The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-05 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION-110USE.
The Master of the Golconda, an A•uerican vessel, appeared upon
an information, charging him with having unlawfully taken and
received several tons of gravel of the River Thames, as ballast fur
the ballasting of his ship, which gravel was rot turniehed by the
Master Warden and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brother.
hood (as the inforniatico•entitled them). of the moot stories* and
undlvled Trinity, 'and which was net allowed by the ompg:cation
for that purpose.
The S4.licitor for the Trinity Ilouse stated that it was rot his in.
tendon to mesa rot more than one penalty, as the Captain had not,
he believed, erred from intention.

The 14011 D MAYOR uked whether foreign vessels were subject
to puce ties under the Art.
Toe Solicitor for the Trinity House replied, that the enactment
comprehended :hose of all nations; in tact, vessels oat English
were charged dd. pr ton more then ships of• tittle country.
The due miticted for the violation of the Act was 111/. for each
ton of gravel that was shipped. It in this cue the ',hole of the
don were imposod„ tea penalty would amount to upwards of 1001.
The Captamsif the Golconda regreted that he had acted in op.
vaidan to the law, but hoped that se he was ignorant of the regu-
lation, the penalty would be remitted.

The LORD MAYOR said, the regulation had been made for a
wise purpose, and it was nenrioatry to enforce it. in order to prevent
injury being done to the bed of the River. His Lordship, however,
represented to the Solicitor for the Trinity House the propriety of
'emitting the penalty in ibis ease.
The Solicitor for the Trinity House said he was convinced that
the Board would retort the penalty.
The Captain then pleaded guilty, and was fined ID/.
A boy named Johu Stokes, of very respectable appearance. and
great simplicity of manna, neatly dressed in a braided jacket and
trainers, and white hat, was brought before the LORD Matron,
charged wi h baying bean concerted in several of the rebberiea
committed lately in the City. It appeared by the statement of
Brady. the street-keeper, that the boy, who does not appear to be
I more than twelve Tears of age, lied been tried for rubbery before,
and punished in Newgate, and that all attempts to reform him had
i proved ineffectual. He had, on the present occasion, crept up to
the tops of several houses in Thrognionomstreet, until he reached
one into which he succeeded itt effecting an entrance. He found in
the garrets only a few silk handkerchief which he thought worthy
of notice. He atoned them about h•s person, then moved to an-
other house, and entered the chamber of a young lady, where
pocketed all her trinkets. He, however, was interrupted, detected,
and soon afterwards apprehended on the top of a house by Brady,
to whom he mentioned, with great simplicity, that he was merely
looking for his pigeons, and that he belonged to No. 11.
The Loan MAYOR asked him where he lived, lie replied,
with his mother. until within the last three or tour weeks, when he
took eepsrate lodgings for himself in Petticoat-lane.

The loan MAYOR, after some further questions, ordered the
unfortunat!etuld to be remanded till Thursday.

GUILDII ALL.

A feeling seems to prevail among the Magistracy, not of the
City in particular, but generally in the metropolis, that where a
person dente:tiling parochial assistance is living in a pariah near
that which is his legal settlement. the overseers of the latter should
voluntarily afford the object that necessary relief. without requiring
the legal form of passing" to be adhered to. However excusable
this feeling may appear as to the principle, in practice it entails
upon many 111 ~.if creatures extreme misery; and humanity demands
that the parish olfic.os should be rigidly kept to the line marked
out by the legislature. 'inhumes to parties being ordered to puss
themselves, by sleeping one night in their own parish. and having
a little money given them to enable than to do so, occur every
week, and s hererer they attempt it they are almost invariably sub.
jeeted to two or three days starvation. Relief is refused, to oblige
the pauper to go from one parish to the other ; then, when the
overseer newly applied to discovers that the pauper ought to have
been regularly passed, because he asked for relief white living in the
other parish. assistance is again refused; and the next step is to go
toe police Mike and obtain a summons- Dopiest the parish eater,
but which summons' will not be heard until the hest day, and
meantime the thi tort unste person remains In a state of destitution.
The following rave may irlusuate the abuve remark:—
A young than named Henry Brown, whose father was a mem.
bar of the Common Council, 'applied to Alt. Alderman GAR.
MATT, fora summons against the overseers, to show mime why
they refused to pass or relieve him. He stated that he received his
education in St. Paul's School and Christ's Hospital, and in doe'
time was apprenticed to a draper, at Meiconthe Regis. Hie father
died some years ago, and be lied found great difficulty in struggling
through lite, from the want of knowing sonic pesticide, trade.
Since St. Valentine's day. when he was engaged as an assistant car.
vier at the Post office, he had been out of employ, sett latteily had
been wandering through the streets in a plate of startovion. Early
in March, whet, he first required assistance, he was lilies in St.
Ann's. Soho, the parish officers of which gays him some trilling
relief, and told him he belonged to the parish where he wu bore,
and where • his father kept a hotter, viz. Old Fish-strut, by Sr.
' Paul's, and that he must po there if he wanted further aid. lie did
go there, and the parish officers told him they would not relies, him
until he Clllll regularly passed. He then went back to Soho, where
lie still resided, but they refused to peas hint, end upon summoning
the officers to ilarlboroughietriet, the Magistrates, instead of
ordering them to do what the law required. said he was eo near his
1 own palish that he might walk there and pass Mouth'. At !
length he obtained a night's lodging It, his bittliatlttleMetit, sum. I
mooed the overseers to Guildhall, and the Alderman prevailed on
them to grant him a little temporary assistance. That assistance
I was now again refused, and he wished Mr. Alderman Garrau to
oblige them to pass hint to 31alcombe Regis, where be had gained
! a aritleireht by apprenticeship.
This case hid an unusual result, foe Mr. Alderman Garrett ob.
served, that he felt a great interest for children brought sip in the
Blue Coat School, lie himself having been educated under a master
of that foundation as a private pupil ; and, taking out his purse,
he very kindly gave the young inan a tiovereige to peg his expenses
down to his parish, and prderoil the keep-r of the Compter to
furnish him with a new paioof shoes and stockings. .
Brown expressed his gratitude, and promisee to go to Melcombe
by the waggon.
Hannah Clarke, a female about thirty years of e7e• who hod
formerly heat as servant with Mr. &holey, the boelvieller, in Pa-
ternoster.row, was. brought btfure Sir Jolty Peetre ?so, Bart.
yesterday, charged with felony under the following eireerusiances:
Mr.Seholey stated, that during the summer months, on account
of the ill state of his wife's health, they resided in a eintege at
liabula. The prisoner had heal with them three years, and comi.
datable conlidnice being placed in her, she had the uric care of the