The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-12-28 00:00:00

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ROBBERY OF THE EXETER SUBSCRIPTION
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'COACiI. .
In tbe publica ion of the lint affnount of this rehbergrit
Alias sitesl that the part tea in Londoo.who were interested to
.the ale confeyance of the Soles front Exeter. to London, WWI
!Sot taken the most advisable measures fir the discovery eif
the offenders and the restoration,of the properly. We have
since learned that Messrs. Henke, and Co., to whom the
parcel containing the 1,0571, was directed from the Exeter
Bank, had,'the moment they: received notice of the robbery,
proceeded in Mei ins est igalion with the assiskitictvol all those
persons dhow it has been considered ecce aaaa y on, such oil-
elisions to employ.
Robert Baker, the guard, was, brought, up yesterday for-a
Itnial examination.
• Kr. Alley attended as his Counsel, and asked • ebether
there was any more evidence titan had been brought forward
he Lle former 'occasion against. hi. elieut,
Kr, Andrews said, the onle additiotial evidence be bad to
produce, was that of Mr. Hankey's clerk, who could prove
that it was the constant practice of the house tii roceive-par-
eels from Exeter through the prisoner, and their couslant
criedition with him,' thaVheaboold always bring the parcels
Sewed up in his coat poiket.
Mr. Cocks, clerk to Messrs. Ifsetey, was then mumbled
that effect. He slated (but he could not speak positively
to Baker io any particular way), that the bonne was in the
habit of getting .up many parcels from the Beeler Bank
through the guards Or the coach, and that some one or other
ofthe gerstlrmen of the, house was in thri habit of,ripping them
out of the pocket. Isle, however, could me by 'hi means say
that it formed a coridir of the 'converince that the guard's
*should never remove the parcels from the pocket.
. The Lord Mayor—You have already said in a former ex •
aminatioi that your house often received percales heavy as
that which was stolen from the guard, and that no compfatnt
was made of the %eight. Have yob received any of heavier
weight ?
Mr. Cocks replied that they had. There were bdt forty
guineas in the parcel alluded to,• and the house at Exeter
sometimes' tont tiny, sixty, and lie believed sesenty, the
weight of which had neverhees complainCd of • •
Mr. Alley here stated that it was a very strong fad that the
prisonerfan off to Hanks 's bank to ',tentless, the loss on the
eight of the robbery, and that the next dal some of the notes
Issue passed.. ltwas evident that this attempt to prevent the.
hod consequences of the rubbery was inoompatible with a
participation inl.
Mr. Andrews observed, that the prisoner aright very easily,
and without prejudice to the Passing of the notes, give the
notice described, but that notice had not been given till past
ten at night, notwithstanding that the robbery had been con-
milted at seven. The fact was, Messrs. Hawkey could not
possibly have ascertained the smber, of the notes by the
next day, and all efforts to-stop them must have proved use-
less.

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Mr. Alley questioned Mr. Cocks as to the prohabilitY that
Hie prisoner was aware of the fact that the house was not in
possession of the numbers of the notes.—The answer was,
that the .preoner could nut have known any thing about the
fact.
The Lord Mayor asked whether it ass not the practice of
the house to cut the parcels from the guard's emit privately ;
whether it was not their object to keep out of the public sight
the mode of conveyance they used ?
Mr. Cocks said that, of course_ they did not wish it to be
known. The guard, whenever
.he canto with parcels to the
house, was relieved of them in a room distinct from the place
in which public business was done.
Mr. Anclitews thew stated to the Lord Mayor that the case
was ready for a Jury, and would submit to his Lordship that
the evidence already detailed was strong euoligh to justify
the prisoner's commitment.
Mr. Alley submitted that as the robbery was charged as
having been committed in Picadilly, the question of jurisdic-
tion upon the part of the Lord Mayor was agaidat the com-
mitment.
Mr. Andrews said he had not charged the robbery as having
been committed in Piccadilly. He had not said that the par-
cel taken out of the coach there was that of the loss of which
Messrs. Henkel complained.
Mr. Alley—lf you take away that fleet, what have you to
say against the prisoner?
Mr. Andrews said that he grounded his cage upon the facts
that the parcel had been delivered to the prisoner in Exeter,
sad that he had net delivered it in London where it should
have been delivered. The Learned Counsel observed that
there was every remarkable circumstance attending the con-
duct of the prisoner at the Bull and Mouth. Upon being
told by one of the female passengers that the parcel bad been
handed out, be never made use of any exctunation of fright
or surprise, nor did he even tell her that she bad done wrong
ie giving the parcel to any one.
Mr. Alley was still of opinion, that if offence had been
committed any where, it certainly had not been committed in
the city of London, but he should net press his objection,
The Lord Map:sr.-1 em of opinion that this case conies
within my jurisdiction. The fact of the robbery dries not
wholly rest upon the fact that a parcel was stolen front the
coach in Picartilly. 1 think that the taking of the parcel with
the directiion to deliver it in London. and the being paid for
the conveyance, coupled with the feet that the weight was an
accustomed one, were circumstances which, coupled nab
others that appeared in the course of the evidence, to jus-
tify me in committing the prisoner. At the same time I
must say, it is a circumstance favourable to the prisoner, that
on the night the robbery was committed, he communicated
the loss to Mr. Monkey. If ho shall be acquitted he may
thank his carelessness and breach of coolidcnce fur being
espoeed to a trial at the Old Bailey.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

THE SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OP
VICE versus CARLILE.
A few days age the Lord Mayor was waited upon by a per.
son who handed to him the following letter :
" Society for the Suppression of Vim
"MY Loan—l am directed by the Committee to forward
to your Lordship the copy of a Resolution passed at their last
meeting, and to request perinission to wait upon your Lora—
ship on the subject.—l have the honour to be, your Lordship's
übcclient servant, " GEORGE RICHARDS.
COPY Of TIM ■ ZOOLUTION.
" Resolved—That the Secretar do wait upon the Lord
Mayor and inform his Lordship that placards are exhibited
on the outside of hisbard Carlile's shop in Giltopur•
street, advertising the sale oflibellous publications, and that
he • request the favour of his Lordship to order the City
Officers, under the powers contained in the Act for regulating
the streets, to remove the noisanee complained of, but that
previously
_to waiting on his Lordship he sent a copy of this
resolution."__

The Lord Mayor intimated to the bearer of this message
that 110 sheet(' readily attend to any thing the Society bed to
communicate, and appoioted yesterday fur the hearing of the
lustier. _ _

Accordingly, before one o'clock yesterday, a gentleman,
who we supper*, is the Secretary, appeared in the Justice.
room, end ended (or rather wispereil) his Lordship's atten-
tion to the suhjeet. life said (but it was with difficulty one
reporter caught his words) that it was probably not unknown
to his Lordshig that a must grievous nuisance existed at
the coiner of Oiltspur-street, next door to the Comptet
prison, occasioned by the placards which were daily hue
out atCarlite's shop. The pavement was frequently blocked
up by crowds of idle people. to the great anon anee of the
public, who were thus made sufferers, i tly of the
injury they were likely to sustain by the vi ion of decency
exhibited in the sale ur liLulluus publications. Ho hoped Ms
Lordship would take some meosuros against the parties under
Mr. Taylor's Act.
Tho Lord Mayor said be wished to understood whether it
was the object of- the Society to proceed for the penalties ?
The Secretary replied, certainly not. The Society wisher.
merely for a removal of the nuisance.
The Lord Mayor asked, by what acts the parties had
brought themselves within the cognizance of the New Street
Act ?
The Secretary replied, he hanging out is front of the shop
and on the area mils matters which tended to create an oh-.
struetinn on the pavement. He submitted that it Mal closely
within the inlentioo or the Act to provide against such
nuisances as that described.
Thelord Mayor bad no eridenee to determine the case,
upon, but as far as be understood the application it was not
exactly such as he theneht be could afford a remedy upon.
The Act appeared to him to refer to pro jactions to a oertais
extent, and he had not heard that the placards exceeded the
bounds set by that statute.
The'Secretary believed the Aet was violated by the exter-
nal exhibition of any thing likely to draw together a crowd.
Mr. Andrews, the *barrister, stated, that he was concerned
in a ease where a party was convicted or having violated the
Act by putting a narrow ledge betnre his window to bold*
few books. It was held that the obstruction sous occasioned
by the attraction created by the books, and not by the projeo-
-1 of the ledge.
It was here stated, that in the ease alluded to the prosecu..
dote had three inches projection to swear upon, but in the
present ease the projection' was comparatively nothing.
The Secretary suggested to his Lordship that the planed*
should be removed as often as they were hung out.
Here another objection presented itself.
The Lord Mayor said be had heard that thereat(' officer bad
been complained against for having exceeded his duty in his
cooduct at Carlite's shop. No isegligence could be attributed
to the ward.. Tine Commissioners of Rovimeats were, be be-
believed, the persons to whop apkliealins aliciald in the brat
" I,c made. "it as ' the dia..

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to the ward. The Commissioners of Nutmeats were, be be- membered. The prisoner rode off t. Clapham Common it
believed, the persons to whuw apPlieMina should in the first bensg liter and put the horse up Fur the night is a stable,
instance he made. He felt as much as one could the dia. amft man wdian through Piccadilly yesterday imenting whets
gusting nature of the publications whist% bad been spoken of, Mr_t!Marstiantotopped him and brought him to Row-atreet.
and would go to the utmost esteist allowed by the law to re. prisonor assured the Magietratu, Hod Wielded of his
press that which itypengorrtu hint to be an .outrage Anima "running {way with the horse," as he was ohargisd, the truth
all 'law, but at the time time he Would pot go beyond the. was, " ttWo 'softens. away with him." ltsvanip • mote fro-
law. The party mast 'have .notiee to chat. the *Winne.. if he that Inv henwinvisted tbe sonnet, and winish=nl
ttt Woticw wen diseiwyed, the nutrit might he'breoght into hies Cited wee issinisalbiote atop bias forth* er
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the Joshed-rosin, upo6 the op* pi frpdible witness to the curb. -them .10*Wwwwd en 'advenisomooti *her Joshed
keffeet that the placards overbung.lbelierea. titans, anillannaeresat gni pa. Ult. one ripeft imbrue -
The Seeretary said there Was it difficult) in proving tbe log the uwncr of the horse where be might !Wit i eN ho

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OA k... *AS going Inwards Xetising-
• *Warr tO And the owner, when
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lilted the prison*. whit brought him al
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replied, that lie went to.
-T had to clean fur his
Marshaot ; and the,
play such frolics-in

i-STREET.
`S EGANISMS,
In be the favourite
tly and most appro•
Iropolitan mechanics;
,* the Christmas b.xes
famed del, there are
obtained to this great
pintoperied on (hearth
fuer-and-tweet, hours in this
young man out of plume
,respectableappearanee,were
-the same time. The Best
' on paying the ex-
its it appeared that
lice loitering about
means of support.
aus surety.
Marlborough-street, who
Darnel Stevenson a farrier,
charged with the same
discharged on paying

St. Giles's w0rk-
...1 • 1, iolent assank,
testilied, fur oae side

, near a dead wall (bat
cam. up to him and or-
complainant not immediately
ttchman struck bios a most
complainant struck
weapon about his bead
n.
'r, the Governor of
J said be was a peace.
ifferent view of the con.
use Governor evidently
watchman to And two
on complainant far beyond
-shod in Ivy-street,
• the purpose of giv.
in that neighbour.
Morse*, who he
_ _ patrols, to have made
afternoon, between three
-oad -street. The evidesios
rening, was so clear and,
ipprebend the prisoners at
a dread of molestation
ry young are conned.
yultiliAte cause lie
before the Magistrides
the one he gore to tbe
he was threatened more
;:amination, even yesterdee
, most patiently ie.
something like a cue.
who said lie bad borer
\I of their compiiniuml.
,r,t, and that when IN
' attempted to shales.,
only got pert of itl
watch, the broken.

to 80'w-street on

the hatnds

next, am! an or-
examination with the watch

morning' was taken up
•%ut or the sprees and

e.dward Wells, a tailor;
Areet-keeper. in Red Lion.
-doe o'clock the preceding
A Lion-square, lying dead
Ail Miner hat, shoe, or
)iile out. Finding the
the watch-house.
had to say for himself,
o boxing night, and
. overcame him, and
his shoes, bat, neckerchief..
robbed and locked
A lon a caution to him
then discharged UM
Irishman; he mai
bead bound round
and a black eye.—
;man of his own, a
ins house, knockiag'
breaking the windows,
desperation. The charge be-
,' what they had to my
the other pers-ns who
I.id no charge to make
prisoner were keeping
Irinking together, nod a
,yr acre sure poor Pat
happeued, and they
press the charge ho did

timber of his eosins
,its repaired to (hi
hies iu libations or

remanded, charged
',moth, of his watch,
Inn-lane.
lE.

more than nine sears
charged with robbing
parents iesided. The
docent•looking woman,
said that the present
iature that had been
wish ut ber and her
et honesty and judos-
, ; there was not an
any other person's,
place to which the
sent him before a
. prison, but ibis has
parents were t►erefore

if the prisoner was
Itentiary at %alma ;
aut convich-il felons

AgistrAto then reckon-
garde lu the Reverend
fug.• fur the Destitute,
that Institution.
her resdi ess to eon-
child's support, pro-
Id nitwit it
buy to prisan fur a

[OND.

united a ilemoitost
belonging to the for.
Gain the latter to the
ed. a yard; the stone-
I to hare credit for the
paid the guinea, but the
,ighout the remainder of
to return the guinea
given in charge, and
ipiaint.
ate. the hawker pve
iquisheti all bis inter-
ended.

ET.

a four-horse Stratford
Iwe,liorse Stratford
charging them with
inday, the isth instant.
that on the night of
'cluck, a small taxed
4 by a mats named Ed-
coach, aid upset ; the
ipersens in it received
an ideal:coed state of
1 • very bad state from
I. from Mr. Burt, sur-
, was still under his care,
accident the coaches,
' and racing at full gallop..
Dicke and Mr. Wyatt, said,
sustained by Mrs. Molise,
notwithstanding this
man man named Reynolds, a
Ate box with him, to dis•
other side ; but he cen-
t) wrong side, and they
elated Cbe start woo

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igt2p-64, ::::bl.w.. going I
'loorideavour to lint
mated the prisoner whit
=aoll Friday night. He replied,
mmo. fetch a bonaet they had
Wel,anation satisfied Mr. M,
, Mier g admonished nut to pl
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t . , was aid at liberty.
MARLBOROUGH-STREE
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AMONG wr . THE CHRISTMAS El
Sealskin the CJouleye lanterns seemed I
`sae of Thursday night, which is quaintly
aplialely Wild basewit night, by the met rop
m we bare se ~t, independent of the
tipt arm gives Mid *received on that fern
i';, Med Maims heeds mot bloody moos *Mal
li.Meet assdrisi on thu WIWI* Ow plow]
I . ilipo in any other fon r-asilstis
Alt masa' journey.
e • Willisaleyht coachman, a young
'sew and a youth of very respectable
wil Osier this charge at the Sarni
ad Nit elr Mt peimgessep
.ie we discharged 0:
..... 011116 wee iired to And bail, as
bad beesaireatirdly noticed by the Petit
straMs dressed, without any iisible
-411 rile* is !hem...le-street became his a
`see ant a Mr. Noverre's, in ?decibel
dhie snide
_Witham Casey, and MIMIC: $
eßtereimgh.mears, were also charged
ItAlisehle mesa' wit. They were duel
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TM.m eater:, a private watchman of
was accused by James Burnett of
the eamplaisant's face rointly testi
Y.Fir as a mosso( coegabited bl stood.
I 1 Bunten stated, that he was standing nee'
1 • adjoins the workhouse, when Gilbert came
staved him to go away, and upon cumplainan
'comp)ying with this order, the watchman sl
violent brew with a knotted thick stick.
The watchman, in his defence, said co
-him first, and be was Only plgy rag the weep,
Ma_prevent Burnett from closing with him.
The watchman called Benjamin Walker,
. • Bt. Oiles's workhouse, in his behalf, who eel
Mile bed imorensive person.
i The Magistrate, however, took a cifferen
trimerOMsert to the one the workhouse 0
him' tipiske, and ordered the watcl
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aunties in MC each for aii attack on compl
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trigati4ewelimet had warrited.
ti ,
,Tlieisse, who keeps a coalksh
t ' Obergestrwel, Raven Dials, appeared fur tl
itlislidallietrilust two lails, well known i
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4,- bead by %be sew* of Harry Flynn. and Hill,
Mated to lohorts,une of the St. Clilee's pat
• .. -minatehld his watch on Thursday *Remo'
i . . ( .mad liar *Meek, in Middle-row, Broad .str
heipare ti time nicer, on Thursday evening,
,
. MlSolissisa as to induce him to appreben
, . ti*l lodging& But, whether from a drei
(RN it appears the prisoners although very 3,
, .. eat wit! a desperate gang), or teem a less je
varied in his account of the transaction befo
3asterday morning, so widely from the on
°Goer the preceding evening, that he was
Allan once with committal. His examinant)
morning, was most contradictory.
The worthy Magistrate (Mr. CON ANT) I
i'. I . Castigated the case, and at list got some
.y- Ilia eel stitement from the witness, who
• ' • drinking with the prisoners and several of
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- , at the Blue Posts iu Monmouth-slriet, i
witted the house they follows d him and at
jps w hot the chain broke, and they of
aseseefthe seals attached to it. '1 he
--. ' ' Med remainiug seals his wife took I
evening, and deposited them in th
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MM eimt" A7mmituldisesimersetore:lteDiedlid thte"el iiMurne:iitli
ii est
HATTON-GARDEN.
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BOXING DAY.
': . .. Yesterday the principal part of the now
us hiaring watch-house charges, arising oul
bumuurs of hosing night.
The fret charge brought in was Edwar
be was charged by John Cook, street-keep
square, who stated, that about nine ii'clr
' might be found the prisoner in Red Lion,
I 2"'. Amok clops to the iron railing, without cii
Li neckerchief, with his pockets turned inside
prisoner in that situation be took him to ll
r 1 The prisoner stn being asked %b a t lie had
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Amid he had bee i with a party keeling up
from thinking too much mixed liquors it c
r, he lay down and was robbed of his shoes,
gad what money be bad about him.
The Magistrate said he hoped his tiring I
op in a Bold watch-house all night would b
'oat a future boxing night, and be the
prisoner.
The neat person charged was a sturdy
is • brought into the ~flier, v. ith,ut a coat, his
with a handkerchiefenvered with blo:id, et
' . The pilaster was charged by a countr yr
publicist, with kicking up a row in his
down several persons in the tap-room, bra
. i ' and doing several other acts of desperatiui
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: . .. sag reed. the complainants were 4-ked al
ag,aiiiat the prisoner , the landlord and the
were brat by the prisoner, said they had n
. ' against him, that both they mid the priso
sap bosinganight ; that they were all drinki
- lot of a row was kicked up, and they '
;meant no harm, and was sorry for what hi
forgave him.
. The Magistrate said if they did not press
1 not, sod discharged the prisoner.
The prisoner was accompanied by a ot
• trymen' end he and the complainant.
i 41mbie house to drown their aniusositii
'porter.
: Sarah Paget' and Lary Spencer were 1
• with rubbing Benjamin Sinseutt, a blacks
. . M a house in Charlotte-buildings, Gray's I
DISTRESSING CASE
ti urchin of a boy, no mi
of age, and not higher than a tattle, was oh
illbs landlady of the house where hit par,
mother of the title prisoner, a very doce
rattended before the Magistrate • she as
. Was nut the first charge of a similar oat
a /aside again.) ner son ; it hail been the a i
. husband to bring the child up to habits of
I try, but ad their efforts pored fruitless ,
• • Article of A slue, either of their own ur of
?'that was ore whilst it rens:tined in any I
1 • bad access; they had once
[ . , who had committed hint to i
-sae- any .'lh-ct upon hour; his pare
. ' - •se alms for his future safety.
Mr. Rogers, the Magistrate, inquired
. eligible to be admitted into lic Penile'
het to this it was replied, that ',one to
''•" • were eittnissible there. The worthy MA;
.1111111ftded that an application should tie no.
• Robert Crosby, the Chaplain to the Iteitig
is order to set Me child admitted into 'hi
The mother of the child expn.swed hi
. tribute a weekly allowance towards the el
if 'aided the t.ovr rears of the Refuge would
i 1 The Magistrete then rammode.' the I
wick, in order to give time for the smith
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N ' DIAMOND CUT DIAMI
• t a; .' A working steeecalter comp/dined
4iloker, fur detaining the sum of its. hi
loser. They had airecil tor the sale free
. . , • termer, of a twee of Irish linen foe in. CA
. . demon wan Impel tine nonce dos a, and t
! Imirtue of the pore of the listen; he pair
ti. I bewker refused to g, he lip the cloth wits(
die money was paid ; tie 1111110 refused to
4st hail received. lit) was cutisequently p
*at was the ground of the present comp'
I • 11: . Upon th, suggestion of the llagistral
tapp the guinea, and the stonecutter relies
.•01 to the purchase, and thus the matter i
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. LA 'II4ETII-S V TRE
- FURIOUS DRIVIN't
Yesterday Wiliam Watkins. driver of a
coach, arid Jusepa Dwight, driver of a
vetch, appeared to on MI/amain,' c
- . feriously driving their roaches on Sunda,
it appeared by the evidence adduced;
Use above-nientruced day, at eleven o's
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. -cart containing ;seven persons, driven L
' wards, was run foul of by Watkins's coI digit was dashed to pieces, and theft
•eieral contusions; one female, in as
milignaocy, clamed Mayhue, lies atilt is i
'a
, • !'. the (Stets of the fall, arid • eertibeate
gram, of Whiteehipel, stated that she wa
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mid uuable to go oat. At the time of the
• . woes on the wrung side of the road, and
, The Magistrates (Mr. Ilardwicke a
i that with respect to the injury intestine
as adios by civil process will still lie,
isiteremilina.
The defendant Watkins milled a mat
metrics/. of West Ham, who was ea the I
peare what had been stated on the nth
teem/ that the coaches were en the w:
rime prisocediag at good *peed. Mso eta
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