The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-07 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
TUN N'Ew CITY LICENSING ACT.--Yesterday a number of
publicans were brought before the lord Mayor, charged, under the
recent Act Fared fur the regulation of public-houses in the City,
with having each incurred the penalty of SI. by permitting tippling
in their bowel during Divine Service,
Hering, one of the new police inspectors, and an officer. stated,
that In the houses of all the defendants they found persons drinking
during divine service, without the least restraint.
One of the defendants, in behalf of his brethren, wished to have
the opinion of his Lordship on one point. Himself and several
others had been summoned by one of the new inspectors for having
permitted their houses to be opened during Divine Service, when in
fact they had no one sitting in their houses but their lodgen.
Several of the publicans claimed exemptions for their houses on ,
the ground that travellers, hackney-coachmen, &c. resorted thither. I
The summoning inspector declared, that unless lodgers were In-
cluded in the regulations of the Act, there would be no carrying it
into effect. In all the houses he went into where the tap-rooms
were tilled by men who were drinking, the landlords claimed the
whole of them as their lodgers.
The Lout) %lawns was bound to state, that the words of the
Act did not bear the publicans out in the Ingenious exception which
they. wished to make. The fact of oerniszth:i house during divine
service wss one offence, that of permitting tippling was another and
distinct offence. Though the publicans could not be convicted of
the first °Knee in the cases mentioned, they ;night of the second,
fur though a landlord might permit his lodgers to sit down stairs he
must not permit them to tipple during Divine service. His Lord-
ship said such exemptions could only be legalised by an express
Act or Parliament. The present Act made no exceptions what-
ever, and it must be executed as it was found.
The whole of the charges ware dismissed.
SINGULAR Cos.—The shopman of Mr. Swift, a tailor, in
Bishopsgate.street, stated, that on Saturday a young man came to
their shop in a sonnet gig, and looked out a box-coat and some',
I other articles of wearing apparel, to the amount of about fit. He
said he would go and spew them to Mr. Brown, his uncle, who is
I one of the respectable firm of Brown and Petty, in Threadneedle-
street ; and it he approved of them he would par for them. Wit.
ness went with him in his gig to Mesas. Brown, where he
remained a considerable time, and then came out, and said his
uncle was gone to 'Change, where he would go and get the money
from hint. They both went to the Exchange in the gig. The
man went in, taking the clothes with him. The witness waited
in the gig until the Exchange was shut, and he then found the
man bad made his escape with the clothes on the other side.
%Vitness drove to .Messrs. Brown, to inquire into the matter, and
he was there informed by Mr. Brown himself that he had no such

,nephew.
the Loan Macon said, that in all probability the gig had
been obtained much in thesame manner as the clothes, and advised
that it should be described and advertised with a description of the
person who brought it.
HATTON-GARDEN.
Vatterday a respectable-looking eiie:l man, named Jfadsos,
was brought up under a warrant, charged with having assaulted a
lodger in his house, named Lambert, under the following circum-
stances :—The complainant, who, from the very rhetorical style in
which he addressed the Magistrate, gave ample proof that he was
'of that high literary character which he subacquently claimed, pro
to to state, that being in • little pecuniary dn.-malty, he was
obliged to pawn a good deal of his eaten:aye library, among
which were, Voyages to the Indies, and what he particularly
prized, a Bible, tar amain to D'Oyley and Wards edition.
L pon the cuplicans the landlord advanced him money ; but
when he took them out of pawn, and endeavoured to sell them,
Stith was the bad taste of the public, that he could not get six.
pence for the whole 10.. When Mr. Hudson announced this to
complainant, he was certainly so indignant that he called him a
liar, and was proccedingto prove hint 60 by the production of his
" Catalogue ltaisonnee,', when Mr. Hudson' not much gifted with
',Mies' knowledge, knocked him down with as much prevision as
an auctioneer would have done the whi,:e library.
Mr. Hudson, in his defence, stated the transaction originated in
the payment of a baker's bill. There was an execation against
complainant, and out of charity he advanced the money. The com-
plainant and his wife had boasted greatly of the antiquity of their
Family Bible, considering it deserving a place in the British
Museum, but on examining it, 'twas found to have been published
in 1813.
The 3IAG IST It AT E, conceiving that 3lr. Hudson had made suf-
ficient atonement for any assault, by having supplied complainant
with the stair art life, by paying the baker's bill, and also losing his
money, discharged the warrant.
31 A RV-LA-BONNE OFFICE.
Won Bliss :as yesterday brought 'otitis office on a charge of bay.
ing. nearly two years back, uttered knowingly a forged bill of ex-
change for 2'21. with intent to defraud Mrs. :a icholls of Grove-row.
The prosocutrix stated, that about two years back the prisoner
introduced himself to her as a man possessed of considerable pro.
perry, part of which, however, he could not receive as yet, and
that in the mean time he wanted to purchase some furniture,
which he would as soon take of her as of any one else. Witness
agreed to let him have the goods he wanted, and to receive for
them a 101 l for 2.2/., accepted by Mr. W. Mills, of Hadley-street,
St. Luke's. The goods were accordingly delivered, fur which he
paid by giving an acceptance, purporting to be that of Mr. Mills.
Since that period she saw nothing of the prisouer till a few Heys
back, when she heard of his being in custody.
Mr. Mills declared the acceptance not to be his hand-writing, but
a forgery. It was • good mutation, and which probably might
arise tram the prisoner's having been in his eusploy, and hence had
frequent opportunities of wing him write. M.ltness had been
called on by the brother of the prosecutrix on Friday last, on which
occasion the brother offered to bum the acceptance if he (the an-
num) would pay him 121. This offer he declined, but was led
from it to inquire who the brother was, and the result of his inqui.
ries was, the discovery that the.brothee of the proem-atria and the
prisoner bad been boat in the l louse of Correction at the same time.
31r. hi titrei T u inquired of the prosecute': about the attempted
negodatioo, which, however, she denied having authorised.
The Magistrate, to prevent the frustration of the enus of justice,
ordered the acceptance to be Impounded in the hands of the Chief
Clerk of the office, and remanded the prisoner till to-morrow, when
the brother of the prosecutris is to attend.
EYT RAORDI N•ItY CLIARGE.—An Irish labourer of the tarn.
mon class yesterday attended before the Sitting Magistrate, Mr.
RAW L I xeux, and complained of having been robbed of a purse
containing seven sovereigns and seven shillings in silver, the pre-
ceding evening, as he was walking along Oxfonintreet, by a gang
of right or nine persons. One of the party, he said, he had that
morning seen in a shop in Oxford-street, and he now requested an
officer might be sent with him to take him into custody. Accord.
ingly Buckeridge was sent with him, and returned shortly after
with a respectable youth of the name of Wilhelm*, an apprentice to
a tradesman living in Oxford-street.
The complainant having been sworn, stated his name to be
Patrick Bird, and most positively declared the youth at the bar to
be the very person who had taken the parse oat of his pocket at the
time the others were belding him.
The Magistrate inquired the hour at which the occurrence took
place, and being told seven o'clock in the evening, expressed his
surprise that at so early an hour and in so public • place such a
robbery could hare occurred.
The complainant, without attempting to solve this difficulty,
reiterated the charge against the young man, of whose identity he
seemed to be getting more and more assured ; and, although
cautioned by the Magistrate not to be hasty, as the charge, if true,
involved kis character and might affect the life of the youth, yet
still he penklated in asserting that he could not be mistaken.
Mr. RAW I. N sox seemed determined to inquire fully into this
singular charge, and therefore put a series of questions to the coot.
Winans; from the answers to which it appeared that lie only re-
ceived wages as a cannon labourer, out of which he had saved the
sum be had been robbed of, and which In always carried in the
pocket of his nowsere. He could not bring forward any person
that knew of his having such a sum. He did not know how the
prisoner was dressed at the time, nor could be say whether he had
an apron on or not, or whether he had a linen or a cloth jacket on.
Several persons resident in that part of Oxford-street whence the
youth was brought, and who had accompanied hinito the office,
now came forward, and stated that they had seen the complainant
the preceding evening c •.ne out of a public-house, and catch bold
of a little boy who was playing on the spot, and beat him most
cruelly, assigning as a reason that he had robbed him of U. The
youth at the bar and some others interfer.d, and rescued the child
from him, and the complainant then turned upon the youth and
accused hint of the robbery, only varying the amount to L Other
persons interposed, and the complainant walked away.
Tise eomplainsias 'owed still disposed to maintain his •
, but the Magistrate would hear no more, and instantly liberals%
youth, who, with his friends, left the office.
1:3;10N-HALb.

An interesting-looking girl, namisd Limits Lotter, _ about 17
years of age, applied to the Sitting Magistrate for hie advice under
the following circumstances:—
Site suited, that about six weeks ago, in consequence of having
a dispute with a lady with whom she lived in tlse capacity of a
campanion, at Little Doak ham, near Dorking, she left her mtuatiott,
and came up to town, accompanied by a female of the same village.
'she took lodgings in l'annpton.street. Soho, and while residing there
met with a young man, who slated his name to be Jacobs, and de-
scribed himself as a nun of property. Alter the acquaintance had
lasted a fortnight of three weeks, he pretended to be violently attached
to her, declaring that his whole happiness depended upon her, and un-
less she consented to become his wife, he would put an end to the an.
guish of his ruied, either by poison or some other ditadly means. These
threats of self-destruction convinced hero( the warmth of his affee-
then, and she consented to marry him. The banns were put up in
'Christ Chinch, and at the expiration of the third Sunday they
I were outasked ; he made some frivolous excuse, and refused to
kevp his promise. Subsaquently, by his flattery and deceit, shit
said he bad accomplished her ruin. Ile then took lodgings for her
in Oakley-street, Lambeth. Iltre a total change took place in his
conduct towards her. fix he assure that if she did not go out in the
streets tu earn mor.ev by prostitution, he would murder her. She
refused to comply with his odimis commands, and he actually
brought men into the Itous: tor the base purpose, whom she re- i
pulsed with indignation. Finding that she was resolved ou not I
giving herself up entirely to a life of vice at.d prostitution, he de-
peered her, leaving her in such distress that she was obliged to part
with all her clothes tnr a subsistence. The poor girl added, that
she has since ascertained that the name of the fellow is Wood,
at d that his relations keep two or three brothels in Lisle-street,
Leis-tler-square.
LtoMr. AL I.IN said. that he greedy felt fur her unfortunate situa-
tiim. but cook' be of no assistance to her in punishing such • viliain.
The worthy Mattistrate then, having ascertained the parish
which she belsn,red, advised her to apply to the Officers of
Lambeth, who would pass her immediately. The unfortunate gill
'braced this opportunity of leaving town. and withdrew from the
Office for that purpose.