The National Register. — London, England, 1811-03-10 00:00:00

160 FORGERIES. Last week a Forgery was practiced on a very respectable banking-house in the City., under the following very singular circumstances, by which they were defrauded of '20901. and hitherto the parties have avoided the vigilance of the police. A few days ago a person called at a house in Fran cis-street, Bedford-square, a part - of hich was to let, to engage it for, as he said, a gentleman of the first respectability ; and having agreed on terms, &c. the better to prevent further in quiry, he offered to pay for three mouths m advance, and fir which purpose presented for change a one hundred pound note, having several other notes in his hand at the same time, none of them, he said, were for smaller sums. This manoeuvre had the success that was wished. The Lady who had the lodging to let, could not give change t but the sight of the money lulled her into security, and the gentleman was allowed to take possession on the following day. The financier thus seated in fashionable lodgings, sets about raising the ways and means , a nd com snenced by answering an'advertisement from " a young man trom the country in want of a situation," who was desired to call in ferasscis-street, Bedford-square, where, if he -answerekl the caacription sef the advertisement, he might hear of a situation likely ro suit him. The young man accordiagly presented him selF, and being interrogated as to what he could do, he was asked for his own references, which he ; gave, and was desired to call on the following day, at twelve, for his answer. He did so, and was informed that the inquiries respecting character and connexions were satisfactory, and his salary being settled, he was to enter on his employment the next morn ieg. However, as he was taking his leave, his intended master asked what Way he was going, or if he was particularly engaged that afternoon, if not he would get him to do a little business in the city for him. The youth eagerly expressed his wish to go any where, when his master taking out a small red pOcket-book, and from it a cheque for two thousand and ninety pounds, de an-ed him to get cash for it at the banking-house, observing at the time, that as bar.%:ers'clerks were not over accommodating, he was to take two notes of 10001. each, and the !401. any way, :anal then to go to the Bank of England, to get notes of 501. and 301. fur the two 10001. notes, and to meet him at the Moorgate Coffee-house,, Fore-street. The cheque was paid by the banker without suspicion, and the large notes having • been changed at the Bank in the manner desired, the young man went to the Coffee-house, but no master had conic to meet • him. After waiting for two hours, in great anxiety, he set off for Francis-sftcet, and was there informed that his master had gene out soon after him, and had not la turned. The young man went a sec.. '.l time to the Moorgate Coffee-house; still no master, bat he found a note had been left for him, during his abasce. On opening it it was from his employer, dated the White-Hari Tavern, Holbarn, corner of Warwick -court, whither he was desired immediately to repair, where his master was waiting for him. On his way to Holborn, he was joined bs a man who forced his conversation on him, and to whom he related where he 'was going, and what he had been about. They pasted at the door of the tavern, and the clerk went in to ask far his master; still no master was or had been there. The yauog man having been permitted to remain long enough in the tavern r n. those outside to ascertain that be was not followed by ,any person trom the banking house or Bank of England, the rson whom he had the conversation with in the street, came into the house, told him that his master was crossing the way. Tlse young man looking out saw his master, to whom he went up, and was ?nos/ graciuz:sly received, and relieved from any further trouble respecting his charge ; and the, master, to save troihie, taking the youth's pocket-book, in which were the I,romising to return it in the morning when he came to business ; but this trouble was spared bins, by a note which he teceived the same evening, inclosed in a parcel, in which was hs pocket book, and two 11. notes. The note expressed that us:expected business had called the master suddenly from town for Liverpool, that the two pounds were for the trouble he had bad ; but that hi; further services would for the present be dis pensed with. This strange proceeding awakened suspicion in the young man's mind, and the following day, by the advice of seine friends, he went to the banking house, when they first discovered that the cheque was a forgery. Another forgery has been committed within these few days, on a banker in the City, to the amount of 10001, ; and the of fender lao 1 ad the ingenuity, it is said, to possess himself .of the banker's hook, by which means he was enabled to destroy the false phis check, the only evidence, probably, that could affect •fii Londuli : and Edited by E. ROCFIF, and Published by JOHN FISHER, No 5, I'ickett-street, Strand, near 'lentple-Bar anti furvvardt-d by all the New men, the Clerks of Roads ) told Luokst:llers tlironhout 11wl-Mitt:4l Kingdom, free of postiv, tlse Cuuntrya 34d per quarter.. Alt Inquisition was held at -Edmonton, before the Coroner for Middlesex, on the sth inst int, on the body of Sarah Hoye. It appeared that she met her death by being violently gor.ed by a cow, the property of her husband, which occasioned her • instant death. It being proved that the beast 'Was very vicious, the Jury found it a deodand of the full value, which become; by the verdict a forfeiture to -the Crown, or to the Lord of the Manor, having a grant of Deodands.- Anotlter Inquisition was held before the same Coroner in the parish of St. Luke, on Edward Parry, an infant. The *unhappy father, through mistake, intending to administer a small quan tity of Godfrey 's cordial, gave his own child oil of vitriol, which bad been purchased by a servant to clean copper, and put into a bottle, which produced the child's death in a few hdurs. The distress of the , father, the material witness, was truly affecting.—Verdid, Casual Homicide, Another Inquest was taken the same day. The facts were that two young men belonging to the Swift, a Scotch 4 itessel lying in the West India Dock, being somewhat in liquor, quar relled. They fought about four minutes on the ship's deck, . when suddenly closing they fell over the ship's side and were drowned. The dispute happened between nine and ten o'clock on Tuesday last. It is remarkable, when the bodies were taken up, the men were locked in each others arms: This leads to the inference that their death was instantaneous; and seems to • give colour to a prejudice, that the waters of the West India Dock being in some degree stagnant, imbibe a poisonous matter from the quantity of copper with which the lower part of the shipping lying there is encased. It is a certain fact,.. tliat very few persons once immersed in those waters, are recovered to Casually Drowned. WORSHIP-ST R 14T.-.-Bigarlly -•-011 Friday woman of gen teel appearance, of the name of Ann Cldrk, was biought up and underwent a final examination, being charv'd with having mar ried, in Noveinf4er last, Francis Collier, in the parish church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, her first husband, George Clark, to whom she was married in November 1796, being living the re gister of the said marriages being proved by the parish books; when the case being made out, she was folly committed to New gate for trial. MARRIED. At St. John's, Hackney, George 'rrower, Esq. of Clapton, to Isabella, eldest daughter of T. Kemble, Esq. of the same place. At Fewcton, near Otley, after 2 0 years courtship, Mr. Thomas Ward, innkeeper, aged 73, to Miss Elizabeth Graceton, aged 94, of the former place ! T. Marriott, Evi, to Miss Selina Mary Crane, only daughter of S. Crane, Esq. of Stratford. J. Eldridge, Esq. of Old Park, near Devizes, Wilts, to Mist Make 2 of Abingdon, Berks. DIED. On Friday last, tlac.Right Hon. Charles Marsham, Earl of Romney, Viscount Marsham of the 1\•lote, and Baron Romney, I ;ord lieutenant of the county of Kent, and President of the Marine Society, the Society for the Discharge of Persons con fined for Small Debts, and the Marine Bathing Infirmary at Margate.—His Lordship was born in the year 1744, and in 177(3, married the-Right Hon. Lady Frances Wyndham, daughter of the late Earl of Egremont, by whom he has left one son and three daughters. During many years he took a most active and - efficient part in the proceedings of Parliament, and as his con duct was always guided by a firm and honest zeal for the true interests of his country, his opinions carried With them much weight and influence, and added considerable credit to those with whom he acted.—ln private life his conduct and manners were mast amiable and ingratiating ; and no one knew better how to blend the dignity of the Nobleman with the mild and pleasing affability of the Gentleman : by his family, his • friends, and his neighbours, he was highly esteemed and lin loved; his memory will long be cherished with respect, and his loss be the subj6ct of regret. ... PIt:CE OF STOCKS. 3 per Cent. Consols l 6SIP, 5 per Cent. Navy Annuities. 9 7 k. -, , 74 i Imperial 3er cent. Annuities :...641 India Bonds • 0 55. pni. Exchequer Bills, 30. 7s. 10s. pin. Omniurn. 5 4 - 5 dis. :$ India for -April 179 Console for April 64 66 66i :THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 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