The Sun.
London, England, 1807-11-27 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOW.-STREBT.•--,YCSlt.!rday Joe' Isaacs, a wealthy
JeW of Portsmouth, was brought before Mr. READ,
for re-examination, charged, on the oath of
Riciti-
ard Smith, and others, with-feloniously uttering and
publishing a,s true, at Greenwiclii in the county ofKent, a certain lege, forgedanel counterfeited cer-
tificate, purporting to be the' kertificate of—the Ho-
nourable Courteney Boyle,"-Captain of his Majesty's
Ship the Royal William, and Robert:Young,. Lieu-
tenant of the saute Ship., in
,order to receive certain
prize money dile to Thomas Scandling,, who had
served on hoard his Majc,ay's the Tritnph,:
with an intent to defraud the Commissioners and
Governors of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, he
well knowing the same to be false, forged and.
counterfeited.
• Richard Smith, Esq. the- Clerk of the Checque,
at Greenwich, said, ,that the Prisoner -had been for
some time suspe&ed of forging seamen's certificates,
in cormequenee of whieh,. every posSible attention
and examination was given to every certificate that
• came from him. On the 29th day of September last
be-receiyed from the Prisoner, by the post, an or-
der, purporting to be the Order ef-Themas Scand-
ling, of his. Majesty's Ship Royal William, at Spit-
bead, and to have the mark of Thonos Scandling,
for the payment to the Prisoner, or order, his share
'of the prize money, when on board, the Triumph,
for the Ranger, St. RaPhacl, and 'EI Firma, under
, Admiral Sir Robert Calder, in the' West Indies, at
(Mice in Greenwich. It came in an enclosure
purporting to be signed by W. H. Preston, clerk to
Mr. Peacock, of Clements Inn, merit to the Pri-
soner. He strongly sospe6ed the order to be false,
forged and counterfeit, and that the Prisoner forged
it. He further'stated, that on the 17th day of Sep-
tember, a young,man, who .said his name was Tho-
Mas sCandling, and that he had servectOn board the
Triumph, came to him at his Office at Greenwich,
and claimed the payment of . some prize money,
which, he said, Was due to him, for captures made
by the Tridinph ; and on being shewn, the said or-
: der, in favour of thsi Prisoner, which2hatlf beien-sent
for payment by Mr. Peacock, the Pri,oner'S 'agent,
Scandling declared he had not signed it, or 'given
any order for the paythent of his prize money;` and
on the day the certificate purported to be signed by
Thomas Scandling, he was at Liverpool..
Mr.. Peacock proved that the order; purporting
to be signed by Thomas Scandlincrb; which' he
pre-
;s~nted 'to' Mr. Smith, at Greerm ich,.was the same-
.r.thatAi4 Jaeived• from the Prisener at Portsea. He
believed 'the' filling up of the orders to be in the
lud-writing of the Prisoner..
Ttie,RO4.'Courteney Reyle,'Captain 9f His Ma-
jesty'S-Shio Royal William, how. lyiog at Spithead,
said that the si.,;nature " Q. Boyle," to the certifi-
cate anneited. to' 'the circler of Ti-iomo ,Scandling,
authorising Joel Isaacs to receive Tkiiimas Scandling's
-prize-money, clot; to hini for services as ahoy. on
board.-His Majesty's Ship the Triumph,' for the cap-
turn of prizes, is not his band-Writing,
Lieutenant. Young,, of the William,, stated,
that the signature of Robert Young ,to Thomas'
Scandling's order, purporting to be his signature,
was a forgery.
Jeremiah Craymore, of Liverpool, proved that
Thot'nas • Scandling lodged at his house on the
19th of.-Septeifiber• to the 24th of "sober; so
that it was impossiblehe could have signed the order,
as it purported to be signed on the '24lh. day of Sep-
tember, at which time he ‘A'as at Liverpool.
Williath Adkins, the ,Officer, said he took the
Prisoner into custody at"his house,' at Portsinouthi
on the Ist of October, at which time' he confessed to
him, that, after the order had been returned for
Capt. gayle's signature, Scat dliog, on the 'saint) day
called on him, add requested to be paid his prize-
money (at which titne Scandling was at Liverpool);"
and that -he told, him he could not ha me as the
order had been returned for want of Capt.Rovle's 'sig-
nature : • that Scandling took' the offer, and, in a .
short time, returned with the order,,,;prirportinf;. to
be signed by' the Captain. This, of courbe, oyas.nn-
possible. , .
•
The Prisoner was fully conmiitted for trial at the
ensuing Assizes for the County of Kent.

PUBLIC-OFFICE, HATTON-GARDE rt,;-7Y,eBterclay
the • final examination of Elizatetli &num, Mary
March, a Ward Nurse of St. Bartholomew's Hospi-
tal, and Henry I?aY , shoemaker, closed; when they
were Rill), committed for trial, charged with rob-
bing Charles Shuter,Esq. Cursitor-street, Chancery-
lane, of a great number of ;indent cuir,s.
Mary Mitchel was, Committed (Or beini;
charged with uttering counterfeit- silveron twirl (lit,'
ferent dap, in the shop of Mr. Mastet Watt, iit 1-161.
born. grott, the ()dicer, found a quantitybrtriliing
articles upon her, which site had purchased tit' dit
fcrent shops,With base pilver, by which, in gettin,,,i
change, she accumulated p large quantity of halt-
pence ind good sixpeues. .the bad • a 'confederate
who made her estNipe; 'Who always rernain'ed out-
side of the 'shop on such occasions..

Yesterday sennight adreadful storm came ,on at
Neweastle-opia,:fyne,' from, the North-ea,t, ae
• cotsripan wit h a heavy' hilt of, snow hail' and :deer,
the efteds.of which, we fear, will be oinre highly
disalitious to. the shipping nu our eastern coasts•
than even 'the•storm on ".I•,'uesslay se'nni'gpt, The
consequences of the storm even. in that town were
felt very severely ; almest all the Sruips and lowex
stories of the houses on the north of the ISandbill
and-the Close were overflowed froth the hiiti banks
behind, and tnut7O datnage, done." The.,,)ielhil4 11)(1.
kitchens of the houses in Pandon-Deak.kver6
flowed to the dept h of a -feet 'and a' fairt andit bait,
with wafer, ayd great loss has been J4erienced
from the overflowing,of lite water in the Onsehourn.
The quay, to the event . IhnTardS, which was
built at a great .expenee Ily,Messrs. Hind, James,
and Co. has.been,swept away by the current, and
the ditferent. houscs and warehouses immediately
s itualed :on. the banks-of the bourn, have experienced
more or less damn ;e in 'proportion to their exposure
to the violence of the storm. • Part of an unfinished
hou.e near. the Chord— i,ay, Nlonh Shields, was
blown down;
,happily tio person w is. hurt; .though
a i Lirtion of the ruins penetrated the Idjoining,
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