The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-02-20 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, Fc■. 19.

This day several causes were Liu! before Sir
Nests Cause. The only trials capable of exciting
any NA.: interest, were the following :
Wes. 11 .iltuin was charged with stealing, in the
dwelling house of Jeremiah Crowley, near Lime-
house, on the 22d of January, 11 guineas, and 3?
half guineas, the property of Charles Hurley.
Th. Plaintiff, who is a labourer in Deptford Dock
Yard, lodged in the same room with the Prisoner,
whom he, and his bedfellow, left on the morning of
the 29 h, in bed. They proceeded thence to the
Dock Yard, to their daily labour. The Plaintiff
recoiled. perfeftly well, that on the preceding even•
ing his money was safe, in a trunk, in the room in
which they all three slept. In the evening, after
work, the Plaintiff returned, found his trunk broken
epee, and the little stock which he had, with great
labour and frugality, saved during two years, taken
away ; his suspicions immediately fell on the Pri.
wiser, who was observed on that day to have lie.
sleeted his usual occupation, and made an °menu-
lions display of his ill•gntten wealth, to his compa-
nions. He was immediately apprehended, and the
officers found on him a silver watch, which he had
purchased on the day of the robbery, together with
the greater part of the money stolen. The money
was produced in Court, folded up in two pieces of
linen, which the Prosecutor swore were the same in
which he himself had folded them, when last he
added a trifle to his little hoard. The Jury, on the
most satastaftory evidence, found the Prisoner—
Gear,— Deaih

Grurge Afrv, a boy of eleven years of age, was
fe) and Guilty of stealing several pair of ►hoes and a
pair of boots, from a shoe-maker in Mary-la-
born-.
Joh,' Liinsow was charged with stealing a writ-
ing desk, value 30s. from the Prosecutor's( Thomas
Handlord) shop in the Strand. As he was ob.
snored in the ad of stealing it, and the desk im-
mediately after found on him, the Jury, without
a moment's hesitation, found him Guilty.
Richard Wood was inditted for stealing from the
shop of his master, Abraham Slade, a butcher in
Tottenham-court Road, a beef stake and a mut-
ton chop, value eighteen-pence. Slade, and his
apprentice, Bedford, proved the theft ; but as it
was acknowledged by the Witnesses to be the privi-
lege of the faculty to lay by psivily a tit-bet fax
themselves, and as the Prosecutor himself lamented
having brought the matter into Court, since the
Prisoner had always borne the best character pre-
vious to his deteetion in the present affair, the Jury
brought in their verdia Net Gail!". His Lordship
observed, that although the Jury had been so far
aCtuated by humanity, as to give their verdidt in the
teeth of the evidence adduced, yet neither the Pri-
soner or the public were to consider this verdia as
aan►lioning, in any form whatever, the custom of
streams' purloining any part of their matter.' pro-
perty.
Joarpk Watkins was fosond Grillo of stealing four
pigs, valued in the indiftmeat •tt 41. but the Jury
were induced, from ►amp circumstances adduced
its his defence, to find him Bratty of stealing only
to the amount of 395.

The Juno transport, Captain Arroaasom, is cap-
tured at Buenos Ayres.
The trial lot the murder of Mr. Sven' will com-
mence at the Old Bailey, this day, at ten o'clock.
Considerable pains have been taken, we noder-
stand, to have the soldier belonging to the German
Legion, charged with the murder of a woman near
St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet, removed to Maid-
stone gaol for Trial, contrast' to the privileges J f
Dover, within the Jurisdiction of which place the
crime was committed ; but the exertions for the pur-
pose have tailed, and the Praiener remains in Do-
ver gaol.

CIT r PUS INBES.

Ye sterday, as a sufficient number of
did nit att nd to constitute a Court,
could be transaflod.
A. Court of Common Council was
held, which was ettmereusly attended.
The several Comniitten for the year
and also the Comrcissionets of Sewall.
The flight Hon. the Loco Kayo.
the Costit a letter he had received from
General Sir .7oliti St 'IA ar, K.B. in answer
Thanks voted to him by the Court, fer
eminent services at Koda ; which was I
ordered to be entered on the Journal

ceedmps.
On a Report from the Coal and Corn
an applicAtton W 29 agreed to be made to
for a Bill to consolidate the several laws
the Coal Tract"...
The Committee of City Lands presented a
port for treating with the Governors of the Lona,.
Institution, for a scite of the lease of Blackwell.H4,
which was ..greed to. and the Committee ,
consider of terms 1, r the same.
Several Pet;tions fer leases and otherwise
presented. and referred for ezarninat.on : a,
other business of importance was tramafted.

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NAVAL INTIiLLICM CZ,

PORTSIVOUT 111, .
Arrived Hi. Majesty's ship Crocodile,
Gwrosey.—Wind N.V. blows hard.
P I.TMOVTN,
Sailed the Princess Royal man of war,
ham; the American ships Galles. .44r,
Copenhagen. and Hen:wild, NielvAle.
gen.—Wind S.W.

The Pipeoa. Cot L 'TT, and the Horqy ,
Twine', of and horn London. sailed from
nado, about the 21st Novi.mber. for Engl.,
The Betsey, Ft.fen, from the West Indies,
near Londonderry.

The Diana. Hot.t.IIROOK, bound to Rah:more,
returned to Liverpool, w.th damage, havlng
run foul of, off the I,le cf Mar..

The Bristol Packet, D A lig from Liverpool,
to America, has been captured by a Spanish
tee!, off the Rock of Lisbon, retakes& by
cutter, and sent into Falmouth.
The Bogard, GALES, from London
mouth, is lost in the Downs.

The RUBY. from Lonsl
lin, is captured, and carried into Morlaix.
The Anna, .Ataxamssa (an American).
St. Ives for Leghorn, is captured by a Saudi
privateer.
The Alerwaret, noftnoa, from Whitehaven '
London, was driven on shote, 2d •
peachy.
The Henrietta, MARTIN. from Aberdeen
London, was captured on the 30th ult.
tear, and is since lost.
It appears from a paper laid before the
Commons, that the tollowing Peasants',
have been ;ranted, between Ist April. '
Ist Jan. 156 r, as far as regards Ireland :
Dugald Calup`sall, Esq. and Cath,;iie his ride •
alear.
!Cilia Hon. I. Corfft ditto.
NIS. Ella. Marsden, ....Vt. of Alec Marts .n,
The daugStert of Sir Thomas reathitratone. dints.
Light Honourable Italic Corry, time ada menet.
The Wife of Sir William AlliSlStal Vitt. 1301
A Letter from Yarmouth, dated February
says—" This morning, about three o'clock, a
violent gale Came on from the N. E. Several
geld' have been wrecked, two on Scroby
The Snipe gun-brig, with French prisoners,
another vessel, are on shore on the South
two on this Beach ; four on the Winterton
a ship is seen bating botsoal upwards;
riding with all her masts eat away ; several
running through under hare poles. The
war ride will with their top-roasts and yards
but the gale still continues at N.E. It •
much damage has been done on the
Coast.
We feared that the gale of Tuesday night
do much damage to our alaippiug. Unrc
our fears were too well fonnAed. O:
Correspondent has transmitt.d us a most
sing account:—At day light, on Wednesday moist-
lag, eight vessels were seen on shore, Isetwetu
the South end of Deal and Kingsdown, a distance
of about 21 miles ; two large %Vest Indiamen were
wrecked, close by Deal Castle; two more ships near
NValmer Castle ; four more vessel. are on shore to
the southward of the same place ; seven or eight
were seen in the Downs dismasted ; betwtea
forty and fifty parted their cables, and were blown
oat of the Downs. —A ship of war is supposed to
have foundered, and all the crew perished, as the
bodies of some marinas have been washeckon_shore.
The gate had not- enlasidesr When the post left
Deal, and a dreadful night was apprehended.

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PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Ilank Steck IISI
3 per Cent. Reduced ,
per Cent. Cumuli ti"tit
4 per Cent.
5 per Cent. Navy , • . 9.4 96
Lostg Annuities 17:3 1G
Imperial Ditto N 1-16
India Bonds 3s. 4t. preen.
F.i.tehequer BAIA ts. dir. Is. picas.
Consols for
T. RISII. Stock-husker.
4. Gnahill, and 9, Chaiitry•ve.s._

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