The National Register.
London, England, 1819-04-26 00:00:00

TIIF. NATIONAL REGISTER.

Glasgow and other places upon the same acceptances. Meyer
arid the defendants, in order to get a sale for the goods in the
foreign market, had formed a cutmectien with Weiler, a German,
who came to Loudon in is 16, with no more than ten francs in
his I oche:. He was introduced to Levy by Jacob Meyer. at
Levy's house in Preset-street. lie had been recommended by
a friend at Paris uamed Maas, and Meyer said he would make
Linn a great man. Weiler was then furnished with decent linen
and clothe., and set up by.the defendants for a foreign merchant.
Ile was asked whether he could procure letters of recommen-
dation front a house at Paris. lie knew a person named Mari, a
clerk in the house of Perigord. and he contrived to gut a letter of
recommendation to the house ef Millets and Stride in London,—
When he strewed the letter to the defer:dents in Levy's counting •
hause. Abchurch-lane, Woolf said it wes as good as 10,000/. in
their pockets. They gave him a gold watch and a dismond pM,
to improve his appearance, and sent Imo to Minets and Co. with
the letter. Ile was to tell them he was a foreign merchant come
to this country to do business. The defendants gave him leria
to deposit in the hands of Minos and Stride, in order that lie
might draw upon them as occasion might require. Ile was then
introduced to Kers, who was described to be a re4sectable broker
fur Meyers travellin to Scotland. He was to take Keys to Miners
and Co. and let hint hate Mint on his credit. Keys went to
Glasgow and drew bills upon him at short dates, which he paid.
The goods sent to him went to the warehouse of Meyer, and were
finally shipped off' fur Oetend MIMS, the friend of Weiler at
Paris, that contrived to open a correspondence between Weiler
and a smieosed banker at Paris, named Lcfevre. Goode were
consigned to him. and Weiler drew five bills on Lefevre for 3001.
each. One of the bills remitted to England was put into tine hands
of Mr. Sharp, a bill.broker. who Rased it to a Mr. Merman.—
Weiler was to have had half the goods sent to Lefcvre. It was
soon after discovered that Lefevre sirs not known at Paris, and
the holders of the hill; in London attaches, Weiler's money in
the hands of his harier. Eldertnan received a letter from Paris,
ahcwing that l.efevre's bills were wort.' nothing.—The whole
transaction was then exploded. Meyer abeconded, and with
the bills against hint to a large amount, and Weiler
obtained a passport to follow his exeruple. lie hesitated
at first, and wen threatened with the vengeance of the
defendants, if he did not quit the country. He received eOO
Napoleons from Maas to enable him to get oh: He then
went to Dover, paswil over to Calais, and proceeded to Brussels,
where lie was round by Mr. Sharp, who had been in pursuit of
him. Sharp said he had shiimed goods time Ostend, and he should
o there. lie went to Ostend, and in the Hotel d'Hambourg
found Woolf, Levy. Man and Isaacs, playing at cards. They
were startled at the sight of him. Woolf said, •• for God's %eke,
why do you conic here." Isaac: said, go out of the roam, or
you are a dead man !" They all took up their portmanteaus
and immediately left the hotel. The goods sent to Lefe•
vie we.a put into Sharp's possession, and Weiler was set at
liberty. A Mr. Martclli Caine two or three days after, and
brought him to England, Ile was merle a bankrupt, and one of
the Levies and Mr. Dias, a tailor, were made his assigrues. Levy
allowed him in that situation SL a week ; and he was told, if he
would do as the defendants wanted hint, he should have 30001.
when the affair was over.

The above appeared to be the main facts proved in support of
the conspiracy.
At eleven o'clock at night the trial was Postponed till the next
day, when several documents produced in support of the prose.
cution were nail, and particularly the !otter of recommendation
from the house of Perigord, at Paris, to SVeiler.
Scarlett, for Woolf, the Common Serjeant for Levy and
Levoi, and Mr. Denman for John Kinnear, urged all the topics
favourable to the defendants, and endeavoured to point out incon-
sistency in the evidence called in support of the prosecution, but
declined calling wirnes,rii.
The Chief Justice summed up an immense mass of c‘ idenee,
with great precision and strict impartiality, commenting on the
foatutes of the case, _

The Jury retired fr'n the box. and on their returu, about
seven in the evening, pmeoureed—
Jolt') Kinnear Guilty—Louis Levy Guilty—Montague I.evoi
co
Not ,iitrt•-•Nlirr,eley Woolf CoMy.
lite Sittings ended in cuildh 11, and Mr. hunt's prosecution
will stand over to next Term, as the Chief Justice continues' his
Sittings in Serjeants Inn hall.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

FRIDAY. APRIL RS.

BANK TROSECUTiCiiii:

This morning the tells's% ing prisoners were arraigned at
the Bar:—Elizabeth Bush, Win. Rogers, George Wilson,
Elisabeth Rhodes, Julia George, Daniel Daily. '1 homes
Cot nwall, Wiliiant Cluck, and John Noer, charged on two
counts; the one with having had in their possession sun-
dry notes to a large amount, purporting to be of the Go-
vernor and Company of the Bank of England, they well
kno*ing them to he forged ; and on the other count, with
putting the said notes away, with intent to defraud the
said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and
other lies-sons. Thee prisoners having pleaded Guilty to
the first charge, which subjects them to transportation for
14 years, and Not Guilty to the latter ; and the Batik of
Eisgland havingdeclined to proses-me ou the latter charge,
the prisoners were conducted front the Bar to undergo
their sentence of transportation —TIM. Bradbury, Jobn
Murphy, Jos. Bu sorb, Geo. Pt ice,Jas. Clarke, andW'illiam
and Susannah Cavesmi, were elm arraigned, charged with
having bad in their possession sundry notes, to various
amounts, they knowing them to be forged, with an intent
to defraud the Goers vor and Company of the Bank of
Englatid,aml other pet !MIN these prisoners having pleaded
Nut Guilty, were taken away to nndergo their trials.
James Clarke, Susanna Taverner, and William 'river
Der, pleaded not guilty to the uttetice of having forged
notes in their possession.
The nine prisoners who had pleaded gnilty to the minor
offence were then pot to the bur, and, the capital indict-
ments were read against each.
I%lr. Iteenolds then, on the part of the Bank, stated,
that it was not the intention of the proseentors to produce
any evidence on the capital charge against the prisoners.
The cases of the individnals now at the bar had midergone
painful ciinsideratiou by the gentlemen who instituted
these proarentions, and they bad been induced to ask the
Court to allow them to w ithdra w the capital chat ge against
the prisons rs now at the bar. After the explanation given
from the bench, it could not be doubted but that the pri.
soueu■ were well acquainted with the slips they bad taken,
and with the roitseqneures of it ; lie conceived also that
there was as little doubt, that the prisoners were actuated
in taking this teem by a consciousness of their own guilt,
and a fear of a
now received; soothe these circus:matinees, no e sideeice
world be 'Wired.

Mr. lositir; Park, in dirreting ►he, ?wry to negnit thr
prisoners, observed, that he Inhi tw 4.o.tht the Bank had

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acted wisely in tha step it had taken, and certainly irWas
a mast mei( iful and lenient ~ow,

the ',simmers were then all acquitted of the capiial
charge.
MANSLAUGHTER.
Genres Giddons and Thome.. Townsend were indicted
for having on the 911 i of Mar eh last, at Hadley, feloi . ((( o.ly
driven a chaise over the body of John Matthews, an infant,
by which he received disci se mortal wounds, of which lie
died on the spot.
The titst witness called was a constable at liadlevoslio
apprehended the prisoners. He met Giddons, who in-
fo:stied him of the accident.

W. Cox was next cailr.i.- On the 9th Mardi, between
two and Mute o'clock iu the day, lie was tilling a drill cart
on the road side, near Hadley. He saw Mice chaises
coming loom Barnet ; two of them were diis-iii bat J,
hat ihr one whir li did ►he accident was coming at a very
moderate pace. 'lice two first chaises, as soon as the ac-
cident happened, mended their paces ; but the chaise is
whirl, lice pi isomer Giildons was, immediately slopped.
'file prisoner Gidilons went for a surgeon to Hadley, and
Alo. Booth and his son canoe directly. The child was
token up by a mate of the name of Evans, and carried to
lice house to which the child belonged. It Will the priv
sum-r Girldons who drove the chaise which did the acci-
dent. The child ass about three or foot years old IVliest
he first yaw the chaise it was coming uluog the middle of
the road. but as the other two chaises passed it, the horse
was tiightened„ and glanced, off to the side of the rued,
pri►oner Gioldmis was driving at a very proper pace.
Mkt tnew Cox wan also prevent at the time the accident
happened. It was occasioned by the horse glancing off.
It appeared to him to he an accident, not occasioned by
holy carelessness of the poisoners. Ihe two oilier chaises
west driven, one by the poisoner Town-end, acid the other
bya man of the name of Wild.
William Eddrige, also new the accident, and corrobov
rated the former atalenient. The two chaise awlii.h missed
Giddous appeared to bias to he running a lace. They
were driving very fast.
Jahn Evans said, that when he picked up the child, its
head was Completely smashed, its jaw was nearly off and
the bruises on its body were in iiiiiii erable. The child was
totally unable to stand, and died three quarters of au hour
after the accident.

Tale pri►uuers laid themselves upon the metey of the
COllll.

lly the witnesses called for the defence, it was prayed
that both the pri.oners had families, mid liole imimpL.lch -
able chai ado:. for humanity ; they had beau employ rd
(hirers mony years.
Mr. Baron Wood was about to sum up the et ititllCP, when
the Jury declired themselves satisfied. The 1)1i:4/tars
were acquitted.
Mr. Baron Wood recommended the prisoners to he mure
caretid hot to run races another time.

Edward Felton was capitally indicted fur stealing, on
the 4th of Match last. in the dwelling-home of Alatiltew
Wood, Esq. N. P. South Audley-street, a hack-note fob
the payment of 20/. the property of .John Sayers Kay.
The prosecutor was the at of Alr. Alderman N nod,
and by his evidence proved, flint lie had lin box, in his
ape, talent, a 301. a 10/. a 51. 11!. nuteb, and a nuns-
her of goers riga. and half-sovereigns. The prisoner was
"shoemaker, and on the 13th of February laid, had done
some work tor Say, who paid him its part by • one pound
note. On the 23d of Febrnany substrins at, he, paid him
again, at his apartment, Os. 64. fur some ether wo►k, and
it one not till the 4th of Mars It that he discovered the loss
of Isis 30/. note. 't his note sir had received bout a lady,
with whom he had before lived, together with live Misers
of a like sum, whirl, he paid away, at Fenimore, in Corn-
wall. I:pois the discovery of hi♦ loss, he applied to the
pi ifioner, desiring to know whether he bad nut given hint
a2O instead of a 11. note, but the prisoner dirtied it. It
was subsequently ascertained, however. that the pi Isom r,
Jo company with a 11111111 named Hill, bail changed a 30/.
note in payment fur •none waialcuating, ate. at a draper's
shop in Vigss-lane. The prosecutor anti wards traced a
204 note, which had passed thrasigh the bands of this
person into the !Sank of England, and upo• which was
written the mime of his late mistress.

The donbts which now •rase were these, namely, wise.
ther the zOl. note so traced to the Bank, was She identical
one b Wen fount the prosecutor, (an objection was taken
by Mr. Rutland, fur thy prisoner, to sliew that it was nut),
or one of the five others paid away by the prosecutor at
Penzance, none of which were known by their number :
And secondly, if the Jory believed it to be the actual
note, whether it was nut given by the pititecutur in nit,-
tale to the prisoner, who, however wicked be 'Melts have
been to conceal it, upon the discovery, still had not felo-
niously stolen it. In addition to these doubt., the it:i-
smer received font I respectable witnesses as
almost unimpeachable character.
Mr. Justice Palk charged the Jury, who having deli-
berated for Omni a quarter of an hour, pronounced the
prisoner Nut Guilty.
MOST I.XIRAOR DINA RY CASE.

Joseph goistoloos. a )(wag man, stood indicted for f.•in-
niou.ly breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Hein y
Brown, in the day lime, on the 2lth of December, 1816,
person tieing therein, and stealing thereoul a Ban S.-note for
the paymeut of 2110 h. and other ninnies, his propecty.
Mr. Alley tinted the circumstances of Ills ease to the
Jury w it h his Waal ability.
Mr. Heory•Hrosso stated, that he had been a Master in the
Navy, and lived, on the 21tii of liece.i her last, in ha•t•
street, Stepney. On that day, heinig 61111(1,y, he and his
wife went to church, h.i*ing properly serurrd the .100... Oil
their return he found the hack door open, and the front door
upon the single lock. he haying doubly locked it. Ill► pro-
perty was streivoil about the room, nod a 2001. note, 421. in
maul notes, rod a great quantity of weancg 'living had
been stolen ; pr. setutor had sita'e sr.•o the it 01. note.
Cm..-examined by Mr Arabia.-11r had the number of
the YO 1. note, but not of the rest, rind hr knew it by the
number, the date, and the WM. lle did not sec the note
from the 27th of I/et-ember until the Itlth (di last,
and he had never seen the prison. r about his to ratite..
Mr. tiro. I))ti*, a clerk in the Bank, stated, that on the
16th of klatch, about four o'clock, the prisoner presented a
Bank-note for 2001. De esamintil it, in order to a,rt-rtata
it it air. outstaniling. 11 h. iog a t welmtaionth gone, it "
Int% Nary t 6 114/610C it. Da turned se the book and food

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It had been stopper y a r. rown~ wing a ante for a
I wee rimount, lie asked the prisoner whoin lie brought it
from' The prisoner said from a Mr. Phillips, pointing to a
direction on the noir as follows—'• Juo. Paillips, 13, Bury-
rem, St. Mary Axe."—Using after the bouts of business
the Secretary a at gone, nod witness toil the prisoner to leave
it until the morning. lie did so, though not willingly. Pri-
soner was to ensue the next dry for the note or his change.
Witness had Liken the note to the Secretary's office.
11r. Charles Christmas, an inspector of the Hank, pro-
due, d a YOOl. note, which Mr. Dyer proved to he the one
pretented by the prisoner.
Mr. Christmas resumed.—On the IS h of March witness
saw the prisoner at the Secretary', office, and he asked him
of whnnt he received it? Ile replied, of " Mr. John I'llll-
- 13, f3tiry-'trees, St. Mary-Axe."
Michael Morrii, an officer of police, said he took the ',O-
wner into custody on the ISth March. Mr. (ht istnint asked
the prisoner of whom lie hurl received it, and the prisoner
said from Mr. Phillips, Bury-street, St. Mary-Axe. Witness
left loin in the custody of another Mtn er, and went to No.
13, St. Mary-. Ase, and no Well person live 3 iii re. lie nem
to No. la, iii the same street, where he was 03 Phillips
lived, and he s.tw a person tittle win, called himself Mr.
Phillips. Ile asked him if his name was John, and Ire an-
swered " NO; Jonathan." W Worm heard the prisoner gay,
whilst under examiiintiiiii, that lie had taken the 110. e fur
Int. worth of jewellery, from a man ;Own, he belie'', d had
gam to Ireland.
Droos.exsinlyerl by Mr. Adolphus.—The prisoner said,
that a past of the properly sold, was a chronometer ; that
it was a Wady-Malley transaction. lie said he met the man
promiscuously In the street, and tmik him borne to his own
loigings, and the prisoner g ive witness his arldiew, w hiell he
fund to be correct. A person said he had hard there about
a month.—% itnew did not seareh his lodgin,:s. After the
first examination, the prisoner was out upou bail for several
days, and he came voluntarily to the second examination.