The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-06 00:00:00

THE LATE MR. ST-iELE.

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The murderer of the above gentleman, on Nouns-
low heath, about two years since, has at length
been discovered, and in a way which forcibly shews,
that Providence will not suffer the perpetrators of
those unnatural crimes to escape, even in this world,
the pitniihnient they so justly merit, however they
may for a time elude the hands of justice, as the
fAlowing account will sufficiently evince :
A fire brcke nut in the chimney of a :mall house
at Oatland., near Chertsey : the man belonging to
which being from home, his wife called in the assist-
ance of the neighhours, one of whom, in his en-
deavours to exttnitisit the fire, discovered a pair of
baits secreted in the s,de of the chimney, which
were shortly after tecognised to have belonged to
the unfottiotate Mr Steel, h lying his name written
inside of them, and appearing in several places as if
stained with blood. The man, on his return home,
on heariog of the accident that had happened, in-
st4ntly tan towards the chimney, and demapded of
his wife wbat she had done with the boots, i/lreaten-
ing to cut her tin oat if she did not instantly tell him
where they were. lie was, however, shortly after
secured by the neighbours, and has since beet► com-
muted into the hands of justice.

According to a private letter from Paris, of the
24d. another StIOOPIV rellSieliNi will soon be published,
the object "F which is to place LUCIEN 80N.% P A RTE
upon a level with his brothers, as a Revolutionary
Imperill flighners. It is reported, however, that
he will not return to France during the life of his
present wife, who is said to be in a decline. Our
Correspondent observes, that the present exemplary
devotion of BON AP sty,. has made all his Senators,
&luny-hors, Genet els, .srid other favourites, dev tees.
Like their 111:4stel, they never negleft to go to
mass once a day, to confess once a fortnight,
and to carry their prayer books in their po,ketsi
On the day after Hors AP A RTE'S return from his lat.
journey, he confessed to Cardinal CA re A RA, who is.
now become the most fashionable confessor at Paris,
and consequently is daily tormented with demands
to relieve the tender consciences of the new revolu-
tionary gentry. At RI ANDER the Great being wry-
necked, all his courtiers atie.fted that deformity ;
and, no doubt, sh .ul.l atheism be once more the
order of the day with the Mock Emperor, those very
men who lately denied the existence of a GOD, w:11
be the first to overturn the altars of elitist, and to
massacre his ministtrs. The apartment in the
ViliOTl of Flora, in the Theitleries, now fitted up as
a private chapel for the Purr, was, in I 79e. the pri-
vate chapel of the late unfortunate Queen of FRANCIS.
I❑ 1793, BA NaLite converted it into a !pest-cham-
ber for his mistress, who represonte.! tire Goddess
of Reason in the Church of Notre Dame, where the
Poet is to crown BONAPARTE j and was, in 11%0,
the bed-chamber of Madame BONAPARTE, then
the enivress of 4411,5 5. Ft om the windows of this
apartment may he seen the place where the unfor-
tunate Lours the XVI. hie beautiful Queen, and
his amiable sister. the Princess ELIE ARETN, with
4,000 good and innocent individuals and loyal sub-
jetis, perished by the guillotine in 17:13 and 179 .
Drew singular occurrences and circumstances have
produced several ludicrous caricatures; but they
have r carLely appeared before they were seized by
the p:ilice, and their venders doomed to trans-
portation.
The .4,4i0n, ('...miens, from Petershurgh, for
Drindee, is lost nn Falsterboro' Rock.
The Uefea, 1% nerwet t. from Dantrie, for Lon-
don, is al .0 on shore on Falsterboro' Reef, and it is
feared will hr lost.
The (:e,-.le, 111 K retry, from Liverpool for
Tralee, was totally lost on the Tasker, on the Tith
ult.
The justiana, MIL s. tn. from Liverpool for Ton-
ningen, is on shore on the Wicklow flanks, and six
test water in her hold.

The ExrhNnge, BLY, from thz North, and the
Ohre, JAGGER, from Hull for Yarmouth, are on
shore near Yarmouth Pier.

The :fee, Nona, f►om Dant..ic, for London,
is on shore near Yarmouth ; another ve‘scl, from
the Baltic, is wrecked near the same place.
The Un on, Ukase, from Peter burgh for Lin-
don, is on slime near Grimsby ; another ship is lost
onNewconslic Sand.

The
`lobs Hall hired armed cutter, of 10 guns,
Lieut.wa IGH-r, is arrived at Plymouth with
dispatches from Lord Nr.i.som, off Toulon : she left
the meet the 19th of °Sober. It is with great pica.
sure we state, that on the 14th of Odober, the bill
of health given bk. lAsrd Nitsow, certifies that the
crews of all the ships are in the most perfed health,
there not !wing one man confined to his bed by any
sickness whatever.
In the unfortunate Spanish frigate, La Vermiler,
were ernbAlked a Spanish gentleman, his lady, four
daughters, and five sons. He was returnialgo Old
Spain with his lovely family, the daughliih re-
markably beautiful (especially so the eldest), with
all his large fortune, the gradual savings t f twenty-
five years' industry ! A little while before the action
'commenced, this gentleman, with a son (a Ltd),
went on board the Rear-Admiral's ship, by his order.
Alas! horrid to relate, in a few minutes he became
the dreadful spedator of his wife, his &night. rs,
and four of his sons, enrapt in sulphurestus flames,
sinking into the Abyss of waters, with all his trea-
sure! Never again, in this world, to bless his es es
and cheer his heart ! This unhappy vidim of cala-
mity (so vast as Hot to be founts in the sad records
of human woe) arrived at Plymouth, with the unit
of his comforts, in Captain Mooties cabin, who
unceasingly administered all in his power to his al-
leviation.

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striNDLEn:

A villain of this tleseription has recently imposed
open the unsuspeaing generosity of the Xlelsli cha-
rafter, to an extent unexmpled, we believe, in our
modern annals of deptedation and infamy. The
scene of his operations has been as yet chiefly in
Carmarthenshire, and on the borders of Cardigan-
shire ; and the mere recital of his enormities, which
have already come to our knowledge, would greatly
ecceed our confined limits. We shall, however,
particularise a few of the most prominent, in the
hope, at least, of checking his further career, if not
of producing deteaion and ultimate puniahment.-
Ile has, at different times, assumed the names of
Pima: June's, Rres, George Watkins, Grif-
fdi Rufisrt, W:/Gains, Themes Grplis,
4-c. and, by pretending to be the sits of it dissenting
preacher, known to two persons in Carmarthen-
shire, ot that persuasion, obtained five guineas from
each of them ; he also got five guineas from a farm-
er, in the same county, alter making a fiaitious
berg tin to sell him 100 bushels of oats ; and seven
gnutie.ts from anot!ter farmer, of whom he promised
to buy a lot of butter. By representing himself to
a most respeaable attorney as the son of a client of
his, he likewise obtained five guineas ; and has
duped many ot .er persons of various sums, under
similar pretences. He lately went to a farm-house
below Carmarthen, and expressed a wish to pur-
chase some oxen ; but, as the farmer was then going
from home, an appointment was made for the next
morning; before they parted, at a short distance
from the house, lie enquired the time of the day,
and, on the farmer pulling out his watch, the other
appeared quite pleased with it, and urged the far-
mer to dispose of it, which he declined. The pre-
tended cattle-buyer, however, at length succeeded
in borrowing the watch till the next day, leaving
three guineas in the farmer's hands, by way of seen
rity. No sooner was the latter out of sight, than
the artful villain returited to the house, and told the
farmer's wife he bad been transaaisig business with
her husband, and that she was to give him 201. ;
at the same time producing the watch, to confirm
the truth of his statement. The woman accordingly
gave him the suns teiptired ; upon wltich lie decamp.
ed with both watch and money. Happetint; to he in
an ale-house, at another time, where two gentle•
in 11 were treating for a small sstate, he screened
himself as much as possible from their notice, and
attentively listened to the nature of the coutraa ;
the next day he called on the purchaser, stated him-
self to be the son of the person who had sold the
estate, aud, making as apology for troubling him
sn early after the conclusion of the bargain, re-
quested to have 601. in part of the purchase money,
his father having had an unexpeited demand, which
he could not conveniently satisfy without such as-
sistance ; the gentleman, seeing no cause to doubt
the truth et his story, readily complied, and found
too late that he had been grossly imposed upon.
This notorious offender is apparently dU years of
age, five feet six inches high, and of a dark com-
plexion—he possesses a good address, and insinuat-
ing manners, to which the success of his schemes
May be attributed. He was in custody on two oc.
lasi-ms but we are sorry to say that he was suffered
to escape, on making restitution to die injured rar-
Wit lie has now continued his nefarious preetices
about two months with impunity, and is suppc ed
to be still lurking in some part of Carmerthenshite.
We hope, however, that justice will speedily over-
take him, and put a tine) period to his iniquity.