The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-02-13 00:00:00

Goorge 4i6,:ortio was exami,ted for stealing two hmtettr-
ehiefe from the
.shup of hire. loan, in Hackne)-Turd,
Sh,.rrditch.

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'l' he SI stairret ATE gave him Lis choice, either tube tr
at the ma Hanley, ur go on buard the Tender, sr hen he pre-
fci a ed the former.

tOOPPADS.

In consequence of the murder of Lieut. John-
son, of the navy, on the Greenwich-road, and tile
numerous footpud robberies in other parts, the
Bow-street patrole have been partieu!arly achy%
lately. On Thursday evening, betwien biz and
seers o'clock, us a party was on duty on Ball's-
pond-road, Islington, they observed four stout men,
of suspicious appearance, in a lane near the
turnpike. They went to them with un intention of •
taking thou into emstody ; the fTllows, however,
made off, and the ;,,itrole pursued them ; I'm when
Cross was running en the footpath, had" the turn-
pike, one of the villains discharged a pistol from
the other side of the turnpikesigitte, the halls of
which provideutially misted him, and unfortunate-
ly this villain and another of them, who "at seen to
have a pistol in his hand, wade their escape.--
The pond, cause up with the other t 4,,, and pre-
riviite..l pistols to them, teliiag them if they at-
tempted to make any snore rtaistance they would
blow their brainsvout, when they surrendered.
On searching them, no fire-arms were found,
nor any dangerous weapons. They were Gillen to .
Bow-street Office, and underwent att eu.ainiuution
before MT. Ryan. They said their names ogre
Michael Comm. and Jaws Kelly; and that they
worked on board vessels in the river Thames.
They were very properly examined separately;
their itceionts of where they had been, &c. con-
tided tolerably well. They were taken from the
office to be conveyed to New Prison. Sion atter,
Mr. David Sammie. of Grove House, 1 ottenhain,

accompanied by a friend, entered the °Mee to , mte
an account of their having been robbed by 1.... r
footpads on the above evening, about six o'clock, on
liall's-pond-rimi, when they were travelling in a
tingle-Irirse clmise, from I%r. S.'s connting-house,
in Fountain-court, Ole Bethlem. The robbers
were inconsequence brought into the once, epic*
ahem) Mr. Sainuda identitad a brown paper lur-
ed, found upon Connor, containing some currants,
of which he had been robbed. Mr. Samuda's
friend believed Kelly to he one of the other rub-
bers, and stated that they were forced out oldie
chaise; when he observed two of the robbers to be
armed with pistols, and two not.
Late on Thursday night the patrele apprehended
three °thermic their lodging at Ratcliffe Cross,
',Feted of being concerned with the Prisoners is
committing robberies. Ou Friday they masker-
went an examination before Mr. READ, whorl a
gentleman, who has lately been robbed, atteilaivd,
and identified a six-pence found upon one of these,
of which he had been robbed; in consequence he
was committed ; the two others were discharged,
there being no ground for debt' • g them.
HUSH i4111"11Alm.S.
In consequence of an information, Jacob West,
a very stout athletic Irishman, upwards of six feet
high, was brought from Woolwich, where he as'
resided for some time and carried on the trade of
a butcher, and married a native of that mplame,
charged ou suspicion of having committed liVteria
murders in 'reload, and bring one of the leode!* is
the late rebellion. Ile is likewise suspected cat
having robbed a moil in Imneasimire. The prisoner
requested to know upon what charge he wm:s
brought to the office ? On hie being informed he
desired to ere his prosecutor; lie having only been
identified as time person against whom the informa-
tion war lodged. Ile was told he would see the
prosecutor on a future day. The prisoner said, he
thought they wanted to cause another rebellion,
and supposed every thing that had been done in
Ireland had been dropped ; but if he were :o be
tried for any thing done there, he hoped he should
be tried by an English jure ; for if he were to l.a
tried by an Irish jury, the business might as
be then settled, as the Irish delighted to get di wilt
with their countrymen's blood. He wan conitni‘ted
for farther examination.
NYS EBY.

On Wednesday eve.mig, between the hours of
andp, a fine infant, about 19 months o7d,
to a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Red Lien--
square, was stolen from a eut in is loom on the ti!-t
Boor, with only about four yards of flannel or •,
and two dresses which were at lider it. The (11;.,i
W4l put into the cot about seven o'clock, iii
nursery. The ourserprnaid. said some other ser-
vants, were in an adjonsite.:. MOM. At nine o'cloch,
when the nursery-maid went into the nursery, the
child we, gone, and althou4l. she was in the ad-
joinial mous, she diet not lacer any person bro its, nor
any noise. No person heard the street door open
.hut, and the whole circumstance remain,/ an
extraordinary mystery. The another of the infant
is dead, and DO cause can be assigned for any of the
family conveying the infant away. • The father n it
London ou Monday, for the Noi di of Enrlend
There were two other children, the one about ten,
and the other eight years of age, asleep in the *Awe
room, and neither of them were sboturbed.
Captain EUITACfr, of the .21iidellortiqoons. son 4.•
the late LientenantsGeoeral ElltiACE, died at Lie-.

boil on the 15th of January, iu conaequence d thl
'wounds had received at the hat:le ~j Vitnei
the tat u: August.