The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-11-20 00:00:00

THE StACCLESFIEID SUNDAY SCHOOL.

The management of a very extensive Sunday
School at Macclesfield, founded by Mr. Whitaker, IJ
M 1796, came under the consideration of this Court,
by a Petitiou frotn several !persons interested iu the
school, praying for an inquiry• into the Manage-
ment and application of the funds belonging to the
foundation. Mr. Datisceir, who made the appli-
cation, stated in support of it, that certain apart-
ments over the school-room were used by persons
dissenting from the Established Church, for the
porpoise of delovevinv exhortations, or performing
the rites of their own form of worship. Three rites
were, he arid, essesitiAlly dtferent Irons the form of
worship prercribrit by the Established Church, for
the Liturgy was omitted in the service performed
by these Geotlenten. This was contended for the
Petitioner as an infraction of the original rules of
the founder, and a misapplication of the funds of
the establishinem, as it war alleged that these Dos-.
meriting Preachers received money for their services,
which ought to have beim applied to the school.
A large mass of documents ass put before the
Court and read, setting forth the nature and p►o-
Kres. of the Institsition. soil the uses to which the
apartments over the school-room had been applied.
On the other sole, a great number of affidavits weir
read, for the purpose of sheiving OW the usigiseil
introit 44444 of the founder was merely for " Itetehiag" •
the children, without soy prohibitory stipulation to

the manner contended fur he the Petition.gr. it
wee illy) shard (hitt the perraila who officiates' iii a
spiritiell simmer received 110 support 61100 the
Nudes of the estehilislistivot, but -derived eiehmetence
from r volossiory food, supplied li the 10.01011/ who
attended their aeresee, and over which, from the

circuutotaiicr of tt• Iwiiig a rrre HMI once►tMin
oroanating et wilt from indivalusiN, it wag impuso..
ble for the Court to claim a coffin&

Mr. MARTS /1 and several other Counsel were to
have followed Mr. Dolour/. hut the Clout !Wit.
potted the Anther hearing mud Mouday oval.

POLICE.

STOLEN CHILD.

inow.natef.

A report bawls( bees demisted yesterday afternoon that
Mr. florstees child hod bees dioeuvered, sad that the rob,
h►r was is custody, attracted a crowd Is Bow.strret, and
also at the tate. Os Mr. Cosiest taking his scot, him.
ever, it tented out to be another stoles child who had
been mooned, Warp Alm Gregory Aeries bees brought
to the trek*, eharvd with malls( Mr. Hertgway's child,
only Itt months old, frost Kest-atrost Is the Borough.

Williams Mabel t, the street.kreper belonging to the parish
of St. Clement Vases, stated, that yesterday anemone
about two o'clock. he observed • crowd a people assesabkell
in the Stewed, 114.1? St. Chinning Montle, and going among
them he fined that the Prises'r had been stopped, in coo.
sequesee of her 'weltering the deseriptioa give. in a hand.
blll of her haring stoles a child; sad as his rending the
printed bill he also suspected her sad took bar into custody,
when she confessed to him that she had dropped the child in
Chancery-lane. Oa marching her be found • bead, which
she acknowledged to beloag to a necklace that was os the
Odd. He sums after learned that the child has) been found
in Chancer)-lane.
. .

Mrs. nosh, the wife of Mr. Plash, • plumber, ip Chan.
ee►y.lsoe, nand, that yesterday afternoon, between one sod
two o'clort, several person were collected about her house,
which she discovered to be In eionsequeace of a child having
been left in her passage, the street don being left open.:-.
The child was nearly perished wit► eokl ; she wrapped it in
a Woke. nod laid it before the Are, and in a short time it
began to recover, and she took it into her lap, and shortly
after a woman mitered her none, claiming the child as hers;
however, she was determined not to part With it till she
described it properly, which she accordingly did, and the
infest on hearing her voice, raised itself, and know its
mother, wbn had berm distracted since Tench', afternoon
for the loss °Chien. l'he feeling. of the mother at meeting
the lost infant, it is impoesible to describe. fne stated that
she keeps a lodging•bsose in Kenl•serset, in the Borough.
On Monday night the Kilmer lodged he her house. (hi
Tuesday afternoon sire sent her sun, twelve yaws of age. out '
with t►e child, and the Mosier bet hint in the street and
Obtained the child from ►im by n fakir representation. and
sht. her husband, and a friend, were outfit, four o'clock the '
fobvisi morning in Me•rrh of the child; they went out
spur at nine. end had been is pursuit of net and the child
.aver since. They bad frequeistly hexed df her in St. Giles's,
Westminster, Sm. The child bad been robbed of its s►irt,
hoot', petticoat, feather front the bat. and 'brittle',
the frock only left remitting, and the feet, ankles, and
legs, presaged a most shocking spectacle to behold. from
Dears and a great neither of blisters, oat of which was
as large as a small egg, the heels swelled, and hinters he.
tints mast of kis sues. From what cone there were pro.
dewed turbid on be •seertsised, hat it was supposed to have
bass nese/own by excessive cold, and afterwards being pre-
sented tp the lee.
The Ptinaer has contmitted for farther etaniusti**.
OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT.
'Tester* Peens' George Belpre, am seen belontiog to
the Palace Cover, was brought before B. Stasis, Esq.
charged with committing a most violent assault epos Mr.
George White, proprietor of s Int-op name, 14, Drury.
lane.

It appeared that the Prisoner had tweeted a man by vir-
tue of an execution against ►im from the Court of Reqemos
for debt, and that he had taken him to Mr. Whites image.
Wilfredo( taking him to gaol, ea he ought to do. Mr. White,
on being told the man was not taken by virtue of a writ,
refused to take him is, at the save time recommending ail
sinkable settlement between the parties, which, however,
•not being effected, he advised the Prisoner to take the imam to
gaol. The refusal exasperated the other so meek that ha
lost all temper; he seised a quart pot, with which he struck
Mr. White violently and cut his bead; he condacied himself
with the greatest violence towards him and his wife, and
continued so to do until a constable was sent for, who re.
stored order. Ordered a Sod bail.

tIIIOII HIM

An intleseribable setae of erectile* sad riot mewled on
Tuesday night iss the Surosigh, erecasioased by the &Hewing
eiministaviers:—Betweem friar art Ave o'clock nos Sands,
mantling • chaise-cart, driven by owe ntaa, and followed on
fool by See others, was °brewed by Wilkinsoo, the night
constable of St. Saviour's, and one of his assistants, pro-
ceeding along St. Thomas's street, iloothwark. Suspecting
that something wren was vine on, they attempted to
stop the horse, law the 'torpor of searching the cart, bnt
were preventat from succeeding in their intention by the
men on fool, who jostled against them, sad by forcible
incline prevented 'their near approach to the vehicle. The
party at last stopped in frost of St.Theseriaa's Hospital, anal
three sacks, containing something of • bulky appearance,
were conveyed from the cart into the Hospital, by the driver
and the fire antis who had followed ost foot, and insasediately .
afterwards the whole party drove off in • hasty manner.— •
The iiight.cunstable, on the following day, stated to several
respectable isiliabitants of ft. Thomas's what had occurred;
and a repott circulated throitgli the -Boroogh that entreaties
depredations had been committed is some adjacent learial-
gruand. Upon MN* particular inqiiiry it was ascertained
that the body of a Nies -11.----, *lnch was loitered WI the
7th inst. haul been torn front the grave: the friends and relit.
tires of the deceased, together *ids the friends of severed,
other promo, who bad bees potently tattered in the itiseiall
ground contiguous to Harper's Chapel, WI the Losmilmreande.
proceeded to that plate on Tsiesday evening, attended by.
several constables, anal without ceremony tosanseseed sprat
tog the grates of those perinea Setts Amid brew reerully lb.
ferried, and in the space of a few millilitre font edicts errs
dug asp, and found to contain nothing hat stories and dint:
The horror and indignation felt by the sairviviug relatives
and friends of the persons Hots dragged front their place of
rest cannot be described. A vast trowel bf pawl* find rts:
Rembled to witness the proceedings, and eteeratilelle 110 rat
from the lips of curly ibduridual, and ranee *ere dedithiseed
upon the heads of those who had assfeeliagly far
iuterested peepers, she mitasloos of ebe dead. whole
weigh heuthood because alarmed ; heisbands implored lite eon.
stables to north sod ascertain whether their wives (tad heat
removed; wires fur their husbands, amt parents lur theta
ehildrea, made the same application, and • ins. of Oster
she,. ensued which badges all description. It waistline de.
fertilised that an application should be made to the Magi, -
trates upon the subject; a cart was procured, the empty cor-
dite were plated rpm it, in such a manner as le bemuse ens.
*pi to the public view, lighted torches were held Weenie
of the party, arid followed by upwards of a shrossen4 persons,
the friends of the disinterred, procreated Is make their
complaint to the Magistrates at Union Hall. There being
no person in costody, nor any particular person pnioteel out
as the olressiler, the Magistrate resold only join his regret no
that of the complaisant* without being able to redress the
grievaisce. It was Gushy arranged that inquiries should he
made. anal that the subject shoalal be wain homed ender
eatosideration at an early day. The coasts were deposited is
the office.