The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-04 00:00:00

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DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT
AT RESCUE.
Wm. non, Jae! Clrsl, Pairkh Comma:4,ond Bab Kest-
iug,alias King, were brought op or Saturday by Furman,
charged with robbing DOCIOr Ireland, of Hartastreet, Blooms-
bury, of his gold seals and part of his wsteh•ebain.
Doctor Ireland detailed the fain of his being attacked
near 'Charles-street, Drury.lane, by a hand (armfuls's, who
in the attempt to rob him of his watch, succeeded in taking
the seals sail part of She 'Asia, which broke.
A boy ideatified the prisoner Connolly, no the man who
snatched She watch chain, and to William Halt and f. ('lurk,
as being in his commary at the lime of She robbery.
John Furzman said, in caosequence of iith.ressiiinti re-
ceived, hr apprehended Clark and Connolly, at a notorious
honer. They went wills him quietly, but Keating made a
desperate resistance; and on In inging the Primmer, through
Soho square to the Office, he was sus rounded by a gliog of
fellows with bludgeons, and they attempted to rescue the
Prisoners, but be succeeded in preventing their object.
Dr. Ireland produced the seals, which were returned to him
the morning after the rubbery, by Parker, a man who
said he Nous! them.

Mr. Dyer, the Magistrate, remanded the Prisoners until
Wednesday Dem, in order to have this man brought forward.

ROBBERY OF LORD ABERDEEN.

Oa Friday evening, as Wescott, the Bow-street patrol,
IMOD with some of his party in Loner Brook-street, Gros-
venor-square, they observed four men with a horse and cart
following Lord Aberdeen's carriage, making several sties plu
to est the traces of a trunk which was fastened behind big
Lordship's carriage, and which contained some ♦aluable
property. They at length succeeded in separating the trout,
and were about to pat it into the cart when the alarm was
made, on which they ran off; two of the follows drove the
tart down a mew., where they were stopped. The others
escaped. The trunk was afterwards found in the road.
Tins is a spiels of robbery which is culled " dragging or
arising for game." The two fellows in custody were taken
to Marlborough-street, where they cave their names Stevens,'
alias Nash, mid Charles Wilkinson, well known. Ilis
Lordabip'a valet, mid other persons, gave evidence against
them.

SUICIDE.
AT NELSTON-BRIDGF., BRISIML-ROAD.

[Frost n Gottlemems of Mit Cily]

" About haltpast two o'clock in the afternoon of °quad',
last, as I was crossing the above•named baste, on my way
to Newton, I perceived a genteel sinsig man •pproach-
ing in the contrary duo-edit:a. lie was of a tall slender
&Kure, about twenty years of age, and dressed entirely
in mourning, with a black liandkerekief about Ilse
throat. We passed each other—l d into the mea-
dow by the river.bassk ; casually turning my head, 1
perceived this youth beading over the centre point of the
bridge, as gaging intently upon the water. Slimily after-
wards, finding the pith I hid taken too swampy to be pur-
suit', I was about to retrace it, when a loud exclamation
again called my glance to the bridge. The figure by that
lime bad mounted the little parapet, and stood just poised
above the river by one foot ; before my surprise would permit
me even to think, a second exclaims' ion rounded, and the pour
creature sprang upwards with frightful violence, and turning
completely over to the air, fell bead foremost into the river!
gave the alarm immediately, and within ten minutes the
drags were procured. The body, however, eluded every
search—the hat (apparently a sew one) was picked up, a
&burl distance down the stream. I did rut ace it, but under-
stood it merely contaius the halter's mark.
" Possibly the above description of the person, with 11w cor-
rect slate (said Moue of the Papers to have been on Monday)
inserted in your Herald, ;night lead to • discovery of the
individual, and rescue matey persona from (at least) the evil
of uncertainty.—(Balk Herald.) " W. 1)."

BARBARA KRESS.

LANGENBURG, NOVEMBER 17.

I enclose you a German tiew.pain-r„ containing
au article relative to the infamous Barb 11 a Kress,
who has so disgraced liereclf and her vountry by
her recent conduct on the Queen's trial. Ohserv.
ing that Lord Liverpool seemed to place a fond re-
liance on die testimony uf this witne.ss, I thought
it might be of use th it hr. as well as her filaiesty's
Counsel, knew a little of her character. By the
date of the wiper you will see that the article in
question has been a considerable time in print. I
expected to have seen it copied into other German
papers, mid thence translated lute the English; but
being disappointed in the anticipatitm, from the
strictness of the censorship in most of the States of
Germany, I find the wily way of giving it publi-
city in England is to enclose the original copy to
you
(Extract froth the Nets German Natiottg/ Chronic/es)

" ELLWAIIGEN, OCT 2W.

■ It must have given pain to every well di►poseil German
to see, sawn the Italia. canaille who have been employed
daring the (amuse process which big disgraced our age, to
Wag charges againat the Queen of England, the imam of a
German Cowan calleil,Barbara Kress, which, its consequence,
has often been mentioned in the public journals of F.is-
rope. Her declassiiims, however, cannot possibly have
much weight if the same principle cinch pi, wails every
w►ere else prevails in Englund—that an unblemished cha-
racter is swamis. y to give validity to the testimony of a wit-
Ness in a court of justice. This is cot the case with !Imbue
Kress, who, aJieo she was in service some Suisse ego, at the
country residence of the Kiug of iVirtendierg, called Mum
repos, committed theft, and was in consequence discharged
with a mask of infamy. I leave it to you to make known
this fact, the truth of which many respectab:e manna are
ready to attest."

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS Al' GUILDII.4

TO.Moaauw.

J. Murdoch, P. Brown, and W. MacGirr, Notting-
ham, diapers
W. J. Pude§ Xliariug-eross, ',upsetter 3 10
G. Hes tit, arise Henley. bauker .. 2 12
G. Ukmanzett, late of Deptfuril, soap-maker 2 1U
W. Min. tie Prospect-place, auct touter 2 12
J. E. Topper, Rumfusd, statiuner
A. Taytur, Kent-road, nialt.roaster
T. Thompson, Camomile-street, merchant
DIVIDENDS.

J. Read and J. Heßyer, St. Mary.bill, :merchants
J. T. Ozenbaln, Ozfurd.street, smaugle-maker