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London, England, 1811-09-16 00:00:00

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BOW4nlattr#64W MUSA/L..41W two welaWnwn
characters, calling themselves Cahtairs Andrvous, and
Hall, are at length in custody. it appeared, that on
Friday they repaired to the Barrack Tavern at Wool-
wich, where they dieted and slept that night, and
ordered a sumptuous dinner for the nett day. .On
that day, however, the landlord read in his newspaper
the full description of their tricks at the Artichoke,
and had some idea they were the men ; and, by way
•of experiment; :hewed them the account, and ob-
served, severely, upon the roguish conduct of the
parties. He then watched their motions, and ob-
served that they did not speak of their conduct in that
language of reprobation honest men generally do.
They frequently whispered together, and appeared w 1
watch people, if.they looked at them. Tire landlord
concluded, that if they were not the men, they had,
at all events, a suspicious appearance, and, in conse-
huence he presented them his bill, cline, he made it
' a rule with strangers to have his bill paid every day.
On this they assented a,deal of importance, and said
it was a matter of indifference whether they paid daily I
or when they left, as they were upon business with the
artillery regiment ; they then presented him With a
XIV Suffolk Bank-note, which the landlord would
have taken, but was advised by a friend to act wi:h
cautions he, in consequence, sent it to the Bankers
to make inquiry, and the answer was that it was a for.
gery. The landlord, in the mean time having kept a
sharp watch upon them, that they did not decamp,
had them secured, and took them before a Magis-
trate at Woolwich, who referred them to the Magis.
trates at Bow-street, and, on Saturday evening, they
underwent an examination before Mr. Reid, when,
on inspection of the note, it proved not to be a forge.
ry, but one of those that were issued some time since
by a set of men who (veiled a aridt'at Ipswich, and
had an agent at an office in a court in Cornhill, where
they were made payable, and after they had issued
them to a considerable amount, the whole of them
decamped, and both placers were shut up. Mr. Ken-
dall, of the St. Clement's Coffee-house, identified the
pi isoners as the two men who were living at his house
for some time, and paid his bill by a draft upon Bid.
dulph, Cox, and Co. the Bankers, and for which he
gave them change. On his presenting the draft for
payment no such person as the signer was known
there. -For this act he preferred and found a bill 1"1
indictment against the prisoners, at the Middlesex,
Sessions, held last February, but could not meet
I them. They were committed for further examina-
tion, when it is expected a great number of charges
will be exhibited against them.
Szizuste or 7000 Guteeas.— Gold coin, to the
amount of £7OOO in guineas, half guineas, and 7s.
pee. es, was on Saturday brought to the Mansion.
House, seized on Friday night At the Post Office, on
the outside of the Dover Mail-coach. Mr. Lawless,
en inspector belonging to the Post Office, observing
eldme luggage on the top of the Dover coach, a thing
which is not allowed, examined the same, when be
found that it consisted of two deal bores, wrapped
wind with a cord, and loosely covered with a great
coat, without any direction. Suspec:ing that they
contained something contraband, he communicated
his suspicions to Mr. Knight, belonging to the Post-
Office, by whom the boxes were detained, and carried
into the Office till a Custom-house Officer was sent
for, to whose charge they were committed. In the
mean time, Mr. Tomset, a merchant of Dover, who
had been going a passenger by the coach, carnaand
demanded that the boxes should be delivered up to
him, being his property. He was asked what they
contained ? and said cash; but declined explaining of
what that cash consisted. The boxes were accordingly
detained, and brought bifore the LORD MAYOR,
where Mr. Tomset appeared personally, and by Mr. ;
ALLEY, as his. Counsel ; and the Custom House was
represented by Mr. Lock, the Principal
Searcher to
,hr Customs, and Mr. KNAPP, their Counsel. The
circumstance being given in evidence, it appeared that I
the boxes had been carried to the coach horn the
!muse of one King, where the gold had been deposi- I
led. Mr. ALLEY submitted, that under the words of
the Act of Henry IV. no seizure could lawfully be
made, the Act ordering seizure only of such gold and
silver coin as should be on board of any ship or ves-
ted for the purpose of exportation. Here the gold
was seized on'the outside of a coach, for the purpose
of being conveyed trim one part ot the kingdom to
another, a thing which could not be in the coact*-
, plation of the Legislature to prevent, far less to punish.
Even supposing it to be the intention of the proprietor
ultimately to export it, still, till ke had so far com-
pleted the offence as to have it on board a vessel, tbs
Legislature had not said that he was to be subjectedl
to the penalties of the Act. This not then being. a
'legal seizure, and the property having Mi. "romset's
mai k u,son it, at least en the bags in which it was
cont .tined, he must by entitled to bring his action .ot
trover for recovery ; and every person in whose hands
property so circumstanced had been detained, could
be regarded in no other character than this: of a tres-
passer, and must be liable for all the damages. He '
should be happy, however, if his Lordship should
think himself entitled to interfere, if he would protec(
it ter the benefit of those who should be found entitled '
to it, as his Lordship's security was to be preferred
to :hat of the officer by whom the seizure had been
made. Mr. KYAPP contended, that the Act of Par.
Bement authorised the seizing and detaining of all
gold and silver coin, not only on board of any ship or
vessel for exportation, but also of all gold and silver
coin " passing, or that might pass," towards any ship
or vessel, for the purpose of being exported. Mr.
Lock, too, undertook, for the greater security of Mr.
Tomset, to be the holder of the coin, in the mean
Vase. till he should bring his action of trover. This
proved satisfactory, and here the matter ended.
r John BarbiJle was charged by John Pollinger, of
Hounslow, an exciseman, andloseph Whittle, a con.
stable, of Heston, with uttering a draft, purporting
to be drawneAt Bedford, by -W. Sherborn, on T.
Ashby, banker, at Staines, for AlO. on suspicion that
he knew it to be forged, with intent to defraud Tho-
mas Ashby. He was committed for further examin-
ation.
Informations were filed againstn number of jour-
neymen copper-smiths, for conspiring to raise their
wages, and for striking work without due notice ;
r hist, on their agteeing to return to their employment,
by the 'advice of Mr. A.i.uty, their Omni, the prose.
stakes wars dropped.



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