The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-07-31 00:00:00

dfßofkin solicited astraWillialkom. Nib !Pei to call at
• IA .
Isis Poole's) himOirescilm j or olitainisi from
Inosswoofiroestion of what rinotly slated le
Baits mod am
4:rad
014selitios were, however, 'Eiji .to ians& ad procerdiog,_
ilifert.lhniber being desirous to come to the rissasioatimo or
the transaction perfectly owhiaosied. Mr. Bodkin. Mete=
fore, at my recommendmiol, wrote oe ',woodsy, the Id holy.
• a letter to INr. "Mole, sof which the following is • copy
Sta—As neither Mr. Waller, nor some Members at the
Mendacity Society, are initialled' with the testinsuay of Messrs.
Br6ek and Smith, the gentlemen to whom you avowed the
fact of having been accessasy to the writingof a letter to the
Editor of Vie Tines, in February laid, commuoleating in-
telligence as to Ibe audience on the occasion of dm King's
visit to the Theatre having been packed. 1 am ander the ne-
cessity of insisting upon your atteudiug the Mendicity
of-
fice, on Monday morning nes', at eleven o'clock precisely,
to tonirm before other Members of the Mendicity Society,
and Mr. Walter, what you told Mr. Brock and Mr. Smith,
and especially to assure them, that I had no knowleilge, di-
rectly nor indirectly, of such a letter having been seat to the
Tints. Mr. Walter has pledged himself tlint lie will nut
proceed against you, and that NO injurious coarequences
shall follow'your repeating on Monday next what.yins have
already communicated. 1 expect an immediate asisweo, and
am, ace. " W. lh. BouLIN,7
PS.—Yott will direct to me at this Office, noorkeir Pri-
vate."

Tuesday sod Wednesday passed without an answer. On
Thursday, Mr. Bodkin receixed.the following nuts, while I
was present at the Nlenalicity Office.
"Sow—l am leaving town this day on particular business,
last will, if possible, be in tool on Monday ; should you
wish to make any commuoication, I shall be at the Mute
Hart, Lincoln, where s letter will llnd me.
" I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
Whiterross-street. CLEMENT POOLE"
Mr. Bodkin had no stoner received this note, than he ex-
pressed to me his determination to follow Mr. Poole to Lin-
coln, preferring this mode of endenvowriog to procure his
attendance to the leas effectlial alternative of • written ap-
placation. He left London the same eveniug.
The day after Mr. Bodkin quitted town, there was re-
ceived at the Mendicity Office a letter from Mr. Poole (which
I opened), in these words:—
" Two Waterk Herta. sth hely, UHL
Stn—l find I shall not be in towu on Monday, as Ima
only leaving here now for Lincoln. I therefore semi you a
copy of a letter which I have sent this flay to Mr. Walter,
enclosing the one 1 received from you. I tare only add
my sincere wish that you may experience uu
,further trouble
in this unpleasant affair.-1 am, &c.a
To Mr. W. H. Bodkio. (Signed) "C. POOLE."
(Copy eocloseil
a Two Waters, Herta, sth July, 1821.
"Stn—As I shall not be in town on Monday next, it will
he impossible fur nee to attend at the 51endicily Office on
the subject of the enclosed 'mar. I have, however, made a
Communication on the subject* ta: the Lori' Mayor. to whom
I have the pl of bang kuowu, and if you will do me
the favour of calling on his Lordship, I treat this unpleasant
affair will be explained to row entire satisfaction.

" so,
(gigned) "CLEMENT POOLE.
" To Waltrr, E.q. Those Oaks."

On Mr. Rodkin's mreral at Lincoln he vent me a Issuer,
by which 1 10uu,,l Mr. Poole had informed him of the coin.
rutinication he had made to Mr. %Vallee, and that he had
at the same tante assured Mr. Bodkin the explauatitM
which he had authorised Ibe Lord Mayor In make, was one
which could not COI to be quite satitfattort to Mr. Walter.
Mr. Bodices: did tint therefore farther press Mr. Poole's im-
mediate return to London.
Mr. Bodkie returned to London on Monday morning the
9th July, but being prevented by severe illness front attend-
ing the snard, an adjuitrotuent took ptacx to the follow/Mg
Monday (the 16th), alien ■ll the parties interested were
desired to attend. . .
Accordingly, on Monday the 161 h, Mr. Walter laid before
a full tweeting of the Board, the 'whole of his evidence.

Every /lei um;tance conaected with the charge was minutely
aid.patieutly investigated. The identity of the wafer seal
(which Mr. Bodkin bail sponeaueomily giver up to Mr. Wal-
ler) was of course admitted, hut the main fact reli►d on
was an alleged 'unitarily of liande.writing, Mid upon this
point no persons were More competent to form a current
opinion than the managers themselves, to whom Mr. Bud.
kin's hand-writing was familiar. An attempt to knurlier
their judgment was indeed made by the productioa of an
Inspector from Ilia POll4-aece, bat it entirely failed, fur
although thee gentleman asasideted the disguised band in the
aurreptitions kites- to ►esemble Mr. lludkkeis., he admitted
wpm& cross-examtration that it slew resewrefind .M►. Poole's.
00 the part of Mr. Bodkin individuals were crammed, who
proved the fact of Mr. Poole having been teem writing Muse
in Mr. Budkia's office at Ilse period when the letters com-
plained of were ,writleit. Mr. Peak himself also attended,
and repeated, inn most clear and satisfactory adorer, what
he bad before communicated. One Goatlearan, who had
been in constaot correspondence wills Mr. Bodkin daring t►e
last lb years, .stated his convictlea that the surreptitious
letters were Oat is Mr. Bodkia's band-writing.' Miorbeher
witnesses were in attendance, hut the •Board intimated that
it was unnecessary for Mr. Bodkin to call any further evi- '
deter, being satisfied of the grottiullassaess of the charge.
It may be worthy of remark that the whole of •these pro.
ceedings took place in the presence of Mr. Walter and Mr.
Platt, his legal adviser, who assisted in conducting the case
before the Boa►d. .

lo regard to the staterneati mule by the Fiber'r of lb*
Timer itt his paper of ibis inarniwg, .1 molar avoid observing
that it contaias a garbled and distorted view of this tratisac.
tirs, suppresses material . facto, .wiiirepreerais others, and
in every wafture betrays tie writbiags of .a awn disap-
pointed in the bops he had indulged of sacrificing Mr. &A-
kin to private pique sod political hostility. 1 hive not been
in labile of iulimacy with Mr. &Whim; my acquaintance
with that G.-isthmian urigisaird at the Mendiciry rmeitly;
and if, is the progress of this inquiry, 1. manifested any
estraurdioary zeal in his favour, it was created by the early
conviction with which 1 was impressed of the malevolence of
the accusation, awl by the comideration that an individual
nhq devotes the whole of his time to the einieente.4 a cha-
ritable inetitutioa, and the boilliewe of whose life is to di-
minish the won of hamaa misery, bad a peculiar and irre-
sistible claim to whatever prolteima it was in my power to
afford. (Signed) IRVING BROCK, Donglity.itrcet.
28//i July, 1821.

• •
Captain lIENDSON will start this morning for a
bet of lOU guineas to ride lour horses sixty-four
miles in four hours. The adventurer is a fax-hun-
ter of intrepidity, but time i 4 backed ut 6 to 4
against performiug this undertaking.
The shoals of pilchards which were lately seen off
the coast have disappeared ; tt. is said that t here are
• great number of sharks near the land, which may
acCotaitt for the disappearance of the pilchards.
The Murree. Offee, July 31, 1821.
The Observer of Sunday, July id, contains a
full and correct account Or the Coronation Cere-
monies, illustrated with Four Plates (the Drawings for
which, with She Engravings, coat One Hundred Guineas—
Twenty-Ave Daturas each). It consists of Two Sheets,
making Forty Folio Columns, without soy advertisements
in either. Each Sheet oontaios Two Views of the Interior
of the Abbey and the Hall, at the most interestirg periods
of the ceremony. The price of the Two Sheets is Fourteen-
pence (Seven-pence each). To prevent disappointment, The
Observer will be kept on Sale for Fourteen Days, so that it
can be had until the
.18th of August; and being a stamped
Newspaper, it can be seat to.any part of the Übria Ki-
dest free m n
of postage, frank, for which purpose way be hail
gratnitossly at the Offices, No. 189, and No. 192, Strand,
London.—The Plates are now working more clear and per.
feet than when they drat began.-0.0 51,750 sets of the
above have already. hem printed and sold, rmi ig not fewer
than 109,500 foitepenav stamps. and 219 reams of paper.
So large a number of* Newspaper waa never before printed
and sold at one publication.