The Sun.
London, England, 1810-08-22 00:00:00

LORRAIN V. FRANCIS.

, This was an action against the defendant for poi-
soning. l 7 foals, the propertycf the plaintiff. Both
.parties in this. case lived at .Wallnigtord in thin
cannty, and it seeinecl that the foals in question
weir: in the habit of straying from off the common.
into a field of the defendant. the detendant, on
the titort:ing of the 2:1c1 of May last, was observed
by three persons, aboin six
.o'clock i 4 ;he morning,-
feeding the fowls of the defendant on a piece of
waste land, and before nine o'clock several died, and
the rest on the same do, except the cock, who
lived a few. hout'l longer. On examination of heir sto-
machs, a Surgeon said that belied no doubtbut they
had been fed with barley and wheat; steeped in an
inAlsi,n of the nuzr v'onzica. Another witness de.;
posed, that the.defendant had told him be had given
Lorrain's fowls a, breakfast that morning, and lie
'would, hear of it ,before the day Was out.
Loid ELL N tottouou, in his summing up, .ex
.pressed his indignation in terms of great force and
feeling. He said man, by the laws, of God,
.had
dominion aver .the other animals • of the creation,
but iS was 40 be exercised in mercy, and he had no
right to put thein to death with torture, or to re-
ettge a'quarrel with mm, their proprietor. The
deletidatit _hod equally violated the law of the land,
the law. bf Moral. aud ut social! duty. But the
Jury, WA ever 'indignant they might feel, niust
restrain
_their.. damages within legal bounds; they
must- gnu the value of: the fowls, but beyond that
'amount theyougiit not to ioffer themselves to be
transported; - Verdict for • the" iAaintiff.—Damages
• CROWN SIDE..

• • .
the.prisoner,. In the Montb. of ffnly last, being's the
habit of fr, quenting the -Surrey -Theatre, in Lack-
friars-road,. and the Equestrian cbtfee-house ionti-
goous to it, applied toa naafi at the name of Exton,
who wits waiter at the Coffee-house, logo to AtemrS.
Smith's and Co. to get t he -bankiny book of Mesos.
Ditia This ertabled,bim:to ascertain the na mice of
money which Messrs. D. had. in the hdlids of their
banker. He then sent back the book by the sane
person, with.a request to have a_check book, upon
.which he fillet up a clpT!ck tOr 4001.85. Ind
delivered ivto.Mr. John-on,t he box and housekeeper
of the Suit ey Theatre, with whom he appeared tc be
upon intimate terms, and.. telling him he had wire
Cusiom•and Excise duties to pay, requested bin to
get payment of the check in noses Of tol: and 201. -
The check was drawn accordingly " pay dutits or
nearer,'." &c. Johnson ‘..% ..nt to Messrs. Smiths ; but
as they co not pay him as he wished, he received.
from them two notes of 2001. each, which he im-
mediately took to the- Bank, and exchanged for the
notes:the prisoner had desired him to get. -The
forgery being soon deteeSted,. the prisoner was taken--
into costa ,in company-with a woman, with whom
lie cohabit. d.. Upon searching her a 201. note was
F. which was identified by a clerk`of the Bank,
as having been given to Johnson in • exchange. tor'
the two notes of 2001. The prisoner and iris coin=
panion were locked up in separate rooms, and upon
the woman being asked where she 'got- the note of
201. and saying the prisoner gave it her, he being
within hearing, immediately called out; " No, you
-g.t it trom a genileinan." -Before they were re-
moved-from these rooms,•t he officers searched a
privy communicating with. the rows in which the-
woman was confined, and found fragments of -notes
of 101.. and 201. to the'amount of 3601.. and upon
several of the pieces were the dates corrvspoittling
~with the entry of the clerk of the Batik. In adelt-
'tiO'rito this, Mrs. Johnson; the misires of the Eves-
Irian Coffee-house, produced a 201. note, which she
had received, from the prisoner on the' same- day the
/check was presented, and which made up the whole
,
The fact of the forgery being established by Mr..
who had -for that purpose been released by
Messrs. Smith and Co. the Ju y, without hesitation,'
returned their verdict Guilty—Death. _ . .
The prisoner was a young man of very genteel
appearance.

REPORT,
•
TOGETHER WITH MINUTES OF EVIDENCE, AND AC-
COUNTS FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE

HIGH PRICE GOLD BULLION.

• iesiftirrxted from Yesteakfy.l
consequence of the opinion which your
Committee entertain, • that, in tj.,e present artificial
conditio6 Of the circulating m diutn of tlits.country,
it is most important to watETZ the foreign exchanges
and the market price of gold, your Committee were
desirous to learn, whether the Directors. of the Bank
of England .held the same opinion, and derived from
it a practial rule for the control of their circulation ;
and particularly whether, in the course of the last year,
tie grat depression of the exchanges, and the great
rise in the price of had suggested to the Direc-
tors any suspipion of the currency of the country he-
ng exee,si.e. ,
Mr. Whitmore, the late Governor of the Bank,
stated to the. Cowmiit,,e, that in regulating the ge-
rteral- amount f ttie ldans and discnunts, he did
ni4 ad-Vert to the circumstance of the exchanges;
ir appearing upon a referu.nce; to. the atnok.nt of our,
ii,;ies circnia t ion, and rhe course of exclian4e, that
r!,ey frequently have no c,nnebtion." He afterwards
said, " Myopinion is, I do not .know whether
'it is that of the 'Ba'nk, that the amount of our
piper circulation has no reference at all to the
state of exchange." And on a subsequent day,
Mr„ Wriitcnote • stated, that " the present unfavour-
able state of. the exchange has .no influence upon the
amount of their issues, the Bank baviog ae?ed pre-
cisely in the same way as hey did'before." He was
Whether in regulating the amount of their
circulation, the Bank ever adverted to the difference
between the tuarket and Mint price of gold and
having desired time to consider that question, Mr.
Whitmore, on a subsequent day, answered in she
following terms, which suggested these further
questions :
" In taking into consideration the amount of your
notes ut in circulation, and in limiting the extent
of your discounts to Merchants, do you advert to the
differenc,-, when such existi, between the market
and the Mint price of gold ?—We do advert to that,
iha much as we do not discount at any time for those
. persons who we know, or have good reason to sup-
' pose, export the gold.
Do you not. advert to it any farther than by re-
fusing discounts to such persons ?—We do advert to
t, inasmuch as whenever any Direthn thinks it bears,
upon the question of our discounts, and presses to
bring for Ward the discussion.
" The market price,of gold having, in the course
of the last year, risen as high as 41. 10i. or 41. a 2s.
has that circumstance been taken into consideration
by you, so as to have had any etfed in diMinishing
or enlarging the amount of the outstanding demand?
has not been taken into consideration by me in
that view. .
'Mr. Pearse, now Governor of the Bank, agreed

with Mr. Whitmore in this account ot, the praCtice
of the Bank, and expressed his full concurrence.in
the same opinion.
Mr., Pearse.—" In considering this subje6l, with
reference to the manner in which Bank notes are
issued, resulting from the applicatiorrs made tot dis-
counts to supply the necessary want of Bank notes,
by which their issue in amount is so controlled that
it can never amount to an excess, I cannot see how
the amount of Bank notes issued can operate upon
the price of bullion, or the.state of the exchangeS,
and therefore I am individually of opinion that the.

- Mr.,Whittnore.-.-" t so'mucli•ot the ,name •
opinion, -that I never think it necessary-to ltdvert to
the price of gold, or the state 'Of exchange, • on the
days on which we make our advances.
" 110 you advert to these two circumstances with
a view to,regUlate the general atuouLt. of, your
ad-
vances do, not-advert to it with, a skew to Vnir
general advances„conceiving it .riot. to bear upon tilt.,
question."
• And, Mr. Harman another Bank :Direaor; ex-
pressed his opinion in these ternis'--4. I must
materially alter :my opinions, betige I can suppo-e
that the exchanges will be influenced by any moditi-
cations of our paper currency. • -
These Gentlemen; as well-as several of the
,Mer-
chants who appeared before the 'Conim.ttee, placed
much reliance upon an argument .which they 'drew
frOm the want of correspondence, lo point ot time, ,
observable between the amount of Bank of England
notes and thestate of the Harnburgh exchaug during.
eiveral years ; and Sir. Yearsepresented a- paper on'
this subject. Your Committee would feel •00 dis-
trust in thegeneral principles which they have stated,:
it the discordance had been greater'; considering' the
variety ot circumstances which have a,temporaty ef-
fect on exchange, and the uncertainty both of time
.and time degree in which it nay be influenced by any.
given quantity of paper. It "may be added, that the
numerical amount of notes (styposing li. --and 21,
notes to be excluded..frotn the statement) did nut
Materially vary during the period of the comparison ;
and that--in the last year, when the general exchan,;cs
with Europe have become -much more untavnurable;
the notes of the Bank of Eig..and, as well as ti hose
of the county Banks, have neeti v-eirconsiderab-y
increased. Your Committee howoret:, on the wholt:„
are not of i;pittion that a material e. ptession ot the
exchanges has -been manifestly to'be tr.ced in its
amount and degree to kin augmentation of notes-cor-
responding iu poittt ot time. They cotxeive that the
more minute and ordinary AUL:au-alloys of exchange
are generally.. referablei to We course of --our com-
merce; that polio cat events; op:-rating upon the state
ot trade, may often have contributed as well to the
rise as to the fall of the exchang.: ;" and in partiCu-.
lar, that the first remarkable k.:epression of it in ti,e
beginning of 1809, is to be ascribed, as has been
stated in the evidence alreedy opted, to commercial
events arising-out of the' occupation crf the Itioith ot
Germany- by 1.14 e trooys ot tbe,Vrench Erriperor.--
The 'evil has been that, theeNchange, when tallen',
has not -had the full means of recovery under the
subsisting-system,' And if those occasional depres-
sions, which arise from commercial causes, are not
-after a time successively corrected by the remedy
Which used to apply-itself before the siisperrsion_ of
the cash payments of the Bank,:' the consequences
may ultimately be exaaly similar to these which a
sudden and extravagant issue of ' paper would pro-
duce. The restoration of the exchange used'to be
efietted by the clandestine transmissionof guineas,
which improved it for ine moment by servingas a re-
mittance ; and unquestionably also in part, probably
much more extensively, by the reduttion of the total
quantity of the remaining circulating medium, to
which reduction thebank were led to cunt ribu te by the

caution which every drain of gold naturally excited.
Under the present system, the, former of these re-'
medies must be,expected more and more to fail, th
gtiineas, in circulation being even•nol,y apparently so.
few as to form no important remittance ; and: the
reduction of paper seems therefore the chief, iZ not
the sole corrective, to be resorted to. It is only after,
the Bank shall have for some time resumed its cash
payments, that both can again operate, as they did
on all for Mer occasions prior to the restritaion.
The Committee cannot refrain from expressing it
to be their opinion, after-a very•delib,•rate consider-
ation of this part of the subject, that it is a great
practical error, to sa ppose that the exchanges with
foreign conntries, and the price of bullion, are not
liable to be effeded by the amount of a paper cur-
rency, which is issued without the condition of pay-
ment in specie, at the will of the holder. ,That the
exchanges will be lowered, and the price of bullion
raised by an issue of such paper to excess, Is not only
established as a principle by the most eminent au-
thorities upon commerce and finance; but its prac-
tical truth has been illustrated
.by the history of al-
most every State in modern times, which has used a
paper currency : and in all those countries, this prin-
ciple has finally been resorted to by their statesmen,
as the-best eriterion:to judge by, whether such cur-
rency was or was not excessive;
[To be continued.),

AM UNFORTUNATE. FAMI few d3yB SiOCC,
as William Stone; a lad in the eniployot G. L Cross,
Esq. at Milverton, near Sherborne, was at work at a
threshing machine, he got entangled in We machine-
ry, and his head was crushed to pieces. The father of
the deceased, a few years back, came to an outline-
ly death, at Milverton by the falling 'of a tree, which
he was employed in cutting down; a brother of the
latter was, in the winter of 1808, found frozen to
death on
.the high road; arrd a few. months after his
death his widow had the misfortune to have a sob'
drowned.

• Thursday a person, calling himself J. T. Thong,
was apprehended in Oxford, by Mr. John Smith,
Police Officer, on suspicion of having,defrauded dif-
ferent tradesmen in the country, under the pretence
of being a Lieutenant in the totter or Prince of
Wales's Light Dragoons. He is said to be the same
person who was apprehended a short time since' at
Bristol, by Mr. Wedderburn Webster, who is a
Lieutenant in that Regiment, whom there he per-
sonated, and in whose name he forged drafts -on
Greenwood and Cox, to the amount of 901. owing
to his youth, &c. Mr. W. humanely liberated him.
It appears that he has.since been busily engaged in
Reading, Newbury; &c. where many persons have
been duped by him.' He was genteelly dressed (not
in regimentals), and had a servant with him in livery.
They are both 'sent to Reading for examination.—
Young went from Reading to Oxford in company
with some Spanish Gentlemen. He had ordered a
suit of regimentals to be made at a tradesman's in
that city, and left his bill unpaid at the Inn where
he was apprehended.