The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-04-30 00:00:00

ROW-sTRr.F.T.

Yesterday rfftw. Reading t before Sir RICHAAD
by ore of the street-keepers of I 4vent.gardea parish,
charged as being an impootor.
It appeared by the statement of the street-keeper that the poor
sufferer wax found lying on the steps of a door in Ittifford-street,
in an apparently insensible stare, and carried to the parish snr.
geon, Bonifield, who, after making several experiments on the
tailor, discovered that he must be tither a most grew, impostor, or
labouring ur.der the weight of a great quantity of liquor; he
therefore ordered the street-keeper to convey him to this office.
In answer to this statement the cicfe, data snid, that he was a
poor harmless journeyman tailor, residing at ; that hay.
mg crime to town yesterday with a fric.d. lc had made ntriterfree,
and did rot recollect any thing that hod occurred to lam. As a
proof of lint being what he said, lie was about to lay before his
Worship his needle and threads ; but
Sir Breit ARD, 6001 his appearance, seemed to be very well con.,
virced of the truth of his story; and after observing that, of the I
whole of the persons brought before him, Gulf-fifths turned out to
be tailors, he mitred the tailor to run home to Il'oolevich no fast
lan he could, and cautioned hint against being found insensible
again in the street.
The once dashing salooner, well known by the name of Lady
Ito rrymare, was brought to the office, in the custody of ('auxins,
charged with strikirg a female three violent blows on the breasts,
she being eampletely overcotne by liquor, and in a comparative stale
of nudity.
Sir Itic II tau ordered her to be locked up until the evening.
lIATTtIN-GARDEN.

Edirord rthot, a tradesman. like looking man, was brunet up
yesterday, charged by Mr. Duke, of Chancery-lane, with ring
wantonly broken a pane of glass in his shop window the night be-
fore, as also with ouirtgeous ennduct whew in the watch-louse.
Previously to complainant's sating his case, the prisoner gave •
foretaste of die style in which he meant to conduct his defence.
When called uprip for his name by the Cbief Clerk, he replied,
" When good order and discipline ate restored in the fshall
answer." His request being eons ,lied with, after much theatrical
gesture be triad out, fiedward aed
matt* ll
Mr. Dukes**. lboattredneaday night the pri going
ap Chanonyaitoe, *i a • broom about csnienaly. in
passing lots shop* Inns it nt a square of glass io his
window, or the value of 55., it. On requesting him to
pay the damn*, be not or ly refused, but threatened to smash him
also, and behaved so violently that be vas obliged so send foe a
constable.

The constable stated, dila on taking the prisoner to the watch-
house, be aimed a tremendous blow at his nose, which he verily
believed, had lie succeeded in pi-man:re, would have lett him a va-
cant countenance, by burying this die:immeshed ornament of his
face in the interior of his headL When arrived at the watch-house,
he seised a huge stick which lay there, struck at a window, and
broke seven panes of glass.
prisoner, when ( ailed on for hi. defence, proceeded as fol-
lows : M y bird, I 11110 s going up I luincery-lane with acme ht it
cloth tinder toy harm, and a broom in my aid; the brown hap-
pened to be malt this gentleman's viedale ; hut, 1 asattre your Lord.
ship, it (lid not do the last arm. As to the retch-homer, I only
tried it the vindow was strong, by giving' it a crack of the stick."
The damage amounted to flea-, and the Magisteste asked him if
he was content to ray it."
" Please your ..11ajesfy„" he replied, " net in twenty yam
would I pay it."
As it would be rather tedious for complainants to wait fur that
period to ascertain the temper of mind sit the defendant, they were
satisfied with his being sent to prison for '2O elo?s, the deist being
thus paid offat a shilling a day.
IVORSHIPSTREET,
Baran Aces—A poor woman attended at this Office yester-
day, with a loaf in her hand, and applied to the Sitting Magis.
trate, Ww.li e wET V, Esq for a summons against ono Richards,
under the following circumstances :
She stated, that on Wednesday she went to the sbep et
Richards, a baker, near Ploughaourt, Spitaltielda, to parch/use a
loaf ; that she was serried by a female who put the boat into the
scale, under the pretence of weighing it, but in fact sho pressed
the scale down with her hand ; perceiving, however, thaf.she was
noticed by the poor woman, she immediately took up an bit of
bread and gave it to her, saying, that as the loaf was a meaty one,
there was a hit over. The woman suspecting she hail not been
served well, kit the shop and went to a otiandit 's on the opposite
side of the way, and weighed the loaf, together with the piece
that was thrown in ; when it was, with this addition, found to be
no lee. than eleven ounces dtticicnt of its proper weight. She re.
turned to the baker's shop, where she saw the master, and told him
of the fact ; but he. instead of making her a compensation, only
abused her, and said she might go to the :11agistrate if she pleased.
pour woman, therefore, applied to his Worship to grant a sum.
mu s slain at Richards, to enable her to gain redress.
31A A. R ATE—lam sorry, good woman, to tell you, that lan
give you no remedy in this case. The Act which would have em-
powered me to do so has been repealed, and all that is now requited
of the bakers in oellink bread has been complied with by the one in
the poo.ent instance, that is, the weighing of the loaf in the pre.
sence of the purchaser. I regret this, because the poor are now left
open to such evident frauds as this, which I have reason to appre-
hend are likely to be of too common occurrence, without a possibi-
lity of redress; for if there were any means of their proceeding by
summons to recover the valus of the deficiency in weight, the t7Oll-
- and loss of time would, in must cams, impose a greater loss
than ibtßand itself. I call it a innul, for it is elan
though I can laird no remedy for it. 1 therefore thiertvel.
sett ease cannot kg made too publicly knowti, in (inler that it ought
serve, at all events, as a elution to the pair in particular, to he
watchful over the persons of whom they buy their bread, should it
not be the means of drawing the attention of those to the operation
of the existing Act who have it in their power it, supply any defects
in it that might he suggested by cases like the one now complained
of, and which I am compelled to dianiisa.
STILL ET Ii otter: a Y.—franc Miller, a young fellow about 17,
was charged by %Valiant II übbert, of Red Lion-passage, Ilwiton,
a servant to the East India Company. with having, in company
with four others, attacked hint in Askedurtet, near lioxton Chit.
pea, between nine and ten o'clock last Sunday night, and taken
from him his watch chain and appendages, valued at half-a-crown,
and with afterwards violently assaulting him. It appeared that the
prisoner was not the person who robbed Ilubbert, but that two
other persons first made the attack and committed the robbery, and
that the prisoner came up aril struck the complainant as he was in
the act of panning the thieve.. The blow staggered him, and
when he eallecied himself the prisoner was gone. He immediately
ran, crying " Stop thief !" and ultimately, with the assistance of
one Stevens, succeeded in taking the prisoner into citstody, who had
secreted Inimiclf in a lane which had no thoroughfare.
Miller was committed fur trial.
An old man applied to the Magistrate for an order to be per-
mitted to see the body of his child, who had been lying (lead in a
house in Ty pe -st Peet , Chiswell-street, for more than a week.
Magiarsie—flour old is your child ?—Thirty-eight years, your
Magistrate--And that's what you call a child. Was he married?
—l'.es,. your 11:orahip...

111,igiZtrstr—VI'ho ;cruses to let you see his body P—llis wife,
yettr Worship. . . - -

And the Mil msn then, with a faltering accent, said, that if he
could but KT his child he should be happy, and every attention
should be paid to his contains that he could tin.
The 31agistrate directed an officer to go with the old man and
obtain a sight of the body ; but cautioned him oot to suffer soy at-
tempt to be mode to get the body away.
The fatherly feelings of the old man were touched at this, and
he exclaimed, "God Almighty bleu your W— !"

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ECCLESIASTICAL COCRTS, DOCTORS' COMMORS.—
Sittings; appointed to be held in the Ecclesiastical Court,' in
Easter Term, 1824:-

Admiralty. Prerogative.
Ist SemaionA, rt.b"i3l, .
nd sy-,-May t Tuesday, May 4 Thursday, May 6
U Swaim Monday, It/ Tuesday, Thursday, 13
IPA thgaini, Monday, 17 Tenuity, 13 Thursday, 96
4th tlestion„ 31iinclay, 24 Toad ay, Friday. 26
Dclecatt s. consistory.
lat Session, Friday, 3lay 7 - Saturday, May 8
2d Scasion, Friday, 14 . . Saturday, 15
3d seludon, Friday, - Saturday,
4th Session. Saturday, 29 - . 31ondal, June 1
Sir J. Nichol' presides in the Arches and Prerogative
Courts, Lord Stowell in the Admiralty, Sir Christopher
Robinson in the C • and the usual Surrogates in
the nigh rourt of ' —lath Court sits at ten
o'clock, except the Admits/4i, which sits at eleven.
Daranrot. Flag.—Extract of a letter from Edinburgh,
dated Sunday, 2 o'clock, r.x.—" A dreadful fire broke oat
this morning about five o'clock, on the premises occupied
by Mr. Armstrong, brass-founder, Niddrv-street. The
flat immediately above was Mews. Hay, Call, and Co.'s
printing-office, which, with the whole stock of rape-,
printing materials, &c., valued at 5,u0u1., was totally con-
sumed. Only about 1,0001. of the property was insm ed.
Three large tenements, three stories high, were burnt to
the ground ; and, besides the above, the shops of a brass-
founder, a leather-agent. and the Sabbath School Reposi-
tory. were ikstroyed. A vast quantity of Itather was got
out, but much damaged. All the engines belonging to the
town, and those from Leith and Leith Fort, were employed
in endeavouring to arrest the progress of the flames: hut
the buildings being composed of brick and wood. they
went up like gunpowder, and it was past mid-day before
the fire was finally got under. A number of people were
hurt, one of whom was carried to the Royal Infirmary.
This bas been the largest fire which has happened in
Edinburgh for a great length of time, and in consequence
of it between two and three hundred workmen will be
thrown idle.--Gloaguw Herald.
HCIIAN Lire EiTIMATVD Dr PULSATION.—An inge-
nious author asserts, that the length of a man's life may
be estimated by the number of pulsations he has strength
to perform ; thus, allowing seventy years for the common
age of man, and sixty pulses in a minute for the common
measure of pulses in a temperate person, the number of
pulsations in liis whole life would amount to 2.907,329,m0 ;
but, if by intemperance he forces his blood into a more
rapid metion, so as to give 75 pulses in a minute, the same
tumber of pulses would he completed in 56 years conse-
quently, his life would be reduced 14 years.—Litersry
Chrvnicle.

ro THE rnrron OF rot ERITISII PRESS.
Graflon-strtet, Berkeley-4qurre, April
Sta -4 heg to *tate, that the copy of Mr. Huskilwm'a letterts
me, dated the 2d Notember last, taken frem a Jamaica nemipst,
and inserted in the Briffah Preys of the 24th instant. has he;
stirreptitkmly obtijned, and sew' for publication. to my ;monisi_
ment and painful regret. As yet I have tot been able to iliscove
the Author of this grom re,.
I hope the }l,:ttots, whetter in town or country, who h.,
publi4M4l Mr. Iluskiiivon'4 letter, will alii9 take the :rouble to is.
sen this in tlitir top:rive papers.
I am, Sir, your most obtvliert Servant.
JOHN GI,A, Mt. TONE.

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.

An inquisition was taken yesterdav, at two o'clock, heron TKO.
SIMI SMELTON. Esq.. Coroner. at the Workhouse in Mumble',
alley, Ilishopsgate-street, on the body of James Bluck, a►ed
Ycr"' . .

. The deceeoed's wife deposed, that, on Tuesday last, she went et
the wmkohop where the deceased worked, in Hishopsgate.som,
and soon after she arrived he WAS exiled down by the foreman, who
wanted him. Ile passed her. wmt panly down. and nurse,' imal
the workshop. From thence he went into a closet *here the wink.
men keep their paint-pots. &c.. and he had not been there& minor
when witness heard a noise. and on kinking in perceived a strewn of
blood flowing from under the dorm. Witness then faint, th anti Oh,
she recovered she lord hrrvlf lying on one of the stair. ;twin,
from the workshop. About three *mks ago rime.' was inati
alarmed at an expression the deceased used when he mote hook
from work.
('runner—l/oes it relate to his state of mind?
Wirrinix—lle ratite home, and alter tie ems it hol, ite uid.
, " Will you do one thing, that is. to kill me ? No ones .11 know
it ; aril I have 2111., which world keep you and family from want
I ing. Take a teem. and de It ; ewe wee throw." Whore rag mum.
laileiemcd. but attributed it to ant fret hit from the typhus fern,
which he had very severely last Cliriotmas.
Mr. Thom= Smith, foreman to Mr. H'indlas, ceaehmaker.
Ilialsopagwe-streec, der.owd, that hut Tuesday evening here:peed
I the deceased to paint a chaise; be did not come immix ;3,f Iv. and
witness went into the workshop what he was, and De.,,iied hi
wife them. He told deceased to do the job immediatelr, and ht
consequently followed, but forgot the gold six', and went back
fetch it. Directly after witness heard the report of a pistol, and
saw the smoke emending horn without the gneissic* of a rimboard
that held grime paint. Witness went op, anti saw ettressed had
shot himself. The upper part of the skull was blown .tr. and ,lit
brain had fallen out. A homespiatol lay by him gored in bleed
and clotted hair. Witness thinks perhaps no man in taint-nee has
had more trouble or affliction in his family. Witness believes til4
pistol was leaded with small flint-stone and not thin.
The beadle here produced large pieces of the deceased's skut
which hod been blown of.

Jame* Jacobs. a Jew, deposed to having sold the deemed dk
pistol on the preeedint.

A letter, of which the fallowing is a copy, was, it appeared.
written by the deceased just betiwe his death.
" April !!ti, lit l
" Mr. Moon.—lt is with the greatest reluctance that I lane
you this hut token of my respect. May the grace of hoer Lord
dean Christ. and the love of Hod be *kb run and all your handy,
not that leave it fiir any oomotion on your pan, but myself; they,
is one thing that hurts arc,—that is, enl leaving Mr. Windss my
employer and friend ; and as it is a dying Min .11 prayer, may the
grace of our lewd Jesus Christ rest upoii.hint„ and may the post?
of the Holy Ghost being him to the blessed Saslow, my Lat
Such a fatal end ! As my heart is gone, i d►e in peace with al
men, noing i never did any man any wrong. lily end is Taal. bat
I hope there's mercy in my Lord. i desire to have my bead
opened, and thou I slay my soul to death, he can MC!' me by his
word, so great is power, so free his will, that he to his hare mid,
He did not come to save the gond. bat sinners he would. Who
could have shout that such a man as Peter could hart fell, fly
that he did, but did not fall to his hell y heave alter he lad
lost his own soul, by denying his ever-blessed Master, he au
saved by his friend and his God, the maker of voiles. My dear
friends and shopmates„ as I shall cud—

With what ? But as I
said, I leave it to those that knows hest about it.

Oh, Rip eilll Ten ! my children ! 111orcy ! mercy ! to mercy !
For Mr. 31amin.

0! ! 0! ! L--"

After the reading of this letter, the Jury reviewed the FAIL
The basin of the skull was completely blown sway, together wits
the brain, Lc. halving the body a MINI fa ightful spectacle.
The Owner said he never in the course of big dun saw a ease
lamentable act of aelf-destruction, moreover a+ the deceased hal
left a widow and six orphan children to hrwail his Los.
A verdict of " Temporary derangement" was recorded. The
Coroner and Jury sutliaihed Dila. for the widow, who thsek
fully received it, and said she was before without a farthing.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BURTON WELLS HUNT RACES, Trrnmy. Arm. 27.

This annual day's more WAS my attractive, eud the D•was dis-
played a choice woentblage of Spor.smen.
Tim Ranters' Plate of 401. Heats, three miles. Weights. list.
t*aptain Pritchard%4 Merry Andrew - - 4 I 2 1
Mr. Lottlaton', ch. h. Muster . . . I 47 !
Major Nurse's Mermaid - . - - 2 .7 lii,
Mr. L. House' ic's Emily . - - - 32 dr
Mr. liarryanore's Sycophant . - . 6dr
Famous racing each heat. Mermaid ran out of the cane in the
last heat, when laying in a good place to win.
The Innkeepers' al.d Publicans Suln.cription Plate of iiol. with
2.1 added.
Mr. %V. floodiwton''s Mercury - -
Mr. llnutge's Frolic - - -
Mr. Hstson's Gift . - . -
Mr. Hull's Peregrine . - -
Both good heats.