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_mete lei, en the Mil. at the beiskinpheitie of
hiltricand Corti,. He oNereil the bill to th. Pri•
wove f,w the porchare of hosiery, and lift it with
hint to make whatever inieiry he pleased, relating
him at the sante time to Robins awl Corti..
Witting received in exchange for the bill goods of
the hosiery kind. he supposed. but he could not
speak positively, as he never saw the packages
opened. Between leaving the hill and receiving the
goods, a week or ten (lays might have elapsed.
The goods were fetched from witness by Hammen'.
servant. When he went to the hank of Roberts
sod Co. he was accompanied by the Prisoner'.
brother. who heard what was said there re-
specting Roland the drawer. The ?email he went
will, the hill in give the order to the Prisoner was,
that he wished to give him a !preference, as lie bad
no trifling occasions discounted hills fur him. The
answers sit Rubarts's respecting Roland were very
satisfactory.

by Mr. ALLEY.—He could not
say where Mr. Harrowell was now, he had heard
he was gone to the %Vest Indies. Mr. Pearse, who
can., to him with the bill. was also away ; he could
not tell where. Pram was only a messenger in the
transaction, he never took any trouble to find him.
Harrowell used to ship goods to the East Indies.
The goods were not sent to Moseley Woolf—he
did not know where they were sent. He had seen
other bills of the same kind as that connected with
this case. Witness did not remember what sort of
hosiery he was directed to purchase. He had never
been able to find persons of the names of C. W.
Roland and Jos. Abbott.. lie remembered going
to the Prosecutor sfter the bill had been objected
to. but he was not called upon to say whist passed
between them.

John White, brother of the Prisoner, said he was
a sworn broker, for bills among other things, and
had his office in Loilibury ; remembered to have
seen the bill now in question with the last witness
Clarke, whom he accompanied to Robarts and Cur-
tis's bank, where the answers respecting the bill
were quite siitisfactory. At his brother's desire he
also inquired a second time, and received a perfect-
ly satisfactory answer. The bill was payable in
Queen-street. Cheaptide, where he also received sa-
tit.factory answers, or which he apprised his brother.
He had at a future time, or about two months after
he first saw the bill, cotumnnicated respecting it
with the Prosecutor, who informed him that since
he had been last in town he had made inquiries con.
cerning the parties in the bill, and did not like the
answers he received. Witness expresiied his regret
at the circumstance, and said that his own inquiries
had been satisfactorily answered in the first instance.
The Prosecutor still said he was dissatisfied, and
offered the hill to the witness, saying, he would
part with it for any goods. Witness said he could,
he was sure, negticiate it with the Prosecutor's en-
dorsement. but this the latter refused, and he there-
fore declined negociating the bill for him.
Cross •examined.—W hen lie inquired at the
hatiking-house, one of the clerks, Richard Hodg-

son, said. he knew Mr. Roland, of Carlisle, very
well, and believed him to be a most respectable
man. The clerk was from Carlisle, ■nd witness
sheweil him the bill before he received the answer
he had already mentioned. He was in the habit of
inquiring about bills for his brother.
Richard Hodgson was a clerk in the house of Ro-
berts. Curtis, and Co. and was a native of Carlisle.
He remembered an inquiry bring made, but he
could not say when, respecting Mr. Roland, of Car-
lisle, and his answering that Mr. Roland was a very
respectable man. The inquiry had been originally
made of a clerk at the counter, and witness was
called to answer it, as he was recently from Carlisle.
A bill was shewn to him by the person who made
the inquiry, but he could not say this was the bill.
He replied that Mr. Roland, of Carlisle, was a re-
spectable man ; he did not know his Christian
name ; he might have said that Mr. Roland had
been a titubtr-merchant, and he believed he added
that he could not undertake to say that the signa-
ture to the bill was Mr. Roland's. He merely its
formed the inquirer, that there was a Mr. Roland
at Carlisle, and that he was considered a very re-
spectable person.
A number of witnesses, of great respectability,
gave the Prisoner an excellent character for a long
course of years up to this time—they had known
him holding confidential employments, and had
many dealings with him.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM briefly summed up the evi-
dence to the Jury, who almost instantly returned a
Verdict of—/Vot Guilty.
Oa the application of Mr. ALLEY. the Prisoner
was detained in custody until he could find bail, on
a bill found against him by the Grand Jury, for a
conspiracy with Moseley Wolf and others.
FORGING A SEAMAN'S WILL. .

Thomas Fonsiele, a Portuguese Jew, was indict-
ed for feloniou,ly forging, on the 7th July, an in-
strument purporting to be the last will and trite-
messt of John Anderson, with intent to defraud
M . Buckle and Co. Re was also indicted for
uttering the same, kirowintr, it to be forged.
A Jury, half foreigners, was empannelled at the
Prisoner'. desire.
Mr. BOLLAN D stated the case to the Jury.
John Fleming said, that lie was clerk to the De-
puty Register of the Consistory Court of London.
and produced a will which was sworn to in Doctors'
Commons, but he could not speak to the person of
the Prisoner.
W. G. Clarkson, a proctor in Doctor.' Com-
mons, proved, that in the month of July the Pri-
soner came to him and applied to have a probate
prepared for the will now en Court. It was prepar-
ed and sworn to in the visual manner by the Pri-
soner before one of the Doctors. lie said he was
the regular executor, but it appeared iu the body
of the will that the name was Anderson while the
stingier, was Andresen. Prisoner said the matt
died last year on board the Batavia East India
Company's ship.
In answer to questions from the Prisoner, wit-
I
ness said that he told biro (Prison's) there was •
eseese wisest the will, but that the man insisted
the will was good, required a probate rot it, and
declared he would try the validity of the will in
Doctors Convertors,. Witness had the caveat with-
drawn, as st was lodged by a creditor, sod a credi-
tor could not 1.614 • will.
Tim ofcer who apprehended the Prisoner pro.
slimed a pocket-book which he found on bits.; it
contained the --

• s.
tirittAsit irrattiers•
Ist.fore 'Otis! • probate, ti till foe prOof of sloe
birsatwee. to a *ill.
%Vus..hstemswa stated, that Itat was manager of the
shipping elisters• of Messrs. Heckle iu4 C"6
were owners if the Bahrein, a Ovate Ship in dr,
East Inch* Crottiracy's service, and afterioids
convict ship to Botany Bay. He knew the :Taman
Anderson, who was on lined that skip. Ile 'nod
seen his writieig and his done by
which was written John Aterterktn. tint Artitee...,,.
The witness looked at the eignatirre to the mil pre.
doceil at Doctor.' Commons by the Prowitiere and
which willies• said was not hi the hiend.vetithig
the deceased.
In answer to qnestions from the Prisoner, seitne.s
said there was Ito Anderson but the dereesed nn
board the Batavia. There was no Andtestrit, i. f
were there two Poch 'tames on hoetil as the put,
scribing witnesses to the will. fle hail on kn.....
ledge of the rictus! signature of Amte....n, escei,t
by comparing the writing out the ship's hooka. by
Anderson, with that to the •sigituture 61 the will
slow produced.
William Sinclair said he was cashier to Estelle
and Company. and recollected the Prisonee. roll-
ing at their office on the 16th July, for Freers of
wages doe to the late Jobit Aodersoit,
man in the Botartio. Several arplittettotis of a
similar nature hail been made before. and atonot
the rest, he believed by the lzmoner.
was ordered to call next roorithig, which he clot,.
with a probate of the will, and was taken foto
custody.
James Palmer, a seaman no hoard the R. h•via.
said he knew the late John Anderson for riot or
nine rears; he knew him first in 1809, on noised
the Bombay, 74-gun ship; he was with A sideritin
in that ship five years. ThtY were both rliro
drafted at Portsmouth (in 1814) on board the trr
sloop of war, in which they sailed to ludta, and
remained in her for two or three years. They cense
back in Christmas 1816. In March 1916 Il e Elk
was in India, and Anderion was then on hoard her.
There was no other Anderson on board. nor Andre.
800. Anderson nod witness shipped them...lves on
hoard the Batavia, hound to Bottioy Bay. iti 1819.
They went from New Sonth tik __Tax, to India, ah.l
Anderson died in Bombay Hospital. When An-
derson was in London he lodged at the Watrrinao's
Arms, Wapping. Ile never heard of livo,w in
Princes-square, St. George's in the Es.t. F.
1809 to his death Anderson was not two days ale•eot
from the witnees, while the former was
No persons were on hoard the Elk. in 1816, or this
names of those who were subacribsd as nittiesees to
the will.
K. R. Stewart, a clerk in the Nary Office, pro.
duced the tnusttr.book of the Elk, front which it
appeared Anderson was on board that Anon on the
9th of March, 1816, at Bombay ; ou that (ley An-
derson's name appeared on the muster; there were
no such names as the subscribing **thwart.* to Olio
will, on the muster-roll of the Elk, nor was there
such a name as Andreson; the Elk armed at Ply-
mouth on the 10th of December, 1816, and was
paid off there.
The officer who arrested the Prisoner, and who
had already put in the probate of the well, which
he found in the Prisoner's pocket, now put u.
another will. which he found upon him at the same
lime, and which had the same subscribing wit-
nesses to it.
The Prisoner here produced a bundle of pape.s.
and said, " I have fifty wills here—l keep a hofg.
lug-house for sailors, and they constantly lesve me
twins; they leave them with we when they go to
*ea."

The two wills found upon the Prisoner were
read by the Clerk. One of them was the will fo•
forging and uttering which he was indict. d, and
which left the whole of his property, whatever it
should prove to be. to the Prisoner. It was drawn
up as if executed by the deceased, iu March, 1816.
No place where it was executed was named.
The Prisoner, nu being called upon fur his de-
fence, repeated that he had a grent outlaw of wills
which sailors who lodged with him were in the ha-
bit of depositing in his hands. Ile could not forge
any will, u he could neither renal nor writ.. lie
could prove this by witnesses, and also that the sub-
scribing witnesses to the will hail signed it.
On being asked by the COuitT %briber he ha.l
the subscribing witnesses to produce. hr teplied 1.1
the negative, and said they had gone ahro 41. he
believed, but he had others who would psi ye his
innocence, though he had still to complain • f yet
being able to bring forward many who could 'rive
him. He produced the following witnesses:—
Margaret Randall said she lived at Polder, ao.l
knew the subscribing witnesses to the will, front bas-
ing seen them several times at his house. She Hever
saw them write, nor knew their Christian it:sm....—
She did not know where they were now, hist they
were at the Prisoner's in 1816. One of thews
(Roderiguar) was constantly t w the I.•retroi.e•
house at Princes-square. Ratcliffe• highway, a to-%
she used to via:: him; he was there its 1516.
certainly. She believed the signature to he
his to this instrument; it most have been sign-
ed its England, he certainly could not her.
written it in India its March 1816; For, armed-
*nig to the best of her recollectino, he %ea. then
in England. She dial not know Auitersott. \.-alter
of the subscribing witnesses to the will IN n!4l, she
admitted, have bean in Wilt in March 18114.
Bernard I lollywoon, a sailor, was in the h •I;it of
going backwards and forwards to Piisonet's tome
to 1816, and knew the two subscribing witnesses to
the wilt; he knew one of them. Botlefigna4, who
was its England in 1816, bin he had not sera hitta
for the last 18 months. Roderiguits acted as an
siesta to the Prisoner, from nine Sears ago tip tar
three years ago. when Prisoner's ode died; that
was about the March of 1816. Ile arterwairrls sail
Roderiguas remained st the Prisoner's boohoo-feta
shout May, 1816. Arkiostoll (the othersubaeribbig
witness to the will) was about two years with the
Prisoner; he was there, he believed, in Motet,.
1816; he did nut know where he alas slow; Ilse Pri-
soner's character was ito honest one io ltsi ehodings.
Julius Hill. a Shersff'a °Seer. Mel kioresertree
Prisoner for twenty years ; his eheratter slimwet a
very fair one. [This witness was opeci ylly called
to.speak to his character by the Primmer.]
Hollywood was again called is re:realt to ow Psi.
sewer's character, which be repented was hem", •for
In Ws crows-examination, hi niter' grad

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