The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-09-21 00:00:00

LATE ROBBERY OF THE NORIVICII lit4lL.

The following particulars respecting the late robbery of
the shove mail have been pnblishvd :—Mr. Colchester, a
confidential clerk in the service of Messrs. Alexander •ad
Co., bankers at Ipswich, and who has been in the habit fur
a length of time uf coming to tore with cnosiderable sums
of money intestate/I to his care, and returning with the like,
on the sight of Wednesday week, the 11th instant, took his
seat by the Norwich mail, laud was reinrning home to
Ipswich, with • considerable bulk of uncancelled none,
amounting to upwards of 40,0001. which had bee, paid by
the London bookers. Messrs. Alexander sail Co. it seem.,
have • box fitted up in the !vat of the mail for the purpose
anteing additional security to the conveyance of large sums
of money backward and forward, and it was upon this boa
that Mr. Coletester kept his seat all the way to Ipswich,
except fur a few moments. He was accompanied by three
inside passengers, and only left his seat on two *cc*.
sioos--the find at lagatestone, where be took a glass
of beer; the overload lime •t Colchester; donee the last
be held the door in his hand, wills hie back to the other
three inside passengers, and ors neither occasion did he
lose sight of his valuable treasure more than three or four
ok,el,s. II ia, therefore, strongly suspected that these dar-
ing villains, who have obtained this immense booth must
have opened the box and rubbed is of ifs contents daring
the short intervals Mr. Colchester left sight of it, via. at lu-
gatestone sad Colchester. These three persons appeared to be
entire strangers to each other, and accompanied Mr. Col.
cheater instil he reached Colchester, when two of them left,
and the third proceeding on, no doubt with the iateatioa ofoe-
espying Mr. Colchester's attention, and thin prevent bias, in
the presenceuf another pereou,froas examining the safety of the
property. Mr. Colchester continued proeeediag so his jonraey
with this passenger, in familiar conversation, and bad not
the leant idea of what had occurred until he reached loss
wic b, wbeo he fantod, in the ititi-nipt of fixing the key to
open the padlock, that the staple through which it was put
bad beefs wrenched from of the side, and carefully placed
back against the box, so that there was no apprentice of its
howls; been misplaced, and thus the thieves bad been Coo-
bled to take the lurk with the staple off at their pleasure.
The wrenching of the staple off, it is imagined, mast have
been done • few minutes before the mail left the inn yard is
town. No part of the property has been discovered, nor say
of the thieves apprehended who committed this robbery.

NAVAL lA'TP,LLIGENCE.

PORTINOUTR, samara= lg.

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Put is by contrary winds the Conks Iton Park, Clark, from
Jamaica ; ■nd Goveruur Harroert, Wilson, from Demerara.
Put back the Alezander, Young.
PLYKOOTIII. sarransta 111.
Arrived the Hirano, Watts, trout Leghorn ; sad Guides
Spring, Atrium. from Jamaica.
Railed the Sperulatioo, Richard% for Prim. Edward's
Island,

serrsuant 18.

The Trafalgar, from Gretaland, is aappooad to be la ihs
Hombre with out Cash, about lb wits of oil; she is ouch
damaged.

DIAL, SIPTI3IIIIII 19.
Arrived Ibis movnioy sod sailed fur the River t►e Tritos,
Darby, frogs Belfast.
Remain to the Dumas the Severn frigate; sad Diligeoce
East lads. pilot yacht.

The following ships have attired at Peterhead from Green-
land :—Perseverance, four fish, 60 lune of oil ; Ginger,
eight Ink 90 ions of oil ; Pan, four fish, SS tutu of oil ;
and Mary, owe lab, lb tens of oil.
Tho Dine* ship Wilhelm Frederick, Norms's, from Rita
For Towne, which put lute Cowes she 6th of °colter, 1611,
with lus• et three topmasts and lesky, went into dock there
Intruder Its be repaired.