The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-11-17 00:00:00

CURIOUS APPRERRNsION OF A THIEF.

Yesterday afternoon Mt. Omer, of Thomasstreet, Com-
mercial-road, while reselling in his study, inside the ground
penlieur, was disturbed by • smite, as if a est had gut
among the china on the sideboard, and on going to the
dwirw to ascertain the cense of it, tin person being in the
parlour at the lime, be observed a yowl. having his hand iu
us the window, the sash of *loth he had partly raised sip,
fllfiraVOU/111g by weave of a lung wire, crooked al the cad,
to &dais a thermometer, which lay on a table some distaith
Com the window, he walked cautiously areom the room,
wild the thief, who was endeavouring must dexterously to
'obtain hie designed prey, mover perceived him until he laid
.1.01.1 of hint by the arm. lie struggled hard to get off, but
Mr. Omer being tae superior in strength, secured the vil-
lain by pulling him in at the window. lie was almost ten
years of age, mid of so dintionsise a Mamie, that he conk]
mencely reach the window. He was taken in Implied' sheet
pw:see noire, where hr gave his name Set 6isno, and
was committed to the Sessions.

DARING ROBSIZY.—On IVeritiesrlsy night,
abnut Iris o'clock, some villeins forced ripen the
back window of Mr. 'ADD* RD', lump,. in Char-
lotte-row, Bermondsey, sod stole thief errtNll N vs.
Inside silver tes•pot, engraved with the initials
"' C. R. B." and a quantity of ►loons. The rob.
bery is supposed to hate brew committed by two
sweeps, who were afterwards traced to 31:11-steirs,
iu Tooley-street, wherr thry look a boat, NMI
escaped to the other %hie of the river, where all
trace of them was lost.

About eight o'clock on W.dnesilny night, as
Mr. LOFTUS, of Furnivars Inn, was on his way
borne from the Temple, he wits attacked in Fetter-
lane by three villains, who attempted to rob him
of his watch, but some persons coming up at the
time, he escaped.
Mr. CHARM% PRAILSON, Solicitor, has written
• letter to the Editor of a Morning Paper stating,
that the indictment for High Treason, to which
Mr. Justice BATLZT adverted nn Monday last, is
en indictment against one Fraukha, ultisa Ilacher,
intended to have been preferred by hint for high
treason, iu eiideavuunng to excite the people to re-
belling), and by force to subvert the laws and
constitution of the country. The overt acts
upon which Mr. l'itattauts grounds his charge
consist in having, during a period of three years,
taken advantage of the agitated state of the public
iwind to port the most atrocious placards about the
streets, during the night, previously to the liutilang

or large public Slerti;ga, and synth having die.
trihnted at the Smithfield, the Kennington, the

*afield., the Palace-yard, wed other Meet'ligs,
the most intlituunisiory and seditious
add:eased to the pit trans of the multitude, and
calling upon them by fi.rce to endeavour to effect a
eltitisv in the laws of the country.
The Conrier de Brest gives the following para.
en's,* of the loss of the St. Francois
The passenger who adopted the desperate resolution of
'pitting the vessel was left uo hoard with Mrs. Slag tin and
hey daughter. This young man, a native of Breit, about 13
'ran of age, is the last deseendaot of she celebrated John
Bail. Abandoned to certain death, he preferred committ in(
himself to the remorseless waves than to his own despair;
and; ibiliug along the bowsprit, he di upped into the sea. By
a tiegular good forgone, the waves carried hum clear over the
spice of rocks, and threw him safe and Daund on the shore.
To the joy of leis preservation ass prise oily joined that of
welosoe his companions (females) in distress, who had been
oared by the intrepid courage of the generous Kerber... lie
anions with he. forfettlibesumwhera they arrived slier along
084 painfoljuerney on foot. livery attention which their dia.
ileeirat situation required was afforded them: and the enter-
@rut 44 the place negkettd smiting to make the saffereri fur.
get their al isauetusee. The young Jobe Bart, by his ready an.
awerm his generous sestisorrits„, and the estalimit pliariples
is which be appeared to bare bees histaght rap, *post sectored
the frieadship of oho gossamer, who heeled. him as • son ;
mid, after tuteriainiog him several &prat his boom, seat him
to Voasea. where be writ to 111111fti him fur the purpose of in-
aredinehni him to the nasal pacer easnamod at 11:Orient.

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