The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-10-11 00:00:00

TO 171 E EDITOR OF TO,: BRITISH PRESS.

Ste—Reading your paper this morning at break-
fe.t, as is my constant custom, I
was surprised to
see ouch DTI mottoes recount of the cause of the
riot in 3lsionionth-street this week.
W. Thornber, the prr-ect occupier, purchased
the Ira.. of Mr. 6. for srn. or upwards, and has
paid him the rent of two quarters, supposing hint
the legal landlord. Before belied been three quar-
ters there, another landlord laid on an execation
for six quarters' rent, which be 'paid, hoping to re.
covet it of the other; since which, both landlords
have been distressing him every quarter for the
rent, till they have totally ruined an honest, sober,
industrious, and fowl wall. Ile has had recourse
to law, bat hes to laineut its uncertainty. Tim
woman, Mrs. Thomber. is his wile; and hi, friends.
rainy of whom are respectable, and who kuow all
the circuinstaures, are heartily sorry for lie miler-
tones.-.-Should hope you will state these facts in
candour. I am, Sir.
A Coserrais Ronan.
liaralitll, Oat. to, 1110.

Is Camiequerser of Information receiver) by ETRE
EnAn% Eoq. High Sh,rifrof the county of Lamertek,
he scoured • circuit of shove twenty to le., • few
nights ion e, acrmnpsnieJ by • poly of the North
INsyto re4il:o.ot, and on Thur.lar lottgyd in
gaol Lake Williams, alias Captain ItisAer, cbarged
with tressuo, robbery, sod felou) !

ESCAPE OF RODERT ROBERTS
rao* LOLDII4TIA FIELDS P.IlaON.

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This mysterious business, which has occupied Ito
much public attention and wood,r, h.is at length
been developed, an that the Whole plau of eseitpi4
together with the method, of obtaining it, are io
longer a seerift. "this discovery has burls made by
the voluntary confession of a Prisoner in CoWWll-
field Prison, of the name of John Taylor, who is
undergoing an imprisement of twu years—sod this
conflssion, together with other corroborative cir-
cumstances, levee no doubt on the subject.
The deposition of Taylor states, that he was a
sweeper iii that part of the prison where Robins
WAY MIA tied, and he had the cleaning of Roberts's
cell. When ltuberts was last examined at M
borough-street •, he said it would be a
fortnight before he was examined again ; and after
interrogating Taylor, cud rojoininic him by a bribe
to secrecy, he asked if there was no way by which
he could get his liberty by an escape ? Taylor in-
formed him that such depended in a great sava.ore
upon what friends he had without the walls of the
prison. Roberts said, he had plenty of friend%
but they were of no use finless he had one in the
the prison that he could depeud upon; for if he did:
not escape, he was sure to die. !Oben, suggested,
that if he could get the key of the gates, he could
snake an impression, old get one made ; cud Tay-
lor sometimes haring the keys to let out prisouer•
occasionally, agreed to furnish him with the key of
the gates.

The gates through which Roberts (missed are
locked also with a padlock. as wdi as the other
leek. On the Sunday week previous to the escape
of Roberts, Taylor got the key or the gates, who ts•
he conveyed to Roberts, who in ale au imprewaoir
with it on a piece of soap &boot two inches thick, iu
Taylor's presence, by striking it with • bo,,t-pn•l.
Taylor procured a padlock frows art empty cell (all
being m ide to ripen with One asp, 1111(1 this pod-
lock he gave 'to Roberts, who put It into a parcel
and gave it to him, to be conveyed by a trnsty fri oil
of Taylor's (a servant in the prison) to • friend of
Roberts's. Ti,l4 was done, and on the following
Friday
_Roberts informed Taylor that lie hod got
the things in a parcel, and he unbuttoned his waist-
coat and produced them, wrapped...no several WI. is
of paper, and its contents were two keys, a hook
seven or eight inches long, and a small tile.—
Taylor asked Roberts how he got the things in, as
it was a role never to leave the Prisoner alnoe, and
he informed blur that • 6 lend had brought it him.
This friend was a man now in cu•toJ'.
Roberts, accompanied by Taylor, found a conve-
nient opportunity to try the keys, and they were
found to answer every purpose. Hoherts house-
iliately wrote a letter to a friend (~hone name it
would not be proper at present to mention); and
whilst Taylor war g•rne to find his trusty friend,
the servant of the prisms, he saw the letter in the
hand of another person who was with Roberts.
(whose name also 41, better at present to omit) and
who answered for the regular delivery of it, ■s
Roberts afterwards told Taylor. Taylor saw the
said letter. and it informed the person who re-
ceived it. that the keys fitted ; and that he, Ro-
berts, should try on the escane on Monday night.
This letter went 'safe,. as was proved by the receipt
of another on Monday night. which was brought
to Roberts by a person whom we have iaefore stated
holds a situation of trust in the prison, whilst be
was drinking wine with Taylor. It was this fetter
which proved fatal to the An. family, wad which
planned the hour of escape.
Roberts was particular in consulting Taylor, whe-
ther there was a probability of the seal having been
broken ; for if so. lie was a dead man. Toe Reel
was closely examined. aaJ Roberts was satisfied.
Witness saw the letter.w beg& " Dear Bob," sod
continued, that titty men would lose their lives ra-
ther than Roberts should be hurt. Tae letter also
stated, that • rope was ready, and advised him not
to leave the keys behind. It concluded, that Imo-
pie would lie in waiting to receive Roberts, from
twelve o'clock till four.

After this, Taylor inquired of Smith. who escop 2d
with Roberts, if he was willing to be true and grid
his liberty; and after hiving received every assur-
ance to that effect, he informed him that the next
toll to him was empty, and the two keys were
tied behind a piece of wood in • certain part 91 the
cell. Taylor instructed Smith how to get to Ro-
berts after he had broken into the empty cell, and
assured him that Roberts troalil reward him after
they had clewed the prison ; but he must take off
his shoes in going down the passage. Roberts gave
Tuylor • 11. note on Monday night, when he told
hire that Smith was to go with hint, and he was to
receive 201. more of Roberts's friend (a man now in
monody), as he (Taylor) hid refused to take it, for
good reasons, until Roberts got clear off. Roberts
was provided by Taylor with a pair of list shoes for
the escape, which took itl.tce at twelve o'clock.
There is another prisoner who corroborates Tay-
lor in his depositions ; ■nd some palwrs f.stind in
the possesioo of Roberts's friend, now in custody.
leaves oo doubt whatever of this beisig the real
statement relative to the escape. Thus doscorery
has been made by a meritorioui servant of the late
Governor, whose conduct entitles him to the great-
est praise for the zeal he has manifested in tracing
the thing from its origin.
With respect to the watchmen, there are none
stationed at that part of the prison when: the psi•
soners escaped. One watchman alone it stationed
on the outsi,le the prition, whose duty it is to walk
round it, to that the friends of Roberts who were
watching him prevented a possibility of his detec-
tion.

Tun FA•seIITI: Fat*.—On Satur.lay se'nnight.
a girl (nut very far divtant front 114.1184 a m) went
before a Nlagistrate, and some a child, of winch she
*as pregnant, to a young man who had been uoe
of her sweetheart., and who wag consequmtly
t limn into custody by this Parish °Mem : whilst
the youth area is dtertince, Mother Ciciseso. con-
suit's* odder, Cafes to the Oferero, and told
them they had got the wrong man. for that the
lot ought to bare fallen to Ais share; ari.l the I Ater
has since bad the bantri published in the parish-
church, preparatory to his marriage with the frail
Helen: but sinew ills publication of the henna, a
third suitor bas stepped forwmcl, and declared Air
deternsimitiou to rival the others in the &Sections
of the Fair-our, and, if possible, to obtain the
Mao&► of heating her a the hysensal altar:

SURhEt SI.SSIOSSr Ott. 111.•

Frederick *Ws inditned roe rolohtoo•lfr
tre..11..e a tninuie, containing tee table cloths sad
.wo shifts, the ',travesty of Without Hinkariu-
It appeared front the osiolencv. that .11111.
Hudson 1..“1 einploye,l it tier of the nano. nihilist,.
'Lout eleven years 01:I, on the stud) of fleirttentbeer
to e4ety the ',walk from Cainherwell
nn the wuyjte met 11,e J'lienstr, also tialured Mitt
to euter a 61,1 d, whets lit sail I.e wou-4 Ales. Intat
bird's nest the h..y weld titian into it dry ditch to
look for it, leaving the bundle oil the bank. with
which the Prisoner took tbi opportunity of ob..
standing.
He was found Gelky, and. the ennrt sentenced
him to transpor.ation for setcot yrars.

Juliet Ltualey w,is fnond•grl/(y of stalingp.wier
pots front IVillmu .4.4 Li. Lowy. t.,0
pablicsa*. rtsiiiiiig in the pariah of bag,
Southwark.

There was nothing partieuier in -tha aitrain•
statirts of this este t but stir 4:l,lprispo,
CiAfttELL, in owutruer no the Prisoper,
starea, that tint crime of which • but had been
found guilty Ws so evil of
tode than unit gel e fly ',Tipped. It wrfala
scarcely he credited, Piton hes .tted, that tiscpulae-
halos of Loudon u,d it. Clillirinso. sustainer! a Isis
of 100,0001. itanually he depredator* of this door*.
tiuu ! The Con-t, taitiin; this ifirsiiiinsiante sops
consideration, thought it eight to tnPke csautples
of all those ironticted of the copse, soul, 'hetet...re,
sentenced the l'n%earr 1,1 thief mouths' iosprisou•
in llorsoinongee.lsim gent. and tistriat tluit
to be vublecly whirl/ed. once from ate.g.it,l to Loot.
street, and hack. •

The CHAIRMAN, then. aer the• inehtrinn
vvrT, air of the Moi:itratrig; tibotir q row °borne
rations nu the c.re:eug meaner in which pribite.
cans exposed their ie•te,•ehil'h Weft' pl4cel.
pirtitly. in suds uttt.:tions, as alumni l• kiwi*
rubbery.

"AR Rutter alias hurter *oil, indiesPd fir kw*.
ing a liv:v,e 4111 fame. sis Chc pu•+:, of St. Gain".
Smilth.vask.

Mr. IiSoGrR op. ned 11. e pleading.
Mr. Not.se mated the cove:—lb o'sserv4, that
the present prosecution was carrie,t ria by Lie pa-
rish officers of St. lienr;.:e, Southwark, tit the rite
press rem !!!!! tort ,tion of the r.it..• at Unions
Hell, before whom the Plisover had been examined.
To chew the reason that these Nlagi4trates had
thought it right to single out tie- I'.i,' tier, as an
oliject particalarly deseritug legal punish tient, he
would shortly state the circumstances which the ex-
amination of the Prisoner hail developed.—A child
of t 1 year. of age, the daughter of a persol of the
name of Branscomb. lied Abs./turd herself from her
pimento. A search was, of course, iswttutrd. and
the child was ultimately discovered; not, it was
true, in the Prisoner's house; but, according to
her statement, it appeared, that she lied been sp.
rite., away from her paternal house, by uue of those
wretches who lived. at Mrs. Rutter's, in • state of
prostitution. When the child was first tiros-tilt to
the Pii.oner's house, No: 37, Artillery...tr.-et,
Blackfliar's.road, Mn. Rutter inquired whether -
she had any money ? and, or being anavtered to the
negative, she deta:ed her to go to her father's freed
dence, and take away some of his property. The
child went home, as she li id been direct' d, and
stole several articles of tr:r..ng value. On lirr re.
tura skit the fruitslPlier dishonesty, she tv... ad.
m.tted into the Pi emote.; house, where she re.
mauled two days : site then strayed away, and
was taken inn. the a o:khouse of St. Cleeent
DOOM and timely restored to her fattier. The-Pti-
sager had been simply itid.tied fen Itelang whits**
of dl lame; but if it were proved that she pertehtod•
the introductidn of claddresis (..r the moat:abandon.
ed puremee4, then would ber crime be aggravate 4
in the highest degree, sod, he, trusted,. tt:e Court,
would flay ii wick the most eigrasprsry pop;4.ussent.
Tn sloes, in Its twist paring ~loan'-'ll4 edible
which the Prison. r war e4i e,iedi• he need welt
point out the object who bid trvis,-thos laws&
away to the tiliode of disease
,and priiatatuticn—u,
a child. who, limn her trader rip, war suable to.
distinguish between good and evil—and whose
temporal, sad, he might gild. twerin lerefrart, 114.
thus insidiously hartrdeil.—['flit Learned
Counsel here poi led out the girl. who is qiuteaa
child, and rather tittle of her age.l-1-1e euticluaed
a very able speech by detaining the evidence,
was subsequently deposed by the witnesses, at W.'
low" :--

Allll Smith, a girl of eighteen, lodged with dm/
Prisoner shout seven weeks; bhe become acquaint._
ed with her in conger/a-nee of having, whet, in want'
of a bilging, take-, a room in her house, for whit%
she pan' 15,. per week ; she also pistil 2s. GI. pert •
day fur her hoard, tiuding her own porter: the Pit.
cotter knew tha .tie was a weiniaii of the tnwu. and
was perfectly sw!tre that gentlemen c.ilue hawse
with her she used sometimes to introduce gentle..
men to witness, mid 1111.. Ct a certain sant when.
ever she received looney for Witter. St •Its modes
point of keepiiir the change: the house was con►
ducted as II • neat...able a manner agony weer iii the
street—bat she did not think there wait a modest
house in the trfigtitionrhood. fl,.little girt, --.
Branscombosho was minding id the Willem,* Not Ike
girl whom she saw in the Prisoner's horse; ifs's* had
been there she mu .t hate seen ht..; the girl Cott
had been briught to 'Mrs. Rutter's Lad a more on.
manly vppeartaire; she said she was LI pars of
age ; she reinailieti two nights in the house.
Ann Carney, a girl of 17, *holders tired in Mr%
Rutter's, depu‘ J as to the Prisionene ki.owledge of
her mode of olnsiuing a livelihood, and generally
corroborated the testimony co the former wits.c.s.—
The child then in Court. she was posatite, %tea:J(4
the same which had been uruaght to 3drs. Itutier'A.
Ore the first day of Crunhervrell Fair, one of the
girls it the Prisoner's house took the child out for
the parptem of going to the lair; the women of the
town, however, who resided.. is the antes, kicked
op a rete—they thought she wee gniug to the fair
for some improper purpose, And said it was a shams
that Mrs. Ratter should take such a child Into the
house.

Mr. BatteuW. for the Pristocer. objected to this
pert of the evidence ; it west mere's) to .haw the
meaner its which the Muscater had beeu et sutured,
although it Woo sot proved theistic oa, i.r tuella
intention of ',king the child hi the fai..
The Witaessracteded cectegsomes oft it

disturbance, another lady in the street, took the
child in, but she did not continue there. The child
standing at the table she had never seen at Mrs.
duffer's—she must have seen her had sbe been
there. The child that had slept there was of a darker
complexion, and considerably larger. Mrs. Rutter
did not bring her home; she had been foetid stray-
ing shout the Temple, by one of the girls ; and, as
she declared that site had no home, the yonng wo-
man had offered her a part of her bed.

Mr. Not.AM wished to examine-- Bettliscoinb ;
but Mr. BARROW objected to such s proceeding,
on the ground that two witnesses, who clearly
proved thin the Prisoner kept a house of ill Cline,
had positively sworn that the child then standing
berm. them, was not that which had slept for two
nights in the house; and he submitted, whether it
would be prudent to credit the oath of a child of
eleven years °lege, as to her having been in a par-
ticular house, in a street where ell the tenements
were appropriated to the same purposes ?
Mr. NOLAN was of opinion, that the child's evi-
dence should be received, As it was possible she
might have been in the house, although unseen by
the two witnesses.

The Comm, however, coincided in the opinion
of Mr. BALtHOW, and -- Branscomb was not ex-
amined. _

Mr. BARROW. in addressing the Jury, shortly
observed, that as the circumstance of thelitile girl
of the na•ne of Branscomb haying been in the Pri-
soner's house, had lint only slot been proved, but
had been moat flatly contradicted ; and :IS it did
not appear that the Prisoner was privy to the other
child's (who bad hero received into the house when
she had no place in which to lay her head) having
gone out for the purpose or prostitution to Cam•
bemell Fair, the case was stripped of its aggravated
circumstances ; and the Prisoner did not appear to
be mare guilty than soy other person in the street
where she resided.

The CHAIRMAN recapitulated the evidence, and
the Jury altuost itameiiately found the Prisoner
Guilty.
In passing sentence, the CHAIRMAN informed
the Prisoner, that had the evidence proved her to
have received the child for the abandoned purpose*
which had been alleged, the heaviest punishment
which the law warranted would have been inflict-
ed ou her—tome circumstances had ►lso appeared
in her favour—the Court had taken them into

consideration, and only sentenced her to six months
imprisonment in the county gaol.
Mrs. BRANSCONO, the mother of the unfortunate
little girl, applied to the Court, through the me-
dium of Mr. NOLAN, for a recommendation to
the Governor* of the Refuge for the De,titute, in
which Institution she wished to place her child.—
Directions were immediately given her how to
proceed for the attainment of that object.
Thomas Farmer Teat, indicted for an assail% on
Joh', Brown, with an intent to commit an unnatu-
►el crime, was d-quitted.
The circumstauc,sof this case are too disgusting
to mention.