The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-10-02 00:00:00

rOIiTIJA R-TRLLERS.

Iklueh attention wao hot week excited in Booton by a re.
wtorkable instance of simple credulity and ul erinarqueut
deception. A fort u WS. teller, who styled herself* 'rise woman,
was fur frome week• resident in that town, ibentigh which
the ingeniously taus- tl the foliowilia address in moortiseript
to be privately rill-slated on small pieces of paper:—
'' Ladle., if you wish to know wlket is past, ter what is to
come, any questions asked ran be ►esolved by Mtg. ?Ilford,
dealer in Ladies' wash. balls, lodged at Mrs. Tomlinson's,
Petticoat lame, Ilusiou."

Ou Moods, evening, the 1711 s, a servant girl of the town
tined upon Mrs. Tilfurd, who persuaded her 10 burrow, suit
bring to her lodgings, twenty-four pound soles, on a pro-
mise that the man she would marry should that night ap-
pear at her bed side, provided she slept with that SUPS of
mosey In the isside of her stays. The girl, who placed
the notes on a chest of drawers, kept her eyes lized stead-
fastly upon them, but so far became the dupe of the fondue-
teller that when she unrolled, at seven o'clock the neat
morning, the piece of Mown paper into which she imagined
she saw them put one by one, she found nothing in it but
another piece of paper, for the notes had renowned in the
*ands of Mrs. Tilfoid, who decamped from her lodgings
during Monday night, and left Boston by the Perseverance
roads on Tneselay morning at four (o'clock. As the girl, in
obedience to the t•junci• of her do (vine, did not tollhouse
the pp, r from her stays furore seven o'clock, the (orlon,-
teller had unhappily hut tun much time to elude her pur-
suers. and to fo morale the 1110111111 which were as soon as Iwo-
rale hat., (,r her apprehension. She is said to he • hall
muddle-.g J veinal., of imposing manucrs and 'cola! aJ•
Ar

A similar case Lady "ecuried at Lincoln about a fortniyht
ego. A yettog limns,. of that city, icflttrueed Ly that unlace-
„Nome curiosity alter things to come for which tie" terflee
tor" ore said to I.e distinguished, applied to a game of the
shore d. seriplion for requisite infornict ton upon same points
in which she was deeply intireoed. Ihe weird mister whom
she tonsulted, after Amin.,' the case, declated herself fully
competent to expound the mailer, ma condition she were
• How. it lime to keew upon it, and which site bail nu doubt of
doing that night, provided she would lead bee therm-riot"
she wore to put moiler her pillow !—This was agreed tu. It
Mil 'lien discovered that some petticoat*, solk•handker.
chiefs, and other property which the young pursuit had
with her, would materially strengsben the chasm :—all
which demands were instantly acres/id tu by the other
with the most imerealimg simplicity. ni fore night, Wiw-
i err, mime misgiviaga oft the pert either of toe young
woman or her filmed'', ticemiimseil a search to be made
by a consfahle is the preraiers u loch the party had occupied,
in a purl of the town tailed New ; but they had
*bead) flown, with the excep of a moo belonging to them,
upon whom Ilse Iwo petticoats were found. A long chess
rya* made Ow rise reed of the East in the directness of
Wf•gbY, bet owieg I. She dark.e.. if ate wrens( they
'seeped.