The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-12-03 00:00:00

TOWN lIALL, SOUTHWARK.

7./11/SENTIONS BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND THE
BOROVOH
At the last July Sessions held at the Town Hatt, the lies
corder granted expenses 'to several of the Witnesses who
siteuded on erimioal proseentitnes, and issued an order
fur the payment of the lime to the County Treaseter,
who, in the opinion of the legal officers of the Corpoia.
liuu wJs amenable for the same, because the County levies
most enormOna rites on the Illsrungb, amongst which the ex.
primes of witnesses was inchided. Application was accordingly
made for the payment of those expenses, and resisted by the
Treasurer, un the ground that expenses were never granted
to sny of the witneisrs aitem;ing the Assizes at Croydon ur
Kingston ; but on a subsequent application, he declined
giving any answer till he had taken the opiniuus of the Beiich
of Magistrates at the Sessions on the question, who coaceiverl
it One of such magnitude. that they did Out think themselves
qualified to decide ott its merits; bet recimuntesiletl the
Treasurer to persist iO his refusal till sued for the money.
—Such of the constables as were interested laid there cases
before the presiding Alderman, who mentioned the same to
the Court, said from thence it was referred to the City collet.
tur to file legal proeerdines against the Treasures of the
County. Accordingly Mr. Primary, (sou of the High Bailiff)
made application to the Court of King's Bench for • *coda.
stns against the Treasurer, calling on him to pay the arum-
gild repeaters issfaisfer ; bid the learned Judges were of
opinion, that the proper made would be by iadietmetit.
At the last Sessions, which concluded un Saturday, no ex-
penses were awarded, and it is rtimuurrd that a meeting of
the inhabitants is shortly to take place, to consider the best
meatus of akugither throwing out the county, and rendering
the rates throughout the whole Borough recoverable by the
City of London.

It will be seen iv an Advertisement in the front
of our Paper, thut MMs M ACA LET will entertain
the public with her Regalie to-morrow night, fur
the lad time prepratoly to her appearance on the
basal.; of Covent Garden, in a new tragedy.
Sir HOORRT HERON, accompanied by Lord
MILTON, annulled Peterborough the week before
last.

A writer in the Glasgow Chronicle says--rt
am assured, that at Kiloyth there may be seen at
drill a corps of yeomanry in one field, and in an
adjoining a corps of radicals, at a similar exercise."
On the Stith ult. a destructive fire broke out at
one of the extensive cot►on mills belonging to R.
OWEN, Esq. of New Lanark, which, but for the
outlast)* and toiremitted exertions of the numerous

workpeuple employed in this establistiment, would
have probably communicated to the remaining mills
and other vsluaole work'''. We are happy to stale
sin lives were lost, and that the property was insured.
On Friday last, au lequitfition was Add is Setterton Fen,
Lincolnshire, before Mr. Muslin, Coroner, as view of the
body of a tine child, aged months, named Clifton Baker,
who being left with another child, about a year older, by
the mother, while she went to the tient house to fetch some
fuel, on her return site found it enveloped in flames: the
other child would have shared the same (ale, but it provi-
dentially had on a stuff frork at the time. Verdict—Acci-
dental Dealk.—And on Saturday an Incitiest was held by
the above Coroner, at Tattershall, on the body of George
Hall, whet died (roan she effects of taking poison; and a hat
rendered die case doubly distressing was, the wife of the
uofurtuuate man bad been confined to her bed for mine
time by a severe fit of illness, and lived just lone enough
know that her husband had committed the fatal deed, when
rite also expired. Verdict—That the said George Hall,
latiorrriag *ado, a depresiloa if spirits, is a fit of tem-
porary derusysment, poisolia hinny.