The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-09-03 00:00:00

• LOSS OF TEE EARL MOIRA PACKET.

No more bodies hive beeu washed op since our last. We
are in hope., therefore, that the probable number of the sof-
f , by the melancholy alopw.eck of the Earl Moira, was
exaggerated at the tins( of the eatutioplie. It is tau impro.
bable, indeed, that some bodies may have been so covered by
the sand, as not to float at the usual period. lf, however,
there are any which have not hitherto floated, they are, we
hope and believe, very few. We staled, in our publication
of this day fortnight, that only 54 persons had been saved by
the different boats which came to their assistance; but this
was au error, and we are gratified in having now to correct
it. The total number seemed from a watery grave was 71;
of which 33 were semi by the Hoylake lifeboat; 8 by
Neale's boat; 12 by Currie's; 10 by Evans's, of the Mega.
sines ; 5 by a Hoylake boat; and 3 by No. 11, pilot boat.
Now, as stveral of the must ilittlligeot survivors agreed in
eatimatiag the total number of persons on board the packet.
oh. a the dreadful catastrophe took place, at 110, and u 91
have been picked op, making, with the 71 survivors,
an regregate of 102, this dream...tura affords a strong cur.
roborati•,n of the opinion expicased above, that the number
nista sees was at Gist exaggerated.—(Liverpool Courier.)

A melancholy accident occurred on Thursday evening, be-
tween five and six o'clock, and which has involved a whole
family in the deepest affliction. The two sous of Mr Cooper,
of Stainford.atreet, the elder ten years of age, the younger
just turised a. wen, slipped away from home, their mother
within the last few days having bn ti confined. The elder
boy, havtog a toy boat, went dower to the river side above
Ithackfriarp-bridge, to sail it, accompanied by his brother:
they got on board a barge at its moorings, anal occupied
themselves, the one putting the toy boat into the river at one
end of the barge, mid the other catching it •t the other end.
Tire younger buy, Master Fri deride, is must interesting child,
lust hia balance, pitched over, and sunk to rise no more.
The elder brother called out to the wateemen who were close
by, when Julio Lewis, Samuel Drll,and John Brown rendered
every prompt assistance in their power, but they could not
recover the body before the vital spark oat extinguished,
octet to he trcall;d:

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POLICE.
NANUON-NOtnii.
CAUTION.
Sstorday a woman underwent • final examination, on a
charge of uttering • forged one-pound note She had, it ap-
peared, been detected in uttering • forgers at the shop of
a citisen, wbo detained and gave her into custody. She was
recognised as an old utterer, and the usual nature of the
charge was sent by the Lord Mayor's clerk to the Bank,
that they might prosecute. In the mean time this woman
was reulanded, and was on Satiorday brought up for final
examination, when Mr. Maynard attended from the Bank.
Mr. Maynard informed the Lord Mayor that the Hank
had, since the issue of gold,
come to a deterrnination nut
to prosecute in canine uttering forged I/. motes.
The Lord Mayor here expressed his surprise at this de.
termination, as it was the interest of the Bank to uphold the
public confidence in the notes.
Mr. Maynard said, that the Bank wished to warn the
public from taking the I/. 'rotes • all. It vra. entirely at
their own risk, and on their own responsibility, if they
now took 11. notes from strangers. He would not go the
length of saying, dial the Rank would not prosecute at all
in such cases, but they declined all interference, as they did
nut wish that the notes should be taken.

The Lord Mayor said that the public should now be par.
licularly cautious in taking the Doles, which were so easily
converted into specie, and should weigh well the risks of
taking any of them from strangers. It should nut, how-
ever, go abroad, that the law against utteiers was dead, be-
cause the Bask declined to prosecute. The public could
prosecute equally well as if a charge were to be b gbt by
an individual; the Magistrate could bind him over to pro-
Semite, as in other eases of felony.
The person who gave the Prisoner in charge, as be had
not lost any thing, did net appear to prosecute, Thu Pro-
110111T was Colls.quetrily discharged, after GU ■dmonttiou
from his Lordship.
It may be worth observing, that since the issue of cold,
the number of persons takes in custody on charges 'if ,t-
-teilng IL forged notes in London has biers alimitiio)..l,
from an average of thirty to one or two a week. The num-
ber of persons taken is emlorty on charges of uttering
forged 51. notes has inerea.eil, Litt not in any proportion to
the decrease of the number on charges of attain forged 11.
notes.