The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CHARGE OF FORGING EAST INDIA WARRANTS.
MANSION HousE.—A charge of a most serious nature was
brought againska very respectable East India broker, the evi-
dence against whom was to the following effect :

Mr. Stirling, merchant of Sheffield, in April 1819, having
some unapplied money by him, commissioned the prisoner, with
whom he'was intimately acquainted, to purchase a quantity of
cotton and rice for him. To enable the prisoner to do so, Mr.
Stirling transmitted to him a draft on his banker for 10001. and
other sums at different periods, making up a total amount of
12501. for which he received the prisoner's receipts, together
with the invoices of the cotton. In the month of October or
November last, Mr. Stirling came to town from Sheffield, and
applied at the prisoner's counting-house for the warrants of de-
livery of the goods which had been purchased for him. He then
received, either from the prisoner, or one of the clerks, but he
believed it was from the prisoner, fourteen warrants, purporting
to be East India warrants, and which he believed to be genuine.
He kept those warrants in his possession until the week be-
fore last, at which time he transmitted one of them for the deli-
very of cotton to Captain Thomas Marquis, in London, the
same warrant being cut in two, and each part conveyed in a
separate letter : until that time he was convinced that not one
of the warrants had left his possession. Soon afterwards, he
received a letter from Capt. Marquis, informing him that the
warrants were forgeries, and he came to London, bringing with
him the 13 remaining warrants, which lie delivered to Captain
Marquis, who called upon the prisoner, and soon after returned
to Mr. Stirling with the sum of 400/. in Bank-notes, and a
promissory note of the prisoner's, payable on demand, for 000/.
or 900/.

It appeared that Captain Marquis, on the receipt of one of
the half-warrants for the delivery of the cotton from Mr. Stir-
ling, went, accompanied by a gentleman named Bigbie, to the
counting-house of one of the East India Company's private,
trade warehouses, .arid asked for ,an order to inspect the cotton
set forth in the Wartant.• The information he received. on the
subject, he communicated to Mr. Stirling, who came to town and
gave him 13 warrants similar to the first. Capt. Marquis took
two or three of them to . the gentlemen in the employment of
the East India Company, and was informed that the douments
were not genuine. He then went to the counting-house of
the prisoner, to whom he said he had been requested by Mr.
Stirling to state, that there were doubts as to the warrants being
what they were represented to be, and that they had been exa-
mined at the warehouse. The prisoner seemed surprised at
this communication, said he was not aware of any incorrectness
in the documents, and at once offered to take them back and re-
turn Mr. Stirling his money. The prisoner accordingly drew a
checque upon his banker for 400/., which his clerk got Bank-
notes for, and gave that sum to Captain Marquis, together with
his promissory-note on demand for 800/. or 000/.; upon re-
ceiving which the Captain delivered to the prisoner the fourteen
warrants.

Three Gentlenien who hold situations in the East India
Company's Warehouses had examined the three warrants
brought to them by Captain Marquis, and found them to be
forgeries. Two of the forgeries were fac-similes of two war-
rants ; the goods relating to which had been some time ago
given up to the purchaserS. In the third forgery there was a
figure which did not agree with the corresponding figure in the
warrant it represented. The forgeries were evidently the
work of a person who had had the authentic document in his
possession.
The Directors of the East India Company having heard of
these circumstances, immediately ordered that an investigation
should take place. Mr. Cope, the M arshal, went, under their
sanction, to the house of the prisoner, with a warrant to search for
the forgeries, but he searched in vain. The prisoner had not
attempted to avoid responsibility, except his refusal to account
for the absence of the false warrants be considered as such.—
He came forward without hesitation, and offered himself up to
justice, convinced of being able to remove all imputation from
his character, should he be called upon to answer for what cer-
tainly had the appearance of an incorrect and unauthorised
dealing.
Mr. ADOLPHUS, on the part of the prisoner, said, that bail
to any amount would be given for the prisoner's appearance.
The Learned Counsel observed, that he did not think it neces-
sary to mention in this stage of the accusation the ground of
defence which it was the prisoner's intention to make.
The LORD MAYoR, who was attended by Mr. NOBLER,
the Chief Clerk, and the City Solicitor, after having consulted
with those Gentlemen, said, that upon such a charge he should
not consider himself justified in taking bail.
Mr. LAWFORD, Solicitor to the East India Comilany, said,
what indeed was palpable throughout the examination, that the
Directors were far from entertaining a vindictive feeling towards
the prisoner, who, on the contrary, they regretted to see in
such a situation. Their object was to investigate the truth, and
they left it to the Lord Mayor to accomplish that object, con-
vinced that nothing more than was necessary would be done.
Mr. Anor,r,rftrs then requested that the prisoner might be
permitted to remain in the Compter until within a few days of
his trial, as it appeared to be the Lord Mayor's determination
to send the case to a Jury.
Mr. LAwFonn, on the part of the East India Company, at
once acquiesced in this proposal, and the LORD MAYOR or-
dered that the prisoner should be sent back to the above-men-
tioned prison.
SEDUCTION.

Bow-STREET.—Yesterday a young woman, who was rather
shabby in point of attire, was brought before the Magistrates
under circumstances of affliction and distress. It appeared that
a Gentleman in passsing along Waterloo-bridge, about twelve
o'clock on Monday night, caught her by the clothes, when in
the very act of jumping over the bridge. On her being called
upon to give an account of herself, she burst into a flood of
tears, and said she had been seduced from her parents in Essex,
by a Gentleman she had cohabited with, till he beat, ill
treated, and turned her out of doors. Being in want of the ne-
cessaries of life, and knowing that her father would not receive
her, she had attempted to drown herself. A warrant was
ordered against the Gentleman for assaulting her.

We understand that the Royal Bank of Scot-
land have come to the resolution of charging in-
terest on cash account credits, at the rate of four
per cent. only, at their Office here, and at their
branch in Glasgow.—(Caledonian Mercury.)
Alderman WOOD has been for some time in
Scotland. On Monday, accompanied by Professor
HOOKER, he visited some of our public establish-
men ts.— (Glasgow Chronicle.)

SIR HARCOURT LEES.

[From a Dublin Paßer.l

Corporation of Barbers, Chirurgeons, Ore. or
Guild of St. Mary. Magdalene, in full Hall as-
sembled, on the 14th Oct. 1822, came to the fol-
lowing Resolutions :

Resolved—That the freedom of this Guild be
presented to the Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart.
as a testimony of our gratitude for his steady and
undaunted exertions in support of our Protestant
Constitution.

Resolved—That the foregoing freedom be ac-
companied with a suitable address, and that a
Committee be appointed to prepare and present
the same in due form.

In conformity with the wish expressed by Sir
Harcourt, that the Committee would attend him
at the house of his respectable printer, Mr. Un-
derwood, St. Andrew's-street, they accordingly
paid their respects, and were individually pre-
sented to the distinguished Baronet on Thursday
last, when the following address was read by the
Clerk of the Guild :

TO THE REV. SIR HARCOITAT LEES, BARONET, &C. &C.
REVEREND SIR,—We the Master, Wardens,
and Brethren of the Corporation of Barbers,
Chirurgeons, &c., or Guild of St. Mary Magda-
lene, in full Hall assembled, on the 14th day of
October, 1821, being one of our General Quarter
Days, feel we should be guilty of a dereliction
of duty were we not to take this public opportu-
nity of expressing the high sense we entertain
(in common with all the Loyal Protestants of this
great Empire) of your powerful and zealous exer-
tions in support of our present glorious constiti-
tion. We feel it a matter of the most vital im-
portance to the country at large, that at a period
like the present, when foul treason stalks abroad
at noon-day, and evil disposed agitators are to
be found openly attacking., every- thing valuable
and sacred to the feelings of a loyal people, not
even sparing the memory of that dear Prince; to
whose exertions-under GOD, we owe our present
happy deliveiance from all the horrors of popery,
and arbitrary power—that a; Gentleman of your
enlightened mind, and truly constitutional prift-
ciples, has stepped forward, and by your exer-
tions, revived the drooping spirits of Protes-
tantism, and given disaffection in general, such
wholesome and effectual correction as must tend
speedily to its utter and complete overthrow,
together with the disgrace of its unprincipled
supporters.
Recollecting with fe-elings of mingled pride
and pleasure, the numerous productions which
have proceeded from your pen, all tending to
promote the grand cause of genuine religion and
loyalty, permit us to congratulate you, that you
are now (no doubt through the medium of those
writings) enlightening thousands of the subjects of
this and the sister country, and explaining to those
their duty to their God, and their justly revered
King. Reflecting then on the great and import-
ant advantages which heaven has made you the
instrument of conveying to a grateful country,
we hesitate not in saying that, to a truly patriotic
mind like yours, the applause and gratitude of
every loyal man must be more than an equiva-
lent for any views of an ecclesiastical or civil
preferment to which your talents, abilities, and
learning, might justly have intitled you. That
you may long continue the strenuous and un-
daunted advocate of the cause in which you have
so laudably embarked, is our sincerest desire--
Permit us, therefore, Rev. Sir, as a small tes-
timony of our gratitude, for such your exertions,
to present you with the Freedom of our Ancient
and Loyal Guild.

- JOHN CLINTON, Master pro tempore.
WM. HENRY JOHNSTON' Wardens.
JOHN ANDERSON,
GEO. GILLESPIE, Acting Clerk, Guild.
To the Master, Wardens, and Brethren of the
Corporation of Barbers and Chirurgeons, or
Guild of St. Mary Magdalene..
Black Rock, Oct. 29, 1822.
GENTLEMEN AND FELLOW CITIZENS,---The
vital error under which the principal part of our
modern Statesmen of the present day appear to
me to labour, consists in the misapprehension of
a question that ever had, and ever will have, the
most powerful sway over`the feelings and actions
of mankind ; and whilst the true friends of the
British constitution are jointly and zealously ex-
erting themselves to. defend The Altar and the
Throne from indignity and defilement, I have at
length, after years of persevering literary devo-
tion, induced the greatest portion of the King's
true Friends to believe this great and fundamen-
tal axiom, which had been too long neglected or
forgot, that the religion professed by the church
is inseparably connected with, and the chief
main-Spring of, the entire policy of the Court of
Home. And this point being conceded, I hope
that even the most sceptical of the liberals and
blockheads will be convinced, whilst there is yet
time for conviction, that if they shall emancipate
the Roman Catholics of the present day,
through an erroneous principle of conciliation,,
they will at a future period massacre the Pro-
testants through a recorded principle of faith. Re-
ligion, Gentlemen, in those days of ignorance and
delusion, is no longer recognised as a constitu-
tional or even a political subject for discussion,
although the greater part of these tremenduous
revolutions which have convulsed the universe
and brutalized society from the earliest period
of the Christian revolution up to the very times
in which we live, owe their origin and results
either to the enthusiasm of fanaticism, or to the
persecutions of a bloody, a relentless, and into-
lerant bigotry. And although the crimsoned
annals of this superstitious and priest-ridden
country hold out an awful and impressive warn-
ing to a besotted and degenerate class who
call themselves Protestants, what they may ex-
pect (judging from the past) in the event of
Popery being triumphant, which she must in-
evitably be if once admitted to legislative and
political power. Yet, in defiance of all history, and
in derision of all sense, a considerable portion of
the formerly ultra constitutional corporation
of the city of Dublin, have bartered their
brightest and most dearly prized gem (because
sanctioned by long usage as the most striking
characteristic of their Protestant principles) ;
and having sacrificed the glcrious and immortal

memory of their once loved deliverer this year,
to conciliate the Papists, most likely in the
next they will forsake their King to gratify the
Priests—for on the loyalty and integrity of such
miserable temporizors will even Father O'Sulli-
van desire me to depend, when I come to sum-
mon the true Protestant loyalists to the field in

defence of the rights established by King Wil-
liam, and in support of the throne and govern-
ment of our equally loved King George.
Gentlemen, at a period like the present, when
a deep laid and mysterious conspiracy has been
long organizing to maturity in this distracted
country, under the sworn agency of a secret so-
ciety, with great and ample funds at their com-
mand, to perfect the work of massacre and revo-
lution ; it affords me extreme satisfaction to re-
cognise, in the uubribed 'disinterestedness of the
Common Councilmen of my native city, (stand-
ing distinct from, and undismayed by the selfish
and temporising political conduct so evidently
apparent in a more august assembly,)' those
strongly expressed sentiments of allegiance to
their sovereign, and devotion to their church,

which at once confirms the character of the re-
spective Guilds for integrity, whilst it more than
establishes the consistency of the subject in their
undeviating adherence to the genuine principles
of loyalty and truth.

Gentlemen, were I to recommend unanimity
in the entire of your Corporation, at the present
hour, I should only be laughed at by the Po-
pish Alderman, and hooted at by the Popish
Priests, and for this paramount reason, because
private emolument is at variance with public and
constitutional duty, though both, at this awful
period of apostacy and treason, are identified to
accomplish your degradation and disgrace. And
yet, my faithful and uncompromising brethern, I
cannot, (as the aspect Of the times is pretty si-
milar,) refrain from calling to your recollection,
the recorded opinion of one of your ablest and
most upright Viceroys (who was above encou-
raging or coquetting with Popery) during the
latter years of the reign of Queen Anne, when
equally sinister measures were adopted by secret
agents of the Court of Rome, as at preset,t, to hu-
miliate Protestants, and to exalt the sworn and
unrelenting enemies of the faith and consitution
of the British Empire. And as the season for a
new election of Common Council now fast ap-
proaches, I charge you all, as you value
the future prosperity of your city, and the
eventual salvation of this wretched country,
to attend closely to what I shall now lay
before you. Fearless and undaunted by either
the frowns of a Monarch or the insults of a mob,
I will discharge my duty to the nation, and in
the defence of the integrity of our establishments
and the conscience of our King, having long placed
my life upon a cast, I will still stand the hazard
of the die. At the close of the Session of Par-
liament, in the year 1709, the then Lord Lieu-
tenant thus expressed himself in his speech to
both houses—" I make no doubt but that you
understand too well the true interests of the
Protestant religion in this Kingdom, not to en-
deavour to make all true Protestants (hear this
every gallant and calumniated Orangeman
throughout the empire) as easy as you can,
who are willing to defend the whole against
the common enemy. It is not the law now
passed, nor any law that the wit of man can
frame (I suppose not although it even removed
our great deliverer), will secure you against Po-
pery, whilst you continue divided amongst your-
selves ; it being demonstrable that unless there
be a firm friendship and confidence among
the Protestants of this kingdom, it is impos-
sible for you to be either happy or sincere."—
And Gentlemen, in the year 1713, the House
of Commons, in consequence of thc continued at-
tempts made to corrupt and revolutionize your
Protestant Corporation, as the most certain means
for effecting the secret machinations of the Po-
pish party, came to the following decided reso-
lutions Resolved, That for some years last
past, there has been a design formed and carried
on to subvert the Constitution, and alter the go-
vernment of the city of Dublin." " Resolved,
That in order to carry on that design, a corrupt
and illegal attempt was made to bribe Alder-
man Ralph Gore, Lord Mayor, by an offer of
5001. to name thirty-two persons to be Common
Cotincil-men of the city of Dublin." 64 Resolv-
ed, That Sir C. Phipps, Lord High Chancellor
of Ireland (thank Almighty Gon, very unlike
that honest and upright Protestant our venerated
Lord Manners), bath been the chief cause," &c.
But what the then Attorney-General was engag-
ed in, Gentlemen, I need not engross your atten-
tion too much by detailing, but I am sure you
will all agree with me in believing, that that
most profound and constitutional of all ancient
and modern statesmen, Mr. Con. Plunkett would
be unwilling to sanction such illegal proceedings
at the present day, even supposing money to be
so plenty, as to induce the Jesuits to insult our
most consistent chief magistrate (now so honour-
ably filling the civic chair) by the offer of a sum
of money to decline proposing as a toast the glori-
ous and immortal memory of that exalted prince,
who was the chosen instrument under Divine
Providence in establishing the illustrious house of
Brunswick on the throne of the British Empire.
I know well,from the general character his Lord-
ship hears for strict integrity and patriotism, that
both he, and his worthy brethren the Popish Al-
dermen, would scornfully decline to receive even
one thousand pounds each, and a pair of orange
buckskin breeches from that honest fellow Jack
Willis, to forego the supreme pleasure they
must ever experience in drinking a toast .for-
merly characteristic even of the loyalty of the
corporation.

I have thought it my duty, Gentlemen, as the
accredited and highly honoured champion of
your Church and Constitution, to remind you of
proceedings long since passed, but forcibly re-
called to my recollection, by the present alarm-
ing state of your city and the country at large.
It has perhaps never yet fallen to the lot of any
subject to receive so many and such flattering
testimonies of an Empire's confidence and affec-
tion as I have been favoured with throughout my
advocacy of your rights, your religion, and your
civil privileges ; and I consider it to be my im-
perative duty to declare, in the presence of you

•
.and of my Gon, that so long as the secret Societi.
of the Jesuits shall continue to exist as an estat„
lishment in these deluded countries I never Nil,
relax in my humble, but zealous, endeavours t"
pose treason, and to overwhelm its abettGro',
whether they may appear in the character
Ministers or their Minions. Conscious of trif
powers I possess, to direct the energies of IT
Empire towards the security of the Governmn
or even the salvation of the Throne itself, ashtaii
been already most strikingly proved in b°..
islands, I laugh at all the futile attempts of If:
fidels, cowards, or impostors, to invalidate to,!
apostolic doctrines of the Christian church, or Iv,
trample upon the ascendancy of our Protests°
Constitution.
Gentlemen, I thank you for this. addressi nab
more for the honour conferred upon myself.tt
your advocate, than for the deep copOitl°!
which.. it impresses on my mind, that 'there
exists even one Guild in the City of Dublin
tached to those high constitutional prinGiPle
which established the House of Hanover 00 tbe
Throne of England, and restored the Protesta%
reformed religion in its primitive purity to thi
portion of the United Empire. the
And now, Gentlemen, if you will 40 me 1„
honour to partake of some refreshment 10 'le
the
King room, I will give you, even were '
King himself present, " the glorious and
mortal memory of King William the Thirdi
and next, I will propose " the gallant and IN)
Orangemen of Ireland, with their noble grBn
master the Earl O'Neill."
HARcOURT 10'5`

iminuommomiiimmas
DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY AND MURK*'

On Friday morning, about half-past too
o'clock, as Mr. WILLIAM GILL, blltCheritto
Rock, near Bewdley, was on his way to Dr
minster, he was stopped in Poach Brook-laneer
a footpad, who, presenting a pistol, demailtb
his money. Mr. GILL struck at the ruffian !fol
his stick, when the fellow discharged the PI
at him, the ball from which passed Otto
his hat, happily without injuring him. Afr•`;itti
maintained his seat, and, ,whilst strugglig3o
his assailant, his horse was shot ,dead undetifig,
by another villain who had secreted himself •
hind the hedge. Both the desperadoes, ntv,
fell upon Mr. GILL, and beat him gel
butt end of their pistols in the most
manner, threatening, with horrid imprecal-1119
to murder him, unless he surrendered , if
money. Mr. GILL promised to cernP,.l/'his
they would spare his life, and taking "vet,
coat, told them they would find his Isc:hes
book in one of the pockets. One of the vire_,`'her
was for dispatching him instantly; but the rje,
demurred in this blood-thirsty proposal, anu to
siring him to take off his waistcoat, beeist,
search the coat for the booty. In the wattle
coat pocket was 1001. in bank notes, butlbild
attention of the marauders being diverted who
examining the contents of the pocket book, w",eir..
consisted of blank checks only, Mr. GILL deb'es,
mined upon an effort to escape their ciniciuc•-
and, rushing by them in a resolute mannertuti,
ceeded in doing so, and thus, by his intret
preserved his money, and probably his life. nr.or.
gave immediate alarm throughout the neigh"hioa
hood,and instant pursuit was made in evey direchout
in search of the villains, but we regret to say w" ;;e0
effect ; a handsome reward has, however, Z'ope
offered for their apprehension, which we "oe
will be speedily effected.—Mr. G. describes "tbe
to have been about five feet 10 inches big oc
other not quite so tall, both wore long s—t,i
onto
frocks, and the shortest had on a small blue: char,/
and wore a broad brimmed hat.--(Birn"'
Paper.)

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' ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--Mrs. M 1 a
__A fire
belle, who resides in Marylebone New Road, threw herb; oh
the canal in the Regent's Park yesterday morning. , i.„,hcas
act was observed by two men driving a cart, one 0,',,, 0,0
conveyed to a public-hous2; ant she appeared
rescued the ill-fated woman in time to save her life. °"' de
-
conveyed in her intellects.
si
SUDDEN DEATH.—EarIy yesterday morning
respectable butcher, named CLurirEno, residing ill ,171:ita
while attending Smithfield market, was suddenlY seared_ fell
illness, and before medical assistance could be prosat.
dead in the parlour of the Bull's Head public house, v.-lft.
of St. John's-street, whither he had made shift to crawl' ned
Stair, of St. John's-street, immediately attended, and „ening
a vein, but to no purpose, a few drops of blocd only foul is
the lancet. The deceased' was 31 years of age, and a
man, but had no children.
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