The National Register.
London, England, 1820-09-10 00:00:00

MILAN COMMISSION COURIER.

The following letter is from the most respectable
quarter. Its important contents require no cont.
went. lhey relate to a 'person *hose none re-
pt:au:4lly oecurs in the examinations in the House of
Lords:—

" PARIS, SEPT. I.
"Inclignaut at the unjust and ridiculous trial of which
your excellent Queen is the obitrt, I thought that it might
not be unacceptable to yon to arm yourself with an ad-
dltional ilWalls of demonstrating how stateless your Go-
vernment has been of the moral conduct to the men
whom it his employed to frweif:l its inquiries, and to
conduct tile Loam IiaJMICS whit It it has lollowed iu
Italy.
" Among the miter individuals attached to the Milan
cot 11111 l ssom there was one called Crouse. lie. held the
title of Courier for the British Cabinet, but, as it would
appear, executed functions not dibli net iy marked by his
ostensible occupation. Sometimes he received an order
to go it) search of discarded servants, for the purpose of
collecting their es idence ; sometime* he commenced his
operations in the central spot of toe examinations of these
sal 4 ant eye witnesses, and sometimes he was despatched
from Milan to London, carrying the result of these infa
n processlings. Ott this journey he usually ra:sed
tormign Paris. Not satisfied with the considerable pay
witted he received, what did this tricky knave do ?
Why lit: took advatitage of some days stay at Paris to
atter jiwged Bunk of England notes. One of my friends,
who was tile vivito of his knavety, fur a large sum, de.
nouni:ed him to justice. Mr. Crouse Was arrested and
thrown into pritun at Paris, In the examination of his
papers proof was found of cis crime. Many fitrged notes
ismular to time he had sold, wet e found upon hon. lie
had the address to destroy a coositterable quantity of
them before his arrest. The agents whom he employed
to dispose of those forged notes declared that they .111 w
large packets of them in his possession. ln fine, taken
)14/porde dclic'o, he would infallibly have tmdergone the
punishment denounced against forgery, if his ambassador,
whose protection he claimed, had not employed all his
diplomatic authority to snatch him front the hands of.
justice. When interrogated as to his forged notes, Crouse
declared that he had received them at Tilts wore
the air of truth, as it was always CM his return from
Milan that Crouse was the bearer of these nogeries.—
Thus Milli' at once became the den of conspirators and
the refuge of forgers. The English ambassadi r promised
in the justice of France to procure the punishment of
Crouse at London. The assurances, however, were not
fulfilled. Mr. Crouse remained in the service of his
government. People sofficieutly clever to compromise
imprudently the honour of their Sovereign, and to increase
their means by forgery, would appear by this to deserve the
special protection of your government. As the name of
this indtvidual may perhaps be frequently mentioned on
the trial of the Queen, it may not be without its use to
make known to you his morality. 1 will engage to fu -
nisi' you with all the proofs of the facts which 1 have
now brought to your notice, and to guarantee their
correctness.
" Up to this time my friend has not been indemnified
for the forged notes which Mr. Crouse circulated here.
"P. S. M. Crouse, or Kraus, was arrested in the
month of November, Idl9. The Renommee, which
published several articles at the time on the incident
have mentioned, may have erred in the orthography of
the name; but it is the same individual who was ar-
rested for forgery that was engaged in hunting out and
collecting witnesses in Italy.
" Enclosed you will find the articles of the Renommee
which I have alluded to. The person who interfered in
favour of Crouse is the Secretary, and an employe of the
English embassy."

((From the Renommee.]
"Sir W. Temple was once on the point of leaving the
embassy of Holland, because the local authorities at the
Hague refused to give up one of his suite accused of a
grave ullenee.,, It would appear that this protection,
whirls goes the length of sectirinr, inipnnily to the antral•
tern agents of an embassy, nutlet; a part of the instructions
of the Cabinet of St. James. At least we are furred to
draw this hilt re nee 1 tom the pulsing and reiterated in-
stances of the English es bass in favour of a man accused
of trailing in forgo 11 notes of the Bank of England. The
following are she tarts to which we abide, as stated to us
by one of the iujneeu pai ties:—
" A nioney•chancer iii the Valais Royal had bought of
an itierie i dual to Lilly Bank-notes, w Idyls being sent ni
1.011111011 for mem, were returned as forgeries. Tile
result Of Iliis Iran-m.lnm 011iOlig till '
money changers, and rendered them distrustful in their
open:moos. Alva Mk, notes we c utfee 101 to another !
money •elimiger, hu asked twenty-four 11011111 to iuslaile
into the address of the seller. The address was given • it
was Illal of a Itritirli Cabinet Coln ier. 11w money-dealer
event next day to the Nol.lllllol place. aceutopohiod with
two °lima peisolos, who hint bleu the dopes of the filet
transaction. They found the hailer in notes of the day
he e, who was much einharras-I,d at their presence.
They found with him new notes, which they considered as
fun gel. The proceeded immediately to inform the an-
lino tiles of the circumstance. Au iii-peetor of police
ordered the 111 test of the accused, whose pa peia were or-
dered to be Sealed. The affair Was 4110111 totube 11111 in a
train tOr a judicial Moon y when tile action of jiistiee was
all at one paralysed. The inikvidual arrested applied to
hi, ambassador, who evonced an extraordinary zeal iU
Bans the operation of jiistire 4 !..übject of his
Sovereign. His Excellency wrote Inc nuo.4 let-
ters to level al of the 31inistei3 and to mire r
lle representr d that, the Milividual being a Cat/11111 e-m-
-rim., the pithiie set rive might 61111'1,111 has deteut,:ni. lin
line, lie reneged in his tasmir atifoi of 21 hums, '1 he,
last allegation satisth d jii,tree, and Btu accu,ol was it:-
leased."
In the Itenommee of the 111th of JJtllrary, 551 find 11,e.
folio wing deb. nee 01.K.Ealla art op by on ..,y0b,;.05t ter hs,,
writing melee' the signature of J. Y.
The Ei nide (:unite, K raw., bought at ',Pm ,:x
Mink of Ellgldiail notes (there of then amid ii,r, v
yr 1 ut • yetsou nami.d Cruluinbu, which Culua.h. Lad
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purchased of a shopkeeper called Albertclli. 01111110 w
would not at first sell them for less than .!4 byres per
pound sterling ; but Ichlll4 itftcrw•nrd Ulti.111114:11 illt.llll at
2 • a pike below the ra!e, of exchange at the time.
!laving at lived at "•iris, Knits wished to 111,111
to inouev-dealers of the l'alals Royal, and at their request
left with them his name and address. Colombo is at pre-
sent before the tribunals of
The lietwatmee,atte t. inserting this letter, gives a history
of the transacion, with the 'tunics of inwiey-eliangers
concerned in it. !t is tail that Kraus was agitated when
lie saw then—that be was arrested--and that he was libe-
rated without a trial, to the injury of those who had taken
the firged notes. It is aftei Wit rd, said that he must have
known lie was uttct in, flit gel ie., for that he was proceed-
ing to London, and had with hint inure than 500 fr.slies,
' whirls rendered the change of his notes utineeessAly ill
lie reached his destination, where the notes, if g
would be of morn• service than French coin,