The National Register.
London, England, 1814-03-06 00:00:00

TVIE NATIONAL REGISTER:

THE 110..4X DETECTED.

Though the following notice has by no means implicated
any of. the parties in the nefarious hoax practised on the
91st ult. yet it certainly must impress the Public with an
idea that they are not entirely free from suspicion. We
trust, therefore, that some of them at least will seize the
earliest opportunity of clearing themselves of the most re-
mote idea of a participation in such an. infamous transaction.
The following notice was on Friday posted up at the Stock
Exchange
It ts particularly requested that all those Members of the Stock
Exolangc w_ho transacted i:teiiitess either directly or indirectly, for
;my of the persan,:- untler-mentioticii, on Monday, the ttst of Fe,
/at nary last, will favour tie Committee with an interview:--
Hon. Cochrane blasston 111 r. I rislioway,
itir..R. G. Butt, Mr. Suldon,
Lord Cochrane, Mr. Mac Rite.
We have heard since that the principal clue to the busi-
MESS was found in the following singular manner: a morning
paper having charged a Dover smuggler with being con-
terned in this transaction, the man in order to clear his own
.character, sought the means of finding out the real authors. He
soon traccd the post boys who had conducted the pretended
Col. de button to town, from them lie learnt, that, to their
great amazetnent, the pretended express, who probably thought
be woutri be too soon in town, had complained of their driv-
ing too fast as he felt himself rather unwell, and they in con-
sequence had slackened their pace. On their arrival into
the town, atothe first hackney stand, the considerate express
said, that their cattle must be tired, as they had driven him
very well, and that he would not take them further, but step
into a hackney-coach giving..tftem at the same time a Napo-
leon a piece. The post boys finding their suspicions in-
creased by this stiaoge conduct took the number of the
coach, and through that, the pretended Colonel de Bourg))
vPas traced to his lodgings.

HOLX.—Last week an eminent grocerof Reading having received
seven! clew of tea from London, two ut which thil not inis‘4er the
sample applied to the Exeie Office fur a permit to return them,
bni which was refused —The grocer. nevertheless "Lent one chest
ff, which mi Exciseman he 4A!owrd to London but not meet-
ing with sticees,l, returned ; but lacing no " squeak:l." find enter-
taining hopes that the second chest would be eorn:igned to the same
destination, lie laid in wait for the space of two or three days; this
Ming obiterved, a rimmt, containing bricks and saw-dust was neatly
packed, and sent to the waggon which set off for town. The Ex-
ciseman received a hint as if by accident, and with a companion im-
mediately starred in pursuit d with travelling some miles on
foot they to'k a post-chaise, and succeeded in overtaking the
waggon near Slough, and after souse dispute with the waggoner,
*cited with all due ceremony the saw-dust, which they conveyed to
Culnbrook, A/ hen: it was agreed to examine-their prize; implements
Itavinebeen procured:. the chesit was forced, when the disappoint-
insult of the eapters way ba better imagined:4w described, in the
sriylc loss of ;heir time, money, alt 4 boor,