The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-02 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.

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The Aglelphi, of TE.LNCE, was last n;gbt re-
luarsed t:. the t <mug (;catleineir of Westminster
School, in their Clas.,wal Theatre, which is at this
moan of the year so elegantly fitted up in the dor-
mitory. The taleuts displayed by the different
Characters, called forth, from a very respectable
audience, the must marked applause. It we, al-
mosediffieult to say where there was* prefere:.ce;
bat the pre-emineht utility of Mr. LriTonti, in
Syria, was the theme of trirlierail approba
cominentieg ou the atil•cted prescience of the
aged Deism, he was particularly happy.
;Like halm; prtioem, ait, se seire is soles neseit omens.

The parts of &strata, Catithara. Meteo, and
Dewed, wereaupported in summer that at the same
time did justice to the spirit of the author, and
credit to the classic purity of the education of the
Vestminster Seminory. The perform inc e con-
chided with the baud pluyirc.; God ince the kiog.

Yesterday morning His !dooms', Duke of
CUMBRILLARD. Prone...ow.. A SAWSTA. Sorni.t, and
ANDILIA, accompanied by Lord WA rStti lan An,
Lady CRAWLEY, Cienerohs FITZROY and 11AR-
COE IT, and Colonels T•s, Loa and fUsseow.,
.. took
an airing I/I Wtodsor Great Park, here MIN BRAD.
I.EY, the celebrated young Yorkshire giant, only
16 years of age, was taking Ins morning exercise.
11111 MAJESTY and the Royal Party stopped and
conversed with him for some time. The Duke of
CUMBERLAND and Lord WA LSI %IMAM alighted
from their horses and walked ander his arm ; al-
though the Duke of CUMBERLAND measures 5
feet 11 inches. His MAJESTY and the Royal Party
were mach pleased with his conversation and gen-
tlemau-like behaviour, and expressed their surprise
at seeing a youth of buck stature, groa n in every
way proport•onwhie. After stalking with the Royal
Party fur about a quarter of an hour, Mr. BRA 13-
s.Ly went into a po,t-chairw which was smiting, and
returned to his quaitere, the Tuns' Tavern, 11.itsrl-
sor.

ills MAJESTY and the Royal Party returned to
the Palace at half pant twelve h'clock.
The Glee Club will hold their first meeting, this
season, to-morrow evening.
The Earl and Countess of DAIVILEY have re-
turned to their seat, at Cobham-Mill, where they
imend to remain, until the end January.
Lady FOLEY entertained Lady I:tessatio and
several other INint,ilit). at dinner, yesterday. at her
house, in Hill•street, Berkeley-stplare.
THOMAS FORSYTH, Esq. and family are expect-
ed, this day, at their house in Upper Wirripolo-
street, from their seat near Margate.
Colonel ANDEZSON and family arrived, yester-
day, at their house, in South .tudley-street, from
Sandgate. They intend to le.,ve town in the coarse
of next week, on a visit to Lord liaanoitchrost, at
Lis scat, in Lincolnshire.
The Earl of Daum turned out a Jeer, yesterday,
near the Oaks, in Surry, which afforded great
sport to a numerous field of sportsmen.
The Countess of Ci.nesiner will have a card
party, this evening, at her house, iu Berkeley-
square.
On Monday, the Somerset House Lodge of Free-
Masons timid tn.:ether, fur the first time this sea-
*no, at the Free-Masons tat ern. Earl Mouernoa-
ars in the chair. Among the professional Gentle-
',tea present, were Messrs. Hawes, ELLIOT, LeCTS.
and PAGE.
Ott Saturday evening, at the Theatre-Royal,
-Newcastle, Madame CATAL•III exhibited her ve-
ea: powers to a numerous and genteel audienee,
and acquitted heruc:f in bet usual style of exceol-
le:lL P.

gave directions for the Nitro's! to be coaducied in
the *newt respectable in:inner. The corpse was con-
vered in a hearse. followed by a mourning coeds,
with six servants and her Ladyship's carnage with
six others: the whole of then, Ilregied in white silk
scarfs. and'white gloves. The funeral service Vaai
perforated by Mr. SAIRGSANT.

This was an action, tried yesterday, against
a late Sheriff of Landoll, by the Sword-bearer
of the Corporation, to establish a right which
lw claimed of haring three bottles. of wine per
diens, for home consumption, during the con-
tinuance of the t)ld Bailey Sessions. To esta-
blish this claim, the City Butler was (silted, who
Preyed it had been the practice, with very few ex-
ceptinus, Inc the last It)years, that the Sw ortl-hearer,
beyond the wine drank at his ta11.,. shoul.l take
home three bottles per (hew. G.r ihioking.
For the Defeathint, although
this practice it was Ulm hind obuiineJ, it was mere
matter of courtesy, awl not of prescriptive
Tau Swortl-Beirer %as au Office" of the Lora

e The Glee Club will hold their first meeting, this LAND 11111, my iiinL7samc •Pl, C7l( sta.. milk 76••. . ,
There is now living, in Staffordshire, an aged aware of the postponement, and therefore that his On •
her recovery, site stated, that she Kul *nos
season, to-morrow evening.
Clergyman, who, during the course of a well-spent whole object was to make the Defelident incur the thee interview with the I)efelidant about six weeks „i
lt-s The Earl and Countess of DARNLEY have re- mentioned in their agreement.
I. turued to their seat, at Cobham-Hall, where they life. has walked to the duty of the church, of which penaltyafterwards. She lay.in in August lust. The Oe.
qe ietend to remain, until the end ef January. fendant kft off visit rig her fetiier • for five or six
he 111 curate, more than 40,000 miles, not including Pkiatilf noosui•ted. ; •
WELEICEN, r. LF. PELLTTIEN.
lun Lady FOLEY entertained Lady Itessatio and theoccasionnl duties of the parish. He has preach-
....lis months before her detivery. Her father paid the t
VIII several other Not.ilitt .at diuuer, ye••tertiay at her
.s , , ed in the same church 'Tweeds of 3000 times, bap- -I I was an
issue out of Chancery, t° ascertain expenses of her confinement ; did not know what
iivii house. in Hill.street, Berkeley-siiiiare. tised more than 5000 children, and buried upwards whether the name of the l)efelidaiit, one of the they
French Noblesee, 71.C:bnn:Qin one of iiur r,•giments . tell to. She expostulated once with
the Defendant. and told hint, if she became it the
tit! THOMAS FORSYTH, Esq. and family are expect- of 4i" corPseS• He has Isaeused one Jews mail),
of hone, was LI 1 , Pelletier, or Louis. Auguste
x day, ed, this at their house in Upper ‘Viuipole- Gentiles, and, ni one day, 15 Quakers ; and, in thefamily-way, her father would be much hurt. He
wit street, from their seat near Margate. room a this time, manual more than 3000 couple*. Alexandre Pelletier .as the result of a suit de-
upon this fact. It apiwariii,o. heat err, told her, if she would let him know in proper time.
he would make her comfortable. She was only .
i': Colonel ANDESSON and family arrivad, yester- He has given general satisfaction to the parishio- pending
ners ;and, after all this service, he remains as he from the statement of Mr. CLASELY, who war eighteen years of age last August.
day, at their house, in South .ludley-street, from Counsel for the Defendant that no positive cvi-
, Ssinlgate. They intend to 'cave town in the coarse began, 40 years ago, spoor curate!
dcould I • his, I ' -
car he glWrio 401 in niptisin, On her cross-examinstion by 'Mr. Setjennt neve. ~
of next week, oil a visit to Lord Yaannitriont, at Doe Ticket in the Lottery, which begins onshe said, .he lied had sweethearts, but it was the
Tuesday week, may gain the Prizes belonging to 'llie Jury, by the direction of the Judge', gave a
• • Lis scat, in Lincolnshire. first hale that hard ed her • I
at any personll,, no t.... swans
300 Ticket., and make one Prize equal to all the verdict for the Plaintiff—Darnages, ls. .
The Earl of Datum turned out a deer, yesterday, wise ; she knew a person of the Milne of Boy, he i
Capitals in many former Leteries. SWIFT and CO. COTTERFI.L, V. WILe.H. ENTs
near the Oaks, in Starry.. which afforded greathail tree!, her sweetheart, but n,-ver screed her so -
rd sport to a numerous field oisportsmen. are selling Tickets and Shares in great variety, at This was an action, tried yesterday, against she knew Mrs. My in for she had unfortunately.
t The Countess of CLzasiimr will have a card their °Sew% No. 11. Foulta, No. 12, Charing. a late sheriff of London, by time !word-bearer made her her confidant, hot oeser told her, on her
Cross, and No. 31, Ald giste High-street. of the Corporation, In esteblish a right which
P".l party, this evening, at her house, in Berkeley-asking who Wa. the father of the child, that it
was
li i On Tuesday the remains of a young warned of lw claimed of haring three bottles• of wine per
square.atch-ocork ; she did not know a hoixa, dept
the name of ELIZASTiI Co[Cis, who had been diem, for home consumption, during the eon- "B
" On Monday, the Somerset House Lodge of Free- rids,.,, inar any house kept at Craw Ilii for the
ti ten years in the deniers of Lady Ilawxasstiav• tiauance of the Old BaHlay Sessions. To esta-
Manion* dinid Lc:ether, for the first time this eels- OnliVrii.rneo• of toont; rer,:oo.; of both War. to tort;
ware removed from his Lordship-1i house, in Coombe bhsh this claim, the City Butler was called, who .
*on, at the Free-Masons' taiern. Earl 1‘101INT•011-.she never sirid;thatif Bo I hshe with )a t mug t was
Wood. to Kingston Church-yard. ller Ladyship proved it had been the practice, with very few ex- '
ass in the chair. Amoug the professional Gentle- any other pereon, be vabahl kill lit-r:•vhe knew
,n gave directions for the funeral to be conducted in eeptions,libr the last ftayears, that the .wont-bear ,•r, s:
men iiresent, were Messrs. Hawn, ELLIOT, Lucre. -4 • 1 „uinu.,l Thornton, he tees r ems a an.striaturt of
.14 and PAGE. the most respectable manner. The corpse was con- beyond the wine drank at his tab? •. should take 1,,,,,;' he hell often wiitkr,ri wish, her „f„,,. the 31,_
rlO Ott Saturday evening, at the Theatre-Royal, veye.l in a hearse, followed by a mourning coaxli, hoswe three bottles per (hew, for hole, driokiiig• tiii,,,ipt mccuu4 wieui,„t.. after right oVock, aod
with six levant% an s carnage d her Ladyship' with For the Defendant, 'Air. Gar tow said, elthnueli
Iv' Nevvesztle, Aladaine CATAL•NI exhibited her vo-us late as ten rieloak,al night ; it •it ..4 three yen
six others; the whole of them dressed in white silk this practice it was true had obtained. it was mere
'"" cal powers to a numerous and genteel audience, lig, she here related familiarities that Thermo,.
u and acquitted bci.,,if in bet woe! style of exceii. 1C4116, and'w hate gloves. Tim funeral servicewa, matter of courtesy, mei not of pr.-sc,ipti,e right.— ht,l taken with her ; eleinogli they did nut antoctit
performed by M N
r. SANGSAT. Ciitt Sword-Bearer was an Office" of the Lard
1e:n.,.. -to the charge upiust the Delitudat.t, yet 1f..-
• .

- shelved she mast have be a very imprudent
y mog U •
sue Lows etster•Jusrice interfered, ;sod ad-
vised that tite lesion should be withdrawn, on the
punts. paymg their own Wets ; for; fAV111,69 ma-
tnne of the gut's own tiyideuve, it weever, mitalfu 1
•:-.s.ltiut what vcrdict.,:,ilie Jury could giro. 'The
Plaintiff seemed to he innocent of the misconduct
of his daughter, and it would lie severe if he were
obliged to throw away his wintry,
The Counsel on both sides consulted fora few
miuntin, and accepted of hi. Lordship's advice;
the record was accordingly withdrawn.
STIANGITIIARM V. TllOllAs ACIIMUTY. Esq.
This was nu actien brought to re.over seven
guineas, the price of u gold seal sold by the Plaits
tiff to the Defecelaut.
It appeared, that ,the Plaintiff was a seal en-
graver. liviiigip Pall-mull, and the Defendant a
I..inneuent in die Dragoon Guards. The Defend-
nut, in tellurian! with his brother, Capt. Achtnuty,
bespoke two seal* at the shop of the Plaintiff;
Captain Ai:blowy called for Ins, and paid for it; lie
was tilso so well pleased with it, that lie bespoke
suother, which he also paid for. The Defendaut
told the:Plaiutiff. when his seal was doer:, to call un
his agents, Messrs. Greenwood and Cox, and they
would pay hint; he accordingly did so. hut they
mid it was out of their power to pay any money
withont en order. The Defendant wrote the Plain-
tiff a truer, to his had-quarter., at Derby, men-
tioning the seal was finielied, and the answer he
had received from Messrs. Gtemiwood and Cox.
received en answer, to send Jowl' the impression
of thy Neel, and• be would send an order to Messrs.
G.venwooil cud Cox to pay him. The Plaintiff
accordingly sent the impression. On the 21st of
October, ltrOti, lie received a letter Irma the De-
finition, *eying, that the impression did not come
u,' to his este:choice' ; but he would be in London
.111 a short time, when he would point out what al-
terations lie wanted to he made in it.
The Plaiiitiff waited for six months without hear-
ing any thing utinsit the Defendant; at the expira-
tion of which time he wince, expressing his surprise
that be had neither heard from nor seen him, and
requesting that lie would send the payment for the
seal, as it lain over an unusual length of time;
to which the Defendant wrote the following it.i-
-fvere—.l the was surprised how the Plaintiff could
be in such a hurry ; thought he knew life better.—
The impression hr had received made him con-
vinced that the seal was inferior to the specimens
he bad seen in the Plaintiff's shop. He would be
some time or other in London, and what altera-
tion he might think proper to hove made,
it was likely he would take a lounge into the
Plaintiff's shop for that purpose, sonic morning-;
but the heat of the weather was then so intense, it
was impossible ter bun to commit the directions to
piper. He was anrry his brother had accepted of
his seal.' but it sliewed that his loother's taste was
inferior to his."
Several witnesses prove,?, that seven guineas **e
fair price for the seal.
it ees attempted to be set up, in defence. that
the seal was not of that exquisite kind contemplated
ail ordered by the Defendant; but it failed; and
t to Jury gave a verdict for the Plaintiff for seven
guinea*, and costs. forty shilling*.

lIIIMARET a. ♦LRI.A'ID/R.

This was an action for an assault of a trilling na.
ture, and the Jury gave a verdict for the Plaintiff.
v.-Dowsers is.
OLD BAILEY, WLDstitsuav, pit. 1.01 of
,
Thorns., Irrig,ht, an old man of So years of age,
'indicted fur a rape on Aune Wright, his awn
fraud-daughter, on the .30tii day of July lasts at
ottenhani.
The Prosecutrit staled, she was only 13 years
i last June; she went to her grandfather's, in
v last, to fetch him some nails ; upon her cnming
Ili!, roam. he immediately locked the door, and,
ig her, threw her n.l the bed. where he effect-
purpose. She said she did not make all the
tee she might to have done, she did not think
,:oing to do her any harm. she did not cry
sanl it %as, threeweeks before she told any
`Litt had happened, she then acquainted the
`lO was a nurse attending her mother.
Ippearing no Counsel for the Prisoner,
1 Judge (Cassia's) inttrrngsted the girl
ularly ; she said she had reason to re-
re before, that she had been at her
it was on Whitsunday, about a fort-
they returned to her lather's, at Tot-
ins at night ; they went through the
made au attempt upon her, but
'IIIIIIW ; they went home to4ether ;
time mike any coandamt • he
her lather's, and wanted her to
his house. which she refused ;
ier, bid her go fur them. and
e did so, it was shout seven as
4it ; she said her grandfather
it a quarter of a mile from
there are houses close on
.e belonged to a 11rs. Pa.
'r that evening ; she was
,ndfather lived in a room
a son and three fe-
living in the house with
11 not see any of them.
he house at the time,
Mures ou Loth sides
hacked the door
'tiding the mettle,
Id her what had
of .tugu-t.
at Tottenham.
re child Iwrtug
on the part
tis defence,
of a„;vinsit
be lived
ess
•
isi the
• story
tbst
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tumult, thew to Ana t verdict of guilty, on the
presemegc4sioo. Absolute and unconsenting force
was abaolutely essential to constitute the crime they
were taiimide on. In the present instance it was
no imputation-o,cm the contrary, highly creditable
to the feelings of the unfortunate girl, that her re-
lative situation with the Prisoner had so influenced
her testimony, us absolutely to negative that exist-
ence of resistance which could alone establish the
legal crime of the Prisoner I he, therefore, again
was sorry he could not safely recommend it to them
to find a verdict of guilty.
The Jury, however, retired to consider ; and,
after some time, returned with a verdict—Guilty.
Richard Weston, who had been put upon his trial,
yesterday, for robbing Eliz. Shaw, but acquitted
upon a mistake in the indictment, describing
her as widow instead of spinster, as stated
in our paper, was again triad upon a fresh indict-
ment. The matter this day teak a different turn
from what it appeared to have at the commence.
went of her story. It now turned out that the Pri-
soner had merely accompanied a man of the name
of Murphy, with whom the Prosecutrix had coha-
bited fur twenty-live years, and by whom she had
had fourteen children. This Murphy and she had
parted, as she said she did not choose to support
his idleness by her industry ; and he had been in
the habit, ut different times, of appropriating by
force what he could to his own use, and upon this
occasion had taken the opportunity of her absence
to miry off the money she had.
Under these circumstances the Learned Judge
(Gloss) directed the Jury to acquit the. Prisoner of
the charge of robbery. where the fact appeared to
be a scramble between two persons who had lived
together so long as man and wife. Verdict—Not
Moses Copeland was indicted for assaulting Ca-
therine Estliall, and taking from her !serum a
shawl and handkerchief. On Tuesday se'unight
the Prisoner stopped the Prosccutrit, in Swallow.
street, Mary-la-bonne, and snider pretext of charg-
ing her with having stolen a pair of stockings from
him ; dragged her. us if to take her before a Ma-
gistrate. when he took an opportunity of wiatellieg
her shawl from about her neck, mid a Illorikerenief
nut of her hand, with which lie made off. He was
pursued by some passengers, and taken.
The Jury found him guilty of taking, hut with-
out force, by which be escaped the capital part of
the charge.