The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-04-14 00:00:00

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The family of Sir . tharles Arolseley is of great,.
antiquity, mud Isms been long seated iss StrArrdriliire.".
Sir Robert, the first Baronet, created in .1628, had
several sons, one of whmn, William, Colonel
its the army, accompanied King William into Ire-
land, and commanded the E Itilleumen at the
teittle of the Boyne, after which he was made Mae..
ter of the Ordnance, a Privy Counsellor, and one
of the Lords Justices of Ireland.
Sir Charles, the second Baronet, represented the
county of Sititrisrd im Parliament, in the reigns 4
Charles I. end 11. and was a man of great cou-
*nitration in those times.

Sir William, the third Baronet, was drowned in
his chariot and four, returning home from Lich-
field, July 8, 1728, between seven and right
o'clock iii the evening, passing it little brook in
a village celled Loug, iii the high road.--This
accident happened by the sudden breaking down
of a mill-dam at a small distance, occasioned
by a violent thunder shower, which brought
down a body of water that sunk the chariot iii
the very moment of its crossing the brook. The
coachman was carried down the stream by the tor-
rent into an orchard, about one hundred yards front
the place, and saved himself in the top of an apple
tree. The present Sir Charles is the seventh
Baronet.

THE STATE PRISONERS.

The Commissioners appointed under the Special
Commission to try the State Prisoners, will proceed
to-morrow to the Sessious House iii Clerkenwell,
for the purpose of adjourning the Court
will he recollected, when it last met, was appointed
to re-assemble on the 15th instant) to a future
day. Their Lordships will then go on to the
Sebsiour House iu the Old Bailey, where the
eleven Prisoners again►t whom hills of indict-
ment have been found fur high treason, will
be arraigned. After their pleas have been re-
ceived, the next seep will be to a►k them, whether
they will conjoin in their challenges of the Jury, or
challenge separately ? If they agree to challenge
collectively, which is extremely improbable, they
will be tried together, but if they persist in their
right to challenge separately then they will take
their trials in succession, and, as we have already
stated, Arthur Thistlewood will be first put to the
bar. The Commission will be adjourned from
to-morrow till Monday morning, when tha trials will
commence.

The applications for admission to the Court to
be present
,at the trials have been extremely nume-
rous, and, we widerstand, far beyond the possi.
bility of accommodation. It was thought that
those persons who have the superintendence of
the arrangements on this occasion would, in
the first instance, have felt it their duly to pro.
vide every facility for the admission of the gen-
tlemen connected with the public press. It ap.
pears, however, that whatever may have been
the wishes of some respectable individuals on this
subject, there is one gentleman who opposer any
regulations, and who has actually resolved to ex-
clude the Reporters from that part of the Court to
which they have hitherto had constant scene.
Whether the obstinate disposition of this reveille-
, man is to supersede the authority sod good sense
of those who, in point of fact, possess a superior
power in the Court, is yet to he decided.
Orders have been given to Mr. Brown, the gaoler
of Newgiate, to prepare rooms for the reception of
the prisoners. This has been done, cod they are
to be placed in wards ou the north side of the
prison. There will he several of them in one room
together, so that they will be permitted to have
that personal communication with each other which
has hitherto been interdicted. The removal of the
seven prisoners in the Tower, and of the fair in
Coldbuth-lields prison, will take place in the course
of this day. They will be conveyed in hackney-
coaches, and escorted by troops of the Horse Guard..
They will remain in Newgate until their trials shall
be brought to a conclusion.
Adams (a witness for the Crown), Symonds,
George, Hall, and Firth, against whom no bilk of
indictment have been found, will remain in cus-
tody till the Grand Jury ahnll be discharged.
Firth, who, it will be recollected, we stated to be
seriously indisposed is consequence of the alarm he
felt from the situation in which he was placed, has,
since the bill against him was ignored by the Grand
Jury, recovered his health, and is now in a state of
convalescence. The whole of the prisoners live
very comfortably, and, with the exception of the
restraint upon their liberty, admit that they have
not the slightest reason to complain.

Saturday ae•unight. when the aphelia, THOMAS
NA DIN. master, was lyit.g at Mpukwearmouth Shore
ballast crane, grtting her ballast taken out. one of
the tubs, containing a ton of ballast, by the chain
hrtalting, 1.-11 nit the master. who was rtandiog on
the keelston, and instantly crushed him to death.
The watch in hie pocket was hostas quite flat.

One of the most diabolical acts that man can be
guilty of, was d►scovered to have been attempted on
the evettiag of Good Friday. at the house of MN.
DANN AT, a widow, re►iding iu Salthouse-taue,
Hull. On going to bed she found her chamber
dour, that she bud locked previous to going to cha-
pel, was then unlocked. and a strong smell of fire
Issuing therefrom ; she instantly entered the room,
and to lies great alarn► found that her brd-curtaina,
blankets, and bed, had been on fire, but fortunately
it wus then extinguished. On looking under the
bed fur a box, in which ►he kept her money, &cc.
she found it broke open, and one guinea iu silver,
the same in copper, a 11. ante. and three-gold
zings, had been stolen therefrom. Two pair of
stockings in the box haul been set on fire, but which,
it is conjectured, were prevented burning by the
shutting doom of the lid. A jowaryta►aa tailor and
his wile, who lodged au an adjoining room, bestir
suspected as guilty of the deed, a consttuble was
procured. end a search made, but dot nor article Of
their own or any stolen property wits to be found ;
they were taken before e Magtairete, who commit..
ted then► for ceateriustrusi, winch took un
Tuesday, before toe &Hei► of Msgiatr►ttea et the
Mansion-house, Oro, after investigating the strait..
_.: Irwin to the House of Collecnott for far-
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