The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-07-18 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Mize Carter and Anse Connor, two young prostitutes, were
yesterday committed for robbing a discharged gentleman's coach. '
man of his watch and six sovereigns.
The prosecutor. when be discovered the robbery, attempted first
to cut his throat and afterwards to drown himself.
HATTON..6A=IIC
II re riw AT RODBElT.—Yesupday Mown! ifentoirohl and
William Locke wile brought up Gime Islington watehhotror,
charged with robbing Mrs. Andantes, a raapateakia darkly woman,
of a muff:box and money, on the King's highway.
The prisoner Macdonald, on being placed at the bar, showed an
extraordinary anxiety to speak, he having formerly belonged to the
legal profession, but the Magistrate told him it might be more
prudent to reserve his points of law for another occasion.
The complainant then stated, that having dined with a friend at
Islington, on Sunday, she was induced to remain out later than
usual, and haying declined en escort, she wu returning home alone
at a little eleven o'clock. As she was coming down St. John.
street, she ed a box out of her pocket to take a pinch of snuff,
and at thososement the ptisoisere sad by, when Macdonald cud.
daily tamed !awed. and oritl" pan allow me to take a lied'
of Few IGOE Bitelan ?" Min respaatability of the ma's
appsanume ea was induced to wide the requeat, but she no
wow posentod the box than made a violent grasp at
it, Ind reenteded in forcing it ant her hod. together with a silk
losilkerehief, and instantly roads of. Preaseutrm then called the
wane, end gave Locke is evonidy, and the oilier being pursued,
WS arireeMbea at Islington thropike. Is Wigton wu a sovereign
and a half orwereign, but thigh the box was hand on his parson
no trace e the nsonep ba had. With to Locke she
had no Oarss to prAr, ' thot It to her that he was
tn=z with then** .
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not *mg that on acquaintance of Illarienald's,
but bo oaltaenly dsoloood *NV no ides that ho could have
been tunable of such an nandonlp diegrooshal. act.
Mr. Lawn then ordosithisa,_ 'moved from the bar, and
he was adadUed araseo lit liefghlinrstron of the mike?).
The 14: that it trim only a " We( fun :" he had
seethe
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Jr the di Mira eitter-box, and
so toiltetainidgdoin she hod si if &re we any In it, he
Was asclaie ir swat lan out. Be Woo dm lanceitilleg to

abuse his companion, when the Magistrate told him that he had
!better reserve his defence for a Jury.
The parties were then bound over, and the prisoner was fully
committed for trial.
EXCHANGE NO Roastwy.—Frederiek If elf y, one of those
nice " boys" who annually come over to this country from the far-
famed isle of Erin on various speculative missions, was brought
up in the custody of Davis, the constable, who attends lady Hun-
tingdon's Chapel in tipafiekis,- charged with exchanging an old hat
fur a new one, withont the consent or privity of the owner.
The officer stated that the gentleman who claimed the hat found
on the prisoner had not come Inward to prosecute, but there were
two other gentlemen in attendance who witnessed the transaction.
The Alagistrate (Mr. Lai wo) said that if the owner did not
think proper to attend, the charge must necessarily be dismissed.
The prisoner, however, would not be satisfied without putting
in a justification, and begged leave to say a few words for himself.
He had been accused of an Intentional robbery, which, after all,
was nothing more titan " a bit of a mistake." He was only three
weeks in London, and as he came expressly for the purpose of tak-
ing observations, he rambled out on Sunday morning, and the first
thing that struck him, stuck up on the walls, was the name of ould
" Ireland," in great birietters. All his nationality wasawakened,
and on further perusal of the placard, he discovered that some bene-
volent clergyman was going to preach a surnuatt at S)nfields Chapel,
the proceeds of which were to go in aid of the funds of that excellent
Society who had laudably undertook the Evangelization of his poor
countrymen. Admiring the motive, he resolved to go there him-
self, and contribute his mite towards it ; however, when the snr.
mont was about half over, he felt an uncontrollable inclination to
get out, and in his hurry lie happened to mistake another gentle.
man's hat for his own, and though there was a slight difference be-
tween them, he solemnly protested that lie did not perceive it at the

moment.
LAtwo told him that he might deem himself very fortunate
that the owner did not some forward to prosecute, or perhaps he
would be taught to be more particular in future..

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Daly, a stout thick-set 'Tishman, was brought up on an
order of filiation, by Mr. Davis, an overseer of St. Giles's. Tl•e
poor creature whom he had abandoned had two clean nice-looking
children, which site swore to Daly as their fattier. The order was
signed by the Alagistrates, and Daly sent to gaol fir want of bail.
lie said he hsd had a hurt some time ago, which prevented his
going to work ; therefore, being out of employ, he could make no
provision fur his illegitimate children.
Daly has married another (an Irishwoman), who stood at his
side while the order tras affirmed, holding a child in her Arms, the
offspring of Daly ; /he appeared perfectly unconcerned for the fate
of her husband, but eyed the mother of the two children with a
sort of triumphant satisfaction, not at all creditable to one who had
been the means of separating, if not man and wife, at all events
the parents of two children who are now to become inmates of the
workhouse. .

The mother, for the last four months, has had scarcely sufficient
to sustain nature, as her appearance indicated : she looked meagre,
wan and delicate, and cried bitterly when pointing to him as the
father of her two children, whom her word was justly to consign to
a dungeon, though he remorselessly left her and his children to
starve. The parish-officers have had great trouble to take him,
both by his elusions and the assistance of his countrymen.
As the parties were leaving the office, the wife, her sister-in-law,
(it was said) and another woman, pounced on the mother, tore off
her bonnet, cap, and hair, and knocked her on the stones. Another
woman who went to her assistance was knocked down also; in
fact, four women were on the floor at one time, and but for the in-
terposition of the officers the affray might have been dreadful. The
mother, the wife, and another woman, were again brought into
the office, where the scene of the passage would have been rehearsed
had not the constables each taken one to separate them.
The wife accused the mother of taunting her; the mother denied
it, and was borne out by the evidence of a third. The wife was
sent to the lock-up room to find bail. Except the tearing of her
clothes, the mother has not received any injury.
John Catlin, who has been three times tried, was fully com-
mitted for trial for picking the pocket of a gentleman near Exeter.
'Change on Sunday evening.
Daniel Riordan, the patrol, stated that he saw the prisoner fol-
lowing a gentleman, and that the companion of Catlin took the
handkerchief from the gentleman and gave it the prisoner, who
tucked it into the flap of his trowsers and made tip the Strand. In
going aft r the prisoner his companion escaped.
Catlin told the stale story of picking it up near the 'Change.
A beggar named Young, who lives in the Kingsland-road, was
brought up for begging on Sunday io the New-road, Sr. Pancras.
The prisoner seated himself at the corner of the street, with a good-
sized label appended to his neck, exciting the sympathy of the chs.
citable and humane to the dis.reases of " a sick wife and three
small children, and the father a long time out of work !" 31agis-
trates are very inquisitive, and constables very prying; for the for-
mer extracted from old Young that his wife was gone to Riming-
ham, and the three small children were otherwise disposed of than
gasping on the couch of the sick mother. The constable produced
some cards found in the pocket of the prisoner, announcing " Good
accommodation by the night may be bad at the sign of the -,
in K.ngsland-road;" and " A ttiogle woman can be accommo-
dated with a good room." Five slaillinss and aevenpense sere found
oo the prisoner. He said he had kept a house, and paid 60/. a-year
test, in Warren-street, Fitzroy-square; that his wife being gone
into the country, be was doing the best he could by begging and
accommodating strangers, to make up a month's rent for his landlord.
He was committed under the Vagrant Act.
A man named Fenton, who keeps a shop and lodging-house in
Church-lane, St. Giles's, was ordered to find bail for stabbing an.
other man named Rix, at half-past twelve on Saturday night.
There are four rooms on a floor in Fenton's house, which are let in
separate tenements. Rix had been to sea a tenant on the third
story, who robbed him. The woman and he had some words,
which ended in a scuffle, in which some panes of glass were broken,
murder shouted, and the street aroused. The evidence was so con-
tradictory la to make it doubtful whether Rix cut himself or Fen-
ton stubbed him. Rix gave the prisoner in charge, but did not
come to the office to support it.
Catherine Donovan was remanded, on a charge of stealing a Sli-
ver spoon from the house of the Misses Webster, in Upper York-
place, on Saturday afternoon, while delivering some cream.

SIR WAI.TRR_... scor: i,
TO THE EDITOR,
Sti,—l have seep to.day in your papas copy of a letter I bar.?
bikamet
received from Sir Walter Scott some years .a As I have always
thought, and still think, that the pat fry a letter without
the knowledge of its writer is a breach of _ jams haft todeclare that lam a perfect snarler to it. 111. 4.0411*, a PatiAim
bookseller, and the editor of my translaties of the novels of the
author of Waverky, in a visit to Loudon, four Or five years ~,,,.
requested of me that letter only as an object of curiosity ; and ;:i
did not attach any importance to it, I gave It as a mow of num.
1 I have been very much surprised, after such an WNW of urne,
to hear that he had caused a fac-simile of it to be made, and in„
serted in a new edition of the said novels. If that circumstance
wound the feelings of any one, nobody can be inure sorry for it
than I am ; and I have written to 51r. fiftieth) to express to him
my displeasure at an act to which he has never been authorized
by me.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient, humble
servant, DEPALTCONNItI.
• No. 5, Robot-street. liampstead-rood, July 16.