The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-08-06 00:00:00

MARLBOROt7OII•STREET._

Yesterday JonaFlal;47 the valet of the Hon. Lieutenant
Colonel H. H. Hutchinson, in custody upon a charge of breaking
open his master's trunks and desk, and taking therefrom a vast
quantity of valuable property, and then absconding, and Letitia
Wright, charged with receiving the same, knowing them to be
stolen, we brought up for final rumination.
The prisoners were uked by Mr. ROE, the 31agistrate, if they
wished to say any thing at present.
They both replied in the negative, and were fully commited far
trial to Nersgate.
Mr. Kent, the livery-stable keeper, in Bruton-mews, yesterday
stated to Mr. Roe, that he was extremely sorry for the conduct he
had pursued towards his daughter, that he laboured under an er.
mucous impression, from misrepresentation, and he was very
happy that his daughter was likely to be respectably !settled in a
situation, and be would now, and at all times, do any thing to serve
her, and forward her interests. . .

Mr. Bor. said, he was very glad to hear him express such
sentiments.

JOHN HILL 'WmisTare.—The family of this ill-fated
young man, who was recently executed for forgery, have again been
plunged into the deepest sorrow, by the receipt of two letters front
America, announcing the untimely death of Mr. Daniel Wagaufr,
his father. For many years •he canted on the balances of a
carpet manufacturer in Kidderminster in great repute, and
his principal supplies were for the London market, to attend
to the di-posal of which he employed a town agent, by whom
he was defrauded to an enormous extent t hence to avoid
the recurrence of this evil, lie deputed his son John Hill Wag.
staff, who was then only sixteen years of age, to act as kW
locum keens. The youth being of an enterprising mind, in.
creased the connection to a ernsiderable extent, sod after a time
his father was induced to enrol him as a partner. It fully appears
' tharhe had not long possessed the confidence reposed in him by
his father before he, in order to catty on his speculations, had re.
course to accommodation bills • and in order to raise cash on than,
got connected with a bill-broker then resident at the west end
lof the town, and others; and It is owing to the usurious coa-
-1 duet of those persons, and the irregularities into which he was
led, that produced the fatal catastmphe, and not, as is supposed,
to frequenting gaming.houses. Ihe Il'agstaS being thus in.
volved, the brokers, to prevent a development of particular
transactions which were likely to be exploded by the examination
of the bankrupts, advised that they should abscond to the L'nfted
States, which they prepared to follow, and proceeded to Liverpool
I for embarkation. But it would appear that their object was to
separate father and son ; for. on their arrival at the port, they sug.
grated the propriety of the father going alone, as if on a cannier-
,' etal pursuit, and that the son remain in this country incognito
from his creditors, and regardless of the commission which
had been issued against him ; and it was during this period the fa-
tal instrument, for the signing of which he died, arrived at ma.
turity. The relatives of the unfortunate man knowing that his fa-
ther was entirely innocent of any guilty participation in fraud,
wrote to him, detailing the unhappy situation of his son, and in.
god his immediate return ; hut from information lately received, it
would seem he never received the communication . • hence, from the,
siirm it is known rust,- pi.r nine felt, it is thought the letter was in.
tercepted ; this susticion, connect d with the almost immediate and
mysterious death of the elder Wagstaff, has become the source of
excessive grief to the family, especially as it &ppm* he met with
his untimely end about the time ha Pon suffered the penalty of the
law. In order to exonerate ti•e father from any stigma, the tin.
happy young man wrote and addressed a letter, the night before his
execution, to Mr. P.—, wherein, after recommending his
relatiorJ to his sympaiLtic regard, adverting to his tither, who
was then hourly expected, says—•' 3ly father will shortly return
to England; on his arrival console hint—he is an honest man;"
and this expression lie repeats frequently, and in his dying declara-
tions. We now whet: to the letters received from the other aide
the Atlantic, by which it appears that Mr. D. Wagstaff, on his
airiest in America, wok up his residence at No. yea, Arch-street,
Philadelphia, from s hence he travelled to AVilmington, in the
State of Delaware. where he was at Mr. Thompson 's, No.lo.
IVa,er.street. the landlord being a native of Berwick.upon-Tweed,
this was on tlie 23th of March last ; after remaining until the 7th
it April. lie kft and went to !Ultimate, whence lie returned on
the :LI of May to Wilmington, shire he remained until the 20th,
when be was induced to yin a.l aquatic excursion, during which,
as the letter states, owing to a squab, of wind, the boat upset and
he was drowned.

Coit 0 N n's IN qv r.s T.—Yesterday afternoon an inquisi-
tion was held at the Crown public-houw,. Rosemary-lane. before .1.
rnwin, Esq. upon tic body of John Simpkins, a gun-maker.
residing in White's-card, Rosemary-lane. It appeared that on
Monday night the wife of the tit:ceased and another woman, living
in the same court, named Harris. had a quarts!. which terminated
in blows. aid tl:at he look the wife's part: but Ilarris was too
much fur them both, she having fast beat the wife to a stand
still, and then given the deceased Ft v,r4l severe blows eho;tt the
abdomen and stomach. which brom,la him more than once to
the ground. They were Repaired, and the deceased retired
in his room and went to bed. from which lie never again rose.
lie lingered in extreme agony till 11-ednesday morning, when be
expired. slr. Hawkins. th.: surgeon, deposed that he opened the
body, and found the bowels in a slate of mortification, which he
believed to have been produced by some external injuries, though
no tracks appeared. Several witnesses were examined, but the
Jury expressed a wish to have the wife of the de.s.awed brought
before them. The inquest was ailjourned t.O this evening.