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The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1818-08-20 (London, England)

EXTRAIPRDIN 4RY C.4SR.  About three o'cfork its Twesday afternoon, a respectable looking snail. about 45 years of ace. went :lit • the shop of Mr Janos Ripley, a bather residing in Poortland.road, ■ad waiting moil he found the barber al,na, he took his neck kerchief flow tits neck. Opeit4.ll ilk shirt collar, aud sat slows, ins the clime as if in be shaved; whilst the barber at I liver hie, with his, razor in his ban.' send', to begin the operation, the stranger sistei ru pled him, isiol pulling out a handful of Bank Mafia, hr thus addressed the bailer : " See these lisslef, there is as much here as will make you comfortable for life, to me they are useleas ; you have a family to provide for, I have no person living to look to, or that errs fur me; du not he alarmed at whit lam going to propose to you, you run no daliger, and will have not hing to ace 000000 t fur ; 1 am weary of life, and do not wish to es 000000 sit suicide, and if my body he howled in the rross roads, I du not rare; take your rigor, be nut afoaid, and whilst I am reading the paper eat nay throat. Do not start, give the alarm and say I did it. Here, first go moil conceal these mutts; do not t reintim, be resolute. To save you blame, go get me a sheet of paper, pee and ink, as if I wanted to write a letter, and I will write OR it that I came into your shop wills the determined pm.pose of cutline toy own throat; this sill he found in my pocket, mid will cunseqssently clear pm. The lessor barber was panic struck and could soot speak ; he ran out to rail a constable and give the alarm, in the meats time his strange visitor departed, and be has nut since been heard of.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1818-04-10 (London, England)

ATTEMITOI D. SUICIDE.  Yesterday morning, about 'tine o'clock, lieut. :I`. F. Hatlate n(the, Rays' Navy, who for the last months ha. lived with hit Mother, an elderly ladf, in retired lodgings j6l the Edgware road, atlewlilal to put a period to his inistesce by sltnuti•g liiinswelt with a pistol. He' placed the wrapou to his sok,. and the hall passed through his ribs.— The report of the ps►lol wits hood by some persons it. the house, who immediately gave the alarm, mud on proceeding ,to the susfortuuale geolfrinaies roosts, he was found stretched au the door, bleeding copiously. A surgeou ;was instr.rs%. ascii alhrl iu. Cp.l4v he gave tile the ...altar! ii not witbout a remedy—cosisequesitly hopes are.etuert.ined nut only of his recovery, but his happiness. He served live years iu the navy with great credit.  DBOITS 14 711 E uNwEusints,  Seldom line low been more at odds with equity thou in the innrence of the exinting Copyright. Act, It empowers eleven public Inntitutiona to demand each a copy of every book that is published ; and this denotes& is rigorously enforced: All literary works this issue from the press, however important or however ineinusiderable, are alike subject to this 'Weeping impost,, which is arbitrarily levied is kind, and not rettnlsted by any ineunure of value. Au toicyclopechti of fifty volumes is exposed to the same claim :as it twelve-penny • schoolohook, and ivust contribute, its eleven 1:11111C11 or coutplete set A work enriched with :the moo cmily engnivisign, of which the number published is necessarily small, thus become* liable to a tax which dere its all hope of adequate emolument. These claims are said to be granted for the encouragement of learning, but the indiscriminate eliturceneent of them cannot be jitstiOed oil souls a. pretext. A work muy he valuable, pot an an ileCaalnan to knowledge, but as a rarity, curious and exkluisite specimen of urt, an object for the gratifiviition of taste. an article of i 000000 eious luxury. The library dim Unirerpity is not the plice for such a work, because it It nut a place for literary. enjoyment, but for study. • Again, a work way coutaiti information which, though acceptable to the public at large, would be superfluous in a continua silty of learned and scieutiOc men. The curators 61. the public libraries are aware of thin : for, thougle they claim copies 'of all books publinhet!, they exclude a considerable proportion of them. The books thus mit:lode-it are valuelenn to thetbstiverf.ily, yet they tnight obtain their full pricein the market from which they have been withdrawn. It in bight time that the Act •whicli.iiiiictions this +orlid' and burdensome impost .howid be amended.  General Dust, from the 95th Regiment, is to succeed the late General ST.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1818-06-12 (London, England)

DREADFUL CAFASTROPIIE-JUCENILE SUICIDE.  Yeeteriey attoreing, about ten o'clock, a yonng gentleman, shout IR years of age, dressed very /*guiltily, went into the A herevonaby Onifee-hoime and Tavern, Lomhard-street, and asked for • basin of turtle ronp—.they had none, and he called fur giblet soap, which he had, and afterwards a glass of wieemegus, and the moment he received it from the hands of the waiter be drink at our draught, which the waiter noticed as • airigular circumstance. less than a minute after be  took •pa Hornier Newspaper, sad opened it, and bold it before his body, so that a gentleman who sat apposite to him, mail not see what be was taking out of his packet ; but immediately heard • report of a pistol, and saw the young gentleman fall ow the table; he ran and raised him up: the sitar plow was is great confusion. A surgeon was seta for, sad he examined the body of the gentleman, and declared him to be dead, and that a ball had passed through his heart, and came net at his bark; on looking round the box is which the deceased sat the ball was found. His pockets were examined by the geutlensen present, and there was found a card, on which was written the following adirons:—" J H Kentish, junior, No. 10, George-street, Peckham;" also three 11 Bank of England notes, two 1/. Celebrate notes, 114.6 d. in silver, and sum, copper, a watch, knife, Ike.  We tenderetand the melancholy event reached the eant.uf the daseased'a friends (who are highly revneetable) in a short time after the nevermore took place. A gentleman, whom we anderstand was the deceased's tither, visited him yesterday afternoon, who an sooner saw him than he fainted, and was supported from the house. The cause of his committing the act i■ not yet ascertained, though many rumours are afloat, perhaps wolf deal, and therefore we do nut repeat them. Another pistol, loaded with bull, was found in the deceased'. coat pocket.  LAW INTELLICE NC E,  COURT OF KING'S RENCK, Werniiinsa, THURSDAY, Julie U. Sittings after Term, hof,re Lord ELLEnioaocon and a Common Jury.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1818-11-06 (London, England)

FOREIGN IN% ELLIGENCE.  PARIS PAPERS.  ?AIM, 110•111181111 1. We are this moment informed of the death of the ' Duke of Feltre, at Ins seat at Nenviller, near Seven's', in Alsace. Marshal Clarke, the Doke of &We, descended of an ancient Irish family, was burn at Lendrecy on the 17th October, 1763. As we have already announced, it appears that the Ministers will submit a complete law oo the Press to the diseusaioo of the Chambers. Doubtless the menuirof repressing calumny will not be neglected, but there is a kind of defamation which legislation never can reach. We allude to the pompous eel°. gin which certain periodical writers artfully lavish nu citizeus, whom public nod private conduct m►ght have been expected to secure them against such • humiliation. What iudred can he more offensive to an upright Judge t,r a patriotic orator than to reed his apology traced by the pen of a libeller ! Their noble souls must feel indtgliant at such praise; they would a thousand times sooner be the object of calumny. The Marquis Dessolles, who was sent by the King to Valenciennes to meet the Emperor of Russia, received from that Sovereign a dimmed ring set with his cipher. A dreadful accident has occurred at Perpignan. On the 27th of October lightning struck the Mira. don, a small fort iu the garrison, and set• fire to the magazine, which exploded. Sixteen 'Militia perished. The town has suffered considerably. A number of houses are damaged. A tavern-keeper, who was in the street at the time of the eaplosiou, was killed by the splinter of a stone. Several other inhabitants  are severely wounded. A Sieur C-- committed suicide last month at St. Brieux (department of the Cutes-da-Nord).— The superior Ecclesiastics having, in the absence of the Cure. refused to give the necessary orders for the celebration of the religious rites on the interment of the body. the family applied to the Muyur of St. Brieus, and requested him. in virtue of article 9 of the decree of June 12, 1804 (93 Prairie!, year 12), to appoint another clergyman. The Mayor also rsfustri to comply. An arrete of tin- Prefect, dated the 3d October. has suspended him from his °like for ibis neglect of hit duty.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1818-11-06 (London, England)

INQUESTS.  • •• SUPPOSED SUICIDE. Yesterday morning, at elmq o'clock, au Inquest wit, held at the aims of the Gun, Hermitage-street. Wapping, before J. W.X.ltiwtx, Coroner, os the body of Esther Hot • too, a tine young woman, about 20 years of agc, who came to her death under the following circumstances. : Mr. David Graham, of Hermitage-street, worn, said as follows;—The deceased was my servant, sad lived with me nearly three years, during which Siete she believed herself with the utmost propliety. The last time 1 sew her alive was on Wednesday night last, about Adz u'eh.i.k, at which time she was drinking her tea In the kitchen; she appiewed Icisr and dejected, and seemed to he so for the lost ten days. ll,beard that there was some connexion with het and a young married man, in the employ of 11,. Been, we undertaker, in the neighbourhood, and one night lust work the, wife of the young man caught them together behind the back-door of my house, on which she made an attack open the deceased and gave her a heating. The deceased shot the door in the wife's face, and the wife theca came round to the front dour and knocked; on which I opeaed it. She said, that I had an shoiusnable servant; that she had enticed her husband away from her, and there wero improper pruert..l. int* carried ow ; she hid caught dorm both together. I re. quested her to stop and I wonlil inquire into it, on which I Proceeded down stairs to the kitchen for the purpose of • re.kiug to the deceased; but she was not there, tumble cone away, as is supposed, on heariog the man's wife at the door. I heard nothing more of her till 1 was iuformed that :he was found drowned in the river Thatnes.  Tina fL.rbeit sworn. slid—l am 4 watreinan bemiring to Herqsitagedstaios; ou Wednesday evening last I was a..ll;ii. hog near the stain, r heu a man came and informed me !bat there au the body of a women in the water near ticrmitaze Dock. I went with him immediately, and saw the deceased shoat a foot deer 'elite water. I got my haat and took her out; I am of opinion that she had not been long in the water; she was quite dead.  Mr. Robert Houlsiliteh RID a surgeon. and aria Called in intend the deceased Uu examitsatttot 1 foott.l th,t their was a cnutusiou over the Irft rye, and a lacsre, wound. Neither of them, in my opinion, were inflicted by a sharp instrument, nor were they sellicient to cause death , it is most probable they were caused by a fall. The Jury sat for a length of time, when being ofopinion that it was a mysterious cue, at the suggestion of M. . Uuwin, the Coroner, the luqurst was adjourued.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1818-11-20 (London, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE.  it has fallen to our lot, as josirnaliste, to mimed one of the most lamentable and most sincular instanrev or selfdestruction we ever heard or ever read of. It is entirely will t p.srallel. The eismes of the unhappy mem ate John sold Lancelot Yomighushand. We know Lot whether they are more to lw lamented ss useful menthe a of soeiel, or foe the uoyweceelented attachment which subsisted between them as brothers. In business they we re most respectable farmers, and had resided as tenants at Heck li.y Grauer, neat Akswirk, from their chelelbood. The eldest was lei vac on TO years of ace, and the youngest not less than OW They were always together ; never known to he sI : their thought, were similar, their ketones and actions the same.  Since the ealastrophe. the following are the circumstances which have tra.,spired: On the mourning of Tnes.!ay sennight, between and ten o'clock. while one of them was giving instructions to a huy plongbing in one of their fields, the other brother approached. and asked, " Are yon ready r Being answered in the affirmative. they left the field together. At dinner they were nos leg. bat this created little alarm, as accident or some unexpected business relivave to the farin might have occasioned their absence.— Evening arrival, mid they did nut appear. This naturally efedtd fearful apprehensions, and a servant was mut the way tht y had lieen seen walking, when the dreadful discovery was made that they sere tt.. lung. rin existence. They were lying distant front each other only a few yards, near a ditch, each laming his throat cut, and a razor neer his body. A watt* was also fonn.l beside one of them, from which it may Ise inferred that they had resolved to die at the same oroment. There was not the least appearance of stogie, nor any room fur suepicson that ►hey had heels murdered by others. A Jury was summoned that night, and continued to bold ingne.l, adjournments intervening, till Thursday night, when a verdict of felts do se was returned. The farming stock and toenails were then valued, aid the bodies were buried at midnight on Saturday, on cross roads near the church. Unaeaurosbk a. the bone was, the interment was numerously swede& All seem to allow the justice of the verdict, though all seem to lament it. The friends tif the deceased attempt. d to prove insanity, hut failed entirely; their greatest 'Gets being unable even to establish pievions meleesthuly. The act appears to have been some time premeditated. A hair-die-seer who was called before the Jury, idea• tified the razors fousduear the budses as having been brought to him to sharpen on the Saturday before. This melancholy event, fur which nu satisfactory cause has been assigned, will lung Malin its the recollection of all who hsve heal .1 of it, and sever be furytten by the inhabitants of Ainwick.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1818-11-02 (London, England)

BURGLARY AND SUICIDE.  A most daring burglary was lately coutrnitted in the house of Jobe Git Molt, Lag. of thehealey. The .eirenesetanees urn -is follow :—A coachman is the service of 11. H. Harmon, Esq. of Angruve Hull, having often been sent with notes to Mr Gillsuit's office, thus became acquainted with the house, and conceived the idea of robbing it by descend. Wig one of the chronic', with a pistol, and a lamp or lan. tern in his hand; which having effected as above, he broke open myna! lucks and bolts, and thereby entered the office, Iraving the marks of soot wherever be want. Here how. ever, ii is believed that he was alarmed by the maid servant, whose ludging-room is directly uver it; for he seems to have Woad? • precipitate retreat from the house by forcing apes the dour of the back-kitchen, and in Ins baits be had left iiidlooturbrd the money and silver plate., near both which he had evidently been. The so iinel of the story is however stilt more 111Chtlfhtlly. Shut I: will, remorse of conscience, or indneuced by a fit of insanity, the robber sous after laid liuleut hoods upon himself, apparently with the very pistol hr had prepared for carrying into effect his midnight enterprise. Wising Rimmed to a hay 'balk, wear hie master's house, he shoe himself, and I. ft • wife and three children to INiiient their hapless fate. His remains were fontid in the slia..e • Irv, drys ago, the body beiug, from the length of vine, in a 11141 t 4rt putrefaction, and his clothes coihred with suut as above deserihsol.—(Newcasfk i'oper.)  The house of Mr. John Chapman, of HOlO4lll Hall, in the I/41 lea' of Waltham Holy Cruse, in the county of Resets, fari,er, seas entered on the slight of Muaday, the 26th ult. by rev. rut persons, armed and disguised, who stole there. hunt 731 ..1 741. iu flank of Eugland notes, four watches ✓od oll.er property, belungdig to the said Mr J. Chapman; • psrduu is offered in Saturday night's Gassfre to any seconsid,ec giviere inforniati .... that may lead to the con. •I 1 111%111 of any of the depredators, and also a reward of 300 pourda, to he pa d t y Iffr Chapman, and the Overseers of us Hcly Coots awl Naziug.  I_
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1818-09-12 (London, England)

SUICIDE.  On nimbly morning a young man, of respectable connexion.", named George T•asdalc, son of Mr. T. clerk of Smithfield market; was siding at breakfast, at the house of his brother, Hr. Jostp4 Teesdale, Smillths. Id-bars, ke seised • knife Irmo off the table, and cut his throat with is in • horrible manner. He was conveyed immediately to St. Bartholomew's Ildspital, where he died. The deceased wars of very ay habits and disposition. Hr fairly hccame acquainted with a female, and hum their totes-comer circent. malice' arose subsequently, which reuderel hint wiry dejected end miserable. During Barth()lumeW Fair, stud for motet lime previous to it, hr took to excessive drinking ; he wars lint in bed during the WIWI! of Monday ulght last, and was intoxicated when be tontenitted the dtt.  An iniuisition sat yesterday upon the body before Mr. SPIELTOX, Coroner. The broker of she deceased stated, that fur some days prior to the roinnsission of the act, the deceased was, in his opinion, deranged in his mental faculties: he described the wiaiiiier tfte deteased tomniittrd the fatal deed. The surgeon of the hospital gave a description of She wound, and the Jury returned a verdict—The deceased cut his throat in a state of tasontty.  Coating Dtscovent.—Mr. BOND, of Ware shout April lost, purchased a farm, at Hay-street Braughing, Herts. the farm-house of which had been previously divided, and occupied by two tenants. A few days ago these premises being about Ns be sold in lots, the gobel ends were opened to *hew the qualtty of the mintier neat the roof, uud, as the man was passing along f one end to the other, he struck his foot against something hard ; when he gat a light he examined, and discovered the skulls of seven sheep ! On inquiry, it was ascertained that one Joins Clark, who was prosecuted by Mra W !AM,. farmer, of Mattsford, for sheep-stealing, at the Summer Assizes, 1817. and transported, lived in one part of this house; and these skulls were. in all probability. hidden by Istui, to avoid a discovery of his uefarious practices.  •
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1818-03-09 (London, England)

DESPERATE SUICIDE.  Mr. Samuel Bray, &swim. of Brick•lane, Whitechapel, committed the following dreadful act of suicide on Saturday last, shout two o'clock in the afternoon of that day. Tile unfortunate young man went into the shop of Mr. Kent, ebyenist and druggist in the same street, and appeared quite deranged; there was no poison in the shop at the time hot the shorties, who heehaw alarmed at his behaviour ; at length the unfortunate Mr. Bray jumped upon the counter, and grasping a large bottle, anutainhig some pribionolia medicine (with which be was welt acquainted), he drank off the whole contents, then seating himself on a stool, in about a minute be fell on the floor, and was seized with convulsions, sod died before any remedy could be administered. The unfortunate young man was son to a respectable gentleman, and served his time with Mr. Kent, in whose shop he committed the fatal act. After 'erring bin lime he gut niatried, and at the lime of his death he left a wife and two children to deplore his loss. He had been for some time in great distress, owing to his heist out of a situation, and nut able to support himself and family in any degree of respectability he became in a desponding state, and finally committed the above rub act. The body now lies for a Coroner's Inquest.  The Fifth Battalions of the 60111 and the tenth Regiments of Foot, have been ordered to be disbanded. Between the hours of two and threeeeloek on the mom ing of Wednesday the 18th ultimo, the home of Mrs. lbw pur, of Falkenham, in the comity of Suffolk, was Wren. riously mitered by three persons disguised in masks, who went up stairs to the chamber of Mrs. Harper, and 'Art dewinding her money by threats (they standing on seek side of her bed, armed), proceeded to ribs the house,. sod took sway bbl. in Bank of England antes, sad ether property A free pardon to any accomplice giving inhumation flint may lead to conviction, is offered in Ssltirday Night's Gazelle, and a reward of one handrail poeuds to Its paid by Mr. William harper, of Stratton, Mall, near Ipswich,. to any person giving informatioo that May lead to the coo lotion of any of the offenders.  LrrEc r.s OF
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1818-12-30 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.  Yesterday an inquest was Kehl at the house of 'Jr. A. Cootteh, the I.ign of the Bricklayers Arms, kingsgate•street, Holborn, before Thomas Stirling, Esq 11111 the body of Wm. Bolton, a coachman, aged 51 years, who came to his death by cutting his throat. Ants Colton, wife to the deceased, gave her evidence under the grraieet atiiction. She deported they lived at No. 5, Silver-street, Bloomshney. He was a sober, steady man, and a good husband; these two last months be had been very ill with a cough, and severe pains in his bead, attended with lowness of spirits ; he was a man that never swore, and one of the last persons she would suspect to commit suicide, if he ass in a proper state of mind; they slept to separate beds in the same room, and burned a rushlight at night owing to his illness ; be went to bed about eight o'clock on solidity evening; she gave him some gruel, and be appeared more comfortable ; he made her go to lied at the same time, an she was out at wok the three days before ; he awoke about eleven o'clock, and called for a drink, she got top and gave him a wine elms full of weak gilt and water, as lie was so low spirited ; she went to sleep again, and awoke at three o'clock, and nut hearing him breathe, she called, bat receiving no answer, she got up, took the light, and was shocked at finding him lying on his bark quite dead and cold, welierint; in his blood, Isis throat cut, and a razor covered with blood clasped in his hand, and another razor lying on the bedclothes. She called Mrs. Barbrooke, the landlady, who assisted to wash and lay him out. A felbm-coschmais corroborated the first part of her evidence, nod the Int y, without hesitation, retained a verdict— " Died but his own set, is calling Ws throat in a stale of rarafal derangement."  It C. one of the important results of chymicai sr,etice, that the various products frt.ru the distillation of roil amount to neatly six times the price of the original article. A chaldrnot of Newcastle coals, which costa minim 3/., will produce—  1.1; elialdron. of Coke, at 31N CI 18 9 12 Gallons of Tnr, at 10d 18 Calton• of Ammonia! Liquor. at 6.1 20,000 cubic Fret of Gas, al 15s. per 1,000 Cubic Feet