The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-28 00:00:00

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NOW-STA VRT.

On Tuesday 'treeing a young men of the name of XiINS
atiw brueebt to the office, charred with beteg ■ cuessauss
utterer of forged 11. Batik of Eur.laed testes evader peerlsar
eirconestangek
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The Prisoner bed been is the service of Mr. Noel, an At-
torney of Liseolu'alno, es a man-servant, from which he
was lately discharged. After be bad ken discharged from
Mr. Noel's service, • member of forged IL Beak notes, at
least twenty, were traced to Mr. Noel, hit same sod adders/
being wallas dill tbem,tbep had been principally passed I. Mr.
Noel's tradesmen, Ste. but not one of them heel been tinned
by Mr. Noel, and upon au investigatioa it turned out that
they had all been uttered by the Primmer, the tradesman
bating taken them faun hint without any doubt as le their
being good notes, considering him at the time to be still In
the service of Mr. Noel.
Earliest, were made in vain to trace sod apprehend the
Prisoner; between-, in Tuesday evening, as Mr. Noel was
passing through Lelle acre, be observed the Pawner in a
pastrycook's atop, aid watched him till he actually saw hint
is the act of uttering a fagged IL note in payment for souse
pastry ; be then went into the shop, detained his, and east
to the office /or an officer, who brought bias to the office;
he was then examioed, and contained till yesterday, Whets
he was again examined. One ante Inspectors of bad rotes
attended, and proved that the sole was a forgery.
The appreheusiou of this men led to the apprehension of
Moser Wtlliasas, sob° is suspected of beiag commented with
him in his nefarious practices, whom Lavender, the ofilear,
took into custody, in cultseseeste of private Ostentation, at
his lodises at a tweet-shop in Dray-lave, about one o'clock
yesterday notrain.g. Is his coat pocket he foetid •Ii note,
whew the Prisoner observed, he presumed he bad found what
be wasted, and seed sot Wok any farther; however, Laven-
der paroled his march, and found by the side of the bed
three other IL none, inapt in a piece of brown paper, all
of which notes the Inspector proved to be forgeries.
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The Prisoner admittit to the officer that he had bees eon•
termed in poitiog of a sesbr► of soles, bet Aid set owe
the word " Forged."
Tim Prisoner was reusaisdad Cur farther enansinatiost.

SUICIDE.

Yeatevdsy the mamas belonging to Mr. C. Warren, of
Bedford-orprare, 'pat • period to his existence, by nearly
severing the bead from his budy with a razor, it his ',mbar*,
is Gower•nxws, Guwer•strrrl. The s•fortuute mss hid
hired with the faisigy fur a ■umber of years, and was highly
►espected. No cause whatever is assigned fur the committal
of such a rash act.

The public were much amused last morning by
the novelty of it market cart i.n motion moving
along the Strand by means of machinery, hat its
progress was exceedingly slow, and the sink very
tiresome to manage. 'l' he to ichinery, which was in
front, was winked by two wen sitting 00 it. It was
placed before the tart.
Yesterday a poor labourer, who had just arrived
in town from Ireland, was et work attending brick-
layers, repairing the roof of a lionsein Sidmoutli-
street, Spatields, and had ascended by the ladder
in safety to the top oldie building, but never being
so high before from the ground, on looking round
he was seized with a swimming in his head, so *list
he could nut sund‘-aod be lay down in the gutter,
Bum which place nO persuasion could prevail on
him to move; he lay in that situation several hours,
until he was nearly fresco to death from the cold.
As there was uo entrance from the outside of the
roof iuto.tbe bowie, and it getting late, the men
were under the necessity of procuring a pally sod
a long rope, by which Weans he wet lowered 1. the
Tound, more dead thoualive from the. 171.400-
his novel scene attracted a oumerous crowd of
perstios. _ . _

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CUILISTMAII Oz.—Otte or the -finest oxen ever
meow its Devon was slaughtered Int week at
Exeter. It WOO five feet three inches high ; lei ot)
from rump ta-licrii, nine. feet two incite.; gilds,
eight feet six ; and weighed when living
9,38011 xi.; vseiglit•uf rough tallow 1841bs.—This
noble animal woo of the North Devon breed, and
wee bred and fed, on hay and grins clay., by sr.
JOHN LI W Putt, of Westou Z.qlsnd, Soinerset. A
heifer. also of the saute breed. was killed Ity the
same bulcher, which for shape, fatness, and quality,
was perhaps never surpassed.

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