The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-03-28 00:00:00

THEATRE.

nnunv-tacit.
Mr. Wit PH v's elegant and lively Comedy,
The Way to Kerp Him. was performed here on Sa-
turday night. Mrs. duct nAN was in high spirits—
lively, playful, and interesting. Her beautiful song
of The Willow, from the extraordinary plaudits re-
ceived, was acknowledged to be givers with more
than usual of Mts. POPE is always interesting;
but we never see her pourtray a married character
without feeling a wish that she would assume more
of the woman. Miss Port's performance of Musiiti,
gave great pleasure, as it was an assurance of her
recovery. The After-piece was licw.cr t, k Sold;
Mrs. Nloosrr am sustained the part of Charlotte:
we never.seen Miss DECAMP, we should pro-
nounce Mri. MOLN .r Als admirable ; but there k an
archness and vivacity in the manner of that lady,
which renders her unrivalled in that class of charac-
ters. The loase was crowded and fashionable.

The dispatcl:e• for For: St. Georg:". hy the ship
Union, were finally closed the East India House,
on Saturday, and delivLred to the Purser.

eAssts:or.aN:
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Min F. "ii'lrotosh, pew—din; to her friend: in Renzal;
Nita*. G. T. K murmur. A. ht`Quem, W. Gooch, E. Her-
tier, T. starrett, C. D. Carteret, li. Rose T. W. Dawaoti,
D. Stewart, W. Godly, and Hon. E. Lind ay, cadet:.
The Prince of WA r. ts, Duke and Duchess of
YORK, and French Ambassador, were at the Opera,
on Saturday night.
The Earl of I)tenv gave yesterday a dialler to a
select party a friends.
The new Fletior of SALTZSURGII (late Grand
Duke of Tuscany) is to receive with the Princess of
Saxosv a dowry of twenty-five millions of crowns,
and on the death of her father will succeed to the
Electorate of Saxony.
Prince WILLIAM of proceeds from
COFenhagen• to Berlin, and thence to Vienna and
Italy.
Soon after Lerl. Eton's departure from Con-
stantinople, a frigate was dispatched to overtake
him, for the purpose of delivering to him two
swords, of rich and beautiful workmanship, pre-
sents from the SILT to the Kira and Prince of
WALES. The sword fcr the latter is of the most ex-
quisite taste.
Prince BILMONTL riSNATELLI, a Neapolitan of
distinguished loyalty, on passing through Paris on
his way to England, was subject to the greatest in-
dignity f..ont the Cur re CONSUL—He and his Pr it-
cess were thrown into prison, and remained there
three weeks, when the Lady, formerly Mrs. N—u,
of Sussex, was claimed by Lord WHITISORTH, as
an Ittryalish su 'jeer, in conselttence of which they
were liberated, bat ordered to quit Paris in twelve

hours.
The Times of Friday, a Paper very ninth alive to
roguery in all trades, gave a hreathon7-hour to the
oral-faCrrs, for the purpose of abusing the hotter-
dealers.' A complairt was aceordingly made to the
;turd Mayor, of a misrepresentation of a recent
toe at the Mamion-Hintse, in'which that body of
men were parks. His Loraship expressed much
disapproteriort at the report of the I.infft ; and or-
dered that it should make the antenrie bonornate, by
cfpying a t 113! repo-t of the case from the Brifil.A
Prrs. of Ftiday. We ..ver happy to see in the Thom
of g.itur.l.iy, ;hat the E.Litor obeyed the dire:lions
ofthe Lord M iyor.
The Fast hlil.llesex Ilegi:nent of Militia. which
Was embodied on Friday last at Edmontim, was
mustered on Saturday morning at ten o'clock. The
whole of the men (amounting to nearly 51X)) whose
terrnssof service had not expired, excepting a few
who were abseat from indisposition, atieaded on the
' occasion; and even several men Who had received
regular discharge% ste!iped forward, with alanda.
ble alacrity, to enrol themselves once more under the
colours nt their regiment. When dressed in tlieir
II:•W clothing, and fi ttrrul on the parade, their
appearance was such as to evince that in the
repose of peace they had not lost the charaeler
or disposition of soldiers. Lieutenant-Colonel
Woon, who commanded, having formed the re-
giment into a hollow square, addressed it in a very
animated and impressive spee:b. "He expressed
the high degree of satisfalion which he felt, on be-
holding so many old soldiers as.emble with such
zeal and promptitude at the summons of their coun-
try. He was confident, fihould his Mai Es r's ser-
vice require their continuing embodied for any
length of time, that their anew:. a to discip;iiie and
suldienlike good condlidt would be as eminently
conspicuous as when he had last the honour of com-
manding them, and he wished to assure them, on ali
oecasit.ns, of his unvaryng attention to their coin-
dut.x, and solicitude fur their iiitexest.s."

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roRK daSIZ ES (Ccntimied.).
Tll^. KINC V. DODSON.
The pri;e4ler stetel indiaed on the An of 24.
Geo. H. for attempting to seduce ar:ificers out
the kinfe,;em. .
Last 'Poutefra& Session, the prisoner was tried
upo indiettiient on the same eft, for taking
mo.iels or.plans,of the rhanufeclitring netchinery of
this country, for the purpose of introducing them
into a freiga coentre,. upon which indietment he
was iuund guilLy , • 3,, sentenced to one veer's im-
prisenmee. and to pay a tine of 2001. to the King.
Mr i-.keee, Ft se;:eiet a the prosecution, in his
address to the.i said, diet the extensive perfec-
tion of the mate.:l,Clares of this country, was the
cause of its pre-eminence in the world ; that if we
suffered our artificers to he. seduced into foreign
countries, :hen the very foundation upon which we
stood was taken from under ;we should lose that
rank we hold amongst nations, who, it they got pos-
session et our artificers, would also get possession
of our machinery, and so the expenco urliving being
much more lower in other CountrioS than. ire this.
thry would not only he able to riv d as, but con-
siderahly to UildCrSki u ; hut, he thauked God, then
*by the wi-e laws enleted by our Getter:lntent, they
had rendered, he hoped, such a thing impossible ;
for such severe pnishment was inflicted upon these
who made the attempt, that if they once were de-
teCted, they would not be likely tfr make the attempt a
second time. *1 ae learnedeolmsel stated the prisoner
to be an Englishmen by birth, who went to France at
an early age ; that he ,t: erw:trds established a ma-
nufaetery in the cast-iron business ; that at the Con-
elusion of peace, it. retunuel to this country, and
went in:a Lancaster, and came into Yorkshire, to
get models of oer machinery, for which he had
been in2i:led, and was now justly enduring the pu-
nishment of the law ; and he eras now upon his uial
for endeevoering t& seduce our artificers. Islr. Buck
said, he believed the prisoner at the bar to have
been sent over by the French government ; hut he
wondered that a government that had manufac-
tured so many constitutions both for themselves and
other people, should not be able to invent a spin-
ning-machine; but he was sure they would be
as little capable of rivalling us in the invention
of constitutions, as they had been in rivalling us in
our machinery : Buck then called
gOls ilrcber. He said, that the plisoner came
from Dieppe, in Normandy, to this country; that
about the 25th of February, NO2, he told the pri-
toner, that his mother had told him his father was
going with him (the prisoner) to live in Preece;
that he asked the prisoner the particular; of their
agreement ; the prisoner replied, von shall know
that hereafter ; that the prisoner said, that he had
a plot of ground in France, on which he meant to
ere& a mid, &c. ; he said the building and stock ne-
cessary would cost him at least 30091. and that he
could raise that sum without any wsistance ; upm
asking the pri=cier he meant to have any Engli h
workmen, he said no, he could have had a regiment
of them at Norwich and London, but he would not ;
that the prisoner said, that the objet of his coming
into Yorkshire, was to get plans and models, and to
take his Either with him ; that he was going to
Manchester, and had letters of recommendationthere, and that he meant to see their machineey.
Upon being cross-exandaed by Mr. Lamb tier the I
Prisoner, he confessed that he had had a onarrel with
his mother, and was net upon good terms with her.
Thomas Butterfield proved, that he knew George
_Archer (the person whom the prisoner stood charged
with having attempted to seduce) and that he was a
machine-maker.

Mr. Lamb, on behalf of the prisoner, observed, in
reply to Mr. Buck, that our eminence as a manu-
fa.luring country, did not arise from the perfection
of our machinery, but from our superior capital,
our industry, and the honour of English merchants ;
indeed, Mr. Lamb said, that when the Prisoner was
indided at Poutefrad Sessions, for taking models of
our machinery, he called in one of the most emi-
nent merchants in Yorkshire, (Mr. 1. Atkinson
of Bradley Mill) upon whose testimony it appeared,
that the French were in possession of almost all our
machinery, except, perhaps, some, of recent disco-
very, and therefore that our distinguished pre-emi-
nence did not depend upon our superior machinery,
which, it appeared, we possessed not exclusively,
but, upon what he had before stated, our capital,
our industry, and our honour.—Mr. Lamb then, on
behalf of the prisoner, called
George Archer, son of John Archer; he sai I, th:it
before hr saw the prisoner, Dobson, he had some
thoughts of going to America, and told Dobson,
the prisoner, of his intention, that he intended it,
because his business was bad ; that he asked the pri-
soner what prospecl there was for him if he went to
France ? the prisoner reolied, " Yon may go to
France, Inn T shall not advise yon to it ; I hare lost
a great deal there myself; I shall not advise you to
do it—you know nothing of the country, and you
are a stranger, to the language." Witness said, the
prisoner always objedled to his going to France.
Elizabeth Archer, wife of the preceding witness,
corroborated his testimony.
William Hanson corroborated the. testimony of
the preceding witness.
The learned Judge then recapitulated the evi-
dence to the Jury, and observed upon the wisdom
of our legislature in infliEting such severe penalties
upon those who struck at the very existence of the
state ; that the only question for them to Jouslder
was, the credit they shonld pay to the tcstiflnny of
John Archer, after it had besa coatradiated by his
father and mother.

The Jury found eie prisoser—Cmiky. Sestence,
onerar's i:nprisonnunt, and afire of 5101. •
yobs Go:e was indiaed for killing and slaying
I-Lutry Both:tm, of Sherturn, in the Ea:teltidlilA'.
It appeared tirm the evidence, that the deceased
w.... a young boy, who lived with his uncle at 3::er-
burn, and had pushed a child of the prisoner's into
some water, at a time that he Vr•IS ill ; therefore the
prisoner struck the deceasal a slight blow, which
caused him to stumble ovtr a stone, by which he
was thrown against a wall with his head ;—thc
question then to be decided was, whether that blow
which tl,e deceased's head received against the wall,
had been the cause of his death.

Mark .lithnson was celled upon to prove, that the
deceas .d had complained of beinz po.-rly a week tir
a fortnight betOrehe received the blow ; that he was
accustomed to a pain in his hea I.
Mr. Smart, surgeon, proved, he was the first person
called r.poa to attend the deceased, about ten days
after he had received the blow ; that the I.lnt of t' e
dcaeasel toil him, that the opening m :h.: f

the decetle4 arta his birth was. banger • sr. clis.ftg
t than is usual in infests; the Witness infer.ed fror.l
thence, that the hJad was subjet to more than ordi-
nary complaiats, particularly water in the brain ; that
there was ao discolouring in the exterior tithe head,
as if a blow bad been receive.! ; that he opened the
head of the deceased after his dettn, and found a
great quantity of water in the brain; a greater quan-
tity than he, the witness, thought could have been
colleEkd from the time the ceezu:lsed receivA the
blow ;—that the blow might have hastened that
collthion of water, but cculd r t. in his opinion,
have been the immediate cause of it ; that there is
skin which adheres to the interior of the skull, ant
that the adhesion is so strong in a healthy ohj„.lt,
that it would require a considerable weight to sepa-
rate them ; —that on the left side of the deceased's
skull, he discovered not only .1 separivjon, but al-
most ant:mire decay of that skin ; that that could
not h tee been cawed from the blow received ;
the blow received might have hastened the de,
ceased's death, but was not the ciras.. of it.
Toedury tintod the prix
Mr. P,tOK, who mitt as said, onset though
ma. the prisoner had been found KUity, yet he would
not sia:r t case to leave the Court without liblk;ncr
some remarks upon it : he observed, that though
the prisoner hid been brought to the bar upon a
charter*, which originated is the discharge of a. most
s'creJ duty, namely, the proteetiun of his own •
child, yet the law had set bounds to that duty ; w.
were not from an overflow of aftl•etion to our own
children, so v.o!ently to interrai,t tl.e laws cf
a,: to cau.e the death of otnert ; it was to be
discriminated in such cases by a Jury, whether o
children were itl such danger as to justify the extent
of our rowaion if we had exceeded thefair boun•
&trips N that protesßion, '.he law will purish us for
it ; Gat it was our duty, and the law would prat: Et
us in the discharge of it, if we exeicised that protee,
tion only equal to the danger—if oar protection
ei-
ceeded the danger, we were amenable to the law%
of our country : and therefore he would clautioa
every parent, not to sutler his parental affeEton to
lead hint beyond those wise and sabrarr bounds
which the laws of the country had prescribed.

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THETFORD ifSSIZE.F.

rAsTor it.tvrx.
This was an action for defamation, brought to re:
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cover damages for the Defend int's having publLly
said that the Plaintiff was a • f riworn rogul, fur he
had forsworn himself in Smith's matter. Smith h
beea tried for an assault at the Norfolk Sessions, and
the PI tintiff gave evidence on that indiament ; Lut
it being necessary to prove the record of Smi:b's
indinment, in. order to support this :talon, and the
Plaintiff nut being able to do it, was aun-suited.
HAMMOND V. MURAELL.

This was an anion for defamation likewise. The
Defendant had said, that the Plaintiff was a rogue
and a thief, and used oLha defamatory expressions,
fur which the Plaintiff brought this anion; but it
appeared that the Plaintiff and Defendant had
quarrelled, in the course of which the Defendant
spoka the words as laid in the declaration, in a great
passion, and as the Plaintiff had sustained no da-
mage in consecoence, the Jury found for the Plain-
tiff.—Datuages One Shillirg.
rattN t. ATi.INS AND OTHER%
This Was an anion to re covvr damages for an a--
sault. The Plaintiff and attendants were in com-
pany together at an nut ion of setd, at Outwell,
when they began to pull the chairs from under each
other, and jostle and push each other by way of fun,
in the doing which the Plaintiff received much hurt ;
bat as he could not trace the fan to any particular.
individual Di:fend:int, his Lordship directed a Juror
to be withdrawn.

POLICE.

IlassrslON.HOusE.
On Srurdny the drivers of several of the Black.
wall and Limehouse stages were summoned before
tlic Lord Maynr, for suffering their Coaches to
stand before different houses in Leakienhall-street.

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One of the parties complained against, being the .
Owner of the Coach he drove, was ordered to pay
Cos. and others were tined los. each. They were
all cautlo :el ty.tainst offending again,
Toe master of a public tap, in Fieet.lane, was
charged on suspicion of receiving stolen goods.
The premises of some Seedsmen having been
rlandered of property to a considerable amount, . . .
intitrmation was given of tome of the stolen gods
being tr,wed to the house of the prisoner; who was
remanded for a iurtli•er hearing.
MAILLSOROCCU-StlitET.
Fri lay a Dutchman, named Maley, who has long
resided in this country; was charged hr his wife, i
who is a.native of the same Province as her hush end, • -4/
i
with negleccting and refusing-to maintain her and her
son, by me.ths of which she Ind become charg-able . •
to therarish of St. GeOrge, Southwark. Ile admitted
that his income was 3001. a year. Oa his refs. a 1
to allow her a proper sum to sustain her, he vas
committed to prison, until he agreed to do so.

Detachromts from the ith and 70tit regiments on
Thursday arrived at Canterbury, for trie purpc%e
of being instructed in the use of artillery.
No in has as yethe2a nude to the Staff,
consquence of cur Military preparations, r
has (►.ovecament et accepted the proffered service
of the Volunteer Carps.
Gen..ral I)usrtm has ercred to serve, 1,11
case of invr.sion, ;.ay, cr to rnt himself at
the 1-e •d of his own rernert, and serve as Colonel.
Mr. GREA-rittilt Is the ger.tleman to whom
13,)N A P.% arx Nrent i4p in his audienCeannsbet,
while giviar. himself- such airs to Lord Warr.
asked, " .A.re yen a G-manr (Mt.
Ge:*.icr.ll.CD is a tall, jnily, gocu.looking man)
au.' from whom, on being *rs \Tr. t, " NO, I arrl
an Engli,lirnan,' the Curt* Comet fumed away
w its dissatisfaCtion.
On Sund ty fortnight, at Long Clanton, Leices-
tershire, itev. Mr. Calkletirar.4:w wits con-
versing with some of his frlt'zdi, who tatted on
him in their way to church, *btu h, *semi r!-,4
time was expired, and ithmecilefely rier4 from ).k.
*air,' dropped down, 414 .neirer ruse more. rt is
so:wit:lac rerrinikahk, the mt. cm ADi Bea t. A I
Ow preceding Sur.day, preitzhei from these w
" Brethren, the time is ‘Uent." In his discourse, e
a..irtlicuucleaurlyt dizathshe that
uc I; f.,r sizat.

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