The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-01-30 00:00:00

FIRES.

AT BIOVITON HALL--This enterable mansioa, the
*eat of C. F. Doran, Esq. weer Doroton, Herts, was dis-
covered in be on Are at eleven o'clock on Sunday night,
after the family hail retired to their reel. The flames were
Ent discovered in the lower part of the house, but how the
Are originated is not known. In less thaw au hour the
building was a pile of ruins. A servant boy, who slept in
so attic, was so much burnt in escaping down stairs, that it
is not impponed be cam survive, and a female servant was
mach injured in getting from begbet‘reons to the laundry.
Another fire broke out at. the house of Mrs. Montague,
Loodon.straet, Filaroy.sq•are, on Friday evening, which
consumed the interior and the goods, but by the timely assist.
once of Howard, with the parish engine from the watch-
house, the flames were checked and ultimately subdued.

Yestetcluy being his Majesty's Accession to the
'('Moue.- the morning was ushered in by ringing of
bells, and the display of flags on the different
steeples of the parish churches. The Royal Stand-
ard was hoisted at the Tower, ■nd the ships on the
River Thames displayed the colours of their
dtt-
ferent nations. At one o'clock the Pink and Tower
gnus were fired. The In-Pensioners of Greenwich
sod Chelsea were entertained at dinner with boiled
pork and pudding, after which each man received
Leo quarts of ale to drink the KING'S health.

A melancholy accident bappeoed yesterday to one of the
artillerymen employed in bring the guns at the Tower, in
honour of his Majesty's accession, owing, it is supposed, to
the pontoon of one of the pieces being deranged in its position
by the concussion of those already discharged the control■
uufortstiately struck the man is the calf of the leg, and so
dreadfully mangled the limb and cot the loaders, that if slope.
'station eau be avoided, little or no hopes tan be entertained
but that the unfortunate man will lose the use of the limb.
In our observer of the pieces used upon oceesious of re-
joicing, boob at the Tower sod in the Park, it is impossible
not to be struck with the danger that must attend, on all
occasions, the use of the small cannon, or cohort, •ppro-
priated fur the purpose, as both the tompinn sad the
lightness of the piece reuder it liable either of injuring per.
roes at a distence by the former, or thuie upou the spot by
the shifting of the gun itself.

The fat stock skew on Wednesday at Lincoln
for beasts was large, and they sold at ■n advaJtce;
sheep were kw its number, and theiefure obtained
higher prices.
By an official Return made to the Treasury from
the Stamp-Office, it appears VW there we►e used
last year, by all the Newspapers published in England,
$4,820,307 Stamp; of which number The Observer
(although only a Weekly Journal) used no lea. shag
013,000—being nearly a twenty-seventh part of the Stamps
coanunted by all the Newspaper Press of &gland, which
consiols, in London, of 15 Daily, seven published three
days in the week, 35 Weekly, beside', 108 Country Papers.

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The very great satisfaction the plan adopted in
former Lotteries gave to persons residing in the
coastry, has induced T. Brut to repeat it in the picseut ;
sad be has, as in a very reveal Lottery, selected some of
the Six 21,0001. or other Capitals, amo those Numbers
advertised. The following Numbc: ng
ro may be bad either in
Whole Tickets' Halves, Qwarters, Eigbth,,, or Sixteenth*, at
his Officer, 4, Combat, or 9, awing Cross:—
N•. 1,0
76 1,802 002 I No. 72 I No. 1,107 No. 514 No. 550
549 610
996 37 2,083 606 1.889
960 1 40 2,122 1,641 1,1116.5
1,159 1,870 1 912
3658
1,9112176
1,1661,881 2,083
1,801 515 1,645 2,064 2,065
The Lottery begins ea Valentine's Day, 14th of February, '
on which day the Public are sure of getting Three Prizes of
2,oool.Consola for nothing, sad the chaser of the other Ca.
Wats drawn that day,for a mere trifle; as the Holders of
those fortunate Tickets will etch have as undrawn,l'orket
presented them (tchick at least wilt coat as 111401 as their
purchase-money), and by which they rosy afterwards get
Three of 21,0001.! Every Purchaser of •Vicket or Share,
if it should prove a Blank, or a small Prise, or be undrawn,
may receive back for such Ticket or Share in the following
proportion, provided it be rrturued on or before Friday, the
23d of February.
Ticket. anhick coals 523 18 ohe may receive back£23 0 0
Half....wkick costs 12 15 oha may receive back 11 4 0
Quarter which cods.. 6 90 ha may verde* back 6 2 0
Eighth.. which costs.. 3 5 6ha may racetatback 3 1 0
Sixteenth which cods.. 1 13 olt • way amine bark 1 11 0
so• Letters (post paid) containiog WA notes, post-pflict
orders, cash, or orders ea London, drily attended to.

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The Lott, Cu•Ne until/Ai r:Overpied until one
treluek in hearing • Ittuutie'retiiiim in his private
room. His Lordship sfiershirdo part heard a
Bankrupt Petition in open Court until two o'clucki.
at which hour he rose.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Irmattsstri,
Sl•nevir, JAIMAIIT 29.

THE Mato 17. MAJOR c•IsTWatolIT cord °Tufts.
Mr. Delman seated, that the affidavits of the
other side had but that iiiiii nem been put in tut
hand, and as they were very voluminous, he wished
for en opportunity of reading them neer.
After some consultation, the 4_'ottee ordered the
Case to stand nver till Wednesday next.
IN THE HATTER OF WK. cI.EMEHT.
The ATToRNEY-GENERAL rose to alley Canter
against the rule which had been 'obtained for remove.
ing into tine Court the orders of the Judges of the
Court of General Gaol Delivery, held at the Old
Bailey, imposing • tine of 5001. upon Wm. Cle-
ment, the proprietor of the Observer Sunday news-
paper, for pnblisloing the proceeding's of the Court ••
meatus( Tlitstlewood and sabers, charged with high
treason. Ile apprehended, unless there were some
irregularity sheer', to have had place in the pro-
ceedings, the Cowl would not make the ruleribe
solute. The Defendant'. affidavit stated that he
was not personally served with the first order of the
Court, and that lie was lint present in Court at the
time the order was made ; hut that he apprehended
would not be considered by their Lordships as any
reason for acceding to the present application, or
all simil-ir orders of the Court would be nuga-
tory. He did not kuow if it ',plaid be coo-
tended, that a contempt could not be comMitted
by • publication of this snit ; if it should be sci'con-
tended he wont.' call their Lordships' attention
to two or three cases where publication had been
held to be tin obstruction of public justice. In the
ease of Pool v. Sacheverell, Ist Pere Williams,
page 676, iii that case Pool advertised i 1 the
Doily Courant for proaf cf a marriage diiring
the tune the proceedings were penditsg. and Offered
a reward to any one who could furnish the iirool.
The Lord Chancellor said the proceeding had a
tendency to obstruct justice by suborning wit-
nesses, and committed the party. He mentioned
this to *hew that a contempt may be committed out
or Court. In the case of Huse against Garden.
in td Atkins, page 471, Lord Herciwicke, then
Solicitor-General, coincided in the opinion that such
publications were a contempt of the Court, and
cited the case of Captain Petty, who printed hie
brief ; and since then in the ease ex parte Jones,
before Lord Erskine, the doctrine of Rose sod
Garden, in ed Atkins, was fully recognised. Mr.
Clement's affidavit stated that he went out of 'town
on the 25th of April. and he (the Attosssey-Gonera I
could not help thinking that his going out of town
at that particular time was not entirely accidental,
but that he meant thereby to evade the service of
the order of the Court on himself persoually. But
by the Act of 38th Geo. 111 cap. 17, it was pro-
vided that service at the office where the paper was
published, should be reckoned good service. He
would remind the Court that it was every. day's
practice to fine jurors for noneattendance, and as
there was no irregularity, he trusted the Court
would not grunt the present application, which 'could
only be made for the purpose of delay.
The. Souct•roa-Gerreast. followed on the same
ride, and referred the Court to the case of the
King v. Almon iu Lord Chief Justice IVilmot's
Reports, in which that Learned Judge supported
the doctrine that the Court had the power to fine
for contempt. In this Court, in the case of: %Vat.
son, the proceedings were forbidden to be publish..
rd ; also in the trial of Brandreth at Detby, there
was a similar prohibition, and his Lem-lieu Friend
Mr. Denman had himself, on the part of the De-
fendants. complained of the inlesugentent of that.
order. In Sir Thomas Jones's Reports, page 169,
in the cote of the King v. the Sheriff of ---,
the Under-Sheriff had refused to amend the panel
of the Grand Jury. The High Sheriff being order-
ed to attend, and not complying with the order, he
was fined 100/. Application was then made to re-
move the proceedings from the Court of Exche-
quer, but this Court refused to interfere. and *aid
that if any injustice were done, the whole 'of the
proceedings being before the Court of Exchequer,
it could there be set right.
Mr. Gutteey followed on the same side, and
quoted Blackstone. vol. 4, p. 285, to shew that it
would be a contempt el Court to publish the pro-
ceedings, even if true, while Judgment was pend-
ing. 11;e Learned Counsel contended that Mr.
Clement would sustain no injury Gunk the Court
refusing to grant his present application, as he
might in the Exchequer sliew cause why the fine
should not be enforcer&
Mr. LITTLIIDALE followed on the same side.
Mr. DUMAN said it was not necessary for him
to dispute the authority of the ca-es queued lir hi,
Learned Friends; they only tweet to shelo that a
power had been exercised by this Cow: And (tie
Court of Chancery ; it would
.undoubtedly hti%e
been more satisfactory if they hail shewo the exer-
cise of such • power by a Court cow:Mtn:col the
Court was before which the Prisoners were tried.
There was • Special Commission issued, under
which Bills were foetid, but it was the ordinary
Court of Gaol delivery, before *hick they
were tried. But though it should be granted
that the Court has power to tine {which he did
not dispute), it by no means fol!uwed that it
has the power to line strangers; for, in all the
cases adduced, the persons listed were parties at-
tending upon the Court. In the case of the She-
riff, who wise fitted, he was an officer, whose duty it
was to- be attending upoo she Court, sued of course
he might he fined for nun-attendance. So, also.
of a Juror. The case in 4d AtAiiis seemed to
be refrtred to by his Learned Fitetiol, for the sake
of quotiog Lord Hardwicke's opinion ; but it should
slot he foriotten,• that this was a fat. sod impartial
reitort of' the trial.- so that the-case in Atkins could
hardly apply to it. in the prevent esees, had no
order 'been nittle,prohshito4; would the Cowl
have fined for live' ? • Hoerver highly
he ettisnated the Otiltnert3 of Blackstone, yet, as he

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