The National Register.
London, England, 1822-03-17 00:00:00

afterwards discovered; but the prisoner himself, in the
month of November, made hi:: appearance at the office
of NI env's. Chapman, Stevens, and Wood, and confessed
in w. Stevens the fraud which he hail committed, de-
g that he was tired of life, and insisted on surren-
dering himself tops:ice. Tile prisoner had indorsed the
cheque with a receipt for its amount in the name of
Williain Stevens, there rein•! no person of that christian
name in the house of the payees. This was a►gued as
all objection, which the learned Judge reserved fur the
consideration of the twelve Judges. . . .

The prisoner, who appeared overwhelmed with hia
situation, made no defence.
The case went to the Jury tinder the learned Judge's
direetimis, who found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly
recommended him to mercy, on account of his previous
good character.
_ _ BANK OP ENGLAND PROSECUTION.

MARCH. I4.—W. Turner, a man aged 22, (described
in the calendar as a seaman), of resucctable appearance,
was indicted Ibr uttering, on the 2d of February last, a
forged Bank of England note, for the payment of 51. to
one William Millar. at Stansted Mount-Fachet, know-
ing, it to be forged.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Gurney, Mr.
Sergeant Teddy, and Mr. Holland. The prisoner was
without counsel.

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It appeared in evidence that, on the day mentioned in
the indictment, the prisoner was conveyed front London
LO Stausted Mount Fuchei, by the Norwich mail.—lle
inquired at the ionise of Mr. Millar, the postmaster of
the place, who is also a publican, for a letter addressed
in into as the rider of Messrs. Jones and Son, of Lon-
don. Such a letter was found and delivered to him.—
The prisoner then ordered a supper and other refresh-
ments, which amounted to 9i. 6.1. and tendered a 51.
note stn paynymt. The publican not having change, a
person of the name of Pavit, who was present, said he
could give change, and accordingly put down fire sove-
reigns, and upon receiving the note, he discovered by
the feel that it was a forgery, and snatched up his sore-
reigns again. The prisoner was detained and searched,
and no money was found upon him except two penny-
worth of half pence. Next day he W. 1,1 taken before a
magistrate, and the account he gave of the note was this
—he had received from Messrs. Roblin, the auctioneers,
of Covent Garden, a cheque for 3'21. lOs, upon Messrs.
Ransom and Co. of Pall Mall, the bankers, in the course
of some business he had done with the former, and re-
ceived for the elteve a Joh note, and the res► in gold
and silver; that he had changed the 031. note with a
person naunt! Hussey, residing at 33 or 39, Tornmill-
street, Smithfield, who gave hint the 51. note in ques-
tion, and a draft for 41. odd, on a Mr. Smith, and that
he was emoloved as rider carrying patterns for tlr.
Palmer, of B Hatton Garden, and not for Jones
and Son, as directed on the letter he had applied for to
the postmaster. The case for the prosecution consisted
in a contradiction of this statement of the prisoner,
shen•msx that he had a guilty knowledge of the forgery.
Mr. 1111 l Robins, connected with the house in
Covent Garden, was examined, lie admitted that the
house had had a transaction with the prisoner by the
name of Harrison, (knowing l ' by no other name),
in the sale of a reversionary legacy on the death of a
woman aged 45. The purchaser of the reversion paid a
deposit of 161.16 x. and after deducting Messrs. Rollins'
lees, &a. a balance of 1 11. Os. 64. came to the primmer,
fur which they gave him a cheque on their bankers,
Messrs. Hansom and Co.

A clerk from that house proved that the cheque was
paid in gold, and a sixpence.
Two persons Of the name of J. and Joseph Palmer,
both livin,g in Biek-hill, H itton Garden, denied having
any knowledge of the prisoner, except by the 114111 e of
Harrison, and that he was never employed by either of
them as a rider.

The occupiers or the houses Nos. 38 and 39 respec-
tively, in Turninill-street, Smithfield, proved that no
person of the name of Hussey, to their knowledge, ever
lived in either of those houses.

The prisoner, who descrilred himself as a nitive of
one of LIM 13ritish colosoies, repealed the same story he
load toll the magistrates, strenuodsly urged his ignorance
that the note was a forgery, and expressed his incapacity
to distinguish between .1 genuine and a forged note.
The prisoner had applied oil Monday to postpone his
trial until this illy, in order to procure the attendance of
witnesses to establish his innocence, but nobody attend.
ed in Ins

The case went to the Jury, under the directions of the
learned Judge, who left it to them to say,
whether, under
the circumstances of the CaV, the note had been tittered
by the prisoner with a knowledge that it was a forgery.
The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and found the
prisoner gmhy—dcath.
Richardson was indicted for wilfully and
maliciously administering to Susanna, the wile of Thos.
and Mary flacon, a certain deadly p tisnn, called
copperas, with intent to kill and murder them, at Deb-
den, on the Lith of January last.
Before the examination of the first witness for the
prosecution Was closed, the counsel for the prisoner
urged the propriety of establishing, ill the first iits•ance,
that part of the indictment which charged the prisoner
with administering a deadly poison. Now he appre-
hended that copperas was not a deadly poison. -
Mr. Clm, a chymist of Chelmsford, gave it as his
opinion, that copperas was not, properly speaking, a
deadly poison ; and that the stomach would reject a dose
sufficient to produce death, before it could have that
effect. Two notices, if dissolved in liquid, and retained
in the stomach, might produce very serious conse-
voices, but he was out sure it would occasion death.
Dr. John 117addeley, a phys.cian at Chelmsford, gave
it as his opinloo, that two drams of copperas would
produce death.
Out his cross-examination, he admitted, he was con.
fo.miliotr verditris with copperas. Ile was ignorant that
copper did not enter into the compostlims of copperas.—
The learned physician's evidence W 43 4 little confused
and uusatisac tory.

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