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

RECIIRRECTION MEN.

A proolixitios crowd of persona asartehlest its front of this
Office poirrilay, in COMlStpleller of it Wool( generally limier-
'too., Mat an iiivesitritstio was to einitentrlation connected
with the ruhliely of the lonsailtrontioll ailloininw Dr. Harper's
Chapel, is. the 1.406. km-road, on Sunday last. Vison the
doors bring thrown open, a vast number if persons rusk)

in, and fur a time reward the accustomed business of the
Alloll.llllPo'clork Ile. Harper, proprietor of, and preacher
at the ('hapel in 11w Kent visit, arrived, ■nd stated to the
sitting Nlagistrste. that he hid been in hired to attend him,
for the purpose of phoning of a nuisance which had long
existed, and which not only affected must materially the
health and comfort of the ueighlvistrhood where it existed,
Ant liccd been productive sit 11/1.1111111 injury in his own ►epn-
tatiun. He was in the habit of uniciiiting as Minister at the
Chapel to the Kent.roarl, emitigimus to which was a burial-
g►nned belonging to a Mr. Crawfunl. The slate of the
amend was such as to make every beholder shudder with
horror, and led to nocturual depredations of a descrip-
tion ton dreadful and diagiodittg to admit of a detail.
He would., however, give some idea of the slate of the place,
its order that floe Magistrate ',night judge how far his com-
plaint wag well.grontsslyd. The spot load lierortseil as a his-
rial-gronncl for thirty-three years, and was so completely
filled with MAW., that scarcely a Vaeiiil place remained, moil
neatly of the coffins were imperfectly covered with earth ;
still she proprietor COlllllllllll. to receive die dead, and part
Of the ehipel, which Was formerly NU area, had been floored
over and converted into vault•. Some time ago, the wall by
which the amino' in surround►d burst, and the criffium and
their contents continually fell through into the Oldie 'tree!,
heaps of kiloton honei were .01 be seen in every part of the
enclosure, and in the moment of perforating the funeral
service, be had been shocked by arcing a man employed in
hacking mail hewing fistulas home In dieter, and strewing
them about for want of a place In which they might be busied.
The facility with which bodies so slightly interred mold be
removed was well known, and invited the depredations which
were nightly contained by a certain description of lwrsosw.
11 had been erroneously *opposed that the property of the
g►oustd was connected with the ownership of the chapel, bat
such was out the fart. The improper reception of bodies,
wlsrn there was not sufficient room for their interment, had
been loudly and justly complained of by the inhabitants of
the neighbourhood, tool he had upon a former occasion pre-
the ground as a nuisance, to a Bench of Magistrates,
at Horsemonger-hose, who, however, had taken no steps to
suppress the practice. He hail been given to understand
that the business would be brought before the Magistrates
to a proper form, and be was desirous of giving his testi-
mony to prove the existence of the evil.

Heron, the night constable of St. George, stated, that he
accompanied a party of persons to search the burial ground,
near Dr. Harper's Chapel, on Tuesday 'endues •ond from in-
formation he then obtained he suspected that the sexton's as.
sistant knew somethingabout the removal of the dead bodies.
He affected not to believe that the corpse had been stolen
from the first coffin, which was selected for opening, sail
when convince., by oleserving the empty coffin, he said be
felt certain that that was the only iestance, and the body in
the coffin immediately under was perfectly safe. The se-
cond. third, and fonnh collins were found empty, sad in •
.fifth the teeth of the corpse were drawn out, and the bead
much dialyser& While in the act of digging up the cof-
Ilus,the under sexton attempted to conceal amongst the dirt
a tiresereet and 'noble, which had been left in one of the
mot" collies. He had been informed by some persona who
resided in houses I. the skirts of the burial ground, that
Wards and large pieces of timber bad bees placed against
windows which overlooked the ground, in order to prevent
the inhabilasts witnessing the trews which passed there
during the night. On Sunday evening, about six o'clock,
the assistant sexton was observed to drag a body from a
grave, and wheel it away in a barrow.
The Magistrate expressed a feeling of regret that the per-
sons who bad been seen removing the bodies were not in
custody. Had they been brought before him, the line of
conduct to be adopted was clearly pointed out by the law.
Respecting the nuisance consplaioed of by Dr. Harper, he
would, without lots of time, conduit his brother Magis-
trate. He participated in the feelings of Dr. Harper most
fully, Ind would make eves), exertion to promote the views
of that Gentlentao, fur the suppression of the.getentoce.
fleetest burlywealers were present daring the proceedings,
but were unknown to the major part of the presorts I. at.
Sestintice.
When the business, so far as respected the robbery of the
bnd les, sod the complaint of the nuisance, was finished,
Holmes, a constable, preferred a complaint scaliest H'tificoos
tali:, a constable of St. George's, for neglect of ditty as •
peace officer, dutiog the riot and confusion which took
!dace in conwipresice of the procession of the coffins to this
Office ins Tuesday evening. Holmes found it necessery to
assemble all the constables of the parish in p t a venous
disturbance I the Defendant was required to 'toile his exer-
tions to theist of the other officers for the preservatiou of the
peace; he dioreprlikti the requisttioa, and refused to render
asiistauce.
The Magistrate (T. ranee, Esq.) in terms of great
severity, reprimanded the De(eudsnt for the insprapriely of
Its conduct, and directed that be should be indicted at the
Qttseicr Sessioull.

suitt.Doßoucn-rramet.
A Dandy thief. iiatlled Ernie, was chimed with robbing
the shop of Mr. Habits, of Milburn, of fur to the value of
5(. The Prisoner went in with another person In have his
hat &eared, and while the one engaged the stteation of the
shopotau, the Pritoorr made uff with the property.—He was
folly committed for

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SUSPICION OF ELON Y.rx•sQuAse.
Yriterday Joan Rap& and Williams fag, private* in the
Id regiment of Fout Guards, were brought so the office 1.113
suspicion of stealing a 'large bundle of wet linen, the pro-
perty Of some Persian at present unknown.
It appeared that the P.isoners offered the linen for sale at
a shop in Tuthill-street, when the shopkeeper suspecting it
had been stolen, stopped diem, and scut fur an officer, who
souk them into custody.
The account Baylis gave was, that be was coming from
Knightsbridge late on Wednesday night, and found a basket
containing the linen us, the road i that be had taken away
the linen and left she basket, and having met Kay in West-
minster he asked him to accompany bin to sell it, and be
would give him some beer.—Both were remanded.

Lieutenant Wean rim • mile in Hyde Park.
yesterday. on twelve seconds under five iniuutes.
which is equal to any undertaking of the kind ever
yet petiotined. It was fur 400 guineas.

On Monday night the ►hrubbery of G. NOIIIIA
Esq. a Magistrate for Kent, residing at Bromley,
*As entered by some villains, who rooted up a
number of young trees, cot down other., and
comn►mitted damage to a great amount. fledges
and fences were broken to piece', and ■ bridge
which costa hundred poUttds huilding a short time
ago, was pulled to pieces. There were five men
concerned in the depredation ; one of them lias
been taken.

Sarah Anderami, +Ado*, find Sarah her laugh• I
ter. are sow in custody, at hull, on suspicion of
sending the infant by the Thorne packet, to Mr.
MAPLES. The daughter, it appears, was deliver-
ed of a child three days previons in the time of
sending one to Mr. MAPLss, which the old woman
took from her WI the secuud day, under a pretence
of sending it out to nurse ; there is therefore reason
to beliekt that the old woman delivered the infant
to the 1114111 on hosed the packet.
A young child, a few weeks old, swaddled in
mean clothing, was found exposed in the Kirkgate,
Perth, on the evening of Thursday, the Sth nest.
A nurse was procured for it by the Kirk Session
with•some difficulty ; hut such was the wayward
fate of this little innocent. that its new protectress
had srareley entered upon her charge when ►he was
taken suddenly ill.
.and died unseen. The &aid
was foill.il next mouth% lying on the wren of its
little.. nurse, and was soon after 'provided aide
*MOWN The unnatural mother has not been dis-
covered.