The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-15 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
n. Pearrou about 71.1 years of age. who had lived with Mary
Ann Clarke, of infnnious celebrity, was charged by his present
master, Mr. Marsh. a wine-merchant, with stealing wine, linen,
&r. The master said that he believed the old man was badly con-
nected, and that he had stolen from him above 1011 bottles of
wine. The linen, the prisoner said, he had received t'rom his
former master; and as to the wine, he had certainly taken half a
bottle cow and dun. with an old relative, of his (Mr. 31211101./4),
whin that old gentleman had thought he had not had enough. Ile
added that he had been in Mrs. Clarke'r service Inc 14 months.
The LORD MAYOR—And what did you leave her service for ?
—1 stroke rather favourably of his Royal II ighners in her presence,
' and I suddenly gm my dismissal, but why I was discharged I never
learned afterwards.

r. Marsh said, the prisoner had declared since he had been dis-
missed from his (Mr. Marsh's) service, that he had been Mrs.
Clarke's factotum ; that but for him she never would have got over
the business of the House of Commons, as he was obliged to ma-
nage it for her altogether. The Members of the House thought,
he said, to have the ran off him for perjury, but they found not a
match for him after RH. (A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR—Pearson. I believe you are a very sad fel-
low.—My Lord, I atn as innocent all through as a bolo..
The Lotto Mavon—Do you say you did not coniwit the theft
upon Mr. Marsh of which he has spoken ?—I do say that I did not
steal any linen.
The Loan Mayols—Do you say you stole nothing else ?—So ;
I say nothing shoot that.
The Loan M A TOW—Well ; I'll discharge you, beicsuse nothing
can be brought home to you, and I'll discharge you WO without
giving you a word of advice, for I know it would be useless.
The prisoner bowed very low and retired.
GUILDHALL.
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Mr. Jackson, of the firm of Chaffers and Jackson, Manchester
warehousemen, Row-lane, appeared to show cause why the refused
to pay the sum of 24. 2d. for the carriage and porterage of a small
parcel from Yarmouth.
Mr. Jackson said that when the complainant. Garrett, who is the
porter at the White Horse Inn, Fetter-lane, first brought the parcel
he demanded 2s. 4(1., which he thought an extravagant charge, and
at once refused to pay. The porter returned with a second ticket,
In whi h Is. 841. instead of Is. Mi. was set down for the carriage
and fid. for the porterage. They offered him 24. but he refused to
receive it. 31r. J. further said, that parcels and passengers being
booked to go by the coach in 9uestion. at the Cross Keys, in Wood.
Street. the parcel should have been Witt that inn as the nearest to
Bow-lane, instead of being carried on to Fetter-lane. by which the
charge for porterage had been increased from 3d. to 6d.
Garrett produced the way-bill to show that Is. Bd. was the actual
charge made for carriage; and %lib regard to the porterage, said,
the coach could not be unloaded until it arrived at the inn where it
puts up in Fetter-lane. It merely stopped at the end of Wood.
street to pick up a package or a passenger.
Mr. Alderman ill austay would give no opinion about the 2d.,
but decided that the parcel should have been left in Wood-street,
and he therefore reduced the charge for porterage from 6(1. to kl.
This sum Garrett refused and threatened to seek redress elsewhere.
BOW-STREET.

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Laxly norrymore made her hundred and fifty-second appearance
this seism) at the office this morning, on the old charge of being
found tip,y, " her engiom always in the afternoon," in the streets
on Thimaday. The Worthy Magistrates ascertaining that she was
only liberated from the House of Correction on Thursday morning,
would not deprive her of her newly•acquired freedom so anon,
while any hope remained of her amelioration ; and as there was no
particular charge of violence against her, dismissed tier with a re-
primand and caution. which " poor Mary Anne" promised to ob.
serve rdigiously. The improved appearance of her ladyship'.
wardrobe, the consequence, we understand, of her good behaviour
in her late habitation, where, the seducing liquor being perforce
kept from her, she is a model of propriety. and gets many presents.
A brace of Israelites nest made their appearance before Mr.
Halls, rejoicing in the etiphormus names of Zink and Rliar. Mr.
Zink is a tiddler, who flourialses away in the new enu..ic of Carl
Maria Von Weber at Covent-garden Theatre. Mr. Minx, who,
on being questioned as to his calling, said, " he was nothing," ac-
cused Mr. Zink of striking him in the street; to which Mr. Zink
rebutted, that Mr. Minx was in the habit of making faces at him
while he was fiddling; and that the night before last his grimaces
from an adjacent side-box were so intolerable, that human nature
could not put up with them. A long argument took place, in
which the respective addresses of Messrs. Zink and Minx were as
difficult to unravel as those of their all-but namesake, the Sphinx,
and they were ultimately referred to settle their dispute at the
sassions.
Mary Cousins, a young woman of rather superior address, was
charged with ob'aining several small Rums of money from a Cor-
poral in the Blues named Leader, while in confinement in Cold
klath.fields prison for refusing to maintain an illegitimate child,
which had been sworn to him by a young woman named Margery
Cole, of Alnwiek. Northumberland, by representing that the said
Margery Cole was then in London in distressed circumstances, and
had sent her to hint for assistance. She obtained a sovereign from
him, and also front two other non-commissioned officer. in the same
corps a sovereign each, by stating that she was Miss Cole, and was
about to be married to their eon-trade Leader.
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The prisoner denied having obtained money from Leader for
Margery Cole. and said she had asked him for assistance for her-
self. She also denied having represented herself as Miss Cole to
the other non-commissioned officers.

Another individual preferred;;harge against her of obtaining
money from him by pretending to be intimate with his relations,
who reside at Bath ; and she was fully committed for trial.

HATTON-GA R DEN.
`BASE INGSIATITUDE.—Yesterday Edward Robertson, Esq. a
gentleman of considerable property, made the following rather no-
vel application, requtsting magisterial assistance.
P.lr. Robertson stated, that he resides in Regent's Park, and
some time ago formed an association, with live or six other gentle-
men, for the purpose of visiting the abodes of distressed Irish fa.
milies, with a view of ameliorating their situation. They had
taken several houses in Hampden-street, Somers-town, which they
furnished with good flock beds, sheets. blankets, Ac., and had
placed in them those families from St. Giles's who appeared to be
the most deserving, upon an understanding that they should have
the use of the furniture for nothing, but that they should pay the
rent of the house, which did not amount to more than a third of
the weekly rent formerly paid by them in St. Dikes. The gentle-
men appointed a receiver of the weekly rents, which for some time
were regularly paid ; but latterly it would appear that tht Inmates
of these houses had one and all come to a determination :5t to pay
any more rent, and threatened to stab the agent if he intruded hint-
self in the premises. 31r. Robertson concluded his statement by
requesting the Magistrate to assist him in ejecting these unruly
people, if the law allowed him so to do.
Mr. Latrit; deplored that so humane and charitable an object
should be so shamefully abused, and that he could not afford any
assistance; but said, if any of these ungrateful people had assaulted
the agent, he would instantly grant a warrant fur their appre-
hension.

Mr. Robertson said they had threatened to stab him, but beyond
that he feared he was not prepared to prove any assault.
Then, maid Mr. Lai wia, I ant afraid I cannot interfere.
Mr. Robertson added, that he had reason to believe these people
had also pledged the household property.
The agent asked, it he should be justified in removing the win-
dow sashes, as in all probability that would be the means of eject-
ing them ?
Mr. ?mist° said, he could not. as a Magistrate, give any advice
in the business. Mr. Robertson had bow consult his legal ad-
viser. IF there hatl been anything like a case An him to act upon,
he would most willinglr have rendered aaaistance.

MARL 110 H 01:6 H —STREET.
Yesterday Eliziteth Pearl and o:lln:trine Byrne, two good.
looking young women, were charged with stealing a card of lace,
value Sm., from the shop of Mr. IVilliam Taylor, hosier, of High
Holborn.

Mrs. Sophia Taylor deposed that the prisoners came to her shop
on Thursday evening, about half-past seven o'clock, to make a
purchase of edging ; after looking at several, and talking of the
price and quality, she observed Karl slip the card in question
under her cloak ; they were about teasing the shop without making
a purchase, when she called her husband from the parlour, anti
told him of the circumstance.
Mr. Taylor said, when he seized the prisoners they had nothing
of his property on them, but the card of lace before the Magistrate
was lying at the feet ni the prisoner Pearl. Tnere were seven yards
on the card.

The prisoners, who wept and protested their innocence, were
fully committed for
John Career was lulls, committed for robbing the stables of Mr.
Joseph Read, of No. 39, 31ornington.place, Hampstead-road. of
two born-cloths, two bellysbands, three bridles, a saddle, and
other property.
The property was identified by Mr. Read. Ills stable was in a
mews a dimatice from the dwelling.house. The prisoner had
unbuckled the horse-cloths and left the animals naked.
On his first examination die pnsoner salt] a man named Bird,
'Mtn he met near the Load of Bay, at Hampstead, had agreed to
give him eighteen peace for carrying the saddle and sack to Bar-
bican . • and he had told the patrol who stopped him, that he was
,going for a sick horse. and did not know the contents of the sack.

The stable being detached, Mr. Co WANT committed the pri-
soner for larceny. -.

In the old Roman }calendar the lucky days were marked
with Silver Letters: in 'fish's Kalender of Fortune they are
marked with Capitals of Gold, and in the propitious month of
April they hkve been marked with Showers of Gold ; for in April
Bish sold all the Prizes of 310,000/. ! and having, in the post year,
sold five Prizes of Thirty Thousand, and eleven Prizes of Twenty
Thnusand Pounds, it is not too much to presume that Blatt will
sell, in the present April, at least three or four out of the six Prises
of Twenty Thousand Guineas, which must all be drawn on Wed.
nesday, the 3d of lay.

An evident proof of the change which has taken place
in the building line is, that on Thursday, the 13:h inst., the sale of
six millions or bricks of the finest quality, at Grays, in Essex, was
very heavy. The highest price bid for the best stocks way 31s. per
thousand, at which price, however, only 20.000'were sold, whilst a
year ago the same were selling freely at 3/. The Imperial Plate
()lase Company were the largest buyers, having purchased between
100,000 and 700,000, at so average price of about Cs- per thou-
sand.

COAL MARKET, APRIL 14.
Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Price.
001 Newcestle .... ...... ...... 4O .. 284 Od to Mt Id
10 Sunderlasi
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Odd tot" 37:
Odd
I Scotch Coal
I Cinders . ..
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3.1 Simla C 941 e ...... .. ~ 145 Od to —, Od