The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-10-03 00:00:00

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tit od let e the bag who bad got no ce.li.-
10, 4ediaplaiwialg infenned the Magistrate id
pail ' fir r'e'al to the Ores was- es a witness for
lbw Oen , stroller/ from the roustry, In companybith
a ?tousle Misled, who resides is Loudon • he saw owe of Meal
pay lbs.' kitilarie admission; Mee done-Weeper or mootert4alter
seaming SAM there VAS plenty of robin, which proved to he
visite the *merle, for there sods not 4 mingle seat tittle sot,
add there woe 50 or 60 persona tinder similar eirediismienees.
The two gewelmoms 440111 dlterensdry, and the lady is their
company, confirmed ship statement. ' '
The .fitheriet vote considerimg this finite a differeetrt Mae to
the gmetleman who had peeirlemed tiekeei, bus twat/ sat *lb*
lain his places, Dent for Mr: Peak', ihe Treavuore to the
1 lorwere, whd money to the 'Ohre in w short limo after, and,
on 141.1111 Z informed of the eircummornerr of the eases he
staled Mut the toiefiesion and °wee ilmba whirl, occurred no
Ileorlit and ticket sights, be regretted the disappointment
Ind iwenneridence she gentlemewind ladies had been put to
who bad purchased tickets, and could not obtain their
places, or usher seats; but it was sot in his power to afford
them soy relief. As to the laity and two gentlemen who
had paid 15s. wader the peedliar eireamslances, he regreteril
that the case had bren carried to the extremity it had, and
should very readily return the 150. to the parties, whirl, he
very politely did, tad they left the office perfectly satisfied.

George Beck pan charges' with being at large io this
essltry, baying beats apprehended a few nights since at g
public-house iu Duke's, toint, Bose-street, before the canoe.
tioa of his fella of transportation, by Morris and Serlrillllll4,
belonging to the (Mice. He was identified by J J. Soni
11111 haviag been convided, in company with Griffiths, a well-
head/a character, at the Obi Bsilry Sessions in the month or
October Isl 4, fur a berglary In the house of Mr. Wiliam,
Boriey.strest, Strand, fur which lie was cast fur death, bat
was reprieved, and his sentence eninrnioed to 14 years trans.
portatioe to Botany Bay, and sailed fur that place ue Wald
the ship Fanny.
The Prisseer's defence was, that while the Fanny use
lying at anchor, five miles off Rio Janeiro, one f•Vf11111f, Ise
was leaning against the head-railing, which broke, and be
fell overboard unobserved by any person on hoard, and that
be swam for a considerable distance with an iron no one leg,
until be reached the opposite shore, lint did not know the
name of the place, and be bad returned to England in •
brig, whose name he did lot recollect, and leaded at
Liverpool.

Ife.wes committed for trial, and the parties bound over to
prosecute.

guserirmatuatz.
DISTRESSING CASE.
C. James, • poor soldor, oniuntufteill L. Haworth, the
book.kreprr at Nu.s Wharf, at the Paddington Canal, uudrr
eh. futhowiag eirentsistasserae:—

Groplainint stated, that he having pasted the Beard at
Chelsea, and received his pension cod all arrears of pay,
which automated to 501. he nude preparotioes for •gning to
his native commie, (Ireland), cad accordingly bad taken his
passage in the boat for Liverpool. lie peeked his sluthee,
sesoirey, and all he possessed its the world in b* knapsack,
which he delivered at Defendant's warehouse till the beat
was ready so start, when then, to his utter grief; 4 could
not be Nowt, and Defendant denied any knowledge what-
ever of it. The poor fellow sold beWse quite itranyleas, and
tenable to get a night's lodging; had he sulletent to take biro
home he would he comical.

The hook-keeper still Weird hoeing taken charge .f die
knapsack ; be dial nut know whether Complainant hod ..y
such thing at all; the practice was to pay Iwo-Peirce for
bookiug, sod this he averred had not hers dew.
The Megistrate thought be had a right to make Wod the
loss. He believed the poor fellow's statement to.be terse,
sod reeostmesded some compensation to be made tokint.
trXrna-BALL.
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.
Yesterday • fellow of must ferocious appearance, whose
dress was very wretched, and said his moue has William
"sok, vas brought up from Camberwell, ra the eastolly of
liewis, the mutable, who apprehended him on 1111001111
charges of highway rubbery sad housebreaking in the
comely of Surrey.
The following eltarges were preferred 'frailest Wm and
there are several others which will be brought furwasion •
future day, when the parties can attend.
Mrs. Mary Jose', of Ruitemary.branch-lene, Peckham, was
crossing Peaksm fields, about eleven o'clock or Thursday
morning last, and was stopped by the Prisoner, who de.
reseeded the money she had its her possession; she said that
she had ass any; hr snatched her umbrella, and forced 'her
ring from her Stager, and threatened to murder bcr if she
made the least resistance. He ran off and escaped.
Mrs. Tyler, of Peckham, was walking by Lnthbury
House, over a field near Peckham, on Saturday evening
last, and the Prisms., met bee and demanded her stoney;
she pre him ten shillings and sixpence which was alt atm
had in her pocket, and then he demanded the ring from hrs.
Anger, she took it off her finger with great reluctance. anal
he seised her head and bruised it very bad by his violence,
and basilic got possession of the ring, be ran off.
A third charge wasters& aprons the Prisoner for rabbit.;
Mrs. Powell, of Camberwell. She was crossing Peckham
fields on the night of Wortley lostoted was overtaken by
she Prisoner, who with the most dreadful impreestiwal
threatened to stab bee if the did not immediately give him
the property she had in her possession. Mrs. Powell's
hss-
hand being not far distant, she declimed to give him ha r
money, be seised her umbrella, and hearing footsteps be 4..
tamped;

Theionrih chew was for rubbing Mrs. Doves,' hid, r►.
siding in the neighbourhood of Kennington. The Prisosser
met Mrs. Downes spun Kennington Conisosso on Tuesday
night, about eight o'clock. sod demanded her nsonei; the
inforsaed hint that she had not gut say money with het,
when be forced his band into her pocket, and took ONS tw..
shillings. which was all she had with her, and a knife. Mrs.
Dowses was positive that tbe Prisoner was the person who
robbed her.

The officer who apprehended the Prisoner said, that font
robberies were committed by a person answering the Pri.
loner's appearance in ono night, and he took him into
Upon searching him be fumed Mrs. Jones*. gold
ring, and • duplicate of an umlierlla belonging to one
of the other prosecutors; also a number of religious trains,
which he went shunt *ethos, as he stated. It was • singular
circumstance, and the Magistrate remarked it, that upon the
front Id each had was a print or a man suffering upon the
gallows. The Prisoner was remanded.

EXTRAORDINARY GHOST.---""
A respetablr lady, stained Jervis, residsog at Iteurner.
Poplar, applied to Mr. BENNITT, the Siitisot MP
gislrate, um Thoesday last, fur advice bow to act titular the
fulkiwing ludicrous circuusstioaci a :

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She stated that site was the owner of a house situate next
door to the White Hart, Hlgh_►treet, Poplar, and resided
there for a tenth of time, but is fact she and a former
tenant had literally been drives out by the frightful mai.e
and ghastly appearances of some evil spirits, which re.
peateilly haunted the place after Ilia hours of twelve and
ore in the morning, by which not only the inmates of
the boos, were alarmed, but the whole neighbourhood.
Fur the last three years those unantural visitation* have
nightly been wilees•ed by hundreds elf permits, who gather
is Ilse adjoining streets, auxionaly antrum at the Imam% till
the restless spirit knees forth wit► hie usual direful .numbs,
dial tubing the whole nelghbourbood,wlien the sleepy ishabi-
tants rise from their sininlices with hair resembling
" Quills upon the fretful porcupine." The parish *Seers,
agreeably to render all assistance, on several uccusioes re-
paired to the house, in order to ascertain from whet source
the noire proceeded, or how the rod:spirits gained admission
hot° the honor, who. to the miter aatowisbusent of all, no
discovery meld be mode, slave ►eing lie appearance of se-
Cele or any Ohio, chore whereby may humus form mold Paler,
the visitors% doors, Slid every other place being fastened ;
werwitheiasdisg, al the hour 44 its apparatus., it is made
booms by • gesend sheet, u There it is. the Ghost! the
Ghost !" mid in asi itestatit the street is el ea; it then com-
mences its leek btlisockirg viwtbtly 44.004 the wall, as if
doom with a Isere wallet, and on proceeding to the spot
where Ow iiseelkisg is beard, it removes entirely to a dif-
Ifetid silo., mod wh. • followed, as if aggravated, it renews
is • meet terrific usaitaer, sad ca• be beard at • great di*.
ta•eo. - ♦ ?West wise lathes heard, like seas perm• nos-