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London, England, 1821-09-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Highgate proved that DO such person as John Penn" had or
did now reside these.
Here the exec for the prosecution closed, and the prisoner
being called upon for his defence, requested permission io with-
draw for a few minutes. The jury also withdrew. When they
resumed their seats,
The primmer rose, and entered upon his defence, which was
extremely long, and read from paper. The prisoner set out with
saying that he was the son of sir Heinen] Tumor, who, in the
riots of 1780, greatly distinguished himself in the Ilea= of die
)Sank, and by his bravery, saved its Treasury from destruction.
lie (pi isoner) hail been eighteen years employed in the Bank;
:and he considered himself as it were a portion of die establish-
ment...attached to it for life. It sem his misfortune, some time
ago, to got acqueinted with one of those harpies, who go about
entrappiog the unwary; and to that argralllliance was to be
attr,buteal the mehmelitily situation in which lie row stood. That
person was John Penn, of ahom the jury had beard so much.
The prisoner then went on to stare that lie had repeatedly executed
mousy transactions ibr this Penn, and hail received proper mom.
nerntron tbr his labour. Ile had dime 1.011:10n his rep: esentation
that lie had large expectations, and one fatal day, upon his pro-
ducing what lie conceived to he proper documents he executed
the transfer in question. Thi he however. withoutl disguise,
and knowing well that it would tuit!ergo the rigid itistection ot'
two other experienced clerks, whose vigilance he could not hope
to escape, if he haul done any thing wrong. Soon after the
acconiplisliment of his alleged criminal purpose. he went to
Hastings, on the coast of Stni..ex, fir a fortnight, on leave of
absence. here then am ample means of escape. lie had, it was
ulleged, the produce of the plunder in his pocket lit this time
and villa " was his conduct? Weill plenty of noels in view, and
at his command for money—Willi the wag of France in sight,
and with every possibie facility for escape, lie came back to
London—to the Bank, where, if Ir.. had committed ally offence,
lie knew detection was cousin. and lie resumed Ills onVoyalient,
and resided at his usual home. Besides this.. lie did not want
for money. Ills salary at the Bank was above a competency,
and, hesi.4,B that, he two years ago inherited 2.0001. troll' his
mother, and in the course of last year be received 5,0 d. and
upwards with his wife. With this increase of protits, his habits
of living continued die save, and he could therefore have no
temptation, no inducement, to commit such a crime as that
alleged against him. With respect to his attempt to CSC.I.T, his
mind was at that time in a state of distraction, and lie sought to
escape certainly ; but lie hoped to meet in the attempt what
would have been more acceetable to him—certain death. Ile
knew the dilemma into which his want of caution had brought
him; he knew the strong circumstances that were against him;
and that he could have no evidence to rebut them ; and he had
also upon his mind the consciousness that, although he might
escape conviction, yet the very charge would drive him for ever
from the pale of society, end render his future exisience a blank.
The ptisoner went on in a strain of powerful reasoning, and even
eloquence, to point out the extreme iniprobabity of a nun, cir-
cumstanced as he was, committing such en offence, with (as he
from his long experience knew) the most certain prospect of
detection, lie reformed upon the testimony for the prosecution,
which, be said, consisted ahnost entirely of probabilities namely
—without positive proof, and earnestly entreated the jury to
weigh well the probalities on either side, rind see which way die
balance would incline. lie implored from their justice and hu- '
inanity that merry which he could rot expect hem the law,
. if
thetr verdict show.' be against him ; for, to offences like that
with which he stood charged, if conviction wok place, mercy was
a stranger. if they wore not convinced of his innocence, still
they might doubt his guilt, and the law, in that case, g;:ve him
what he was sure the hearts of the jury would not withhold from
hint, the full and entire benefit of that doubt.
The prisoner then, in most feeling terms, and In a manner
which excited the sympathy of till weu beard him, alluded to
his wife, who, lie C: id, had linhed lice destiny with his, amid who,
if their verdict should be one of guilty, would have a home,
which was once happy, rendeleil desolate, and could be
deemed, for die remainder of her days, to misery and wretched.
Jury.
,Ntr. Sergeant Doonirpiet rose, and said. that this and two other
indictments, claugino the priomer with forgery, arose out of the
same trunsactiou a tech had already been tried and decided upon.
Although in Islet of form there were three separate indictments.
yet the evidence was the same. and tile transaction was likewise
the some, A Jury hosing, tater a stile= ineeetigatien, decided
upon that evidence. as it was lint for high to call in question that
verdict, and. with the penuission of their Lonielupe, he should
forbear calling any evidence upon the present Tee jury
of course woneunced a verdict of Nut Gary.
The jury were then charged upon the two other inelisaroores,
and returned in each a verdict of Nut Guilty,
Mr. Alley applied to die comet to give an order for the imme.
(Hate discharge of the prisoner, such a armee beii.g usual when
the Grand Jury were dismissed. as was now die eiese.
The court uccelled to the application, solid Me. Turner was
immediately liberated.
alt demeanour wits serious and becoming, and he bowed most
respectffilly to the court and jury as lie quitted the dock.
nese. The unfertunate prisoner concluded his address with an
appeel to the jury, full of eloquence and feelirig, sohtheh pioduced
RD at= upon the auditors that will net sounds; forgotten.
AlreLee, the high Constable of Wortniineter, wee culled. who
gave the runner a most li:ge character, and Ceveresi to the
intereetilig feet, that he had re,eleireeel sonic heavy deists which
Irie mots .r had contracted prevonts to he: decease, without tie
eligliteet legal obligation on his part.
A great inunber of persons ut the highest reepectability spoke
to the hontiumble and ireepioachablu conduct of the prisoner
during the what: of his ilfe. We venture to suite' that a higher
ellarloger was never horoe by my man than 11r. Turner low-
taped up to lime unhappy trotisuetion m question.
Mr. Justioe Moho:dhoti sunatital up too evisience with great
minuteness and. peopicuity.
'the July ram t.t belf last seven o'clock, and after an *b.
Knee of air hour am' a half, i‘ttuned with es verdict of—Not
Guilty.
sui;Jit cxpreFAnt of tipp'euse was limn] noon the return of
the ter..:ct, bu; it was very properly reprt•setl by the Cutoutou
The prisoner was removed frcm the Isar, assisted by several
friends.—There Iwo three other intlicituems against 111111.
Ti:1.1111.1,1", F/TirTi 18.—At half put two o'clock, Win. fl. B.
Turner was itipportiel into omit, and Owed at the bar.
'alt. Clark, the Deputy (Jerk of Arraigns, thy; celled upon
the primmer in 111 a UW11411.11111 the jurors. or any
trf thenn if ho chose to do to, eiel the jury sumo as upon
his trial yeeteeorry) serge diets mum, and the coati:wary procia.
mutton will male.
before Mr. Jugice Richardson.
Wetie coney. Sere. 19.—Foitorite iron eve Putts-
stab COW MIN Cali:stein Uis% Wit 10 Ilie
1141 111.1,11 -11 liallt.litielll, rlh.al. jog it itli feloniously for.
ging and counterfeitieg notes for pay mein
of mie dollar, purl to illy, to he Tien-to y notes of one of the
mieieters and aortaeill the King of
Pr mon.
Theeaso war tiled lie!iire II L•indon Jo-y.
Alt, Law 011(11.41 the imidicl,u.ut to Inc Jury, and Mr.
Kellam! rtati a Ow eh comstusires of the case.
Vs into :Self ,11/. OS is an engraver, and
resides 10 Wide,l4.,,,t,tiot.t, 'COONS. no I
has dOlie fur tiff yes. a. pt igi.orr at the liar, is he In the
heeireetie of Art it made is,,i!lielit.ol/ to ilium. The /With.
Was. ili; t ht. hail tuna osternbitut for the ;ilium, nista,
Winless timed him e het it was, tied he said a Pruesian
ticket. Wireess asked him what ticket. It was, mid he said

a ticket ofadmi.sions Witness WAS g • te to ask bins fur
what, and he 5aid....." Ond bless my soul, do you think I ant
going to give you any thing wrong to do ? you know me
very well ;" and a illiCt•Statid he did. Prisoner then desired
him to engrave the Iwo plates (there tea; as reverse side), and
and desired to have 80,000 if Ise could, in a forthight.
/ICU said the time was too shoe t, but lie is mild get 10,010
... e, or mere if he could. The prier 14. r the 10,000 was to
be 301., 31. a limns:lnd. The prisoner was to provide Ms ow n
paper. The plates were executed nod 'hewn to the pri.
54.115.1 s he approved of them mid they nem tent up stairs to
be printed 110,000 were ultimately struck oh; tool the pri.
stiller, during the procey, repeatedly came to superintend
the is ork. The prisoner came (lady and cut than up, and
put themjin pare. ls of 11110 each, t.uti took them away.-..
When the process of engraving thebe ticket., a as concluded,
a line of letter-press and a copper-plate engravii.q, being put
into the hands of the is itness, he said they is cri• the same that
be used in the fabrication of the litotes in question. In August
last the prison( r came to him, uod said he hail ret dyed
another order fir 5111.,0 more, and must be eiteem. d speedily.
The prisoner always brought the paper in reams himself,
cut in the form that was necessary for behig struck off,
lying publicly on the contiter.—pie of these times being
produced, witness same dint it Ilia, one %hich he struck utf
in cousequeoce of the second order from the prismier.—.
Those notes stated in the indictment were copies.
William Richard Newman sworti.—ls sou to the last
witness, told knows the prisoner ut the bar. Knows of the
order given by the prisoner. Ile cut off the edges and
snggested talerationE.

Augustus Eckart examined, through an Interpre.
ter.—ls Inspector Lieneral of Police at Bet lip, and it is
his duty to inspect the dollar notes. The note now pro-
duced to witness is a genuine Treasury note. Another
note was then put into his hand, and lie said that was a
forged note. I-le hail seen a number in the possession of
Foy, the officer, and they were all false and forged. lu
the mouth of May several Jews were taken into custody
at Berlin, and among them one Lahti and Simeon. Lobh
was arre►ted at Leipsic. Witness came over here with
and arrived on the loth day of Jnly. Witness
did not know of Simeon having any letter of int roductiori
to the prisoner. Witness put a letter ill the post at Ifam-
burgh, directed to the prisoner.
John Schmidt translated the words on the genuine note,
and the number. It ran thus...

"A Treasury Note or Receipt of One Dollar in cnr•
rency, accordii,g to the suutlard of 1714 ; valued in all
dealings in NIL " ALIEN hTEIN."

On the reverse—
" 'ffeasory Note or Rucelpt of One Dollar in currency.
—Office of Healiaation of Currency."
The note is u holly in the German language. There is a
cro,%n end serial e on the note, and the iliilidiS " F. %V.
U." fur '6 l'redei teL William Rex."

The forgery nit, then sliewit to the witness Eckart, and
be Kaki it resenAhleti the et i Antal in form and writing."
31c. Atioloms.—The trim in Guinan for a promi,
sons note is teltuldt-schein. The terns for a tectipt is
schein.

_
Peter ghtleOli said, lie al ivied In' England with Mr.
Echer on the lath of July, and saw II•c prisoner on the
following day. lle had known him uiue years. Foy gave
witness it live pound :tote, which, on the following day,
he gave the pi ironer on account. lie alit minds gave tie
prisoner more niuncy, and received in rein' u, ;it one time
1.00, and on another occasion 2109. Ile received the
3100 on the 'lily the pristine' wits apprehended, 'aid he
paid him I Ul. for Metal, which lie bail received from Foy
for that 11111 pose. 1% itness was always searched by the
ofileets before he went to the prisoner.
Upwards of So witnesses were culled to the prisoner's
elLadeier, _ . .

air, Jitstlee tl,ou rammed up, and the Jury re-
tained a verdict of
Win. flurdiog µas chi. ed :it the Itar,chtr:,ed with stealing,
oil the st:i of JJ!), is here, the plopurt) ••;*
It :1111.cartd, that um the tiny named in tho a.,,t,ctment
proweutor had u 11.,c1; of 29 sheep, six of which lie MiE>ed
en th;,. Ott the Muilduy following t hey welt:
found in the of the prisoner at Smithfield market.
who aus them tort butcher. The prisoner was
out at the same time tidiest tato clattioy, but a few days sub.
stquently his residence etas discovered, and he was talseh
hot) custody by Austin, st coolant& of Ltlmontou, in the act
of malting Ids escape f the place of bit iesidetice ut
Muchmore-hill, disguised as an old ammo).
The 14.CCOVIII given by the iniamer was, that lie bought Ow
sheep sun man hunted Tony, µho had since titoconaed, ant
cubed tau a itaesits In prase tile) saw hint pry fur theist ;
the.e buss relllllll, ever, in.e%Dl kilted so much, that the
cowl did not comider them emitted to belief, tool tho jury
found tho prt,iinet guilty—death.
There arse sevetul other ladietittents against the pritooer,
willytt were thitituttil by the society for the linnet:lloou of
felons.

ittistsDCY. Setherin, aged 29, Wit/
leiunionci,, knowingly, rind willingly
net gu Mg a flifee and Waffle ceriefiente relating to the duos
of lixcts,i, with intent to defraud his Abject,'
IValford rand Hedlund conducted the prosecution,
acJ Alr• Alley and Air. Adolphus the defence.
It uppeured in evideacc, that the priconer sees n clerk in
the pus mit office, io the excise, when any merchant, having
tobucco, or tiny tither commodity, in the London ducks,
snider the luck elf the excise aim the company, eviyhed to have
it removed, to go to the docks, and there have it weighed
out by the proper officer, in miler to mcertoiti the amount tif
dune, regularly paid. The weighing ollicer makes u town
to the collector of the weights, and the cullectur then fur-
lit the merchant the aummit ot laity to be paid, had
when it is paid, the colleetcr gibes a certificate to the leer•
chant iu that elfec I, Tilts eel tilicute but ii been find signed
by the,nitretor, mid coasimted 1,, the cesuptrollur, is prey
witted at the permit 'Mice the niece hunt or hie agent,'aiiil
psrulit to given for the removal of the goods Irma the
ducks. A person maned Robert (Clam, clerk to
µ et lit the habil Of Milli% µill; certilicates of this kind (fool
his employer. and it Willi lite duty, with other-,
to receive the cert•ficates and give permits. The clerk.
were cot nice Or exiiiiiiii fig the olio:mins or the collector.
and conipteallers us there weer honey itilrercia unto nut even
!tonna lo the ele ks. lit July lust, (Aunt, in the contort of
of one week, bfoitylit Intl certificate.. one fur 3i71. and
other for upwostli of 9001. tomtit of tobacco, purporlinit In
he .4:lltd and countersigned lu the regular way, mai he rah.
humid a permit fur each rrom the prisoner, is nose dutyit
w,.6 to enter them in 14 tellief, called the 14 Duty Paid Leif •
gel," kept for INttl purples& The numbers of these certificates
we, ti Wei nod IAN. lit (to Couc.e Of the Week it tlittuVilly
tint made Obit the duty laid lint hi eu paid upon either or
those certifieutes, and that the tignisturce Acre forged. Trio

prisoner himself was one of the first to mention the discovery,
hut when his" duty paid ledger" was examined, It was found
that the certificate 202, had not been entered therein, and
that the certificate itsel was missing. Upon searching the
prisoner's drasser iii the office, the missing certificate was
found. The certificate, 19d, was found to have been regu-
larly entered in the prisoner's ledger. Enquiry was made
for Grant, and he was soot to be found. The prisoner about
this time was absent for a fortnight, on account of sickness,
but the officers who were employed to apprehend him as the
accomplice of Grant, found him at his lodgings in Gray's
Walk, Lambeth. In a few days after the discovery • 61.
note, which was part of the money paid by Grunt's em-
player to him. to pay the duty., was traced to the possession
of the prisoner.
These were the leading facts of the case, as they were
stated by a great number of witnesses.
The p, homer, in his defence, declared his innocence in the
insist solemn inamier, and said, with respect to the 51. note.
that he hail lent some ttttt ney to Grant in the early part of
the surname, umi Grant, in repaying him, gave him among
others the 51. note in question.
The Jury retired fur some time, and returned a verdict of
guilty—death.
Manasseh Goldstein, the person convicted on Wednesday
of a forgery on the Prussian G.iver iiiii ent, was put to the her,
when Mr. Platt, as junior counsel, moved all arrest of judg•
meat, on the ground th it the instrument alleged to lie forged
aught to have been set forth in the indictment in the English
language. Judgment post potted.
David Barton, a young man of respectable appearance,
was indicted for stealing four packages of roots. seeds, bulbs,
stuffed hirda, and insects, the property of his Majesty, from
on board the Venus, a ship lately arrived from the Cape of
Good Dope.
It appeared that the prisoner was a tide-waiter on beard
the Venus. On the 21st ofJuly last, the goods had been
landed in tin Kiag's wharf, auttl had been marked with the
broad arrow in mile' that they might not lie removed without
the payment of ilaty. On the night of the 41st of July last,
it was proved that the prisoner had removed four of these
hose, which haul been so lauded, to the ship. The psi.
*once was heard by the mate of me ship in the middle of the
night, witlkiag on the Jerk. " What are you about ?" he
cried. " Never whirl," replied the prisoner, " it shan't fall
nn your neck." The next morning the prisoner told the
mate—. 1 ss dl give you it pound note to way nothing about
hat pawed last night." The mate replied. " A pound
note won't save your neck, nor me from transportation."
On cross-exa iii ll :tibia of the witnesses, it seemed that no
one of the passengers, who ow tied the goods said to be stolen,
was present as a witness for the prosecution. The prisoner
was very drunk on the itidlit of the 21st of July, anti the
next day being asked, said that he knew not what he did.
The primmer, in Ins ilrfence, said that on the night men-
tioned iti the indictment he Was much inebriated, and was
not conscious that lie nail dune any thing imptoper.
Several respectable witnesses give the priranwr a very good
character. Otte of them said he saw the prisoner at half
past eight on Sunday evening so much intoxicated that lie
appeared lit- mi insane itersun. The Jury returned a Ter-
diet of Nutt Guilty.
Bic., Mr.—Wm. Manners, aged 23, was inulirted for fe.
ltatiously marrying Susan Anderson, ou the bta of September,
1820, his Gilmer wife being alive.
Mr. Aulnlphus slated the case to the Jury.
Edward Lewis deposed that lie bnew the prisoner, lie
was present at his son riage with Elia theth [teak imam. lle
acted as father, and gave the bride. away. The marriage
took place at Lawrence church, Reading. in Berkshire,
Jan. 13, hut in what year he could ant recollect. Elizabeth
Renkinson was a maid servant. He saw her alive on Mon-
day last.. _ _

Susau Anderson deposed that her father kept a cook's-
shop in Warplane. She was married to the prisoner on
he Bth of September, last year. She was possessed of a
small sum of money when she married the prisoner. ►be
lived with the prisoner till the 11(11 of January, when she
left hint and returned to her father's house, having heard that
lie had another ss ife living.
'rile prisoner in his defence said that he was married to
Elizabeth Itenkiinno. but she misconducted herself in many
respects; and about three years ago she ran away from him,
and he had never since been ante to prevail upon her to
return. Under these circumstances he married again, be-
cause he thuught a ss ife was necessary to a young man like
himself.

The prisoner during the delivery of this address appeared
dreadfully aAitnteil.
The prisoner called nn witnesses,and the Jrry immediately
found him Guilty.

On Thursday the launch of one of the East India
ships, of 1,350 ions borthen, took place from Mr. Bay-
ley's II alifax Shiplard, Ipswich, a new minutes after 12,
marly an boor before high water, by which many thou-
s.did persons were disappointed of viewing the same.—
• Jost previous to the lallitch the ship was named " The
Sir D,vid Scott,'" by the daughter of the Rev. Dr. lVard,
of Coltishall, near Norwich, with iiifinite animation and
grace. 1:1 a moment afterwards the ship made the first
start, and accelerating is motion until her stern retched
1112 water, amidst the tvavin; of hats, the music of the
bawl, and the shoots of the surrounding spectators, she
glided rather than plun•Aed into her 'littoral element,
with a steadiness and in.j.:sty which no words can de-
scribe. Owing to the violence of the wind the stem of
the vessel grounded on the the side of the dock about
200 yards from where she was launched ; she, however,
floated with the flowing of the tide, but unfortunately
soon after got again upon the edge of the channel, whew
she remained immoveable. At the next tide the ship
was got into the channel, and was towed down the river
by the seam packet, on her passage to London, 11111
hating received the slightest injury from her grounding.
The river was hued with boats and vessels, and both of
its sides were thionged with spectators.
On Friday w •ek a duct was fought on Plumste.ol
Common, near Woolwich, between Lieut. of
the Royal Artillery, and a Mu. C--, a gentlentai. of
respectability ; after exchanging ,‘vo shots each Mr. C.
was wounded by the Iwll of his antagonist going thro'
the upper part cit one thigh and through the wrist of his
lett hand. Lieutenant U. escaped with having the skin
on his forehead rased by the ball of Mr. C. It is some-
what remaukable, that on the first exchange of shots,
the balls came in contact with each other, and both of
them fell about three feet from the feet of Mr. C. Mr.
C. is convalescent.