The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-02-08 00:00:00

ESCAPP FROM PRISON.

fin Monday ne'nnight, as the coach from Null wan coming
into Lincoln about ten o'clock at night. two large cages
upon the roof, to a birdnfancier who wan pan.
muter, euufaininq n 1 1800 C2II9IfIPS, happemil to get a
violent knock in panning through Potter-gate arch upon the
New Itoad, and many of the little prisoner.. finding them.
seinen at liberty from the injury one of the ciigts had inn.
tainted, flew away as the conch proceeded through the Mall.
The owner hail the cage taken into the kitchen of the inu at
which the coach stopped, to repair; and there many 1111111 C
of the caunrien escaped. One /winos, who offered liiin.elf
to minis, in catching them, ...weird three in hi. bosom, rind
boasted of bin theft after the coach had driven away with
the unfortunate loser.

At the late Quarter Sessions for the County of
Rutland, a stay proper example was afforded of
proceeitiogs to punish the infamous disregard of
public decency, the sale (H 4 it is celled) of a wife.
A short tune ago, we noticed a disgia.ctful transfer
of this sort which had occurred in the parish of
Clipshaw ; at the Sessions at Oak nn indict-
ment for the misdemeanor was preferred, at the
instance of the Niiiiister of the pari-li, against Mr.
Hicsisitp HACK, the purchaser, and the Grand Jury
found it a true hill. The trial was traversed by the
Defendant till next Sessions. Though, in this in-
stance, the purchaser is selected fur prosecution,
it is only, we believe, because he is the more opu-
lent nnui, and therefore the titter person to make
an example of ; the seller, with every other person'
concerned in the disgraceful proceeding, is equally
liable to prosecut for the breach of public de-
corom.—(Stainford 31eitury.)

An Inque►t was held at Ancaster on Tuesday
last, on the body of 31sror Woons, aged about
nineteen, the daughter of • respectable farmer of
tint place. tier death was attended by the follow-
ing singular circumstance. takes, very ill
on Thursday the slat ult. the apothecary of the
village was called in, who told her he suspected
that she had taken poi.on ; this she denied, though
urged to the confession by ilie consideration that her
life could not othentise he saved—fur there was
reason to think that she had not intended to destroy
herself. However, a very short time before her
death, which was on Sunday, she acknowledged
her pregnancy, and that she had taken some arsenic
out of a packet able!) her father kept for mixing
with his seed corn. This the father asserted on the
livotrt could not he, as he had tio arsenic in the
house, having always thrown away whatever quan-
tity w:is not used. Notwithstanding the dying
declaration of this unfortunate girl there is reason
to fear, from the inconsistent and contradictory evi-
dence given on the foriurat by a married relative,
who it was roved had bought some arsenic the dry
berme ills! deceased was taken ill, • • •
• • • • • • The verdict of the Jury,
after six hours patient investigation, was "
Frio
de se." The body was accordingly ignominiously
committed to the &oath i►t the public highway.

lINIAN Y.
(Coutiaued from our Paper of Saturday.;

" A more easily discoverable proof enisas of a
similar fake alarm at sea, when the Church of
England, gtadmilly more and more impressing the
pious naiad with her attractions, had received
Penn's family into her bosom, mid one of
his sons returned boats, after u residenre Of some
years in America ; the same son who ultimately
iaahelited the largest isortinti of his papa[[, and in
the latter part of his life aus the purchaser of
this park and place. Mr. T. Prate tuueu-us
complimented by the Ass anti!), of the• tara•aince
with the usual address on the occasson I:as em-
barking for England, returned a written ;answer,
brief and 04111, hat in customary language, in
which his piitictital object appears to have beeti
to inspire them with a confidence in the good if:-
treutiotus of Governor Thomas, ancestor to the I:re-
gent Baronet of that mime, whose measures then
I seemed principally directed towards the enlistment
of soldiers fur tlw defence of his Majesty's Ame-
rican subjects. Consistently with this it was, tleat
when an enemy was judged to he in sight, probably
during his passage home (it being the year 1741,
or the second of a war between this country and
Spain. soon after the taking of Porto-Bello), M►.
Penn (flood himself nearly ,iii the exact situation,
iii which, fifty years before, his father's secretary is
said to have bea.ai placed, why (to use the words of
Franklin) a chose to stay upon deck, and was
quartered to his gun,' both the crew rod the liss.en-
ger., in this iostance, assembled on the deck, and
were preparing fur uctieu, %viten tl nearer view of
the ship, winch caused thus :Jam, discovered
their mistake.

" C41111(lt then help stippo...4,,z, ihat the slight
tiveluelimi which rivalry might Irive caused, from
the esteem in lieu this Legislator has been uni-
versally thoi:idi not such is drdnrtlon from it
as could he exemplified in the sober and sedate
breast of age, will not even itself have existence, or
its any mode or decree allow prejudice- to di ern the
eoura of that Tn.:oy t;tritishett, v,hich inspired
even false philosophy herself ilia, the traiisient love
of !windily to affirm, that it was the only Treaty
never ratified by oath, and yet the only our sehici►
never was broken.' A Treaty which fonder the
hramches of a cekhrtied tree, the portrait of which
has long been exhibited lOr sole iu our metropolis,
from the interest communicated to it by this event)
presented to the liberal eye of wisdom the amiable
groupe, where
' Barks of uncouth form wotshl stem the
Anti feattired people crossil the rest r'. side;
Acal naked youths and painted chiefs admire
Ow speeds, nor colour, and our sti ati,Te attire.'

" Ladies and Gentlemen, I must confess that
it is not totally without is design that I thus presume
to recall your attention to a picture with which you
have been ever pleased, whether set before you in
the simple.narrative of history, at with the height-
enings borrowed from arty of the arts of imitation.
1 trust my object may not seem unjustifiable; my
ambition is certainly to he honoured lay seeing in
you, au audience of the genuine lv virtuous, who itaie
caught the spirit which I am desclibing, and mean
(so greatly do I tinier myself) to second the pur-
poses of our Society, as a precisely simi-
lar exutnple of refined and liberal justice exhibited
to your posterity, to what those hive presented
themselves to your imagination, who met in the
manner, and at the place I have described. tor the
conclusion of this far-famed Treaty. Do I, or do
any of our Society, want a sufficient excuse I
prisolial claims to make this request ? I stu not dis-
posed, so far as respects myself, to doubt it ; but let
Inc avail myself of whatever plea Ufa different via-
tore, though even of mere ideal value, is in my
power, to extenuate the (I trust venial) presumption.
" Lathes and Ceti' leinest, those who aft artleaf us
this great example ti ere collected under the brunches
of a spreading tree, venerated and visited by snail
fir and near where it grew, nu the banks of the 1)e-
-!aware. " Behold the saute tree" (poititing to the
renitiant of it) which a stoma levelled with the
ground some years since, baffling the human care
at hand to mud it, through the pious cure of the
adjoit,ing hushatidinen ; but which saved from
the rapid current, or (at least awhile) from the
all-overwliel • ,„ stream of time, was sent far
away, with the like pious care, to rear its
diminished Goan, less loftily but in safety, where
you see it ; and where the recording brass which
shines upon it may augment any iatercst you feel
in it by the inoctiption it hears. Now as the ge-
nuine fsietids of truth and justice once met, to their
immortal litmunr, bereatli the unfaded umbrage
that over-canopied each speaking or listening figure
of their groups, so let them now, let them ever
rally runnel its leafless trunk, with never-ending
hope of new ocz'asions to benefit mankind.
That liero of fable. Achilles, is represented in
Homer, as smearing by his wooden sceptre, which
he then cast to the earth, that, as it had been di-
vested of life by its separation Irons the tree on
which it grew, so should all amity with Agametution
and all works beneficial to hint cease on his part.-
1 shall act very differently from that warrior; I shall
not swear; no, not even affirtn, though that seems
here a more appropriate style of protestation ; hut I
shall express nay tall coodidence, that this lifeless
trunk, by attracting you ull periodically around it,
will, on the contrary, as if watered by your
tending care, vegetate With so rapidly-creative a
vigour, as to produce yearly, 'notably, daily, nay
hourly, the beautiful and fragrant flowers of uni-
versal amity. followed by the nutritious fruits of
universal utility."
ribs f.rtiorts to be cooeluded shortly.)

The (;eneral Quarter Sessions fur the Welt Rid-
ing, at Doncaster, did nut conclude till Satur-
day afternoon sennight, having been continued
four days, the longest period we ever recollect to
have been holden ; and exhibits a proof of the in-
crease of crime, and the strong necessity of vigi-
lance and activity in the department of the police.
It was really shocking to see before the Court such
a number of juvenile delinquents, many of them
merely boys, and charged with the most serious
otiences. On the acquittal of some of the pri-
soners tried for straliiig from shop. (in consequence
of the goads not being identified). Mr. HARDY very
properly recommended to shopkeepers to have some
private marks tit their goods, instead of aflixiig
a paper t.cket, which is so easily removed, and con-
%gown thereby eluded.