The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-23 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

On Thorsday his son applied for, and oh:anted an order
front the Privy Connell to see tliln. The nit fortnnale
boy a•as in an agony of grief on quoting the prison; r.
logs was on Thurstlar so 1i 1, front the s: ite of Ills
ntind, that it became neCessary to call in the aid of tin•
apotheeaty to the gaol.
Mr, 8r0,%n coillinues his liontane attention to the
prisoners, and does all in his poi et to wnder their sowr
atiun contf,irtable; of this th,:y all express their cuing'.

ote,ttes...
\Volker, the per,on who occJstonally took thechr.trat
the Sinithfiel,l and bury tneettop. ,Vas in "Ile of the
.Aolleries yest,..rday, anti rert'i (11 a tool of reoo.Jtitioo
taunt sever.ll of the pri50n...1.,. Tot- man %\ the
bearer 01 the roll, representing Nlagua Charto, in Iluot's
pruces*tott.

.111)DLESEX SES#ONS.

When the Grand Jury of these sessions c: me into
Court on l'huirsday to he discharged, tote DI them, John
Fate), sen lid lie It al a presentotent to make,
and the Inthis lit... was read :
•• 1, John Faray, of lioveland.street, Fitzroy-square,
one of the Jurors of one Soveretgo Loh the King, aS-
.etimicil at tire General Qttarter liessions of the F.,:tee,
hoiden on Tuesday the I tilt day of .spill, I w.zo,
Ilielts's Hall, nt an.i for Ilse colony of Nlittellesex, and
duly sworn awl citutr.zed to make presentments, do think
it my duty to present us follows, viz —That oil tit
x.tinitiatutatt of witnesses, a Iv) appeared 'whim ibis
Gram! Jill' to support indictments against cerram pet
sAtis (doom 40 in number), severally charged edit
with tittering or attempting to utter (or pass), id t Ise
ivitit havitt; in their posses-ion certain 1101-5, wine..
were produced (about to the number of Ift.!0), the stone
were, by we Baitk Inspector. swore to tie lorged mil-
tatioos of Bank of Loglatid notes; because (.ts lie
stated) such notes were nun printed elf from any o. the
plates belonging to the Batik of Etiglatid, or on the
paper used by the said Bank for the printing. of their
notes. Whereupoo, in answer to funkier (-presume, poi
to studs Inspector, he repeatedly and disuattetly stun d
to this Grand Jury to toe following effect, viz. 111.11
each, and every one of the notes which lie had (so as
aforesaid) sworn to be oreeries were impressions (or
collies) tainted off front plates, with the extstence of
which plates he was previously all I well acquainted,
from having, to the course of his 011klal inspections,
often before examined impressions from these said forged
plates ; and all of which plates and notes he (the tit-
Spector) undersonel, and Verily believed, to has e been
engrave!' and (urged, in or near the town of Btrittitigham,
to Warwickshire. On 11111 VI titan one occasion, the
some witness stated to this Grand Jury, that Scone parti-
cular person (or persons) residing in or near Binning.
ha m ws very strongly suspecte notes,:t.itig the engraver
and forager of such► plates and yet the further
questions pot to this and another witness, on the part of
the Batik or England, failed of protlueing evidence or
itiformation to this Grand Juity, whether attempts mid
actually been made to search for, and seize the tools anti
implements and the stock of the eng,raser and forgers
the many notes which have lately been pound in the
possession of utterers its the comity of Middlesex, and
brought before this Grand Jury, as aforesaid.
" Coder these circumstances I [lave deemed it my
indispensable duty, and do, its c.itiss qtte 'ice, htreny
humbly pray the Court, that the Juicers iitereits assent-
bled will, witiiont delay, as far as to weir power lies,
cause the most energetic and efficient means winch are
known, and the aws will by any means allow, to ne
used atid put in force fir folly detecting, punishing, arid
altogether stopping, the highly tilegal practices of am,
suet) wholesale forgers and first titterers of forged Batik
of England notes; whereby the strong and almost irre-
sistible temptation which such lest titterers (dint more
especially so their eIIIISSarICS dispersed throu.;hoot the
country) daily hold Out to distiessed and ignorant persons,
for inducing them to engage in tile Ii gitly illegal and
Itosettievous traffic of buying and upteriti lorertl till. es,
it IS firmly belies eel, in a great . easure, if not
altogethet, be put a stop to, because nom, it the noes
%%loco have come before this Grand Jury appe.trtel to
be first, s .parate, or itideitetitie. t ads of 'surgery; nor it
it tutvear front the evidence adduced thereon, to .t
person, indicted were Vesely persons to have eittrx,teti
or to have been able to have effected the forgeries tit the
notes, with the uttering ur posse,sing of which they
were severally charged. The highly-injurious effects ell
such a state oi things on the morals of the pooter cias,.
of society, and the great hoses in which tradestiv•ii a...
miters are dully exposed, throialit ,his continued . to' ex•
tended issue Joel utterance of forged tittles, I. duct.)
cotifi.letitly to hope, that ell, cival measure, may be tie
vised, and 1 tit It practice, ter vowel• stopping the sante
(S geed) " JOHN FAHEY, Sen."
The foreman said, that hitand all Ills brinier
jurors, except Mr. Furey, vs ere elisu•ettnetit front up
observations contained in this document ; if, however,
the assertions it contains be limas, we think it a veil
rational procedure, for certainly if the Batik possess
such information as to citable them tot go to the fountain
head of the evil, it appears tit tis Criminal in them not to
avail themselves of it.

FRANKFORT, APRIL 9.—Our fair has turned nut I
tolerably well. In some articles, particularly lea
ther, a good deal of business has been done with
advantage. lint we never expect our fair to be
really prosperous as long as the heavy tolls and
duties in German" exist. Our fields and vineyards
promise %Lll.
The per:ous who have formed themselves into a
Committee, A!t. (laity at a house in a court in toe
Old Bailey, for the purpose of receiving inthrmation
'dative to the defence of the untbrtunate men now
under trial on the charge of High Treason.