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London, England, 1824-12-14 00:00:00

THE BR ITISH PRESS.

fostering hand to leal them from ilia paths of vim Ile had beim
frellienoly called u;)on to attend ileatli.to,tl of a dying parent,
when their sole ohoologli:s haw.. the intern welfare of
their Foor and deaoi.utr ofronri:4. lie would leave the muse of the
orphan—especially :,r,•han, in the htA. of ;he Meet-
rod he felt the::':: I,r),:nt Posaitiii;ea woul.l meet
with that suppoort wale!' ev,ty Luiteat and charitable limn would
dictate.
The Br,. Pr. ent.I.INS ant! r'..vcrul other Geode:pea spoke In
aupprrr of the Chi
Thee. opany Le I t!..cir f-mi-ity until a la•.: hour.

31.1;:.C1/ .-1. V;)

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ISPITISH PRESS.

Momnay, Dec. 13.
St a,—The two hairs uhich i forwarded to your paper,
and which appeared in Cie li..tris,t Pease of Friday last,
I find inserted in the Tir,e's td to-4:lty, as frees the Star
(into which they wLr.• from p.ns Paper of the same
morning, without tickilowl,d,;!tient:. sad prefaced with the
following parsArapli :
" It has been erroneously 5t.t...1. t'•st. th:! Pank of England re-
fuses to replace the cock w e.hdr..an forkeric s of 3lr. Faunt.
ferny. The Dank only tap' :e.. e,st P% the produce of those
forgeries was paid into the banking-house I,t. Messrs. Marsh,
Stracey. and Co. the ir.thrudods ohase Lot hem, so trans.
fermi slia'l prove the amount, and rs-c-..tvt a dividend upon that
proof, under the conniiissim of hank up.cy a;7anist Messrs.
Marsh, 6tracey, and Cu. Upe.i livzi!.g an a....4,:mient of this
proof, the Bank &elates is vadine,s to rodace Ow amount of the
stock so sold, and ply the ttividei.ds
Now, certaM; v, I s •ut tie se letters, I meant to
'drew, as I thiuk they rt. 'thew, tl.at the Bank re-
.Pecee to pla. the Sto.!: .viditicstvii by the forgai..a of Mr.
F A U•.,:T LEROY. To LW; u. the Batik only r, quip-iv that
to be done which the partks enn leg-.21.'y do, and which
the other creditors trill not 1. rnrit them to do, if they are
properly advised, is merely furni:lCmg a pretext fir rrfasal.
The Star says, copying your r ords, " We represit the
names of the partite. atid the toms in Stack, not withi..g
to give them any utmectasary publicity." Yon could very
properly say this, as both the cmoont of Stock and the
turner of the porti.4 app. and in the letters transmitted to
you. But for this Evining 1'4.4- thus to make a merit of
emprressing. them wps alautd, for they bad no knowk•dge,
nor has the Tions at this tuoment, either of the one or
the other.

• • •

'.' IVe can inform our Cor►, spondent, though he ha•
probably often observed it, that it is by no ►rnans unfie-
qaent with the linr.a to copy unit articles, as front an
reninl Paper. With respect to the I, tt, rs adverted to,
they certainly prove any thin;; but a readiness on the part
of the Bank to replice the stock withdrawn by the for-
geries of Mr. Faantleruy.•" la fact, the language used on
this occasion, though famili.r to our ears colloquially, is by
no means correct, win n applied in a legal sense to the for-
geries in question. There is, in fict, no !flock WITIMILAWN
by Me.Pr,reries of Mr. Panntlemy ; and consequently there
is no Slot* to h? r, placed. The stockholder is the (Traitor of
Government, to whom the money, say WOOL, was originally
lent. Mr. Fauntleroy had no power of attorney to sell it at;
he consequently could not transfrr it, and not beiug trans-
ferred, it stands precisely tonere i: did. It easai, there-
fore, have been withdrawn, and of course it becomes a mere
delusion to talk of its Ix ing replaced. The sum, besides,
is merely nuTzinot ; it is the intere.l upon it only that is an
actual and substantive property. Every Government cre-
ditor is an (militant to the amount of his dividend, which
i is no more aftleted by a
.fiaved power, than any man's
house or estate would be, if sold by a swindler under a
shunt title, and a frandliknt conveyance. We shall take a
future opportunity of returning to this subject. In the
mean time we throw out these remarks, for the considera-
tion of the creditors of Messrs. Marsh and Co. whose divi-
dends under the bankrupts' estate are deeply involved in it,