The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-01-25 00:00:00

SUICIDE.

On Saturday night an inquisition wag taken at the Amami
D•ar, in Bow. street, before Thomas Higgs, Coioner, on the
body of Thomas Clifford, aged about thirty, who poisoned
himself.
The deceased had been a hook-hinder Cl Mate heater, hnt
Giles' in hosisess, and was reduced to gnat (bores's, not being
eve° aide to get work as a journeyman. Hoi wife came to
London sumo time ago, with au listen, ion of maintaining
herself by her iuductry. She lodged at Nu. 27, White Lion-
street, Seven Dials, until Tuesday last, when he came to
town, unt slept there with her. Since then he lodged at the
Brown Bear, and visited her at her twitting occasiutially.
He was with her on last Thursday Oh-mono, when the
people of 11w house urged the necessity of his gibilig her some
loomy fur her support, as she was m great want awl mach
distressed. He said he bad 21. at his lodging, nod would
send her part of it. lie appeared much dejected and agi-
tated, and kept pacing the room leiekwards and forwards.
He observed a small bottle of laudanum, which 11w land-
lady used in giving drops to her child, for to make it
sleep, sad intintred what quantity of it would he Sufficient to
destroy a grown up person. His conduct upon the whole •p- •
peared very strange, but he was not asked any quest tone.—
He went to his lodging at the Brown Bear, about II o'clock
at night, took a glass of herr, and went to bed. Friday
stunting the landlord's brother nut seeing him coming down
at the usual time, went into his room, end fonrd him on the
goof is atrial( convulsions. He gave the alarm, and Mr.
Cole, the surgeou, its Great Rllollol.lkirefq, was sent fur, who
administered strong antidotes, which, with the aid of warm
water after, he vomited much, restored him to his reuses, and
lie confessed having taken about two ounces of arsenic
about seven o'clock that morning. He was exceedingly de-
strums of recovering, and called loudly for his Betsy (1).6 wife)
several times; hut the poison) baying taken full effect, not-
withstanding all the remedies that had been used, lie died in
a short time after. There was no properly whatever found
about him ; but there was a card of his address at the place
• where his wife lodged foutid in his podtet, which it is sup-
pined he had left there, as it would be the means of inform-
ing her of bin unhappy end.
The Jury consulted a short time, and rt tartan) their yet.-
, tlict—husaily.
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REMEMBER—that although good fortune always
attended G. Csaaot.t.'s Old Office, No. 7, Corn-

WHOM it war accidentally destroyed by fire, yet it cannot
be compared to the splendid MIMS/ which basilistiuguisited
the opening of his New Omet, No. 19. CornhilL in the
last Lottery. when No. 2,3b7, Prise of 30,13110/. and 7,003,
Prise of fr,ooof. in Shares, were sold by hint, waking a larger
amount of Prizes sold by CARROLL than by nay other pities.
keeper in the lest Lottery. Tbe New Lorcaav will all he
Armful in One Day, February 9th. TEe Scheme curtains
only WO Tickets and ft Prises of ‘0,000,!. Money, which
are on Sale at CARROLL'S New Office, No. 19, Coruhill, and
his old established one, No. 20, Ostord.street.
A reduction has been ordered to take place in
the Corps of Royal Artillery, namely, 113 comps-
nies and three troops, which will place 21 Captains,
21 Second Captains, 46 Fir Lieutenants, and IS
Sticond Lieutenants. on half-pay, and discharge
about 1,400 men from the service.
The herring fishery continues at Portsmouth
with much success, and gives employment to a
great number of labourers on shore im curing them
for exportation. Several thousand barrels are now
in course fur exportation.
Au order has been received to make a night life-
boat at Portsmouth Dock-yard, to be presented to
the Dutch Admiralty Board.
It gives us great pleasure to learn, from goo,'
authority, that Lieutenant PARRY, of this city, who
commanded the Alexander, the second ship on the
late expedition for the discovery of a North-west
passage, is just appointed to the first command iii
another expedition, destined for the 114,111 e miteitipt
in the ensuing yeer. The question al to the ex-
istency of such a passage is tits,!! unsettled ; and we
feel confident that nothing will now he left undone
that may he necessary to decide a point which
naturally excites so general an interest.—(Bulb
Herald.)
The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for
the county of Wilt*. which commenced at Devizes
on Tuesday se' •ght, did not terminate until
Tuesday noon last There were 96 Prisoners on
the calendar.
The Devon County Quarter Sessions did not end
until Tuesday last, having lasted eight days.—
James Hoare, for obtsiiiiiig a quantity of hay under
false pretences', and Ra 4. Parsons, for stealing; a
quantity of gunpowder, were sentenced to seven years
transportation. Twenty-six other Prisoners were
sentenced to various periods of imprisonment.—
At the above S-scions, novels were heard oil the
part of Gen. STRICKLAND, Colonel-Commandant
of the Plymouth Division of Mariner, and Mr.
Kap, Surgeon, isganist the tsinding of parish ap-
prentices upon them, by the overseers of the pour
of East Stonehouse ; when, after hearing the argu-
ments of coulue-I, the Court confirmed the order
of binding, sit appreotice iiriu each of these officers.
The General Quarter Sessions of the Peave for
the Eastern pail tit Sussex, commericed on Friday
se' 'gist. and terminated rally in the afternoon of
Monday last. The calendar of prisoners was ex-
tremely hear'.—Mary Antis Burton, aged 15, and
Rebecca Burton, aged 12, for stealing divers arti-
cles, the property of JOSEPH MAXIiIRLD, the for-
mer to be transported for seven yeisor; but applica-
tion is intended lobe mule to the Secrrtery of State,
to get.her sent to thepenitesitisry, its lieu of being
sent out of the Country—the latter to two months'
imprisonment in the li..tise of ,Coirection ;'hut an
applicat ttttt is directed to be ulnae to
.get her into
Charity
i.okt,ylouts; their ',went' being
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found in the tunic, arii,dl selntle:lgull, ws
intent, illegally, to destine, take, or kill game, aid
wroth violently asseidting ABRAHAM BAXTER. Air.
Fut.LEtt's game keeper—Tiro years imprisonment.

POLICE.
!kow.rta E rr.
PIIVACY.
On or Aral the 21st of Der-rattier Wt. the hriß Notre
Captain Williams, bound from limerick to London, veal
bias on the Goodwin hinds. She wa• boleti with Irish linen,
huller, baron, beef, posh, ,ke. of the valor s.f hetwerry Flx
Mid severs thousand pound., which saes ait..ckr.l on the
wreck by a istemerow• nynemblade of Men, ron•istisug
civilly of LYeal and anniadite itosaimen, who teeterio!ed IQ
be active in saving the property for the twin-lit sit liras
owners, but instead of that merle off oink and applied the
-whole to their own uses. The underwriteos wit's hrhortai tlot
vessel and cargo noYe Minced, look up the is, I
very spirited manlier, In bring the deuredsiors to etiorben
punishment, spphrd to the *replevy of State for lire ism,
Department, wad obtained a Proclamation oft rind a meant
fur she detection sod apprelseiiiion of the offender., anal
Lavender and Bishop, two uf the tifficert. have he.,. tn.
ployeol fur some time in mirsuing the depro eapirs, arid hive
at length succeeded In app;ebenotitid two men, who are sus;
pretest of being the ringleaders in the transaction, and lino
arrived with them in custody at this Oilier, on rriday mim-
ing, when utter undergoing a private tismir.atlon trefoils
Mr. Birnie, they were commitierl fur fitrthir examinaliun.

ILLEGAL INSURANCES.
Prrnices Crawl, a young female of respectalik,p,
was charged with taking illegal insurances in the Slate

Lott►ry.
William Eielwood stated himself to he n roz.tiresa.maker,
resoling at N. 12, Ntunr-stree., Brown-street, tliyaiiiitio s.
foram. On the 43.1 or Deirei,iher lasi, he o ent Ise N. 11,
in Itiril,iteert, Mary-le-Bone, where he saw the Prisoner, and
Irina her three-pence 10 insure for 4111 r collie', in rs•e the
laid drawn ticket iii that day's drawing tir the State LOW ri
idiontit he in the 2,10 e.
Mr. time, the Secretary to the State Lottery, who attend.
ed to support the prdsecutioo, submitted that ►o be his case

Brim.; the Prisorter.
Mr. Adolphus attended for the Prisoner. and ceoes
est the VI 1 IIeSP, who admitted that be had been its the habit
of taking onsur•nces in the Lottery hims. If, for the last 24
or 25 years past. Hr had lover iisfu. used AV IMII :any le semi
till 0.101, and be called upon Mr. Hesse to give She tilos ma-
tion
Mr. Adolphus submi'erel 11311 no cane had Leen made nut
egeinsi his client. Else witness bed been I slklue ehout
having paid three.penee to have a guinea er:sireed him upon
Ore detemstestat ion of an event, but these bed lawn on woof
of any Lottery—for any !bine that appear. •I, it might lies,:
been in France, or any whore else, or e.iglet be no
event al all.
On resoling liar evidence, TIS taken by Mr. Woods, the
clerk, it appeared that the evideure had stated his iustirasire
10 Ise in the Sate Lottery, le he drawn t hct day; hut that
Was held not to be sufficient, as loo; elrlderlre would nut be
adequate to pr..et that was a son. toilet y. and he did
slot see or know that the Bell cry was shawls nu Ihnt day.
Mr. Hesse offered to produce official Volollee to prove
these circumstances, but he was not ellueee[i to to so, as he
had said that he 'had closed lass case. Ile ilieu urged the
public notoriety from the edvertise melds, that all the w.ti
knew that there was a Mate Lottery dere n on the 23.1
of DecetnbeT. In this he elan failed, as M. ilirtne, and the
Magistrate who sat with him, did net know that there was 1
State Lottery drawn 011 the 23u1 of December.
The Prisoner was runs. 4Uelaly arinilled. Before slie.h ft
the bar,
Mr. Birnfe poldressl her, aud said Ile was sorry to are I
person of her respectable appearance tot sorb a sirsietwer,
and hoped never to see her there again. She had re very rite:.
row escape. The revertible Gentleman, isle..• official duty
it was to conduct those prosecutions, lots l• Ore lino 1 lapel
I of evidence upon this OeralljUll
Whifeinac was charged with a similar offence,
which was proved by the same witness, I.:aster I, el is
stated, that on the 12th low. ;le went to the Pa ISolttr ill
Red Lion-yard, Xll.l Cavendish-street, end p;:isl hum 3d. to
return him a guinea if the first-drawn T.rket the State
Lottery, to be drawn that day, was in 12 :;no Ife
Yuder-
went a long cross-examination by Mr. Adolelisee, so winch
be gave some contradictury answers, Anil the Is/timed GE'll-
llemasi urged that his client ueseht not to hr coovicte el on the
evidence of Ibis matt alone, whit hol eoutradertett himself in
denying that he lied been no nl.l Lottrry fit•i•rer, and
afterwards that lie had, and in adder ten to that au indeptn-
[ dent evidence wiglit have been proul,:eed. he admitting that
a man of the nan6 Catthurii, a stenie.tuaso?, mi‘lit have
been called.
In this case Mr. Hesse called Mr. Samuel Norman, the
Chief Clerk in the Stamp Office, in te • State Loite rs, to
prove that there was a State Luttera, awl that it was drawn
on the 12th inst. being the last Lottery fur the service of
the year 1218.
Mr. ;brute admitted, that in eases where Magistrates
were sitting as Judge and Jury, evesv noteon-tit to he
toed in favour of the Vrisoner ; however, in this case, he
thought the charge bad been proved.
Mr Adolphus urged, that ha bone¢ that an imp• isounietts
till sifter the next strewing of the I.oiteLy !row,' be surf;_
cient ,• however l4is locoed taut to be a very short time, Bed
Mr. Hesse, in reply, said he h 3.1 110 1111!er1 ion to a mast est
woman, npon their first cutovieti 111 l 01•tlig treated in the
most lenient manner possible, but the Prisoner was an ohd
offender. mid bad beet convicted lmfore.
Mr. Adolphus said, that lie thought it was proper lo beg
known, that after a second conviction, upon this or any
other act of vagrancy, nitres a third conviction, stet certifs.
eases of the two convictions before lee;n; produced, the
party would he liable to be transported for seven yeah,.
The Ps isoner was sentenced to Own months imprisonment.
Susannah, Ole wife of Ilichurd Daney, appeared to a
summons, charging her husband with selling bread short of
weield, Church.laee.
II appeared that nu Thursday 'moling, right belt-guar.
tern loaves were purchased at She 5110 p, by Sarah,' ihr wire
of Fraticia Hodges, of Monmouth-street, and open. weigh.
lug them, were all short of weight, making in tile %WS
‘.Veen misers. Be was couvicled sit the penalty of twu
[e otliinpla and sixpence an uuuce, wills costs.
HATTON Gennett.
On Saturday eight, at eight o'clock, :Ise Symons. the
midwife, who stands indicted by the Overseers of the Unit,
perishee sit St. Andrew Holborn awl St. George the Martyr,
for dropping a male bastard child in the street, as already
aimed, was brought tip from the New prison, Clerk. .well,
where she had beet' culifined four slays, for bail—o Me.
Jeremiah Comptou' viet.ieller, ef the sign of the Lord Nel-
son, Nelson-street, City-road; and Mr. George Taylor, vie.
tualler, of the sign of the Lditiburell Castle, St Swillon's.
alley, Cornhill, were, after having eery•-d twenty-four hums'
notice on the solicitor for the prosereition, accepted es tool,
1001. each, her brother, Mr. White. having ;heady foricite4
his recognizance's, was objected to.

The preliminary proceedings in the phip.,7l
brought against lieveral perfume eceuped of a riot.
tending to place on the throne of Frinice iinn 4.e
A L N mid to give the regency to her Nloje,iy
tie Empress NiettaA 1 uiSA, ere ternow.ted
13russek: twoof them tire to be set at bbert), tI
others tie to be tr;e(l.
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Accopits Irons Spain state, that the brupli,tti
dill continue in such furniiduble numbers 'in L 4
Mancha and Andalulia, that the couriers lei.
teracarriers require to be escorted by laripi oit
tachments or dragoons or lipit cavalry, wrJ thit
travellers who find it necessary to pass tho.e
fested vrpvisietii, form themselves into
as they bud I. traverse thy deserts of Aftic 111$1.1
thus united, are escorted by considerable bothea
trops. 'Otte accounts, likr all preceding
piny«. however, tile unvarying confidence a t
writers in the i.t)Mer of the GOVerlilllet t a If ru t
prearividion of the putil c peace, lire tl y t• j'
In nate. es ii•lial, soh' sn 46.11fAlWe 11141 06,141
is fi It by t' lay al thliabitalits of the ?aims!.

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