The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-24 00:00:00

OBSTRUCTIONS IN GREAT SCOTLAND-YARD.
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..atuLL—We ran hear nothing about ths Morning
till all the parties ate here.
Martin-4 can assure you it has nothing to do with that
paper. 1 say that through the columns of the Morning Chro.

Mr. MINsaULL.-Will can hear nothing about that paper.
Mr. Martin—l declare upon my word and honour, it has nothing
to do with the Morning Chronicle.
Mr. Minsunr.r—Well, sir, go on.
Mr. Illartin--1 row rise to do justice to the Lfornine Chronicle,
and to acknowledge that I was in error, in saying that this para-
graph from Blackwood heel appeared in no other paper. I learn
(afters pause) from the Murniue Chronicle, that it has appeared
also in the ilforriffigHerafit. I hare not seen the paper, hut when
1 have found it, I will deal out impartial justice toward it. • To
make use of a vulgar "phrase, '• I wilt not make fish of one and
flesh of another;" and 1 pow rise to apprise the bench, that I will
bring that libel ciao under their consideration. I do not know
whether you wilicall me a vulgar man, but I say again, that I will
not make fish of one and flesh of another. Mr. Thwaites, I be-
lieve, is the editor of if. He is, 1 understand, a valetudinarian ; I
hope he will not be alarmed by this.
Another pause nun-ensued, till the arrival of Mr. Adolphus.
Mr. Dowling. a gentleman connected with the ilformitra Chro.
nick, now said that Mr. Clement sou unable to attend from indis-
position, but that he was ready to submit to any order the Alegi/-
cruet, might think lit to make.
Mr. Mallimion, the Registrar from Somerset House, havin
proved the publication of the paper containing the pararaL
complained of, and Mr. Adolpitua admitting Mr. Clement to be t
proprietor, Mr. Martin's affidavit was read, when Mr. Minahall I
observed that he thought there was sufficient ground for him to I
call upon the patty to find bail to answer the charge before another
triMmal.
Mr. A DOLPH be.—Then, Sir, with your permission, I will make
a few observations. The Learned Counsel then went on to argue
that the language of the paragrai•ii complained of watimerely
bainogc, sod that similar expressions had always been held in our
Courts not to be actionable. He then went en to describe an oh-
'score person taking upon himself an imaginary power, assuming a
mock importance, and adventuring his mite in the lottery scheme
of popularity, pretending to a great deal of humanity toward the
brute creation, and, under that pretence, committing the grossest
outrages on humanity ; acting like those persons who put on an air
of mock modesty to utter'every obsce&ty. He had understood that
Mr. Martin had taken great offence at his name being coupled with
that of an au. If either party had any reason to complain, it was
'the au. The ass ia a very useful, innocent, and respectable aiii-
tail. " I know not," added the Learned Counsel, whether there
be any affinity between Jack and Richard, but this I know, that in j
Essex arid the adjoining counties, the 8.4% is always called a Dick-
ase. There was aernitotkpthe Romans a featiYal called ' the FOUL of
littritu;•-ariehteh eiglatt It• Aetne-,!;•-• Ho; -ass-oee
Bilk, Jack-ass 1110, thy Dickey " Here the Learned Gentle- .
matt suited the action to the word." •• Lucian, the wittiest of
ancient authors, halt also written a most entertaining book, called
• The Ass,' but I never heard that Mr. Martin was entertaining. I
But there Is soother fact. Mr. Mink has sworn that he is in tear
of his life; he is, in. tact, in no fear at all. He, in the Chronicle 1
office yesterday evening., said that he. was very glad that this affair
bad happened, that 'it would all tend to his honour and glory.' "
Mr. Adolphus was.going on to impeach Mr. Martin's veracity,
when that gentleman, who had evidently kept his seat with great ,
difficulty for some tithe, started up, and called Mr. Adolphus " a
icoundrel."
. .

'A general murmur ran through the office it this interruption,
when, order being restored, Dlr. Adolphus, without noticing the
epithet, shortly concluded his remarks.
Mr. Illartin now' rose, and said, that notwithstanding all that
had passed to irritate him, he still retained his temper, and upon his,
,oath he still conexitred his life to be in danger.
Upon which Mr. ,medium, put an end to Ow proceedings,
by observing, that as the iron. Gentleman persisted in owearing
to that effect, this duty was to hold the defendant to bail, al=
though lie considered the party complained against as infinitely
too respectable to entertain any serious intentions of ussassi-
nating or even injuring Mr. Martin. The ball he should re-
quire would be two sureties io 4001. nch, and Mr. Clement him-
self in GOOI.

FURIOUS DRIVING.
A person or singular appearance applied to the Magistrates for
their advice as to the mode or proceeding against the coachman
and guard of the Tallyho coach, from Birmingham to London.
I It appeared, fr3in the statement of the complainant, that he
yesterday morning tonic his seat on the top of the Tully-ho ;
and that when aboot midway un his road to tower, another coach
having come up with that on which he was riding, the coach-
man, in order to keep die toad. drove at so furious a tate that the
complainant became alarmed, and requested that he might be al.
lowed to ahift his quarters, and continue lila journey upon the
other vehicle, which appeared to be proceeding_ with more caution
and regularity. To this the coachman of the Tally.ho reluctantly
assented, on condition that the coniphtintint would pay him fee
his tumble In removing his baggage (the complainant's Tare being
gl:cedy paid). The request, although it appeared, unties the ch.

i Ir. Thomas Thompson, the Inspector (501nM is-
simiers of Crown Lands, from the Office of Woods and Forests,
charged two persons, the drivers of certain cans, and named Staples
and Bates, with obstructing the Sing's high road in Great Scot-
land-yard, on the :ith of the present month. He described the
offence u an evil of growing magnitude, which he laboured to
abide, but too often in vain.
Mr. MARKLAND-1 take it for panted, Mr. Thompson, that
the evil is neatly as you describe it. Did you take the numbers of
the carts ?

Mr. THOMPSON-4 did, Sir.
Mr. 31Alt[LAND--enn you swear to theta ?
Mr. Thompson—Val, Sir. He aided, that he had repeatedly
rarned the parties of the nature of their offences. but to no purpose;
that on one occasion Staples had *busied him. He then took
nber (147,104) down.
la now admitted The offence he was charged with, and hoped
would be considered.
Ws enitlgatell penally otlbs. etl.

CHARGE OF MURDER.
23.—The brother of a man
aimed Furionger, whose body was, about fire weeks ago, taken
out of the Thames, with marks of violence upon it, attended at
'this Office, before the sitting Magistrate, M. SWAB'', Esq. for
.toe purpose of producing testimony to prove that his unfortunate
brother had been murdered. It will be in the recollection of our
readers that about five weeks agu the deceased had been picked up
In the water near Westminster-bridge ; and upon examination a
dreadful fracture was found upon the back part of his headov hich was
supposed to have occasioned his death ; and from the evidence ad-
duced before the Coroner on the Inquest, the Jury returned a Tee.,
diet of wilful murder. Since the above proceeding, the present ap-
plietint has been uuwearied in his exertions iti endeavouring to
trace out by what means bl 3 brother had come by his death. fie
declared to the Magistrate, that he bad the strongest grounds tor''
credibly believing that bit brother had been murdered, and he,
now brow ht forward the female with wham the deceased cohabited,
who would prove that the day.prcvious to the one on which his body
wad found a man named Pratt had addressed himself to her in the
neighbourhood of Queen.square Police-office, guying, " Your
man (meaning Furlonger) will be brought homeont shatter before
lora." After having said these words he walked away, and the
following day the deceased was discovered in the river with his
skull fractured. The deceased's brother added, that he had seen
Pratt in the street that morning, and in-sisted that he should forth-
with appear before a Magistrate, in order to exculpate himself, if
he Could, hem the words attributed to him; presaging the death
of his (applicant's) brother. The' woman was now io attendance.
She would describe the author of the words, although she had never
seed him before nor since the day on which he anticipated the death
of the deceased.

The Magistrate expressed his teadiness to hear any particulars
that would throw a light upon the manner in which the deceased
had met with hisdeath ; but. he thought it .extremely improbable
that the man now accused was really the person who uttered
the prediction, which it appeared was subsequently verified. The
,Magistrate having asked her name, which she said was Mary
King, desired her to describe the person of the roan before he was
brought into her presence? She said that he was • man of dark
swarthy complexion, with a cut, as well as she could recollect,
under his eye, and of middling stature. Pratt was then intro.
ducei, and the moment she saw him she exclaimed " that is
the man." Pratt corresponded with her description of him in all
respects accurately enough, with the exception of having the mark
of a deep cut close to the right eye on the temple instead of its
being under the eye.. The' Magistrate then desired her to give
an account of the circumstances that induced her to believe that
the individual then before bum was implicate: in the murder of the
deceased. In reply, she &ate'', that during the time she'vras wait.
ing for Furlonger outside Queett-square Office, who appeared'
before the Magtetrates agair,et two men who had assaulted
him, both of whom were committed to gaol, Pratt came up
to her and used the expresslona already mentioned, and then'
went away. That she • heard the deceased say . the same
evening,' Those 'diver', I -arn sfreisieweiiksite far rev befersr ehe'
Sessions commence," and, extraordinary to relate, the unfortunate
man was brought home dead in a little time afterwards. These
she said were leer reasons for suspecting Pratt was concerned in
his death.' Pratt, who is a very young man, and has been repeat.
edly in custody on charges of felony, appeared highly Indignant at
time accusation, and declared that he had never in his life
before seen the woman who had now come forward and at.'
tributed certain words to him, which had never escaped his lips
to any human being. " What day," said he, addressing the fe.
male, " did I utter words to the effect that any man would be
brought home on a shutter." The woman replied that it was on
a Thursday, exactly tire weeks ago, between the hours of twelve
and one o'clock in the forenoon, close to Queen-squire Office."
Pratt_." l'hat's a falsehood, for I was standing a criminal at
the bar of this office on a charge of robbery on that very day, and
during time hours yea mention ; therefore at is evident to all, you
are asserting lies to ruin me."
The Magistrate, upon reference to his mintue.tsook, observed
that an entry was in it which placed the circumstance beyond all
doubt of Platt's being a prisoner on the day the words im.
puted to him were said to have been uttered; for Thursday five
weeks ago was the 10th August, and by his minutes of the evidence
it appeared, that on that day, and at the hour alleged by Mary
King, Pratt was in custody on a charge of having stolen a saw ;
that be was remanded, and ultimately brought up again on the 25th,
when he was discharged, therefore this circumstance at once cstr-
blished the fact of her having mistaken the young man now at the
bar fur some other Mall.

Mary King still persisted that what she stated was correct in
every, particular, and that she was not mistaken in Pratt.
The brother of the deceased exhibited great anxiety to have
Pratt sent to gaol, declaring that he was convinced that person had
a hand in his brother's death. Pratt still denied the accusation.
Mr. SW ABEY observed, that had the words imputed to Pratt
taken place on Wednesday insteed of Thursday, as alleged by the
woman King, then there might have been some reasons to suspect
that lie heal a previous knowledge of what was abdut to befall the
' deceased. However, as he (the Magistrate) was most anxious to fn.
'vestlgate the matter fully, he would asoettaln the precise day upon
Width the deceased and the persons by whom he had been tygulted
appeared before the Magistrate at Queen-square.
Pratt was then ordered to attend to4notrow

the Prisoner. POLICE•
bet accordingly—Nor gadfly. warnedl Tilme Ipmarties'
reed Mum, William. Crook, Samuel Creek and slime MARTIN v. THE MORNING CHRONICLE. and that on one I
were put to the bar, charged with stealing a quantity of silk, Bow.sr REIT, SECT, bout bilf-past twelve o'clock this his number (147,4 t
value of 15e/. the property of Messrs. Waterloo and Sawyer, morning, DI r. Adolphus, who wasconcerned tor Air. Clement, entered Staples now adoi
12th of this month. . . the office. Mr. Martin and the other parties not having yet arrived, the his ai...imissioti
circumstances ettericling thii-tranisitrat were as follow the Leeinetrnentleilian vela out agar Dtiring his alsence-31r. "'Mewls Suedin I
Crook was in. the em eat SeereSerarree that *tin entered with his ptetistrloolti adviser, and, having waited a ,
ties sod, ert.lhe eight:TOW irilhe wilituaweede*srog this he issal atwowslastectton to make.
he premises a watch-dog, kept for the iniPose of protecting r. Martin—l learn throagh the column' of the Jforning Cif • Ihrlo)r-BALT.,"
Shortly atter he returned. On the fothrsing morning it wick— named Furlonger,
iscovered that the goods in question had been removed from Mr. MINIIMULL—We can hear nothing about the diforniors out of the Theme'
:mises of the prosecutors, who are silk-menstfactnrcrs. From 'Chronicle till all the parties are here. • this Office, before
i•eunistances connecfed -with the case h appeared that the Mr. Martin—.l can assure you it has nothing to do with that the purpose of pro