The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-25 00:00:00

POLAR ICE.

The weather this season in the vicinity of Greenland, has
been much finer than has been known fur a length of taw
past, although the ice lay much the same as last year; and
from various amour's of late years it appears, little ad-
vaster has boot made beyond the latitude attained by Capt.
Phipps. We are totally unacquainted with the extent of
Greenland beyond the firth degree of north latitude. Nearly
one mulling Set hundred thousand square miles are in all
probability occupied by viot fields or mouittaius of ice`
consequently s few detached fragments, separated from such
euonouus alifll49l, will cause but little distention in this
immense Went, and contribute In a very small degree to
augmeqt the.practiesoility of the Expeditioe ever attaining
he Mot% Pule. As to it. effects us the weather in the sum-
..meamo6lBlo and 1817, let us esquire whether the wet and cold
experienced in those seasons were general on our &he; if
isql, this circuinstaisee will be quite sunicient to refute any
argument that may be advanced in aripleset of Coy other
hese, otherwise than variations which naturally arise from
• ellse• various pheettioena and modifications of the menu-
where. It was contended by some that the sun had deserted
hie ancient course, and that he revolved at a remoter din.
lance from the earth than formerly. Others maintained that
the solar spots were lire cause of this diminution of heat;
bit we may justly conclude that it proceeded from Neither
of the above causes, as is pretty evideutty proved in the
iu-
stance of the pre3eat season its this country, not to ray any
thing respecting the comparative degrees of heat during
various seasons in other latitudes. Its Russia, dur-
ing the above summers, the weather was warm and
dry; and it is needless to inquire whether there was a
,less degree of heat its the East and If'ref ladies, than in
other years. The causes of the above cold Anil wet sea-
sons tire, therefore, Rut to be attributed to the distance of
the sun from the earth; neither front the influence of the
eider spirts as some imagined ; hut with a much greater
r degree of protothility to the earth itself. Neither do I
eetwur is opinion with s celebrated writer' that our cold
and backward spires have been caused by the melt-
ing of the snow and ice in the Polar Regions—but
' that the removal of islands or mountains of floating ice,
by tempestuous winds, from the vicinity of the Ninth Pole,
into mere southern latitudes, or into the Atlantic Ores,,,
'nicht tartly Archaism it, fur the ram generally came front
the woo, and we had dryer and warmer weather wh
the wind shifted to any other quarter; but when it blew
from the Atlantic it mantle proved 'mkt Red missy, the
velum's arising from the ice, in conjimetion with the cold
produced in the at mosphes e, below warted by the winds to
this couutry sod to the eastern parts of the Contineut, in all
' probability produced the wet sad cold which weir: espet 1-
I mated dewing the above years,
JAMES UTTING.
SbtltA 404 Alp. 21), 1818..

01% Wed mesa y 14,4, •n officer of the 05111 rrgi-
rho eat n►►drrtook u► rule one h►nsr from Plymouth
to Ezetrr Nod back in lerelve hours. Ile otteried at
Pour o►cluck in the mos etit.g, cud reachrtl Exeter eit
• quortyr mos& but oil his ►eiurn to Ashburton
•bout our n'clu&A, finding his tturble to c.►ny
him thrm►Kh w tune, he rely I►rupeily and his-
'murk declined proceeding further& The odds
acre 60 guiocas to 13.

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GUILDHALL.

PICK POCK US
John Nul.•e was charged yesterday with picking a gentle-
man's pocket of his pocket-book.
Thomas Thompson, an officer, stated, that about four
o'clock on Saturday he saw the Prisoner and two other mete
on litil!torithill, and knowinzilicm to be reputed thieves, ht
watched theia ; Hwy .at down on the steps of St Andrew's
Church, and they tried several gentlemen's pocket.; at last
they followed two gentlemen, and our of them, not in
custody, took something tint of one their pocket., who
handed it to the Prisoner, and he immediately put it bitottio
small-cluthes, lb.• three trussed to the other aide of use
street, CIS which the with.... the Prinancr by she •
• ■nd asked lion wt.., lie Ind got !Hr aoswrved,
• Nothing"—however the witioo• f mad the pocket-loin*
Which he now In winced, 0111114 person. He then Called to the
gentlemen, and asked them if they had tort any thing ? At
first they said no, and afterwards one of them said he had, •
and identified the pocket book as his property. The gentle-
men accompanied him and the Prisoner to th► Comptcr,
when the one who had been robbed said, he could not ap-
pear this day before the Magistrate', as be was obliged to
leAve town fur France that evening on moat important
seta, and had jinn bean to obtain hie passpOrt, and shout.'
sot ri turn before a fortnight. The °thee gentleman said he
was obliged to leave town, but undertook that he would at-
tend at the office on Tuesday, ■nd identify the proptisy of
bid f. lend

Mr. Alderman H ItI!OATF, file Sitting Magistrate, oh-
*erred, that he thought there was mifficient evidence before •
him to remand the Prisoner fur further examination.-114
was accordingly remanded.
RIOTS ON HOIMORN-HILL.
It appears that for several Sunday mornings past theye
have been regolar pitched battles fietween some coal-heaters
and a number of Irish Woomera, to the great annoyance of
the lohnliitaiite. An application was made no Sitio.,lay to •
the Loan MAYOR, for a sufficient force of City Officer+ tit '
attend on Smalley morning, to prevent the ',milli' flout
anoseiag themselves. His Lordship immediately dire cicit
that Mr. IVomiter, the Marshal, attended by 10 of he: lA.
tett', should be at the scene of battle at au early hour 011
Sunday alarming. They were accordingly there at roar
o'clock, sod found that the combatants luau assembled; hue
the monscut the coal-heavers heard that the officers wery
come, they dispersed ' • their antagonists, howeVar, wore mit
an easily dismayed, and Mr. Wont ner could not get them to
disperse until lee had three of the moat active of them.takese
into custody, viz John Alter., Jeremiah Murphy, and Mir
mos Murphy, who were brought tip for examination.
In their defcuce, they said they did nut know any thing
about the matter of the intended light, but only came limo-
entity to look on, when they were taken into custody.
The worthy Alderman directed that they shonlil se-
curity to keep the peace—and not being provided with it,
they were committed.
John /kill, was committed for an assault, with the in-
tention of committing an abominable offence on Richard At.,
kilos, a boy about 15 years of age, on. Blackfriars.hridre,
yesterday, at twelve o'clock. The evidence was of that *attire
as to prevent us from riving it. The 'charge wee coot- •
pletely proved. The villain, after the boy had found out
his intention, and given the alarm, nearly wrung off one of
his ears, and would have made his escape, if it hail not hero
for the firm conduct of a boy only 16 years of are, who
the transaction, and fought with the wretch till oilier -
came to his assistance. This youth it the suit of M
sting, stationer and bookseller, North Audteretreet.
. • DOW•iTREET
INHUMAN CASE.
Yesterday yr. William Ford Hearer, who keeps a
lug and day school in the village of keltham, was '
to the office under a most inilraindinnry charge.
It appeared that William Henry Pritchard, a boy
live and six yea.. of age,' tbruow-of John Adams Prii

who keeps tic Thatched H'ouse public use in
Hammersmith, was at ',howl Stith the Prisoner as a hoarder
On yesterday se'aniighl Mr. C.,Visiister, a f,icnd I.f M
Pritclusrd's, called upon hies, and inspired of he hail o
chill at school with the Prisoners! OWSHoWe informed
Mr. Minister said that the thild Vas treated in sorb
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shocking and inhuman msoneri-that if he did not I.
sway from the school he could net live.. Open 'fins alarming
Information M►. and Mrs. Pritchard, the child'sfather
mother, lost no time in making inquiries to asce►tain
troth of the shocking and alarming Mfornistimb wh
proved to be troy, front commanicathisis villa the child,
well as from the evident appearanee of different parts of
body, and also from coniniisairatio.4 from other sources -
Information was laid before Mr. Hums, • resident Mars-
trate at Hammersmith, and the Primmer wins taker iul'e
custody ; end on arrount of the extraordinary eiresonstnit
attending the case, it was rent lo•Ihe above office to 11-
vestigated.

It appeared frorti the informatics of the father,
the child had been kept so much is want of fond,
he woo literally half atarred. He said the child
au much reduced, end au intintidated, that be could
occasionally pt front bits an aecoust of the cruel and

man treatnieik be had expeei He-said his .asterin the habit of tying his arms beisiailstat, mod hanging
up to a hook, so that his feet did het jam touch the grumid,
awl that he bad beer kept in that slate *early all night.
child had also been tied up by our kg, with a cord
round his seek, in which elate ha was made tll stood,
kg against a wall for a tonsldeiable time. Three
meats were inflicted, as it was said, to break the e _
the practice of dirtying and wetlinghimaelf mid Ins bed.
Marty circumstances of excessive and disgusliug, err
committed by the Prisoner, came nut in the course
examination, but it is to be hoped, for the bonus,- of
assure, they were much exaggerated.
Mr. Perfect, a surgeon of Hammersmith, stated,
had stripped the child naked, and described the docks
Maie in which be found him. His ueck had mill an swill
appearance of swelling, the effect or laving bed
round it.
Toe Prisoner denied the principal part of the charges.
A boy, 13 years of age, one of his scholare, bras
corroborate and ernifii in hie defeere. He lioreyrr salmi
that he had seen rues( Pritchard flogged vriy severely f..
dirtying and wetting himself ; be said the rod was not 'midi
of birch, but of four small branches of a lilac tree tred.tuge;
ther.
The Prisoner was ordered to find ball to answer
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offence at the ensuiug Middlesex Sessions.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.
Yesterday Mr. William Hirskin, a lace-uverelialit, sof
reareciability, in Irwirounger.storet, St. Lobo, was c
by Mr. Joseph Edwards, jeweller, iu Irimmeggeomrow,
alt. mpting to break into his premises as lianday Might,
an intent to commit felony. 0,0 ei ..1•00$ •
Mr. Edwards stated, that his Asp bad been attempted
boo broken into several times during the !tat week; toy
occasion he found the mark• 'of ea trod crvi.bar,
which the shutters were alto-sorted to be forced
On Sunday night, •bout a mower past eleven so'
)stn elderly woman aleerutt w the back boom, heard
perl4llo attempting to force open the padlock out the
She alarmed him, and he imtuediately went to
the window with a laadid yislul, sod thresteged to shoo;
the Prisoner, al he saw getting over the wall from his
yard omit its own, in COUIrtgIICIACC of being threatened; Ise
kept popping up his head till the old lad) called from ••
winduw to the watchman, who came ynd took hint into en,
Andy.
Pere a plan of the bosses was handed to the Magistrai
1, !I appeared that they *re separated in front by another boos
but that the yards meet to the rear, and Oat Vie Pi
,boases.clutet is close to the spot where he wa• taken.
The Prisoner, iu des fence, said, be hail been ',pandit
eiresiing at the Prince of Wales, in Danner-stsect ; ski
pattedhunt hie friends at a quarter past eleven "'chick,
went to the yard on his going home, hat that he had no,
tem upon Mr Lila as ilia premises; he a the a pito
11ruoaels, which would have been dirtied it he bad gut
111 e wall.
The Magistrite (Mr Dickenson) said, if hr was
Maw, he would acquit bins without any hi sitailou ; beg d.
Magistrate, whew Mr. babranis had *worst s I
be amid not dismiss it, but he would postpone

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