The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-11-10 00:00:00

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Yweerday Arthur Clete me eustrased before Richard
Biro*, Esq the Sitting Meehan*, ea a Charge of 'irking
pockets. Looriag she crowd seereabled is writers the Lord
-.f:.yor touchline at Palace-yard, the Primmer was observed by
tamithersaud Wright, twu of the Nitwit., to put his band into
a gentientstes pocket and take oat a pocket book which be
p.:l is his breast-pocket. The emstatiles look hint Otis cus-
tody, took the book from hits, and imforsned the Gen.
tiaras.) of it. anal he directly recognioed the pocket boot as
Gene hoe property. The Prosecutor gave his tame, Mr.
enteibinlatol. of Battersea. The Prisoner was committed
to the New Pinion foe trial.
Tau persona, named John Buffer anti Janes Johns,
were hiunght .up by Westbrook. a constable, who appre-
hended them. and foood on then, lye silk hatolkercbiefs,
mod two snuff boxes, one with a gold rim. suppoer,l to have
Geer stolen arantigni the crowd on Lord Mayor's day. The
l'rinoners said that they picked up the tlitogl near West-
isitnaterßr:tigr.
The Prisoners were remanded till Friday vest, to rive an
opportunity to any person who has lust such property to
uticit4.

WARLBOROUGtt•sTR ZIT.
seDITIOUS PUDI.WATIONS.. . .

The Vestry of the pariah of N 4. James's having lately re-
ceived iolormatiuu that certain pennons were in the habil of
meeting for Cie purpose of treasonable practices, they are
using tv. y effort 1.1 preveut such proceeding., and rem fid
that the public mind or morals sLnul.l he contaminated by
the circulation of 'editions or blasphemous public* 5,
bey have iroetitrateil proceedings against some of their ven-
dee. is the pariah by information.
Air. Culliiison yesterday attended on the part of St.
.r.mts's Parish, and suggested to the Magistrate, R. Baker,
that the decision of the newel case would prove of
importance to the public; the proceeding was against
i.ertain individuals, who were is the habit of placarding the
miitside of their shop windows on the Lord's Day, announc.
jag that certaisi sedition' pamphlets were Pohl there, which
in :need per‘ons to enter and purchase them. He attended
at the reipirst of lite Vestry, and bad with. to prove the
acs of selling the works.
Mr. Conley, bookseller and news-venders, of No. 20,
Sligo-y..olfeet, Gulden.sepiare, was the (teat person charged in
the iafroniation founded oat the statute of the 29th of
King Charlie 11. chapter 2, which specifies that if any
person performs or exercises certain wordly labour, business,
air work of his ordinary callinz on the Lord's-day, the same
fait being a work of charily ur necessity, according IO the
musiste, he does subject himself le a penally of five shillings
sot the case being brought before a 111agnorate.
Mr. Baker, to Deftudant—Do you plead guilty or not
guilty.
Mr Conley—Why. positively, 1 can't plead at all, because
not not aware flint 1 have committed ally offence
Magistrate.—Yon have committed an olfeuce by selling
eedii pd'ilicatimis uu the Lord's Day.
Mr Ca.de)-1 !oust plead not guilty, because 1 du not
think 1 have offended, unless getting my living is an offence
against the :ow.—lle pleaded not guilty.
Mr. finw..er, a constable of St JJrnea's parish, after being
sworn, raid, that on the 24th of October, according to in.
819'2114ms that he recrieed from the Vestry of the parish, he
writ to Mr. Criiiley'g shop to purchase Carble's pamphlet
a ali-d The Itepeilthcan. Mr. Cardey was gone out, and a
key in the shop se, veil him with one, and he paid fur it .-•-•
out•ide a the shop was placarded with different ;misers,
rt.ii he saw I persons go in to purchase, and they were
timed with paper!, being at the time during divine service
no the Salibath day.
Aliiritr,,e—tVliat have you to say, Mr. Cardey ?
Mr. Card. y—Why I (-mitt's that 1 have bills outside my
different publications, on Sunday, and 1
Lace seised several persoos the same as other news-venders.
The nen spapers are stamped to sell, and of course 1 disposed
a Alvin without any apprehension, and according to law.
Magistrate-1 knew of no law that allows you to sell on
Sun.! brsi.les you have no business to sell them, or to
1 awe your place placarded outside your winilows : fur that
;done you are liable to be punished.
Me Caliley—Then 1 suppose, your Worship, we are not
by law to sell a newspaper on Sunday?

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:%I:tgi.tvaie—Ce,iainly nut.
NI,. Vanity—Foe Cod reason, your Worship?
2,l,gistrate—Because it is not a work of charity or ne-
tt st.,ty.
.1?.• Ca..ley--Why are we pitched upon? Why tint pro-
d?.! against the fuuutain head? I have ever serest' the head
▪ of this Office will, papers on the Sunday.
Nlagi.trate—We know that, notwithstsudtng, you are •
rc11,.. of sedition and blasphemy. I have frequently passed
liy yunr house myself for the last two years, and you have
► .n me no doubt stop nod read the papers you have bad on
)unr
Carey—l have, Sir. If yen say I love no right to
tt-: uo Stiiillys, 1 beg that you'll let me have
sum,onno, and stick it unti,iole, and have written
piiii it, .• Nu p.pt rs to he sold on Sundays."
Mscistrifiti—That would come undtr the Act, having •
"14 your stioduw oil the Lord's Day.
;',lc.('..c!ii)-1 shall continue lo sell them on Sundays.
Aliiiiiistrate—lf jou du you'll be punished.
Oirdey—l caunut see what offence there is in chat I
1. ire dune. _ .

lie was convicted in the penalty of bs. and costs, which
t. minuted to Ss. which he very reluctantly paid, asseiting
that he u imhl continue tire practice as welt as others, as the
si •cirspapi r offices were guilty of the same, and lielle Of
their p.prra of Sunday could be said according to the pre.
arm pi ori relic g.
Mr. 11• Sainsbury, of Pulteney.eourt, Golden-square, MN
liarged under.che same statute with a s' 'tar offence.
1.. hi• &Goer he said iluit lie did not belong to the shop, his
5,.:1 was a cripple, not able to work, and he act him up in
the Wising*, of a neaspaper seller to [wormy au honest
which be always had, but he found that the inure
loosest a man gut his living lie was the Irmat treated, none
Lot roatirs were protected.
ate—Thal language, I suppose, you think will
serve you.
Defi nilant —I am under bail at present fcr my son fur
seilinz The Itepubticaa.
magisirait —What ! for selling libels
Defendant—Your Worabip may think it a libel, but for
aec.elf I can see no lib.' in its contents.

The Magistrate said hr could nut convict the father fur the
act• of Isis sun ; but suggested to Mr. Collinann if the
practice ass continued, so proceed against theta by a fresh
Steotaistiou, and isms:laird to list parties, that tbey would
soot be allowed to sell the papers ou Sunday, ur to hate pla-
cards outside their wiu.luws.

The retired °Seen of the 3d Veteran Battalion,
tii Edinburgh, ban received orders to pro-
red to t voriousl ttlittnott toeutiowetl In the Put NCE
14:0ENT'S uteri, re points far u:.setol►ling the inn.
The 'stead-gear:pis tit the battalion, *llea einho-
dir,i, N ill Le Ediol)orgla Castle.
Upwards oi• 42,000 out-pensioners of Chelsea
I iusp►te' mustered Ull Finlay in Edinburgh Castle,
whim n ciiiiildetable number were selected
int the seterau curer._ _ _

It splaritts. br acenonts from Leesll, that ex-
tensive Pei-racks ore iturg up to thit town for •
regiment of infantry. Arline:l and cavalry are also
to be tatstumed Liter* and at Wakefield, linchlt.rs.
lirid, 1141nax, Inv bkort time, a muitufactur-
inc watt* galloon town will be aynutiyarkaisa to this
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Laßlatt the Life Gilarrhictiasi is so afflicted with
the b•ixing mama, mild ilia:Appointed so much at not
I"4lititig Sulcwt. that tile life of a dragoon is be-
t-mit stlimmle to him. and to reicave hun and give
1./11 full pliiy at tapping claret, two substitutes
ire about to he pruvitlrd fur illll3. After sparring
so, the rivir.'.Couit on Tueeday be did not trod his
way to his quarter* till huraday. and be has since
btu dabbed sip in the guard-roues* AO • 1 3441 In

On the part of the appellant, Mr. COLTMAN
called Sarah Thomas, who deposed that •I'hread-
gold, five or six weeks after the child was born,
told her it was Abbey's. Mrs. Pickering swore
that Threadgold also told her it was Abbey's.—
At a subsequent time she said Abbey had proved
a cursed rogue, and left her without giving her a
farthing; but she had got a better father for it.
Another witness proved that Abbey wits at
Threadgold's by weeks together late at night
and early in the morning, down to Howden fair,
1818 ; also had heard her say if she had ten
children, Sanderson should hove them all. George
Swales went with Abbey to Howden Dike the
evening before the latter was to have been married,
when they met with Threadgold, who put her arms
round Abbey's neck, begat) to cry, and asked how
he could think of leaving her and marrying auother
when sloe was half gone with child to him ?
After this evidence the COURT, without hesita-
tion, quashed the order.
The other case was an appeal by one Parkin,
against a similar order. He lived hired servant
with the girl's father at North Hall farm, between
North Cave and Howden ; and by her evidence,
it stoppered he had persuaded her to swear the
child to William Davis, a sailor, on hoard the
London brig, of Thorne, on the ground that he
wished to have the hind's place at North Hall
whet, her father left it (which was to take place
soon after) and would then marry her; but if she
swore the child to hum, as he had one fathered upon
him last year, this would ruin hi* prospects. The
name of Davis wa, fixed upon because it was the
appellant's mother's maiden name. She did swear it
to I. avis accordingly, at Howden, althongli she
knew aim Bloch person. She was takeii again to Rip-
linghatn, and swore a second time that Davis was the
father of the child. All this was before it was born;
hut after its birth she was twice at Mph aghast% before
the Magistrates, and then swore it to Parkin, and an
order of filiation was made upon him. The last
time he went home with her, lie told her she had
made a bonny job of herself. If sh? hart not swore
it over again, lie Could have given her more money
than she would now get ; but lie would now let it
proceed to a Sessions trial ; and utilesa :he would
go to Mr. Leeson's office in South Cave, and say
was nut the father, lie would he the death of
her. She accorditogly weut with him to Mr. L.'s
office, where he said she had confessed the child was
not his, but that Jane Pickersgill and Betty Batty
had persuaded her to father it upon hint.
The girl's evidence as to a meeting between her
and Parkin in North H. the day before her
going to Howden, was corroborated by several wit-
nesses. Her father proved that Parkin had acknow-
ledged himself the father of the child ; anti Betty
Batty, that the girl gave her a shirt to make child-
bed 'men tits, marked with Parkin's initials, and on
her charging Parkin with its being hi* slur!, he dad
out deity it.
The Overseer of the Poor proved, that on going
to Thorne to inquire restoectiog William Davis he
found no such person belonging to the London brig,
uor ever had done.

Mr. WRAY, for the appellant, made an ingenious
speedh its his favour. but the Magistrates confirmed
the order.

IMPORTANT iNFORNATION.—Ftoin calculation
by the Coll-ge of l'hysicissos, no less than 40,000
die annually in Great Britain of Csnosimpt ion, and at least
10,040 in London. The late Wm. Turnbull. L.a,l. a very
ingenious Surgeon, aarertained that
ruptured. 'lliese complaints are truly alarming In every
individual who uses the !cast exertirm It is also incredible
the another that sutler from a • in Disease, by being
improperly treated. It was thuise circumstances induct-41
Dr. COOPER to select eminent Physicians and Surgeons, of
at least 30 years' experience, to form a Medical Board;
and siuce the establishment upwards of 30,000 Patients have
been cured—many of them after Hospitals had failed.—
Messrs. COOPER and Co. are consulted at Woodstock-
street, Oxford.street, and at Charlotte House, Great Char-
totie.street, opposite the Rev. Rowland Hill's, daily, from
Eft till Eight.—Mechanies have advice gratis every Even-
ing, from Nix till Right, and on Sunday Moreings until
Twelve ti Cock Raptures of 30 years standing radi-
cally cored, without conSuenseut—There are private doors
at each house, and private rooms for Females—N.B. The
afflicted would do well to read Messrs. Coorgtt and Co.'s
Lectures on two prevailing Diseases, published at Oue
Shilling, by Mr. Harvey, 22, Blarkfriars.road. They will
also prove useful to young Practitioners.

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THE CURIOUS DISCOVERY. •
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TO THR EDITOR OF THE CARLISLR JOURNAL.

Slit—Au account of a report being circulated t►at two
human skeletons have been lately dWrovered la Carlisle
Castle, one of them the skeleton of a lady, and the ot►er of
a child, I was induced to visit the Castle, together with
Mr. Anderson, surgeon, and examine the bouts of thine
skeletons. I can assure you we were not a little cheap.
pointed, ou finding that none of the bones were human, but
belonged to suoise of the lower animals. The spine sod rih
Minded to its the Patriot of last week. 1 have also examined,
but cannot believe they are the bones of a child. When,
and for what purpose these bones were phlegm' iu the Castle,
I do not pretend to know, neither have I yet been able
to determine so whirls of the lower animals they belong. Had
it cut been for the let/2rd 1 bear fur ttisth, •nd there being
an aresmot of the tidy stud child, with several conjectures
respecting them, in the Carlisle Papers of last week, 1 elsould
nut have irusibbil you with this; by the insertion of which,
or by correcting the mistake in your next Journal, .
Yuu will much (Mtge yours, &c.
THOMAS BARNES, M.D.
Cal lisle, Castle-street, Nov. 4, 1919.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CARLISLE JOURNAL.
SIR—In the Patriot of last week I observed an 'mutat,
written by the Editor, of the discovery of " a quantity of
hones, mud the remains a a very elegant female dress" in
the wall of the Castle. '4 The large hones," adds the wri-
ter, "are presorted to be those of a truasan ; hot they are
so match dcenped as to leave this point doubtful. Thu-back-
bone and the rib of a child. mewl, horn or reel/young, in an
almost perfect state, were taken out, and have been seen by
various IWritoll9, ourselves among the number, leaving no
reasonable doubt of their being human. ludred, an mai-
went medical gentleman pronounced them to be so withotd
Hesitation."

Now, as these hones are afterwards, with equal sagacity,
cosajectured ill he the bones of a Lady Musgreve and her
infasit. and, if e onsidered to be melt, may probably be
transferred, with pions care, to the family vault of that
noble house—it appears to me that any remarks, tending to
throw lighi upon the matter, ought to he made public;
lest, notwithstanding the ipse dizil of the Editor of the Pa-
triot, and his eminent medical acquaintance, the relics of
something mean or even nebulous should mingle with
Musgrave dust. With this &thug, I have made inquiries;
mid request you will insert the following observations.
That *quantity of b sr, greet and small, and some
of silk, &c. have been discovered, there is tot doubt.
But that these bones are human, or this silk the remains of
a female diem, appears to me to he an exceedingly bold as-
sun:ptiuu. The presumptions of the learned Editor on the
subject are, in fact, rattier ridiculous—sod his statement of
the particulars of the discovery completely upsets the theory
lie wishes to establish upon it. Presuming the large holies
to be those of a woman, he admits that they were so much
decayed as to leave this print &outfit! ; yet, in the next
sentetwe, be asserts, without any'qualification, that the back-
bone and a rib of a child, newly born or very young, in an
altoril perfect state, were taken out and seen by himself and
mina 4—leaving it wholly to the acumen of his readers to
explain to them how the soft sad cartilaginous bones of a
iww-burn infant have withstood a process of decay that Ins
almost demoli►hed the matured sad perfect skeleton of its
mother. Surely the learned Editor sad his eminent medical
friend must have been somewhat at a hiss to account for the
total disappearance of the Lady Musgrave's backbone and
ribs, when they found those of her newly-burn infant in an
almost perfect slate
But tint eminent medical gentleman has not only pro-
nounced these bones to be human, but has ascertained them
to he the bones of a woman; and the learned Editor has
backed him by actually aspigning them to a Lady Musgrave!
Whether it was medical sagacity, or editoriel sympathy, that
developed this part of the secret, I am nut informed—but
how either the one or the other could penetrate into the sex
of a heap of roltma holies is to me quite a riddle—out
being aware wherein it is that the dust and ashes of a male
differ from those's!' a female. But as medical autho►ity has
asserted it, I venture with diffidence to question it—seconded
as it is by a high literary and political personage, and fol-
lowed up by a clear exposition of the rank and coudition of
the quondam owner of these relics.
rufurtunately, however, fur the hypothesis of these emi-
nent persons, lailCfl have inspected the rotten heap; and
some of the most perfect of the remains have been selected,
which raise insuperable objections against it. In particu-
lar, a tooth has beets found—not such as might have been
expected front the delicate month of a Lady Musgrave—
but a toodi, is sliape and size resembling that of a horse
—being in length 2 inches, in breath 1 iuch, ■nd in cir-
cumference 2 6-loths !!! This fact creates a wide field
for speculation; because it is evident, that to contain a
complete set of grinders of this descriptiou, her Laeyship
moat have hail at least titre's inches length of jaw I !—We
have heard mooch of an alleged deterioration of the human
species—hot I did nut conceive that at so late a period of
the world there existed Ladies wills jaws (and consequently
heads, bodies, and members to correspood) as large as those
eta modern horse. Of course, the emiueol medical Gentle-
man observed this tooth, as he would no doubt narrowly in-
spect the bonus, before he so decidedly pronounced them to
bC haman.
iinately, also, for the appropriation of the back-bone
and rib to her Ladyship's newly burn iufaut, some of the
lesser bones of the frame hive been preserved, which prove
that it has belonged to a creature not human; and not newly
born, but to an anima/ of fall growth and maturity. One
bone bearing some resemblance in form to the bone of the
fore-arm; which, in a child, is little more than a gristle; is
found to be firm, solid, and undecayed; evidently the boue
of a creature of considerable age.
To these facts, which of themselves seem conclusive, I
may add the decided opinions of offer medical men of sound
judgment (although they have not been dubbed eminent by
the Patriot), that these bones, great and small, including the
back•booe and rib, are not the remains of human creatures,
but of some kind of animals. The smaller oues resemble
those of a cat or monkey: of the larger it is nut so easy to
decide—as, excepting the lady's tooth, none of them are
perfect.
As to the elegant female dress, I understand that the silk,
to which this high sounding name is given, was found apart
from the bones; ■lid that there is nu appearance of its ever
having been made up into any kind of vestment, being more
like an old silk handkerchief than any thing else. It is very
clear that it has not been the burial dress of the horse-
mouthed lady, or it would have bete found covering her
remains.

The discovery is certainly curious; and whatever may
have been the or sex of the deprsit, it is difficult to
account fur it. 1 do not wonder, then fore, that romantic
girls, and tea-drinking old women, have assumed the re-
mains to be human—and of course female, in order to
build tenon the circumstance some tale of terror for their

6re.side amusement. But that 'inhume medical, and grave
political mid literary characters, like the Editur of the Pa.
triot, am.l his Biend, should rashly have countenanced the
delusion, astonishes me. Alas! we are all liable to CrfUr...
" Nagle rnortaliens omnibus hurts gape—

No! not even the learned Editor, nor Dortiw Whet Wye
can't-at. Yours, &c. BACK BONE.

Letters, dated 20th olt. have been received
from Seville, which state, that the fever there had
dinhutshed, Bud the *tam suirmled so much, that
the person. who had tied into the country were re-
run% to return to town.

'Yesterday, as a very large caravan, containing an
elephant •nd rhinoceros, coming from Down '•'air,
was crossing the bridge ut Bainsford, over furthest
Cans!, its ponderous weight broke the hridge, by
which it is sti glo'r'y jammed, that it prevents all
communication between Grangemouth and Lock 16.
It is supposed that presiottS to Its being extricated
the animals gunk be takeu out.—(Edimb. Paper.)