Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-03-14
MIR. ROWLAND STEPHENSON

This ingenious gentleman appears ut present 10 DC
the principal object of interest to the London editors
and the Bow Street officers. The amount of money,
OF which he in various ways defraudcd it's owners is
sind to be most enormous. In Romford and London,
independently OF the radesnen who supplied his fam
iy many have lent large sums to him with view of
obtaining higher interest for its He has been
largely Specializing In buying and fitting up houses
cStravagany; the builders and persons connected
with them must sustain very heavy losses. The
confidence hitherto placed Ill him has been untounded
so that he has had every opportunity of dcfraudng
immense extent.
II seems that on the day of his abscondinp he had
his own carriage and horses ordered and hi own
coachman to drive him. His clerk, James Hartman
Lloyd, accompanied him in the carriage, 81 after they
had ridden short distance from his dwelling house,
his own horses wore taken out, and four post horses
harnessed III their place, with al possible despatch
in this manner they reached Bristol 1t il supposed
that he was cndcavoring to obtain passage to A
merica. Every cxcrtion is making to arrest him.
The coast is we'll watched and several Of the swifcs
sailing ships the Admiralty have been despatched
TO cruise about the channel and enquire Of all YES
sells concerning him.
It was for some time supposed, TINT he had en-
barked on board the Caubricn, but it proved to be
altogether untrue.
The London Morning Chronicle says, that the Act
tndcr which Stephenson will b. tried, if apprchen-
dcd is the seventh and eight of Georpe the Fourth
e. 20, sect 40, Which Furnishes agents bankers wit
transportation for fourteen years if they be found
guilty OF aPpropratIDg securities entrusted to them
Tor safety, &c. sJfdgs. Jour.
Liter 10 tie Editor Of me RfdSs. Jauynnt from an
american PriHtcr ia England.
Ny DEAR SIR-Wbercvcr have travelled have
found curiosity much alive towards America. Every
seems to feel an interest in knowing something a.
bout the New World; believe have been called Up
pom to answer, far 7 able, thousands
might have said, tens Of thousands, of questions and
am free to confess, that have often been astons-
cd at the extreme Ignorance that the middling g. low
classes of this country have shown respecting tie
climnte and productions of the soil, and the appear
ilco and manners of the people of the United StRtcs
1t would hardly be safe for my cTedbiity to put TO
paper of the inteTrogatoTcs that have been ad
dressed to me by many who here pass for persons Of
sense and Fobcrness.
c. need to be at the Bank Inn Bank street Lit
tic Bolton, Lancashire, last Saturday evening, with
few friends, and shortly after sitting down. The land
lord Joined | was introduced to him as from A.
mcrica. "From Amcrca" said he 5Dhy gou
IRE Just such Looking MN Gs ntysel!' and
ha sat down with evident surprise After o few
minutes, he said, "why yesterday there were three
or four az my house from Chorlcy, only y
few miles from this town OF Little Bolton, aud
gould not Unders and one half Of what they said
aud here's yOtf, that have conc across ocean four
thousand mics taAts as eOOd English 0sJ OO! slpll
believe the moon is made Of green cheese alcr thu.
And do all the Americans talG, and Dress ana loOh
like ours uui have 80 roLi-Pds thcrc?"
] viii give Won anJthsr instance, and mention
natBcss Last Friiuy called in at The shop of Sir.
Clarke, who kept what VIC should call 'on English
goods store, . Purchase some few necessares Ills
son, youth should ludgc about seventeen yours
Of age, & O had been To school, served mo- and
came ont M tie courec Of nay stay, that was from
Aforrica "Nou from America" said he, "Why
Thought they were al rad there, that went ma
Red, and were covered with hair" Ourang Outanrs
told him, inhabited tho Cape of Good Hope
could add filty other examples 70 the above
named, not occurring la Lancashire give names, and
gtp witucsscs 10 provo th1t hie English editors Of