four-mile course, in the Earl of
Llandaff's great park of Thomastown, by hunters,
the property of gentlemen resident in the county of
Tipperal y, and was won by Mr. E. 0. Bei. Lk.it's
Shamrock. _

At Berwick, last week, a fellow, pretending to
le.lure on astronomy and geography, alter running
in debt at several houses for lodgings, &c. suddenly
cc/ipt,/, to the great disappointment of more than
the phdolotbrrs of the place.

•

• roAK ASSIZES.
TRIAL. OF JAMES LUNE/.
•
'The prisoner stood indiael for obtaining goodi
under fake pretences.
The prisoner was a ruler for a hosier in Man-
chester ; the prosecutor a dealer in linen cloth; and
lives at Brompton, near Northallerton. The pri-
s,mer. in the course of his journey, called upon the
prosecutor, and during tiwir conversation, said to
the prosecutor, that he could obtain orders for him,
which the prosecutor told him he might do, pro-
vided he was sure of the people of whom he tool-
the orders.

The prosecutor, upon his examination, said, that
the -pt oner sent him a letter containing an order
for a Miss Itobimon, which order the prosecutor ex-
ecuted and was regularly paid for ; thdt on the
19th of Febrnary, the prisoner called upon the pro-
secutor, and told him he had obtainid an order for
him from a capital house in Manchester, of the firm
of Darnton and Co. ; that the prisoner himself wrote
down the order, and said, that Darnton and Co. Nvcre-
safe people ; that upon receipt of the goods he
might have a draft to the amount, upon allowing a
discount; that he gave orders to the prosecutor to
(tired the goods to Darnton and Co. Manchester,
and put the initials W. D. M. upon the package;
that the goods were accordingly sent off, according
to these direetions, together with a bill of parcels,
direned Darnton and Co. Manchester ; the goods
were sent by Walsh's waggon, according to the pri-
soner's dire:lion.
The bill of parcels was returned to the prosecu-
tor, from the post-office in London, intim-nil:lg him
that no such house as Daimon and Co. could be
found in Manchester.
Upon being cross-examined by Mt. Sinclair, he
said, he did not authorize any person to go to the
prisoner in Manchester to demand the money of
the prisoner.
John ‘Vilson proved, that having business that
called him to Manchester (which the prosecutor
knew of) he desired him to enqui!e if there was such
a house as Darnton and Co.; that he went to the
carrier to make the inquiry ; that the carrier told
him he knew of no Damon and Co. but that, he
knew a William annton, who was a printer; that,
by the prosecutor's request, he waitd upon Mr.
Johnson, an ;_ttorney, and the prisoner was then
sent for; that Mr. Johnson charged him with the
fraud ; upon which he said that the William Darn-
ton, the person whom the carrier had named, was
the person whom the goods were for ; that he consi-
dered him as a respectable merchant at the time he
gave him the order for the goods, but that since
then he had been deceived in him; that he found
him otherwise, and therefore had taken the goods
to himself from the carrier, and had taken them to
Mr, Newsom's, for N'-hom he travelled; that the wit-
ness was to excuse him to the prosecutor, for that he
himself would pay for them.
_ _ _

. .
Abraham Ibberson, book-keeper to Mr. Watch,
proved that the prisoner and William Darnton came
to their office for the goods, producing the bill of
'parcels, and describing the diralion ; that the goods
were taken to Mr. Newsom's wlarehouse by the pri-
soner's direflion, for Wm. Darnton.
William Darnton was examined on the part of the
prisoner; he said he was no merchant ; that he cer-
tainly did order the prisoner to buy goods for him,
but not particularly of the prosecutor—He had been
acquainted with the prisoner about two years.
The Learned Judge, upon summing up the evi-
dence, observed, that if he had been entrusted parti-
cularly to buy of any one person for William Darn-
ton, and afterwards lie saw that he had been deceiv-
ed by William Darnton, then the Jury could not find
him guilty; but if it appeared to the Jury, that when
he gave the or ler to the prosecutor, that he intended
to defraud him, lie was guilty of that wherewith he
was charged : indeed, observed the Learned Judge,
his intention of rand appears evident; for he speaks
of the firm of Darnton and Co. as being safe and
well known, when it turns out upon the evidence,
that after all due diligence used, no such firm as
Darnton and Co. could be found in Manchester;
and the story he told to the prosecutor's attorney in
Manchester, that he had been deceived by William
Darnton, appears a strong circumstance against him,
for he ought to have written to the prosecutor, in-
forming him of it, and procured instructions as to the
disposal of the goods ; no such thing had he done ;
but instead of which, he kept the goods, and appears
to have disposed of them, and converted the money
to his own use ; for it does not appear that he had
offered to return the goods or to pay for them.
Verdi& Guilty. Sentence, seven year: trans-
portat:on.