The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-06-15 00:00:00

POLICE.

C EX T.
Yesterday the young man wh.o is in custody on
various ch.wges of swindling somas or.,rght before N.
I..sq. :and Sir V 1 .x. r.soas fur further es-
sunination.
Mr. Christian, a linen-draper, of Wigmore-street,
uttendel, and stated, that ti,e prisoner came to his
iph,,p, and ordered linen drapery goods to a consi-
derable amount, and desired them to be sent to a
shop in Mary-le-bonne-street. Mr. C. susoettirg
the prisoner not to be an honest man, gave his ser-
vant strict instruaions not to leave the goods without
the. :honey; but on the prisoner tendering a draft
for the pa; meat, signed James Baker, on Messrs.
Smi 14 Payne, and Smith, he accepted it. On pre.
sent.ng it for payment, the clerk declared no such
persua kept cash there.
Mr. Scott, a tayor, of Pall-Mall, said, on the 9th
of May last the prisoner came to his house and or-
dered r. coat, waistcoat, and two pair of breeches.
At the time appointed for them to be made the pri-
soner called again, and tried them on, saying, they
sued him very well ; tint he would keep the coat
2nd waistcoat on, and leave his old coat and waist-
coat; in payment he gave a draft upon Messrs. Cox
and Greenwood, the army agents, signed D. James.
On its being presented for payment, it was discor
vexed to be a forgery. The coat and waistcoat which
te had on proved to be the same which the prisone-
had obtained from Mr. Scott, and the Magistrate
informed Mr. S. as they had been obtained by frau-
dulent means he had a right to take them from him ;
they were about to bz taken off, when Mr. S. very
Itumanely interfered, and said they would be of no
use to him, and he was very welcome to them, but
Lee prisoner did not appear grateful.
Mr. Finch, the mace-bearer to the Lord Chancel-
lor, state a, that the prisoner had obtained goods to
a consideraible amount from his shop in Cornhill, by
means of a forged draft.
i fie was committed fir further examination.
A number of men who were impressed on Mon-
day evening by the patiole, by virtue of press-war-
rants, were brought before the Magistrates, when
set•e.nsl of them proving to be stainers, they were
sent on board the tencl:r.

The Diem: packet, Captain Srxwarr, has also
arri:ei at Yarmouth, from lielvoetsluys, with Mr.
L:rrom and family, our Ambassador, from the
Hague the Diana is one of the packets which
sailed with Rags of truce. By the frigate came
orzr Majors Dmorom and Dastre, Aids-de-Camp
to their Royal Highnesses, and Mr. Ross, an Eng-
lish messenger, from St. Petersburgh. By the
racket arrived Mr. Easr, the English messenger,
who was imprisoned at the Erille, and a ft.reign
messenger from Vienna.
The Ametbytt frigate, Captain CANTRELL, ar-
rived at Yarmouth from Cuxhaven, yesterday morn-
ing, with their Royal Highnesses the Duke of CAN-
) Ivor and Prince WILLIAM of Giouctsrts.—
Their kola! Highnesses left the Elbe on Thursday
morning. The alfdpentene frigate, with fifty sail of
merchantmen from Hamburgh, laden with the
property of the Hamburghers, had sailed from
thence on Wednesday last.
CUP? Ot. A LaTTill TO THE CHAIRMAN OT Tut
witet-INDIA "clic!' ANT 4 Is GLASGOW.
di SIR,. Admiralty Ofur, 7stns 3, 1803.
44 In answer to your letter of the 28th of lag '
month. requesting, by desire of the merchants of
Glasgow trading to the West Indies, that a convoy
may be appointed to sail tiom Cork for the West
Indies, I am commanded by my Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, that a con-
voy Ism been ordered at Cork, and that the wade
thou's& assemble there is soon as possible.
I am, Sir, &C. 44 EYAN NEP LAN."
r Mr. yam: Buchanan, Warsaw."
By the death of Dr. Counting'', Bishop ef
Exeter, the valuable Re&ory of St. George's, lia-
NOVer-IWares is become vacant, in the gift of the 1
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