The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-21 00:00:00

SUIIIIEY SESSIONS, TUESDAY, JULY 2J.

A Mr. William Wilson was indicted at the instance oldie county
of Surrey for a contempt of an order issued and signed by four
11a:is:rates, whereby he, the detenilant, was ordered to refund
the soot of MU. cut of the sum which he had received from a persigi
of the name of lietrge Burnett, father of a lad named Joseph
Durrett.
Mr. KAVE undressed the Jury, and state] that a lad named
Joseph Burnett hail been apprenuced to the defendant, and had re.
ceived from his father the aunt of ?AU fur the purpose of teaching
hint the trade of chymist and druggist; instead, however, of so
doing, he ill-treated the lad : the consequence was, shut the de-
fendant had been taken before the Rend' of libigistrates, who gave
an order that he should refund MM. out of the sum received. The
moment this order was homed, the defendant thought proper to
deeanip, after selling his busi•tests fur lit/ill. and letting his house at
1201. per annum.
The ceder of the Magistrates was then put in and read, when
Mr. Wots.l.Eit twit ea objection to the indictment, upon the
graced that, in the elder or the Alagistmtes, the name •' C. D.
(Jordon" 111411 inserted, and not Charles David Gordon, as set forth
la thiamin:meat.
C H AIIILDI AN held that the objection was good, and therefore
acquitted the defendant, at the same time recommending him to pay
the motley ordered by the Magistrates. lle humiliate', paid the
money, and Id the Court.

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ACCIDIENT ON THE THANES—()O TUrtAlly afternoon
three young lads, apparently about fifteen years of age, who had
hired a boat for the aftcriaion's excursion, met with an accident
which had nearly proved fatal to the whole party. When opposite
the Penitentiary wane difference arose between them, and one,
ranted James Ilarris, in the act of aiming a blow at his compa-
nion lost his balance and fell overboard. The other two, one his
brother, rushing to hie assistance, overbalanced the boat, and thus
all three must hare inevitably perished, had not a waterman front
the opposite shore pushed off a boat to their aavistance, and. tided
by a party in a pleasure-boat, which had by that time nnised at
the spot, he succeeded in rescuing the half-drowned sufferers front
a watery grave. One of them, whom we understand to be an ap-
prentice to a linen•dropme is Oxford-strect, had sunk twice, and
was caught by the hair of his bold, just as he was sinking a thirst
time, by a lady on board the pleasure-boat, who was so overjoyed
in the consciousness of having been the providential means of
site-
bi the life of a ft:low-creature, that after ejaculating " Ilad•
thank thee !" she tainted away in the arms of her friends. The
three lads were act ontpanicd home by the watennasi in a hackney-
conch.

CAUtiON TllCAKTELL—Yestertlair morning, about 12
o'clock, a dreadtul accident occured at the Elephant and l'astle,
threugh th•• negligence of a man named Joel Saunders, the pro.'
prietur at what is termed a.tireenwich cart, i.e. a cart cliieay used
on Ga. occasions to carry the purple to and fro. l'he ran was
placed on the hackney coodi stand. close to the Elephant and
Castle; the horse had on neitber bridle, halter. Ent in fact ailything
about its head. or an guard over It. ley sane means or other it,
took tnght. and proceeded oo as hard as it could towards the Ele_
phant and Castle. strewing the street as it went with fruit of every
description, the fragments of fruit stalls that had thereby bean op-
Net. At the above tavern stood a gentleman's horse and tilbury,
guarded by a livery servant. whose toaster had gone in to take a
I glass of wine: the furious animal which had thus started, made its
way among the torches, and thoist the shaft of the vehicle upwards
01 sts incites, as llescribed by a I.:wrier, under the shoulder of the
noble animal which stood in the tilbury. At this note it was
seized by a number of men, or it would unavoidably have gime
I through the tavern window. The injured horse was talon to a
veletjuag7 "NMI immediately, who declared it not worth two.
pence. Ice understood from. the uwaat that he had given fifty
guineas for it but a few days before.