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London, England, 1833-03-30 00:00:00

INSOLVENTS', COURT, MARcit 29.

It'illiant Weekly, a farmer, living a few miles from Chipping
Cain, who had been remanded to produce an important wit.
ness, was opposed by his landlord, on the ground that he had
fraudulently disposed of his property to a farmer named
Ilaynes. Ilaynes appeared to-day to substantiate his debt, and
stated that he had been in the habit of lending money for the last
30 years to the insolvent, whose wife was entitled to 5001., under
the will of her brother, Francis Collett, to which he (Haynes)
was one of the trustees. He produced two bonds and a pro-
missory-note, the first bond dated in November, 1831, altoge-
ther amounting to 5481., of which the insolvent had paid off in
various sums 4051. An attempt was made In the cross-exami.
nation, but failed, to prove that the first bond and the promis-
sory-note were fabrications, as the money lent on the second
bond was paid off before that advanced on the first; but
Haynes explained it to the satisfaction of the Court. The
insolvent was then discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MAASION ROUSE.

COMMITTAL OP RICHARD COST;RAND EDMUND
SMITH FOR FORGER.Y.—Yoitt-Tday the Justice-room WC%
crowded, and the final examination of Richard Coster
and Edmund Smith excited even greater interest than any
f the toriner procee iings in this extraordinary case.
Mr. Freslifielil, the solicitor of the Bank of England,
stated, that having produced witnesses who proved that
three 101. notes, transmitted to M. C arke of Honiton,
in a le•ter signed--., W. Jackson," wets forgeries, and
that Mr. Coster was in the immediate neighbourhood of
the spot when the other prisoner called for and received
the parcel suppota-d t) contain the goods for which those
fin -ries were intended to pay, lie should now call wit.
messes to prove that the letters signed W. Jackson were
actually in Mr. Coster's hand-writing.
Coster was ei,idently surprised at this communication,
and lni•ked anxiously towards the witness bar. His sur.
prise was not diminished, when Mr. Freslifield called
Ju•eph Walker.

Joseph Walker—Before I give evidence, my Lord, I
must call upon you for protection ; I may be arrested by
Coster's agents fur 10.0001., in order to prevent me from
performing au act of great justice. I must inform you,
my Lord, that he is no common enemy. This appeal
was made with much solemnity.
The Loan MAYOR—D., not be apprehensive, you shall
be protected. Joseph Walker then, in answer to questions
put to him by Mr. Frestifield and the Lord Mayor, said—
I am a working jeweller, and resi ie at No. 17, St. John-
square, Clerkenwell ; and my acquaintance with Coster
unfortunately commenced upwards of fourteen years ago;
I became his victim at that period.
Mr. Hobler, jun. (for Coster), objected to any history
of supposed transactions of a former period ; but the Loan
MAYOR di-sired the witness to proceed.
Wiiness—l say that I was his victim. It has been
his practice to get hold of young men and work them
into a subserviency to his purposes. I found out what he
was, and struggled to get out of his clutches ; for which
purpose I went off to Birmingham as soon as I could,
and staid there six years. I knew Smith to have been
Cost,r's servant. I have seen Coster's handwriting fre-
quently, and I swear these two letters (the letters to Mr.
Clarke) are in his handwriting. This writing is his
composed mercantile hand. lie writes a very different
hand when his ideas are quick upon him. If I saw his
hurried handwriting in any part of the globe I should
know it. This is the hand he adopts on commercial
business, and I am positive it is his.
Mr. Freshfield said tbat upon the abovementioned evi-
dence he would proceed against. Mr. Custer as a princi-
pal ; and Smith as an accessory in the forgery in Mr.
Clarke's ease.
The LORD MAvon—And on that evidence I shall
commit them.

Coster, who seemed to he as collected as he had been
upon the former examinations, here ceased to take notes,
and said, " My Lord, I can bring forward a thousand
persons in the city of London who have known me these
one-and-twenty years, and will prove that it is not my
handwriting."
The Loin MAYORI dare say you can, and you will
have every opportunity of taking advantage of their evi-
dence when you are in Newgate.
Custer—l shall have no facilities there, my Lord.
The LORD MAYOR—lndeed you shall have every fa-
cility whicn any other man could expect. You shall have
fair play.

Coster—l shall in the meantime, beg leave to ask Mr.
Walker a question or two. Pray, Mr. Walker, how often
were you locked up in gaol?
Witness—l was thrust into gaol on your account the
very first time I ever IV/8 confined.

Coster—Were you never in Warwick gaol for swindling
a man out of a quantity of iron ?
Witness—Never. I was there for debt ; and you sent
down an affidavit which was s'gned by Smith, and not
one word of which was true, for the purpose of detaining
me in prison.

Coster—How often have you been prosecuted, Mr.
Walker, tor procuring fictitious articles to be male up for
sale?

W it ne•s--Never.

Coster--Never ! My Lord, you don't know this man.
I know what he is capable of doing ; hut I am here with-
out witnesses to prove that which, if I was aware of this
turn in this mater, I could easily have produced.
The Loan Mayoa—l have no doubt of your poker of
producing any evidence that may suit your purpose. You
are the Rob Roy of the mercantile world. Your pub-
iaos,lieliciri%eea,otdibs)lturinei‘ritefreiesi—br:'.ulb'ti
Bolt?
Nut
tliiiEl'ialtvos te?gnnerev,.tspitdenett•umenisenitete:ti
n'e(ad:unn'tdyo readers..
raov
prove
e fa ct
tl iot i
be se iaolliNia'e
lwieg.ate,
I Witness—l defy you tti do so. It is wholly impossible
t
Coster—Did :you not coin medals, and offer them for

Coster--D.llyou not coin meddle, to send as gold
medals to the Netherlands?
The LORD MAYOR repeated the question.
Witness—. Never. But Coster asked me to nuke Belgian

.dais, aid urged me to do so ; and I believe I should
tve listened to tt.e prop's 1, i it had not been for a
third person.
Cciter—l can get twenty persons to prove that be was
concerned in this transaction. Pray, Mr. Wain-, were
you not in business in Noble-street ?

Witness—Yes ; you employed my brother there to copy
your swindling letters. You set up the establishment there.
Mr. Holder, jun —How runny times have you seen Mr.,
Coster write? Witness—Hundreds of times.

Thomas Walker (brother to the last witness)—l
,oployed some years ago, abDut 1819, by Coster, to copy
ktters, and resided with my brother, at No. 11, NoMe-
ta::: Ctrot:n,saSrttaioinnisag-laine:weaanrd
tahriartqltieste..e;
Street. Coster had at the time, to my knowledge, three
swindling firms—J. and T. Walker, Noble-street, Cos er
land-writing.
Mr. Hobler, jun.—You and your brolier, you mean
to
.say, were parties to these transactions, which you call
swindling ? I
letterssist 'a4r e him
hiits

The first witness—Coster first robbed me of 3701., for
which I never received one farthing. As soon as we found
fh,t we should get nothing, the firm was broken up, ter
we would not be duped any longer.
The LORD Mavon—What were you to have receic•ed
for joining in the firm ? The second witness—W„.„,
to derive a benefit from all who should he swindled.
The first witness—l swear solemnly to the truth of
what I have stated relative to this man. lam aware that
this examination will go forth to the public, and I have
no doubt that justice will be done in the puldication. I
claim, therefore, to be allowed to state a few circurn.
stances, as I have a character to lose. I worked before
I knew this man, whose victim I became, with Mr.
Brogden, whose eminent station in trade is well known,
and I afterwards worked for another, who introduced ine
to Custer fifteen years ago, as a person able to give me
I irge orders in my line as a working jeweler. Coster
did, indeed, give me orders, hot be never gave me a
farthing of recompense. I. was induced to listen to hint,
and he spoke of placing 1,0001. at my eournand. I was
young and he duped me, and I left the connection with
disgust. His next act was to thrust me into prison for a
debt which, God knows, I never owed, and I submitted,
with four or five young children, to that condition for
four months. I next went off to Birmingham out of sight
of him for six years. He opposed my coming nut on the
Insolvent Act, and sent down an affid ivit which occupied
a quarter of an hour in the reading, not one syllable of
which was tree, and Smith, who stands text to him,
swore to it.

Mr. Hobler, jun.—You were one of the firm, were
you not ? Witness—Yes, he used my name, and I
thought I should rec, ire back, in consequence of the con-
nexion, my 370/. I was at the house, perhaps, four or
five times.

Mr. Nobler, jun.—And you received no pay? Wit-
ness—Not a halfpenny except a prison. I have had no
communication with Coster these ten years, but 1 saw
him on Clerkenwell•grern about six months ago, and he
told the that he was high in the stirrup, and that he had
dealings with the first men in the city. We lent Lim our
name, in the expectation of bring rep tid the m,ney he had
robbed the of.

Mr. Holder, jun. aubinitted that the evidence would
not juatify a committal, the witoes.es having been them.
solve• implicated, by their own acknowledgment, in ti r
trawactions to which their evidence referred.

he LORD MAYOR-1: is toy duty to commit him ; in-
dependcntly of the testimony of this day, I should ',lei
him fur trial. Have you soy thing to say, Mr. Coster?
Coster—Oh ! Mr. Walker hes it all his own way to-day,
for I am not provided with witnesses to prove him
perjured. I think it, however, necessary to say that he
and Iris brother can bring forward five hundred people at
a shilling a piece, to swear to aoy thing in the world they
choose to propose. 1 have one request to make of )our
Lordship, that you will impound those letters which they
swear are in my hand-writing. These useu are under the
influence of Mr. Freshfield, cud will, for a little money,
swear to any thing.—(A murmur of strong disapprobation.
The LORD MAYOR—I our certainly astonished to hear
a man of your understanding make such a proposition.
Coster—Oh ! my Lord, I know the witnesses so well, I
consider it to tie necessary that nu person should see those
letters till they are produced upon the trial.
Ml'. FRESHFIRLD said that it was quite absurd to sup-
pose that the Bank of England, or its agents, could be
guilty of the conduct which Mr. Coster's observations
insinuated. He could not think of consenting to the pro-
position first made, as such consent might be used as a
precedent in cases of all forgeries on the Bank of England,
and would be productive of great inconvenience.
Coster—Am I to be allowed free access for persons to
the prison, in order that I may be enabled to rebut the
charges ? Your Lordship :has given me credit for clever-
ness. Shall I have access?
The LORD MAYOR...X. tainly.
Coster—Ain I to be tried before a Judge or before the
Recorder ? I ask, because I want fair play.
The LORD MAYOR—Why do you object to the Re-
corder ? You objected strongly to me in the first instance.
Coster—l don't object to you now. I consider that
volt have acted extremely well.
The LORD MAYOR.—I told the police, when I was
called to this chair, that I was determined to get hull of
all the housebreakers and swindlers I could,—that I should,
if possible, clear the city of London of such villains. I
c insider myself must successful, and more so this day than
ever.

Coster—Can your Lordship tell me whether I shall b
'lied by a regular Judge ?
Mr. Fresh&ld—We uniformly laid these cases, whs.
the punishment was capital, before the Judges, and we
shall still continue to do so. Of course it remains with
the Judges to decide whether one of themselves or the fie—
c.irder shill try your case.
The Loan MAYOR-I shall a'so speak upon the subject.
Curter—Shall I be allow,d to move for a writ of cer-
tiorari if I am to be tried by the Recorder?
The LORD MAYOR-You can apply to the Court. I
hive no doubt that you will be tried by one of the Judges,
and you may depend upon havin; fair play.
Smith
rsiasiodn
taro:
egi
ed utrhienng tfuh
The lel;xcujitit'iimnaititie°dn.to Newgate
fur trial.

The following is a copy of a letter which was copied
frown a book found in one of the houses stated to belong
to the extensive firm of Cover and Co.:—
" I have a new plan to bring every French flat here,
who is worth bringing, which 1 will stake soy head I can
do. Merle and Co. is now come into large possessions of
money, and will lend any one the money they want, and
let them come over here at their own expense, and re
eeive it, and bring their French dreds of their property
with them to lodge, and soon as they c.itne put them into
hands of a sheriff's officer here, A friend of mine, who
will hold them fast enough under an arrest here, and you
might pop over here and be the plaintiff. Our law al-
lows one foreigner to come over here and arrest another,
anti no questions asked; and I have an attorney who can
do all, and R. and myself, your brothers here, your wit_
nest, and they never can get from it. Suppose we have
Sewell first. It wit! be a great exp•use to ;elite to all to
ply postage to pu•ldra them ever here. Suppose I get
Merle, and Co., to write all the letters, and send them you
in a parcel to post in Paris, for all this wit! save much ; I
am sure it will succeed, and you need not come till I have
their letters appointing to be here, and we can biil them
ill tine hour with EngliVi writs, and they will be glad to
give us something, and I can go and call on them, and
offer them my services. You never need be seen or your
person, and I will prevent their getting any had here, and
make them come to our terms. Anxiously waiting to
begin to do good, "Yours, &c.,
" Me. F. R. " R. C. 25th Oct.

We lament to have to announce the death of
the unfortunate female mentioned in yesterday's pAper,
who was admitted into St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in
cons.quence of the dreadful accident which she sustained
itt
Finsbur)-square. She appeared, since. thsemenitnepudeteliondptaoh;lt
t' e operation, to have been going on in a favourable way
bit, quite
nine o'clock
hnleatxshptuesuteerl night.lmy I:ahTteehdeelrehptierraeanl aibtfee awn foe:. doubt that the
it jury
internal parts.

In the House of Commons, on Wednesday
night, Sir A. AnNEw Rave notice that, after the Easter
I,ces., he should move " an address to his MAJESTY, pay-
ing that he would be graciously pleased to comm end that
d e carriage gates of Hyde Park may be kept closed cn the
Lord's Day."
A SLAVE EMANCIPATED IN BELPASTe•-•
one days ago a vessel belonging to Berronda arrived j.O
this port. It was understood hat a slave was on bod.rd
-
and that he was anxious ' West Itube
t:ough aw.:re of his right to

vountry. However, on Fri.
Secretary of the Anti-Slave

strong desire to remain in
Ile has regained his liberty
newly-acquired freedom, ane
tradingl ijs support.
esae , We have
Lean
by a slave-dealer from Mar,
years been hired out by h;
ownereari

mottb ae remuneration for

New: Letter.

to return to the West Inds. ,
to freedom bprifi•isininga
riday eveni. ' '
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receiving tiValinitiii
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PIIICX4 OF -.rice. TN . S DAY AT OS. O'CI.C.CK.
Bank Stock
• Sper Cent. Red.
3per Cord COOL SIN% Ditto 80nd5......... 23 24 12 pm.
314 per Cent. ... ..........
Ditto Red .... shut Old Annuities ...............
New 3% per Cent. ..- ..... 9414% New Ditto.. -....- .- ....... 85'%
3 per Cent. Ann. 17.241 .... 85 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 ...
4 per Cent. 1826 - Ex. Bills, .Sl,OOO ...... 47 49 pm.
Bank Long Ann. to expire Ditto. -..., .. .500 ...... 47 49 pro,
Jan. 5, 1861' shut Ditto 'Small ............ .17 49, n-..
Oct. 10, 1859 shut , Ditto Commercial ...... .. pm
Jan. 5, 1860 l6 15-16 7.,', !Ditto Advertised —On
Jan. 5, 1880 ---. Bank for Account ..... .... 200
Aprils 1880 ..... - --India for Account 219 21a
,
Jan. 5. 1870._
........ ... -- Cons. for April 12 57% %

FRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds ...... .• ...... 98
Belgian 80nd5......... 87%1,414 7
- Ditto Account Sel•i%
Brazilian Bonds —
Ditto Account 63
Buenos Ayres Bonds .716

Ditto A.ccount
Milian Bonds 22
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds I6 4
Ditto Account

Three!' Bonds, 1824
Ditto Account 17y
Danish Bonds '74
Ditto Account '74
Greek Bonds '3451,
Ditto Bondi, IFf25
Ditto Account —
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent:3lk;
Ditto Account
..,_ .3114

Ditto, f per cent.
Ditto Account. .36!4
Neapolitan 92

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
iPertivian I3onds
Portuguese Bonds —
Ditto Account.
5(1.1i,

Regency Scrip 51i;
Ditto Account 4% 5 ills.
Prussian Bonds 10:1

Ditto Bonds, 1822 103,4
;Russian Bonds, 1R22... 10'2 ',t;

Ditto Account
New Loan 97%
'Spanish Bonds, 182.1 193%
Ditto Account 1q%%%

Ditto Bonds, :fed
Ditto Acc0unt......... 17% IS
French Rentes, 5 p. c JOlf
Exchange 2sf SOc.
ner cent. —f —c.

. .._.
--- Exchange...... —f —c.
IDutch, 21 p. c -W1414
Ditto Account 461414
1 Ditto, 5 p c cri %
Ditto Account... ......... —97 g,
F7.ench Scrip 44 pm.

rziels Or SNARES TNIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (W. at 54 pm.) XlOO 14% 15
Bolanos Mining Company ..£l5O 144
Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm ) £2O 6214
Ditto National 17% 2*'.4
Ditto St. John Del Rey
Ditto Cocaes... 5
British Iron Mining Company £5O
United Mex. Min. Co. (las. at 2/. pm.) 40
Ditto New Set ip 5
Alliance Fire Insurance Comp. ......
Protector Insiirance Comp.
Australian Co 25%

COURSE OF RECUR
Amsterdam C.r 12 24
Ditto, at sight 12 Of
Rotterdam U 12 3
Antwerp 12 S
Hamburg 11.8.14 0
Altona l4 0
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 90
Ditto ° U. 26 10
Bordeaux 26 15
Berlin

Frank fort on Maine, Ex. M.:54
Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0
Vienna, efftive 9. 2M. 10 9
Trieste d 0.......• 10 9
Madrid 37%
Cadiz 37►,-:
Bilboa 37
Barcelona 37
Seville 36{
Gibraltar 4734

.141:1E YESTERDAY.

15s.
13t,,S

101,4
£1 7 0
106

Leghorn 41%
Genoa 06 10
Venice 4634
Malta
!Japles '3934
Palermo per oz. 120
Lisbon
Oporto 4"/N
!Rio Janeiro
IBahia 32
Buenos Ayres
Dublin, 21 days' sight
Cork ll-:e

BULLION, PER OZ.
X. s. ti.
Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0
Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9
New Doubloons 0 0 0
'dew Dollars
Silverbars, standard 0 4 10i

GEORGE AND ANGEL HOTEL, STAMFORD.
WHORNER has the pleasure of an-
• nnuncing to commercial gentlemen, his friends,
and the public generally, that, on his quitting the Crown
Inn, he has purchased and at length succeeded in obtaining
possession of the above old established Hotel in Stamford.
The premi-es are better situated than those of any other
Inn in the town, and it is W. Horner's intention imme•
diately to improve the bed-rooms and other accommoda-
tion, so thst he hopes he shall deserve the acknowledgment
of those who may honour him with their support, that it
is his pride to make his house excel in comfort and re.
speetahility. The convenience of Commercial Gentlemen
it will in particular be bis study to promote by all the
means in his power.

W. H. is unwilling to advert to the well-known circum-
stances under which he has been discharged from the
Crown Inn ; as a Tenant, he behaved himself with sub-
mission and respect : as a Master, he wished not arbi-
trarily to interfere with the rights and the consciences of
those whom fortune had placed in his employment. He
humbly hopes that he may refer to his own conduct on
this occasion, with a confidence that he and his numerous
family will he regarded by a liberal public as not less de-
serving than heretofore of the support and patronage
which they thus respectfully
St .mford, March 28, 1833.

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