The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-10-23 00:00:00

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SUPPOSE!) ROBBERY OF THE It EG EINTrIt r!IAHA Rt L.
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NIC INSTITUTION, ARGYLE ROOMS.
We ,latest, ou Thursday, that Mows Merrisme an 1
„Minh/ tattlltoon were charred with twilling Inhale, which I -
longed to the warehouse of the above lipottutiow; 21 roasts
paper. The Secretary of the Institntion fouod she paper
supposed to be stolen at Mr. Gaiartord'a, cbeeremso ger,
Lodigate-hill, and he gave up Harrison, the peoprwini . f a
ham and beef shop' Broadway, Bleckfriam, N. the peewit,
belled parehated it fr..m Harrison gave op otilbeau is ih.
person he hod purchased it front, and the Wier %Ist/ 4, that
he bought it from Mr. Todd, cliemensoner, St. Nl.ertiseo-
le.Graitit.
Yesterday Prier Drown/ow, a lad, heal put to the 1,1,,
charted with selling the music to Mr. Toilet
Mr. Todd stated, that the Primmer was in sloe habit of
drabs% in his shop for months for sae+ arlic.e. a. ha add,
On the LI of September he asked hint if lie would purchase,
some waste paper. He answered in the affirmative, tool be
brought him about 40 lbs. which he purebnitert at 31.1. per
lb. part of which he (the witness) sold it. Sullies's. The
paper now produced he believed to be part of what lie par.
chased from the Prisoner, as he remembered seeing Ow
name of the Insiitntitin on it.
Mr. Robert Aleroft, music-printer, :I, Cron,yourn-r I,
Leicester-aglitter, slated, that the Primmer had berm in I,tik
employ, and was an excellent servant, for which re •-..11 ho
gave him the waste paper as a perepsisite. He ('he •ettne..:`:
printed for the Regent's Harmonic Institution, amid some oi*
their waste sheets might have been among.l those i.e gar..
the Prisoner. Oa looking at the sheets produced, he ostd
they were waste; for instance, in one sheet
...)1 begin with
rk. Coma RoNg, and ended with 71. Poorer' Bear}.
He was asked how he could make out that the layout ite sir
by Cramer, was waste, when it was slam) rd by the 'damp
of the Institution, and Most have been perfect Mititee it re.
eeived that stamp? In his answer he said, be wi.ho4 %I,
Cramer was present, fur lie, as well as mp.), other whin. „t
composer', often came, and had an alteration Mode it the
regretter, In their composition., after numbest Pad Poets
sent to the Institution, and the engraver snit the original
sheet, wish the proof corrected, to him, the prlovir ; the
original never was returned, but considered wattle paper, a•
it was nod perfect music, and moat probably that was the
way the stamped sheet got among., what hr had given •11..
Prisoner. It was perhaps neves.," to wiitiiiii, Ilsat it, .-
was a very small proportion of she paper gyres. to the It,l.
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loner, that the Institution were concern. el in. It ans as •1i:
paper, in the course of trade, from printing done for other

Sir Charles Flower (the sitting Mae ohiterved, ha
had most patiently investigated this business. and ha wI4
sorry that serious charges had h. ea, in the first ittstancr,
brought against respeetahle persons, which bad delis trail
them for a short time of their liberty, whit] tin rc was not .s
shadow of evidence in support of such • chat Ka. TitgfP was
not a person who was attempted to be implicated that had
not most honourably acquitted himself of any guilty loiter..
lion, and at the sante time had given every assistance hr
trace it to the gust vender. This they bad most satisfarto.
rily (lone, and the printer of the Institution had roma hir-
ward in a manly manner, and accounted for its being distri-
buted in ebeesemongers' shops, and in his (the sootily At.
derrnan's) opinion, had fully proved that it was waste p ipa.„
according to the custom of the trade. lint if the agents of
the institution did not believe the assertions of their own
printer, they might bring an action at law against him fur
converting good paper into waste. It was, however, his
nines to discharge all the persons who had been so impro-
perly brought before him.

George Browne was brought up, charged with Bleating
Ave plank,.
Wm Turner, foreman to Mr. Peto, builder, tittle Brits. n,
stated, that about Ave o'clock on Thursday :owning the P.. -
loner came to him in his master's shop, and mked Lim f,,r
job; be told him he could not thee, as the wok was * ry
slack, but he might call again. A few incoutes afterward*,
as the witness was coming out of the null shop, he saw the
Prisoner carrying five plaaks sway on his shoulder ; Ise
lowed him, and had him taken into custody.
The Prisoner was committed for trial.
Joke Crisekloy was committed fur trial foe a tirrOar
offence, stealing four planks front Mr. John Watt,,,,
tioners'-court, box•inaker.

BOUTIIRAPIi.
A case arising out of an Mil diorite betoisei• th. ...ty
London and the county of Sarre', orrnpioil the attention or
the Magistrate the greatest port of yesterday. It w4s .5
complaint made by David Hoskins, a private rtinstable em-
ployed by the inhabitaists of Lent-street, agaissat Daniel
Heron, night constable of St. George's parish, for it.rtatilt iiiz
him, and refusing to take a charge..
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Hoskins, the complainant, said there was an itnrlrrsfand-
Lag that all Prisoners should be taken to the wateltunie, an.l
Rot to the Compter.
Mr. Ellis (Solicitor and Treasurer to the Commissioners
of Pavements), observed that the refusal of Henna to take the,
charge was founded on a particular order (rum the parish.
Mr. E. dies called upon the Magistrate fur his ditehlirge.,
The Worthy Alderman said, that if he was to pay any
respect to the Complainant's oath (mid he saw no craw. s
to doubt it) a case of assault was rumpleiely essabits.h.di
but he thou&bt it would be most advisable to *utile the mat.
ler amicably.
After a great deal more anaconda's Ur. Ellis tysve hn.l
Heron's appearance, and expressed his determination of try
lag the matter at the Smarms.