The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-05-04 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF MURDER

On the 10th of October last, a man, named Darid flag
gait who had been confiried in the gaol of Dumfries, rushed
levee leis cell, and murdered the turnkey lif doe prison by the
blow or n stone in a stocking, and thus effected his escape.
A reward was offered fur his apprehension, and every search
was made, without effect ; some time after • man, calling
himself David Bryan, was committed to the gaol-of Down-
patrick, fur picking pockets; he was convicted at the last
Assizes, and received sentence of transportation. The Rev.
Mr. Blacker, • Magistrate of that county, finding that his
description answered that of the person mentioned iu The
Hes and Cry, wrote to t►e Magistrates of Dumfries; they
In consequence sent over John Richardson, • police-officer,
who ar►ived in Dublin on Monday mutuing, and proceeded
to Kilmainbano gaol, to which place the convicts had been
removed, in older to their being sent off by the first oppor-
tunity to New South W•les. Richardson having identified
the man to be Naggers, lie applied at the Head Police-office,
producing his w an information was then tikes es to
the facts, and forwarded to Mr. Gregory, to be laid before
his Excellency the lord Lieutenant. An order was given
on Tuesday evening, by Mr. Gregory, to deliver Haggett
into the custody of Richardson, suit be proceeded, accom-
panied by Rubinson, of the Head Police-office, by the Belfast
coach, on his way to Scotland. The Assizes for Dumfries
will be on Saturday next. The Prisoner is a smart young
man, about nineteen years of age; has been several times su
custody, and Nuke many of the poisons is Scotland.—
( Dublin Paper.)

The following are extracts from letters, ►eceived
by a mercantile house in Liverpool, written during
the progress of the recent revolution at Bahia :
" sums, vssactaw 10.
" This place has been thrown into the utmost confusion
this morning, in consequence of the whole of the military,
without any exceptiou, publicly declaring is f f the
new Constitution. All business is put • stop to; the shops
are closed, cud nothing to be done; every thing remains per-
fectly quiet. A trilling skirmish took place shoot nine
o'clock this morning, supposed to be occasioned by sums
mistake in the orders received by the military."
a SUNDAY, 1111RUARY11.
. .

" A Provisional Government has been.fornerel, the Mem-
bers of which ire very respectable, particularly those of the
commercial department; every thing goes on in • perfectly
quiet manner; nu disposition has been manifested on the
part of the people or the troops to throw off their allegiance,
and all seem unanimous in opposing every preposition for
as independent Government."
" MOE DAT, iftItRUASLY 12.
" Many of the shop are this 'morning open, and the dif-
ferret militias are enllrd out for the purpose of being sworn
to the present Governsueui ; rve►y thing goes un quietly, and
we feel confident that business will be shortly resumed."
" TUESDAY, ra•RUARY 13.
" The Custom house is open to-day, and business is going
cm as usual."

The following is an extract of a letter from Gib-
raltar, dated 15th of April :—" Mr. DOUGLAS, our
Consul for the Empire of Morocco, went in his
MAJESTY'S hired schooner Pacifico, two days ego,
to Tangiers, and was received most graciously by
the Prime Minister of the reigning EMPEROR. Se-
veral valuable presents were sent by him to the
British Government, and he is expected to secure
for us considerable commercial advantages. A Sar-
dinian boat left this plate about three weeks since,
for Rabbut, with 50,000 dollars of Danish tribute
money, and 20 brass field pieces."
The late Mr. Nast:usu., by his will, proved in
Doctors' Commons, has bequeathed to his Royal
Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER the sum of
20,0001. on account of the good opinion he enter-
tained of his Royal Highness's public conduct,
which he describes " as an example to others." He
also discharges him from the payment of the further
sum of 6,000/. due on mortgage. Mr. PlascHELL's
personal pirupeity is sworn under 350,0001. out of
which a considerable sum is bequeathed to various
charitable institutions.
On Friday afternoon Colonel JOHNSON, Mem-
ber fur Boston (alio lately took his seat by virtue
of an election petition which he preferred against
the return of Mr. ELLIS. and thereby succeeded
in ousting his opponent from his seat in Parlia-
ment), arrived at the mansion of HINRY CLARICE,
Esq. in Skirbeck. As this was the Colonel's first
visit to Boston since the period of taking his seat as
one of its Representatives, it was expected that the
usual " pomp and circumstance" of chairing the
successful candidate would have been observed, but
in this expectation the loners of electioneering fun
were disappointed ; and the only public demonstra-
tion of rejoicing on the occasion was the ringing of
bells on Friday afternoon. On Saturday the Colo-
nel, accompanied by a few of the principal sup-
porters of the blue interest, paid his respects to
(as we are informed) all the freemen in the borough;
and in the evening there was open house at the
Green Dragon, where the blue party were regaled
with ale, and speeches were delivered by the Colo-
nel and soon of his friends,