The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-15 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

Dr. Quail, many years surgeon in the armies of Greece,
Poland, :;nd ..)artugal, who made an application to Mr. Bond,
about two trr.nths since, with reference to some alleged claims
on the Government, waited upon Mr. Burrell on the same
subject.
The Ltagistrate having inquired his business,
Dr. Quail Laid—l was brought before you, sir, about four
years agc, from the Treasury, charged with refkising to leave
there. I ha, now come to put myself under your protec-
tion, as I cannot obtain satisfaction of the Ministers, and am
apprehensive that I shall be brought before you. I have
been promised attention to my claims many times from all
the Ministers, but those promises have been unattended with
any result.
Mr. BunnELL—What claims? Dr. Quail—They are for
seventeen years' pay and pension for services to Greece,
Poland, and PortugM. 25,0001. per annum is accredited to
this Government from Portugal to pay the Legion, to which
I belong, and of which I have never received a fraction, and
have been engaged diplomatically since 1833 to establish the
claims. There is credit open upon the revenue of Greece,
upon which I have a claim of 15,0001., since 1829, whilst the
Government are also indebted to me in the amount of 50/.
a year, for eight years from Poland. The British Parlia-
ment accords 12,000/. a year to pay the Polish refugee army,
but I have not been paid any subsidy since 1837.
Dr. Quail was proceeding, when—
Mr. BURRELL stopped him by observing, "This is not a
matter, sir, which I can entertain."
Dr. Quail—The repeated promises with respect to these
claims have never been fulfilled.
Mr. BunnEt.t.. —I have nothing whatever to do, sir, with
matters of this description.
Dr. Quail, however, proceeded, and after urging with much
earnestness what he, no doubt, considered the strong points
of his case, added, I wish for a warrant, sir, against the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, that he may be brought before you to
discuss the motive for my being deprived of my rights.
Mr. BURRELL (smiling)--Oh no, I could not think of doing
that. '1 here is not the slightest ground for entertaining
such an application.
Dr. Quail—But the Ministers are amenable to the laws as
well as ourselves. _ _

Mr. nunnELL--That nay be, but certainly not in the
way you propose. I must repeat, I have nothing to do, sir,
with such matters.
Dr. Quail again went on to urge his claims, until the pa-
tience of the worthy magistrate was almost exhausted; and,
after repeatedly assuring the applicant that the case was ono
in which he could not interfere, withdrew, as did soon after
the learned doctor.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Michael Marlow, the man who stands charged with utter-
ing several forged cheques, drawn in the name of Mr. Henry
Tikipson, a gentleman of property residing near South-
ampton, and made payable at the banking-house of Sir
Richard C. Glynn and Co., in Lombard-street, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Bingham, fur re-examination.
Mr. Bush, of the firm of Bush and Mullen?, Solicitors to
the Bankers' Society, appeared for the prosecution; and Mr.
Heritage attended for the defence.
It will be recollected that in the course of last year the
prisoner had presented cheques similar to those now under
investigation to Mr. Hubble, a licensed victualler, at Upper
Clapton, in payment of arders he had given on account of a
lade- named Tait, residing in that neighbourhood. and a near
relative of the prosecutor, and the whole of which cheques
had always previously been paid. On the 24th of December
last, however, he purchased a bottle of brandy of that wit-
TICS, in the name of Mrs. Tait, for which he paid with a
10/. cheque upon Messrs. Glyn and Co., purporting to be
drawn in favour of a Mr. William Timps, n, and to be signed
by Mr. Henry Timpson, the prosecutor, and this cheque,
upon afterwards being presented at the banking-house, was
pronounced to be a forgery.
After much formal evidence had been adduced, tracing the
transit of the cheque through numerous hands until it was
finally stopped at Messrs. Glyn's,
The prosecutor, Mr. Henry Thomas Timpson, was exa-
mined, and stated that he had for some years kept an account
with that firm, and always been in the habit of drawing his
cheques upon blank paper, similar to the cheque produced,
several of which he had transmitted during the last twelve-
month to Mr. William Timpson, of Morden College, Black
heath, a first cousin of .and also to Mrs. Tait, of Upper
Clapton, the daughter 7 that gentleman. The cheque now
produced was not in his handwriting, and he had never au-
thorised any one to sign it in his behalf. The prisoner was
an entire stranger to him, and he Fad never seen him, to the
best of his recollection, until that day.
Mrs. Louisa Tait, the wife of Mr. day.
Tait, of Up-
per Clapton, stated that about the latter end of February,
1844, her father was residing near her, and being very infirm
and helpless, had employed the prisoner and his wife, who,
with, their family, were in great distress, the one as nurse
and the other as confidential servant and occasional amanu-
ensis, he tieing unable himself to write, in consequence of
being affected with gout in the hands. He had been in the
habit of receiving cheques from the prosecutor, but never
employed the prisoner to get cash for any of them, and bad
neither on the day in question authorised him to procure
brandy in her name. nor seen the cheque produced, until it
was returned from the bankers and declared to be a forgery.
The prisoner, by the advice of his solicitor, reserved his
defence, and was fully committed for trial upon this charge.
A second case was then gone into, in which the prisoner
had, on or abut the 16th of December, uttered a eliegne for
the same amount as in the former case, and the circumstances
connected with which wore almost identical with those at-
taehing to the first,
The testimony, in both eases, having been reduced to de-
positions, and read over in the presence of the prisoner, Mr.
Heritage applied for the sanction of the magistrate to inspect
certain letters and documents which had been discovered in
the house of the prisoner, and which he was of opinion would
form es;:,ential evidence in the couduet of the defence he was
instrupted to set up in behalf of his client, the substance of
which was, that the charge was the result of a conspiracy by
two other persons, who were, in fact, the parties really guilty
of the
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objection to allow the
Learned Gentleman free access to any papers he might wish
to consult in preparing his defence; and the Magistrate
ordered the police, in whose custody they were, to afford
him every facility for that purpose,'
Di r. oli fhei 444 that in addition to the charges
already established against the prisOner, there were two othier
distinct cases of uttering similar forged cheques, which he
expected to be able to bring clearly home to the accused, i
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