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FRIDAY, APRIL 23.

&lure Mr. Baron r,"),t) and Mr. Justice PARI:•

On the opening of the Court sixteen Prisoners
were put to the liar Pod arra SKIIP(I for the offence of
(((( tor of uttering, forged notes of
the Blink of Etiglntotl, knowing them to he forged
or whom the foollowong tone pleaded C'tiiity to the
minor offence, of having them in their poiseaoion
Grome Rogers, Daniel Daly, Thontay
Cornwall, William Clarke. John Noon, Elizabeth Bosh,
Elizabeth Rliiirlea, and George.
Floor, •iz. Thoiona Bradley. John Murphy, Jos. Rratirh,
enit George Price, pleailerl Not Guilty generally to the cart-
tat charge.
Three, viz Janie. Clark., William Taverner. and 511.11111113 b
NC! " minor

Taverner, pleaded runiify to the , °fleece.
The log steel' will, 11l coriserpierice, be brought
up no a subseeptent pert of the Sessions to take
their trisl.
Joseph Sokmass, a jeweller, was inch-led for
stealing a I.aiik war, %aloe 2001. the property of
Henry Brown.
Mr. Attu stated the cast to the Jury, as de-
tailed in the folhowitig evidesoce•—s
Henry Brown is e master in the navy ; resided on
the 27th of Deeeinber last in Ileath-street, Step-
ney; kept a house; went to church on the 27111
With his wife, leaving nobody in the house, both
doors being locked sod the windows well secured ;
on rettironoog found the hack dour open, and 'front
door on the single lock ; what less left of the pre-
petty was an strewed about the place; a 200/. note
was taken away, and 42/. in smell notes, mooch
wearing apparel, and %MOP. plain; Iris trAl'ed nine
of it, but the 2001.; that lie saw at the Bank ; it is
here.
Cioss-exaatised—Stopped payment of the note
at the Bank next day ; had the number and date of
the note entered on a paper, hut it was lost ; got
the number and date of it this niorroing at the
bonikeo's where he had received it ; does not recol-
lect ever having seen the Poi...goer about lois pre-
mises ; the number was 133, and dated 4th July,
1817 ; knew the number of the time before he went
to the bankers ; had received two notes wish suc-
cessive nimilwrs, 138 and 134, from his banker.
George Dyer, a clerk in the bank, recollects the
Prisoner calling on the 16th of March, and hair&
nig him the note to be examined, to see whether
credit was open for it, es it was above a twelvemonth
old; referred to the hooks and on hurling it to be u
stopped note, asked from whom he brought it ; lie
said Mr. Phillips, and pointed to an address
written on the front of the note. Being after
the hour of business, the Secretary was gone; de-
sired him to leave it, and call next morning ;
sent word to Mr. Brown. The Prisoner called
next day, and witness sent him to the Secretary's
office, where Mr. Christmas was in attendance.
Cross-examitied--Told him at the time it was a
stopped note; was sent for to the Secretary's office,
next day, to i.lentify the Prisoner.
Charles Christmas, an Inspector in the Bank.-
produced and ideutified the note; oil the 18th of
March ate the Prisoner at the Secretary's office.
which was the second time of his being there; asked
the Prisoner from whom lie h. d received it ; he
said, Mr. John Phillips, 13, Bury-atreet, St. Mary-
Axe.
Cross-exantiaed.—Prisoner was in custody when
he first saw him ; said his name was Joseph Solo-
mons, No. 5, Cock and Hoop-yard, Houndsditch.
Michael Morris, it police officer, took the Pri-
soner into custody the 18th March; left him in cos-
tody of another officer, and went to No. 13; Bury-
street; there was no such person as Joseph Philips
there ; then went to No. '25. iU the same street,
where he was directed from No. 13, saw a version
there who called himself Philips, who said his
name was not John hut Jonathan. In his exams-
nation before the Magistrate, the Prisoner said he
load received the note in payment of 1371. worth of
jeaellery, from a person who had since, he believed,
gone to Ireland.
Cross-examined.—He said a chronometer was
pint of the property multi ; said he lied met the nista
in the street, mid took him home to loss own ludg-
iegs, No. 5. Cock mad Hoop-yard, Houndsrlitch;
inquired and was told the Prisoner had been living
there al t a month; was not out on bail till his
second examination, to Which ha came of his own
oreord. Thinks, to the best of his belief, Mr.
Christmas asked from whom he had bunk the
The Prosecutor was now Called, mid stated the
note produced to be that which he had lost.
The Prisoner, in his defence. gave the same ac-
count of the loge which the officer stated he had
givers et the Police office.
Colman Levi was then called and examined to
the character of the Ptisorier ; rt re-stoti to the new
Synagogue ; knew the mother of the Pfillollet ; she
died on the ilia of December list, and was buried
in Steer-alky, Houndsditch ; it is the practice four
persons of his persuasion to !we prayers said mores-
tog and evening for a week sifter the decease of a
friend, and for the relatives to confine themselves
during that lime ; attended during the week regu-
lady, and saw the Prisoner constantly ; he was ita a
bad state of health, and witness was obliged to hold
hum op in his arms to say his sacred prayer, which
it is the custom of the children of the deceased
to repeat.

_ _kkes an entry of the persons
who die; does not derive his reedier:ion hum the
book ; about ten persons attended the prayers every
day ; does not know that any of them are hue lie-
std. a hunaelf.
Hyman Benjamin Cohen, a tailor, knew the
Prisoner's mother by sight ; she died in December
last ; it is the practice for Jews to call at a house
where an acquaintance has died, during the next
week ; witness called, and was told to go at the
end of the week to take the measure of the Pii-
solier and his boys ; went and took the measure of
the boys, but could not take the Pt otiner's mea-
sure, as he was lying on a bed ill; he called twice
for that purpose ;.it via* ou Sunday, Oeteititter 17;