The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-10-29 00:00:00

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POLICE.
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A man 'aarpta•ltitbirison was charged with Ide-
handing a young• than of two guineas ankan um-
brella, under the pretence of ptocutirg fox. ?tint a
• place under Government.
The Complainant had caused an advertisement
to be inserted in one of the public N wspapers, of-
fering a premium of 201. to any laity or gentleman
who could obtain for him an adequate employment
wader Government. He received, in consequence,
a letter horn the Defendant, which led to an inter-
view, in which the Defendaht promised to obtain
for him a place tinder G tvernmant, hut demanded
two guineas AS earnest of his commission, which the
Complainant paid. He also borrowed theCrunplain-
ant's umbrella, which he never returned. The
Complainant called on him at several places, to
which lie successively shifted his lodgings, without
being Able to hear any tidings of the promised ap-
poir,rment ; and at length the Defendant ilisap.
• pealed altogether, and no account of him could be
&stained. The •Complainant, however, tried an
espe tient to discover him, by inserting anotbe
advertisement in the Papers, similar to his forme
crie.hut giving a different address ; it was immedi
ately answered by Robertson, who was thus found
out, and taken into custody to answer the charge.
Robertson, on being interrogated by the MAois-
TaATL as to his residence and mode of livelihood,
after much ht sitatinn, said, he lived at Camberwell ;
that he had been formerly a Clerk in the Office of
a Mr. Milks ard, Comptroller of Excise, but had
quit that employment two years since. He said he
had respeBable conneCtions in town, who would
give him a good charalter. He was remanded un-
til Friday.
The City Sessions concluded yesterday.
Last Saturday, Ales. Morse", late Miss Ellis, was
committed to the House of Correftion, at Lewes,
eh.upred with stealing some cards of lace, and a
silk handkerchief, in the shop a Mr. GlllOO, linen-
draper, in that town. fhe stolen articles wets
found, by virtue of a search warrant, in her apart-
, • meet.
F.itraA of a Letter from Leipsic, dated 011. 14,
4. Yesterday a notice was published by the Magis-
wawa, prehibiing the country merchants from
!caving this fair hefo.e its termination, with the
view that the payments of the last fortnight may be
made with the usual order and regularity."
Last Friday, a post chaise. in which a gentleman
and a 14dy were taking an airing, was overturned
on the hande, at Worthing ; but, happily, without
prodocing any material injury to either.
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The same day, Mr. Gazer, of Finden, Sussex,
has the misfortte e te hove one of his thighs broken.
by the fall of his horse. as he was hunting in the
of that plate
Miss. Davi!. whose confinement in a house in
John- sti re• ..!en..cpsare. and subsequent retnev
to the Po: r House of St. Lmes's Parish, in a state
of lenacy, we mentioned in former Papers, has, by
tee unremitting attention afforded to her. regained
her faculties, but is now blind.
R.4art BienitY, that well-known eharatler. is again
in the hands of justice. On the 15th of September,
he broke out of Rochester gaol, where be was con-
fined on a ,claarge of felony, exhibited against him,
on the teth of August. sewn atter his dismissal from
the office oi Excise 1 idesmon, at Bristol, a situation
which he had fot some time possessed, we presume,
as a reward fur his former good services. He was
apprehended on Tuesday se'nnight, in Ditchling-
street. seven miles from Lewes, where he had the
temerity to mike his appearance, th..ugh sensible of
being strongly Luspetted of having, on the preceding
day, with An accomi lice, robbed the dwelling-huuse
of Mt Wickham, a reputable fainter, at Allimirue,
near Clayton, the place of Bignall's nativity.
The offenders watched the farmer's premises. un-
til his servants had quitted them, to pur'ue their
la-
bou'r, and, taking advantage of their absence, im-
mediately proceeded to the chamber of Mr. Wick-
harn, whom they bound down in his bed, and, after
taking his watch, and a purse, containing two seven-
shillings'-pieces, Ind some silver, went to the cham-
ber finer of hit housekeeper, which, being fastened
withimpide, they burst open, but without meeting
with the woman as they expelled, she having, from
the tenor of a conversation she overheard, escaped,
half dressed, through the window into the street.
The fear of detettion, from the alarm she might
give, induced them to decamp with the booty they
had secured.
• Mr. Wickham having declared Bignall, whom
he well knew, to be one of the robbers, a hue-and.
cry was raised, and more than two hundred persons
, in.taatly joine3 in the pursuit, which was atlively,
but unsuccesslully, continued the whole day, the
offenders hawing eluded their lendable design, by
P' taking refs ge fit a large weod between' Horstper-
e point and Henfield.
[Thawed by this formidable force, which they
knew had volunteered to tate them,..hey were, be-
tween five and six o'clock the next morning, disco-
vered &Wiling together, in the street beforemen-
• tioned,Thy Mr. Harriot, master of the White Horse
inn there, who, alone, and at the peril of his life.
enibraced the first opportunity of seizing Bignall,
and. After a hard scuffle between the three, succeed-
ed in sectoilig him ; but his accomplice. named
toteiee, ( who also broke oat of Rochester gaol,) be-
ture Mr. Harriot could procure assistance, ran off,
and effected his escape, tho' bet for a short time,
;as he was taken the same evening, at a public house,
on Chalky South Common, about five miles from
„Lewes, where he tarried three hours to refresh him-
self, and thereby created a suspicion, that did not
escape the vigilance of the tamely et Mrs. Galland,
who keeps tl•e house.
The folowing extraorclimary accident happened
last week, in the neighbourhood of Wotton-tindet-
Edge, Gloucestershire :—Four men, who had as-
serohled in the night, ss ith an intention, it is en ppos-
ed, of stealing timber, went into a field adjeinieg
that town, where several pieces had recently been
placed. for the purpose of building. Three of these
fellows, in this nefarious pursuit, had got a small
• tree upon their shoulders, and were carrying it off,
L • when the man who supported the butt-end slipped
r down. and the whole weight of the piece falling upon
him, he was haled on the spot !