The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-15 00:00:00

Mil. IVINTLERor.

No petition in behalf of Mr. Fauntleroy has yet been
presented at the llome Departinent.
During the preceding week a meeting of the Counsel of
Mr. Fauntleroy was held, and a lung consultation took
place upon the subject of applying for a Writ of Error, so
as to bring the points which they have to urge against Mr.
Fauntleroy's being convicted of an oflimoe, rendering him
liabh• to capital punishment, before the Court of King's
Bench. It is necessary, in case of conviction for a felony,
to have the consent of the Attorney-General before a Writ
of Error can be brought, and, in this case, the Attorney-
Cameral was of Counsel for the prosecution. Messrs.
Alley, Broderick, and Phillips, are very strongly of opinion,
that these are valid legal objections against the conviction as
fur a capital offence, though they arc of opinion that helms
been legally convicted of a transportable eillnice.—Another
consultation of Counsel is appointed fur au early day neat
week.

The Louden Petitions, on behalf of Mr. Faunticroy,
have already n (lived the signatures of many thousand re-
spectable individuals, and in proportion as the places where
they has become more generally known, the number of
signatures have increaaed.
Vie are informed that petitions for Mr. Faunticroy are
also in a conrse of signature at several provincial towns.
On Monday last a notification was sent to the Reeorder,
that his Majesty would be ready, in the course of the
week, to receive the report of all the capital convicts under
sentence in Newgate. 1. he Recorder, however, it appears,
from the nutnlrsr and length of the cases at the last ties-
thins, was unable to prepare the report so early ac-
cordiogly wrote to the Secretary for the Home Pepar'-
ment, stating that he could nut be nady in hss than ten
(lays with the cases which occurred in October, although
he could, at any time his Majesty pleased, attend with the
report of thy previous Sessions. Rut it is determined, it
seelllS, to hare Loth SMA010; reported together ; and, there-
fore, directly the Recorder is prepared, which will doubtless
be in a few days, the report of all the persons under sen-
tence, including, of course, Mr. Fauntleroy, will be made
to the King in Council.—Sunday
Hail Mr. rauuderoy been a ganNer or spendthrift—bad
he wasted thousands on prolligacy—had he run his wild
career in the continent—bail lie been, in short, what the
base aml malignant Times newspaper fah•ely seill he was,
no tear of pity would have been dud for his fate, and his
death-struggle would have been regarded as the just atom -
metit for his vice and prollii,:tcy : but if, an he able `es
(and, indeed, the events Of each succeeding day seem to
juvtify his allegations,) he has been the active partner of a
declining house, eriminating himself to rescue others from
p. id'tion, and appropriating tome of the fruits his guilt
to ',l;s individual -e:lrsoual grafi:kat:Ai, we do say we think
the nature of his clime considerably changed—so consider-
ably changed as to justify a commutation of the 11:0:
p;lialty he has incurred—we know that within these icte
ycar,,, tile capital runiAsinent, when prisoners haVi.
Othrichli if uttering, and tot of forging, has hen rent-
muted; so far any legal or constitutiooal objection may in.
met: and we repeat our opinion, Ilia( if tl:e facts Eta:LA ;It
Mr. FalltitlerOy a ILL.:I-WC he aol!stmit t, d, 11, is n,t
al-
together unworthy of that mercy which (it we know the
heart of hint, who is the fountain of all grace,) it wig he
the halnitess of the Monarch to be permitted to shew.—
Ahos

It wits rep ort,il oil Saturday, on tlw authority of hitters
from Svaiti, that the Asia had arrived with her convoy at
Callao. with a great number of troops, pr.acil•ally French
s•elutite.re. Accounts from Sayriticios of the llth of Al-
rug. sate, that a Sieatiish frigate. two large corvettes, and
five meriiliantmen, with troupe, supposed alitott :m or coo
in. it. bad arrived to 'clause the garrisca of the l'asilt of
St. These arc soppos.usl to Ir the ships said
to have Latin seen by tLe L'.iptain of the IValtner Castle.

THE' BRITISH PRESS.

MESSRS. MARSH AND CO.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

Sia,—ln your Paper of Saturday, you have inserted an
account of the iwoceedines at a meeting held at the Free-
mason's Tavern, of the creditors of :ileum. Marsh, Straeey,
and Co., and it appears that some of the credifors of that
house hare a suspicion that .the Assignees. appointed under
the commission of bankruptcy issued against these parties,
may he influenced in the exercise of their trust, by the con-
nection and intimacy subsisting between them and the
bankrupts. It is under these circumstances an act of
justice to the respectable gentlemen who hare consented to
be Assignees, to put the public in possession of two cases
recently discovered of gross delinquency on the part of the
partners, and of the conduct uursued by the Assignees on
that occasion, which wil' show at once the painful and dif-
ficult task imposed upon them, as well as their determina-
tion to execute it with firmness and impartiality.
To explain these two cases fully, it will be necessary to
carry the history • little back. Mr. Fauntleroy was
ar-
rested on the morning of Friday the 10th of September,
and the banking-house continued open the remainder of
that day and on the Saturday following, when it finally
closed. In the course of these two days considerable sums
were paid into the house to the credit of different customers,
but much larger sums were drawn out by others of the
customers, who had received, through different channels,
intimation that something extraordinary bad happened.
Some of the customers in the first predicament, suspect-
ing on the Monday that a stoppage of payment so it/me-
diatelif following tMr deposits on the Saturday preceding,
mast have been contemplated at the time these deposits
were received, applied to the portsers for an explanation.
The answer given by these gentlemen was, the they had
clnsiefered the sets of Mr. Fauntleroy as the acts of the
individual, not likely in any way to shake the credit or
stability of the house—that they had considered themselves
fully competent to meet all outstanding demands upon them,
and therefore fully justified in accepti ugsuch deposits as were
offered in the way of business ; and that it was not till
late on the Sunday evening that they had determined,
" in justice to their friends," nut to °Nu the house on
Monday morning. This explanation was so far satisfac-
tory, that it procured for the partners a civil reception from
the creditors at the first meeting. Confidence, however,
in this statement was afterwards shaken, by the appeal of
Mr. Fauntleroy on the day of his trial and a principal
creditor made a formal application to the Assignees for
" a list of the sums paid and received by the house in
Berner's-street, on the loth and 11th of September."

This list was immediately despatched to the creditor de-
manding it, and it contained, amongst others, a sum of
5000/. paid to Min Marsh, on lrr own draft, on the 1 lth,
haring a memorandum appended to it, signed by the three
Assignees, to the effect, that a letter was laid before them
from Miss Marsh, dated theBMnf Seplembrr„triring notice
Mat she tcould require this mon on the 11th. This item,
sweetened as it was by the memorandum, did not act as an
anodyne on this persevering creditor; and he soon learnt
that another sum, nearly to u large an amount (hat
omitted altogether is the list), had been drawn out a few
',dilutes leen, the former, by Mr. Straery, on account of
his fither. Ile again waited on the Assignees, and having
submitted his question, was informed by them, that they
had discovered, only the night before, that Mr. Stracey had,
on the evening of the 11 th of Sept. withdrawn a sum of 4,1111
I os. ; and that he had since withheld from them all know-
ledge of this transaction—that they lead been deceived also
by Mr. Marsh, in as much as they had ascertained that the
letter purporting to hare been written on the Bth of Sep-
t ember, was not written till the evening of the 11th, after
his daughter had actually withdrawn her money—that they
Lad done all that, as Assignees, they could do, having
already instructed their Solicitor to require the parties
to whom these monies had been paid to refund,
en the ground that they had been drawn out either
by the partners thettiselv(s, or at the instigation of the
partnets, in eonteniplation of All immediate bankruptcy.
These transactions, (lark as they arc, do not end here. Mr.
Stracey, on being examined by the Assignees on thin wet-
ter, declared that he felt it his duty to protect his father by
drawing out this sum, for the purpose of replacing stock to
that amount, improperly draws out ly Mr. Favntleroy (an
admission, by the way, that Mr. Stracey was not wholly
ignorant of Mr. Fauntleroy's improprieties.) But, units's-
pily for Mr. Stracey, there is at the Bank of England a
transfer-book ; and still more unhappily for bins, it appears
on de- face of that book that the stock thus alleged to have
b..en improperly sold out by .lr. Fauntleroy was so sold by
Mr. Strarev

So candid and determined wu the conduct of the Assig-
nees on this occasion, that the creditors may be persuaded
that their interests could not be placed in more just and im-
partial hands. But in reference to the partners and to the
fate of the unhappy man now under sentence of death,
these transactions give rise to very uneasy reflections.
Here are the dupes. here are the vicnins, of a man, whom
at six-and-twenty years of age they placed, without capital
or credit to recommend him, nt the head of their impo-
verished and tottering concern ! These the men, who,
having lived for fifteen years in utter ignorance of the busi-
ness by which they rot their bread, become suddenly en-
lightened; and during' an apprenticeship of only six-and-
thirty hours, lay a plan worthy of the most practised
veterans in the mysteries of money-dealing, to protect them-
selves and families from impending ruin, by a fraudulent
perversion of funds, received but a few :lours before from
some of the best and oldest customers.

STATE OP IRELAND.
( From the Irish flitseener.l
Vi-e hare great pleasure in noticing the continued tranquillity
of the country, which. as we get further into the wine .1, seems to
he settling into more profound peace; and, we have no doubt, that
the berthroming year of will lind us in a state of perfect re-
pose. This is to he attributed, in a great measure, to the bright-
ening prospects of the country—the increased demand for agric ',l-
- produce, and the conserent increase of prices. The pros-
perity of England is he gloving at length to act upon us in this
way, and a portion of It r capital to Brow in upon us. flee in-
numerable artisan...and numulacturers are in full employment, ant '
there is, eonsesuently, n realer consumption of corn, and other ne-
cessaries of lite, the produce of our Island. This has done more
to quiet our people, than the Insurrection Act or the Gibbet. We
would prefer a rood trice of corn and butter, to the whole Cen.
stahulary of Inland.
But thisadrarce of price is not the only symptom of oar kept'''.
ing condition. The country is settling down at length into a rte..
order of things. The tide of es:infusion and disorder which rolled
in upon us nt the pence. has nearly passed over us. Its struggles
and its miseries are almost at an end. The ruined are at rest ; and
others arc about to take their places, who are opening every day
new channels of enterprise and industry. The most obvious im-
provement throughout the country is the increase of communica-
lion. All the great roads in the 2e4outh of IreLstul are covered with
vehicles of various el.scriptions, plying in every direction; in this
immediate neighbourhood there arc no'ny. tl'e may mention the
new mail coach, which started a few weeks since on the line be.
!wren Limerick and Teske. opening to the latter town a direct
cmuniuriestion to linblin, which e. ill be found to be oldie grenteat
importance to its rising trade. This coach traverses fur several
miles a new and beautiful road, running along the bank of the
Shannon. from Fovne's to Torbert, and sflonling line views of Ars
limbic river. thi the other side e f Limerick. the novigat:on of ohs
Shannon to Dublin, is al•eut to I.e rendered available to the tried-
awl commode:aims of the Pity, by the establishment of a Itealll
owed 111111:1 its WVACT,.. without which the rikwige through the g Pew-
es it loan :rod uncertain. tilt ...onkel suggest the necessity of a
mail east+ establishment be.,waten Limerick MIMI Galway; tlierf is
no count! i:.re of any kind present runnivg direct Guth this to
the lane.t,:uu.
_

,3 no country in rernpe where capital may be en,' oyed
with ;nee. endsnrety titan in Ireland at the pre rot moinent.
We ...re in Niar: of e-,cry thine. Ire have not the capital io set
up the estalili.sitio.nita we are in riga of, but we have the means
of renittnerat.:in those who 1“10.1.4 it : and ar are happy to °Werra
ti: et our lillo,ll noightoitirs are beginning to led thin; they are
learning to disregard the ti.rhulent reeentricilies of Captain Kock,
and to luoier..lv to the sitiinasitial ?milli. that sre within their
Our 4/;u1 Compiiiiies. our Pipe- Water Companies, and
others of this kind, are tiligtitit : our steam vessel' at !robins and
Turk are noglish ; and evert individual merchants are tregiiiiiirg to
venture into our n arket, and give a new ithpulsr to Irish i~a.le.
Within a few months a tieir trede has sprung sip in Tralee. But-
ter. instead of hein.• sent t.. (*.wk. is bought im the spat, and ex-
This has foth,wed by a brisk trail: in isits and other
Illon:y in Isrge sums has found its way the wee
hitiguishini; and negtvied little town or and the
Kerry fivls the invigorstieg infusion through all its veil,. We
do not despair of sternn Kenmare soon reaping the advautars of
its liar position for the
p;:teha.se and export of butter. The linen
fru': of Dingle is reviving. The projected Packet Ilarbonr at
X'ideiitis will crown all these undertakings, and give to the %1 est
rear rf fraud all the ;;.cat wiltantwow which nwiunilly be-
kn;; to it.
N'identia is the meat ,rests, ia point of I:urnpe, and it in mistimed
to canncc: it, as nmuts seams to lime ziata,&ls with the Low,

Coast of America by Steam Packets, which from this flue huberer
to Cape Canso would make the ?wage in about twelve days. The
Packet Harbour on the Amenean Coast would eommunicate by
subsidiary Packets with the whole line in the North and South,
and from Valenti* there would be similar oranmuniciatiatis to all
parts of the three Kingdoms. We do neat pretend to go into the
details of this plan, which we consider the moat interesting and im.
portent that has been devised for ages. Nothing is wanting to carry
it into effect, hit to obtain a eliarter upon fair principles, which
will of courser he granted : fpr we cannot suppose that flortmment
will not eagerly second the efforts which individuals are making to
pacify and improve the Country.