The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-29 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

This season of the year generally brings the Porterage Act Into
pretty frequent numisilion. A parcel. directed for 11h. Pierian&
Russell-square, ens dclitered on Christmaa.day rimming, fur
which the charge of 45., carriage and porterage together. warn Some
hr the purtzr, who brought it fm 3 the .jsranoritli-Two-Nscks.
1 his was thought to be en cantbitant char-.c, and the more so
as there appeared marked u)am ihz parcel the figures 2s. Jrl.,
which, i• waa conjectured. might be the amount of the charge for
carriage; and It so, Its I. waa etidcittlt- ~n ier,losition es for the
porterage. thr. Pisckard took the trouLie to inquire at il.e inn ;
and ric.r wine trruhl*, gut a *lst of the book to which the
els entered I. his name, d the money foe it accounted
for to the lux.k.k,.rper as !a.
Vcsierilay the batik-keeper appeared to answer Dr. P.'s complaint
for i•ending out the parcel without a ticket.
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As to the farts, there was no disagreement between Dr. Pinckard
and the defendant, the laner allowing that 3t., the sum accounted
fur to hip', was the proper charge. and that consequently the
Doctor had been imposed upon. No blame, however, he said.
rested with the ion, and he wen now ready to swear that a retvilar
ticket had been wade out, and rent with the parcel from their Wilt*.
Fruit the notnbar of parcels they had to deliver at this season of
the y, sr. they were obliged to employ extra hernia, and he had not
been n 1 la to find out who was the man that deli ...tied this partici.
far petrel. They eir,ployed penman as head porters of different
dieiriett end 4111101mb be (the defendant) could not speak
pod ively, Dr. l'inekii-d most probably received the parcel from
the head porter of the Iluestil-iquare district, in whith rams the
carrel might hare been delivered by one of the extra hands em-
ployed by him. The arrival of the Magistrate's summons hsd
created en alarm, which would put all the fellows upon their
?mart! against confessing $ single syllable, so that he doubted
whether he should how be able to ascertain who an the person
that delivered it lest lie was ready to swear that the ticket was
sent with it. This lie teemed to think exculpated the pmprietne of
the inr, and the difficulty of the Doctor's finding the porter was
likely enough to deter him from further peoceedings. 1 if. Pinckeril,
however, exproising his ilettnuination not to he PO defeated if re.
dress was olitainahl.r, and the Magistrate holding that the pm.
iwktnr was boom! to prove, in order to relieve bin:sell from the
penalty, to when' the ta.:ket, when mace out, was delivered, the
ease was IlltiOtlTaPli tirt further hearing, and the Imog.gcepee
was required tv produce then either the non, or his mime and
address.

T. Thule, vox brnught before the Sitting Alderman (Cox), upon
usispirinet of having cf.jan a mart.

It atmeared that Air.t2ooper, a fanner, residing near lteigate,
being at Smithfield a ftw days ago recognised a mare in the pin-
-111,0111111 of the prisneer' as one which lied belonged to a neighbour
of M.', and whtch had been stolen on the night of the 9:h. Being
convinced as to the identity of the mare, he gave the prisoner into
the custody of Killers, a Illow.strtrt officer, anal no returning home
mentioned the ciretunatanee to his r.righbilur, alto tame to town,
and immediately knew it to be the mare lie had lint.
The prises r, on being calksl an tic account fur the possession of
the mare, said hk brother, alto was a dealer in hay and straw, at
Stratford, bad bought the mare, ar.d not being altogether %IliSfied
with it, had given It to him to endeavour to sell it at Smithfield.
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Thehroiltei:deposed to the truth of the above, and stated, that he
had purchased the nave eta person named liunntll.
Is . Gunnell said, that he had bought the mare of some men at
the King Harry's Head, 31111e.end-road ; upon beteg questioned
by the Alderman as its who the parties were of whom he had
husittht the man•. h• could not tell.
The Alderman ass of opi•tiun it would he advisable to remand
(iunnrll, into whose yosaession the team had bee:. traced, and who
could not give a satisfactory accnunt as to haw b.• tame possessed of
it, until Satunlay, in rooter that he might traduce the portico.
itentanded accutdingiy.