The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-15 00:00:00

PPat I 0 VE_W ENTS.

Tuesday's Gazette contains a notice, that applittioti
will be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session, fet
leave to bring in a Bill to. form a nevi street, so as to con-
tinue Pall-mall East eastward from the nines Mews ad
far as St. Martin's Church, and to widen the communion.:
tion between Cockspur-street and Craven-street, between
the south front of the Union Club-house in Cockspur-street
and the north side Of the Strand, opposite Craven-meet ;
also to form streets on the north and south sides of St.
Martin's Church till they intersect the Strand, neatly op-
posite the north end of Villiere-street: also to widen St.
Martin's-lane on the east and west sides thereof, south of
Hemmings-row and Chandos-street; and also to form
square or open space. opposite Charing-cross, which said
square os open space is to have the Union Club-h,tause for
its bodutlary to the west, and west side of St. Martin's '•
lane 114 its boundary to the east ; also giving powers to
form a new street from the south end of Spriqg-ganlens t 6
to Whitehall and Charing-cross in the Unto( flit Court;
yard, called Buckingham-court; also giv:ng powers to
widen the south side of • Dawnlq-street, and to improve
and alter the south side 9E Downing quare: and the north
,side of Fludyer-street ; alsO to alter and widen such parts
of the present-streets as will form entrances into the said
intended new street*.

ENGLISH' I ROA:
ii A
y••
very iMportant discovery has beep made for tha irn-:
provement of this leading article of our manufactures and
commerce, and the success which has attended the experi.:
ments Which liee taken place must rte gratifying in a na-
tional point.of. view. It may not be generally known that.
in smelting iron in its original state, a great quantity of
carbon, and other impure matter, is found, which is dis::
sipateSin the farther process of converting it into bar-iron.
The more it is purified by the present process, the more
it becomes soft and flexible, and is thereby rendered com-
paratively useless for articles where strength, toughness;
and hardness are required: and thus the manufacturer is
compelled to use foreign iron in the tottitruction of such
articles. /In eel:lire:UM with the iron trade, pos.;
sessed of practical scientific knowledge, has devoted the
greater part of his life to numerous experiments on the
subject. Success has crowned his efforts, by the dis-
covery of a process by which he can recharge bar-iron,
or manufactured articles, with a mineral carbon, so as to
give, the littlest iron a considerable portion of the stet,:
quality, making it as hard as blister steel, without destroy.:
ing any portion of the toughness it had before acquired.
and thie can be accoMplislied et a trifling expense on a Isrge
scale. It may be presumed that, by bringing English iron
nearer in quality to the foreign, it will create a demand for
our own production, and supersede the necessity of using
tholatter, which is generally at a much higher price in the
market.-Mectrewnics. Meg tine.

, STORTING INTELLIGENCE.
ST. JAMES'S, WEDNESDAY EVENING, EIGHT O'CLOCK.

Since our report of Monday there hai bee: e. greet deal of heavy
betting on the Great St. Leger, the decision of which is so near.
ISlettmon and Alderman maintain their places as first and second
favourites, but Redgauntlet seems to be going. Yesterday thel
betted 10 to I against him, and Homct bad the call for a shurf
time. A fresh colt has been brought up, but the odds aggtbat hid
are heart'. Ttet latest bettine is !hits :-
14 to 6 apt Memnon 22 to 1 agst Addy
6 to 1 apt Alderindn 24 to 1 agst Trineul4
l cii to 1 apt Redgauntlet 30 to I agst Pastime
10 to 1 apt Homer 35 to 1 apt Brownlock
li to 1 agst Cleveland 50 to 1 apt Zitza
lg to 1 ngst Dauntless 150 to 1 apt Lumky's Buzzard

The twd gentlemen pedestrians. Capt. Smith and Mc. Dishesley,
who Started from Kingsland on Tuesday mornihg; at one o'clock,
for two hundred sovereigns, reached IVandafottl, Nonhamptim
shire (78 milea), about the same time, between ten and eleven
o'clock at night. and supped there, on thpir rece to the 140 mile-
' stone, neer ksop. Capta'n Bell Fergusthi goes with the Cap.
fain as opposite umpire, a Mr. Giles with Mr. Blakealey, and
Captain W. N. Wilson is the referee in case of disputes. bluets
money is pending upon the event, and Mr. 13. is rather the fa.
vourite.

PR/EON FINING.-I):ning the last fornight pigeons have been
in regular training from the vicinity of Stamford. Lincolnshire, to
the loft of a fancier, north of St. Giles's church, and of four which
were sent off from the country on Monday afternoon, one arrive,'
from the distance; 84 miles (but computed ten miles nearer as a
bird would fly), in the short space of two hours and thirteen tni.
nutes. The second bird was at home within three hours, and the
others arrived the next morning. This training is to try wn expe.
riment on which long odds have been taken, that of btlngifg the
news of the winner of the St. Leger Stakes, at Doneaater, on tire
same evening; otherdiirds being in training from the vicinity of
Doncaster to go to tlae Lincolnshire loft, which is about 72 miles.
The speculation is nos expected to staved, for should the race,
which is second, beaver at three o'clark, there will scarcely be foot
hours of daylight, and tht risk of the weather to he taken into•
consideration.

EXTR Aonr N.ARY FOSS' I. £l.—A number cl small teasehi
have for some time been employed at Harwich port
dredging foi cement stones, which are found there ix abun-
dance. In the.eourse of this sulntsrine investigation; some
very curious specimens of petrifactiona have been obtained.
Within a few days a very beautiful fossil turtle embedded in
a solid block of cement stone has been discovered. One of
the superintendents of the dredging vessels (Wakefield)
'states that a short time time, a large stone weighing ab:tot
Rye cwt. was sent to London whole, and that he has since
received a letter, informing him that when it wag broken it
was found to contain nearly the tihole of a human skeleton;
and this almost incredible circumstance has been teethe'
corroborated by a eentleman from London, who told him
he had seen it. He has written for further levitation.
and if it really be true, such a rare production niust be of
immense Value.—Burry Gazelle.
STRANGE STORY.—A letter from Naples contains the
following extraordinary statement:—" A singular crime—'
or rather a crime accompanied with circumstances such xe
perhail, never before happened, took place some time ag
in Bap. A mitt condemned to be ham;e4l for some un-
pardonabl:. offence was conducted to the scaffold, and un-
derwent his sentence. After the execution the hotly wear
stripped and laid on a bier, to be carried to the place of
intertrfent ; but as it was on its way to its final hake is
was observed to move, and on examination it was disco.,
vered that the vital spark was not extinct: durgieil as
sistance was procured, and the criminal was brought bac!:
to life, and afterwards re-condi:cud to risen. Ott hi,-
arrival there his grate-clothes were taken away, andi
ai
the hangman had taken possession of the others and refused
to give them up, a furious dispute arose between hint ant
the naked fellow about them, the hangman claiming drew
as his perquisites von the plea that he bad hanged the
fellow ; ;Arens the other demanded them ds his proptrtyi
thatsucceeding
he %and
so not
jbeeustna properly hanged. hhanegescal.uottragiiv el!
kaaltnliei!tnthat lay near him, and stabbed the hargiftatt in the
belly. The wound was dangerous; but not immediatelt
mortal. The criminal will probably be banged again with
inconvenient speed. At all events. it is most likely he
will be the first and the last who will have to boast of 11a54
ing killed his own hangman, and that tea after hafi.l,; brew
hanged:

mparste., and a pro.
• .-
raised so allow herti weekly sum of ten shillings. Haring with.
held from her the parientof that paltry allowance. she gothic.,
niiently was obliged to opportune him repeatedly for it, and on one
of di•IeVC('AMOTIN tuviaßß cone to his house, at the only hour she
knew from the nature of his establishment he was to be met with ;
Namely, at an early bow IrP• the morning. she received from him
themes brutal tremors:it, iv would be detailed by her, and which
constituted the present charge swainst him.
Anne Braithwaite, the proseetitrit, stated as follows:—I stn not
74 years of age, anti have been acquainted with 51r. Rowhottam
for nearly four years; l'am subject to an Mee's, which has arisen
'ruin repeated beatings from him, with thom I had lived for the
treater part of that time.
Mr. At tit objected to inquiry into previous trensartions.
Witness continued.—At Mr. Rowbottom's request I went to
reside with my parents, and he agreed to allow me ten shillings
per week for my support. This sum he did not regularly pay me;
..nd from sheer want I went, at half-past three o'clock in the morn.'
ingot the 211th of March to his house to get some money, and inquir-
ing of the waiter for him; he said hismaster was out, but would be in
won. I sat down and had some roffee. Having sit behind the door
nor some rninutes,lllr.R.came in, and smarted me in an angry man.
" You —,_ what do you do here ?" I told him he
knew what I came for. Ile said I should not have anything there.
lie then caught me by the throat; and afterwards, having left the
the room, he returned with a glass of wine, which he threw in my
lace. He kicked me, and taking me in his arms, threw me down
stalls with so much violence that I have been seriously hurt. I
preferred a complaint at Bow.street, and he was bound over to
attend at Westminster, but I was advised subsequently to bring it
on here.

Crous.mtantined by Mr. ALLEY—I was perfectly sober at the
time I called, and went at that late hour because it was the only
true I couki see him. I have had,no money from him since this. lie
sent a waiter wkh belle sovereign, but I would not receive It. I
lived with Mr. Rowbottom under the same of Slatilda Burton.'
'rho warrant against him was taken out in that name. I met him
tint in New-street, Covent.soirden, and since that time lived solely
vr,th trim, until he turned me off.
By the Cast lIIIAN—My parents lived in Leicesterstreet ; they
were not acquainted with my mode of life.
Mrs. Mary Edmonds was called to prove the prosecutries ap.
pearance after the assault was committed. She further stated that
shu was at the.present moment earning her bread honestly by her
thslostry, and not by her former course of.life.
John Humble stated he saw Rowbottom Briar the transaction,
and that he boasted the prosecutrix never would come against him,
as he had feequently used her worse before and she never corn.
+chilled, sari that ho had acknowledged he had treated her as she
described in her statement.
('rose-examined—l lodged in the bout. of a Swedish chymist
(a laugh) in Coventry-court, with the girl. lam a pensioner, and
am also employed by 3lessrs. Dawson and Cafe, in Marlborough.
street. I west to 31r. itowbottom's to try to make up the business
to the girl.
This was the case for tho prosecution.
Mr. ittArc addressed the Jury fur the defence, and said he
boletd bring witnesses to prove Mr. Rowbottom had been grossly
I.l4treated. and had a glass of wine thrown in hie face by the prose.
tutris before he turned her out of his house.
Isaac Nicholson, a waiter at the Shakspeare, in Great Russell.
street, was calkd to prove the girl was tipsy, and had repeatedly
annoyed Mr. Rowbottoni, and threw a glaze of negus in his race,
b.fo:e he turned her out of the house, which he did with as little
sicler ce as possible.
Oa his ctoss.taamination, witness admitted lie was at present in
service of Mr. Rowbottom.
An,:ther waiter, a watchman, and is publican in Little Catherine-
sir et, sLatssl that the prosecutrix had grossly insulted Rowbottom
before he assaulted her.
e waiter, who was sent with the half sovereign, said the pro.
ml/4„;trit desired him to leave it on her drawer, which be did, and
td-s: was a day or two after the assault, and before she had
czArivoairel at Bow-street.
61r. ADOLPIICS replied, and commented on the species of evi-
der.:si and defence sought to be iilren to this transaction by men.
idle whom showed they were, more or leas, of that character that
Mule attention should be paid to them. The money sent was err.
Ilent:e a trap, alter the assault had been committed, and was not
received by her.
Mr. Rowbottom here interrupted the Counsel, and said—" Sir, I
eil't 'Tani here, and hear this. I gave bet brother also a pound,
*hien was given to her."
The CSsAtaltAX diverted him to be silent; if he was not, be
must take the consequences.
' Annt.ritus continued, and contrasted the evidence brought
fo•warti for the defame with that of Sir. /Jumble, who proved, in
larl.lttie incontrovertible, the boaatinp of Rowbottom as to the
lie:j7!Mlt he had given the prmecutriz. The only thing attempted
tok. said by the different witnesses was, that the prosecutriz was
drunk ; but it was no strange chills, particularly for watchmen, to
regard every unfortunate who walked the streets in that light.
Under a:l the circumstances, it wait an assault cnnunitted in the
mos: unwarrantable manner, and upon a person whom Mr. Row-
tAfom cue.: to hare treated very differently.
. Aaet conitneraing on the evidence, the Chairman left it to the
J.:1% to say, whether the assault committed was not provoked by
die canduc: of the prasticuttix herself. There was nothing, in I
leis Tririon. though it had been insinuated to the contrary, to
rate the Jnry suppose the evidence for the defence was not en-'
Laled to credit.
'tie Jury, after a few sconds' consideration, found the prisoner
f;.•:/•,
. . . . .

Mt:ALLEY here begged Fartr.istion iv examine the constable of
tit.. night, oho a.is proceed': g to corroborate the statement for the
clef tee,. as to the raise:atm being druck on the morning of the
creasy:floe,
. .

• Wuee tdc CuAl Ir.terposed. and said it wu too late, and
setters:el .Ur. Rosbuttom to pag a Sot of it. to the King.
h::. Aa. t.e•t- addressed the Jury after the sentence was passed,
and saia he had many other **sues who could have proved the
vaunt provocation to have beengiver. by the woman to his client.
Fort.n.an observed-- 1 ti, Sir ; but after so long a con.
Lesion between them, he ought to have paid her the allowance;
and his not doing so ituittced as to overlook the provocation she
co4;ht have gives: hint."
THE SHAM ATTORNEY.

Tkotras Coldswtith was it afford fur i;misciemeanor, in ob-
taining from one Daniel Mead various sums of money, under false
preteaces.
AIDIttWI stated the we to the Jury. The defendant
q.v.: indicted upon a very useful statute, which made it a
Transportable oirence foe any person to obtain money from another'
un....er false pretences. Individual of whoni the defendant
Leo pructuff money was a Mr. plead, who was a baker, living
somewkere in the eastern pan of London, and the pretence was,
ain't the &tendert was an attentey of the Court of King's
Iderfeb, that hie mama was ea the relit of that Court, and that
Le was tie:inked to act in it. The defendant came to the
prosecutor's hease in the Meath of ticptember. in the last year.
diet a letter of introclaradet from a Mr. Webber, who had
Carmerly anted as Mead's atonney. The defendant inrortned
tem prosecutor that he wee at attorney, upon which Mead
laid had a Mil of exchanges accepted by a person of the name of
PAM ma, and which had heels lorg %MCC due. Goldsmith mid,
" 01., give it to me, and I wage: the money for you without any
dif:n
..iity." Mr. lilted wet way glad to have this opportunity
Of iirdovaing the amount a(, the hill, and he accordingly ent-
PhT-41*IiS aelf.e.ubbed ferry to procure it fur him. There
teal of mine to be a writ firmed, an arrest made, a declaration
61:4. acd so on. Mr. Mend, at the time he gave the defendant
file 1.-.steuelione, had rot the slightest doubt but that he was an
attorney, and relied upon Nal to do his duty. As soon, how-
ever. as those icstrections mere giver, the defendant began to
mike known his wants. and lie some min.: persons in his
cid% must have some money POW." the MIR de.
mead was Inc Ms. in order to procure the wilt end pay the she-
nit's lltlicer his fee. Ard thus as the proceedines went on, the
prose‘utor was from time to time amused by those specious pre-
tences. and cuntinued to dole out hi. money to the defendant until
the end. In order to hill the suspicions of 11r. Mead, the defend.
ant told him that when he had arrested Parsons it would be fleece-
Any rue him to give bail, first to the Slieeitf and then afterwards
the action's but, raid he, a brief shell ler given to Mr. 11:o-
-sine*:

Mr. BRODESICK—NO, it was DOI to Me, but to Mr. Andrews, I
beti-ve.

- Mt. A iontws-1 em endeavouring to rate the fact correctly.
(Laughter.) Well, a brief was to be gireu to Counsel to oppose I
the yustitication of Parsons' bait ; en assignment of the bail bond
rpm rho Sherif was then to be obtained, by which means Mud
watt/4 get better security for his money s and thus the cause went
un tnt n a 'lrt set down for trial. The Jury. however, would be
astunisheal to learn that front that time *the cause was shin.
nun* b.. Mr. Goldttuld• ; and when It was called on for trial, the
pieituth'nat tippet:mg, the cause was struck out of the paper. It
wan.then ,iscertathed that Mr. Goldsmith was nothing more than
vac 01 o,'.e WWI who, to the **tea the proressiod, were to be
sat: )41,4 abort Sergavat's Inn. and Offering themselves as sham
bail ; and litisationes pretending to bo attorneys, though they had
no men: ri..;:%t rt. dotal such a character than that of the 'Joni Chart.:
callus. I. wArraisise clear that Goldsmith had no connexion with.
ih. prof. ,^lon..iiCept,_ perhaps, as a cusejarrrr and fellow.prac-
tuuna.: '." r..!. a Mr. Rialto:dem. sow, as he understood that per.
son n•ic ;11,1 to costae forward to day, he (tilt. Andrews) would
Just 11.:.:.•..1 to the Jury a little as to who and what he war.
, hen it ..-its tout* that sutroliii.g was likely to arise out of this
1. ,:, tura% i a of Mr: Goldsmith's. and that ingwries were making as
to hi. r, i-... to spume •.'ir• eh:mu:ter of an attorney, aicbartison
,-'iltv.. n..,' 1:r. Need, eat! demanded 13:. of him fur the expenses
at airidi.,:,:ng his *it %Milk Pawns. "' I pay you 131. !" said
.%jr. Mc... 1 t •• / kr•ow nothing, shoot you t toy attorney is 311 r.
lellithiMail." " Oh! yew know nothing about me. do you ?" m-
ilord 31g. Rtchur.l.,m • " 1 will sows nuke you feel wire I ran. caw.,
lau pay me; I iolliaith, who has been actintfor you. is lux
L.
L awl ,11 Lisa; Le bah 3ore was Cl 4, my account. i.e (Mr. A.)
soul t'de Jut, thus mach cat Mr. Richardson, in order that them
*lglu blow hint t bat II that gentleman should vetiture w cane,
lumauselsy, he (31r. A.) would say a little more to loin, sad Ns
ohs** be ..cult nut ;tut It '- •he - -ex of the Court tv Lease his.

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PLIDDLESEI SESSIOXS sovisiuur, sgrv. 14;
law Roateettvnt, the Atelier ut tot glebrated flash,house,
OP tkiVel-Ifkleit. Covent-gartian,„wee indicted foe having violently
el.ffge Akin Bralthwaite:in iliteresting girl, one of those un-
ortialecteb who petiorbohne the streets.
Mr. Am./lice in stating the cage, observed that the prose.
Wilts harteg laid-the miafdrtone to beet an early age seduced by
smote wretch, whei had abandoned her to her present hard fate. she
tad eulnequently formed a connexion with )lr. Rowbottoni who,
was well known to the Jury, kept the house known be the
tame of the " and it was certainly well designated, for
.nete many a lining man 'a career was diriered indeed. The con-
Lexie° of x coininuiett between three and four years,
at the end of which period, they agreed to separate, and he pro.