The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-03-03 00:00:00

DUBLIN, Fes. 27.

Yesterday having been appointed by the Lord
Mayor for tint election of an Alderman, in the
room of the late worthy and much-regretted Alder-
man Hutton, the Common Council assembled, and
the Board of Aldermen having nominated the fol-
lowing Sheriffs' Peers, viz. Humphrey M!nchin,
Drury Jones, Mountiford John Hay, and John
Claudius Beresford, Esq the four gentlemen so no-
minated were sent to the Commons' House, sod
kiaacs being read. a ballot took place, when
For
er Mr. 114sesford • • . 108
Mr. May • . . 16
Teliors—Kr. Gifford, Mr. EfAlier, Mr. litocittv, and Mr.

Trier.
Mr. BERF.StrOIIO being then declared duly
elected, returned thanks for the very honourable
otwort he had received, and repeated his former
detieratiou.
Mr. Hie returned most grateful thanks, and
claimed the support of the Home on a future oc-
casion. After which Mr. Deresford was worm, mad
took his seat at the Board of Aldermen.
Oa Tuesday the Ker. Dr. Hopes. of Belga-street.
who Jived in compeer/ with • friend at Black-rock,
sear Dublin, on tots way home, unluckily took a
fancy to tlieStrand . the course by which to return.
Being deli et the time, the tide also cseiisg in, he
aniesed the amid route, and passed over, swinimmg
his horse peat part of the way, to the batteg,,- st
the Pipanaheniee, where he end his how became
victims to bit ion
1u the course of Tuesday reamireg foto Messen-
gers arrived st Windsor. with dispatches ftwm Mi-
lgrim, to His Mutter, : their contests cogaged
gin Magr.ser nearly the whole day.
The flexuaestea last Levees foe this seam, will
be on Saturday seat.
The Peggy, from Scotland, for London,
has been oAen, retaken, and earned into Driver.
The following texts Extrar:t from a Letter, dated
l'ayal, Western labinds. Jiumary 30, 100 b :
" I ssa this IliPliettt to emberk ; rename jut to add,
tbet ibe itritive arc re fell poss.:ono* of dams islands. A
'a, fAisabctb, Copt. cuitz ' ioe awned off here about
• week airier, from which ship alitr Pullets was pat ea
111101.0 WO • ietiat from OK Captahi to tba Zniikett eseenh
sod Ober lettms from the Goveruee-tieneral at Terceira,
%km she bare previsesq mapped, to the Goi•reer of this
'We- The Coimuli whose let'er I sax, wee requested to deli-
ver *Ng aniefrumed ter die Geier:lee withoot delay, as they
rehual to Ike coottoet to be ,rum-red by the pro* et thew
I,tends Mril4llll. the English, and their toreorieg, n emmequdorsie
of a requisition made by Sir S. MNITII, fiviu whose wommieuit
tie 74 was altalybed. The Armes hare slimys beau comi-
dercd the gamy), not only fur Lisbon, but Aso fee Madeira. I
whirl UU r place Is *treaty aecupiiii by gOOO Nritisb troy..
A Irma, esh:e tiro has beat frequently race u4l the island
eiMetheiramehetb parsed, from ahl,k there cat be No deebt
that troops are uses:ate be landed here and on Terceira sad
St. ich Tet 4i, should nix found leer sssry. It is no secret dist
.the Enetirh dialect every thin, as the French and Spaaiards
are obliged Wirt the Wand. French sad Spanish Coarnis
Save given to their cuinasissioas indeed, the Governor boa
suM to sue that a previewing. arrangetnrct, of which we had
bees spy-Al:in, ass foliahig by the directim of Sir St Da ICY
Mr. Fair, tr, the F.uelisti is sow °mapped
la ascertaining (se ca no harbour here) (a basun eons
be tamed, withoiet toe mach et:reuse."
We have authority to state, that th. Pamphlet
lately advert. led as a second part of the Inquiry
tam the Stine of the Nation, to be published by
11. D. Seamen", has no connection nhutever with
the work formerly published by Los tiaras, 11LRST,
Rzsa, and AMC, sad is utterly unknown to the
et thor thereof.
'Next Tuesday, the Stets Lott Pry besins dm% inT.
If moor Lid Cv. respectfully sic,. I/ ilia file 'Alike
that the rime is drawing very close forobteinius the
Capital Prizes la the State Lotte 7 ; end that the
dunce of the First Day is v.,' nettle, on account of
there being no Bred pnee.—limweet and Co. re.
c:aest their Mends sot to lux so Wipe:taut a consi-
detains

LAW INTILLMENCg..
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MARCH a

,
Sittings at Nisi Prigs ‘efirrr Lord ELVEN aoaou Gas.

NUISANCE.
nt! !<I NO V. LLOYD.
This was an indictment for a nuisance in Cock-
court, Soow-mill.
It appeared in evidence, that the Defendant
caused a wall to be built, from each side of Ills
house, across the court, which stopped the high-
way. It VIP proved that it had been a thorough-
fate, from time immemorial, and was lighted and
pitied by the Corporation. In defence tt was at-
tempted to be proved. that it was only a thorough-
fare by courtesy, and that the Defendant always
held the r..4•lit of intercepting the paisage when he
pleased; and when lie built the wall, lie wee not
offending against the Corporation, but only using
a sight vested in him, as the proprietor of a pi.t t of
the Court, The Jury found him Guilty.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAR, Gu t , M•wcx 2.

Sittings at Nisi Priui Lord Chief Justice
MANSVIELD.
snADpicic st. 111:Nitir ISAitcOUILT, iSQ.
This was ao action brought to recover !Mil. the
amount of a bond given by Defendant to Plaintiff,
in New South Wales. (Botany Bay.) The hand-
writing of the two subscribing witnesses to the
bond were proved on the pert of the Plaintiff.
Mr. Serjeaut DEBT addressed the Jury on the
part.of the Defendant. He att.!, he should prove,
that at the time his Client had signed this instru-
ment, he was not. in a situation to know what he
did. If he should shew theta: the time Defendant
signed the bond he was insane, or in a state of in-
sanity, occasioned by drunkenness, the Learned
Judge would tell them that they ought to give
their verdict in favour of his Client. The De-
fendant was son to an opule.a and most respectable
gentleman, the heir to a fin.: estate, and comieeted
with the family of a Noble Earl. Earl; in life he
entered into the army, where he was obliged to
fight a duel with a brother Dever ; they fought
with broad-swords, and Defendant received a
wound in the head, and ever since, when he drinks
any liquor, he becomes completely deranged in his
intellects, and behaves in the meat outrageous and
violent manner. Some years ago, he, by some
means or other, got a suoirof money, with which
he wandered from his frieuds, nobody knew whither.
His relations have since learned, that he went to
India on board the Glands East ludiaman as Mid-
icshipman ; that ship cast anchor at Sidney, in New
South Wales, where this unfortunate young gentle-
man became acqueinted with Mrs. Susanuah Shad-
dick, who was transported from this country, and
who was also a dathiug lady of pleasure, and with
her he cohabited while he remained on the islaiu!.
From thence he proceeded to India, when a relit- I
tire filed a high and important station in the Go-
rerovernt. He some time after returned to Sidney;
and °fie night, rhea in a state of lunacy, he was
prevailhd on biskehis woman, who Wei a notorious
prostitute, to sign the instrument in question, w.th
many others. at a-esia, wises he wurremthable of
acting rationally. The payment of the bond had
been refused by his friends, as they thought, that
front the situation he was in, he might have given
securities to se considerable amount, that the pay-
ment of thew might impoverish the estate; and they
therefore wisely resisted the payment of the present
one. The servant, who attended the Defendant
at Sidney, would prove in what situation he was
et the time the bond was executed ; and he would
also prove that Mrs. Shaddick mid the bond
for 101.
Harcourt, Esq. of Baker-street, Portman-
square, father to the Defendant, proved the signa-
ture to the bond to be his son's, and also that five
glasses of wine would make him outrageously violent.
lie added, that this was the consequence of a
wound in his head, which he received w a duel.
From the violence of his conduct. lie said it was
found necessary to keep him confined.
Philip Chalice, Gentleman, corroborated the
statement of last witness, with respect to the con-
duct of Defendant.
Elias Nathan, who attended the Defendant
while he was in Sidney. clicposed, that he knew the
Plaintiff ; she is a woman of pleasure ; remem-
bers attending the Defendant, who cohabited
with her. • He was very much addicted to liquor,
and when drunk was sometimes mischievously in-
clined, sod at others might be persuaded to do any
thing ; remembers perfectly his executing a bond
lathe time he was not capable of knowing what he
ed. There stood up-in the table half a gallon of
grog. and under it was alsg of mutton. The sub-
acnhing witnesses supped there; previous to De-
/indent signing the bond, Plaintiff and hr quer-
relied, and he roireived a blow from a tea-pot, winch
cut him, and the mark of which he bears. Plaintiff
coaxed him to sign another bond, as the first one
was of no use, being witnessed by a convict.
On his croes-exainination he admitted he was
transported for receiving a inl. note, knowing it
to be stolen. Never heard of Mrs. S. having paid
any of his debts. Defendant was imprisoned for
debt in Sidney. but released on the Governor's
priming his word for the debt.
Lord Chief J nstice MaNsriELD summed up the
evidence, and the Jury found for Defendant.

Mr. Ram:. and Mr. MaiNwartixohaving
eupressed their full determination to put the
Police Act rigorously in force. in order to clear the
streets of London of that disgraceful and dan-
gerous description of robbers—the pick-pockets--
the city of IVestminater has been pretty dear
since the brniging of Bill Semmes, and his gam,
before the Suom.
At the Rev. AUGUSTUS BIZTOII'S sale, in Nor-
ielt, last week, a 2-year old male-ass was sold for
251. 10s.
Next Tuesday the State Lottery begins Draw-
ing ; and as there are no Capital Prises Reed for
any di.taiit dare, those who purchase before the
Draaithr. begins. have au evident advantage over
tlsae who buy after, as all the Capitals may be
drawn the first day. T. BIM, therefore, advises
the Public to purchase as early as possible at his
old established Offirci, No. 4, Covahill, sod 9,
Charing4'ross, where 3R Capital Prime were
shared ant sokl in the lest year, including two
prizes of ",40.000.-I'rlsti pail o.t demand.