The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-05-23 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE.

Mrs. Ford, wife to Ford, Esq. of the
county of Down, Ireland, and eldest daughter to
the Lite Right lion. William Brownlow, went on
Thursday lea'night, in apparently perfect health. to
the rout of Mrs. Leftus Tostkuham, in Dublin ; while
seated at the card-table, she found herself seized
with sudden iialisposition, and being near her sc.
eortchemest of her twenty-first child, considerable
alarm was excited, and medical assistance was in-
stantly called 'in; Mrs. Tottenham offered every
accommodation her house afforded ; but Mrs. Ford,
finding herself much recovered, yielded to the na-
tural impulse of wishing to be in her own house, on
such en occasion, and was conveyed into her coach,
accompanied by her sister, the Countess of Powers-
conrt, and her soa. Mr. Ford ; but before they ar-
rived et the house, the.vital spark had flown, and
this truly amiable wife and mother, who had left
her fond husband a few boars before, in all the
splendour of rank mid foetune. returned a lifeless
corpse. She has left nine children. Mr. Ford,
Mrs. Brownlow, her mother, and all Mrs. Ford's
friends, are ineonablaisle. The Countess of Darn-
ley, and Viscountess De Vescia are also sisters to the
deceased.

Information having been received at Sew-street,
that Bond-greet and its vicinity were infested with
gangs of pickpockets. three Bow-street Officers
visited that neighbourhood, on Friday, and found
in Bond-greet, the noted Bill Wood, in company
with two other suspicions characters. viz. Jemmy
Portess, aad Dick emetics, whom they brought
to the Office in the evening. Neither of them be-
ing able to give an account how they got their li-
ving, or what they were doing in Bood-street, Mr.
GtANAM very properly convicted them as reputed
thieves, ro;ues and vagabonds. finder the Police
Act.

•
On Monday last the anniversary of the Election ,
of Sir fil. M. ST RFS, Bart. to serve in Podia/sent cc
Representative bf York, was ccl.-bratexi at Ctaases
hotel and Bleck Swan Inn, ki
_wtere an excellent.dit.-
net vial served up to itpwards of iuo guests. The
'hair was taken by W. Braun, Evil. who filled :t
with great hilarity till a late hour, assisted by the
Rev: Otottoa BtitiwN, as his Vlee-Presii.rent

Ate numerous inettiag of the °Marro of the bri-
gade of Yeomanry in Dublin, eu Wed's...ably last,
Colonel J. P. SMITH, Commander, it:s4l3e Chair,
they resolved wianitnourly, that in casco, ierasion,
hienirrection, or any other enseryfemy, ttvey woulil,
with their respective corpa, extend their sirtiees to
the adjacent cnienties. • AI
Satu•day night's Gazette states, " That Melts.
jesty is ptee'td, by and with the ativici4„o(. his
Privy -Couacil, to order and declicre, that Informa-
tion of the OrJer of the 11th of Nov. i
he taken hrild k. litive been received matt
places on the Contirpoit of North and Solidi
America. extending from the huh to the aoth
e'er of north latitude, including the (slaw! or Nom
t)rlcans, nn Ate Inds day of le.. nom; and that
all tit itters contained in the Ords rof ilia tad. of
Nov. 1.07, iii;iptv fixori tl,e
prices urs.vbl;4l. t,. 111,win:,r leceirod notice of die
said Order of the .1 till *if Nov. ibtl7, vu the sea
loth dly of id). 111‘). • •

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT or hiNG' 141( f►, )TAY 21.

Tao RING t'. W. GRANGER. ILAQ.
The Defendant, in this ease, was brought up for
jodiment, being convicted of assaulting Mr. Skel-
ton, a Yorkshire Attorney. This close arose *at of
the late coutested election for that county, and the
Prosecutor and Dekialant fought under the re-
banners of
,Miltoniiins and Laacellonians.
The Defendant was, in the ranks' of the former ;
and when he cares to give his vote, the Prosecutor
called him i d—d Jacebiii, a Burtlettite,lec. Some
these after the beat of the contest the parties suet by
occident, and the Defendant charged the Prosecu-
tor with calling him by improiler appellations; 'the
latter repeated the'epsthets of JacoMn, he. uon:
which the Defendant spit iu his face. •
The I)efendant was sentenced to pay a due of
la. ed. sad discharged.