The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-01-17 00:00:00

ROBBERIES AT DULIVICN.

On Thursilty morning a valuable sbeep, of the Memo*
breed, was stolen out of a field at Dulwich, belougstig
Jr. linked,. a gentleman of property. It was not slough-
&erect on the spot (as is usual), but was carried away alev.'
When the robbery was discover d, the marks of she f ,ohdepv
of two persons were traced from the field to the 1441•1 cs
a gesitkmau (Mr. Croft) in the neighbourhood, which as•
broke open and rubbed the same moriiinz. There was 11,e
trace of the wheels of a cart from Mr. Croft's stables to I'..e
bottom of the hill, where the marks of the foutdcpv is lb,
field also appeared. The sheep was supposed to hue. I
carried away in the cart with the property **oleo
Croft's stable. The cart was ti aced nearly to Petkii..to.

Mr. GLADSTONE. of Liverpool, has built and
endowed, at his sole expense and respooloiliility,
two climate+ ; our of them iv St. Andrea' ,
Renshaw-street, the other St. TlPoustia's, at Li lief-
laud, 'near that town. Mr. GLADSTONE otOlitawai
to start for Liverpool on the next general election.
The amuck Fili;Aire, Captain FOSSLY, oripbed
on Thursday tnornitig front Leith. During a kale
in the Wolds, last Sunday night, at twelve &clot k,
the picked up the master, mate, and too nn ,
clinging. to the ri4ging of she sloop Zephyr, Cdpi.
HARVEY. of Boston, Lincolnshire; she had bae
upset two hours previous, on the commencement of
the kale. A brig bad passed dose by them at o•t
an I before, and would resider no assistance. It
was from the information received from this Ina;
that the lifeshire pioceeiled to look for theist, gi.,l
providentially rescued them from a watery grave.

A fArmer. resisting at Chediston, Sufliak, lai. ly
lust a child, very suddenly, it having been t.annt
by the ther dead in the cradle, in whirls she hut
laid it a short time before, in apparent good tarsi I
She WHI so lunch affected by the loss, that her hos-
hand frost her on a visit to her soother, in boos that
a change of scene might restore her spirit.. A few
days after her departure the remaining chile, who
wils between live and six years tilt, wan •
,11
drowned iii a pond near the house. This af#l c io.•,
Nailed to the former, nearly broke the heart ..1 the
unfortunate mother. On Tuesday, the 30th ul•.
the farmer's house was discovered to be on fire :
every assistance was immediately given, sod it was
extinguished without doing much damage; lAA it
was 10011 discovered that it had been wilfully stt on
tire by the servant, who had been nurse-maid to the
two children. She confessed that she had set the
to some straw in the apple-chamber ; that her life
was a burden to her; and that she committed the
act in the hope that she might be hanged for it,
This has given rise to a suspicion that she destroyed
our, if lint both, of the children, hut no proof can
be brought of it. She is now in Beccles gaol.

On the :gide ult. a 111014 affectionate mother in
the town of Mardi, Cambridgeshire, 1111111VtItewly
gave a child, almost two years of age, an inn eh
twelve niches in length, with a hook at the cud 1 f
it, which had formerly fastened an extinguisher to
a casollestick. to play with. The child
it, and a burgeon of great respectability in Slit
place was ediately sent for. He adminisitord
a bri►k cathartic, and after a long and 'fixings% •pace
of twenty-four I rs. by the blessing of Provi-
dence. the desired effect took place, and the chum
sossited through the child, who is now perfectly
well.

A most desperate gang of robbers, supposed t.►
consist of the number of thirty in the whole, lase
Irately infested the neighbourhood of titintiogfora,
Hefts, and many depredatious have been commit-
ted. Fifteen special constables base been Amor..
on, and several of them are me guard every wth►.
A person, suppose., to have been one of the gam ,
was sects a few nights since carrying a sack, *lnc? .
In examination, wall found to contain two liu•hrls
or wheat, when one of the constables sunu•neNt►;
rattle, and the fellow threw down the sack and Tint'

away. A suspected character in that of, tgliiwut—
laud has not ►ince been seen, who Is ►union-v.l 1.,
have been 16e peraoh. Another su•lwt•led cl ur.s. -
ter, and who, beyond all doubt, was one o► I. e
Klatt, war harried to a house ill, a few days bent',
and, on being examined by a surgeon, it wa• di-e..-
tered that he hail been .hut in lily s.hot.l,lrr. 111'1'1
which he shed, without unikll4 any Ii -II is!r , f
the rest of I.tip a►sl,clatr►.

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