The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-28 00:00:00

MARIAIOROUGH-STREET.

Yesterday Thomas Cook, the footman in the service of C. Camp.
ton, Esq., of Ilenrietta-street, Cevendish-square, who has been
some days in custody. upon& charge of stealing a diamond pin, the
property of Wm. Poole, valet to Mr. Mills, a gentleman on a visit
with Mr. Compton, was brought up fur re-examination. No
further evidence was adduced than that given by the prosecutor on
the former day ; and although a naniber of duplicates were ?mad
upon the prisoner fur several articles of valuable property pawned
by him, nu person came forward to make any claim. Several pee.
sum gave the prisoner a good character.
The prosecutor said, that he had no wish whatever to press the
charge against the prisoner, or to prosecute him—quite the con.
teary ; but it was very strange, after being so reputedly guts.
timed abeat the pin, before his detection, he denied, in the moat
solemn 111.1111(1, all knowledge of it; and yet the instant the
pockii-book was found he confessed that the pin was in it before
it was opened ; but what was still mare culpable in the prisoner, he
asserted that the pin, when Inquired after, must have been taken
by a most respectable man, who holds a situation of NAN. a year
I under Government, who had called that morning on the pro-
stioator._ .

3lr. Roe, the Magistrate, said, that this was certainly a strong
feature in the case, and again remanded the prisoner to Moaday
nest, to have further inquiries made about the pawned property.
5$ •TERLOO Tom.--Mary Jose,, better known by the name
of Waterloo Toni." a smart intelligent.looking litdc woman,
was brought to the Office, and charged as a vagrant.
The officers stated that they found the prisoner sitting upon the
foot pavement in Piccadilly, telling several females, who were
crowded around her, that she was in great distress, not able to
work, having came a long way from the country, and had not
tasted food fur 24 hours. The officers told the Magistrate that this
woman had been repeatedly in custody upon similar charges, at the
different police offices, but had always been let olf, from a favour-
able dispoaltion towards her, in consequence of her having served
for several years in the army as a drummer, disguised in male lit-
tler. She was wounded at the battle of Waterloo, and has had g
pension ever since.
The prisoner denial that she lied been begging on this occasion
the fact was, that she had been down to Tunbridge Wells. to look
for work as a hay-maker t but the harvest was so backward there,
that she could get no employment, and had that day walked up to
town, on her way to the neighbourhood of Barnet, where she un.
deratood there was work to be had. Site sat down in PitradiUy to
rest herself. and some women seeing her very faint, asked her what
was the matter { sadah• certainly did tell then, that she was both
bungryand tired, bat she asked them for nothing. She thought
she was entitled to some little indulgence, and she acknowledged
that she had experienced it some times. She had screed seven
years, as a drummer, in the Sikh regiment, or Connaught Rangers,
into which she enlisted let the purpose of fallowing her husband,

who was a soldier in it, and to whom she was greatly attached ; but,
poor fellow, he died for his coon*ry on th • full of 11'aterlue, w here
she herself also received a serene *Ma, from the effects of which
she was still labouring, and for which, " Clod bless his 31ajnity,'
she had a pension.
Mr. Dr Le, the Magistrate, said, that she certainly bad a claim
to sonic indulgence fur hey heroism. she knew that she had often
be•n charged with similar offences, and never punished, roe should
he (M r. l)yer) punish her on this occasion, and hoped ►he would
not trespass on that lenity again.
She assured him *be would not, and was discharged.

MARY-LA-110 NNE ()FYI CIR.
Yesterday, Mr. Parkins apin appeared at this office, in order to
bring his business with *girl. ILinnah White, to • final chse ;
he was accetnpanied by -Mr. /lige:tie, the barrister, and Mr.
Ounce", his solicitor. hi. tire coming into the office he left
ifreelser suddenly, on perceiving Mr. ADOLPHUS and Mr. 'lan-
tern' who were engalett in another case, and did not return uLtil
thowegentlenien had eft the dace.
Mr. Parkins having waited in the office some time—
Mr.tertertTn said, well, is this busines coming on ?
111 r. Mallet; the chief clerk, stud he believal it was postponed
until two o'clock by mutual consent.
Mr. Parkins-1 deny that; lam here now, having said I would
conic, anti as the Parish Officers don't chute to conic to the tease
appointed, I don't think 1 shell wait.
Mr. Du "caw was about addressing the Mi.gistrate, when—
Mr. Parkins having consulted Mr. FRE Nell. said, by the advice
"this legal friend, he had determined on not waiting.
Mr. Mallet observed he ought to wait; the Officers had often
waited for him.
Mr. l'arkins—No, Sir; I will not wait ; I hare come here .0 aa
act of courtesy, and, therefore, shall go, having redeemed my
pledge.
Mr. Oa 'PT IT rt said, certainly he had not been brought there by
any summons; his coming was an act of accommodation.
Mr. Parkins, as he was retiring, again observed upor Mr.
Rawlinaon not being present, as he had postponed the case until
Monday, and certainly he ought to have come, as lie (Mr. l'arkins)
did not wish to hear the acme thing over again.
Mr. G airy vett said he would take we to investigate the busi..
fleas to the fullest ervent.
Mr. Parkins hod not been gone many minutes, when the Over.
I seers, arid several parochial clerks, with Matins',' White, entered
the office, under the impression that two o'clock was the hour ap.
pointed ; and finding the Ea. Sherill had again slim through their
fingers ; a summoor for his attendance oo a futurv.day, was asked
for anti grantra.
Hannah White eleittel some attention and commiseration from
the persons in the office ; she was dressed remarkably neat, and
aeemed dumb depressed in "perils, at being exposed again to the
unpleasant ordeal of a rude cross-examination ; she observed
bitterly, " I wish I had never seen the worthless man." A lock
of the child's hair was handed about the office.

-
COMBINATION IN TIM TRADE Or SIIOEMAKEIS.—A young
man, named Joh,. Smith, was charged with being concerned with
divers others in enteriag into a conspiracy against the property of
11 r. Patterson, shoemaker, of 1/xl6rd-street.
The defendant was charged under the Combination Laws. It
appeared that he and several others had what is termed " strpck"
fur an advance of wages, and those men engages' in the combina-
tion being members of what in the trade is termed a " shop," the
strike was attended with considerable incorivenience and loss to Mr.
Patterson, and he caused Smith to be taken into custody, as bcir.g
the most active. His house had been surrounded by journeymen
shoemakers engagtsl in the combination, who had conducted thcni.
selves in a very violent manna, fur the purpose of intimidating the
witnesses.

On the ease being called on,
Mr. A nor nano, for the pniaecution. s3i4l he had no objection,
on the defendant's, agreeing to return to his work, under the arrange.
mints proposed by the Solicitors on each side, to forego the pro-
ceedings; but if any '.iulent conduct was pursued, the defendan,
was sit:l liable. . . . . .

A tter some consultation among the deputies or committees of the
trade,
Mr. BRODERICK and Mr. lIARMER agreed to the course pro.
posed, undertaking to produce Smith at any tune when he was
called on.

The parties then retired.
The office 11 all crowded to suffocation with members of du
trade.

UNION HALL.

Mr. Robert Finnan. who described himself as an Attorney-at-
Law, was brought before It. J. Chambers„ Esq.., charged with hat-
ing been riotous and disorderly the preceding night, sod demolish-
in the furniture of his landlady.
Mrs. Letter stated, that the night before she was exceedingly
alarmed by a noise in the defendant's apertments. On proceeding
down stales to ascertain the cause, she beheld .Mr. Fithian tearing
and ranting about the room, with the leg of one of her elegant ma-
' hogany chairs in I.is hand, battering It against her tables; indeed,
she sad, all her valuables were in Imminent danger of being
knocked to pieces by him. When she requested him to retire to
his bed, he d—d her, and swore he would send her away with •
Idea in her ear, if sheiiid not make herself scarce, as be was audio-1
rimed by law to do whaterpr he pleased in his own ape/intent&
lie afterwards ran out of tae house, is It state of nakedness, and,l
beams the door. was not immediately opened for him, he broke in
the psnnel with a poker. Mrs. !Awes added, that she was never
so troubled with a lodger is her life ; firer since he tame into the,
neighbourhood. not a night passed witboot a idaturbance between
him and his lady.
The defendant, a respectable lookini loan, apparently between
60 and 70 years of age polled a book out of a large blue bag,
which he carried, in which, he stated, be had taken down accurately
the whole of the circumstances that occurred on the sight in
question. lie was proceeding to read this doeutnent, when be
was stopped by the Magistrate, who desired him to confine himself
Ito the breaking of the furniture, and state his defence from memory.
lie then said that he had occasion to rise in the middle of the night
mentioned, and, being in want of a light, he very naturally called
out to his landlady to love him one ; but she refused to accommodate
him, and he was under the necessity of going into the street, almost
in a stale of nudity, to procure one from the watchman. On his
return, he found the door shut against him, and he certainly used
a poker, which he armed himself with, fur a " battering ram,"
against the door, until he made himself an entrance. Ile had, he
said, paid pretty dearly since for venturing into the street. without
either shoes or stockings, coat or breeches no, by • violent cold, for
which he was ordered to take the hot bath. This treatment from
his landlady irritated him very considerably, and he might have
damaged • few articles of furniture, in the heat of the moment.
31r.etesse erns asked him if he had ever been in the army, as'the
phew he used about the battering ram was a military one. The
defendant replied that he had not, but he was a practising attorney.
The complainant—All want is to get rid of him and his lady ;
they are the pests of the whole neighbourhood ; they get drunk to-
gether, and at these times he is often seen running about the streets
with his lady on his back.
The defendant here said, that the lady alluded to was not his law-
ful wife, she was a temporary ewe, and he hoped he was not to be
answerable foe her transgressions. If she chose to ride about the
streets on his back, he humbly contended that it had nothing so do
with the case at issue. _ .

The Magistrate observed, that at all events he should pay for the
amusements of the night before, by ending bail for disturbing the
neighbourhood in which he resided, and also pay the expenses of the
damage committed on the landlady's furni'ure.
The Attorney was kept in custody until he could procure the ne-
cessary bail and expenses.

Deowxiwo.—On Friday evening, as a young man
named James Crosi, a wheelwright, front Slimbridge, was bathing
in the Berkeley Canal, near Gloucester' he got out id his depth and
was drowned. The body was picked up in about half an hour,
but although means were subsequently taken to restore animation,
the effort was in vain. A coroner's inquest sat on the body on .Sa-
turday, when a verdict of "Accidental Death" wan returned by the
jurPriday morning, about seven o'clock, a woman threw
herself Into the Avon, a Hole above the Ferry at %Velem, Bath,
bet by the timely assistance of two men who happened to see her
her life was saved. _ _

DETER/41N kV SVICIDE.—A man of the name of Archi-
bald thintilton, a native it is said of the town of Preston Pans, and
formerly a private in the Ilerwickslaire militia, cut his throat in a
most Inghtful mannert in a field near Maxwrlltuwn, on the morn-
ing st Tuesday last. .Th4teincision was four ruches in length I
bet weitrowlented wide bot-wnsir losomilywer
tical direction, sad with su success that the ground was literally
dyed with blood. Still he had strength enough to crawl thirty
yards from the place whet the razor was fourd lying: and on
being carried to the Infirmary, not only survived twenty-tour hours,
but actually smoked the contents of three several tobueo-pipes.
He also evinced the most eager desire for food, though whatever hr
attempted to swallow immediately issued through the gash in the
throat, and in this way occasioned the most violent coughing. lie
retained his senses to the last, and when yuestioned on the subject.
motioned something like catitrition for his conduct; but continued
apathy scented to the prevailing feeling of his mind, and, as far
as could be observed, he seemed neither anxious to live nor afraid
Ito die. In his youth the deceased had been bred a shoemaker. but
on being discharged flout the militia had worked chiefly a+ a day
labourer. During the two last years of his life the neighbours
gener4lly thought him tbsanged ; and there can be little doubt
the. extreme poverty. combined with depression of spirits, had led
him to the committal of the rash att. lle has left a widow and a
numerous fancily.
FATA I. NI ! sTA c..—On Saturday last, an Inquest was
held before Mr. Meier. Coroner, on the body of John Phillips, of
New street, in this city. saddler, whose death was occasioned by
his having, on Friday, eaten oxalic acid in mistake for Epsom
'sails. As soon as the fatal error was discovered, a medical man
was sent for, but all human aid was useless, and the unfartanate
man expired, after suffering dreadful agony. Mr. Phillips was in
the habit of using oxalic acid in the course of his business as a
saddler. V erdiet •—•• Accidental Desth."— Worcester Ileruld.

----••-
Buaet Any .—The cellars of Mr. Barker, of the Black
Horse public...house, High-greet, Mary.la-bonne, were on Tues-
day night brokeir into, and plundered of a considerable quantity of
wine and spirits. A dog, which usually slept in the cellar, was
stolen from tne house about nine o'clock on the preceding evening.

Saturday morning, about one or two o'clock, a fellow
named John Maher t•as caught by a tialierman who was return.
jag front his occupation, in the set of scaling the walls of the
Nunnery in Peter'-cell, with an intention, which he ronfraard
afterwards, of robbing the Nunnery. This, he stated, he did with
the purptne of haring khkwelf transported. This sacrilegious vil-
lain a as taken Rome time lea, after having sa•hst the chalice front
theasnir prenMes. Whilst is the police-office the former time, lie
broke th, chalice in pieces, and threw it into an out-house.--Litne-
riak J'aper.

PROM LAST NIGIIT'S GAZETTE.

BANKRUPTS.

.....
J. Martin, men. of Deceits. Suffolk, farmer, to surrender, Aug.
5, at five, 6, and Sept. 7, at t !even, at the Bell Inn, Sastnundlown.
Solicitors, Mew". Smith and Buckerfield, (ivy's-Inn-place; and
Mr. ('avrll, Saimminiihmm.
B. N. Tate, of IVaketield, York, printer, Aug. 17, at six, IS,
and Sept. 7, at eleven, at the Sessions-House, Wakefield. Soli.
clues. Messri. Hurd and Johnson, Temple; and Aleuts. Cerra
and Barker, IVakrtield.
It. Brett, now or late of Temple-place, Illackfriats-road, tailor,
July
.:10, at two, 31, and Sept. 7, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court.
Solicitors, Messrs. Burn and Neild. King-street, Cheapside.
A. Kershaw, of Hathabottom. Lancaster, timber-draler, Aug.
11, 17, and Sept. 7, at one, at the (large Inn, Liverpool. Solicitors,
3lessra. Lace. Miller, and Lace, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Taylor
and Roscoe, Temple.

sniff. 'Fr ;ram •
July 31. J. Pigram R. ,Matdatese, Kent, grocers,
at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court.
July M. W. Brown, late of Sutton at Bone, Kent, sheep-dealer,
at twelve. at the Bankrupts' Court.
Aug. 21. W. Mitchell, of Winstead, Esse:, butcher, at twelve,
at the Bankrupts' Court.
Aug. 17. E. Dampier, of Primrose-street, Bishoptgaie Without,
seed-gusher, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' I 'amt.
Aug. 31. A. Brown, of Plymouth, ship-builder, at twelve, at the
London Inn. lkvunport.
Aug. 17. W. (*Falk, of Tollisford, Somerset, fuller, at twelve,
at the Castle and Ball Inn Bath.
Aug. 17. A. Springweiler, of Duke-street, West Smithfield,
eabinet.maker, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court,.
Aug. 17. J. Appleton, of Tottenham-court-road, cooper, at eleven,
at the Bankrupts' Court.
Aug. 19. H. Whitehead, of Norwich, bombasiammanufecturer,
at four, at the Castle Inn, Norwich.
Aug. 17. J. Moon, of Aays-liarn, Lancaster, cotton-merchant,
at one, at the Star Inn, M..nchester.
Aug. 10. W. Atrommith, of Stoke-upon-Trent, Stafford, potter,
at me, at the George Inn, Liverpool.
Aug. 23. J. Naar's'', sen. of Thornton, Vprk, linen-draper, at
I eleven, at the Blacksmith's Arms, Scarborougla.

CERTIFICATES, Ancuscr 17.
T. W. llinl, of Liverpool, merchant.—J. Bentley, of Leeds,
York, ptuff.tnerchant.--K. Jackaon. of York, goldsmith.—M.
foot, of Leeds. York, tea-dealer.—J. lliordman„ of Great Bolton,
Lancaater, cotton-manufacturer.—J. Wild, of Whitle, Derby, cot.
ton-apinner—T. ?Witten, of Liverpool, merchant.—W. B. White,
of the Strand. linen-draper.—'l'. kiliton, jun. of canton-place,
Poplar, underwriter.—T. Hawkee. late of little Abingdon-
street, Weativinater, coal.merchant.—W. F. Slitter's, of Lang-
bourne l'hanthera, London, "trchant.—)t. Felton, late of Spur
Inn-yard, Southwark, hop and seed merchant.