The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-01 00:00:00

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smuggled goods every day, supposing that, if deter go
all they would have to pay could not exceed that so
The Commissioners of Customs, however, .104
power, by the 6th .and 7th of William, to
a penalty of 100/. for every offence of srligkeeo
however small the quantity' smuggled, as ,
lately. decided in the Court of Exchequer•
no,
defendant in thiS case very plainly showt4,
being. apprehended,- that he was one of those Who pa
under the mistake of supyosing that be would bolo
more than ato pay. " Oh," said he, lam uudetres
weight." As the old smugglers were making gres tbt
ertions in their trade, it was the determination 0f
Commissioners to go for the full penalty of 1001.
cases, however small the quantity smuggled by the 1
vidual.
The Loup MAYQR and Alderman T. Wool) too
same view of the question which had been taken byrs
solicitor to the Customs, and his Lordship struairoi,
into.the defendant by' telling him that he was "CIO
and that he must stay in prison until that amount
. .
be paid. I
It is but fair to mention that the statement which
made to the -Lord Mayia. a few days age, that 23,°,,i1tel
v, eight of tobaCeo hadleen Ltely smuggled in
cheeses into this country, was not made by Mr. PIO
any other person in ihe employ:l4e..t of her 31. e/
Cuitows.

The dofendant was contmittell to prison. -- '
MA BYLEBOIVE. WO'
Daniel Wright, the young man who had been relit otitft
from Friday last, on a chierge el' having received 3vv„„asl-.
the banking-house of Sir Claude Scott and Co,, Can so
square, by means 'id a forged cheque purporting teDO
been drawn on the Bank of England by William 1 ete
Esq., of 11, Hyde-park-terrace, in favour of Mr.
nlayne, the eminent silk mercer of New -Bond-stree ,
placed at the bar for final examination this' day. A tibl7j
The evidence taken on the, previous occasion, an Ori
was fully reported in The . Sea of May 25, was tus- 00'
over. A brief recapitulation of the principal facts tonal g
with the case may be giYen. The priAiner calledA
Claude Scott's batik on the:3d May, and presenting 3 a if'
for 3901., said that Mr. Redmayne would feel obligy
were cashed for him. Mr.' Taylor, one of the clerks.' oi
bank, as Mr. Redmayne had an account there, did 5.,,,,11
paid him in six 50/. notes, four 201., and ten sovereigns pi
On the succeeding morning a messenger from the, nuts,
England returned the cheque as a forged one; u""2"citY
evening of the same day Mr. Pulsford called, and sts'etdo
the handwriting was not his. Information was given.o
police, and one of the officers in the Detective force trs.."._„go
prisoner to' •Btriiiingharn, and subsequently back to .1-ive"ji:
and at last succeeded in taking him into custody in t AO,
toria Hotel, near the railway terminus at Euston'''sf
where he had-lived with 'a companion (a female) febreioa,.
days. In his possession was 51."45. 6d.; and in a box
ing to him was a further sum of seventy sovereign olVe
handsome gold watch and'appendages, besides secert4
articles of jewellery. There being •no evidence agst'itir
female she was discharged-on the first examination bill'
stated on that occasion that thoprisoner had run up "
the hotel of 36/. in the few days he had been there.
...pt.
The evidence taken this day was of very little njodtl#
Mr. Arthur Maitland, frem-the-Bank of-En land,
it was the practice of the Bank to pay no cheques eNc;
such, as Were drawn upon the regular printed forg'sd tr#
Bank. The cheqtia in question was not upon. one "
forms, neither was the writing like Mr. Pulsford's. sissr
Mr. Pulsford, 11, Hyde-park Terrace, said that thee,
tore was not his. -He did not know anything of the
The prisoner's father was 'a clothier in Conduit-streeip
gent-street, and had supplied witness with clothing• d,
not know-Mr. Redmayne, of Bond-street.
Mr Redmayne said, he knew nothing of an
end
the case. On looking at the cheque, it appearet,,.e,
with the name of his clerk, Mr. Cates, but the val'lt (r
widely different, and the name was also differently silerti
the die:pie it was written Keats). The prisoner s farm
a most respectable man, and one of his sons, the
younger brother, was in his (Mr. Redmayne's) enlllo,
Mr.leates;--clerk to last witness, said he knew n° o.
the draft whatever, neither did he know the voting
the bar. _ • )0