show he put confidence in me and desired me not to show them to anybody sealed them up with his own seal and obliged me by an oath not to discover them to anybody and i did not till he discovered em himself he was to settle so much in stock on me urged in his defence that his sole object was to deceive his and that he intended to destroy all the notes after his marriage but it had been proved that the prisoner had asked one john to change first one and then twenty of the notes but which that person was unable to do besides had his sole object been to miss bliss with his wealth he would most probably have more if not all the notes to her keeping he was found guilty and passed the day that had been fixed for his wedding as a condemned criminal on the th may richard william was executed at by his side on the same gallows there was another � william a military officer who had a draught on an army agent named and the offence with the first of bank of england notes the gallows may seem hard measure to have out to when it is considered that none of his notes were and no person suffered by his fraud not one of the forty eight notes except the twelve delivered to miss bliss had i � i � l l i � n i bank note i i been out of his possession indeed the imitation most hare been very executed and detection would have instantly jl followed any attempt to pass the there was no endeavor to copy the style of on a real bank note that as left to the and as sheet passed through the press twice the words added at the second for the governor and company of the bank of england could have fallen into their proper place on any one of the sheets only by a miracle but what would have made the clear to even superficial observer was the singular of the second n in the word england the criticism on s note of a bank clerk examined on the trial was � there is some resemblance to be sure but this note that upon which the prisoner was tried is numbered thirteen thousand eight hundred and forty and we never reach so high a number besides there was no water mark in the paper the note of which a appeared in our number and dated so early as has a regular design in the texture of the paper showing that the is as old as the bank notes themselves was greatly but despite the of the and the insignificant consequences which followed it the crime was considered of too dangerous a character not to be marked from its very novelty with punishment hanging created at that time no remorse in the public mind and it was thought necessary to set up as a warning to all future bank note the crime was too dangerous not to be marked with the bad was by no means uncommon in the most important documents at that period the days of the week in the by books of the bank of itself are in a variety of ways ii � � � � � � � � � � � � bank note � from other crimes not less in the magnitude of the spoil it may obtain and of the injury it than in the attending its accomplishment the common thief finds a limit to his in the of his which is generally confined to such property as he can carry about his person the raises and obstacles to his if the amount he seeks to obtain is so considerable as to awaken close vigilance or inquiry to carry their projects to any very profitable extent these are reduced to the necessity of acting in concert and thus infinitely increasing the risks of detection but the need have no � he is with no and suspicious property � he needs no to assist his the skill of his own individual right hand can command thousands � often with the certainty of not being detected and oftener with such rapidity as to enable him to the pursuit of justice it was a long time before s rude attempt was improved upon but in the same year another department of the crime was commenced with perfect success namely an ingenious alteration for purposes of real bank notes a few months after s execution one of the northern was stopped and robbed by a several bank notes were in the spoil and the robber setting up with these as a gentleman went boldly to the post office ordered a chaise and four rattled away down the road and changed a note at every change of horses the robbery was of course soon made known and the numbers and dates of the stolen notes were advertised as having been stopped at the bank to the genius of a this offered but a small obstacle and the gentleman thief changed all the fig bank note f � i i i he could find into s these notes passed our j i enough hut on reaching the bank the alteration was j detected and the last was refused payment as that person had given a consideration for the note he brought an action for the recovery of the amount and at the trial it was ruled by the lord chief justice that any person paying a valuable consideration for a bank note to bearer in a fair course of business has an understood right to receive the money of the bank it took a quarter of a century to bring the art of bank notes to perfection in this was nearly attained by an ingenious gentleman named a watch maker from the matrimonial village of green having 