The National Register.
London, England, 1820-09-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

bill, acceptance and all, was in the hand writing of the
prisoner.
The affixing the name of a nonentity to a bill of ex-
change, has long since been decitkd by the Judges to be
a felony, and so the unfortunate prisoner, by this rash
and indi,crect deception, intending probably to gain a
a little time fur making good his accounts, has sub.
iected himself to the charge of forgery, which may affect
his life.

Tim prisoner seemed to feel the awful situation in
which he hid placed himself, and at his own tiniest
was rAnatided to Monday week next, to afford him
opportunity, if possible, to rebut the charge.

COUNTRY BANK NOTES.—ThCre can be no doubt
that whenever the Bank of England notes are, by the
new issue, rendered ntore secure against imitation, the
ingenuity of the forger will be directed against the
Country Bank-notes, which are now in a very defenceless
state. It is a source of much satisfaction to me there-
(Ore, to hive learnt, that a plan for the protection of
the Country Bank-notes has been adopted by the Go-
vernment, which will, by an immediate operarion, secure
the whole of the Provincial Batiks Irmo forgery, without
requiring any change of their resent plates, which
would be a wink of much time. A stamp of great
difficulty of imitation has been contrived, and prepara-
tions are ntakih g to the Siamp-oflice for stamping all the
Country Bank-notes with this stamp, after the new
year, by which means the revenue collected on Country
Bank-notes will be secured, while the notes thenffelves
will be protected front the forger—because he cannot
forge the note without forging the stamp. TM., stamp
is coin:nue:l with beautiful coloured printing, intended
nearly to cover the hack of the note, so as to preclude
tile necessity, and also to save the expcnce at present
incurred by many Country Bahkers in printing a back
to their notes byiway of security, that security being by
the G'2VCCIIIIIeIII gratis. It is proposed also to connect
this with a change in the paper for the Country Bank-
notes, by substituting a description of paper, the water
11131 k and appearance of which can only be produced in I
its first conitruction at toe paper mill; whereas there I
arc various ways of forging the present water mark in
ordinary paper, which may be purchased in any station-
er's shop. The most important features in this plan are
—first, the expedition with which the Country Banks
will thus be secured against forgery; and secondly, the
economy, as it requires no change whatever in their
present plates.
ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—ThUrghIy
night, between eight and nine o'clock, as Geo. Welfare,
one of the constables at the'lown Hall, Southwark ,was
walking over the Dover-road, his at tention was attracted
by a moaning noise, which seemed to proceed from a
small field at the end of Dover-street. Ile hastened to
where he thought the voice proceeded front, and as he
approached closer, he beheld a matt stretched on the
ground. The officer lifted hint up, but it was some time
before he could persuade him he was safe. At length
he sulfured himself to be carried into the road, and from
thence to a surgeon, where he was properly dressed.
There were three desperate wounds on the head, and
One on the cheek, supposed to have been inflicted by
sonic heavy weapon; his clothes were torts and bloody.
The account he gave of the circumstance was, that he
was a stranger to the neighbourhood ; that while cross-
ing the field where the officer finited him, he was attacked
by a number of thieves and women, who beat him with
sucks until he was stunned, and then took his watch
and pocket-book, its which he had 51. in notes, besides a
few sitillings iii silver, with which they made off, leav-
ing him in that deploratc situation. 'llse attack was so
sodden, that he could not identify any of the robbers. '
VERY REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—Ohs Friday week, as
Thomas Laid law, stonemason, was employed iu the
inside of a well, at Newtown of Rock hull, a few miles
from Carlisle, he was completely buried by the falling in
of the walls and earth. He was standing upon a ladder,
sonic yards (ruin the top of the well, when lie perceived
the walling and earth beneath to give way, and almost
instantly the whole top part fell in upon him, with an
immense quantity of mould, whicei completely buried
the poor mats nearly five yards below its surface. The
other wail:men upon the spot immediately began to
clear out the rubbish, to save, if possible, the life of their
ilellow workman, although they entertained little hopes
oh success. After lifting away the snows, many of which
were very large, they heard the voice of the unfintunate
WWI through the earth ; he was calling to them to work
by the rope, from which a bucket was suspended. After
three hours' labour, they came to the unhartunate sufferer,
wiei was so firmly fixed in the ruins, that it was dillicult
to move his lege. it is calculated that no less than ten
cart loads of rubbish lay maul him, and yet, it was very
remarkable, he was extricated not only with lite, but
without sustaining any material injury. Ile was able to
pursue his usual occupation ins Munuay, having lost only
one day's work by his misfortune.
MCIANCMULY Ace:toes r.—On Tuesday evening
a young lady of the nente of Richett, on a visi, 1.1-s.
Bloomfield of Ilatch-place, Lambeth, accompanied that
bury, and a party of frienos to the Cohourg Theatre,
and on their retorts, Miss Ithaca being lei: in the par-
loon alone, her shrieks alarmed the house, and on the
•T,ErVAilt going iii, her douses were on fire, and her hair
was literally buret oft her head. The servant promptly
threw a table-sloth site had in her hand around her,
but the sufferer, who is seventeen years old, is me
expected to survive. The fire most have caught her
muslin frock its front, as the lower part was not burnt.
Thursday last an inquest was
.held at Cottenhant,
Cheshire, before John Ingle, Esq. on the body of W.
Wilson, a shephero's boy, %vim having missed one of the
sheep he was keeping, ascended to the top of a windmill,
in order to look men the fields for it. The miller
returned shonly afterwards, and nut being aware of the
boy's situation, set the sails in motion, which crushed
him in several pieces, and caused his tkatit Woe he
could get hunts.

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