The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-05 00:00:00

UNION HALL.

CURIOUS PUNISHMENT.

A person sof the name of r, was laronglit up toy lire
nyiTsress of St Salmons's. chore.' with lensing • woman
wills whom tor tool formerly eohebite 1, mud her child, bor•
olentoone to 11w !inrsh.
ThsillhziorAir thought the heaviest poonishment wool., he
to order 1111116 in M4l ry the Is •iss in It wit. no sooner viol
than thse. The Promisor was taken In the chortle—the
woman was ready and b. wi_..ng—l',swum 10111
the knot tied in an instant. The man was then ilisehalged,
the overseers nut hoeing rolling to punish bim auy farther.

ASSAULT.
J. Gibbont, Georg* .Vanson, soil J. Bee, three dandier,
were charged with assaulting R.srrynwire, of the Coburg
Theatre, for ',fusing them admittance, they !wing iii a
state of dcuukentiess. They here fined Sr. each ■nd dis-
charged.

TOWN-HALL, PO VIIIMARIC•
CAUTION TO BROKERS AND AUCTIONEERS.

A man, who per his name W. ✓. flankillf, was brought
up for re.ex•mination, charged by Mr. Field, auctioneer and
appraiser, No. 18.5, Borough High-street, with a frond of
rather a morel description, which it appeared he bad exer-
cised in a wholesale way throughout the trade.
Mr. Field plated, that a few days ago the prisoner called
at his horse, and presented ail inv. usury, whirl, purported
to be a correct list of a lot of household fitruidure, ~hunt
which the prisoner said two respectable brokers (whom he
named) were in litigation ma to price; and as th►ir agree.
orient band them, in ease they could Hot agree between Ih em.
selves, to call in a third appraiser, a hose decision should be
final, they haul mutually agrveall In *elect hun (the prosecutor)
fur that ItUrpOSt. A■ the practice is a very common one
in the trade. he hail not the least suspir ))))) , but presented
the Prisoner with 3.. Ikl., she usual fee in such cases, and
immediately repaired to the place named in the itiventnry,
wheu to Iris great asionithmetit, Iv din... Jeered that there had
tress no sale, nor dispute between the brokers meatioued,
and coastapsently that the whole was an imposition.
Mr. Wick, auctioneer, of Kong street, and Mr. Corkerell,
of High-strret, preferred 'imam. charges apatast the Pi i-
mpure ; lord it was further added, th.it al t our hundred
broken had been &Crawled after the same way, thirty of
whom hail been in oue day sent to Streatham, 'upon the aune
business.

Ou the first examidal' of the Prisoner, he attributed his
couduct iss the misery said waist to which Isis wife and family
were reduced, of 'hick be drew studs a wretched iiicinrc,,
that he was principally remanded to ascertain the truth of
his story, which being Gotha correel, the prosecution was
aliandourd, on eutditiuo th., the Prisoner would make, to
the shape of an all/davit, a foil disclosure of something
which he had hinted sin • forms- day. He then confessed
that a mast named T. While, whom hr kn.-w as a pauper in
Si. Hiles's workhouse. had " pits him up" to this mite of
sildaioneg money ; that While had cont.-seed Wrung, whilst
porter to nit auctioneer isi the City, obtaiued conioderable
money by such waits.
His eunfeosion wa. taken gluten, and the Prosecutors de.
dared that they would cause ctipiro of it Ih hr dielribulegl
amongst the (role; auJ, at their et/yield, the miserable de-
but/octal was discharged.