The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-01-26 00:00:00

DEPLORABLE CASE.

•On Saturday night, an laquitiition was taken at the sign
of the Apple-tree, White Hart-yard, St. Mury-lc•Strattd,
before Howl Law's, Esq. ou the corpse of John Connor.
Oa the Court being opened, a Quitman, who raid he
lives in the Strand, staled to the Coroner, that io comic
queues of a report that the deceased was malty slid and
turned oat of a notorious brothel, kept b% Mrs. Hates, 33,
White Hart-yard, be made personal inquiry respecting him ;
he fun:::1 that he had lodged at the house of a milk•mast,
named Crevy, in Wildmlreet, be hail been formerly in re-
spectable circumstances, but his wife having died, leaving
him with a large family of children, he was reduced; three
of his daughters unfortunately became prostitutes, two of
them are now under sentence of death in Newgate, sad the
other is harboured in the house of Mrs. Batts, where the
poor man died ; he was 52 years of age.
The Coroner told the Jury, that, under these circum-
stances, it was a came which required their particular atten-
tion. Their first duty was to take a view of tie body, and
observe if these were any external marks of violence there-
upon. The Jury viewed the body, which was laid ow a Vible
in soother room in the house, it was vile reducid and rata-
tinted, but there west' nu octet nal marks of violence upon it.
Having returned to the Jury-room, the following evideuce
was adduced :
Mr. John Denham, No. 11, Bartluilumew.close, parasol
and umbrella-maker, deposed, that at seven o'clock an Fri-
day sight, he was going lop Drury-lane, and saw the deceased
fall upon the pavement at the end of Clare-court ; lie assist-
ed him in getting up ;he was very weak. and apparently
deprived of utterance. A mob collected, amongst whom was
a young woman, who said the deceased's daughter lodged at
Mrs. Ratew's boom, Nu. 35, White Hart-yard ; hr was ac-
cordingly carried them but Mrs. Bates refused to take him
in. At the suggestion of witness, Doctor Stanton, of the
Straad, was seat fur, wbu came as moo as possible, but the
deceased expired before his arrival.
Elisabeth Scofield, servant to Mrs. Bates, was examined.
She said he wee know. there, sad that his daughter lodged
iu the home. She did not know whether he had taken any
food since Tuesday, except one basin of gruel.
The deceased's daueiter, who lodged in Mrs. flates'a
homer, said Mrs. Hates refused him being take° into her
roam. She admitted being a prostitute, only &littera years
old; her sister, who it only tinirlren, is also upon the town.
The deceased did ant encourage them, but on the coulrary,
he often mid they broke his heart.
The COROIIIIa addressed ibis girl in very affikiing terms,
and the Jury returned their verilicto—Died by the visitation
.f God.

There was a good supply of corn at Alresford
market on Thursday, and salts were heavy, but, iu
general, prices may he considered nominal. At
Devizes, same day, prices were lower : 73l wicks of
Wheat sold at I. Is. 5.1. average.
On Thursday morniseg, about six o'clock, a lire
was discovered at 11Ir. J. S. Hou.ts'a, ut Tanislslay
Farm, [lint►, which was found to proceed from a
rick of barley, and, notwithstanding every eseition
was used, the rick was entirely commuted : fortu-
nately it was at some distance from the rick-yard,
and the Nantes did not reach those. Fiona every
inquiry that has been made as to the cause of the
fire, there is no doubt but it was the act of some
diabolical incetwhaly : person wa• seen near the
spot a very little time before the lire broke out, and
soon afterwards was tern running very fast wider a
hedge, at another part of the farm► ; lie was called
to, but would slot answer the person who saw him
there, and who, at that tune, knew nothing of the
tire.

Vii#-11a-y

POLICE.

BO -STREET.
'ARY CHARGE.

On Saturday a gentlensan who stated his name to be
Milner, who engaged in mercantile business, attended sot
the Oder, to make • complaint against Perry, one of the
runductors of the patrole, snd who hiss filled that °nice
highly respectably to himself, in all the transactions he has
been engaged in. The nature of the charge was, that Perry
had turned him out of the Royal Exchange, as being one of
the notorious Wheelers, of which there were four men, bro.
then, who were all notorious thieves, and they had a sister
who was equally so, and who cohabited with another 'hit f.
Mr. Milner was represented as being one of the Whirlers

who bad lately returned from transportation, and, as suet., au
insnmper man to Ins on the Royal Exchanze ; it was ad.
milled that Mr. Milner very much resembled the Wheelers,
by those who knew them.
Perry having by chance heard that Mr. Milner intended to
attend at the Office to exhibit a complaint against hint,
made a point of being present to meet it, and Mr. Milner
having stated that Perry had turned him out of the Royal
Exchange, charging him with being one of the 110111auus
Wheelers that had lately returned from trasispoitis.
lion, and as such he could nut remain on the Stock
Exchange. On his calling on Perry, to say who had
pointed him oat as such a character, he said it was Mr.
Leybouru, a gentleman well known in the City. On his ap.
plying to Mr. Leybourn, he denied that he bad pointed
him out as one of the Wheelers. lie had applied In the
Lord Mayor, in consequence of the gross insult whidi he
had experienced ; but his Lordship did not afford him any
relief. Perry, in answer, and in justification of his fort,
stated, that lie had been in attendance some days at the
Bank, to protect the public, who went to receive their divi-
dends, from being rubbed of them, in the room Of Mr.
Townsend the officer, in consequence of his absence from
London, being in attendance upon the Prince Regent,
-• w.yks•.... when a gentletuan came to him who he knew
well by eight but .h 4 not know his name,
and informed him Mr. Leybourn had told him that one of
the Wheelers was on the Royal Exchange, and requested
Perry to go and turn him out. Perry at first declined inter-
fering, assigning ass reason that he was merely employed by
the Bank to attend there, and he had no power in the City,
■nd declined having any thing to do with it ; however, this
Gentleman insisted that 1w should, and charged hint w.th
■ dereliction of his duty, and threatened to complain aziiisst
him if he did nut, which induced him at length to comply.,
and when be got to the Royal Exchange, Mr. Milner resem-
bled the Wheelers so much, that he mistook him Cur tune of
them, which was the cause of his acting as he had dune.
Mr. HICKS, the Magistrate before whom the complaint
was brought, lamented what had happened to Mr. Milner,
but under the circumstances he did not see bow Perry could
have acted otherwise. He bad no doubt but Petry would
endeavour to find font the gentleman who had given him
the information, and would account for the mistake.

ROBBERIES AT COVENT4ARDEN THEATRE.
During the lust three or four ks there have been a
otimber of robberies committed st C.ovent.Gardeu Theatre,

and is the avenues leading to the doors at the lime of their
opening, particularly in the Pit passage, where a number of
peanuts have hail their clothes anal pocket* cut, both males
and females, to get at their contents. The Managers, and
Donaldson the principal constable at the Theatre, have been
exerting tiresomely/es to detect the rubbers, but in vain, till
Saturday evening. ' Some extra constables were en Kai to
assist Donaldson, who knew the pennons of suspicift
rseten, but they could not discover any, either in Ile avenues,
or in any part of the Theatre. Donaldson, however, planned
&scheme to detect them, and to guard against him and his
assistants being known, he procured a snit of very splendid
livery, and dressed Thomas Rice, one of the Monde, Wool:-
tug to she Office in it, and he gut among the thickest of the
crowd in the Pit avenue ; lie went on with the crowd when
the doors opened, and just as he got opposite to Slur Pay
Unice, he found a great pressure fiiim behind him, and im-
mediately felt something at his breeches pocket ; lie pot his
band to his pocket, mid found a hand in it, 11111C11 he
seised, and held it till he grasped the person by the collar,
vibe proved to br • buy, and said his mime was Nonlife:
Stanton, who was not known before. Rice gave this boy
into the custody of frownseuil, soother constable, and ap-
prehended Joseph Harnett, another buy, who hail been seen
in company with Shantou, in the Pit passage, from whose
manner and conduct he was deemed a suspicious character.

Thomas Armsden, another constable, stated, that he ob-
served the Prisoner among the crowd at the Pit door, press-
ing against the people aif its a hurry in g.l in. He picked
up a pair of seissars and it wiser pencil ease uear the spot
br re the Prisoner was. _

Mr. David Furford, of Ivy.latie, Mitten, a weaver, who
was among the crowd going into the Theatre, attended the
examination on Saturday, and slated, that he picked up a
purse sod three keys close to the Prisoner, whirls he is sup.
posed to have relibed some person of.
The Prisoners were committed for further examination.