The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-03-20 00:00:00

PP

MMININNIIIPENNIINIMMI;=

._ ~.,,~
:~ .i

k

‘).

7'HP WJRF

t

Mites 19.

!PTATC'Or THE ODDII.—BILITING
DRUM.
1 agal Reginald 11 to l apt Gostivus
0 to 1 gist Moreleolt 12 to] apt atom.
11 tu 1 &got loch
OM'S.
11 to 2 apt My Lady Id I. 1 oat Augusts, eat of
11 to 1 apt Sponge Grildford Nau.
RIDDLESWORTR.
2to 1 apt Reginald I to 1 apt &lima.
3 to 1 agst Morel

DEVON COUN7'Y MEETING.

• CATHOLIC CLAIMS.
---
A meeting of the comity, convened by the
High Sheriff, was held on Friday, in the Nisi Prins
Couit of the Castle 'of F. gaol'. to consider the pro-.
prletv of petitioning. Patlisment against the Bill
now before the Flit Wee of Commons, for removing
the criiabilities ender which Roman Catholics la-
bour. The 11411 was filled before twelve o'clock,
the hoar appolotedi. and loud calls were made by
those afire coed not gain admittance for ao ad-
ptirnment to tht. Ca%tle-yard, hot this was not
crimillettPfrith. The /bah Sheriff took the Chair
uttritit tingly, and the Requisition was then rend.
A letter to.the Sheriff from Lord Morley was
Visa, reoettiAg his itosbility to attend the meeting,
Raid entering at some length into the merits of the
Catholic Claims. Ills Lord-hip eapreveed his
• 't vext.tton and concert, that the cocotte of Devon
should stand forward as the champion of illiberality
and tnju,tice ;" and considered that the canoes
etch led to tie ileproalifying acts against the Ca-
tholics hid ceost.d.
A letter from Lord Rolle was also read, in which
his Lordship considered it unnecestsry to express
Pis sentiments on the object of the alerting, as they
are confirmed by hiss parliamentary votes; but if
the nil) now before Perliarneiont be passed, which
Ira Lordship hoped it would not, it would, he
frayed, be daligerous to the constitution in church
viol state.
A. tl. HOLOSWORTII. Esq. spoke against the
admission of Catholics into Parliament, or any fur-
ther compliance with their claims, and moved a Pe-
Wool to thlt.t.fferg.'"
Sir W. T. Pots, Bart. seconded the Petition.
Lord EBRINGTON mow.-d„ a% an amendment, •
Petition in favour of the Catholic Claims.
After a di.enosion of coosider•ble length, the
tint.•tiois was put for Lord EantsGvotes amend-
ment, which WI/ lost by s considerable majority,
said to he about 4 to I—arid the original Petition
was carried with loud cheers.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, 1611/11DAY, Mums 1/.
ROWE R. MATTHEW 4.111 D PHILIP WOOD.
This case, which has occupied the attention, of ilso
Court every day on which it has wit during the
week, again came on to be heard. The Conn will
deliver its anal judgment in this case after the At-
torney-General shall have replied_

POLICE.
MARLIBOROUOR lITR ZIT.
STEALING THE IHARCHIONES‘ OF DOWNSHIRES
SEDAN CHAIR. •

Mr. H---, • medical modest, was charged with camp.
inn away her L•dyshipes chair, with she aaMmance of a fro-
licksome companion. from the door of the Countess of Mee-
aingtou is Henrietta street, Caveadisinrquare, at elem.
o'clock, tot Saluda, night.
The Countess had a party. The Marckioaess's chair was
placed ansoirg the Gibers is to street. whes the occemd sad
hi. comparioa turned etrairme• sod walker! off with it. The
chair was 11/01 11111111efl at the niameat, and there V/ 41. a gm.-
rat Anise in diffrreat direction'. The &ceased and his com-
panion were overtaken is Cavendish square, when the OM
*reaped mad the other was lodged is the aalcb-insure.
In defence, it was said to be a mere frolic, and the Steward
of the Marehioness. from Ike respectable apnea:slice of the
stewed, was instructed am to press the case, and Mr. H.
was eouseiseutly direllarged.

LINCOLASIIIKA ASSIZES.
?IMPORT, MARCH 13.

Before Mr. Jrsiice Ric Haymow.

FORGED RANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.
Nagy liacieltiotte, wife of Wiltianr Heseßine, of West
Halton, was indicted for feloniously altering • forged one-
posed Bank of England note, knowing the same to be
forged ; but is coaseepieuee of her pleading guilty to the
minor offence of baying such note ft and•lently in her poen
session, the Bank dirt not off. r any evidence agaiust her cot
the cspilal charge, and ate was *esteemed to fourteen years'
transportation.
BURGLARY AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT
WHAPLODE
David Booth, aged "hate of Astley, Lincash,re, we-over,
was isobeted (with Isaac soli Jacob Hisusworth, at present
•t large, and lenses Wadley 'admitted evidence for ;Ise
Crown) fur burglarturiely berthing sad entering, about
eight o'clock in the eveutng of the 30th of October lasi, .the
dwelling home of Mrs. Culy, widow, of Whaplcole, and
stealing therefrom ...pear& of 700/ in bank mites, 128
guineas in gold, come silver, • wretch, &sc., altogether
amounting in value to about 900/.
John Parish, of Wliaplode, shepheAl to Mrs. Culy, was
charged with being accessary before the robbery, by Mont.
tautly ineitiag, moving, procuring, and counselling the said
David Booth and others to commit the robbery.
The family of Mrs. Oily, who occupies a considerably
farm at Whsplode, at the time of the slabbery cousisied of
herself • maid ut, and two men.ll,l•4lliS (one of whom
is deaf and dumb) Between seven nod eight o'clock on the
evening of the robbery, Sem. meta knocked at her door, sand
spun her servant eking w Who's there?" said " Were sem
from the Don Horse, where we lodge, to bring • letter .
upon this her moysitt unbarred the door. nod all the font
men rushed iu, baring masks over their faces; as seen es
they got its they barred the dour again, and laid upon Ilso
table a hammer, an iron crow, pincer., and sonic
one of them seised She man- t by the collar, and a
violent struggle ensued; the servant succeeded iu getting
two of there down on the Boor, bat the third melting hold
of the hammer, struck bias over the head and knocked hint
down; they then lied leis hands and feet with the marling,
and upon and kicked him in a most brutal manlier;
during the above struggle, the deaf mad dumb man sat stilt
through fear, and the eta and maid-servant made their •
escape into an inner room, in which the money was kept.
As soon as the villains had tied the hands and fret of the
man-servant, they left him welteriug io his blood from Mall
blows he had received and broke open the dour of the m
in which the mistress and inaicheervaat had taken refuge,
seized the girl, and dragging hrr into. the kitchen, tied her
fart in one of the choirs; she whores, in the mean time had
escaped into the yard, whence one of the villains dragged
her into Ihe kitchen, and she was lied down in • chair; •
they also tied the deaf and dumb man, and then one of the
robbers stood watch over them, with a hholgeoie in one
baud and • pistol in the other, using the must horrible ins.
vacations, anti thres'ering to Led their brains out if they
stirred, whilst the other three broke open the bureau and
stole the money, and also ransacked all the drawers up stairs.
Oa their return into the kitchen, they asked the girl for the
key of the door, to lock it, in order to prevent • pursuit
niter them; she replied there was none ; one of the rubbers I
then said, •4 Let'. tie 'em altogether,' but another thought it
utinecessary, and said, " there'. no fear of the dumb tam/
and the women, and as to the oilier (meaning the pour man
who had been so dreadfully beaten, and whose wound in the
head was then streaming blood) he's ssfe enotigh." Tiwy
then left the house. Both the man and maid meant swore
to Booth bring our of dictator, but the maid•servant said he
did not beat or offer any violence to theta, beyond tying this
man.seivant ; they were enabled to see has fare by the masks
having been knocked off doting the struggle. Booth was
,apprehended near Manchester, by Rimini, the pollee officer,
is consequence of H indley's having gone so the police office,
sad given an account of the rubbery, and 72 guineas in
gold and 201. in bank notes were found io his essiody.
Meet a week before the robbery, Flindley was applied to
al liesseliester, by Isaac Husesereeth nod Booth, to go and
SIMMit a robbesy, to which be agreed; and the following
sing they set out, and arrived at Boston in four day.,
where they were joined by Jacob liunsworth; the neat day
(Sunday the 49i1.) they left Boston and proceeded to Parish's
house, about a mile and a half from Mn. Cokes. Parish
keeps a house for lodgers; and on their as rival, which was
iteitte reeving, lie said they moat stay out of doors until the
lodger* were gone to bed; ha afterwards called them in, and
they staid its his parlour all night ; Parish advised ilmt the
robbery should lie committed the west night. The four
robbers staid in Parish's house till daylight, and theta weld
and bid themselves in one of his bullock hovels; they were
however admitted into the boo e• .e aain in the ones:noon, aid
•
taken op stairs, and about stein o'clock on 11w ermine of
the robbery, Perish brought • ladder for thein to get out of
the window. He afro gave an account of who lived in Mrs.
Culy's house, and lent tow of the lloosworthy a amoek.fhirk.
but objected going himself, lest lie should he recognised.—
After committing the robbery, they friar:n(l to Parish's
barn, and be bating procured a fight, a portion of the booty
was given to him. The Ilunsworths had lodged at Palmier
how, during the sou'inc.r. [The above was the evidence of
theaccomptice.l When Pariah was taken before the Magis-
treer,-be denied all participatiou in the rolibeiy, and said
they bad forced him to take a portion of the booty, by bidd-
ies • pistol to his bead laud *becalming to shout him, be,
however, had never told this eircu..tstance to any one. On
the constable of Spalding's returning to Isis house with
after his examination before the hfagistrates, he pointed to
• place in his garden hedge where Isis share of the booty was
hid, and pulled out • clone balk containing eight use
pound notes, • ten pound Bank of England note, sad Sib
in gold. On returning towards Spalding, the coo-
Perish stopped at Wades, %bete he said the
the money iu the stone Wile was Mrs. Cllll.ll, (K.
guineas, which belonged to him; on being asked
-- to put his own two guineas there, he said Ise
lest gold bring found in his horse should Iced
a than II! had beou room urd in the rubbery.—
, remarked that his accomplices had not given
share of the booty, he said, is he thought out,
them se at the time, but they declared that
his detenee,seid be bad been engaged by Hons.
me to aeons ranker's week in Hulbeath ?derail ;
gut until be teethed Parish's he was made Ile.

quainted with the iaterided rubbery, and dist be was then
furred into it by the Haoewortbs.•—OW witness wee called,
who gave Parish a good character. The Jury retire4for a few
minutes, ■sd des retuned a verdict of rhafflf: but recom-
mended Parish to mercy oa smart if Me preview good
character.
Mr. Justice RlCitilltlheOW, its paean Oeoltmee ow the
Prisoners, said he had a sacred duty to perform toward/ the
public. The two Prisoners at the bar bed beets eossteted, ow
evillest* as deer and marbleise as ever was produced is soy
court of justice, of a robbery to a very hole eahmsot, areora.
pealed by eircometences of horrid violence. It mast have
been arranged and planned with great deliberative, by some
owe welt acquainted with the family and premiere. Is the
rem of Booth there was a negative virtue in ►ie not besiege
been guilty of vieleare toward, the family. There could be
me doubt Met Perish,—who resided la the neighbourhood,
who was employed is the family, and therefore whose duty
it woo to hove protected the property of Me atietrese,—was
the iisstigainr and adviser; end that ►e bad ►olicitd a peg'
of ruffians from a distant part of the country so come and
commit this brutal !and daring attack on the byes sad
perry of the promentric and her family; and had it Not bee*
for the intrepid gallantry of ►er 'errant, who had defended
►is mistress's property with so moth spirit, these villains
wield not have bees discovered, lie wall afraid he mild
wet pay that attention to the recowmeudatios of the Jary
which it was at all times his anxious with to do, for moles'
an example WY made, the lives and property of ►is Majesty's
subjects mold not be protected. His Lordship t►en reseed
apse the Primmer* the sentence of Dean.

SHEEP STEALING.
James Tadao', aged GI, was convicted of stealing len
sheep. she property of Mr. Ambrose Johanna, of Thurlby,
on the IYth November last. The Prisoner stole the sheep
from the Prosecutor's load in Bourn Fes, and was driving
them on the raved hellfire* Gooliertost and &Merton, whew
he was met by William Rohm's, a sherw.salesamn, who had
a conversation nib him about the sheep which led to a ins.
prattle of their being stoles. Ruben. 'accordingly informed
tile. Robert Nicholls, constable of Sortlert, who, he hap.
pined to steel ; and on Nicholls's approaching the Prisoner,
the latter left She sheep on the rood, and Bed away over
dykes and Gelds panned by the eswstable for two mites,
when He chase elided is his iepprehrusioo. The Primmer
Wen told a story of his baring stolen the tett sheep from his
father-mien, aid begged for Meridiem and ot,rey on the
plea that this was his first *Peace. The sbeep were &mem
to Mrs. Brewster's, at &tithed, and were in a eitsert lime
owaed by Mr. Johnson, with whom the Primmer had occa-
sionally worked for two yearn, sod whose shepherd no.
Prisoser's father-in-law.

Mr. Prose was Cimasel for the Primmer, and he took •n
• bi•Ci kW to the or of the indictment, (bat it charged the
Prisoner with steelier/ ten Amp, whereas' they were only
lambs, sad the Act clearly distinguished the one from the
other by ennineratioe both sheep and lambs The learned
Grottos's*, in support of his objective, vied Cook's rase,
in Loath, page 10ft,Iiii which the same distinction bad been
pesetisally made between cows and heifers, • person who
had been indicted for stealing • heifer being acquitted u. the
grimed that the sainted stolen was scow.

Mr. CLARIII, jar. for the prosecution, ntaistained field
the sheep in the pre►ent indictment had passed that stale in
which they were considered to be iambs. Mr. Johnson stated
that the stnlen sheep WOK sine months old ; he considered
that t►ey were properly celled lambs only so long as until
they were weaved , the sheep ia question had left the dame
fur three months, and become hoggets ur lamb-bugs, and as
such were taken to fair, lobe soli.
Mr. FYN as still ingested that they were sot sheep till after
their brat clipping,
The JUDO. observed that the jury were eompeerat to decide
on this polio, and directed them to ray, if they found the
Prisoner guilty, whether he bid stolen lambs or sheep. The
Jury found that they were sheep, and that they ceased to be
lambs when taken from the ewes. The Judge said be was
of site saute opinione-[lt is remarkable, however, that
about the souse tisne,s Jury in the other Court fumed that
lambs were sot sheep until they had Wes shisrisa—The Frt.
sorter was sentenced to Death, but reprieved.
CRUELLY MAIMING A RAM AT GEDNEY.

Williams Hanes, aged 22, was indicted fur feloniously
cutting and maiming • ram, the property of James Wil.
lows,,of Gedney. is appeared that the prosecutor on Sunday
the 12th of November had a ram in slings its acre...yard at
Ckduey, in ciniseqeence of his baying brokee one of his
fore legs. Thomas Willows, brother of she prosecutor, fed
the rain at 12 o'clock; and three quarters of an hoar aftes.
wards taw the Prisoner beside the animal's crib, and that the
rant was taken eat of the sling ■nd had a hole cut ha its
right side, through which its entrails had come out, and
about four pounds of the poor &Miners fat (the kell) had
been cut away. The pain was still alive, though part of the
bowels were draws out to • distance of 20 yards from the
body, with which they were, b-iwever, still connected.
Prisoner ►an off as woe as be saw ha was discovered, but en
being hallooed to he returned, and way prevailed on to ac-
company Thomas Willows, on • pretence of going to Fleet
Bull to drink, until lie came to t►e house of a constable,
when Willows had tom apprehended. His hands and clothes
were found bloody and curived with wool from the cruel
operation be had performed, and one glove and the blade of
• knife were found amongst the offal of the animal, the cor-
responding glove, and the haft of 1 lie knife, being found i■
the praioner's pockets. The ram livid half so hour after the
barbarous mutilation, until Mr. Samuel Palmer, who was
celled to see it, pat am end toils misery by stickiug i►.

The Prisoner had nothing to say its his defonee.—Verdict
Grmilly at stealing the fat of the ram.
The Prisoner said that Spalding was his native plate ; he
was appreuticed to a btaebienith at Lincoln, and some
smiths gave biro a good character for a hard-working matt.
The Judge observed, that a greater or a more re►olting
crime would not slain the annals of this Assize, and he sen-
tenced Om offender to acres years trausportatiun.

tIYDROPROBIA.--4 report lately made by the
Russian Counsellor of State, LEWNSIIEIN, states,
that an old soldier,:living in a village in the circle of
flylewsky, had frequently cured men and brutes
who had been bitten by mad dogs. He reduced
ii,to powder the water plantain fulisma plakiago)
and having btregtid it ors a slice of kread and but-
ter, gave it to the patients to eat. The Costumellor
observes, " lE gore little credit to it, until acci-
dent furnished use with a proof of its efficacy.
One of my brother's hounds went mad and bit
the huntsman ; the ordinary operation was per.
formed to prevent the propagation of the virus,
and the wound healed ; but in a few weeks all the
symptom* of hydrophobia appeared. The hunts-
num was taken to the old soldier, who adnensistered
two doses of his remedy, our in the evening, the
other in the worsting, mind then said the man might
be unbound. and taken home without danger.—
The istuitsinan experienced great weakness, but had
no fit* either of delirium or hydrophobia.-10 a
few days he found himself perfectly cured, and he
has now lived 18 years without having any relapse."
The water platttain grows in marshes; the root
resembles an onion, with thick fibres. It remains
under water till Ilse latter end of May, or the be-
ginning of June; it Bowers ail the summer, and
may be gathered at any time ; but the best is at the
end of August. The'toota are well washed and
cleaned. and dried in the shade ; when dry, it is
pulverised and administered as above.

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
3 per Ct. C0na.•.711 70 I Ex. Bills, 11..4 4 pr. par
7011 India fur Acc 4481
3 prr Ct. N. An. 19311 i! I Cone, for Ac. 7'l 70iti
luclir Beads,.„ 49 pr. I 71 71j