The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

LONDON, June 18.

This week a Ship master discovered the following trick had been played him by a person whom he had brought over passenger from America, and had always looked on him as a gentleman. It seems he had put on board some very heavy trunks, and on landing at Cowes pretended to receive a letter which required his immediate attendance in London: he accordingly borrowed thirty pounds from the Captain, giving his note for that and his passage money, to be paid in two; but never having been heard of since, the Captain was anxious to enquire into the nature of the security left in his hands, and ventured to open one of the trunks, which was only filled up with rubbish; another proved loaded with the same commodity, and the whole was discovered to be an errant bite, calculated to cheat an honest unsuspecting man out of his property.