The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-12-28 00:00:00

SITOCKINO AccroENT.
The necessity of estreme from
for the pri.
serration of young children from the fatal efeffs of
fire, has recently been exemplified by many fatal
instances. We are sorry to say, we have another to
add to the melancholy list. On the inotning'of
Wednesday last, a child of Mr. BUTTON,
cellar, et St. Paul's Church-yard. between three and
four years 'of age, being left by a servant in a rocas.
where a lighted candle was placed on the hiartha
close to t• e eats approached so near as to set
its eothes orr'fire. The father and mother of the
infant beingArst alarmed by the cries of the little
saffaer. hastened to its assistance, aid extinguished
the flames 'by rolling it in a carpet.. The feelings
of the parents may he conceived, when they beheld
,the srftscle which their cb:ld ierbihited, with this
eyes totally destroyed, and otherwise dreadfully
disfigured. After languishing in this condition
about twelve hours, death happily relieved tLe poor
lirlr vitalist from the torture which it must hare
en lured, The vertlid of the C'rroner's 1 r gem, hell
on the following day. was, Accidental death.

POLICE.

sow-STaCtT.
JUVENILE IMM:rite.
For some time past s I robbi ries have been
committed in the town and neighbourhood of
Islington. and a patty of boys have been suspeeted
to be the offenders. Information of this haring
been given to the parrole who have the care of that
distrid, they have been upon the lo.ik out, but
mide no discovery until Saturday, when a boy,
about 14 years of age, was deteeted robbing the
garden of his own parents, an industrious coup!.,
wha reside in Lower Islington. He was given in
charge to Lock. one of the patrols, who brought
him in the evening to the Office, when he noder•
went an examination before Mr. GRAHAM. He
made an ample confes.ien, in which lie stated, eat
he was one ur a gang of eight boys, about his own
age. Their Ca;.tain was a boy of the name of
Ay', a plaisterer, who, for his superior address in
planning robberies, and his knowledge of re-
ceives of stolen goods, was chosen to fill that
station. The crimes siiaich they had committed
were of a petty nature. inch as robbing shop-win-
dows and yards; but they hod grander things is
view, and among them was a plan to 'break op•.n
the house pf a dlr. Dawson, for which purpose they
had made preparations. A chisel and other impk.
merits for house breaking, he said, had been pro-
vided for the execution of tl.is enterprise, which
were produced before the Magistrate, having bees
found hid no ler some ashes, in pursuance of the in-
formation given by the Prisoner to the Officer.
Mr. Gaauar, feeling how hard it must he upon .
parents to cons, forward to prosecute their own
child to ernvidion, ordered the Prisoner to he sent
on bond the tender. and directed ti.e patrole to
look alter the rest of the gang.
On the 8:h of Wilber, a fleet.of 19 sail, ships and
brigs, was seep in latitude 56, 14, longitod • 2, 07,
by one of our cruisers, upon his lee-Seani, standing
to the southward. In the evening the cruiser lost
sight of them.
The Costumers de Ri,, Gousa Lets, from Rio de
Janeiro. is detained by the Pbe,ais, of Guernsey,
and sent into Cot k.
The Tams* frigate. Capt. A.. 1. GIIMITHS, is
appointed convoy from Portsmouth to Guernsey.
On Tuesday the Hon. Gsciaos Gage, Resident
Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth, art ived
at his house in the Dock-yard, from Alnwick,
North u mhet land.
Lord Bustoosasn, son of the Earl of WeSTMOR.
LAND, arrived at half past eight o'clock, last night,
at his father's house in Grosvenor-square, from
Gibraltar. His Lordship was prevented from go.
ing out to visit his friends, by indisposition.
The Marquis of ELT is arrived in town fib=
Ireland.
J. M. Notifies', Esq. of the Royal Navy, is
appointed Regulating Captain at the port of Lime-
rick, in the room of the late Captain Wa issue-roe,
and has taken the command of his distria.
The Earl of Den cv turned out a deer, on Satan.
day, at Addington, near Croydon. After a severe
run of two hours, he was taken in Kent. His Lord-
ship returned to the Asks, at three o'clock, in hie
postehaise and four.
Early on Friday morning, tl.e house of Mr.
La sin o. shoemaker, of Aylebury.sireet, Clerken.
Well, was broken open, and robbed of several ar.
titles of plate, a quantity of wearing apparel, and
ether property to a considerable amount.
Georg: Russell, a working jeweller, was on Sawa
day fully committed for trial, by the Magistrates
of Hatton-Garden Police Office, charged with steal-
ing some gold wire. of the rake of 31. belonging
to his master, Mr. GLSNNINO, of Holborn, jeweller.
The frequent depredations antis kind have induced
Mr. GLIM NINO to persist ifs this pr:secution.—A
Person of the name of Pollard, also a working
jeweller, was br.sught up on suspicion of receiving
the stolen articles; out the evidence not being suf-
ficient to warrant the Magistrates in committing
him, he was discharged.
ANOTH as CON nT.—A letter from a gentleman,
dated Crantits, Orkney, October 30, says:—" Last
night I observed another comet. It was nearly
vertical to this place, about eight o'clock. The
nucleus is fully as large to appearance as the o:her
comet, which is also still visible. This new comet
is very large and distina. It appears to be on its
approach to the sun, will probably be ♦isible for a
considerable time, and seems to have mewed, since
I first saw it last night, about two degrees."
A Lady of fashion, in the vicinity of Portman-
square, whose condad has hitherto been deemed ie..
reproachable. and who has appeared in the first
circles of fashion. absented herself on Wednesday
morning from her husband's house. with a young
man who had for some time been employed by him
as an Amanuensis.--fhe injured Gentleman re-
ceived intelligence of the circumstance while he was
in D. ury-lane Theatre, and immediately pursued
the fugitives as far as Healey. where he lost all
traces of them; they having proceeded from that
town across the country, on foot 1 The' Lady haul
deserted three fine children ; and, what is most ea.
trzordinary, her condud to her pal-Anwar. who is
only twenty years of age, has been invariably
narked by the greatest contempt; she not even
I permitting him to dine is the same room with her.