The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-14 00:00:00

BOW STREET.

ON MOnday evening last a man went to Mrs.
BaeGon's Masquerade warehouse in Lisle-street, aA
orite'red four dominos, four. hats, four masks, and
Jicketsfor, the Masquerade that evening, with
change for a tol.• note,' to be' sent to a house in
Dtikestreeti- Smithfield, 'but gave .no name ; the .
things, were •accottilr-gly --scot,. and the messenger
was ushered into a atom on the first floor, where he
siw a Gentl:nnan'andtady, the formerof whom re.
ceived the dominos, &c. and saying, I suppose
you:have brought the change, -gave the mes,tnger
a Bill of Exchange for 251.
:adding, I have not got
a tol. note, but if 'you Will. 'give •me change .to
make up ten' pounds, including' the charge for the
dominos, &c. • will for, the remainder to-
morrow ; the messenger not liking the appearance
of the bill, told the Gentleman that he would re.
turn to his employer, and if she
.apprOved 'of the
bill, hewould come-back in time with the change
and the tickets ; .but same ;suspicion arising he cid
not return, and on inquiry being made respeding
the supposed acceptors of the bill, who were stated
to• be Messrs, Thodey and CO.' merchantik. Hoxaon
Town, no- such persons could be found there, though
it was admitted the drawer of the bill lived there;
application was-then made to the house in Duke.
respeEting 'the dostninos, and•where a person
o
of. Hows appeared, who waoted,the bill
sretfrt thecuer rn'e nd,n'sacing he would discount it, and promised
to make inquiry after the things; which not being
sent back, tire injured parties- applied td. BoW-
stteet,..in.consequence of which the said Hows and
two persons calling- themselves Thodey and Rey-
nolds, the/ supposed acceptor ind drawer of the bills,
were taken into custody by R'ivett and Wilkinson,
two of the Bow-street Officers, and yesterday ex-
amined before Mr. K: tati•Anto at Bow-street, when.
a tallow chandler in Little Britain appeared,.and gave
'an-account of his having been defrauded of candles
td the air:awn-cif gl. "25: which had been ordered to
tifsame house in:Dukt.street, Smithfield;-and that
th-eprisoner.:HOws afterWa_rds called at his shop,
and promised payment of the same; that on the
6th instant he received a-letter, -dated Maidenhead,
sth Feb. 184, signed R. Hows, inclosing a Bill
of Exchange for: 251. nos. Id. purporting to he
drawn by J. James ROynalds on James Roynalds,
Esq. Board of Ordnance; Woolwich, payable when
dtte at No. to, Hoxton Town ;' that on inquiring
respecting this bill, it was said a man of the name
of James Roynalds lived there, but that he was. not
atiesquite, and'did not belong,to the Board of Ord.
nance, Woolwich,, though heltad worked there.

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The Pris Oner Howes endorsement was on the
hack of each of the said bills, the whole of which
appared to have *been •fiiled `up in one hand writing.
The. Prisoner, Thodey, said, he never Jived at
No. to, lioxtOn ToWn, or in Duke-street, Smith.
field, and that the acceptance to the two hills was
not his writing," bdr had .been• written in his pre-
sence by Hows, whom he considered to be his part-
ner ; and that Hoes and Roynalds had taken a
lodging 'for him at Slough (from,whence the bill
passed to Mrs.-Bacon was dated) and where he re-
mained a• week. ..Thcre•beiug reason to think se.
veral other bills of the same sort have been nego.
tiated by the Prisoners,
.cher:weFe committed for
re-examination on Monday next.

SHIP NEWS.

POOLE, FL.3. 12.

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,hrtiVe,,d----the General Wolfe, TuHock, from Newfound-
Olive Braiti;ii, Fitch, and Anna, Long, frotri London ;
Aurora, 'afford, and' Johannes, Schilck, from Portsmouth.
Sailed—the Meiturius, Jacobs, for Bilboa ; Friendship!
Li2by, for Vienna ; Lloyd's Assisiance,..Maser.; Venus,
Batchelor .; Lirk, Spuirier ; King'; and Mary,
,Thatchell, for PortsmOuth ; Mary, . Ryder, -for -Hull ;' and
Nonpareil, Chapman, for Gibraltar.

BfartiS . .
the zatliat last mostly at Barnstaple, Devon, the
~f F. S. Filcher, Esq. of a Daughter. ,
'Foe' On Friday last, at Streatham, the light Hon. Lady
of a Daughter.

NI AR lf lED :
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At Edinburgh, on the Bth inst. James. Spens, Escl;,•5f
Craig Sanquhar, late Lieutenant-Colonel of ills Majeslgt
73d regiinent,', to Miss Elizabeth Joanna Davidson, ssC'—'.,
dai.gliter of john Davidson, of Ravelri, E.
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