The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-31 00:00:00

FORGED
.2VO .TES.

By the late trials at the Assizes for. Lancaster, it
appears that a traffic in forged one, two, and five
pound notes has existed for some time•to an alarm-
. i ng, extent. The -Governor and Company of the
Bank of England have long been aware of these
forgeries, and they have 'taken meart,s of • detecting
and bringing tOimnishment many of the delinquents,
It appeared that the traffic in forged notes was car-
ried on in Lancaster, and the adjoMing counties, on
a larger scale than was ever :known before; and a
witness stated that ,he had been assured by one of iht,
'Prisoners, that at Birmingham he could:buy Tor4ed
small notes, by wholesale, enough to load a jael
-ass and it appeared these were afterwards retailed
,by ignorant deluded wretches, tew of whom could
write or read; at from 5-to 10 shillings in t he, pouricL
Birmingham was clearly. traced. to be' the fountain
head wheice these numqoui.forgeries flowed, ana
Wales and Scotland the Parts :where they
.werc prin
cipally pasSed. Comparatively hat a small portion
found.their way to London, here they were liab;e
to be deteded rilmost imtnediately. It Was foand,
'in many instances, that the forgers had blundered on
the signatures of Clerks, of the Bank of England
who had long been dead; and some of the notes bore
the Chtistian names of those who signed the,rn,.,-.-
From these inconsistencies, arid
.the general bad CO"
boar of the paper of which they were tabl'icated, they
were not likely to pass undiscovel-ed in London, and
were therefore, chiefly circulated in parts remote
from the metropolii. The Agents of the Governor
- of' the .Bank, howaer,,, have been so exi rernely
lant, that thirteen Prisoners were brought to trial.;
and, it is, to be hoped, that a death-blow has-been
given to this inquitOus business; the principal tomes
of those concerned in this natarious practice, as well
as the comets of counterfeit gold, having been dis-
covered and wade known.
. 'The method adcipted for taking in custody all the
Prisoners tried at thes'e Assiza, was well precon-
certed,. Aware that great alarM would be excited by
apprehetiding their separately; it was contrived that
they should all be taken in one day, and the 2.5 th of
July was fixed, on account of its being near the time
•
Of the commencement of tire ASsizes.
Nadini.the Constable of Manchester, gave in the
Court- the following account relative to the particu-
lars of taking a notorious vender of forged no:es of
the name of Botto,n:,---
About one o'clock in. the morning of the 25th of
July tact, with proper.asSistants, he went to the gri-
sutler's house. He knocked, but the door not .
operitd, he forced% it,, 'and got in. The place ss'as
all darkness, but hearing a noise, and somebody going
up stairs, he at length found out the staircase, . pur-
sued, and took a man, prisoner ; he follcmed and se-
cured another, who - proved to be Bolton, who, ns
well as the other, had nothing on but his shirt. A
lighted candle-having been by this time procured, on
tnrther, search, the Prisotier'g daughter I;vas tound.
Nadia then went , into the, back, room, where he
found limb in the closet Bokon's wife,. w.ho was quite.
undressed. Having thus seized on all the persons la.
- the (house, he began his search :for: the forged notes.,
Aliong the coals Le found 92, bi .ea h;in a ltrge,
mug, with-water in 'it, many more of the same de-.
sec iption, a quantity torn to pieces, and two 51. notes.
In, t pickling jar, .with liquor in it, Ire' found 41 21-
notes, ondihree of 51. with a quantity torn to pieces;
.and, in n,:iother room, CO more.
The caiii,:.. rioter
h:
terms for rioter are sqrts and 'scree/It ;
of counter
it gold, yellows. It appeared tne pa-
per composing\he notes was manufaCtured in Ire-

land and theforg,eries executed at Man Chester and
Various accounts; sitoilarto the above, were given
by titer officers. employ& in taking into cu,tody
these unh3ppy, deluded neoTlek who imagined they
were free from :danger,- it' , the forged- note .o were
not 46tually found in their pos.,ersiOn and that. they
could not be conviEted, unless by the evidence of a
third person seeing, theni take the rtioney for the'dis-
posal.of them.

ZOOLOGY.—In the days. of Henry the.
British tnetropolis swarmed. nth Kites, which were
attraaed to, it by the different offals throw!, .Att in
the streets, and were so fearless
.As to take this their
prey in the midst of the greatest crowds, 'bo.llg tor-
bidden by public ordinance to kill thCm ; so' that a
Kite was as much revered in the streets of Lo,dotit
in those times, as the Vulture is at preseiniti those of
Grand Cairo, or the Stork in those of Ainste:rOaln•

SHIP iVEIPS.

GRAVESEND, AUGUST 29. *

Arrived -the.Hawke, Reay, from MAlfa ; Friends, Bahis.
from Smyrna ; Belo,eder, Handman, from Virginia ; and
the fame, Alln, from Lisboa._ _ _

• Sailed--:the
__M'agdalena, tirade, fora Martinique ; Maria
Theresa,-Dickinson, for New York ; Little Arthur, Daw-
son, from Gibraltar; L dv Andover, Dye, for Oporto; and
the Helena, i'vfetcall, fur Yucaton„ ,

"BIRTfiS. " •
•‘
On Monday last, Mrs. Pickford, of Upper Gower,street,
of a Son.
On Tuesday last, at Hemsted-place, Kent, thc. Lady t.if
Thomas Law Hodges, sy, of a Son.

MARRIED.
On Thursday last, at Carlisle, Michael Rewancl,
Banker, in Glasgow, 'to Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter 01 -
the late Alexander- Wilson, of Carlisle. _
Oil Saturday, it Thor--Aros, Robert Herrington, Esq.
of that place, to Miss Fisher, daughter .of the Rev, .Thoni.4 '
Fisher, of Twickenham, in the County of MidateseX, Redd
Of I:iticotju Warwickshire, and-Chaplain to his,Royal
tugtt-
ness the Prince of Walcs.

On Tuesday laSt, at St. Luke's Church; Lieutenant Huth-
name of the Royal Cornisit.Miners, to Miss Maria Pitman/
fate. of Dover;, and niece to Captain Hunt, of Canterbury.

DIED.

On the' 26th inst. at Maidstone, Kent. after a severe
riess„ since his return from- Spain; Major-Clvlwrii Crote.
111.,nnisigham; Equerryto the King.,-antl Colonelof the 95t110
or Rifle Regiment.
On Sunday last, Sir William lames Viftlay, Bart. after a
short illnesso ,aged 39.

,%11JC:AS

RDAY.

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