The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-01-01 00:00:00

pectrd to have perloilitl property al different times, whet
it, h.,. gone to art .he Nlarsh ill's coat to !snob, &c and him
t otrd.thin has repeatedly missed
11.0 stissectoic that the Prisoner world he guilty if such MI
NCI, h- t.eik it for granted that hr must live diapuard of
the wool Stlll?rNitrg hill/1111e maun.r, that hr could lint at
railiect. "flowerer, a enlll-1411:1' Or Ihr brae.
tier rit pl and his tordsh4 being never able to
• how•ilie ~,,,, ey could go, riaturalt, began to r.e.pert
nln l'araart, hr bring the only person alai was ever about
lion, hut before he iaxed him With
.011. al'illal Tact, he
determined la tare more cunvincing pronfa h:s diakiss
i..ty, and secoriii.igly put atone marked tattea,•tud tither
.'y, iu bi. wrekets. The Prisoner was the only:iceman
about the pl ire, and when hr left the room, some of the
,noisy was Ills Lordship then aril fur lin tact(
whose restudy he resigned the Prisoner.
"I loon la Fur, the olficrr, ttiok the Prisoner Min enatirlis.
'rhe Pi iinner someanog in his &frace in french.
The Nu!ila Marshal was unwilling in prosecute the Pei-
1111111ieT, 01 come heroer the public- in stick a Iransartion, awl
censennently care up all proceedings against hint, mid be
'orb diachai

TIATTON•II‘ROLN.

Ela,,ezrr Prerhoie, a must respectable young man,
VA* betiorzlit 11111111 a warrant, charged by his sister, Miss
Nina Parkes, with as-malting her and her two testers in 114
stral, I. potting his fist in bee fare, mad threaten.
tag to heat sad. of them. She stated that her father, the
lky Mr. Parkes, of Charles.street, Hattoo-garden, was
unfortunately run over a few evenings ago by a chaise.ealt.
of theeml of'l'utb idiano.rositt-ruad, mid (10g11411144.
butyl that lie was then carried to the Middlesex Hospital,
where he died. and where the lardy then lay for the Cur is
Jury; alts since a loch nicident she and her two sisters, their
mother being d. ad, was at the house of a frii nil, iii Soho-
aqua re, and were that 11.1 returni,it 1.. their holm iii Ch arks-
effect, when they were stint near 31iihile.row by the Prisoner,
who did not rrside with there. and behaved iii the must
msoiscr, by wiird• and act 1111 l a, as greatly
alarmed Horn, and they omit into. a ,friend's house in Cas-
tle-street, for tridectimi ; that his eivuwcd Intention was to
, to titer iniase, sad take possession of all Mx Citifies tiro-
rill,. nit even to wait mild he was buried.
Mr Alexander Kelly, jeweller, of Pall-Mali, areompa-
'ponied efir yoni.g Ladies lie staled that tticy were of the
most respectable family ; their youngest brother was ap-
prentice IO kiln, and ghat they were in danger if the Pri-
soner was not hound to keep die peace towards them.
Thr charge being sworn to, the Primate, was ordered to
find good !mil.
Mr. Cook, printer's-at:Mai, Brook street, Holborn, the
master, gas. his.. a most excellent character, and
he and M. Smart, the High Constable, became Lail fur
ami, on which he was discharged.

UN toN•HALL.
CAUTION TO LAMPLIGHTERS.

Err,!trick Halewood, • lamplighter, ens charged by the
Cootrauttii, l'or lighting the Kennington Road, with neglect.
jug to 110 his stork.
Mr George Morris, • Contractor, stated, that the Pri-
soner was engaged by the Contractois, at :Is. pee week, to
drag and light seven score lamps daily. Complaints had
hero made, that ihr I•ntps were badly lighted, sod swum.
times not ot all ; mid on Monday night hr took a wail; up
the Kl.lllllllti.lll (toad. and found only tine.thir.l of the
'snips ti mimed; he went in search of the Prisuuer, soil
I 1 hie &neat in • pnlilic-house.
The Prisoner was tuesmitted far fourteen days to bard
•shour.

FIRE AN!) I)EATH BY FRIGHT,

AT PORTSMOUTH.

About half-ptst two o'clock on Wednesday
moriting, a fire broke out in the house ill Captain
brigg-. of his Nl,tj, ty's ship Queen Churbrie. at
Pott.inotith. it we; occasioned by the nurse of
Mrs. Briggs. whin had lately lain-in, havnig GJleu
asleep on the sow, .uit which she had been accus-
tomed to sleep, in the same room with Mrs. B. and
placed her candle in such a potation as to set
fire to the sofa, which coiritiounicated to the bed,
which was needy consumed; fortutiattly, however,
Mrs. Briggs awoke, and 'discovered herself sur-
rounded lit flames, and the infant's clothes nearly
consumed, though happily the child was untouched.
Alarm wise immediately given, cod Captain Brigg.„
who slept lit an aditantog room, carried her dowse
Stairs, had hsr and the child conveyed in a iw•
also chair to the Port Admiral's (Sir George Camp-
hell's) house, where blue is doing sell, karmic re-
ceived nu other injury than that of her arms being
scorched. The muse Will severely timid. By the
exertions of the Royal Marines cud the 21st regi-
ment, the flames were subdued in the room in which
they first broke out, by five o'clock.
A Mr. I).irley, who formerly kept the Moe Post
Lot, in Portsmouth, front %%Ito li he retired some
yestra since; was ou a mitt, fin the lielielit ,if his
health, and wn; lOdgitig at a Ii use ;Ili...ming Capt.
From a choir in which he been
placed till it chaise should at to convey him
away, and ditti front excessive fright.

The SopAia i,loop of war, Captain Sir WILLIAM
WIlii4:111N, is ordered to r II p.tiereq. without I elosy to

St. ljelci,s, with iliviitelies for Sir I iuDSON Lowe
At' the tiesiiiiatitai of this sessel was fix•ii for J.

ncnic:,,
It it 04111 the dispatcher inmt be of great
importance to reader any deviation necessar).
The flaterArd Mirror of the 26th instant, says,
" The adinis.iuns into the House of Recovery fur
the week oldishh• the 44th inAtant. have not been

equal to that of former weeks, in consequent:rot* our
immobility to receive them, and the epidemic does
not appear to abate in the smallest degree.—Appli-
cations for admission continue to be nearly the some
us they have been fur weeks past. Four of the ser-
vants have been ill, and many serious and heavy
eases of fever have occurred during the course of
the week. Sevens' patients were adroitly' under
peculiarly distremning circumnstaisces. mind 111 SO weak
and Isingtimil a state-, as scarce to midusat a hope of re-
covery. Three of tier fatal cases were of that de-
scription. 'rive died of fever of the most malignant
character, mid um, a child, who hail been in a de.
chiming state of health, after fever, for some weeks."
We understand that the Buenos Ayres Govern.
meat have contracted for the building of four large
frigates, on the plan of those constructed in the
1; muted States for the defence of harhours. These
frigates mire to he of the largest dimensions, wills
steammengioes on hoard, and furnaces fur Cie pur-
pose el. preparing red hut shot. Each frigate is to
carry 34 vim', 0r36-poundira each, and the) are to
In' %Annulled in time River Plate, where. on account

a the currents, sliiiet of war ituvigste the -treat'
ibith diffi••ulty. The,w ftigates are intended to
counteract am force lite Spaniards may rend aginost
that country front Cad's. They :toe to he tisallti.
. by forreguers, 'net 'misty Haturalistd by the Gwent-
went I f Buenos Ayres. It is supposed they will
he ready long before the arrival of flour and ttrovt..
'sion•, which it is 111.1111 arc to he brought from North
Atuetica to victual the Cadiz expedttions