The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-02-25 00:00:00

REAMEREC7YON MEN.

A great ferment has bees caused in this town, during the present
week, by the detection of two resurrection men, and the finding in
their poosession so less than six human bodies, recently disinterred.
It appears that, for some nadothe past, a stable, in a yard opposite
the top of Beck King-street 4 had been occupied by some strange
men, whose business no one knew : but, as they were repeatedly
heard bylihe neighbours going out and returning with a gig, at very
untimely hours in the night, suspicion began to be entertained that
they were pursuing sonic unlimful calling. About a month ago.'
one of the neighbours, on swag nee of the strangers in the yard,
made some inquiries on the subject, which evidently disconcerted
has, and he and his associates immediately disappeared, and were
no more seen or thought
_of until last week ; when the sound of
;brie mask was again bore several dram, going out late at night,
and morning early in the Morning. On Friday night, they were
beard tiTgo out about twelve, and to return about three ; on Satur-
day morning they were observed to be very busy in the stable, and
were ow so carry in three packing caeca. The neighbours, am.
eluding, naturally enough, that thew men must have been com.
Mining some robbery, and that they were then engaged in packing
▪ dos mien Inipertyoboaght it Their duty to give information to
the pollee: and about. three o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Lavender,
Mehra° of the beadles, proceeded to the stable, in which he found
two men, who appeased to have just before entered, in the act of
fastening on the lid of a packing case ; and two other cases, nailed
up, lay on the floor. All the three were directed to different indi.
vuluals in London. On examining the sue which was not fasten.
ed up, it was found to contain two human bodies ; and the men
admitted that the contents gibe other two were of a similar de-

acre
eiphe pnanners gave their braes, Winters Joan Johriou
.and
ROBBERY OF KEW GARDENS. William Harrison. They erre brought up at the New Bailey,
Robrrt Sara, an elderly men M extremely respectable appear- before Mr. Norris, for examination ; when it occurred that though
ante, was put to the bur, charged with having feloniously received stealing the bodies was a misdemeanour, yet finding them in •
five earthen pots and live plants, the property of our Sovereign man's possession was not crush to warrant commitment, unless
Lord the King, he well knowing the same to have been stoles by they were proved to be stolen.
one 3lichael Hoven, a servant rat hat 31ejesty, Pursuant to the direction of Mr. Norris, advertisements were int-
This trial excited an extraordinary degree of interest, and the mediately issued, and the bodies, six in number, were exposed to
Court was crowded almost to suffocation, from the commencement view in one of the rooms of the George Inn, but it was not until
until the verdict was returned. Tuesday evening that any of them were identified. It was then
Mr. Adolphus arid Mr. Law were counsel for the prosecution, found that two were.the bodies of persons who had been interred on
which was conducted by .'Ur. Stafford, the chief clerk of Bow- the preceding Wednesday, in the burial ground of the new Cathy-
street and Messrs. Alley, Ltroderick, and C. Phillips appeared for lic chapel, in Granby-row. On the following morning the re-
ale prisoner. mainder trete ascertained to have come from the same place. Their
The case for the prosecution was lately detailed in the Police re- names-were—
ports. Edified Here, aged 74, buried February 10 ; Edward Gory,
The Royal botanical gardens bad been for many months robbed aged di, hudad February 13 ; Catherine Martin, aged 49, boned
of vase exotic and other plants, to the value of several hundred February 10; Mary Donn, aged 27, buried January 2il; Judith
=. and, in spite of the vigilance of the managers of the gar- Iteiniltoo aged 14, butted February 10; and Mary Solidi. and 6,
lie
these depredations continued until about three weeks ego, buried Fel= 2.
when lire plants of a very rare and valuable kind being. mimed,. OM Wed ay the Ironer' were again brought up for extra-
Rethren, the Bow-strut carer, wax mot for, and in atusequeoce nation, Wien the relaters of lye ef the persons whose bodies we
al inturtruition which he obtained, he went to the grounds of Mr. found appeared to prove their identity, and that they were buriedl
Colville, a very extensive nurseryman at Chelsea, where theprl- at the Catholic chapel. The prisoners both declined to make any
mom was chief manager. Ruthven asked him if he had received defence. Mr. Norris ordered then, to find bail to answer at the,
a bus from Breetford, and he denied at lire that he had any Meer. •neesions, themselves in 501., and two sureties in ‘251. in each case
ledge of any such box. After some prevarication lie took Ilutheem.witich sureties, We believe, they have not yet obtained.
to 31r.Colcille, in anoth:r part of the greands, and told him dint Os dm same evening, about eight o'clock, the bodies having
the officer was come to inquire about a box from Brantford ; upon been restasad to the cotton from which they had bees taken, were
which Colville said "A box from Brantford? You can know no. again owgned to the earth. The place from which they were
thing of a box from Brantford." The officer persisted in his de. stolen io a Lrge grave, calculated to contain from twenty to thirty
mand, and he and Mr. Smith, the deputy governor of the botanical reline, and was left with a covering of boards only, until the re-
gardermat Kew, were peeked so go into the hot-bauses, where quire amebae weft Of comae this rendered it easy es
they found the plants that had been stolen the night berme.- rericorre-the.bodim, vthirt4essly any uses which would melee
Sweet was upon this taken into custedy. 'envie-Sow. The erocirdlsE, the re-lotemosot were inclined
Evidence called to trace the plants to Kew-gardens proud, that to maltreat the see Ineleseted of some complicity in
on the night Mat they were stolen, a man.named the tianisetion , had some difficulty so protect-
employed as an .onder-gardener Mc. botanical department asr. ins him from' Guriiiert.

UNIFERSITF INTELLIGENCE,

CAMBRIDGE,

,
At a Congregation oa Wednesday the following Gentlemen were
admitted to degrees:—
Mat .* of Al is—Rev. John Rothersall Pinder, Caius College.
Ilathelor in Civil Leto—Rev. Charles Thotnas Gladwin, Jesus
College.
Iluehelor of Arts--Gerros Harvey Woodhouse, St. John's
College.
OXFORD, Fin. 21.
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Tuesday sennight, John i;:a;iirdVriiii;:3l.A. Fellow of Ha
dales College, and of Richmond-place, Clifton, was called to the
Bar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn.
Thursdsy last the following degrees were conferred :
Masters of Artt—Rey. Robert Lawrence, St. Edmund Hall ;
and Edward Hay, Student of Christchurch.
Baehrlo,s of An Henniker, Esq. Coypus Christi Col.
lege, Grand Compounder; Anthony Berwick Lechmere, Christ
Church; and James William Mylne, Balliol College.