Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-12-10


Ard friends shall bless, and bigot foes endure
Long, long be spared to echotruth sublime;
And LIT thy pillars through the storms of time.
4.lIr. Spragas Of Boston.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
pupIishes Tue following details attending
the arrest of fugitive from Justice by
the police Of that city. Efficiency and VIZ
GLANCE like those eyinced ia this officer,
must render police establishments ter
ror TO all VILLAINS and evil doors.
FOREIGN FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE.
Thursday last, Raymond, the police
marshal, returned from. an excursion to-
the Western country, whittier he had been
in pursuit ct certain desperate. sWInder,
an Engiishman, who had last spring de-
trauded the American Consul aud other
gentlemen at Plymouth, in Eng land, of
| 80, 600 dollars, and hed to this country.
| After several days and niglts OF excessive
fatigue and vigilance, he had succeeded
IN bis purpose, and left the rogue safe in
the jail at Whiiesborough. This man
whom certain considerations require shou d
not now be naped, committed the act in
/ question, on or about the goth OF May last,
, and immediately in clandestine way,
took passage to New York. No trace OF
! him could be discovered al any port and
| dispatches and enssares were sent TO
/ France and different parts in Eng land,
| where it was thought he might land or
embark, TO secure his apprehension 1t
was oil no avail--the bird had already
! tlown. The last resort was to watch Tue
/ villains family, and whenever they mo,
we'd 10 follow them The eagle must ind
his prey, though scared for the moment
away. In about two mCnths it was dis
covered that they had suddenly and Sc
/ cretly taken passage from Bristol for New
] York. The principal Of the concern in
.stantly took passage for New York also
! aud arriving in 26 days anticipated them
| by about a week Then cor menced
| system OF schemIng and watching, and
! lodging, and intriguing on the part OF the
family, in order TO get to the husband
tgatho"t bsIyaytng hi, residence, and OF
keen espionage, on the part OF the New
York Police, which would be read with
interest in all its lniAutest details.
Hays, Raymond, and Shaw were en-
| plOyed 10 watch the vessel and family
night aud day. SIX days the family re
named on board; and then giving out
that they ware going To Philadelphia, took
] passage by day break the next morning,
! in sloop for Albany. The trick was de-
tscted, and Raymond. by quick land
! conveyance, was ahead OF them there.
! Remaining there concealed week, they
4 took another break OF day TO start towards
| the west, but with all their seeming hur-
( ry, got forward but 60 miles-iour miles
/ beyond Schenectady. Next morning,
| with another early start, they got twenty
1 miles further. But here council must
/ be called, and some extraordinary demon
| stations as the military people term it,
made The family consisted OF the wife,
a clerk, and seven children. a suspicion
was entertained that they were pursued
and watched'-Tbey could no way recon-
Gle themselves to the appearance OF that
| gentleman, (kaymond, who was travel
| ling so leisurely at about their pace in The
sulky; and they sent messengers iorw ard,
and they sent messengers back, 10 find
out who be was, but TO no purpose. Some
! times be was in the best apparel Of the
! fashion, and sometimes in rough round
| about and tUr cap; at any rate, he was
/ ever near them as their evil genius.
! From this second stage. part of the family,
| it was finally concluded should move a
mead days travel, and the other part re-
main day or more behind. Letters too,
were deposited in different post-oices,
! directed to The husband IN different towns
! and CounlIeS; The Celebration, no doubt,
! beng, that ii an officer were in pursuit Of
! them, the Gthces would be referred to
| All was 20 no purpose, 10 delude the Vlgi-
/ lance OF the officer. After three days and
/ nights of sIeepless watching, be had the
whole OF bis co,Ivog once more together
snug in Uuca and some good grounds OF
suspicion that the man himself was with
! or near them. Patience was the only vir-
tue, and happily during the night after
| wards, he traced the whole family, with
| all their baggage which they had brOug BIT
up the Mobank--goIng aboard canal
! boat, for the westward and the HUSBAND
among them. The high sheriff OF The
| county, with whom all the necessary pre-
parallOns had been made was spoken TO
! Immediately and arrived on the spot with
the wF;ts which had been furnished him,
just in time to seize the delinquent, as O.
very thing was in order, and the hoses
harsessed and hitched to the boat for de-
parture, He was immediately lodged in
! the Jail OF Oneida county, where he now
/ remains,
| ltwas once much the fashion for foreign
rogaes TO fee 80 this country for refuge,
| and too much their good fortune to find it
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