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London, England, 1803-07-09 00:00:00

OLD B,IILEI.

TIiIRU DAY-4RIDAY, JUL,Y S.
BANK OF ENGLAND.
Ravi Arlett was indiatd for that he beige,
servant 'of, and employed by the Governor and
Company of the Bank of England, and as such Ads
entrusted with a certain Paper.writiag eathel an
Exchequer Bill, of, the value of 10001. anti another
of the samCvalue, and a third of the 'SALM value,
oil the`z6th of Febrte:;ry last, lie being such servant,
&C. did feloniously.secrete and embeezie the said
Thecheqoer.Bills, and did
,run away with them, so
'belonging to the said. Governor and:Company,
Other counts in the Indictment varied the mode
of charge, 'stating the' said Exchequer Bills to be the
effeas of the said Governor and Company, &c.—
To which he pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. KNOW4YS opened the Pleadings. •
Mr. GA/ROW opened the Case. He said he had
the honour to open this Case on the part t the
Prosecution instituted by that great commercial
body of men, the Governor and Company of the
Bank of England, and to state the Charge,upon thld
Indidment against the Prisoner at the Bar. He said,
that this Indiament had been postponed for reasons '
which could not then be so conveniently stated as
they might be now. The case against the Prisoner
at thelia, on the issue of whose life or death the
jury were_ now charged, to determine, was of 04
last importance—it was to him. of the last import.
am!, as it itifeaed. his life, for the offence with
which he stood charged, that of secreting and ap.
proprietingeo his own use, property of the Bank
entrusted to his cafe, was made a capital offene by
an Atli of Parliament. It would be his 'duty to
state the circumstances of this case, and to state the
manner in which the offence Was committed ; and
although the*ase itself might he very long, yet Ito,
hoped to be able •to lay it ()lien before the Jury
without occupying a great portion of their rime. The
Prisoner had been employed .for twenty-five years
hr the Bank of England, fwenty.three of es hich
were hi the office of that well known and merits,
rions Officer of the Bank, Mr. Abraham Newland ;
and it, was not unfair to say; that up to the time of
the unhappy cause of his present situation, he had
concluded himself meritoriously; this situation he
had brought himself into by unfortunate specula.
tions in the Funds, and which be was now brought
to that Bar to answer for-with his dif.e. •
In the year 170, having passed the grallations of
his office, the entortunate Gentleman at the Bar
was appointed Cashier ; and the Jury knew it was
a large part of the business of the Bank of England
to purchase Government Securities, and particularly
Exchequer Bills, and thiS they did to sueply the
exigencies ofeGoVernmerit. • The manner aif doing
it was this :—when the ExclieqUer Bills were in the
market, notice was given by the Diredors that they
would purchase them, and this business W'a's wider
the management of the Cashier. Alh.these purchases
were made through the medium of tl respedable
house of Metiitti. GOidstiliti ,in./ the • Bruke•r of the
Bank. When these purchases were made, bills of
parcels of thdm were made out aril delivered to the
cashier, who was the Priscioer at the ILI-, contain.
ing an enumeratioteof them, atid.it was the duty if
the Prisoner ht all imoaoces of 'these eutelets,, to
compare the things purchased with the enumeration
of them in the bill of parcels. When IMO:lose:I,
they were entered by the Prisoner sar the Bar its
what was called the Bought Book, kept ie. the
Cashier's Office. The Exchequer Bills, when put-`_
chased, were deeosited in a strong chest,, kepealsts
in the Cashier's Office, 'until it Was necessary that
they should he under the immediate eye of the 1)i. •
red, ors: When Exchequer Bills were. bought the
amount of too,oool, or zoo,oool. a certain number
of them was counted off by thi Cashier, 'and another
Cork counted the rem tinder, they were all made
up into 'parcels by' the Pris Oner at the Bar, and there
Was an original Book into Which it- Was the duty'of
the Prisoner to make an ehtry. ,The Bills were
counted and examined befhre the Diredor in waiting,
to see if they agreed with the entoneration of the
hill of parcels and the entry t.f the Cashier. Whets
this entry was 'made and the Bills compared with it,
two of the Directors signed the .entry, as Vouchers
for the Cashier, hat the Bills thereby specified were •
inclosed in the among chest,
,that so much had been
btitight, brought in, delivered to them, and they
Were then in the immediate care Of the Directors,
Who deposited'themin.the strong chest lie had stat•
ed already, and that was placed in a clUset appro.
priated to that purpose, to which there ivere three
keys ; 'general!), speaking, is could be opened oily
by these threckeys, each in the care of at Diredor ;
at' an emergency, however, it might be
opened by two, but never by less, and generally by
alt three.. Supposing then any parcel of Excliever
Bills to be here deposited, they must there remain
until the time of payMent at the Exchequer, that
was usually called the period of their rederiiption; but
under no condition' upon earth arc they suffered to
Come egain into the Money Market ; they could
not by any possibility conic, got of that chest but by
the consent and connivance of at least two of the
Honoerable Direeiors, in fraud of their duty,
.by
opening their Closet fraudulently.; a thing resit to be
predicated of these Hon. Gentlemen, but only to be
stated by way of illUstration of the case, to thew
that the Bills which afterwards did find their' way
into the Market, after they were bought by the
Bank, never did find their way into that closet ;
fur when once an Exchequer Bill was deposited in
that closet, it never came out again until the season
for redeeming it was bound convenient for the public.
On the loth of February the Prisoner at the Bar
did carry into _that room a certain number -of Ex'.
citeipier Bills in one parcel, amounting to t0°,00014
and another pared of z00,0c01., and a third of
4.00,0001. making in all 7°0,6°31, he had also
'to carry in, and 11140 e all the corresponding entries,
and the book was sYgnet IT Mr. Net and •Mr.
Smith, two Hon. Geutlemeit the Dire4tioo, and
the entire of them ought to have been earth:C.l'th on
'that day ; but instead of which, one whole. Ittiittdle
.of Exchetitier.Bill.si atnnuntitlc 10 zoo,oool, instead
of carrying them in as lie ought to haVedoile,-'he
.withdrew,' and converted to.hisi4n us.e,..'or, in the
language-of the pretient indidoient,-attlhezzlid, se..
creed and rareaway with; and the manner by which
thi4. was donne should be made out to absolute tie.
monstration before the Jury. They would find flits

•
Lrtnerly well-ptteed confidence of the dov ernor and
C.)ineatty, in this tinfottnnate-Centleman had been
betrraved by him. Arid he hid, in an evil
crobezzled,thiS money to answer tiniortinate sprCo-
ttiions in the Funds,----he said, %vell.Pactd
&Ewe: fur, until this instance, it had ne.'er.been
violated ; on;Lif we could not place confidenceio a
setVaill wlio had been s
.o trusty for 23 years in so
great a trait, in Whom was confidence to be piked
?• jt was not; discovered mail the 9th of
April follow ing, that any suspicion arose of any.
thing ;tulip; ; it W 34 next to...impossible ,that there
should be any, as there was no occssion ,to go to
the strong-box. Every one knew that that had
neycr been eitened, because' the period of pay-
went of the bills had not arrived, aid therefore no_

11 was discovered until then. But on the 9th
A;n:1; in consequence of a transaCtion which the
Prisoner at the Bar had with Mr. Skit, a loan well
versed in besiness, and It very intelligent toan, the
mattelecame to light. • lie. knew that Exchequer
nnc botight by the Bank, never came 'again
, into circulation : but i! letppened that the Prisoner
• at the Bar,' on the /6-11 of March, three weeks
tatter this emt ezzlement,. made application to Mr.
Aiyh to purchase far, him eo,oOol. in the 3 per
• cents. Consols, for the opening,_ as it' was teemed :
Mr. BiTh thought that a speculation a little too
deep, without some t-ecurby against the possible
Rodeanion of the market, and-therefore objected to
CIO et Ing into it, unless the Prisoner at the Bit de.
positket with him :,ecority agaiteo,the flunuatiou of
the morlzet, anti the securiv he ylttited was to the
-amount of 6 per cent. " The Prisoner agreedrii
&Inlay Mr. Dish against this possible fluetuatioe,
and fiat that ptitiose Ile brought to Mr. Dish three.
Exchequer Bills. Portunately for the cause of
lie justice, Mr. Dish knew that these Bills had been
bold 40 the Bark; and the -circumstance of their
having been offered to him considerably alarmed
that tieetiennan he teas confident there must be
some hail prattiee in this matter, because he knew
that 'an Exchequer Bib, Once bought by the Bank;
never saw the light until the time. arrived for its
; fir they were bought by the Bank for
the purpose of accommoda'ring he-Public, and not to
be sew again into the Public. Market. lie,. there.
fore, immediately informed the Governer and
•retiori.of the Bank of this event. Inquiry was
matte, and the conduct •of the Prisoner upon this
es.asion would he important for the consideration
the Jury. . It was from this circum_
. stainer, but that suspicion sluvuld,fall on Mr. Aden,
Mr. Newiaed, of the Batik, was referred to, and:
he spoke in the preseece of the Ptisonere and a Di.
Frail. of the, Bank was present also at the time : a
• que.-tion wene put to Mr. Newland, in the presence
and hearing of the Mater' : the question was this—
" Is it pteisible, that an Exchequer Bill, bought by
the Bank, can, by any nt ,de, afterwards, get into
circulation ?" The answer wase.—"Certainly mu;
the thin is impossible :" and this Mr., Brook Witt.
son,- who was the Magistrate, and isi one of..the
lltehoro, knew perfeetly .well. On which the
(pi stioti, 4,th-,veat propriety, was repeated to
Adett himself; and he said also, " That the
thing was abeolutely impossible." At ti te-time
the Prisoner at the Aar had deposited three Ex-
chequer Bills with Mr. Bish, but they Were not
given to Mr. 11i,l) as any
_payment, but were to
C.,l‘ • in his haedi as a derment. security against
th- ti Hon of the market upon the proposed
purchase r,tr the opening ; his attentiort was not so
particularly direael to them:as•if they had been
made in payment, ' until the time of •ineestigating
the hubjett. The Prisoner , was further examined.
lie was asked, whether he had not had sortie con.
cern in this transaCtion of the F,xchequer Bills de,
livered to Mr. Dish ? Ills .answer was—" That
he had indeed dire led Dish to purchase Stock,
"anti had deposited Exchequer Bills with him, but
that he had done it for a friend." Ile was asked
the name of that friend. He begged to be excused;
.but being pressed upon it, he named- a Mr. Hosier,
a Gentleman belOnging to a Banking-base at the
other end of the Town. , 'lie said, that these could
not be Bank Excheciaere Bills. He looked ,once or
wice on -the Baok.bought.book, which was laid
before him, and said, he ttlazo certain that the 'Nile
Were riot Batik property, that -they were not to be
foued it' the bought-hook of the Bank, and if so,
beyo d till doubt, they never had been Bank pro-
perry, for it they had been • Batik property, they
rine,t have been in the- Batik bought.heok. The
hotetvcr, was tote apparent. An opportunity
given" to Mr. Asle;:t to leave the room,
and itt an instato an. flomourehle Menet-, who,
of hough he utelei,to.id the nature of business very
well, was yet not SO lobiliarly acquainted with it
as Mr. Aslet t, looking at the hook, found the tatty
Of thele three Bills which Mr. Aslett, a minute be.
fore, after loL.king over the book and pretending',
• to exantine it, had positively declared that they'
WI re not to be found in the book, and that there.
• fore they could not he
,any part of the property of.
the Bank. It became now impossible for the Direc,
toes and Magistrate, in the discharge .of indeed a
ienieful but important' and itnpet'ative duty, to avoid
.raking measures•by which the person of this unfor.
opiate Gentleman was secured.
Mr. Gent cow said, he took the liberty to pause•
)tote for a moment, and to ask the Jury, under the
ditraiun of the wisdom by which they would be
Raided from the Bench, in this important trial,
Whether they, thought, if. a .security: deposited in
the lemse al- a pfivete man, ,unties the care of his
confidential servant,,and which without fraud, could
.not come before the Public, and supposing it only
lit he' the' ease or a common security for money,
whether they would not say that its appearing be.
lore. the Public was not a case calling aloud for that
e:edidential Agent to give an ample: explanation
I.en he. wins no now speaking of the case or a/Single,
I'.x lt"gaier Bill- fur toool. ; he was, speaking of
eoo,:000l. worth of them, which the Defendant -hail
either issued after they had become the property. of
Cr,' Rank, .or hail in 'his '..own desk put up in an
eitvelilpe ready for that ptirpose—et deskenritely
own, ef which nobody. but himself had the key, atiLt•
amounted to tonoool. worth of Exchequer Bills.
To add to this all the other accounts-of 'the Excite.
goer Bills of the Bank were exatt•to a petinye after

dim accounting for the estanzzlements
lendJnt.

f the De-

lie then proceeded to observe upon the circum.)
stance of the trial having been called On in the course .
Of a former Session, and .pLuttponed again without
entering at large into the reasons of it.. The season
Wai now' come far explanation of that matter.: It
was discovered that tVlr. Jennings, a Gerptleman who

had been 'appointed by the 1.61di of the 'Treasury;
underthe authority of a particular 4ft of Paiiiathent,
to sign Exchequer for a time liMited by the
Ad, had inadvertently continued to sign them
afterwards, although the time limited by the Ad,

had expired. It became necessary to make these
Exchequer fills valid, notwithstanding that infor-
mality, because otherwise the Public might 'be
alarmed at any till"position that Exchequer hills so
signed, were nut legal: accordingly the trial of
this Prisoner was postponed until, chat alarm had
been removed, for an mt was passed to make these
Bills'thus signed, valid to all civil purposes, as if
this Cien'tleman (Mr. Jennings) haddiad legal ,autho.
riry 'to sign thon ; not that this Mt would ailed
this case the one way or. the Other, fur there vas
an express'provision worthy of the wisdom and
humanity whichgoverned the Legislarute in all
c ises, that no ctiininal case ,then depending
should be in any degree whatever affeaed, and
therefore the law with regard to crimes remained
untouched by this remedial Ad of Parliament ; but
the Direaors of the Bank, who instituted this-Pro,
secution, thought it better that this cause should
not be brought forward until all- apprehension was
removed concerning the civil legality of these Ex.
chequer Bills, and they had accordingly endured
their share a the temporary odium which might
have attached to putting off the trial without fudy
explaining the motives of it ; they did so from mo-
tives of public policy, in favour of which they sa.
crificed their own immediate ease and comfort, and
they were'consoled for it by the reiledion that they
had-done ,a great public duty : they had however
been most unfairly and wantonly misrepresented in
their motives in SOME of the publications of the day,
on which lie should he glad to hear the animadver_
siting of the Bench, as well as on the praalce of
publishing, the Proceedings of the case of the De.
fondant, as it appeared between the time of his cons.
mitment and the day of his trial, a practice which
he censured highly, and observed, it was not only
unfair, inasmuch as it must in its nature he partial,
but was utterly repugnant to the principles of that
matchless Constitution under which we had the hap-
piness tolive, for it tended to prejudge, 'and so far
prejudice the cause of a man who was en stand upon
hiS deliverance, upon a question of life or death.
He hoped to see the day when the cause of some
mars in Tags, which might he thus prejudiced, would
be taken-up, and the Publishers of these mischievous,
because partial proceedings, duly punished.. lie
apuke from authority when he said, that this was a
matter not only to be wished, but to be carried into
execution. He was aware that publications of this.
'nature had gone forth, in which both the mntives of
the Prosecutors, and the case of the Defendant had
been grossly misrepresented. He exhorted the
Jtiry as he was confident they could not be altoge.
thee strangers to inch publications; not to allow
them any weight in the consideration of the case
stow before them ; it was a case which had, Ito ads
milted, great difficulty about it, upon the subjed of
the,legality of the Exchequer Bills thus disposed of
by. the Unfortunate. Gentleman at' the Bar ; theonly
consolation was, that the Jury would be aided by
the learning. of the Bench upon that point, .aad if
the case was clear, they would be told so.; if doubt.
fill, the matter of law anight be reserved fur the sti.
letun decision of all the Judges, who would_con,ider
the subjetl fully before they gave any opinion upon
it. fteafid not think it necessary for him to say
more upon this matter at present, and therefore he
now proposed to enter upon proof of the c,ise which
he had-opened, after which the Jury would have to
pronounce upon it—if they found it to be as he had
stated, and of which he had no doubt, they would
have iudeed a painful duty to perform, but.* from
,which, howeVer, they would not shrink„ but would
pronounee•the unhappy Gentleman at the Bar guil-
ty. If upon the whole case they had any rational
doubt of it, he . not roily consented, but intreated
that they would give.the Pris Oner the benefit of that
doubt, and• acquit him. ,The Prosecutors had no
• wishes but to do their duty itilubmitting this mat-
ter to the determination of a Court i f Justice. The
Jury therefore, if they found the case demanded it,
would pronounce the Prisoner 'guilty ; but it there
remained any doubt upon the case, they would, with
more pleasure, pronounce him not guilty.
Mr. ERSK INt observed., that upon the statement
of this Cave by his Learned Friend, who had open.
ed it with humanity and feeling, this was the pro.
per season, fur him and his Learned Friends who,
with him, were of Counsel for the Prisoner, to
call the attention of the Court to the Case alit then
stoOdbefore their Lordships ; and without entering
into the particulars as opened by hia Learned 'Friend,
he would say, that this appeared to hiM to be a'case
that was too clean for argument. The Indictment
now before the Court, in everycount of it, stated
either a secreting or embezzling certain. Exche-
quei Bills, which brought it to one short plain
point, it it deserved that name, and the
Court had the MI of Parliament before it, by which
the issuing Exchequer Bills, such as the present,
was authorized, and also the MI of Parliament
,which WAS passed in consequence of the diseolory 61
the infirmity of these Exchequer Bills, and to con-
stitute them legal Exchequer Bills. In the AO of
Parliament which gave the authority to issue Ex.
chequer Sills, such as those now stated, the poWer of
so issuing them was confined to a limited time,_
There was no power given even to the Lords of
the Treasury to issue ExChequei. Bills, except by
Mt otParliament that -theie Bills were chile'
,Exchequer Bills according to At of Parliament, of
they •were nothing. Here he tead the provision of
the -Mt of Parliament under which Exchequer Bills
could issue at the time this case happened,-which
emitted,- 0! That a - number, of Exchequer Bills
should issue fur any limn or sums of money not ex-.
ceeding five'roillions, in the like manner, forth and
order, and subjea to the like rules and direttions, a;

LONDON: Priiltetl 1:111:11ANAN WMILLAN, (of I-lbw-Street, Crivent-Garden);
ani
At the Surr.OFrlcs, No. 1221 Strand; where AtivertitePtentr, Order:

in and by an Alt of Parliament (reciting another
Apt), provided Ili Ways, that rite, such Exchequer
Bill shall and may be signed oy the Auditor of
His Majesty's Exchequer,
,or by some person in.,
his name, duly .anthurized to sign the 3ame, with
the approhatiou of the Lords ComMiisitiners of
the Treasury, in writing under Omit- hinds, or
by any three or more, of them." Ntiw, it
was .admitted, that although. Mr., Jennings, ~who,
signed these papers called Exchequer sills, had

authority to sign Exchequer Bills in the year 1799,
yet that his authority did not extend beyond the li-
mitstion of the At Of 1799 ; • but it happened by
omissiOnor accident, without any fault in any body,
this power had not been given to Mr. Jennings on
the two last occasions of issuing Exchequer Bills,
or rather, on iastiing those pieces of paper called
Exchequer .Bills : they were not such, they were
not what they were described to he in Ahe
ment—they were not Exchequer Bills,lhey were
not Government Security for the payment of money
under the authority of Parliatnent,they were, in
fad, nothing at all of which their Lordships could
take notice in a Court of: justice,. ne, really
thought, that,to endeavour to argue a thing that
was clearwithout argument, was to run the risk of
clouding it.; 'llia t was most likely to be the case when
a difficulty was assumed where none .existed. He,
thought he should very ill express the resped he
had for the learniog of the Bend',
it helvere to la_
boor this as a doubtful point. It was for -the Le-
-
giAlature to express what constituted an Exchequer
Bill ; it
.might direci that it should not be signed
at t il, or dist It should be' signed by the Auditors;
or it might give a particular form to, or to have no
form for them hut if it gave,a particular form to
them, and that form was not observed,,l3i)ls with-
out. such form "could, not he called Exchequer Bills.
It was .true that the-Public did not suffer from this,

for there was an Ad of Parliament, to cure the in':
formality 'of these Bills ; but by that AB,,Pailia.:
anent itself had declared that which would settle
this matter beyond all doubt, aild to argue the mat.

ter after that, appeared to him to be preposterous.
The security to the Public Creditor, the. Holder of
Exchequer Bills, was made entire by remedying the
&le& of theie Bills, anti she Aa had 'declared that
Mt. Jennings had signed these. Bills, And then
ceeded to state, that " whereas the authority of the
sail -Robert jenniow'was omitted to be
sign
anti notwithstanding he' continued to then as
With authority extended to all Exchequer Bins, and
had not been confined to such Exchequer Bills' as
specified in the said Mt" (the Mt of 17991—
Here was a Legislative declaration on this very
Case—" And whereas the Public have -had the be,
nefit of the. money so issued, &c. Be it therefore
ermaed, that for 'MI civil purposes, contracts, and•
engagetnents.",—Civi/ purposes—Then came the
humane provision of the Legislature whiCh did it so
much honour, and which was consistent with the
l'rinciplea of the 'British Government,:which
,was,
that oothing, in
,the Act should affea the case of
any per-on whatever charged with any crime; for
it stated, " Provided always, that this Mi shall
not extend, or be construed to .extend, to the case
of any prisoner now charged with, any crime,"' &c.
After this Mt of Parliament, it was impossible to
say that this Case could be made, to affeil the Pri-
soner. It could not. affect him before this Aeli for.
the Legislature had, declared these Bills a nullity
before the last Mt, anti it could not aked him by
the akEtior that the Ad itself expresslyprohibited.
His Case then was this, that these papers called in
the Inditlment Exchequer Bills," were to all in-
tents and purposes invalid, that they were not
cheqeer Bills, according to the provision of any law
existing at the time they were Issued. lie had, no
more to say to men of such learning as those he had
now the honour of addressing ; it would not be
consistent. with the reaped he had for them, if
:he
were to say more upon this topic he-must, bow-.
ever, be allowed to express his
cordial concurrence,
witli his Learned. Friend int very thing be.had said in,
behalf of the Gentlemen of the Bank, who had Upon
this, as upon every.decaslon, acted in a manner that
.did them hohour ; and if any thing had been pub.
fished to the contrary, every discerning man. anibng
the whole Public know it to be false.
Mr. Setjeant B,EsT•spoke on: the same side, and
quoted the Acts of Parliament in suppOrt of it.
Mr. GAIRROW admitted the case to have much
difficulty in lc He admitted that as to the Public
these Bills. were not to all intents and ptirposes Ex-
,,chequer Bills, but he submitted they were Exche-
quer Bills with regard . to the Prisoner at the Bar.
He compared this to a.case of the. forgety.ola Bill,
of Exchange, which was oble4ted to because-it was
not stamped—now this would not have-hcen good,
for the recovery of a,debt of fol. and was declared'
mat tat be available in any Court of Justice, .Bte. and
yet it had been held to, be forgery; so in this case,
although these Bills were not- !WI- Exchequer Bills
as to the Public, yet with regard, to a , person who
committed a criminal act with them, they might be.
so denominated.
Mr EttatorrE Contended that these Ripen caned,
Exchequer Bills were not 'Exchequer Bills., at al1.•
As to Mr. Jennings, who was Mr. Jennings A
very deserving Officer under Government, no'
doubt, but whose authority to sign Exchecoer Bills
expired With the Mt of 1799, and therefore these
Bills in -question, • signed' by him, were the sane as
if they had .not been signed at all, since he had nu
power. to sign them.
The CHI EP BARON of the Excn EQU a It observed,
that as to the case put t.)k-Mr. GARRow, where',
man had been convicted of Forgery of a Bill of Ex-
change upon unstampt paper, did n apply to the
present, fur there -the thing charged was
_forging
one thing with intent to represent 'another, and it
mattered not how unskilfully that attempt 'was
made,. it might have been more ateicieriatS'if there
had been a stamp upon:the-Paper, and. inure likely
to succeed, yet the crime would have keen the same;
but the charge here was, that the Prisoner umbezzied
and secreted, and ran away, &e. with certain Exehe_
quer these Papers could not he so denothi.
That an offender of this description stiOutd
.escape punishment was lint a small sacrifice in thead-
ministration of justice, compared ro•the advantages
attending the regular adMinistration of it, which

wob!‘l 1 e an answer t i thoe who might
l,ok at the en,:tmity of the mischief, withow
looking at the greater evil that would result from
!,e:nding the ru:c, of law to answer the circumstances
of a partic..lar case. The subscription of Mr. Jen-
nings to the in question was no subscription at,
all, nor would those Bills be valid in a Court of
Law for any Civil purpose, until the ACI of Perlis.
mcnt passed to remedy their defett. This had no
analogy to the case of a forgery. All indiaments.
for forgery swat that the thing 'in question
was not what. it purported to be, and whether,
•Siampt or unstamio, 'made no difference, because
the thing itself would be eqnally 'false in,
either
case ; bnt, here it was positively averred that the,
.Prisoner at the- Bar. had committed. certain .ads of
'felony on
.certain xchequer Bills, whereas they
were not Exchequer Bills, for which reason his
Lordship was of opinion that the objeCtion was solid.
Mr. justice ROOK R and Mr. Justice .I.4AW EN"
agreed With what fell from the CH 11l BARON.
Upon which the CHIEF BARON direaed the PI
ao Arguit the Prirom'ei----and he was according ae.
(pitted urs eight or ten indiarnents for various EP
chequer'Bills, which were•aiLdrawn in one way.
Mr. GAR RO W
.observed, that although the,Cri'
urinal Justice of the Country had been defeated
this case, yet, the Civil Justice of the Country_ te
pained to be put in force : he therefjie, indved
That the Prisoner be nOw remanded to-answer ft
a Ds:bt of 200,6001.
The Cours•ordered the Prisoner to be
•
retnattilf
and he was remanded accordingly.

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John Bake and Catherine Corr:oily were. tile
fur the wilful murder of Ei:z tbzth Connolly to tl
6th of June; of which cti,ne they were azquittel

The phinf.ir Grand Spefficie of the. Black Fa
we understand will be laid aside after Mn,o
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evening next; the merits of silk Piece hive prol a
great ateraOtioo, we ariaa thtrefure' sorry.ce lutii
that the Public will lootl , I 0 s e it, -But we cuojcetiq
that that step It-twill .nor have. -Imcn tait-!n.!,y t
-Manager, . had; there not been _mat ter equatly. as'
traktive, and yerhaps own: powerfully so, :ii r 40.511
speakilighli 9f "hat lie h:ts'.now. in rehearsal. '