The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-01-19 00:00:00

ILLUMI.V.4TIONt

The places of publlc awns-merit, the houses of
several of the Nobility. Gentry, and principal
tratle.people, ware illuminated as natal. The pre-
vailing devices were, as tn.nal, C. R. with wreaths
and festoons, in plain or variegated lamps ; hut the
density of the fog deprived theta of ail interest and
eNect. To illuminate last 'night was, triage a %al-
gae ehilliON,. actually !",to pot 11 CaPdif under. a
tw.hel." The most brit Inint were scarcely discernible
from the ropiraAte twit of the 'street. Tits follow-
ing were among the nye,t conswennue
ST. JAM EIVS-STit IRET.
All the 4.cslneetption Honors displayed the litters C. R.
with the cr.*, and star, eurtssaded by &stows of varie-
gated Imps.
PA LI.- MA IL.

Mr. K r Huslc•L S• Lou ar—As elobiaM futons of
variertted lamps.
IT. JAMES'S SQUARE.

TM► SonnaTrizina Horst:—A brilliant star, war-
mounted by the emirs, and the ireltars C. K. is varirgated

PICCADILLY.

Mr. HATCHARD, ROOILVIELLIR TO HEIL M•JIIITT
C. R uul a lad ham cruuu, iu v.trngltcdla...pe
Orr n• Itt bt-9k large C. It Cr,.. 4, and festout.s Of
lamps.
LVOV. V TUCATHE -C. R. aurmuuated by the crown
in variegated I wire.
C H F. 121•4 C STREET, STRAND.

iNClLtel'o cIItATILF—A targt U. K with a crown in
vanegaied lambs, and a new Iransp►reocyr specifyiug the
novelties perfutoici! at this 'theatre.
LUDGATE HILL

RUNDLE and Bat DGE—A aunt beautiful device, On each
aide C. R. with festosinv 01 coloured larups; iu the ccutre, •
star, enraniunted with a beautiful crusts, at the buttes,
two diasuad•.
IlL•uas—.o R. sal a Crown, is plain laisps.
sr PAUL'S CHINCH-YARD.

Pr LLATT AMIII ( RIM —Oa esch side C.-R. •in the cen-
tre a star, surmounted by a beautiful crows, and encircled
by intones of cc/Wowed lamps. •
Naatc awn BAY Lglf •••(.. R.; is the centre a crows
is Moored lamps; a Lesuttfed piller WI each side.
MANSION-HOUSE.

la the centre a etar auras.natted by a beautiful crows, eau'
C. K. in pima lamp', encircled by wreathe of laurel.

Feathers, of viiri..us C01Q01.1., were rwitch worn at
Court t esterday. Their Royal Highnesses Pilot
ELIZAIIRTH and AIJOUST t wore large white ostrich
pigsties; the Colinte.4 of Lanni.. a beautiful white
plume; theChuotessHoweger *whit,
.plume; the Mirehilooles of CuaawALt ts, a very
huoilisoiiic white plume ; the Coimbra. of Cores.
SAY, a brown a.ad Hue plume; Mum Datitiwoos,
a purple p.uate ; Miss thI.DEIOILISTELL, a whet•
mid pods plume.
The concourse of people around the Palaces
yebitlAily. was numerous thaw has been wit-
nessed for many years, on a similar 1/CC4IIIOII. The
wifitvourablehesa of the weather prevented the
usual ciospiay of cle4aist females, who geuerally
adorned the balconies of St. Jiutes's-street.

Th. Countess of litsueroa hod a 'most saperb
dress made for timng to Comt. yertrnbeF, but her
Ladyship was rtvrateti by ititwo,itttm.
The Nubs wire, yesterday, tilled with the *Lit-
ing ainateu.s. mud the oi,u J hustle prevailed. We
did not notice atuougst than any persons or thatinc-
lion.

The fog was so thick, last night, :pt.l the con-
sequent confusion of the ca►riage, in St. Jaax•s'.-
Street, so great, that the Lvitr• • to very rooc!t
alarmed, end tnany left then' cartatie4, slid *cat
home in sedan chairs.

SURRY SESSIONS, JAL ie.

ILIOU C. IMAM
•Tlr;s was an indictment against the Defendant
for an dimwit. It appeared in evidence. that Julid
Page, the Prosecutor in this case, is a professor of
the histrionic net, and the Defendant proprieicti of •
the several nwerable 'rbratres; one of these had bete
hired by the Plaintiff at a weekly rent of five 'hi!.
lingo, and he had exhibited in various ports of the
town and ,:ouutry. It appeared, that, during the
Late disturbances at Covent-Garden Theatre, the
more sedate and respectable part of the community.
having been deprived of their usual rational amtuse•
two, had resorted in greater numbers than was usual
to the Plaintiff 'a exhibition, to enjoy, undisturbed
by noise and tumult. the chaste and splendid rein.--
sentatton of some of the most popular productions
of our irnnao►tal bard. This influx of compuity
rendered the cuncern more than usually
productiv-, the Defendant wished, if possible, to get
the mansgentent of the Theatre ■gain into his
own hands; mid the Plaintiff not being punctual
in the payment of the weekly stipend, the Defends
ant went to the plitee where the Theatre was then
standing, roily one morning, when he found the
PlAiutift busily employed to attain 4ing the
scenery, &l. preparatory to the repreenstatien
of th ii grand spectacle, intruder the Great. The
Defendant stated his wish to the Plaintiff, who not
giving up poswasion so readily as he wished, he
proceeded to eject him by a very summary promos.
namely; first knocking him down with a mop. sad
then toosictieg him uff the stage with I pail of aster.
with which the Plaintiff was about to have re.
freaked the windows of the Royal Palate of De*
The Jury fontid the Defendant guilty, mid the. -
Court sentenced him to one mouth's imprimis.
saseut.
The business of the sessions being einiehtded.
the Court was adjourned in the usual form.

NORFOLK SESSRA'S.

At these Sessions, an important case of sedge •
meet Caine on to be heard, in which the parish of
Keatford. Suffolk, were Appeliants, and the pariah
of North Upham, Norfolk, Respendeute.
The appeal was against an order of cement of
It female pauper, named Lucy Worledge, from
North Lnpliain to Kentford, at which latter *nee
it was conteadird, on the part of the K-spoodents,
Mast a tettlerneut had (iron acquired, by binug sad
service far a year. To prove this, the 'mow her.
self, a girl of 16yean of age, wee celled, who stated. •
Mutt a little before Michaelmas, three or four years
ago, being with her motherut Kenatnehall petty
*emote., a person of the name of William Boaell
elms Up and gave her mother a i xpeuee, bat did
ilia tell her e hit it was for, anal wept *wily.. Shortly
after,. Mr. Cooke, cif Noted' Lopliam, approached,
said asked her mother if she knew what the sip,
pewit was given for ? end her mother aUSWeTed ia
the oegative. Cooke then told her that Om
pence letting ninety, Noddle (the. paupettx:
to go to ii,„tro,Ni, auto the OCINIENI•of a )ie.
B ,well, the brother of Willi ran Unwell, aid he an•
etioreg•d her to go. When the pamper sod bee
mother returned home to North Peplum. the lat.
ter acqsainted a Mr. Worledge (eraudfather of the
limper) with what had happened, who said, she
(the pauper) should not go, assignios as ire tea on,
that there might be the same bad folks at Kratlad
as there were at .Lopharn, in which expert*a he
alluded to the eireunistante of the pauper's naothite
11.1,44 had a child ILY.,V3'in. &well. In owe•
quence of this determination of the gratiatehery the
sliti.ence was sent hack to W.lliarn Bowel), and the
girl, to avoid going into the servicein question, was
'rotted by pie ,uscither in the potter house foe
nearly a month, when Wm. Bnwell's too came, and,
forcibly talctug her away, without hat es shoes sad
IsterAlly iu tag;s, Il:rcw her into a car, .-ead in this
state idle was conveyed to the house of Luke Bow..
ell. at Kentford, while she was taken in by a Mrs.
Woodstock (Luke Bowell's miner, and at that time
his partner in the farming bosun who remote.
Owed against the yf atc:a is "young *ark
d wretch into her hou. , tustrad of aliersoot
that could tio her some The pauper stated
her araval it lieutford to have hero a utooth after
Mu haelitias-day ; mitt that about a fortnight be•
fore the "Michaelmas following, W. Bowel) nail hie
wife carne, and took her sit a cart to March, in the
ei Ely, where she was hired into the service of
a M 7. Grey, For a year, but said only half a year.
This wicked cnnspintcy wee formed, for the purpose
of relieving But II ithin the maintenance of
cis bastard child, and of settling the pauper on
Kentford pariah. • •
TheCovier, in delivering judgment, entered into
a full rerap tulatinu of all the circumstances attest!.
ino., this moat extraordinary case, and oloerved, that
the contract between the parish of lapham and
%William Bowel), was a, highly immoral Ws it was il-
legal_ After commenting on the conduct of the
Boarlill sisal Mr. Cooke, sod on the cruel manner
in which this poor itafortnnate girl, then little mote
than 12 years of age, who dragger from her mother,
almost in a stet cof bakedness, and seut to a distance
of tipitords of 30 Miles, and afterwards transferred
to a mere reino4 part of, the routine!, the Court
quashed the order of removal with full caste, re.
marking that fraud vitiates every transaction.
• - -
The Lorin Citantiel.ttilt is confined with a vio-
lent attack of the gout, which prevented his Lord.
ship bong at the Drawii,g-roinn. yemerday.
Mrs. JORDAS having closi-d her engagement at
Manchester, is expected at Leeds on toe 44th Inst.
to perform a very few nights.
Ve.terrlity, satinet twelve o'clock, a merchant, of
the name of Lt.n, of Hai dun aquare, threw him.
sell from the top of the Monument, and was dash-
ed to pieces. Ile went to. the nem n who has the
charge of the Munisinent, and said he cap .ctrd to
inert three Ladies there; the mast requested he
*mild Mine to the fire ; sifter welling some tame,
he paid has money, and said re would go up, sod
rt quested he would send the L •tt les to him. Ina few
111111111 r% the Ke.per found lie had throlltii• himself
from the top. Mr. LEVI hat! been un'el angle abuut
eleven o'clock, perfectly wr!l, and bad made ap-
pociimeins with sevier.l G-iitleinen. to meet them
in the Arils ion. It la thilokt that his ati•ther and

Im,ter .fie i leilints.'. Ile was taken to a boor-imtue
in Th.nne•-•tre. t. A beio r, ab.ut 'lilt:rig me,
~o t.-raminterl hi. exi•tenve in II e same Illibciubie
W.),—>k. Lavt has loft a nice and ttz cher:leen. A