The National Register. — London, England, 1820-07-16 00:00:00

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"That your Petitioner has seen a Bill, now before your Right Honourable House, 'elided, • A Bill for the further Prevention of Verging sad Counterfeiting of Bank Notes,' in which there are varioes - clanses, calculated, and, as your Petitiosee believes. and humbly submits intended to prevent hies hem eammisieg the art of which be was the original sad ethisiejskia humbly submits, is au act a puelligitietiee. • " That to prohibit the esertioi of any modes of En graving, on the prstasee efpreventing forgery, stands as flinch opposed to the propers and improvement of the arts, and is consequently as impolitic es it would be to prohibit die-sinking for medals, buttons, sad many brea ches of inetallic ornament, on pretext of hindering the current coin front being stbunterfeited• "That since the kaid BNI was introduced into the COlll. moos House of Parliament, your Petitioner bad au inter view with the Right Honourable Nicholas Vanailtart, Chancellor of his Majesty's Encireqner, at which were present many of the Directors of the Beek of England, when the'said Bill was shown to your Petitioner, with different alterations intended to be made therein, by which it was alleged that }our Petitioner would k at li berty to practise his owe art without incurring the penal ties of the Bill; but SO alteration was proposed therein calculated to secure to year Petitioner any remuneration for his invention,. Which, by the 818, is now appropriated to the use of the Bank of Erspaed. "That at that interview it was contended, on the part of the Bank, that the question of remuneration (if year Petitioner should be found entitled thereto) was rather of a public than of a private nature—the protection which the invention affords being to the public, who beer, ex clusively, all looms by Forgery of Balk Notes. " That your Petitioner, till this time, had thought, in common with the public, that it was fee the interest and advantage of the Bank to have the issiegrity of its pager currency unimptaehabk; especially as the Bank had, notoriously, for many years, Incurred very great expense in prosecuting to death the forgers of their Notes. That your Petitioaer v itowever, humbly submits that the Bank wtR derive emolument from the increased seen rity which will be given to the integrity of its Notes, as also in the article of expense fee Atinsinal prosecutions ; nod that, therefore, in equity and justice, your Petitioner Is entitled to receive from the Bask a competent remu neration; and also, he humbly conceives, is entitled to re• ceive from the public remuneration for the benefits which will result from the diusinitimid number of forgeries, and from the improvement in public morals, which must fol low from the increased didiculty of comnsitiiug a crime, hitherto suffered to be petpstrated with lausentabie faci lity. " That year Petitioner's Art of Printing Notes from Blocks, instead of Copper-plates, as hitherto, having been devised end contrived expressly for that purpose, if the only Body in the Empire whose employment of that art could in any wey remunerate the inventor, be suffered to appropriate his art to its oirrs use, without compensation, it is impossible that your Petitioner can ever, from being employed by Country Banks (even if the said Bill did not put this oat of his power), receive, at the age of upwards of threescore years, is y competent retanneration for the exertions put forth by hint in es,pense, labour, and intel. lest, to perfect an art by the adoption of which (by the Bulk of England) the Bank Itself and the Nation will derive so matey benefits. "'That your Petitioner, therefore, prays that his case may be taken into ennsideration, .and that he may be heard by himself, his Apish or Cpnnsel, against the said Bill. ALVIANDLit TILLUCII." The Certificates referred to in the above Petition are in our possession, and we hesitate not to declare, that the Petitioner's modesty has prevented his setting them forth with half the force of which he might have availed himself. The case, in itself, is one of extreme hardship.—‘n (Underling has appro priated to himself the invention (of long standing) of a man of acknowledged science ' • and not only 19 the praiseworthy inventor refused remuneration by the Bank of England for the plan he originated, but by a preventive clause in the New Bank-Note-Act, he is prohibited from deriving the deserved reward of his ingenuity in any other - commercial field of action.—This is altogether villainous!!! NEW EXTRA POST. The objections to the Extra Post Pian cannot be too generally known, nor too uroogly insisted upon.—The p*ejector had proposed to include all the principal coin merciol districts, but changed his mind on a supposition that they might not all repay the great expence of the new conveyance. Irony private parson were to form this post,of course he would not extend it except where it would be attende.l with a profit, nor dell (tovernittent, if it makes the measure its own, lit expected to sct un any other principle. It is understood, that at the Post (Nice they do nut calculate in a financial view that this measure can ever succeed on any extended stale, and its injurious operatton ou piaces.to which it does not extend, is ma nifest. If, tor instance, the Extra Post should pay as esipences to Manchester and Liverpool, bin tun further, in•vi hat a bittlatiUlli wou ld alflCll4llls and tll.lllll r W I 11r4fri . itt all the neighbouring- districts bt placed, wtw siould . . tyttcs have speculators in their markets purchasing and pur suing all their objects, with information derived by the Extra Post, which the others could not possibly obtain. How can it be supposed that this Post would pay for its eitension to Glasgow, when to reach that city, it would for near it* miles traverse a country in which an Extra Post Letter could scarcely ever be expected. Yet a you sou might leave Manchester after the extra post pm there, and be in Glasgow the day before the snail coach letters woutl be delivered, to the great detriment of the mercantile interests of that city. And if it did extend to all the large commercial towns, how would the farm ing interest be &Mimed? Factors and corn speculators would possess themselves of the fluctuations at Mark lane, and be able to traverse whole counties before the ordinary post hail arrived. The landed proprietors would soon have their tenants complaining that they could never sell except to a disadvantage, to those persons who come from the towns which the extra post might embrace. 'lite same reasoning applies to every branch of trade. Unless the extra post be as universal as the mail coaches and common horse posts, it *ever can be freed from this objection; and while it is most unlikely to create any new revenue of importance, the expence will be enormous for conveyance; for new offices, clerks, letter carriers. &c. and in this way to be sure it may be a new mime of patronage. In expose*, and in its exposure to rob. buy, it is liable to the two great objections which the establishment of mail coaches overcame. The Metro polis may be grievously perplexed by the arrival a two daily posts, one over-running the other, and if it can be supposed that the measure were attended with any suc cess, the post hours in London would be materially shortened, for though the ordinary mails would remain, many persons would be compelled as it were to the use of the other, and a new taxation would ensue for what very few appear to desire. The sale of London News papers must be greatly diminished, for when those by the Extra Post have been read at the Subscription Rooms. which would have one at any expence, what interest could people take in those by the common post, which would be one day old? Its short, there is hardly any general interest which this Extra Post viould not tend to injure. though its benefit even to a few great capitalists is obvious, in the advantage which it would give them over the mass of the community. HERTFORD ASSIZES. Oa Wednesday eveningintaron Wood arrived bore, and Ike Commissioa was soon afterwards opened win' the meal faro/. HIGHWAY ROIHIERY.—Hugh Carhill, a robust-looking young man, aged VO, was capitally indicted for Moot onsly assaulting the Rer. F. W. Franklin, Clerk, on the highway, and taking from his person a watch, chain and seals, and other articles, his property; the following cir cumstances were proved le evidence. On the evening of 'hefted of April last, Mr. Franklin, who is a Clergyman at Hertford, was returning home front London in his gig, and had reached about oue mile this side of Hoddesdon, when two men soddenly rushed iota the road, one of whom seised the horse's head, and the other jumped into the gig, and demanded his samit'y. The prisoner was the man who held the horse. As Mr. F. was feeling in his pocket for his parse, the man in the gig saw his watch-chain, and immediately seized it, and attempted to draw it irons the lob. Mr. F. made some resistance to this, upon which the robber called out to his compauion (the prisoner) "Give me a pistol, and I will blow out his brains." The prisoner then left the horse's head, mid jumped into the gig; and the other pulling Mr. Franklin over to one side, the prisoner seised him by the legs, and threw him over into the road. They got dose'', and were proceeding to rifle his pockets, when a woman, named Catharine Badcock, came up. and seizing the prisoner, (flagged him oft' Mr. F. eaciaimiug, "In God's mote, ,what are you going to du with the gentleman?"—The other ran away, and the prisoner. as soon as lie could release himself, followed his example, hilt not until Mrs, Badcock had compelled him to teen round, so that she had a full view of his features. It was remarked at the time that the offenders spoke with • strong Irish accent, and a pursuit been soon afterwards raised, they were overtaken by a tradesman of titanstend, and asked then where they were going, and they, said to March. He was putting some further qualities, when they both ran away, but the prisoner was pursued and emitted, and in • ditch, a few yards from the spot where lie was taken, Mr. Franklin's watch was fonod. 'the other fel lo w e ff ected his escape. They were both natives of Ireland. On the prisoner two sham pistula were 1 . 01111(1. which Mete foist,- ed of bras., nailed on to pieces of wood, tint, were not calculated to do any serions injury. The J.il y, without hesitation, found the prisoner Ouilty —Death ; Wit re coniniended hills to mercy on acrot;ut of hit y'.uth. Peter Parrott and John Olney were indict. d tor steal ing a blacksmith's anvil, the property of Jahn Lsoeir.— Parrot t was found guilty, and sentenced to heels e menthe' now isonment w the House of Correction, and to he kept to hard labour.-o.uey was acquitted. ------. Tuesday the Lord Mayor held a Court of Alder mess. James Williams, Esq. one of the Sheriffs elect, attending, gave the usual bond to take upon himself that (since at 'Michaelmas vuxt ; end time was anowed Mr. Alderman. VOLtirn.te 4:1.r tin , „ purl C. t (11 • i )1 a y +1 ,I ~' ~~ i A " I . 1 • 1 - •••• • , ' ' ( k i . , f I j No. 1,254—V0t. XIII.] NEW BANK-NOrE-ACT. The drudgery of an Editor can only bo compen sated by the influence he possesses, and this influence is never so valuable to a well-constituted mind as when it affords an opportunity to rescue from obli vion a Genius worthy of noon-dap-splendour, or to mark for execration the unworthy attempts of a leviathan Power to enrich itself by the €gis of security offered to it by neglected talent. The Petition presented to the House of Lords on Thurs day last by the Earl of Lauderdale, which we insert by itself hereafter, because it possesses too much of good to follow the general channel of what is usually arranged under the head of " Parliamentary Intel ligence," may be quoted in proof of the truth of our position. The Petitioner, Mr. Alexander Tilloch, rs no commterstenr-bis inventive genius is peculiar —his ability is not co4ned to the mechanical exhi bition of art and excellence, for his literary acquire ments are such as to justify his competition with the first Argumentators of the age ; and what good he might have rendered to society and to human nature by the invention in question, we leave to our readers to deduce from the plain statement of the feet which appeared on his Petition, that in the year 1797 be proposed to the Bank of England the very means for the prevention of Forgeries, which, in 1820, they are on the eve of adopting. Gracious God! how many hundred victims have, in the interim, been offered up to the offended laws of their country on the shrine of the cool, calculating, saving cupidity of Threadneedle-street. " The Governor and Company" have the power of contradicting the statement, if it be not founded in fact ; if it be true, we thank most fervently that Supreme Power by which our influeenee was circumscribed within the limit beyond which . ovc sedulousness or neglect "night, during the last 23 years, have saved or sacri ficed the lives of thousands of our fellow-creatures. . The Petition presented by the Earl of Lauderdale was as follows:--. " TO THE XT. HON. THE LORDS SPIRITUAL AND TEM* POTLAL Or THE UNITED KINGDOM Or GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED: TOZZIMILZ ?LTITIOI OP ALIZIAXDZO TILLOCH, OP ISLINGTON, "AtWelk " That it the year 1797, your Petitioner presented 'to the Bank of England P Specimen of a .Plan of Engrain, calcabsted to prevent the forger .of Bank Notes, accom panied with a certificate, signed by Messrs. Francis Bar toloal, James Heath, T h omas Holloway, William Sharp, J. Landseer, James Fittler, William Byrne, James Haire, William Lowry, and other eminent engravers, stain, each for himself, that May could not maks a copy *fit,' and that My did not believe that it could be copied by any IT the known dos of Engraving ;' and recommending it to the notice of the Bank of England., as an Art of great merit and ingenuity, calculated not merely to detect, but to premise - the forgery of Bank Notes. "That the mild specimen was executed iu consequence of a written permission of Mr. Giles, then Governor of the Bank of England, and on a verbal promise from him, that your Petitioner should be well remunerated by the Bank if his specimen could not be copied, or possesses' the advantages which your Petitioner ascribed to his or!, and at all events that he should be paid fur his troo ble and expenses. " That the Hank Engraver (then a Mr. Terre) said lie could copy it, and in about three *with thereafter did produce what he called a copy. "That on the Ath of July, Mr 7, the said pretended copy was examined before a Committee of the Rank Directors, by Messrs. Heath, Piffle'', Byrne, Sharp, Landseer, and Lowly, all Regrows of the fiat eminence. who all de clared that the preteuded copy was no mote like the uri• Mind, than a brass counter was like a guinea. "That such of the Engravers as had signed the first mentioned certificate having, after the said examination, also compared the said pretended copy with the original, also gave your Petitioner certificates to the same effect. "'That the Bank rejected the plan offered by your Pe titioner, followed their old plan for upwards of twenty years longer. to the great corruption of public morsls,aod sacrifice of human lire, and never paid your l'etitiouer any remuneration. That on the appointment of a Royal Commission in the year Itfltl , to examine and report ou the best nieces for the prevention of forgery, your Petitioner hid before the said Cummissiimers another specimen of Iris art, and exhibiting some improvement ; and stated to them, that, not being a professional artist, these specimens (notwith standing their certified merit) could give but an imperfect idea of the perfection of which your Petitioner' , art was susceptible; and also that the specimens offered to the and to the CODilltilaiollCl4 were nut intended as the form of Note that should be adopted, but o n ly to illus trate your Petitioner's art, and the variety of executisin of which it was susceotible. . • • .",Tbet your Petitioner itla sine 'mot, and behaves in fact, that the plan now adopted by the Bank, I. the italfka -. •. • ; , . •f.