The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-04-05 00:00:00

LORD NELSON.

On Wednesday morning last, the first stone *bore
the foundation of the Obelisk, ere Sing to the me-
mory of Lord Nelson, in the Castle-green, in the
city of Hereford, was laid with mods ceremony.
Three Lodges of Masons, the Palladian. RGyal
Edward, and \lercian ; the First Regiment of
Herefordshire Volunteers ; the Corporation of the
City ; and a large concourse of Freemen, assisted
on the occasion. In the stone was placed a copper-
plate, with the following inscriptions on each side :
" on this spin era• esefled, by subsciintion„ a Column, in
honour of Horatio Ne...on, K.B. Vice.Adosirslof the White,
Karon Nelson or the Nile, Viscount Nelson, and Duke of
Brood, in Sicily; owlet whose command the British Fleets
were led to repeated sictories; and, rineeerf occasion. evinced
the skill and intrepidity of warners. In the achiesesneet
of the lest great •icnoy are, the Conioniell Fleets of France
heal Spain, off Ca,.. 'Trafalgar. October Vlst, 11110:*, be was
slain by a musket-tun, honourml and regretted by tin Grateful
country..
Ott THE atYFISt. 4- 1
The ,as stnn• this C silllTlto %la. Jai Ihe the Malta end
liretiiren of the Ps kit a., laudg,..l Free a lid Accepted Masons,
on the id day or Arnil. AD. IdUS. A. 1.. bildG Thomas
Kir&R.W.M. J.llsis Milk. W S.W. Thomas Downes,
%VI W. with the assistance of the Ma.ten and Brethren of
the R .yal Edward and Mer7ian Lodges."

The ceremony, both from its preise-wotthy ob-
ject, and its intention to perpetuate the memory of a
Hero, whose name is enrolled on the list of our citl.
tens, by his brother Freemen, will be extremely in-
teresting.

A few ..!ays since, a dealer at the Isle of Grain,
ne ir the Sore, hcmght a small chest •,f tea of a
smuggler, when, nn opening the same, to his great
surprize, he found two bags of skins, covered with
canvas, which contaii:el nine pounds of yellow ore :
not knowing what it was, he toot a sample of it to a
wh a informed tam that it was gold dust.
The value of the prop-rty s.i found. amounted to
upwards of 5301. liow it cans: 141:4 the chest, no
one can tell.


Pol,lcti.

rawait.e,aounn-rritarr.
elides Mianno^-1 anal Cle.rge Brew*, tl e persons
charged with robbing the Rer. Mr. Craven Orde,
in the Strand, have undergone a lung private exa-
mination. It will be remembered, that the Prose-
cutor was not-present at the exam:nation of Bevan,
when he was taken ; and be could not, at the present
exmionation, swear positively to his person, although
he believed him to be one of the three who accosted
him, and that he was the person who snatched
away his purse.
Mr. Lingham, tailor, in the Strand, swore to
Bevan; as having paid him the bill of 181. the
morning subsequent to the robbery, which turned
nut rt have been a part of the contents of the purse.
for clothing to the amount of 111. Duplicates of
part of the clothing were found on Bevan's wife,
which she had pledged at the shop of Mr. Page,
ernbroker, in Sherrard.street, which rendered
an accomplice.
With reset to the prisoner Hammond, the evi.
• donee given against him at the former examination,
was substantiated by the Clergyman, at *hose
house, as before stated, he called himself a Bow-
street Officer, and charged the brother of hlr. C.
Orde with a heinous crime, taking him for the
gentleman he had robbed. ft was stated to the MA-
•OISTRATE, by one of the Officers, that Bevan was
old offender, and the Maotsraate recognised
bim to he so. A fellow was execut,d some years
since, for robbing a gentleman, by charging him
with an unnatural crime, and a subscri:stion WAS set
oft foot, amongst his brethren, t* boy him a cscilia kc.
23L was collrft-d„ and the pri.nner Bevan was math:
treasurer for the undertaking, when he decamped with
the money. Hammond was recognised by a Serfeant
inthe I ,t fteg:m.mt of Foot Guards, to be a deserter
from that corps, for which offence, he had been pu-
nished. He was stated to be a detestable charac-
ter in the regiment. The two prisoners, and Be-
van's wife, were remanded for another examination,
on Wednesday next. 'I he panics were bound over
to appear on that day, and to prosecute at she Old
Bailey. The other offender is not yet in custody.
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