The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-09-24 00:00:00

MIDEILUEZ SESSIONS.

Yesterday a gaol delivery took place, when
Elisabeh Lawrence, of greater fortnnelelling fame
than any sister in the metropolis, was brought up
under the Vagrant Aft. The Defendant, a middle-
aged woman, attired in black, lived for many years
at a house in Evangelist-court, near Apothecaries'
1-1411, where her prechnions were courted by fe-
males of all descriptions. Her hahitati..n 'became
so notorious, that a twelvemon:h since she was
taken up, and committed to dirance ode. After
her release, she became a Florist, at No. e, Craw-
lord-passage, Clerkenwell, sut her situation was
not propitious to her profession. A Smith's shop
was opposite the mansion of the Prophetess, and
the females of more delicacy than others, were
so annoyed by the vulgar ejaculation of the work-
men, that her business detireased, and she en•
tered into litigation with these common disturb:
ers. One of their wives became a subscriber
to the Sebil's fame, and she was informed, her slack
husband would soon die, and she would then be
happy. This woman, with another of more tender
years, who was to marry a zenitenkin, and become
a lady, w!bre itnesses against the Defendant ; and
the fa 4 of laying out the cards was by them esta-
blish-d.
The Cm a feu A rr, after advising, the Defendant to
desist from her illicit praftices, sentenced her to be
imprisoned Arse sweatier.

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UNPRLCEDANTLD CRUELTT.

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An instance of barbarity, surpassing any this
ever hear) of in this country, was yeste day etlebi
befiqt, tli. Magistrate at Meillsotreisstels
street Office, at the ies:ance of a 14111411 e prosecue.‘
tiro, by the Officers of St. Geoege's Parish. egaaiet
k"hert ilt...quills. a private iii r, a Ist
Foot Guards. Toe Defendent sv .s treed with
cruelly assaulting and starring iiiz. end G:orge,
lrs two childr•er., the one ten, and the other seven
yee:s old. The following are the. eerticulers :
On Sunday morning last, as a women was pa, rug
by the dater of No. 11, North-row, Green-street.
Grosvenor-square, she was alarmed by grievous
moans and groans, eeperently teem persons to great
distress. She remained on the spot some time, and,
at length, found, that the noise procee.ied from the
cellar of the better. She lookel throgeh the window,
and behel t two children, fasfeueet with cords to a
dresser, whose lemerrations inerelevi at seeiagher.
She made it her business to find put the occupaPof
tie wretched dwelling, and hiving learned that
the rime belonged w a soldier in Peartman-barrecks.
she repaired thither in haste, to give information
of what she had seen : she was refused admittance •
by the sentinel, who, however, c' by no mrees es, o.
pacify her; and Mr. Keeling, wh6sesiles at No 211,e 4"` •
Chandler-attest, Grosvenor-severe perceiving Itfr
angtesh of mind, and being informed of the cleft
curn.tance, repaired immediately to the house in .
North-row. On finding the door locked, he broke
the windows of the kitchen ; and, on entering,
sight presented itself, which, to give a minute de-
scription of, would be too much for the feelings of
our readers. Two children, as above rated, were
fastened to a dresser, with their arms extended, and
fastened by a rope, as closely tied as possible for the
strength of man, and their feet as closely fat-
tened to the floor, with another rope. In this
situation, a loaf of bread was placed before
them. On releasing them from this pitieole situ-
ation. a sight presented itself, sufficient to torture
the feelings of the most callous. The girl was
unable to stand; her back had been scoureel i t a
manner which we can compare with a man who
had endergoee 300 lashes. This is an assuasive
comparson ; for, betide! being cut raw, the scourge
had been extended from her loins to her neck,
The boy had also been shockingly whipped. On
qsestioning the innocents, it appeareeethat they lied
been kept five hours in this situation; the weitnee
had been inflreled by the brutal father, in the morn=
ing,eith a whip, the thong of which was unrevelred,
eue he deeistel They had also been kept sense time
before this without food, when he petrel tee
leaf before them. Their appeerentre sufficiently
4rified the assertion, for they were reduced to
mere skeletons. "Flie father, being asked what
he had to say ? replied, toat he was sensible
he had aged wrnne ; bin the girl, who was placed
at a free-chool, 410ra:herd...street, had so Mien play-
ed truant, that his passion had overcome him With
respell to the tioy, he was kept from home, by the
girl, all the day. After the Defendent had fieished
his defeuce, it was proved oy another Witness, feet he
had been a long time in the habit of severely beer-
ing his motherless children. The Magistra'e com-
mitted the Prisoner for trial, and bound over the
Witnesses to attend, without delay, beesre the Grand
Jury, to prefer a bill. The poor little girl wit On-
medietely carried away, i:s a wretched state, aid the'
major part of the mediators were full of tears. Fhe
Offsee was uncommonly crowded.

Mr. Loao, Aid-de-Camp to his Excellency Ge-
neral GJenovt, ran for a con.iderable I tie:), At
Jeney : he was to tun seven miles it. an :win% w'lich
he performed in 47 minutec, witn the greate,t ea,e.
Sir Si Derr SMITH, on Saturday, I.i:id a v to
an old ship-mate, a purser, in the prabon or Ne.vgate„
for debt, when this genernus Oli:er made him • pi e-
sent to discharge the demand. and gave hint two gui-
neas, to drink his health. Such adtions, pe formed
w thout pride or ostentation. give Addition/111Litre
t, his charaffer, as a British seaman.

On Wednesday night, a fire was itiscovered in the
apartments of Colonel ClitSTLIt, of the Hers Mi-
-1 tits, at Ipswich, in which were four of h;s infant
children. On one of the neighbours hastening up
stairs, he saw the maid running about the room in 4
state t.f distrailian, wida two of the children, under
her arms. He succeeded in rescuing them from
their perilous situation, and extinguisieJ the are,
but net before the window curtains were destroyed,
and other parts of the room considerably damaged.
As a piece of necessary information for Sports-
own, the following Rules arc hung up at the Bteak-
tast•roorn of a Shoo:ing•Lodge, in Sussex:
1.. s.
Killog a Ilt.n Phre•ant . . . . . . I 1 0
Sh.44.ag I).ttn
51)00110g ei a Pheasant oil the Grouwl, or ❑t
Tor 1 1 0

Staottreg at Dotto, at mo-e tit ot a•di,
un-
ler before wouniied . . . . . . 0 5 0
Shower* two or more Fartre.ke,, at wee shot S 10 8
Seemotto at 1)t!o, o, the Go"owl . . . 1 1 0
So,ototg at Doto, at wont than 45 yard., it
not before woun4el . 0 5 0
Sc' p,tlng at a'llare en her form
Half the above fines go to Um Poor of the Parish:
the ether half to the Keepers.
General Ds LA olcar gave his annual entertain-
ment, called Ilarcest Home, on l'hursday last, to all
descriptions of labourers, at Effingham, 'Suirt.y ;
where upwards of 200 persons were r galed with
the Itixtuies of ancient English hocvai :s, un ler
tent formed of oak branches, too feet in izngth.
Mrs. Si xvzsr ea, of the Minories, ha; ob.aiocd
permission of the Lou? Mayo, to exhiuit her
Royal Wax-Work—justly so called, from its con-
taining figures of nearly all the Crowned Heads in
Europe ; it contains, in the whole, 56. ligures,
which are neatly arranged in a saloon fatted up for
the purpose. Among the figures is a striking like-
ness of the late Duke of GLoucesrea, with a rer
presentation of His ROYAL Hicnstss lying its
state.

A carpenter at Vienna, studyinz the convenience
of the inhabitants of that me:ropol s, has opened a
warehouse, stocked with a complete assortment of
coffins, where they may be supplied, at the shortest
notice, with coffins of every description. b th as to
size, qu.ality, and exterior embellishmrni ; so that
they may now die unconcerned about this article of
the last necessity. A boatd, fixed at his door, ex-
hibits a statement of the different prices, which are
proportionate to the size and yw►lity.

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lit• : FRACAS
11111AVilin •
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1111 Tilt AGI7"I I'S OF Loots XVIII. AND rim EMI
GRANT FIORI.v.‘:- 7 IN ENGLAND.
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A entions and interesti:A en respondence has
talon place between one of the averts of Timis
XVIII. and the party of Emigrant.; in this country.
lime's valuable matter liashween disclosed to our Mi-
nisters by the seasonable . fracas, ,ind thereby our
Government. at the cnmmencernent of this tune war,
will see how the funds of England have heen acrian-
dcred, and how int precious tnachinat huts against tke
power of Bonaparte bare been ceinditand by the
click whom they kept in pay. :The indiscretion of
one of the most polished coast:et s isf ancient France
has given rise to the explosion. The Comte de
Vaudtetail happened. at the table of an Emtlich ern-
denten. to accuse the Abbe dr la Matte, " of being
a very dangerous pet vos—an agent of Bonanarte
near the Kine—a vile cidoaucliee, who, in all his
missiewthrough Germany, was accompanied by
his.pilture—and who, in short, was a man totally
'lose in reputation." This charge was faleqllll7 re-
rifted to the Abbe. and it has drawn frnin him a
most masterly
.detail of the %hole csindua of the
•Fanigrant party in England. the authors, advisers.
and execiitors• of those plots, which have cost the
ft, k;.11 Government such a waste;of reputation, as
well as morsel-.
.‘ ye.," say% the Abbe de la Mime. I, I own, that,
to this party. I am a dangerous person, for I am ac-
enainted with every one of their pra4licts. I knots- all
their perfidies—all their intrignes—and am even ac-
qnainted with the terms of their schemes, and the
distribution of the booty. At over-! journey which
I made into Eastland on the service of mi Royal
Master, I witnessed the agitation which my presence
occasioned them. as if they apprehended that the
fountain of gold was to he shut against them.
*n Ires—l am to them a dangerous man, because,
if I were a !mined to the presence of a British Mi-
nister, I should he able to say, that the King has
been obliged to spare, out of his own very small
'income. wherewith to pay his agents and correpon sl-
-1 tuts • and that he bar never burs,' either the amsto•l
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ti f teworrenarr wh'eh Greet Brill's hat girrn In hit
cause, n 4") pawner i:t lu4iA they beer bee, on/Waved.
I should tin obliged to soy, that the dispensers of
those funds have constantly said to the agents of Go-
vernment, ' we ate obliged to conceal from the
King all knowlege of projeas, the most useful, be-
cause he has no confidence in the British Minister.'
—The wretches !—while they wrote to the King.
,That th-- Ministry here were jealous of his agrntc,
end wortlaticrnit them to communicate to him
their designs , would prove, that, in only two
instances, in one intik' saw the Government robbed
of 7.W/1. sterling.
“ If ever I shall be called on to speak to the
public, I shall prove that the King. always a Ft -each- i
man, constantly disapproved of the plan of desola-
tion, invented by the avarice est these intriguers ;
and. I shall adJ, that, in the anttimn of 180% His
Majesty, without effeft. issued his orders for the te-
r an of the unhappy Georges from France ; ' be-
cause.' said he, 1 B l.'l' a prlit rw u 3 'valuer 'hat a.a
i net lye sirs ern in.s..—there was nothing now left•
in his connive to stir hut its ashes. If the time
were come, I should publish the seven pnlitical let.
tees which I addressed in 1802, to the Comte cll.:s-
cars ; and it will he seen, that the virulence of the'
party of the French Noblesse in England 'n ain't
she, takes its date precisely from the epoch when I
discovered the I.4.iaarriase of the men who so scan.
daleusly made a tr.dfie of the confidence of thew
Princes ; and, when I in vain endeavoured to recall-
mend an honourable and useful plan, in the room
of projen s. base, humiliating and disastrous."
('he Abbe gees on en sin, that these wretched pro-
je,cts have had the (-fie& which he anticipated, of
rallying round the new government of France, all
the interest. all the at 0r,a,0-prapre, the ambition of
the French people ; and, because he prediced all
this, they call him the agent of Bonaparte. lire his-
tory of his political. services will give the lie to the
charge. Fie dares the whole click to skew, that a sin-
gle servant or agent of the choice of His Majesty has
been faithless—but he pledges himself to tutee ten
frelittet who herr seepri.ed. and stlitolbo hetrata, the
con Irde,.(e r,f 2110v.ieurr " without prejudice to those
who may yet be in his service." The Abbe gives a
most striking pianre of the persons who compose
the patty, both as to their intelleBual and moral fea-
tures : and particularly desct ihes the chataaer of the
agents whom they entrusted abroad, on their redoubt-
able missions. The Desana of glorious memory—
the.famotis Bayard—the very dear and faithful Able
le .Wsiar,Ecc. I And he dares the whole world to say,
that. in any one of his journies in Austria, in Prussia,
in Russia, in England. hewas.ever seen accompanied
by any woman, honest or dishonest. His journies
were always made with extreme expedition ; and se •
veral times, at the most rigorous season, he went
farms Übellingen. or from Angsburgh to Mitutan
st-Otout trAce going to Ised. A man must have had
strange cruelty to drag a entry:tett along with him! And
where, he demands, could be have found money for
such a scandal? I its expences were settled at a Com-
mittee of .Agency. held at Cointitrgh, on the 9-11 of
May. 1801; the statement v:aii sent to the King, and
he then received a declaration. "That no part of the
funds granted by England, from the I st of rehtitAry
1; !td, to the 9th of Mey 1801, had been p inl to
him ;" he then gave in his resignation. " Which of
yod.all. Messieurs," says lies •• can produce such a
-n-iific --- ?" The Abbe concludes with a declara-
done to his Mimed ch. -
• puld'sh all the details of
which-the money iistmd for
King, has been intercepted,
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detail
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which he. no doubt, will render
th the same frae-
►is letter.
Sundae &21't, between apse and ten o'clock, as a
lady and Gentleman were driving up Ludgate-hill
41 a war horse cha:r.,a hark-coach, which drove foci-
ea-Iv !,y, struck against it. The violence of the
el. t:: ritnk • !he asl -!ree,and the chaise being upset,
Or, I. nle acne Centionan were precipitated into the
ntidcile ‘,l the crert. Jr was at first ignag;ned that
.- irsv r: very much hurt ; !stir, on bei:bg taken
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