The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-10-14 00:00:00

IN FAINT, LE 1.0 PE ME NT.

The rage for chi/drre on the stage seems to be
extendiag itself in the most essential charalier in life,.
viz, to children writes ; several instances have
lately taken place of infant marriages and elope-
ments. One of the latter occurred on Thursday
morning, the Jd inst ant, from a boarding-school, a
few miles from Hull, in Vol kshite. The young lady
who took her flight is Miss E. of very wealthy pa-
rents. She is just tnrned her fourteenth year. :The
slept in a room with fiv • other young ladies ; oa
their rising at the usual time, a few mornings ago.
they discovered that Miss E. was absent, and had
taken away great part of her clothes. They com-
municated the circumstance to their governess, who
WAS greatly alarmed, and expressed mach concern,
and used every possible exertion to trace her, but in
vain, and immediately sent express to her p.trents.
On further inquiries being made, it was 'opposed
she had made her escape out of a one-pair of
stairs window, about three o'clock in the morn-
ing, and that her lover, supposed to be an
Officer of the Lincoln Militia, a Gentleman about
+0 years of age, was waiting to receive her to his
arms, in a single-horse chaise, which he ha dhired at
Flull, and arrived with it just before she made her
escape from the house. As soon as be had got his
little love, he drove off with all possible speed to
Hull, in hopes of procuring • passage in a vessel
that was about to sail for London. On their arrival
there, they found the vessel had just sailed, they
prisiared an open boat, and followed the ves,el ;
when they came up with her, the Captain refused
to take them oa board, as he supposed it was to
answer some improper purpose, by their being so
urgent at such an early hour, and without previously
having taken their passage. They were then obliged
to cross the river Humber, in the pen boat, to Bar-
ton, .where they arrived about 5/V o'ttdck at noon,
in a very faint Condition, having.. helm; on the water
from between four and five o'clock in the morning,
without any refreshment. They took the mail at
Barton, and proceeded to Landon, where they ar-
rived on Saturday morning. Miss E's. father and
uncle followed them to Landon, but did not arrive
till Saturday evening, and traced them to an Inn in
Gracechuich-street, from which place they have not
been able to gain the least information of them.
Miss E.'s acquaintance with her lover was Wl.'
known to ber friends, but it his been discove:ed since
her flight, that they corresponded by letters, by
means of some confidential person.

A beautiful young lady eloped some days ago
with the son of a tradesman n-sir Watling-street.
Her father, who is a :kit me:chant resi•!ing near
the Kent it oa•l, pursue.: and overtook the fond
lovers on their way to Guildford. The young MAW,
alter receiving a severe caigelling from the enraged
merchant, was about to submit to his tate, and take
a long farewell of his misttess,when the young lady
called her father aside, reminded him that she had
left home for more than tw-lve hours, that a nigid
had passed in the interval since she had determined
to become a wife; and that it would neither cot:tri•
hate to his happiness nor her honour to prevent the
match, since things had gone so far. The parent
cook the hint, and- was, after a moment's recollec-
tion, as desirous to see the nuptial ceremony per-
formed, as he WAS before resoltee to prevent it.
The parties all returned to tow:....nd next morning
the happy pair were joined in huffy wedlock, when
the lady confessed that the hint she had thrown out
was nothing more than an innocent statagem to gain
her parent's c..nsent, and that her own honour and
his reputation were unsullied.

,IPanr,q, •

tAtLI',LE• RACFS.

wiDnesDar, OCY.J.).
flea Afajessy's Plate rat Wogs. hx. /fumes, kc. of 0;:w
Three-years old, 6+t.—Four.yea:.
Rat 1141a.--Sta-years old; .0.4 acad. 2st. Alb. A wruee- of a
Plate within the prevent you o; Sql. Of %I/WOO% .10 carry
3,1 a extra; if two, or mute. Nu
scram; ► Rino'. Plate, v.v.
Stakes of loots. valu.,, 71b. extra. flares
lowed 31b. Heats Four Mires . •
Any 4isputts yes, re -ling the ru..lllria for the King's !kindred:
to he deterrn.aad by the Right Hon Lund Viscuont Lowther,
or whom he may appeals'. .
Mr. Riddle's br. colt, by Overton, $ yrs old, 6,t. 31b 12 dr
Dake of liarnirturiv bay Wffe, lla.ty, by Walnut.
4 yrs. old 7st. 41b. . . 2. 3.dr
Mr. W. liutohinso br. cult, by Overton, Est. 316, 1, 1
The moriiii,g was very wet ._td cloudy; about twelve, the
sun began to sauna, which cuutinued, and the afternocin was
remarkably Fne.. A great oult.tter of gentlemen attended.
but line a Tally SIWCI.IOOS as we have veen„ probably Loot the
duilnoss of the weather. Riddle's brown colt AS the favourite.
11nting var.ed so, inuch, rendered it impossible ro.avenge.i.....
After the I st Heat, 3 and 4 to I, in favour of klutchinsoa's
brawn c .11.

• DOW-Er It INT.
On Friday evening,* yours lady, very genteelly
dressed, about fifteen years of age, and a gentleman
about thirty, went by the Turnham-green Coach
from London, to the Roebuck Inn, at Turnham-
Green, where they ordered supper. From their
manners, and the de .cription of a runaway pair; '"
whom the landlord had seen advertised, he had a
strong suspicion his customers were tine persons.
On Saturday morning, after they had breakfasted,
Mr. Lingo srd, the landlord, communicated to theme
his suspicions, but they assured him he was mis.
taken. This did not satisfy him, aqod he insisted
upon their going with him to Dow-sdeet, in one of
the stage,. They underwent a private exaniisatiori
before Mr. GI AItAM. the result of which ins. we
understand, that the landlord had been mistaken as
to their being those he had seen advertised. hut the
young Lady proved to be one who• had lately
eloped from her friends, near Croydon. The Magi-
strate, in erinserfeen• e, ordered the young Lady to
be detained till he wrkae•to her friends, and received
ay answer.

POLICE.-

BANKRUPT'S EXAMIN.ATIO.V.

Saturday, the re-examination of John Jenkins,
late of Coldbath•fiehls, linen-draper, a bankrupt,
took place .it Guildhall, before the Commissioners,l
The bankrupt was brought up from Newgate., •
whither he had been committed, having-114J ie '
giving a satisfafthry acc :.tot of his property, a de-
Itclency appearing of 12,0001. It was stated by
him, that he had sold t;.e tiings f r less money
retail, titan he had engaged to give the whaiesaie
manta-4E1.1re,, and, co ~.equently, he had that w
incurred Inc loss, iscreast shoplifrin4, 04.1
other casualties. In confirmaricn of this, he pr--
duced two instances, wnere he had sold vornis
at a loss of 1201. and a second of SO'. bat the Cmp;
missioners being dissatisfied, recommitted him till
he should, account more spe..ificAily for du. en-,r-'
mous elicit between his invre ft and ne sesei.oisa:
posed of. The shop kriit by th, bahkrupt had a
very extensive retail trade, and the parti.s interencd
in the examination were numerous in the extreme.
The Bankrupt's Counsel endeavoured to get his
client's discharge, but in vain : the Commissioners'
persisted in what they were doing, and represented.
the dangerous consequences of passii4 over without.
severe anittiadveTsion. a pra6tice such as the &Lg.
rupt had stated himself to have been guilty of. He
was remanded for further examination, and relied
upon to produce fresh instances confirmatory of
what he had stated upon oath to be the occasion of
his losses.

A cnnsidfrahle number of seamen, who were
either left on board the East India ships for the
purpose of navigating them to their moorings, or
who otherwise esc sped impress, have for several
days past paraded about Blackwell, assembled in a
body, with a View to oppose the press-gangs.
On Thursdav night, t shocking murder was
committed at Sockton-upon- Fees, Yorkshire, upon
a young Woman ot !la:11C llaetze, who had
gone frosts Hutton Rodbv, near Stokesley, where
she resided, to cell some Cic. china clot's for a ma-
nisiadurer and neighbour of the nausea WC IST Elt.
She retired to rest between nine and ten o'clock.
and at midnight the inhuman wretches where she
lodged, and to whom she was el stranger, nearly
severed her head from her body with a case kiiite
and, soon after twelve, were sees attempting to re.
move the body, in order to throw it into the river.
The man, his wife, and daughter, were all imme-
diately secured.

On Sunday last, a most atrocious attempt at mar-
der was made at Fakenharn, Norfolk, under the
following circumstances :—About one o'clock in the
morning, some villain, whose person and motives
remain as yet unknown, broke into the house inhabit.
ed by the Miss B +LES, two respe&able young ladies
of the above place ; and, entering their chamber,
drew the curtains of the bed in which th••y were.
One of the ladies, awakened by the noise of his
entrance, demanded of him his business, and eon.
chiding that his purpose was to rob• the house,
with much presence of mind, desired him to take
what he wanted, and. go away. To this, how-
ever, the man made no reply, but with a large
stick began to deal his blows in so dreadful a man-
near at the other lady, that her sister, in the utmost
alarm, iprang from the bed, and endeavoured, by
seizing hold of the villain's arm, to prevent the per-
petration of his murderous design; upon whist' he
immediately took the latter in his arms, and carried
her down stairs, where, in the same brutal way, he
beat and wounded her also, until she remained sense-
less on the floor, and then made his escape from the
house. Tile unhappy objets of the villain's erudite
were, several hours afterwards, found by some of
the neighbours (who, accidentaly passing by, were
led, from the appearance of the house, to cusped
something amiss had occurred) in a most miseraSle
state. Surgical assistance, however, was instantly
procured, and through great sk:11 and attenuon,
strong hopes, we are happy to add, are entertained
of their recovery. Great pains have bet-n taken in
the investigation of tai, horrid affair, but hitherto
witho•tt the desired erf,:a of discuvaring any glee to
the deteAion of the offender.