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?swiss Dees v. MaeOW

LAM lATTALLIGENCit.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Wineesttav, OCT. 24.
Leaden Adjourned Sittings after Trinity Term.
LIABILITY OF RECEIVERS OF STOLEN BANK
NOTES.
auger, 'AIM, AIM CITRUS, V. LEATRAM, TEW,AWD OTHrlig.
This was an action of never brought by the plaintiff, Sir John
Paid. Snow. and Co., bankers In the Strand, to recover from the
defendenta, Morn. Leathern, Tew, and others, bankers at Don.
mum. three Bank of England note., amounting altogether to 3501.,
while had been stolen front a 'avast of the plaintiffs', and after-
mai, genie to the pleseseion of the defendants in the course of their
trnarnetions in businesa as bankers, during the Doncaster Races in
theeeenth of September, 11118.
As the quwhethee the receivers of stolen bank notes are
liable to the rightfiikaisrners hes been agitated much in some cases
iseekaod in others 'Meowed in and determined by the Court of
ii=re fine. and ea thie ease was supposed to differ from the
'rutin cis pecwher cienemstaamts, math interest was ex-
Milk led 11%rottn was tit egged.- - - i I
Mr. SCARLET?, Mr. BROUGHAM, and Me. PLATT, were foe
the plaintiffs. The SOLICITOR-Oreattat., Mr. COMMON SLR-
GRANT, sod 111 r. Pima, appeared fee the defence.
Mr. PLAIT spayed the resales.
Mt.. ScsillEkte. stated the plalntilVerne to the Jury. This was
11° action bg•dry the plaintiffs, who ate beakers in the Strand,
zirt the imlean, who are bankers at Doncaster, to recover
Bank of ihisipd notes, value 31111., which were the property
of i he plainta, WM which had reached the bands of the defendants
4111der such eirenrnseenese. that the *kid& thought themselves
elmitkd to oeneliler thews Mg thole property, and to demand roi-
-1 Onion of than. The Joey emild have to judge whether the
plaintiffs win tight in as connetiling. The evidence as to the
manner in which the plaint& bat these notes would be short and
clear, though it would spoor by evidence equally distinct what the
salwaet was in which the defendants acquired them. On the 7th of
1 doer. 11124, Moms. Snow sod Co., in the usual course of 1
Mnbusiness, 110•110 out a list of the securities and drafts in
dub hands, gives them by their customers, upon which
missy was to be paid the next day. This list was di-1
laded into two districts of netward and westward, as usual,
the vane including claims and drafts upon persona hi the City di,-
tact, and the other comprehending those at the west end of
I town. On the morning of the ilth of September they had fur col. 1
lesion in the City district a Bank dividend warrant, severs! checks
'mew City bankers, and other authorities to receive money, amount-
ing to setely lAN. These were intrusted to a confidential au-
mint Am todlettien, who received for them, among other notes,
let them amok of England notes In question,one amounting
OHO, es/Ihor to 1001., and the third to 501. When this cons.
Auld Ogiawail was proceeding towards the plaintiff's bank, he was
heeled bp a game of pickpockets near Temple-bar, in Fleet-street,'
MI peeks was an, and his note-case, containing the notes in ques.
dew ewes ethos, was stolen from him. This servant was now.
vafinasarily.6Bl4 bet when he arrived at the plaintiff. banking
km" kb Oleildfle evidently showed that something serious itad
lielkikeskiwt. He was greatly agitated ; his coat was cut and torn '
had he made known to his employers the facts that had befallen
him. 'Flu plaintiff's Immediately procured the numbers and dates
of the stolen notes; they advertised them in scone of the doily
papers, as well as the police journal, called the line and Cry; they
eloped their payment at the B .nk of England, and they to*
sway measure in their power to prevent any person bony receiving
the stolen notes in payment, without such persons knowing the ft.
Mains manner in which they had been obmined. They printed
band-bills also, and Sir John Paul, one Of the partners, knurl i
. that the Doncaster races were about to take place, thought it Agile:
ito transmit to the defendant's home, and another bankin
at Doncaster, copies of these hand-bills wherein a full
of
the notes was siren. After that, Taunton, a police edispe.wii,
despatched to Doncaster, to look out for suspicious 67=11111
he also left copies of these hand-bilis at the same bank! 6
Demmer. The rates of 1824, however, passed over theist these
Mee being discovered; but at the races in the succeeding year,
the nuts in question found their way into the hands of the
nts, and the present action wu consequently brought against
thaw. The law upon this 'abject was simply this :—lfta person is;
the (sir way of business took a stolen note, under circumstances"
which emskd sot emetic witreespision, arra Mat wpalibia gaardo
'welt peen was not responsible to the rightful owner; Met If he
received shell nate in payment after due notice given of a 'Obeli.,
aft./ being furnished with tens by which he could die
lum
stolen property, and did not exert due diligence and Its this
became responsible. It would be for the JuryLsuald=
defendateseffed not manifested se* a want of •
disregard to the notices served upon them, as to 1111*-
pletrly liable under all the circumstances of this case.
The following evidance was then adduced.
Mr. Charles Oebbins, a clerk of Messrs. Snow, Paul, and Co.,
On the 7th of September, 1824, a dividend warrant was paid into
their bank by Mr. Lake for 1,3791. ss• lld. There was also a
check paid in by a Mr. Collins, drawn by Mr. Curtis upon Sir
Richard Carr Glyn and Co. for 1,3751. 51. 9d., and another check
he bill. It is the practice of the plaintiffs' house to make up every
t' evening a list of the collections to be made next day, and to divide
them into two districts, east and west. All these orders were in the
eastern district, and they were given to the porter, John James, on
oho fhb of September, the regular collecting clerk being ill, in
seder that they might be collected. He is now dead. He re-
turned about one or two o'clock on the Bth of September, bringing
back no bank-notes, but some gold and silver, which he had in his
breeches pocket. On the back of the 501. Bank of England note
now produced there is written, " Remington, 8-9," which meant
the Bth of the 9th month, in John James's hand-writing. On
James coming into the plaintiffs bank, he appeared very much
agitated, and showed his pocket to witness, which had been cut.
Oi'itness was here about to stole what John James told him, but
this was objected to, as not being evidence.)
Mr. Tatham, a clerk in the Bank of England, proved that he
paid the dividend warrant above alluded to, on the Bth September,
for 1,3971. fn. ltd. The hundred pound note now produced to the
witness was one of the notes paid on that dividend warrant. It is
No. 12,959 dated Aug 23. 1824.
A clerk in the house of Glyn and Co. paid Mr. • Curtis's check
of :94/. by a 2001. note, No. 5,087, dated 19th Aug. 1824. It is
the practice of the witness's house always to enter the numbers and
dates of notes lo any considerable amount, in a book kept for that
purpose.
A clerk in the house of Messrs. Remington, Stevenson, and Co.,
bankers, proved that on the 11th of September, 1824, he paid a 501.
" A HUNGRY GHOST. note upon the cheque for WI., No. 11.929, 2d August, 1821.
" Norwich, Oct. 24. A bill.sticker next proved that he had stuck up bills advertising
" The city of Norwich has been for several days past thrown the lens of Messrs. Snow, fec. offering a reward, and giving the
into very great alarm, occasioned by strange and must unaccount- numbemof the lost notes.
able coins, prole ding from a house on Orford-hill, occupied by William Edwards proved delivering the same sort of bills as the
an ineff naive old gertleman• of the name of tiartt. The circum- last witness stuck up, to all the bankers and lottery-ofßce keepers
statics at coding this extraordimry occurrence appear to be, that in the city district, on the 9th and 10th of September.
Mr. Ha it wh ris a rervus eon of man, possessing property to a Ale Stallions attended from the Stamp-office, and produced the
considerable amount, has been annoyed by a ghost appesnng to Mondry; .idvertiser, of 9th September, 1824, and line and Cry,
him for astern! nights past, in various shapes, calling out, an a of the loth, in which was advertised the loss, with a description of
h orib e a d loud voice, " Beware ! heave off your wicked life. the notes stolen.
Mutt ! Head your Bible." The ohl gentleman made his neigh- The advertisements were rend, and in the bills, as well as in these
bouts rcquainte i with the circumstances, and they all instantly vo. advertisements, the 21101. nnte lost was described as dated the dik
ion etrtd to tit up with bins during his feighilut and deceits. of August, Insteadof the 19th.
Mmes. The SW. note was then traced to Messrs Remington., previone
" Night after night passed away, and no apparition appeared ; to their raying it upon the check on them for 501.
still the i o sea were repeated with unahating horror, tatting out to Mr. Goodrich was then put into the box.
Ilsrtt to read hi, Bible, and to leave off his wicked way of life; an The SOLICITOR-GENERAL examined him upon the raise dirt,
mime, scary piece of advice, for poor Hutt bears an unexceptionable and he acknowledged that the present plaintiffs had brought an ac-
ma el character. The neighbours imbibed the alarm, but mustered tion against him to recover the lOW. note. The Learned Counsel
up sulk:tent co irsge to centomence a vigilant much; into whatever then submitted that this witness was clearly interested in removing
room then travelled, however, this odd voice was sure to accompany the responsibility from his own shoulders, because it was clear,from
them, cal ing on lustily for "bread and butter—ham, ar d bread and this action that had been commenced, the plaintiff, considered him
butter—b'ow my guts, lam so Imago." Strange and unaccouet- liablefse she 41/11. note, which had come to his possession.
able as it all appeared, no person present was even able to trace Mr. Scant.vre said that the only legal proof of an action being 1
out front whenceoe from whom the voice peoceeeled ; sonietimes it commenced against the witness was the record, or, if it had not goes
wailed them as if it proceeded out of the walls, at other times to a record, the writ or other proceedings. To obviate all difficulty,
either from the exiling or from the floor. An extraordinary cireum- however, the plaintiffs would formally release Mr. Goodrich frost
stance like this could not fail at length to alarm the whole city, and ail responsibility.
hundred" flocked night after night to hear the hungry ghost call out 31r• SCARLET T thee, released this witness, and he proved that
for tt ham and bread and butter." On Saturday last the Mayor he had received the 100/• note above describedefrom the defendants,
eeepatehed several of the police to the spot to examine the premises, on Friday the 24 h, or Saturday the 25th September, 1825, after the
with directions not to quit them without ascertaining the real fact. Doncaster races.
They searched into every bole and corner, remaining there during Om-examined by Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL.—The gold cup
the whole night, but all to no purpose; the roof of the building was run for on the IVednesday, the third day of the races. Don.
wit not even omitted In their search. It was, according to report, caster was very crowded at that time. At the time witness was in :
at length conceived prudent to lay It by holy word. A Reverend the defendants' hank, there were five or alx other persons there.
Gentleman was found, who proceeded to the *pot, but, in defiance lie knew this note because there is sonic writing on the face of it,
of the priest, the spectre raised its frightful noises again, which which witness can't rnakeput. This was the only 100/. note wit.
noted horribly thoe, and rots
not to come there praying."
h the old chambers, at the same time telling ness received at Doncaster, and he poi(' it into his bankers, Messrs.
liiin ~ to go home,
The Reverend Harries, Farquhar, and Co., on the '27th September.
tsetelemen. uractustomed to have mockery added to Sit responses, A clerk from Hades and Co.'s proved that the last witness paid
won left the bowie.
the 1001. note into his employers' bank on the 27th September.
" A stout knight of the thimble living near, now doubly per- Mr. Taylor Moved he received the 50!. lost note from the defend.
tuaded that the voice tame from some villain concealed in the wall, ants* bank at Doncaster on the sth October, 1825. lie paid it be
fearlessly 'scaled, he would Ind it oat ; in he marched, bold as Sir.
Jackson, who wrote upon it his own name, and then sent it of
8 irl,:rion, shouldering a huge poker. determined to exhibit himself in a letter to town. _
w. r
sole victor In the combat, assuring his neighbours that the spectre Cross-examined by the CON mow SERGEANT-1. itnesathtrea at
ys an enormous in ux opeople ere at
should not boor suffered to go unpunished. Hie search was hen Donessteor.
he
i
or. the groand and voices on both sides rose loud on his ear. the time. f races. The people *here like the country notes better
Hs posed, but, eager for the conflict, he ascended the stair., the than nk tof F.ngland notes.
voice all the time echoing his name, and telling him to gu home', f' Mr. Jolts llexsox, of Bouverte.atreet, the Solicitor for the
it was of Igo ate. On leaving one chamber, a large box was thrown oia..ttitilis yawed that oe tracing these notes, lie traced the Mee
qbusennke ea of
pwohncsa t
stt'eoric told'
nd
at him, which, rolling down the staircuse, so alarmed the affrighted note to ah'eAltroo. kk'otxh,eantote
knight, that li? soon hasteoed away, fairly var.qui.lied. The heel witness 'll
utoll,theanddcfeinndcaonntses'
and Mr. Tew, junior, and two oftheir
kreght, who sought to lay this spectre, was one *hose honour+ Were there
cogcred on him cat the last Coronation. He soon eiFcovered the e'er!: V saiwWMitrnesTsewstiateelimth.at Mr. Fox told him lie bad taken the
s'neeteßom thent on the let of 0 tubber. Witness showed them
a i hot of the trick. it proved to he the servant girl at Ate house,
n2oof.en
ire,tanhedratelr.wSeeenkio,
itr,soto:ecytifhatdhencolevh......e.,. said it must have
2oor note in their pea-
*hn possessed an extraordinary power of ventriloquism. The girl tre
was immediately takes into custody, sin-ic which ho noise has been b"
fle*ll •041 On t" the Skturday before the race week. Witness then asked
heard by plot Mr. Hutt."

•
LECTURES ON THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF
STEAM-ENGINES.

On Tuesday evening, Mr. John Webster commenced a series of
four Lectures, at the Crown and Arebor Tavern, on the Rise and
l'oeseessive Improvement of the Stetun-engine. The Lecture
lab le ire tilled with models of 13 Steam engines, intended to be
aatttS she Lectures. This extensive view of the fiteam.angine is
novel, oo attempt having yet been made to give a con.
ve history of this umehise. Rimming all
its it iforremeste and discoveries from its Mlle* period tip le the
present den.
Ibellthy lifiet eight o'clock, Mr. Webster began by *boning,
the ion tommesetal commie', like Ertgland, it was of the gloom
imprillitees le ommitate the energies of the nail*, gi=
**ph esjoildide of the capabilities of the country.
possesthor ite ft did so small a portion of habitable suelheitaltis
calmly came within the remark just made, and no ens liii
prim* so assert, that the use of Steam-engines had tilt boo or
the asset vita importanee in this respect. This noble neashina—
for nits it truly was—in its extrannlinsey capability, eaerkeed
more to the ty of the country than was imagined.
Etat* Isabela with envy on the extraoedinary productions is
errantry, Mulish ha instrumentality, and acknowledged the superi-
ority of the British artisan. In a political point of new,
the advan*ges of die theitimeneine were net less conspicuous..
It hid bosom:Maimed with some degree of correctness. that there
were now la the country not less than 15,1100 stram.engines em.
played. In Camera there was one at work of 1100 horse power.
Now *hied it for granted that on an average engines employed
in this came, were each of IS horse power, this would be equal
to gime hones. According to Dlr. Watt (a name ever to be
severed he the incalculable ben t* the country hes derived from
his improvertion in steatmengines) the calculation is that Si men
are steal to the pewee of a horse; we have thane* a power,
three`b the medium of steam-engines, equal to near two millions
of our feilow.creatures. Each horse for his keep per year re-
quited the products of **acres of land, and thus 760,1110 acres are
at the disposal of the inhibition note than if the same week hod to
be performed by Wiese...
.tetath is now done by steam. No one will
s therefore. in tependeal paint of view, that steam-engines are
not ,ef the highest nopeetnote se ear country, as they afford M. in
fast. mere thaw seten'hundred thousand acres for the purpose
of illalicullnee (gnomon) Having said thus much, he would
- t• then
bast aide a generating steam, for it was use.
67-0;010, engines withenthoving a native force. Heat generate/
Meth. in Preleedoe Whe intensity ; even the air we breathe bad
a portion of fire in it se well as water. Heat was active and latent.
Active heat was demonstrated by the burning of a candle, and latent
best was that whieholight be produced by friction or otherwise.—
sidEit
The IM anemptier. steam to any body was made 13e years
ism the Claris.* t nothing in the shape of a Steam-en-
gine was made Marquis of Worcrster's time. Had he
been rewarded, be Mold, no doubt, at the early period of 1996,
have brought out; sow species at engine. oAtter the Marquis came
Captain Savery's ise., which. in fact, was the first machine that
might be celled OloMi indeed, his engine was to this day used
earensfully in Capirall fur draining mines. The Captain had
beta charged with *Wog the 31a:quilt's engine, but that was un—
true. He them mall eats, showing that the Captain's en-
gine required possum to work it, which was not the
case with the err -en of the Marquis of Worcester. He hoped
in future that the Captain would not be deprived of the honour due
to him. Savery's *gine was the first, therefore, that was used In
the Arts. Much had been said oo the bursting of boilers, but that
was entirely owing tee_the boiler not being of an equal thickness ;
ler a. the steam pressed equally on all parts, If any were deficient
(sad it sae meth impossible that every pan of the boiler should be
email, duOirest burst which WAS more thin than the rest.
If a boiler esuld be made equal in all its Tie, almost any force
of steam sofoht be put on. It was a fart t i a piece of bled*,
ethiehms opudin all its parts, could; If I:ea dffirilLies, and 1
*mare drawn Irma the glaes, mist • pressure of 119 lbs. on the 1
*mre inch. The duarratum, therefore, was, to get boilers as
wady as poesibl' • equal in all their parts. The Lecturer thence skew 41evipeatiespeoneuenta made by the late Mr. Watt.
in his Importantadditloas of the air pump and condenser. He made
acacia* aped**, proving, that were It possible to take away
the atmospheric pressure from the water (which is equal to 1316.
the feat), it Maid actually be in a bulling state. This he demon-
strated 'stela:tag a *don of water in a glass, and placing it in
the air purim ; W.* the air was entirely taken away, the water
boiled immediately, and co..tiaued to do so fill the air was let in.—
(This experiment was received with loud cheers).
The Leitarer concluded by stating, that on the following evening
he should take into consideration the improvements of Mr. Watt
on the steam.engiee. The Lector.. will be continued this evening
and k'ridaf.