The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-06-10 00:00:00

POLICE.

MA NSION-H OUSE.
On Wednesday week application was made by the agents of a
country banking-house, of high respectability, for a warrant to ap-
prehend a person who was supposed to have negociated • forged
bill of exchange for the sum of 640/. Ilks. The necessary measures
were taken, and the suspected individual was apprehended, and
brought privately before the Lord Mayor, at the 31:mien-house,
where he underwent an examination, from which it was ascertained
that the banking-home had been defrauded of upwards of 10,000/.
The charge of forgery, however, was groundless, the second part-
ner in the firm being the person who arranged the plan, and gave
to the execution of it all the facilities which his situation as • part-
ner afforded. He had fanned the design, as hat been collected
from his letters to his assistant, of purchasing a large tract of land
on the banks of the Ohio, in America, tor which purpose the
sat II of 18,0001. Or 2e,eler. would, he thought, be necessary. and
he adopted the following means of accomplishing his object.
One of the other partners. whose signature was affixed to all the
bills of the firm drawn on London, was in the habit of signing his
name to several pieces of paper, which were Intended to be tilled up
when occasion required, end were kept in a drawer, to which all
the partners had access. Such an opportunity could not be lost
upon a man of such a speculative torn of mind. He abstracted one
of these pieces of paper. tilled it up in the regular way, and drew
it to the tune of 3650/. the name of the usual drawer of course ap-
pearing at the bottom of the bill. He transmitted this bill to the
prisoner, between whom sad himself there had been a confidential ,
cmrespondenor, which pressed the great importance of severe;, tak-
ing good care, at the sante time, to open the letter of advice directed
from the firm to the house in London, and to notify the particulars
,of the bill amongst those regularly transmitted. The prisoner re-
I gularly got the bill accepted and cashed, the London Bankers hay.
ing entertained no suspicion that the letter of advice had been thus
secretly dealt with. The next attempt was also saceessfuL This
bill was for no less a sum than 65001. Several whey frauds of the
same kind were subsequently committed. The Banker who is re.
presented as having the amount of the bills for 61111111. and WINK is
his possession, m Exchequer Bills, has meet aim sada his ap-
pearance, but it has been acertained that be boo bliss satiaavosuieg
to negotiate Exchequer Bills ihr Bills an New Yost.
The Loan Maros, finding that there was no evidence to prove
that the prisoner had forged any name, and that, on the contrary.
the Banker had sanctioned, authorised, and directed the whole
chain of operations, observed, that he saw nothing in the trans.
scion, scandalous and abominable as it was, of which he could
take cognizance. The prisoner was therefore set at large.
The Banker is, it is conjeetured, still in this country ; and, we
believe, it is in contemplation to strike the docket Immediately
against him ; so that any person who shill dare to.harbour him, or
connive at his departure, will be subject to severe punishment.