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The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-10-29 (London, England)

THEATRE.  At Drury-lane Theatre, list night, after the performance of Simpson and Co., in which Mr. Terry supported, with his usual spirit and humour, the part of the principal of the firm, and in which the only two tragic actresses of Old Drury were (we know not why) introduced to the audience, a new melo-drama, or "grand oriental tale of magic," entitled The Enchanted Courser : or, The Sultan of Curdistan, was produced, " with new scenery, decorations, and dresses, and with equestrian evolutions, by Messrs. Ducrow and his troop." As this was the first novelty of the season, and as it had been deemed necessary to close the theatre on the preceding night, in order that an evening rehearsal might render the management of the " scenery and machinery" more simple, the public anticipation was at its height. Rumour hail attributed the production to the pen of Mr. Croly, but we are inclined to disbelieve the report, as the new " hone piece" would not greatly add to the Rev. Gentleman's dramatic fame. It was also reported that the Drama was the property of Mr. W. Barrymore, and had been only god-fathered by Mr. Croly, who added to it a little poetry, anti a few puns. The father, whoever he may be, has no reason to be proud of his child, fur a piece more completely and deservedly unsuccessful we never witnessed. It would be useless to give a detail of the plot ; the outline is this :—Almazon, Prince of Persia (Mr. Penley), is betrothed to the Princess or Cachemire (Mrs. W. West.) While the Persian Court is rejoicing in anticipation of the royal nuptials, the Enchanter Alma& (Mr. Wallack), who, by-the-by is, as it afterwards appears, also the Sultan of Curdistan, enters with a wonderful horse—a horse whose element is alike the air, the ocean, and the earth. He demands, in exchange for the animal, the affianced bride of the Prince, at which the lover is very naturally enraged, and in his auger mounts the horse of the enchanter, which bearshim instantly through the clouds. The ei.chanter then informs the agonized father, ' that his son will never return, as lie is ignorant of the art by which the horse is governed. 'f he Prince, however, discovers the secret by chance, and returning, brine- with him his bride. The enchanter contrives to steal both her and the horse, and conveys her to his Palace of Clrdistan. The plot is terminated by the attempt of the Prince to tegain the lady, and he sticceeds through the agency of Babouc, the slave of the enchanter, assisted by the ghost of a murdered brother of the aforesaid Sultan. The subject is taken from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, but it has undergone considerable alteration, without any improvement. The piece has been almost, if not altogether, " made up" by the scene painters and the dressmiskers of the theatre, who certainly did their ntneist for the fated inelo-drarna ; and no endeavour was wanting on the part of
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-10-29 (London, England)

DAO3O- is said to have had it coated with thin plates of silver. Ills successors endowed it with such magnificent presents, that it became one of the richest and must renowned Abbeys in France. SAINT Lolls had it almost entirely rebuilt, and he repaired the tombs and monuments of the Kings. Cnam.ss-MailrEt., one of the best Monarchs that ever reigned in France, was buried here, in 741 ; but so:ue time after his tomb was broke open, and, as the monastic historians of that day relate, there issued  from it a black thick smoke, anti instead of his carpe, behold there was a hideous serpent!—a most iniraculowl testimony, as they declared, of his having offended !leaven! Citant.Es-ManTEL, who was the ornament of the age in which he lived, had despoiled the Monks to enrich his soldiers. This explains the prodigy. In a letter which I wrote to you about a month since, I . .  gave you an historical account of the splendid ceremonial of the funerals of the Kings of France. I went yesterday to see the church of St. Denis and the burning chapel (chaptTh ardent...), so called from the dazzling blaze of wax lights which encompass the coffin. The effect was grand and impressive. The front of the church is hung I with black cloth, thickly studded with silver fleurs-de-lis,  and over each door is raised a temporary Gothic pediment, the whole surmounted with a line of escutcheons magnifi cemtly emblazoned. All external light is shut out, which gives the interior a subterranean appearance. The nave of the church, from the pavement to the roof, is covered with  rich black velvet, closely sown with fleurs-de-lis, and slicer spar, imitative of tears. The roof is entirely covered with the same solemn drapery; the pillars painted and gilt; and on each side of the aisle about fifty large sepulchral lamps are suspended, which are lighted only from the commencement of the steps to the grand Altar. No persons have been admitted into the church since Friday last, without tickets, and even those gave no admission to the Chape:le Ardente, for which I bad previously procured a special introduction. The Catafidque, on which the coffin is elevated, is superb, and reaches to the roof. Upwards of two hundred workmen have been employed for weeks past in preparing the church for the reception of the numbers that will be present today at the funeral service ; an amphitheatre of seats has been raised, capable of accommodating upwanls of two thousand persons. No one will be admitted unless in deep mourning. The church will he opened to the public for ten days, during which time it will be permitted to remain exactly in its present state of decoration. Nothing positive has transpired respecting the mysterious affair of Papavoine, though reportslare in circulation. that he was employed to commit the murder by the relatives of the children's father, who, on their account, had refused an advantageous marriage. 2apavoine is a clothier, and was, it is said, in very good circumstances.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-04-05 (London, England)

RICHARD M 'DA NI E 1., at the Queen's County Assist-a, • which will be found in another part of our paper, cannot fail of exciting a deep interest. A case of more coldblooded assassination is, we will venture to say, within no Iman's memory. The Jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter! Ilad we been of the Jury we should have pronounced such a slaughter as this, of an unoffending man, by OFFICERS OF JUSTICE, to be HeßDElt—a murder, too, more dreadful in itself, and more dreadful also in its example, for being committed tinder thrjiprms of tar. Under the present verdict, it assumes the appearance of a privileged crime. Where are the circumstances of extenuation in this case, which warrant the Jury in return! ing it? What provocation was there on the part of the creased to tuak.i such a verdict legal? The policeman struck Me .fiest blow: had he been first assaulted by the deceased, and from a fatal wound, inflicted in a moment of passion, death had ensued, it would Men have been, as to him, a case of manslaughter, though of murder as to the others. The law puts the community under the protection of the Poi ice Or FICL ; and it also puts every member I of it under the guardianship of tha eual.lC MAGISTRATES, by whom such Police Officers are appointed. How have those public functionaries in Ireland discharged their duty to the public and to their country in the case before us? Sonic of the Magistrates having entered into a resolution to have all public-houses cleared of their risitors by ten o'cia•e each night, these PocieemeN, in enforcing this order, stab this unoffencling, unarmed, man, who did not, in their opinion, obey it with sufficient promptitude, and the physician proves in evidence that he attended the deceased before his death, and found, upon examining the body, that he had received Foi:ay.issi BAYONET AND SABRE WOUNDS !!! If this is not murder, Juries in ENGLAND have acted under a dreadful vesponsibility, not do we know on what ground hereafter our executions for this crime are to be defended. It speaks nit to Me imie of IRELAND ! It unfolds the condition of its peasantry with the force of irresistible proof. Something must be done to put an end to this state of things: the character of Parliament and of this country are deeply involved in it. Mr. Wattacr's address to the Jury is a masterpiece of severe and sarcastic eloquence : it is couched throughout in a studied tone of moderation and courtesy ; but it is nevertheless not difficult to discover the indignant feelings that pervade it ; and, in truth, it requited nu slight command of them while detailing the particulars of a murder committed in the wantonness of authority, to which the perpetrators were excited by no provocation, and impelled by no necessity ; and the foulness and atrocity of which has no precedent, except in that misgoverned and ill-fated country in which it was committed.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-01-12 (London, England)

JAN. 9.—Seven officers and thirty-five men were embarked here from Albany barracks, on board the ship Edward, and sailed for the island of Barbados. Forty-seven tubs of contraband spirits were brought here, and deposited in the Custom-hous', by the Bembridge preventive• boat, commanded by Mi. Borum. A gentleman in this town has been lately robbed of 1,300 sovereigns. A person, whose name is known, is stroney suspected of having committed the robbery. The police arc on the alert for Wm.—Liverpool Paper. We understand that upwards of six hundred persons were apprehended and brought before the Magistrates (luring the last year, for acts of vagrancy in this town.—Lirerpoof Paper. The parish of St. Clement Danes held a vestry on Friday, pursuant to notice, to consider of the immoral state of Great Shire-lane, Ship-yard, and the neighbourhood. Af, ter the subject had undergone considerable discussion, it WAR resolved that the conduct of some of the inhabitants, and many of the frequenters of their houses, was notoriously infamous, and a Committee of the churchwardens, overseers, and several iohabitanta, was chosen, to consider of the best means to abate the evil. It seems that several 'recent robberies, and the bad character of two or three low disorderly houses, have led to the ineasurts in question. Ties Geow-wosm.—Mr. John Murray, in a communication recently made to the Royal Society, on the luminous mattet of the glow-worm, states some curious, facts, as the result of his own observations and experiments. lie shows that the light is not connectell with the respiration, nor derived from the solar light; that it is not affected by cold, nor by magnetism, nor by submersion in water.— Trials of submersion in water, in various temperatures, and in oxygen. are detailed. WIL•n a glow-worm was immersed in carbonic acid gas, it (lied, shining brilliantly ; in hydrogen it continued to shine, and dill not seem to suffer. Mr. Murray infers, that the luminousness is independent, nut only of the respiration, but of the volition end vital principle. Some of the luminous matter obtained in a detached state, was also subjected to various experiments, from which it appears to be a guintno-albutninous substance. mixed with muriate of seala, and sulphate of alumine and potash, and to be composed of spherules. The light is considered to be permanent, its eclipses being caused by the interposition of an opaque medium. We regret to say, that a respectable professional gentleman of this city has been missing since Saturday sc'nnight. On that evening he dined with a friend in Park-street, and left about twelve o'clock ; he has not since been heard of ; s hat was picked up in the Float next morning, which his friends think is the same that he wore en that day ; hence it has been concluded that he either fell in, or was murdered, and his body thrown in. Every inquiry has been made, end every exertion used to discover the place of his concealment. This evening the water will be let out of: the Fluat.—Bristal Paper.  TO
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-02-05 (London, England)

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—An uncommon sensation has been crested in this town, and the hest feelings of the inhabitants called into action by the accidental death of a child on Thursday afternoon last. The unfortunate subject of this melancholy event was a charming little girl, about six years of age, named Eliza Hall, daughter of Mr. Hall, of Everson, Liverpool, corn-merchart, and grand-daughter, by her mother's side, to the late Captain Robinson, of Penrith. She was going on a visit to her-grandmother. Mrs. Robinson, of Penrith, under the care of her maternal aunt, Miss Robinson. About three o'clock on Thursday afternoon the parties started from the coach-office, in this town, by the North Briton coach. By some accident the opposite door to that by which they entered had been shut but rot secured ; and just as the coach started, the little girl, on sonic account, leaned her weight against the coach door, which instantly flew open. The at:cid-Cot was so instantaneous, that the attempt of the passengers to catch her by the clothes as she fell were fruitiest, and she fell under the hind-wheel of the coach, which passed over her head, and literally (rushed it to pieces. No assistance could be rendered, for the aboie was but the act of a moment.— Irtrimoreland Gazette.  Mums s. —A most inhuman mur ler WAS committed, on the night of Sunday week, at a small village within two stiles of Deal, on the body of a poor woman WI years of age. The unfortu. nate deceased was a woman of eccentric habits, and lived in a lone cottage, in which her only companion was a goat or a sheep. It was supposed that she was possessed of sonic little money, and this was no doubt the inducement to the attack. The perpetrators of the foul deed broken open the door with the iron coulter of a plough, sink with this dreadful weapon subsequently attacked their helpless victim as she lay in bed, fracturing her skull, breaking her right arm which she held up to ward oflthe blows, and also break. rig one of her lingers. She was found in this shocking state the neat molting bit no traces of the murderess could bed rovere•r. nor was any property removed beyond the money there might have been in the house, which, it is believed, did not exceed a couple of pounds. A Coroner's Inquest sat on the subsequent day, and has continued to sit by adjournment for several days since, but without being able to come to any positive conclusion as to the persons by whom the murder was committed. Three persons were apprehended on suspicion, but they have been since discharged. Bishop, the Bow-street officer, was sent down to snake inquiries on the subject. but nothing important has resulted fiom his exertions. Two suspicious characters quitted the village the day after the murder, and have not since been seen : diligent search is making for them in the neighbourhood. The Coroner's Inquest wee to sit again to-day.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1805-08-14 (London, England)

CRIMINAL SIDE. Brion Mr. HE 4 T Jams sen. and Jame; Booi,w, jun wet e inclieted for firing at and dangerously wuundiag John Heskins. Mr. Guessv, as Counsel for the Prosecution, stated the cireurnstances of this case. The Prisoners at the Bar, he said, were father and son, the elder of whom was possessed of several small houses near the Cliffe, at Brighton, which were chiefly inhabited by loose women. The Prosecutor, Hoskins, was a Serjeant in the tine is pants Militia, who, on the night of the 3,1 of June. understanding that some of his men were out of quarters, and spending their time amour the women at these houses, went thither in search oft: ein. He found some, whom he sect home to their quarters ; and while he was searching for others, just as he came our of one of these houses, the elder Boning fired a pistol et him, which so severely wounded him that he till senseless. Within a minute afterwards another was fired at one of the soldiers who accompanied hi: , and he believed the evidence would gu to fix the second shot to have been fired by the younger Prisoner. The ea, ha said, was dune most wantonly, for not a single word of anger had passed between them. Serjeant Heskins was ealleJ, and he stated the faits wetly Ai Mr. Guaseir had opened them. He added, that when he received the shot, he fell senseless, and did not recover the use of his reason until the next te/. Several slugs were extreeted from his groin and thigh. Thomas Lewis, one ef the privates who was in company with the Serjeant, deposed, that Hotting, the father, was the person who fired the first shut. He was certain as to his identity, for he saw his face by the fi ish of the pistol. Longford, another private in the regiment, said, he was in company with the other two. At the time the first pi.e:ol was fired, he was standing he• hirei a wheelbarrow. The next shot came near him, and he immediately ran to the battery house, and got assistance for the Serjeant, who was lying wounded on the ground. On cross-exam-illation, the Witness admitted, that he said Before the Justice, he believed that Boning thought they were come to rob his garden ; and le: Added, that he now believed the man fired at them Antader that impression. ' Jastice HE • T 11 immediately told the Jury, if the Prisoner a.led ender that impressien, although be melee very blaineahly in firing so hastily, yet they ought to acquit them of this indielment. The Jury accordingly aceirdted the Prisoners. Times DM.'.-es mita indieted for the wilful murder of John Jnrdan, on the teth of May last, at Lewes. Ey the evidence, it appeared that the deceased and the Prisoner were two waggon drivers in the Waggnn Corps. They quarrelled on the 29th of May, and the deceased challenged the Prisoner to fight. They fought a few rolled', when the deceased received a blow under the ear, of which he died in about halt an hour. The Jury found the Prisoner of Manslerghter, and in consideration of having been in prison three months already, he was fined a shilling and discharged.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1825-07-04 (London, England)

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The Iron Chest was acted here on Saturday evening. Before going to see this play performed, it is absolutely necessary that one should read Caleb W illiams, a novel of as much depth and power as any in the English language, otherwise the interest of the piece is almost entirely lost. It requires the imagination and the memory to be constantly going along with the actor, to account for those violent transitions of passion which rend the heart of Sir Edo ird Mortimer, whore morbid sense of honour has driven him to be a mill. deter, and whom an ever-living consciousness of his lust fame has made alternately the victim of the extreinest rage seel of a (Imp and blank despair. The play is essentially undramatic. There arc but one or two incidents in it, and they are very much forced; particularly that in which the discovery is made of the blood-stained knife and the Britten confession of the murder. But notwithstanding this, it admits of some very tine acting, and is calculated to enchain the attention and intet est the feelings of au audience. Mr. Young sustained the characer of Sir Edward, the Falkland of the original. This gentleman's style of acting is decidedly melo-dramatic. There is the studied attitude, the stamping :of the foot, she pompous declamation, and the deliberate preparation of the countenance wine minute or two before the time, which characterize Mr. Young's acting, and which render his portraiture of a man made up of feeling erratic, it it true, but still intensely real, comparatively cold and indifferent, and incapable of exciting within us any emotions either of terror at his crime, or of sympathy for his miseries. There is a starch precision, an elaborateness of finish in such a ate le, which do rot accord with the impulses of the human heart, and which are constantly reminding iis that it is the acmr we are lis:enittg to and not the being whose love of an unspotted reputation had urged him on to a deed of blood, and whose aspirations for that empty sound—a name—were as unqwenchabk as his despair was profound. Mr. Fawcett rate the garrulous simplicity of the old steward, Adam Wintertun, in an excellent insulter; perhaps he was occasionally a little too robust, for a man who would he " fourecere years next elartlemas." Cooper acted Wilier./ eery efficiently. The new farce, called .411 a Mistake, met with a very unconneoue reception ; butt quite as good as its merits deserved. The scene in which Jones first appeared as a rambling half-cracked Geologist, seemed to promise something worthy repetition, but no sooner did Whincali come forward, a creeture intended to represent that species of whiekered and mustachioed animal, which tnay sometimes be seen sulking up and down the King's highway, but a very unequivocal expression of dislike was heard from various parts of the house, and which increased as the piece proceeded, though the applause was, perhaps, equal to the hisses, at the falling of the curtain. As to plot or incident—the piece was too &Aura fur us to be at the pains of reruenthering whether there were either.