The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-06-29 00:00:00

Tile Prisoner wehibt \lour Orlistlitrki, with a Lag on Mt
alioulder, confirming potatoes, and he accosted 11010 e permit
for charity, whets Wiry took hies into if etledy.• lie Erode
ou resistance, hot steady walled to the Qffice. Oa his rood
he reads the °Seery sisideratiod that he was ewe of the pee-
sanity from lie neigkbOurbousl of Cork, where be had a wife
and family dying fur want, and to prevent their starvation
be hstlect4eti from lodised for tie purpose of raising a
guinea to acid over lo them. He had borrowed misery from
some persons at 12.etturatidbe, and was end aaaaa rift' (p raker
linnen to supply his family when . the officers saw him ; I+4o
he had raised by its;-making. Twenty-five shillings were
toond nii Ilse, Primmer • person, which was detained by the
officers lipid inquiry is made concerning him. lie was com.
mittcrlotsith a recommendation that the bleusiteity Sudety
Mahe the necessary inquiry in his case.
4 1t • •
DEMERARA.
A 'era important and interesting canoe *at tried In March
lett, before the lismourable Court of Criminal and Civil
Justice of the Uoitril Colony of Demerara and Essequibo,
at us PArtrsorsheary Scission, summoned by the Hoe. Charles
Wray, President, held at the Court-house, in George Town,
on the Pill, sod 26th of March, and ffilth of April.
The heirs of the late John Jones, Esq. planter (residing in
North Wales) were Plaintiffs, and the Executors to the
PSlllies George Buchanan, Charles S•uson, and John Wil-
son, Esqn. Defeedants. The Court decided is favour of
the Plaintiff., and condemned the Defendants in coals; the
se...it of which is, limit of time heirs having °blamed pow,.
Sion of the two valuable sugar estates, Walet and Vreedemien,
the cenps of •Iticb, last year. were (according to a return
made 10 the Colonial Receiver's Office) 1,0-26,560, pounds
weight of sugar, sod 57,000‘galluns of rum.
.

INQUESTS.

/*NA:I6I,IM Smelt's —Thursday •fternektst 911 int/nisi.
I in us, t.kest before Thomas Shelton, Dig. Corouer for
London and Sunth.wark, on viiw of the holy of Mr. T. But.
Is.), who put a period le his taistence in the following
trani.ti
'l'ne Jiiry sat at the private house of the dreerraed, No. 18,
Great Di.tsff lane, Doctors' Commons, and from the eat.
&ore a•!dticeil there before the Coroner, it appeared tbat
the it.ceated, a brother to Counsellor Sollensl. was a wise.
tnerelisnt of great respectability, and that for some days
tail( he ens observed to exh,bit strong symptoms of
a eheirdered mini,. He breakfasted in his bud at tea
Cel,,ek en Weiler/day morning, and on the servant
Tearing the room, Le desired her not to dialwrb him fur
some lime, at he ten rather indisposed, add wished to go to
test spin. The hour of use o'clock haring gone by, and be
net having made his appearance, the family bet-ante tlarmed
fur hie saftlyi Upon which the servant weal sad knocked at
his room door several times; but receiving no answer it was
broken open (the door having ben lucked on the inside),
when a matt feightful sp.elliele presented ikelf to view, as
t'se d d was discovered stretched, cold and lifeless, on
the bed, having his head near,: severed from the neck, by a
dreadful wound el aching from ear to ear, across the thrust.
The arteries of one of his arms were also cat across; on one
side of him lay the dressing-glass, sad on the other a mos.
all besmeared with clotted blood, with which he committed
the fotal art. He was partly dersted, and it is presumed
Not Ise used the looking.glass as a guide to the more effec-
tual accomplishment of his melancholy undertaking. The
Counsellor. brother, cad many other respectable rela-
tives and friends, were present durtng the inquiry, on which
It was proved to the satisfaetioa of the Coo sad Jury,
that he 11/.1. in a deranged state of natelleet when he toln-
tomed the rash act. The deceased was forty yeses of age,
sal was not married. Verdict—" /annuity."

An inquest Wai held last evening at the Two Sawyers is
ilary-le-bune•lane' on the body of James 15-dgonith, aged
sixty years. The deceased was formerly groom is the see-
Vice of his Grace the Doke of Wellington, sod lately bad
tem a shop in Bate street, Ratcliffe-highway. Ballad mar-
ried a wife in his old age, and did not, it appears, enjoy asy
ectosolerable matrimonial frheity. About a fortnight ago
kr kft home, nod declared that be never would return, since
wlOcir maim) he has gust from one place to tooth. r appa-
rently deialiged is his mind, and at night he procured
fo•'cing at some public house. On Monday night last he
rook lodgings at the Two Sawyers, and slept there several
rights; 4h lYeilnesday morning he was found atispendrd,by
• cord f,om the tester of his bed, Its body was owls okra
chi down, and means one used to restore animation, but
unsuccessfully. The deceased bad been very desponding for
ousts time. He accompanied the Duke of Wielingtoa in
stoat of his banks its the Peninsula. Verdict—" Hanged
karisdf, being insane at the lime."

Mst NCITOLT ACCIDENT.—Last night, at seven o'clock,
an micas,' taken before Thos. Hires, E.g., Deputy
(own, r. at the Ship ,pnblic•bouse, Millbask row, on this
b,.ly of a young lad, named Thomas Ward, who was acci-
dentally drowned is the moat which surrounds the Penitco.
glary, on Thursday evening.
Jchn Pratt, Esq. surgeon to the Penitentiary, being sworn,
m•teriolsal about seven o'clock he bad just hft there, when
hc ores ioformed that a boy was drowned and another drown-
ing. lfe, accompanied by the Governor, porter, and a gen.
ttcnisn named Dsiiks, repaired to the spot; the latter ran
Scst, and d himself, and diving. brought up the deceased,
and on diving again caught hold of the other, who was al-
most lifeless. IVitness instantly administered the usual re.
medics, with the assistance of the Governor, for upwards of
half an hour, but without soy success. The other lad shoft-
Jy
after recovered. .
This witness's testimony Was corroborated by Mr. Enoch
Danko, of Millbank-slrect, Who added that the water was
shoat Are feet six inches is depth.
The Jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict
A•ctifsnteelly dfroirrerl.

THE ARMY.
One company of the Ist rifle brigade, quartered is New.
rialto, hay,• bit that town fur kilisallock, where they are
to he stationed.
The two troupe of the 3J fight draweens which searched
Hi here on Thitrada). under lieutenant-Colonel Hutchins,
with the staff of the regiment, will refugia on shore. wailing
tar a fair wind to embark. The list troop of she 10th
huiotars will march this day fur Carrick on Suir.—(lVdlerford
• Paper of Saturday )

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

poaTsmoirrn, JUNt 27.
Arrived the CaroLae, flour, from Cadiz; and ilium,
hum ibe rives Gambia.

PLY/10711111, Mit 26.
Arrived the West iadia packet. Gillman, from Trinidad
in 49 days ; Kam., frum Jamaica; sod ibe Jests., Goa St.
X. 11.11.
ritiltOUTW, dints el.
Arrived a the port tin William, Gagne, from Trinidad,
in is days.

Drat, Jong 27.
Arrived sad sailed for the River the Amity, Gray, from
Batavia; Segal., Middleton; sod Gulden Grove, Nagar,
from Jamaica.
Came down from the Ricer the Margaret, Johnston, fur
At. Helena ; Rockingham, Coffin fur New fork; Monist-
stone, Hadar, for Messina; Sylvta, evader, fur C.pe Coast
Caele; Veleolllll Exmouth, Clark, for Gibraltar; Mark,
Popo* fey Cale, lad sailed with the real, of tbe outward-
Lenart.

Term ended on Wednesday. It itai neither been
interesting to the public, us', sit believe, very
fruitful to the lawyers, and
.eeitisistly most unpro!
ti table to a !urge majority of drag( clients.
Cl•elses has been of late mach sanoved by the
presence of females of loose iOaracter. the Magis-
trates issued en order for the apprehension of all
persons of that description. Five-aqd-thirty Were
mkt() t.p yesterday morning arid lodged iu the
watetibouse.