The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-05 00:00:00

IAUIO cones.

The Lord Mayor ahl at the mall h..ur yrsteeday. Nio
roc of any interest gra. heard before bin' an theln.titre norm.
mar wait a private invratigm ion on a charge of theft, the
pirticulara of which it woe lit not be right to &whore.
A young mai., rather resiort•ble an app arauce, was
!Welled up, charged by Me. "Ittlnsoisr, wine in. reliant, of
Toluautiou.e.yard, with hiving 'toles' * to.. 111.• of moor.
hfi. Seymour mated, that thr Prisoner alai a young man
am the ottmed digit-tot, ilestitnte of any NWaa• of support,
When 'Munch niotitees of rompamion and charity he was in.
..need to take him Mtn his esishiishment as an assistant.
Mr had lately di.rucered that sonar of Ilia wine wag stolen, as
:.e said, is the moat inalicious manner; this put him on the
.4,.t, and he at length discovered the P.-I.OllCf on Monday
treuing in the act of ideating bolde of his wine. Mr. Sry•
-inar +aid this hr had tun much reason to blame the men'
14. tnaphtyne nt.
The Pronmer aid set p. into his defence, and was re-
emended to a ratline day.

iITEMPT TO ()VERRET THE DEPUTY WATER-
BAILIFF AND HIS MEN IN THE THAMES.

Mr. Howell, the water-bailiff having received informe-
r koir that ill cal fishing wee carries 1.14 to • sei y great talent
•lb the Thames, near Purtierl, made ...orb arrangements et
.he latter . of last wet k as a erecalculated at least to limit
:tie pi aciirr„
After a very hazardosa experiment, which had nearly
• whit in the lon of four 111491, Mr. Nelson, the deputy
water-Whit, smeeretleil, with the *sentence of his email
. sew, in :0 lanai a 11,1111ber 1.11 nets, the value Of which
s estimaten Iho/. The account given before the Loral
;salon wa, :4% 1.114. W • :
Nti.:os. shoed, that the fishermen, many of whom were
:•ry desperate fallow., having always, when employed in
illrzal labour un the Thames, a look-out fur him and
iris men both night and day, he rletermined to go down by
resod to the pt... e where he understood the work was going
forward. Ha- accordingly went, arcouipsniril by his men, to
t•ritio, while lie gut a guess, through which he uhaerved Ave
•...1 0:* boats in a spot called Havely-hull, near Mar-
r.eet. The boats were well manned; and !Velum, in the
. snectation that rrentauce would be made, retpiestrel that
!fllliC of the landsmen in the neighbourhood would insist
Lint io the performance of hie duly This was refined,
ware from fear than from favour, and the Deputy was
obliged ao row "a Without any assistance but that of his three
sten. They itinuil • untliber of nets lying in !lovely-hole. The
waist,. of the nets did swot utter the slightest uppiisitiou to
Nelson o,i the contrary, they assisted him in lifting up
the Deis, a linh eflreld out have been alone by a few hands.—
howl aft..W:llll4 Nelson saw a Gravesend hatch. boat hearing
tlonn upon hot host, which was very smell, anal lay within MIS
ant hor two of the surface of the water. He cried owl to those
on board to Ind; but they paid DO attention to the call, and
Incased upon I apparently with Inc desperate intennoti of
- inking lii. boat : again he cried uwt, and asked whether tatty
meant to dawn him said his men? hut On appeal was also
•firrugariled. The Gr sid boat approached with grsrit
uprect, and (heron ned to overwhelm the other in au Instant,
when the small crew made • tremendous effort with their
vary, and got under the how of another boat that lay in the
s Ivy,. • here the enemy could not reach without danger to all.
It was supposed that the hatch-boat was the ons.stout sp.
Yuinted to watch the motions of the Water-Bsiliff in the
ere., anal that having emend her uliect, she was determined
to make sop for the oversight by sinking him.
The Dotedwilie declared that those In the hatch bust were
wol acting tinder their directions, but that It was inswicsible
they could have buane down open Me. Nelsen with •oy bad
'slew. It must, ilia y thought, have been wholly unit.-
tentinnel.

Nelson said it was Mimed to state that there was PO NA
intention. He had hero very fregisently threatened by
-mile of the illegal fishermen, and be bail so doubt of
ir ¢.•nerd disposition toward him. Had not his men
',wed nuilsr the b..w of the •oored boat, his boat most in-
. vitahly have gime dawn, midterm. that their lives *wild out
F ire been worth a farthing. The men on beard the 1 with.
List, he inlitest, seemed to know those in Ilia fishing.boats,
ha there bail been sinne cuave►satius between them.

lolui Mayo*. and John Glover, two of Nelson's nen,
euerohorhirti kir slailemeut.

The I].•puty Water Hsil4 said, the Defendants were, in
h opnistot. by no means reeessaiy to this deem-roe at.
vatrapt. y were all respectable siren, aril were never
dr•:ect-d in illegally fi.tong There were, however.
▪ rat Char .Cllll% upon the Manna, from whose violence he
to anttrcheto.l, mail against thirst he claimed
t .• protertion of the Merl Mayor.
The Inn' Mayor declared, that the most riaiwoes noes-
e—rrs "Imola be aduptsd towards the ruffians who bore such
♦ ,hilly to lire *dicers, and issued directions which are cal.
. 1..tt.t1 to add to the security of those whose lives were se
• eit j minim sit dancer.
The :vets were atoorse m444..1180(1. At Mr Howell's re.
• the use,, were out tined. The owner of the hateb•buat
I been ordoed to attend at the 31ansion-boast.

1011-11TRORT
I is unareunntable and extraordinary that such chortle-
te, v as Atriikums ry pe en, who has become note:im, the
ingenivus, deceptive, yet flagrant (iamb. 'Apra a num.
Jet of reap. (liable tradesmen, by means of fraudulent chick%
L.,orif Rankers, should br able to find such bail as the Ma-
gi arabs eau.sot refuse taking. Yestrrilny he was Intruglit
`to the Oilier, and usiderattit another xamivatins before
r ;clump ihtudir. Eaq. the sitting Magistrate, when he trim
•datill.ti to bail, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 4f.
rack, f..r his appearance at the next Westminster Sessions.—
Use of the bail, we understand, is a ball pay officer. The
Pr..Oaer came prepared to settle the chair preferred against
tali on Monday, by M►. John Green, it.. cleric to Mr. Car-
bone', the wr--,neeechaut, of Kin;-atrect, Gulden.sguarr,
for a check drawn u• Lefehir, Curry

fur obtaining 101. _ r • rtes noon r, ,
sod itaikes, *hid' the Prisoner offered to pay, but which
Air Green with much public spirit refused to accept, mud
*pressed leis determinatiou to prosecute the Prisoner fur his
frandolent ad, to snake a public example of hien, and to
rumple* Ike charge, the deft of Lefebee, Curry, and
Paikrs +attended, and stated that the Prisoner had uu affect.
its that boitee, our was he known there.
Tie Prisoner was ordered to be mainlined, or Rad bail, to
a.. wee ibis charge. He was very geisteely said respectably
Greased, wearily( a ring on one of his fingers. It is supposed
that no man has equalled tt.e Pilau/ire MI fraudulent decep-
tions, initislemesi with a considerable degree of ingenuity,
effrontery, elegance of mutters cud speech, since the first
•;,d must 11:.altiag days of the late Major Sesiiptl, when be
kept a casings, soil overused the title of Lord Semple,
'SetoPeisouer has frequently given refs-re...zee tea the Pielteuey
Ileltsterand ...liver hest rate Hotels, all of wbuch were to 1111
hie prartio:...f imposition. The greatest and moat complete
imposition to a large cutest which be has been eliectieeted
to hare practised by kis assumed cisnarlurner, isupwiener,
aid faseiaating raintoers, was upan Mr. liouldiieli, roach-
studier, in Long-acre, a tratiestiOan who would be suppose. el
nit lag to be duped by suck • eltiVactrr as the Primmer ;
boieevor moth was the vitae Wine 'Stave sioer, alien the
Prisoner was cohabiting wills one of the bewl dashing fair
cyprlams io the parish of Mary-le-Woe, •heu
.melee cuturieed

111201Tvit Deblo,o Art; Mr. rioal4;trts ennamnently laud
Ow 1201. and toots. Mr. Huulditth •tt radrd •t the wire
on Mouthy and yestereay, awl expreare.l his rivert that he
had nut ;intoned the s•mc Course *hick Mr. 11iiriugton •ud-
ths partirs now am

CO(' N F.ll FM COIN.
Adith cowed, and Eleawor Buckley wsre charged with,
utteriug a con nterfett sixpence ta‘Mary French, the lauell.oly
of the Globe poblic.lissuse, is litingerford, well bowl/mg it
to be counterfeit.
On their hieing taken, the erovitsble foam! on the Pri.
SOW? Buckley a bag euelaining halfpence and penes' to the
atwonmt of four shillings, which proved that she dictum want
rhalige for sixpessse, and it war supposed that the contents
of the INK were the produce of the change of other counter.
felt money.
Mr. liirnie, the Magistrate. wired Mr. Powell, the Solici-
tor to the Mint, whim at hootiril to cosolael Ilse pro.wenison.
how he 'apposed that chase of persons got posseei.i,o, of
conatriGit money, a. they were cesstrally people of that
iption that were brought before bite charged with ut-
ter ni !
Mr. writ was or opinion that they bought Oleos in Lon-
don, at the rate of two foronc, or half pace.
The Pritwuera were committed fur trial.

by awl d Me iaveative plausible liCi;110111 ie iatrodure blin-
ded( w Mr. tlitakiheb. awd mooed, 11/11 be 111:12 in
groat it a new carriage, bet saw Ig Sue large emit
Sri Mr. Voralditeb would alit bias, bet gave enters for
sawed me* woes If be NON *reading to Flame whack
Pileimtais. 0111dise Si, floe hire enemies were build.
bi• • derail le lir. Healdiseb,
gas jwawl veretiesbefielle. be earesam.
I~arro 111r...'s better *at be atataalty
Pis Mr
kw ken wig" Mr. likiddierii
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