The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-09-27 00:00:00

POLICP.

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WORSIIIT-STltr f.T.
INFORMATION arfAINNI PRINTERs.
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Yesterday being appointed for hearinv the eases
.oi informations laid against a great numer of Pout-
ers, lb recover penalties, for their having omitted
to affix their names to the tide-pages of books, as
required by the Aa of Parliament, the parties at-
tended about twelve o'clock. In one of the cases,
Mr. Lewes was employed on the part of the Prose-
cution, and Mr. GURSLY and Mr. Comsr for the.
Iteveral Defendants.
1 , The first case taken was an information laid by Johns
Bell, attorney, of Knightsbridge, against Mr. Henry
Reynell, book.elletr, of Piccadilly, for having, on the
17th of June 145 t, printed, on one side of a sheet of
paper, the title-page of a book, entitled, Poetical
elniatewesor, eta Villa war bath, without affixing his
name to it. 'there were nine of these papers
printed ; but the informations were laid severally.
Mr. Reynell pleaded mei guitty.•
The Witness produced to support the, charge.
was William Abbot, who swore that he lived at No.
17, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent-garden, and
that he had a set of three volumes, of the book al-
ready mentioned; the title-pages of which were
scribbled on, and defaced, but not by himself, nor in
his presence. He got the books. from Mr. Eglin.
whose property they were, and was directed by him
. to address himself to Mr. Iteynell, in order to gat
w title-pages printed for the hooks, for the pew-
-1 it.,
of laying info: matrons to recover die penalties.
he told his story to the Defendant, he said,
',chit there were three volumes of the work ; but that
' be might as well strike off two or three sets more,
a which was accordingly done. He then paid for the
printing, endorsed his name and the date upon the
back, and gave then% to Mr. Eglin, his employer. He
had not the books then in the office, because he did
not think it necessary ; but had them still at his own
house.
On his cress-examination by Mr. GURKLY, this
. Abbot coold not name any particular profession he
' belonged to; but said. be dealt in a great number
of things, and had left offlnsuring long ago. He
knew that Eglin employed him for the purpose of
laying informations ; but he could not tell the num-
ber of Printers on whom he used the saute artifice.
They might have been a hundred, or more. He
was in the habit of having money from Eglin ; but
got no partittilar sum far this job. He got about
2G or 21, of vim, about that titTlf . He did not ex-
pelt"to be paid for his attendance before the Magis-
trates,, nor was he any party to the transaCtion of
Eglin's selling the infOrniations, or miking a trans-
fer elf' his right of information to Bell, the informer
in this case. .
Mr. GURNEY then informed the Magistrates, that
though he thought it right to proceed thus far in 1110
examination, he nod one 'limn exception to make,
which world dispose of the present an 1 several oldie
other cases. Whenuver he was employed to defend
clients ci this description, he thought it his duty not to
tell Mr. Bell, or ate of his brother info; mars, the Min-
ner in vrdich hir ought to draw information ; but al-
ways confined himself to any one objeaion which
was sufficient fcr the pen pose, though he might
have, as WAS the case at present, many others in re-
serve, If they thretidte—weeessary. On referring to
the Mt of Parliament, they would find, that it
omitted to attach any penalty to the printing or.ly ;
but to the printing and publishing of A sheet or book.
Therefore. he contended. that, as the word publish-
ing was not included in the information, and, if it
had been, the fait being negatived by the evidence,
this case did not corns within the true construetion
of the Aa of Parliament.
Mr. Ns ass said, that under rho present eircum.
stances, he thought it right for the Bench to give
an opinion at once. It could never be the wish of
the Magistrates there, nor, indeed, of any Magis-
trates, to encourage such shameful informations as
these, by which a set of honest and respeetable
men were innocently entrapped into an inadvertent
isfraflion of the law, and afterwards called upon to
pay enormous penalties. It therefore became them
to pay regard to such a favourable construction of
the Ad of Parliament. as the enacting clauses would
bear them out in. He had by him a note of Mr.
Justice Be.scssrous, on a trial before Mr. Baron
Nears. upon the ad of Queen Ann, for the pre.
servation of the game. in which an exception was
taken, that there was an interval of three hours be-
tween the proceedings, and that, therefore, it could
not be held to be only one. Tne Court. however,
determined, that notwitstanding the interval, it
should be considered as the same transaCtion ; hut,
as the note observed. the Court was then deciding
on the meaning of a remedial statute ; but might
not have given the same construction to the words,
had it been :in information for the recovery of pe-
nalties. It appeared to him. he said, that, on a li-
beral construftion of the Ad, no penalty, in this
case, attached upon the printing only, as there was
an publication in the question. There was also an-
other objetioo, which struck him, against a convic-
tion in this case. The Aft of Parliament requitvdr
that the Printer's name should appear upon the first
and last pages of every book. But here the print-
ing was not of itself a sheet. nor any thing else but
1 a part of a book; and, as the book was not produc-
ed, nom mead, that the intention of the Aft was not
complied with, and the Printer's name not annexed
*cm ding to its direftions. Upon the whole, the ob-
jeflion seemed to him to be fatal to the information.
Mr. Mosta, the other sitting Magistrate, fully
concurred in the opinion of his colleague, and ex-
pressed his abhorrence of such nefarious praftices.
The Counsel in support of the Prosecution, did not
offer a single observation against this decision of
the Magistrates, which disposed of the fourteen ("thee
cases. in the same predicament ; and on which Bell
said, he would withdraw the informations. The
number of informations, under the Aft, against
Printers in the metropolis, exceeds a thousand ; and
are, in all probability, as numerous, in proportion,
throughout the country.
OW LON t LI..
Yesterday, Jibe Clark was charged before the
sitting Alderman, with breaking opens and entering
the warehouse of the King's Arms Inn, Holborn
Bridge, and cutting open a truss of goods, and tak-
ing away part of it, with which be was epprehencled
by the watchman as he was coming out ; the proof
being clear against the Prisoner, he was fully cola*
maimed to take his trial for this offence.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

I:O4CAsTER '<ACES, Igo.

TESin•Y. SEPT. 21.
The St. Leger Stales tSdr tst. 21b.
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Sir NI. M Soke.'s colt, S 1...00e,114,; he Uelpittl4
Colored Chadere's o. e. Langton, be Ptec.,•nate . .
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• M M. Silee.'s coo, sir Re 111444.111 144.44.14110111 ~f., :p4
Sir .14thn Lawson': h. c. by Papaw . ,
Mr. Wileeer's brown colt, Illertrosariet, by Wady -"? 1
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Mr. Garforthle b• Laura. br csavelleronst lieriih•Yii.
Mr Dp.d.try'a bc.by P eelpitate. . • .
I to 1 ago Staveley. S to I ago Mr. Hatton 's be. colt. 1 'ea
1 ag.t Hippomenes, It to I ago Langton. 9 or t •
Larsocialot, 12 Os 1 afro Cel-bQlsoteem, 1.7 in I eget
campus, 5 to S the held agst Hipporweeer lord Mr. Nettie •
c. and .very high odds art car. others Wee vary esey.. ,
The Corporation Piot.. of MN. for all 1 form, he. these test raiddr
to carry four yesr olds 7st. 71b. Ova year Oda Sit
year 414 and aged bit 121 b. The warrior of any oldie silk.
seraphim Plates at York, this year. to eon {:5 antra
Maiden Horses, ate. t•i be allowed 41b...ae pay fte.
trance, which la to to paid to the o%irtlol of Ulf /BMA 14.4.01•
.1{...1,11, few mules each.
Lord Fitzwilham's h ni. Sally S.yrs old . . . I, iC
Mr. Wardell'. eh. Is Welch:by Stride. 5 yet Ai . 'it
Mr. Tilompsr.to ch. in. Elms, by Ovine*, ♦ yrs ell . S
1 t to Bon Stretch after the herd, tao 1 on Sally. at gent
are the List heat.
GRAND R EFIEIf.
The several roads to Wimbledon wets asseedet
yesterday at an early hour, with carts, waggons seat
caravans, filled with provisicas. Severe! itstrgoeme
with tables and refreshments. were pitched tdpswelgto
ferent parts of the Common. These preynistitten-
were made for the Grand Review which torsiciAllice'
there yesterday. '['he troops consisted of% the It,
James's, the Mary-la-bonne, the Chelsal. the Oral.
sham Green, the Lambeth, the Loyal Snotlterst•
Sharp Shooters, the St. Ann's. the St. 60510"
the Christ Church, the Doke of Comberlitt.i'e
Sharp Shooters, the St. James's, the Queen's itatyst,,/
the Loyal Srtutliwark, the St. Mart trees Ilestrnitsai
Per, the St. Jahn's. the Clapham, the hEtcheall. the
Nlarden,and the Prince of Wales's. sir troops eiClia
Ist and 2.1 regiment of Guards, the Tower Hersteelf
Milit.a, and the East London, amounting trigethele
to about 18,000 men. They as.embleden three 4did
visions, at Clapham, WendSwortn, arsk Parton's'
Green, w. i h were tha three points or resdeswenee
about t•ine o'clock, and thence precool'' to their
destinati,
At eleven o'c"ork. the Mvll-4-lelitlt•• .Ibd
Chelsea, and Walsh im Green. reached the**. .4
Putney Heath, where they halted, until thw sigma
was given for coming upon the ground.--4111 the
other Corps halted in the same manner. Ae this
time, the concourse of carriages. carrieles, chitin*
caravans, and all other sorts •et venteless beA-ansi
great, as to block up the way on Pander Rls for
totally three quarters of al hour, and to produce
there a complex stoppage. At twelve o'clock. the
Earl of Harrington, accomp inied by the Earl of
Danbury. Viscount Duacarmon, Lord Amherst,
Generals Phipps, Carruthers. Lumley, aid Gerems;
Lieut.-G-neral Wilson, lat:iy returned frosts the
East Indies, and Colonel Reader, arrived upon
the ground, and a sham-fight COalMeSiced. The
Earl of Banbury, at the head of his brigaSes
represented the enemy. and attacaed the sea
troops of horse, and the battle soon became -ge.;
neral ; the troops advancing end retrecingty awl
the speOatots, upon their approach, flying in all di-
reelions, The speßators amounted to sot less than
13 or 14,000. We noticed among them Earl ausl
Ctuntess Sp:ncer, Mr. Golds:mid and family, in as
open landau. Sir Edward Burnand and family, and
the female part of the families of the several Com-
mandet s. At three o'clock, the ,trotips were dismis.
sed for an hour, when .t very inrere.ting scene was
exhibited by the men refreshlng themselves, some from
the contents of their knapsacks, some in the niarq lees,
an i some from the cart gages on the ground, all
scattered in various diredlions. At a quarter past
four they again mustered, an i marched off the
ground in excellent order, with colours flying, and
muse plaving.—The Lambeth. on board tal noats
p.e,) 'red for their reception, return-d home by wale..
A great concourse of speCiators attended at the
river side to see the embarkation. A private of the
Ist Regiment of Guards fell, it is sai..`, and frai.htired
his leg ; and a member of the St. John's eras taken
ill upon the ground. We did not hese 'of any
other unpleasant circumstance to damp the , leisure
of the day, or the eclae of the scene. which was
splendid and interesting.

'The Admiral Nelsen, Bi rr I c, from Dant tit!. for
Liverpol, found:red in the North Sea ; crew
saved.
Yesterday, at Marlborough-street, .efie4owl Wyse*,
v .leW, was fully committed for trial, for breaking
into the dwelling-house of Mr. Sawbridge. hat:.►,
Bond-street, on Wednesday, and stealing thereout 4
qtuntity of silk and other hat+. Part of the pro-
perty was traced to the Prisoner, by a Coasiaole en
Cottenhum-court Road, who detetted a woman la
the sa of selling three of the hats en question to a
Jew broker. The woman was admitted an evi-
dence, and she proved having received the pro-
perty of the Prisoner.
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101, for the first three days of Drawing at least ;
and. as Monday next will be the first day, no time
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