The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-24 00:00:00

PfILICE.

Now sTRItfT.

the Saturday another long investiellion of the repeatedly
disputed (titration beiwiro Messy". Makepeare and Harker.
the silversmith,., Lincoln's lon who have !west robbed
of plate, watches, awl jewellery to the amount of
touch, d pounds, by Ih. t. shoposau, Wake. who had pawn-
ed the whole, and the gisestion at i..ue before Mr.
who attended expressly to hea► il, wa■ a. 14. • number of
the pledges IMOh had (.ern 'wiled at the parrubiokirs
h..ase• by virtue of • search warrant, 'in consequence of
du-
ptiratrs given up by plaice, on hi" detection by his maters,
Messes. Shampooer and Ila ker. w Inch is said wrre du-
plicities of property pledced, which he had refilled theme of.
The pawnbrokers resisted Mi., as an insufficient ill. wily
of the art irks of plate hew:: theirs, and called upon Messrs.
flak• peace and Illai her, :d prove and identify the different
article", which they dot Cu the greater part, entire by mark",
the sianisfecture, l'or the r. so +Outer, Mr. flasher Imo.
*lured a terillen Ito of different article', which he said
were.. fulfill is, their stink. and hail nut been told. 1;41
Iwirug asked what he insole hi" li.l f.om, i.e replied from his
book ; mid OM his being asked who made the broilk, he rr.
plied mow, *lon was the thief, and, in Net, who hail been
intrusted 108 take stark. This is not legal 1 r Seven-
teen of the pledges were in this situation, four to Mr. Page,
Id 11-isprorposid-sireel, thirteen me Mrs. Arso"troirc„ of 114141-
1ti0.6-tordellit and Iwo in ;Ira. Hill, of Turionilbsireet,
were ri turned to thews by Messrs. Maker. are and limiter,
Hwy I...taming the duplicates to redeem them at • future
iil.e if necessity y.

In the hill of -inilielment which Nemec 111.ikepeace and
Marker hare found *zaniest Blake, they hare only charged
him wilts stealing a gold irate's, deeming that sufficient tor
Ike ends of public justice, and they claim. d the plate whirls
they bad identified, and which lord been pledged by Blake;
lower. r iI still r mains in the custody of Salmon the officer.
The rniberna at the Admiralty of official books and
papers, moves to be ti a much greater extent 'lsnot Ibey were
at first su ',posed lu be.
On Saturday Perry and Donaldson. dm constables em.
ployed on Ilse business, arrived ►t the office with a cart
laden with hooks and paste's. whirls they Iced seised as 'riot
of those ►Urlen from the Admiralty. The revers of the
books had hero torn off, to pr. rent discovery. The (min.
lily is so great that the constable. liner liven obliged to hire
room mar the office, tO he in readiness to produce at the
next examination.

The subject of the deceased female pauper, disputed
tween the parishes of St. Luke, Old street, soul Si. (lenient
Danes, came on before M.. 17...rint, the 'Magistrate, on Se-
im-day, in consequence of Mr. She ph. rd, the overseer of St.
Clement Melees, bssing viol in his investigate 0000 before NI,.
Conant, that lie had ailed inwards the pauper as directed
by Mr. Fsrrosi. This the worthy ILegistrate (Mr. F) &-
nivel, and 11.14), that his desire and iineetinne to Mr. Sher_
herd were, ihßi Site woman was noi to he sent hark
heckney•roarls in the parish of St. Luke, Oh.i.atrecl, except
the Medical Geniternen belonging to She pariah of pi. fie.
well MUSICS would certify that there would be no danger, or
that the woman .011111 lint anal..in tins• injury in 1..-ing Si ni
back in the Itackstry.coach to the parish of St. Luke, (lid.
street.

Mr. Collyrr the veldt! clerk of S. Clement Dines', at-
tended to &find Mr. Shepherd's conduct, aad contended
that the pariah 4.ffic,rs of Xt. Luke\ 1,,,,s acted
extremely wrong us igitsally, in csis•iuse pauper to he re-
moved who was 112111(.44.4151y ill and Isclidems.
Mr. Ken pion, the lesbersia.ber, of fleet-street, the Isis-
mane friend s.f the deceaxed paper, was present during the
invest Iv ion.
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