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got in. The place was all darkness, 

 but hearing a noise, and somebody 

 going lip stairs, he at length found 

 out the staircase, pursued, and took 

 a man prisoner ; he followed and 

 secured another, which proved to 

 be Bolton, who, as well as the 

 other, had nothing on but bis shirt. 

 A lighted candle having been by 

 this time procured, on further search 

 the prisoner's daughter vs^as found. 

 Nadin then went into the back 

 room, where he found hid in the 

 closet Bolton's wife, who was quite 

 undressed. Having thus seized on 

 all the persons in the house, he 

 began his search for the forged 

 notes. Among the coals, 92 notes 

 of 1/. eacli ; in a large mug with 

 water in it, many more of the same 

 description, a quantity torn to 

 pieces ; and two 11. notes. In a 

 pickling jar, with liquor in it, he 

 found M 11. notes, and 3 of bl. 

 with a quantity torn to pieces ; and 

 in another room, 20 more. 



The cant terms for false notes 

 are softs and screens — of counter- 

 feit gold, yelloias. It appeared, 

 the paper composing the notes was 

 manufactured in Ireland ; and the 

 forgeries executed at Manchester 

 and Birmingham. 



Various accounts, similar to the 

 above, were given by the officers 

 employed in taking into custody 

 these unhappy, deluded people, 

 who imagined they were free from 

 danger, if the forged notes were 

 not actudiWy found in their posses- 

 sion ; and that they could not be 

 convicted, unless by the evidence of 

 a third person seeing tJiem take the 

 money for the disposal of them. 



The flattering encouragement 

 which the Batheaston coal and 

 mining concern has lately expe- 

 rienced, will soon enable the pro- 



prietors to prosecute the works, and 

 there is every well-founded reason 

 to expect that their efforts will be 

 crowned with success, and check 

 the growing price of coal. The 

 subscription has been considerably 

 augmented in consequence of a new- 

 share of 251. being declared to be 

 equal to an original one of 50^. ; 

 and there is no doubt that this cir- 

 cumstance will be the means of 

 speedily filling the subscription. 



The recent improvement of the 

 port of Bristol, by the formation of 

 themostextensive docks in Europe, 

 the float being two miles and a half 

 in length and covering 82 acres of 

 ground, promises to be of very im- 

 portant advantage to the commer- 

 cial interest, and eventually ofgreat 

 benefit to the land and house pro- 

 prietors in the vicinity of the Wells. 

 At all hours of the day ships and 

 vessels can now pass from the dam 

 head to the quays of the city, and 

 discharge their cargoes into ware- 

 houses while afloat, the mud (so 

 offensive formerly in its appearance 

 and smell, on which they used to 

 ground) being no longer visible. 

 The swamps near the works are 

 also filled up in a judicious and 

 uniform manner ; so that in a few 

 months that which resembled a 

 barren waste, will be turned into 

 useful culture, and bear the appear- 

 ance of a rich lawn. Clifton al- 

 ready is influenced by the comple- 

 tion of these magnificent docks ; 

 most of the houses of the Upper 

 and Lower Crescent, which had re- 

 mained in a state of dilapidation 

 several years, being now sold, and 

 in the actual operation of fitting up. 

 Indeed, from the picturesque na- 

 tural scenery of the delightful hill 

 of Clifton, combined with the salu- 

 brious effects of its waters, and the 



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