The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-03-17 00:00:00

POLICE.

sow-truer.
On Saturday, a cabinet-maker. late of Fs•rd-
street, Finsbury-square, was brought in the custody
of Anthony and Adkins, before NICIIOLAS BOND,
Esq. and Sir WILLIAM P•asons, and underwent
a private examination, charged by the Directors of
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the Pheenix Fire-Office, with wilfully setting fire to
his house, on the nig!-.t of the :kith of last January,
with intent to defraud them of the money for which
be was insured in their otfi:e.
•It appeared that the Prisoner had. about three
weeks since, received e. 944. from the care, for the
losses hr had sustained. A variety of suspicious re-
ports besng propagated in the neighlsourhood, that
the prisoner's premises were intentionally set on fire,
caused the Agents of the Offiee to be diligent in
their enquiries to ascertain whether there were any
ground for the reports, and they discovered suffi-
cient circumstances to induce them toapprehend the
prisoner. Ore of thewitnesses who was present at
the breaking out of the fire, at two o'clock in the
morning, is positive he saw three distinct fires—in
the kitchen, in the parlour, and on the first floor.
The prisoner was committed for further examina-
tion.
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Saturday, While, alias IVO'', he. the person
in custody for uttering Ditton Batik-notes of no
value, underwent a final examination before the
Loan Marcia. A number of tradesmen attended
to give evidence against the prisoner. but his
ship into, mei.' them he was under the necessity of
discharging the prisoner. as his offence could net
be teelenised by law.
Mr. Patch, accused of the murder of Mr. Blight,
the ship-breaker, of Rntherhithe, was removed en
friday evening, from Newilate, by writ of Habeas
Cr'.'.., to the county gaol of Surrey. preparatory
to taking his trial at vie Assizes at Kingston, on the
26th it.stant. The Calendar for Surrey, If prison-
ers in the vul, is very heavy: beside fleece, there
is Staehag,the Deptfeid carrier, with two others for
murder, one for a rape, and a great number for
burglaties; in addition to thee', the list of minor
offences is very long. In Perch', case alone, we un-
derstand. there ate nineteen willies es to be s
mulct! i t ch.er.
In consequence cf a !weber. of Stretford. near
Mancherrete having disappeared from the period of
the last flood. a report prevailed, that an apparitisn
bad bent frequently seen, at midnight, near Cross-
bridge. between Stret!ord and Cross-street, where '
there is generally a standing ponies( water ; a town's
meeting was convened, which came to a resolution '
abetting the place pumped dry. The business w.,s
accordingly undertaken. and, after several days la-
hour. completed on Thursday, when the body of
the butcher was found. He was generally sap-
vied to have been robbed and murdered ; but, on
examining the body, money, and other valuable!.
were found in his pockets ; a circumstance which
evidently proves his death to have been accidental.
The most ridiculous and unaccountable reports have
been circulated on this sulljea: the cattle are said
to have refused to the water, and horse;, pass-
ing that way. in have shook and trembled under
their riders ; and that the ghost was frequently seen
in the form a dog, at other times, in that of a man,
uttering &clad yells of distress.
The freest , Cele nines. tram Liverpool, for Ho-
lyhead, is on shore near Holyhead.
A statistical account. published at Stockholm,
states the population of Sweden. nio including Po-
rneran:a. to have amounted, in 1801, to three mil-
lions one hundred anJ eighty-two thousand one hun-
dred and thirteen persons. In this enumeration,
there were 12,06 e persons of noble birth, 16,434
ecclesiastics, 1,275 merchants, 17,`./33 shop-keepers,
" 605 mannfaaurers. 57,634 h andicrafts-men, 14,633
sailors, 2.37'2,997 peasants, 7, i :ZS students, 155.734
naval and military troops of every kind. The po-
pulation of Stockholm, amounted, at the same pc-
• to 75.517 inhabitants.
One of the late Paris Papers, the Joe.eat Cme-
*erre, of the 4th iost. rneations, that there is at p: e-
sent living in that city. a child, twenty-one months
old. who only weighs four pounds, and whose length
is only thirty-four centimetres, or eighteen inches,
and three lines; he has s x teeth, four in the upper,
and two in the under jaw. He was born at the re-
gular period of nine months. Both his parents are
healthy and vigorous ; the father is a porter, and
the mother, a eery comely figure, is a washer-
wanao.

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