The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-09 00:00:00

MARKETS.

Fees the " Lour ow Ilfereoutile Price ettrran?," of Moeda',
. December 8, 1818. . .

W 6 IT INDIA AND SPANISH MAIN PRODUCP.
Coerse.—No public sales having Lora brought torwerd
Since our last, there has, in consequence, been a brisk in.
qiiiry by private contract, and several parcels have been
sold at higher prices—and much more !urine'', might have
been done but fur the daily advancing terms required by
ppecnlators, now jhe principal holders.
Rte Domisigo, of good quality, has been sold at 145 e.
The stock of West India Coffee is now 4,130 tons, being
1,730 less than at this time last year. Present prices, 50s.
per cwt. higher.
Cocria.—No business has been done in Cocoa since our
last, snit the market appears doll at present.
Suosa.—The sales of B. P. Sugar have been extensive
this week, soil rood qualities being now very scarce, tom•
raised higher prices. Good brown Jamsicu have realised
60s. ; ordinary soft brown ditto, 745.
FORFIGN SUVAMI are without demand. A public sale
of 376 chests Hnvanasb Sunk place on Thursday. the whOle
were takes in, good white 635. a 655., yellow SOL • 534.
brown 41s. per cwt.
The stock of B. P. Sugar is now 7,600 casks less than last
year's at this time, the present prices rate Ss. per cwt. lower,
per Garotte average.
HUM Is steady in prime, bUt dull of demand; Sa is the
case with Dye woods and Pimento.
The present stock of Rem is 1Y,16Y pusiderosa, and price
of proofs 9.. per gallon.
Stock last year same date 'm421,549 puocheons, and price
of proofs 34. bd. per pikes.
NORTH AMERICAN PRODUCE.

Carolina Mutt has been sold this week in small qnantity
at 465. but that init.,: is not readily obtainable.
Ia Touacco there is nothing doinu, and prices are entirely
nominal. We bees no doubt, however, front the increased
stuck and dull state of the market, that a' •iewbat lowa
prices would be taken for Virginias if offered.
SOUTH AMERICAN PRODUCE.

There has been only a trilling demand for Carron since
our last hum expect houses, and prices are without altera-
tion . 130 Sonata taken in at Bd. per lb. at the sale on the
27th ult. have been sold at 4. advance. The sales of the
week, duty paid, are 30 Upland, rood 20d.; 2SO Permit's-
tome% middling 231.1, g.ood to tine 21.4 20. 0 150 Kahle'
good to fine 2114. a ?std.; ha marßisham, good tip. la
bond, 150 Surat, middling. 11114.; 250 Bengal. ordinary 74.
fair to good Id. a gfil. Per iinhin, sale 507 mats Vera Cruz
in the and, 214. a 3141.; total 1,397 baba. The imports ape
1,060 Pernswiboreo, 161 Demerara and Berbice, J,660 Boor-
boo, 5,046 Bengal, 456 Rio : total 11,470.
MEDITERRANEAN PRO NT E.

- ..
FRUlt.—Thrre lance public sales hive been tirmighl fuer
ward ihitt week, but Ter* little w 6 sold; tvr market brine
ph millet!, supplied with every dearriptirsai the grocers buy
very sparingly. Figs are scarcely makable at reduced quo-
tations.

LIVERPOOL REPORT, Deeming' 5, 1312.
Since Sottirday last the demand for Carryon has been
limited, and within the last two Jays prices have gives way
a little, in middle qeslities,gesterally. Yesterday 920 Soros
and 300 Bragals Were offered at. public aucti 000 and ail
sold, via. ISO Toronel Surat*, good I4d. • 14;,1 ; Ma Swats
ordinary to good fair 6d. a I Ild. helsg sardine of Id. a 1 jd.
privatePerlb; 300
treatyßega
consist
ordinarytofes Theilnwed7l4l7d.a lea
11Old. •""Cfewtiri by
dt
425 Orleans Intl. a 204 d.; 40 Tenure, 15 V.'s j
Ilea Island 2s. 10.1. • 3s. Id. and 3,,. U.; 220 Percents *
600 Bahia 20411. a 22d.; 506 Marsohaen 214. a 1124. ; JR;
Miss Geese 12114.• 70 Mina Nova 204. d.• Dem ei
2044. a 21d.• 122 'Domingo 1114 d.; 10 Ra;hadoes ',044.-
1111d0 8.:111:lomdl,13t 11'..ets9gafrnl 7Csitdil.bli:gentol6l6 .16pelralb.1;41t Saekraielt.
Of 4,20 bags sold. 1 a 'MI
The Sugar market has been extremely bat daring, ,
week, of 950 casks offered at public sale, abowe un',
boyena, at a redoctios of 64. • li. In For. d11°,1",_""
India we have nothing doing. Molasses en4l/ ..4 a" ""t
In the early part of the week it flak 6.f .te neglected.
dinary Brasil Coffee was tussle at 137a.yrjr hart of One or-
!salon; and the sewn its, received' r ur held Po 6Perh-
well as the Foreign bellow a from Lonflou,
ar
have had within the kit few &i' ware favourahle, we
This article; as advance of Is. a * ..it animated dentinal Om
but airing to the very few .. hats beets paid nn Dutch,
purchases have been incline*. se °Ravin is the market, the
aless offered at Pllblie.2o rabh at this *avower. or the
been disposed of at 7110 e, 400 bags of good Brasil have
Rite la very dull, aa#• and 200 bap Trinida.) at 1054.
ladia sold •i 242d2 ,al3, about 300 bags good raid
doing. Rams 2. .ss. In Ginger mid pioneato notittog
have sold at 2a,V tinne very dull, a few connotes Leewards
For Targd' s per gallon.
good gulf' are there is little fatuity, lOW 1,000 beta. of
adH.i.dr.... robe,
sinoffweiorrdhoutateopeurbillii,74a:etvra.sts.
sw.vrithotmlraiwutnhatt6l.Bms.
;dinary, to 9.1. • 91.1. for good.. The Patrol.
East
kande on the 30th alt. was extremely e,s, and only a
• cheats of la,lign soot at 1114.111 as. Ina per Its.
(hemline horn nukes mare ingots, far TAal" aiaCe sirs'
.ash, hew IsuitheirefraLt•hberiPadllimilliiewtkie iben
she elliksar orn
though oar limpid* bare not bees large, pricer Rave teketled
in stone instances 2.1. to 311. per bushel. Two public solos of
0, of I sour Fluor, too l'aesdayt with of heasiky, et • • cdoetion Ot

lltsincris SUGARS hiltT been in rood retitled, at Is. per
cwt. advisee, for Brood Lumps, lens, is given for crush-
ing, sod lats for idling. There are but few goods on
shew, being mostly held back, in aUtietration of higher
prices. Sugars of the palest delieriptitio' being very fine, are
higher them oar qaotatioits. Molasses have been in good
demised at asi:per erg: •
IRtstt Plioessosui —lndia Sad Mew Ileef have been ilk
steady derhand, Pork is dull uf 'sate. The follow/log are
the prices of noir Provisions : Cork filth* Poet; It. 7..
Dnlrhn ditto, at Is. Bd, Dublin Mess Reef, St, per tierce.
OIL —Greenland Oil it heridell of Sale. Linseed Oil is
Mao shill and lower, is cuusequeace of a reductnia is the
prices of its seed.
rosfseripf, retagfetr, Dereasherk 1118, Four VCleek.
The vales of B. P. SUGARS were rather exienaive. to-dant
and the prices obtained were a shade higher than the previous
market thiy.
The forties market has becoete rather list, owing to 'c-
orral arrivals. •
1311•1101 t- A' prikel of sea Conic put up to public sale
to-day brought 4.. 94, a 54.34 per gallon.
Tsa.—Tlit•eungtour of coninomi coglities have costinned
to sell oh nearly the same turm• ma noted iai our last Post-
script ; the late sorts have 4)14 about 14. per lb higher.
The Souelming has commenced at higher prices than those
of the last sale.
7

The follow:111g ari, copies of a letter dated Tieing (limo-
bees, October IS, 13111, dud,of Ottelorns Order to Celiac.
ton and Comptrollers, relatiortu the payment of 3s. (M-
-aud Is per ton, duties cui vekels takiug passengers issd a
cargo.
" The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury
having had under their ronsideratidis ioar `Secretary's letter
of 141 h Aogral, stateug the opinion of use Sollitors, that
vessels Inkistg old pie/tenger. together with eartoes, are
to the tonnage duties; I am rorilminded to arqnsiot
you, that thy Lords concur in tbr•npio'un. of your Solicitors.
and they are pleased to direct, that a vessel liking passersr
tees and 'a corgi), shall be cousidered liable to both this
duties of 3s. dd. sad Is. per (MI.

" GEO. HARRISON.

(Slord)
" Commirdourri of Custemr."

rnstom-honse, London. Nov 28. 1816.
a The aforegonig copy of a triter front Mr Hari ison
floe of the Setrelarier to the Lords Csisamehisioners of his
Majesty's Treasury), en the subject of French packets or
passage vessel entering and departing any of the porta of
Great Britain, is hert-by ,transalittrit ais.l
Comptrollers for information and government, with refer.
core to their Lordships' former soder of the Ilih June
and the: Board's fractal order of the 26th February last, ant
this I. übject.

AIAtIONAL MEDALS.

[From " The Dublin limning Post.l

Mr. Muote, the Projector of. the grand Series
or Medals, set igret&utt publishing in L 911,11.11, to
record the victories of the late Win, is arrived in this
City, fur the purpose of establishing au agent for
the sale.of these beautiful works of Art. Wr have
heard mulch of ties sindertalFing through the meats*
of the London Papers, and we are now able to
judge of their merits. by 'cwular inspection. Wei
do Clot profess any particular knowledge of the
Medallic Art, hut we have no hesitation iii•sieting,
as fur "" we Ur!. clpuble of judging, that the t usts
of der ditre4iit characters are cut Pith full relief,
excellent character of fleabt L7.d • beautiful out-
line and finishing.. • reverses also appear chaste,
classical, and lie.ected with singular feheity.• We
are most strupk with the Busts of his MAJIIITY and
that of his 11.0“11 Highness the Duke of YORIC,
which opteear to be engraved by a British Arnett
Wass—that of DIMPOLEON, too, is
charecerristic. and singularly desigoed.--
Nothe ag can be more twat and delicately executed
that,. the reverse, which represent! his Majesty'*
ante p, the Bellerophox. There tire no. less than
ve Heads of the )eke cf Wat.t.teuTom, ell ad-
mirable. but, ilatiiict in their charecterimics—the
reversed ere occupied with differeut subjects, takea
freadt his Grace's victoria its the Peususula and
Waterloo. .
On viewing time, specimetia of British talent, and
compering them with the late productions of the
Minty we cannot ruppreis our astonishment that
Mr..WeLLest.ex Pur.s, whose teal to discharge
his duty none will pretend to question, however
Many may dice from him as .to thesssode he may
have sometime? adopted, should, prefer .yn
ltaliun
Artist to those of his own country. We allude
perticuts'Tly to the hoe Crown piece, not Trt in tire
colonist' here, but which many of our readers must
have seri.. and .11 the faiel representation, as tate
Journal t-slled.it.,of St. George and the
Dragon. On
.the.beauty •ud propriety, as well ri
upon the execution of this riritnitic deeper,
.tint for
getting. the Modesty of Signor Pirreucce, the
Medalist, who introduced his own name iota the
cons in r handsome scroll. the public have already
decided. it is regarded as a failuse--we aid nut
lay, au a disgrace to the metallic torrent& of the
empire. Non we Mill venture to ear.. that
any of the Artists sit aged in the etectitibil of the
siattonal Mrd.,l4, been employed by the Mini. M.
Puns *mild have escaped those ceniiisieir which the
rico have lavished on theperi'oriumece, lust elskin
no doubt, ails be repeated in the House or Cum=
moos.
It will not he denied that the British Are a Ad.
hose! people-;yet It i. a complatot eery gtsi.eratt."
made, that the G. vtrinnent tie nut eusginsle ally
itopruverueute which taught serve to friary this

proud feeling. Waterloo Bridge, for
the most magnificent and expensive stroc-
' kind in the world, is the work of indi-
not of the nation. Similar work. in
always the creation of the Government.
. is as it should be. Yet we ell know
'Me Arts can sever flourish if the Go-
: the country manifest an iudifference to
. progress. We look up to the series of Na-
tioind Medals a■ most eminently meriting the re-
gard of the Legislature. They have *firmed, it
is true, with a private individonl, but they should
he milt:pied by the leisiosi. There will be found,
we hope, en independent Member of the House of
Commons, who, if the Executive decline iiiier-
feting, will introduce this subject legitimately
before Parliament. We shoed be ashamed to
sutter ourselves' to doubt the success of any mo-
tion, which wool have for its object, the advance.
tnent of the Arts, and the reward of the Artists.
At present the • Artist altogether relies on the pa-
tronage of the public, wooer interest said repute-
tins are so intimately concerned in the achieve-
ments which these Medals commemorate. We
tru-1, and .iiirleed feel tolerably certain, that Mr.
Mimi* will Bud, that although Ireland may be
dehcieut
.in means, she will not be so in inclina-
tion, in promoting so laudable an underaking.
We Owll lake another opportunity of making souse
further remarks on this subject.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPERS.
PARIS, DZCZNIIRR 3.
By a new ai.spesition of the King's Chamber the
Court will pot on mourning on Sunday neat for
tweurysmie days, 'on the occasion of the Queen of
Eitgl.stid's death. It will be worn for the eleven
first days iu black, and for the resnaiaing ten in
white.

At Oeven o'clock yesterday the Hanoverian Envoy
obteimd an audience of the King.
Mi. de Cambsceres has returned to Paris. He
alighted in rue Basse-du-Rempart.
The Swinish Government has drfiniti'velY nomi.
Mated the Generals. the superior Officers or the ex-
peditionary army. the Commander of the squadron,
which is to act as an escort. u well as the Captains
of sbips of the line and frigates, which will compose
it. An the Officers .who are in Madrid and other
parts of Spain have been ordered to repair imme-
diately to Cadiz.

The Commission appointed by the King of Swe.
den to take cognisance of the affair of the nine Nu,.
wegiast peasants who were arrested in consequence
of a commotion, ha► set eight of them at liberty
huts appeared that these brave fellows, led away
by too ardent a seal, had entertained no evil inten-
tion. They have been treated with great lenity.

The Duke or Wellington dined yesterday with
the Neapolitan Ambassador.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, Dgcnisca 9, Isls.

Paris Papers of Saturday last have arrived at our
office. It appears that the original intention enter-
Wired at the Court of France, of not assuming
mourning in honour of our late QuitEN's memory
until after the opening of the Legislative Chambers,
has been abandoned, and an order was issued on
Friday that the Court should put itself into mourn-
ing for twenty-one days, commencing from Sun-
day last.
The evacuation of France, our readers are aware,
has been inaJe the subject of 'reef .1! 517rmatiC essays,
principally of a tisht and trifling nature. These
are almost exclusively dis:*:!Tuislied by their at-
tempts to ridicule the English, and to represent
our dress, actions, and manners, as objects for t'OD.
tempt or merriment, while with a good taste, quite
national, they abound in panegyrics upoo F ranee'.
and represent the retiring of the Allied troops' as "
unwilling tribute to French. valour. Such a
display of national superiority at the present en,
'-
dent is, to speak tenderly of it, extremely inati.
propriate. A maniac, freed on return of rea-
son from the pressure of his fetters, wou: evince
a more decent sense of his situation by bowing i,;4
head in humility and sorrow, than in exulting in
the restored confidence of his friends as a source of
triumph to himself, and a confession on their parts
of his own superior excellence. Joy on the libera-
tion of oar's country from the presence of a foreigii
force is a natural and a commendable feeling,
/nit the expression of it should he regulated by cir-
etrinstancts, and should not display itself in the
exultation of victory, when the event that occasions
it is associated with defeat, and calls alone
fur gratitude and humility. We are glad to find
that sentiments not very dissimilar have been
pressed by a French writer, in reviewing one of
those dramatic efforts we have noticed. The critic
remarks—r• This little piece r Angiale de relour),
like five or six others that preceded it in the minor •
thr„t,,,, 'bar tar its object to slug the departure of
the Allies, and the evacuation of our territory. I
rejoice as sincerely as our poets can, to see the term
of our painful sufferings abiidged ; but the senti-
ment insrired in every French bosom by this good
fortune dues nut seem to be of a Hsi ure to pa.-
voke that tumultuous and estravvgatit joy which 1
esisales itself to songs of merriment. We have I

paid, and •till pay dearly, the price of our ran-
som ; and it appears to me that a silent reserve is,
in our peculiar circumstances, the attitude most
befitting oar dignity and our character. Such at
least was that of the Chamber of Deputies in
that immortal sitting when the condition@ of
our independence were unanimously accepted."—
In this passage there is much good sense and
good feeling. Were we to judge of the sentiments
entertained on this point by the great body of the
people, from the success of the dramatic exertions,
we should conclude that the critic in the French
Paper was their faithful representative, for not even
the stale jokes of making Englishmen speak bad
French, and of exhibiting absurd caricatures of
our notion, with apostrophes to French valour and
French glory, could save the several pegites pieces
from alter damtt•tioa. Every varying scene of the
drains, by representing the" sacred soil polluted by
• foreign footstep," sheaved too forcibly how un-
@amoebic it use just then to prate about glory.—
The notional pride of the audience was alarmed,
and the ♦auity of the poor author@ was sacrificed iu
the contest.

An Betide from bun says, that all the Officers
have been definitively appointed by the Spanish Go-
vernment in the expedition preparing agaiiist South
America, and that they have received orders to re•
pair immediately to Cadiz : whence it may be in-
ferred that some part of the long-threatened force
will soon sail for its destination.—The French Funds
have not as yet recovered from the sudden depres-
sion they experienced on Wednesday, notwithataud.
iug the very great exertions of the principal capital-
ists of Paris. The 5 per Cents. closed on Friday
at 6$ f. 70 c. ; and Baiik Stock, which opened at
1,350 f. closed at 1,545 f.

A Common Council will be held at the Guild-
hall of the City of London to-morrow, pursuant
to • requisition, in which those who sign it thus
express their object in calling the Council. It is,
Say they—
" To (insider the propriety of petitioning Parliament to
revise the Criminal Code, it which nuiserims petty armee,
are visited with the same paoishineat as the most atrocious
murders;—nod as minor offenders are seldom executed me.
eordiag to law, crimes have bees thereby increased rather
than diminished;—and praying that a wore rigorous system
of prison discipline may be adopted, whereby capital punish.
meat may be mitigated, and crimivals reformed.'
To this point the attention of the country has
been for a considerable time anxiously directed,
and so strong is the expression of public feeling,
and so decidedly condemnatory of the existing sys-
tem of penal judicature, that we think it would be
altogether impossible for the Legislature to decline
the consideration of the most prominent parts of it
during the ensuing Session. That branch, how-
ever, of our Penal Code which demands the ear-
liest attention of Parliament, relates to the laws
respecting the forgery of the notes of the Bank of
England. The utmost inconvenience has long been
felt, not only in London, but throughout the kingdom
in general, from the increased ingenuity and num-
bers of those concerned in the fabrication and utter-
ing of forgeries, and experience has convinced those
most fully persuaded of the efficacy of the halter,
that capital punishments, iuflicted with the most un-
relenting rigour, are inadequate for the prevention or
correction of the evil. It is revolting to the cha-
racter of the country to have scores of our fellow.
creatures, Session after Session, at the Old Briley,
sentenced to expiate the offence of forgery by fur-
faring an ignominious and shocking death.
This subject has, however, assumed a different
complexion, in consequenie of • verdict of ac-
quittal pronounced on Saturday last at the Old
Bailey, in a case of forgery, wherein the evidence
war fully as strong as that on which convictions
have usually ensued. The passing of the note was
proved, the prisoner was identified as being the
utterer, the Bank Inspector pronounced the note
to be • forgery, but the Jury would not give credit
to the simple assertion of the Bank Inspector, un-
fortified as it was by the 'hew of any teasons that
could apparently enable him to pronounce with
ea rtainty upon a point which to ordinary eyes seems
one of considerable difficulty. The Bank Inspec-
t.
•r did not choose to tell his secret, the Judge con-
ceived it unnecessary, and thought if the secret
oot revealed it might prove an injury to the sys-
The Jurymen fortunately had their opinion
L'
°; iey thought the Inspector might be de-
eelsN.l' ;hey felt that the system alluded to
isidge was a bad one, and would not
by the by their verdict, so they acquitted
sanction it This reserve of the Jurymen cannot
the Prisoner. amended, when it is remembered
but be highly co.. tely occurred in which a note
that an instance la .v at the Bank of England,
was declared a forges. anion, was acknowledged
which, on further exatiait, • ostanee has occurred,
to be genuine. Atiotbr b be of the flank of
whereinnote,
d,abut notp übrrarriitlignga st?‘gna tore, was treated
but eventually dim, 't
to have
as a forgery,
the cul-
been issued fromthe Batik, throne
suchpa lei
bleexianmatpte ite to
inattention of one of the clerks, With
before them, who can belts
eeo;:irine of
mel ne the caution ofs the London
xtri n
some pro that means /lid ae tauis gor
r ...iary •
e
for dietinguivbing between tlifiellforreera7ledaainnandowtteolisieiccriaoringntioedite
e ingenuityB: if
oul' °tilt ed fabricators9tin sot
overcome, it ought to be made 'wawa to the people,

that they might thence screen themselves from im-
position and loss. This is the peculiar advantage
enjoyed by the people of Ireland with respect to
the notes of the National Bank of that emus-
try. There a forgery can blatantly be detect-
ed by any person, however illiterate. who has
been accustomed to see the genuine notes, and
consequently the utmost confidence is felt in the
circulation of the Bank of Ireland paper ; while
here none but the favoured few who are in the con-
fidence of the Bank Directors are possessed of the
valuable secret, and so paramount are the interests
of the Bank of England esteemed, that the public
convenience. we had almost said the whole retail
trade of the country, is sacrificed, even with the
permission of the Judges on the Bench, lest the
divulging of a secret so important might by pos-
sibility clime the Company to the chances of loss.
From the proceeding in a case yesterday at the Old
Bailey, it is to he expected that the difficulty thus
started by the Loudon Jury will influence all
others who shall have to decide upon similar cases,
and consequently the Bank must either divulge
the secret, or be satisfied never to succeed in
convicting a prisoner. It is a distressing reflec-
tion that the country should so long have patiently
submitted to such a system. It now, however.
draws near its close, for even should Parliament in
the ensuing Session decline putting any Legisla-
tive enactment upon the best means of preventing
forgeries, the expiration of the Bank Restriction
At•' will afford the public an alternative, of which
no doubt t, ry will gladly avail themselves, and
toe .mall Bai.k of Eiglend notes will be thereby
trfl.-ctualls raciuded from the circulating medium
of the cuuntiy.

Yesterday the Doke of YORK tranusettd military
business with the PROMS REGENT, at Carlton.
House.
We are assured that the Earl of HARROW/17f is
to he our A mbarwadoe at the Court of France, in
the room of Sir CIKARLES STUART. G.C.B.—
This will be the first move in the projected change
of Cabinet Ministers, the Noble Earl being now
President of the Council.—(Evening Paper.)
Monday morning the curiosities, &c. brought
from Baffires Bay, by Captain Ross, were latujed
at Whitehall-stairs. from the boats of the Isabella
and Ale:wider discovery ships. There are four
dogs and two bin:lire, the former larger than the
latter; three are almost black, one black and white,
and two brownish, and appear nearly of tb • 1,1111)Y
species as those of Kamschatka, with heads and
tails resembling a fox; their altios exceedingly
thick, with long hair ; they are very docile, and
represented as of great strength. Among the cu-
riosities was an amazingly large skin of a white
bear, about seven feet in length ; a sledge of bone,
about five feet long and two fret high, with the
whip, &c. used by the newly-discovered
bints ; specimens of mineralogy and botany, and
some very reustukable starfish. The whole of the
productions were conveyed to the British Museum,
fur the inspection of the public.
The Corporation of the Trinity-house. impressed.,
with the great benefit that commerce and naviga-
tion will receive on the western coast of England,
particularly to such that navigate to, from, or in
passing the British Channel, have formed the reso-
lution of building a light•house on the Isle of
Lundy. on the most improved principle, with
Argand lamps and reflectors; the toll not to exceed
one farthing per toil, provided such measure meets
the concurrence of those who are interested in the
risk of shipping, lives, and property. To so liberal
• proposal, it is hoped humanity will forbid there
should be a dissenting voice.—(The Cambrian./
The Margaret, from t ark to Bristol, was
on shore in Sauelyhaven Buy. Nlilfurd, on the 3(1
instant—cargo much damaged.
The Vigilant, Possnemi, from Ramsliag, was
wrecked on the 2d inst. oft Winiehaven.
The following convicts. under sentence of death
in Nrwgate, who were convicted in last September
Sessions, were on Moodily ordered for r x.cutimi on
Tuesday next, viz.—John Dtiscull. [Valliant Kel-
ler, and George Cushman, for notes ;
and John Mantas Littleton Barton 0 ilrons, for
burglary. The others acre reapitrd during his
Royal Highness's pleasure.
On Thursday last (tin 3.t inst.) the Assize Court
of St. Omer, coodeinned to live years forced labour
in chains, to branding, and public exposure, Alex.
Sinclair (otheroise Alulgrave), for uttering forged
Bank of England notes in the neighbourhood of
St. Otner, Dunkirk, and Cahn*. The prisoner re.
presented himself to be a British naval officer, con•
nected with the Dock-yard of Chatham, and was
accompanied by a Scotch woman, whom he moms
seated to be his wife. He arrived at Calais, it was
said on the trial, with upwards of eighty one pound
Bank of England 'totes, among which there was sot- •
a single good one. The number he distributed was
said to be about forty, and obese were in the posses-
sion of five or six individuals, so that no one was
defrauded to ally great summit. The person who
suffered most west's' English officer, who exchanged
fifteen of the forged 1101e3 for French money st
Dunkirk. The crime of the primmer, his uttering
the forged notes, with a guilty knowledge of their
being forged, for the purpose of defrauding those
who received them. was proved by a great number
of witnesses. It is rather singular, considering the
facility with which Bank of B1,1414"(1 "es are re'
ceived at Calais, Boulogne, Dunkirk, and other
places on the coast frequented by the English. that
this should be the find cooviction for pawn'
forgeries, and that so proutisit.g it field should have
been so long left unoccupied by the excess of ad-
venturers who crowd the dock of the Old Bailey.
'Die Court at St. Omer, aware of the linportauce
of checking a crime which might be so destructive
to the counitercial relations of the two couutries,
passed the must rigorous twortence on Sinclair that
'he French law allows fir fraud : their cluninal
le viewing the. offence of the prisoner in iso ote•er
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