The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-09-24 00:00:00

ANOTJILR YOUNG ROSCIUS.

On Tuesday last, Nlaster IV it. L ! Its, snn of Mr.
WILLIAMS, of York, made his first appearance at
the Harrowgate Theatre, in the cha-afters of Fre..
Jeri,A, in Li.wcrs' Vow, ; and Edgard, in.7he_lrtsk-

man in Lonoon. Toe performance of this Young
Rogrius, and the applause with which he was
throughout received, will authorise us to assert,
that, whatever may have been heard or read of Mas-
ter BCTTY, May he repeated of Master Wr.'s repre-
sentation of Frtelrrick ; in all the strong and senti-
mental passages of which, he was dignihed and pa-
h thetic. In t.dward, he evinced an excellent concep-
tion of the charaaer ; hut, exhilirated by the enthu-
siatic delight of the aud,ence at his former charac-
ter, he became, towards the laver part of Likvard,
over anxious to please; a fault easily to be correaed
by a better knowle.lge of stage Ore& 'll2 sprightly
style of aEting seem. to be his forte, and he pos-
sesses the qualities which distinguish a good voice,
via. fulness and clearness of tones. We have no
doubt, but that experience will render him as woe.
thy'of future ob.et vation. ai any theatrical constel-
latihn yet discovered. The house ww very well at-
tended, of course fashionable.—(nr4 Herald

A SAisSion of the Theatrical Classics, with pe.
collar atteminn to the negleSed, hut necessary artic •
of punctuation, and embellished by the clas-ical off-
sprilig of Duo st %MK n'i celebrated pencil, is said to
be amo4g the Dramatic Noieltic; about to attract
public approbation.
The Equestrian Statue of King WILLI ass, in.
tended to be paced in St. James's-square, is in great
forwardness. Mr. BACON has engaged to complete
it in a few months. The Trustees have a very large
sum of money, that was left to improve the Square.
' We bear that the improvements about to be made,
will make it extremely beautiful.
The Surrey Yeoman Cavalry are gone to Dork-
ing, for four days, on perinanz•nt duty.
The Hrad-Quarters of the East London Militia,
are at the Green Man, at Blackheath.
The fat regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volun-
teer Infantry, have presented a very handsome siaver
box, ornamented with a suitable inscription in gold,
to Mr. CA&ION g A, Apothecary, George-street, Pi i-
v ire in the above tegiment, as a mark of the sense
•••,•errained by them, for his aCtive and zealous exer-
t ~.i.s in promoting the improvement of the Musical
4.: • taLlisliment of that highly respeetable Corps.
The /lure, MA nisei ex°, from Surinam, for Lon
don, has been on shore at Demerara, and con—
demned.
The Lucy and Moory. CILAISTRES, from Liver-
pool, to Virginia, was wrecked on Arklow Banks,
on the 16th inst.
Bon AP A era, according to his own acount, in his
answer to M. Niivosiatzorrs late Official Note,
possesses what Mr. DURK It called " strong.ncrind
and lung-sighici humanity," for he manifests a very
great concern for the righ.'s and ind.peaclenee of Per-
ire and Turkey, while he holds several neighbouring
States in the most oppressive bondage, and menaces
all the others with a similar fare.
Ot the Noblemen, of whom, it is said, one is likely
to he appointed to the Viceroyalty of Leland, we
think the Earl of PEN 11110 KR stands the fairest
chance; his Lordship is a General Officer, greatly
attached to Ibis professional duties, and is in the
prune of lite : he has also great parliamentary in.
tPrelt, and has some family connections in the south
ot Ireland. The Earl of Wive II ELSIA has been long
oil-16411y attacnetto the person of His MAJUT•,
And hes, for some time, filled the office of First Lord
0. the Iledchamber (commonly called Guoum of
•he Stole). one of the highest uepartments of the
*,)yal honwhold ; a situation rarely 1• fc fur well As
Ithat in gnestion : added to this, the Noble Earl is
rather advanced in years. With tesp.xt to the I.:Arl
:•4 Ca:rtr,llTEß,he has long been politically estranged
'' )m, it not in opposition to, Mr. PITT: besides, hi.
1 urdship, as Mr. Pet.n A la, has twice filled the office
ri Chief Secretary to the Loup Lazo aaa vv et
lestano.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS—Sam 23.
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Chlr/oite Povrr, a lady of fashion, was eapirAllv
indined for stealing on pair of bla. k silk stock-
ings, the property of iiirnry Pearson, privately, in
his shop,
Thomas Leech, shnpman to Nfr. Pearion, hosier,
in Oxford-street, deposed, to at na the 11:h of this
month, betw..ien six and seven o'clock in tbeevening,
the Prisoner came into the shna, and ask :A to see
loam.: black silt stockings. II? sh..we,i her some
that we: e embroidered, hot she did not seem to like
them, and asked to see some with laced clocks.
I.ltore he took down another parcel, he observed,
that the first paper contained, ten pair of stockings.
He then showed her a parcel which contained four-
teen pair of stockings, with laced cl icks. The
Prisoner, at length, fixed tin a pair, and asked him
the price of them ; he told her I 3s. lid. ; hut the
refused to give so much, and offered 12c One pie
of stockings lay on the counter, next to one of the
parcels ; the Primer asked him whether lie had any
with broader clocks Z and, wiien he turned round
to see if he could find any to please her, he sup.
posed she took tLis pair of stockings ; when be
turned towards the cou.der, be instantly missed
them, hut did not say thing, lest the prisoner,
while his back was turned, had mated them with
' the others. She again offercd hire twelve shillings
for a pair of the laced stockings, but he refused it,
and she got up and went out of th shop, saying,
she thought she could get them cheaper elsewhere.
When she was gone, he reckoned the stockings, to
make himself certain ; and, finding, that one pair
had been taken, he hallowed the Prisoner, and told
her, he was sorry to be obliged to detain her, but he
believed she had got something about her which was
not her own, She seemed much shocked, and said,
he must he mistaken. Ile then desired her to look
in the tail of her gown, which sic had in her hand.
and pet baps she might find them ; at the same time
he took hold of her hand, and, in the tail of her
gown, he found the stockings. lle then brought her
back to the shop, and delivered her into the hands
of an other,.

The Vk itness WAS by Mr. KNAPP,
as Counsel for the Priv ner, in the coarse of which,
he denied that he had seen the Prix ner take the
stockings (which would have done away the car:t.il
part of the charge), or that any other person in the
shop could have seen her, though he acknowledged
there were sevetal there. He also said, that it was
impossible the Pri; met could have taken them up in
a mistake, with the the train of her gown, which lay
on the counter the whole time; but acknowledged
that the Prisoner had expressed great surprise, when
he found the stockings iii the train of her gown,
anJ that, after denying her having the stockings. she
exclaimed, on seeing them, Oh God. so I have l"
Stonehouse, the Officer, prodnced ee stockings,
which were sworn to ; and, tit a quevion put by Mr.
Antsy for the Prisoner, said, that he searched her,
and found in her pocket two half guineas, and
twelve shillings in silver.
The Prisoner was then called upon, to know if
she had any thing to say in heedefence. She bowed
in the most graceful manner, and said, in a father-
ing tone, " If your Lordship and the Gentlemen
think proper, I will relate the circumstances just
AS they happened."
The Recommit said, sne was perfe&ly at liberty
rn make her deterce, and it was his, and the Gen-
tiemen of the Jury's duty, to hear her.
The L idy then proceeded. " This is the gown I
hid on inc lasi Saturday wei•k, when I went into
Mr. Pearson's shop (she here ;norm •ed a white
muslin gown, with a very long trail:). You see,
Gentlemen, this is A Its .innatne dress gown, and
very long. I went into the shop to buy a pair of
black silk stockings, AS already stated by the witness,
While I was examining the stock.ngs, I laid the train
on the counter, to prevent its being dirtied ; and,
after differing about the price of the stockings, I
determined to go away, if I could not get them
for twelve shillings, as, in the cour,e of my '
former denting: at that shop, I always got stock-
ings a shilling cheaper than they at first asked.
With this resolution I took my parasol, and the
train of may gown, off the counter, and went out
of the shop, offering, as I was going out, to give
twelve shillings for a pair. I was surprised, and
indeed hurt, when the witness followed me, and
charged me with having taken a pair of stockings ;
however, to satisfy him, I instantly complied wish his
request, and let down my train ; to my utter asto-
nishment, the stockings fell out. These are all the cir-
cumstances, and I have nothing more to say, than
positively to affirm, that it. was by accident I took up
the stockings with the train of my gown ; and to
pray must fervently, that the light of heaven may
never shine upon me, if I have been guilty. As to
punishment, if you pronounce me guilty, to a wo-
man of my charater, that of being charged with
a capital crime at this bar, is aimost as great as any
that Call be inflifted on me."
Mr. James Morris, spirit merchant, was then
called, and being swot t, deposed as follows :—Wit--
n*ss knew the Prisoner for six or wen years. She
is a married lady, of most resp!aAble and unble-
mished chary ter and condet. Her husband is a
gentleman of independent fortune, living at Ham-
mersmith. Ile keeps a horse and chase, and every
other part of his establishment is on the same scale.
Several other very respeCtable persons were then
called, who had known the Prisoner for different
periods of time, some since her infancy, and all of
whom deposed to her being a lady of charafter
and respenability.
The evidence being hete closed, the RECORDER
summed up with great care and precisio 1, leaving
it entirely to the Jury to con.ider whether the Pri-
soner was guilty of the capital offence, or only of
the farce i or whether she was guilty of either ?
with respeCt to the 14:ter, he said, he thought the
story told by the Prisoner was very probable, but of
this they were to he ti e jadycs.
After retiring, the Jui y, in about a quarter of an
hoc`, returned a verjifl
111,- 1.41 y, '_shut heretware had stood with the
greatest iirmnets at tt e iar, and spoke in her defence
svi.n a clear and to nmAncion, voice, on hearing
'wised pronounced innocent, was quite overcome.
Slat reclOyd fur a snort time on the shoulder of a

P. -ter

j gntleman, who ran to her assistance ; bat, -recover-
ing herself a Antic, she bowed, and thanked the
Court and Jury. She was their led nut between
two of her frieo is. She appeared to be about t." 5
years of age, not t.tll, but well formed. The lowsr
part of her face had :I sweet expression iii it
The upper pet was entirely shaded with deep
white laze. trimmed her cao. S',e wore a
black miaslas gown, with long sleeves of thin black
muslin, and short grey gloves
It was with the greatest difficulty the Officers
could suppress the acclamations of joy which issued
from the galleries when the verdi& was pronounced.
The Recoil Dell was ohliged to threaten to, commit
the first who was observed to make a noise.
Julia Charl,s (Work, [Mime i 1.4 • ar.J
Alert hi. wife, were it for burglariously break•
ing, and entering the dwelling house, of John Wal.
key Topharn, awl stealing therein several pieces
and packages of cotton good:, the property of
NM Smith. In Airith...r count. tiwy w•re charged
with the same olf•nce, hut the goods were stated to
he the property of the Assignees of William Smith,
he having become a Bankrupt, about the ume of
the robbery.
Mr. Janes Smith, brother to the Prosecutor, de-
posed, that. on the 11th of .Tull last, his brother had
a warehouse in Basinglane, in the City. At that
time, his brother was not in town, the key of the
warehouse was left with him. About half after
eight o'cl ek, on the evening of the II th of July,
he double-locked the door, and brought the key
home with him. The next morning, at nine o'clock,
he pee the key to Samuel Young, the porter, and
shortly after, he went to the warehouse, and found,
that almost all the goods had been stolen out of it.
On cross-examination, he said, that the warehouse
was part of Mr. Topharp's premises, and jcined to
his house ; hut, that since his brother took it, the
door had been barred, and there was no communis
cation between the warehouse and Mr. Topham's
house.

Mr. Justice La Rtaac having further examined
the Wit ess, as to this point, and being satisfi,.d that
the premises of the Prosecutor, and Mr. Topham.
were perfedly distind, observed, that the capital
part of the charge must tall to the ground.
Isaac Young, porter to the Prosecutor sits], he
went to the warthouse on the morning of the 12th
of July, and found the door on the single lock, on
opening the done, he missed almost all tile goods out
of the warehouse. He knew the prisoner Clark,
who had called on him several times at the ware-
boor., io company with I liggins.
William Blackwell, on toe .12th of July last,
lived in Noble-street ; the prisoner Doe lived near
him, in the s one street. The Witness got up 1r fore
tour o'clock, on the morniog of the lush, and, as
he was looking out of his window, he saw a hack-
ney-coach standing at Doe's door. The coachman
went to the corner of the street, and, after leski:.g
about, said, "Go on." A man, who stood by the
coach, instantly began to throw large packages of
goods out of the coach, into Doe's hall ; when they
were all emptied out, the coach drove off. He
then saw two men come out of the house, avid go
away, but could not tell who they were. S:iortly
after the., he went out, and having wa•ched some
tone, he saw several mox go in and out, and Doe
among the rest; ui, suspeding that all was not
right, he gave information to Armstrong, the Officer,
and then went to his work.

Joseph Blackwell, by the direetion of his brother.
the Lig Winless, watched Doe's house on the same
morning ; and, before six o'clock, saw Clark go
in there with an empty bag. In a few m'nu:es, Le
returned with it fon ; and Li ought it to the house of
a Mtn of the name of Cable, a LOS4CCOIIiSt. in Gol-
deralane. • He then emptied it, and returned again
to Doe's houie, where he tiilsd it, and [nought it to
the same place ; in his way, Fliggin. met Lins, and
walked with h m for a time. Wnen ArmsLro,lg, the
Officer, came, the Witness pointed out Higgins to
him, and he apprehended him. The %Vitness
then took Armstrong to Ctble's ; while they were
there, CIA: k cams in, and a'ked for half an ounce of
tobacco, the %trueness told Armstrong, Clark was
one. and he was apprehended.
Armstrong went to Doe's house, according to
informatioa. He saw Mrs. Doe, and asked her if
any goods had been brought into Ler inns.: that
morning, she said she knew of none. I-le then went
up stairs, and, in a two-pair room found several
packages of cotton. He secured the goods and the
woman, and afterwards apprehended Higgins,
Cable and Clark.
Mr. Justice Le Bt. A etc summed up the evidence,
observing, that there was very little evid.mce to cri-
minate the woman ; and, even if they thought her
guilty, they ought to take into coasider turn,
she might have aEted under the direalon of her hus-
band, if he were concerned in the robbery.
The Jury, after remaining out near three quar-
ters of an hour. orepatted Mary Doe. and toun.d
John Higgins, Charles Clark, and William Doe,
Godly of the larceny only.