The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-17 00:00:00

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_ ',f . Lightfoot examined—Belouged to the Office for Auditing
ZISIk Accounts. He produced the dividend warrant, which he
eta* to have be.m made out in hi. office.
Again Mien examined—Wes employed In the house of Mears.
St
.land ce. The dividend warrant produced had been paid to
as the 7th of September, 1824. John Jones was then
la.dse,house. Jones is low dead. This warrant was given
to as the Bth September, to be horded into the Bank of Eng.
:tva . Alltalliti not bring back any produce, but sold he had been
ow
robwd. Witness was to another banting.house at Chafing-erose
CeiNibil went into this pinintifla's offiee. It is • practice, feces
-nigh Wades-houses never deviate, to exlmine notes before they
mocha d.
oil ' earighele tetinilanthie BofthESnegpiliZAurger, 1824 t He PHeymgaevent
of ,110 a, 917 and 248, dated 22d July, 1824.
a
towof the di.
coined.—The Book would reqoae the name aid address
at 4Aetrty to.eseating a liege note, before they would change it.
"..*bir ask the person demanding change to write his name and ad-
-I.(ites dm beck of the note.
4. afield mianuned.—ls a clerk in the bank of Bourne. The
m - me, Anthony Taylor Peacock, Benjamin Ilindley, end
..p base elan a Bank at Slesford. Bourne is a small market
ty'lle WIMP; Falkirglacn and Market, in Lincolnshire. Ile has
beim„blerk „there these last eleven years. He remembers a person
ce.eig there about eleven o'clock in last April (1826) to get ehsoge
hf it.gote. This man, who was about sixty years old, had arrived,
ea mesa understood, by the Bach coach. He was cf middle size,
ace mode no particular observations; be seemed not to have the
Peirgit Ilse of kis hands. He showed the bank-note for 600,-, and
-eistedfor some of the change in Bank of England note.. %Violeta
sad lt was not their practice. The other replied, it did not much
&Wles:f he pauld take foryi-five notes of IUI., and ten of IL, of
tkc " ord Bark. %Pinang reckoned them to 110 aceordingly,
ac departed. The Bank bed no previous adynaintence ,with
tor,.; witness had riot beard of him alter he saw him. It in the.
yree,o•;a, as the Bank where witness is employed, to give change
arak,pui any inquiry. Hy the following post, witness sent the note
lor 801. to Insiadon. Hoar., Barnetts and Co. are their London
corepsgostlsots, The rote having been tient up by the evening pro
oaf ths 13th, should have reached town on the morning of the 14th. •
....-Thia was on the 13th of April. His employ.
en' no copy of the lice and elf, or any other
doormat, yor otherwise, of the loss of this note. It is said
I:ll:r..illiw"ayth. 6 Severalheimt
fri4;se note
et
wpalnaceentnertltithiatn
. Joh, adjoisaing country. and all kinds of notes would suit
to
aussidlog at them. The man gave no cause for suspicion..
4*. Sank ims not in the habit of exchanging large notes.
Tliagil a nab for firs hundred pounds is Trot met ands' circulation
of toe country, It answer, fora remittance, and as cash. The man
saehhit name was " Edwards ;^ but did not mention his business,
or rebid he meant to do with the money.
ii-11„ a Jura.—This was the first time during the eleven years
that gib tru employed at the Bank that he ever changed a
81(J note, or so high as a 4001. or a 30-0/ note. Perhaps, how.
e e.did Hansel/01M of all these amounts, though without his
p
pr peollecti.
vti
:tarred Daylceoe.rA blif-etieker, in September 1824, stuck about
tifflargie phicards, e•ntaining desemptions of the lost swum, on the
ran. Aii this tows (Gondar)) Noce were sent to Samford. It was
rot is baldness to do so. Lie was only employed to disperse them
ta:4ls42. witness Sated that he had given a notable of hand-
liaiie,fidnil 11glity. with accounts of the last notes, So the mom.
tai a lbs ' alb of „September. Be scattered them among the
bil the isehoryollaes. bad odour places in Lonlni.
Ilaihroo.Bemlbatiallemasshbeoas office in which copies
441.4"Paree ace /had, mildhisell milibto of the Advertiser and of
ties Vet trod Cry. to widilidromeioltellem had beat advertised.
it."/ lhavibes, toe wife of the prioilorot the Rae sod erg, said
gt VIC ,l' VOSltilitees to write the country directions of that paper.
Alsoet_fidtp are forwarded to Ai agistr-dos, Mayors. end others, in
Lineo.raitira. They arc not sent to all persms—to Magistrates
iody. 4b*y would /G.* tie post free to other parsons. They are nut
sa tiffs newapap..rx
bail
..Blualleld re-,zamined.—Said that Mr. !limner, ens of the
'gibbers, •as an acting Magistrate for L:ncolnatire in part,
help for the enure county. There are three Commuisioners in
id yre.hire.
hien. Downes re-exionincal—Was sore that 'tie sent a copy of the
awe Ord Cry en Mr. Handley. She gets the list of those to whom
eumaacoght to be sent, from the Government office. The Magic-
trail-cab at the Secretary of Saate's office, from which she gets the
onieFlL
A'Clah of this Bank of England produced a book in which all
stut/HHI Mites ere entered. Among them was (meal-6MM of the
datenT July 23.1924. Tna note now shown to witness answered
the Orsmiptioo, and was mopped. Thin witnem detailed the rood,:
of gilpivig notes. The Secretary of the Bank gives notice tc ell
thetlerk. of toe respecdve 'police:tom
leyik. Nisdiolla, waiting unman at the Bull lon, at Bnitrne, In
Ape, 36211. semernbered ten men stepping from the mail at that
aveisa, but whether in the middle or enc. of that month, the did not
strenitrig: am the partieslar day, of course.
T'ie ota•ntitrs case being closed.
Me. *dram etratioto. for site defendants, urged that this
acti .41 was not mannsibable in. poist of law. It was clear, from
the e4ience addth,i.!, that the printiffs were never in oessessinn Of
i they hau ont any property in it, end it wain rot be sup.
ther
or a toe saint that felony. entered into the cototrfelion of the
"the• whole of the mar en the side of the plaintlrinigh; be
triaged en a nsrfole compass. It was In aced asairted that a
am , 4it• dead, said that the note in question had been taken rim
b.ortfy robbers ; but in mate to nuintantiare the action, It was in.
ilimoViable 'hit the plaintiff !should prove property and construe.
eivellosseivion a: theism.' wlicii the defeedsot.oinverted it to them.
WOW ft wee rot endl seven month, hid elapsed after the loan of
the 'leo that it got into the hand, of the defendants, and in the in-
unit dare woo sufficient hese for it to have gone the circuit of one
balked per.oll.l.
Ile Loon Como JsseT :es observed, 'lst an action of troves
sieidlet.hamts'auaa, without proof of felony. if the Jury believed
els, giktesoe an this cam, the ;si °party was %unused, vested in the
patitiCii tossisble them to vestals the action.