The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-09-20 00:00:00

TILE A RMY

On Friday the last division of the 13th regiment of foot
marched luso Edinburgh Castle, from Stirling.
Two companies of the 4th Veteran Battalion arrived ■t
Stirling on Thursday (111111 Edinburgh.
The 23J Royal %%doh Fusiliers and 41st are rrpstrltil to be
she first regiments intruded (sir fortigu service. The 41st is
destined fur I\.w South Wales.

We are requested to state, that the report of the 12th
regiment twoug ordered for the West lathe., is without Nun-
datiou. This regiment is now in Dublin, and without any
orders of embarking for England, as was also reported.—
( Limerick Chronicle)
to consequence of the attached state of the different re-
giments, auil Ilse great difficulty of obtaining suitable roe.
diesel apt at the out quarters, it is determinea to add au
additional Asaistaut Surgeon to every mimeo' in the ser-
vice. Strict orders have beets homed to the Medical Llepart-
swat to refer to the half-pay bat before any new appoint-
oleo's are maile.—(Dubfin Freemen's Journal )
On Wednesday, two more cuisipairies of the 2.1 Royal
Veteran Battalion marched in here i4ll head-quarters, tinder
Major Bolger. They are pa►t of the divisiou that lauded
last set kat the Cove of Cork. Four companies of the hat •
taboo are now here; there is another company at Mary-
borough, one at Carlow, moil one at Wicklow. The
remainder of the battalion is not yet arrived (iota Euglaod.
—(Wo ferford Mirror.)
Yesterday Ibe company of the 42.11ligIslandrrs that raise
here that day week to maw in gairiaisii duly, marched back
to head quartets at Kill:. )
On Monday three companies ut the Pik Ro3al Yet:ran
Banal marched in here from Wicklow. and proceeded
Next morning for Cork, to embark fir Etigland.—(/bed)
The Slat regiment, 11111/ quartered in Uublin, have re-
erittil the route for Cork, where the first aliviaion i■ (-s-
-pectral to waive nu the 2011, inst. This regiment is limier
orders' for Canada. The Titi regimeot is shortly expected
there front England, and on their arrival the SI st will pro-
ceed to Canada in the transports which will have couveyed
the 334 Ur Cork harbour.

Yesterday moruisig a destructive fire broke out about lia:f
past slim. o'clock in the .hop and dwrlling.howw of Mr.
ttttt list-maker, at the top of the M iiiories. The fire
hurts out wills ea mudb rapidity as to sweat Ist, from the
early hour. muds of the property from being .3,4. It
raged for siinte time with Ilisalmir4l fury, for although there
was a siitfietrut sionewr of 4 iseisies and &eater on 11w spot,
we repel to 'ay. that 'here was a bic trrily otwatrr to supply
the lsps's. flu house was completely ilestioved, as was
also ass eating-house immediately sdjoiuirig, sod two others
at the bark of the p►emises.
The Perieli Clerk of Llmnedwan. Anglesea, has
three ewe*. which have this year yeaned five lambs
euch: four are nowt livitig with each ewr, and the
other three are reared in the cottage.

OLD LirLEV, TU9O.ll', Scrr. 19.
Rilliarn John Panninvin W4ll indicted for know-
ingly uttering a (urged 14 mate' of the Hank of
Englund.
_ _

On the 44th of Jane last, about sere' o'clock in
the evening, the Prisoner iturche•eil, st the shop of
Mr. Bean, a butcher, at N. 3, how-street. Hol-
born, some meet, amounting to lour altilliugs, for
which he paid the note in question to Mr. Bean's
daughter, who knew the Preroorr's father, living its
Cromer-street, and indorsed the note with the Pri-
soner's name, and the address whirl, he gave iu
Phoa six-alley, Long-acre, and then gave him
the change. About eleven o'clock the same even-
ing, a 111411, who said his name arta Kemp, purchas-
ed at the some shop a shonlikr °fount 00000 for whirl'
he pa pi she young men of the skip • note, whole
the nenremt lie was gone, Mr. Beim detected to let
a forgers,ald scut the young in 111 after Min, who,
however, could not overtake him, and who then
obvervaall, that the. Prisoner who, durnee the tune
Kemp wa. in the shovelled been stimuli .g at the
corner of the stieet, only deer doors &remit, ob-
serving what war done, had also gone sway. Mr.
Bean then eaarniued the note which los daughter
had received front the Prisoner. end discovered
that also to be a forgery. A short tune 'firm:ads,
the :June night, the Prisoner was observed to pest
the shop, by the young in in her ire mentioned, who
followed sod asked him to co lie into the shop, for that
the note which he kid given fur the meat was n bad
one. The Priamer readily ace-outpoured hint, 11111
was token into custody. Throe far the rare -
stances were proved by the evidence of Mr. Bean,
his daughter, awl the young man who served in the
shop. But to place the criminality of intention
and the guilty knoaledge of the Prisoner in a
stronger hght, the following circumstances were
given ist evidence:—lii A toil Loa a woman, mimed
Rosanna Pennington, was tried and convicted of
altering forged notes. At the time of her upper-
!tension, which took place in the lonise which she
had given as heenddress, although. she had assumed
mother name at the time of passing a forged note
at a shop in the Strand, the ICI-oiler being pre-env,
she declared that whatever notes she had uttered
she had received from her husband,. puiriting to the
Prisoner, who had taken them in the course of his
business as a tailor. The Prisoiter confirmed her
statement, and was then told by Mayhew, the
Bow-street patrol, that he must take him into cus-
wherenpou he replied, Will von, Sir ?
will you, Sir ?" sort prcsented a pocket pistol,
which Mayhew wrested trout him and then secured
him. The pistol wus ready primed and cocked,
and loaded with ball. (Jul the way to the office
in Bae-street, the Prisoner promised Mat hew
if lie said nothing about the affair of the 0401, to
tell him where he could find plenty of Lad
notes. The officer however refused the offer, and
on searching the Primmer's apartments, fouud
close to the spot where lie had seized him a large
horse-pistol, ready primed, cocked, and loaded
with three balls. For the ssomilt on the officer 'he
was committed till the &salon% fur trial; bust, us
we uodersloOd, no bill was preferred @garble. him.
This part of the case was peeved by Mayhew the
patrol, and by. the shopintis where the Prisoner's
wife had passed-the note which led to her apprehen-
sion, and who *as present on that occasion.
The Bank Inspectors now proved the three linter
mentioned in this eerie, viz. thee paid by the Pri-
soner to Miss Been, on which. the prevent indee.
tnent was founded; that peril by the man centre,:
himself Kenai) to Mr. Berer's showman; and that
paid by the Prisoner's wife at thee shop of Mr.
Ilyains, in the Strand, to be.all forgeries, and im-
pressions taken from the same plate.
The case for the prosecution having thus closed,
the Prisoner in his defence put in • wall writteu
statement, which woe read by the Clerk of the
Arraigns. Its it he represented, that on the dry on
which lie paid the rime to Miss Bean, being Satur-
day, lie had received the note in question Pom his
father, in part payment of seine tailor's work which
he hart done for him. And he put it to the Jury,
for their consideration, whether it was 'probable that
he should mare paid • note which he" knew to be
forged to a aliopkerper art near Isis Owls lodgings,
and that he should also have given his real name
and address. Ile elm farther uppealeil to their
judgment, us to the likelihood -of his risking
life for the value of a one pound note, when he was
in the way of earning a comfortable living by his
trade; of his venturing to pass by a *hop a here lie
hail a few hours before uttered • had not, if con-
scious of its "ring a forgery ; rod of his willingly
accompanying the young mail hack to the shop, on
being charged with having given a forged note,
when lie could easily have overpowered hnu and
escaped. He conjused the Jury to weigh well these
circumstances, sod to. pause before they daunted,
by their verdict, a young man, a stranger to the
°Wetter with which lie we. charged, to be cut off its
the prime of life by the sentence of the law.
The may witness called by the Pia-oiler was the
woman at askew house he lodgethar
orio deposed to hi. lodging there nn the day men--
tinned in the indictment, and that his fattier called
these on that day to inquire for hat, sod went up
stairs to kin, but she was wholly ignorant of what
passed between them.

Mr. Justice BEST charged the Jury. strongly
enforcing on duir attention the cooduct of the Pri-
soner in the time of passing the note. utid of his ap-
prehension the same night, us favouring greatly the
pie-uraptiott of his innocence ; but he put it to
them to say, whether the conduct (Sr the Prisoner
in watching while another man the second
note at the same shop, and his behaviour on the
or-elitism of his wife's apprehen-ion, coupled with
the tiacumstuace of all those notes being irnpres-
pintas from the tante plate, and with his promise to
the 'officer of reveirliog where a quantity of fotged
notes might be found, were not proofs of his guilty
itoimectino with fosgril notes sufficiently strong to
hear down any favourable inference which might be
drawn from his demeanour at the time of uttering
tile note charged in the indictment.
The Jury retired, and while they were out. the
Pritiotter nodded familiarly and unrestrainedly to
several persons whom lie recognised in the hotly of
the Court, some of whom, after a little time, drew
near to the duck, rod joined in conversation with
tile Prisoner, who chatted and laughed with st dr.
Krt.,: of levity and apparent unconcern, sufficiently
&wiring in a perms tbsiesufully circumstanced.

Atte► Leiaa out trio louts and a halt, the Dorn
eturned with a verdict of Mar Ctrifty.
Mr. Justice HEST then rddreisilig liimstif to the
Prisoner, observed. Oat he ought in he most par-
ticularly careful lot the reniJinder of his life to con-
duct himself in a less searittiloris manner than he
bad done diming the lad half hour.
lie sins then formally arraigned on an
indict-
ment charging him with the manor offence. but the
Counsel tor the prosecution declining in tender any
evidence, lir was, as a inart.r of cour►e, acquitted.
Dimilig die absence of the Jury in deliberation
nil their verdict, no other Jury bring iu nttemlince,
a int stiveniniiii of lorrinivas tunic place.
slr. Juan( e oler•mrcd the extreme
inconveniriwr re.ultiug• therefr to the public,
and to all the parties 'were/art!, and rettitteted that
iu future u ►ecoud Middlesex Jury u►eg+at aloay, be
in attesidaisce.

Uhedoefh tall ighno. ✓uhn Newnham. and ✓ohn
Madden were theta placed at the bar for trial, on an
cloirgiog them j••intly with uttering
forged notes o•t• hie Batik of England.
The moot remarkable circumstance* of this case
were, that the two first-named Prisoner. bad plead-
ed guild• to the minor offence, on the usual under•
standing that (hey were nut to be subj.creirto the
risk of provocation for the Capita archer. The oilier
Prisoner, bowtter, having refused to plead guilty,
the Iwo homer were ours give's to uffilerarinid, him the
riffelice being Joiiiily committed, it was neer AAAA y,
ita pond of film, that they should he present at Ilie
Iris! of the other Pri.oner: cure would however he
token, lamb now and hereafter, that whatever might
be the revolt of the present his!, they should in no
case be theirby placed in a worse situation 111511
wai contemplated by them at the time of making
their• • for ale, plea.
Mr. Serjearit BOSANQUET thin opened the ease,
and stated that he should eb.tain Imos producing
■m• evidence affecting the two former Prisoners.
which was col ab.olo'ely necessary f.r retabllshing
the c )))))) rum. with them in the guilt of the Pri.
rather M

That cuunexioor Iva% moo clea►ly proved in evi-
dence, turd the Jury found hint Gwilty—Deuth.

FitATEBNITY OP MIA PMEN.

Last week the Fraternity of Chairmen, of the shires of
Stirling and Clacktnisinan, assembled in the King's Park.
Stirling, fur their u►uil spurts. After a heels contest fur
the ring, ►ictory was declared in favour of Mr. Robert
Young. writer. In order to give an idea of the dexterity of
the gentlemen who lode at this ancient and esaaming game,
it may only be mentioned, that in ■n hour's time a ring.
7.811 ts of an inch "in diameter, was carried 0.. a spar's
pint our lass than 29 limes by about 20 toilers at full speed.
hc►eral excellent foot races than took place, one of them
round the race course, a distance of a mile snit a third,
whir► was accompliahed its seven minutes and a few seconds
Immediately afterwards fuser excellent horse races were run
over the coarse, which afforded great spurt.