The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-07-05 00:00:00

IRON Ml. TILL, TO TN( Tftisirsa.

" SIR, " ScatbriV. June 10, 3804.
" Having been particularly requested by my
friends to publish the inclosed Letter, and knowing
your wish to defend the innocent, I take the liberty
of requesting its insertion in your publication.
" It is indeed afiliaing to me to solicit this favour;
but, painful as the recital is, there is some consola-
tion in refietting that the dear objea •sf this letter,
sunk to the silent grave spotless, and in delenee of
that virtue, which it had always been the care of
her parents to instil into her youthful mind. It was
an artful iminuation of her murderer (for I pre-
sume it was he alone), that propagated the shame-
ful tale. that she was considerably advanced in a
state of pregnancy, to defame her charatler, and
palliate the foul stain of murder—a murder the
most wanton and inhuman that perhaps was ever
perpetrated, plucking from her friends an innocent
child. in the bloom of youth and beauty. Oh vile
wretch ! Whoe'er thou art, did not thy uloody
heart relent ? She offended thee not but in refusing
what thou wart a villain to require, and defending
herself against thy brutal rage! Methinks I hear
her supplicating her butcher for mercy. aud cal,ing
to me for proteaion. Oh that Providence had di-
relied my steps after her. But who could suppose
man so vile. Why cut the thread of life ?
case is ton clear, the dead speak not I Rut rentrm-
her, thou fell Monster, that the Lord Omnipotent
reigneth, and will, no doubt, cause his vengeance
to overtake thee! This is a parent's prayer, and the
prayer of a sympathising
" That a York Volunteer deluded her, by false
pretences. and enticed her from home, is a faB that
cannot be denied; of this we are in possession of
incontrovertible proofs ; proofs which at this time
I would publish ; but I will not prejudge the case,
as, most certainly, a time will come, when the Al-
mighty wiU cause the vale assassin to be brought to
justice.
" It cannot. Mr. Editor, be matter of touch sur-
pri.e, that my unfortunate daughter should listen to
the overtures of a York Volunteer ; a great many
of them are men of respeaability ; and it was the
prevailing fas ion for the young women in Scarbro'
to be escorted by them, during their residence here,
and, no doubt. the body of the regiment conduated
themselves with much propriety; bet it was the fate
of my hapless child to form an acquaintance (though
=known to her friends) with perhaps the only
man in the regiment capable of doing so vile an
aa (I do hope so. however). God forbid that I
should stigmatise five or sis hundred men, because
one of them 'nay be a villain. On the contrary, I
know that the fittest body of them feel with me,
and consider the deed, and the perpetrator of it.
with the greatest abhorrence ; and I sincerely hope,
that no false delicacy will induce any of them to
keep back any thing they know that would tend to
bring the culprit to justice, and prevent their corps
being longer disgraced by containing a murderer.
ro 1 cannot conclude without expressing my pub-
lic acknowledgments to Colonel Baines, and the
Officers of the York Volunteers, for their:unsirearied
investigations.
" Hoping that, eve long, the vile murderer of my
innocent child will be brought to condign punish-
ment ; and though this will be no compensation (Cr
my loss, it is the only prayer an &Sided pareht can
now offer to that Almighty and Omnipotent Go-
vetoer of the Universe, who permitted the innocent
to ruler, and will, I trust, in his good time, also
punish the guilty. I remain, Sir, Your most obe-
dient Servant, " J. BILL."

Lady SA LI SSA: RV, who died a few days sines at
her house in Harley-street, has bequeathed to Sir
Tttoras S -, her nephew'
t 30,0001. and to
Mr. &Arrest av (the younger broher to Sir Too-
fit as), the hulk of her fortune, estimated at upwards
of two hundred thousand pounds. The servants
are my handsomely provided far; the steward and
housekeeper are to have 6001. each, as the others
an annuity. of 301. The funeral took place Tester-
Jay at the family vault in Hertfordshire.

A lEIIAIIA■La INSTANCE or FECUIEDITT.—
Two swine rf the Chine,e breed, belonging to Mr.
THOMAS RADCLIFFE in Glen of Curnmertrees,
Scotland, have, within,
these last twelve months,
brought forward 111 pigs, viz. first litter, 20th
May, I So 3, 96 : second ditto, 7th Nov. ISta. $6 I
third ditto, 7th May, 18Q4, 39.