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1, ' ,4 4 1 '4 1 1 7./,'F ' . , TT • - ✓ • ° T. %, • :,, ec.g' -- 1 , . . ig4 c \ <4 , , , 0 -6 W110,?1T NUMBER .9068.] TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1821 Pnict SEttrqiiENtt C NI V OsITION FOR ASSESSED TAXES. I\TOTICE is hereby given, that Persons de -. ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF THE EAR, 10, Dean street. MR. CURTIS , Aurist to his Mgjesty -agd to their Royal Highnesses the. Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and Surgeon to this Institution, will commence his AUTUMN COURSE of LECTURES on the ANATOMY,, PHYSIOLOGY, and PATHOLOGY of the EAR, and on the Medical Treatment of the Deaf and Dumb, on MONDAY, October Ist. ' • • _ OLD BAILEY. quested the indulgence of the Court to retire for a few minutes, previous to making his defence. The CounT granted the permission, and the Jury also re- tired. TRIAL OF MR. TURNER. On their return into Court, William Lewis and - Camn bell were recalled, and-in answer to a question from Mr. Jus, tice RICHARDSON, they stated that both the primary and 4up_ lieate bunks were kept in the Bank in the day time. sirous of COMPOUNDING for their ASSESSED TA XES, or of RENEWING their former COMPOSITIONS "der tlie provisions of the Act of the first and second ( . ;eoeg e Iv. cap. I Is, may, on application to the Assessors -r Collect ors o f tho Parish in which they reside, or to the ,rveYur of the Di s t r i ct , rece i ve t h e forms of not i ce applica o e to their cases; which forms must he returned by :them, with the declarations therein, properly filled up, as pre scribed by the Act, on or befor* the .sth of April, 1522 ; but v er%ons who have redUced their Establishment since they entered into CoMposition, whet-thy they would be charge able wish a lesf , amount of Assessed Taxes for the Year corn-. nlencin the tilt April, 1.822. than the duty compounded for, 411 d by reason thereof, are desirous of waving the said Corn r%ilion, and entering into a new Composition, are ruquirei Rive notice thereof to the Surveyor of their District, within ."'ve Calendar Mouths after the 10th July, mt.:. By ordtr of the Board, MATTHEW. WINTER, Sec, C) . Mee fcr T Axes, Somerset House, London, Sept. a, isa;. „„,,. BANKRUPTS' STOCK TO BE SOLD; OrT" - " 4 LLA.ItD respectfully ii)forins . the No - to 4: hil itY, Families, and Country Dealers, t hat, in addition (300`2..1"gatar Trade in Forei,gn anti British Pain n fact u red rnis ,",! , Itas ecru:vented the purchase of, and sale liv .corn-. h e ''un, of _Bankrupt? Stocks; by which arrangement he will p ut e . Th lll led t o i nsure to h i s Friends in particular, and - to the -oA.'"ic, a c ontinuation of the advantage the. present Stock per' it ) a variety of goods at the cost . price ; and others at a to! "" I "ge much below the cost price. Those who buy to f i ., ) _ l Akilin will be convinced of the advantage to be derive/I v61 :1 . the present arrangeutent.• The. Stock now selling• off frin„%ts,te of 1 ,000 pieces of Jacconot t, Mull, and Book Nluslins, of 6 to 60s. the piece of twenty yards each; 850peces ' L 'Ked ad St Ant at Bs. to 14s. the piece; 380 o ects . ..itpe, o, of Bet t illas ; 170 pieces b Catubric .11T uslins t at, 7d. 1 1 17 ‘ 2 . *. v , 1.11 : 200 at pd. 65 at Pd. 108 at 121. - a t‘d 340 at 18d. 48'2 P;ir3 .pieces h Linens and Sheetings, suDdry Table And Superfine Broad Cloths, 327 Ojeces Of. ell-wide. ctell Cambries, Nluslitis, wad Chintz Furoitures; Dresses and White, &c. with a variety of other Articles.- 2 11 , 3 ; . 1 ","nds soiled are rated proportion, and the Remnants ” lake') in the lengths they rum. °' 1 0, Clic.3pstA e. _ -QU ALLED TRAVELLING TO DOVER, DEAL, RMSGATE, MARGATE CANTERBURY. • `431-t.A I NSIDE COACHES, AND AND KEEP GOOD TINIE BY y S. A. UN'FAIN and CO. . ARA CEN' B S HEAD M INN O ; SKINNEX-STREET, SNOW . HILL, LON 1110 :N. POST-COACHES, MAIL- • CO ACHES, &c: set. oift.from th e ab ov e 'I tut:— t a T t l'e " Tele.graph," DOVER, D e al, R amsga t e , Marg a te, FrcryFevershani;. and Sandwich, new Post-Coach tf e tt' " ln Elling at a quarter o a s t 7 o'Clock.:--In consequence le decided pre f erence given to the above Coach, the Pro itr'jtnrl are d eterm i ned no. exkute shall be spared to render viiie.arst conveyance on th a t roa d : Chatham ; Rochester, Stroud, Sittingbourne f:auibrim, every Morning at a quarter past 7. t o fALMOt3TH, Plymouth - , Exeter, Weymouth, Dorches- Ill', Da rtmouth, and Salisbury, every . morning at Seven ; • t i t '°_ , -Igh H on it on, Axminster, 13ridpott, Blan d for d , Basing pt, and Bagsh o t. t et .-9 " Union," SOUTHAMPTON, Lymington, Winches . at ,Pnd Ba s i ngsto k e New Four Irrside*Coach, every Morning ; arrives at the Coach and' Horses, - Sauthaniptim; by Ye.—Thi s is a most delightful Conveyance to the Isle (xf Jersey, Guernsey, St; atalaes, • Havre - de Grace, ti;thargh, &c. The Proprietors o f th e above Coach hope bc,tteeiv e a continuance of that support which A, hitherto ' L i‘i>ticitced since the Commencement of the " Union." "I,, t .p ac ti LK - with o th er C oac h es . Ae acad., BRISTOL •Flying Post-Coaches, through' Chip and-Marlborough, every Afternoon at 'one ' A e at. Mr. May's; the Greyhound Inn, Bath, and the I t ' rE unn Tave Thomas-street, and the Swann, Bristol, next p4"lag,—Crn aches to Wells, Bridgewater; Taunton, and l 'Faiourb. :rhe UMPIRE, a New T.IVERPOOL Light Coach, only one "gilt on the Road,. carrying Four Inside, sets out Daily at li.P`e; arrives Liverpool next afternoon at Seven, through ,1,11)441n zt 1 (?:1 and , North a mpt on , IVelford, Lutterworth, Hiriekley, istnile, Pr Lies to chfield, Stone, Newcastle, Knutsir ord, War, '" .a•. _ to '' - "EWSBUILY, W e lli ng t on , an d Shiffnal, Post-Coach- Evenin g Evenin g at •Phal.:--Gtrariled. he UNION, WEYMOUT'H , Dorchester, Blandford, Sails eAndoYer, Blsckwater, Bagshot, and Basingstoke new t Ciiach, every Afternoon. - The: Weymouth - Packets to • . Ise y, Jersey, Cherbourg, St. Maloe's, &c. . 1. Le ROCKINGHAM, LEEDS-new light Coach, sets out 1411. Y Morning, at Eight; and passes through Baldock, Big . Eaton, Siiton, - Greet.bani, Grantham, Bawtry, sth; r norfl, Newark, Ream d, Doncaster, and Ferrybridge, to t d Golden Lion, Leeds, next morning at Ten. Notwith 411,?ding the uncommon Expedition of this Corteh, Con- to be the most a•reeahle and complete Public Cee on the North being uneqacilled by any other. Longtown, Gretna-Kiln, Annan, Dumfries, an Sanquhar-Kiln, C-anmock, Kiugswell, all Parts of Seotland, a Post,Coach (daily). ta a ,9 l4- 4, Scarborough, Whitby, Shields, Sunderland, New th;ei and Edinburgh, New Post. Coach, with .a Guard N t “ s ugliutit ; s - ets out every Morning at Nine, by way of etford, Tad ca st e r, •Darlingt o n, Northallert on , scc LnN 'ant, Min peth, and Berwick. Passengers finding them, til,;," fatigued on' the -journey, May rest what time they and then proceed without any additional Fare. new four-inside Coach, I'4 u :gh Aldbourn, Reading, Lainbatirn, Porton, Lydingtoni Wootton Basset, B.auislatry, Hungerford, and New- , ; e ve . , .. b i rdornmg. V.; ; " lI GENORTH, Walsal, Shrewsbury, and Holyhead ir , 11 0 , 11.1 c. Coach, every evening. • • 41and,1 °Ni Spalding Peterborough, Stilton, Hunting 'l/40yal Mail Coach, ' every Evening to Spilsby, Louth, e4o ,au d Hull, at a Quarter before,Siix. .goes Penrith, and Whitehaven Post Coac 1i150u.,4“-Horsel and a Guard' all the way; passes through •o t° „Si;,., A PPleby, ' Greta-bridge, Richmond, Catterick, Aberlord,Doncaster, and Grantham. '' e at ts : 4 s t iY e. . F 3' Morning ' , and performs the journey with the 'ess Pasiengers detained on the Road by 'eta r4easure, have the peculiar advantage of their Seats 4,ZZred i n th e n e x t C oac h. Lancaster, Preston, Kirby-Lansdale, Bolton, 1100,,jit 7 and . Garstang Post Coaches, every After aa • and / POO, Warringtoor, Staff!uF, 1 . ) 6 _atchaela L new FoU light r n, Inside P Knutsf ost d Coach, Stone, called The Head,Fe' every Er. sing at Five o'clock, to the Saracen's . w Dale.street','Lii , erool. c/..likA-„EFIELD Post-Coach, pevery.Morning. W i tt r- 'STER, Newport, Whitechurch, Tarporley, Irv orth Nampt- Nwicli Middlewith Post-Coach, every Evening &Clock. Mor ti —xi DE RLAND, Stockton, and Yarn] Coach, every m n . ,Lng, to the G eorge I nn , S un d er l an d. • and "l•vvisioCi HESTER, Winslow, C on gl e t on , N ewcas tl e , W a l sa l, t et . i.erhampton .new F o ur Inside Post-coach, every Al'. mo n . . SHEF FIELD and Rotherham Post-Coach, called the Rock . Nam, every Morning • Pi ee IitNII NGHAM • Pusi Coach, sets out every • Afternoon at L e ~ carrying Four Inside ; and passes ,through Warwick, _.raeinitigtoti, and Daventry; 'to- the *Saraeen's Head," Bull -5t Litt, Birtniugham, next Morning at Ten. • : . ' - 'VLLi Lincoln, Norificave, Howden, and Doncaster, Post "en ' every.: Marning,-. to the Cross Keys, Market,place, HRTFORD, Ware.; Ho Id sdon and Clieshunt.' Coach, tv erY Morning. " e .•, JOT TENH AM and Ed monton Coaches ( da il y ) , at El even, tlalf-past Two, Five, and .Eight. • • k leads • A.I,IOUNTAIN and o. respectfully acquaint their and•the Public, that they mill 'lot be accountable fin 71,, Parcels, Passenger's Luggage, Writings, Plate, &A:. of ire than Fire Poundsl'alue, if lost, stolen, or damaged, un-, s s enter e d as such, and tho• lnSuraitte paid for accordingly, IR the Saracen's Head Inn Snow-hill, London. . For particulars, apply to Mr. Curtis, at his own house, No. 2, Soho-square. The Royal Dispensary is open to Pupils. To T. TAYLOR, Esq. • ' No:1, New Bridge-street, London. HONOURED Stu, - BEG leave- to inform you, that ever since the A. year 1790, I had been afflicted with the Lues Venereal, which, from its obstinately resisting every course of medicine prescribed by the most eminent of the faculty here, and un dergoing severalSeveri courses of salivation, and twice dis charged from the Hospital with little relief, would appear to be of the mast inveterate nature. In the spring of last year ay oisorder had got to such a bead, as nearly.to put a period to my ctiistence—J hid a large uleer on the crown of my head, one cat each aria, and my legs were broke nut in a frightful roat.ner; my right wev dreadfully painful, and_ bad been. in,a state of ulceration for the last seven years ; My left had also two large nodes (snit, was very much discoloured, and gave me such excruciating pain, particularly when warns in bed, as nearly to deprive me of rest ; in this lamentable state, I was recommended by Mr. J. _Thompson,' (who received so. great a cure by them here), to take your Leake's Patent Pills, which I began to do on the 2Gth o. May; in the course of a fortnight I began to receive benefit-4n little - more than a month the ulcers on my head and arms were soundly healed — wen after, the sores on my legs healed also ; leaving, how ever, considerable discolouratiou in the skin, and pain in the bone of the left, which, by the blessing of God, and a little „longer.perseverance. in , your invaluable Medieine, subsided the nodes dispersing, the skin regaining its natural line, and the nocturnal pains gradually going off.—l thus because, by your liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free from all -my former complaints—have recovered my former spirits a nd strength, and am become jolly and fat, in which State having continued many months, to the astonishment of all knew a,.e, I. am at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, ,but beg you, for the good of other suffering mortals, to make this my case as public as possible, as I shall on every-occa sion ; in so doing you will greatly oblige, Sir, your grateful, obedient, very humbl e servant', • ALEX. MURKER. Swan's Close; High-street, Edinburgh. Witnesses to the above Cure:— ohn Thoraern, No. 3, New Poultry Market, Edinburgh, JOhn . 161‘lntosh, Old Assembly Onse,'Edinburgh. Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY LOR, Member of the Royal College of• Surgeons, at his house, No. 0, New Bridge-street, London; whete, after a constant residence of more than 40 years - in a practice parti cularly directedto the cure,of Venereal Complaints and those. incidental to the Parts of Generation, With that inviolable Secrecy which men of his profession should always observe such cases, he flatters , himself the advice and assistance he gratuitously administers to persons taping this Medicine, will be estetmed, hy a discerning Public, as an advattage seldom. attainable, and vivid of all ambiguity. Also sold, by his appointment, for the convenience of those living at a distance, at the Teyslsop, No. 103, Oxford-street; Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill; Mr. Baxter, South-bridge, Edinburgh ; Mt • Callwel 's, Dublin; and of one person in every considerable town in Great Britain and. Ireland, in boxes ofonly 2s. 9d. each, stamped, and sealed up with full and plain directions, whereby persons, of either sex maveure themselves with ease, spbed, secrecy, and safety. AIRS. SERB ES. The following Article appeared la a Daily Paper of last week : The Public will be a little amused and surprised at the fol lowing relation, which we have from a Correspondent, of the baptism of a full-grown Princess, which took place at Islington Church, a few days ago. About eleven o'clock in the forenoon of Thursday last, the carriage apparently of a person of rank was observed standing at the door of the Curate, which was soon afterwards driven to the gate of the Church-yard. The curiosity of the neighbouring inhabitants was much excited on seeing a portly well dressed dame, apparently about fifty, handed from the coach by a dashing young fellow of no more than half her age, and to whom it was concluded she was now about to bestmirher fair hand at the altar. The Parion, the Lady, and her friend were for some time in the Church, the party not having .thought it necessary even to send for the Parish Clerk to record the proceed ing. The curiosity excited by this mysterious proceed ing remained ungratified till the secret became known to those, whose iirying inquisitiveness led them, the day after, to peep into the Parish: Register, where the matter stands clearly de. veloped in the following terms : ",1821.—September 6.—Baptized Olive, daughter of Fre derick Henry, Duke of Cumberland, and Olive, his first wife, born 1772." This article was followed by the following one in an Evening Paper of last week : ." We were favoured a few days ago, exclusively we believe, with an account of • a royal christening, which account, we are assured, is substantially correct, by a communication from the Princess of Cumbcrland'herself, which we supply verbatim :--- " TO THE EDITOR. " The mention of the baptism of the Princess of Cum berland in your Paper was correct, but • the statement added was not merited, it being a relative who accom panied -. her Highness, the Duke of Cl-.--, [the passage in Italics is struck through with a pen]—William Henry Fitzclatence, Esq. ; and certainly the Princess performed but religions-duty in being received into the established church that brought her ancestors to the throne. She had been half-bap tised at three hours old, as the infant of the. Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, but not received in the church till the 6th of September,-1821.- Her Highness wishing to approach her God; and to satisfy the. English nation as to her legitimacy; adopted the calletl46r measure-bound -by every . principle of con scientious honour to respect the ceremonies of that religion which has 'so eminently 'distinguished 'Great Britain, and pre served its :ipternal repose amidst the turmoil of surrotinuing States. " OLIVE." Now, as the claims ,of this person have been asserted with so much formality, and, as if they Were not - Well-founded, many may suffer from too confident a reliance on their authenticity, it (seems generally to be deemed proper that they should one way or other be set entirely at rest. If' she is a mere pretender, the imposition should be finally stopped ; but if her claims are:legitimate, they should be legally. recog nised. .Under no other Government on earth would the matter be so long suffered to remain in dOubt. It is proper to observe, that the claim ant assumes the equipage and appearance of a branch•of_thltoyal k'amily, and that in reality, she is the wife. of .111 r. SEattEs, a marine painter of eminences to whom she has been married many years, and has one female offspring, whO, if ,the, snhject is not.fnlly and finally determined at present, may of, course be expected to ad ce the pretensions of her mother. 1111‘ YesterdaY,actin SwineN Barnard Tinier . was pnt.to the: bar,indicted for forging eight several traufersin :the Bank o; England-; and , also.for forging seven certain receipts, &c., with intention to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.—The Prisoner pleaded Not Guilty..- 7 Mr. BOLL AND oPened the case. Mr. Sergeant BosANQucT addressed the Jury. The unfortunate man at the bar stand's indicted for a most serious and capital offence. The re spectable situation in which he was placed sup poses that his character must have been good ; but placed as he was, in a situationnfconsidera ble trust, he ought to have prev e nt e d others from defrauding his isrnployera: Th , ;,,Learned Sera geant explained the nature of the cifenmstances under which the fraud 'W.tt.s , committed, which were shortly these: - Sir bad, in March fast, considerable property in the Navy per Cents., 10,0001. of which was transferred into the name of Johit Penn, Esq. of 'llighgare This was not discovered till the 20th of May ; when on referring to the books in which the transfers were entered, two leaves were found missing. It was then discovered that the stock had been frau dulently, sold, and that John Penn, the alleged purchaser, was a fictitious name. This transfer being made, it was necessary likewise to proceed to give the receipts. For the purpose of check three books are kept, in which all trans fers are entered ; and it was necessary that this transaction should appear in each ; and the man ner-in which it was so entered excited suspicion, which led to detection. -The Learned Counsel then entered into a long detail of the various cir cumstances attendant upon the fraud, and which it would be his duty to endeavour to prove in evidence. Mr: REYNOLDS then called Edw. Salisbury.—l am a`clerk . in the Bank of England, in the Navy 5 per Cents. Office. Our office is separated into four divisions ; it my duty to enter the transfers. 'We had no account of a transfer from Sir Robert Peel on the 20th of March. Lklere the witness examined the ledger.) The last entry is dated 30th of May, 1820 ; it is " (). I. 80, to J. Bunn No. 5,281, 10,0001." a t i s no t m y writing; I wrote the - following words, " 20th March 1821, to J.. Penn, 10,0001.," which' were - erased. I made this entry from the transfer-book. I should be able to refer to the trans fer-book, by this entry, if it were correct. The original entry of mine should have said R. Y. I stated it from memory. The. book I have now before me, is what the transfer 'should appear in. It appears to me that two pages of this book have been torn out, which would bccasion the corresponding leaves of the sheet to be out too. There is an alteration in the paging of the folios. The following page now stands 85 upon an erasure ; and the pages are altered as far as I)3. There is no alteration in.the former part of the book. The date of the entry preceding the leaf that has been taken out, is 20th March. Cross-examined by Mr. GURNEY.-- , l'Qlen I speak of the state in which I wrote the entry, I tiv not speak from ani re collection of the fact t but fray; referenoe P-P other books. '1 hese books are not written by me. There are oirout 40 clerks in the Navy 5 per Cents. Office. All of them would have access to the ledger. llach clerk operates as a check upon the other. En tries are made OD the same day, and afterwards checked.= Notwithstanding, accidenis sometimes occur. Re-examined by Mr. REYNOLDS.—There are eleven clerks in my . office. The accounts between Sir R. Peel and .1. Penn, would have been entered in my division. • Walter Prideaux examined by Mr. BOLLAND.—I am a clerk in the Transfer Office. It is my duty to enter a transfer. I recollect making an entry for 10,0001. to J. Penn, Esq. High gate -; I took it from the R.Y. entry-book. I have the 'book before me, but it is not here now—the number 4,181 ; when I posted it, it was 11,181. There was no account opened to John Penn, of Highgate, and therefore I opened a new one. As the entry now - stands, it is " 1821. Mar. 26, P.Y. 86, by R. (some name illegible from a blot), No. 4,181, 10,0001. As 1 made it, it was " R. Y. 86, by R. Peel." I can find no ticket for such transfer. No transfer .is made without such ticket. The transfer is enteredinto the hook from such ticket; they are.after wards tiled and taken into . the strong room. I have looked there for this tiCket, but I cannot.dnd it. _ Cross-examined . by . 3117. ALLEY.—In the alteration a 4 iS substituted for al. 'I cannot swear from recollection that I ever saw a figure of lin that place. It is sometimes, but not always, my duty to take the file of transfer tickets into the strong room. It was not my duty to carry in the file on . which this ticket ought to have been. John Baker Mansel.—l am a clerk in the division L. to R. in the same office as other witnesses. On the 12th of April, 1820, there was an entry in Sir R. Peel's name, in the ledger, for 14,7591. ls. 5d.; the original transfer was for 4,7591. Is. sd. which is my handwriting. Souse one has added the figure of a 1, which makes it 14,0001. Jay Mr. GURNEY.— I have been a consklerable time in the office with Mr. Turner. At the .time he was charged I owed him 1001., which he had not required me to pay him.. At the tirrie of hiri apprehension I owed him 9a The usual time for the clerks to leave is from three to half-past three o'clock. I am not aware - that Mr. Turner on the day of his apprehension, left earlier. John Alseger, another clerk in the same office, examined by Sergeant llosANau ET.-It was my duty, on the 20th of March last, to supervise the transfers. 1 have some confused recol lection of a transfer in that month, in the name of Sir R. Peel, but cannot speak' with certainty. Thomas (;harles Frances, another. clerk in the same office, examined by Mr. REYNOLDS--I am in no division. My busi ness is to search the powers of attorney, and compare the led gers with them. In the month of Marcn last I found no powers of attorney in the name of Sir Robert Peel. John OsWald Trotter, another clerk in the same office, cor roborated the tbregoing evidence. Charles Norris examined by Mr. Ro I.LAND —I am chief clerk in the Navy 3 per Cents. Office. All the clerks in that divi sion (from L to It, 15 in number) were present on the 20th of March.l Their names are always entered into this book.—(Here Mr. Holland called over their names, which tallied with the book.)—lt is the duty of all those clerks, as occasion may occur, to witness transfers. Cross-examined by Mr. WILLIAms.—I have no recollection that Mr. Turner was absent on leave about the 20th of March. (The witness here referred to his book, 'and found that the pri soner was absent from the. `?lst of April to the 7th of May in clusive.) I have been on terms of intimacy with Mr, Turner for upwards of three years, and my opinion of him was very high. The othei clerks in that department of the office were then called, who respectively deposed' to their not having attested any transfer from Sir Robert .Peel on that day, and likewise to their having made, no salt:nations in the transfer book. They also said they knew of no such person as James Smith in the Rotunda (which was the same ',inserted for the broker en.- ployed). Sir Robert Peel was then called. Mr. ALLEY objected to Sir Robert being examined, on the ground of his being an in terested party, until it was proved that Sir R.'s loss had been made up, and soiree Coiasidoxable discussion took place between the Learned Counsel for the respective parties and the Bench, Which ended - 1;y a decision. in savour of Mr. Alley ; and Sir Robert was not here examined. Roberti:lest; Esq. Secretary to the Bank of England, was then sworn. Best proved ,that the Directors of the Bank of Eng land had resolved to refund to Robert Peel the :.€1.0;000 Navy Five per Cents. which bad been fraudulently transferred from his. account. The resolution to that'cffect was put in evi dence. Mr. Cole examined by Mr. REY NOLD-I am a broker. I purchased 10,411i11. live per cent. for the linuk, to bi transferred to Sir Robert Peel'; it was so transferred before the dividends were paid. James Gyrine examined by Mr. REYNOLDS--I am one o the clerks of the Transfer Office. On the 3d of July; stock to the amount of ten thousand pounds was transferred into thename of Sir Robert'Peel. I witnessed that transfer ; it was made in time to carry the dividends. - • Sir Robeit Peel was then egarnined—l was on the 20th of March at my house in the country. I did not myself make, nor did I authorise any person by power of attorney to make for me, a transfer of ten thousand pounds that day: .loseph Starlin„7.-4 am a stockbroker ; I saw the prisoner on the 2lst of March. He came to mein the Rotunda, and asked me the price of stock, saying that he had one thousand pounds to di,Spose of.. Tire price was Mil: I agreed to purchase the one thousand pound."... He left me, and went towards the Five per Cent. Office.: I saw him again in the Office at the dose of the day. .1., eudgred. him my check for the amount on his. giv ing me a receipt: , 7 The check produced is what I gave him.— In the receipt there was a mistake of five shillings in the Calcu , - lation, of I told him, and he altered it. I believe the _t..'ensfe; to be. liifi bairn ,Nriting,but I fAzxaot 'Pak to a certaintk.- - 1 saw no broker - iii this business. I let-7. 1 it to him to get the transfer made to me. 4,3ir. Norris was again examined by Mr. 11,EYNOLDS—Ue read from the traWer r book the entry of the '.CIOOO, - sold to Mr. Starling by JOhn Penn, Esq. and witnessed by Win. - i Turner. Knows the hand-writing of prisoner well ;. the signature is his. can't say in whose hand-writing the name John Penn is ; un der it is written the name of J. Smith. The witnessing-clerk • ought to know, that the person so signing was either a; broker or respectable person. The words "John Penn". Ought to have been written ~by•Alr. Campbell, - .as he is the person who has entered the transfer: Ido not Campbell any broker of the: name of J. Smith. Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHIIS.—It is customary for a broker to witness : but it is often the case for other persons to do it. Mr. Campbell proved that the name " John Penn" was writ ten by him, and that he copied it from a transfer ticket. - witness made out the transfer frOm a ticket which he .recelvZil from a clerk, 'whose duty it was to hand it to him on that day, but could not say from whom it was. Edward Taylor proved paying a check of Mr. Starling's, for £1045; but could not say to whom he paid the money. Mr. Weston is a clerk in the 3 per Cents. Office ;" the 27th March received from the prisoner a £3OO note, two for one iundred, and some smaller ones, whicle he' paid over to Mr. Harman. Mr. Harman corroborated the testimony of the last witness, and identified the notes produced. There were three for .100, and he believed one for £3OO. Mr. Nixon, Deputy Receiver-General for the County of Middlesex, said, that .in the bc , rinnimt of April he received from 'the prisoner 15001. on the '6th of April, 15001., and on the 7th of April, another sum, -the whole of which he paid into the Bank of Curtis and Co. Thomas proved receiving in the monthof March .I 3001, from the prisoner, which he paid into the house of Messrs. Ladbroke, , he supposed from thelactof.his being in the habit of doing so. - Mr. Allseger, Clerk in the house of Messrs. Ladbroke, prov ed receiving two one hundred pounds and one forty pounds notes from the previous witness, and , identified two of them now produced. Thomas More, Clerk in the Three per Cents. Office, proVed receiving from the prisoner, in the month of March, 1311. 1.25.- in Bank-notes. EXamined by Mr. GunwEv---Would undertake to say, - from his own recollection, that he did,receive a £lOO notefroln the prisoner, which he paid .into the Bank of . Messrs. Curtis; he night in the month of Ma.veir have paid another note.for £lOO into their hands. - ; Robert Strahan identified the notes paid by More to him._ Two notes now produced were part of then; he could not say what day in March it was he received them. Mr. Kaye e Solicitor, proved imxin . (kthe prispir.trin the month May of last, relative to certain entires,...Several trahsfers were produced and shewn the prisoner ; they amounted to about ten thousand pounds. At the time of the .discovery, the prisoner described Mr. Smith to be of the Stock`Exchange, but not a Member, and that he did not know any thing of him, but from his attending in the Rotunda. The second transfer was attested by the same person named Smith. The Prisoner - was then ask ed about Mr. Penn, and said he had been introduced to.him as John Penn, and he was about 50, but did not know. whether he had any transactions, in the *ands previously. Smith had transacted business in his (the prisoner's) book before ; and he knew him as a respectable broker, and believed he was knoWn to Messrs. Campbell and Salisbury, of the Five per-Cents. Office. All the transfers were witnessed by - the prisoner, and identified by J. Smith. In answer to further questions, the prisoner said, he did not think Sinith had- a box in the Rotunda with his name on it, and that - he had himself observed a difference in the signature of John Penn to the transfers. That he had • been DI advised, misled, and defrauded by several persons, and that he had lost a great deal of money. The prisoner had Also admitted, that he had sold out the stock, and got the money for it, and that he had paid it to that rascal Penn. The prisoner said, he had been defrauded by Samuel Turner, who had absconded. ' Joseph Drake, collector of assessed taxes at Highgate, knew of no person of the name of Perin, at the time in question, re sidink, at Highgate. N. Sibley resides at the post-office of Highgate ; had lived there for eighteen months ; had no knowledge of any such person as J. Penn ; his business extended over tine whole of the parish. - • • James Drax, letter-carrier of lli q rhgate. His walk extended over the whole parish, except.Sauth..vVood-lane ; there was no such person as John Penn resideat there. - Joseph Birnie, A letter-carrier, deposed, that there was no such person as John Penn in Swath. Wood-lane. Thomas -Ovore, parish officer, said that he was in the habit of receiving militia papers the laSt year, but did not know of any person named John Penn. Thomas Bennett, - ' theteadle of the parish of Highgate, de.: posed to thesame effect. . . Jaynes; Barton, one-of the patrole who often& the Rotunda, had been so engaged for - 14 ytltrs . ; knew .no person of the name of J. Smith there for many years;. there was a person named J. Smith who used 'to come through sometimes, but he had been dead about four years. • ; • • • • • • John Smith, also a - porter in the 'Rotunda, bore testimony to the same dial. . John Foy; the officer, who took the prisoner into custody, bore testimony . to the' attempt made by the prisoner to escape from the room in which he.was confined. Examined 1;7 Mr. GunNEY.•-•--T.he prisoner accompanied the witness to the Bank very readily ; he had at the time no warrant for his apprehension. A'Clerk in the house of Messrs. Curtis and Co. proved re ceiving a note for 1001. from Mr. More ; he did not know it frotn•his own - knowledge, but from an entry made by him. Mr. Prideaux was called to prove the hand-writing of Tur ner • beli;yed the. transfer to be in the hand-writing of Turner ; the entry in the kitger Was also in the hand-writing of the pri soner. Several other entries were also, in the belief of the wit ness, in thehand-writing of Turner. Cross-examined by Mr. GURNEY—The other clerks in the Bank niight - or might not be able' to state it to be the hand writing of Turner; they had been asked the question ; could not go so far as , to say if. the word. John Penn had been shewn Only,.that it was Turner's; if he had been shewn that name Ciohn• Penn) attached to a stock receipt, without being told any thing:more; he, would not have said it was Turner's; the reason . he said so•was the fact „ofits being mixed up with the Bank bu sinss ; could not sAY whether he had or had not said he did not believe in the New Testamentor the Christian Religion. • • !Examined by jr.^Sergearit I3osANQuET.—Believed in a future state of rewards and punishments. a Here the case for the prosecution cloSed. Joseph• Starling 'called again—I transferred the 10001. I bought of • the prisoner on the next day, and received the pro duce. . Mr, GURNEY snlmitted that id' a point of law the indict ment could not he sustained, as the receipt alleged to he a for gery could have , nooperation on the Bank of England; neither could it at all effect Starling, who had disposed of the Stock , and received the money. Therefore, the indictment improperly alleging that it teas with intent to defraud the Bank of Eng land, and Jr. Starling, could not be sustained. Mr. ALLEY, faiMvid on the same side. Mr. Justice everruled the objection; Mr. Baron GRAHAM concurred with him in opinion, that there was nothing in the Objection.' The prisoner was then called on for his defence. 114 re: DEFENCE. The prisoner then rose, and, -from a written paper e read his defence, which he delivered with peculiar propriety and firm ness of manner. He acknowledged that the statement which_ lie had made to the Bank Directors was suspicious ; but rely ing on the candour and justice of a British Judge and Jury, he . was satisfied that with them suspicion would have no place. iTo prove n sinnocence was manifestly impossible', us the only Witness hdais could do it was the man for whose iniquities he was now sharing ; He stated - that he had been 'eigiiteen years e a faithful.. .servant of .the Bank of England, and during the - riots of 1780, bis father, Sir Barnard Turner - , bad preserved the treasure of 'lie' };rifle. The law iraahlifehT•he *as entra.bred was this :—A main. in the. garb of a Getlemar a applied to him for a lean, and - referred binato a credit of 10,0001. in the books of the Bank of Ehgland, which some family reasons requited should stand in his name a little longer. •'• He represented hiMself as a man of substance, residing 'at - Highgate : his appearahce was respectable, and his cars liberal and honourable. Having examined the ledger; . and every thing appearirag reghlitr, he entertained no suspicion, and an the next day advanced hi al the sum which he required ; and thus began those pecuniary transactions - which , had closed - by placing him as a priscner where he now stood. He 'continued to act as the broker of this accomplished swindler; and occasionally repaid himself the ad vances he had made to him out of money received from bins, which accounted for many Bank notes being traced to his posses. sion, and not to Penn's. How, he Would ask the Gentlemen of the Jury, could h e suspect this man? It had been suggested that the irregular transfer, and entry in his name is altogether fictitious and made by him (the prisoner). Had the ledger account been opened by him, there would have been some ground for the supposition; but that account was opened by Mr. Prideeux; and he must have been satisfied of the regularity of the transfer before he would have opened it. Two months had elapsed be fore any discovery took place, and in that interim he had been absent for three weeks at Hastings, .and if he had been guilty, might have escaped to the opposite coast, but instead of which he had returned to the Bank, the scene of inevitable deteCtion and ruin. Would any man of common sense; much less a man of subtlety, arrange a contrivance of the'sort imputed to him, have so acted, and, that at a time when the plot was effected, when the plunder must be supposed to be safe in his possession ? He was present when the discovery of irregularities was made in the office; but no witness spoke of any alteration of his _Countenance or manner, indicative of guilt. He had even stayed twenty minutes beyond his usual time, and then had gone to his own habitation, where he rerhained accessible to every, visitor. •It was alleged that he tore out the missing leaf ; but if that were so, why had he not torn out the other leaves which had been brought in evidence against him ? This was a peculiar case, in which the Jury would look at the pro. babilities on, each side. There was nothing set his past life or conduct to countenance a charge of dishishcsty; no creditor had ever called twice on him for money ; in fact, he owed none. Ile could prove that he hail paid some debts of his deceased parent, which he-could not have been obliged by laW charge. His incense from the Bank was abundantly sufkient for his expellees ; add to which, two years ago, by the death of `his mother,. he received 2,0001., and he received . 2;41 hisewiE five-thousand pounds; and three of the clerks-of his department owed, him four hundred pounds, and had dehe so for months. SO that it would appear that he, a man of tcrnp,,ratc habits'and Moderate expense, had rushed on infamy and death without cause or motive. He had been entrusted to a considerable amount by many brokers, and could have realiied a larger sum than 10,00 Q/. without any risk, and he could have enriched himself without a tenth part of the risk, from his situation giving him wcontroul over the dividend warrants. The fault that he must acknowledge was having been a dupe, but tit a villain. The account he now gave he had given to the Bank Directors without premeditation, but when he found they were resolved to drag Min to that bar, and when the flight off'enn burst upon him, and conscious that acquittal would not reiture hint to society, he lost kis senses, and scarcely knowing.what he was about, he did seek either escape,. or what he thought more probable, certain. death. He entreated the Jury to balance the probabilities, and they would find that to pronounce him inno centthey had only to believe that he had , given credence to an artful villain ; whilst to convict him of guilt, they must helioas that he forged the transfer of Sir It. Peel, and imposed on the 'vigilance of six clerks, through whose supervision it passed; that he tore the leaf out of the transfer took, and afterwara's disposed of the stock in the common market; and they mast be- Here- that when discoveries were made he staid at the office 20 minutes beyond the time,'and then went to his habitual residelsce, and that he did all this with 70001. in his possession, and 4001. _owing to him from clerks inhhe - office., " fly existencea" said the prisoner its chnclusioh, " hangs upon your breath for in cases like this, after , conviction to look for mercy were hopeless. Cut me not off, I implore you, its the very summer of -,my years; for the sake of those whose characters are unstained I. ask it—for the sake of a wretched wife who has bound up her hap piness in mine—for his sake I ask it who will not hereafter fora get the mercy with which you haVe tempered justice." The address of the prisoner caused a considerable sensation in the Court. The following witnesses were then called, who all spoke in the highest terms of the character of the prisoner, as being most exemplary in every relation of life:— Mr. Lee, . the High Constable of Westminster, had known him from his birth, and knew that about two years ago, he came into possession of 2,0001. by the death of his, mother, and that he received 5;00b1. on his marriage, which took place about a year to. J. Swiney, the prisoner's uncle; Air. Carter, an at torney, a neighbour of the prisoner's ; the Rev. Nix.. Onslow,.the Rector of Npwington.(the parish in which the prisoner resided); Mr. Robert Hill ; and Dr. Powell, all spoke to the unimpeach able character 'of the prisoner. Mr. Justice RICHARDSON then summed up the evidence with the utmost precision." He observed that the prisoner's, de fence was drawn up with singular ability, but it contained not a syllable . respecting ',Tames South, the stock-broker, and it was reinarkable that none of the witnesses who had been ex., amined knew any thing of such a person, except the prisoner. The account the prisoner had given to the Bank Directors (ac cording to Air. Ka 's evidence) of the first acquaintance. with Mr. J. Penn, that he had known him about three years, but in his statement now, he says Penn introduced himself to borrow money from him, which he was induced to lend him on being referred to a credit of .glO,OOO standing in the naive of John Penn, in the ledger of the Navy 5 per cents., though Penn had no credit in thoise books till the 20th of March, 18.21, and there was nothing that would inform the prisoner that the person cull ing himself John Penn to him, was the .1c hn Penn who hall ten thousand poNnds in the Bank books. It was for the Jury to judge as men of business and the world of the probability cf that account. If they had the slightest doubt on their mind s they would give the prisoner the benefit of those doubts,' and of the irreproachable character he had hitherto borne The Jury retired for an hour and a half, when, a'Aline o'clock, they returned with a verdict 'Of—NOT GUILTY. • A burst of applause took place in the Court when the verdict was pronounced. The Annual Meeting of the Portsmouth and. Portsea Philosophical Society was held at the Old Town I lall on the 7th inst. (DANTIEL .HOWARD, Esq. in the owe), when a most gratifying Report was read of the state of the. Institution. The President then stated, that the duties of the respective Offi cers were terminated, and it now became the bnsineSs of the So ciety to elect others. .The ihanks of the Society were, unani mously voted to the late President,. with a request that he would accept the office for the ensuing year ; also to the Vico-Presidents, Treasurer, and Secretary, who were. respec tively re-elected. Twenty-one new • :Members were propene, and the number of the Committee, extended to eigtf, besides Ole Officers. Arratvetner t; wore t-130 made With respect to the subjects of the Lectures for the ensuing Season'; and the thanks of the NI eetingr, being voted to the Mayor and Corpozation for the use of the Tovin Hall, and the support which the Society had received from them; and to the Chan-man, for the highly suit able manner in which he discharged the duties of . the evening; the Meeting adjourned, gratified with the, prospect of future success which the Society.exhibited. - -