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London, England, 1822-08-02 00:00:00

CHARGE OF FORGERY.

Jabs Reajootta Brookes woderwens • orcona reamisation
ors • charge of forgery, the fall particulars of which we gave
as W,drw•day.
John Sire Isaacson stated, that ►e bad been employed as
an aiirtrwey by the Prisoner, in • carve In which be was
DefruJant, and Wm. Clarke, the lendlord of the Marquis of
Aoglesey public-house, Bow.streft, Plaintiff, before Mr. Joe-
Ike Park, on which occasion a cheek sas produced by the
Poisoner for la WI Hudson and firnrhng.
A paper, purporting to be a copy of tint said a►eek, was
s►rew to him, and be said be believed A to be the hand-writ-
ing of James Timmer, Iris clerk.

Mr. Richard Hill, the attorney, of Chancery-lane, raid the
paper purporting to be a copy of the cheek was left at Ins
of about the 174 b of June last, which the Prisoner, is
his presence, admitted to be a true copy of the said check
and endorsement at the tine be saw it iu the hand of Mr.
Justice Beet, on t►e question being pot to the Prisoner by
the Judge. At the trial he pleaded the g 1 issue, and
gave notice of a set-off, which was the check sud endorse-
meat in question. Isaacson said hr eitl out hear the check
read in Court; and Jams Triton., his clerk, was at his
office *bee he left it to come there. He did not recollect
*begin, the Prisoner said, •• It is a ropy," swims he wn be-
fore Mr. Justice Best.

Sir Richard Biruie asked him .f the paper purpo4tiog to
be the copy of the check sod iodurtemetit *as produced be-
fore Mr. Justice Best?

A messenger was sent for James Turner, the clerk, wbo re-
turned, tied reported that he •mss not at Mr. Isaitcson% office,
and had out been there ■ll dsy.
On Isaacson% cross-examination by Mr. Hope, who at-
tended for the Prisoner, be said be tint not know wbs thee the
contents of the paper purporting to be a copy of the check
was a copy ur not.
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Mr. Hill, on his cross examination, said that the paper
Oarporting to be • copy, we. left at hi■ house in the com-
mon course of business, but be did ■ut know by whom; be
gave three or four notices to appear before the Judge. Mr.
Isaacson was present when the copy was given to Mr-Jus-
tice Best ; and the Judge asked if it was a copy, and a prin-
cipal point depended ou the cuoversation which thew passed;
it was staled to hare passed io a small room, sod the ascer-
taining to who. this question was put win of great import-
ante. Mr. Hill said the Prisoner admitted it to be a cupy,
and on his thing pressed to tell the exact words, he said be
could not recollect them, but said the tenor of the maswer
we. to tint effect.

Mr. Isaacson was cross examined as to the same point of
Mr. Justice Bid allowing the paper, and asking if it was •
copy. He replied, he was nut ens, enough to recollect par.
tiealvly. He was asked if the Pi kusver remota, el it as a
copy ? He replied that be had nu recollection that be did.
The Prisoner was placed at the bar fur the first time,
and the evidence taken on Mundey evening was read by Mr.
1V node Ito cle►k.
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Mr. ALLeY attended for the prmireution, and was beard
at considerable lengili on the law of she case. He did not
consider that there were any bpi difficulties. He we. con-
fident that the advice the Primmer said be had received to
destroy the original, did not Come front any (endemism of the
bar, and maintained the legality of pruducing • copy ie
the absence of the original, as well as the right to
produce parole evidence, the instrument charged le
be forged was an 'wide' for • discharge. Ii bad been said
Ignorantly. that the receipt would not be (video(' ricer it
was damped, but which bad been decided to the contrary by
all the Judges, who had determined that the stamp laws were
merely
all prosccutiuns of a criminal Wise; and a receipt if
produced did nut signify whether it was slumped or nut.
The cheek and endorsement produce) on the trial in gyration
the ja.y had pronounced a forgery by their verdict, as they did
•ot believe it to be tree. He said slime was an old notion,
but an ignorant use, diet if a forged instrument was destroyed
there was an end to the prosecution, sad he gave as an instance
a young men who was in custody at ibis office in the year
1809 fur a fingery on a jeweller in she Strand, when the
uncle of the young man, a respectable Clergyman, getting
the instrument into his hands. burnt it. He also immured
several eases, and quoted tile mutliusliy of Lord kllenhn-
rough in support of. doctrine, also of Mr. homier Bulb r,
who •as one of the •li!est lanyers this coustry knew, who
allowed the trial of • man to proceed without the pandsedun
of • forged Bank note. In the case of therein* mast's Once
barging the imo I MENU, theiedge, in charging the Jury, luld
them, there was uo proof of lite Primiter's being privy to the
set, he maintained that the Prisoner would net be ie a curse
situation if he produced the original check, and be plaster d
himself not to take advantage of it ; the Primmer would do
have the advantage of proving Clarke's hand-writing on the
eudur.. meet.

Mr. Alley desired James Turner, the clerk, to be railed it
the door, islyi had ►esilaied to acknowledge the copy to be
his ►and-wilting, aid lie irbised is to be usidessiood that if
he lit !weed it was not M. hand.wriliug, or denied it, and be
could prove is to be so, be would proseerte him fur perjury.
blr. Home, in reply, said be hoped he did sot meta to ia-
timidate the witness.

Hr. Alley replied, ceriatuly wet, as he woo his owa *H-
amm He hoped he would attend aid tell the truth; if sot,
he wield oblate a warrant stalest him le compel his alleast-
mice., and be would apply f..r proesetlings is the Dopester
Howie .So CMpel his atti solstice b. fine ike Grimed Jury.
M►. Alley couteeded that be had made out a Ito., and that
William Clarke, the publican, 'stored that the eudnesentent
at the back of the check, signed Wm. Clarke," was a
forgery.
Mr. Hose, for the Pri s . conleodoJ that there was
Rot a 'laciest case made out to go to a Jury ; the be..b.,
fell as they are is casts of forgers. contain sum tastily
similar to the present; t►e only one at all applicable was
that quoted by Mr. Alley of the (sorry on the jeweller 14
lbe Strand, where the forged iostrument was destroyed by
the ask, and in that ease as acquittal took place ow th.
ams-production of the forted instrument ; he tempted matter
the circumstances that another rasaiinatlere would ha al-
lowed, at he bad sot time to look to the books to come per.
pared to argue the point. nut having • docosneot on t►e sub.
ject in his possession till that swooning, when he west to his
chambers.

Sir Richard Skokie bad so hesitstioe in agreeing to his
proposition. In a cue of an such iesportaece roe pion
ought to be lost. He wished to say one word ea to Scott,
the Jena!, r, its the Strand he knew the seek Cad all the
partite, and the whole of the eaw, eldch differed very ante.
rially hues the present, as there war no authenticated copy
of the forged insoilinent.
Mr. Halls, the Magistrate, sikeeeved, that It was is evi-
dence that the Prisoner said at was destrolul.
Mr. Alley said, it was eery ieiporiset for the public to
know that the destruction of a (urged iestreeseist would out
avail.

Mr. Howe weabetaised 11 bad sever beim derided by ibir
twelve Judges, sae that every ease that bad been decided
bad been op its own p►ticular writs.
The questioa was peatroaed for a fortnight.
1.11110111-HALL.

Yeaterday Mrs. Palms r, wife of a respectable Oedemas
ht Freewheel Itrteti Derovtaker, applied to the olefin

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Maestri'', L. 21 Allen, P. 61. for redeem under the follow/bar
circumstances : ••
The applicant stated that she had bee* married to her hus-
band about 17 years, and, till latterly. they bad lived together,
enjoying every happiaess, sad were always no good terms
with earl' other. At the time of bee marriage will. Mr.
Palmer he was a widower, and bad a son and dargliter by
his Armee wife. A few days ago her lamilland WIZ taken very
sad was cpalloed to his bed; his sou and davginer came
to see him? Sad some dispute arose, and words of it veer
warm description ensued between bee sad her husband, which
terminated by bee leaving bee tastily, and taking shelter at a
friend's house. She remained away from boric till Wednes-
day last, rhea she, thinking every thing would be forgot, re-
turned to her family, •hea, to her surprise, she found her
husband had breathed his last just before she arrived. She was
shamefully treated by her eon and itaughicr•in-law, who sheet
the door I. her face, and declared abe should *ever again set
font in the house. Her husband had made his will pre•ieis
to his dissolution, in which be had made over all hi* proocell
to his sus and daughter, and left her &militate, and without
a place to go to, or the least change of seeming apparel.
She therefore had determined to make this application, to
know is what Nasser site careld reseed le recover her con.
jogs! rights.
Mr. Allen said he could not assist her, as her husband had
bcgorathed by will all his possessives to his rbildreu; it wan
very distressing, and he lamentid her aituttioo.
Mee. Palmer wept bitterly, sad said it was very bard for
her, who bad bees living su many pins is respectability, to
be now, tit her time of life, throw. as outcast or the world.
She was positive her husband bed beta fraudultutly induced
to sign all his property to his rhildres, at a time he was im-
becile, or he sever would have left her to such diatoms. Her
own propel!, bad eves hero detained ?rum her, std she bad
no other dress but that she stood up in, and, if she well* la
apply for that which actually belonged to ber, she was
threatened in be imprisoned. . . . .

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The Magistrate said that her son and daughter undoubt-
edly had ou authority to d. fait any article of her own per-
postai property, and advised her to make another g pplicao los,
and to take with her our of the parish officers, and if they
still pe din their refusal, hr would grant a summons for
them to 'phew cause why they should not be delivered up.
Mrs. Palmer thanked the Magistrate and left the office
shedding tears.
Mr. Richard Chandler, a glass °rummest cutter, residing
lo Granby-place, Lambth, was summoned to answer the
owmplaini of Richard Call, his apprentice, fur refusing and
isegleeting to tostroet him is his trade, pennant to hie in-
dentures. -

The apprentice preferred ■ series of trivial consplaints
Apia'', his 'water, and accused him of not mating him
pruficieut in the art he had undertaken in do, and be had
now only eleven months to *me of bits appreotecesbip, and
be considered it high time that be should be acquainted wit►
every branch of the trod..
The twister contended that be bad fulfilled his contract in
the iudratures,aad declared that the complainant knew mote
of the business thou any other apprentice, to prove whirls he
produced several articles of manufactured glass, of a very
beautiful description, which were elegantly and isgenionsly
cut by t►e Complainant; but the fact was, be had applied to
a wizard iu IYrsltninsler, who had 'cad Aio nativity, and
amongst uther.fatere events, the fortune-teller had told bias,
that if be did not serve the term of his apprenticeship, he
would be a great mint, have ids name over hio door, and
would becalm pouuud qf a largo fortune ; bat on the con-
trary, if he did serve his time out, he would live always in
indigene,. This assurance of ille conning ma* had caused
bim to be discontented, and to pierce this complaint, is order
to avoid wiring the remainder of Isis apprenticeship, by
which means the prediction of the I, izard might be am-
theutieated.

The Magistrits said, that he had not the legst doubt but
the Complainant was a good *whin's, aud had Wes pro-
perly instructed by his water, aud advised the spwestice to
go hose and mind bis work, sod not listen to the prophecies
of s wicked was.

The Complamest was then dismissed by the Magistrate,
who advised the roaster to ascertain the hawse of ilia conning
bum, in order that be might be punished.

H ATTO If • GA ID Ell.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Yesterday John Arent, a cow.kreper, residing in Cromer-
street, Brunswick-square, was charged by Me. Blake, • re.
speciable boot and shoemaker is Gray's lun-lane, with
cruelly and barbarously beating a small bone, his own
property, on Monday last.
Mr. Blake deposed, that on Monday last the Defendaot's
horse and cut was standing in Gray's Ina-lane in care of a
little boy, that the animal look fright at something and run
off at full speed, and on soots person going to stop him,
he plunged in through the windup .4 Surgeon Macdonald's
shop, all of which was shattered to atone, the Di &admit came
In a age and tool a large shovel owl of the cart which be
had fur the purpose of shovelling grain, and began beating the
pour animal w ith the Ant of the 'hotel over the head sad sides
in such a manner es shacked all slut ki• held hias,aird the more
persons remonstrated with him the mote he exercised his
cruelty on the unfortunate animal, who, to escape from hie
hirharous persecutor, broke his harass. and ran against a
thick brick nail, part of which he broke dowse with the force.
Two other respectable inhabitauts bore testimony to the
same frets.

The Magistrate told the Defendaut that he war happy that
at length a law via, made to punish wrb nufeeling onistrrs,
but that .iace ibis was the Ara case of the kind that came
before him since the passing of the Art, he would only run-
r,et Ulm iu the penally of tweaty shilliogg, sod to
for if err he was brought before ►im *pia, be would con.
sic' him in the prualty of five pounds.

lIIRETINOR OP CREDITORS AT THE COURT

OF CU.II.III.sSIONERS OF BANKRUPTS,
Tu-monstow.