The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-01-26 00:00:00

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BOW-NTrftT.
On the slight of the toll' of last November, Mr. Sidcs, a
wholesale jeweller, who resides in the neighbourhood it,
Clerkems ell, was awaked by a noise, • id on sitting up in lwd,
he saw a light iu 11w apartment adjoining his hertrootn,
which he used as a ware-room, the dour of which was left
open; be distinctly saw two men taking jewellery 0111 it •
remand a bureau, *lnch had been broken open. Oar it
them, he had no doubt, was a man of the name of Roberts,
who hail served part of Ins time to him as an apprentice,
and bad till lately worked as journeyman with him, Mr. Sides
nl length gut up, which alarmed the rubbers; they ran Of,
and made their escape out of the humor.. On Mr. Sideeii-
mnikaing his ware-ovum, be discovered that the villains had
re.rried off jewellery to the ninount oiscverd hundred pounds;
and bewail confirmed that it bail been dome by it jeweller, an the
snider had been separated from gold, and other circumstances
that put it beyond a iloiribt. :dr. Sides alarmed the house,
and it was ascertained that the robbers bud .entereil by the
kitchen window, which had been opened, and the shatter
taken down and War rd whsle it in geitertil was in the day-
time. Nu mar; a it violence were to lie pi rcrivrd. Tao
eirrunistimee lcd to a suspicion of some of the household,
stud that the ruble ra had tercu let iu ; bearer r, on nor ion eV
!ignition, it turned ..at that the mount girl was prides she
put up the kitchen window shutter, and bolted that and the
window at dusk the preceddag evening. Owe of the appren-
tices said, that the man ;;Ilidwets) shot Mr. Sid+4 aas P°6i.
if e *as one of the robber., bad colletl upon bins the preced-
ing evening, !trisects were and ; he went to
IMP In the etre. L doer, and t one; rood wit h bin, ',bort haw ;
Rubio :a told him be came for a paa.dirolor's oluplirate hr a
gold seal, wh;cli he hmil given bins to keep for hint Ibr tail
is conoweinece went Up emirs to get it out of his tot's, .11111
left Roberts iu the, protege. ihs his return wills the dupli-
cate. he found Huberts was not in the passage; but the
street-dour was left upc• ; Lc therefore Lad no ilonht
is his mind but he had gone into the kitchen (where
there was sot any peron':, be will knowing the house. He
ameediagly went 110011 stairs; as he was going down, be
heard a suite; what it was he could nut tell, tint there is
now little doubt but it was it business lammed by Roberts,
and he had then taken the opportsmitt of unfesteuing the
kitchen window and the shatter ; the lad found him sitting
the fro; be gate him his duplicate, amt he went away.
Mr. Sides procured a Constable and went to It..b...eta's lodg-
ing, in Fox's-court, Gray's-inn-hue, between six and amen
o'clock the same isoniong ; he was not at home • hit wife
was in bed, mid said he had sot been at Ismue all Might.—
Every partible cxertion was made at that time to find him,
Lot iu rain.
A :port time after, Mr. Sides had aeration to go into
the eielintes, coonbiieng towlines* with plessiire. Hr milled
updro his heathr, Yaw resides at Portsumetb ; while lip
was there, be went int* a jeweller's 'hop, with a view to get
an order • and while be was in the '-law, be per area tin
principal of the property of whOb 1w had been robbed,
labia% we understand, was given i.p ; nail it has been kept
in tie ream, y of si t:otertatile, till 'lit' robaer• could be taken.
.t few days since, one of Mr. Sides' apprentices saw Ito-
beePi in the sieigtilioui Mood of Covent-Garden ; hr :ellowed
him'till he eame near How-eireet, when be ran into the Of-
fire Ow all Ouister to go and take him. Edwards, one of the
patrol.-, web; after him on his coming up with him,
Roberta knock, .1 him down, and enicavoured to make his
r. ape Liu Edwards recovered himself, and scented hint.
Hr Nadi:roc Ili n feraild eaansilapua Fro Tra sday
1 when • variety of information was priduced against him,
arid he was committed for further examination.

GRE4I7' IAIODS.

[Extract (too a Letter dated Deptford,,Jan. 2' I

The effects of the rapidity of the thaw, which
came on yesterday, will be severely felt by many
of the inhabitants of Lea, Lewisham, and Dept-
ford. The snow had fallen in an immense quan-
tity on the hills and country round the two former
places, which, on thawing, ran off into the Ravens-
bora River at Lewisham, which early this morning
overflowed its beaks, inundating all the fields be-
tweet) that place and Deptford. Front the water-
works at the top of Mill-lane (in the broad way,
which leads the Rarensborii), to the tide nails
int:hutch-street, Deptfind (where it found vent iu
Deptford er.ek), it rushed in torrents, iu matey
parts up to di a chamber windows; chair., tables,
and In, inzure of various descriptions, were washed
away, and cared through the creek into the
Thames. The lastly of a mass was also observed,
carried forw-i'd with the torrent. It rushed in
an awful manner froM the fields on the right
of Deptford-bridge, and, about • • o'clock this
morning became higher than the arch of the
bridge, in colea:quence of which it broke down the
parapet, and about four yards of the bridge gave
way, the water still rushing with great fury, in a
manner to threaten the total destruction of the
bridge, but incetiag oo obstmetion, it ran into
the river, gradually subsiding ; and about one
o'clock, pa wen4ers were able to pass from the
boned way, over to Greenwich, which had been ob-
structed hir five hours. The water, however, still
continues to rush over the fields, from the hills
mid passes, nuif:r the bridge, with greater rein, sty
than the fall occasioned by the water winks, at
London bridge. It will be imptsanble to ascertain
the damage dime, instil free access can be obtained
to Lewisham, which, us vet, is totally impracticable,
the water in lwing still as high as the
window stools of the Grunted floor. it is retorted a
woman 1111(1 two children are drowned at Lewisham ;
all the gardens, nut-houses, &e. within reach of the
torrent, are entirely di Aroyed.

We wirderitatid, by aernunts from the county of
%Viderford, th:., rou,ideral.le soiselnef Isaaoceurred
from the Este floods. the bridge of hellegli, near
rom:hal, was eimiplutely earned away, and four
men and a %vowel'. who were passing at the mo-
ment, were hurled into di-strut:non. A bridge over
the Oneashilil, near (import.., was carried away, and
exploded. Hi if blown up by powder, and the bridge
at Four-Mile-Water his been much injured.

Tueiiday died, at four o'cloek, at her hone in
Argyle-. 1 net, at a very advancrd age, Lady Luso!,
relict ors' FRANA Luas, /tart. _ .

Lord CHIARLE4 I.i!imitaiwit% expected in town,
kid n•ght. at tne honer of his mother, the
Michele of rt CTL 411 De from Portsuitaith: and
his brother, Lord ltooKoT, ofiti el6O expected from
Fultuolith, at which places they have respectively
*arrived weft, on their reeuro from Spain.
liiftreu how ~Lip, me folios at Deptford, hut
owing to the 'ninnies heilig blocked up with it.e, too
eximmunicatimi has Leen held between them tied
the abet* Ibr ei‘itt days lima yesterday.

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LOSS OF THE PRIMROSE.

The Primrose brig, of 18-guns, Captain Mein.
with troops Cerunua, was lost on the Mona- I'
cies rock., near Fahnouth,on Sunday lest. The
I )i.pateh balisport, with too soldiers and 24 Lot vir.
oti board, was lost at the saute time ;..only eight
men were saved from her. There were tea officers
on board the Primrose, who made en atteitiPt to
em -ape frvati the wreck, but may seven of them
succeeded. The three lost wait-, the Hoc. Major
George Ilenry Compton Cat•endish, soil of lord
George Cavendish, and nephew, of the Duke of De-
vonshire ; Captain S. G. Dukentield, Lieute-
nant the Edward Waldegrave, brother to the
Earl of 11.41ilegrave ; all officers iii the 7th Dra-
goon Guards. Major Cavendish had just attained
his 25th year; be had received a wound in the
wrist in Sputa, but was nearly recovered. By his
death a seat becomes vacant for the borough of
Aylesbury. An express was sent off, last night, to
Lord George Cavendish, at his seat in Lancashire, •
io apprise him of the melancholy event. We lie-c
not learned the fate of the other persons who weir
en board the Primrose.