The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-04-09 00:00:00

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Yesterday the Duke of YORK held a public day
at his office in the Horse Ottards, and gave au-
diences to a number of military officers.
The stemma contained in the letter from Ply-
mouth, yesterday, rvspecting the action between
and the French fngates, was no: quite
con ect. L'Aigle and the Intpetuena- were in com-
pany when the French frigates hove in sight ;
L'Aigle very soon brought one of the frigates to
action, which had not continued long when the
French ellp•Hill, finding it i inpossthie jo resist any
longer, set all the sail he could, and ran directly
stein an upon the isle of Germans. The nest morn-
ing she appeared to be a perfect wreck, lying
upon her beato-ends, and the sea breakimr over
her. A shift of wind having taken place, it be.
cante impassible for PASO to set fire to her : and
the French having been enabled, by it smuttier of
craft from L'Orient, to lighten her, they succce
ed in getting her into L'Orient. The other fri-
gate escaped the Intpetreux by superior sailing.
L'Aigle had nine men wounded. We are happy
to add that Captain Wotres wound is very slight.
The Strirliassi, POWELL, and the Albion,
HOLIMI, with a fleet from Cork, arrived ut Bar-
Woes on the 19th of February last.
The following is the Noose List for Governors
and Directors of the Bank of England, for the
year ensniost Fix GOVERNORS
JOHN 11'1111110R K.Fsy. Governor.
JOHN Pk:ARSE., Esq. Depot) Governor.
For DIRECTORS
Alexander Baring, E.q. iscit.v ITaitland, Esq.
Thomas Roddington Esq. Itelltsh, Esq.
Alexander Champtivr:, Esq. Sir Richard leave, Hart.
Jamas Campbell, Esq. Jeremiah I 'live, Eaq.
Bicknell Colley, Esq. Chariot" hate, Leg.
Hem) Davidson, E.g. , Thum..
George Dorrirn, Esq. John Thikerßueltants, Esq.
Jeremiah ll•rman, F..q. John Stsiiirorth, E,.q.
John Josiah llolford, Esq. Simnel Thornt.m, Loq.
Thomas Lang-ley, Esq. Stephen Thoruton, Esq.
Berston Long, Esq. Rob, rt Wit:a Asa, Ertl
William Mooning, Esq. Benjamin Winthrop, Esq.
The Election for Governor uoil Deputy Gover-
nor will he held on Tuesday, tire I.2th, and for
Directors out 'Wednesday, the Loh instant, from
tun in the forenoon till (our in the afternoon.

Some persain3 affect surprise that the City Lot-
tery, which is now so near its determine'
should have become so popular. The wyfoler
ceases, when it is contemplated that every man in
society has a natural ambition to p.m.:est a house
which he can call his Uwtl ; and especially so, when
an opportunity affords him nutte•rous chance, of
obtaining an efiviable liabitafiy:, fora :.take of ad-
venture ts.o insiauiticant Avow to u.entiuu.

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VOCAL CONCERT.

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The fourth Ladies' Vocal Concert was held ori
Thural:,/ night at Lady DRUM WON D SUITS'S ete-
gant house, Hyde-park Terrace. The selection
was excellent, and did great credit to the taste of
Mr. KM Y V ETT. Mr. W. Ka 1r EETT, and Mims
Glutei.' Ern, were iu fine vice, and did great jus-
tice to several favourite airs. Thcre were present
Viscountess Dowwe, Ladies Pailawvu. TAY LOKI
ELIZABETH LEE, RADITOCE. and Snalanas
IVe,holi'of BATH and WELLS, Sir TAPE% and
Col. TifoßN rox.

Yesterday the ROYAL FAMILY left LOW)" for
Windsor. Ilia MAI MY set off about ten o'clock;
the Qi Ewe and Pat accsaLs about 11. The ROYAL
I.)::KLS paid their respect 4 to Their Meaerrist
previous to their leaviogitown..

About a week since the Prince of SVat.e sent
slr. Itosssautu, the profile painter, to Ciadield,
to Like the likenesses of Momsteua, and all the
French Mikes, which he accomplished, and they
are to be added to the Paixcs's collection.
• Mr. Wain:Locks, late a Lieutenant-General
in the army, has taken u villa near Mitcham. in
Surrey. The neighbours have already named it
lionse.
The refusal of Ministers to sell the French bark,
uuless they take something else along with it, is
not a new idea. The fellow who hawk libels
throe gh the street are accustomed to cry out,
•• %hall buy my straw / not sell my book, but
I'll sell lIIV straw ; who buys my straw shall have
my book."

Mr. liessie has made a stseeewsful attempt to
prove, by his Comedy, that "all the Wurld's as
stage.". . _ _

Lord and Lady VCIIIION, with their amiable
and accomplished daughter, (one of the richest
heiresses is these kingdoms) are arrived at their
town re.Mieuce, Park-plaee, St. James's, fbr the

season.
Lady Caaottun Laws's grand rout, on Thane-
day eveuing, was attended by upwards of a. thou-
sand Nobility and Faahionables, eeverul of whom
sat an hour iu their carriages before they could get
up to Melbourne house.
At Lady Soaeas's grand roat, on Wednesday
nightobe Ladies were principally dressed in white
satin dresses, high on the bosom, tii 111 l ned with
lace, xlitivt sleeves, white gloves, faus, and shoes;
head-drowses diamond bandeau:L.
Adminal RAISIEII died, on Timmley, at hie
house in Great George-street. • By his death
there is a vacancy for the borough of Sandie ich.
'Elie last Bath arrivals are—
Bake or Athol, Baron Ilenerg, Lady George Suttee,
LadtAston, Huss.Mrs.l.. mallow Misses R;slpole, Stir at.d
Lady Anbrry, Sir Thos Ramsay, kir Thos. and Lady Hos-
keth, J: Cuter, Sir Chas. fisinptltle, General St. John,
Lieult.-Ceduoe Roolen, Lieut.-Culonel Cr,..,
Rolierbion, Major and Mn. tioen, Mejor Henry, Major
Joyce, Ile. Hod Mrs. Sons, Rev. Mr. and M.ss Gould, Rev.
Mr. Minya, Rev. Mr. Wray, and Rev. Mr. Veal.
The of lased will give a grand dinner,
nett Sunday, at his house in Berkeley•imearv.
The Ductless of Dot.Tox gave * grand rout on
Thailßflif tiight It T,Er hoes( rn Gensvenor-sqwares
which was attended by the riincipal Nobility and
Farhionables in town.
Lady PLItTli had a select'perty, on Wednesday
evening, at her house, iu New Norfolk-strestothielt
was attended by the Countess of CAILIIIIMeTOI4
Count DE. VAL'Delltil 1., Ladies !Miamian and
E. CARPI:STEIL, Mrs. WaLroLa, Mrs. T. Salim
and Mrs. James.
Viscountesa Annaue is the second wife of the
Viscount, and daughter of Sir Jose Elms, Baro-
net. He was married in March, 178 g, to Miss
MENTEa, who died in September 170, without
issue, and Married in 1800 his present lady. His
Lordship is ,in his forty-second year, having been
born in I.
Mr. ItAtaztst, to make amends for the disap-
pointment of Maclaine CATALANI's iadiTOsitioN
has promised the inhabitants of Bath Mrs. Bite
LIN Gron, Mrs. Acne, Mr. 'MAciaLATn, and Mr.
Bev NET, for his Spriug Concert.
Lady HEATticorF: has postponed her grand
party, 'lntel:Weil for last evening, until the ineskh
itistatit, on account of the indisposition of the
Duchess of NlottiraosE, who must have been dines
turbed by the noise of the carriages, their homes
▪ Ihe I)ticheas of 3loxraosE, whose illness has•
east a gloom over the fashionable werld, is the
Duke's second Wife, and sister to the Dale of
M's IN CHEATER : we are happy to state she was
cousidered better last night.
Tuesday se'imight, alter the funeral service in
the Catholic chapel at Bristol, the remains of the
However Countess of l'iNetAt. were deposited in a
vault i7djoi 'ling the chapel, to be removed at a more
advanced pant of the year to the family vault at
hi leers, in Ireland.
Yesterday afternoon the remains of Mr. Lrtiesits
Messenger no the Proprietors of the Theatre
Royal, Covent Garden, were interred near tlie •
tondo of that celebrated Comedian, EDWIX, in the
bitrial-ground of St. Paul, Covent-Garden. They
were followed to the grave by
mews. James and John Brandon, shtick, Cooke, loeledon,
Palnar, Weathers, Murray, Mathews, Illsitehard, Palley,
Glowourisa Kiag, Chiremont, IRarless,
Slag ier, Goi'mlo to, Davenport, Sisinneos, Geowtret, istrocians
Jrtferies, if ild, Trel.y,
Oil Friday was shot at Kirkandrews, near Car-
a most singular woodcock, It was of an ex-
traordinary large size, and was furnished with only
one leg; upon the moot minute examination of the
bird, it was evident, that it Lutist have bete formed
iu that state.
The Earl of MotRA indulged his domestics, Ind
their friends, with a grunt ball and supper, last
• night, to celebrate- the baptism of their young
Lord. The great silver cistern, whirl' holds twenty-
r six gsllohus. wan fille.l with punch. At nine o'clock
fifty persons sat down to :upper in the graiid din-
: iinc Itarlatir, ow!, 'tiler drinking the Leiehhs of the
Noble Furl mid his amiable Countess, %,.d that
f Lord MAl'ettlANS: n.iight inherit the virtues of his
• noble parrots, dun, '11.6 commenced, which write.
nueel till a late hour.

OLD O.4ILEY. Anal, I.
cetLD 31 LEL
11 aria Frances Jeers wit, mdndcd for the murder
of hir bastard Add. which she liatl been delliored
of un the 3d of Meech le-r.

Mr. KNAPP opened the Prosectit on, and stated,
'that the Prisoner was the ehild'r maid of Mrs.
Hewitson, Catherine-street, She tad
lived with bee twelve months. On the Ist of
March, Mrs. Hewitson went on a visit to her mo-
ther, Mn. 15erlsett, at Clapton Terrace, I lackne% ,
and took the pri.otuir with her, I attend her chill.
On the 3d of March, Mrs. Hewitson and her
mother's fatuity went out to tea, leaving the Pri-
soner, with two other servants, in the hun,e. The
Prisoner dined very heartily. About seven o'clock
in the evening, however, she complained of a yin-
lout pain in her bowels, and went up stairs to bed.
One of the other servanb went up stairs with her,
prepared todre,ter, and gave it to her. tier pain
seemed to jarrease, on which she expres..ed a de-
ity to hr felt alone, end remarked, that she would
I,e well in a short time. Abut ten o'clock the *er-
rant went again to her room, „and found her ex-
tremely weak and faint. The servant, from her
nwastrks, expressed her suspicion that the Prisoner
had been in labour, but this she repeatedly denied
in the taso.it positive terms. Her pockets, which
had been lying on the bed, she threw behind the
pillow. Is tins state she remained until Mrs. Bets
kett cause home at I l o'clock, when the servants
informed her of the situation of the Prisoner.
The servant went up stairs, and examined into the
state of the Prisoner, which continued her suspi-
cion thatithe Prisoner hail been brought tn-bed ;
but ahe persisted in denying. it. The Prisoner's
situation becoming alarming, Mrs. Beckett 'ism for
Mr. smith, a iurgeon, who confirmed the rtispi-
riots, and desired that a search might be made for
the child. On examining the Prisoner's pockets,
next •norning, a pair of scissars were found, of or-
;7.C, besmeared with blood, and a pen-knife,
without any blood so it. osre of the r-rvantr
Wind, under the Prisoner's bed, * black trunk,
betengiug.,to ler, and on searching it there was
fai a fimalC w,nipped up in the gown
the Prisoner had worn the day before. The child
war deed. he throat was eta in a
slagged manner,
with a. %Quad deeper under the yaw than in any
other pin, and the wind-pipe separated.
This care was fully proved in evidenee by Mrs.
Phiwitson,Sln.. Beckett, and Elizabeth Mason and
Martha Tubber, the two servants of Abs. flew-
i son.

Mr. Smith, a surgeon. deposed, that in his
opinion, the wound given to the c hild must have
•born inflicted by an insflrument similar to a
. scissors; and that the wound had been the cause
of tlu• child's death. if it were born alive. With
respect to the existence of the child, there could
soothe a doubt; it was o full grown iufaut; and from
etery circumstance which lie bad observed, there
..ery reason to conclude that the child was
born olive.
On his

by Mr. ALLeir, he
admitted that he had heard of instances otctaildren
coaungimo the world in such a manner as to ren-
der it a matter of some difficulty, to au untkilful
practitioner, to give the necessary assistance ; and
111 the cue of the Prisoner's child, lie believed such
an accident happened to it ; and it was possible
and probable, from the agitation of the unfortunate
Prisoner at the Bar, her ignorance, and perhaps
the excessive pain she laboured under, that she
did resort to her sciasars for assistance ; and there
was every reason to ecuiclude, from the appearance
*f the wound, which was perpendicular, instead of
being transverse, and die Prisuner being unac-
quainted with the texture of the substance which
*he was cutting, that she did use u degree of Three
that produced the ,death of the child...anere
closed the ProsecutiOia.

The Prisoner, in her defence, said, the eitreinity
of her situation obliged her to doe. she had done.
She oaf brought to bed sooner than sire expeeed,
lilt she intended to have told her tandress, and
bare gone to.her perish to lie-in.
Mrs. Hewition deposcd, that she hid looked os
the Pri,oner to hare been a prudent, virtuous, and
tuinanit ; she had attended her cliikl from the
time it was two week• old, it had been sick, and
the Prisoner treated it its the must tender manner,
and she did not kuow another person she would en-
trust her dald to. The l'risoner had been reemn-
mended to her by her suotlier, with whom .he had
tired three years.

Mn. Berkett were the Prisoner a most e‘cel lent
character. Ind she was confident that the death
of the AU bad happeind wore front accident than
intention.

Mr. George Dowling, Man-midwife, corrobe-
toted the testimony of Mr. Smith.

Lord ELLINIOROUGM summed up the evidence,
Rut observed, that in the pockets of the Prisoner a
pen-knife was found, and if it had been her inten-
tion to take away the life of the child, it would be
a more effectual weapon then her scissars. The
Jury must be satisfied, in their minds, that the
rhiM was hornets% and if FO• that she Murdered,
with • wilful intept, before they could find her
guilty. It was for them to consider whether it
was wilful murder, or that the child's death was
caused by accident. If they thought the latter,
they would acquit the Prisoner.
The Jury retired about half en bour, and
brought in their verdict—Ant
Lord Lt.t.asmos,otion then informed the Jury,
tlat, by an Act of Parliament, in cases of bas-
Ludy, where the party is accused of murder, and
acquitted, there Is • power vested in the Court to
punish the Prisoner for secreting pregnancy. The
Jury, therefore, would consider, from the evidence
adduced, whether there was any foundation for
the allogiktion, that the Prisoner had secreted her
pregnancy?
The Jury, without hesitation, declared that the
p/naues was secreted.
es Prisoner was taken from the Bar in • very
wea slate, supported by tan men. She was 0-
koved a chair to sit nu during the trial. She
*reined composed. slid hardly changed her Eotlll.-
tenance slitting the whsle time. She is sr decent:
looking girl, amaretitly in very hail health.

11Ou Saturday, ',ELA
s
M) CROITIIWAVIE, }'_:•1: wa
elected Governer of the Rank of lrellaud, a 44.1
• I
Jueatz Gore., En. Deputy Goren:or.
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LIW INTELLICINCE.

COVRT OF CHANCUT, U1'0;1.104-1 Nw, ArstL •,
Loan *amines LusAcv.

Yesterday affidavits of Lade Ag*Hu, in answer to the
charm preferred ages net her by the Earl and Couplets of
Athlone, wise oilseed by Mr. Riebards, which we yesterday
briefly stated.
Het Ladyship admitted, thee sloe seined his Lordship, on
one occasion, to cell at the Preslliaffsee at Cheltenham fur let-
ters, but excused herself from the imputation of ailed, by
saying, that it was is. ly a few days before that Lade Athbve
permitted his Luedship to drive her sorrage through the
streets of Londuu. She did not dime the tl•erod of sending
Lord Agbrien to a insiblsousea though the sonelnsion that it
cruse from tiukindeeis, was cruel sod usiust The check was
necessary, and was the offspring of sffeet: mate vs.licsnide,
an/.sot of anger. With respect to her inakteg his Lordship
get Out of bed to dress, she had not ordered it, Inn eduction,:
complied with the representation of the nurses, who described
it as proper, his Iw rislup 4avisg been cuitfined two days, and
it was necessary Ins bed should be made, and himself receive
the attentions of his domestics. The servant for whom his
Lordship bed tales a temporary dislike was one who had fol-
lowed the family from Ireland, end was is every 11.111 t ct fi ith-
fel sod attached. Her Ladyship uniceived there was ito
settled toward, hint. Rut with weird to the fm (dile
reareveure of his lordship fru it Sloane-street, herfLadyshsp
replied, that the state of her husband's mind, his quiet, and
comfort, together with her own feelings, imperatively called
fur his feistiest. The norms had entreated her only to place
herself in the street, o here she might be sten by her has-
hand, and his mind would be rase. She ens incapable of
hearing the separation, and she resolved on taking him away.
She entered by the sees, because the .had been forbid As
knock at the door, and on going to Lord Aehrim's room, he
jumped up, and said that mudslide should prevent him front
going w itb his dear Maria. Lary Athlone interfered to pre-
vent him, puny' off his lordship's monism golds and tore
his shirt, we that the naked way is which his Lordship I.bl
into the conch, Wes not ascribable to Lady Aglirim. His,
Lordship wee cartud to the home of Mr. Duucen Shaftor
the brother-in-ley of Lady A;ltrim and so far from lair
Ledyship wishing to secrete her husband frmis his family, she
proposed to take • house in the neighbourhood of Ladd Ails
Imos.'s, provided the (Slimily would convent to visit Lord Ash-
rim at inch tint. vi 111* Pio) siviniss should think proper.-.
il'ith respect to the sale of the Commission, her ladyship
reused, that it was with the adeier of General Stew, as
Lord Aglirim having twee reported absent without leave,
would have subjected him to have been superseded. The af-
fidavits also stated her Ladyship', distress for money, and
the unkind and irritating trentmest of Lord Athlone's family
towards her. There were also nsintemos atlidavits respecting
her conduct towards Lord Aghrins: after leavinc Mosite-
street, all of which described her as the most exemplary of
women; and that her constant attention to her husband was
the subject airship anon her sequeintenee.
This moron ug, Friday, Sir S a it u ►m. Rout to I.v replied; end
the Lord (leonine'', after takiag a view of the case, said
there are now berm( the Court two pertiesoine (Lady Aghrisn
=.to be appointed the Committee other husband, the
ther
Earl and Countess of Athlone) pstifjeaip f to hese
the Heeter's Hopert sent hock far revision, and that the Earl
skald he opputote*Conotoittee. I will not, said the Chali-
ce:Dor, to save my f trouble, send hack the Master's Herod ;
mods. flaw that I du not mean to lohlink from my ditty, I am
ready to receive &Weida of medical men, es to the stale of
Lord Achrim's mild from the time he left Scotland Until
I receive such 'adorns I canoed come to a tined &einem In
theamen time Lady Aglaitn must retails the possessios of
his Lordship ; bat I wish it to be understood, that if any oh-
stack should bektlirowe by her iu the way of the Fart end
Conine*, of Athlone to promose accessary inforni.stion, that
Lady Agbrins shell not have the care of her hushend one day
loftier. I shall be ready its the, first day after the recess to
receive the affidavits.

Lady Airtime, who is a beautiful young women, waa in
Court the whole of the morning, &croupous:46y Hn. Shaft ve
ler Ladyship's sister.

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