We are happy in being informed, that the young man (son of the Rev T Cooper, of Leeds street, Liverpool) who was suspected of having been drowned whilst bathing at Liverpool, and for whose body a reward was last week offered, was picked up alive by one of the Dublin Packets outward bound, having been carried away by the rapidity of the current, and after a voyage to Ireland, was on Saturday last restored to his disconsolate friends, having thus been most providentially rescued from a watery and untimely grave.
Lancaster Gazette 25 May 1816
Irish waterways history 
Well, I don’t know! I don’t know what it says about me, but the story reeks of a feckless young man on the sauce for the weekend who came up with a fantastic story to explain his disappearance!!! As I say, maybe it is just the way I think 😂😂😂
But if he returned on the packet? bjg