The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-01-18 00:00:00

POLICE.

SOW-STREET.
On Friday evening; Jaws Chennd6 lately. a
driver of one of the .11ichwond coaches, belonging
to Mr. Newman, the proprietor of several of the
stage* was brought before AAILON GaAHAM, Eeq.
under the 46th of George 111, cap. 136, being an
Act for limiting the number of outside passengers,
charged wider the 7th Clause, for not duly ac-
counting so his employer for the money received
upon his account, and defrauding him of I.s. tid.—
The circumstances attending the charge are as
follow :

On Christmas Eve a female servant of a gentle-
man who resides in the neighbourhood of Grosve-
nor-street, took her master's son, a boy about %even
years of age, to the White Horse Cellar, Picea-
-4411y_, to go by the coach which the Prisoner drove,
to Ham Common, where the child was at nurse ;
the inside of the coach being too full to carry the
boy, the servant agreed with the Prisoner to take
him outside under his care, for which she gave
him a shilling for himself, and he charged her
two shillings and sixpence for the fare.—lnstead
of the Prisoner delivering the child safe into
the cure of the Nerve, fur which he had been
paid, he put the child from off his coach, on Ham
Common, and left him unprotected, very distant
from the house of the Nurse, and had not a man
met the child afterwards, by mere accident, and
learnt from him where he waitteiff to go, the child,
in all probability, mnst have wandered about the
Common all night, cte probably have perished with
the cold. This cruel conduct coming to the know-
ledge of Mr. Newman, his master, he very laudable
made an inquiry into the business, when he learned
that there were two outside passengers besides the
boy, and he had only accounted to him for two.
To substantiate the charge before the Magistrate,
it was necessary to lave had all three of the pas-
sengers present, to prove that they paid him. The
Magistrate was therefore very reluctantly obliged
to discharge him.
Mr. GRAHAM told the Coachman not to go away
from the office with the idea that lie had triumphed
over his master.

At the Surrey SesNiona, on Saturday, no trial of
rneral iatvrtat.took place.

•
The hymen:oss gale a .1 tithe:my and Friday brakes pep-
dude* of eocaideralde dan.np' et sea, and on the mote il
emrids yoottimilady at Deal aosrMarartc, where the sea broke
-adds awls vette:Nee as to threaten their deetraction.
A dlestrtaddg spectacle appeared at day-light on Friday
surielag—detthe ships in the Downs bad warted from their
cables, vied nem '_:g about, some with the loss of their
topmminia4 bowsprits, and seam standing out of the Ile% nr,
without either anchor or elides. On Lad, believer. tie
dausar 'owes very great the foundations of many hoes. •
have. been undermined by the sea, numerous stur. bosses,
with their cortcnta, hare been swept away.
Dorio g the storm a breach of sum; extent was made bv tl
sea, hctn ten Hamlin's Castle and die battery No. 1. whims
toned a tomcat of ‘. otter into the lower streets of Deal, sad
filled with it alt the cellars. Property to a enevaierable
autuni.t has hem destroyed ; anti ia a row of itoJtett ere: r
Alfred-squue, the torrent ells so deep, that it was found
oncessi..y hi send down boats, to take the inhabitants gnus
the a imniaa of their houses. Several assays In the Pearhstre t
have be cis totally destroyed, writhe timber washed out to see.
It was reported, at the der.uture of the post, that • brig had -
focuttercil in the paws, and all un board perished. It
aftnrwarels uscritairard, that a brig hod drifted on board a
ship, which occasioned the Ammer to founder,' and the latter
to drive to sea, with only her main-mast standing.
At Margate, all the bathing rooms have bees washed
away, except Wood's The Parade is washed down, as is a
'great part of the Pier, std a number of vemcla were destroyed
in the harbour. The elaniage at tile place is estimated at
upwards of '25,00d. The tide, which mu to a remarkable
height, made • breach through the Pier-dead, and carried
away the parapet wall from the Pier to die Marine Parses.
Three mere hunt ships received much damage ; one of them
was driven where.
'At Dover, the Ilesuroy, victualling hoy, task at the Phu
head; them other vessels are also sunk, sod many others
Pre tylugrtet la the Roads, without anchors: or cables. The
blenthopier Head, the harbour, and different parts of the
lune; our Sir beech, have received mach damage.
At Yarmouth, the gale was aceoasrusied with a way
heavy fall of sn9,4* but ao part:eider damage was done MI
the town, dimes the jetty and pars were wadi isijanalwes
The Calliope, which was beidding at Wintertera-Waha
metirely dashed to pieces, and two other Alpe bewailing
fh -
Leith vine drives on shore, and the rest pat oat to sea.
A ketch ran a-shorn nen- loValmer Castle, bat the erste
had been prey ismeloaken out by a Deal boat.
At CO A eS, ten of the tra belnaging to Admiral
Murray's squadron, arrived eliii mg the rale, outer convoy of
a gun-brig ; all of *Welt, alit. the •-uu-brig, were driven
ashore. The gus-brig and three of the traesports gut off in
safety, but the rest remained aromas' at the departure ‘.
Friday's punt.

Admiral Corrnm Rill proCeed in the Lively, off
Lisbon, there to wait for further order's Lola tns .
Adun ratty.
iLloire, Jerreaso.s, from I.iveroonl, for
Hayti, was lost on the 4th inst. near Wicklow.
the America, PADDOCF., from Savannah, cr‘e
Liverpool, was ;trended on the Salters, on the iath
i natant.
The Success, of Poole, from London, for Porti.
mouth, is put into Dover, ls ith damage.
The Goodrich, Lowe, from Newfoundland, to

Poole, is lost on the coast of Ireland.
The A,iacrurt and Argue, (trausports), front
Cork, are on shore near Cork.
The lierkriek, TAT Loa ; the Jenny aid PAcebe,
oftiuuderland and a large ruck rigged hoy,

are on 'bete near Margate.
The Courier, from Newfoundland, for
Dartmouth, -is lost off Scilly. .
The Betsey, M Low r.ce, from Landon to Ports.
mouth, has foundered in the Dawns.

On Saturday evening, as General MURRAY was
entering London from the country, a large trunk
was cut fr?itx his carriage, in OxfortLetreat.
Holborn.
On Friday, at the Guildhall, York, Romero*
RHODES. Esq. was unanimously elected Lotd
Mayor of that city, for the year ensuing. At the
same time, Mr. JOHN WATSOR was elected &Cola.
mon Councilman for Micklcgate Ward, in tt e
MOM Of Mr. JAMES SHEPHERD, resigned; and Mr.
ROSEHTICtuAmpt,Ay was elected a Common Cone.
Gilman fE.E the same Ward, in the room of Mr,
THOMAS MARSHALL. removed ;—and the followi. g
Gentleintin were chosen Chamberlains for the ye. r
ensuing, viz. Mr. Jolla WOLSTENHOLDI v.. Mr.Wi
LIAM EASINOWOULD, Mr. Jones &Liase, t
Skelton, Mr. JOHN Dirson, Mr. JAMES LASCELLErs..
Of Hull, and Mr. WILLIAM Serra, of Fulford.
A letter from Dublin, ilattid January t 3, says—
" Some persons near Tullamore, in the Kings
County, whose houses had been plundered, and
whose horses had been stolen, traced the robbers to
the neighbourhood of Maryborough, where the
horses, greatly exhausted, were left by those who
had ridden them, and who dispersed. On alarm
being given, the thieves were pursued in various
directions, and one fellow, laden with booty, wit,
taken near Ballinalcill, another at the entrance of
Kilkenny, and two more ut Cloubullock, near Re-
thangan. The first of these four, on being. carried
to the gaol of Maryborough, gave information that
the gang co:misted of thirty, dispersed in veriens
parts of the King and Queen's Counties, and the
Counties of Kildare and Kilkenny, who regularly
communicated with their Captain, with whom they
had agreed on tinineroubb other robberies, thus for-
tunately prevented. All the parties are well known,
and the yeomen, &c. are now in zealous rear& of

them." -
The Quarter Ses.ions, held in the Town Hall.
Chichester. began on Tuesday ; there was a full
bench, at which Jolts S.taaisAwi, kagi. presided.
The Sheriff. Gen. Woltz, Col. &anomie, Joust
POUCHY, WM. DRERETON, J. H. Goatit, RD.
MURICES, EDMUND Wool's, and Jon* Quart-
TOCK (Mayor). Esqrs. also attended. There were
many Pritionerr, but chiefly for trifling offences.
The two Knights, for being found in the act of .
taking rabbit* from the grounds of Sir H. FEA.•
THEW•TONTIIAVGII. Bait. and stril4ing the rine..
keeper:, were brought up, acid one of them is dea-
tined fur the navy. The othr proiing a deserter
from the Sussex 'Militia, will be given up to the
regiment.