The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-25 00:00:00

blislunent swore to the packing of the bundles,
and also to the invoice found with them.
Handley and Woodberry detailed the manner in

which they apprehended the prisoner, which has
been before stated.
Several persons were examined from the Bull and
Mouth inn, who detailed the way in which the rob-
bery took place on the .morning of the 4th _Sept.
Pot. The thieves, it appeared,, got into a stable at
the Bull and Mouth, and forced an entrance through
the ceiling into the office, when, through breaking
a gas pipe, it is supposed from the smother, they
only got the three bundles of stamps instead of eight
which had been booked. -
Two crow-bars found on the premises which the
thieves had left behind, together with a saw and
other implements, were here produced. One crow-
bar was immense thickness, and capable of breaking
open the strongest door.
A person from the Stamp-office proved the de-
livery of the parcels at the Bull and Mouth, which
he booked.
The prisoner was remanded until next week.
The packages were then sealed up, and given into
the charge of 'the officers.
The reward offered by Government for the dis-
coveiy of the property is 2001. and an additional
.500/. on conviction of the offender or offenders.
HATTON-GARDEN.

A respectable-looking elderly man, of the name of
John Hunter, residing in Drummond-crescent,
• Euston-square was yesterday re-examined before the
sitting Magistrates, Mr. Sergeant SELLON and Mr.
LAING, on a charge of having caused to be forged
and Uttering a bill of exchange for 501.
The prosecutor, Isaac Morley, of No. 9, Sid-
. mouth-street, Gray's-inn-road, grocer, stated that
oil the Bth of November last the prisoner, whom he
had, known for several years before, came to him, nd
underStandinerom him that he (Morley) had a shop
and premise 3 to let in Drummond-crescent, proposed
to take then), and offered him a bill for 401. the.
amount of fixtures, &c. to be drawn upon a relation
of his, Mr. GAL Hunter, a most respectable mer-
chant in' Cateaton-street. He (Morley) agreed to
accept the conditions, and the prisoner. presenting
hits, with a stamp, and feigning blindness, desired
him-to draw a bill for 501. payable at one month, and
to advance. him 101. in cash, as he then happened
•tobe a little embarrassed. The bill having been
drawn, the prisoner took it away the following day
to be accepted,. and in a few hours returned, stating
that he had got his.relative's acknowledgment for the
payment, and delivered the bill to him (Morley), •
with the words, " Accepted, G. H. Hunter," in-'
'scribed upon it. He (Morley) subsequently passed
the bill :to a person of themame of Hall. On the
day that the' bill was made payable, the 11th inst.
a person, whose name he since understood to be
Cottrell; called on him (Morley) to know if he had
the bill in his possession, and to say that the pri.
soner, not wishing it to be presented to the acceptor
for payment, was prepared to take it up himself.
Having•seen the prisoner, he declared that he would
call upon Hall in the course of the day, and pay the
•money to him; hut not having done so, he (Morley)
took the bill to Mr. G. H. Hunter's, and asked him
whether or not that was his acceptance. To which
Mr. Hunter replied, " I shall not answer that ques-
tion, or say whether it is or is not." He (Morley)
at the prisoner's request, called a day or two after-
wards upon Mr. Hunter, and again presenting the
bill, put the same question to him ; but he only re- •
ceived the same answer. The prisoner was then
present, and asked Mr. Hunter to settle the matter;
to which Mr. Hunter indignantly replied, " No, you
scoundrel, that acceptance is not in My hand-
writing." At which the prisoner hang down his
head, and was silent. Ile (Morley) called a third
time upon Mr. Hunter, at the pressing solicitations
of the prisoner, when he at length observed to him,
" I will never settle it ; you are yourself as bad as
him (meaning the, prisoner) ; for you took the bill
knowing it to be forged." Finding that all endea-
vours to obtain the amount of the bill were now
hopeless, and that it was , actually a forgery,. he
(Morley) took the prisoner into, custody on Friday
•trelling last.

George Henry Hunter, who keeps a warehouse
in Cateaton-strest, deposed that the bill now pro-
duced is not his acceptance, that the prisoner is no
relative of his whatever, mid that he never had any
transactions with him. From feelings of lenity to-
Wards the prisoner, he might probably have replied
to the prosecutor, Morley, as he stated.

Joseph Jackson, shopman to a grocer, No. 112,
St. John's-street, deposed that about two months
ago, he then doing business for " master at No.
161, Hoxton, the prisoner came into his shop, led
by another man, and pretending that from the ex-
.treme weakness of sight he was unable to write,
presented the bill now produced to him, and re-
queSted him to be so good as to put his name on it,
and to write the words, " Accepted, G. H-Hun-
ter:" Having done an act of a similar kind for the
prisoner four days before on a bill of 20!., he did not
in this instance make the smallest hesitation; and
after he had written the name, he asked the. prisoner
to put his mark to it; to which he replied that he
would do that in presence of the person in whose
-favour the bill was drawn. After he had talked
much of his blindness, he thanked witness, and
withdrew.

.William -Hall, of No. 28, Judd-street, received
the bill from the prosecutor. On the morning it be-
came due, the prisoner called on him, and said he
would take it up in the course of the day; but he
failed in his promise.—The prisoner was fully com-
mitted.