The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-10-29 00:00:00

ViMER 910, 1818.

prevailed there; lint, Unlit is..inisies made on the
spot, it seemed that thet.e h ta*Lrea i.4,lsan apprarrd
at race.griiiiiids!O near tSie tortropsilt..
log I t•Cti'M It the Souis ty. It Imes
lire«, lip the vigilassi-e sod ,session of tit,. 1, ttttt
rob, (moo,. the kits r part or the teat 1816,
the Society having si.cestaissed that there s. as .1
printer at Rochester 11%' whom these 111 'tele,
ere sold, the same Agents were dispatched thither,
in further pursttancessf the plans of the Snetety.—
They, with loth. diCieulty, succeeded in pus els:-
ing ten pikes ; and, oil the 391 Of November follow-
ing, a bill of indictment was presented and fotisist
agaSsist the printer be the Grand Jury fur die toy
of Rochester; sin whirls he was. appielletulesi. and
hound in reeogisiZasscesi to appear at the ensuing
Quarter Sessitnis fur that city, which were to Ite unlit
iu the month of Janoary its the folludritig
Before that tiine, however, an earliest suliedaiton
was sods to the Society to strop Issallort prourtaiss
ings, by a highly-respectable individual, who offer.,
ed to pay the expenses hitherto mein red to the pro.
secution, and to give his personal undertaking, in
conjunction with that of the Defendant, that he
should not, either directly or indirectly, be con-
cerned in the publishistg of sorb or any other ob-
scene libels in future. The Comnuttee having de-
liberated on tie above proposal, and being ems-
linseed that, under so respectable se gnarantre,
there was a moral certainty that the condinosis
would be strictly fulfilled; Mill it being also expe-
dient to putseree their fluids fur ulterior operstitons
against other offenders of the slow description, Ole
terms were acceded to, and shortly afterwards folly
carried into effect.

In the month of September following, the Agents
were sent to Doncaster races for the saint purposes,
where they soon ascertained that similar lists were
sold by one of the principal printers of the town,
whose foreman actually promised to protide tt
(vitally by the following evening ; but lie after-
wards refused to execute the order, in consequence
(as the Agents suspected) of his ham); in the
mean time received information of the Society's
proceedings. On the following day they attended
the race-ground, where they detected iii the net of
selling lists, two hawkers, who were apprehended
and carried before a magistrate, by whom they
were examined, and retnanded for another
rxanu-
nation. On the fallowing day the Agents, as
by the constable and under gaoler, attempted to
apprehend a man, who sold those articles whose_
sale to other hawkers, but being in league with the
numerous atteiidants of the lowest description oil
the race-ground, lie was after a desperate struggle
rescued by the mob. The Agents, however, Nile•
ceeded in securing the. man's leathern satchel,
which war filled with lists, on which were ruins of
the must infamous description. On the evelistig of
the same day, they succeeded in apprehending an-
other man and his wife, of whom they had
pur-
chased a list the preceding day ; but, on ricatnio•
tug him, though lie had a hundred lists the day
before, yet 111 this time he had nothing but reli-
giouS books, which lie carried about with hiin a• a
mere pretext ; one of the ,tint' was, however,
found in a basket of rakes carried by hi. wife. On
the following day, the four 'anomie's were exa-
mined at the mansion-house by John IVright, Esq.
the Mayor, assisted by another magistrate, and a
solicitor of the town, who promised to release
them if they would give up the mime of the printer
by whom they were supplied. Pertinaciously con-
tinuing, however, to infect ignorance on this point,
they were remanded for another hearing. lii the
mean time, on comparing the type of one of the
lists with that of a tract fouild in the hat of one of
the prisoners, and executed by a printer at York,
they matched so exactly as to excite a suspicion
that they both had issued from the same press; in
consequence of which the magistrates exprerseil a
wish that the Agents would immediately proceed to
York, and ascertain if there were any ground for
the surmise. The Agent. accordingly proceeded
to York, where they applied at the shop in
question; and having, in the first inatance, put-
chased some songs of r common description,
they asked for some lists, when they were informed
by the printer, that, in consequesee of the great
risk in executing such orders, lie, as wail as every
other printer iu York, had diseontinued the prac-
tice; but that they wroth, be sure of getting them
of a printer at Dull, especially if Hl9 name was
mentioned ; giving them his card at the same time
to lake with thetn as an introduction. On the
Monday following, the Agents
accordingly proceed-
ed to Doll, where, after some difficulty, they
loomd out the printing-office referred to ; and, an
application to the proprietor, having previously
purchased same common 'mugs, • they asked for
some lists; when he said it was out of his power to
let them have ally, adding, that his appretitice had,
about a fortnight before, given information to the
mayor of his being in the habit of pi imiog them ;
that, its consequence of the information, his pre-
mises were searched ; but that, to avoid dettetion,
he bad previously destroyed tO or 30 quires, which
before he bud been constantly in the habit of keep-
ing by him ; and that hue would not print diem again
for a guinea a quire, as lie could not du it without
the kiiowledge of his apprentice. who would im-
mediately inform against hiiii. Ulf the following
day, one of the Agents retunied to Doocuster ; said,
haviog applied to the solicitor latd.ire utrutiourd to
know what. had 'nen done with the pritooe.s, lie
was infirined thin they had b-en Irotight tit) oil
the Mdtithay hticeredilig his departorc, at which
lime, still declaring their ignorance of the printer,
they were remanded ulna his return. soli) i-
tor luither informed loin, that the mayor asst other
magistrate' were or UllllllOll. that the sire of oti of
the parties could not be law fully detained in cus-
tody. it not bring in proof that the had d versed
any of Ow lists; and, as they !mistmf necessity re-
lease leer, tt was illplarehrutit;i that, miles* her hus.
twirl were released fit the same times she would
taimeihately retaliate by giving iii!'orisiation to the
priaters, whit+. in case of her liti.liond'a discharge.
she be prevented fr:au rfte..c. It was et the