On Thursday evening, a young man, very fashionably dressed, en-
tered the shop of Mr. Pepys, the cutler, in the Poultry, and approach- ing Mr. Pepys and his SOD, who were behind the counter, politely re- quested they would exchange him a lot of shillings of the coinage of George the Fourth, for some of his present Majesty's reign. Mr. Pepys the elder would have accommodated the young gentleman; but young Pepys immediately recognized him as the identical individual who, some time back, bad, under the same pretence, cheated him out of a sovereign ; which he effected by "palming " (a term used in sleight- of-hand tricks) whilst he was looking over a number for the particular coinage he pretended to be in quest of. From that period until the present, he had never seen or beard of him. The elder Mr. Pepys kept him in conversation whilst his son procured the attendance of Mer- rilies, the street-keeper, who came and took him into custody. On taking him to the Compter, he was instantly recognized as the notorious Bill Fisher, who had only a few hours before been discharged from that prison, where he had been confined for six months, pursuant to his sentence from the London Sessions for an offence of a similar descrip- tion to that which he had endeavoured to commit at Mr. Pepys's shop. On leaving the Compter, he was given a shilling ; which is usual when prisoners are discharged ; and which, upon searching him, was found upon him.
On Wednesday night, about nine o'clock, Mr. Walsh, of King's Square, Goswell Street Road, was returning in his gig from Croydon Fair, accompanied by his wife. A short distance from the Greyhound, at Streatham, they were attacked by two men, one of whom seized the horse by the head, and another struck Mr. Walsh a violent blow on the back with a heavy bludgeon. Mr. Walsh, who is a powerful man, immediately jumped out ; when a scuffle ensued, in which he would no doubt have been eventually overpowered, but for the fortunate arrival of a second gig, in which were two gentlemen, when the villains made off across the common.
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