The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-07-26 00:00:00

HERTFORD ASSIZES.

The Home Circuit commenced here on Wednes.
rimy, before the Hon. Mr. Justice Palk, on the
Civil side, and the lion. 1114ron G mot', ou the
Crown side. The calendar conosined only twenty-
two cases, none of which were of every heinous
nature.

The following Prisoner• were tried and con►ict.
ed :—Willittat Bar•a►d, for stealing a horse at
Iliichin. the properly of John Evened ; Joseph
Charles, for stealing • mare ■t Hatfield, the pro-
'may of William Pratchrtt ; and Richard Styles,
for stealing a lamb at Hatfield, the property of the
Marquis of Salisbury.

JULY 23.

The following Priaonera, charged with capital
felonieu, pleaded guilty. viz. Williams Pius, for •
burglary in the dwelling-house of Dimling HoMaga-
worth, at Cottered, in this county ; and Rickard
Boyford and ✓uha Dickenson. for a like offence,
at Braughin.

They-were humanely urged by the Learned
Judge to retract their plea", but they obstinately
persisted in declaring their guilt, upon which sen-
tence of death was immediately paused upon them,
in a very impresri►e manner, and no hopes of mercy
were held wit, the wretched convicts being men of
desperate and abandoned habits.

%Sanaa l.ilbe►t, alias Downey. James Gilbert,
alias Downey. i)Ju►y Tucker, /.lira Tucker, and
Nary Crawfurd, the two latter Prisoners being
children under eleven yeurs of see, were convicted
of a fraud in obtaining grumpy from the overseers of
the poor of the perish of %%rattan!, by means of
forged walking passes, ■nd other instruments ne-
cessary to carry the fraud into execution. Tire
adults were sentenced to one year's imprisonment
rich in the !louse of Correction, and tine juvenile
olitnitlers to three months in the Wile piece of con-
!hutment.

Al the Nortlitmilwrlasid Sessions Richard Bar-
ion. the elder, who was itd►cted ■t the last gaol
delivery for Northumberland for perjury. under
the Insolvent Debtors' Act, and who was sequined
from a flaw in the indictment, was again brought
up to be examined under the Insolvent Act, when,
after a long examination, mid bearing Counsel on
bath sides. the Magistrates certified that he hod
acted with the meat gross and scandalous fraud end
iuju►tice to his creditors, and ordered I beck to
prison.

Another Female Reform Society has been este.
bloshed at Stockport : • Deputation of the Black.
burn Ladies waited on the Stockport heroine., 81. d
the origin of the institution was inimediately laid :
A band of these Amazons paraded Manchester a
few days ago, in order to kindle a petticoat fire at
the latter place. Volney's Revolutions of Empires
is printing in peony iiiteobers. A Mancheste► Paper
advertises a Catalogue of Books, occupying one
coition', nearly the whole of which are aiming at
the overthrow of Christianity ; they are all pub..
fished osi the cheap number plan. Carlile continues
to puff off and sell the Age of Reason—Watson
Refuted—Principles of Nature—The Gods of the
Jews—and Christianity Unveiled, itc. Scc. These
are all comparatively harmless, when the public
mind is tranquil; but such principles let loose with
the passions, create earthquakes in the moral world.