The Sun.
London, England, 1817-04-24 00:00:00

NEST OF SWINDLERS.

Mansonotion-STatAwr. --- Yesterday Walter
Tower was brought up by one of the Mary-le•
bone officers on the following charge
The Bishop of Durham's porter stated, that a
few days ages the prisoner railed there with a let-
ter purporting to come from the Rector and
Churchwardens of St. Clements litnes, stating
that his name was Carter, and thatshe was fore.
man to Mr. Sheppard, who, has' the repairing of
that church: This letter was directed to the opu-
lent and benevolent, setting forth in the most
piteous manner an accident which had happened
to him by falling off a scaffold 40 feet high, which
injured him so dreadfully as to render amputation
necessary, and that his wife, who was in an ad.
vanced state of pregnancy, bad miscarried throttglo
the fright. It purported to be given at Vestry
Room, under the hands of Mr. Moss, 'the Minis.
ter, and Messrs. Young and Hotehings, the
Churchwardens. There was a list of subscribers
on the back,, in which the, parish was reported to"
have given 41., the Countess of Harcourt, It, 'the
Dowager Lady de Clifford, I /., Lady Collingwood,
I/., Sir R. Wigram, 11. the N.ev. Mr. Gorney,,ll.,
Rev. S. Crowther, IL,/ Bev. li. Budd, I/.,
Messrs. Hammersley and Co, the bankers, IL
with a great number of other nankes. Witness's
master ordered him to give a 11.'note also, but
witness suspecting he was an Impostor, delayed.
giving it until some inquiry was made, and to his
great astonishment he ascertained that no acci«
dent bud happened at St. Clement's Church, and
that no letter had been ever given from the Vestry
of that parish, the names in which were entirely
fictitious. Witness then got a constable, and ap•
prehended him in the passage of Lady Nembroke's
house, where he was practising 4 similar imposi-
tion.

The servants of the Countess of Pembroke said,
that varions letters (several of which were pro•
duced) had been left at the house Of her Ladyship
by various persons ; one was by a woman :lama
Gardner, who was stated to have' fell'down stairs
in Charles street, Hatton7garden, arid broke her
arm ; and another from a woman in Blackfriars-
road. Her tat gave each some. Money, and
a man having the appearance of the prisoner call
NI for the answer. • On Tuesday be called' 'again,
and was told to call next day, but some suspicion
having arisen at the Bishop of Durham's, they
found means to detain him until a constable Mlle.

The prisoner told as very inconsistent story, anti
said he lodged at Mrs. Webb's, in Newton'.eourt,
(where a sailor was formerly murdered) ; but a
person being sent there, discovered. that he had
only lodged there casually a few nights) and was
totally unknown,

The %Vanity Magistrate regretted that there
bad been no money given to the pi igniter, as in that
case it would be swindling. He had no, doubt
that the authors of the other letters were erm•
nested with him, and hoped they would soon he
taken.

The prisoner wag committed for three months,
as a rogue and vagabond.

There arc three good reasons for buying a Ticket
or Share in the Lottery to begin on WEDNESDAY
NEXT—First, the risk is small, because there are
Two Prizes to t very Blank—Secondly, •the
Tickets are 5/. less in price than lot tu3ny years
past—and Thirdly, every Ticket is intlittsicallf
worth nearly 51. tnote than in any former 1.4 .ttery.
'rickets ant) Shares are selling in great vitrieV at
Swirl. anti Co.'s Offices, No. 11, Poultry.' 12,
Charing Cross; and 31,-Altigate High.sttett.

When G. CARROLL first announced the Scheme
of the present Lottery, he ventured an unticipa
tion that it would meet with general approba—
tion : iu this he has found that he was not in
error, as in no former Lottery has the demand
for Tickets and Shares been equalled at this perioti
from the Draviting : this daily increasing demand
makes hint solicitous that his friends should take
the earliest opporonity of giving their orders at
either of his OffiCetio 7, .Cornhill, or '26, Oxford•
street, where they will he attended to with
loos on NVednesday, the 30th instant : the pre.
promptitude. and punctuality. The DrawinF hem.
sent price of Tickets, although Increased in value
full Four Pounds, is but Eighteen Guineas, which
reduces Sixteenths to Twenty.aix Shillings, bung
at the rate of 51, per Ticket cheaper than they
have been for many years.

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