The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-03-21 00:00:00

DERBY.

The alterations in the Derby are of the first impurtattee
to the spurting world :-
12 to 1 agst Arhatus, gone
hark from $ to I.
12 to I apt Rro. to Blether,
come forward from lb

43 to I •pi Sorcery

RIDDLIE
4 to 2 ant Mr.Wortleysc.
b to 1 apt &lion

16 to 1 sot c. out or Cat,
Beireis, Plucker', Duke, &c.
18 to 1 sot Sailor, pm( back
fruni 12.

8 to I apt Flom.
YORTH.
8 to 1 opt Piodaree.

POLICE.

II A RLIICiII Olt 6 11-STII TIT.

Yesterday the examination of Sarah Ease, fur having set
fire to the house of Mr. Walsh, the King's Messenger, of
Nu. 7, Charles-street, St. James's square, was resumed be-
fore J. E. Conant, Esq. the sitting Magistrate. Several gen-
tlemen from the neighbourhood of St. James's-square, &c.
attended, in cifinequemee of the great interest the ease excited.
The Prisoner, whose appearance is that of a good looking
country girl, was plsced at the bar about one o'clock, and
the eIVIMiII3IIOI/1 lasted fur nearly five hours.
8. Plank, the officer, stated to the Magistrate that the
Prisoner expressed an inchuation to divulge other circum-
stances relative to the house being set usi fire.
Mr. Conant said he world bear ■ny communication the
Prisoner bad to make, but he would have her to know that
he corld make no promise to her.
She declined saying any thing at present.
Mr. Walsh's evidence, which was taken on Saturday, was
read over to him, which he swore to as bring correct. He
added, that there was, he understood, a trilling dispute be-
tween Mrs. Walsh and the Prisoner. Bbe had no followers
to his knowledge.
Mary Brown gave evidence to prove that the Prisoner, at
the intervals of the fire, was in the house under very suspi-
cious circ timstances, and made alarms herself when the ire
broke out, after placing the children ita bed, in Millen hour
after time glace was on fire.

Wm. Pcrrott, servant to General Vincent, who lodged in
the house, deposed that he left a small fire in the General's
room on the day the fire broke nut, and requested the Pri-
soner not to put any coals no. On his return home he found
the Generars room on fire, the curtains, chair, and wainscot-
ing were burnt. At half-past ten o'clock iu the eveaing
Sarah, the Prisoner, made an alarm while she was on the
stairs that her mistress's bed-room was on fire. General
Vincent left the horse in consequence of the fire.
Mrs. Walsh deposed, that she was sitting in the parlour
when she was alarmed by the windows breaking; on an alarm
hciug made in the street, she went and found General Yin-
rent's MUM on fire; prior to this the Prisoner had been left
in the kitchen ; there was an alarm of fire twice during the
same day, and the Prisoner, un each occasion, exerted herself
to extinguish them; she never quarrelled with her to cause
her

Mr. &ad, Surveyor to the Sun Fire-offiee, attended the
place on bearing of the fires, and found that the drawing-
loom, besides other parts of the house, with furniture, were
injured by some person evidently having set fire to them.
Mr. Ws!drop, Surgeon in the King's service, deposed,that
he was applied to by the Prisoner who complained of having
fits, in consequence of a plethora, a disorder which is some-
times accompanied with insanity; although he could not say
the t'risanee was insane, he should be warranted in saying
she was at times deranged.
Plank, the officer, slated, that the Prisoner had told bins
privately, when ordered by Mr. Conant to take her aside,
that one 'lay last-week, a woman, who was a fortune-teller,
cause to Mrs. 's door, with some flowers in a basket,
she forced heriflrib at the door, and would not leave until
her mistress turned her out ; she beckoned the Prisoner to
follow her. Mew. Walsh shortly after gave her sixpence to
buy a myrtle from:She woman ; she followed her to Water-
lo,-place, when she began abusing her mistress, and
said she might want a bit of bread herself, and persuaded her
to set fire to the house, and threatened her if she did
not, that she would do i 1 herself, she being a fortnne-teller,
and the fear that she would do something bad to her if
die did not set the house on fire, urged her to it. Sbe said
she did net do it from hatred or malice towards her em-
ployers. In ber first confession of setting the house un
fire, she said it !arose from a quarrel with her mistress.
She was fully committed to Newgate for trial, lied the
parties were boomd over to prosecute.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

1,011T1310V111, MAUCH 19:

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Arrived the Fsvoarite sloop of war from a cruise.—Sailed
Ike Regulus, Smith, for Deptford; and Jane, Hicks, for
Cork.

TALMOUTR, MARCH 17.

Arrived off this port the William and Ez;ti, from Rich.
mond (Virginia), for Amsterdam; Duke of Keut packet,
with a mail from Lisbon, in 14 days ; and Lord Sidmouth
packet, with ditto, from Rio Janeiro, in 65 days. The Lord
Sidmouth's mail was lauded in Mount's Bay this taunting.

PIINZAMCE, MARCH

Arrived off this place the Dru Gebroeders, Manzelnian,
from Batavia fur Amsterdam. The Martha, of and for Lon.
dap, from Savannah, was spoken with the 15lb instant, with
loss of sails and bulwarks. _ _

DARTMOUTH, MARCH 18.

The Weser, Posse, for Charlston for Bremen, arrived here;
fell in about 12 days since, in 1at.47.51., 10ng.10.50.; with
the wreck of a brig apparently English, with lumlof main.
mast, laden with litutorr, marked H. F. She appeared to be
about 300 iOllll, painted black, with a blue streak round her.
The crew are supposed to have perished.

MAtCh 19.

Came down from the River yesterday and sailed, the Lady
Banks, Coppin, for Bengal ; Active, Byers, for Sierra Leone ;
Albion, Tramiel, for Rerhice ; Aurora, Jackson, for Tricot ;
Wilberforce, Dodd, fur Miramichi ; and Castlereagh, Weir,
fur Jamaica.

Ships in port at Plymouth—
In Hanioase—lnipreguable, Windsor Castle, and Tribune,
and Wolf Sender.

in the

Falmouth, and Lee.

Ou Monday, while a party of about fifty of the
Paisley Volunteers were returning from drill, they
were assaulted by au immense mob of the inhabit-
ants, who continued to pelt them with stones till
they reached the Cross. The Volunteers succeeded
in securing fire of the most active among the snob,
and marched them to the police-office, a distance of
half a mile from the drill-ground, where the attack
commenced, and temperately but firmly repelled
several attempts to rescue the prisoners.—(Glasgow
Courier.)
HUNT'S TRIAL.—We understand that 140 wit-
nesses from Manchester, in favour of Mr. Moir,
joined at Huddersfield and Halifax, on their way
to this city, having two banners, each inscribed,
" The Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing hut
the Truth." They were gratuitously entertained
by the Reformers as they passed along ; and they
are expected to meet with the same attention on
their return. On Tuesday night Mr. HUNT was
met near Leeds, by nearly :MOW persons, who
took the horses from his carriage, and dragged it
into that town by torch-light. They accompanied
him out of Leeds the following morning, offering
to draw him on the way to York, which he de.
clined.—( York Herald.)

RAMSGATA Masc. 17.
Yesterday a public dinner took place at the Albion Hotel
in this town, to celebrate the return of Sir William Carlisle
parliament. At four o'clock, about 70 of the principal in-
habitants' officers belong to the harbour, &c. sat down to as
exeellent Metter, the deputy, R. Tolman, F.aq. in the chair.
Alter the cloth was removed, the health of the worthy Pero-
met was rapturously drunk with three times three; and a
great many loyal and constitutional touts where given from
the chair.

The company continued to pour out libations to the jolly
god until H o'clock, when the Deputy quitted the chair and
default d, accompanied by several of hi■ ',Muds, all highly
gratin l ..th the conviviality st Pilch had lakes place, and
pleased with ibe opportunity of cap►essiag tin ir satisfaction
at Sir Williams eleciiun. Many of the riimpany did nut
retire until a late hour; a public performer ails engaged on
the occasion, whose vocal powers tended much to the bar_
most' of the evening.
During the Iwo leaf days the vessels in the harbour and
several inns in she town were decorated with Sags, and the
colours of Sir William Curtis were worn in cockades by
many of his friends and the officers belonging to the Isar.
boar.

NE►Y PARLIAMENT.'