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VMS it was the same offence, midse it le-
totafteul doe Priedorv. ,4111.111
WO RG EV! ON THE PRUSSIAN GOV fINitENT.
liesteseels Isaac Gould:toe, adios Manasseh
Gouldslein. war then pJaced at the bar, and tried
ova ner,tardietasent cheliog him with feloniously
fißing and counterfeiting (livers Prussian notes•
fur the payment of one dollar, Purporting to be
'Wreasury notes of one of the Ministers and Officers
eusployed in the service of the King of Prossimi
Nlr. LAW opened the pleadings. and—. •
11c. HOLLAND addressed the Jury, stating the
ease for the pnisectition. and reading the enacting
clailire of the Oil George 111. affixing the punish-
inprot of transportation foe fourteen years to the
I, me of which the Prisoiser siuml *milord. The
ie-iiinstances of the charge were, in PUbsiIIIICIN all
:—la June last there appeared in Berlin
ten permitter, of the names of Lobb and Simeon,
Jews, who were detected in circulating Prussian
nvter, sex a dollar ca, h. to the amount of ninny thou-
.:4l4lr. The Prussian Government ordered Si-
incrin to be taken Oita custody and information
Firing been obtained *hut these notes were ma-
iiiiractured iu England. the Prussian Minister of
Po!.re was dispatched to this country with
,Irtserm in his custody, to esilleavuur to dir.
I user the individuals engaged in it. On their
arrival in 1.0011011 they were referred to Messrs.
Kure and Frrsbi. Id, solicitors to the Rank of Eng-
land. by whose advice Foy and Clements. the
police (Ayers. were employed, whir traced the Pri-
mmer as 01•41 of the loamy. By the centrivence of
the officer, several parcels of the forged notes were
tiurdiasedof UR Primmer, and paid for in Bank of
England note', which bed been previously marked
by the officers, mortis enable them to identify them.
Silittoll was mode the agent in these purchases, and
alien the P.risouer was taken into custody, two 51.
ILuik of Eugland noted, which lied been marked by
the officers, were found in his possession, winch, on
being questioned, he said he had received from
Simeon for ionic watches which he had sold to him.
tinder the present twlnetmrnt. however, the Pri-
soner could nut be convicted, unless it were proved
that he was a 'tarty conresned its the forgery, or
that he knew of their heiug fargraies. This point,
he wits liCfSlialleite he shrink) be able to prove, by
the testimony of Mr. Newman, u respectable en-
wrier, who had Wee made the innocent instill-
inei4 of promoting this fraud. having been employ-
ed to engrave the plates made use of nu carrying
me the fraud. .
, The following evidence was then adduced:—
. Without Newman sworn.—l am CI eliKr.ver, re- '
*Nogg at No. E 7, I‘'idegate-steett, Bishopsgitc, io
11111Acilf- of London. 1 know the Prisoner at the
bar. I had some erminamuication with him in March
us April last. I had known him personally fur twenty
year.., but had never done any business fur him
before.

~111 r. Appeases submitted to the Court that the
witneto Inseam( been engaged in engraving the plate
foe the forged outer, was n party in the crime, and
Vierefore was not a competent witness.
Mr. Justice KICH•RDSON said, lie saw not the
lent objee.iou to the evidence of this person beisig
received.
'llse examination of the witness was theft re-
pulsed by Me, Law.—lca the latter end of March
or beg. gof April last, the Prisoner came to
soy shop and said he bad a little business to do in
*orating. I asked what it was, and he produced
a card resembling that now put into my hand (one
of the notes] mid asked whether I thought
I could engrave such a thing—l sail I
could. I then baked him what it was, and lie said
It was a Prussian ticket of admission. I looked at it,
awl made out the word " corrent," and was going
tit tisk him for what the admission ticket way, when
J. Said, " God Weirs me ! do you think I would
gore you arty thing wrong to do ?—you know me
very well." I said I did, end agreed to engrave
two plaits (there being a reVerW. impression), and
the Prisoner desired to have 30,000 worked off in •
fortnight. I said the time was too short, hut I would
get 10,000 dose, and more if I mold. The price for
the 10,000 was to be 301. being V. per thousand.
'flit Prisoner was to provide his own paper. The
plates were executed, and having been shown to the
Prisoner, he approved of them, and they were sent
up stairs to be printed ; 10,000 were ultimately
auuck off; and the Prisoner, during the process,
repeatedly Met to superintend the work. As they
were struck off they were placed on the counter to
airy, and the Prisoner came doily and cut them up,
nod put them into parcels of 100 each, and took
them away. There were two engraved plates ne-
cessary for the notes, and after they were worked
off a line of letter-press, in red ink, was in-
serted.--[An instrument with a line of letter-
vests set in it, and an engraved plate, were here put
tido the witness's hood, which he identified to be
those used.] The first engraved plate wearing out,
the Prisoner ordered unother to be engraved. The
line of letter-press was set up by one of my men
frens the copy furnished by the Prisoner, and
Ly his order. Itt August last the Prisoner came to
WC Hoist, and said lie had received another order
for 5,000 more. adding, that it was a shipping
tller, mod must be executed speedily. The Pri-
mmer always brought the paper himself in reams,
soil cot into the regular size fur working off, each.
parer being the site of two notes. Whilst 'hie
new order was in progress, and when it was about
half executed, Foy, the officer, called at my shop;
re rirliriber of the impressions were then lying on
1,.e counter in the shop to dry. [One of the notes
• cing now handed up to the a Itut So, he swore that
it was one of those struck oft in consequence of
tiie Prisoner's second order. A &wilier note being
handed to him. witness identified it as the original
Irons winch he had engraved the plates, and which
.4* given to I fur that purpose by the Primmer.]
Croa•-exaninied by Mr. A SIDIIIIWS...-4 have
kunwii the Prisoner 20 years by the name of Gould-
stun. When he told we they were tickets of ad-
mission, he did trot say for any theatre. After the
plate was finishsd, the P.isoner asked me to pull a
woof. to let him see it. I did so, and he took it
a•sray. He ii.id proofs on more thou one occasion,
anti oink thew sway, as I supposed, for the appro-
bation of the person who might have given him the
order, as he had *NMI it was hoe a shipping order.
11, • Jwrnr.—The letter-press was English type,
cast by Thyme.
the Court.—l do not onierstssid either the
German or the French lasiguega.
William Richard Newton./ estunined.—l ain